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First of all I apologize if this is in the wrong section. Not sure. If it is I will delete and restart in the corrected section.
So I am trying to figure out if a desktop application is possible or not. The last I used C++ for coding was back in school 2 almost 3 years ago (Now I work 9-5 at a paper shuffling desk job >.<) . I only have basic programming idea and pretty much from pointers etc onwards i am knowledge-less.
I am thinking if it is possible to some how keep track on the running tasks or processes? And if the application can create a thread for them. So when the application is running say for example there are 5 running tasks then the app should create 5 instances or threads for them. If one closes then go down to 4 and if a new one opens go back to 5. If a previously closed thread is restarted then open the same instance for that task or process again? Basically for every running task on the machine have a thread/instance created and running which is retrievable if the application is restarted (maybe even after a complete machine reboot).
Of course i am not asking for the code here. Just a general idea for coding direction on how to maybe go about making something like this efficiently. I looked in Process Walking section at MSDN. Processtool32 api etc. Or maybe a way to create a thread/instance using the mouse click. So if a mouse clicks on a window that will be a running task (something from linux i guess as the Top running process) and an instance for that is created in the application.
So what do you think would be a good way to go about creating this or making it function? If of course I figure my ability to create this is beyond my scope of learning and execution then I might as well give up. :P
Let me know and thanks in advance for your ideas guys!


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Members of Lions clubs from around the country will join White House staff and United States government agency officials at the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2 to recognize Lions club members as Champions of Change because of their nearly 100 years of volunteer service in communities around the world.
"We are extremely honored that the White House has chosen to recognize Lions Clubs International as Champions of Change," said Lions Clubs International President Wayne A. Madden of Auburn, Indiana. "This is a privilege for us and truly an honor for the men and women of our association who serve their communities selflessly and with compassion for those in need."
This day-long event, co-hosted by the White House and Lions Clubs International, will include an in-depth briefing session on issues pertaining to community service between Lions and key government agency officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education and others. The day will also include panel discussions with 11 men and women Lions who were selected to represent the 1.35 million Lions members worldwide as Champions of Change.
Lions Clubs International's Champions of Change are:
• Brad Baker of Jonesboro, Ark., is a member of the Jonesboro University Heights Lions Club and the CEO of Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service, Inc., an organization that provides comprehensive sight and hearing care to individuals in need.
• Dr. Paul Berman of Hillsdale, N.J., is a member of the Hackensack Lions Club and founded the Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes, an initiative providing vision care for challenged individuals. He is also working on Lions Lens in partnership with Essilor, which will provide high-quality, low-cost eyeglasses for Lions' humanitarian purposes worldwide.
• Mike Buscemi of Thornville, Ohio, is a member of the Thornville Lions Club and works extensively with youth. He developed Lions Quest, a comprehensive life skills program that has been taught to 12 million children globally from kindergarten through 12th grade.
• Karla Harris of South Milwaukee, Wis., is a member of the South Milwaukee Lions Club and works to raise awareness for the visually impaired and Lions Clubs International through public relations efforts, including helping to create the Lions "Rockin' the Vest" Rap Video.
• Greg Jeffrey of North Webster, Ind., is a member of the Fort Wayne Central Lions Club and leads annual trips to Central America to provide vital medical services to people in need.
• Bob Massof of Pasadena, Md., is a member of the Baltimore Brooklyn Lions Club who works to restore and enhance the sight of people with low vision through technology, including developing the Low Vision Enhancement System (LVES), which compensates for low vision by altering images to make them easier for people to perceive using the vision that remains.
• Nadine Nishioka of Honolulu, Hawaii, is a member of the Honolulu Manoa Waioli Lions Club who works to beautify and improve the environment through a variety of extensive projects.
• Maria Emee Nisnisan of Sugar Land, Texas, is a member of the Houston Royal Oaks Lions Club who provides ways for families to serve together and health care for underprivileged people such as free immunization clinics, screenings and awareness campaigns.
• Laura Rieg of Portsmouth, Va., is a member of the Portsmouth Children First Lions Club and works to provide educational opportunities for children through monthly preschool sessions in a family environment and literacy tools for families living in women's shelters.
• Doug Rodenbeck of Fort Wayne, Ind., is a member of the Anthony Wayne Lions Club who fosters leadership skills in young people through Leo clubs, the youth development program of Lions Clubs International. In this capacity, he supervised the largest Leo club fundraiser on record, which raised $170,000 to build family suites at the St. Joe Regional Medical Center Burn Unit.
• Debbie Whittlesey of Lebanon, Mo., is a member of the Lebanon Host Lions Club who led disaster relief and reconstruction efforts following the EF-5 tornado on May 22, 2011.
Those who are unable to attend the recognition are encouraged to watch the proceedings as they are streamed live on the Internet at www.whitehouse.gov/live.
The recorded session will be available to be viewed after the event on the Lions Clubs International YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/lionsclubsorg. Viewers are encouraged to Tweet about the event using the hashtag #WHLIONS.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with 1.35 million members in more than 46,000 clubs in 207 countries and geographical areas around the world. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world. For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit the Web site at www.lionsclubs.org.

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We recently passed on the sad news that original Mothers of Invention vocalist Ray Collins had died on December 24th. A couple of days later we received a note from drummer Art Tripp (through his friend Christopher Garcia), who worked with both Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Here are Art's memories of Ray Collins:
It's not quite dawned on me yet that Ray Collins is no longer in this terrestrial world. Since the late 1960's it had always been a type of comfort to me to know that Ray was around. And Ray did get around. A child of the 1930's, he came of age in the 1950's when times were good. He developed a free spirit and a resistance to labels and rules. His fine tenor voice got him work in prominent L.A. doo-wop bands; but he took other types of work as well. One of them was a good paying job building sets for the movie studios. He told me he quit because he got tired of the idiots.
He joined up with Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black in the Soul Giants. When their guitar player quit they hired Frank Zappa, a musician Ray had worked with earlier in the 1960's. Soon the Mothers of Invention were born, and Ray helped front the band, and was its lead vocalist for the next three years. His ribald and off beat sense of humor was a perfect complement to the unclassifiable group.
When I joined the band in 1968, it was as if I'd died and gone to heaven. The humor, the iconoclasm, the musicianship, and the wide variety of music were a perfect fit. And to me Ray was the fountainhead of the basic nature of the band. Yet later that year Ray's distaste for the group's musical direction compelled him to announce that he was leaving the group. I was stunned. Everyone was shocked. How could he quit when the group was getting so popular, and starting to provide us with so much work? But off he went, and I felt that he took the spirit of the Mothers with him.
Ray had his own convictions, and he was never one to veer from them. He resolutely held to his beliefs no matter what the popular course. As a man of the people, an everyman, Ray was a true free spirit—a Beatnik, and a wanderer.
I have many memories of Ray. We played the Grammy Awards in '68 at the plush NY Hilton. Steve Allen was the host that year, Woody Herman and his Herd was the house band. When they drew the curtain up for our performance Ray walked over to Steve and said, "How's your bird"? Allen let out a big horse laugh, and the guys in Herman's band doubled over in stitches.
Ray joined us for a last gig in San Diego in 1969. During the show Ray improvised a gag which lampooned Jim Morrison's "exposure" on stage a few weeks prior. Morrison's antics had sent shockwaves throughout rock 'n roll, and people suspected he'd gone too far. So Ray's satire caused the entire audience to come unglued.
We kept in touch over the years. A few months ago my wife and I went out to L.A. to visit old friends. We got together with Ray down at the venerable Phillipe's Restaurant near Union Station. Afterwards we spent some time at Olvera Street, then we walked down to Union Station to see Ray off on his train back to Claremont. After a few final words, he turned and walked down the tunnel to his train. As I watched him go, I knew that it would be the last time I was to see Ray. Yet I never would have dreamed that he'd be gone in six months. Goodbye, old friend. I can hear you singing to them in heaven.
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DEC Investigation Leads to 54 Misdemeanor Charges for Chautauqua County Man in Unusual Deer Jacking Case
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Police charged a Chautauqua County man with 54 misdemeanor charges following an investigation of a deer jacking case, the agency announced today. In addition to deer jacking – the illegal practice of shooting deer with the use of an artificial light – the investigation unveiled numerous other offenses.
"This is the highest number of violations we've had associated with a single deer jacking case within our region," said Division of Law Enforcement Region 9 Police Captain Frank Lauricella. "Thanks to the months-long investigation and dedicated work of our Environmental Conservation Officers, DEC was able to successfully solve this particularly egregious deer case that involved multiple serious offenses."
Bruce Giddy, (60) of Falconer, NY, was recently charged with 46 Misdemeanors of Environmental Conservation Law and 8 Penal Law Misdemeanors. The misdemeanors include:
- • Prohibited use of a weapon (4 counts)
- • Reckless endangerment, Second degree (4 counts)
- • Possessing a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle (4 counts)
- • Taking deer while in a motor vehicle (4 counts)
- • Taking a deer from a public highway (4 counts)
- • Taking deer out of season (3 counts)
- • Taking deer out of legal hunting hours (1 count)
- • Illegal taking of a deer (4 counts)
- • Hunting deer with an artificial light (4 counts)
- • Discharging a firearm over a road (4 counts)
- • Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a school property (1 count)
- • Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a factory (1 count)
The case began when the Jamestown Police Department contacted DEC Police on November 25, 2012 to report that a deer had been shot and left on a school property in Jamestown over Thanksgiving weekend. Witness reports indicated that the man shot the deer from his vehicle within a residential area and on a school property. After careful investigation spanning four months, DEC Police were able to track down the suspect and also link him to numerous similar incidents where deer had been shot in residential areas and left behind, as well as with a lengthy list of other hunting-related violations.
In addition to being charged with misdemeanors of Environmental Conservation Law, charges against Giddy also include reckless endangerment charges for shooting on public property and within a residential area. Each misdemeanor carries a jail term of up to one year and fines range from $200 to 2,000 per charge. Giddy will be arraigned on the Town of Ellicott charges on April 16 and on the City of Jamestown charges on April 23.
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The Washington Post's Liberal-Bashing, Pro-Torture "Left-Leaning" Columnist
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As I've frequently pointed out, the fact that columnist Richard Cohen is what passes for a "liberal" at the Washington Post pretty thoroughly undermines the idea that the paper's opinion pages lean to the left. In response, people have occasionally asked me "Who says Cohen is supposed to be a liberal?" Well, now, the Post has removed any doubt about the role it thinks Cohen plays at the paper, officially designating him a "left-leaning" columnist:
Dana Milbank is the kind of "left-leaning" columnist who voted for Republican presidential candidates in 2000 and 2004 and a Republican-turned-independent in 2008. And who referred to Hillary Clinton as a "mad bitch." Just try to imagine the Post identifying as "right-leaning" a columnist who voted for Democratic presidential candidates in 2000 and 2004 and called Sarah Palin a "mad bitch."
But it's Richard Cohen's presence on the "left-leaning" list that's really remarkable. Here's a refresher:
The same cannot be said for Post columnist Richard Cohen, the so-called liberal who sneeringly dismissed Iraq war skeptics as fools and Frenchmen and who wrote that opponents of the war did not "feel compelled to prove a case or stick to the facts." The easily-scared Cohen just loves torture. No, no, "loves" isn't strong enough. He lurves torture. And he defends a rapist (only he calls the rape a "seduction"). And defends Monica Goodling. And downplays the "crappy little crime" of outing a CIA agent (a defense that involvedspreading falsehoods about the victims).
Cohen has accused "leftists" of thinking "America is usually at fault in war" -- the kind of sentiment that makes one want to check to see if Karl Rove's lips move when Cohen speaks. And the torture-loving, rapist-defending Cohen even bashed Barack Obama for a lack of "moral clarity" because -- get this -- Obama bowed towards the Japanese emperor. He sided with President Bush during the controversy over the deal to allow a company owned by the government of Dubai to take control of six U.S. ports, inaccurately blasting critics of the deal as bigots.
He defends financial company executives and the business media, and attacks comedians who suggest the media should have done a better of covering the financial crisis. That wasn't his only attack on a comedian: He also blasted Stephen Colbert's "rude" skit at a White House Correspondents Association dinner, but didn't expressed any concern over a skit two years earlier in which George Bush made light of the lack of WMD in Iraq.
Cohen opposes affirmative action with the well-off white man's certainty that "everyone knows" race "has become supremely irrelevant." He peddles the bogus right-wing myth that "being pro-choice is a litmus test for all Democrats" (accusing in the process Democrats, but not Republicans, of "counter[ing] reasonable questions and qualms with slogans").
During the 2000 campaign, he caricatured Gore as dishonest even after acknowledging that portrayal was baseless -- then, years later, criticized his colleagues for doing the same thing. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, Cohen trashed Hillary Clinton for "incessant exaggerations," "cheap shots," and "flights into hallucinatory history" -- then, a few months later, denounced the "calumny, a libel and a ferocious mugging" Clinton was forced to endure, as though he had played no role in it. He joined David Broder in declaring McCain principled and credible while ignoring voluminous examples to the contrary. And Cohen toutedMcCain's "visceral hostility" towards lobbyists, ignoring the fact that McCain was busily surrounding himself with them.
And when liberals criticize him, Cohen whines that they "would have been great communists" if they had been born earlier -- which, I suppose, means Cohen would have made a great McCarthy had he been born earlier.
And there's more. Now, being a "left-leaning" columnist does not require universal fealty to mainstream liberal thought. The problem isn't that Cohen occasionally takes positions that put him at odds with liberals; that's to be expected. The problem is that he routinely does so, on many of the central issues of our time, and that he routinely demonstrates open contempt for liberals.
Meanwhile, the Post's "right-leaning" columnists are undeniably conservative: Marc Thiessen, Michael Gerson, George Will, Charles Krauthammer.
So it seems the difference between "right-leaning" and "left-leaning" columnists at the Washington Post is that the right-leaning list includes people who worked for Republican presidents while the left-leaning list merely includes a columnist whovotes for Republican presidential candidates.
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Award winning broadcaster leads Montana New Zealand Book Awards judging panel
Award winning broadcaster Lynn Freeman is the convenor of the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards judging panel.
Freeman is joined by David Elworthy and Tim Corballis.
Freeman, hosts Radio New Zealand National's The Arts on Sunday show and fills in on Nine to Noon when the main presenter is away, is a theatre critic and a Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards judge. She is also on the board of the Playwriting agency, Playmarket and served on the panel selecting the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Arts Laureates. She resides in Wellington.
Christchurch based David Elworthy, a veteran in the publishing industry, started his career as a New Zealand diplomat with postings in both London and New Delhi. He then joined A.H. & A.W. Reed as an editor, eventually becoming their Editorial Director. He then became the Publishing Director for Collins for 10 years before he and his wife Ros Henry founded Shoal Bay Press, which they ran successfully for 20 years before selling to Longacre Press.
Wellington writer Tim Corballis, brings a young voice to the judging panel.
In 2005/2006 he spent a year in Berlin as the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer in Residence. In 2002 he was the Randell Cottage Writer in Residence and in 2000 he was awarded the Adam Foundation Prize and a Modern Letters Fellowship for his work towards an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in Wellington.
All three judges are looking forward to the challenge of judging.
"As judges, it is our privilege—and our challenge—to engage thoroughly with the full breadth of a year's writing".
"We are all anticipating – and looking forward to – many a robust round table discussion over the next few months, as we hone down the pleasingly extensive list of eligible books."
The judges are very aware of the task ahead of them and the impact their choices will have on the reading public.
"Looking back on the first 12 years of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, one is struck first by the quality of the work submitted by New Zealand
authors and publishers, and secondly by the increasing impact of the
Awards on the New Zealand scene. Betting on the Awards may not yet have been taken up by the TAB, but book sales, let alone the interest expressed by the general media, reflect the keen interest of the New Zealand public," the judges said.
The judging of New Zealand's best books published during the 2007 calendar year is carried out across eight categories – Fiction, Poetry, Biography, History, Reference & Anthology, Environment, Illustrative, and Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture – and follows strict guidelines.
This is the 12th year of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Judges take into account enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation; production values, general design and the standard of editing and the impact of the book on the community, with emphasis on issues such as topicality, public interest, commercial viability, entertainment, cultural and educational values and lifespan of the book.
Each category has a specialist advisor to assist the judging panel. This year's advisors also boast strong writing and publishing credentials:
Fiction – Diane Brown is a poet, novelist and memoirist, and the co-ordinator and tutor for the Aoraki Polytechnic Creative Writing Course in Dunedin. Her publications include the collections of poetry Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, (winner of the NZSA Best First Book of Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 1997); Learning to Lie Together, novels If The Tongue Fits, and Eight Stages of Grace, travel memoirs Liars and Lovers and Here Comes Another Vital Moment. She is currently writing a novel, Hooked.
Poetry – Anna Jackson lectures in English and American literature at Victoria University of Wellington. She has published four books of poetry with Auckland University Press, most recently The Gas Leak. She lives in Island Bay with her jeweller husband Simon Edmonds, and children Johnny (13) and Elvira (11).
History – Jock Phillips is General Editor of Te Ara, the Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Previously New Zealand's Chief Historian, he was also the founding Director of the Stout Research Centre for the study of New Zealand society, history and culture. His ten published books on New Zealand history include collections on the major Maori tribes of New Zealand, and on the settler and immigrant peoples of New Zealand. He is just completing a book on the history of British immigration to New Zealand.
Biography – Julia Millen is a biographer, historian and fiction writer whose works include biographies of New Zealand novelists Guthrie Wilson and Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Her social history works include: Kirkcaldie & Stains and Bell Gully Buddle Weir; about the department store and the legal firm respectively, Salute to Service, on the RNZ Corps of Transport; and Breaking Barriers, on IHC New Zealand. She has an honours degree in music, has compiled and presented programmes for Radio New Zealand Concert and was librettist for two New Zealand operas.
Reference and Anthology – Margie Thomson was a journalist for more than 20 years, working on a variety of publications but mainly for the New Zealand Herald where she wrote features before becoming the Books Editor. Over the past 10 years she has edited books pages for Canvas, Herald on Sunday and Next magazine. Last year she left the media to take up a position as the Books Promotions Manager for Whitcoulls.
Environment – Simon Nathan is an earth scientist, with a long standing interest in environmental history. He has written biographical accounts of several New Zealand scientists, most recently Harold Wellman: a man who moved New Zealand. For the last four years Simon has been Science Editor of Te Ara: Encyclopedia of New Zealand which launched "The Bush" theme in 2007, dealing with New Zealand's natural environment.
Lifestyle and contemporary culture – Ann Packer is a freelance writer who last year won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture category with Stitch, featuring New Zealand textile artists. She lives in Eastbourne and walks to Days Bay each morning before starting work on subjects as diverse as children's books, homes, gardens, arts, travel and visiting authors. Ann has raised three children and worked as a community arts advisor, International Festival administrator and teacher.
Illustrative – Artist Dick Frizzell, having worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator, has no qualms about blurring the categories between his commercial work and art. His paintings are often a pastiche of images drawing on modern art and graphic design. In 2005 Frizzell was invited on the Antarctic artist programme. Frizzell's works are held in major public and corporate collections and his 1997 retrospective exhibition, Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste, toured major public art galleries of New Zealand.
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The winner in each category receives a prize of $5,000. Each category winner is eligible for the Montana Medal for non fiction or poetry/fiction, both of which carry a prize of $10,000.
The finalists across all categories will be announced on Tuesday 10 June.
The winner of the poetry category will be announced on Montana Poetry Day on Friday 18 July. All other winners will be advised at the awards ceremony in Wellington on Monday 21 July 2008.
The principal sponsors of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards are Montana and Creative New Zealand. The awards are managed by Booksellers New Zealand and supported by Book Publishers Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd.


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Sorry guys, I've been busy and not had the time to deal with the spam.
I've cleaned up what I've seen today. If you see more let me know.
I agree wholeheartedly that the spam levels are putting people off - I know I have issues with it too.
What we really need to do is a complete revamp of the forum but LP do control the servers. When I get another moment I'll drop the Pauls a line.


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The Nikkei slid 0.2 percent to 14,460.30 in early trading, while the Kospi gained 0.1 percent to 1,963.04.
Market moves were cautious in anticipation of the release of U.S. government nonfarm payrolls report for April, which could show signs of an economic recovery.
The figures, which often set the market tone for a week or two after their release, may have a big impact as they come in the wake of significantly lower than expected U.S. economic growth in the first quarter and the Fed's ongoing reduction in its monetary stimulus.
Thursday's manufacturing survey from the Institute for Supply Management echoed other findings showing that the U.S. economy rebounded strongly in March and April. Most economists expect Friday's payrolls data to be solid too, with about 220,000 jobs created during April.
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David Oborny looked at the ticket just handed to him by Cooperative Grain & Supply manager Mike Thomas at the Marion elevator.
"580 bushels, 13.1 moisture, and 57.7 test weight," he read. "That's a good test weight. The average is 56."
Oborny was harvesting corn Friday on a 30-acre field north of Marion. It was planted May 15. He combined the first field two weeks ago, and it averaged 67 bushels per acre.
"This was the year not to plant corn early," he said. "This later planted corn is doing quite a bit better." (He later reported a yield of 98 bushels per acre on that field.)
Oborny uses a 1660 International combine with a six-row header and hauls the corn with an International tandem-axle truck holding 550 to 575 bushels.
He had another 70 acres to go. His son, Tom, was home for the weekend from Hutchinson Community College to help with the harvest. Meanwhile, his wife, Sam, was sowing wheat, hoping to get the last 50 acres in before the next chance of rain Sunday night.
The Obornys have two other children: Tabitha, a junior, and Greg, a freshman at Centre High School.
They run a diversified farming operation including a 250-head mostly Red Angus cowherd, 350 acres of wheat, and some milo. They manage 3,000 acres — one-third owned and two-thirds rented. Many of the rented acres are grass.
Oborny uses minimum tillage on his farm ground, and occasionally no-tills corn into wheat ground.
"I'm not big on technology," he said. "I'm happy the way it's working. I guess it's just my personal preference."
He joined his father, the late George Oborny, full-time on the farm after graduating from high school. He said they were able to acquire more land just as he was graduating, which made it possible for him to partner with his dad. Son Tom is taking a two-year welding technology course at HCC before returning to the farm.
"Farming has changed a lot," Oborny said. "What we are doing right now used to feed five families."
"Farming has its ups and downs," he said. "You have to be in it for the long haul. I think this year was close to the best ever."


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Tammy and Terry Christensen of Ringsted, Carol Zumdome of Nauvoo, Ill., and Richard Sherrill of Hamilton, Ill., announce the engagement of their children Lacy Lynn Christensen and John Rahn Sherrill, both of Macomb, Ill.
Lacy graduated in 2006 from Armstrong-Ringsted High School and from Iowa state University in 2010 with a marketing degree. She is currently working at a bank in Macomb.
John graduated from Nauvoo-Colusa High School. He is currently in the Air National Guard at Peoria Ill., and is attending Western Illinois University in Macomb.
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Lacy and John
The couple plans a July 7, 2012 wedding in Ringsted.


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Oscars 2013: Best Picture goes to Ben Affleck's 'Argo'
Phil Hahn, Social Media Producer, CTVNews
Published Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:44PM EST
Last Updated Monday, February 25, 2013 12:52AM EST
Ben Affleck's film "Argo" won the coveted best picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, an honour that was presented by U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama via satellite from the White House on Sunday night.
The film, based on the so-called Canadian Caper detailing the rescue of hostages in Iran, was largely expected to win -- despite the fact Affleck was snubbed in the best director category.
Affleck's film won three Academy Awards, including adapted screenplay and editing. "There are eight great films that have every right, as much a right to be up here as we do," said Affleck.
Other big wins of the evening:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, best actor for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in "Lincoln"
- Jennifer Lawrence, best actress for playing a neurotic widow in the comedy "Silver Linings Playbook"
- Anne Hathaway, best supporting actress playing Fantine in the movie version of hit musical "Les Miserables"
- Christoph Waltz, best supporting actor for his inimitable bounty hunter in "Django Unchained"
- Ang Lee, best director for the fable-adventure "Life of Pi" -- marking his second Oscar win as director.
"Life of Pi" also took home the most hardware -- netting four Oscars including best score by Canadian composer Mychael Danna. Lee also pulled off a major upset winning best director over "Lincoln" favourite and directing legend Steven Spielberg.
CTVNews.ca live-blogged the awards show. Here's a blow-by-blow of the event:
12:01 a.m. ET
As the credits roll, MacFarlane and stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth sing a tribute to the losers.
11:58 p.m. ET
Ben Affleck and his co-producers (one of whom is George Clooney) are on stage to accept their awards. Affleck acknowledges Steven Spielberg as a genius, tears through his thank yous -- adding "I want to thank Canada" in a heartfelt acceptance speech.
This marks only the second time in the past 30 years that a film has won Best Picture without garnering a direction nomination. The other was 'Driving Miss Daisy' in 1989.
11:54 p.m. ET
Jack Nicholson's on stage now. He introduces Michelle Obama -- who's appearing in a live satellite feed from the White House to announce this year's nominees for Best Picture.
Obama: these films "made us laugh ... weep ... and grip our armrests... and reminded us we can overcome any obstacle if we dig deep enough and hard enough .. and look within ourselves..."
Back to Jack now, who finishes presenting the nominees and throw back to Michelle Obama.
11:48 p.m. ET
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis for LINCOLN
He gets a big laugh for saying he was going to do an acting swap with Streep. He was going to play Margaret Thatcher -- while Streep was Spielberg's first choice as Lincoln. He also jokes about persuading Spielberg not to turn Lincoln into a musical.
This is Day-Lewis's third best-actor Oscar. His others were for "My Left Foot" and "There Will Be Blood."
11:45 p.m. ET
Meryl Streep is about to the present the Best Actor Oscar.
11:43 p.m. ET
BEST ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence for SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.
She also wins award for the first trip walking up the steps. But she gets a standing ovation.
"You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell," she says. Lawrence, 22, is the second-youngest woman to win best actress behind a 21-year-old Marlee Matlin who won for "Children of a Lesser God."
11:41 p.m. ET
Best Actress about to be announced.
11:38 p.m. ET
@TheAcademy tweets: We've got a little surprise presenter planned for Best Picture. #SpoilerAlert #Oscars.
Who could it be?...
11:35 p.m. ET
MacFarlane introduces two legends from 70s and 80s -- an era "when cocaine trees stretched as far as the eye can see." His excuse for this joke: "it's late."
Oscar winners Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas walk on stage to present the nominees for best director.
BEST DIRECTOR awarded to Ang Lee for LIFE OF PI. Li says 'I love you' to his various crews, including the one in Canada.
11:28 p.m. ET
Dustin Hoffman and Charlize Theron (short guy and tall woman, get it?) present the best ADAPTED SCREENPLAY award to Chris Terrio (ARGO).
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY goes to Quentin Tarantino for DJANGO UNCHAINED
Tarantino says his movies will be remembered because of the characters he creates. But he only gets one chance to get the casting right. "And boy this time, did I do it," he says, commending his actors as well as his fellow nominees. He calls this year 'the writer's year."
MacFarlane then comments on the length of these Oscars, saying the 2014 Oscars is coming up next.
11:16 p.m. ET
BEST SONG goes to Adele for SKYFALL.
11:10 p.m. ET
Canadian winner:
ORIGINAL SCORE goes to Toronto-based LIFE OF PI composer Mychael Danna.
11:04 p.m. ET
Another highly-anticipated moment: Barbra Streisand sings 'Memories' in a tribute to composer Marvin Hamlisch. She still has it. Standing ovation.
10:57 p.m. ET
George Clooney is brought on to present the 'In Memoria' segment of tonight's broadcast. It's always an uncomfortable moment when certain people get applause and others don't. (Former Beastie Boy Adam Yauch was first to get applause.)
10:50 p.m. ET
Canadian winner:
Daniel Radcliffe and an extremely bored-looking Kristen Stewart present the PRODUCTION DESIGN Oscar to LINCOLN design team Rick Carter & Jim Erickson -- Erickson is from B.C.
(The reaction to Stewart's performance on social media is rather scathing.)
10:44 p.m. ET
Nicole Kidman is introducing three of the nominees for Best Picture: Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, Amour. (the rest are Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.)
10:34 p.m. ET
The moment everyone's been awaiting for: Adele sings the theme to "Skyfall." It's a pretty flawless performance, though perhaps too cool for school? Judging from some of the Twitter reaction and audience reaction, it didn't move people.
10:33 p.m. ET
With an hour(ish) to go in the broadcast -- Sandra Bullock presents the FILM EDITING award to William Goldenberg for ARGO.
10:25 p.m. ET
"It came true," she says, before thanking her co-nominees and her co-stars. Always a gracious winner. She ends her speech by saying "May the misfortunes of Fantine may only be told in stories and never in real life."
Now, why she has to exit to the theme of Godfather playing in the background, is a mystery.
10:20 p.m. ET
Canadian legend Christopher Plummer, looking classy in a tux and his Order of Canada pin, takes the stage to introduce Best Supporting Actress nominees.
10:15 p.m. ET
MacFarlane's Teddy Bear creation 'Ted' really wants Mark Wahlberg to tell him where the post-Oscar orgy is being held. Wahlberg tells him it's at Jack Nicholson's house. Oh, and they're introducing awards for sound.
SOUND EDITING: It's a tie between ZERO DARK THIRTY & SKYFALL (The last time there was a tie at the Oscars apparently was in 1968).
10:04 p.m. ET
We're deep in Les Miserables territory now. You've been warned.
Hugh Jackman takes the stage, followed by Anne Hathaway. They're singing "One Day More." Dozens march on stage, as they tend to do in Les Mis. Some of the actors fare better than others in the singing department, though it's hardly fair to put talented stage star Samantha Barks (Eponine) alongside Russell Crowe (Javert) -- who sneers better than he sings. Jackman has a great voice but demonstrates he doesn't have the technique to sustain his notes - a serious shortcoming when you're playing Jean Valjean.
10:00 p.m. ET
John Travolta, invoking his Pulp Fiction character, introduces the "finest movie musicals over the past decade."
Catherine Zeta Jones reprises her "Chicago" role of Velma Kelly and sings and dances to 'All That Jazz'. The audience seems to like it. Sort of.
This is followed by Jennifer Hudson singing -- i.e. belting -- 'You're Gonna Love Me' from "Dreamgirls."
9:51 p.m. ET
Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain are on stage now. Although they look stunning, they give strangely wooden readings. They present BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM to France's AMOUR.
9:45 p.m. ET
Seth MacFarlane points out that Ben Affleck went from starring in the embarrassing Gigli (2003) to directing one of the most acclaimed films this year in 'Argo'. Affleck's now on stage to announce the nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, which goes to: SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (and the director becomes the second person tonight to be musically booted off the stage by the Jaws theme.)
9:38 p.m. ET
He's done several films since, but Liam Neeson still cannot seem to avoid entering any awards shows to the theme from Schindler's List.
9:37 p.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: INNOCENTE by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine.
9:35 p.m. ET
Nominated Afghan-Canadian filmmaker Ariel Nasr does not win for his film "Buzkashi Boys".
9:27 p.m. ET
Halle Berry introduces a tribute to James Bond's 50th Anniversary. We were treated to a montage - and then Shirley Bassey singing a dramatic rendition of "Goldfinger." The highlight of the night so far. The standing ovation she got was well-deserved. And possibly the first sincere moment at these Oscars.
9:17 p.m. ET
Compared with previous presenters, Jennifer Aniston and Channing Tatum actually have chemistry together as they introduce BEST COSTUME DESIGN, which goes to: Jacqueline Durran for ANNA KARENINA
So how are you all doing in your Oscar Pools so far?
9:11 p.m. ET
CINEMATOGRAPHY award goes to EDGAR WINTERS for LIFE OF PI
(The Avengers cast is up here introducing -- and they are bombing. Painfully. With so much talent on stage you have to ask how this happens.)
VISUAL EFFECTS goes to LIFE OF PI and Guillaume Rocheron - based out of Vancouver - is part of this visual effects team (he was born in France).
How rude - the team is being booted off the stage to the tune of 'Jaws.' Note: this marks the first winner who's been given the musical boot in these awards.
9:04 p.m. ET
Warm applause after MacFarlane introduces Quvenzhane Wallis, the youngest Oscar nominee ever at nine years old. MacFarlane says Wallis is probably thinking: "I really hope I don't lose to that old lady, Jennifer Lawrence".
He adds: 'It'll be 16 years before she's too young for George Clooney." Clooney takes it in stride.
8:59 p.m. ET
Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy are usually very funny ... just not this time, as they announce the BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM -- which went to PAPERMAN.
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM goes to BRAVE
8:53 p.m. ET
1st award - BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: CHRISTOPH WALTZ for "Django Unchained"
A gracious and eloquent Waltz bows deeply to his co-nominees. He's indebted to Quentin Tarantino and tells the director: "You slayed the dragon because you're not afraid of it."
8:46 p.m. ET
MacFarlane really does have a fine singing voice. Better than half the leads in Les Miserables, anyway.
8:44 p.m. ET
Cut to the Green Room, where we see MacFarlane on wires as the flying nun, intruding (and hitting) on Sally Field. The skit doesn't quite hit the mark ... There's polite applause from the audience.
8:42 p.m. ET
More singing. This time MacFarlane's got company in the tuxedoed forms of Joseph Gordon Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe who do a charming little routine to 'High Hopes'.
8:41 p.m. ET
And now a scene with puppets, who are snorting coke, and then flying a plane (a riff on 'Flight' with Denzel Washington).
8:39 p.m. ET
MacFarlane demonstrates he has a fine singing voice as he croons "The Way You Look Tonight" as Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum do an Astaire-Rogers type number.
8:37 p.m. ET
William Shatner appears on a giant screen in full Captain James Kirk mode, saying he travelled back in time to save MacFarlane from ruining the Oscars. "Your jokes are tasteless and inappropriate, and everyone ends up hating you," warns Shatner.
8:36 p.m. ET
MacFarlane comments on the liberal use of the 'N word' in Quentin Tarantino's "Django" -- he says the script was loosely based on "Mel Gibson's voice mail." A chorus of groans ensues, after which MacFarlane says to the crowd: "Oh, so you're on HIS side?
8:32 p.m. ET
MacFarlane's first quip: "The quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh beings now." Cut to Jones, who was genuinely laughing. (phew!) Then pokes fun at Ben Affleck -- saying the director of "Argo" is so secret, he's unrecognized by the Academy. Affleck looked less amused than Jones.
8:25 p.m. ET
Five minutes until the show stars. Let's see what Seth MacFarlane has up his sleeve. And will "Argo" pull it off and win best picture without a directing nomination for Ben Affleck?
8:12 p.m. ET
Russell Crowe tweeted the 'butterflies are kicking in' -- as he and his fellow Les Miserables cast members are getting ready to 'rock the house tonight'.
7:59 p.m. ET
Oscar Buzz: Top 3 trending topics at the moment are: 1) Chris Evans 2) Hugh Jackman 3) Adele
7:51 p.m. ET
Share your comments with us! Including your predictions, thoughts on the show so far... There's a comments section below. Here's one from "Domenica O'Toole" who writes:
"It's not likely, but oh how I do hope Argo loses as best picture. Maybe it should win as "Best Fiction", because the true heroes were the Canadians, and Ben Affleck credited Americans with the heroism they did not deserve. Even the President acknowledged that 90% of the risks was taken by Canadians. Shame on Ben Affleck. I will boycott this movie, and any other movie he makes, unless he makes an apology to Canada."
Thanks for the note, Domenica. In case you missed it, click here to read W5's fascinating story on the 'glaring omissions' Affleck's film made when it came to the Canadian involvement in the escape of 6 U.S. diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis.
7:36 p.m. ET
As the New York Times' Brian Stelter points out: starting now, ABC has exclusive TV rights to the Oscars Red Carpet -- which is why other broadcasters have cut away from it. The CTV main network will pick up Academy Awards coverage again LIVE at 8:00 p.m. ET.
7:16 p.m. ET
This from U.S. President @BarackObama's twitter account a few minutes ago: Happy
#Oscars night. pic.twitter.com/xRO5hEBoHS
6:18 p.m. ET
We'll be blogging in earnest here once the awards show starts at 8:30 p.m. ET. In the meantime you can follow coverage of the Red Carpet by CTVNews.ca's Andrea Janus here.
6:12 p.m. ET
On Twitter, Oscars host Seth MacFarlane is promising "no cheap wiener jokes."
"Only expensive wiener jokes"
5:17 p.m. ET
Less than 3 hours to go before the broadcast begins. Coverage starts on CTV at 8 p.m. ET with the 'Red Carpet Live' -- followed by the awards broadcast at 8:30 p.m. ET. CTV.ca will also be live streaming the event. Click here for more info.


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A part of Brammo's announcement that it will be entering the electric dirt bike scene, the Brammo Engage is the cornerstone of the Ashland, Oregon company's off-road line. Featuring the S.M.R.E. designed Integrated Electronic Transmission (IET), Brammo is not only getting into the dirt bike and supermoto scene with the Engage (going squarely after players like Zero and Quantya), but is raising the ante by offering a six-speed transmission specifically designed for electric motors.
Details and specifics are still coming together about the Brammo Engage, and even the photos given to the press are of pre-production machines that are based-off S.M.R.E. prototypes. However, early speculation is that the IET system will also feature regenerative braking, another first for the Oregonian company. Photos, video, and more after the jump.


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Amazon's cloud spreads into content delivery
Pay-as-you-go caching
Amazon's ever-cumulating cloud is today rolling into the business of speedy Internet content delivery.
The online bookseller today flipped the beta switch on Amazon CloudFront, a new service that caches high-traffic content on the company's worldwide network of edge locations so it's always near the end-user for low latency goodness.
The service itself isn't novel, with vendors like Akamai and Limelight already firmly entrenched in the content delivery biz. This type of thing even has its own acronym for you to remember (CDN for either Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network, depending on who you ask). Store that one away for later.
Amazon's spin on CDN (see, useful already) is offering it on a pay-as-you-go model rather than longterm contracts. That's either good news for small businesses that commonly can't afford such luxuries or a potential money pit, depending on the end-user's love for their web browser's "clear cache" and "reload" buttons.
CloudFront is designed to compliment the rest of Amazon Web Services...er...services, like S3 storage and EC2. Customers store the original versions of content (photos, video, music, applications, etc.) into an Amazon S3 "bucket," call up an API that returns a unique domain name for the content, then link to it on a web site or web application.
Amazon has 14 edge locations around the world where content can be cached at present. Interestingly enough, the list of spots released today also would seem to shed light on the locations of Amazon's data centers, which it doesn't like to share.
The locations are:
United States of A
- Ashburn, Virginia
- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
- Los Angeles, California
- Miami, Florida
- Newark, New Jersey
- Palo Alto, California
- Seattle, Washington
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Amsterdam
- Dublin
- Frankfurt
- London
- Hong Kong
- Tokyo
Pricing depends on where the content is stored. Requests from Europe and US cost $0.17 per GB for the first 10TB transferred out per month. Hong Kong requests cost $0.21 per GB for the first TB per month. Japan requests costs $0.22 per GB for the first TB per month.
The price per GB decreases slightly when bandwidth reaches 40TB, 100TB, and 150TB+. Amazon has a CloudFront pricing calculator if you want to get into the nitty-gritty.
"Because our costs vary by location, pricing for data served from edge locations outside the US varies, and is currently slightly higher," said Amazon's Jeff Barr on the AWS blog. "You will also pay the usual S3 price for the 'origin fetch' which takes place when a requested object is transferred from S3 to an edge location, and for storage of the object in S3." CloudFront is available now in beta and is currently being pitched at web developers and businesses. ®


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The big loser today was Angela Merkel.
In France, her primary ally Nicolas Sarkozy went down to defeat against a candidate whose main priority is pushing back against the fiscal compact, and promoting a more activist, printy ECB.
In Greece, the middle-ground austerity parties had a disastrous day in the polls, as fringe parties surged. Already, the head of the New Democracy party (which garnered more seats than anyone else) is talking about renegotiating the bailout terms, according to the Associated Press.
So the question is: What does Merkel do now?
It seems like there are pretty much just two oppositions. One is to embrace the tide and acknowledge the reality. Merkelism has not worked anywhere. The embrace of austerity as the primary means of fighting the debt crisis has failed. In all the countries that have gone for it (Greece, Portugal, Spain, etc.) deficits are worse, government borrowing costs are higher, and the economy has gone to the dogs. Reflationary growth policies are what's called for, and what the people outside of Germany want. If Merkel can find a way to bend to this, and somehow bring her fellow Germans along, then this weekend's result will prove to have been a major, positive turning point.
The other option is for Merkel to dig in, continue to insist on austerity as the only crisis-fighting approach, while only making the faintest moves towards a "growth strategy." If that's her approach, then watch out because the Franco-Germany alliance will really be shot, and the new weak Greek government won't be able to go for it. Also, the European economy will continue to head into the tank.
The jig is up, Angela, it's your choice now.
SEE ALSO: What everyone is getting wrong about the new President of France >


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An additive foray for stories, pictures and information about the ancestry and descendants of the James Family. Remember to wear your helmet, drink plenty of fluids, and enjoy yourself. The research on this blog and on Ancestry.com is for me, my children, my grandchildren, future generations and anyone else who is interested. The family unit is the most important organization in time and eternity.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Beloved Woman Cornblossom
Cornblossom Chuqualatgue Doublehead 1760 - 1810
My 5 g third cousin ((Chief Chuqualatague4 Doublehead, chief Great3 Eagle, Chief Moytoy2of Tellico, Amatoya1 Moytoy)
THE MARRIAGE OF JACOB TROXELL & CORNBLOSSOM- by Dan Troxell
The Cherokee wedding was held at and around Doubleheads cave (Wayne County). The ceremony was tribal. It is said in true memories and stories handed down through my generations of ancestors that the country side was in its late spring beauty. Wild Tree and field flowers were still in full bloom, especially the wild mountain Laurel> The "Beloved Woman", then young Cornblossmo, was said to have charmed everyone with her beauty as her blood ancestor, War Woman, She who carries the sun" (for her people) had done during the French and Indian War. Blossom of the Corn (cornblossom) was said to have worn specially made wedding clothes, highly decorated beaded sandals, and a special jewelled traditonal Chickamaugan head piece made by the Clan Mothers, over her left ear was said to be a beautiful ornamental wing of a bluebird. It was said that Cornblossom carried many blossom's and wild roses that perfumed the air with sweetness, and also an ear of special Clan Field Corn. This special ear of corn from the field of her Cherokee people clan symbolized the 1st woman who was called Selu in Cherokee. Jacob Troxell brought and carried the finest of meat partly symbolizing his care of the 1st man who was called Kanati in cherokee. The 1st man and woman on this world can be found in the stories of the Cherokee of the "Story of the Cornmaiden". Cornblossom walked with a great Thrunderbolt War Chief and Chickamaugan Principal Chief Dragging Canoe. Dragging Canoe was said to have led Cornblossom to the center front of Doublehead's cave (hines Cave, at Mill Springs, Monitcello Kentucky). This special cave was the burial chambers of the ancients and diplomatic party headquarters of the northern provisonal capital of the Chickamaugan Cherokee Nation. "Big Jake" Jacob Troxell was accompanied by the famous Cherokee Thunderbolt Peace Chief, Hanging Maw from another direction. Some say Cherokee War Chief Doublehead performed the marriage himself but according to the Cherokee Custom this was not allowed. Some highly believe that Dick Justice performed this marriage.
The Great Cherokee Children's Massacre Ywahoo Falls Kentucky 1810
On Friday, August 10th 1810, the Great Cherokee Children Massacre took place at Ywahoo Falls in southeast Kentucky. The Cherokee village leaders of the Cumberland Plateau territory from Knoxville Tennessee to the Cumberland River in Kentucky was led by the northern provisional Thunderbolt District Chief Beloved Woman - War Woman "Cornblossom", the highly honored daughter of the famous Thunderbolt War Chief Doublehead.
Several months before this date, War Woman Cornblossom was preparing the people in all the Cherokee villages of southeast Kentucky and northern Tennessee to bring all their children to the sacred Ywahoo Falls area of refuge and safety. Once all the Cherokee children were gathered they were to make a journey to Reverend Gideon Blackburns Presbertearian Indian School at Sequatchie Valley outside of Chattanooga Tennessee in order to save the children of the Cherokee Nation remaining in Kentucky and northern Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau. This area of Sequatchie Valley was very near to Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, the once long held Chickamauga National capital of the Thunderbolts. The arrangements to save the Cherokee children thru Gideon Blackburns white protection Christian Indian Schools had been made earlier by Cornblossoms father War Chief Doublehead, who had also several years earlier been assassinated by non-traditionalist of the southern Cherokee Nation of the Carolinas and far eastern Tennessee.
A huge large gathering area underneath Ywahoo Falls itself was to be the center meeting place for these women and children to gather and wait, then all the children of all ages would go as one group southward to the school to safety from the many Indian fighters gathering in the neighboring counties of Wayne and Pulaski in Kentucky. These Indian fighters were led by an old Franklinite militiaman from Tennessee named Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory who came from Sullivan County Tennessee at the settlement of Franklin and had fought many Franklinite campaigns under John Seveir to eliminate all the traditional Thunderbolt Cherokee totally and without mercy. Big Tooth Gregory, sanctioned by the United States government, war department, and governor of the territory, carried on the ill famous Indian hating battle cry of John Seveir that "nits make lice". Orders were understood by these Cherokee haters that nits (baby lice) would grow up to be adults and especially targeted in all the campaigns of John Seveirs Franklinites were the Cherokee women, pregnant women, and children of all ages. John Seveir, Big Tooth Gregory, and all the rest of the Franklinites philosophy was that if they could destroy the children of the Cherokee, there would be no Cherokee and no Cherokee Nation to contend with in their expansion of white settlements, the white churches, and the claiming of territory for the United States. Orders were issued to the Franklinites to split open the belly of any pregnant Cherokee woman, remove the baby inside her, and slice it as well. To the Franklinites, the Cherokee baby inside the mother was the nit that would eventually make lice.
Runners brought word to Standing Fern at the falls that her husband War Chief Peter Troxell and Cornblossom were on their way to Ywahoo Falls with the last of the children. Traveling with Cornblossom and War Chief Peter Troxell were Chief Red Bird of the Cumberland Falls area and their children, the youngest children of Cornblossom, and all the children of War Chief Peter Troxell.
When they arrived at Ywahoo Falls the journey southward would begin. But before Cornblossom, Red Bird, War Chief Peter Troxell, and the children with them arrived, the old Franklinite "Indian fighter" by the name of Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory had heard of the planned trip several days prior and headed immediately for the falls area to kill them all with all he could muster to kill the Cherokee. Breaking the 1807 peace treaty between War Chief Peter Troxell and the Governor of Kentucky, Big Tooth Gregorys band of Indian fighters crossed into Cherokee territory and came in two directions, one group from Wayne County, the other from neighboring Pulaski county in southeast Kentucky. The Indian fighters on horseback joined together at what is now called Flat Rock Kentucky and headed into the Ywahoo Falls area with fiery hatred. Big Tooth Gregory and his Indian fighters could not allow these children (nits) to escape. Being only 1 good accessible way in by land and 1 way in by water, Gregorys band of Indian fighters chose the quick way by land, sending a few side skirmishers by way to block anyone trying to escape.
Before they reached the falls, at todays entrance to Ywahoo Falls, the Indian fighters encountered a front Cherokee guard consisting of "Big Jake" Jacob Troxell (husband to Cornblossom), a few longhunters friendly to the Cherokee mainly thru intermarriage and some remaining Thunderbolt warriors, all who were guarding the entrance to the falls. This occurred shortly after midnight in the early morning hours of darkness before the rising of the sun. This will be the night morning of screams. This will be the last day of many children. From this massacre, Jacob Troxell (husband to Cornblossom), the Great Warrior, and all the front guards killed, War Woman Standing Fern (wife to War Chief Peter Troxell) and her elite Thunderbolt warriors all killed defending the children below the falls, War Chief Peter Troxell killed in the last fight, and over 100 women and children waiting to go south to safety in a children journey to a Christian mission school, all lay dead, massacred, raped, tortured, and scalped, by these "Indian fighters".
It was said that "Bones and Blood ran so deep underneath Ywahoo Falls that the murdered dead were all put there together in a heap to be their grave". The place of innocence and the Ancient Ones now became a place of death of the innocent. The Falls ran red that day of darkness, Friday, August 10, 1810. This massacre ended all power of the mighty Chickamaugan Thunderbolt Cherokee people in Kentucky to Knoxville Tennessee. These people of southeast Kentucky and northern Tennessee held out unto death. And as it is often said "Today was a good day to die" for "We are not conquered."
59 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM
May the scream of the hawk enlighten your day for the sun shines again today from within the shadows shines our spirit in a land where the water still runs as blood for every tear we shed for the living the dead. Danny R.ReplyDelete
I have only this week learned of my Cherokee blood heritage. Beloved Woman, Princess Cornblossom is my 5th great grandmother on my grandpa's mother's side (Minerva Blevins was his mother, granddaughter of Catherine Troxell, who was the mother Johnathon "Juber" Blevins and daughter of Cornblossom Doublehead). I would love any further information regarding this family...and tribe. Thank you for your blog!ReplyDelete
Chasity (McCart) JennyReplies
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 12:37 AM
Seems we are relatives Chasity, as I too come from the Catherine Troxell line.Delete
- Rebecca JusticeNovember 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Me too. I am getting that Cornblossom, was only a legend. I know she was a real person. Also related throught the Blevins line. ThanksDelete
Her name is Pawalin. Whites gave her the name Cornblossom. She was not a princess. Again this is what white people have called her. She is my 9th great grandmother. though Catherine (Katie) her son Pleasant Blevin his daughter Delilah md to Mathew King their son Jasper his son Miles Goldman his son Curtis King then to my mother Sue King. For what its worth my opinion is Pawalin is a real person. She has been made into something bigger than what she was just to sell books. Or the family was trying though Pawalin to Lighten the fact that Doublehead sold land, turn away from His People.Delete
Kirby Johnson if this is so I am also a relative of yours. Their daughter Mary Polly Troxell is my direct great+++grandmother. Most of my family still live in Pulaski County, KY and we still meet at Daniel Boone Nat. Park for our family reunions. Would love to talk to you more about our roots. :)Delete
Chief Doublehead is my 6th Great Grandfather through his daughter Princess Cornblossom and George Jacob Troxell my 5th Great Grandparents there Daughter Sarah S Troxell and Thomas Bell are my 4th Great Grandparents there Daughter Mary Ann Polly Bell and David Spradlin are my 3rd Great Grandparents There Daughter Nancy Elizabeth Spradlin and John Charles Clemens are my 2nd Great Grandparents There son John William Clemens and Martha Davis are my Great Grandparents there Daughter Grace Clarsie Clemens and Millard Thomas Cook Sr are my Grandparents there son James Louis Cook and Mary Anne Cook are my parentsDelete
My email firstname.lastname@example.com. Some of the king family live in somerset ky. My mom was born in whitley city, ky along with 14 brothers and sister. So there is a whole lot of us. I have been doing the family tree since about 1995. My uncle norman started it back in 1980, I am still looking for proof of cornblossom, My cousin did her DNA and she has no Native American zero not one drop. she has the looks, so i really can explain this. I need to dig a little deeper.Delete
Horseshit...this is a myth. Not CherokeeDelete
Pawalin is my 5th great grandmother, my line is through Sarah Troxell Bell, to Mary Polly Spradlin to Nancy Elizabeth Clemons, to Malinda Jane Dugger, to Arthur Lee Dugger to Virginia Langford to me. So if this is Horsesh*t as Ann Hayden says it is, she needs to find out who my grandparent and great grandparents are all the way back to Sarah Sallie Troxell Bell.Delete
Also related through Daniel Blevins to Richard Blevins to Sarah Blevins who married Jacob Meek. Diane Harris Hudson. Check out my tree on Ancestry through my administrator Stephen Hudson of Hudson Family tree--golfsteve173. He also is related through the Belcher. Plz contact me if you have any further info. My sister and I (family concurs) also bear resemblance to Cornblossom. ThanksDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2019 at 4:17 PM
Means none of y'all are Cherokee as princess cornbloscorn if a made up person for a made up bookDelete
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2012 at 7:39 AM
Hello to all of my new family members. I am from the Blevins line.ReplyDelete
What a nice sight. Thank you
My Grandmother was Mary Belle Blevins, daughter of Ruth Blevins and
Andrew Calvin Patterson.
I think we would all like to see photos or any information.
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- chris masonApril 13, 2013 at 11:54 AM
We were lost for a long time.because of the trail of tears and cheif doublehead getting killed I no that he didn't sell land he gave his part up and took land 150.000 arches were I was raised on cheif double heads land it is in center star Alabama that area was just a little part of the land my granddad wouldn.t call him great granddad he called him old mean doublehead I guess because what great granddad told him. I really didn.t no anything to I was two yr old when my granddad told me my who my family was then my grandmother would slap him on the arm and tell him that he was not post to tell me that because bird told his son my great grandfather.to never say we were native Americans if my grandad ever said any thing about it my great grandad would go off the deep end and I think that was because of cheif double heads death.Delete
My grandmothers people are somehow related to Chief Doublehead, but we aren"t really sure how. I would love to know how to find out exactly.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2013 at 4:16 PM
My wife is Jacquilla Stonewall. I believe she has her family traced all the way back to Cornblossum through the Troxells.ReplyDelete
this is a completely fraudulent story..there never was a Cornblossom, that has never been any Indian name..please read this..that story was made up and accuse innocent people of murder.ReplyDelete
LEGION OF THE LOST MINE is a short collection of stories based upon the
traditions of the Troxel family and centers around an intriguing person in
the history of the Cherokee, Chief Doublehead. In the book, Troxel creates
additional characters to supplement the Doublehead story. Big Jake, Princess
Cornblossom, Hans Blackberne, and the romantic Brave Tuckahoe all romp
through the pages of LEGION OF THE LOST MINE like characters in a Walt
Disney drama. Although Thomas H. Troxel was careful to note in the foreword
to his book that the names of some of the characters are fictitious, many
well-meaning persons have used his work as a framework upon which to build a
fraudulent history of the region drained by the Big South Fork of the
Cumberland River. Robert Collins used it to create the Yahoo Falls
Recreation Area on the Stearns Ranger District..
The oft-repeated (even on the Internet) story of a mass murder at Yahoo
Falls is based, not upon empirical data, but upon hearsay and revisionist
history. It is an unconscionable smear of the descendants of Hiram Gregory,
who is charged with leading the assault upon the Cherokees, and serves, not
to unite the people of the Big South Fork region, but to divide them.
In the past, good, but misinformed persons have sought to create a heritage
for the people living within the drainage basin of the Big South Fork whom
they regarded as having none. They used their influence to put up
historical markers and headstones, wrote about the region in national forest
histories, and, patronizingly, tried to give what they thought was the
region's due. They cannot be faulted for this because they did what they
believed was right. But, we are at the dawn of a new era in historical
research and the citizens of Wayne, Pulaski, and McCreary counties now know
that their true heritage can be based upon real people and real events. We
must not be afraid to subject our sacred cows of tradition to the historical
method and evaluate the data objectively and responsibly. I have done that
to the Chief Doublehead-Big Jake-Cornblossom-Yahoo Falls Massacre, and have
found it to be what it always will be-a series of fanciful stories not based
upon factual evidence.
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This dude needs to obtain a copy of the book "DOUBLEHEAD" by Rickey Butch Walker and after he reads the well documented truthful story about Doublehead and his entire family - including his daughter Pawalin - which in English translates to Cornblossom - and then come back retract his too often repeated blather. I say as one of her descendants I'm proof Cornblossom did exist, but I'd be first to admit that although she was revered the Princess part is most likely only legend.Delete
I agree. He might look at The Treaty of Sycamore Shoals.Delete
- Palma Maria (Justice) MaioranoOctober 11, 2016 at 6:29 PM
Perhaps, those "haters" are related to those involved in the rape, torture, and murder of women and children and wish to deny the truth. Because, sometimes the truth is shameful!Delete
Like Rebecca, I am related via the Justice family of Ware County, GA. Nice to connect to you all!
- Kelly WalkerApril 30, 2018 at 11:22 PM
IF it is fiction, why is there monuments erected ? Why would a state or county erect a monument to fake stories and people from fictional characters....if u don't believe why u here at all...I also descend from this line and have been told all my life, i cant be Indian, for I have a olive tone to my white skin, but don't look Indian....just because one says so, don't make it so, and only those filled with hate and evil would stop to say such things to those who are family and have done the genealogy leg work and have proof to such. And try doing old fashion research yourself before taking such a stand on something u have not educated yourself about. Cant deny historical documents.Delete
If u don't agree, then keep going...don't stop to stir trouble. Forgive him Lord for he know not what he does. AMEN
Kelly Walker "Firewoman"
- Diane KH HudsonSeptember 10, 2018 at 3:11 PM
Treaty of Sycamore Shoals.Delete
I'm also a descendant traced my grandfather to Kentucky and last year Wilber Troxel . MY DNA results show proof of Native American 23% rest was German Swedish.Delete
Kelly, the reason why you've been told that you can't be "Indian" is because of genetics. I LOOK Native, but don't have the olive skin tone. My sister, on the other hand, has the skin color but doesn't look Native American at all!Delete
My DNA results show what is considered "noise".. less than 5% of Native DNA. My sister (if she tested) may have more than that.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2013 at 4:15 PM
I have been to Ywahoo Falls many times, heard the stories from Dan Troxell, visited the Doublehead (Hines) Cave ; but was not allowed inside of it. There are many who still deny the massacre even happened and now the black monument placed in the middle of the night is sitting in a garage!I worked for years trying to get a Historical marker placed there to no avail. It is a Sacred Place. MaggieReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for you work in trying to get a sign there. Maybe one day it will happen. A lot of people would like to hide their heads in the sand rather than think about the horrors perpetuated on the American Indians. Thanks so much for your contribution and input.Delete
- chris masonSeptember 5, 2013 at 8:10 PM
I can get that monument put there .I have a secret about government people taking native American artifacts from different places and it has to do with park rangersDelete
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2013 at 4:33 PM
is there any proof though? i mean real hard solid proof?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Kelly WalkerApril 30, 2018 at 11:26 PM
Go to the state that this happened in and search for a Genealogical Society and then search for the Falls story and you will see for yourself,study up and then make ur own decision. Educating yourself is the best way to find out more.Delete
The survivors of that massacre knew. They passed it on through their families. They had no internet. It is a sacred spot. This would be an insult, even to us all, but the victims were supposed to be buried in a mass grave, behind the falls. Has anyone ever checked the site, for the bones of our family. Before they call us liars. I am not being disgraceful to the members of my family who died there. I know they would like the truth to be known and have people stop calling it a lie. ThanksReplyDeleteReplies
- Palma Maria (Justice) MaioranoOctober 11, 2016 at 6:34 PM
They died for their future generations, and here we are! We should always honor our ancestors! Knowing their suffrage certainly promotes the good within me!Delete
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According to family history - as recorded by my father's cousin and other sources - I'm a descendant of Cornblossom and Jacob Troxell's daughter Sarah Troxell who I'm told cohabited with my ancestor William Blevins b. ca 1786 before she married Thomas Bell. I've written a book on the subject titled "THE LONGHUNTERS" A REPORT ON THE HISTORY AND FAMILY OF WILLIAM BLEVINS SR showing 25 ascendants and uncounted descendants which is currently available through Amazon.com as well as Barnes and Noble and Xlibris.com. My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM
I am also a descendant of the William Blevins line, just recently discovered this info, I find this family so very interesting, but also very confusing. Trying to discover who these men were actually married to seems almost impossible, there are so many sites with conflicting information.ReplyDeleteReplies
"THE LONGHUNTERS" is a report on the William Blevins family and the story of Pawalin (aka Cornblossom) both the truth and the legend are explained. I recommend this book for those with Blevins ancestors as the first five American born generations are listed and you can contact LBlevins at sunflower dot com for more info.Delete
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Hello to all my long lost cousins!ReplyDelete
Chief Doublehead is my 7th great grandfather, which makes Cornblossom (Pawalin) my 6th great grandmother. I am related through Catherine Troxel (daughter to Cornblossom), Pleasant Blevins (Son of Catherine Troxel), Delilah Blevins (Daughter of Pleasant Blevins), Rachel King (daughter of Delilah Blevins), Walter Strunk (Son of Rachel King), Lucille Strunk (daughter of Walter Strunk), James Tiller (Son of Lucille Tiller and my father).
The Doublehead and Cornblossum (Pawalin) story is true and is best documented in the book (as mentioned above) "Doublehead Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief" by Rickey Butch Walker.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Doublehead-Last-Chickamauga-Cherokee-Chief/dp/1934610674
My grandmother (Lucille Strunk) was born in Strunk, KY, just south of Stearns,KY, where Pawalin died. So I am certain that the stories are true, especially given the well documented Strunk family history in the area. It makes sense that the families are related given the close proximity.
Any recommendations for visiting the John Boone National Park? We have a family reunion scheduled for the end of November in Townsend, TN. I would love to take a day and visit the Ywahoo Falls and/or Doublehead's cave.
In 2004, my husband and I traveled to Kentucky on vacation. We went on a hike and I found myself standing in that cave. It was surreal in the sense I felt so many emotions -at first happiness and laughter then great sorrow and trauma. I didnt understand all these emotions -I didnt pay attention to markers or anything. I was simply exploring.ReplyDelete
Two years later I began my genealogy search and found my grandmother's maiden name Troxell. Her father George had originated in Kentucky. As I saw pictures of Yahoo Falls I wondered why they were familiar. I asked my husband and he reminded me that we had been there. The emotions and spirits I had felt while standing in that cave came rushing back. I was shocked by the revelation that a massacre had occurred there and that my ancestors were killed in that cave. I believe the story because of this...I dont believe in coincidences....this was just too crazy to believe if it hadnt happened to me personally.
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She is my 5th great grandmother generations back.My name is Betty Blevins. This is so interesting!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2015 at 5:19 PM
Adam Bell – (son of Ronnie Bell)ReplyDelete
Ronnie Bell – (son of Noble Bell)
Noble Bell – b. 1916 (son of Ewell Sharp Bell)
Ewell Sharp Bell – b. 1891 (son of John Breckenridge Bell)
John Breckenridge Bell – b. 1864 (son of John S. Bell, Jr)
John S. Bell, Jr – b. 1825 (son of William Bell Sr)
William Bell, Sr. – b. 1782 (son of Joseph Bell & Nancy Davenport, brother to Thomas T. Bell and brother-in-law to Sarah "Sally" Troxell)
Joseph Bell – b. around 1745 (don't know where he came from and the genealogy stops there)
There were 3 more brothers one of which was James Bell who married Margaret "Peggy" Troxell sometime around 1805.
I guess that would make Thomas T. Bell my 6th great uncle and Sarah Troxell my 6th great aunt?? Is that the correct way to state that??
I have no idea what Cornblossom and Big Jake would be to me….if anything at all.Replies
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM
I went to High School with a Ronnie Bell and wonder if your Ronnie Bell is the same Ronnie Bell as attended Derby High School in Derby Kansas. Please do reply here and to email@example.com. ThanksDelete
Cornblossom and George Jacob "Big Jake" Troxell are my 5th Great Grandparents Sarah S Troxell is there DaughterDelete
It is amazing that after all this time there are those who deny this massacre of Cherokee Indians, natives and their relatives.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2016 at 5:17 PM
Pawalin (Cornblossom) is my 6th great grandmother; Pawalin, Elizabeth Troxell, Nancy Vaughn, James Sampson Abbott, Reverend James Sampson Abbott, Taylor McCoy Abbott, James Farris Abbott, my mother, then me. I would like to know how to prove she really existed. I can be contacted via email@example.com
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- Stacey BallApril 19, 2018 at 8:10 PM
Princess Cornblossom was my 4th great grandmother. Her son little jake was my 3rd great grandfather. I would like to meet some of my relatives from my Indian side. I have a photo of little jake who looks identical to my father Jeffrey Troxell son of Gary Troxell who's father was Gilbert Troxell. My uncle Mike owns the Troxell family cemetery in Steele Hallow where little jake and his wife are buried. If anyone would like to contact me my phone number is 5022245253 or my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Hi, all. I, too, believe I am related to George Jacob troxell, through my great grandmother Catherine Trowel, son of Henry S Troxell and "Susan". Henry is I believe the son of another George Troxell, born in 1790. I have found through Kentucky census info that he was 40 in 1830, also, he purchased 50 acres of land in ky. The first troxell came from Germany, but heritage is from Switzerland. They were of Jewish origin. Any other information would be helpful as Switzerland has records going back to 1600s.ReplyDeleteReplies
Meant Catherine TroxellDelete
My grandmother was a Blevins, married John Calven TerryReplyDelete
In Scott Co Tennessee
I am trying to connect my heritage to Cornblossom Doublehead, my father believes that there is one. I know his grandma is Clara Bell York, who had a child Kasire. She married Pleasant Workman. Can anyone help me make that connection?ReplyDelete
My line is Jacobs sin, William, then his daughter, Lucinda, who married Ben Countiss. Their daughter, Rachel, was my great grandmother.ReplyDelete
Any cousins here?
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My mom Shirley Robinson MarshallReplyDelete
My grand Mother Albert Harget Robinson
my great Grandma Iva Blevins Harget
william T Blevins
Henley blevin
Tarlton Blevins
Jonathan Blevins wife Catherine Troxell
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- AnonymousJune 18, 2019 at 4:20 AM
My name is Talin Troxell. If We are family, add me on facebook! I Love this story! My family (Troxell) all came from KY. I have DNA matched to several of these last names Blevins, Abbott, Vaughn, Taylor, Sampson, Greggory, Bell, ect. Like many of you, I grew up with stories of Cherokee talk and our 5th or 6th great grandma being Cornblossom through her son Peter Jacob Troxell.. Massacre? Where else did the Cherokee creek people go? It's possible but who knows.ReplyDelete
My DNA with Ancestry.com shows 1.0% Native American while other less popular testing websites suggest 1.67% regardless, there is a 4th to 5th great grandparent of mine who was 100% Native.


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RADFORD, Va. (Sept. 3, 2009) - After dropping a pair of matches last week, the ETSU women's soccer team contiunes to look for its first win as they travel to Radford for a 7:00 p.m., contest Friday evening at Patrick D. Cupp Memorial Stadium in Radford, Va.
ETSU (0-3-0, 0-0-0 A-Sun) enters the game after falling in its home opener against Liberty, 2-1. After netting her first career goal against the Lady Flames, junior forward Jessica Huntington (Newsport News, Va.) returns to her home state, as she leads the Buc attack in goals, points and shot percentage.
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In Reply to: Buck naked posted by Mike Feuerborn on March 04, 2010 at 19:16:
: Referring to to phase "buck naked", I am almost sixty years old and have heard this phrase all my life. The word "buck" referrs to a male native american indian. The phrase "buck naked" comes from the fact that back in the early days (pre 1900) male indians would be seen riding their horses to a river or stream to bathe or do what ever, and would be totally naked on the horse. White people would see them and thus the phrase "Buck naked" was born. Coming from Oklahoma where we have many native Amercans, I believe this to be true. The use of the word "butt" is just a misunderstanding of the word "buck"
[Some such origin is conceivable, but far from certain. It's true that by the end of the eighteenth century 'buck' was a vernacular term for an American Indian; but almost a hundred years earlier, at the beginning of the same century, it was the slang term for a daring young man about metropolitan England. The OED cites a 1725 'New Canting Dictionary' for this sense. It's not implausible as the source of an attribution of impudent behavior, or flaunting indecency. Or we can look farther back: by the eleventh century 'buck' was settled in English as a term for some wild animals, such as goat, ram, or the male deer; and the contrast, though obvious, is frequently mentioned, between the nakedness of the animal kingdom, and the customary clothing of civilized mankind. And there's still another possibility: there may be an obsolete use of 'buck' to mean the body or carcase of an animal, or especially the trunk or abdomen - and this may in turn be the source of the 'buck' or beam of a saw-buck, or a buck-board wagon. If so (and this is merest speculation), a rural remembrance of 'buck' as meaning 'body' may be all the point of the saying 'buck-naked.' -B.]


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Leading by three with 5.6 seconds remaining, the Pamlico Hurricanes committed a foul on a 3-point basket.
BAYBORO � Leading by three with 5.6 seconds remaining, the Pamlico Hurricanes committed a foul on a 3-point basket.
Ayden-Grifton's Keishmand Taylor, who connected on his first nine free throw attempts, missed his first shot but hit the next two.
Josiah Simmons iced the game with a pair of foul shots, lifting Pamlico to a 56-53 win over visiting Ayden-Grifton Wednesday in a rematch of last year's 1A third-round playoff game.
�It was pressure time, and (Taylor) missed the first one but made the next two,� said Ayden-Grifton coach John Moye. �I thought we were going to get a steal at the end, but we didn't get it. The guy (Simmons) knocked down the free throw to end it.�
Simmons led three Hurricanes in double-figures with 15 points. Arthur Randall tossed in 13 points and pulled down 11 rebounds, Bradley Bennett scored 14 points and D.J. Lewis added nine points.
Pamlico drained four first-quarter 3-pointers to take a 21-8 lead. Ayden-Grifton cut its deficit to 29-21 at halftime and got within three points late in the third quarter.
�It confirms some things we talked about before the game. This is our fifth game and we are trying to find ourselves with the football players coming out late,� Pamlico coach Earl Sadler said. �One of the things we talked about was, �we are a team.� We have some good basketball players, but they need each other.
�When they played together, we looked really (good).�
Lewis hit a step-back jumper to begin the final quarter. Pamlico's senior guard then stole the ball and went the other way for a layup, pushing the Hurricanes' lead to 44-37.
Ayden-Grifton charged back to take its first lead of the game, 49-48, when Taylor converted on a pair of free throws with 3:05 remaining.
Pamlico regained the lead on Cameron Moore's putback, but Ayden-Grifton's Will Gardner's answer handed the Chargers a 51-50 advantage.
The Hurricanes responded with a steal and a layup from Simmons and two free throws by Randall.
Pamlico missed five free throws down the stretch, but it was Ayden-Grifton who missed the biggest one with five seconds to go.
�That's been one of our weaknesses. We've been shooting about 50 percent this year and there is no excuse for it,� Sadler said. �It's about concentration and reps, just like hitting a baseball or hitting a golf ball.�
Khalif Harper scored 16 points to lead the Chargers and Taylor scored 13.
Pamlico won on the glass, 36-22.
�They knocked us on our heels to start the game off,� Moye said. �I don't think they missed a shot to start the game. We got a couple defensive stops in the second quarter, and I thought we started chipping away right before halftime.�
Ayden-Grifton plays North Edgecombe Tuesday, as Pamlico plays host to Riverside.
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BAYBORO � The Pamlico Hurricanes made up for a lackluster third quarter with a dominant final period.
Alazia Whitfield scored 11 points and ripped down 15 rebounds as Pamlico rallied to beat Ayden-Grifton, 43-36, in Bayboro Wednesday night.
�It was very sloppy, especially in the third quarter,� Pamlico coach April Rose said. �Alazia stepped up on defense in the third and fourth quarter. She got a few steals and rebounds that we needed.�
Laichelle Sparrow contributed 10 points and 10 boards and Alexis Hawkins-Pool netted 10 points for Pamlico who improves to 4-2 on the season.
The Hurricanes seemed to be in control early after jumping out to a 12-1 lead. They built an 18-10 advantage after one quarter, and extended it to 27-18 at halftime.
Then some sloppy play by the Hurricanes, and some momentum taken by the Chargers, Ayden-Grifton bounced back to take its first lead, 28-27, following a basket by Alexsius Dixon.
Ayden-Grifton (1-5) won the third quarter, 14-4, to take a one-point edge after three quarters.
Pamlico picked up its play over the final eight minutes, out-scoring the Chargers, 12-4. Whitfield dished out three assists in the final frame and Pool and Sparrow both had four points.
�We started off great, put the pressure on and took it to them,� Rose said. �We were trying to play aggressively, and the third quarter, we let them out-rebound us and take over.�
Pamlico dominated the rebounding edge, 41-29, but turned the ball over 20 times. Ayden-Grifton gave the ball away 25 times.
Destiny Dixon and Jasmeane Johnson led the Chargers with 12 points apiece and Alexsius Dixon contributed nine points and seven rebounds. Tauja Worthington had a team-high eight rebounds.
Pamlico plays host to Riverside on Tuesday. Ayden-Grifton plays North Edgecombe.
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Pamlico 21 8 11 16 � 56
AG scoring: Trey Johnson 4, Khalif Harper 16, Jahkevus Edwards 6, Keishmand Taylor 13, Rayquan Squires 5, Raque Dixon 1, Phe'bion Joyner 5, Fred Preston 2, Will Gardner 4.
Pamlico scoring: Arthur Randall 13, Josiah Simmons 15, D.J. Lewis 9, Bradley Bennett 14, Cameron Moore 2.
Ayden-Grifton 10 8 14 4 � 36
Pamlico 18 9 4 12 � 43
AG scoring: Tauja Worthington 3, Destiny Dixon 12, Jasmeane Johnson 12, Alexsius Dixon 9.
Pamlico scoring: Briana Jones 4, Laichelle Sparrow 10, Alazia Whitfield 11, Leetasia Midgette 2, Roeshonda Lee 4, Alexis Hawkins-Pool 10, Zyaja Mattocks 2.