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1857 — Bradenburg, Meade County, Kentucky
Slaughter and Gresham were the attorneys for the New Albany & Corydon Plank Road Company, the only corporation operating in the county. In 1859 the firm of Slaughter and Gresham was dissolved. This became necessary because Mr. Slaughter was commissioner in so many partition suits and administrator of so many estates, that he could not attend to his share of the firm's business. My husband continued alone in the practice. He had all kinds of litigation, and much of it in volume. He had suits on notes, foreclosures of mortgages, mandamus proceedings, and was employed to assist the Democratic prosecuting attorney in much of the criminal business. He succeeded in convicting one defendant who feigned sickness and was brought into court on a cot. He defended successfully another defendant under indictment for murder. In the Crawford Circuit Court, representing some creditors, after a long contest he got a judgment on a verdict of jury for $30,000 against the silent partners of a firm which owned a line of steamboats; but during his absence in the army it was reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court and the claim was lost. There were Kentuckians on both sides of that lawsuit. In those days there were scarcely any business corporations. The steamboats on the Ohio River were owned and operated almost entirely by individuals. During the special session of the legislature in the Spring of 1861, my husband came home long enough to bring a number of lawsuits, all of which he turned over to Mr. Slaughter. During the first year of the war Mr. Slaughter sent him a statement of his business, from which it appears he had two score Kentucky clients scattered along the river as far down as Cloverport and back into the country to Elizabethtown and Hardinsburg, the county seats respectively of Hardin and Breckenridge counties.His most dramatic case was one which grew out of the ever present slavery question, which was known as the "Brandenburg Affair." It was an extreme example of the peculiar conditions then existing along the border, and was so serious that for a time fear existed that it might bring on war. It was so notorious that it was subsequently dramatized and staged. That it was finally settled without bloodshed was largely owing to the conciliatory spirit in which Walter Q. Gresham conducted his client's case.This client, Horace Bell, the hero of the "Brandenburg Affair," was the son of David W. Bell, who in 1839 had purchased the "Brandenburg ferry" and the farm in Harrison County, Indiana, on the Ohio River opposite Brandenburg, the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky. From the earliest times there had been a ferry at this point and a highway thence via Mauckport to Corydon. Most of the people of the southern part of Harrison County, as the saying was, "did their trading" at Brandenburg.David W. Bell and his wife were of good Revolutionary War stock and were born and raised in Washington town, then a part of Virginia but thrown into Pennsylvania by the final location of the Mason and Dixon line. The operation of the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania freed the slaves of Mrs. Bell's father, who was a Wright. Another of the daughters, Julia Wright, became the wife of Doctor Jones of Corydon, and the mother of Doctor Mitchell Jones, my husband's most intimate friend. David W. Bell left Pennsylvania and settled first at Wheeling; thence in 1829 he moved to New Albany, where in 1830 Horace was born. Oswald Wright, one of the former slaves of the father of Mrs. Jones, followed "Miss Julia" to Corydon and became one of the free negroes of the town. He lived in a small house that belonged to the elder Doctor Jones. The Bell children, better educated than was the custom of that time, went to school in Brandenburg, except the youngest boy, Charles. He had lived most of his life with his Aunt Julia. By 1857 Charles Bell's head was completely turned by the anti-slavery agitation of the time and by the stories his Aunt Julia told him about what the boys had dared in the early '50's. Had "Aunt Julia" lived in these days, she would have been a " militant." And her sister, Mrs. David J. Bell, was certainly a Spartan if ever a woman was one. In 1851, when Horace Bell was twenty years of age, his father sold a negro boy he had "indentured," to a relative in Meade County, Kentucky, and with the purchase price, five hundred dollars, equipped Horace for migration to California, where John, the senior brother, had gone with the "forty-niners." Up to this time the elder Bell was not an Abolitionist, and he never afterwards admitted that he was one; neither did Horace Bell, although he lived right in the midst of the greatest activities of the Underground Railroad in the late '40's and early 'so's. I use the term Abolitionist in the technical sense of that time, an advocate of forcible resistance of the law. From California, Horace went to Nicaragua with the Walker Expedition. He served under Walker for two years, rising to the rank of major. Reports came back of his gallantry in battle, of his affairs of honor and of the heart. The fact that Walker's purpose was to establish slavery in Nicaragua satisfied some of the Kentuckians that the Bells were not Abolitionists, and they were not without friends and partisans among the best people and largest land and slave owners in Meade County. But many of the Kentuckians in 1858 believed and claimed that the Bells not only assisted but had even encouraged the Kentucky slaves to leave their masters. I still share some of the prejudices of that time against the Bells. On the Indiana side it was the belief that no runaway negro was ever denied assistance by the Bells. David W. Bell had aided in capturing Levi Sipes after he had murdered my husband's father, and Horace Bell knew the Gresham boys, especially Walter.At this time there lived in Brandenburg a negro blacksmith named Charles, who was the property of Dr. C. H. Ditto, a large slave holder who lived in Meade County nine miles back from the river. Charles had a wife, Mary Ann, who belonged to A. J. Alexander, one of the merchants of Brandenburg. The pair lived near the river in a small house belonging to Alexander. Charles was a skillful workman, a valuable slave, and so trusted that he was permitted to have a skiff in which he was allowed to cross the river to fish and to shoe horses for people on the Indiana side.On Friday evening, the 26th day of September, 1857, Charles Bell, a seventeen-year-old boy, and the negro Charles were seen in Brandenburg at the blacksmith shop. Later, about ten o'clock, Charles Bell started from the Brandenburg wharf boat in a skiff for the Indiana side. Early the next morning, Saturday, the slave gave it out he was going to the Indiana side to fish. This was the last ever seen of him in Brandenburg. On the Monday following, as he was not in the blacksmith shop in Brandenburg, the cry was raised that he had run away. It happened that on the same Saturday, starting early, the elder Bell rode on horseback across the country to New Albany, and thence by ferry to Louisville, for the purpose of cashing a draft Horace Bell had sent him from California. Returning home, he remained over Sunday in New Albany. On his journey back on Monday, when near home late in the afternoon, he was met by a party of Kentuckians, or "slave hunters," as the Bells afterwards called them, hunting for the missing blacksmith. They stopped the old man and proceeded to ask him where he had been and for what. He returned the curt answer, "It is none of your business." One night two weeks later, a party of Kentuckians sur¬rounded the Bell house, which stood just above high-water mark facing south towards the river, and by force removed the father, Charles Bell, and the free negro, Oswald Wright, to the ferry boat that lay at the Bell landing. Before the boat swung out into the river a Kentucky constable read a warrant, charging the Bells with having stolen the negro, Charles, and commanding that they be brought forthwith before a magistrate in Brandenburg. Kentucky had always claimed jurisdiction over the Ohio River to low-water mark on the Indiana side, and as the river was then low and the boat lay below the low-water line, the pretext was afterwards made that the apprehension was under the warrant. From the Brandenburg wharf the Bells and Wright were taken direct to the Brandenburg jail. The next day there was a preliminary heariijg before the magistrate who issued the warrant. At this hearing it developed from the testimony of C. B. Johnson of Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, and Mrs. Withers of the same place, that after Johnson saw a reward offered in the newspapers for the return of the negro, Charles, he visited Corydon and the Bells at their farm under the guise of a horse trader; that Wright confided in him that he had conveyed the negro, Charles, from the Bell farm to Brownstown on the Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad; that Charles Bell told him that they had planned the escape of the negro, as Wright said he had done, and that Wright had loaned his free papers to Charles to help him along, should his right to freedom be questioned, and that they proposed next to carry off Mary Ann. But Mary Ann lived and died in Brandenburg. Charles escaped to Canada. Mrs. Withers identified Wright as a negro who came to her house in Brownstown on Monday morning, the 2Qth day of September, 1857, and said he had left a negro named Charles Ditto at the depot; and upon her agreeing to give them breakfast, Wright left and returned with the other, and she then gave them breakfast. That Wright should make this statement to a stranger—Mrs. Withers—as she admitted she was, the Bell attorneys afterwards claimed was most improbable. Wright denied he ever made such a statement. Both David and Charles Bell denied all complicity in the escape of the negro. They were remanded to the jail, and on the 25th of November the grand jury of Meade County returned six indictments against them.1The elder Dr. Mitchell Jones was greatly excited when he heard of the arrest. He employed Judge Porter and Samuel Keen to defend the Bells and Oswald Wright. Judge Porter and Mr. Keen in turn employed T. B. Farleigh and John Coale of the Brandenburg bar to appear in court. This the Kentucky lawyers did with fidelity and ability. They took advantage of all the technicalities that due process of law afforded in defending their clients.Horace and John Bell immediately started for home from California when they heard of the kidnapping of their father and brother. They came back by way of Panama and the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. John got off the boat at Tobacco Landing, the first landing above Brandenburg on the Indiana side, and went to his mother, who had remained in the meanwhile on the farm. This was in May, 1858. Horace went on to New Albany, then to Corydon, where he walked into Mr. Gresham's office and insisted that his boyhood friend should be his lawyer. At this time Horace Bell was a tall, handsome man. Stories told of him, many, no doubt, the product of the imagination, did much to excite the popular mind. One was that he had twice appeared on the field of honor, and that while he had lived to tell the tale it was not so with his opponents, for he was a dead shot.Colonel William C. Marsh, soon after the kidnapping, raised a large force of armed men with the intention of crossing the river and releasing the prisoners. But the expedition miscarried because the boats that were to transport Colonel Marsh's forces failed to reach Leavenworth, the meeting point, at the appointed time, There were on guard in Brandenburg, the Meade County Rangers, a company of militia, and several companies of the Kentucky Legion ordered there by the Governor of Kentucky to prevent the release of the prisoners. All were under the command of Captain Jack Armstrong, who had served with Horace Bell in Nicaragua. At first the return of Horace and John Bell added to the excitement. They were tendered the aid of five hundred men to invade Brandenburg. But acting on the advice of my husband, they publicly declined this offer. Then Horace Bell, although notified by letter that he would be promptly shot if he came to Brandenburg, went there with my husband and endeavored to secure a release of his father and brother on bonds. Alanson Moreman and Olie C. Richardson, both slave holders and two of the largest landowners in Meade County, offered to become sureties for the Bells in any reasonable amount, but the penalties named were so high that they refused to qualify. Bell was taunted on the streets of Brandenburg with being a coward. He afterwards claimed that but for the advice of his counsel, he could not have borne this. One day after an adjournment of court a crowd followed them to the hotel. Here Bell made a short speech. He said he did not propose to involve the States in a border warfare; that he had declined the aid of armed men; that he had come to Kentucky to get justice in the courts and, failing in that, he and his brother alone would come there in daylight, break the jail, and take the prisoners out. This, contrary to my husband's fears, the crowd regarded as a joke, and said that a man who talked as big as Horace Bell did would not attempt anything.Two weeks later my husband came home from Brandenburg greatly distressed. He had gone there about the Bell matter and while he, Horace Bell, and Colonel Marsh were standing in front of the Brandenburg Hotel talking, Stanley Young, from a balcony above, shot Marsh dead. They stood so close together that some of Marsh's lifeblood spurted on my husband's clothes. Colonel Posey was greatly excited and thought it strange that Stanley Young would risk shooting his own lawyer and friend in order to kill an enemy. Stanley Young was my husband's schoolmate and one of his first clients. In my first chapter I described him and how Colonel Marsh killed his father. It was erroneously supposed that this was an incident of the Brandenburg affair, but it was not, Stanley Young merely took advantage of the excitement of the Bell kidnapping to kill the slayer of his father. He immediately escaped. He was indicted by the Meade County grand jury, but was never apprehended. His lawyer settled his father's estate and remitted to him his portion of it. He came back to Brandenburg and Corydon in 1863 with Morgan's Raiders, and died in southern Illinois a much respected and prosperous citizen, but under another name.Among the efforts my husband made looking to the release of the Bells, he led a party to Governor Willard and demanded that he, as Governor of Indiana, demand of the State of Kentucky the return of the abducted men. But Willard refused to interfere.One day at noon Horace Bell walked into the office of Walter Q. Gresham. He had just ridden up from the Bell farm. My husband and his client were alone. Bell told Mr. Gresham his plan was to disappear and have the rumor go out that he and his brother John had gone back to California. The quiet that would follow, he said, he thought would cause the Kentucky authorities to decrease the number of guards and relax their vigilance. Then, when the excitement was allayed, Horace Bell said, "My plan is for John and me to cross the river, surprise the jailer, release father and Charles, arm them and get back to the Indiana side without firing a shot, if possible; otherwise, to fight." The only answer received was, "The audacity of your plan will almost warrant its success." Without another word Bell left the office and went back to the river.There was to be a picnic up the river, and Horace and John Bell calculated that many of the Brandenburg men would attend it. Meanwhile the report had gone forth that they had left for California. Horace, although the younger, was the leader. John doubted the success of the plan, but Mrs. Bell, who was at home sick, sided with Horace.On the 27th of July, 1858, just before noon, Horace and John strapped on their revolvers, and with a carpet bag loaded with six-shooters and ammunition, got into a skiff, with a fourteen-year-old mulatto boy as oarsman, and rowed over to Brandenburg. The boy was indentured to the elder Bell. He was the son of a distinguished Kentucky lawyer.In order to attract as little attention as possible, Horace took one street and John the other, south to the jail, which stood on the south side of the public square about one-quarter mile back from the river. Between the jail and the river, on the north side of the square facing south, was the court house in which were the arms and ammunition of the guards or minute men, who were the county officers, the lawyers, and the merchants of the town. The lawyers' offices lined the west side of the square. On the east side were the stores. As the Bell boys had calculated, most of the people of the town were at their noonday meal and the surprise was perfect. Horace reached the jail first. The jailer and his wife and two guards were at the dinner table. At the point of the revolver the dinner party was driven into one corner of the room; but not soon enough to prevent one of the guards from jumping out of a rear window and giving the alarm, which created an awful din. Meanwhile John came in, got the jail keys from the bureau drawer, sprang upstairs, unlocked the jail doors, armed his father and Charles and locked the other prisoners in. Temporarily Oswald Wright had been removed from the jail. Years afterwards I asked Horace Bell what he would have done with Oswald Wright had he found him in the jail with his father and brother. His answer was, "I don't know, he was no kin of mine." As the three came downstairs, Horace ran to the court house where the arms were stacked, before the minute men could assemble, and held them off as the others retreated to the river. The mulatto boy had proved faithful and was there with the skiff. As the Bells were descending to the levee, the crowd opened fire on them, but as the firing was from an elevation, the bullets passed over them. They returned the fire, purposely shooting high, which was enough to cause their pursuers to retreat. Then they rushed to their boat and without further molestation, except a few straggling shots, crossed safely to the Indiana side. No one was hurt.Horace Bell was the hero of the hour, and, as he himself afterwards said, did too much exulting and drank too much "John Barleycorn." On October 25, 1858, while quietly walking the streets of New Albany during the State fair, he was seized by three men, who pounced upon him from behind and rushed him to one of the ferry boats of the New Albany and Portland ferry, which, as had been previously arranged, immediately put off to the Kentucky side. That night he was driven under strong guard to Brandenburg, and there locked up on the charge of having broken jail. Upon the report that expeditions were organizing at New Albany and Corydon to release him, he was removed next morning to Big Springs, a small town ten miles south of the river. Here, under guard, he was kept in the hotel until the next night. Meanwhile a large body of men from New Albany came down the river on a steamboat with two cannons on its deck, and anchored in front of Brandenburg. Part of the men from the steamboat joined a party from Corydon, who landed on the Kentucky side and camped upon the farm of Alonzo Norman above Brandenburg. The next night Bell was removed farther back into the interior to a schoolhouse.Meantime, as Captain J. M. Phillips, afterwards a successful member of the Chicago Board of Trade, then a merchant in Brandenburg, put it, " Walter Q. Gresham made overtures for a settlement, which was promptly sanctioned by the leading slave holders of Meade County, as they deprecated the actions of the hotheads on their side and feared the complications that might ensue if Bell was detained too long. ... At that time Judge Gresham, although a young man, was well known and popular on the Kentucky side of the river, and when he came campaigning through the river townships of Harrison County, many Kentuckians always went over to his meetings."The agreement was that Bell was to have a preliminary hearing before the town magistrate of Brandenburg and be held to bail to appear at the November term of the Meade County Circuit Court, in bonds of $750. From the school-house, still under an armed escort, Bell was taken to the farm of Olie C. Richardson, where a sumptuous breakfast was served, and thence by a guard and escort of three hundred men to Brandenburg, where after a semblance of a hearing before two justices of the peace, he was released. Alanson Moreman and J. M. Phillips of Meade County, both slave owners, and John R. Conners of New Albany, were accepted as sureties on his bond. But instead of appearing at the November term of the Meade County Circuit Court, as it was understood he would, Horace Bell returned to California. The bond was declared forfeited, and at the May term in 1859, a judgment was rendered against the sureties. This judgment was subsequently satisfied by the executive branch of the Kentucky government in accordance with the understanding had at the time that they would never be required to pay anything by reason of being Horace Bell's bondsmen. "But," said Captain Phillips, "we could not get the prosecuting attorney to remit his fees and we had to pay him."The indictments against David and Charles Bell were stricken off the Kentucky dockets, but were never dismissed. A civil suit in attachment, which had been begun on the 27th day of October, 1857, in the Meade County Circuit Court under a pretense of jurisdiction against David and Charles Bell and Oswald Wright, to recover the value of the slave, and had passed into a judgment by default against the Bells and Wright In the sum of $2,000 and $100 respectively, was never attempted to be enforced in Indiana. Of course, in those days of discrimination in every State in the Union against the freedman, it was a difficult task for the Kentucky lawyers to free Oswald Wright. But "Tom" Farleigh, my husband's friend, whom we will meet again in a great emergency, came up to the best traditions of the American bar. It was agreed in advance it would not do for any lawyer from the north side of the river to appear for Wright. At the May term, 1859, Oswald Wright was placed on trial for stealing the negro Charles, and although the jurisdiction of the court was properly questioned, he was convicted and sentenced to the Kentucky penitentiary for five years. But so well had Farleigh and Coale done their work in their objections to the jurisdiction of the trial court, that Wright was soon released and returned to Corydon, where he lived until his death. He was a good negro, industrious, and saved his earnings. By his last will he left his property, which consisted of two houses and lots, to Mrs. Julia Jones.Soon the Bell farm was sold, and David and Mrs. Bell went to Ohio and then to Missouri to live. John followed Horace back to California. "Charlie" Bell returned to Cory don and remained there until he enlisted early in 1861 in the 20th Indiana Volunteers. He was killed before Petersburg in 1864, being then a captain but in command of his regiment. Seven regimental commanders ahead of him had met his fate. He was a gallant soldier, and the commission which would have still further promoted him never reached him.It was the belief in Corydon that David J. Bell knew nothing of the plan to "run off" the negroes Charles and Mary Ann, but there never was any doubt in the minds of the people that Charlie Bell planned and executed the escape. Horace Bell said he never inquired as to exactly what had happened before he returned from California. My husband uniformly said he was not called on to express an opinion, except that Kentucky had not acquired jurisdiction over the persons of the Bells and Oswald Wright. Considerate and deferential as he was, when the time came to act he never hesitated. In 1886 Horace Bell entered the newspaper field at Los Angeles. It was not long until he was sued for $300,000 damages for libel by "Lucky" Baldwin. In the prosecution of the suit, Baldwin assailed Bell on account of his record in the Brandenburg Affair. Bell appealed to United States Circuit Judge W. Q. Gresham at Chicago. The answer was: '' Your conduct from beginning to end in the Brandenburg Affair was praiseworthy and honorable."There was great exultation among the anti-slavery people along the border over the Brandenburg Affair. This my husband deprecated all he could. On the other hand some of the good people of Meade and adjoining counties in Kentucky approved the action of Horace and John Bell, and rejoiced in their successes. Doctor Ditto's brother, himself a slave holder by inheritance, publicly commended Horace Bell for his gallantry. Captain Phillips afterwards told me: "I admired Horace Bell's nerve and was glad to go on his bond. Besides," he said, " I never was much of a 'nigger man.' My father left me a few slaves; I could not free them under the Kentucky law without giving a bond for their support. It was cheaper for me to keep them and support them than to enter into a bond with the State of Kentucky which might involve liabilities I could not foresee."Captain Phillips was a fine type of Kentuckian, as well as a man of means and a far-sighted, clear-headed business man. When he was an operator on the Board of Trade the big men could not lower or raise the market too fast to catch him. He, as other men in 1861, saw the economic if not the moral side of slavery. At that time there were only 100,000 slave holders in the United States. Ten years later, under the workings of the system their numbers would have been less. "The proposition to arm the slaves never found favor with the rich men of the South," as an old ex-Confederate once said to me. "A young able-bodied negro was too valuable an animal to be made the target for Yankee bullets." "A rich man's war and a poor man's fight," is a misnomer. It was not the large slave holders who rushed Mississippi into secession, and it was the large slave holders who helped to hold Kentucky back.


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i have not heard from you for a while - how is your husband doing? any news on the PDT?
Hi Jules
Last week my husband had an attack of shivering (rigors) it lasted about 20 mins; his feet were really cold and even with all his clothes on and two duvets and a hotwater bottle, he couldn't stop shivering. He had another attack the next day. he takes his temperature every day and his temperature was up (37.5 - 38 so not really high). On Monday he took a urine sample to the GP surgery, they dipsticked it immediately and said he had a urinary infection and he started on anti biotics.
At the same time, his appetite which has been good, started to decline.
We decided on Thursday to go to A & E since his temp was still high and they admitted him to hospital. He is at University College Hospital. Yesterday they changed his drains - he has internal external drains and they said that he probably has the beginnings of an infection in the bile ducts - from the 'sludge' that accumulates in the drains. His bilirubin which was 30 two weeks ago had gone up to 60.
He is still in hospital and will stay there. He is quite cheerful although he cannot take hospital food. If he is well they will start PDT treatment on Tuesday and he will be home at the weekend. I will keep you posted on how it goes.
How is your dad? Is he gaining weight and how are his spirits?
i was sorry to learn that your husband has been admitted to hospital, however maybe it will help to push along his treatment, i can empathise with him over the hospital food, over cooked stodge is not very appetizing...would your husband not be more comfortable with stents? - my dad had great relief from the symptoms of shivering/itching/rigors after a metal stent was fitted, metal stents have a longer life and are less prone to blockage, the NHS are not keen on them as they are v expensive. From what you have said though PDT will do the same job. I hope it goes smoothly for you both and it is good that your husband will not have to stay in hospital too long. He will soon be home, hopefully alot more comfortable.
My Dad is doing well, his weight is stable, he is still waiting for prof cunninghams verdict re the chemo.
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Healthy Spinach Artichoke Dip — Simple Soiréesby Gaby Dalkin in Recipes, January 19th, 2012
Now that the holidays are officially over and most of us are in cookie detox mode, it's time to bring on the lighter appetizers for fun get-togethers you might be throwing. I'm a huge fan of Spinach Artichoke Dip. It's one of those classic comforting appetizers and it's perfect for these midwinter gatherings I've been throwing. Just because the holidays are over doesn't mean that fun and simple soirees have to go away. I've been having friends over for casual midweek dinners and introducing them to new lightened-up recipes.
This Spinach Artichoke Dip from Ellie Krieger is the perfect example. You'll never guess that this recipe is lightened up because it's still super flavorful and just as addicting as its full-fat cousin. Plus, it would be an excellent addition to your upcoming Super Bowl menu. I made a few changes to spice things up a bit more and make it extra delicious. My favorite mix-in wound up being the addition of pepper jack cheese — it gave the dip an extra kick.
Spinach Artichoke Dip
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 shallots, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 (15-oz. can) artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
1 (10-oz.) package frozen chopped spinach, defrosted, excess liquid squeezed out
1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
2 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
1/2 cup (4-oz.) Neufchatel cheese (reduced-fat cream cheese)
2 ounces (about 1/2 cup) shredded pepper jack cheese
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Pita wedges for serving
Heat the oil in a saute pan over medium heat. Add shallots and cook, stirring occasionally, 2 to 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook an additional 3 to 4 minutes, or until shallots are light gold but not browned. Remove from heat and cool.
In the bowl of a food processor combine artichoke hearts, spinach, sour cream, mayonnaise, Neufchatel, mozzarella and salt, pepper and garlic powder. Process until smooth. Add cooled onion-garlic mixture to the food processor and pulse a few times to combine.
Transfer mixture back into the saute pan and heat over medium heat until bubbly. Serve with pita wedges.
Gaby Dalkin is a chef, photographer/food stylist, enthusiastic traveler and guacamole fanatic. She is the founder of What's Gaby Cooking, where she showcases her simple and sassy recipes that feature whichever ingredients she is currently obsessing over. She lives in Los Angeles with her fiancé, Thomas, and her cat, Stella.


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Nats' Martinson homers twice, plates six
Suns' leadoff batter also scores five times in rout of Legends
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 10, 2012 7:42 PM ET
The former fifth-round Draft pick did more than just that, slugging two homers with six RBIs and five runs scored in the Class A Suns' 16-8 rout of the Lexington Legends.
"I don't know the last time I had a game like this," Martinson said. "I think I hit two home runs when we had a scout day in my junior year of college, or maybe when I hit for the cycle in college, but that's it."
Bumped up a notch from the No. 2 spot in the order with Goodwin on the seven-day DL with a leg injury, Martinson walked and scored in the first frame, and he slugged an opposite-field grand slam over the right-field wall in the second.
"I was just trying to slow things down at the plate, put the ball in play and get that runner home from third," the 23-year-old said. "I chased two pitches out of the zone, but [Carlos Quevedo] left a fastball a little bit over the plate and I was able to square it up. I wasn't really sitting on anything. Down 0-2, I was swinging at anything close."
The shortstop then ripped a two-bagger to center field in the fourth before hammering his second longball of the game, a two-run shot, in the bottom of the sixth.
The blast gave Martinson his first multi-homer game in his three-year pro career. It also helped him eclipse his previous best of four RBIs, set on Aug. 28, 2010 with the short-season Vermont Lake Monsters and replicated last July 18 with the Suns.
"We were up in the game, so I was basically looking for a pitch in my zone to hit," the Texas native said. "He threw me two balls so I knew he needed to get back in the count. I got a pitch in the middle of the zone and slightly down so I went and got it."
In the eighth, Martinson induced a walk from incoming pitcher Scott Zuloaga and scored his fifth run on Brett Newsome's grand slam. Newsome had entered the game an inning earlier as a defensive replacement at first base.
"Some guys were joking about a third [home run], but I just wanted to keep the same approach that I had been using all game," Martinson said. "I was satisfied with what I had already done, and I didn't want to give away an at-bat just trying to hit another one."
Martinson's performance followed a three-strikeout night in Game 1 of the series against Lexington on Monday. He made a few small adjustments in the box and says the changes made a big difference.
"Today I changed my stance and got my hands up," he explained. "Yesterday I had a lot of movement and I wasn't picking up the pitches that quickly. I tried to close my stance to cut down on that movement, and that let me get set a lot earlier.
"When Brian [Goodwin] went down, I got bumped up to the leadoff spot, so it was important for me to get on base and get innings started."
Martinson is batting .381 with eight RBIs and 13 runs scored through the first six games of the season in his return to the South Atlantic League.
Last year, the Texas State product hit .252 with 19 homers, 64 RBIs and 64 runs in 129 appearances.
On Tuesday, Martinson's offensive output made a winner out of Suns starter Wirkin Estevez. The right-hander gave up four runs on five hits and three walks while striking out seven batters in five innings.
Left fielder J.P. Ramirez, batting in the No. 2 spot, was 4-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI and catcher Adrian Nieto had three hits and fell a triple shy of the cycle.
Lexington starter Quevedo (0-1) surrendered seven runs on eight hits and a walk over three innings. Zachary Johnson homered, doubled and plated three and first baseman Tyler Burnett also went deep in the loss.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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A Horsforth primary school is set to double the number of pupils it takes to help cope with a growing demand for places.
Broadgate Primary School in Horsforth will be expanded from a capacity of 210 pupils to 420 pupils as part of a package of measures approved by Leeds City Council's executive board last week.
Councillors approved the expansion of the school with an increase in admission number from 30 to 60 from September next year.
A report to councillors also outlined proposals to ease the pressure in Guiseley with changes at St Oswald's and Guiseley Infant School.
Councillors were asked to "acknowledge that the governing bodies of St Oswald Church of England Junior School and Guiseley Infant School are to pursue the publication of statutory notices to convert both schools to 2 forms of entry primary schools, each with an admission number of 60 into reception class each year, with effect from September 2015."
The need to increase school provision has been a major issue of concern, and last year attempts to find a solution to the shortage of school places in Guiseley were made at a 'brainstorming' meeting.
Parents, headteachers, governors, councillors, education officers, campaigners and the area's MP Stuart Andrew got together to try to find a way forward.
The meeting at Leeds Town Hall looked at the issue of providing sufficient primary school places in Guiseley to meet current demand and projected increases over the next few years.
Three different sets of proposals have been brought forward in Guiseley and consultations have taken place.
A report to the executive board last week said: "During the time that these proposals have been debated, the schools in the area have formed a trust, and the legislation surrounding school organisation changes has also been amended. This means that the local authority can now only propose the expansion of Tranmere Park. Any other proposals must be put forward by the schools themselves as Trust and VA schools. The proposals to convert both the Infant and Junior Schools into 2FE primary schools would seem to offer a sensible route forward, ensuring sufficiency but allowing scope for other proposals in future should further capacity be needed. For this reason it is recommended that the school's proposals for conversion to primary schools be supported, and that the capital costs of the project are borne by the authority to discharge its sufficiency duty."


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Building a pc: hardware compatibility & extras
I've not actually built a pc from scratch before, so I figured I'd replace my 5 year old rig that's noisy as hell.
I've been recommended the bit-tech buyer's guide, and the workhorse pc looks what I'm after: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buy...-august-2012/4
I may swap out a few of the components (case, gpu, hdd), but:
1. How do I figure out if all the components are compatible? For instance, the motherboard is listed as 'M-ATX', does that just mean I need a case that supports that form factor? Or is there more to it?
2. What else do I need? Cases seem to come with a bunch of fans these days, and there's a cpu fan on the components list, so is that it for cooling? What about wires?
1. Well most follow common standards. If a case supports mATX and ATX, you can go with either of those types of motherboard. There are a handful of things to look out for though, like does the power supply have the necessary connectors, is the case wide enough to fit the CPU cooler, and so on.
2. Windows and a Phillips screwdriver. You won't need additional cables unless you want to mount more hard drives or optical drives.
PS: From that build, I would certainly pick a different motherboard and ditch the sound card.
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One of the big things I'm worried about is getting an incompatible motherboard. Last time I had a shop custom build a pc and the motherboard had all kind of horrible compatibility bugs with the hardware I'd chosen. (Ie. "compatible" but flaky firmware and drivers made it terribly unstable).
That motherboard is overpriced and an mATX board. You could get a feature-packed ATX board like the Asus P8Z77-V PRO for the same price, or save tons of cash with something like an Asrock Z77 Extreme4.
Bit-tech infamously used to recommend builds without actually trying to put them together, resulting in instances of having to take a crowbar to a case to fit a high-wattage PSU. Or removing all door fans to fit a large profile cooler/GPU.
Unsure if they've changed that policy, but I'd read up on dimensions / experiences of others with the same build just in case.Mumble :: Thread :: Click to Join
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Given you've noted "noisy as hell" as being one of the key drivers I'd recommend a peek at www.silentpcreview.com as part of your research. Noisy computers are one of my real bug-bears.
General rules of thumb with noise are:
Higher power draw (TDP) of components means more heat, means bigger, faster, noisier, cooling.
Bigger fans running slowly are queiter, whilst pushing similar air volume, as smaller faster spinning fans.
Vibration noises from unbalanced fans and (particularly) hard discs that transmit to the case can be particularly aggravating.
On to your specific questions:
Motherboard - important qualities are form factor and socket type. The form factor of ATX, M-ATX, Mini-ITX etc signifies the motherboard's physical dimensions. As such, any case must be able to accomodate a given form factor. A larger case may not always be able to accomodate smaller motherboard form factors due to placing of standoff pins.
Motherboard dimensions affect the number of expansion slots you'll get - most users these days will have plenty of expansion slots left over even on M-ATX boards.
Motherboard dimensions indirectly affect your system footprint - smaller cases accomodating smaller motherboards.
The socket on the motherboard, eg. LGA1156 / LGA1155 / LGA 1366 determines the type of processor you can fit in the motherboard. *Most* (but by no means all) current desktop intel choices are likely to point to the LGA 1155 socket. Intel are launching a new socket type along with their new "Haswell" chip line up this year (likely June), and as such it *might* be worth holding off till then to pick up one of the newly socketed motherboards and one of Intel's new processors.
Other motherboard compatability features to look for are PCI3.0 - this enables you to make full use of PCI3.0 graphics cards (though a PCI2.0 slot can run a PCI3.0 card just fine, albeit slightly hamstrung). Also USB3 headers and SATA3 (sometimes refered to as 6gbit SATA). Again backward compatability is a given, but if you're buying SATA3 hard drives it'll be nice to have enough SATA3 interfaces to plug them in to.
Also wise to physical dimensions - typical problem areas for cases are the length of graphics card they can accomodate, the height of the tallest CPU cooler they can take, and the depth of the longest PSU that can fit within. Googled reviews can generally answer all of these questions for any given case you like the look of.
I second Silent PC Review. They're great indepth no bullshit reviewers. I've bought my current cooler, case and power supply based on their reviews and I'm very happy with how it turned out.


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Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup, Part 4: Budget Shootoutby Derek Wilson on 12/15/2003 11:14 AM EST
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Mana211 - Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - linkThe problem with this review is that none of these cards are common on pricewatch or eBay.
Where would the FX 5200 333 DDR place? How about FX5200 400 DDR, FX5500, FX5600XT, FX5600 (not XT not Ultra assuming that even exists), 5700LE, 5700 (not LE not Ultra).
In short the entire lineup from NVIDIA seems to have 30 shades of FXness and pricewatches categories and this review are both useless now that the names don't match any known specs. Reply
Zephyr106 - Saturday, December 20, 2003 - linkI agree with what the article's author said in regard to the processor used. To compare video cards there should be one variable- the video card. This could be accomplished with a slower processor, but using the fastest setup ensures that nothing on the processor/motherboard/ram "end of things" hampers the test.
"9200 is a junk card, but unless I'm mistaken, it's really a modified Radeon 8500 core."
Radeon 9100 is a rebadged 8500 (LE model?). IIRC the 9000 and 9200 are based on 7500 architecture. BTW a friend of mine just got a barebones P4 2.8C and put a 9600SE in it before I could say anything. I cringed, but if he complains about sluggish games I'll tell him what's what. Reply
TrogdorJW - Friday, December 19, 2003 - link"Of course, in looking at the 4200, you have to remember that numbers like we got in halo were obtained using the -use20 option which the 4200 can't do."
No kidding... and neither can the 9200!!! Obviously, the 9200 is a junk card, but unless I'm mistaken, it's really a modified Radeon 8500 core. So it's only DX8.1 capable, right? That's my point in saying the 4200 is a better choice for the budget sector.
And, come on, you have to admit that you hated benchmarking these low end cards. Waiting for the benchmarks to complete must have taken all day, especially on the 9200SE!
Incidentally, I don't think I've ever seen screenshots comparing "Halo -use20" to "Halo -use11". Are the differences really that great? I'm guessing not, but I could be wrong. (A link to such a comparison would be appreciated, incidentally.) Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, December 18, 2003 - linkWell, I must say that I disagree with pure video card performance testing being done in any system other than one with maximum performance in all other areas.
Kris has already presented the core reason behind what we do, but maybe this explaination will help shed some light on the subject and add some perspective.
Take Halo for example. There is no current computer system in which you could drop a 9200 and get higher than 11.7fps at 10x7. Likewise, there is no system in which you could drop a 9600se and get higher than 18.7fps. Since these cards are at roughly the same pricepoint, the choice is obvious: the 9600se will be the better card to purchase.
To extend the example, these cards will maintain similar relative performance on lower end systems. Just how close the numbers come varries from game to game, and that is the point of doing CPU scaling test. CPU scaling warrants an entire article in and of itself.
If you just can't stand the wait for us to get to a CPU scaling test, feel free to take a look at the budget CPU roundup, compare the numbers to the FX51 system numbers for the 9800Pro and do a little rough extrapolation (this really isn't scientific and doesn't give you reliable numbers -- just an idea of what things might look like).
I appreciate the feedback, but it just doesn't make sence to test system performance when this type of article is about what the video cards can do. We've got other articles for that.
to change gears ...
As far as the 4200 goes, the test shows that it is definitely not an upgrade to buy a current generation budget card. We generally show previous generation cards in a kind of upgrade path light. If you want a budget card and you can find a 4200, the performance numbers tell the story pretty well.
Of course, in looking at the 4200, you have to remember that numbers like we got in halo were obtained using the -use20 option which the 4200 can't do. the ~18fps at 10x7 isn't bad for getting all the effects the developers wanted to include (the game is very playable on the higher end budget cards at 8x6 and high detail settings on the barton 2500+).
Hope this info helps shed light on why we do things the way we do. Thanks again for all the feedback. Reply
deathwalker - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - linkI think I'm in the camp of the majority on this issue. The test setup was flawed. It is more than reasonalbe to assume that anyone who would buy any of these cards being tested would be running them on a system with much more limited capabilities than the fire breathing dragon they threw them on in this test..the results are worthless. Reply
Myrandex - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - linkY'all the thing to do is to purchase a Radeon 9500 128MB non pro and mod it to a 9700, and if you feel adventorous, OC the thing up to 9700 Pro speeds. www.allstarshop.com has the L shaped cards in stock (I just got mine), its fantastic. Also, a regular Geforce FX 5600 can be found for under $100 ($92 free shipping 128MB at www.amamax.com) and the 256MB for just over $100 ($100 w/ $4 shipping at house of computers), and a 5600XT for $109 from Newegg. Reply
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkUgh... #13, you're missing the point. Derek shouldn't do it all again. He shouldn't have done this 4th part to begin with! What a collossal waste of time! I mean, how long does it take to run a benchmark where you're only pulling 8 fps? WAAAAY too long.
The budget roundup should have skipped all AA/AF testing, since that's not a budget feature. Then it should have basically said, "If you're really looking at a budget graphics card, and you're running less than a 2 GHz PC, you should look at two options. First, if you have a DirectX 7 card or earlier, a GeForce 4 or Radeon 8500/9000 (non-SE!!!) would provide a decent performance increase. If you already have a DX8 or later card, you really need to upgrade your PC. None of the current budget cards are worth getting." Reply
Maringer - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkI, too would be interested to see the figures a 9600NP gets. Here in the UK you can get them for just a few pounds more than a 9600SE and they should be a much better option. Reply
Medellon - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkI was surprised to see how competitive the 4200 still is. I own one of these cards and was planning on upgrading to a 9600 Pro or XT but seeing as how it will only improve my FPS by 10-15(hardly a big improvement) in my favorite games I think I'll wait intil some real DirectX 9 games start coming out(sorry Tomb Raider). Reply
AtaStrumf - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkI have to agree with all the critics. Sorry but this review sux. I'd like to see 9100/8500LE and 9600 and FX5200 thrown in the bunch, since FX5200 Ultra is practicaly non existent over here, and I bet in a lot of other places as well, and a 8500LE is a good reference point for many, and 9600 in much cheaper than 9600Pro and is therefor an interesting buy to consider ... if we had some performance numbers that is. I'd give derek an F for this. Do it again, and listen to what everybody is saying and provide a comparison table of all the cards, so everybody knows what they're looking at. And please don't use an Athlon FX system this time. Reply
cristic - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkfor #10: yes it would be, also like a 9800non-pro against a 9600XT and 9700 and 9700pro
If I should buy a low-end card right now I would go with a 4200... heck I own one, since god know when! (: Reply
DAPUNISHER - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkSince using AA/AF with budget cards in the vast majority of games just isn't doable with playable frame rates, I have to agree the ti4200 is still the king :) people who bought G4 ti4200 cards back in a day are only 2nd to 9700pro owners in bang for the buck over the long haul IMHO :) Reply
Jeff7181 - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkI'm curious as to why the 9800 Pro was included in the results... it's hardly a budget card. I understand it gives an indication of how a budget card performs when compared to the best. But why isn't there any nVidia high end cards? If someone doesn't like ATI and wants to know how a 5700 Ultra compares to a 5900 non-ultra, wouldn't that be a useful tidbit to have here? Reply
nastyemu25 - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linklol@#7
i concur. Reply
Maringer - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkPersonally, I find it pretty amazing that the 9600SE can beat the 5200Ultra in so many of the benchmarks seeing as it has less than a third of the memory bandwidth in comparison.
It leads me to think that it is a hell of a waste to use this chip on such a low-spec card. I suppose the market is calling for it though. Reply
merlocka - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkTo everyone above who is griping about the test setup and/or the conclusion, I agree 100%. Who the heck does Derek think he is testing these cards with a PC which won't cause an artificial bottleneck?
Is he trying to provide accurate results or something?
I can't believe I just paid money to read this article... from now on, I'm going to buy every single piece of hardware that is out there and test them all myself on a test PC which I buy so I know EXACTLY which $50 video card to buy.
Or perhaps I'll quit b!tching and just read reviews on websites who offer content for basically free.
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkAlso, the article shows quite clearly that these three budget cards are complete garbage and should all be avoided like the plague. That's useful.
9600SE: $99 or more
9200SE: $46.50 or more
5200 Ultra: $109 or more
5200: $63 or more (but it's even slower than the 5200 Ultra)
GeForce4 Ti4200: $75 or more
I got those prices from Newegg.com, except for the Ti4200 - it's being phased out, so you'd better act fast if you want one! So, if you really want a faster graphics card, and you're looking at a budget, buy a Ti4200 before it's too late.
And if you're thinking of saving $25 and getting the 9200SE, you're a crazy lunatic! At least pay the $10 to $25 extra and get a DX8 card with a 128 bit interface (the nicer 9000/9100/9200 cards). Reply
Emma - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkIt'd be good if the cards we are focusing on in the review are shown as a different colour in the tables (eg orange). At the moment it is a little confusing.
Thanks. Reply
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - linkI understand that there is a desire to make the results comparable with the other parts of the article, but Sauron is absolutely right. So this is the maximum performance you'll get out of these budget cards? Big deal - you'll NEVER see these numbers, because you'll never actually run this configuration.
The conclusion is also screwed up, since the GeForce 4 Ti4200 kicks the crap out of all three budget cards in virtually every test. Current cost is about $75 I think, which would also make it a "budget" card. The only tests it didn't win had 4xAA and 8xAF enabled, which would also never be done with any of the lower end cards. Budget-minded shoppers don't give a damn about eye candy features. I should know - I'm one of them!
Anyway, personally, I think that Derek Wilson was given a pointless task in running benchmarks on the fastest current PC available paired with several low end cards. I feel sorry for him. If this budget information was going to be truly useful, we would need to see numbers on a 2.0 GHz/2500+ system (or less).
Of course, on a positive note, these "maximum performance" figures for the budget cards are probably easily attainable with anything over 1.4 GHz. Well, except for the really high scores in some of the less complex games. I know my Ti4200 never scores anywhere near what is listed in this review, and on games like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament 2003, it probably would take at least a 2.4 GHz system to max it out. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Monday, December 15, 2003 - linkSauron,
The ultra high end setup is to eliminate bottlenecks. Its not really expected for you to go buy an FX51 and all; it just shows you the highest* thoroughput of the cards. We have proven in the past this scales very nicely.
When we do our graphics and CPU benchmarks, we try to use the exact same components with the exception of the video card/CPU/Memory in question. This is simple scientific method: we want one changing variable rather than several.
Hope that helps!
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KristopherKubicki - Monday, December 15, 2003 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933...
Radeon 9700 Pro outperforming the 9800 XT :)
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sauron - Monday, December 15, 2003 - linkI question the validity of a budget video card shootout when the test platform is and AMD FX51 processor running on a Nforce3 platform and utilizing 1 gig of ram( a setup noone who is shopping for a budget video card has). I mean, how many people out there who play games will put together an Athlon FX system with 1 gig of top of the line RAM and then stick a radeon 9200 in it? Nobody.
If you're trying to help people on a budget decide which card to buy I believe you should test the cards on a "budget" or mid-range system to show how the cards perform on the type of systems which prospective purchasers of these cards are likely to own. I would at least show one or two comparative benchmarks on a system with a mid-range althon, similar to your CPU scaling tests in past reviews. In it's current form, this article is misleading at best, and is going to convince someone who has a 1 gig athlon to go out and buy a radeon 9200 and try to play C&C Generals or Halo on it which is not going to be a very fun experience at 5-12fps.
PS - I just want to say that I generally love the content of this site and consider it to be the top tech review site on the net. This article, however, really got under my skin because people who don't have alot of cash to spend are going to rely on it without noticing the fact that the cards were tested on an Athlon FX51. Reply


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Many travelers at Detroit Metro Airport have been frustrated and anxious about cancelled flights due to the bad weather. However, they know better than to crowd the airport.
Mike Conway, Detroit Metro's director of public affairs, said airlines have become adept with using instant communication to keep customers well-informed and aware of what's going on at the airport before they arrive.
"Everyone has a personal electronic communication device and the airlines can stay in touch and say, your flight to La Guardia is canceled. We've rebooked you here ... click this if you agree," Conway said as he explained how it works.
The communication is probably why most east coast travelers have stayed home or in their hotel room.
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The 1/2-empty tarmac at Detroit Metro showed more flights were getting out of the Detroit area on Tuesday. After two days, a prayer group from Canada is heading home.
"We prayed and believed that we would receive and we did. So, we're now all on the same flight and we're leaving today."
Conway said travelers should keep an eye on public transportation in New York such as the trains and subways. Until those reopen, many airport workers will have trouble getting to the nearby airports. The airports can't open without the workers, of course.
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The LumberYard Condos
The Lumberyard Condos and The Collings Apartments
"Where walkable meets affordable" -The New York Times
Situated on the site of the former Peter Lumber on Haddon Avenue, The LumberYard is a major step forward in the history of Collingswood. The transformation of this four acre-parcel into a modern new center of residential and commercial activity represents Collingswood Borough's continuing commitment to lead by example when in comes to energizing and revitalizing America's older cities and towns.
Location, location location. The LumberYard image is centrally linked to Collingswood's unique location to transit near Philadelphia (just a quick ten minute trip) and just footsteps from a vibrant downtown. The Brownstone setting gives the complex an urban feel while being surrounded by the luxuries of a suburban life; parks, excellent schools, safe streets and an engaged community. As the popularity of walkability and transit rise, so does Collingswood's stock rise with potential homebuyers looking for an urban feel. Residents can walk to amenities in town and enjoy nightlife much like a city. It has the feel of a city in a surrounding which offers the appeal of community and a close-knit neighborhood. Living in The LumberYard is a unique experience for homebuyers looking for a special feel, something you can't find in a cul-de-sac.
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) featured The LumberYard at a 2007 conference in Collingswood. It held the development up as an example of growth with excellent neighborhood design bringing "back the sense of community, allowing residents to walk to work, shopping and transportation." Through grids of streets, transportation choices and building placement, New Urbanism encourages designing appealing communities and destinations and allows for frequent encounters between citizens, in sharp contrast to sprawl.
The LumberYard was honored with a 2007 NJ Smart Growth Award for design principals in Mixed-Use Downtown Design. NJ Future focuses on protecting open lands, revitalizing neighborhoods and providing transportation choices.
"...a community with a little heart and soul in which to raise their families, 30-somethings are pulling up their Center City roots and heading to Collingswood." -Philadelphia Magazine
"The LumberYard Condos...are an example of returning a main street business center to the core of daily living." - The Philadelphia InquirerDeveloper Ingerman finished Phase II and III of the LumberYard with 100 luxury apartments. Details on the progress of the final phases is here. Leasing details for The Collings at the LumberYard can be found at http://thecollingsapts.com/.
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The point-in-time count of homelessness in Portland and Multnomah County provides a bi-annual snapshot of the individuals and families experiencing homelessness on a given night in our community. The data collected from the count ensures our community's continued eligibility for state and federal funding and helps the City of Portland, Multnomah County and their nonprofit partners plan for the funding and services needed to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness in our community.
Data for the point-in-time count comes from the Street Count, which is sponsored by the Portland Housing Bureau, and the One Night Shelter Count, which is sponsored by Multnomah County. The City, County, and hundreds of community partners work together to gather the data for the counts and produce a comprehensive summary report.
The next point-in-time count is scheduled for January 28, 2015.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 12/2/2013 (1652 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Curtis James Haas confessed in a police interview to providing a "safe haven" to a young woman who visited his Manitoba Housing apartment and to having some orange "street morphine" pills, but not to being responsible for the 2007 overdose death of 20-year-old Wendy Henry.
The video of police interviewing Haas, 52, after his arrest was played Tuesday afternoon at his Court of Queen's Bench trial for manslaughter and trafficking.
The case is believed to be the first in Manitoba in which an overdose death resulted in charges against the person alleged to have provided the drug. Winnipeg police have said similar arrests and prosecutions could follow if the current case results in a conviction.
In a video the court saw Tuesday, Haas told police he was a recovering addict and accident prone with the scars from many injuries to prove it. He said he only took prescription medication, such as sleeping pills and Tylenol 3.
Henry collapsed and stopped breathing in October 2007 at Haas's suite after overdosing on morphine.
Police became suspicious after learning another woman in the same block overdosed the previous night but survived. Police took a full sworn statement from Haas the Crown plans to use against him. Defence lawyer Darren Sawchuk is challenging the voluntariness of the statement and will seek to have the judge dismiss it.
On Monday, a security guard testified he saw Haas performing CPR on Henry and that he told the guard she'd gotten into his pills.
In the video Tuesday, Haas said he was given "street morphine" but wouldn't identify the source. He wouldn't talk about Henry taking it.
He told police he'd picked up Henry downtown when friends with whom she was supposed to see the Ozzy Osbourne concert at the MTS Centre didn't show up. When he returned to his suite with Henry, his neighbour and friend Angel joined them. The detectives told Haas that Angel told police Haas gave her morphine there that night. Angel overdosed but survived.
"I think I gave (Angel) five or six and told her not to take all of them at once," Haas said in the video. "She just laughed at me." The police asked Haas if Henry had asked for some morphine, too.
"I don't want to talk anymore," he said in the video.
Haas told the detectives he met Henry when she was there to see her mother who also lived in the subsidized housing apartment block. He was never introduced to her mother by Henry, he said.
"She said 'you are my safe haven away from the nuttiness of my family... They will destroy you,' " Haas told police.
When she overdosed, he called 911 and tried performing CPR.
The detectives asked Haas that if Henry took too much morphine, wouldn't it be her fault that she overdosed.
"I believe it is."
One of the detectives asked if Haas felt morally responsible for Henry's death.
"I only meant to help her," he said. "I didn't mean for anything else to happen."
The trial continues today with the rest of the videotaped police interview shown.


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Straight from the DigiExpo who have the latest code of GT5, the confirmation of track editing in GT5 is at 2:25 when it is said "you can make your own tracks". Language barrier heads-up.
and to prove the translation isnt fake:
Waaaait Whaaaaaat if this is indeed true PD is indeed god
Seems to mention it indeed @ 2:25. Just three words though which translate to "you can make tracks."


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24 Hours, 7 Outfits: A Day in the Life of Kelly Rowland
She may be Hollywood royalty, but when this Coppola (granddaughter of Frances Ford and niece of Sofia) rocks the red carpet, she goes understated in arty labels such as Proenza Schouler.
Like the name of her blog, Shala's Rabbit Hole, this creative consultant's style is an adventure in wonderland, as evidenced by her trademark Delfina Delettrez insect brooch.
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A federal judge on Monday ordered a halt to implementation of the state's new voucher and teacher hiring laws in Tangipahoa Parish, saying those laws conflict with court orders in the parish's decades-old desegregation case.
One attorney in the case said he will now file similar challenges to state Acts 1 and 2 of the 2012 Regular Session in "two or three" other desegregation cases in which he's involved, and other parishes may follow suit.
At least 30 school districts across the state remain under federal desegregation orders, including East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee and St. Helena parishes.
U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle, who oversees the Tangipahoa Parish case, ruled Monday that diversion of state Minimum Foundation Program funds from the school district to schools enrolling voucher students prevents the School Board from complying with court orders requiring the district to build new schools, improve existing facilities and maintain magnet programs.
The judge, after a hearing held in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge, also found that provisions of Act 1 dealing with the hiring and firing of school system personnel conflict with court-ordered procedures for the recruitment and retention of black teachers and administrators.
Lemelle ordered that both legislative acts be enjoined to the extent they conflict with the federal court's prior orders, and gave attorneys in the case two days to draft a written order to that effect for him to sign.
The state Department of Education plans to appeal the ruling, Superintendent John White said in an emailed statement following Monday's hearing.
"We strongly disagree with this ruling. We are optimistic it will be reversed on appeal," White said.
Attorney Nelson Taylor, who represents the plaintiff class in the Tangipahoa case, said he plans to file similar challenges to the state's voucher and teacher hiring laws Acts 1 and 2 in desegregation cases in East Feliciana and St. Helena parishes.
Taylor serves as a plaintiffs' attorney in the East Feliciana case and as an attorney for the School Board in St. Helena. He is also lead attorney for the plaintiffs in Pointe Coupee's desegregation case but did not say what his plans were with respect to Pointe Coupee.
"Who you really need to watch is the Department of Justice because it's the plaintiff in many of these cases," he said, noting that there are "well over 30" desegregation cases under federal court order in Louisiana.
Tangipahoa Parish School Board attorney Bob Hammonds said whether other parishes follow suit may depend on the outcome of a parallel state court case in the 19th Judicial District, where the Louisiana School Boards Association and teachers unions have challenged the constitutionality of Acts 1 and 2.
Many of the school boards with desegregation cases are also plaintiffs in the state court case challenging the constitutionality of the new state voucher and teacher hiring laws, Hammonds noted. A trial in that case is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday.
"If they're successful in that litigation … it would eliminate the need for those issues to be examined in the desegregation context," Hammonds said. "On the other hand, if the state court rules in favor of the state, I think other school districts like Tangipahoa would still have an opportunity to review their existing desegregation orders to determine whether the implementation of either Act 1 or 2 would interfere with those court orders."
The Tangipahoa Parish School Board and Taylor requested the injunctions granted Monday due to conflicts between the state laws and court orders in the federal case.
Fifty Tangipahoa Parish students are participating in the voucher program for the 2012-13 school year, at a cost of $176,377 in state MFP funds and $69,393 in local contribution funds, according to Louisiana Department of Education documents.
The School Board argued that the vouchers' negative financial impact was "virtually certain to increase in the future" as two of the private schools enrolling voucher students have planned significant expansions.
"Today it's a trickling stream; tomorrow, a raging torrent," Taylor said.
Attorneys for the state Department of Education argued there is no evidence of a negative impact on the school district.
"I don't know, and the state doesn't know, whether Tangipahoa Parish is in a position to comply with the desegregation order," attorney Jimmy Faircloth said.
He added, "They can't even describe the standard or what programs are affected."
In his emailed statement, White said, "The scholarship program has no effect on the desegregation order. There was no evidence produced at the hearing as to why the scholarship program would impact the order; in fact, there was no evidence presented at the hearing at all."
White, who did not attend Monday's hearing, refers to what some call the state's voucher program as a scholarship program. According to a motion filed Nov. 15 on his behalf, he was scheduled to be out of state Nov. 17-28, both for the Thanksgiving holidays and for department business in Memphis, Tenn., and Washington, D.C.
The state's attorneys also argued that the Tangipahoa Parish school system received about $2 million more in state MFP funds for 2012-13 than in 2011-12.
Faircloth said he was at a loss to explain how the district could fund programs last year on less money, then say the current funding is insufficient.
White echoed the sentiment in his emailed statement, saying, "The system offered no explanation as to why it can't meet the financial obligations ordered by the desegregation order."
However, the School Board's lawyers explained during the hearing that the additional funds had to be used to offset an increase of more than $2.5 million in state-mandated retirement contributions and health insurance costs.
Judge Lemelle said that, while he had a "philosophical concern" whether the loss of funding for 50 students had a significant impact on the school system, he was "deeply concerned" about the long-range potential for more students to flee the district.
"The irreparable harm to the school system trumps and outweighs any difficulties the state would encounter" as a result of Monday's ruling, Lemelle said during his reasons for judgment.
Attorneys for the Education Department had argued that a federal court does not have the authority to tell the state how to allocate its funds.
The state's attorneys further argued that Lemelle should delay ruling until after the conclusion of the state court case.


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ken123 wrote:""Photographically shooting it against a bright light would yield just a dark outline of the blade."You mean like this great shot Ken? konosuke-fujiyama-blue-2-gyuto-and-sharpening-t5250-10.html"Yes exactly. Pardon the OT discussion of photography for the moment, which isn't the topic of the thread. In your photo, the outline is present only as a silhouette. You have no detail of the surface at all and from the silhouette, you can't tell if the shot is skewed relative to the camera.Ken
ken123 wrote:"Isn't the point of a choil shot to be able to see the cross-sectional representation of the grind?...and to see 'more or less how thin it is behind the edge?Just to get a basic idea."Yes. I feel that the shots I used actually give at least a basic idea plus even more detail. Did you have a chance to review all the other images on my FB page? Please look them over and let me know what else you would like to see. If you want a light bulb shot, I got in a few more knives that I can use to take additional shots for you (Desol) - even a light bulb shot I'll also get some more measurements for you (<<Melampus>>)---Ken
Umberto wrote:Ken and Mark...with all due respect we deserve more information. What is black steel? Is it a proprietary blend of materials that the blacksmith wishes to keep secret? If so, that's fine...Second, who makes Nubatama knives? Is this a secret too?I can fully respect that you'd want to develop a high end esoteric boutique knife, but for that kind of money your customers deserve to know some very basic questions. Who forged it? How is black steel different than top shelf Hitachi steel?"I do realize that many people are not going to be willing to take the plunge on an unknown knifemaker with a mystery steel and this greatly restricts the rate of acceptance of these knives for the value that they possess, but some parts of presenting this are beyond my control that I just have to accept. It will cause a much slower rate of acceptance of what is an exceptional knife."Ken...I do believe without a doubt that many knife enthusiasts are willing to accept unknown knife steels knowing they are buying a one of a kind work of functional art. But those who buy such knives are seeking a direct connection to the person who forged the steel. Are you implying that the knife maker or collective knife production team does not want to make it's presence known?I think it is safe to say inquiring minds want to know what is black steel...and who is behind Nubatama blades. If those questions can't be answered in the vaguest of responses then we absolutely have the right to possess doubts about Nubatama.
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With ribs lookin' that good be thankful they left you
any! savages
I myself am gettin' ready for my 1st overnight
smoke on my brand new wsm
I have 2 boneless pork butts and I am a little
I hope I have good results as you have had!
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All right, so everyone knows Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is king of the universe.
Its growth is stunning: Apple just plunked down 118% earnings growth last quarter.
Its cash horde is legendary: As of the first of the year, Apple had a staggering $10.3 billion in cash, $19.8 billion in short-term investments and $67 billion in long-term investments.
Its outperformance is well known: AAPL stock is up 35% in the past year to lap the Dow seven times over, and up 430% in the past five years vs. a mostly flat stock market.
How can you find the next Apple? Sadly, contrary to the the hyped-up marketing messages you see on financial sites, there is no "next Apple." And if there is, I guarantee you some huckster sellin' newsletters for a few hundred bucks isn't going to be the one to discover it.
That said, there assuredly are a group of stocks out there with a lot in common with Apple. They might not have a bulletproof brand with a balance sheet that is the envy of all Wall Street, but these tech stocks have a heck of a lot to offer.
Here are five tech giants with big growth, no debt and almost as much potential as Apple.