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B. Chapin, Sanford Marshall, 1st Lieutenant, Hiram H. Hall.
Charles Deoviel.
Vt. Battery.
Henry C. Downer, Thomas Shein.
Second Regiment.
Co. G.—Leroy B. Nichols.
Third Regiment.
Musician, Adams' Band.—Dor A. Rouleau.
Co. K.—Charles Gill, Hiram Shambeau, Adam Smith.
Fifth Regiment.
Co. H.—Philip Ward, Frank Ward.
Co. I.—George Loggins, William Austin, Hiram J. Isham.
Sixth Qegiment.
Co. G.—William R. Chapman.
Co. I.—John Boyle, George J. Bliss, Eli Osborn, Edward A. Holton (Orderly Sergeant) David M. Holton, David Smith McHerd, Jackson Isham, John Rowland, Wm. Beach, Waller Osborn, Richard Irish, Samuel C. Alexander, William Shepard, George A. Allen.
Co. K.—Eber Fizander.
Seventh Regiment.
Co. A—Peter D. Lander, Lewis Lander, Orville E. Allen, William Green, Frederick Doyne, Homer Prior.
Eighth Regiment.
Co. I.—Martin M. Brownell, Horace W. Brownell.
Tenth Regiment.
Co. D.—Haschal M. Phelps.
Thirteenth Regiment.
Co. F.—Captain John L. Yale, George L. Baldwin, Milton E. Isham, Charles A. Harper, Alonzo N. Lee, George A. Pine, Alfred W. Isham, Thomas J. Lee, John F. Harper, Burtram F. Brown, James Patten, Geordon Reynolds, Nathan Johnson, Albert Walston, Peter Derby, Nelson Harper, Lawrence Kelly, Frank J. C. Tyler, Wm. F. Whitney, Joseph Sargent, Thomas Kelley, Melancthon S. Lee, Oscar F. Phelps, Harmon E. Lee, Thomas Culligan, Thomas Johnson.
On the 5th of May, 1864, died at the residence of his son, J. R. Jewell, in Petaluma, California, Jesse Jewell, aged 84 years and 4 months. Mr. Jewell was from Bolton, Chittenden Co. Vermont, where he lived with his wife for 60 years. He was one of the soldiers of 1812, being an officer in the Vermont Volunteers, and participated in the battle of Plattsburgh, N. Y. In 1859 he emigrated to California with his wife, to visit and live with his children, of whom he had in Sonoma Co., three sons and two daughters.
Also at his residence in Petaluma, California, Geo. C. Jewell, aged 40 years. Mr. Jewell was from Bolton, Chittenden Co., Vermont, and youngest son of Jesse Jewell. He emigrated to California in 1852, was one of the first settlers of Petaluma, and has left a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.
Burlington, when we commenced this volume, was town and village,—now it is town and city. Burlington City was chartered by act of the Legislature, Nov. 22, 1864, subject to the adoption of the freemen of the city, and was accepted Jan. 18, 1865. Mayor, Albert L. Catlin; Recorder, E. R. Hurd; Aldermen, Lawrence Barnes, Levi Underwood, Calvin Blodgett, Omri A. Dodge, Giles S. Appleton and Russell S. Taft.
[But we propose to save for an Appendix, or Supplementary Number, further account of the queen-town of Vermont, as also of the county in general, save the few following items of obituary and tributary notices:]
Rev Moses Robinson died at Steamboat Rock, Iowa, September 2d, 1865; aged 50 years, 4 months and 6 days.
He was a son of Cephas and Matilda Robinson, and was born in Burlington, Vt., 26th April, 1815. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1839, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1842, and received license from the Presbytery of New York in the spring of 1842. Returning to Vermont, he married, July 20,1842, Elizabeth M. Smith of Monkton, and immediately went West to engage in the home missionary work. He preached in Livonia, Ia., 1843-44, and was there ordained as an evangelist in the spring of 1843; in Brownston, La., 1844-45; in Wadsworth, Ohio, 1845-46. Finding that his health required a change of climate, he returned to Vermont in 1846, and was acting pastor at Danville four months, and at Enosburgh three months. At Enosburgh he received a call to the pastorate, which he declined, but by mutual agreement he was constituted pastor by vote of the church, with the privilege on either side of dissolving the relation upon three months' notice.
He preached at Enosburgh, from March 1st, 1847 to June 1, 1851, and then became acting pastor at Newport, where he remained four years, during the last three of which he preached on alternate Sabbaths in Newport
and Brighton. In the summer of 1855 he removed to Iowa. He preached in Iowa City five months, in Waterloo seven months, and about 1st June, 1856, became acting pastor at Steamboat Rock, where he remained till his death.
Died in Burlington, May 23, 1866, Mrs. Caroline E. T. Clarke, wife of Gen. D. W. C. Clarke. Mrs. Clarke was highly and variedly accomplished, a fine singer, very, we have been told; quite an amateur painter; the principal and back-ground altar-picture in St. Mary' Church, this city, of the crucifixion, was executed by her; and she was an occasional poetic contributor of the New York Tribune, and other journals of the day. "Lizzie Maitland," a Catholic tale, by Mrs. Clarke, and for which Mr. O. A. Brownson, who appears to have had a vivid appreciation of her literary talent, wrote the preface, was published by James B. Kirker and Co., New York, some years since—ten, fifteen or more. Mrs. Clarke had about this time made a profession of the Catholic faith, and was buried from St. Mary's Church with the last solemn rites of her church.
Aug. 12, 1866, Charles Miller, proprietor of the American Hotel in Burlington, aged 37. His death was regretted in the community, as he was one of the most popular and enterprising young men of BurrIngton. To Mr. Miller we are indebted for the new photographic view of Burlington College, from which the plate was engraved for this volume.
Dec. 4, 1886, Charles Allen, formerly of Burlington, in his 52d year, another one of the benefactors of this work; a paper from whom appears among the biographies of Burlington. We record with sincere sorrow all such deaths, and as our last tribute of respect write them upon the historic page of our State.
Also in 1866, Mrs. Lucia Hemenway, wife of Rev. Asa Hemenway, formerly of the American Board of Foreign Missions, aged 54. We first knew Mrs. Hemenway in the autumn of 1859, in her very rural home in the little mountain town of Ripton, Addison County, where her husband was engaged in the labors of the Home Mission—his health having failed in Siam. For our name and for our cause, we were made cordially welcome; and it was a pleasant Indian summer day we passed in this precious household and the little village of then seven tenements among the mountains, one of the pictures of Vermont and our labors that amid constantly changing scenes does not fade away. Mrs. Hemenway became the lady assistant also to gather subscriptions, and from this sparsely populated town not long after sent to us 20 names, with advance payment.
Mrs. Mary A. Pitkin, also late of Burlington, widow of Dr. Pitkin, we would not close this volume without at least the acknowledgment that to her we are indebted for our first thirty to forty subscribers in Burlington. Later she removed to Morrisville in Morristown, Lamoille County, to reside with her then late widowed sister, Mrs. Robinson, at whose home she died about two years since, aged about 51, we think. She was an intelligent and amiable Christian lady, and left one son who is a physician, and was a surgeon in the late war.
Died Jan. 6, 1864, Mrs. Clarissa Lyman, aged 83 years.
December 10, 1864, Andrew Burritt, aged 55, an upright and intelligent citizen.
In Winooski (Burlington) Mrs. Hannah Washburn, aged 81, Aug. 18, 1864.
Dec. 7. 1866, Mrs. Hannah Fiske, wife of the late Benjamin Fiske, aged 64.
Biographies are promised to this work for the scientific and pre-eminently scholarly James A. Read, son of the Hon. Daniel Read, who has contributed so many valuable pages to this work—and of Col. Bowdish and others who fell a sacrifice to freedom in the war of the late rebellion, and which may appear in the continued military chapters, in the second or third volume of this work.
Epitaph in Green Mountain Cemetery, on the tombstone of the first settler in the town of Burlington.
"STEPHEN LAWRENCE, Esq.,
died April 2, 1789,
Æ 47 years.
He was the first man who with his family
settled in Burlington,
This stone is erected to his memory
Oct. 1811.
Reader, mark the mighty change produced
in 28 years."
From a letter from Rev. D. T. Taylor, of Rouse's Point:
"I wish to say that the list of papers or periodicals printed in Burlington, which appears in No. VI. of your valuable Magazine, is not a full one, as I am able to add the following, viz: The Scribbler, 8 vo. of pp. 16, published weekly or semi-monthly by samuel Hull Wilcocke. It was printed in Burlington during the years 1821-22, and removed from there Dec. 1, 1823. It was a satirical slang sheet, and the editor bore the assumed name of Lewis Luke Marcellus, Esq. Col. R. G. Stone, of Plattsburgh, of the Republican at Plattsburgh, N. Y., has several volumes and can give you the date of its establishment at Burlington. I present a full history of the green fellow in my History of Champlain. He published the first newspaper ever printed in my native town at Rouse's Point, N. Y."
Killed at the battle Gettysburgh, July 3d, Serg't G. H. Duncan—oldest son of G. M. and A. M. Duncan, of Winooski, Vt., aged 32 years.
Funeral at his father's residence, July 26th after, at 2 o'clock P. M.
The subject of the above notice, late in the afternoon of the third inst., fell, from a wound received in the head while gallantly charging the enemy's line. He was riding by his Captain's side at the time, who justly says, in a letter of condolence to his parents: "I had scarcely an officer so admired by the men, so freely trusted by superiors, and so loved by all with whom he came in contact, as he." A just tribute to a faithful officer— a trusty friend and a true man. But he has fallen in the morning of life and sealed with his life's blood that cause which called him from a fond loving home, to strike for God and Liberty. I knew this young man long and well—knew him when a mere youth— knew him in the intimate capacity of a pupil, and having known him thus it is but a pleasure to testify to his great worth of head and heart."
With no stain upon his moral character—with a well cultivated intellect—with a heart ever alive to every tender sympathy—with a nature stamped with the broad seal of God's nobility, he is called from earth to heaven.
"Green be the grace that grows over his grave, and soft the breezes that fan his last resting place," but greener be the memories and softer the whispering reminiscences that cluster around our departed son, brother and friend.
Since the record of Charlotte history, written out by the Rev. B. D. Ames. the town has witnessed the shocking murder of Mr. Drum, a returned soldier, shot by Mr. Burns with whom he had had a recent quarrel, as he was passing his house in the evening. Mr. Drum is reported to have been a peaceable man and to have fought well in the battle of Gettysburgh. He left a wife and quite a family of small children.
From the proceedings of the Grand Commandery of the State of Vermont.
Col. Jacob Rolfe was born in Canterbury, N. H., March 12th, 1790. He settled in Colchester at the age of 18, in which place he resided most of the time until his death. He filled all the various town offices of that town by turn; was a member of the Legislature in 1844, 1845, and 1846, and was twice chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He also filled various offices in the militia of the State, and was chosen Colonel, Jan, 14th, 1832. He was Generalissimo of Burlington Commandery from 1854 to the date of his death. In politics. he was a Democrat, and was always highly respected by the Democracy of his country. He died in Colchester, Jan. 3d, 1864, in the 74th year of his age, sincerely lamented by the Masonic Fraternity and by all his acquaintances and townsmen. His remains were interred with Masonic honors.
Dr. John S. Webster, Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Vermont, was born in Allentown, N. H., January 2d, 1796. He studied medicine with Doctors Ainsworth and Cobb, of Milton, Vt., and Dr. Nathan R. Smith, of Burlington, Vt., and was admitted to practice in 1823, and received the degree of M. D. in 1824. After a brief residence at Milton and Highgate, Vt., he located for the practice of his profession at Berkshire, Vt., in 1824, where he continued to reside until 1838, filling in the mean time for several years, the office of Deputy Collector of Vermont from the year 1825, and serving as Town Representative of Berkshire in the years 1836 and 1837. He removed to Colchester in March, 1838, and represented that town in the State Legislature in the years 1841 and 1842. He was elected Commander of Burlington Commandery No. 2, at its organization in 1851, which position he filled till the year 1861 when he declined a re-election. He was also Deputy Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Vermont from 1853 to 1861. He was a faithful and zealous Sir Knight, and did much to promote the cause of Knighthood in our State. His death occurred in Colchester Dec. 30, 1863. His remains were interred with Masonic honors, and were followed to the grave by a large concourse of citizens and the Masonic Fraternity.
Hinesburgh appears from the agricultural papers of the state to have a successful cheese-factory establishment, where a large amount of the article has been turned out for the past two years, 1865 and 1866, or more.
The following tribute to the memory of the late Lieut. Blodgett, U. S. A., a native Huntington, is from the pen of James O. Grady, Esq., from Burlington, of the Commissary Department at Washington, at the time. Lieut. Blodgett, as his father and family, was also, and had been at the time
of his death, for some years a resident of Burlington. A biography promised by G. B. Sawyer, Esq., for the Gazetteer, is now under preparation, and may appear in our military department hereafter.
Is he gone from among us? the bravest and purest,
The one who upheld our bright banner the surest—
Is he gone from our circle away?
Oh God! with such instincts of liberty rife,
The foremost in danger, the first in the strife,
Mute, cold in his coffin to day.
Wo! Wo!
Mourn, that true valor received such a blow,
The loved one is fallen, the lofty lies low.
The gallant, good heart that was fitted to clamber
To loftiest heights, now lies cold in the chamber
Of death, as the basest can be,
Heroically battling in liberty's cause,
For country, for union, for justice, for laws—
He gave, that the bound might be free.
Grief! Grief!!
The noble young hero! the patriot chief
To praise him is some, oh! how little relief!
The sun first illumines the top of the mountain,
And pure is the stream from the high rocky fountain;
So high and so pure was his aim.
His course it was finished
With faith undiminished,
Ere yet it was noon of his fame.
Clay ! Clay ! !
As well might you steal the broad sun from the day,
As the humorous spirit of Blodgett away.
Dr. George Lee Lyman was the oldest son of Mr. Daniel Lyman, and was born in Jericho, Feb. 23, 1818. His mother, whose maiden name was Lee, died in his infancy. When he was but a lad, Jericho academy was established at the Center, some two miles and a half from his father's residence, in which he early became a student. Under the careful and judicious training of the principal, Mr. Simeon Bicknell, there were soon developed in him scholarly traits of a high order. He entered the University of Vermont in 1837, and was graduated in 1841. As a classical scholar, from the first, he stood at the head of his class—having a remarkable aptitude for the acquisition of language. He also took a high standing in the departments of metaphysics and morals, having been an ardent admirer of Dr. James Marsh and his system of philosophy. The class to which Mr. Lyman belonged was the last class to which Dr. Marsh gave his full course of instruction.
After his graduation Mr. Lyman taught in Jericho, Burlington, Clarenceville, C. E, Hinesburgh and Underhill. He studied medicine in the medical college at Pittsfield, Mass., and practiced mainly in his native town, Jericho, and vicinity.
Dr. Lyman carried his scholarly habits and tastes with him through life He was a diligent student of Plato and Aristotle, of Homer, Hesiod, and nearly all clasical authors, also of Philo and the Church fathers. During his last year, his leisure was employed in acquiring the German language.
As a physician he was skillful and faithful, frank and honest; doubtless too frank and honest for the largest practice. If there was nothing the matter, he frankly, perhaps bluntly said so. If there was no help, he was equally candid. He wasted no time or medicine where no good was to be done. Had he given himself wholly to his profession, as in his last year he was beginning to do, he doubtless would have won, by his sterling sense and honesty, as wide a practice as he could have desired.
He was constitutionally indisposed to floating with the current. It was much more consonant to him to row against wind and tide. Hence he was rarely in political or religious sympathy with the community where he lived. Had he lived in the South, there is little doubt he would have been the stoutest and boldest of Unionists. Living at the North, where the current was all for the Union, he was bold and outspoken in his sympathy with the South. Notwithstanding this characteristic, he was the truest and most constant of friends, with a heart singularly tender and kind in all the relations in life. He hated all shams and tricks with a perfect hatred.
He married, August 15, 1844, Mabel Almina, daughter of Lyman Field, who died Oct. 3, 1845, leaving an infant daughter that survived her a few months. Aug. 27, 1846, he married Mary Clarinda, daughter of Jedediah Boynton, Esq., of Hinesburgh, who died Sept. 7, 1858. Dr. Lyman died at Jericho Corners, June 4, 1863. He had buried one daughter, by his second wife. One survives him.
* The historian of Jericho in this volume.—Ed.
Rev. Albert Smith, D. D., died in Monticello, Ill., April 24, 1863, aged 59 years, 2 months and 9 days.
He was a son of Harry and Phebe (Henderson) Smith, and was born at Milton, Vt., February 15, 1804. He was clerk in a store at Vergennes, Vt., till he arrived at the age of majority, and it was his intention to make the mercantile business his pursuit for life; but finding no satisfactory opening, he commenced the study of law at Hartford, Ct. When about twenty-three years old, he experienced a change of heart, and turned his attention to the ministry. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1831, taught a year in Hartford, Ct., and Medford, Mass.; and commenced the study of theology at New Haven, but removed to Andover, where he was graduated in 1835.
He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Williamstown, Mass., February 10, 1836, and was dismissed May 6, 1838, to become Professor of Languages and Belles Letters in Marshall College, at Mercersburgh, Pa. In 1840 he was called to the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Middlebury College, where he remained about four years. He was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Vernon, Ct., in May, 1845, and dismissed in October, 1854, on account of declining health. The winter of 1854-55, he spent in Peru, Ill., preaching as he was able. A part of the following year he spent in Duquoisne, in the service of the Home Missionary Society. In the fall of 1855 he was settled at Monticello, and there remained till his death, for several years prior to which he was in feeble health.
"He was a man of uncommon intellectual power, a superior scholar, and in all respects an admirable man. With a mind highly disciplined, and accustomed to close logical reasoning, and stored with varied and extensive knowledge, his sermons, while eminently evangelical, were rich in matter and conclusive in argument. By some they were sometimes regarded as too profound, if not incomprehensible. But to the cultivated mind they were rich and instructive. He was a man of system and method. Everything had its time and place, and was sure to be attended to. As a man and friend he was genial and sincere, in prosperity a monitor, and in adversity a tender sympathizer and wise counsellor."
He received the degree of D. D., from Shurtliff College, in 1860.
The following names of the original proprietors of Shelburne were not received in time to include with the very valuable record by Mr. Thayer, in this volume.
"Jesse Hallock, Steward Southgate, John Southgate, Richard Gleason, Richard Gleason, jr., Nathaniel Potter, John Bond, jr., John Potter, Antipas Earl, Samuel Seabury, Thomas Darling, Samuel Hight, Gilbert Tolton, Simon Dakin, Joshua Dakin, Patridge Thatcher, James Bradshaw, Ebenezer Sealy, Samuel Waters, David Ferris, Joshua Franklin, Thomas Franklin, jr., Silas Mead, Nathaniel Potter, jr., Robert Southgate, William Cornal, John Thomas, jr. John Huching, Stephen Field, Nathaniel Howland, Haddock Bowne, Peter Tatten, Benjamin Clapp, Tideman Hull, Jos. Hull, Lewis Cammell, Sidmon Hull, jr., Thomas Hull, John Carnal, Edward Burling, John Cromwell, Thos. Chield, John Burling, Ebenezer Preston, Uria Field, Isaac Underhill, Joseph Parsall, John Akin, John Cannon, Jacob Underhill, Zebulon Ferris, Daniel Merit, Jonathan Akin, Jeremiah Griffin, Read Ferris, Elijah Soty, John Hallock, Benjamin Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, jr., Samuel Hills, David Akin, Hon. Holcom Temple, Theodore Atchison, Mark H. J. Wentworth, John Fisher, Esq."
We have also lately received the following communication from Mr. Thayer in relation to the murder of Mr. Safford, of Shelburne, and confession of the murder:
"In the spring of 1827, the body of an unknown man was found in a piece of hemlock woods, directly east from where Hiram Blin now resides, by Mr. Jonathan Lyon. The unknown had evidently been murdered sometime before and lain there during the past winter. The discovery soon went out, and the citizens generally gathered to investigate and make what discoveries they could in the matter, and a paper was found a few rods from the body that had evidently been taken from a watch and that came from a goldsmith in Vergennes. This paper was taken to Vergennes, and it was ascertained that it had been put into a watch they had repaired, about the 1st of December before, for a person that had been laboring the season previous for a farmer, in Addison, by the name of Safford; and, on further inquiry, it was ascertained that he started about the first of December, on foot, for Sutton, C. E., where he formerly belonged and where his connections resided; and it was also ascertained that two men, one bearing the description of the murdered man, and the other a rather tall, poorly-clad, hard-looking fellow, in company, passed through Charlotte and Shelburne, going north, on Thanksgiving day, it being the first Thursday in December. They called at the public house in the forenoon, and at the hotel in Shelburne, where
they took dinner, and the one supposed to have been the murdered man offered some plated spoons for sale at the hotel, but they were not purchased. They went north towards Burlington, and no more was thought or heard of them until this body was found the next April.
A short distance north of Shelburne village the road from Williston intersects with the main road leading to Burlington, where the road leading to Burlington takes a turn, and strangers often take the wrong one, and it was evident these men took the Williston road and traveled about half a mile on that, as a woman residing on that road recollected of having seen two men, bearing the description of these two strangers, on the afternoon of the preceding Thanksgiving clay, standing in the road near her dwelling a short time, apparently in consultation, and then leaving the road and crossing the fields in the direction of the piece of woods where the body was found—and this would be a much shorter route, on their way to Burlington, than to go back to the main road. Safford being of rather a weak mind (as it was ascertained) was probably purposely led away by his companion on this wrong road, and then into this pine woods and there murdered by him,
Safford's friends in Canada supposing him to be in Addison, and those in Addison supposing he had gone to Canada, no inquiry had been made for him from any direction, and it was not known, until his body was found, that any thing had befallen him.
An inquest was holden on the body, but no knowledge could be had as to who the murderer was. A surgical examination showed that there had been several severe blows, apparently with a heavy stick, upon the head of the murdered man. Much inquiry and investigation was made in regard to the matter to no purpose, and it was generally supposed that there was no way to bring out this hidden scene of blood until the light of the judgment day should make all things known; but the Lord has means by which the sins of men will be found out.
The fact of this murder was disclosed by the murderer himself, on his death bed, some 28 years after its committal. A man—a miseral specimen of humanity—in Sutton, C. E., by the name of Coats Barnes, acknowledged himself the miserable culprit, in the autumn of 1865, after having lain three days in a dying state; still living, contrary to the expectation of all, he informed those present that he could not die until he had made a disclosure of his having murdered Mr. Safford at Shelburne, supposing at the time that he had quite a sum of money with him, but found a note for $100 and one quarter of a dollar in his pockets, and a few other articles of but little value, after which confession he immediately died."
We learn that a somewhat remarkable land-slide took place on the farm of Mr. Newell in Shelburne on Saturday last.* As described to us, some five acres of land suddenly sank away, as if let drop by the running out or change of place of a supporting quicksand. A small wooded hill was cut in halves by the operation, one-half remaining at its old level, the other dropping a number of feet and leaving a perpendicular face of earth, reaching above the tops of the trees which crowned the now sunken half of the hill top. Some of these trees were split lengthwise by the operation, one-half remaining up and the other going down, with their respective sections, much as some families here have been divided by the war. The bed of the La Plot river was also raised twelve or fifteen feet in spots, not by the earth sliding in but by an apparent crowding up of the bed of the stream. On the whole it was apparently a singular affair. No one saw it take place, but the hour at which it occurred is fixed by some workmen who having left with a load of hay returned to find their field of labor some ways below where they left it.—Free Press.
Commissary of Vermont, lived and died after the revolutionary war, at Underhill. Before he came to this state he lived at Albany, and consequently sympathized with the York party in regard to their assumed jurisdiction over Vermont. From our venerable friend Henry Stevens, antiquarian, and also from G. B. Sawyer, Esq., of Burlington, we have the following description and incident: He was a gentleman, an inposing man, rather of the Matthew Lyon cast. During the war he made purchases for the army in the South. He was opposed to the Constitution, and to the administration of Washington and Adams, and continued to the end a politician. His rank was Quartermaster Gen‑
* We have not the date, but it occurred sometime during the late war, or between 1861 or '62 and 1864.
oral during the war, which gave him the rank of Colonel. He was descended from the distinguished family of Hay in Scotland, and was highly educated and distinguished for his own talent. While Commissary for the army and resident in New York he presented a petition, the object of which was to procure the sanction of purchases for the army in this state "to the pretended Legislature of Vermont." The stern old fathers of Vermont felt the insult and were in a dilemma how to rebuke the same and yet secure the trade, till Matthew Lyon suggested that they accept his petition with the recommend that he should address his next petition to the great grand assembly of Vermont.
From the Vermont Record.
Robert Hanniford, of Underhill, now (January, 1867) at the ripe age of 99, hale and hearty, in the full possession of his intellect, east his vote for Washington, and for every occupant of the presidential chair except Pierce and Buchanan.
The lands now in the area of Essex county were, previous to 1764, supposed to be in the New Hampshire grants, and some of the land was granted by the Governor of New Hampshire to different parties. It was, however. included in New York in the year above named, and March 7th, 1770, the government of that state erected the county of Gloucester, which included the land in the N. E. part of the state, Essex within its limits. In 1777, the General Convention of Vermont declared themselves independent, and in 1779 divided the state into two counties, and each county into two shires. Essex was then within the limits of Cumberland county, in the shire of Newbury. In 1781 this county was divided into Windham, Windsor and Orange, Essex being within the limits of Orange, with Newbury still for its shire. The county of Caledonia was incorporated Nov. 8th, 1796, and included all the N. E. part of the state within its limits. Essex county was, however, soon incorporated, and the county officers were appointed in the October session of the legislature in 1800. Essex county is about 45 miles from N. to S. and 23 from E. to W. It lies between Lat. 44° 20' and 45°, and Lon. 4° 51' and 5° 28' E. from Washington. It is bounded N. by Canada East and S. by the Connecticut river, bordering its bank for more than 65 miles, S. W. by Caledonia county, and W. by Orleans county. The land is generally fertile, though in many parts stony. Along the valley of the Connecticut it is beautifully picturesque, and no more romantic scenery can be found. Guildhall was chosen as its shire, and has thus far been unchanged, but there is a strong wish among many at present to change it to Island Pond. This county was never much settled by Indians, but was used as a hunting ground, and through it was the main road for the St. Francis tribe of Canada and those living in the valley of the Connecticut. It was a while disputed territory between them, and we have every reason to suppose that there were many ambuscades and trials of skill between the Indians of Coos and St. Francis, within its borders. There have been a few stone tomahawks and arrow points found within the limits of the county, but Indian relics are rare. There are several anecdotes concerning the aborigines, but they appear in the town histories. As a considerable portion of the county is still a wilderness, we have four unorganized towns—Averill, Ferdinand, Lewis and Norton, and three gores, viz. Avery's, Warner's and Warren's. Averill was chartered June 23, 1762, is 6 miles square, and bounded N. E. by Canaan, S. E. by Lemington, S. W. by Lewis, and N. W. by Avery's gore and Norton. It is well watered and well timbered, but broken and uneven in surface and contains but few inhabitants.
Ferdinand was chartered Oct. 13th, 1761, to contain 23 square miles, but as a portion of Wenlock has been added it now contains much more than that. It is bounded N. by Lewis, E. by Brunswick and Maidstone, S. by Granby and E. Haven, and W. by Newark and Brighton. It contains several ponds and streams, which are well stocked with splendid trout, making this town the best fishing ground in the section.
Lewis was chartered June 29th, 1762, is a mountainous township 6 miles square, bounded N. E. by Averill, S. E. by Bloomfield, S. W. by Ferdinand and Brighton, and N. W. by Avery's gore. This township is well timbered with pine, but the land is not considered to be of the best quality. Norton is


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Interesting comment underneath this article - www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/17/new-curriculum-school-direct-ofsted#comment-24399320 - which needs wider circulation.
To clarify, it was more that the recent Sutton Trust report prompted me to dig around a bit in the Harris statistics. Here's some findings which no bugger will care about because they don't quite fit with the predominant conseravtive world view about Harris being the saviour of education.
This is Harris Crystal Palace's DFE dataset. Give credit to the LibDems who insisted on this lot being published. It's really quite comprehensive. Obviously pinches of salt all round, accepting that issues like 5 A*-C rating isn't the most solid of performance indicators once schools have figured out how to game the system. Nevertheless, a few things really stand out :
Harris Crystal Palace is based in a fairly deprived area in Norwood. It's nearest three primaries (1), (2), and (3) have the following indicators :
SEN or School Action Plus = (1) 19.9%; (2) 6.6%; (3) 19.7%
Other local schools have similarly high levels, so we can see that this is a tough area with a high proportion of FSM, SEN and EAL. We'd expect to see Harris Crystal Palace with a similar set of figures. Here are theirs :
SEN or school action plus = 3.9%
So as you can see, Harris take far fewer children with FSM, EAL or SEN than those prevalent in their local area. What a remarkable feat for a non-selective school. How do they manage this ?
The answer is that they have a "banded" admissions policy. Here's the words from their own website :
Ten percent of places will be reserved for students based on their aptitude for Technology, which is one of the specialisms of the Academy.
The remaining places will be allocated by placing students, based on the results of their Non-Verbal Reasoning Test, into one of 9 ability groups of approximately equal size. The assessment is not a pass or fail test. It is designed to ensure that students of all abilities have an equal chance of gaining a place at the Academy
So Harris assess all applicants, and take children from across the ability range. Super. Except....
Have a look further down their stats at the section called "Cohort Information". This tells you the nature of the intake based on prior achievement. So those students achieving less than level 4 at the end of primary school are "low attainers", those with level 4 are "middle attainers", and those with above level 4 are "high attainers".
Harris's figures for the 2012 cohort are as follows
Low attainers - 1%
Middle attainers - 29%
High attainers - 70%
Well, well. It turns out that Harris's banded system designed to give access to students of all abilities, only seems to identify those students of average or - the great majority - above average ability. Harris Crystal Palace is a de facto grammar school. It is selective on both social and academic grounds, excluding a hugely disproportionate number of disadvantaged or less able students from its locality. In other words, its admissions policy is a fiction. Its much-praised results have nothing whatsoever to do with its academy status, or the wondrous abilities of Mr Carpet Warehouse. Rather, its results are due to excluding the local population and cherrypicking clever middle class children from much further away (it's a matter of local amusement in my wealthy white middle-class area of Beckenham that kids from here who apply to Harris Crystal Palace always get in, despite it being miles away and theoretically banded - our kids always get in the top 10% of each band, somehow...).
Now that is already an admissions investigation in the making. I'll bang in a complaint, as is my right as a local parent. However I'd expect it to go nowhere, as Harris have friends in high places, and their money goes in the right pockets. So I'll leave you with a little sting in the tail.
My own school (comprehensive in a grammar school area) takes in 10% low ability, 50% middle and 40% high. Good, but not Harris standard. Harris select an overwhelmingly above-average ability cohort. So let's compare results.
Ebacc : Harris (43%); my school (45%)
Average point scores : Harris (383.5); my school (407.5)
Value Added : Harris (998.3); my school (1046.9)
So despite fiddling their admissions, despite selecting an overwhelmingly high-ability cohort, despite receiving more money, having smaller class sizes, more support staff, even a higher average teacher salary, Harris deliver worse results than my poor old, bog-standard comprehensive which doesn't even get the grammar school kids.
I recognise that there's only about 3 people will read this. And none of them will care. I feel like the little boy shouting about the emperor's nakedness, but unlike the story, I'm simply ignored. But I feel better.
PS - Daniel Moynihan, chief exec of Harris, pays himself some £250k. Nice job.
Does anyone know what Harris academies are like to work at. They have a physics job being advertised but everything I've read is negative (aprart from Ofsted). So far none of their teachers have reviewed on this website. theschoolofreviews.com/Map (search Harris academy peckham). Any advice?
Do the new dfe tables still show low, middle and high attainers?
Also v interested to know more about HA Battersea if anyone has local, recent info,
I think that you don't understand some facts.
Firstly, a child can have a need and be on the SEN register AND be a middle or high attainer. (FYI - there are students with SEN even in top grammar schools).
Secondly, you've also made some incorrect assumptions about EAL children. When you look at the attainment of EAL pupils in London, it is actually considerably higher than that of monolingual pupils. Bilingual children have a cognitive advantage and it really shows with proper teaching (I live in Sutton, where there are 5 grammar schools - they tend to have 35-40% EAL students - much more than any non-selective schools in the area).
Thirdly, you quote the 3 feeder schools. Not sure about their numbers but if all the schools in questions are of an average size, then they'd form barely half of the year group at secondary.
I'm not convinced that you have anything to get so over-excited about and can't see that any of what you said demonstrates that the school manipulates their intake other then the obvious measure of providing apptitute places - which they make official).
Very interesting post.
I have a question about Harris Academy Battersea which replaced Battersea Park School which was in special measures in September 2014.
This year's GCSE results place it as one of the top performing schools in Wandsworth. But the students taking these exams would have been in the failing school for three of their five secondary years. So was the school really failing? And how did Harris bring about this radical transformation in the five terms they had to work with this cohort pre GCSE? Something does not ring true.
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Does anyone have any views on Harris Academy Morden.
Hi, my son has just been offered a place at Harris CP, he's in year 7 and only just started secondary school. He's currently at Elm Green and pretty happy. We are in a real dilemma as to whether we should take up this offer on a school that has just achieved its 3rd outstanding ofstead. Or leave hi where he is. All comments relating to this will be greatfully received. Many Thanks
Harris really worry me. I live in slap bang in the middle of lots of Harris schools with a clever son with SN, no way would they want him. I wouldn't choose them for him either, but to which state funded schools are children who need more support supposed to go?
Very interesting, thank you.
They deserve as much scrutiny as possible because they are the size of a local authority, a monopoly in that area of London, yet there is no transparency or accountability for parents. I keep hearing about sham consultations where primary schools are being forced to become academies so their tactics are very heavy handed.
But there is increasing concern from councils, too - Sutton Council supports parents's objections against Harris as the DfE's preferred sponsor.
Of course the 2012 cohort had 4 years in the previous school set-up so it may be possible to read too much into these figures. It'll be interesting to see what this year's results will look like.
However - although I'm trying not to get all conspiracy theorist about Harris (honest) - there's plenty of fodder out there.
This is an informative, though rather long, thread; amongst other things, it gave me a really good insight into CAT banding (which a lot of academies are using) and how that can lead to selection whilst appearing to be inclusive. And it also suggests why Harris Peckham may not be doing so well...
Indeed if you put Harris in as a search term on this site (www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk), all sorts of things come up!
There was a report a couple of weeks ago about Harris Beckenham and two other Harris schools - they are being investigated by Edexel for trying to boost results by pushing children into BTECs and 'helping' them with their coursework.
The damning statistic in the article is the drop in Ebacc results as a result of switching into easier exams or combinations of subjects:
'In its first academic year as Harris Beckenham, the school saw 53% of year 11 pupils get five GCSEs or equivalents, well up on the 36% in 2011. However, when GCSEs alone are measured, the rise was much smaller from 30% to 33%. The percentage of pupils attaining the academically rigorous bundle of Ebacc GCSEs actually fell under Harris, from 14% to 5%.'
Meanwhile the English 2012 GCSE results for Harris CP were very poor. 70% high achievers, yet only overall 62% passed English GCSE. 99% passed Maths. What's going on there?
nennypops I am in leafy Beckenham too, and have been watching with anxiety the Harris tentacle creep across South East London. Your post is really interesting - so glad to have found it. I will be looking into what exactly Harris Beckenham and Bromley are doing with their intakes.
Can I add to this thread, apparently the head teacher at my dc's primary (which is in the catchment for Harris), is incandescent about how Harris CP has seemingly managed to keep out children with special needs. So angry apparently that he got involved with the appeal procedure to support a bright student with dyslexia who had been rejected by the school. According to Harris, the school is best for 'academic' pupils, and probably not suitable for children with special needs...... He helped this child win his appeal.
I'm very keen to take some of the information on this thread to our local MP - I think there's something very, very odd going on that a school which touts itself as a comprehensive, is somehow managing to manipulate its admissions procedures so that it ends up with fewer than half the number of children with statements as the school with next lowest number in the borough (which happens to be a school in a much more affluent area as well) and only a fraction of the average number of statemented children and children on free school meals of the primaries which fall into its catchment area.
How is the appeal going? I've got some information that should support your case. PM for details.
Angryfeet: as you have guessed, Harris are very good at fudging results.
Good grief indeed.
I think the only other major non-faith sponsor active in Croydon is ARK, who I don't know much about. Surely there are successful Croydonians other than Lord Harris. Can't we have the Neil Gaiman Academy, or the Derren Brown Academy, or even the Kate Moss Academy?
One a more serious note, I would like to see fair banding applied to admissions to all schools, so they are all properly comprehensive. I think this would wipe out half the 'failing' schools at a stroke.
Nenny, without wanting to out you, which is your local school? Hayes?
It will be interesting to see what happens as a) no reports are asked for at Cp and b) if, as I hope, standards go up at Beckenham and Bromley. The latter had a large no of Russell group offers 2 years ago, not sure about last year nor that Beckenham is up to that, yet, but the intake is changing. ( I hope I've got them the right way round, I always get them confused.)
It was the headmaster? Good grief!
I think it is dreadful that Harris now have so many schools in Croydon. Surely there must be other academy sponsors!! Although I hear that Oasis are getting a third school - considering their "success" with the other two, I find that a little surprising.
Now, of course, Harris are getting their claws into the primary schools with their takeover of Roke (with Benson next on the cards).
Croydon council failed to invest into secondary schools for many years and then they fallen into such disrepair that it was easier for them to offload it to the third party.
Very interesting reading. I live in Croydon and the Harris in Purley is nearish to me. Luckily we are moving to Warlingham in 2 weeks (just up the road but in Surrey so we get out of the Croydon system which seems to be a nightmare for secondary). I was highly suspicious at how Harris had managed to take over closed schools which failed such as Haling Manor and make them as successful as grammars going by their results. Clearly they are incredibly skewed.
Fortunately there are some non-selectives soldiering on and getting rather good results in our neck of the woods too
Caiomhe - yes, I remember that as well. It was the headmaster who said that, to the appeal panel I think, and the paper got hold of it. I couldn't believe he could say anything so dumb, or so insensitive to the school's image. He is now the ex-head master and apparently a child in a wheelchair appeared in the school soon afterwards.
I thought Dundee too
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London schools really are the gift that keeps on giving aren't they?
What with Faith, Selective, Co-Ed, catchment, Boroughs, exams, assessments, banding, fee-paying, bursaries, scholarships and exhibitions 11+ and 13+, there's effectively a system so opaque and exhausting only the
pointiest elbowed most confident parents succeed. As Mintyy says by the time you've been through it you're too weary to fight for a fairer system for the next generation.
An anecdote- I was speaking to someone who went to one of the schools mentioned up thread. He says there was one token working class boy in most years. Bright but poor kids from his primary disappeared to the secondary modern or tech where they received a basic preparation for work and left at 14. At the time there was an apparently fair system, albeit one that included primary school reports and interview.
The point? This was nearly 60 years ago! 2 generations on and we're still confused, exhausted and children are being failed.
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When I dance, when I sing, I am to some degree one with the pattern again, it is my salvation.
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I first bought these bite sized cakes by Cadburys for myself as a tea-time treat but after the first purchase only buy them when I am intending to entertain my young relatives. These cakes are really only suitable for children or for a kids' party occasion due to their tiny size and child-friendly constitution (triple chocolate design). An adult could eat one of these in one bite and it definately isn't big enough to satisfy my sweet tooth!
The cakes are sold in a plastic purple tub. The packaging is not currently recyclable in my area so I have a few of these pots spray-painted various colours filled with flowers in my garden! The tub has a re-sealable lid which is easy to peel off and replace. Nutritional information, including ingredients and calorific values, are clearly listed. Each cake contains 80 calories and 4.9g of fat. Ingredients may contain traces of nuts and they are suitable for vegetarians.
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Whilst I am not really impressed by these my younger family members enjoy them and like to open up the tub and think there is a feast inside! Infact there are only 17 cakes in the tub, and at around £2.50 a tub I think this is a little expensive. The tub is also marked 'NEW' but I've been buying these occaisonally for a while now and they don't seem to have changed at all!
Great for the little ones but definately not something an adult would want as a sanck or for a coffee break.
COST: £2.49 in both Sainsburys and Somerfield for 17 bites
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Kj: 340
Protein: 1.0g
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Milk chocolate (40%), sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, dried skimmed milk, vegetable fat, milk fat, dried whey, soya lecithin, pasteurised whole egg, wheat flour, vegetable oil, sugar, milk chocolate chips (8%), milk, E442, glycerol, glucose syrup, fat reduced cocoa, E471, E450, sodium bicarbonate, salt, quinine, potassium sorbate, E415, milk protein
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Cadbury's Choc Chip Cake Bites are to be found in the cakes and biscuits section of Sainsburys - quite likely in other supermarkets too. They come in a largely purple-coloured tub, bearing creamy coloured swirls here and there and semi-circles of images of the choc chip cake bites on the lid and sides. The body of the tub shows nutritional information, a Cadbury's quality guarantee, ingredients list and advice that where the facilities exist, the empty pot is recyclable.
The first grapple I had with this pot of little cakes, was with the lid. It has one of those contraptions where you break the seal, and lever the top piece off with the little gap that's left. That in itself isn't a problem, but it took me some time to work out what I had to do to open the lid, as I couldn't find any visible instructions. Eventually I got inside the container, and sampled one of the cakes inside. Each cake, though not uniform in shape, was about the same size as all the others.....I'd say just a little bigger than my own mouth would call a single bite.
On biting into the first cake, I noticed that the chocolate was rather thin - I was expecting it to be considerably thicker - but was pleased that bits didn't fall off onto me and stayed stuck to the cake. There was no distinguishable chocolate smell, and as I chewed, I felt there was no distinguishable chocolate taste either.
The brown mass of cake inside the sparse coating, contained these strange little nuggets of chocolate, which tasted of nothing and weren't all that pleasant to chew on. I found they got stuck in my teeth, and were very candified, rather than having that inexplicable sensation you get when crunching down on good quality, real chocolate. As I continued to eat, I noticed that the sponge cake was rather dry, and I felt that the addition of a little cream of some kind would make the experience more pleasant.
The first of the cake bites unenthusiastically devoured, I didn't feel that moreish urge, and instead of scoffing the lot, I replaced the lid and forgot about them for a couple of days. When I remembered them, I found that I could only eat one at a sitting, and each one left my mouth dry and needing a drink.
In conclusion, my personal opinion is that Cadbury's Choc Chip Cake Bites are rather a disappointment - they aren't cheap either for what they are, and I feel it would have been better to buy a pack of Cadbury's Choc Chip Cake Bars, as they are cheaper and volume-wise, no different. I feel that this product is nowhere near worth £2.49, and perhaps the price partly goes towards the plastic pot? The empty pot will come in handy though for storing something or other.
In summary: Cadbury's - forget these, they are a definite loser!
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Tony Zinnanti made headlines last summer when his injunction to keep Jack McClellan out of Santa Clarita Valley was widened by a Superior Court judge to protect all the children in California.
The law prohibits McLellan from being within 10 yards of any child. On Labor Day weekend, McLellan got into his car which also serves as his home and drove up the coast to Portland, where he now lives.
Now, people concerned about McLellan being near children are asking Zinnanti to help them.
"I'm all for doling out another ass-beating," Zinnanti told The Signal Friday. "I will help them, and I have helped them.
"I gave them all the information about the pleadings," he said, referring to documents filed in preparing his injunction against McLellan in court. "I get people there calling me for help every 10 days on average."
Most recently, security officers at a Portland bookstore reached out to Zinnanti after they allegedly restrained McLellan and threw him out of the store after he tried repeatedly to enter the store's children's section.
In a copy of a letter submitted to lawyers representing McLellan, a copy of which has been obtained by The Signal, Zinnanti detailed the incident that allegedly occurred inside Powell's Books, concluding:
"Your client exhibits a complete lack of control. He has no regard for the law."
Phone messages left with McLellan's lawyer, Richard M. Procida, were not returned. Nor were phone messages left with security officers at Powell's Books.
According to the Procida letter, McLellan wants Zinnanti to drop the California restraining order.
Zinnanti, however, is suggesting a compromise in exchange for "full disclosure" relating to McLellan and his supporters.
"The offer is to have the extended (restraining) order modified to include only the 38th state district which is Santa Clarita Valley and the north San Fernando Valley," Zinnanti explained, as opposed to its present statewide scope.
Zinnanti said he's confident he can reach a settlement in the end but is not expecting McLellan to "disclose anything."
He tried doing nothing and nothing happened, so now Zinnanti is ready to resume the fight.
"My business has bounced back," he said. "I've survived this whole deal and now I am seething to kick ass."
The six-month fight to keep McLellan away from children and off the Internet advising pedophiles about where to find unattended girls in public areas, took a heavy toll on Zinnanti when pedophiles began fighting back.
Operators of Web sites devoted to promoting child models and sympathetic to McLellan began targeting Zinnanti and Ron Tebo, a New York Web designer who also devoted time and money warning the public about McLellan.
Both men, Zinnanti and Tebo, had the images of their respective children posted online next to sexually explicit text.
Threats and harassing phone calls to both men at home made it clear to them that pedophiles - although unseen - were certainly not going to remain unheard.
By year end, Zinnanti had lost his business, moved out of his law office on Valencia Boulevard and suffered a significant drop in revenue.
Now, he's back and ready to fight.
"I'm compiling my experiences in the form of a book," he said. "Would I do it all again? Absolutely, I would do it again for the community. I will not turn my back on this problem. I am not intimidated.


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Fall Wedding/ Handfasting
My SO and I are getting married on Halloween... I need ideas for the wedding... I'm pagan, so it will be more of a handfasting than like, a church wedding lol.
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He picked the date, not me. I wanted a spring wedding lol. (He's not pagan. He just wanted that date.)
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I has an October handfasting but not on halloween. We did it early in the month so it would still be warm enough to have it outside.
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My son just bought an older (1987) Subaru 4wd wagon GL and I checked the boots on the CV and they are in good shape but wondered about the position that they are supposed to be in. The clamp on the boot secures it to the shaft but I noticed that when it was picked up that the boot was closer to the engine than it is now. In other words the boot looks like it slid out towards the outside about 2 inches on the shaft. Is this important? Where should the boot be positioned? I don't want him driving it unless it is on right. Would appreciate any help..
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CV boot position = need help
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Posted 20 May 2004 - 12:23 PM
If the wide part of the boot stays on the axle ends it should be ok. You might see if the clamp can be tightened, but some take a special tool. They are replacible tho, you can get them from most parts stores.
Posted 20 May 2004 - 12:27 PM
So as long as the boot is clamped onto the housing and protects the joint it should be ok? The position that the boot is actually clamped onto is not something that I should be concerned with?
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Posted 20 May 2004 - 12:30 PM
If the large end of the boot comes off you will loose the grease thats in it, and also get dirt inside. This will eventually destroy the CV joint. Its harder for stuff to get in and out from the small end of the boot. But water can get in, so you can either try and tighten it or replace it.
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Army major faults USAA for unauthorized withdraw
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Fayetteville, N.C. — A retired Army major from Leland is furious after her account with USAA was compromised, an identity theft she told the Fayetteville Observer could have been prevented with better customer service.
Veronica Carter told the newspaper that someone called USAA three times to try to persuade a customer service representative to withdraw money from her account.
Fayetteville Observer: Retired Army major says USAA failed to warn her of ID theft
On the fourth call, the person gave Carter's social security number and the make and model of her car as verification, and the customer service representative authorized a $2,900 withdraw. The check was sent via FedEx to a woman in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Carter said she got an alert when her balance fell, but that USAA never contact her, either to verify the withdraw or to notify her about the three failed attempts to access her account.


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In perhaps the moment that reveals the true nature of the film, Sloan massages Cameron's forehead as he lies in a catatonic state and Ferris speaks to the audience and we learn that Ferris's true intentions of the day were just to give Cameron a good time. Sure, they go out and tear up the town but Cameron had reached an undeniably dark period in his life where his family's disregard for him had reached an unhealthy point. Cameron is on the edge and he finally loses it, but luckily his best friend Ferris is there to support him and make sure he gets through this rough period in his life. It's a touching moment and an emotional high point of the movie.
If you'd like to visit this particular filming location, you're in luck because its public property baby! It's just a non de-script park at the very end of Park Avenue in Glencoe with a towering view of Lake Michigan. The benches are screwed down in the exact same position as they were during filming in 1985. You can even pinpoint the exact rock Cameron lays his head on, just like I did. I am pretty sure it was close to single digit temperatures on this day, so you might want to visit in the summer.


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Push for magnificent Mainland
"South, the heart of New Zealand," is a new industry strategy being pushed into the hotter visitor markets of Asia to inject growth as memories of the persistent earthquakes recede.
Dave Hawkey, the former chief executive of big South Island tourism operator Real Journeys, has been in the role of manager for "South" since the initiative was launched with Christchurch International Airport funding in February.
There is commitment.
CIAL chief executive Jim Boult has taken about $500,000 out of the airport's "aeronautical marketing budget" towards the tourist stimulation project.
But the idea is that 12 regional tourism organisations (RTOs) put more money towards South in the 2013-14 year.
In his more than three decades in the tourism industry Boult sees the recent period following the earthquakes and the global financial crisis as one of the worst for some operators.
"This would be one of the hardest times we've seen in the tourism industry . . . go and talk to tourism retailers down the West Coast or down south, right up through the country. They are finding it really, really tough."
Soon after the quakes, CIAL recognised it would have to do something radical to retain aeronautical volumes given that a big chunk of Christchurch's tourism infrastructure, mainly the big hotels, was destroyed .
Boult says the recovery of the tourism sector can be speeded up by bringing the influential RTOs into an overarching group.
The RTOs in the South Island have a combined annual budget of about $14 million.
Tourism Dunedin chief executive Hamish Saxton says his RTO, which has a council-budget of $1.2m, is committed to the idea of South and recognises that Christchurch Airport is of enormous importance to the South Island.
International visitors to Dunedin have fallen as a result of the quakes, but on the other hand Christchurch residents are enjoying visits to the city and its intact heritage. "Dunedin is being seen through different eyes now with its urban infrastructure."
Funding of South and its endeavours to attract visitors from Asia is a distinct possibility.
"We have indicated that we will be putting some funding towards the model, though that has yet to be confirmed," Saxton says.
Rodney Bennett, owner of High Country Explorer Tours, says times remain tough for operators, given the number of quake-destroyed hotels.
"We do operate a product out of Christchurch, but we're not promoting at the moment heavily . . . because of the situation since the earthquake in Christchurch with the lack of accommodation, we just can't get volume and nobody can."
Hawkey says despite the quake damage, the city on the positive side has a hire and drive base rather than being a "fly and drop" destination like Bali or Fiji.
"Some recent research that's just come out . . . demonstrated that Christchurch and Canterbury is the No 1 spot in the country for campervans in terms of people staying. No 2 is Queenstown and No 3 is the West Coast."
Boult says South will not need the big dollars to market at a retail level. Rather it will be specific, talking to tourism wholesalers in China, for example, about the merits of the South Island as a whole as a destination.
"It's about growing the pie rather than fighting over a share of the pie," Hawkey adds.
Boult wants the period of recovery to be marked by new medium to long-haul flights into the Garden City. The airport is targeting a Los Angeles to Christchurch route, possibly provided by Air New Zealand or another airline.
It also wants direct routes from Australian cities such as Perth and Adelaide, and importantly a new route from southern China. The earthquakes and other impacts such as the downturn and a delay by Boeing in the delivery of 787s to airlines have not helped.
The airport saw 5,592,529 passengers in calendar 2011. Those movements were down 405,000 or 6.7 per cent over calendar 2010. The figure dropped again to 5,551,600 in the 12 months to June 30, 2012.
But the airport anticipates growth in volumes in the next two years partly stimulated by rebuild workers, Boult says.
"Look we will get an LA service, sometime in the next two years . . . We will get a China service and that will be sometime in the next couple of years as well. We will get services from other parts of Australia, that we currently aren't getting . . . for example Adelaide and Perth. Particularly when the rebuild gets [fully] under way."
Getting airlines to commit to new unproven routes was a long arduous process. Airports such as Christchurch typically spend years wooing the aviation decision-makers and sometimes with limited success.
CIAL announced with much fanfare the arrival of Air AsiaX, a service that started in April 2011 only to slam the door shut on the last passenger trip a bit more than a year later.
CIAL chief operating officer Andy Lester says there are still benefits from the Air AsiaX service with increased Malaysian visitors still coming to New Zealand. There were 30,720 visitors from that country to New Zealand in the year to November 30, 2012.
Boult says the airport still hopes to win back Air AsiaX. It is also in talks with Air Garuda, China Southern, Cathay Pacific and Indian airlines.
"We don't think we'll get an Indian service for maybe five years but we've started the ball rolling."
China is the welcome air service for a decline in international tourists from the "Western" countries which include Europe, Britain and the United States, and who have stopped travelling in the harsh economic climate.
"China and to some degree Australia are the only markets that have been showing some significant growth, China in particular," Hawkey says.
"The challenge with Australia is that you are very much into the repeat visitor market, so a lot of Australians have been here . . . over half now are repeat visitors."
Hawkey says it has been a tough year with the number of international visitors to New Zealand down in the year until October.
In the South Island international bed night numbers were down by 8.5 per cent in the 12 months to October 2012 compared with the same period to October 2011. In the North Island the decline was less severe at 4.7 per cent in the same comparative period, though there was probably a Rugby World Cup impact.
However, some international tourists who did choose the Mainland stayed longer. For example, Chinese arrivals into Christchurch notched up 9.8 days for an average length of stay in the south, much more than the six-day average stay for visitors to the North Island.
However, the Chinese still favour the North Island cities of Auckland and Rotorua by number, Boult says. "[But] many of the Chinese visitors coming to Auckland, for example, get off the plane and kind of, 'where's the mountains and lakes?'."
South is in the process of appointing a China-based "dedicated trade manager" who will be able to talk to and work with travel wholesalers in that country on behalf of RTOs, Boult adds.
Hawkey a month and a half ago visited the cities of Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai to talk to 360 travel agents and wholesalers, to help kick-start South.
"We don't have the budget, nor should we get involved in large consumer campaigns. That's Tourism New Zealand's role but our role is pretty much focused on the trade outside Australia. . . . the RTOs sent us a pretty clear message: 'We need your help in the longer-haul market and the ones where language is a barrier'."
Some of the South Island's bigger tourism operators/owners including Ngai Tahu Tourism, Real Journeys, Skyline Enterprises, and John Davies who has a stake in the Hermitage at Mt Cook have indicated their support for the idea.
Hawkey is urging the RTOs and operators to offer a Chinese-language option on their websites. South marketing booklets for wholesalers highlighting the Mainland's tourism options had been produced in Chinese with Korean and Japanese language versions at "the printers".


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(VOV) - The establishment of a Vietnam-EU free trade area will further promote bilateral ties and increase investment opportunities for both sides.
With exports to the EU accounting for 16 percent of Vietnam's GDP (US$14.9 billion), the EU is one of the most important trade partners of Vietnam.
Mutual interests
Vietnam has recently signed a series of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Japan, China, the Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. After the agreements were signed, bilateral trade and investment opportunities increased sharply. Currently, Vietnam is seeking opportunities to negotiate FTAs with the US and the EU.
An expert from the Multilateral Trade Assistant (MULTRAP 3) project Mr Claudio Dordi said that the signing Vietnam-EU FTA would offer great potential. It would lower EU tariffs and strengthen exports to the EU market, especially key items such as garments and textiles, footwear and seafood. This move would also help Vietnam import goods from the EU at lower prices. In addition, an FTA would help increase EU investment in Vietnam and improve Vietnam's competitive edge in the world.
The signing of a Vietnam-EU FTA will bring advantages for both sides. Dr Dinh Thi My Loan, Secretary General of the Vietnam Retailers Association said that both sides will have better opportunities to resolve issues that Vietnamese exporters encounter.
Juan Jose Almagro, economic advisor to the EU Delegation in Vietnam said that the EU market now has more than 500 million consumers and is the biggest importer and exporter in the world, accounting for more than 20 percent of global GDP last year.
The EU is Vietnam's second largest trade partner with two-way trade reaching US$15.5 billion last year. Vietnam exported key items to the EU such as garment and textiles, footwear, coffee, seafood, and wood products. Vietnam imported roughly US$4.13 billion last year from the EU including machinery, sunglasses, pharmaceuticals, iron, steel, telecommunication equipment and automobiles.
Mr Almagro said that Vietnam has suffered a trade deficit for many years (US$14.85 billion in 2009 and US$14.2 billion in 2010) and has failed to control its trade deficit to below 20 percent of the country's total export revenues. However, Vietnam's trade balance has shown positive signs and can compete with other partners such as EU (US$5 billion), and the US (US$10.5 billion).
According to Mr Claudio's preliminary calculation, tariff barriers are removed gradually to liberalise trade. This could be applied to 90-95 percent of tax lines.
Juan Jose Almagro highlighted the positive sign in the Vietnam-EU FTA, saying that the two sides will save about 100 million euro each year. "The signing of the Vietnam-EU FTA is more than just technically significant," he said.
Overcoming other barriers
Le Quang Lan, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Multilateral Trade Policy Department, affirmed that with any FTA, business capacity always plays an important role in entering negotiations. The production capacity of Vietnamese businesses is limited, and they still find it difficult to get updated information, he noted.
He also urged local businesses to increase their competitiveness and boost exports to the EU market.
Mr Lan's viewpoint was shared by Nguyen Huu Phai, General Director of the Bac Giang Garment Company, who emphasised that most Vietnamese exports are in the form of "outsourcing" and they only earn 20 percent of the products' total free-on-board (FOB) value. The EU is also a demanding market with high technical standards that pose many obstacles for local garment businesses.
To meet the EU market requirements for exports, Vietnamese businesses must follow regulations of all 27 EU member countries.
In addition, Vietnam's garment sector also has to import a large volume of materials from the Republic of Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. If the EU requires materials that originate in Vietnam, the country almost has almost no chance of receiving preferential tariffs, Mr Phai said.
To enjoy the EU's preferential tariffs, Mr Lan said that negotiations should take into account regulations on product origin in line with the capacity of local businesses.
The EU is currently negotiating with other ASEAN member countries, including Singapore and Malaysia. All these FTAs aim to create a common framework for cooperation between the EU and ASEAN. Bilateral FTAs between the EU and ASEAN member countries are considered the foundation for a common agreement between EU and ASEAN.
Vietnam and the EU are now at the beginning of negotiations. Vietnam expects to benefit from exporting agricultural and aquaculture products to the EU market, while the EU hopes to export machines, equipment and automobiles to Vietnam.
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