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This will probably be the most controversial proposal of the State Of The Union: Obama calls for a $9 minimum wage.
We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day's work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we've put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, nineteen states have chosen to bump theirs even higher.
Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. In fact, working folks shouldn't have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher. So here's an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let's tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.
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Liberty News
Art gallery celebrates grand opening
Liberty University held its first art show opening in its new gallery on Thursday. Students, faculty and community members stood in line at the Visual Communication Arts (VCAR) Department to peruse the works of David Heath, a renowned painter of contemporary American landscapes, in the new 30-by-38-foot gallery.
Renovations to the VCAR Department, completed this summer, include the gallery — with 13-foot ceilings, larger track lighting and a professional hanging system — and two new studios for sculpting and ceramics.
The expansion will undoubtedly create a better experience for VCAR students and build the program's reputation. It will also allow the university to develop an art collection and bring in more talented artists like Heath.
Heath, who lives at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, has had his work exhibited in public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He attended Central Virginia Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University, pursuing a degree in commercial art, but said he specifically tried to avoid painting classes because he did not want to paint.
It wasn't until after he graduated and got a job that he became really excited about painting. He realized he could make money doing it, and began to study European and American landscape painters and invest more time into his art.
"The more time you put into something … it falls into place," he said.
Hard work and dedication, combined with his undeniable gift for painting, have made Heath one of the most talented landscape artists of our time, painting in a style uniquely his own, yet influenced by Hudson River School artists.
"I chose landscapes because I love to be outdoors. I want you to feel like you can step into my paintings, to be a part of the painting, to get lost in the painting," he said.
Heath is a Christian who expresses the beauty of God's creation in his intricate paintings.
Todd Smith, director of the VCAR program, said he believes Heath's success and excellence as a Christian and as an artist can be an example to art students at Liberty. In the VCAR program, Smith said he strives to train students to "fulfill Dr. [Jerry] Falwell's goal of being salt and light in art, medicine and every other field."
Liberty University's Visual Communication Arts Department was established three years ago with 150 students. The program has expanded to 400 declared VCAR majors, requiring the recent renovations.
The VCAR department provides a wonderful opportunity for young artists at Liberty to learn and hone their skills in a Christian atmosphere as they are equipped with a theoretical and historical understanding of studio art or graphic design. Classes range from the cutting-edge subjects of desktop publishing, digital imaging and 2D/3D animation, to the traditional arts of painting, drawing and sculpture.
Smith said he is excited for the university to be able to showcase the artwork of students, regional and national artists for the Liberty community and Central Virginia residents to enjoy.
Senior Samantha Ritch, a graphic design major, agrees: "I think it's really good that the university was able to put money toward the VCAR program, and it's really cool that they could bring in a big-name artist like this."

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By Brenda Cadena
North Lake News-Register Staff Writer
When it comes to managing time each morning to feed more than one mouth, no one does that better than Sonya Hopkins, speech professor at North Lake College.
The proud owner of Rio Rancho Ranch, located just minutes from Irving, Hopkins shares 12 beautiful acres of land with her three longhorns, four horses, cows, 20 chickens, nine Dwarf goats, a rabbit and cute miniature horses.
She is very dedicated to this lifestyle, waking up very early to feed all of her animals before leaving her home at 6 a.m. twice a week to make it to her a.m. classes. It usually takes her 30 minutes in the morning and the evening to make her rounds of feeding all the animals.
"They eat before I eat," said Hopkins.
It all started when Hopkins was living in Grapevine and a chicken flew into her neighbor's yard. Her neighbor was a hunter and already had a recipe for that chicken in mind, but Hopkins asked if she could keep it and give it a better life. From there, she added three more chickens to the coop before deciding to move out to the country for a new lifestyle.
Hopkins tends to her chickens while holding a rabbit on her farm of 12 acres.
At first sight, many would never guess she was living a country girl's dream. That is, until you personally took one of her classes and heard all the amazing farm stories she has to tell.
"In almost every class she talks about her farm, like how she eats fresh eggs instead of buying them and shows us pictures of her goats," said Jose Sierra, a former student of Hopkins.
Deborah Lovera, an NLC student, likes Hopkins' stories. "I like her talking about her farm," she said. "I don't mind."
Hopkins plans to further live off her ranch by growing crops. In the meantime, she has plenty of eggs to eat and share with her friends and family.
Hopkins said there are many adventures that come along with owning one's own farm, and one of the most recent she experienced for the first time was delivering baby goats. She was able to learn how to deliver the baby goats by looking up the process on YouTube videos and with the help of her boyfriend.
"It was exciting, it was really exciting," said Hopkins. "I had never delivered baby goats before so it was a little scary to witness. It was amazing."
A cute little miniature horse is one of four owned by Hopkins.
She also has a young miniature horse that was born unexpectedly after she bought a male and female miniature horse and did not know that the female was expecting.
She also has both horses of regular size and really cute miniature ones that don't grow more than 42 inches in height. They eat grass, horse grain, carrots and treats.
Although she was born and raised a city girl, Hopkins plans to retire on her beautiful ranch in the future.
"This is my sanctuary, and it is a commitment that I have made. I'm the happiest when I am here out in the country," she said.


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In addition to this, I'm creating a simple game and learning things as I go, but even tiny things that should be so obvious are tripping me up (and I will put this multiple times because it's true) for literally hours.
Example: http://www.dreaminco...t-being-called/
Look at JackOfAllTrade's post. I literally looked at that code and looked up solutions for my problem for hours when all I had to do was remove the int in front of the function.
Another thing I did which literally took me hours to solve (although I did this one on my own) was using = instead of == in an if statement.
I've asked multiple questions with the simplest solutions and I'm fairly sure that eventually most people are just going to say that I'm not even trying at all and refuse help, regardless of how far away from the truth that is.
So I guess after all that, my final question to beginners/intermediates would be: how much did you struggle over the small things and are you still doing it? And to the 'pros' (I guess people that either make or can easily make money through programming), did you struggle on the small things, or do you? And if you did but don't anymore, what did you do to get over that?
What thing that really brought this question up for me to ask someone (I originally asked someone who I consider a pro in PM and he said it was a good question and to ask here) because of JackOfAllTrades's signature:
-- Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat, The Camel Has Two Humps
The small problems that took forever to fix basically planted seeds of doubt in my mind and reading that quote basically fertilized and watered them.
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KOffice 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Today, the KOffice team has released the first, and hopefully the only, release candidate for KOffice 2.0, bringing more than three years of work to a temporary conclusion. Compared to Beta 7, this release candidate brings a multitude of bug fixes and not a single new feature, as it should be!
See the changelog for all details, the release notes for download links, or the announcement for more details.
Do note that KOffice 2.0 is not intended to replace KOffice 1.6 or OpenOffice for daily usage. While confident that the applications can be used for real work, we squarely aim the 2.0 release at the enthusiast, the tinkerer, the curious, the bold and the adventurous. For them, there is plenty to explore and investigate: this release contains many years of work.
For instance Gabor Lehel's 2006 Summer of Code project, a flexible document structure docker with three views finally bears fruit in this release. The design work we started in March 2006 in Deventer now provides us with a flexible framework that at the moment already turns KOffice into the most flexible application suite in existence, you already get Marijn's Musical Notation Shape with 2.0. Try to imagine what will be possible! One thing is certain: flake gives us a solid foundation to build upon for a long, long time.
Deciding to make a release, one in a long row of alpha and beta releases into a release candidate is not a light decision, but while we know there are still bugs, and missing features "every" office suite provides and usability issues and other infelicities, we are confident about our decision. On to 2.0.1 and 2.1, and many, many releases after that!
Contained in this release are KWord, KPresenter, KSpread, Karbon, Krita and KPlato. Kexi and Kivio will return in later releases (there is good progress being made especially on Kexi, volunteers are welcome for Kivio!), while KChart has returned as a flexible shape, instead of an independent application. The same is intended for KFormula, but that shape will only be released in a later version.
There are no known release blockers in this release candidate. We hope for strong testing from the user community, and if that testing uncovers new critical bugs, we will release another release candidate.
One issue to note: if your distribution provides LCMS 1.17 with recent security patches, Krita will not be able to load files or act as a paste target, instead it will crash and die horribly. Convince your distribution to upgrade to LCMS 1.18.
Nice job
The new KOffice may not be a finished product but it really does look very good. I find it much more intuitive to use then OpenOffice.
The start time while fast compared to OpenOffice, still seem s a bit slow, hope this can be addressed in future builds.
By littlecloud at Wed, 2009/04/08 - 5:49pm
anything is better than
anything is better than OpenOffice ;-D
looks good, lot of work under the hood, but the UI really needs to be polished. really hope something like the kde4 dev way, an start point and then the things start the getting better.
By Rodolfo Andres at Wed, 2009/04/08 - 9:45pm
I'm going to pull out my wacom tonight :)
I've been following Krita 2 for some time. Its nice to see it finally getting to the finish line.
By eean at Thu, 2009/04/09 - 12:58am
Release early, release often
KOffice 2.0 looks awesome. It needs polishing, what is not bad thing. There are few things on beta7 on me what keeps me away from it. Like starting KWord with two columns template and after writing something on it, save it and reopen. The columns are gone. Well, it is easy to fix for 1-2 sheets but bigger writings it is harder.
One thing what I dislike totally, is the forced linked size of open-dialog and the window itself. I liked very much the early alpha status (if I remember correctly) where the dialoge could be small and the actual application window needed size.
And I have done new icons (SVG) for the templates but I dont know where to place those to get try them. Those 16x16px or 22x22px icons does not look good when scaled. Hopefully those are fixed on RC1 what I am currently installing.
Need to fill a bugreport about feature for the open-dialog to allow user add own groups and then own templates for those, so user ain't forced to have only "blank documents", "cards and labels" and "Envelopes" groups.
KOffice 2.0 needs polishing on the KWord toolbars too. Like why to have two times the font type/size and zoom on toolbar and sidepanel/bottom panel.
And I always miss the KWord configuration entry on the menu :-D
By Fri13 at Thu, 2009/04/09 - 8:30am
New icons for templates?
Oh, please -- come by on our mailing list or irc and let's together to see whether we can get those icons in the release. We really need a nice set of good icons for the templates!
About the startup screen: it's been this way since at least KOffice 1.5, if I remember correctly -- might be 1.4, even. I've grown to like it, especially for krita, since it lets me quickly decide what to do -- open a recent file, create a custom one, use a template.
I would be great, though, if we could get the little ui glitches sorted out, like having two zoom controls and the things you mention.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2009/04/09 - 8:37am
"About the startup screen:
"About the startup screen: it's been this way since at least KOffice 1.5, if I remember correctly -- might be 1.4, even. I've grown to like it, especially for krita, since it lets me quickly decide what to do -- open a recent file, create a custom one, use a template."
Those options ain't under critic, but the size.
Like if you set the Krita window to fullscreen for better usage on 1920x1200px monitor. You get that sized dialog when you create new file or you reopen the krita.
There is lots of space wasted when the template, new, open and open recent dialog is linked to same size of the main window. And it makes the dialog look bad. Like on krita when you create custom image, the descreption window takes so much space that you could write almost a novell there ;-)
I like the dialog, it is well designed otherwise because it allows easily to choose what you want to do. Without first needing to open application and then from menu/toolbar to open file or create new one etc. You can skip the first part totally. That is something what I would like to see more on other applications :-)
By Fri13 at Thu, 2009/04/09 - 1:53pm
Release number
Yes, release early and often. You need to involve the users in the development. But, why give it a number that indicates that it is a finished product? This is the same error that was made with KDE-4 so I can see how that would happen. But other FOSS projects don't make this mistake.
Wouldn't it be better to call it:
or something like that?
By James Tyrer at Sat, 2009/04/11 - 3:19am
I would have thought that given the backlash against KDE4.0, KDE developpers would have learned that whatever the release text say is not enough and the version name is also important.
Please KOffice developpers, think seriously about naming it KOffice-preview2.0 or something like that..
It's very likely that some distribution (Fedora..) will replace KOffice1.6 with KOffice2.0 and users will complain, so please explain with the version name, the help file, etc the situation to users..
By renox at Mon, 2009/04/13 - 9:39am
I'm quite confident that Fedora will ship KOffice as soon as possible. Fedora is a bleeding-edge distribution, and has always been. Let's hope that most distributions ship both KOffice 1.6 and 2.0.
By majewsky at Mon, 2009/04/13 - 4:58pm
Nice, but...
It looks very promising. I just tried to open my current work in ODT and noticed immediately some problems:
By wanthalf at Sat, 2009/04/11 - 3:51pm
If you want your bug reports to stay completely unnoticed, this is the perfect place. Because it seems quite obvious that you want the opposite case, please visit the above URL.
By majewsky at Mon, 2009/04/13 - 5:00pm
.dmg ?
Do you envisage to create .dmg for KOffice under Mac OS X ?
By vida18 at Sun, 2009/04/12 - 5:38pm
.dmg ?!?
From what I read, .dmg files are disk images. What does KOffice have to do with disk images? You would probably mean some installer file, see http://mac.kde.org for details.
By majewsky at Mon, 2009/04/13 - 5:03pm
Mac apps rarely have
Mac apps rarely have installers, instead they usually get distributed as .app bundles within .dmg disk images.
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Uninstalling The Sims 4 on a Mac is really easy because of Origin.
Firstly open Origin and click on Games Library. Then navigate to The Sims 4, right click (or hold down CTRL and click) on the game and select Uninstall:
Yep, it really is that easy. You'll get a warning window asking if you're sure you want to uninstall everything, just click Uninstall:
This will get rid of all your user data too so if you want to keep your saves and settings for a future install make sure you drag your user data folder onto your desktop before uninstalling. You can find the folder by navigating to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4.
If you're having problems with the game and Origin then you may need to completely uninstall Origin too. This is a bit more complicated as you have to search for the files to delete manually. You can find full instructions on cleanly uninstalling Origin here.
If your game isn't behaving properly it's always worth trying to repair the game before uninstalling it. You can select Repair Game instead of Uninstall from the drop down menu when you right click on the game.
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Congratulations on finishing a novel! And good luck once you send your baby out into the wide world.
If you decide to try to self-publish, keep in mind the words of John Scalzi: "The money should flow to you."
PS: And ignore anyone who sneers at you for trying a 'girly romance novel'. Tom Huff tried to make a living selling he-man action stories, and was finally encouraged to try selling a romance novel under a pen name.
That name? Jennifer Wilde. That book? Love's Tender Fury, a book people of a Certain Age will remember.


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The Changing World of International Students
Instructors who wish to reach their international students must be willing to make modifications to their teaching to ensure the academic success of all students.
Teaching & Learning Environments for International Students Have Changed
In U.S. higher education, there are three distinct environments in which international students participate as learners:
- Traditional face-to-face (F2F) classrooms located on college and university campuses. In this setting, international students tend to be a minority, and they may be from a number of countries of origin. The common expectation in these courses that the international students make all the necessary adjustments.
- Distance Education (DE), in which teacher and students don't meet each other face-to-face. These courses tend to be offered through U.S. campuses and be accessible to students either through open enrollment available to any qualified student any place the technology reaches, or through limited enrollment in a single location outside the U.S.
- International locations in which U.S. colleges and university courses are offered through "branches." These are usually, but not always, taught by U.S. instructors. In this particular setting, as in the limited enrollment DE courses, the entire class is made up of international students, and the instructor is the "other."
Issues Specific to International Students
When international students participate in U.S.-managed courses of any of the types mentioned above, they bring with them a common set of issues that may affect their academic success. While the degree and complexity of the issues vary among individuals or groups, they are sufficiently common to merit attention.
Some issues may be easy to discern: foreign accent and other language-related matters, level of participation in class discussions and activities, standards for academic integrity, or levels of compliance with directions. Other issues may be less obvious, including attitudes toward authority figures (the instructor), relationships with classmates, comfort in asking questions, or familiarity with particular assessment tools. Often, due to cultural values, fear of failure, or inhibitions brought on by being in an unfamiliar environment, international students are hesitant to ask for assistance in making the adjustments necessary for academic success.
The Importance of Knowing the Students
An international student faces many adjustments in becoming a student at a U.S. institution, especially in the first year. These adjustments are serious in the traditional face-to-face context, and they may be even more critical in the DE context in which all communication is done remotely. Listed in the box are some practical ways for faculty to assess and address the needs of international students that also facilitate their integration into the course:
Face-to-Face Courses
Plan on an individual office conference with each of the international students in the class. The conference may include the following:
- Verification that the student understands the logistics of the course and is able to make sense of the course syllabus;
- Explorations of the major differences in student roles between the native country and this course;
- Informal assessment of any need for support such as tutoring or English language instruction, and referral to the appropriate campus resources;
- Conversation about the assessment tools used in the course, the student's familiarity with them, and a clear understanding of academic integrity.
Distance Education Courses
Many DE courses do not include face-to-face contact between teacher and students. If that's the case, alternative approaches include:
- Inclusion of students' and instructor's photos on the course's Web site to enhance the sense of familiarity that comes from connecting names with faces;
- A course requirement for a short (1-2 paragraphs) autobiographical sketch of each student, not just the presumed international students, in addition to the useful information derived, this activity also provides a writing sample for each student;
- Individual online "conferences" with each international student to access and provide the same information as in the F2F environment. This can be done via regular e-mail correspondence or through limited-access discussion or chat tools.
International Location Courses
This may be the most challenging environment in that the students in this setting are on "home turf," while the instructor is not. To address this role-reversal, the following can be useful:
- Exploration of the typical academic setting in the host country, student/teacher roles, and all the other factors identified in the chart;
- Re-calibration of the planned course to achieve integration between the U.S. and the local course models;
- Individual teacher/student conferences similar to the ones in the F2F environment.
The benefit of this approach is that issues, challenges, and expectations can be addressed before they have a negative effect on the conduct of the course or the students' success in it. The approach also tells the international students the instructor's sincere desire for their success, and it provides the instructor with essential information for managing the course.
It is important to remember that all of the suggestions made here, and all the ones faculty will implement, work as well for native students as they do for international students. The latter, however, may be dealing with a larger set of issues that needs to be addressed intentionally and in an ongoing fashion.
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References & Resources
Czarnawska, Iga. 2003. The Aliens: Being a Foreign Student. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press. A video and accompanying booklet developed and produced by international students at Dartmouth College. Provides excellent insight into the international students' point of view.
Flaitz, Jeffra, ed. 2003. Understanding Your International Students: an Educational, Cultural, and Linguistic Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Includes profiles of students by country, with descriptions of educational and cultural issues specific to various cultures.
Hall, Edward T. 1990. The Silent Language. New York, NY: Anchor Books. This book contains an easy-to-read discussion of the nonverbal elements of cross-cultural communications. We require participants in our Graduate Student Professional Development Program in College Teaching to read it and reflect on its applications to the teaching/learning environment.
New Directions in Higher Education. Spring 2002. Volume 117 is dedicated to issues of international students. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Smithee, Michael, Sidney L. Greenblatt, and Alisa Eland. 2004. U.S. Classroom Culture. New York, NY: NAFSA, Association of International Educators. A brief booklet including a nice comparison of different aspects of U.S. and non-U.S. educational systems.
Zhao, Chun-Mei, George D. Kuh, and Robert M. Carini. "A Comparison of International Student and American Student Engagement in Effective Educational Practices," The Journal of Higher Education, 76.2, March/April 2005: 209-231.


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My Smith connection
I suppose most people have a Smith or two somewhere in their tree. Findmypast tells me that over 1.8 million of them have been born since 1837. As of March 2012 I can claim one of those 1.8 million. My 3x great grandmother Rachael Smith was born in 1785 in Northumberland. I have not tracked a birth record for her yet, but will start looking somewhere around the Newcastle or North Tyneside area as she married Caleb Carr in Longbenton in 1808.


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- 省 / 岛: Madrid
This street, which begins at the church of Santos Niños, was conceived as a major artery in the 12th century. As it was then, it is now still a busy commercial area. Along the street we see porches that are supported by 19th-century pillars. The houses in the main street (Calle Mayor) used to be two storeys high. The ground floor was occupied by businesses, while the top storeys were private homes. After the urban planning reform of 1848, the buildings became taller, and more uniform. The Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Birthplace Museum is at Number 48 of this street.
- 建筑: Popular architecture
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We tied the knot with our current hometown and favorite city as backdrop at the Cooper Square Hotel. We couldn't have asked for anything more. The penthouse space with its overwhelming views of downtown Manhattan was the perfect vessel for our moving ceremony officiated by a friend ordained for the wedding. Our intimate group of 98 then paraded three blocks to Butter restaurant for a family-style feast by the amazing chef Alex Guarnaschelli. Tiny birch logs I sanded by hand and stamped with guests' names served as placecards, and tapered candles and vintage wine glasses culled from thrift stores worked as simple centerpieces. The evening unfolded with one beautiful memory after another as the laughter, heartfelt words and exuberant dancing went on late into the night. Highlights included a surprise groom's cake shaped like our dog Milo jumping out a present, and a sweet ending when our party tumbled into the street where an ice cream truck provided by our friends at Heartsrevolution awaited.
Location: Cooper Square Hotel
Reception: Butter
Dress & Veil: Vera Wang
Jewelry: Kentshire @ Bergdorf Goodman
Hair and Makeup: Sissi Chan
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We haven't the foggiest what Justin Sellers is up to in this video, other than fondling an invisible boob and rolling an invisible doob. That's more than enough for us to give it the Deadspin Video treatment.
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Dear Editor:
Your headline "Irrigators, rafters face bleak summer" is misleading. (April 18 Dolores Star & April 16 Cortez Journal). While it is true that rafting below McPhee reservoir is dependent upon releases from the dam - which will not be taking place this year - this is not the only option for white water rafting on the Dolores River. The upper Dolores provides plenty of opportunities for rafting. Last year, which according to your article was "the driest in the history of the Dolores Project," Soft Adventures Rafting company in Dolores provided raft trips on the Dolores River for over two months between April and June. This year, we will again be offering raft trips on the Upper Dolores, beginning quite soon. The Upper Dolores is not dam dependent and during the spring runoff there is plenty of water for safe and enjoyable rafting. Even your statement that "another dry year has dashed any chance for rafting on the lower Dolores" is incorrect, as below the confluence with the San Miguel River rafting is possible. Just wanted to let people know that rafting on the Upper Dolores does not look "bleak." Yes it is a dry year, but rafting on the Dolores River is alive and well.
Janneli F. Miller


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The Committee on Girls' Education organized a Zonal Seminar on "Empowerment of Minority Girls Through Education" on 15 Feb 2011. The Chief Guest For the occasion was Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.S.A. Siddiqui, Chairman, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions New Delhi.
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Rene Bourque and David Desharnais each scored twice to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 6-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.
Carey Price made 30 saves for the Canadiens for his fifth win of the season. Lars Eller added a goal and two assists, while rookie Brendan Gallagher also scored.
Ryan Miller stopped 17 shots over two periods for Buffalo before being replaced in the third by backup Jhonas Enroth.
Bourque injected some life into what had been an uneventful first period with Montreal's 10th power-play goal of the season. Andrei Markov's stretch pass - tipped along the way by Tomas Plekanec - found Brian Gionta along the right boards. Gionta waited before passing it on to Bourque, who drove to the net for his second of the season.
Montreal took a 2-0 lead for the fifth time in its seven games early in the second. Gallagher and fellow rookie Alex Galchenyuk completed a nifty 2-on-1 that Gallagher capped with his third of the season as the puck went in off Sabres defenseman Christian Ehrhoff at 2:03.
Desharnais, who has struggled this season, finally got his first at 10:08. Just seconds after Sabres forward Tyler Ennis hit the crossbar, the diminutive Canadiens center took a pass from Eller in the high slot and fired a shot past Miller.
Eller added to Buffalo's misery with his first goal of the season just 28 seconds later.
Plekanec set up Bourque's second goal of the game at 1:22 of the third. The Czech center showed patience on a 2-on-1, waiting out Buffalo defenseman Mike Weber's attempt to block the pass before easily placing it on Bourque's stick.
Thomas Vanek broke Price's shutout bid with a short-handed goal at 3:01.
Desharnais picked up his second of the season on the player play at 12:43. Defenseman P.K. Subban, making his season debut after signing a new contract Monday, earned an assist.
NOTES: D Yannick Weber and F Ryan White were scratches for the Canadiens, who went with 11 forwards and seven defensemen. ... Buffalo's one shot in the first was its fewest in a regulation period since Oct. 7, 2011, against Anaheim when the Sabres had none in the third. ... Montreal last allowed one shot in a period Oct. 13, 2011, against Calgary.


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Bob Turner
Bob Turner is the Congressman from New York's 9th congressional district. He defeated Democrat David Weprin, a New York assemblyman, in a special election on September 13, 2011, succeeding Anthony Weiner, who had resigned in June. Turner was sworn into office on September 15, 2011. He did not seek re-election and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for US Senate from New York.
Turner was born in Queens. He has 5 children with his wife, Peggy, to whom he has been married since 1965.
2011 special election
The seat was last represented by a Republican in 1923,[1] often being held by liberal Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Geraldine Ferraro.
The district lies in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, a diverse area that normally votes heavily democratic. Many see Turner's election as a rebuke of President Barack Obama's agenda.[2]
Turner is a retired media executive, who first ran for the seat in 2010, gaining 41% of the vote in that race.[3] He has drawn inspiration from the Tea Party movement and has been called "Tea Party Turner" by Democrats.[4]
He announced his 2011 Special Election campaign in Forest Hills on July 11, 2011.[5] He gained early momentum, when former New York City Mayor Ed Koch endorsed him on July 25, 2011.[6] In August, polls showed he was six points behind.[7] Strong efforts by the Turner campaign, crucial endorsements from Jewish Leaders wanting to send Obama a message on his poor handling of relations with Israel[8] and gaffes[9] by an opponent who lived outside the district,[10] allowed Turner to gain momentum and by the weekend before the election, polls showed him in the lead.[11]
Bob Turner won in an 8-point landslide, surprising even what the polls predicted.
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576570330619243552.html
- ↑ http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/09/in-shocker-turner-defeats-weprin/
- ↑ http://www.politicsdaily.com/tag/Anthony+Weiner/
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/blogs/davidcatanese/0911/Majority_PAC_hits_Tea_Party_Turner_.html
- ↑ http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/07/its-official-gop-picks-turner-for-ny-9/
- ↑ http://brooklyngopradio.blogspot.com/2011/07/mayor-ed-koch-endorses-bob-turner-for.html
- ↑ http://foresthills.patch.com/articles/weprin-leads-turner-by-six-points-in-sienna-college-poll
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/09/race-for-weiners-old-seat-could-turn-on-jewish-votes-for-catholic-republican/
- ↑ http://www.nygop.org/page/ny-gop-chairman-cox-david-weprins-10-trillion-memory-deficit-breathtaking-
- ↑ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/david-weprin-chosen-by-democrats-to-run-for-weiners-seat/
- ↑ http://www.siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/Parents_and_Community/Community_Page/SRI/SNY_Poll/9th%20CD%202011%20Special%20Poll%20Release%202%20--%20FINAL.pdf


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1 fired, 7 disciplined in HPD murder case probe
Sergeant fired, 7 disciplined for fumbling murder cases
A Houston Police Department sergeant was fired Friday and seven others punished after an internal investigation of the homicide division determined nearly two dozen murder cases were ignored or investigative work was shoddy, Chief Charles McClelland said.
McClelland said that of the 24 cases - some stretching back to 2004 - nine were still active. In the others, charges were filed or arrests were made, he said, adding that in two of the cases, the suspects have died.
McClelland said some of the officers simply failed to submit information they developed into a central case file, but he was highly critical of the homicide supervisor he fired, Sgt. Ryan Chandler. Chandler was assigned to 21 of the cases where deficiencies were discovered.
"There were certainly some mistakes of the heart and mistakes of the mind," McClelland said of the other seven. "But as it pertains to Sgt. Ryan Chandler, it is evident from the IAD investigation that he was lazy, he was a liar, he was not forthright with his supervisors and he misled his other co-workers."
Chandler, who was with the division from January 2008 until last year, could not be reached for comment.
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Disciplined HPD officers
1 Lt. John McGalin, 42, one-day suspension. Joined HPD in February 1996.
1 Lt. Rory Lakind, 43, written reprimand. Joined in May 1993.
1 Sgt. Ryan Chandler, 38, fired. Joined in March 2000.
1 Sgt. Bobby Roberts, 49, 5-day suspension. Joined in September 1986.
1 Kevin Carr, 49, 10-day suspension. Joined in August 1992.
1 Barton Oxspring, 45, written reprimand. Joined in March 1999.
1 Richard Moreno, 54, 2-day suspension. Joined in June 1980.
1 Lowell Lovelace, 44, 5-day suspension, Joined in December 1991.
The chief said the investigation, which began last October, uncovered a long list of deficiencies in one of HPD's approximately 10 detective squads in the homicide division. The shortcomings include:
1 Detectives who failed to conduct the required follow-up investigation in cases assigned them after they did preliminary work at the crime scene;
1 When the follow-up was conducted, it was deficient;
1 Of those who did additional field work, many failed to timely enter their field notes into the case files or never did.
"We did not discover any pervasive or systemic failures," said McClelland, "The intentional actions of some, and a few, should not be construed on the other members of that division."
McClelland also found inadequate operating procedures in the homicide division, as well as a lack of accountability by a number of homicide supervisors.
The department has ordered homicide supervisors to meet with their investigators weekly; increased restrictions to the file room; and quickened the time dormant cases are assigned to the cold case squad, the chief said.
The revelations of shoddy police work caused a sharp reaction from civil rights groups.
Amin Alehashem, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project office in Houston, said the findings raise doubts about the overall effectiveness of Houston police.
"This certainly undermines confidence in HPD's ability to investigate (and) not just homicides, clearly one of the most egregious crimes," the civil rights attorney said. "If homicides are slipping through the cracks, what else is?"
Mayor Annise Parker said the "severity" of the problems "cannot be minimized."
"The victims and family members involved in these cases deserved better," Parker said in a statement. "However, the actions of a few individuals should not devalue the work done by the rest of the homicide division."
McClelland said the department has met with some of the families of the victims in the 24 cases. Some could not be found, he said, because addresses and phone numbers were out of date.
The 24 cases included 19 murders or capital murders, three justifiable homicides, one intentional shooting and a false kidnapping, McClelland said. Homicide investigators handle other major cases in addition to murder, including active kidnappings.
The other seven disciplined included two lieutenants, another sergeant and four officers. Two lieutenants, Rory Lakind, and John McGalin, supervised the detectives.
McClelland said he will discuss their assignments in the coming weeks.
One of the officers, Kevin Carr, a homicide investigator since April 1998, did not enter his field work in six cases assigned him, the chief said.
The Harris County District Attorney's office will be reviewing the cases when they are given a list, said spokesman Jeff McShan.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office handled Chandler's case because he is engaged to a Harris County prosecutor, McShan confirmed.
McClelland sought charges of tampering with a government document against Chandler. Montgomery County officials declined to prosecute on the charges, the chief said.
The police officers' union said McClelland took the necessary steps to restore confidence in the homicide division.
"These were some problems that were found, fixed and corrected," said president Ray Hunt. "Policies and procedure were put in place to make sure they don't happen again."
McClelland expressed confidence not only in the homicide division but his command staff that oversees that division.
"I want to assure the public that if I had a family member that was the unfortunate victim of a homicide, I would certainly want that case investigated by members of the HPD homicide division," he said.
A former sergeant and current City Council member who removed homicide cases from his office when he left the department in 2009 would have been punished for his actions if he was still with the department, McClelland said.
Ed Gonzalez, who chairs the council's Public Safety Committee, removed six homicide cases, including two that were the original case files, McClelland confirmed. The internal affairs investigation discovered the files were missing and questioned Gonzalez. He said their removal was an oversight and that he has returned them.
Several sources said that after Gonzalez returned the murder case files to HPD in recent months, homicide officers were able to identify a suspect in one of the cases and filed murder charges against him. By that time, the suspect was in Central America.
Allan Turner contributed to this report.


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by Mary Price Lee & Richard S. Lee
A funny thing happened on the way not to the forum but to Glenside. We got sidetracked at the junction of lunchtime and Elcy's Café in the waiting room of the Glenside train station at 1 W. Glenside Ave. In the process, we discovered a coffeehouse-restaurant with a neat vibe that encompasses great coffee, hearty and original food, a station waiting room doubling as dining room (complete with train announcements) and a strong sense of community. Besides that, Elcy's has an absorbing backstory.
But first, the food. Elcy's serves breakfast, lunch and commuter take-outs from 5:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and from 7 to 2:30 on Saturdays. They are closed evenings and Sundays, the only exception being First Fridays, when many Glenside businesses stay open late.
Breakfast fare includes Scramblettes, four varieties of "scrambly omelettes" (to quote the menu): Veggirific (spinach, roasted veggies and melted provolone), Herb Garden (with tomato, spinach, basil, mushrooms and feta), Bacon Baby (which needs no description) and a classic Western. These are all served with Baker Street toast, wheat or marble rye. Tabs: $7.75 and $8.
The menu name-game really reflects Elcy's delightfully askew thinking with its selection of breakfast sandwiches. Each starts with egg (E) and American cheese (C) on a choice of bagel, Kaiser roll, whole wheat, marble rye or croissant, and goes on from there. Prices bob from $3.75 to $5.25, and the names go this way: "EC" (the classic), "EC plus" (with tomatoes and spinach), "BEC" (did you guess with bacon?). Well, you get the idea. The others are BELT, HEC, SEC, VEC and WEC. There are also two breakfast burritos (one with hot sauce — at that hour!), plus four granola/oatmeal/yogurt options, and a panoply of bagels, pastries, scones, muffins and croissants, etc.
Elcy's lunch menu offers a bodacious beef chili, a French onion and a daily soup, $3.75 to $5.50 depending on type and size (cup or bowl). There are four salads as well as a hummus platter ($7.50), chicken Caesar ($7.95) and Elcy's house salad ($5). All the dressings are Elcy's own blends, with red wine vinaigrette leading the way.
We could go on and on, since the sandwich and wraps list runs to 14, plus a daily special on the days when the staff is so moved. Our second visit was enlivened by an Arcadia, a grilled sandwich honoring the nearby university by generously combining hot turkey, bacon, tomatoes, roasted peppers and Swiss cheese with honey mustard and Dijon mayonnaise on a croissant, and just about the best $7.95 we ever spent.
Coffee — in this case, Valley Green coffee — is the segue to Elcy's backstory. Amy and Al Chapman of Wyncote have owned Elcy's since June, 2011. Valley Green Coffee — Al's other business — was the choice of Elcy's founder and previous owner, Lisa Rittler. In 2000, Rittler opened the café and created a community coffee house in the station's inbound waiting room (later expanded to the entire ground floor).
Over the years she developed the unusual recipes, forged the dedicated staff, made "fresh, local, friendly" her motto — and made Valley Green her coffee vendor. When Rittler was ready to follow other interests, the Chapmans took over Elcy's. Most of the café's previous staff is still in place, and the Chapmans are now roasting all their own meats and doing more baking in-house.
Amy and Al Chapman, both in their 40s, have hospitality in their backgrounds along with a collective path that includes small business, banking and publishing. (Who doesn't remember Lippincott's, the onetime publishing giant headquartered on Washington Square? It was Amy's working home in days past.)
Al gives full credit to Lisa Rittler for the creativity she brought to Elcy's during its years under her operation. "We are standing on the shoulders of giants," he says of the founder and the staff. "Our mission is to polish the gem."
If you visit, Al can provide a coffee tutorial as well as several varieties of fresh-roasted Valley Green Coffee to drink or take home as whole beans or ground. (Or visit www.valleygreencoffee.com.)
By the way, where does the name Elcy's come from? The founder, Lisa Rittler, was originally Lisa Costello. Hence, her initials L and C. Add an E up front and finish with a Y, ands voila, Elcy's.
More information at 215-884-5600.


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Hi all -
Summer's almost here and it's almost time for Facets by Marcia's 11th annual summer doll BBQ!I'm inviting area doll collectors (and any traveling ones) to come to my house in Matawan, NJ for a BBQ and doll party on Sunday September 8th starting at noon.
Matawan is in central NJ, near exit 117a of the Garden State Parkway. It is easily accessible by NJ Transit trains from NYC or Newark.
It will be like the previous BBQ's with lots of people, food, dolls, sales, and more, but there are a few changes, so please read on...I'll provide all of the food, and there is a cover charge of $13 per person and it must be paid in advance by PayPal (to firstname.lastname@example.com) or you can send me a check or give me cash if you see me beforehand. If you're going to do PayPal, I'd appreciate your waiting until a week or two before the BBQ so I have less chance of losing track of it :-) If you pay at the door, it is $15 cash - exact change required.I'll have a sales area set up in my basement - space is on a first come basis and is limited. If you are planning to bring things to sell, please let me know so I can estimate how much space is needed per person and try to get enough shelving/tables to accommodate. If you've been here before, you know the set-up. If you haven't been here before and want to sell, email me for more info. Of course, Facets will be set up for shopping, too :-)In addition to shopping, we'll have door prizes, the infamous "free table", and lots of dolls to look at.The "free table" is a table of doll related items that are extras, slightly used, unwanted, etc... It's a good way to get rid of those items that you think someone might want and you don't feel like putting on Ebay. If you have some things you'd like to put in, bring them. However, if no one takes them, you have to take them back or throw them out - they can't stay here! If you want to mail donations, LMK and I'll give you the address. I've already gotten some amazing things mailed to me!
If you want to see what the Free Table is like, check out Paul's video from last year:
|Not exactly but close.
Feel free to bring a doll for display. I don't have a theme - bring a favorite, a new acquisition, something you want to show off, whatever.
Contributions to the door prizes are appreciated.If you need a place to stay in this area, I recommend the Woodbridge Hilton. It's about 20 minutes north of here and is more reasonably priced and nicer than the few hotels in the immediate area. If you are looking for travel mates or roommates, LMK and I'll try to help.
I hope you can make it to the party - it's a day of great fun, great dolls and great people :-) Email me to RSVP or ask questions. When you email me, I would appreciate it if you could put "BBQ" somewhere in the subject so I can sort out those emails.
P.S. If you know someone who might like to come to the BBQ and that hasn't gotten an invitation, please let me know and I'll invite them.


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Although Hercules and the umpire is dead and buried, it has been suggested that I let those who enjoyed (or hated) H&U that I am writing about legal subjects at Fault Lines. I am privileged and honored to have that opportunity. See here.
Although Hercules and the umpire is dead and buried, it has been suggested that I let those who enjoyed (or hated) H&U that I am writing about legal subjects at Fault Lines. I am privileged and honored to have that opportunity. See here.
I am today pulling the plug on Hercules and the umpire. Let me explain.
First, I want to stress that I have not been asked to stop blogging by anyone including my Chief Judge, the Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit, or anyone else up to and including big wigs in Washington. If anything, I have continually received encouragement to keep blogging, especially from my Chief Judge, Laurie Smith Camp.
Second, I want to stress that so far as I know I am not the subject of any disciplinary complaint. Even if I was, such a complaint would not discourage me from blogging.
Third, I am not pulling the plug because of any mental or emotional struggles or treatment. And, by the way, both my Chief Judge and the Clerk of our Court have long had full and complete access to all my medical and mental health records. With my cancer in remission and my renal problems solved, I am perfectly healthy. As far as cognition is concerned, I am no more goofy now than I was when I was appointed.
Fourth, I am not pulling the plug because of my post about Senator Cruz or because of any other blog posts that have been the subject of intense criticism. In that regard, no one in authority has suggested that I stop blogging because of errors or omissions I have made in previous blog posts.
Fifth, I am pulling the plug because I learned a couple of hours ago about a discussion held at a retreat for our employees. The retreat had to do with honesty in the workplace, especially when dealing with uncomfortable subjects. Chief Judge Smith Camp attended the meeting and was asked a question.
The question was this: Did the Chief Judge feel that Hercules and the umpire had become an embarrassment to our Court. She responded that she thought 95 percent of the posts were insightful, entertaining, well-written, and enlightening. Then she asked for a show of hands, inquiring how many of the employees felt the blog had become an embarrassment to our Court. The great majority raised their hands. The Chief then told them that she appreciated their candor, and that she would share with me their sentiments.
Chief Judge Smith Camp was as a good as her word. She shared the sentiments expressed at the retreat with me. She did this both by e-mail and by telephone. She did not ask me to stop blogging. On the contrary, she praised my efforts. I was the one who expressed the need to call an end to the blog. There is nothing more important to me than the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. If I have lost the confidence of our employees through publishing the blog, then I have harmed the Court. I cannot tolerate that thought, and I have therefore decided to pull the plug. My decision is irrevocable.
Sixth, I have received a lot of help and support from people that I would not have met had it not been for the blog. Many have become my friends, although we have not had the opportunity to meet face to face. I want to thank all of these fine people, and will not attempt to list them all for fear I will forget someone. That said, the brilliant Scott Greenfield, author of Simple Justice, has been a true yet honest friend and a giver of great advice. While I have not consulted him about this decision, I must expressly thank him for his many past kindnesses and his especially wicked sense of humor.
Seventh, the blog will be archived and comments will close
seven days from today. at around 12:30 AM on July 15, 2015. [See update.] I will continue to pay the fees necessary to keep the blog on the net during the remainder of my life.
Some things are more important than others. To me, Hercules and the umpire was one of those important things.
In the future, I hope another federal trial judge will use this powerful medium to address judicial transparency and the role of the federal trial judge. Most particularly, I hope that the brave judge who accepts this difficult challenge will learn from my mistakes.
Update: Some of the comments have been very cruel and nasty. It is OK to attack me. I am old and tough to chew. It is not OK to attack Judge Smith Camp or the staff. As for the rest of the folks who commented, I am touched beyond description by your kindness. Thank you.
As soon as I sign off from this update, the comment period will end. All the best.
Orin Kerr
Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor
The George Washington University Law School
July 8, 2015 (late evening)
Dear Professor Kerr,
In your most recent post for the The Volokh Conspiracy entitled More on Judge Kopf: The Calabresi precedent, which I only became fully aware of this evening, you cite what you call the Calabresi precedent coming from the Second Circuit. I have now had the opportunity to carefully read the opinion.*
The decision of the Second Circuit is not, strictly speaking, "precedent," and Judge Calabresi's comments contained such statements as "In this case, like Mussolini, he [President Bush] has exercised extraordinary power" and "Bush's reelection raised a 'deeper structural issue' that was 'at stake' in the forthcoming election." Nevertheless, I have concluded that (1) the holding of the Calabresi opinion would likely be applied to me if an ethics complaint was filed in the Eighth Circuit; and (2) you are correct, based upon the holding of the Calabresi decision, that I violated Canon 5(A)(2) ("A judge should not . . . publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office.")
Specifically, when I wrote that "Senator Ted Cruz is not fit to be President" and when I made related assertions of unfitness for office and the like in reference to Senator Cruz as a candidate for the Presidency, I crossed the line under the holding of the Calabresi opinion. I therefore violated Canon 5(A)(2) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Consequently, I apologize to you, Senator Cruz and everyone else for my error.
I wish to make clear, however, that I stand by my criticism of the Senator's intemperate remarks about certain individual Justices, the Supreme Court and his proposal for judicial elections of Supreme Court Justices. I believe those criticisms are both fair and fairly within the provisions of Canon 4(A)(1) ("A judge may speak, write, lecture, teach, and participate in other activities concerning the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice.").
Richard G. Kopf
Senior United States District Judge
*Prior to my term on the Judicial Conference Codes of Conduct Committee, I was generally aware of the controversy over Judge Calabresi's remarks, but I had not carefully read the Second Circuit decision until this evening. That said, I do not offer this failure as an excuse.
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Roberts' dissent:
I support you all
No, really, I do, but this
Isn't our problem.
Alito's dissent:
"Happiness is not
the point of marriage, fools. It's
BABIES," he whispered.
Thomas' dissent:
"Liberty" – this word,
I do not think Locke means what
You think it means. Sigh.
Scalia's dissent:
You're not a poet,
Kennedy. And by the way,
Democracy's dead.
Kennedy's majority decision:
Hark! Love is love, and
love is love is love is love.
It is so ordered.
*Published in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, (last accessed July 8, 2015).
H/t: Homer315
James W. Hewitt (Jim) is my very good friend. Indeed, he held my hand, and gave me solid advice when I went through the vetting process to become a federal district judge. Jim had served as a distinguished member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. In fact, he served in that capacity during the confirmation hearings of Judge Robert Bork. See Mary Thornton, The ABA's Judgments on Judges, Washington Post (September 25, 1987). I only disclose this relationship so the reader understands that my review of Jim's recent book, which I will get to in a minute, may not be entirely objective. In short, I have enormous respect and affection for Jim.
That Jim took pity upon and helped a terrified 45-year-old federal Magistrate Judge become a federal District Judge is not the only reason Jim garners my respect and the respect of many others. Jim is a tall and big-boned man consistent with his football playing days at Hastings College. He has a voice that trial lawyers (which Jim once was) would kill for. He graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law around 1956 and promptly became a legal luminary in Nebraska.
Jim was recognized as the Nebraska State Bar Foundation's Outstanding Legal Educator. The award is given in recognition of significant contributions to the field of legal education by a legal educator or lawyer who serves in continuing legal education capacities. Having retired from the active practice of law, Hewitt taught American History and Constitutional Law at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Hewitt earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in American Legal History after 35 plus years of a high pressure legal practice.
His Ph.D. dissertation, "Slipping Backward: The Nebraska Supreme Court 1938-1995," was published as a book by the University of Nebraska Press, as a part of the Law in the American West Series. The book received rave reviews by historians and lawyers alike.* Did I mention that Jim was also President of the Nebraska Bar Association in his spare time? I must not forget to also add that Jim served as Chair of the American Bar Foundation's fellows program.
I should note that Jim raises the most beautiful roses I have seen in many a year. In short, Jim is a man for all seasons. That is not an exaggeration.
All of this brings me to Jim's fantastic new book, James W. Hewitt, In Cold Storage, Sex and Murder on the Plains, University of Nebraska Press (2015). I suppose I love this book, for among other reasons because I knew of this notorious case and, far more importantly, because I knew many of the participants. They ranged from the brilliant Lannie Roblee, a good old country boy of a Sheriff whose manner belied his intellect; the prosecutor, Fred Schroeder, a decent fellow committed to doing his best together with Paul Douglas, later Nebraska's Attorney General. who, as the special prosecutor, was sent out from Lincoln to help Fred;** Dick Hove, the defense attorney (of sorts) from the big city of Kearney; and Judge Jack Hendrix, a careful and fair trial judge with whom I had the pleasure of practicing before. See here for an extreme example of a case I tried before Judge Hendrix–please concentrate on "Baby Jason."
Not only did I know many of the participants, I have a keen sense of the place. I, too, have eaten in the basement of the church in Stockville, Nebraska (population about 25) where the ladies from Curtis, Nebraska come over on "court days" to serve meals to lawyers, witnesses, judges and juries in heaping family style lunches. Still further, I well remember the vastness and the isolation of the place, and particularly the remote lake where the bodies were dumped.
For you see, In Cold Storage tells of the murder and the grisly dismemberment of the parents of Kay Hein, a woman who had participated in a ménage à trois (French for "household of three") gone deadly wrong. Harold and Ena Nokes were the other participants in the threesome.
Harold confessed–twice. Lonnie tricked him the first time. Harold was eligible for the death penalty, but he got life in prison. It is very likely that Judge Hendrix convinced the other judges on the three judge panel not to impose the death penalty.
For reasons that remain unclear, Ena Nokes was sentenced to only a few years in prison for unlawful disposal of the bodies. Out west, they tend to treat lightly those who dispose of litter in the wrong place.
It is not clear why the murders took place. Much of the violence that takes place out near where Central time almost becomes Mountain time has no rhyme nor reason. Apparently, the fact that Ms. Hein had called off her involvement in the trysts with the Nokeses led somehow to the death of her parents.
Over nearly a decade, Hewitt compiled every conceivable fact that could be unearthed. He is the only one ever to have interviewed Mr. Nokes in prison. He obtained confidential files from lawyers and law enforcement personnel. He had access to the tapes of the "bugs" in the home of the perpetrators. He talked to witnesses and those who were familiar with the place and the people. He did the hard work of an academically trained historian.
But what makes the book sing is the writing. The reader is patiently told of the facts with the skill of the best newspaper writer. We learn the texture and the feel of the place and the people. The official story is told, and then deconstructed with the scalpel of an experienced lawyer. Hewitt does not believe we will ever know what really happened. He is not happy with that uncertainty, but like historians and lawyers and newspaper types he tolerates uncertainty while remaining keenly skeptical of the official version. By the way, Hewitt has no doubt that the Nokeses were guilty. Hewitt believes, however, that there is far more to know.
For the details of the story, you will have to buy the book. It can be purchased online from the University of Nebraska Press or Amazon. If you are interested in a real life legal thriller, told in a highly accessible manner, you will happily pay the price for the book. Simply put, you don't have to be a lawyer, a historian, a newspaperman or any other calling to be intrigued by Hewitt's masterful prose and deep-dive research. I recommend the book without reservation.***
At 138 pages, the book is an easy one night read. Be aware, however, that as you close the book, turn off the lights, and speculate as Hewitt has speculated, you will no doubt be sure that the dead bolt is firmly in place.****
*For example, Peter Longo, former Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney who is both a lawyer and PhD, tells us that "Slipping Backward provides an excellent addition to the scholarship of state supreme courts and is the first major work dedicated to a state supreme court of the Great Plains." Peter J. Longo, Western Historical Quarterly (2008-09-01).
**Ironically, I later represented Fred's sister, together with my partner Ed Cook and my dear, now tragically departed, friend Wes Mues, in a personal injury case involving her husband. We settled for the most money of any personal injury settlement in Nebraska's history at the time. Even more ironically, I later tried on behalf of the State of Nebraska the impeachment of Mr. Douglas.
***Mark Scherer, Chairman of the history department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a former practicing lawyer and a PhD in legal history, writes: "In the best tradition of Capote's iconic In Cold Blood, James Hewitt presents a gruesome, bizarre, and tragic tale of sex, murder, and small town intrigue, told with the objective insight of an accomplished legal historian and the gripping narrative style of a novelist. . . . This is a book you should be prepared to complete in one setting. It is that gripping." Mark Scherer, University Nebraska Press, Book Review of In Cold Storage.
**** Joan and I were privileged to review and comment upon an early draft of the manuscript. That Jim acknowledges our contribution in print together with a hand written note of thanks in our personal copy of the book is an example of a man who gives credit to others when in fact he deserves all of it himself.
Please read Professor Orin Kerr's Blogging judge calls political candidate "unfit' for office', The Volokh Conspiracy, Washington Post (June 7, 2015) (arguing that I violated Canon 5 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges by virtue of my prior post).
I am 68. A year before my birth, a Supreme Court Justice resigned. For all intents and purposes, the resignation was a non event as we learn from the Jackson List. How the world has changed!
For the Jackson List:
On Monday, June 18, 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its final decisions of its term and began its summer recess.
That same afternoon, Justice Robert H. Jackson, almost eight weeks into juggling his Court work with his presidential assignment to serve as U.S. Chief of Counsel for the prosecution of Axis war criminals in the European Theater, left Washington National Airport on a military plane to Labrador (for refueling), then England, and fulltime work on what became his job as U.S. chief prosecutor at Nuremberg of Nazi war criminals.
Back in Washington, Justice Jackson was not the only Supreme Court Justice who had departed from Washington with something more than the ordinary characteristics of taking the Court's summer recess.
Justice Owen J. Roberts also was gone. He was the Court's senior Associate Justice, appointed by President Hoover in 1930. By 1945 if not sooner, Roberts had become unhappy on the Court. He also had turned age seventy that May and was eligible for a retirement pension.
On Monday, June 4, 1945, Justice Roberts was present on the Court bench and participated in announcing decisions.
He was absent on the next decision day, Monday, June 11th.
He was absent again on the final decision day, June 18th, missing the Court session that concluded with commencement of its summer recess.
Justice Roberts had, in early June, departed Washington for his true home, his farm in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.
On Saturday, June 30th –seventy years ago today – Justice Roberts sent President Truman a letter of resignation.
Justice Roberts also wrote, longhand, this letter to Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone:
I am about to submit my resignation as Associate Justice to the President. I did not wish to do so without advising you. Hence this note.
I do not know when the White House will announce the matter, and I am sure you will hold the news confidential until that occurs.
I wish Mrs. Stone and you a good and restful summer. Mrs. Roberts sends her regards to both of you.
Sincerely yours,
Justice Roberts's decision remained a secret until Thursday, July 5th. At his press conference that afternoon, President Truman announced the decision by reading Justice Roberts's letter to him and his letter of reply – click here.
Here is the extent of the public mention of the Justice's retirement at a press conference held by President Truman shortly after the resignation and on July 5, 1945:
Now here is another letter from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, dated June 30, 1945, addressed to the President [reading]: "As I have served as a member of the Supreme Court for more than fifteen years, and have attained the age of seventy years, I desire to avail myself of the provisions of Section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, (28 U.S. Code § 375),–"
Nobody but a Justice would write that. [Laughter]
"–and to resign my office as Associate Justice.
"Accordingly, I tender you my resignation, to take effect July 31, 1945.
"I am, Sir, with great respect, Sincerely yours, Owen J. Roberts"
[5.] "Dear Mr. Justice: I am indeed sorry that you have decided to retire from the Bench after your long service.
"The Supreme Court, in the period during which you have served as a member, has been called upon to pass upon some of the most important economic and social problems in the history of our country.
"As I told you this afternoon when I saw you and finally agreed to accept your resignation as of July 31, 1945, I do so only on your promise to continue to give your country the benefit of your sound judgment and advice as occasion arises.
"I extend to you the gratitude of the nation for the service you have rendered."
Q. Mr. President, I notice he resigned. Is that something different from the retirement the other Justices have?
THE PRESIDENT. I think he intended to retire. I think that is the sense under the statute he cites. I think he intends to retire from the bench. At least, that's how I took it.
Q. Have you picked a successor to Justice Roberts yet, sir?
THE PRESIDENT. I have not. I haven't thought about a successor. I am ready for questions now, if you have any.
76. The President's News Conference July 5, 1945, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (last accessed July 7, 2015).
Indeed, how the world has changed. At least insofar as the Court is concerned, I do not believe it has changed for the better.


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Nope. For example, SBCL uses a compiler-macro to optimize MAKE-INSTANCE when the class argument and all the keywords (not keyword argument values) are constant. There are many, many kinds of functions that can be optimized if one or two of the arguments are constants. FORMAT is another good example.makia wrote:yes, i know that ... but then there is no huge impact in real programs if you can only optimize literal arguments ?
-- Nikodemus


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Declaration for Pension 1871
by Thomas ELDER ( son of Robert Elder b. 1769 PA)
(Mother: Mary A. Dempsey b: 28 JUN 1775 in Buffalo, Northumberland, PA)
State of Nebraska
County of Richardson
On the 4th day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy one, personall appeard before me Aug J. Falsker, County Clerk within and for the county and State aforesaid, Thomas Elder, aged 77 years, a resident of Grant Precinct, County of Richardson, State of Nebraska, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is married, that his wife's name was Mary E. Daniels, to whom he was married at Mtn Stirling, Brown County, State of Illinois, between the tenth and fifteenth days of April 1867; that he served the full period of sixty days in the Military service of the United States in the war of 1812; that he is the identical Thomas Elder who volunteered in Captain Henry Ulry's company, Duncan McArthurs Regiment, Gen. Hull's Brigade, at Adelphi, Ross County, State of Ohio, sometime in the month of April 1812; and was taken prisoner at Gen. Hulls surrender, Fort Detroit, Michigan; that his place of rendervous was Dayton, State of Ohio, as a private soldier under Gov. Meigs as commander, the Gov marched us to Camp Meigs between Dayton and Urbanna, here the Gov publicly delivered his command to Gen. Hull, we then marched to Urbanna and were joined with a portion of the heroes of Tipacanoe commanded by Col Milles, we then proceeded north to The Scioto river and built Fort McArthur; thence to the River Oglaze and built Fort Finly; thence some distance in the black swamp and built Ft. Necessity; thence to Detroit, thence to Sandwich.
Was engaged in a skirmish led by Col. Cass against the British at Aux canards River, between Sandwich and Malden Upper Canada, after this he fought in the battle of Brownstown Mich. under command of Major Vanhorn, here Captains Ulry, Gilercase, Bosler and McCulloch were lost or killed. McCulloch was acting in the capacity of a spy and was killed by the Indians before the commencement of the regular engagement. He was at the siege of Fort Detroit made prisoner upon Gen. Hulls surrender and sent home on parole of honor; crossed lake Erie on the Brig Mary, under British Guards and landed at Cleveland, Ohio, and consequently had no discharge.
That he at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid or comfort; or exercised the functions of any office whatever under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; and that he will support the constitution of the United States that he is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act; that he makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United States, under the provisions of the act approved Feb. the 14th, 1871, and he hereby constitute and appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, Marshal L. Libbee of Richardson County State of Nebraska, his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim and obtain the pension certificate that may be issued; that his post office is at Dawsons Mills, County of Richardson, State of Nebraska, that his domicile or place of abode is in the vicinity of Dawsons Mills County of Richardson, State of Nebraska.
Attest: Thomas Elder
(Transcribed by Linda ELDER, Michigan)
Possible father of Thomas Elder - Robert ELDER Will of Franklin Co PA, 1793.
Wife Hannah, 4 children: Daughter Isabel, son Robert (William Esq and Hannah Execut'rs)
Listed in Fendrick Collection of Franklin Co Hist Society:
"Vol. A. p. 308", and Probated Sept. 5, 1794.
transcribed at
1850 census
Name: Thomas Elder
Age: 56
Estimated birth year: abt 1794
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Effingham, Illinois
Family Number: 603
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Elder 56 PA Wheelwright
Hannah Elder 54 KY
[Dumah] Elder 20 OH Farmer
Lucinda C Elder 16 OH
Jemima Jane Elder 11 OH
Mary Elder 75 PA
Arthur Blackburn 24 TN Farmer
Elizabeth Blackburn 21 OH
Source Citation: Year: 1850;
Census Place: , Effingham, Illinois; Roll M432_105; Page: 327A; Image: 659.
Name: Robert Elder
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rushville
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert Elder 34 (b. 1826 OH - Farmer)
Lorana Elder 33 (b. 1827 TN)
Eliza J Elder 12 (b. 1848 IL)
Benjamin Elder 9 (b. 1851 IL)
Jeremiah T Elder 2 (b. 1858 IL)
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M653_228; Page: 132; Image: 132.
Name: Thomas Elder
Estimated birth year: abt 1794
Age in 1870: 76
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rushville
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Elder 76 PA
Mary Elder 58 PA (b. 1812)
Source Citation: Year: 1870;
Census Place: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M593_276; Page: 83; Image: 167.
Name: James Hightower
Estimated birth year: abt 1820
Age in 1870: 50
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1870: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Post Office: Wayland
Household Members:
Name Age
James Hightower 50
Lurana Hightower 45
William Hightower 12
Thomas E Hightower 10
Mary Hightower 9
Emeline Hightower 8
Benjamin Elder 19
Source Citation: Year: 1870;
Census Place: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M593_276; Page: 100; Image: 201.
by Connie Bellamy
Name: Robert Elder
Sex: M
Birth: 1826 in Ohio
Father: Thomas Elder b: BET. 1793 - 1794 in PA
Mother: Hannah Semans b: 1796 in KY
Marriage 1 Lorena b: 1827 in Tennessee
1. Eliza Elder [b: 1848] in Illinois
2. Benjamin Elder [b: 1851] in Illinois
3. Jeremiah Elder [b: 1858] in Illinois
Lookup by Donna Smith of Rushville, IL (12/3/2009): In Lynn cemetery, Camden Twp., Schuyler Co IL -- Camden Twp. borders Buena Vista Twp. on the west. Those with stones buried in the Lynn cemetery are as follows.
Benjamin C. ELDER December 25, 1851 - April 26, 1909
Thomas J. ELDER died July 17, 1889 aged 29y 11m 18d [Jeremiah T.]
Hannah ELDER wife of [old] Thomas died March 13, 1858 aged 62 years
Catherine ELDER wife of [old] Thomas died October 6, 1863 aged 57y 5m
Lurana Y. HIGHTOWER wife of [1.Robert Elder and 2. James Hightower]
d. January 14, 1872 aged 45 years
Trial of Eliza J. Elder Garvin - acquitted of husband's murder
Centerville, Iowa, The Appanoose Times, January 6, 1881.
Death of Jeremiah T. ELDER --The July 18, 1889 issue of The Rushville Times newspaper reads as follows:
"A sad accident happened at the residence of Allison Ingles, of near Erwin, last evening in which Thomas Elder lost his life. Something got wrong with the pump and Mr. Elder volunteered to go down and see if it could be fixed. While he was trying to unloosen one of the sections the wall caved in on him, killing him instantly. About twenty feet of sand and rock was taken out before his body was recovered. The unfortunate young man was about 25 years old, and made his home with a brother in that vicinity"
Name: Benjamin Elder
Estimated birth year: abt 1851
Age in 1870: 19
Birthplace: Illinois
Home in 1870: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rushville
Household Members:
Name Age
Jonas Lung 38 KY
Dinah Lung 34
Henry L Lung 9
Mary M Lung 7
Albert U S Lung 6
Andrew Lung 4
Benjamin Elder 19
Source Citation: Year: 1870;
Census Place: Buena Vista, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M593_276; Page: 82; Image: 165.
1900 census
Name: Benjamin C Elder
Home in 1900: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois
Age: 48
Birth Date: Dec 1851
Birthplace: Illinois
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Relationship to Head of House: Head
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Spouse's name: Mary C
Marriage Year: 1896
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 4
Residence : Camden Township, Schuyler, Illinois
Household Members:
Name Age
Benjamin C Elder 48 (married 1892)
Mary C Elder 27
Source Citation: Year: 1900;
Census Place: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll T623_344; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 74.
Name: Thomas Elder [Looks like age of Jeremiah T. Elder]
Home in 1880: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois
Age: 21
Estimated birth year: abt 1859
Birthplace: Illinois
Relation to Head of Household: other than a direct relationship -- Servant/Farm Labor
Father's birthplace: Ohio
Mother's birthplace: Ohio
Occupation: Servant
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members:
Name Age
James Avery 32
Martha Avery 28
Lafayette F Avery 9
Thomas Elder 21
Thomas Carnes 63
Source Citation: Year: 1880;
Census Place: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll T9_250; Family History Film: 1254250; Page: 379.1000;
Enumeration District: 266; Image: 0240.
Illinois Marriage Index
GARVICE, THOMAS m. ELDER, ELIZA JANE [GARVIN]
ELDER, BENJAMIN C m. SCHULTZ, MARY C
HIGHTOWER, JAMES m. ELDER, LORENA
ELDER, THOMAS m. DANIELS, MARY ELIZABETH
Name: Polly Daniels (possible wife of Thomas Elder - married in Brown Co IL)
Age in 1860: 48
Birth Year: abt 1812
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Woodstock, Schuyler, Illinois
Gender: Female
Post Office: Rushville
Household Members:
Name Age
Sarah Daniels 70 (1790 PA)
Polly Daniels 48 (1812 PA)
Daniel L Daniels 29 (1831 PA)
Julia A Daniels 27 (1833 PA)
John M Daniels 3 (1857 IL)
Lucy J Daniels 2 (1858 IL)
Wm H Daniels 9/12 (1859 IL)
Source Citation: Year: 1860;
Census Place: Woodstock, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M653_228; Page: 123; Image: 123.
From Dawson, Nebraska to Falls City, Nebraska
26 minutes/18.81 miles (east across hwy 73, south to Falls City)
Surname list for Richardson Co NE Cemeteries, no ELDER so far,
Choosing GRANT township, vol. 3
Heim Cemetery (possible burial place of Thomas Elder - no marker on list?)
Grant Twn, Sec. 15
From Jct 73 & 75 north of Dawson, .25 mi S. on Hwy 75, turn rt. parallel to hwy, then .25 S. or From Hwy 75 in Dawson, 1 blk W on 10th St., 2 blk N.
HEIM cemetery, Grant Twp, Richardson Co Nebraska (first burial Crittenden 1888)
FindaGrave.com also has 75 descriptions and photos of Heim Cemetery markers, example Spaulding
Page 199 of Richardson Co Cemetery Surname index vol. 3 Libbee, Lucinda (Mother) wife of M.L. Libbee b. 1-25-1838/d. 10-22-1897 Libbee, M.L. (Father) b. 9-19-1837/d. 3-19-1911
Starr Cemetery (75 markers listed) - this one is early enough for Thomas
Also known as: Draper Cemetery
Iliff Cemetery (earlier than 1871)
Mt. Sterling, Brown Co IL to Rushville, Schuyler Co IL
Total Travel Estimate: 20 minutes / 16.61 miles
Total Travel Estimate: 20 minutes / 16.61 miles
Mt. Sterling, Brown Co IL - to Falls City, Richardson Co NE
Total Travel Estimate: 5 hours 1 minute / 300.42 miles
- fairly straight across to the West
"Nebraska...Our Towns"--Town of Dawson -- Richardson County - history
History of Richardson County Nebraska: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume I)
Ancestors of Gary and Ardis Dahlstrom Morrison
Robert ELDER, b. 1769 Northumberland Co PA, and others
Name: Lucinda C Libbee (Thomas' daughter Lucinda)
Age in 1860: 27
Birth Year: abt 1833
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois
Gender: Female
Post Office: Camden
Household Members:
Name Age
Marshal Libbee 23
Lucinda C Libbee 27
Marshal A Libbee 3/12 (1857)
Zavian Adams 56
Source Citation: Year: 1860;
Census Place: Camden, Schuyler, Illinois;
Roll M653_228; Page: 218; Image: 220; Family History Library Film: 803228.
1880 census
Name: Lucindie C. Libbee
Home in 1880: Grant, Richardson, Nebraska
Age: 44
Estimated birth year: abt 1836
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to Head of Household: Wife
Spouse's name: M. L.
Father's birthplace: Ohio
Mother's birthplace: Ohio
Occupation: Keeping House
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Female
Household Members:
Name Age
M. L. Libbee 42
Lucindie C. Libbee 44
Elsie A. Libbee 18
Ella Smith 6
Source Citation: Year: 1880;
Census Place: Grant, Richardson, Nebraska; Roll T9_754;
Family History Film: 1254754; Page: 507.3000; Enumeration District: 319; Image: 0801.
Name: Ella Smith
Home in 1880: Grant, Richardson, Nebraska
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1874
Birthplace: Iowa
Relation to Head of Household: Something other than a direct relationship (Other)
Father's birthplace: Iowa
Mother's birthplace: Iowa
Name: Albert M Libbee
[Albert Libbee]
Home in 1900: Grant, Richardson, Nebraska
Age: 40
Birth Date: Apr 1860
Birthplace: Illinois
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Relationship to Head of House: Head
Father's Birthplace: Michigan
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Spouse's name: Bertha
Marriage Year: 1885
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 15
Residence : Dawson Village, Richardson, Nebraska
Household Members:
Name Age
Albert M Libbee 40
Bertha Libbee 36
Harry L Libbee 14
Loren A Libbee 12
Freda A Libbee 10
Marshal J Libbee 7
Lova Libbee 3
Source Citation: Year: 1900;
Census Place: Grant, Richardson, Nebraska;
Roll T623_938; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 142.
"THOMAS DENTON ELDER" b. 1856 in Illinois
son of Samuel D Elder born June 1819 in Jackson County, Ohio.


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Family says gas drilling turning paradise home into nightmare
Channel 4 Action News' Jim Parsons investigates in Fayette County
The Headley family built their house a few years ago, just before the gas-drilling boom hit. They had a chance to buy the gas rights but chose not to. Now, they wish they had, because they're sharing their 115-acre farm with the Marcellus Shale industry.
A puddle along a country road in southern Fayette County is a natural spring, an artesian well, but it's not the spring that's making it bubble.
David Headley told Action News investigator Jim Parsons that he wasn't really sure when he first noticed it, but he said, "We've seen it bubbling now for the last couple of years."
About the same time, nearby gas wells were drilled on Headley's property. He invited Parsons to do what he did when he first saw the bubbles: flick a lighter.
"Is that really water burning?" Parsons asked Headley.
When Headley placed a funnel over the bubbles, the flame stayed lit.
"The horses used to drink out of this spring, and the deer and the coon. All those animals have since left. Nothing will drink out of it. There's not a footprint around this well at all," said Headley.
But that's not what angers Headley the most.
Photos: Action News' Jim Parsons investigates
About 150 yards from his home, the cap on a natural gas tank popped up, and a gas cloud began pouring out. Headley recorded the incident on video from inside his house.
"We could see from the house. It was quite visible what was going on," Headley told Parsons.
Within minutes, the valley was filled with a fog from the fumes, and Headley's 5-year-old son was outside riding around on his four-wheeler.
"They did it with your son right there?" Parsons asked.
"Oh yes, they don't have any mercy," Headley said.
Headley told Parsons that he ran out and confronted the worker.
"I demanded he stop. I said, 'I know what's in that stuff, and I don't want my kids breathing it. You need to stop,' and he wouldn't stop, of course," said Headley.
"You can't stop them. It's a producing well. They tell us they're allowed to pollute. You can't stop them. They laugh at you," his wife, Linda Headley, told Parsons.
When David Headley confronted them, the well workers called state police. They then put a lock on the gate that allows Headley access to his driveway.
"This is my personal property, not Atlas' property. You don't have a right-of-way to this gate. Your right-of-way isn't even here," said David Headley. "What am I supposed to do if I need in here now? The gate belongs to me. It doesn't belong to you."
It wasn't his first run-in with gas drillers, either. He almost got arrested last year for confronting them while carrying a shotgun.
"This has just been a nightmare. We bought this place as a paradise, a quiet place to raise our kids away from the hustle and bustle -- someplace they could ride their horses and four-wheelers and enjoy living on a farm -- and we didn't know we were buying an industrial park," said David Headley.
The state Department of Environmental Protection said flammable spring water at the Headley farm is the result of methane migration from an old coal seam and not gas well drilling.
The Headleys emphasized the problem first surfaced after gas wells were drilled on their property.
A representative for Atlas Energy said the company has since given the Headleys a key to the lock on their gate.
The company said the chemical release from the well tank was within allowable limits, but a DEP representative told Parsons that is still being investigated.
Atlas Energy issued the following bullet points to Channel 4 Action News in a company statement:
-We can confirm that there are locks on the gates and that the landowner has been given a key to them. These locks are placed in order to ensure that only authorized company representatives and the landowner can safely access the site.
-The methane occurrence in question was previously studied by the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and found to be sourced from a coal seam that predates the landowner's occupancy of the site and is not from any other source. This information can be confirmed with the Pittsburgh regional office of the DEP.
-The release described by the landowner is well within established emission parameters set by applicable state regulations and is a standard maintenance procedure to ensure safe operations. On Wednesday (3/27), state DEP regulators came to the site to discuss the release process and confirmed that it conforms to applicable regulatory requirements and that the release was within established emission parameters. Again, you may contact the Pittsburgh regional office of the DEP to confirm this information.