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I have started snooping around in Bohernabredagh (often just abbreviated Bredagh) because there is a chance my great-great-grandmother Mary Mahony was the daughter of a Denis Mahony of this townland.
Mary Mahony married Daniel Collins 4-Feb-1845 in the old Drinagh chapel in the Roman Catholic parish of Drimoleague & Drinagh. Witnesses included Denis Mahony, possibly her father.
Daniel Collins shows up in Cullomane East in Griffiths Valuation and the first child I know about, Mary, was baptized 1-Feb-1852. Mahony baptismal sponsors for the Collins children were Kean (Cain), Daniel, Catherine (Kate), and Timothy.
In the 1901 census Mary Mahony Collins was in Cullomane age 75. The census says she is married but in fact her husband Daniel Collins had died in 1894. She died in August that census year, estimated age 75, making her birth year possibly 1826, maybe a little before.
There is a Denis Mahony in the Dromdaleague tithe applotment in Bredagh, possibly her father. A Denis Mahony is in Bredagh in Griffiths Valuation. It could be the same Denis as in the TA, or possibly a descendant.
I have tallied the following names from the Abbeystrowry, Caheragh, Drinagh, and Dromdaleague Tithe Applotments, keeping in mind that the 1845 marriage took place in Drimoleague & Drinagh RC parish:
Cain Mahon(e)y
Clover Hill (Abbeystrowry)
Inchingerig (Caheragh)
Daniel Mahon(e)y
Kilnaclasha (Abbeystrowry)
Lissalohorig (Abbeystrowry)
Minanes (Drinagh)
Denis Mahon(e)y
Baurnagowlane (Dromdaleague)
Bredagh (Dromdaleague)
Clashduff (Dromdaleague)
Ceancullig (Dromdaleague)
Kealanine (Caheragh)
Minanes (Drinagh)
Seehanes (Dromdaleague)
Timothy Mahon(e)y
Cooranuller (Caheragh)
Derreenavarihy (Caheragh)
Minanes (Drinagh)
I know the tithe applotments could be too early for brothers of Mary Mahony named Cain, Daniel, or Timothy to be showing up, but, as is so often the case, closely related families often carry the same names. When Skibbereen Heritage researched Mary Mahony for me, they came up with two potential Denis Mahonys as fathers:
12-Sep-1823 (Bredagh)
22-Aug-1819 (Lettergorman)
The best concentration of "matching" names is in and surrounding Bredagh. And although there are no Mahonys in Lettergorman in the TA, Minanes is not far away, where there is another good concentration of matching names.
There are also Cains, Denises, Daniels, and Timothys in various parts of Skibbereen in Griffiths Valuation. A Denis Mahony is in Lettergorman.
One Timothy Mahony, age 31, died 14-Apr-1864, in Driminidy; brother Cain Mahony of Clashduff was the informant. Driminidy and Clushduff are within shouting distance of Bredagh. Cain Mahony, age 92, died 2-Feb-1904, in Clashduff. He was in the 1901 census in Tonafora. Again, this is within shouting distance of Bredagh. Within Bredagh, the 1901 census shows Denis Mahony, age 53, HoH, with possibly batchelor brother Cain, age 60. Cain died 4-May-1910, reported age 82, throwing the question of his age up in the air. Were I to look for him among baptismals, I would probably start by what the death record estimates.
There is no assurance, of course, that Denis Mahony is the father of my Mary Mahony, but that is all I have to go on at the moment. It is probably worth noting that the second known son of Mary Mahony and Daniel Collins was named Denis, who happened to be my great-grandfather.
The name Cain O'Mahony stands out, and it may be extremely old (many many centuries). I have read literature that derives Cain from Enniskean, a place name. The same name belonged to a man whose family had a store on Townsend Street in Skibbereen, at least from the mid-1800's. He was mentioned in Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's book. There is a picture of that gentleman here.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Mahonys in Skibbereen
I have started snooping around in Bohernabredagh (often just abbreviated Bredagh) because there is a chance my great-great-grandmother Mary Mahony was the daughter of a Denis Mahony of this townland.
Posted by sb10 at 11:05 AM 2 comments
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Humphrey Collins of Lissane
The Humphreys of Lissane (pdf file here) have put me in an agonizing state of "not knowing" equally as intense as that of the Larrys over in Adrigole - my Grandmom's paternal Collins line. The Humphreys are the paternal Collins line of my Grandfather.
Granddad John Humphrey Collins (b. 1895) was the son of Margaret McCarthy of Tooreen (b. 1860) and Humphrey Michael Collins (b. 1858) of Lower Lissane (m. 1890). Humphrey Michael is nicknamed "Humphrey Mickey", and his father, Michael Collins, is nicknamed Mickey. Mickey Collins married Ellen Driscoll 1854. Mickey and Ellen are in the 1901 census together in Lissane. How lucky for me, as he died a few weeks after. The census gave an age estimate, leading me to believe Mickey was born about 1822.
After the first known daughter Johanna (b. 1856), Humphrey Mickey was the first boy. Another mysterious Humphrey Collins was a baptismal sponsor. An elderly Humphrey Collins died in 1873, with his age estimated as 88, so he would have been born about 1785. The death record shows the mark of a Humphrey Collins, present at death, which got me thinking. Was the old man an informant of his own death?!? Was the informant a teenage Humphrey Mickey? Or was there there another Humphrey Collins about?
Obviously I am joking in the first case. I don't think think Humphrey Mickey was the informant, as he was literate and he could have signed his own name on the death record. So I am inclined to think option #3.
A Humphrey Collins and Michael Collins were together in the 1827 Caheragh Tithe Applotment. From these facts I have developed the hypothesis that Humphrey Mickey's father Michael's father was probably 1785 Humphrey.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are lots of Collinses in Lissane and the families there have historically been tangled up with each other. Humphrey is the "breadcrumb" trail I have been following, since it is so easy to spot. I have identified a number of Collins families in Lissane in the latter part of the 19th century.
Michael Collins & Ellen Driscoll (m. 1854)
I'll start with my own direct line, Mickey Collins and Ellen Driscoll. Marriage (28-Feb-1854, Caheragh) witnesses included Humphrey Collins. Children were Johanna (1856, bap sponsor Johanna Collins), Humphrey Mickey (1858, bap sponsor Humphrey Collins), Catherine (1860, bap sponsor John Collins), John (1862), Honora (1865, bap sponsor Mary Brien), Michael (1867), Margaret (1870), and Ellen (1875, bap sponsor John Collins).
I have a theory that 1865 Honora, or Nora, might have been the wife of Michael Lynch of Coolnaclehy (m. 1903), as according to my Aunt Peg, Granddad had Lynch cousins in Coolnaclehy (John and Hannah) who were first cousins. I think these cousins are in the 1911 census. But unfortunately I cannot find the marriage record in the online indexes to confirm Nora's origin.
Son Michael is with Mickey and Ellen in the 1901 census along with sister Honora "Noria" and cousin Noria Driscoll. And I think that is Michael in the 1911 census along with wife Nora, and children Michael, Humphrey, Hannah, and Jamsey, as well as his elderly mother Ellen Driscoll Collins. Michael's son Humphrey is registered 3-May-1903, and his mother was a Hannah Collins. So Michael was widowed with Nora being his second wife.
Humphrey Michael Collins & Margaret McCarthy (m. 1890)
Humphrey Mickey, the son of Mickey, married Margaret McCarthy of Tooreen (b. 1860). Humphrey Mickey went to go farm the Tooreen farm, as Margaret's parents Mary and Cornelius McCarthy had no son. Their children were Michael (bap Oct-1891); Patrick (bap Mar-1893); Cornelius (bap May-1894); John (my Granddad, Jul-1895); Mary Kate (1897); Humphrey (21-May-1898, from civil reg); James (Nov-1899); Ellen (1901); Denis (Oct-1902); and Margaret (6-Mar-1906). Margaret McCarthy died three days after giving birth to baby Margaret, and the baby died that August. My aunt tells me that Humphrey Mickey never got over this, and likely lived in a state of despair until he died shortly after (in 1910).
The orphaned children are in the 1911 census, with their widowed grandmother Mary McCarthy taking care of them (she was there helping out in 1901 too.) The farm went to the oldest son, Michael Humphrey Collins, who married Ann (Nan) Morris, and had several children, among them a Patrick Joseph Collins, (b. Jun-1925, possibly d. Aug-2000 in England), and Michael (d. Oct-2009, Tooreen).
Denis Collins & Margaret Mahony (m. before 1864)
One Denis Collins married one Margaret Mahony, unknown when or where. Children include, but are not necessarily limited to (from civil registration records): Denis 8-Jan-1866, probably died as infant; James 10-Dec-1866; Margaret 4-Dec-1868; Helena 20-Sep-1870 (may have had a twin Johanna or Honora); Patrick (17-Mar-1872); Timothy (1-Jul-1873 - not confirmed from civil reg yet); and Denis (1876 - not confirmed from civil reg yet). Denis is HoH, age 70 in the 1901 census, Bredagh DED, with wife Margaret, sons Patrick and Denis. In 1911, Denis HoH is age 80, with wife Margaret, sons Denis and Patrick, plus granddaughter Margaret McCarthy.
I think the censuses could have underestimated the age of Denis, as a death record in 1919 shows a Denis Collins of Lissane age 96. Or, the death record might be wrong.
There is more to this story. One Humphrey Collins, born about 1864, emigrated around 1889 and shows up in the 1900 US Census in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The oldest son in his family is named Dennis. Looking further, the date of Humphrey's immigration can be traced to 7-May, 1890, on the ship Samaria, port of Boston. Looking further still, in the Rhode Island marriage records, the spouse of this Humphrey Collins was a Delia Lydon, they married in 1893, and his parents are listed as Dennis Collins and Margaret Mahoney! According to the Rhode Island death records, Humphrey died 14-Apr-1916.
I've looked, but have been unable to find this Humphrey Collins in the Ireland civil registration in 1864, at least in Skibbereen. Knowing the minefields that spring up in Irish genealogy, I am painfully aware there could be another couple named Denis Collins and Margaret Mahony to confuse the issue, but as the name Humphrey Collins from Ireland is such an uncommon name, for now I am hanging on to the theory that Humphrey Collins of Newport, R.I. was from Lissane.
John Collins & Ellen McCarthy (m. before 1863)
Children in this family include Denis (est 1863); Johanna (9-Jun-1865); Honora (5-Aug- 1867); Catherine (3-Jun-1869); and John (26-Feb-1872). The last known child is super important; on his birth record it says "Humphrey Collins, present at birth."
John, the father, died young, age 55 years, in 1882. That would place his birth year around 1827.
I believe the son Denis is in the 1901 census, with wife Nora. Children listed are Mary E (Ellen?), and Hannah. His elderly mother Ellen is with them.
Hardly a day goes by when I don't scour the Southern Star news archives, and I think this Denis is the "Denis J. Collins" I've seen in news articles.
Who was the Humphrey who was present at the birth of this John Collins?
James Collins & Honora Collins (m. before 1864)
Known children include Catherine (9-Dec-1864); Honora (15-Nov-1866); Michael (20-Oct-1868); Johanna (10-Dec-1870); Helena (3-Apr-1873); Julia (25-Aug-1874); and James (20-Oct-1876). There is no obvious connection to the Humphreys, except perhaps via the oldest son Michael's name. I'll get to that. James and Nora are in both the 1901 and the 1911 census. In the 1911 census they are in their son Michael's household.
Those are the main family lines out of Lissane that I know about. Finally, I found a death record for an elderly Michael Collins, d. 1870, age 80, so he was born about 1790. Mary Collins was present at death.
I have gathered much more data on Humphreys in the townlands surrounding Lissane. But for my initial phase of research, I limited my data to these families. (I will post on these other Humphreys another time.) After spending close to a year gathering all this data, I went to Skibbereen Heritage Centre, proposed that 1785 Humphrey and 1790 Michael were brothers or cousins, that Humphrey was the father of 1822 Mickey, and then asked for research on the two lines. Margaret (God bless her) did so quite diligently and spent some time doing it. She checked and rechecked whatever she had available. Her research was a great lesson to me, showing that errors in genealogy records start right on the baptismal and marriage records.
Anyway, this is what Skibbereen Heritage found:
Humphrey Collins & Johanna Barnane (m. 1820)
One Humphrey Collins married a Mary Bernard at the Old Chapel in Drinagh, 15-Feb-1820. Bernard can be a form of Barnane, so there isn't any confusion about the surname at this point. However, further evidence indicates that the bride's Christian name was not Mary but rather Johanna.
One Catherine Collins was born 2-Dec-1820 in Caheragh R.C. parish to John Collins and Johanna Barnane. Humphrey Collins and Catherine Hurley were witnesses. Spotting another potential error, Margaret was convinced that the father's name John and the sponsor's name Humphrey were transposed, so that Humphrey Collins and Johanna Barnane were the parents. Additional children were discovered with parents Humphrey and Johanna, plus, Margaret was unable to find any baptismals of children to a Humphrey Collins and Mary Bernard.
Other children of Humphrey and Johanna were: John (1824, Mary Donovan among sponsors); Honora "Norry" (1829); James (1833, sponsor Mary Barnane); and Jeremiah (1835).
One child was discovered with the mother's name Jane Barrett: Patrick (14-Mar-1839). Ordinarily, I might have thought the priest didn't get Johanna Barnane quite right. Barrett and Bernard can sound similar. Jane is often cited as an interchangeable form of Johanna. But in this case I think there is a possibility Johanna Barnane and Jane Barrett were two different women. Baptismal sponsors were James Barrett and Ellen Barrett, and there was a James Barrett right there in the Caheragh tithe applotment. Unfortunately, I may not be able to resolve this question.
There are more children found, outside of Caheragh, in the R.C. parish of Skibbereen & Rath, born to Humphrey Collins and Mary Brien or Mary Collins. I don't know if 1785 Humphrey had multiple wives, or if there was yet another Humphrey running about. It's kind of late for somebody born 1785 to be having kids in the 1840's, you think?!? Even Patrick (1839) sounds a bit late for old man Humphrey. The other children of Humphrey are: Mary (19-Jan-1841); Johanna (2-Apr-1843); and Jerry (23-Oct-1845).
The BIG problem with these records is that Skibbereen Heritage was unable to find a baptismal record for Mickey. So his connection to this family is still not conclusively proven. There is a convenient slot for him though, between Catherine in 1820 and John in 1824.
Michael Collins & Mary Donovan (m. before 1823)
Margaret was unable to find a marriage record for Michael Collins and Mary Donovan, but she did manage to find several children. Margaret (27-Nov-1823); James (1-Feb-1829, sponsor Johanna Barnane?); Humphrey (1-Aug-1831, sponsor Catherine Collins); Catherine (15-May-1833); Michael (2-Jul-1837); and Jane (4-Aug-1840, sponsor Jerry Collins).
This son Michael cannot be the Mickey who married Ellen Driscoll, as he would have been alarmingly young (17?!?). It doesn't fit.
I think this same son Michael is the "Michael W. Collins" I see in the Southern Star archives.
I have a few death records for elderly men named James Collins but neither are in Lissane. It is unclear which family - the Humphrey line or the Michael line - that James in the census came from, but I am inclined to think the Michael line, as the first (known) son of James and Nora Collins is named Michael.
On our recent trip to Salt Lake City, I obtained images of Registry of Deeds memorial #371769, as it mentions a Denis Collins, a farmer in Lissane. It turned out he was only serving as a witness to an agreement between a landlord and a tenant. Still, the date of the agreement (1803) compels these questions. Who were the Collinses of Lissane? Were they related to each other? Where did they come from?
Margaret was unable to link elderly Denis Collins to 1785 Humphrey and 1790 Michael, but she did notice a Denis Collins over in Tonafora, in the backyard of Lissane. I have filed that piece of information in the back of my brain, knowing there could be a connection to the aforementioned Denis in the Registry of Deeds.
I am hoping that a few of these unanswered questions will be resolved when more church records come online. The most pressing question, of course, is WHY are we unable to find a baptismal record for Michael Collins 1822.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Adrigole brick wall, part 2
Since my last post about the brick wall in Adrigole, much more information has emerged, though not what I need to conclusively prove who my gg-grandfather's family was.
Skibbereen Heritage did indeed successfully find a marriage between Daniel Collins and Mary Mahony. After all our unsuccessful searches through the baptismals, poor Margaret at Skibb Heritage was probably starting to think I was deluded about "Danny Larr" my gg-grandfather, but she did find a marriage between a Daniel Collins and a Mary Mahony that took place 4-Feb-1845 at St. Finbarr's in Drimoleague R.C. Parish. The Daniel Collins recorded came out of Castlehaven parish. One of the witnesses was a John Collins - which doesn't necessarily prove that this is the same John I currently believe was Danny Larr's brother thought to have been born in Adrigole in 1818 - but at least it is not, say, Timothy Collins, a name I have never seen in my family.
Danny Larr and Mary Mahony somehow ended up in Cullomane East. I have yet to discover how or why.
Skibb Heritage found eight children born and baptized in Caheragh R.C. Parish. I believe the baptismal found for a James Collins (Dec-1866) is an error, somehow confused with a James Collins born to a Denis Collins and a Margaret Mahony in Lissane. Coincidentally, James could be a distant relative, but on Granddad's side, not Grandmom's side, which is the Adrigole Collinses. Aunt Peg has never heard of a James among Danny Larr's children. Civil registration is very clear about who the parents were and the location. So we are leaving James off the Cullomane branch of Adrigole Collinses.
The oldest Cullomane child was Mary, who also went by Maria. She was born in 1852. She married Cornelius Collins in Knockgorm and among the children were daughters Nora McCarthy and Kate Ann Fitzgerald. Nora married Michael McCarthy of Derryduff, Drimoleague in 1909. Nora raised Grandmom after Ellen Hurley died. I am not yet sure when Kate Ann married her husband Dick (Richard). What I've seen in the civil registration indexes conflicts with what I have seen in the news archives. I was told that Kate Ann and Dick had a pub up in Clonakilty - the Brewer's Arms, or something like that. I was also told that among Mary's children was a son Cornelius. Cornelius may have ended up in Liverpool. Aunt Peg vaguely remembers a visitor from Liverpool showing up at the family doorstep - Auntie can't remember if they were still living in Bauravilla or Bunalun, but she does remember they could "barely understand a word" said.
The second Cullomane child was named Diana, born 1854. Since Diana (or Dinah) Collins is a practically non-existent name coming out of Ireland and one of my "breadcrumb" names, I have tried to trace her. A Diana Collins from Ireland, age 20, arrived on the ship Manhattan in New York in September of 1893. After that her trail goes cold.
I don't know anything about the third Cullomane child, Jeremiah, born 1856, other than that he may have gone by William. A William Collins was a witness to the marriage of Denis Collins and Ellen Hurley in 1904.
Margaret, the fourth Cullomane child, was born 1858. I may have a clue about what happened to her, and will get back to her momentarily.
The fifth Cullomane child, born 1860, is my great-grandfather, Denis, or Denny Dan Larr, who died in late 1930.
After Denis came Johanna, born early 1863. She shows up living with Denny Dan Larr and his first wife in the 1901 census, after that nobody knows where she vanished to.
The youngest Cullomane child was Daniel, born 1865. We know quite a bit about Daniel now, who went on to join the Royal Irish Constabulary. I have been in touch with one of his grandchildren.
There are two odd facts emerging from this group of children. One is the gap between the marriage (1845) and the first child Mary (1852). The famine undoubtedly played a role here, and may have had to do with the family ending up in Cullomane East. There may have been other children born elsewhere, leading to the second odd fact that there is no obvious child named Lawrence in this branch of Larrs, even though this branch produced Lawrences (including some in generations that I don't publicly publish). I am hoping that the church records that come online at the end of the year will shed some light on these puzzles.
There are odd Lawrences and Dianas popping up elsewhere whom I cannot place into the family tree. There was a Lawrence Collins in the Kilmcabea tithe applotment, I believe out of Coornishal. News stories mention Collins cousins out of Coornishal.
A Lawrence Collins married a Mary Hayes in 1866, and their marriage record says they were each living in Ballyriree. His age is given as 24. I think they went on to live in Ballyvoureen in the Rosscarbery area - they show up in censuses. I don't know how they fit or whether they fit into the Adrigole puzzle.
Another interesting family producing a Lawrence Collins came out of Licknavar and may have lived in Gortshanecrone, south of Skibbereen town. I don't know how they fit in. In the 1911 census this family so closely resembled Grandmom's family that for a while I was confused thinking it was her family.
The Licknavar/Gortshanecrone family is a different family from the family of James and Catherine Collins in Knockaphreanane, whom I do know about and who are related, though I am unaware of any sons named Lawrence. In part 1 I confused this family with the Knockaphreanane family.
Diana Collins of Adrigole, whose father was named Lawrence, married Timothy Sullivan of Clooncugger in 1868. A Jeremiah Collins was a witness. This Dinah Sullivan died in 1892, age 54, placing her birth around 1838 if that is accurate. Daughter Bridget was present at death. There was a Jeremiah Collins baptized in 1846 to a Lawrence Collins and Catherine Neil. It is not conclusive that Dinah Collins Sullivan was his sister. There is no baptismal record linking Diana to Catherine Neil. The relatively late birth dates of Dinah and Jeremiah suggest to me that there was a Lawrence who was a son of Larr (and a brother of Danny Larr). Otherwise I would have to consider the possibility that Larr was churning out children at least between 1814 and 1846 - over a 32 year range - not likely.
Yet more news archive stories turned up Donovans in Ardagh, Rosscarbery, who were cousins of Adrigole Collinses. Further research in the online church records turned up parents Johanna Collins and John Donovan, married probably before 1856. Among their children was a Dinah Donovan. For the time being I have placed Johanna Collins as a daughter of Larr (therefore a sister of Danny Larr), though I have no conclusive proof of that.
Following more breadcrumb Dianas, I obtained the birth record of a Diana Collins born in 1893 to a Margaret Collins and a John Collins. This was in Cullomane, right in our backyard! I am waiting for the marriage record of a John Collins and a Margaret Collins in Bantry to see if this Margaret was the fourth Cullomane child of Danny Larr. If this is the correct marriage record for John Collins and Margaret Collins in Cullomane, and it confirms that Margaret's father was Danny Larr, this could be important. Margaret's daughter Dinah is probably the Dinah associated with Roggie and Pitchie whom Aunt Peg remembers when she was just seven years old, and she visited Cullomane East when Denny Dan Larr was ill.
In the census, there is also a son Denis in 1901 who apparently morphed to "Bob" in 1911. Grandmom's brother Denis was also nicknamed Bob, which may be further evidence that these Cullomane families were related.
The Larrys chart is here, and the pdf is here.
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Isner upsets del Potro in semifinals
John Isner's absence from the ATP top 20 will be brief.
The 6-foot-10 American made sure of that Saturday, rallying to beat seventh-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (4), 7-6 (9), 6-3 in a grueling Western & Southern Open semifinal.
Isner, who fell from No. 20 to 22 this week, will return to the top 20 after a stimulating Cincinnati run that includes beating three straight top-10 players for the first time in his career while earning his second Masters 1000 series finals appearance and first in Cincinnati. His previous Masters 1000 final appearance was at Indian Wells in 2012.
"It's awesome to be at this stage again," said Isner, who beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals and No. 8 Richard Gasquet in the second round. "I've been playing pretty well this season, but this tournament is where I've really started to put it all together. I'm playing pretty well in all facets of the game."
Isner, in his first appearance in the tournament's semifinals, had been 0-4 against the Argentine. He'll play third-seeded Rafael Nadal, who beat sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal to reach the tournament final for the first time in nine appearances.
"This is one tournament that I've never been able to play well, so it's something special to play well in a place I never did in the past," said Nadal, 3-0 in his career against Isner. "I'm very happy for that. I am having the right feelings on court. I'm playing aggressive, and the crowd here is great."
Nadal extended his personal winning streak against the Czech to 14 matches while improving his overall season record 52-3, including 14-0 on hardcourts. After winning at Montreal last week, the Spaniard will be making back-to-back appearances in hardcourt finals for the first time in his career.
He's 15-1 against top-10 players this season.
Top-ranked Serena Williams also will be making her first career appearance in the event's championship match after ousting defending champion Li Na, 7-5, 7-5, in the first women's semifinal. Williams, seeking her ninth title of the year, advanced when Li double-faulted on match point. Williams improved to 60-3 this season.
"I really would not have predicted myself being in the finals here at all, so it's definitely pretty exciting for me," said Williams, who clinched the 2013 Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series women's title with the win and can earn a $1 million bonus if she wins the U.S. Open. "Really unexpected for me, too. I came in here not playing my best, and now I'm in the final. It's just almost weird."
Williams will play second-seeded Victoria Azarenka in Sunday's final. Azarenka beat 14th-seeded Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in a semifinal that featured 23 service breaks in 27 games.
Isner needed 2 hours, 47 minutes to improve to 16-3 since retiring from Wimbledon in the second round because of a left knee injury. He finished off the win when del Potro sent a backhand from the baseline into the net.
Despite tossing into a persistent swirling breeze and bright sunshine, both players served so effectively early that the first set included just one break point, fought off by the 22nd-ranked Isner. The 6-foot-6 Del Potro came up with a crucial mini-break on the 11th point of the tiebreaker when Isner sailed his backhand volley wide to lose the set.
Del Potro broke Isner in the eighth game of the second set to put himself into position to serve for the match, but he double-faulted on match point and Isner came up with his own break to stay alive and eventually force a tiebreak that he won when del Potro sent a forehand wide to the deuce court.
"I think I lost the match in the second set," del Potro said. "That was my chance to beat him. He was fighting all the time and deserved to win the third set, but I missed my chance."
"I know, at that moment, that the sun on that side was pretty bad," said Isner, who can become the first American to win the tournament since Andy Roddick in 2006. "We both struggled with that for about 30 minutes."
Despite the loss to Nadal, Berdych still will move up a notch in the rankings to a career-high fifth, passing Roger Federer.
"That makes it probably even more special," Berdych said.

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Tuna Taco
|Day Part
|Lunch, Dinner
|Menu Part
|Cuisine Type
Tuna is cooked with taco seasonings and piled into warmed taco shells. The spicy mix is topped with traditional taco fare-lettuce, tomato, onions and cheese for a delicious and satisfying meal.
2 tbs. chopped garlic
1 tbs. Oil
1 lb. chopped tuna
1 packet taco seasoning mix
1/2 cup diced chilies
3 cups salsa
1/4 cup chopped red onion, diced small
1 cup tomatoes, diced small
1/4 cup minced cilantro
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
6 corn tortillas
1 cup shredded lettuce
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large skillet on medium-high heat, sauté garlic in oil, and then add chopped tuna and taco seasoning mix. Cook for about two minutes. Then add diced chilies and salsa. Simmer for about 5 minutes.
3. In a medium bowl, combine chopped onion, tomato, cilantro, and Monterey Jack cheese.
4. Place tortillas in oven until warm, then remove.
5. Divide lettuce among warmed tortillas, add tomato and onion mixture, and then top with chopped tuna mix.
6. Divide cheddar cheese and top each tortilla with it.
7. Serve immediately.


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Not bad
This is only the second outage in the 5 years we have been with them. The last outage we have experienced was 3 years ago.
Virgin Media customers across the west Midlands are this morning cut off from broadband, cable phone and digital TV. Reg readers in Birmingham, Solihull and Kidderminster are reporting their connections went down at about 5.40am. A update on Virgin Media's status page confirms engineers are investigating the problems. A …
This is only the second outage in the 5 years we have been with them. The last outage we have experienced was 3 years ago.
Don't know about Virgin but I'm getting a BT Wholesale Service Information page when I try to go to some websites (blackle for example). Obviously it's not my provider 'cause i can still see the Reg. I live a bit north of Brum.
If you're up and trying to use the internet at 5.40, you've got bigger problems in your life than Virgin Media.
... even if you can check they're not cancelled online.
It was 1740... there was a loss day before as well
Limited my hairy as.. donkey
the WHOLE of Birmingham was down last night. Their call systems were just hanging up on people calling in, and the status page was as flaky as anything, pumping out http 500 errors when you tried to load it.
Hopefully it will be back up when I get home tonight
TV was down for the whole of the Midlands last night.
where was the report from monday nights outage in bolton?
no tv not tinterwebs for at least 4 hours.
seems like virgin have some great lumbering big foot kicking cables out round the country...looks like he's moving south
...that I lost my VM intertube last night for 20 minutes (Glasgow).
An outrageous cover-up!
My Yardley based office is on a connection from CI-Net but I'm guessing it piggybacks on Virgin, or is in some way related. Conn went down 5:40 this morning, was back up at 10:38. Rumour is a fire in Worcester took our the power for a major part of the network, but I have no idea if that's true. CI-Net's status page was all green for the duration of this ...
While you install the DPI trial gear for snooping on your customers
I live in Leicester and had no Broadband from about 3 pm Monday, only a very spotty connection Tuesday and nothing again last night. Support laughably had a recoreded message saying they had technical problems at the moment (no shit, Sherlock!) and sugesting if I needed help urgently, I should visit the website.
Someone obviously has a very warped sense of humour. Eventually got someone last night around 10.30, who told me it should be back on at 10.30 this morning. How do they work that out?
Virgin Media have been suffering significant outages for the past week since announcing their plans to deploy Deep Packet Inspection. I have been trying to get in touch with Andrew Barron at VM all morning to find out if the widespread outages over the past week have been caused by the installation of CView but as yet have been unable to reach him or his PA.
It went titsup about 4 hours before the analogue tv signal went, on the 1st - Bolton and Derby areas, and didn't come back until midmorning of the 2nd.
I was still having minor problems last night, and their customer service line was completely jammed.
It's a bit of an improvement over NTL, but given that the customers they inherited from NTL are paying a lot more for the service than new customers, I'm feeling a tad short-changed and thinking of defecting to BT.
I remember failing quality in the NSC for saying Outage as it was too technical a word for customers.
Oh and remedy? That a fix, or the outage tool everyone uses?
...then again, coventry was NTL from the start, and so isn't part of the old Telewest infrastructure.
Went down in Telford
In Reading we've had problems for nearly 2 weeks. No broadband connection for days (sometimes it's only hours) then the connection will come back for a few hours - and when it does, some times it's really slow (0.1Mb - 4Mb) and sometimes I get nearer to 50Mb than I've ever had - but then it goes again.
Had no connection for most of yesterday, it's back again this morning.
Knowing someone who works for VM, the Gas board cut through a load of pipes and this caused the disruption.
Meanwhile about 60 schools in south birmingham were left without any internet access until about 10:30am.
That PC bible-thumper from a North Carolina should really have his knockers in a twist today. Readers might remember he objected to the use of the word 'cherry'.
Register has really done it today using colloquial British language that the former colonials of North Carolina will never understand. Even a PC TV type could identify with parts of "tits-up" but the :Brum" will leave him appropriately confused.
Keep up the good work (he likely only visits The Register to plagerise your stories).
TV was off in Billingham last night too. Broadband was up though so could still get some MW2 time in :-D
"If you're up and trying to use the internet at 5.40, you've got bigger problems in your life than Virgin Media."
No, Virgin / Telewest went completly tit's up. That means businesses that use their network backbone also went down, i.e 24/7 sites had no branch connections, so yes we did have a bigger problems in our life than the internet being down.
they have broadband oop north (or not as the case may be)
...confirmed electrical problem at main hub, unsure if it's fixed yet
I don't know the annual rate of VM internet outages in my area, but enough of them are sufficiently inconvenient that I bought a 3g dongle as a (slow) backup.
What surprised me more was when my elderly parents lost their VM telephone line for around 24hrs. I think that was about the third time this year. They aren't very good with their mobile phone so I'm not confident they'd have been able to make a call if there were an emergency. (Given my father had a heart attack a month ago, it isn't a particularly far-fetched scenario.)
The VM status page doesn't seem particularly useful. Firstly some of their geographical areas are ambiguous and don't obviously map onto reality as I know it. Secondly it doesn't always seem to be updated, which must mean they have to handle more enquiries. If it said "Telephone outage in Town X, should be fixed by 5pm" I wouldn't have spent an hour trying to call them from my mobile.
...I've had a good number of outages of both TV and web in SW Leicestershire. I was okay last night though, if maybe a tadge slower than usual. I had assumed I'd just been visiting slow sites - which of course may well have been the case. I don't use the phone (I use Vonage - so of course *that* goes out with the web connection) so I don't know if that had gone down at the same time as the other services have been failing.
The fun bit is if you phone the helpline, you'll get some nice Indian called Steve or Susan who tell you that they'll have to send an engineer to your house to confirm that there is a problem. Making a suggestion like "why don't you check to see if there are outages in the area" are typically met with a stunned silence, a "please hold" and a few minutes later confirmation that everything is down in your area but will be working again at "around 10:21am". Virgin are great! You've got to love 'em - and despite everything, the customer service is way better than in the days of NTL where an hour on hold was the norm if you wanted to talk to *anybody*.
The whole thing went down yesterday for a while and the service has been very patchy for the last week or so. When it was back up last night, listening to something on iPlayer was rather annoying and the programme would cut out now and again - so much for 20 megs!
TV was out in Wolvo last night but broadband was fine oddly enough... actually ended up watching Beeb2 for a bit - when they kill off the analogue we'll be stuffed though.
I had problems last night from about 8:30pm and had to reset my v+box. It came back up after a very long reset, but was v. flaky. It hung again and I tried resetting it - this time io just woudn't come back up, so I powered it off! In the meantime I tried ringing the service desk - and got the "too busy" message and disconnected. So tried the internet - no connection! Have tried powering up the v+box this morning - and it's still hanging at the same point. Very frustrated!
My mate's on Virgin in Brum and is getting error 500s. Interestingly we got this happening to our users when the log drive filled on one of our transparent http antivirus proxies. While I would be pleasantly surprised if it turned out Virgin are using some sort of AV filtering to protect its customers; I suspect it has more to do with the dynamic bandwidth throttling system that supposedly uses DPA.
The NetEnforcer boxes that Virgin Media use for throttling aren't capable of that - the worst (!) that happens if it makes a whoopsy is that traffic would go unshaped.
... Assuming VM have them hooked up to bypass units.
I'm in South Brum and they cut me off a few weeks ago, some silly sausage cut my cable in the cab so I need a new cable running to my domicile.
Maybe this whole thing is an attack on me personally.....!! Its a conspiracy..
It (Virgin TV) went down at about 6ish last night (in Brum). The internet was not affected at all.
After trying several times to get through to "Customer Services" we eventually got through at around 10 o'clock in the evening, had a good laugh with the bloke on the phone (he said it was the whole country that was affected) as he said people were phoning him up and "demanding that he personally switch their telly back on" - (does no one own a radio anymore?).
The Virgin Media forum had a couple of threads containing, largely, very badly worded rants from seriously childish morons all of whom were threatening "to go back to Sky" (so why did you leave in the first place you knuckle dragging motherfuckers?)
This morning the TV was still down but the net was fine. All was sorted by lunch time.
I've been a Virgin customer since 2000 (when they weren't Virgin) - this is the first TV Outage we've had. A more or less rock solid excellent service and still the only ISP to tell the truth about achievable broadband speeds. And no, I don't work for VM.
Rupert Murdoch can kiss my arse.
I have been very satisfied with VM cable for several years but in the last 2 months or so, the service has been very unreliable, going down for several hours every few days. What has happened to this formerly bullet-proof service? Btw, I'm in Camden, London.
for my account has an interesting piece of "news".
"Urgent customer news
Due to a major System failure we are unable to take customer calls at the present time. We are working very hard to rectify this problem.
we will inform you of any updates as soon as possible.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause."
Was borked this morning for a couple of hours
No service since 10:30am (almost 7 hrs ago), in South London. Network status page lists this outage but has no resolution time posted.
Crikey, first Vermin Media piss off people who don't pay by upgrading Nagravision versions and now they piss off people who do pay by having an outage covering very large areas and lasting many hours.
Way to go... At least if Sky screw up my phone and internet still work, so I could watch iPlayer or TVCatchup.


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LODI - The Downtown Lodi Business Partnership will disband at the end of February, ending 14 years of running the city's most popular downtown events.
LODI - The Downtown Lodi Business Partnership will disband at the end of February, ending 14 years of running the city's most popular downtown events.
The DLBP board of directors voted Monday to disband and hand over the reins of running the Downtown Farmers Market and annual holiday Parade of Lights to the Chamber of Commerce, the chamber's chief executive, Pat Patrick, said.
DLBP Executive Director Jamie Watts, the nonprofit's lone employee, will remain on the payroll through February.
"The normal life of a downtown business partnership is about five to seven years and the normal progression is for those services to sunset or to transfer to an organization like a city or chamber that has more resources," said DLBP board member Ryan Sherman. "The DLBP has been going for 14 years. We think this is a normal transition to the chamber to continue promoting downtown as Lodi's crown jewel."
The DLBP reported a 2012 budget of $176,725. Revenue was generated through $40,000 in business assessment dues that range from $60 to $600 per company, a $24,000 city subsidy, and through events. The farmers market generated $101,000 in revenue in 2012, and the Parade of Lights $11,000.
The nonprofit reported spending all of the $176,725 in 2012, the largest expenses being Watts' $47,500 salary and the $61,000 cost to run the farmers market.
Patrick said the chamber will not collect dues from downtown businesses. He will expand his staff by hiring a director of the farmers market, which opens Thursdays from June through September. The farmers market posted a $40,000 profit in 2012, making it self-sufficient.
The chamber will also start a downtown advertising campaign, and will be in charge of other features like kiosks and banner ads downtown.
"And hopefully, some of the businesses that haven't joined the chamber because they've had the DLBP dues will join and strengthen the chamber," Patrick said.
Sherman said the transition to the chamber should be seamless, and he and his colleagues are more focused on promoting downtown events. He said this past weekend's Wine & Chocolate event attracted 5,000 visitors.
"Downtown businesses were slammed," he said. "It's growing. We have new restaurants and new wineries opening."
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Steelers looking to lock up safety by the start of training camp
Troy Polamalu
Troy Polamalu wanted to return to the West Coast to be near his family when his contract expired after this season, or so rumors have had it.
If so, he will return for visits only.
Polamalu, the most unique strong safety in the NFL and among its best, has come so close to a contract extension with the Steelers that sources close to the negotiations believe he will sign a new deal around the opening of training camp Monday.
Terms of the contract were unavailable but it likely will put him near the top among the Steelers' best-paid players.
Polamalu had one season left on a five-year contract he signed as the Steelers' first-round draft choice in 2003. He was scheduled to earn a salary of $1,088,000 this season, which could be one-tenth of the signing bonus he will earn with a new deal.
Polamalu made the Pro Bowl in each of the past three seasons after becoming a starter in 2004. He helped turn the Steelers' defense into a work of confusion for opposing offenses.
Coordinator Dick LeBeau deploys Polamalu all over the field and takes maximum advantage of his quickness, speed and instincts.
Polamalu often lines up in one spot and ends up in another at the snap of the ball. He has been used as a deep safety, linebacker, cornerback and pass-rusher.
There were times when he lined up on the outside of the defensive end on the left side and, just as the ball was snapped, sped to his right and blitzed from that side.
Polamalu, 26, was born in California, grew up in Oregon and played at Southern California. There were rumors the past year that he would play his final season with the Steelers, then sign with a team on the West Coast.
Polamalu always denied that, saying he was happy playing for the Steelers and noting he made his year-round home in Pittsburgh with his wife Theodora.
Signing the popular Polamalu to a contract extension is crucial for the Steelers, who enter a transition period under new coach Mike Tomlin and some of their roster veterans.
They released captain and linebacker Joey Porter in March while another captain, six-time Pro Bowl guard Alan Faneca, publicly ripped the team for not negotiating a contract extension and skipped all but the required spring practices.
Some players have wondered about the organization's commitment because of the actions involving Porter and Faneca.
Faneca is one of three starters on the offensive line who enter the final years of their contracts, along with guard Kendall Simmons and tackle Max Starks. No progress has been reported on any of those talks and no more negotiations are expected to take place this year. Two other starters, linebacker Clark Haggans and fullback Dan Kreider, also are on the last year of contracts. Polamalu's deal might be the last one consummated in 2007 for a Steelers veteran.


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Brady passes for two TDs as Patriots ground FalconsBy The Sports Xchange
September 30. 2013 12:14AM
ATLANTA -- Tom Brady might be still learning about his new receiving corps, but it did not matter Sunday night.
Brady passed for 316 yards and two touchdowns, leading the New England Patriots to a 30-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome.
Kenbrell Thompkins caught six passes for 106 yards, and Julian Edelman made seven receptions for 107 yards as the duo outplayed the Falcons' more heralded wide receivers for much of the night. Thompkins caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Brady to put the Patriots up by two touchdowns with 10 minutes to play.
The Patriots are 4-0 for the first time since 2007, when they won all 16 regular-season games and reached the Super Bowl before losing to the New York Giants.
The Falcons (1-3) couldn't get going until it was too late. With Julio Jones drawing constant double coverage, Matt Ryan hooked up with tight end Tony Gonzalez 12 times for 147 yards and two touchdowns. Ryan completed 34 of 54 passes for 421 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Jones wound up with six catches for 108 yards.
LeGarrette Blount's 47-yard touchdown gave the Patriots a 20-10 lead early in the fourth quarter. The Patriots converted a third-and-19 from their own 12-yard line one play before Blount cut back through the middle of the Falcons' defense and raced for New England's first rushing touchdown of the season.
New England built the lead to 30-13 before Gonzalez's second touchdown catch brought Atlanta within seven points with less than five minutes to go. The Falcons recovered an onside kick, but they settled for a 25-yard Matt Bryant field goal.
Roddy White and Jones were held in check by Aqib Talib and the Patriots' secondary until late in the fourth quarter. Talib recorded his fourth interception of the season and batted away a pass to White in the end zone with 30 seconds to play.
Ryan hooked up with Gonzalez seven times in the first half. Their last connection of the half was a 21-yard touchdown pass in the final minute that sent the game into halftime tied 10-10.
Both offenses struggled inside the red zone during the season's first three games, and that again was a storyline in the first half.
The Falcons marched down the field on their opening drive but stalled at the Patriots' 6-yard line. Atlanta settled for a 23-yard Bryant field goal.
On the Falcons' second trip inside the Patriots 20-yard line, Atlanta turned the ball over on downs. Ryan overthrew an open White on fourth-and-2 from the New England 7. The Falcons would regret not taking the chip-shot field goal as the game played out.
The Patriots ranked last in the league in red-zone efficiency entering the game, but they came away with a touchdown on their first trip inside the Atlanta 20. On third-and-goal, Brady found Matthew Mulligan for a 1-yard touchdown, giving New England at 7-3 lead early in the second quarter.
Atlanta, which won 14 games last season and took a big lead into the second half of the NFC Championship Game, now finds itself in a hole in the NFC South, trailing the New Orleans Saints (3-0) by 2 1/2 games. New Orleans plays host to the Miami Dolphins on Monday night.
NOTES: Brady threw a touchdown pass for the 52nd consecutive game, the second-longest streak in NFL history. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees had a 54-game streak from October 2009 to November 2012. ... Brady needs two more touchdown passes to surpass Fran Tarkenton for fourth most in NFL history. ... New England TE Rob Gronkowski (back/forearm) was inactive. ... Falcons T Sam Baker started after missing last week's game with a left knee injury, but he went down in the second quarter, holding the same knee. ... The Patriots ran the ball on 10 consecutive plays on their first-quarter scoring drive. ... Atlanta CB Asante Samuel (thigh) and RB Steven Jackson (thigh) were inactive. ... New England DT Vince Wilfork injured his right ankle on the game's first drive and was carted back to the locker room.


text: Maxim magazine are publishing their June issue this April and announced it's to be their last. Dennis Publishing pulled the UK edition of the mag which debuted in 1995, riding high on a wave of lad mags which included FHM and Loaded. Chief executive, James Tye said: "The Maxim brand remains the bestselling men's lifestyle magazine in the world, but Dennis Publishing must move with the times and recognise that the future of the brand in the UK is online."


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They also approve tile mural at swimming pool, but want to see the design before it's mounted.
Members of the Crookston School Board on Monday gave their blessing to efforts underway to make Crookston home to a "zero depth pool" for children, more commonly known as a splash park, even if it ends up being located in a city park or somewhere else in town, and not on the Crookston Community Swimming Pool property, which the school district owns.
"If you want to do this project, hats off to you and good luck, wherever it takes you," board chair Frank Fee told Shirley Seddon Iverson and Ann Longtin after they presented their plans to the board.
Off and on over the years, as the school district and city continue to come up with equal amounts of money each year to balance the pool's budget – around $66,000 each this year – the possibility of boosting pool revenue by opening a splash park has been mentioned. But, with the new splash park group envisioning an amenity that's free of charge, board members aren't interested in adding a single penny to the pool's annual operating deficit through larger water bills and maintenance costs that would come with a splash park.
"We're losing money at the pool already, so it would have to be no cost to us whatsoever for us to even look at it there," Fee said.
A splash park is included in the pool's five to 10-year strategic plan, Pool Manager Ken Stromberg said, but that doesn't mean one at the pool site – the school district owns a large piece of property adjacent to the pool – has gone anywhere beyond a casual mention now and then.
Splash park proponents prefer the growing Castle Park for their new attraction. Seddon Iverson said the new natural play space, forest trails and early childhood playground equipment in Castle Park – located on the fringes of Sampson's Addition – make it a potentially ideal location. The park is already home to the dog park, and the city is planning to add a shelter and ranger station later this year in Castle Park, Seddon Iverson said, in advance of the city's long-range plan to move its city campground from Central Park to Castle Park.
"This would make Castle Park even more of a premier, one-stop location," she said.
Asked by board member Tim Dufault if they'd surveyed families with children on where they might like the splash park to go, Longtin said they hadn't. "I think the best place is where there is the most for children to do, and Castle Park is that place," she said. "Families could come and stay awhile because there is so much for children to do there."
The splash park group is consulting with Grand Forks officials, where two splash parks in GF city parks are to be joined by a third, located at Choice Fitness, later this year. The Crookston group is hoping to raise up to $200,000 this year to build a splash park here, which would likely feature water on a timer that would simply flow into the city's sewer system instead of being recycled and reused, which is more expensive. Longtin said it's estimated that annual water and maintenance costs would approach $7,000.
They've looked at potential private property locations, too, and Highland Park is another possibility, Longtin said. It comes in second to Castle Park, however, she said, because Highland Park attracts an older crowd that comes to play softball and skate in the skateboard park.
"We are dedicated and determined to get this done," Seddon Iverson said. "We think it's very important to the community and the families in the community. Everyone we've talked to, no matter what location, feels very strongly about this."
Pool mural
Prior to the splash park presentation, the board OK'ed a $1,250 grant that Melissa Dingmann has secured from the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council for a tile mural that will be mounted in a hallway inside the swimming pool entrance.
But, while acknowledging that they realize the members of the Crocs swim team and Pirate girls' swim team, working alongside two artists who have led similar ventures in other communities, won't come up with any mural designs that are "inappropriate," board members nonetheless asked if they could see the mural design before it's mounted.
Dingmann said she'll send the design to board members before it's mounted. But, she added, it's a fairly unique process, with the students and artists scheduled to spend several hours together this Thursday crafting the designs that will make up the four large tiles, before the tiles are glazed, placed in the kiln and fired as part of a process that will take a couple weeks.
"It's very much a student-driven experience, under the artists' guidance," she said. "The artists have worked with youth and children before, so I would assume it's going to be appropriate."
"I'm sure it won't be objectionable," board member Keith Bakken responded. "We would just like to view it before it's actually installed."


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A Colorful Holiday: Rainbow Christmas
I love Christmas. I love colors. So when I saw this rainbow Christmas tree (originally featured in last year's roundup of retro white Christmas trees), it definitely piqued my interest. If you're tired of red and green, why not make your Christmas every color?
One of the things that's held me back from this in past years is that I'm also a bit of a Christmas traditionalist (for example, I don't cotton to this). But with a restrained hand and the right accessories, I think you can make a tasteful rainbow Christmas happen.
1. White Christmas tree with rainbow ornaments from Martha of Open Door Studio.
2. Forest funny pinecone ornament, $30.00 from MoMa Store.
3. Rainbow tree skirt, $58.95 from Land of Nod.
4. Rainbow crackers, approx $56.00 from Sarah Moore Vintage.
5. Wrap kraft paper packages with rainbow-colored string. Abrams Books via Small Shop Studio.
6. Rainbow pompom garland, $14.99 from Midget Gems.
7. Rainbow star ornaments from Crafting with Love.
8. Rainbow Christmas cards by Crafted by Lindy.
9. These colorful printable polyhedrons from Mini Eco are a fun, DIY-able decoration.
10. Good enough to leave up year-round. Colors wall chart, approx $63.00 from Blink Designs.
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PARIS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday Spain needs to follow through on reforms to restore investor confidence.
"Spain is immersed in a prolonged recession that has been compounded by the continuing crisis in the euro area," the OECD said.
"The path to recovery has been launched, but will require full implementation of reforms and some additional measures to restore confidence in the financial sector," the OECD said in a report presented to Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness Luis de Guindos in Madrid by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria.
The OECD is an international economic research agency that serves 34 countries including Japan, the United States, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Canada and Israel.
Gurria said Spain had "launched a courageous reform program ... to address the root causes of today's crisis."
The OECD report said Spain had made "substantial budgetary consolidation measures," and had tightened budgetary rules.
The report also praised Spain for "broad and deep reforms of the labor market and the banking sector."
"We are already seeing positive developments and results," Gurria said, "particularly in terms of restoring competitiveness and closing imbalances with Europe."
But the OECD said Spain should "aim at meeting headline deficit targets."
"However, if growth is far lower than expected, a higher deficit is acceptable and automatic stabilizers should be allowed to operate."
Spain should also "avoid a disproportionate impact of the crisis on low-income households," and continue with labor reforms, the report said.
The OECD said "more could be done to reduce labor market duality."
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Hooksett exploring tuition pacts, considering lawyer
The Hooksett School Board may consider seeking an attorney to assist it in the drafting of potential contracts with area high schools as a contractual dispute with Manchester continues to simmer.
Vice Chair David Pearl offered a motion at the board's meeting Tuesday night to direct district Superintendent Charles P. Littlefield to solicit quotes from "qualified law firms" in order to help the board to "negotiate possible tuition agreements with area high schools."
According to Pearl's proposal, the attorney, who would necessarily be "familiar with New Hampshire educational contractual law" and have "no valid perceived conflicts on interest" with Manchester, Bow, Pinkerton, Goffstown, or Londonderry, would draft potential tuition agreements with area schools and assist in the preparation of potential warrant articles. The agreements would necessarily be contingent on the outcome of the district's contractual dispute with the Manchester School District, which the town has accused of being in breach of contract, largely over overcrowded classrooms in violation of state standards.
The hired attorney would not handle the district's dispute with Manchester. The district's regular attorney, who would continue to handle the Manchester dispute, is unable to fulfill such a service for the board, as he has a professional conflict of interest with one of the cited schools.
According to the timeline laid out by Pearl, these meetings would be completed by Oct. 1 of this year, with potential warrant articles being finalized before the New Year.
"I think that this board needs to explore what options we have as far as other high schools," said Pearl. "This board has sent a letter of breach to Manchester stating that we feel that we should be out of the contract by June of 2014. I think it's now incumbent on this board to now be looking at preparations for that date, and I feel that we need the services of a professional . to get that information for us."
Chair Trisha Korkosz argued, however, that as the motion was not a specific item on the agenda, discussed under the more general "Manchester High School Issues," the board could not vote on it at that meeting. After some discussion of potentially waiving the rules in this instance under the argument that time was "of the essence," Pearl ultimately withdrew his motion.
The board was also set to appoint a new board member Tuesday night in the wake of Mike Dubisz's April resignation, though that vote ultimately ended in a deadlock, with no final decision made.
Nominees for the seat were Jim Sullivan, Jen Leger, Kathy O'Hara, and Darlene Cote.
Sullivan spoke to his experience as an educator, 12-year school board member, and town council chair. Leger, a former candidate for the board, emphasized character and her community support (several members of the public spoke in support of her at public input). O'Hara spoke to goal setting and data gathering. Cote emphasized the struggles of the parents of special needs children, as well as her ability to "see all perspectives."
When the names were nominated at random, Sullivan received no votes, Leger received the votes of Korkosz and Cheryl Akstin, and O'Hara and Cote received the votes of Pearl and John Lyscars.
The board lacks a policy to address the next step in the event of a deadlock and no appointment was made.


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A Ramothodist Preacher's Sunday SermonSubmitted by pete on September 16, 2007 - 15:21
Lightning fans who know me know that when it comes to this team's prospects I've been a big booster of the concept of Karri Ramo making it to the NHL sooner rather than later. However, for Ramo to make the team out of camp would be an improbable event because the business side of the game all but precludes it. The Lightning have invested roughly $4 million dollars in the tandem of Johan Holmqvist and Marc Denis heading into the 2007-2008 season, and the team learned this summer that Denis is virtually untradable at this point in time after such a poor campaign last season. I won't even attempt to argue for Ramo's promotion to the bigs from a business standpoint, because it doesn't make sense.
But from a hockey standpoint it makes all the sense in the world, and it makes sense on two levels...
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Early Reviews from Traverse City: Not GoodSubmitted by pete on September 8, 2007 - 22:58
At the start of the week I blogged about a number of questions about the Lightning's prospects that would begin to be answered at the Traverse City tournament. Unfortunately, half way through the tournament, the early reviews are not good:
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Questions to Be Answered at Traverse CitySubmitted by pete on September 2, 2007 - 10:59
Just some quick thoughts of mine going into this week's tournament:
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Where We Stand: AugustSubmitted by pete on August 2, 2007 - 19:08
First off, Bolt Prospects apologizes for being down last night. Unfortunately we had some technical difficulties with the ISP that our server runs on that took about 12 hours to remedy. The site is up and running again now and we don't foresee any related problems in the near future.
Second, stay tuned to Bolt Prospects over the next few weeks as we are expecting to get a glimpse at the preliminary roster for the Traverse City prospect tournament pretty soon.
With all of that out of the way, the flurry of free agent signings that came in the first three weeks of July seems to have subsided. The team now has 47 players under contract that will count against the 50-man roster limit, with Ryan Craig remaining to be signed who will be the 48th. For the most part the roster is set, which offers the opportunity to speculate on how the Lightning's organizational roster and lines will look at the NHL, AHL and ECHL level.
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Now Taking Nominations: You Let the Dogs OutSubmitted by pete on July 17, 2007 - 22:37
We're going to switch gear and do something a little fun over the next week or two. One of the next features we're going to have on the site, now that we've released our 15th season All-Time Lightning Team is to create the All-Time Lightning All-Dog Team. We're going to go back through 14 seasons of Lightning hockey to reminisce on some of the worst players ever to wear the bolt and we need your help in crafting the list.
Here's the rules:
1.) You can't nominate any player whose rights are currently held by the Lightning. We're not looking to poison morale in the present, just to look back fondly on some of the bad old days. Sorry Tim Taylor haters, take it down the road.
2.) Whoever you nominate has to have played at least 10 games in a Lightning jersey. You lucked out Mario Larocque.
In the end we hope to have 12 awful forwards, 1 punchless enforcer, 6 defenseless defensemen and 2 sieve-like goaltenders. Nominees will be graded by the Bolt Prospects staff based on only the most unscientific of criteria, the foremost of which will be the shear stench they emitted while on the rink.
Don't feel like you have to give us all 22 players. Individual nominations are actually preferred. Use this blog thread to nominate who you think was the biggest mutt in Lightning history and give us a paragraph on why you think that player should be thrown in the pound. Then, keep checking Bolt Prospects over the next couple of weeks to see if we put your pooch on the list.
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The New Logo ControversySubmitted by pete on July 14, 2007 - 23:20
Since the Lightning's new logo unofficially leaked on the internet a couple of days ago there's been a groundswell of outrage in the Lightning fan base. I hate to divert from the primary focus of the website which is covering prospects to talk about fashion issues, but seeing as this is the identity of the franchise we're talking about, I understand why passions are riding high amongst the fan base. And, seeing as Erik Erlendsson posted it on his blog, I figured he gives us professional cover to do so as well.
In my opinion, the logo itself isn't terrible. The font on the text is tragically cartoonish though, like they came straight out of the old Batman television series and Adam West and Burt Ward just "Bam, splat, bort, biffed, Tampa Bayed" a bad guy. It's HORRIBLE. It's way too childish and too kitschey. It's hard to take that logo seriously as a result.
For my money I've always loved the Lightning's secondary logo with the silhouette of the state in the background. I've always thought that was the classiest part of the Lightning's uniform. Give me jet black jerseys (like the Springfield Falcons' home jerseys with some simple blue trim around the waist, maybe even have the same white old school lace ties in the front too), jet black pants with the lightning bolts on the side, and jet black socks and switch the primary and secondary logos in order on the hierarchy and that's the uniform I would want. Simple, elegant, fierce. You know when they say "(Insert name of color here) is the new black." When they say that I always wonder why not just go ahead with black? It worked for Spinal Tap with their album cover on Smell the Glove did it not?
Kidding aside, what do you all think? The new logo designs are posted after the jump.
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HF Draft Review Is Divorced From RealitySubmitted by pete on July 14, 2007 - 22:50
Long time readers of the website know that the staff here at Bolt Prospects has a bit of a chequered past with that other hockey prospects website, Hockeysfuture. Without getting to deep into the specifics, after years of myself, Chad and Tim working the Lightning page on that website we as a group had a falling out with management over what seemed to us to be obvious bias in their decision making process against us and the Lightning's prospects. It wasn't something that happened overnight and we didn't leave all at once but eventually Tim had the idea to start a blog and we seized on it and started making plans. The rest, as they say, is history.
Long time readers of this website also know that we've never been afraid to call out Hockeysfuture for what we've seen as continuing bias in the product over at that website. One of the most obvious points of contention we had with HF was their refusal for almost two years to assign a writer to cover the Lightning's prospects. It wasn't until shortly after the Lightning internet community responded strongly to an incident in which a high ranking HF writer called prospects Blair Jones and Justin Keller trash and Bolt Prospects' subsequent smackdown of said writer that HF finally conceded and assigned longtime writer and all around standup guy Phil Laugher to cover the team's prospects. Laugher earned his street cred with the Lightning fan base when he apologized publicly to Lightning fans about a year prior when HF released a set of rankings that had NHL regular Paul Ranger 9th in the organization, soon-to-be NHL regular Nick Tarnasky 19th in the organization, and Keller and Russian superprospect Vasily Koshechkin out of the rankings altogether.
Under Laugher, it has been our website's opinion that the product on HF has improved by leaps and bounds. Considering he's been struggling upstream against an online editor who clearly has ulterior motives, their site has actually become tolerable over the last year. As such, we've had an unofficial truce with HockeysFuture over the past 14 or so months. Unfortunately, Phil didn't write the horribly divorced from reality draft review HF just put out for the Lightning, a piece so bad I got multiple e-mails from the Bolt Prospects staff within moments of their reading it. Considering their strong negative reaction to the article, I'm afraid we as a site have to respond.
Now, admittedly I have no idea who Elisa Hatch is. And let me just say ahead of time, it's not her fault Hockeysfuture's editors and management decided to put her in a difficult situation and its not her fault they offered her so little editorial support in the course of writing this article. Nearest as I can tell this is Hatch's first solo article at HF and unfortunately, without knowledgable editors who actually care about the subject matter, the quality of the work suffered.
Bottom line: several of the contentions of the article are diametrically opposed to the professional opinions of several reputable scouting outlets including the Lightning's scouting staff, THN, Red Line Report and the NHL Central Scouting Service. You don't have to take it from us that the article is flawed. Take it from those other professionals.
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The AHL Veteran Rule and the Stockpiling AdmiralsSubmitted by pete on July 4, 2007 - 16:54
Update 7/5:
According to Randy from AdmiralsZone.com in the comments, the AHL and PHPA have ratified the sixth veteran rule. Randy also clarifies the rule noting the 6th veteran will have less than 320 games of experience, not greater than. Karl Stewart and Bryce Lampman would both fit in under this sixth veteran rule.
Thanks to everyone for being patient with me while I get schooled up on these rules.
With the flurry of free agent signings and trades aimed toward stocking up the Norfolk Admirals roster over the last week, I think we've all had some questions about how the Lightning/Admirals will navigate around the AHL's veteran rule. I, admittedly, still didn't know the ins and outs of the rule as early as about a week ago. Thankfully, several of the Admirals fans have pointed out some of the intricacies of the rules and how the Admirals are indeed going to be able ice all this new talent they've accumlated recently.
First, here is how the rule was in effect last season. According to TheAHL.com, teams were allowed to use up to five players with 260 or more games of experience at the IHL/AHL/NHL or European elite league level at the start of the season. Goaltenders are exempt from the veteran rule. ECHL games do not count against the veteran rule.
For this season, according to rumors, the AHL/PHPA are expected to expand the AHL's veteran rule to include a sixth veteran with less than 320 games of experience at the IHL/AHL/NHL or European elite league level.
So where do the Lightning's recent signings fall in terms of games played? The following players will count against the Lightning's six veteran slots:
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Red Line's Take on the Lightning's Draft PicksSubmitted by pete on June 25, 2007 - 19:03
Remind me next year to order Red Line three weeks before draft day instead of two...
Anyway, looking through Red Line's draft guide there are a lot of positives for the Lightning coming out of this draft. Here's how they had the picks the Lightning took rated and, where given, the short blurb about each:
#30 Dana Tyrell: "Love his speed, smarts, and competitiveness."
#54 Luca Cunti: "It's a team game, Luca. It's not all about you."
#62 Alexander Killorn: "Blazing fast playmaker. Stock rising like gas prices."
#100 Mitch Fadden: "Dynamic scorer should've been taken last year."
#160 Matt Marshall: "Bull in a china shop, but has no hands or finesse."
#207 Torrie Jung
#290 Michael Ward
NR Johan Harju
NR Justin Courtnall
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Right AnswerSubmitted by pete on June 24, 2007 - 01:18
Asked about the quality of hockey in Switzerland, controversial Lightning draft pick Luca Cunti had this to say in the St. Pete Times:
Center and third-round pick Luca Cunti doesn't think much of hockey in his Swiss homeland. Asked about the country's developmental program, he said, "It's not better. That's why I want to come here."
Right answer. I don't think this young man is quite the coach killing punk some have made him out to be. I think he's bored playing inferior opponents in Swiss Junior A and the NLB which isn't even the top Swiss leage. He's looking for a challenge, and that's what you want from this guy: the desire to get better. So much was made about whether or not Luca would come to North America but if you look at everything the young man has said he is talking in very specific and very concrete terms about pursuing his career over here. Good. Being in the right frame of mind is a big hurdle for Cunti to get over and it looks like he might get there. The next step is to prove he can play North American hockey in the CHL or USHL and not get his helmet fed to him.
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About Ricardo Rendón
Ricardio Rendón's practice is not defined by a single medium or technique, but rather by the artist's interest in seeing what happens when he experiments with different processes. This curiosity has led him to incorporate into his work elements of masonry, carpentry, leather working, and plumbing. "I always leave traces of the manufacturing process in my work," he has said. His felt installations, begun in 2007, are perhaps his best-known works; to make these, Rendón attaches a piece of felt to the wall and then cuts it, leaving the discarded felt on the ground below the work.
Mexican, b. 1970, Mexico City, Mexico, based in Mexico City, Mexico
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