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Extra $50 billion to scale up climate action is another 'milestone' for UAE
The announcement of the country's plan to invest US$50 billion to scale up climate action, made by HH Sheikh Mohamed BinZayed at the Major Economies Forum on Energy & Climate, adds to the UAE's distinguished track record of achievements in the fight against climate change.
Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, was commenting on President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed's recent announcement at a global forum
An extra $50 billion (AED187 billion) to scale up climate action is "yet another milestone in the UAE's long track record spanning close to three decades," said Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment.
She was referring to President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed's recent announcement at the Leaders Meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. The forum of global leaders hosted by US President Joe Biden.
Almheiri said: "Due to the future-oriented vision of its wise leadership, the UAE has joined the ranks of countries at the forefront of the fight against climate change.
"We have issued environmental protection laws and strategies and rolled out relevant initiatives. We have also adopted a proactive approach to promoting clean energy solutions as the sustainable, alternative energy sources of tomorrow."
Source: Arabian Business

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Lake Murray is always a popular spot for real estate. What we see in the statistics for July 2018 is less people willing to sell compared to last year. In addition, the homes on the market in Lake Murray Irmo YTD are selling in 30% less time that in 2017. 61 days is just over two months. This insane demand for lakefront property is also reflected in the rising median sales price. Up almost 21% from 2017, the median sales price in Lake Murray Irmo side is $617,500! This area is in high demand; buyers want to buy here now and sellers don't want to move. This is a great area to sell a home in, but a competitive one if you want to buy here.
The Newberry side of Lake Murray has doubled its listings from this time of last year. Closed Listings are down, which may indicate less of a seller's market here than elsewhere. More new listings and less sales means more houses for buyers to choose from. The low % of list price received also indicates buyers here have more power, compared to areas like Lexington, where buyers are paying around 97% of the list price.
The market in Lexington side of Lake Murray is growing, with twice as many new listings as last year. It also has increased its closed listings by 20%. There was an oddly high increase in days on the market, which can probably be attributed to one listing which was on the market for a year, thus throwing off the number. There was a rather large increase in % of list price received from July 2017 to July 2018. The Increase was by over 3%, bringing the % of list price to 97.1% for July 2018. It looks like the sellers in July made out better than the sellers in the Lexington side of Lake Murray in July 2017.
Saluda side of Lake Murray is growing in popularity. While its new listings for July 2018 were down, its closed listings were up by over twice as much as last year. Another strong variable in market popularity is days on the market. Saluda Side of Lake Murray has decreased its days on the market by over half. Houses here are selling in about a month. While this could be a short-term trend, the year to date show an overall trend for the year of 2018 that indicates a higher demand for this area around Lake Murray.


Naturopath Sandi Rogers, CEO of the National College of Traditional Medicine, joins us every second Tuesday to answer your health questions.
Among our questions this week were cold sores, psoriasis, and a discussion of encouraging children to eat a healthy diet.
Sandi says a child's tastebuds starts with their parents; their tastes will naturally reflect theor parents', so if you're thinking of starting a family, now is the time to make sure your diet is balanced and healthy so you can pass that on to your little ones. Sandi also recommends plenty of fresh, living food like fruit and vegetables for kids, and limiting processed foods.
Sandi says we still don't really know what causes psoriasis, and once you have it, it tends to come back again and again. Flare ups are caused by stress and food sensitivities, which vary from person to person but coffee is a common trigger. Keep a diary tracking your diet, your stress levels, and the state of your psoriasis, and see what patterns start to emerge. Keeping your skin clean, exfoliated and moisturised and making sure you're well hydrated is also helpful.
Cold sores are a sign of immune compromisation. While outbreaks can be addressed with topical treatments, Sandi says to really get to the bottom of the problem you need to nurse your immune system back to health with vitamin C, fresh fruit and veges, and healthy juices.


Mrs. Purrington, better known as Miss Tammy, works with speech and language development here at Pittsburg School. She grew up in Clarksville, NH and said her favorite subject in school was business. She enjoys reading murder and mystery stories. Before working here with us, she worked at Ethan Allen in Beecher Falls. She's been working with us here for nine years and works about six and a half hours a day.
Miss Tammy and her family have one cat named Fluffy. She enjoys cooking. She said she's never been up Mt. Washington because she's afraid of heights.
Miss Tammy's favorite season is fall when she likes nature walking and just being outside. In her spare time, Miss Tammy reads, does puzzles, and spends time with her family. She feels that her best talent is her organizational skills.


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Christmas tree growers may save the holidays
Joe Taschler
MILWAUKEE — Is this the year Wisconsin tree growers saved Christmas?
That might be stretching things a bit.
Still, amid a tight supply — some say it's a shortage — of fresh cut Christmas trees in parts of the United States, growers in Wisconsin say they have been fielding dozens of calls and filling more orders than usual from folks who are seeking trees for the holiday season.
The situation is a remnant of the Great Recession a decade ago, which drove an untold number of U.S. Christmas tree growers from the business. Fewer growers has meant fewer trees.
Since a Christmas tree takes about a decade to reach a height of 7 to 8 feet — the size that families most prefer — growers now don't have as many to cut and ship around the country as they have had in past years, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group.
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More:Apparently upside down Christmas trees are all the rage this year
The result is in some parts of the U.S., it may be harder to find a Christmas tree this year. And that may drive up prices 5% to 10%, according to the association.
The farther away someone is from a Christmas tree-growing state, the more difficult it may be to find the perfect tree.
Wisconsin growers have stepped in where they can to help fill the void, said Cheryl Nicholson, executive secretary of the Wisconsin Christmas Tree Producers Association in Portage.
Growers who remained through the recession have, in many cases, grown larger, adding acres that others were no longer interested in cultivating.
"In Wisconsin, we're doing great," Nicholson added. "We have plenty of trees, and we've been filling orders like crazy."
Wisconsin ranks in the top five of U.S. Christmas tree production. Other leading tree producing states are Oregon, North Carolina, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin growers here say they have fielded more calls from throughout the country seeking trees this year.
"We've had plenty of trees for our regular customers, but we have probably had five times the (usual) amount of calls from other customers looking for trees because their regular growers did not have trees anymore," said Diane Chapman, family co-owner of Silent Night Evergreens in Endeavor, which is about 50 miles north of Madison.
Silent Night Evergreens provided the White House Christmas Tree this year. The Chapmans were grand champion winners of the 2017 National Christmas Tree Contest, sponsored by the National Christmas Tree Association.
"We got calls this year from California, Oregon and Colorado," Chapman said. "I think those areas have a much more severe shortage. They call us to try to fill in the gaps."
Some of her trees have gone to Colorado and Tennessee. Other growers in Wisconsin say they also have received calls from farther away than usual.
"The growers that I talk to say there are definitely more sales than there have been in the past (few years) for sure," said Derek Ahl, third generation partner at Northern Family Farms in Merrillan and president of the Wisconsin Christmas Tree Producers Association. "It's been really positive for Wisconsin."
Ahl has received calls from as far away as California and Texas looking for trees.
Northern Family Farms grows Christmas trees on 3,000 acres in Wisconsin. The company ships fresh cut trees as far west as Colorado, as far south as Missouri and Kansas, and just about everywhere in between, including the Dakotas, Wyoming and Nebraska.
"There were a lot of tree growers that went out of business," as a result of the recession, said Dee Clark, owner of C&G Nursery in Newland, N.C. "That leads to an overall shortage across the industry."
There are nearly 15,000 Christmas tree farms in the U.S.


I know everyone has been excited about getting an electric HD!
Earlier this year, amid slumping sales, Harley-Davidson announced it was bringing an electric model to market within 18 months. The announcement came four years after Harley unveiled its LiveWire project, an all-electric prototype.
Well, huge news dropped today as H-D announced that it has made an equity investment in California-based electric motorcycling manufacture Alta Motors.
"Earlier this year, as part of our 10-year strategy, we reiterated our commitment to build the next generation of Harley-Davidson riders, in part, by aggressively investing in electric vehicle (EV) technology," Harley-Davidson president and CEO Matt Levatich said. "Alta has demonstrated innovation and expertise in EV and their objectives align closely with ours. We each have strengths and capabilities that will be mutually beneficial as we work together to develop cutting-edge electric motorcycles."
It's been a busy few months for Alta, as they announced the launch of a new model—the Redshift MXR—and a significant price reduction across all models.
For Harley, which is set to release an electric model in 2019, the move makes sense, as they'll have access to cutting-edge electric vehicle (EV) technology, and a partner to help them navigate the coming shift to electric. For Alta, they will get access to a worldwide dealer network and a lot more.
"Riders are just beginning to understand the combined benefits of EV today, and our technology continues to progress," Alta Motors chief product officer and co-founder Marc Fenigstein said. "We believe electric motorcycles are the future, and that American companies have an opportunity to lead that future. It's incredibly exciting that Harley-Davidson, synonymous with motorcycle leadership, shares that vision and we're thrilled to collaborate with them."
This is huge news for the two American brands. It will be interesting to see what they develop.
Maybe bringing in outside expertise will make the bike more reliable. Or, HD will continue the trend of cost cutting and cheeping their bike to make them more profitable. Either way, it will be interesting. It is their market and chance to ether standout or lose.
I would ride one back and forth to work. My commute is only 5 miles one way and my breakout does not even reach temp. I would ride the hell out of that thing going to work.
An opportunity for power companies across the USA to sell "Screamin' Eagle" brand electricity for the higher performance SE electric bikes that will require high performance electricity.


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No one knows how to solve the comment troll problem, but that doesn't stop sites like The Kernel from proposing ideas which won't work.
While websites left, right, and center either killing their comment sections or adopting stricter policies, The Kernel wants to add a financial incentive to discourage trolls and encourage constructive comments.
But failing that, there is a way to save comments and shore up the flagging news industry simultaneously. It is this: Make comments cost money.
Hear me out before you decide I'm a capitalist swine. I'm not proposing just charging to comment, which would mean the richest people had the most voice. I also believe we should paypeople when their comments reach a certain threshold of value.
How do you determine whether a comment has value? Probably editorial judgment—that's how you determine whether an opinion piece should be published—but in the spirit of democracy and not overburdening the editors, we might fold in votes from users. The point is, the comment has to do something for someone else, not just act as a release valve for a particular person's poison.
That's a novel idea, but I don't think it would work out in practice.
For one thing, there is the issue of selection bias. Asking the editorial staff to rate commenters can result in the staff rewarding people they agree with or people they like. Or in the case of letting commenters vote, it can result in a discharge of trolls supporting each other.
But more importantly, this system would raise the cost of commenting on a site and thus drive away commenters. Even when commenting has no financial cost, there's still an investment of time and, with some sites, the aggravation of dealing with their account management system.
Add a financial cost on top and you'll find far fewer people interested in commenting. What's more, financial transactions require a verified id of some kind, something that the anonymous (and sometimes most valuable) commenters will avoid like the plague.
TBH, I don't know of a solution to the comment troll problem, but I don't see charging for comments, or simply banishing all comments, as solutions. The latter strikes me as a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water, while the former carries to high of a price.
But I do know of one solution I liked. I can't tell you where I saw it, but one of the blogs I follow has replaced the comment section with an option to instead email the blogger. This allows engagement and also prevents trolls from gaining any satisfaction from publicly being a troll.
This won't work on a high traffic, blog but I do like the concept.
Hey Nate, I want my 10 bucks!
Yeah, what a dumb obtrusive unmanageable idea. And even if it was smart manageable and non-obtrusive, I still wouldn't pay.
I'm sorry if social media is way ahead of sclerotic corporations with smart people at the helm who unfortunately have no idea what to do.
We get 10 articles a month on my local paper's online version and then you've got to pay $50 a year to get access. We still get some pretty crazy stuff.
Maybe they need more mute buttons. Rarely do I see a random bad comment, it's more like the same person over and over. On Twitter you can mute, you can do it on Google+.
By making people pay to comment you would be leaving out a whole swath of people that simply can't afford to pay for something so trivial and another segment that doesn't care alot about the topic to fork out cash but still has some good insights. Trolls also tend to have an ax to grind and I can see alot of them actually paying to comment more than a more moderate person.
Limiting comments to people who pay wouldn't solve the issue of trolls. I'm not sure of the solution. I think there must be technological tools to discourage or eliminate anti-social behavior, voting, and eventually hiding posts sometimes works well.
I don't know if email the author wouldn't work on a high traffic blog. Andrew Sullivan has been doing it that way for years. He then selects "readers comments" sometimes publishing them. I do think it makes it more of a one way conversation.


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What is the button text shown at the top, next to the Application Modeller button when the diagram hits the Reader stage?
Does it show Launch, Attach or Detach? You can right click and put a breakpoint on the Reader stage and check. But you need to check when the orange mark is on the Reader stage ie; when the running process stops on the Reader stage breakpoint.
Also can you show where the Reader stage in your entire diagram. When is it called? Is it after the one that you showed in the first screenshot.
I actually haven't created the Business Object I'm working on. The button next to AM says Attach (and not Launch). The second screenshoot I've posted is the one you're looking for. It is called in the beginning.
If the button shows Attach when at the Reader stage then it means that the application is not attached and hence the Reader is returning a False. If it had shown Detach then it would mean that it is already Attached.


Father's Day is fast approaching, on June 17th,2012. We have already start thinking about what to get Dad this year. I think we are going to give Dad a nice bottle of fragrance, a shirt and maybe we will throw in some fishing tackle, since Dad loves to fish.
Hugo Boss has launched a new fragrance for men called BOSS BOTTLED. SPORT. It is a unique fragrance that celebrates athletes of the world for the attitude and hard work that carries them through their day. It is a fresh, sporty, invigorating scent and is excellent to wear when working out or being active.
You can find BOSS BOTTLED. SPORT. at The Bay and it retails for $70 for a 50ml bottle or $88 for 100ml bottle.
The Bay and Hugo Boss have a fabulous contest! Enter to Win an F1 Montreal trip for two, including VIP access into the Montreal Grand Prix, accommodations at a premium hotel for 3 nights, and $1000 cash for you and a friend.
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Special Lecture Previews, Women's Club
Meyer to speak for CWC on conflict management style, negotiation
Deborah Treftson July 27, 2015 /Comments closed
When it comes to conflict management and negotiation, there's no single style, no one-size-fits-all model, no "best." Versatility is the key.
At least it is according to Leanne Meyer, director of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership & Negotiation Academy for Women, who will speak about "Conflict Management Style and Negotiation" at 1 p.m. today at the Chautauqua Women's Club House.
"So much time is spent telling women they don't ask — for salary increases for instance — and preparing people and strategies for negotiation," Meyer said. "But very seldom do we look at our own predispositions to keep negotiating in a certain way. Our style may not work for us."
For Meyer, depersonalizing negotiation is important. She said many women do not like to negotiate. They get anxious and step back. Instead, she advises them to choose one of the five conflict-management styles she will introduce during her talk.
Given time constraints, Meyer said she will use the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to quickly assess individual conflict styles and ascertain how they might play out in one's personal and professional life. She said she will use (but not endorse) the "TKI," a self-scoring assessment designed to measure an individual's behavior in situations in which two people's concerns do not appear to be compatible, according to the e-learning organization Kilmann Diagnostics. Completing it takes about 15 minutes.
"Conflict styles are very situation-specific," Meyer said. "We always think collaboration is the best way. But for win-win solutions, you need someone who will share and whom you can trust. What if someone isn't trustworthy and they're playing a very competitive game? It's the situation and purpose that define the most appropriate style."
In addition to her roles at CMU, Meyer coaches and consults regularly with corporate executives. She is a principal at Transitioning Season, a boutique executive coaching and consulting firm concentrating on leadership development as an identity transition.
Since 2003, Meyer has also served as an adjunct faculty member and an executive coach at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. With Frank Lehner, an adjunct instructor in Duquesne's School of Leadership and Professional Advancement, she co-founded Naridus International in 2007, where for four years she focused on narrative and identity development consulting and training.
A South African by birth, Meyer earned a B.A. and M.A. in industrial psychology at the University of Johannesburg, where she studied humans in their work environment, including what motivates and demotivates people and how to optimize performance.
She said research shows women tend to negotiate about their own self-interests four times less than men do. In other words, they negotiate far more for anything other than their own self-interests.
"Women over-personalize, or try to be nice or not hurt anyone," she said. "I want them to step back and ask, 'What is our goal?' "
According to Meyer, when women negotiate for others — such as for children or the environment — they play into the stereotype about women.
"The minute they start negotiating for themselves, they're going counter to the stereotype, and there's a backlash," she said. "It's important for women to know how to negotiate for their own interests."
Women need to learn how to work through people to achieve results, and to understand that building networks is not about schmoozing and isn't "dirty." For promotion, she said, they have to learn how to shift from "worker bee" to strategic resource.
"To grow as leaders, women have to learn new ways of working and negotiating," Meyer said.
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A few weeks ago my friend Mary Kate, of surviving the food allergy apocalypse, suggested I check out BabyCakes Covers the Classics, a gluten-free vegan cookbook. These cookies are from that!
Important contextual information: I'm a taco, Mary Kate's a burrito. That's it for info.
The cookies in question, a bit crispy at the edges, chewy in the middle.
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees, and line two baking sheets with parchment.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, oats, flax meal, cinnamon, xanthan gum, baking soda, and salt.
Add the oil, applesauce, and vanilla and stir until evenly combined.
Add the raisins and stir until evenly distributed.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the lined sheets, about 1″ apart.
Bake for 8 minutes, then rotate the sheets and bake 7 more, or until lightly browned at the edges. I was concerned, when I was rotating them, as they looked super greasy at that point, but by the time they were done cooking they didn't look/feel greasy. Mine were probably bigger than a tablespoon, but I forgot to set the second timer anyway, so they were cooked by however many minutes it was by the time I checked on them. Also, the book technically said bake 'until golden,' but they start off too dark brown for golden to really show up on.
Let stand on the pans at least 15 minutes before serving.
These were delicious even just by a general cookie standard, not a gluten-free cookie standard. They weren't the most oat-filled oatmeal cookie I've ever had, but the flavor, especially with that much cinnamon, was perfect. A good start for experiments with this book!
From BabyCakes Covers the Classics.
In a large bowl, stir together all of the dry goods except for the raisins. Add the liquids and stir until evenly combined. Add the raisins and stir until evenly distributed. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the lined sheets, about 1″ apart.
Bake for 8 minutes, then rotate the sheets and bake 7 more, or until lightly browned at the edges.
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Haven't made this recipe out of that cookbook, so I'm glad to know it's good. I've been feeling an oatmeal cookie coming on lately.
This one even works with your hatred of batches, as they all fit in the oven at once!


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How Automated Workflows 'Work': A Simple Setup Guide
Pamela Vaughan
"Everything in moderation." When applied to marketing automation, it's the perfect mantra. Even though marketers must be careful not to over-automate, marketing automation can be a great way to manage and nurture your leads so they're more sales-ready. But did you know it can even help you tackle administrative marketing tasks, too?
With the concept of workflows -- series of automated actions that you can trigger to occur based on a person's behaviors or contact information -- all of this is possible. Workflows go beyond email and take simple marketing automation to the next level, allowing you to send emails, update contact information, add or remove contacts from lists, and trigger email notifications. But how exactly do you set up an automated workflow? How do workflows ... well ... work? In this post, we'll walk you through the typical setup process of workflows, which you can then use to set up various lead nurturing workflows ... and beyond!
Keep in mind that the way you set up your workflows may vary depending on the tools you're using. But for the sake of all being on the same page, this article will explain how a typical setup process works using HubSpot's Workflows tool as our recurring example.
Step 1: Choose a Starting Condition
In order to create a workflow, you need to provide a starting condition, or criteria which, if met by a given lead, will trigger the workflow to begin for that lead. HubSpot's Workflows tool, for instance, provides three options for a starting condition:
A form is submitted
A smart list is triggered
No starting condition
1) A Sample Workflow When a Form Is Submitted
The first option is to trigger a workflow when a given form is submitted. This is useful when you want to send emails to follow up to a specific download on your site. For example, let's say you have a landing page with a form to download a specific ebook. Maybe you want to set up a nurturing campaign to engage the people who download this ebook with more content about that specific topic. You can create a workflow with emails tailored to these topics and automatically enter any lead that downloads this ebook into that workflow. Here is an example of what that setup might look like:
2) A Sample Workflow Triggered By a Smart (Dynamic) List
You can also trigger a workflow when a lead is added to a certain list. You can design these lists to include only leads that meet certain criteria for contact properties or behaviors. In HubSpot, you can create Smart Lists, or lists based on specific criteria that dynamically update to include any leads that come to meet that criteria:
For example, you could create a Smart List of leads who have visited your website a certain number of times, or a list of leads who have requested a free trial of your product, or a list of leads who live in Texas and have fewer than 50 employees, etc. You can use any information from your contacts database to create these Smart Lists, and then trigger workflows based on those. This gives you a wide range of possibilities for the rules you can set up for each of your workflows.
3) A Workflow With No Starting Condition
Lastly, you should also be able to set up a workflow that doesn't have a starting condition. This simply means that you only want to add contacts to the workflow manually. For instance, if you host a conference or another type of marketing event and want to create a workflow for the leads you drive from it, you might upload that list and add it to the workflow on its own. Or, if you engage in a co-marketing initiative, you can import a list of opt-ins and nurture them with a specific set of emails.
Step 2: Trigger the Desired Actions
Now we get to the meat of the workflow -- the sequence of actions that it triggers. Much like starting conditions, there are several different types of actions you can initiate with your workflows:
Setting a contact property value
Sending an email
Adding a contact to a list (or removing them)
Sending an email notification
1) Setting Up a Contact Property Value
As we discussed earlier, workflows can be used to change or update information about your leads in their contact records. This gives you an extremely easy way to conduct mass updates to your database, rather than manually making changes to each lead record, one at a time. Let's say you have a handful of new contacts that you want to mark as subscribers in your database. You can simply create a list of these new contacts and enter them into a workflow that updates their lifecycle stage property value to "Subscriber."
For example, maybe you have a contact field that indicates whether or not a lead has requested a demo of your product. You can immediately set these contacts apart in a way that demonstrates they are high-quality leads. For instance, you can create a workflow that essentially says, "If a lead's 'Demo Requested' property value is equal to 'True,' change that lead's lifecycle stage to 'Marketing Qualified Lead.'" In this case, you have a starting condition of a Smart List (as a member of a Smart List of people who request a demo) and an action (set their lifecycle stage value to 'Marketing Qualified Lead').
Or maybe you want to create a workflow that changes specific pieces of contact information of your contacts. For instance, you can take a list of leads whose company name value is blank, and change them all to the value 'unknown.'
2) Sending Automated Emails
The second type of action that you can trigger in a workflow is sending an email. This is probably the most intuitive use case for workflows because it allows you to nurture your leads with a targeted series of emails. For example, with HubSpot, you can take emails you've already created and save them specifically for automation, which then allows you to select those emails when you're setting up a workflow. So now, you can create each of your emails ahead of time, and build workflows to schedule these emails to be sent in the order you want and with the timing of your choice. You can include as many steps in a workflow as you'd like -- you can build a nurturing campaign with two follow-up emails and another one with six follow-up emails, etc. The campaigns can span five days, two weeks, or three months, etc. No matter how you choose to set them up, your workflows will take the pain out of lead nurturing by simplifying and automating the entire process.
3) Add a Contact to a List (Or Remove Them)
The third type of action that a workflow can perform is adding a contact to -- or removing a contact from -- a list. This is another great organizational tool to simplify the way you handle your lists of leads by automating the otherwise manual process. For example, you might be hosting a webinar and have a landing page with a form that lets people register for that webinar. You could set up a workflow that takes any leads who submit that form and adds them to a list of webinar registrants. Again, here you have a starting condition (submits webinar form) and an action (add to webinar registrants list). Couldn't get much simpler than that!
4) Send Email Notifications
The last type of action you can add to a workflow is sending an email notification. This feature allows you to send a notification to a specific address the minute that something important happens to one of your contacts. This has a vast number of possible uses. You could set up a notification email to alert a sales representative when someone submits a key form, like a pricing information download or a bottom-of-the-funnel offer. You can also use this feature to notify a sales rep when a lead becomes sales qualified, hits a specific lead score threshold, or when any other property on their contact record changes.
You could even set up a notification for your social media manager to trigger when a lead who is a "social media influencer" comes into the system, based, for instance, on their Twitter follower count. Workflows make it easy to keep track of these important changes, so you know which of your leads are warmest, and can act on that information immediately.
The great thing about workflows is that you can add multiple actions to a given workflow in whatever order you choose -- and they don't all have to be the same type of action! You could create a workflow whose starting condition is "submits webinar form," in which the first step is "add to webinar registrants list," the second step is "update lifecycle stage to 'Lead,'" and the third step is "send demo offer for webinar registrants email." Now you're all set to perform three distinct actions for every single lead that fills out that form, without having to do a thing once you've set up that simple workflow.
Step 4: Set Time Delays
Workflows should allow you to select the timing of each action they trigger. For every step you add to a workflow, you can say something like, "I want these leads to receive this email two days after they fill out this form, and the next email five days after that." You can update contact properties or add them to a list as soon as the leads are entered into the workflow by setting the time delay to zero. You can spread out the actions over as much time as you'd like, and specify timing down to the number of days, hours, or even minutes.
Time delays are unique to each individual lead. So when John Doe enters your workflow on a Monday, he'll get the email two days later on Wednesday, but Mary Jane, who entered the workflow on Tuesday, will get the email two days after her workflow began, on Thursday. You weren't really going to send John an email on Wednesday and send Mary a separate email on Thursday on your own, were you? That would be a total pain. You probably would've just picked one of those days to send the email to the entire list of your leads, and sacrificed the effectiveness of aligning the timing of your marketing with your leads' needs.
With workflows, you can just schedule everything to send automatically, and you don't have to worry about keeping track of who needs to get what on which days. And more importantly, you can time your marketing based on what's best for your leads, not what's easiest for your busy schedule.
Step 5: Identify Your Preferred Settings
The last main component of a workflow is its settings. There are various settings you can arrange to refine the way your workflows operate, and you can use these to your advantage to make your workflows more effective. In HubSpot's Workflows tool, for example, one option is to set your workflow to execute steps on business days only. If you don't want to be emailing your leads on the weekends, you can turn this setting on, and it will override the time delays you've selected when necessary. In other words, any steps that are scheduled to occur on a Saturday or Sunday (say, an action is set to trigger one day after the previous one, which occurred on a Friday), will be rescheduled to occur on Monday.
You should also be able to modify your settings to execute steps only within a certain time range. In HubSpot, for instance, this setting also overrides the time delays you've selected when necessary. Let's say you've done some research into the effectiveness of your email marketing, and you've found that your highest clickthrough rates occur in the morning. With this in mind, you could set your workflows to only send emails between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. If your time delays are set to send an email in the afternoon, the workflow will reschedule it for the following morning.
Are you leveraging workflows to make your marketing more effective? What unique workflow ideas have you put into play?
This article is an excerpt from our ebook, Going Beyond Email: How to Use Workflows for Better Lead Nurturing. To learn more about how to do smarter lead nurturing with workflows, you can download the ebook for free here.
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West Cheshire Athletic Club Newsletter
We're hosting the second round of the Northern Track & Field League this Sunday and need volunteers to help Eddie Gore and Phil Howe set-up the equipment from 8am, move equipment during the match, and put equipment back into the containers at the end of the meeting.
Please turn up and help Eddie, Phil, and the Brio Leisure staff.
We've also been asked to provide helpers for two Quad Kids schools fixtures on Friday 9th June (12.30-3pm) and Wednesday, 5th July (10.30am-3pm).
Please turn up and help out if you're available.
CHAMPIONSHIP CLOSING DATE REMINDER
The Northern Under 13, Under 15 and Under 17 Track and Field Championships will be held at Leigh Sports Village on Saturday and Sunday, 19th and 20th August.
EMMA NAILS BIG PRIZE AND CASH!
Well done to Emma Howe, who bagged herself a new 600g javelin and prize money after winning the BIGish Jumps and Throws under 18 invitation competition at Loughborough with a throw of 44.16m. Sophie Percival also hit 42.62m for 11th spot in the womens competition.
George Hyde won the under 17 men's shot put event with 16.75m at Bedford's Jumps and Throws Fest.
JAC AND ETHAN MAKE WAVES AT CREWE
Jac Goodall and and Ethan Greenland made a big splash to help us secure a top-three finish at Crewe.
The pair clocked new steeplechase club records at the second round of the Under 17 and Under 20 Youth Development Track and Field League.
Jac clocked a new under 17 men's 1500m steeplechase club record of 5:04.0, and celebrated success in his race after heading the field from gun to tape, while Ethan broke the under 20 men's 2,000m steeplechase record by posting 6:56.5.
MATCH RESULT: 1 Wirral 671 points; 2 Wigan 619; 3 West Cheshire 495; 4 Crewe and Nantwich 451; 5 Bolton 377.5; 6 Border 254; 7 Team North Cumbria 451.
NEXT ROUND: Sunday, 25th June, at Bolton.
Rob Little clocked 79 minutes 54 seconds for 13th position at the Great Manchester Half Marathon ahead of Trevor Holmes who posted a new personal best of 91:47 for 164th place.
Keely Smith posted 3:15:00 at the Rock N Roll Liverpool Marathon to secure ninth spot in the women's standings alongside Wullie McGarrell (3:15), and Neil Webster (3:19:47), while Isabel Robertson posted 58:11 on Monday in the Vitality London 10,000 Race, and Chris Palmer clocked 3:07:30 in the Edinburgh Marathon.
Rosemary Rogers won the over-65 age group prize with a time of 25 minutes 20 seconds at the first round of the North Cheshire Grand Prix Series, the Dunham Massey 5k.
Dave Alexander and Ellie Robinson combined for second place in the Mixed Team event and fourth place overall in a time of 36:50 at the Clwydian Hills Jubilee Relay.
See our press report for more.
Friday, 2 June: Birchwood Brook 5k (North Cheshire 5k Series Round Two). 7.30pm start.
Sunday, 4 June: Northern Track and Field League Round Two, at Ellesmere Port Sports Village, 11am start.
Wednesday, 7 June : Trail Up The Beast 4.5 miles Race, at Maeshafn (7.15pm start).
Thursday, 8 June: Bowdon 5k (North Cheshire 5k Series Third Round), 7.15pm.
Friday, 9 June: Ellesmere Port, Neston, and Helsby Schools Quad Kids Competition, at Ellesmere Port Sports Village Athletics Track (12.30-3pm).
Saturday, 10 June: Cheshire Schools Track and Field Championships, at Macclesfield.
Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 June : Northern Under 20 and Senior Track & Field Championships (SportCity, Manchester).
Saturday and Sunday, 10 -11 June: Welsh Castles Road Relay.
Tuesday, 13 June: Trafford AC Grand Prix Meeting (Distance & Throws), 6pm.
Wednesday, 14 June: English Schools Track & Field Cup Regional A Round, at Wigan.
Wednesday, 14 June: Hot Foot Up Famau Race, 7.30pm.
Wednesday, 14 June: Park Hall 5k, 7.30pm.
Thursday, 15 June: Dunham Massey 5k (North Cheshire Series). 7.15pm.
Saturday, 17 June: Mason Trophy Inter-Counties Schools Track & Field Competition (Alexander Stadium, Birmingham).
Saturday, 17 June: Hollins Green 5k (North Cheshire Series), 4pm.
Saturday and Sunday, 17 -18 June: England Athletics Under 20 & 23 Track & Field Championships (Bedford).
Sunday, 18 June: U13 and U15 Youth Development Track & Field League Round Three, SportCity, Manchester (11am).
Monday, 19 June: English Schools Track & Field Cup Regional B Round (Warrington).
Tuesday, 20 June: Trafford AC Grand Prix (Sprints, Hurdles, Jumps & 5k), 6.15pm.
Wednesday, 21 June: Cheshire Schools Minors (Year 7) Track & Field Championships, Warrington (4.30pm).
Friday, 23 June: Tattenhall Tough Team Race (7.15pm).
Saturday and Sunday, 24 -25 June: English Schools Combined Events Regional Round (Telford).
Sunday, 25 June: Colshaw 10k, (10am).
Sunday, 25 June: Moel y Gamelin Race (11am).
Sunday, 25 June: U17 & U20 Youth Development Track & Field League, (11.15am).
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Life without parole for car crash homicide trial
Judge says both defendants equaly responsible
Shirley Aiken was killed when a vehcile carrying Ntyono Pennie and Torrence Sanders crashed into her car as they fled the scene of an armed robbery.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2011, 3:58 p.m.
Jury to deliberate on car crash, armed robbery trial (Feb. 17, 2011)
More testimony in second day of trial (Feb. 16, 2011)
Robbery, car crash homicide trial begins (Feb. 15, 2011)
Suspect wanted in car crash murder now in Rockdale custody (Oct. 5, 2010)
One dead in crash after armed robbery shooting (Feb. 23, 2010)
Otyono Pennie and Torrence Sanders were sentenced to life without parole after they were found guilty on all counts on Thursday for an armed robbery, shooting, and a car crash that killed a 56-year-old woman.
Loud sobs broke out from relatives in the courtroom as Judge Sidney Nation announced the sentence, which was the one recommended by District Attorney Richard Read. The defendants, allowed to dress in civilian clothing and remain uncuffed during the trial, were immediately taken away in handcuffs.
"I believe the people of this state and this county have the right to say… we're sick and tired of this behavior," said Nation. "This foolishness has got to stop."
"Mr. Pennie and Mr. Sanders are in my judgment are equally responsible... You were both in it, you both did it, you both get the same punishment - that's going to be life without parole."
After two days of hearing testimony, the jury reached their verdict with less than two hours of deliberation and only one question – a request to see dashboard video camera footage of the chase again.
On February 23, 2010, Pennie and Sanders held up three men at an apartment in Harvest Grove (now called Woodland Trace) at gunpoint, robbed them, and shot one person, Danny Rakestraw, in the arm. As they fled the scene in a Nissan Maxima, a deputy pulled up behind them, and the defendants fled through the intersection of Salem Road and Flat Shoals, crashing into the vehicle of Shirley Ann Aiken, who died at the hospital from a torn aorta. After the crash, both Pennie and Sanders fled on foot, but Pennie was apprehended. Sanders was arrested eight months later during a traffic stop in DeKalb.
Before sentencing, Aiken's sister, Dr. Barbara Hodges of Murphreesboro, Tenn., gave a statement, emphasizing the role of choices.
Sanders' mother and Pennie's mother-in-law pled for leniency, and asked the judge to think of Pennie's wife and children.
Afterwards, Hodges said her sister would have been pleased with the verdict.
"Nobody's a winner here," said Hodges. "There's many losses on both sides. It's always been about choices. Whatever choices you make, you have to be responsible for. My sister would rather be here right now, and a lot of her choices were cut short."
"I feel like justice was served," said Aikens' close friend Michelle Houston. She had written letters to Pennie and Sanders while they were in prison, because she wanted them to know Aikens' "life mattered."
She said she understood where Pennie's and Sanders' mothers were coming from. "But it still goes back to choices."
For a day-by-day account of the trial, see previous articles, to the left.


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AS THEY WERE
The Irish Melting Pot... research tips, genealogy, transcriptions, including all news from Clare Roots Society ... general Irish news and items you may otherwise miss.. This is As They Were... they are just waiting for you to find them.
IRISH CLIPS AND SNIPS
BROADFORD BAPTISMS
TRANSCRIPTIONS, incl. KILMURRY IBRICKANE BAPTISMAL REGISTERS 1839-1881 and MARRIAGES
KILMALEY PARISH BAPTISMS, CO CLARE 1828-1882
THEY MADE THEIR MARK
FROM WHENCE THEY CAME....
GENEALOGY GATHERINGS, ITEMS OF INTEREST and LISTS
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MISSING FRIENDS
BEHIND THE SCENES KILRUSH'S FAMINE COMMEMORATION DAY 7, MAY 9 , 2013
by Guest Blogger, Paddy Waldron
I've fallen a day behind with this blog, so apologies to those who have been complaining!! At least this one is as long as two normal entries, as I've copied and pasted relevant material for Thursday's bus tour of famine-related sites in Kilrush Poor Law Union.
I was up early making last minute preparations for the tour. The objective was to see as many as possible of the places mentioned and sketched in the Illustrated London News (ILN) in 1849/50. Paul O'Brien was up even earlier studying and printing the itinerary and commentary which I had e-mailed to him at 1:32am. I was anxious to remind myself of the boundaries of the civil parishes/electoral divisions through which we would be passing before I set out, and to mark them on my discovery series map.
The phone was ringing from 8:34am with last minute queries.
I parked outside Crotty's and was worried to see no buses and no Paul O'Brien, so phoned Paul at 9:44am and he assured me he was on his way. Two buses and one Paul O'Brien duly arrived within a minute or two. I unloaded my car on the roadside - wellington boots, grave-cleaning gear, two sound systems, notes, clipboards, booking lists, etc., etc. Then I drove round to Brew's free car park, getting a chance to listen to a minute or so of Cindy O'Dell's interview on Clare FM, which was a signal to strike her off the list for the bus tour. Other no-shows such as Congella McGuire, Michael Nolan, Mary O'Dowd and Paul Gleeson have subsequently tendered good excuses.
Mary Rose Counihan had volunteered to act as a steward for the day, so I delegated to her the task of ticking off names on the list as people boarded the buses, and she arranged a buddy system so that nobody got left behind. I was her buddy. The biggest category of no-shows was those who had joined the facebook event; the vast majority on the list were people who had given us their names in person or by telephone, and the vast majority of those showed up. The moral is never to use a facebook event to book places for a boat or bus trip where there are a limited number of seats available. People click the join button on facebook without realising what it means. The same thing happened when Kilrush & District Historical Society organised a boat trip to Scattery Island last summer.
Noel O'Shea, who played a blinder all day, brought a modern 33-seater bus with good built-in audio system and comfortable seats, and an older less comfortable 53-seater with no working audio system. We were afraid we wouldn't have enough seats between the two buses, but no shows ensured that we almost didn't need the smaller bus. A few people who couldn't stay for the full day followed by car. I went on the large bus and Paul on the small one. Noel and Tommy drove the two buses and another Noel and Tommy (O'Brien father and son) filmed the day's activities.
We had lots of extended family groups on the buses - Miriam Scahill explained to me today that Tommy and Paul O'Brien are third cousins, as their fathers Noel and Seán are second cousins. Miriam and her sister Dolores are Noel's first cousins, children of two Brew sisters. So Noel had five blood relatives on the bus, plus Paul's mother.
We also had Terry Fitzgerald and her sister Laura Danielson from Seattle, with their long-lost fourth cousin on the McNamara side, Rebekah Ní Comardúin and Rebekah's mother Ann; brothers Michael and Johnny O'Connell are also approximately fourth cousins of Terry and Laura on the Cushen side. By coincidence, both Michael and Rebekah were recording for Raidió Corca Baiscinn during the day. Before I realised this, I had twice butted in on conversations that Rebekah was recording.
I think my own only (known) relative on the bus was my third cousin Martha Howard.
We also had two of our keynote speakers for the week, Jason King and Christine Kinealy, and Christine's co-author Seán Sexton. We were due back in Kilrush at 7pm, and Jason was due to lecture at 8pm, so I knew that we had to stick strictly to the schedule.
There was also a good turnout of family and friends just to see us off from the Market Square - Mairead O'Brien and her sister to see off their mother, Margaret Rush to see off her nieces, and a few others.
The rest of this blog is a slightly edited version of the notes on which what we said during the day was based.
We headed out by Henry Street, originally known as New Street when it was built in the early 1800s. It runs alongside the original road to Kilkee and Doonbeg which went along Chapel Street, High Street and The Glen and past the front entrances to the fever hospital and to the workhouse.
Joe Whelan's museum is now in the old creamery building, which was built on the site of the original road right in front of the main workhouse entrance.
The mural on the gable wall by Mark Kelly, completed last Sunday (5 May 2013), is based on a Lawrence Collection photograph of an eviction scene during the Land War at Moyasta.
At the end of Shannon Heights on the right we can see Broomhill House, formerly an auxiliary workhouse, and later the residence of Augustus Warren and Timothy Kelly when they were clerks of Kilrush Union.
We turned right in Carnanes for the village of Doonbeg, passing Moanmore Church on our right, and then crossing the old West Clare Railway line and the boundary between Kilrush and Killard parishes.
Our first stop was outside the post office in Doonbeg, where I changed into my wellingtons. Those who just wanted a good view of Judy O'Donnel's habitation under the bridge at Doonbeg saw it from the park on the south bank of the Doonbeg river.
Those who wanted to visit the habitation walked across the bridge and through Mary Ryan's field with her kind permission. The ground is rough and wet in places, but Michael O'Connell and one or two others took charge and shepherded people down a few at a time along a narrow dry path. Having been there on a scouting expedition a few weeks ago, I didn't bother visiting again.
The ILN in 1849/50 wrote:
"Two wretched families have taken refuge under the bridge in a hole. They consist of two widows, one with three children, all ill of jaundice, and the other with five. The history of Judy O'Donnel, one of the widows, is worthy of being sketched. She had given evidence against a dishonest relieving officer whose relative was a driver upon the estate on which she lived, and Judy's house was very soon afterwards levelled with the ground. The wreckers came upon it in her absence, when her son gallantly defended his home. He mounted on the roof with a bag of stones, and kept the enemy at bay till his ammunition was exhausted, when he was obliged to give in, and stand by to see the little furniture of this mother cast into the road and the house pulled down. Judy exhibited her receipts for the rent up to the last gale; and she declared the agent of the owner, to whom she had tendered what was due twice, had refused, and that she was ejected because she deposed against the dishonest public servant. Judy and Margaret O'Donnel, with their families, then retired to the hole under the bridge, represented in the sketch, and there they are now suffered to remain, holding their habitation at the mercy of the county surveyor. They are afraid of being ejected even from this spot, and dare not cross the stepping-stones shown in the Sketch lest they should be taken up for trespassing. Judy O'Donnel's son is dying of dysentery."
Paddy Murrihy has since told me that Rob Hopkins is having a ladder, modelled on the one in the ILN sketch, specially constructed by Francis O'Dea for this Saturday evening's re-enactment, so that his actors will not have to trespass on Mary Ryan's field.
Dolórés Murrihy in an article entitled The Cave Dweller of Doonbeg in Doonbeg: A Story To Tell (Joe Hurley, ed., 1995) tells us of other residents of the habitation under the bridge.
Biddy Belfast (whose death in Kilrush Hospital was reported in the Limerick Chronicle of 10 December 1903) is remembered locally as Mary Belfast, and called Mary by the great local historian of North Munster Thomas Johnson Westropp in the Journal of the North Munster Antiquarian Society in January 1914. It was the habitation of a local donkey in Dolores's youth.
Biddy Thunder lived in the castle across the bridge, which fell when struck by lightning in 1939. Perhaps the LC conflated the two names.
We got back on the bus and turned right at Doonbeg church into Doonmore townland. I have on occasion accidentally gone the wrong side of the traffic island at this junction; Noel O'Shea deliberately did likewise, but because his bus couldn't make the sharp turn around the correct side of it.
The ILN had this account of Doonmore:
"The last Sketch shows the Scalpeen of Tim Downs, at Dunmore, in the parish of Killard, where himself and his ancestors resided on the spot for over a century, with renewal of their lease in 1845. He neither owed rent arrears or taxes up to the present moment, and yet he was pitched out on the roadside, and saw ten other houses, with his own, levelled at one fell swoop on the spot, the ruins of some of which are seen in this Sketch. None of them were mud cabins, but all capital stone-built houses."
On the right, we passed Killard Cemetery, scene of a massacre by Cromwell's troops.
It is believed locally that The Village of Killard depicted in the ILN stood at the top of the hill where we turned left:
"The village of Killard forms part of the Union of Kilrush, and possesses an area of 17,022 acres. It had a population, in 1841, of 6850 souls, and was valued to the Poor-rate at £4254. It is chiefly the property, I understand, of Mr. John MacMahon Blackall, whose healthy residence is admirably situated on the brow of a hill, protected by another ridge from the storms of the Atlantic. His roof-tree yet stands secure, put the people have disappeared. The village was mostly inhabited by fishermen, who united with their occupation on the waters the cultivation of potatoes. When the latter failed, it might have been expected that the former should have been pursued with more vigour than ever; but boats and lines were sold for present subsistence, and to the failure of potatoes was added the abandonment of the fisheries. The rent dwindled to nothing, and then came the leveller and the exterminator. What has become of this 6850 souls, I know not; but not ten houses remain of the whole village to inform the wayfarer where, according to the population returns, they were to be found in 1841. [The ILN correspondent here has apparently confused the parish of Killard, to which the population figure applies; the townland of Killard; and possibly a more densely populated village within the townland which he sketched.] They were here, but are gone for ever; and all that remains of their abodes are a few mouldering walls, and piles of offensive thatch turning into manure. Killard is an epitome of half Ireland. If the abodes of the people had not been so slight, that they have mingled, like Babylon, with their original clay, Ireland would for ages be renowned for its ruins; but, as it is, the houses are swept away like the people, and not a monument remains of a multitude, which, in ancient Asia or in the wilds of America, would numerically constitute a great nation."
From Bealaha, we turned south, onto the main road Kilrush-Kilkee road briefly, and then left at Lisdeen Church and left again after Blackweir bridge for Cill na gCailleach.
The buses parked at Noel O'Shea's own house and Noel and his neighbour and my cousin Paddy Talty kindly had cars on hand for those not up walking down the cul de sac to Cill na gCailleach, where it would not have been possible to turn either bus. Noel had asked one of his children how long the walk would take, and was not pleased with the reply: `Five minutes at my pace, half an hour at yours.' Noel and Paddy, as well as Michael O'Connell, also shared their expert local knowledge of those buried in the cemetery.
Kay Clancy and I had brought along our stock of talcum powder and brushes and sponges, our favourite method for highlighting some of the fantastic artwork on the tombstones, particularly that of John O'Brien who died in the Ferry tragedy on 12 Dec 1849; also John Clanchy ship carpenter, who died during the cholera epidemic of 1832; and Thomas Carroll who died in 1846. The buglers depicted on one of these reminded me again of Anthony McNamara and I reminded his daughter and granddaughter of how he spent so many years `waiting for the old bugle call'.
The locals all cited Paddy and Eileen Barry as having confirmation from their grandfather of the location of the unmarked mass grave of the other Cammoge victims, surrounded by a low stone wall. We also looked at the once-impressive but now dilapidated Cox vault, and the grave of Paddy Talty's family, including his great-aunt Kathleen who baked the cake containing the key which Eamon de Valera used to escape from Lincoln Jail in England during the War of Independence.
Many of the group had been to Cammoge Point on Monday and we just encouraged the remainder to visit by car to see the new memorial. The road to Cammoge is also too narrow for buses and the distance is too far to walk in the time available.
Noel O'Shea was anxious to show off his collection of vintage cars, tractors, motorbikes and farm machinery, but as most people had re-boarded the bus and as it's not really famine-related, only a few people got to see it. Noel's collection is on a par with those of other local collectors like Joe Whelan, Jackie Whelan and Matthew Bermingham.
Next stop was Tullaroe Cross, also known as Behan's Cross and Johnny Mack's Cross. This was originally Behan's house. Patrick McNamara (whose family had been among the victims of eviction listed by Captain Kennedy a few years before his birth) married in here around 1882. His son Johnnie Mack lived here until his death in 1981 at the age of 95.
At the time, Mary Teresa Hynes, Kilkee librarian, believed this to have been the last inhabited mudwalled house in west Clare.
I learned on Tuesday that Cillian Murphy's efforts to buy the late Martin Moloney's house in Lisheencrony fell through when he discovered that his bank wouldn't fund the purchase of a mud-walled house. As someone pointed out, the house is still there, but the bank may not be. I remember the house before Martin got it renovated and plastered about 30 years ago, when half the thatched roof had collapsed. By Tuesday evening, the number of known surviving mud-walled houses had grown to three, as Congella McGuire reported her discovery on Monday that the Roche family still inhabit another, despite having a newly-built but less cosy house next door.
At this stage we had visited three sites that have probably never before been visited on a bus tour, and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive, with all sorts of suggestions for preserving Johnny Mack's house, which is now in a state of decay which makes the original materials and construction easily identifiable.
By now, people were getting hungry, and Mary Hamilton, who suffers from travel sickness, had already called it a day and got someone to collect her and take her home, so we phoned ahead to Myles Creek in Kilkee and to our lunchtime speaker Carmel Madigan to say that we would be arriving ahead of the scheduled 2pm break.
Tommy Foley phoned me as we were approaching Kilkee, about a minute before we passed his hall door, so I told him to stand on his doorstep and wave at the buses as we passed.
Noel pulled up in the middle of O'Curry Street, a one-way street with cars parked on either side, to allow us to disembark. Even in May, Kilkee is still Chris de Burgh's proverbial `out of season holiday town in the rain/when the tourists go and the cold winds blow'.
Gerard and Deirdre Haugh and the staff at Myles Creek coped admirably with a hungry crowd of 60+ arriving simultaneously baying for food. There was famine soup available. Those who came by bus were joined by others who had come by car, in particular Mairead O'Brien, who had organised the event and brought the now well-tested soup recipe, and Assumpta Kennedy, who gave her almost-daily performance of Lone Shanakyle after lunch. I'm sure she sang it at work at the Regina House event on Wednesday, and only that Michael O'Connell was so possessive of the microphone on Monday she would have been asked to sing it at Cammoge or Carnacalla!
Carmel Madigan showed up with a large bag of freshly harvested herbs, hedgerow plants and seaweeds to explain how our ancestors could, and possibly did, have a very nutritious diet on their doorsteps despite the failure of the potato crop.
I haven't figured out whether Carmel Madigan (née Magner) is related to Assumpta Kennedy (née Madigan) but the Madigan family tree is crying out to be researched given how intertwined it has become with famine commemoration. Rebekah pointed out that through her Madigan paternal grandmother she is related to Assumpta - and she also shares the singing gene, as she is currently singing professionally at Bunratty and Knappogue Castles.
All were eventually served lunch, everybody seeming to want something more substantial than watery soup, nettles, herbs or seaweed.
Kay Clancy popped across the road for a few copies of the Clare Champion, but there was general disappointment at the coverage of the famine commemoration. No front page banner headlines, and the first article inside was a complaint that Frances Street has been resurfaced for Sunday in preference to some more deserving lane in Kilkee. Patricia Zanini will be delighted with Peter O'Connell's piece describing how much it means to be coming back to her ancestral town accompanying her ambassador husband who will be there in an official capacity on Sunday. John Kelly must have taken hundreds of photographs in the Potter's Hand on Tuesday, but we could find only two of them. Other articles on events in Killaloe, Ennis, Carrigaholt, etc., were scattered throughout the paper, with one or two photographs with each. The Clare People's 16 page pull-out on Tuesday certainly put the Champion to shame this week.
Kay and a few others called it a day at this stage, so we realised that we could transfer everyone into the 53-seat bus, and let bus-driver Tommy have a half-day.
Noel O'Shea and Michael had both insisted that the cliff road, built as a famine relief public works scheme, looks better driving from the west, so we headed west by the upper Moveen road. Paul, now sitting beside me, encouraged me to tell of my own family connections to Moveen, where my greatgrandparents settled after their marriage in 1876. My late father spent his first holiday with his grandfather in Moveen in 1929 at the age of 12, and for the next 72 years, until he was no longer fit to travel, never went a year without a holiday in Clare, and never again holidayed anywhere further away than Carrigaholt or Kilkee.
Moveen also features in the ILN:
"The Sketch of Moveen, to which I now call your attention, is that of another ruined village in the Union of Kilrush. It is a specimen of the dilapidation I behold all around. There is nothing but devestation, while the soil is of the finest description, capable of yielding as much as any land in the empire. Here, at Tullig, and other places, the ruthless destroyer, as if he delighted in seeing the monuments of his skill, has left the walls of the houses standing, while he has unroofed them and taken away all shelter from the people. They look like the tombs of a departed race, rather than the recent abodes of a yet living people, and I felt actually relieved at seeing one or two half-clad spectres gliding about, as an evidence that I was not in the land of the dead. You may inquire, perhaps, and I am sure your readers will wish to know, why it is that the people have of late been turned out of their houses in such great numbers, and their houses just at this time pulled down, and I will give you my explanation of this fact."
My father, Ciarán Ó Murchadha, Paddy Nolan, Cindy O'Dell, Paul and myself and others over the years have spent many hours exploring Moveen on the ground, on paper maps, and on online maps and satellite images at osi.ie, maps.google.com, origins.net and askaboutireland.ie, in a vain attempt to find any surviving remains of the village shown in the ILN sketch.
The 1840 Ordnance Survey map shows villages marked Moveen (north of the road) and Moveen Lower (further west, and south of the road). There are also ruins worth investigating elsewhere in the townland and in the neighbouring townland of Kilcasheen.
At griffiths.askaboutireland.ie, one can overlay the historic (post-)Griffith's Valuation (1855) maps on a satellite image. There are two stone ruins clearly visible both on the satellite map and street view in the vicinity of where the ILN sketch seems to have been done:
1. The first stone ruin is on the roadside in Moveen East, and appears to be the house in Plot 14 (Moveen East) in Griffith:
http://goo.gl/maps/L0SxM
Edmond (Ned) M'Mahon appears to have occupied this farm, and also the second next farm to the west, in 1855, but to have lived on the other farm. So at first glance, this ruin appears to have been uninhabited by 1855. However, I believe that Edmond left one of his farms each to his two sons, Andy Ned (m.1870) and Patsy Ned (m.1884), who married two Carmody sisters. So the present ruin was probably lived in by Patsy Ned's son Paddy McMahon (d.1976). I have been told that this farm and the adjoining farm to the north (No. 4 in Griffith) are now owned or leased by Damien McInerney.
2. The second stone ruin is a couple of fields north of the road, right on the boundary of Moveen East and Kilcasheen towlands, but appears to be No. 1 in Kilcasheen, home of Laurence Lillis in 1855:
http://goo.gl/maps/DHKyG
I have a large paper map formed by taping together copies of photocopies of parts of OS Sheets 55 and 65 from the Valuation Office, with holdings numbered in accordance with Griffith's Valuation.
At askaboutireland.ie, the map and plot numbering are of a later date, as the 6 residential holdings plus caretaker's house in Kilcasheen (which is divided in 4 by the edges of OS Sheets 55, 56, 65 and 66) have all by then merged (in two stages) into a single holding. This suggests a mass clearance by John Westropp and/or his middleman Michael O'Donnell soon after 1855. The transcripts of the parish register for 1852-1878 don't have a single entry for Kilcasheen.
Sheet 55 is mostly ocean, but covers parts of Moveen West, Moveen East Kilcasheen, Foohagh and Ballyonan/Doonaghboy. At origins.net,
Foohagh is linked to sheet 56 (1432.tif) and most of the others to sheet 65 (1441.tif). I eventually realised that by searching for Islands in Moyarta parish I would get sheet 55 (1430.tif). The quality of the reproduction is, if anything, worse than my 25-year-old paper photocopy, but by zooming in on the bottom right corner one can see the consolidation in Kilcasheen, and a curved stone wall in the north west corner of the townland, still clearly visible on the satellite image. I now seriously doubt that this is the wall in the foreground of the ILN sketch, although I think my father believed that it was. Most of Kilcasheen (including the graveyard on the lower Moveen road which we came to later) now constitutes the Tubridy estate, to which a Tubridy cousin is currently trying to establish ownership.
The Tubridy house was also occupied well into my lifetime - probably the 1980s - but is now a ruin. It appears from the satellite image to be in the very bottom right corner of OS Sheet 55, where there is no house in 1855. This looks like holding No. 3 in Griffith, Timothy Kane. Here is the ruin in Google Street View:
http://goo.gl/maps/YIffn
The eastern part of the 1855 road heading north-east from Walsh's house (No. 8 in Moveen east in Griffith) to May Deloughery's (No. 7), and formerly on into Baby Dan O'Gormans (No. 4), before turning south, appears to have been completely obliterated by the time of the historic 25" map:
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,485582,657191,7,9
The present Moveen road passes from Moveen East through Kilcasheen and then back into Moveen east; the obliterated road skirted around the northern boundary of Kilcasheen without leaving Moveen East.
Moveen Lower is in nos. 11 and 22 in Moveen West in Griffith (around Billy Downes's, Sean Moloney's and Sonny Carmody's and between Tom Lynch's and the left turn down to the main Carrigaholt road). We saw no sign of ruins in that area either.
I spoke about writer and funeral director Tom Lynch, probably Moveen's most famous resident, if only a part-time one (who unfortunately wont be joining us until the day after the National Famine Commemoration due to teaching commitments at Emory University). I thought it especially appropriate to refer to his lovely poem Montbretia, dedicated to Michael O'Connell who was with us. Montbretia, which will not be in bloom for another couple of months, is an invasive but beautiful wild flower which was not around during the Famine, and which Carmel Madigan assured me has no nutritional value. Rather, it was brought back to Ireland by one of the Vandeleurs who fought in the Boer War and planted in the Walled Garden in Kilrush. A seed blew over the wall and it spread throughout the peninsula. People like my father loved it so much that they brought it to Dublin and other places and replanted it. I've brought some from Dublin back to Killaloe and planted it in my garden there.
We then passed the biggest farm in Moveen, now Murray's and formerly Healy's. Mainly for the benefit of Terry, Laura, Ann and Rebekah, relatives of the underbidder, I read a letter written on 14 January 1907, by M & B. Morrissey from Moveen to their `Dear Son Tom' in Jackson, Michigan, where many Moveen people settled (those who did not emigrate to Buenos Aires):
"Dear Tom, You wanted to know who bought Healys' farm. I wish to tell you it was Johnny Murray, Kilkee, & it paid £ 675 & a shilling to the pound auctioneer fees along with that Anthony McNamara Breaffa went £ 600 in in [sic] Kavanagh from Kilkee he is married to Bid Greene from Newtown he is from England went £ 670 & a boy from Mullough one Sullivan who came from California went £ 650 & indeed every one says it went great money."
[According to census returns Edward Cavanagh of Kilkee was a police pensioner born in Queen's County.] In local folklore, the purchase price paid by the Murray family has been rounded down to £600. The vendor was John Burns, to whom the farm had been left by his sister-in-law `Mrs Healy'. The island offshore previously known as `Healy's Island' has since gradually become known as `Murray's Island'.
Noel drove at a crawl along the cliff road from Goleen back to Kilkee as he could see in his rear-view mirror that everyone on the bus was oohing and aahing at the spectacular cliff scenery and busily taking photographs and videos.
A howling wind was blowing rivers that should have been flowing over the clifftop back inland, drenching the bus on one or two occasions. The thought of those starving during the famine working in similar weather conditions in the late 1840s to build this very road was humbling.
I had stories to tell about most points on the cliff road, mostly learned from my father or Seán and Martin Moloney or other Moveen natives.
Back in Kilkee, we saw the sea wall, also built as a famine relief scheme, and paused at the former Murphy's Café at the end of Marine Parade, home to the great famine historian Monsignor Ignatius Murphy, to whom Kilrush & District Historical Society hopes some day to erect a plaque on the building.
Then we headed west again on the lower Moveen road, where the first object of major interest was the afore-mentioned Kilcasheen cemetery. The two flat tombstones which it contains were clearly visible from the bus. Despite many years of campaigning by my father, by Noel O'Shea's uncle John Lynch, who grew up nearby, and by others, this ancient graveyard remains otherwise unmarked.
Eugene O'Curry wrote of it as follows:
"There is another burying ground called Killcasheen in the Townland of Killcasheen in this Parish. This was a deserted burying place in the year 1739 but in the ensuing year when famine and pestilence raged through the country and dead human bodies were to be met with by the roads and ditches, my grandfather, Melachlin-Garbh-O'Cómhraidhe, who tenanted, at will (being a Papist) the tract of land now called Moneen [in many transcripts, recte Moveen] and in which Kilcasheen is situated, employed himself, his workmen, his horses and sledges in carrying the victims of the plague from all parts of the neighbouring district and burying them here, so that it has continued ever since to be a burial place, although not a popular one."
I then explained that we were about to pass the homes of two Michael McNamaras close together. My cousin Michael in Moveen West is a blow-in, our family having lived on the farm for only 137 years. Michael `Anthony' McNamara in the next townland, Breaghva, is a real native, as his ancestors are listed in the same house in Griffith's Valuation in 1855. The Moveen West McNamaras now live in the third house on the farm, the first having been abandoned in 1888 because the residents of the nearby fairy fort were believed to have taken my greatgrandparents first five babies at birth. I'm wondering if the Breaghva McNamaras are still in the original pre-1855 house, and if it too might be, to quote Yeats, `of clay and wattles made'. Perhaps it is the very house in which Laura and Terry and Rebekah's GGGgrandfather McNamara was born away back around 1800.
Noel missed my request to stop and allow Laura and Terry to take photographs of their ancestral home, but Laura and Ann hopped out when he stopped and ran back and Ann introduced Laura to her brother, who wanted to invite her in for tea. We decided that tea for 53 would be too much of an imposition for a bachelor farmer! Having parked in the middle of a one-way street in Kilkee at lunchtime, parking on a narrow two-lane road would not have been a problem.
Next point of interest was Tullig, also depicted and described in the ILN:
"The Sketch is not of a deserted village - though that was a miserable enough spectacle, for the wretched beings who once viewed it as the abode of plenty and peace still linger and hover about it-- but of a destroyed village. The ruthless spoiler has been at work and swept away the shelter that honest industry had prepared for suffering and toiling humanity. A conqueror would not have had time and security to do the mischief which is perpetrated in safety under the guardianship of the laws by the Irish themselves. Within the Union of Kilrush, in the year of grace 1849, and before the coming of the month of June, about 16,000 persons had been unhoused out of 82,358, and 1200 were unhoused within one fortnight of May 7, in all, one-fifth or 20 per cent. of the whole population were turned out of their houses and the houses pulled down. Not less than 2890 houses were levelled in the Union of Kilrush in the years 1848-49. Ireland is now marked with many such monuments of the terrible mistakes of landlords and of the legislature as the roofless village represented in our Sketch."
I had warned Noel that the road from Tullig back to Cross was in poor shape when I did a scouting expedition with Garrett Dundon and others a couple of months back, but he wasn't worried. As he crawled across cut-away bog through bottomless pot-holes with a steep drop on either side, I wished he was in first gear rather than second! We came to a junction where he asked me whether to go right or straight ahead. The cul de sac to the right is not even shown on discovery series maps, but looked a better road than the one going straight ahead which we had to take.
Congella McGuire (another no show on the day due to pressures of work) had arranged with Fr Michael Casey that he would meet us and talk to us at the Church of the Little Ark in Moneen. As a rainshower arrived as we arrived at Seán Keating's cross, I decided it would be better to take the right fork and visit the church before an open-air stop in Kilbaha village. Fr. Casey proved hard to track down. Congella had lost his phone numbers, but eventually texted me his landline, which he wasn't answering; Michael O'Connell, who had given Congella the numbers, didn't have them either. Eventually I saw a light bulb going off in his head as he spotted Martha who, as an undertaker, was guaranteed to have the numbers of all the clergy in her mobile. She made the call and Fr Casey pulled up outside his church as we unloaded the bus. Since 2009, he has been the first man since Fr. Michael Meehan between 1849 and 1878 to be parish priest of both Kilballyowen and Moyarta parish.
I was tired of talking at this stage, and my passengers were surely tired of listening to me, so I was delighted to have someone else to take over and tell the story of The Little Ark of Kilbaha. This version is based on that at clarelibrary.ie:
"In the year 1849 the present parishes of Kilballyowen and Moyarta in West Clare were one, and were called after Carrigaholt which was the central village. The population was only 8,000 and many people were dying from Cholera. In that year a priest by the name of Fr. Michael Meehan was sent to help the dying victims and to give them the Last Sacrament. There was no church in the western part of the parish than because landlords would not permit their land to be used for a site. The priests used make-shift tents to say Mass in, but these proved useless in bad weather.
There was a church in Carrigaholt (Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1832-1833, while Fr. Malachy Duggan (1780-1849) was parish priest).
It is unsure how Fr. Meehan came up with the idea, but in 1852, he announced a plan to build a wooden box that would have four wheels and in this he planned to say Mass. It is thought he got the idea from a Bathing Box on the beach in Killkee.
The timber was ordered from Limerick and a local carpenter, Owen Collins, was employed to build what was to become known as "the little ark". After building the wooden structure, he then covered it in tarred canvas. There were two windows which ran along the length of both sides and at the front door. Inside, at the far end of the door was a low altar on which a statue of the Sacred Heart stood, and above the altar there was a crucifix.
When it was finally ready for use it was brought down to the beach in Kilbaha. The beach was a type of "no-mans land" meaning that no-one was breaking the law by using that area. However, despite this Father Meehan was prosecuted for placing a nuisance at the crossroads of Kilbaha. The case was tried and dismissed.
There by the sea for five years, Mass was celebrated and religious instruction given. People were married there and children baptised. Around "the little ark" on Sundays, in mud and soaking rain, in the burning heat of summer and through the frost of winter, the people gathered.
The strange Mass house soon began the attract attention and visitors arrived and went away shocked and amazed - shocked at the fact that a quarter of a century after passing of Emancipation, the Catholics of west Clare, because of landlord bigotry, could not get a site for a church. Amazed at the lengths the people went to practice their religion.
A site was finally granted in late 1856 by Fr. Meehan refused it for the reason that it was on a bog. Pressure was put on the landlord and a new site was granted. The first stone was laid on the 12th of July 1857 at Moneen, a mile from the site where the ark stood.
The church of "Our Lady, Star of the Sea" was dedicated on the 10th of October 1858. At first the ark was brought to the site and was used until the church was ready. It was later placed inside the church doors to the left, until the present building to the house was added.
On the day of the dedication of the church, Mass was celebrated in the Ark and a crowd of three thousand people attended the ceremony. Fr. Meehan died on the 24th of January 1878 after spending his last remaining years working in the parish. On Saturday the 26th his remains were brought from Kilrush to Carrigaholt and to Kilbaha by horsedrawn hearse. The coffin was taken out and brought to the spot where the ark had stood on the shore. On Tuesday February 1st 1878 his body was interred where it remains today, within feet of the ark. The ark is still preserved in the church at Moneen today."
We made our last stop in Kilbaha village to see the plaque to Fr. Meehan on the site where he used to say mass in the little ark, and also the other works of local sculptors Jim and Seamus Connolly and Paddy Murray. I couldn't even find Paddy's metalwork version of Searching for Potatoes in a Stubble Field from the ILN. And I hadn't done my homework on the five pilots and the Windsor Castle, so decided to call it a day before I made a bigger fool of myself.
We left off a few people on the way back to Kilrush, such as Laura Lyons in Carrigaholt, and were back at Crotty's where the day had started just 2 minutes ahead of schedule.
I made my way to Supervalu to buy a snack and a few supplies so that my hosts would not return from their holiday to an empty cupboard. Half the bus tour group also seemed to be there, along with Adrian O'Connell, provider of the wonderful old photograph of Carrigaholt which I may have mentioned earlier in the week. I was highly amused at the sight of Linda Culligan Bruce in front of me in the checkout queue with just two items - a bottle of talc and a sponge. Paul and Kay's demonstration of this technique in Cill na gCailleach had obviously converted one genealogist!
I was back at the Teach Ceoil just in time for Jason's lecture. It's hard to rank the evening lectures that we've had there this week, as all have been superb. Jason contrasted the efforts of the Catholic clergy who ministered to famine emigrants at Grosse Ile in 1847 with the allegations about the same order of nuns a decade earlier in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed. Mairead O'Brien was sorry she had chosen this lecture to bring her thirteen-year-old son David to, as she thought Monk's allegations about priests impregnating nuns and suffocating the resulting offspring were not suitable listening for the ears of one so young and innocent!
I was so relieved that my active involvement in the events of the week was over (or so I thought, until I got a phone call requesting another talk next morning!), that I was easily persuaded to go on a pub crawl with Paul and Mairead (once she'd dropped David home). I had a cidona in Crotty's, as we debated one or two bruised egos among those involved in the week's activities, and decided that most of them were caused by the overly long chain of communication from the authorities in the Department in Dublin (who will take over from the local committee on Sunday) through various County Council officials to the locals on the ground.
Then I had a 7Up in Buggle's, where we joined Miriam and Dolores and Carmel Buggle herself.
I was back at base just before midnight, totally exhausted, and went to bed without even taking the laptop out of the car.
Posted by Crissouli at 13:57
Labels: Dolórés Murrihy, Judy O'Donnel, Kilrush Poor Law Union, Kilrush's Famine commemoration Day 7 May 9 2013, Mairead O'Brien, Mary Belfast, Paddy Waldron, The Little Ark of Kilbaha
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Les Homalorhagida sont un des deux ordres des Kinorhynches. Ce sont de petits invertébrés faisant partie du meiobenthos.

On connaît 70 espèces dans deux familles et quatre genres.

Liste des familles
Pycnophyidae Zelinka, 1896
Neocentrophyidae Higgins, 1969

Référence
Zelinka, 1896 : Demonstration von Taflen der Echinoderes-Monographie. Verhandlungen der deutschen zoologischen Gesellschaft, vol. 6, .

Liens externes

Kinorhyncha

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia