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McFarlane Family International Scholarship being offered to Honors College students
Christina Beals, Reporter
Between the two scholarship opportunities offered to Watauga Residential College students, only one provides the partial funding meant to help its students study abroad.
According to the Watauga Residential College website and the McFarlane Family International Travel and Research Endowment, students must be students of the WRC to apply. The students "must have completed 12 semester hours of investigation work, be enrolled in a project relevant to the study abroad and be mentored by a WRC faculty member."
Following the brief summary, a link to the scholarship application follows.
The beginning of the application states the donor's preferences for the endowment of the scholarship to be given towards "support to students currently active in the Watauga Residential College and enrolled in a university sponsored study abroad trip or coursework, be enrolled in a research project relevant to the study abroad opportunity, and be mentored by a WRC faculty member."
The application itself asks for personal school information, the information of the applicant's faculty advisor, research conducted by the applicant regarding the cost of the desired study abroad trip, how heshe will receive additional funding and a brief project description of what the applicant would want to achieve during hisher potential study abroad opportunity.
Dr. Harry Clark Maddux, professor of interdisciplinary studies and director of the Watauga Residential College, administers the McFarlane scholarship award.
Regarding backstory on the McFarlane's and their generous endowment, Maddux talked of the McFarlane family including Appalachian State and WRC alumni.
"The McFarlane's are business and civic leaders from the Raleigh area. Ms. McFarlane is the mayor of Raleigh. Their children attended Appalachian State University and Watauga Residential College and wanted to give back to Watauga after their children came here," Maddux said.
Nancy McFarlane and Ron McFarlane have a history of giving back to family alma maters. According to the Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Pharmacy website, the couple both earned their bachelor's degrees from the School of Pharmacy in 1980.
Both Nancy McFarlane and Ron McFarlane "have donated $250,000 to the school for an endowed professorship in pharmacy practice."
Before that, they also established the Phi Delta Scholarship and the Nancy L. and Ronald H. McFarlane Scholarship at VCU.
The McFarlane's have their own business stationed in Raleigh, North Carolina, called MedPro Rx Inc. The company is, according to the same website, "an accredited specialty infusion pharmacy that focuses on treatments for people with bleeding, autoimmune neuromuscular, rheumatologic disorders and other complex medical conditions."
The opportunities offered to students through the internship given to Appalachian State, however, are unique from the pharmaceutical-related endowments given to VCU students.
"The award provides between $1,000 to $1,200 to assist a student who studies abroad either short-term or for a semester, which is deposited into their student bank account.
If more than one student is awarded the money during the academic year, the award is divided equally. The major benefit of the award comes in that students are able to pursue an independent research project, mentored by a faculty member, related to their work overseas," Maddux said.
Maddux also discussed past opportunities in which receivers of the endowment were able to respectively pursue, such as research done on the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef, ecotourism of Costa Rica and member cooperatives in southern France and the Basque region of Spain.
According to Maddux, along with the other qualifications listed on the website and application, students must also be able to come back to Appalachian State and present their work from their study abroad experience to the student and faculty body of the WRC.
For interested students, the McFarlane Family International Travel and Research Endowment deadline for Fall 2018 is April 15. The Spring 2019 semester deadline is Oct. 15
Story by Christina Beals, News Reporter.


Charles J. Sykes is one of the most influential conservatives in Wisconsin.
Until he stepped down in December after 23 years, Sykes was one of the state's top-rated and most influential talk show hosts. He is currently an MSNBC contributor.
Sykes is also author of eight books, including A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, The Hollow Men, The End of Privacy, 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School, A Nation of Moochers, and Fail U. The False Promise of Higher Education. He was co-editor of the National Review College Guide. He is currently working on a book titled "How the Right Lost Its Mind, which will be published by St. Martin's Press in October 2017.
Sykes has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Salon, USA Today, National Review, The Weekly Standard and other national publications. He has appeared on the Today Show, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, PBS, the BBC, and has been profiled on NPR. He has also spoken extensively on university campuses.
He lives in Mequon, Wisconsin with his wife and two (soon to be three) dogs. He has three children, and two grandchildren.
'The Eights' series concludes at a look at what divides Americans in 2018 and what 2028 might look like.
Charlie Sykes discusses the Libby pardon, Pompeo hearings, Paul Ryan's retirement, and other national news.
Charlie Sykes explains why the conservative movement isn't what it used to be.
Charlie Sykes, longtime conservative talk host, talks about the ousting of Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and his replacement John F. Kelly.
Charlie Sykes talks about how conservative and right-wing media is 'defending the indefensible' President Donald Trump's actions.
Watch Brian's broadcast from The Greene Space, featuring Gorsuch commentary, an Indivsibile Radio roundtable, and a Muslim comedian's story of sitting next to Eric Trump on a plane.
The hosts of Indivisible Radio are all together for the first time at The Greene Space covering the latest in politics.
Longtime Conservative talk show host, Charlie Sykes, weighs in on the latest news and the potential future of the Conservative movement under the Trump administration.
Sykes, a longtime conservative radio host and one of the upcoming hosts of WNYC's new call-in show, Indivisible, discusses the first weekend in Trump's "alternative-factual presidency."
Why are we producing 100 days of live radio? Listen to find out. Indivisible premieres on January 23rd from WNYC, MPR and The Economist.
Charlie Sykes has hosted a conservative radio show in Wisconsin for about 25 years. He says Trump has made this year unlike any other.
House Speaker Paul Ryan will meet with Donald Trump on Thursday, just days after the presumptive Republican nominee said that he's not interested in unifying his party.


The concert was last night and was very busy. Chris Young, Kane Brown and Morgan Evans at the Adams Center.
I was looking forward to meeting Kane Brown because all my girlfriends think he is so cute. I had some extra backstage passes and make my rounds looking for friends or listeners who would like to go but I mainly look for the kids. I saw this little blonde girl and another gal holding her hand. So I thought I would invite them to go.
They were so excited but after asking some questions found out the gal wasn't the girls mother but her mom was right there and in the end they decided to have mom go back with her.
The little girl was 8 year's old and goes to Russel Elementary School and it was her first concert! How cool is that?


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Plaça del Rei Monumental Site
Barcelona's civil Gothic art complex
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Plaça del Rei, the centre of power in medieval Barcelona, is home to some of the city's most important civil Gothic buildings. Around the Count of Barcelona's Royal Palace, where you can see the great throne room, you will discover a small chapel, a covered garden and a house that contains a Roman domus, the site of the city's History Museum.
What to visit at the Plaça del Rei Monumental Site
The monumental complex of Plaça del Rei is presided over by the Palau Reial Major, which is the building at the rear and the residence of the Count of Barcelona from the 13th century to the beginning of the 15th century, although its history dates back to the 11th century. Due to the remodelling undertaken in the 13th century, the predominant style of the royal palace is Gothic, but the base of the construction includes Visigothic and Romanesque elements.
Inside the palace is the Count's throne room, one of the most important civil Gothic halls and an emblematic space in the history of Barcelona as the centre of its medieval power. It is the Saló del Tinell, built at the behest of Peter III, the Ceremonious, in the 14th century by Guillem Carbonell, who designed it to be a large rectangular room sustained by six diaphragm arches resting on pillars with sculpted capitals. Now, the Palau Reial Major and the Saló del Tinell form part of the Barcelona City History Museum.
Another element included in Barcelona City History Museum is the Chapel of Santa Àgata, attached to the Palau Reial Major, which was built on the Roman wall of Barcelona in the 14th century as a royal oratory in honour of Agatha of Sicily. The exterior is visible from both Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran and from Plaça del Rei, where the main entrance is located. Inside the chapel you can admire the large altarpiece depicting the Epiphany, painted by Jaume Huguet in 1464.
On the opposite side of the chapel, annexed to the Palau Reial Major, is the Palau del Lloctinent (Lieutenant's Palace), which is a Gothic building with a charming Renaissance courtyard that was constructed in the 16th century using elements from previous buildings.
The building that completes Plaça del Rei is Casa Padellàs, the home of Barcelona City History Museum. This Gothic-Renaissance style palace was built in the late 15th century on Carrer de Mercaders, but due to the opening of Via Laietana it was disassembled, transferred and rebuilt in 1931 at Plaça del Rei. During the foundation work for Casa Padellàs in Plaça del Rei the archaeological remains of a Roman domus and a thermal construction from the Roman period were discovered and can now be visited in the museum.
How do you get to Plaça del Rei?
You can walk to Plaça del Rei from the Barri Gòtic stop on the Red Route of Barcelona Bus Turístic.
For the most curious of you
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Local's tip: Evening is the magic moment to visit this place, especially if you enter via Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran: the shadow of the equestrian sculpture of the Count of Barcelona projected onto one of the side buildings is quite dramatic!
A must: To discover royal Gothic splendour.
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Poeciloneta  è un genere di ragni appartenente alla famiglia Linyphiidae.

Distribuzione
Le diciotto specie oggi note di questo genere sono state rinvenute nella regione olartica: la specie dall'areale più esteso è la P. variegata reperita in svariate località dell'intera regione.

Tassonomia
Non è un sinonimo posteriore di Drapetisca  a seguito di un lavoro degli aracnologi Merrett, Locket e Millidge del 1985, contra un precedente lavoro dello stesso Millidge del 1977.

L'elevazione del sottogenere Acanthoneta  allo status di genere, a seguito di un lavoro effettuato dagli aracnologi Saaristo & Tanasevitch (1996b) non è considerata valida in quanto non accompagnata da adeguate giustificazioni.

Dal 2010 non sono stati esaminati esemplari di questo genere.

A dicembre 2012, si compone di diciotto specie secondo l'aracnologo Platnick e di quattordici specie secondo l'aracnologo Tanasevitch:
 Poeciloneta aggressa () — USA
 Poeciloneta ancora  — Cina
 Poeciloneta bellona () — USA
 Poeciloneta bihamata () — USA
 Poeciloneta calcaratus () — Alaska, Canada, USA
 Poeciloneta canionis  — USA
 Poeciloneta dokutchaevi  — Russia
 Poeciloneta fructuosa () — USA
 Poeciloneta furcata () — USA
 Poeciloneta hengshanensis () — Cina
 Poeciloneta lyrica () — America settentrionale
 Poeciloneta pallida  — Russia
 Poeciloneta petrophila  — Russia, Canada
 Poeciloneta tanasevitchi  — Russia
 Poeciloneta theridiformis () — Russia, America settentrionale
 Poeciloneta vakkhanka  — Russia
 Poeciloneta variegata () — Regione olartica
 Poeciloneta xizangensis  — Cina

Sinonimi
 Poeciloneta berthae (), posta in sinonimia con P. lyrica () a seguito di un lavoro degli aracnologi Saaristo & Tanasevitch del 2000.
 Poeciloneta picturata (), trasferita dal genere Linyphia e posta in sinonimia con P. variegata () a seguito di uno studio di Holm del 1973.
 Poeciloneta yanensis , posta in sinonimia con P. variegata (Blackwall, 1841) a seguito di uno studio di Tanasevitch (2010e).

Note

Bibliografia
 Blackwall, J., 1841 - The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol.18, pp. 601–670 (Neriene variegata, p. 650)
 Emerton, J.H., 1882 - New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. vol.6, pp. 1–86 (Bathyphantes bihamata, p. 72)
 Kulczynski, W., in Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski, 1894 - Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, vol.2, pp. 1–151.
 Chamberlin, R.V. & W. Ivie, 1943 - New genera and species of North American linyphiid spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah vol.33(10), pp. 1–39. (Lepthyphantes aggressa et al.)
 Holm, Å., 1973 - On the spiders collected during the Swedish expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 and 1876. Zoologica Scr. vol.2, pp. 71–110.
 Millidge, A.F., 1977 - The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. vol.4, pp. 1–60.
 Merrett, P., G.H. Locket & A.F. Millidge, 1985 - A check list of British spiders. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. vol.6, pp. 381–403
 Tanasevitch, A.V., 1989b - A review of the Palaearctic Poeciloneta Kulczynski (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Spixiana vol.11, pp. 127–131.
 Marusik, Y.M., 1991c - New data on spiders of the subfamily Linyphiinae (Aranei, Linyphiidae) of east Siberia. Zool. Zh. vol.70(6), pp. 61–68.
 Saaristo, M. I. & A.V. Tanasevitch, 1996b - Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck vol.83, pp. 163–186.
 Saaristo, M. I. & A.V. Tanasevitch, 2000 - Systematics of the Bolyphantes-Poeciloneta genus-group of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Reichenbachia vol.33, pp. 255–265
 Slowik, J., 2010 - Reestablishment of the species Poeciloneta bellona (Araneae: Linyphiidae). J. Arachnol. vol.38, pp. 142–145
 Tanasevitch, A.V., 2010e - On synonymy of linyphiid spiders of the Russian fauna (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). I. Arthropoda Selecta vol.19, pp. 273–282.

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Linyphiidae
Taxa classificati da Władysław Kulczyński

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I watched a video tutorial by Matt Forster recently. In it he talks about and demonstrates the technique of wet on wet watercolour.
I found myself in a hotel bedroom last night, having spent the afternoon at the funeral of a dear friend's father. I'd had a few drinks at the somewhat extended wake and I had Matt's video in my mind, but I didn't have any water colour paint with which to practice! Instead – I put water onto a postcard and then sketched over it in pencil. I let the background dry and then added the hill and the house.
The sketch has a little more to it in real life, in places the pencil has built up in layers as I went over and over a few parts, alternating pencil and water. It's a little something and nothing post wake drunken spurge, and I quite like it.
This post is some slides and thoughts from a recent workshop I facilitated where people were invited to use basic artistic methods to think differently about work and leadership. It was a free flowing session which people said they enjoyed and got a lot from.
Here is a review of the session put together using Slideshare.
I hope you find this approach interesting and useful and if you would like me to help you do things differently at work – please drop me a line at doug.shaw@wgalimited.com – let's talk.
I facilitated another Art for Work's Sake session in Milton Keynes a few days ago, and it went down a storm. Something that really interested me about the session was how we enabled a mixture of conversation and emergent thinking and action to develop around a framework, albeit a loosely structured one. We also cocreated a safe space in which to talk, work and experiment which certainly helped.
Here is some of the learning from recent Art for Work's Sake sessions, pulled together for you in a SlideShare. I hope this stuff is helpful to you, feel free to download and play if you would like.
I can also confirm that I am off to Chicago again in the Autumn. I will be delivering an Art for Work's Sake session for the people at the Illinois 2014 Society for Human Resource Management conference, with my co facilitator, Joe Gerstandt. I'm hugely excited about the work itself and about collaborating with Joe. Joe and I have been in touch for a good while now – patiently impatient – looking and waiting for a chance to do something epic. We haven't rushed it – we've kept in touch – we've shared the good and bad in the process. And we are now ready to serve. More details on this soon.
And if that wasn't enough, I received confirmation from Ohio over the weekend that I will be heading their way in September to do likewise. I love the way that the HR community is responding so positively to this creative and artistic way to improve the way we work.
I've received a lot of requests to run further sessions. Even though I am London based I'm very happy to travel to help spread the word, I think this work, this use of artistic practice to make work better, is important. So if you'd like me to come to your town or workplace – drop me a line and let's talk.
And finally, to celebrate the great start to 2014, we are giving away our 2014 tour t shirt, a copy of the very excellent book, 101 Things To Learn In Art School, by Kit White, and a set of Stop Doing Dumb Things cards. We have three sets to give away. To win, all you have to do is leave a comment on the blog and say you'd like to go into the draw. We'll draw the winners at random in a few weeks and then get in touch to ship your goodies to you.


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1,500 have died with COVID-19 symptoms in Bangladesh: report
By ONLINE DESK
02nd-Jul-2020
At least 1,500 people have died while displaying symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, in Bangladesh, a study has found.
Bangladesh Peace Observatory or BPO, a research project under Dhaka University's Centre for Genocide Studies, revealed the information in the form of a graphical presentation titled 'COVID-19 Graphics'.
Funded by the UNDP, the BPO gleaned its findings from reports published in 25 news media outlets, including national and regional newspapers, online portals and television channels, from Mar 8 to Jun 27.
In the 12th 'COVID-19 Graphics' on Thursday, the BPO found that 198 people had died with COVID-19 symptoms across the country in the last week. The figure was 206 the week before.
No-one was reported to have died with COVID-19 symptoms in the first two weeks of the outbreak in Bangladesh. But three people reportedly to died with the symptoms between Mar 22 and 28, according to the report.
The figure jumped to 63 from Mar 29 to Apr 5. Over the following weeks, the tally was 106, 120, 114, 93, 50, 67,48,73, 154, 206, 205 and finally 198.
The tally of fatalities with coronavirus symptoms peaked at 451 in Chattogram division, followed by 338 in Dhaka, 185 in Khulna, 170 in Barishal, 148 in Rajshahi, 83 in Sylhet, 70 in Rangpur, and 55 in Mymensingh division, according to BPO.
The presentation also highlighted some other social and political issues that came to the fore during coronavirus epidemic.
As of Jun 27, law-enforcement agencies have arrested 87 people for spreading rumours and misinformation. Also, another 544 people were detained for embezzlement of relief funds, food adulteration and defying government orders regarding the coronavirus crisis. At least 11,028 people were fined for their indiscretions during this period.
In different parts of the country, 217 instances of torture and social stigmatisation linked to the novel coronavirus have taken place, with 172 incidents of protest, according to BPO.
Around 27 percent of these protest incidents involved demands for relief items and aid, 41 percent for unpaid salaries and bonuses, while16 percent called for the lowering of house rent or tuition fees during the lockdown.
Another 6 percent of the protests were aimed at the irregularities in relief distribution, 4 percent called for health and medical benefits, while 2 percent of the incidents were related to the proposed budget.
At least 18 people died while 551 were injured in the 132 clashes that took place in connection to the coronavirus epidemic, the report said.
"The government is providing updated information on COVID-19, but that does not include people dying with symptoms of the disease. People are growing scared on the assumption that a large number of people are dying with novel coronavirus symptoms. But these are the findings we've made after analysing the 25 open sources," said Prof Imtiaz Ahmed, director of Centre for Genocide Studies.
Imtiaz is hopeful that the research will put an end to the 'rumours' circulating on social media about the issue and eliminate the misconception people harbour about COVID-19.
However, he highlighted some of the weaknesses of the research, pointing out that the deaths of people with coronavirus symptoms in private hospitals are not reported in the media.
"Therefore, the research doesn't reflect the issue in its entirety. The government should keep an eye on the private hospitals as well," he said.
"Just because a person died with symptoms of the virus does not mean they were infected. Many of them were tested and the result came back negative after their deaths," he added.
Source: bdnews24.com


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Home / York / 100 Years
100….and more
Registered on 16 June 1916, York was listed on the JSE in 1946 and celebrated its centenary in 2016.
Here is York's condensed journey to the present day…
Herman Katzenellenbogen was the founder of the Company, Katzenellenbogen Limited, when he registered his general dealership business, which later manufactured its own range of products.
The Company was listed on the JSE under the chairmanship of the founder's son-in-law, Maurice Balzam.
Max Tucker acquired a substantial interest in Katzenellenbogen Limited and merged it with his property and extensive stone quarrying interests.
The Company actively expanded its timber interests to secure its raw material supply lines for its emergent lumber business. It systematically moved from trading to production and to marketing, which set it apart from its competitors for many years.
The Company name was changed to The York Timber Organisation Limited (Yorkcor).
Furthering the Company's strategy to establish a vertically integrated solid wood processor and securing raw material supply, the Company purchased Global Forest Products (GFP) in 2007.
We continue to show you that money really does grow on trees.


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Project Controls Senior Manager - Estimating
Job ID: R-110159
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA, US
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. At Amgen our shared mission-to serve patients-drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world's leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together-researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that rea ch over 10 million patients worldwide. It's time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.
What you will do
Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role will report directly to the Director Project Controls, Engineering and as a key member of the Front-End Planning Team, you will leverage analytics to provide insights to assist in driv ing department strategy .
The Project Controls organization provides leadership globally in supporting all aspects of project controls to optimize the total cost of ownership of Amgen physical assets and ensures compliance to processes. Project controls supports and holds a responsibility of the Engineering Project Delivery providing standardized delivery from investment life cycle management, funding, planning, design, execution, and closeout.
The organization is responsible for providing strategic support for project planning, funding, estimating, cost control management, scheduling, forecasting, bench marking, project risk, contract strategy, and compliance of engineering processes for capital projects globally. Project controls works with many clients accomplishing this support through responsibility of the Engineering Project Delivery Process (EPD), and Lean Project Delivery. Project controls also coordinates internal audits and assists in identifying compliance risks.
Participates in the planning of projects from conception to close-out
Prepares Estimates and Benchmarks for projects
Develops and Maintains Estimating, and Benchmarking Means Methods and Data Bases
Leverages analytics to provide insights and strategy
Leverages Digital Technologies to drive project planning
Reviews project change orders and assists with problem solving
Exhibits proactive safety leadership and behavior
Supports innovation across the Engineering organization
Domestic / International travel up to 30% ( including overnight stays )
The position will initially start off remotely, however once site return to work it will be based onsite.
What we expect of you
Doctorate Degree and 2 years of Engineering or Operations experience
Master's Degree and 4 years of Engineering or Operations experience
Bache lor's Degree and 6 years of Engineering or Operations experience
Associates degree and 10 years of Engineering or Operations experience
High School Diploma / GED and 12 years of Engineering or Operations experience
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The vital Engineering professional we seek has these qualifications:
10 + years of engineering experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology/Engineering industry in project controls (Funding, Estimating, Cost Management, Scheduling, Audit)
5 + years of experience in preparing construction project estimates
Expertise in preparing all types of construction estimates from conceptual through detailed estimates
Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships across the network
Knowledge of project controls with expertise in engineering
Understanding scope control by target value design and cost and schedule management
Development and reporting of project cost, schedule, and cash flow
Analysis and accurate review of engineering / construction cost forecasts against scope
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates' professional and personal growth and well-being.
Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits
for a career that defies imagination
In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.
careers.amgen.com
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.


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#include <signal.h>
#include <algorithm>
#include "client.hpp"

using namespace std;

namespace redox {

Redox::Redox(ostream &log_stream, log::Level log_level)
    : logger_(log_stream, log_level), evloop_(nullptr) {}

bool Redox::connect(const string &host, const int port,
                    function<void(int)> connection_callback) {

  host_ = host;
  port_ = port;
  user_connection_callback_ = connection_callback;

  if (!initEv())
    return false;

  // Connect over TCP
  ctx_ = redisAsyncConnect(host.c_str(), port);

  if (!initHiredis())
    return false;

  event_loop_thread_ = thread([this] { runEventLoop(); });

  // Block until connected and running the event loop, or until
  // a connection error happens and the event loop exits
  unique_lock<mutex> ul(running_waiter_lock_);
  running_waiter_.wait(ul, [this] { return running_.load() || connect_state_ == CONNECT_ERROR; });

  // Return if succeeded
  return connect_state_ == CONNECTED;
}

bool Redox::connectUnix(const string &path, function<void(int)> connection_callback) {

  path_ = path;
  user_connection_callback_ = connection_callback;

  if (!initEv())
    return false;

  // Connect over unix sockets
  ctx_ = redisAsyncConnectUnix(path.c_str());

  if (!initHiredis())
    return false;

  event_loop_thread_ = thread([this] { runEventLoop(); });

  // Block until connected and running the event loop, or until
  // a connection error happens and the event loop exits
  unique_lock<mutex> ul(running_waiter_lock_);
  running_waiter_.wait(ul, [this] { return running_.load() || connect_state_ == CONNECT_ERROR; });

  // Return if succeeded
  return connect_state_ == CONNECTED;
}

void Redox::disconnect() {
  stop();
  wait();
}

void Redox::stop() {
  to_exit_ = true;
  logger_.debug() << "stop() called, breaking event loop";
  ev_async_send(evloop_, &watcher_stop_);
}

void Redox::wait() {
  unique_lock<mutex> ul(exit_waiter_lock_);
  exit_waiter_.wait(ul, [this] { return exited_.load(); });
}

Redox::~Redox() {

  // Bring down the event loop
  if (running_ == true) {
    stop();
  }

  if (event_loop_thread_.joinable())
    event_loop_thread_.join();

  if (evloop_ != nullptr)
    ev_loop_destroy(evloop_);
}

void Redox::connectedCallback(const redisAsyncContext *ctx, int status) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ctx->data;

  if (status != REDIS_OK) {
    rdx->logger_.fatal() << "Could not connect to Redis: " << ctx->errstr;
    rdx->logger_.fatal() << "Status: " << status;
    rdx->connect_state_ = CONNECT_ERROR;

  } else {
    // Disable hiredis automatically freeing reply objects
    ctx->c.reader->fn->freeObject = [](void *reply) {};
    rdx->connect_state_ = CONNECTED;
    rdx->logger_.info() << "Connected to Redis.";
  }

  rdx->connect_waiter_.notify_all();
  if (rdx->user_connection_callback_)
    rdx->user_connection_callback_(rdx->connect_state_);
}

void Redox::disconnectedCallback(const redisAsyncContext *ctx, int status) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ctx->data;

  if (status != REDIS_OK) {
    rdx->logger_.error() << "Disconnected from Redis on error: " << ctx->errstr;
    rdx->connect_state_ = DISCONNECT_ERROR;
  } else {
    rdx->logger_.info() << "Disconnected from Redis as planned.";
    rdx->connect_state_ = DISCONNECTED;
  }

  rdx->stop();
  rdx->connect_waiter_.notify_all();
  if (rdx->user_connection_callback_)
    rdx->user_connection_callback_(rdx->connect_state_);
}

bool Redox::initEv() {
  signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
  evloop_ = ev_loop_new(EVFLAG_AUTO);
  if (evloop_ == nullptr) {
    logger_.fatal() << "Could not create a libev event loop.";
    connect_state_ = INIT_ERROR;
    connect_waiter_.notify_all();
    return false;
  }
  ev_set_userdata(evloop_, (void *)this); // Back-reference
  return true;
}

bool Redox::initHiredis() {

  ctx_->data = (void *)this; // Back-reference

  if (ctx_->err) {
    logger_.fatal() << "Could not create a hiredis context: " << ctx_->errstr;
    connect_state_ = INIT_ERROR;
    connect_waiter_.notify_all();
    return false;
  }

  // Attach event loop to hiredis
  if (redisLibevAttach(evloop_, ctx_) != REDIS_OK) {
    logger_.fatal() << "Could not attach libev event loop to hiredis.";
    connect_state_ = INIT_ERROR;
    connect_waiter_.notify_all();
    return false;
  }

  // Set the callbacks to be invoked on server connection/disconnection
  if (redisAsyncSetConnectCallback(ctx_, Redox::connectedCallback) != REDIS_OK) {
    logger_.fatal() << "Could not attach connect callback to hiredis.";
    connect_state_ = INIT_ERROR;
    connect_waiter_.notify_all();
    return false;
  }

  if (redisAsyncSetDisconnectCallback(ctx_, Redox::disconnectedCallback) != REDIS_OK) {
    logger_.fatal() << "Could not attach disconnect callback to hiredis.";
    connect_state_ = INIT_ERROR;
    connect_waiter_.notify_all();
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

void Redox::noWait(bool state) {
  if (state)
    logger_.info() << "No-wait mode enabled.";
  else
    logger_.info() << "No-wait mode disabled.";
  nowait_ = state;
}

void breakEventLoop(struct ev_loop *loop, ev_async *async, int revents) {
  ev_break(loop, EVBREAK_ALL);
}

void Redox::runEventLoop() {

  // Events to connect to Redox
  ev_run(evloop_, EVRUN_ONCE);
  ev_run(evloop_, EVRUN_NOWAIT);

  // Block until connected to Redis, or error
  unique_lock<mutex> ul(connect_lock_);
  connect_waiter_.wait(ul, [this] { return connect_state_ != NOT_YET_CONNECTED; });

  // Handle connection error
  if (connect_state_ != CONNECTED) {
    logger_.warning() << "Did not connect, event loop exiting.";
    exited_ = true;
    running_ = false;
    running_waiter_.notify_one();
    return;
  }

  // Set up asynchronous watcher which we signal every
  // time we add a command
  ev_async_init(&watcher_command_, processQueuedCommands);
  ev_async_start(evloop_, &watcher_command_);

  // Set up an async watcher to break the loop
  ev_async_init(&watcher_stop_, breakEventLoop);
  ev_async_start(evloop_, &watcher_stop_);

  // Set up an async watcher which we signal every time
  // we want a command freed
  ev_async_init(&watcher_free_, freeQueuedCommands);
  ev_async_start(evloop_, &watcher_free_);

  running_ = true;
  running_waiter_.notify_one();

  // Run the event loop, using NOWAIT if enabled for maximum
  // throughput by avoiding any sleeping
  while (!to_exit_) {
    if (nowait_) {
      ev_run(evloop_, EVRUN_NOWAIT);
    } else {
      ev_run(evloop_);
    }
  }

  logger_.info() << "Stop signal detected. Closing down event loop.";

  // Signal event loop to free all commands
  freeAllCommands();

  // Wait to receive server replies for clean hiredis disconnect
  this_thread::sleep_for(chrono::milliseconds(10));
  ev_run(evloop_, EVRUN_NOWAIT);

  if (connect_state_ == CONNECTED)
    redisAsyncDisconnect(ctx_);

  // Run once more to disconnect
  ev_run(evloop_, EVRUN_NOWAIT);

  if (commands_created_ != commands_deleted_) {
    logger_.error() << "All commands were not freed! " << commands_deleted_ << "/"
                    << commands_created_;
  }

  exited_ = true;
  running_ = false;

  // Let go for block_until_stopped method
  exit_waiter_.notify_one();

  logger_.info() << "Event thread exited.";
}

template <class ReplyT> Command<ReplyT> *Redox::findCommand(long id) {

  lock_guard<mutex> lg(command_map_guard_);

  auto &command_map = getCommandMap<ReplyT>();
  auto it = command_map.find(id);
  if (it == command_map.end())
    return nullptr;
  return it->second;
}

template <class ReplyT>
void Redox::commandCallback(redisAsyncContext *ctx, void *r, void *privdata) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ctx->data;
  long id = (long)privdata;
  redisReply *reply_obj = (redisReply *)r;

  Command<ReplyT> *c = rdx->findCommand<ReplyT>(id);
  if (c == nullptr) {
    freeReplyObject(reply_obj);
    return;
  }

  c->processReply(reply_obj);
}

template <class ReplyT> bool Redox::submitToServer(Command<ReplyT> *c) {

  Redox *rdx = c->rdx_;
  c->pending_++;

  // Construct a char** from the vector
  vector<const char *> argv;
  transform(c->cmd_.begin(), c->cmd_.end(), back_inserter(argv),
            [](const string &s) { return s.c_str(); });

  // Construct a size_t* of string lengths from the vector
  vector<size_t> argvlen;
  transform(c->cmd_.begin(), c->cmd_.end(), back_inserter(argvlen),
            [](const string &s) { return s.size(); });

  if (redisAsyncCommandArgv(rdx->ctx_, commandCallback<ReplyT>, (void *)c->id_, argv.size(),
                            &argv[0], &argvlen[0]) != REDIS_OK) {
    rdx->logger_.error() << "Could not send \"" << c->cmd() << "\": " << rdx->ctx_->errstr;
    c->reply_status_ = Command<ReplyT>::SEND_ERROR;
    c->invoke();
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

template <class ReplyT>
void Redox::submitCommandCallback(struct ev_loop *loop, ev_timer *timer, int revents) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ev_userdata(loop);
  long id = (long)timer->data;

  Command<ReplyT> *c = rdx->findCommand<ReplyT>(id);
  if (c == nullptr) {
    rdx->logger_.error() << "Couldn't find Command " << id
                         << " in command_map (submitCommandCallback).";
    return;
  }

  submitToServer<ReplyT>(c);
}

template <class ReplyT> bool Redox::processQueuedCommand(long id) {

  Command<ReplyT> *c = findCommand<ReplyT>(id);
  if (c == nullptr)
    return false;

  if ((c->repeat_ == 0) && (c->after_ == 0)) {
    submitToServer<ReplyT>(c);

  } else {

    c->timer_.data = (void *)c->id_;
    ev_timer_init(&c->timer_, submitCommandCallback<ReplyT>, c->after_, c->repeat_);
    ev_timer_start(evloop_, &c->timer_);

    c->timer_guard_.unlock();
  }

  return true;
}

void Redox::processQueuedCommands(struct ev_loop *loop, ev_async *async, int revents) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ev_userdata(loop);

  lock_guard<mutex> lg(rdx->queue_guard_);

  while (!rdx->command_queue_.empty()) {

    long id = rdx->command_queue_.front();
    rdx->command_queue_.pop();

    if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<redisReply *>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<string>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<char *>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<int>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<long long int>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<nullptr_t>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<vector<string>>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<std::set<string>>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->processQueuedCommand<unordered_set<string>>(id)) {
    } else
      throw runtime_error("Command pointer not found in any queue!");
  }
}

void Redox::freeQueuedCommands(struct ev_loop *loop, ev_async *async, int revents) {

  Redox *rdx = (Redox *)ev_userdata(loop);

  lock_guard<mutex> lg(rdx->free_queue_guard_);

  while (!rdx->commands_to_free_.empty()) {
    long id = rdx->commands_to_free_.front();
    rdx->commands_to_free_.pop();

    if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<redisReply *>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<string>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<char *>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<int>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<long long int>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<nullptr_t>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<vector<string>>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<std::set<string>>(id)) {
    } else if (rdx->freeQueuedCommand<unordered_set<string>>(id)) {
    } else {
    }
  }
}

template <class ReplyT> bool Redox::freeQueuedCommand(long id) {
  Command<ReplyT> *c = findCommand<ReplyT>(id);
  if (c == nullptr)
    return false;

  c->freeReply();

  // Stop the libev timer if this is a repeating command
  if ((c->repeat_ != 0) || (c->after_ != 0)) {
    lock_guard<mutex> lg(c->timer_guard_);
    ev_timer_stop(c->rdx_->evloop_, &c->timer_);
  }

  deregisterCommand<ReplyT>(c->id_);

  delete c;

  return true;
}

long Redox::freeAllCommands() {
  return freeAllCommandsOfType<redisReply *>() + freeAllCommandsOfType<string>() +
         freeAllCommandsOfType<char *>() + freeAllCommandsOfType<int>() +
         freeAllCommandsOfType<long long int>() + freeAllCommandsOfType<nullptr_t>() +
         freeAllCommandsOfType<vector<string>>() + freeAllCommandsOfType<std::set<string>>() +
         freeAllCommandsOfType<unordered_set<string>>();
}

template <class ReplyT> long Redox::freeAllCommandsOfType() {

  lock_guard<mutex> lg(free_queue_guard_);
  lock_guard<mutex> lg2(queue_guard_);

  auto &command_map = getCommandMap<ReplyT>();
  long len = command_map.size();

  for (auto &pair : command_map) {
    Command<ReplyT> *c = pair.second;

    c->freeReply();

    // Stop the libev timer if this is a repeating command
    if ((c->repeat_ != 0) || (c->after_ != 0)) {
      lock_guard<mutex> lg3(c->timer_guard_);
      ev_timer_stop(c->rdx_->evloop_, &c->timer_);
    }

    delete c;
  }

  command_map.clear();
  commands_deleted_ += len;

  return len;
}

// ---------------------------------
// get_command_map specializations
// ---------------------------------

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<redisReply *> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<redisReply *>() {
  return commands_redis_reply_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<string> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<string>() {
  return commands_string_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<char *> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<char *>() {
  return commands_char_p_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<int> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<int>() {
  return commands_int_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<long long int> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<long long int>() {
  return commands_long_long_int_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<nullptr_t> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<nullptr_t>() {
  return commands_null_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<vector<string>> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<vector<string>>() {
  return commands_vector_string_;
}

template <> unordered_map<long, Command<set<string>> *> &Redox::getCommandMap<set<string>>() {
  return commands_set_string_;
}

template <>
unordered_map<long, Command<unordered_set<string>> *> &
Redox::getCommandMap<unordered_set<string>>() {
  return commands_unordered_set_string_;
}

// ----------------------------
// Helpers
// ----------------------------

string Redox::vecToStr(const vector<string> &vec, const char delimiter) {
  string str;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < vec.size() - 1; i++)
    str += vec[i] + delimiter;
  str += vec[vec.size() - 1];
  return str;
}

vector<string> Redox::strToVec(const string &s, const char delimiter) {
  vector<string> vec;
  size_t last = 0;
  size_t next = 0;
  while ((next = s.find(delimiter, last)) != string::npos) {
    vec.push_back(s.substr(last, next - last));
    last = next + 1;
  }
  vec.push_back(s.substr(last));
  return vec;
}

void Redox::command(const vector<string> &cmd) { command<redisReply *>(cmd, nullptr); }

bool Redox::commandSync(const vector<string> &cmd) {
  auto &c = commandSync<redisReply *>(cmd);
  bool succeeded = c.ok();
  c.free();
  return succeeded;
}

string Redox::get(const string &key) {

  Command<char *> &c = commandSync<char *>({"GET", key});
  if (!c.ok()) {
    throw runtime_error("[FATAL] Error getting key " + key + ": Status code " +
                        to_string(c.status()));
  }
  string reply = c.reply();
  c.free();
  return reply;
};

bool Redox::set(const string &key, const string &value) { return commandSync({"SET", key, value}); }

bool Redox::del(const string &key) { return commandSync({"DEL", key}); }

void Redox::publish(const string &topic, const string &msg) {
  command<redisReply *>({"PUBLISH", topic, msg});
}

} // End namespace redis

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Friardel est une ancienne commune française, située dans le département du Calvados en région Normandie, devenue le  une commune déléguée au sein de la commune nouvelle de La Vespière-Friardel. La fusion devient totale le .

Géographie

Toponymie

Le nom de la localité est attesté sous la forme Friardellum en 1057.

Histoire
Le , Friardel intègre avec La Vespière la commune de La Vespière-Friardel créée sous le régime juridique des communes nouvelles instauré par la loi  du  de réforme des collectivités territoriales. Les communes de Friardel et La Vespière deviennent des communes déléguées et La Vespière est le chef-lieu de la commune nouvelle. Les communes déléguées sont supprimées au .

Politique et administration

Le conseil municipal étaitt composé de onze membres dont le maire et un adjoint.

Démographie

Friardel a compté jusqu'à 375 habitants en 1806.

Économie

Lieux et monuments
 Ancien prieuré de Saint-Cyr, du , dont l'église classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1933 a été détruite en 1944.
 Manoir de Douville, du , inscrit au titre des monuments historiques.
 Église Saint-Martin du . Elle abrite des vestiges du prieuré dont une fresque du  et le gisant du  de Guillaume de Friardel, fondateur du prieuré, deux œuvres classées à titre d'objets.
 Château de Friardel du  avec colombier, pressoir et chapelle.

Activité et manifestations

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi
 Liste des communes du Calvados

Notes et références

Notes

Références
 Altitudes, coordonnées, superficie : répertoire géographique des communes 2012 (site de l'IGN, téléchargement du 24 octobre 2013)

Bibliographie

Liens externes

 Résumé statistique de Friardel sur le site de l'Insee
Inventaire des archives communales sur le site des Archives départementales du Calvados

Commune déléguée dans le Calvados


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I have been in contact with a descendant of John Bolton, former Sexton of St Thomas' Church, Barrowford; my Great, great, great grandad. He has generously scanned photographs and newspaper cuttings. It just goes to show that there is a lot of information out there and the interweb thingy is a fantastic place. I have a photograph that takes me back another generation of direct ancestry. I think I have my weekend sorted!
Sorry Julie, I tried to sort it for you and failed!
If you try again, click on the picture of a mountain on the tool bar and paste into that.
Not quite right yet Julie. Copy the image URL from the top box in the gallery when viewing your image. Place your cursor in your post where you want the image to appear then click the little mountain icon in the post editor. Paste the URL copied from the gallery into "enter link for image" and then click "Insert into Message".
John Bolton, one time Sexton etc.
Last edited by Julie in Norfolk on 17 Jan 2016, 18:15, edited 1 time in total.
Oh and thank you all.
Almost directly across from the entrance gates to the old St. Thomas' church stood a cottage known as The Hubby (an old word meaning small roadside farm). The Hubby gave its name to Hubby Causeway, the stretch of road 8 roods in length running from the top of Bank Stile westward to the beginning of Wheatley Lane Road near Clough Farm.
John Brown farmed Trough Laithe Farm alongside his business as a part-time property auctioneer. Brown was responsible for selling many farms around the district during the later nineteenth century, an example being an auction he carried out in September 1857 for the sale of the Lower Hubby Causeway buildings of a house, garden, barn and mistal in the possession of Thomas Nowell. Also for sale are all of the surrounding fields around the Hubby on which some of the cottages of Church Street and Back Church Street now stand. Particulars for the auction were to be had from Mr Stephen Wilson's house (the George and Dragon) or from Mr Ingham Walton of Bank House. Robert Hayurst is in possession of the original large poster relating to the sale where it is stated that one of the fields, named Hole Hurst and Holme, would be suitable for the erection of a mansion house. This, however, was not to be and in the early 1950s the housing estates of Oaklands Avenue and Higher Causeway were built on this land. The fields above the Hubby were called Hubbycourse Meadow and Barn Field – John Barrowclough built his Oaklands House on the boundary between these areas of land. The Hubby was demolished around 1870 to make way for the Oaklands Lodge.
Opposite to Hubby Causeway, next to the old St. Thomas' churchyard, is to be found a barn conversion once known as Hubby Causeway Barn. This was probably a barn attached to the to the Lower Hubby Farm estate. A plan of 1847 shows that the yard attached to the barn (which is possibly of late 18th century date) occupied the western end where the large Higher Causeway House is now attached.
This higher status house was always known as 'Lonsdale's House' in the earlier part of the 20th century after the family of that name who lived there. At the end of the high walled gardens to the west of Lonsdale's House stands a solitary gatepost which bears testionony to the days when the road here was a dirt track with a gate across. Here, where the new vicarage now stands, was a trackway which branched off Hubby Causeway down to Lower Clough Farm and onward to the ford over the river at Reedyford. This area, where Higher Causeway now meets with Church Street, was known as Grey Stiles, probably as a reference to the age of the path or trackway.
At the far end of Corlass Street stands the row of 2-6 Victoria Street where, on the end of this street, we find Stanley Place (64-66 Gisburn Road) and the two shops at 68-70 Gisburn Road. As was the case with the houses of Victoria Street these properties were built by Henry Atkinson on land belonging to Mary Ann Berry of Holmefield House. In 1877 Doctor John Lord purchased the two properties of Stanley Place from Atkinson for the sum of £600 on a lease of 999 years. Dr Lord moved his wife, Jean, and 7 year-old daughter, Margaret Ellen (Nellie), and 5 year-old Jane Elizabeth into Stanley Place in the April of 1877 and the family (with the addition of son John in 1878) lived there until 1896 when the property was sold to John Bolton, a painter and decorator who occupied the neighbouring shop at number 68. John Bolton paid Dr Lord £680 for the property, £400 of which he borrowed from the Burnley Building Society. The Boltons were a well established Barrowford family, the head of which had been John Bolton of the Hubby, a cottage that stood across from the old St. Thomas' church until 1870. John Bolton, of Stanley Place, had 4 children; Alice, Clara, Clement and Vina – Clement followed in his father's footsteps as a decorator.
On 17th June 1917 John Bolton conveyed the property of Stanley Place to his children and in February 1922 Vina Bolton married William Hargreaves at the Congregational Chapel on Church Street. In April 1924 Alice Bolton married Frederick Rawson at the Congregational Chapel and in 1927 Clement Bolton died. In November 1932 the property of Stanley Place was rendered freehold when the Clitheroe Estate Company, who were the Lords of the Forest of Pendle, extinguished all manorial incidents saved by an Act of 1922 (Part V) – in other words, for a sum of £6: 3s: 1d all rents, fines and fees were discharged by the Estate Company.
In the 1880s and 90s the grocery shop at number 70 Gisburn Road was run by Timothy Duckworth, whose brother was a wholesale confectioner on Church Street. Sometime before 1918 Clara Bolton had taken over the grocery shop and her brother, Clement, was running the decorating business next door at number 68. By 1946 Clara had retired and was living with her widowed sister, Alice Rawson, at number 66 (Stanley Place) - living next door at 64 were their sister Vina and her husband, William Hargreaves. By this time number 68 had become a watchmaker and jewellers shop run by Frank Hall, living at the back was Harry Holt, a twister at Berry's Mill, and the grocery shop at number 70 was a hairdressers run by Mrs. A Chamberlain. Clara Bolton died in 1954, Alice Rawson in 1958 and Vina died in April 1960; her cousins inherited Stanley Place in 1961 and turned number 64 into two flats - 66 being sold at that time.
1900: William Mantle was confirmed as the organ blower for 5 years and Humphrey Haworth was the choirmaster.
1891 (January). - The Rev. A. F. Studdy Studdy, in referring to the death of the old sexton, John Bolton, said that he had opened nearly 1,500 graves.
John Bolton, of the "Hubby," used to fetch six quarts of good blue milk daily from the Laund at ½d. per quart. In Barrowford at the present time there are 32 registered milk purveyors.
It (the White Bear Inn) was built, according to the date chiselled on it, in 1607, but Mr. Carr, in his work, "Annals of Colne," gives the date as 1615; but old John Bolton, the village sexton, said it was much older than was generally supposed, and that the stone bearing the date had been turned, the original date being on the reverse side of the stone.
Old John Bolton and his wife (née Anne Sutcliffe), for fifty years lived at the "Hubby," as the old cottages were called which stood on the site of Oaklands Lodge. They had twenty living children born to them. Rushton Bolton, of Russell Street, who has just passed away, was the youngest of them.When the children were growing up, they wanted an oven and boiler in place of the old-fashioned hobs. John asked Christopher Grimshaw if he would put one in. "Who is your landlord?" he was asked, and the reply was, "I do not know." "Well, but to whom do you pay rent?" The reply was, "I don't pay any rent." He agreed to pay sixpence a week to Mr. Grimshaw on his supplying him with a boiler, and in that way Grimshaw became the owner. John Bolton, the joiner, was born here in 1851. One son, Sutcliffe Bolton, was in the Helmshore railway accident.
A school teaching sewing was commenced in the Higherford Wesleyan schoolroom, and a large number of females availed themselves of the opportunity afforded. Several ladies of the village gave their services willingly for this work, and many pleasant hours were spent in the old Wesleyan school. A day school was formed during this time in the Primitive Methodist Old Chapel. With the late James Clegg and James Hargreaves as teachers, and John Bolton as assistant, the chapel soon became too small, and the day school was ultimately taught in the Congregational school.
A Trough Lane Ghost - As Told by John Bolton, an Old Sexton:- The' were a man as lived i' Troc'h Lane called George Wood, an' he hed a lot o' geese as he wer' fattenin' up fer Christmas. Ther' wer' eleven o' these birds, an' he spent time an' money getting' 'em reight for't market. There's no doubt abaat it but wot these geese were as fine an' plump as aver wer' fed, either i' Troc'h Lane or onyweer else. He med no secret o' wot he wer' doin'; he wer' reight proud on his results an' every mon abaat wer' as interested in't results as wot he wer', some on 'em more so, 'appen.
It seems as a couple o' George's mates decided to play a trick on him an' spirit some on his birds away. So a day or so afoor Christmas, them as hed med it up, went quietly up to wheer't geese were kept, took seven on 'em eawt o' th' eleven, an' piked off hooam.
What does ta think o' that?
As novelists sometimes state at the end of the paragraph – The situation can be better imagined than described!


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- All Staff working a table, a vendor's family or otherwise, are required to have a Badge.
- All Vendor Badges include Lunch on Saturday & Sunday. There is no Badge without a lunch.
- Only One Badge is allowed per person.
- Each Vendor must be present to receive their Badge. No Badge will be given out for people who are not present.
- If a vendor brings their child (minor) with them, and the child is not working the table, that child needs to receive a guest hand stamp. The vendor must accompany their child to the entry area to be stamped. No child will be given a hand stamp without their accompanying vendor parent present. Any vendor's child allowed into the show in this way will not receive a Badge or Lunch.
- All "guests" of vendors coming into the show, whether doing business or not; be they visiting family, customers who have pre-purchased and are picking up items, etc., must pay admission to be admitted into the show.
The following are the badges included per table purchase and maximum allowed per table.
If any vendor wants more than 9 workers requiring badges at their tables, they must purchase more than 4 tables.
Vendor Cancellation: Vendors who have booked tables for a show and need to cancel for any reason must notify CritterCon via e-mail to info@CritterCon.com by 8:00am EST on the Monday preceding the show to cancel without penalty. Vendors cancelling after this time are responsible for payment of 50% of the original cost of tables booked. This payment must be paid in full before the vendor may book tables at any future CritterCon show. Vendors cancelling later than 8:00am EST on the Thursday prior to the show will be required to pay for the cancelled tables in full before booking any tables at future CritterCon shows, and will be required to pre-pay in full for all tables future tables booked. Vendors who no-show a booked show without contacting CritterCon will be responsible for their full table placement plus 25%, and will be required to pre-pay in full for all future tables booked.
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Any exhibitor creating a hostile situation with other vendors, guests, or event staff will also be removed under these same terms.
product before the show closes, or creates empty tables through product consolidation before the show closes will be charged his or her full table rent, plus an additional $50/table/show-day fine for each table that the vendor had committed to fill. Vendors who sell through all of their product at a particular show may, with express permission of CritterCon, be permitted to leave the show early, but will be required to leave a table cover and business cards or other promotional literature at each of their tables. Please see sections above for revised No-Show/No-Notice penalties.
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Escaped Animals - Each exhibitor is responsible for ensuring that no animals leave their exhibit area unless under the control of an employee or customer. Each vendor is responsible for recapturing any escaped animals without unreasonable disruption to other exhibitors or guests. Any escaped animals must be immediately reported to CritterCon. Any lost animals that are found after event hours or after the event closes become the property of CritterCon, with no obligation for return to the original owner.
Wild-Caught Animals - There is no restriction regarding sale of legal, wild-caught animals. Exhibitors are not required to display any particular signage, but are required to disclose any pertinent information to interested guests, including whether a particular animal is wild-caught or captive bred.
Guests Bringing Animals - Guests will be allowed to bring up to two animals inside the event. We feel strongly that this interaction will provide guests with an additional opportunity to engage in discussion with exhibitors and will generate excitement among event attendees. Animals brought by guests to the event must be in good health and under their control at all times. Guests may not bring animals into the event for the purpose of selling them at the event, as only show vendors with appropriate permits may sell animals. Any guests who violate these policies will be asked to leave the show.
These Rules & Information are provided as a convenience to CritterCon vendors and exhibitors, and may not be comprehensive for every animal. Each vendor is responsible for researching and complying with all current laws regarding their animals.
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*Please Note this list is for quick reference. For a full list of all North Carolina Protected Animal Species which are illegal to sell, please review the document HERE.
- Also Note a new North Carolina State Law regarding reptiles has just gone into effect for 2010 which we encourage you to view HERE.
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- All mammals coming from out of State must have a health cerificate issued no more than 10 days prior to the Show. Please bring proof of USDA certification.
- No permit is required for non-native reptiles. Reptiles native to Mississippi may NOT be sold.
- Native amphibians are also restricted.
- Native cornsnake, kingsnake, and other native species morphs MAY be sold so long as the morphs are readily recognizable.
- However, morphs which are locally found in the wild, such as Okeetees corns, are not allowed.
- NO hets of these species may be sold as they cannot be visually distinguished from normal animals.
- For any questions, please contact the MS State Herpetologist, Dr. Bob Jones, at the MS Museum of Natural History at 601-354-7303.


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11th February 2007 26th May 2019
Australia/USA. 2006.
Director – George Miller, Screenplay – Warren Coleman, John Collee, George Miller & Judy Morris, Producers – Bill Miller, George Miller & Doug Mitchell, Music – John Powell, Music Supervisor – Christine Woodruff, Animation Supervisor – Daniel Jeanette, Additional Animation – Giant Killer Robots (Supervisor – Peter Oberdorfer) & Rhythm and Hues (Supervisor – Todd Shifflett), Digital Supervisor – Brett Feeney, Production Design – Mark Sexton, Choreographer – Kelley Abbey. Production Company – Warner Brothers/Village Roadshow Pictures/Animal Logic Film/Kennedy Miller.
Elijah Wood (Mumble), Robin Williams (Lovelace/Ramon), Brittany Murphy (Gloria), Hugh Jackman (Memphis), Nicole Kidman (Norma Jean), Hugo Weaving (Noah the Elder), E.G. Daily (Baby Mumble), Carlos Alazraqui (Nestor), Lombardo Boyar (Raul), Jeff Garcia (Rinaldo), Johnny A. Sanchez (Lombardo), Magda Szubanski (Miss Viola), Miriam Margolyes (Mrs Astrakhan), Roger Rose (Leopard Seal), Fat Joe (Seymour)
On the Antarctic ice shelf, two Emperor penguins Memphis and Norma Jean give birth to a baby penguin that they name Mumble. From the moment he emerges from his egg, Mumble has a peculiar habit of making strange movements with his feet. All penguins have a unique song, their heartsong, which is the thing that most fills their hearts. Only when Mumble tries to sing, all that comes out is a discordant squawk – and when he tries to find what is in his heart, he instead ends up dancing. His inability to find his heartsong has Mumble ostracised among the other penguins. Mumble falls in with a group of young males that think his dance moves are the coolest thing. At the same time, Mumble becomes concerned over the fact that the fish in the ocean are vanishing. He hears stories of aliens that are rumoured to abduct animals off the ice shelf and believes that the aliens may be responsible. Mumble and his friends set out on a quest to find the aliens and demand an answer as to why they are taking all the fish.
Happy Feet was one of a whole host of talking animals animated films that came out in 2006. These eventually seemed so prevalent that they started to blur into a sameness. Others included The Ant Bully (2006), Barnyard (2006), Flushed Away (2006), Ice Age 2 (2006), Open Season (2006), Over the Hedge (2006) and The Wild (2006). Indeed, Happy Feet was followed only a few months later but yet another film about talking penguins with Surf's Up (2007). Of these, Happy Feet ended up receiving the most rapturous audience response and stood out head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd – indeed, it went onto win the Academy Award for Best Animated Film that year. Happy Feet was animated in the performance capture method that was popularised with The Polar Express (2004).
The surprise about Happy Feet is the name of the creative talent behind it – none other than Australian director George Miller, the man responsible for the Mad Max trilogy – Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2 (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Certainly, George Miller's career has been uneven since the days of the Mad Max films. He was taken to Hollywood to direct one of the episodes (the best) of Twilight Zone – The Movie (1983) then had a reasonable success with The Witches of Eastwick (1987) but quit Hollywood after a falling out with the producers of that film. Miller's output throughout the 1990s was sporadic at best – he produced Philip Noyce's thriller Dead Calm (1989) and the tv mini-series Bangkok Hilton (1989), both of which introduced Nicole Kidman to the world; had a big success as the producer of the talking animals film Babe (1995), directed its less successful sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998); and only directed one other film, the true-life medical miracle cure search film Lorenzo's Oil (1992).
Mumble the tap-dancing penguin (voiced by Elijah Wood)
More than anything, it felt that George Miller was better known throughout the 1990s and 2000s for the films he didn't direct than those he did – Contact (1997), which he ended up being fired from, the perpetually announced fourth Mad Max film that eventually emerged as Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) after thirty years, the planned Justice League: Mortal and an adaptation of The Odyssey. It has not been since The Witches of Eastwick that George Miller has had a film of notice, which is a shame as he has always been a director of great untapped worth in this critic's opinion. It is good to see Miller back in the director's chair and having a film that is a hit again. Although, one would find it hard to think of a film more far removed from the violent, revved-up comic-book action world of the Mad Max series than Happy Feet – an animated talking animals film pitched to family audiences.
Happy Feet has one of the most off the wall premises of any film of recent note – a talking animals film about tap-dancing penguins. It is almost as though Happy Feet has been conceived following a double-bill viewing of the hit documentary March of the Penguins (2005) and Billy Elliott (2000) about an outsider in a small community finding acceptance through his ability to dance. The penguins prove absolutely adorable. It is especially saddening watching the poor downtrodden Mumble's rejection from the community, which Miller plays for all the expected heartstrings. Much of the show is stolen by a chorus of manic Latino penguins, led by Robin Williams back in good old Robin Williams motormouth comic mode. There is some wonderfully high energy malarkey where George Miller's animation camera skates around the icecaps with the penguins diving en masse or being pursued by whales and walruses. Miller has an amazing voice cast and manages to squeeze in just about every single actor in the Australian Screen Actor's Guild, excepting perhaps Naomi Watts and Bryan Brown. (Even the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is there in what was his last screen appearance).
While the first half of Happy Feet is in the mode of a standard talking animals animated film with all the expected characters – the misunderstood outsider forced out from his home because nobody understands his unique talent, the love interest, the loopy guru and so on – and plays on the standard emotional ploys of this type of film, the second half becomes a different film altogether. Here the talking animal fun and silliness is put aside and the film develops a more sombre environmentalist message about endangered ecosystems and in particular warnings over the fragility of the Antarctic biosphere.
Lovelace (voiced by Robin Williams)
The script has the clever idea of interpreting the penguins' encounters with human civilisation as an analogue for alien abduction. It makes for an appealingly intelligent metaphor – a penguin with a tracking tag on its leg is seen as an abductee; the remains of a mining base as alien artefacts; and, in one scene, the image of an icebreaker moving through the fog becomes something akin to the mothership of lights from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). There is a completely lovely scene where Mumble is placed in a zoo and sees himself surrounded by a wall of human faces (which all come with an extraordinary degree of photographic realism).
This is a film where the music supervisor is almost as much a star of the show as the animation and characters. Happy Feet is not unlike the also Australian-made Moulin Rouge (2001), which conducted some amazingly inventive medleys that reworked popular songs. Unlike most other films that quote or have popular songs on the soundtrack, this aspect is cleverly integrated into the plot. Where in most other films the use of pop songs is simply filmmakers lazily reaching for familiar cultural cues, Happy Feet shows how such a thing can be conducted with charm.
George Miller and many of the voice cast subsequently made a sequel Happy Feet Two (2011). Happy Feet was parodied in Meet the Spartans (2008).
Director: George Miller
Actors: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, E.G. Daily, Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Jeff Garcia, Johnny A. Sanchez, Magda Szubanski, Miriam Margolyes, Roger Rose, Fat Joe
Themes: Animation, Talking Animals, Music, Environmentalism, UFOs, Family Entertainment, Film Series and Sequels, Australian Cinema, Films of 2006
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Rio 2 (2014)
Ice Age 2 (2006)
The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Open Season (2006)
Flushed Away (2006)


Labor Day weekend's weather has been perfect: blue skies, cool temperatures, warm sun, and low humidity. Have you been able to really enjoy this beautiful weather? We have, but not like I expected to enjoy it.
I've been trying to mentally make lemonade because my back has thrown lemons at me. I broke down last week and took a half day off from school to see a physical therapist because I knew that something was really wrong with my back. I've suffered from muscle spasms and back pain since August 2nd and my life feels like it has been on hold. My therapist found that my pelvis was out of position in four places and now we are working on getting my muscles strengthened to hold myself in the correct place. I've played tennis once in almost a month. I miss it!! I haven't gone for a run since last Sunday. I need to run!! My therapist told me not to run or walk until my back is fixed. I almost cried until she told me the good news….I'm allowed to bike because my pelvis stays in a forward position while biking. Biking is my lemonade for now.
Saturday I took a ride on my mountain bike on our local bike trail while Mr. SP played tennis. I am not very confident on my mountain bike because I have a hard time getting out of my clip-in pedals. I'm also terrified that a dog on a leash will get between my wheels or that a small child will dart out in front of me. I never really relaxed while I rode but at least I moved a bit. I carried my phone with me, just in case, and took a few pictures. The trail crosses the James River and is quite scenic in this area. This old railroad bridge is pretty and so are the views of the mountains. It's starting to look a bit like fall!
I begged Mr. SP to buy a mountain bike for me. I pictured myself riding through the woods year round. I am a road biker at heart and never got the hang of riding off road. It scares me more than even snakes or alligators. This mountain bike is lucky to even travel on a gravel road.
On Sunday, Mr. SP loaded up our road bikes and we headed to our old biking stomping grounds in Appomattox. We hadn't ridden our road bikes in a few years and we wanted to ride where there would be little traffic. We used to road bike a lot. Like over 2000 miles per summer. Road biking was our thing! We even went on a road biking trip for our honeymoon. We quit road biking when we got into tennis. There's a lot less of a chance of getting killed on a tennis court. I've missed biking. I truly don't think that there's a better workout than being on a bike. We had a great ride and it mentally gave me the glass of lemonade that I needed.
These pictures were taken with my phone. This is one of my all time favorite biking stretches. The farms in this area grow tobacco, corn, and soybeans.
I'm hoping that when I have my PT appointment on Tuesday that I'll be told that I can run. I miss my tennis but I suppose I'll have to run without back trouble before I can hope to play tennis.
Enjoy this beautiful day! I think we'll probably head to the lake to take advantage of a day off with sun.
So sorry you are having back problems Paula. I know you will bounce back quickly. I really love biking even though I don't do it much any more. What a beautiful place you had for biking.
Paula, well hopefully you'll be on the mend soon now that the issue with your back has been identified. Riding your bike is a great alternative if playing tennis isn't an option right now. Lemonade from lemons is a good analogy.
Your pictures are beautiful, you are very fortunate to live in an area so full of photo opportunities.
Oh, Paula, I'm so sorry that your back trouble is continuing! You were right to head to a PT. Have you ever tried chiropractic care? I used to think it was nonsense, but it has really, really helped my husband and me. It's all about bringing the spine back into alignment when something shifts out of place. One of my legs is considerably larger than the other (part of a rare disorder I have), so my hips often get misaligned. The chiropractor is able to move them back where they're supposed to be. My friends in the medical profession think I'm nuts for seeing a chiropractor, but it has REALLY helped!
Glad that you're having a good weekend. The weather has been so beautiful; it's been great to be outside, hasn't it?
Bless your heart! I am so sorry about your back! It stinks not to be able to play tennis and run, doesn't it? I know how much you love it! I'm glad you can at least ride your bike though. Y'all look too cute in your bike gear!
Love that bridge. Sooo cool looking! Beautiful scenery!
Such a pretty ride. I'm so happy it's cooling down here…yesterday when I went out to get the paper I just thought….aaaaahhhh, finally!
I love the photos of the bridge, the mountains, and creek – takes my breath away! I hope you are on the mend and back to your favorite activities soon! Happy Labor Day!
Back pain is no fun. I hope you'll be back in the swing of things real soon. Meanwhile, sit back and watch the Hokies tonight on TV!
you are absolutly right!! this weather is fab!! & bike riding is a perfect way to enjoy it all. We bike every now & then down at the trails over here…its a great workout!
Sorry to hear about your back..iknow how that can be. Ever since having my 2 kids my back has never been the same.
Oh Paula, I am so sorry you are in pain! Glad you are getting the medical attention you need, and that you've found a way to get some exercise that you enjoy. What a seriously pretty place to bike!
Oh I am so sorry about your back! Take it easy though so it heals properly. I love the bridge photos!
My goodness, girl! You have had it rough but I hope are feeling a bit better. I am envious your athletic ability though…even through the pain.


The story revolves around Jo and mag. Jo is a cyborg that found her humanity after meeting mag. She also lost her memory of being a cyborg. Mag is an ordinary girl who always gets in trouble. How will Jo remember her past? And how much trouble can mag get into?
Personally I'm drawn to manga with a strong female heroin. Bakuretsu Tenshi has an viciously strong female heroin which I love. The manga also has this pure relationship between Jo and Mag. I generally like purely innocent relationships. The gun action is amazing. There is this one scene in the first chapter that I loved when Jo jumped out of the window. You would seriously wonder what/who is that?! In like an awesome way.
I love everything about that manga. It was very fun and exciting to read!


cook beets in the microwave!
Two lessons for the 'price' of one today.
Yes, the wily world of vegetables includes creamy white beets in addition to beet-red, pale pink and golden beets.
Yes, beets can be cooked in the microwave!
#1 is a mere novelty but #2 is decidedly useful since cooking beets in the oven takes 60 - 90 minutes.
These beets were delicious, sliced hot from the microwave and topped with a pinprick of butter and a few fresh chives. I may never roast beets in the oven again.
And the technique is especially convenient when cooking for one or two. Need to cook just one beet or two beets? No problem.
The microwave technique is entirely inspired by Adapted from Vegetable Love by Barbara Kafka. The book's arrangement is annoying -- rather than using easy A-Z organization, it organizes recipes by vegetable family -- but I overlook that point because the content is so entirely thorough. This microwave technique, for example, is buried in the back. Well, forget that, on A Veggie Venture, microwave beets are going front and center where we can all use it! I've created a new collection of vegetable recipes for the microwave. This time of year, cooking an ear or two of fresh corn in the microwave is just so convenient!
NEXT TIME I will turn the beets themselves (versus turning the container) partway through the cooking time. Re-reading the instructions, that's likely what was meant but I missed it.
SO WHAT ABOUT THE WHITE BEETS? Let's see. They taste like, um, well, beets! They have the texture of, um, well, beets! One source says red beets have the most sugar, the white ones the least; I didn't find a nutrition source to quantify that. It's a little disarming, the white color, a sort of culinary dissonance. It would be great to use white beets in a recipe where the white color could really show off, maybe paired with Brussels sprouts.
WORD TO THE WISE Once cooked, white beets need to be eaten right away, otherwise they turn an unappealing muddy gray color. The taste is fine but the looks leave much to be desired. This is very different from red beets, which I often roast in big batches, then use one or two at a time for a week.
For small (2 ounce) whole beets -- place in a single layer in a microwave-safe dish. Cover tightly. Microwave for approximately this long (actual time will vary depending on the beets themselves and the power of your microwave).
For large whole beets - - place in a container just large enough to hold the beets. Cover tightly. Midway through the cooking time, remove cover, turn the beets, cover and continue.
I cooked three 8-ounce beets in a Corningware dish with a glass cover, cooking for 10 minutes, turning, then another 5.
White beets? Who knew? Thanks, Alanna.
I thought these were tilapia fillets when I saw these! Looks great, thanks for the tips.
I know about red and golden beets but white beets, that's new. Thanks for the education Alanna.
How would white beets be in potato salad--I have allergy to potatoes of all the crazy things? At first glance, I thought the image featured beets in parchment paper and I wondered why the red didn't bleed! Alanna, you do great work! There is a book in this!
Alanna. We have nominated you for Bloggers for positive Change award.
See Great Big Veg Challenge for details!
I'm very sad. I followed the microwave instructions for my regular beets, and I botched it. Beets are kaput :( Apparently, you need to put water in, if the cover doesn't seal shut? Beets are all burnt and dried up. Mac & cheese for dinner?
Anonymous ~ I'm sad too, so sorry about kaput beets. ;-( I supposed it could be a moisture issue but more likely, it's a power issue. Mikes DO vary -- it's why I always mention to watch carefully the first time, in order to learn how it goes in YOUR mike. I hope you'll try again, this is such a convenient way to cook beets.
I adore fresh beets, but detest the endless waiting for them to roast. I found your 'wave recipe via a Google search tonight when I arrived home too late to do roast the large beauties I found a couple of days ago (10 - 12 oz each!) I popped them in the micro while I sautéed the green tops with red onion, mushrooms and a little olive oil. Before you knew it, the beets were tender and I sat down to a delicious meal of my favorite veggies :) Life is good, thanks to your beet waving recipe Alanna!!!
I've never actually cooked beets but this sounds doable so I'll try it.


Photograph of ten women with three of them identified with their maiden and married surnames: Cora (Bradeen) Dutch; Jennie (Leonard) Lutterell; and Martha (Jones) Prescott, all of whom were from Milo, Maine. Martha was in the Class of 1896 and Cora and Jennie in the Class of 1898 at Milo High School.
The three women were presumably not yet married when the photograph was taken; the identifications apparently came much later.
The photograph itself measures approximately 3-/2" by 2-1/4". The entire piece is approximately 4-1/4" by 3-1/4".
Cora Elizabeth Bradeen was born October 6, 1879 at Ornevile, Maine, the daughter of Jason Crosby Bradeen and Emma Mae (Ramsdell) Bradeen. On June 3, 1919, Cora married lumberman William F. Dutch of Milo, Maine.
Jennie M. Leonard was born August 31, 1881 at Milo, Maine, the daughter of Wilbert Wallace Leonard and Hannah Angela (Farris) Leonard. On December 17, 1903 at Milo, Maine, Jennie married Alexander Thomas Lutterell. Alexander was a sawyer in a spool mill.
Martha E. Jones was born October 23, 1877 at Bucksport, Maine, the daughter of railway contractors George A. Jones and Rachel (Lawrence) Jones. Interestingly, two other photographs were found in the collection containing the photograph above. One shows a man identified on the reverse as George Jones, who may have been Martha's father George A. Jones, who was born at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on March 16, 1853.
Another photograph shows Mildred Billings who wrote on the reverse that her photograph was intended for Miss Jones, perhaps for Martha or for her sister Jane.
a photograph of a young child with Martha (Jones) Prescott's name and address on the reverse, possibly another photograph of Rachel or of her older brother Edward or younger sister Jane.
If you have corrections to the information above or identifications of any of the other women in the photograph, please leave a comment or contact me directly.


"Damaged by blast - Buildings flanking that was occupied by Danny Greene were damaged severly by today's explosion. Here, some neighbors gather in front of a barber shop where windows were shattered. 15805 Waterloo Rd. 5-12-75."-- photo verso.