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James SOWLE SOULE
1723 - BEF 1794
RESIDENCE: of Plymouth & Bristol, MA
Father: Nathaniel SOULE Jr.
Mother: Meribah GIFFORD
Family 1 : Mary WILLIAMS
Aka: SOWLE
_George SOULE Sr. "the Immigrant"_+
_Nathaniel SOULE Sr._|
|                     |_Mary BECKETT ____________________+
_Nathaniel SOULE Jr._|
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|                     |_Rose THORN? ________|
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|--James SOWLE SOULE
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|_Meribah GIFFORD ____|
(1687 - 1732)       |
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Nora Bessie ALVIS
28 Dec 1908 - 26 Aug 1963
RESIDENCE: Hawkins Co. TN & Scott Co. VA
BIRTH: 28 Dec 1908, Hw Co, TN
DEATH: 26 Aug 1963, Scott Co, VA
BURIAL: Mt. Vernon Cem, Hiltons, Scott Co, VA
Father: Andrew Toppins ALVIS
Mother: Margaret Louise ROBINSON
Family 1 : Henry Vincent MOWDY
MARRIAGE: 23 Nov 1927, TN
James Vincent MOWDY
Ruth MOWDY
+Edgar Eugene "Buddy" MOWDY
Lillian MOWDY
_Charles Dabney ALVIS I_+
_Charles Dabney ALVIS II_|
|                         |_Rebecca ARNALL ________+
|                           (1784 - 1830) m 1806
_Andrew Toppins ALVIS _____|
| (1854 - 1925) m 1898      |
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|                           |_Sarah JOHNSON __________|
|                             (1817 - ....) m 1835    |
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|--Nora Bessie ALVIS
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|_Margaret Louise ROBINSON _|
(1873 - 1947) m 1898      |
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John Crittington BOON
RESIDENCE: Columbia Co. GA and Adams Co. MS and W. Feliciana Parish, LA
BIRTH: 10 Feb 1791, Columbia Co. Georgia
DEATH: 22 Mar 1849, Thompson's Creek, West Feliciana, Louisiana
BURIAL: West Feliciana, Louisiana
RESOURCES: See: LDS [S2021] [S3734]
Father: James "John" BOON
Mother: Eunice WATERS
Family 1 : Nancy FAQUA
MARRIAGE: 9 Feb 1818, Wilkinson Co. Mississippi
William Sidney Boon, Sr. b. 25 Aug 1820 in West Feliciana Parish, La. d. 1847 m. Catherine (Wife) m2 Virginia Pickett (Wife)
Eunice Waters Boon b. 1823 in West Feliciana Parish, La. m. John Maryman (Husband)
Martha Tucker Boon b. 1826 in West Feliciana Parish, La. m.William A. Atkinson (Husband)
Lucinda Adelia Boon b. 1828 in West Feliciana Parish, La. m.Littleton Griffin Atkinson (Husband) b. About. 1827
Ann Covington Boon b. 1830 in d. 1877 West Feliciana Parish, La. m. John Warren Cole (Husband)
Richard Montgomery Boon b. 1833 in West Feliciana Parish, La.
Eliza Allen Boon b. 1837 in West Feliciana Parish, La. m. Rufus K. Howell (Husband)
Louisa Hester Boon b. 1840 in West Feliciana Parish, La. m. Thomas P. Harmanson (Husband)
_Joseph BOON ________+
_Ratcliff BOON Sr.___|
|                     |_Ann AXTELL _________
_James "John" BOON __|
|--John Crittington BOON
|_Eunice WATERS ______|
(1772 - 1804) m 1785|
John Faulkner DUDLEY
Hon. Abram Poindexter MAURY
TITLE: Hon.
OCCUPATION: TN State legislature; Rep to Congress from TN
RESIDENCE: Franklin, Williamson Co.TN
BIRTH: 26 Dec 1801, near Franklin, Williamson Co.Tennessee
DEATH: 22 Jul 1848, near Franklin, Williamson Co.Tennessee
RESOURCES: See: notes Bio [S2385]
Father: Abram MAURY
Mother: Martha WORSHAM
Family 1 : Mary Eliza Tennessee CLAIBORNE
Maury, Abram Poindexter (1801-1848) Cousin of Fontaine Maury Maverick. Born in Tennessee, 1801. Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1835-39 (8th District 1835-37, 5th District 1837-39). Died in 1848. Interment in private or family graveyard. See also: congressional biography.
MAURY, Abram Poindexter, 1801-1848
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000262
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MAURY, Abram Poindexter, (cousin of Fontaine Maury Maverick), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., December 26, 1801; completed preparatory studies and was editor of a newspaper in St. Louis, Mo., at the age of sixteen; entered the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1820, but left the following year to study law and edit a newspaper in Nashville, Tenn.; member of the State house of representatives in 1831, 1832, 1843, and 1844; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and practiced in Williamson County; elected as a White supporter to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for renomination in 1838; resumed the practice of law in Williamson County; also engaged in literary pursuits and lecturing; served in the State senate in 1845 and 1846; died near Franklin, Tenn., July 22, 1848; interment in the family cemetery at his home near Franklin, Tenn.
_Matthew MAURY "the immigrant"_
_Abraham MAURY ___________________________|
| (1731 - 1784) m 1759                     |
|                                          |_Mary Anne FONTAINE ___________+
|                                            (1690 - 1755) m 1716
_Abram MAURY ________|
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|                     |_Susanna POINDEXTER ______________________|
|                       (1745 - 1801) m 1759                     |
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|--Abram Poindexter MAURY
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|                      _(RESEARCH QUERY) WORSHAM of old Virginia_|
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|_Martha WORSHAM _____|
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JOHN MENTEITH Lord Arran
ABT 1285 - 1344
RESIDENCE: SCT
BIRTH: ABT 1285, Southerland, Midlothian, Scotland
RESOURCES: See: [S2174] [S2222] [S3175] [S3186]
Father: JOHN STEWART-MENTETH
Family 1 : ELEN de MAR
MARRIAGE: ABT 1309, Mar, Aberdeen, Scotland
+CHRISTIANA MENTEITH
+JOANNA MENTEITH
Sir John Menteth, Sheriff of Dunbarton (d c1323)
1. Sir John Menteth, Lord of Arran (d before 1344) m. (before 1323) Elyne of Mar (dau of Gartney / Gratney, 7th Earl of Mar)
_WALTER fitzAlan STEWART 3rd High Stewart_____________+
_WALTER Bailloch STEWART-MENTETH Earl of Menteth_|
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_JOHN STEWART-MENTETH _|
| (.... - 1323)         |
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|--JOHN MENTEITH Lord Arran
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Arthur Claude RIFFE
9 Nov 1895 - 5 Oct 1966
RESIDENCE: Placer Co. CA
BIRTH: 9 Nov 1895, CA
DEATH: 5 Oct 1966, Placer Co. CA
Father: Jesse C. Sloan RIFFE
Mother: Elizabeth V. Or Iowa E. FREY
_Winchester RIFFE ___|
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_Jesse C. Sloan RIFFE _________|
|                               |                      _Thomas Patrick MAXWELL Sr._+
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|                               |_Lucy Anne MAXWELL __|
|                                                     |_Frances "Frankey" WHITTEN _+
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|--Arthur Claude RIFFE
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|_Elizabeth V. Or Iowa E. FREY _|
(1860 - ....) m 1885          |
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Bettie A. SANDIDGE
23 Nov 1873 - 3 Jul 1959
BIRTH: 23 Nov 1873, Albemarle Co. VA
DEATH: 3 Jul 1959, Albemarle Co. VA
Father: George Martin SANDIDGE
Mother: Isabella Theodosa VIA
Family 1 : James A. SANDIDGE
Walter Guy SANDIDGE
Raymond Lee SANDIDGE
Hobart W. SANDIDGE
Zettie Kier SANDIDGE
Zachariah "Zachie" SANDIDGE
Flossie Virginia SANDIDGE
George William SANDIDGE
John Henry SANDIDGE
Obra F. SANDIDGE
Ivey E. SANDIDGE
_Dillard SANDIDGE ________+
_Nathan H. SANDIDGE _|
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_George Martin SANDIDGE _|
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|                         |_Jane H. GARDNER ____|
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|--Bettie A. SANDIDGE
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|_Isabella Theodosa VIA __|
|                      _(RESEARCH QUERY) BISHOP _
|_Mary BISHOP ________|
Lt. C. L. TURNER C.S.A.
TITLE: Lt.
RESIDENCE: NC and Richmond, VA
RESOURCES: See: notes
Father: (RESEARCH QUERY) TURNER of NC
Family 1 : Mollie J. GRAVES
MARRIAGE: 16 Jan 1867, Richmond, Virginia
Historical Newspapers on Ancestry.com
Petersburg Index, The (Petersburg, Virginia) 1867 February
Married Turner-Graves on the 16th January, in St. James Church, Richmond, by Rev. Peterkin. Lieutenant C. L. Graves of North Carolina, late Army of Northern Virginia, and Miss Mollie J. Graves of Raleigh.
_(RESEARCH QUERY) TURNER _|
_(RESEARCH QUERY) TURNER of NC_|
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Q: Animation issue on X11 window I'm struggling to get X11 redrawing events right in a cross platform C++ application.
Everything works great on Windows (I just issue some InvalidateRect calls when I need the window to redraw), but on Linux I keep having redrawing stuttering (probably when I send too many redraw events as follows)
event.type = Expose;
event.xexpose.window = window;
XSendEvent(display, window, False, ExposureMask, &event);

the same happens when I resize the window.
This is the code I'm using
void Window::redraw() { // Called by any control which needs redrawing
  XEvent event;
  memset(&event, 0, sizeof(event));
  event.type = Expose;
  event.xexpose.display = display;
  XSendEvent(display, window, False, ExposureMask, &event);
}

void Window::resize(int width, int height) {
  this->Width = width;
  this->Height = height;
}

bool Window::wndProc(XEvent *evt) {
  switch (evt->type) {

      case Expose: {

        if (evt->xexpose.count == 0) { // handle last one only

            if (Width != Bitmap.width() || Height != Bitmap.height())
              Bitmap.resize(Width, Height);

          Renderer.drawOnBitmap(Bitmap);

          this->paint();
        }

        return true;

      } break;

      case ConfigureNotify: {
        this->resize(evt->xconfigure.width, evt->xconfigure.height);

        redraw();
        return true;
      } break;
  }
}

void Window::paint() {

    XImage image;
    sk_bzero(&image, sizeof(image));

//    .. boilerplate to initialize XImage...

    XInitImage(&image);
    XPutImage(display, window, fGc, &image,
              0, 0,
              0, 0,
              Width, Height);
}

I tried several approaches to solve this issue including:

*

*Having a 200 ms delay between every redraw event sending (stuttering still happening.. resize still issues a LOT of events)

*Having a secondary thread issuing a redraw call every 50ms (this saturates X11's buffer immediately and crashes the whole thing)

Unfortunately I have animated controls which call redraw() anytime they need another redrawing of part of the window (I handle painting regions of the window separately).
How can I solve stuttering during resizing and too many redrawing events while ensuring my animated controls remain smooth?

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It may seem kind of strange to pair the word "luxury" with "vinyl flooring" but this terminology does make sense! Luxury vinyl earns this title because of its close resemblance to hardwood and real stone flooring. This type of flooring isn't just for basements anymore either, it is suitable for any room in your home or office/commercial space and is even being used as the flooring of choice in some very high-end condos.
What luxury vinyl basically does, is give you a floor that looks like real hardwood, and we mean pretty much any species of hardwood you are interested in, from oak to walnut to any of the exotics woods such as acacia! The variety and realistic look and feel of these luxury vinyl planks is impressive to say the least.
Vinyl tiles that simulate natural stone are equally as realistic and stunning as the hardwood planks. These tiles are actually composed of vinyl and limestone and can look like slate, marble, travertine to mention a few. To achieve an even more realistic stone style look, some vinyl tiles can also be grouted!
So why would anyone choose luxury vinyl flooring, that goes to such great lengths to look like the real thing, over the real thing? Well there are lots of reasons, but primarily it comes down to cost, durability, and installation. Luxury vinyl flooring is much more economical than the real thing, and certainly when it comes to comparisons with hardwood it is more durable. Vinyl is water resistant, soft underfoot (so easier on the feet and back, especially when standing for periods of time), and doesn't require professional installation (unless you want to grout your tiles).
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Boards could be organised below a multitude of tasks and individuality. Additionally, Panels of Directors are usually governance-based as opposed to operations-based. Your current panel associated with administrators will assist you to grow your company and even introduce you to chances on your behalf later on. Typically the Table of Owners also offers lots of subcommittees devoted to supervising certain facets of typically the excessive train task. Company Aboard associated with Directors may put substantial price to businesses, especially for start-ups together with hyper growth businesses.
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Much of what passes for religious debate is driven by a desire to be pure or to be right. A lawyer approaches Jesus to make sure he knows how to follow the Law, so that he can be right. A rich man approaches Jesus seeking the best of both worlds—he wants to be right and keep his money. When we believe that we are right or good because we have followed the Law, we look down upon those who have not achieved the purity we imagine of ourselves. That's why the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with a question about divorce. The Lord's response to the Pharisees echoes the teaching of 1 Corinthians: you are puffed up because you think you have mastered the Law; why, then, is your "wise" teaching dividing the household? Who is worse, the victim of divorce, or the false teachers who cause it? Richard and Fr. Marc discuss Mark 10:1-12.
Hi, I am new here. I am a little confused because you talk about not being holier than thou so to speak and then you mock Americans for getting divorced on a whim. I'm wondering how this is different from the Jew who rolls his eyes at the pork eating gentiles? Also, I just wanted to let you know that no one ever gets divorced on a whim. Divorce is a process that rips your wallet out through your guts, or something like that, as Robin Williams once put it. It is painful and leaves you feeling completely abject, hopeless, worthless, and more alone than you have ever been. I think the real piece reason that people fall out of love, which is the thing by the way, and then get divorced is that they do not have a higher purpose or a relationship with God and they just feel empty inside. I don't think that that is so much about being capricious as it is about being emotionally bankrupt. Just my two cents. Thanks for the podcast.
Both the rich man and the Pharisees want to act how they want and feel justified doing so. Jesus functions as a bearer of Torah: he opposes them. Torah always confronts the human will with God's, and humans choose to obey or reject Torah. In this way, God fights the most destructive force on the planet, the human ego.
"Falling out of love" is not an ok reason for anything. Love is service, and the desire not to serve rejects Torah. Read Hosea 1-2, where we see what it looks like when Israel "falls out of love" with the Lord. More importantly, faithfulness coupled with *hesed, *"kindness", is what the Lord is looking for in Israel (Hosea 4:1). "Falling out of love" is not compatible with faithfulness and hesed.
Is divorce painful? Of course it is. But one can never feel justified in divorce, even if it's "legal." Americans want to feel right, they want to stop the pain. Divorce is the destruction of the family, the inability to submit, a failure to love. Maybe it's not done on a "whim" on the spur of the moment, but it's always done as a "whim" of the human ego.
The inevitability of judgment reminds us that we all must be "perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:28), and that we all fall short, whether because of our money or because of our divorce or anything else. Episode 186, "Preaching With Authority" (https://ephesusschool.org/preaching-with-authority/), clarifies the difference between judging from the perspective of the human ego and allowing the text of the Bible to be our judge. That might help you sort out the tension you are struggling with as you try to reconcile the biblical critique, as you say, of "the holier than thou" attitude.
I've noticed as I listen to many of the sermons from The Ephesus School, how there is a lot of anti power and wealth sentiments, but I struggle with homosexual feelings, and anger against people who look like me (more often than those who don't). I am a security guard that makes 10 dollars an hour, I have little power I'm trying to protect.


Help us yarn bomb the light pole in the Main Street outside Crumbz as part of our 2018 Yarn-a-Thon as we Make and Create with Yarn for beyondblue.
Because beyondblue's logo is a butterfly, we're going to cover the pole in butterflies in beyondblue's corporate colours. So, download our free butterfly crochet pattern and pick up a complimentary bag of yarns (2 x 15g balls of the three colours of Panda Magnum 8 ply - enough to make 12 butterflies) from our shop in Healesville. Drop the butterflies back into us when they're done and we'll brand our light pole full of butterflies ready for our fundraiser.
If you're too far away to pick up the complimentary yarn from our shop in Healesville, we'll happily send you a little kit containing the yarn along with a printed copy of the free pattern. We do hope you understand that as a small independent yarn store we are not able to cover the cost of postage ($10.95).
The kit is valued at $30 and Crumbz will donate $5 from each purchase to beyondblue.


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Then and Now: A Photographic Journey Celebrating the Harlem Renaissance Centennial.
By Ayelet Danielle Aldouby, Social Practice Curator
Celebrating a community's heritage with Artist Maren Hassinger and 7th graders from Teachers College Community School (TCCS).
Researching archival historical photographs of Harlem sites. Image by Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
"A glimpse of Harlem's past, a light for Harlem's future"[1]
During the 1920's and 1930's Harlem's artistic, musical, literary and intellectual flowering fostered a new black cultural identity. The multi-session art collaboration between Harlem-based artist Maren Hassinger and the 7th grade at TCCS was created on the occasion of Harlem's centennial celebration.
The photographic journey highlights Harlem's historical past manifested through street scenes, churches and theaters. Archival photographs researched at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture established a historical reference of time and place while students photographed the current sites to create a connection between the past and the present, reflecting on the differences and similarities.
"Looking at the past can help shed light on the present and inspire for the future. The project aims to envision places of learning beyond the classroom, carving a meaningful role for art education in students' lives." Maren Hassinger
The collaboration was initiated by social practice curator Ayelet Danielle Aldouby & the Art and Art education program, Teachers College, Columbia University. Special thanks to Brian Jones and Michael Mery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Katy Maiolatesi (TCCS Liaison) and Ann Lattner (Social Studies Teacher).
[1] "A Ballad for Harlem" exhibit, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Artist Maren Hassinger works with the students to identify and locate historical sites. Image by Ayelet Danielle Aldouby.
A visit to the exhibit "A Ballad for Harlem" at the Shomburg center for research in Black culture. Image by Ayelet Danielle Aldouby.
Students writing reflections on the selected sites. Image by Ayelet Danielle Aldouby.
Final exhibit with wall labels describing the site then and now with students' reflections. Image by Ayelet Danielle Aldouby.
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Email: dean.jackson@cowetaschools.org
Superintendent Steve Barker named to Georgia Professional Standards Commission
Superintendent Steve Barker has been appointed to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.
The appointment was announced Monday by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and Dr. Barker was sworn in by the Governor on Tuesday at the Georgia Capitol. The commission seat carries a three-year term.
"It is an honor that the Governor would entrust me to serve in this role," said Barker, who was accompanied by his family in Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony.
The Professional Standards Commission oversees the certification of the state's public school teachers and matters of professional conduct and ethics, among other duties. As a member of the 18-seat commission, Dr. Barker will be assigned to the PSC's ethics subcommittee.
Dr. Barker has served as Superintendent for Coweta County Schools since 2011, and worked in the school system since 1990. He and his wife, Karen, live in Newnan with their children, Cade and Lilli Glen.
For more information on the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, visit www.gapsc.com.
Dr. Steve Barker, above, is sworn in to serve on the Georgia Professional Standards Commission by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday, April 30. Accompanying Barker in the ceremony in the Governor's office at the Georgia Capitol are his wife Karen and their children, Cade and Lilli Glen, at left.


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Boehner: GOP Open to All Homosexuals Who are Opposed to Gay Marriage
WASHINGTON — Signaling a shift in Republican attitudes, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he believes that the GOP should support the party's openly gay candidates, provided they are opposed to gay marriage.
When asked if he thinks his party should support gay candidates, Boehner replied, "I do, so long as they recognize that marriage is a sacred contract between one man and one woman."
Boehner's answer was a sharp rebuke to Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Va.), who is pressuring the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to withhold financial support for the party's gay candidates.
"My colleagues and I will happily support any candidates who wish to turn back the failed policies and broken promises known as the Obama presidency," Boehner insisted. "This includes homosexuals. Provided, of course, they recognize that same-sex marriage is an unholy compact that heralds the end of Western civilization."
Insisting "private lives should be kept private," Speaker Boehner declared his personal and political solidarity with "all Americans, homosexual or not, who support Constitutionally-limited government, free market enterprise, a strong military, and Biblical definitions of marriage and family values."
Boehner's stand for gay acceptance is the latest indicator of changing attitudes within the Republican Party. Next year's midterm elections will see two openly gay Republican candidates positioned to challenge Democratic incumbents: Richard Tisei in Massachusetts, and Carl DeMaio in California. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll of self-identified Republicans aged 18-49, a majority said same sex marriage should be legal.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a top recruiter for the NRCC, echoed Boehner's sentiment. "If you are a top notch candidate, you deserve the support of our party infrastructure," he said Thursday. "My agenda is to field Republican candidates who can beat Democrats, who understand that homosexuals are second-class citizens who cannot and will not be granted legal equality with heterosexuals."
"[We] have no issue with gay people," Boehner claimed. "We have a problem with people who support gay marriage or want gays to be able to serve in the military. Granted, that covers a lot of gays, but it covers a lot of women too—are you suggesting that the GOP a problem with women? The Republican Party embraces gays; it just doesn't embrace gay rights."
The Cheney sisters could not be reached for comment.
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so he does not mind that there are gay people, but he doesnt want us to have equal rights? and we should not be able to get married or join the military? but does he mind taking our tax $$$$ ? from our hard earned pay checks, or or house or car taxes, or how about the taxes we pay on every thing else we buy, we pay our taxes that should give us the same rights as any other American citizen.


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FSG buys Ducker Worldwide Jane Bainbridge 20 February 2018
FSG buys Ducker Worldwide
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US – Information and advisory services business Frontier Strategy Group (FSG) has acquired B2B research and consulting firm Ducker Worldwide.
In the short term, each company will continue to operate under its own brand, and a holding company, Ducker FSG Holdings, will manage the combined firms. It is headquartered in Washington, DC, and led by Richard Leggett (pictured) as CEO.
Joanne Ulnick, the CEO of Ducker Worldwide, will lead the global consulting practice of the combined firm and serve on the board of directors.
Leggett said: "This acquisition is designed to maximise the potential of our combined company to better serve our clients and accelerate growth. By bringing together FSG and Ducker's offerings and expertise, we can provide a comprehensive set of solutions that address our clients' global strategic priorities."
Ulnick added: "We are excited to add our expertise and proven track record built over five decades to FSG's global network of multinational company clients. Together, our data sets, technological platforms, and subject-matter expertise will enable us to offer higher-value consulting and market research services."
FSG is based in Washington, DC with offices in London, Singapore and New York.
Ducker Worldwide was founded by William H. Ducker in 1961.
M&A specialist Equiteq acted as exclusive financial advisor to Ducker Worldwide during the acquisition.
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A heavy-handed confiscation of the development rights of rural property owners by urbanites with political power.
In the next few weeks, Gov. Jon S. Corzine is to decide whether to accept a carefully crafted compromise on the operating rules for the Highlands legislation adopted four years ago or heed the pleas of a coalition of environmental groups to send it back for reconsideration. His office said the 400-page plan was under a review that would include a study of an apparent conflict between the Highlands plan and recent state legislation requiring affordable housing.
At stake is what will happen in the Highlands, an 860,000-acre swath in the northern and western parts of the state that has remained largely rural and agricultural, despite New Jersey's ranking as the most densely populated state in the nation.
Although the technical arguments focus on water supplies and quality, the region is studded with streams and lakes as well as a part of the Appalachian Trail and is a playground second only to the Jersey Shore. "The Highlands are our Yosemite, our Yellowstone," said Jeff Tittel, the executive director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, who argues that the operating plan does not do enough to protect the environment.
Kurt Alstede, a farmer in Chester Township, about 45 miles west of New York, serves on the Highlands Council, and voted against the operating plan. "Nobody around here asked to be saved by Trenton," Mr. Alstede said, adding that he opposed the plan because it did not include funding to compensate landowners for lost development rights.
Interest in preserving the Highlands goes back as far as 1907, when a government commission issued a report about the purity of water in the region. Former Gov. James E. McGreevey made preservation of the Highlands a priority of his administration, and the act was passed in 2004, with a provision that the details were to be worked out by the Highlands Council and its staff.
The operating plan, which would restrict development in the region, was adopted by the council on July 17 in a 9-to-5 vote. Under existing zoning laws, according to the council, 47,600 units of housing could be built in the region. If all the towns were to comply with the operating plan, that would be reduced to 12,300 units, the council said, and commercial development would be reduced to 19.2 million square feet from 108 million square feet.
These numbers represent the extremes, because the Highlands is divided roughly in half into what are known as the preservation and the planning areas, and the operating plan is to be mandatory in the preservation area but optional in the planning areas.
Eileen Swan, executive director of the Highlands Council, said that many municipalities have land in both areas and that the council plans to use consultation and financial incentives to see that local zoning plans adhere to the preservation area standard.
Despite the restrictions on growth, which angered builders and landowners, environmental activists also objected to the operating plan. The plan "is flushing a necessary act's mandates down the toilet with polluted Highlands water," said Julia Somers, executive director of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition.
Mr. Tittel said the amount of development allowed by the operating plan would cause increased contamination of water in the region, which he called "a clear violation" of the 2004 law, officially called the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. He noted that the Highlands not only supply water to households but also serve as an important water source for the state's pharmaceutical, petrochemical and tourist industries. "Highlands waters feed a $100 billion industry in the state," he said.
Environmentalists have also complained that designating only 19,000 acres of the region as a Special Environmental Zone where building would not be allowed is inadequate and that 20 percent of the region's farmland would be lost to development. "The policies of the plan should require farmland protection," the letter said, not development.
But Mr. Alstede sees land sales from a different perspective. He said selling a farm to developers is often the only alternative for elderly farmers with no heirs interested in agriculture.
John Weingart, chairman of the Highlands Council and associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, said money was certainly an issue.
"We need more funds for land acquisition," Mr. Weingart said, adding that one suggestion was to impose a tax on users of the region's water. Others have discussed a complex system of trading development rights.
He said the complaints from environmental groups came late in a four-year effort to develop the operating plan and are overstated. "The rhetoric from environmental groups is out of control," he said.
Regardless of what happens to the current operating plan, New Jersey, since passage of the 2004 law, appears to be a leader in trying to protect the Highlands. A federally designated Highlands region also includes parts of Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut, but only New Jersey has acted to protect its part of the region, Ms. Swan said.


The authors demonstrate that a growth stock index generated higher returns than a value stock index when the overall stock market performed well. Alternately, the value stock index generated higher returns than the growth stock index when the overall stock market performed poorly. This article provides compelling evidence that the value premium is inversely related to the performance of the overall stock market. The authors believe that this simple relationship will help investors better understand the comparative performance of the two investment styles.


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Another Side of the Rebbe
Shaul Magid, Tablet | PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019 |
"There is little doubt that Chabad Hasidism constitutes one of the most, if not the most, potent Jewish messianic movements in the 20th century. Messianic movements are complex, organic, bipolar creatures. Their power is generated by a mix of charismatic leadership and historical conditions that merge to create a volatile bubbling mix of religious enthusiasm, utopian optimism and, when they fail, foreboding and crushing disappointment. Such disappointment makes them prone to revisionism.
Revisionism is often a pejorative term, referring to a mutation or distortion of an idea. I do not use it that way in this essay. By revisionism I refer to a recalibration of a claim, ideology, or idea when history proves it untenable, in this case, when Chabad's leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who many believed was the messiah, dies. For the movement to survive, it must reassess its central claim and interpret it in a way that both coheres with the present reality and also keeps the original idea alive. In the case of Schneerson, such revisionism gestated in the context of collective mourning and introspection. When Schneerson passed away, 25 years ago this week, more impatient minds offered more radical solutions, such as claiming the Rebbe did not die but is merely occluded, prepared to return at any moment. In some circles, his yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death (the third day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz), is referred to only as "the events of 3 Tammuz." As is the case in many transitional periods, the status quo had a limited shelf life. The tension between Schneerson's messianic status and the reality of his death was just too great to sustain. Internal Chabad revisions became necessary.
About a decade after his passing, various modes of revisionism began to take hold, especially in America. A newfangled "Rebbe" as spiritual guide began to take form in books such as Simon Jacobson's 2004 Toward a Meaningful Life and the many works of DovBer Pinson, along with numerous other examples. The messiah morphed into a self-help spiritual guide who presented Judaism as a form of human attunement to the divine presence in the world in a multicultural post-New Age era. What is distinctive about this mode of revision is that the messiah trope largely became transformed from the personhood of Schneerson to the continued importance of his teachings, from a more traditional notion of messiah as redeemer to an American version of piety without asceticism. In essence, it became a new form of Hasidic self-redemption that reminds one of Tolstoy's famous dictum, "Everyone wants to change the world but nobody wants to change themselves.""
https://jewishjournal.com/newsroom/judaism/another-side-of-the-rebbe/


Georgia Bridge & Concrete, LLC, a highway bridge and heavy civil contractor located in Tucker, Georgia, is seeking full-time entry level, mid level and Senior Project Managers. The Project Manager will assist in pre-construction efforts, oversee all aspects of construction projects and ensure projects are completed in a timely and efficient manner. The PM will work closely with the company's Superintendents and Foremen. This person should be a self-motivated individual, be able to represent Georgia Bridge in a professional and competent manner at all times, and have a desire to develop their professional career in the highway/heavy civil construction industry.
Manage all aspects of assigned projects.
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Prepare project submittals, plans, reports, and reviews.
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World War I left behind an unprecedented path of desolate landscapes. By the end of the war, much of the Western Front resembled anything but rolling country sides. Instead, the destruction yielded topography akin to an uninhabited planet. This exhibition examines the battered lands through a series of jarring photographs and illustrations from the Museum and Memorial's collection.


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Garo Hills Autonomous District Council polls: Congress wins 12 seats, NPP 11 in hung house
In the 2015 polls, the NPP had emerged as the single largest party with 10 seats, and subsequently formed the council partnering with the BJP and GNC. The Congress — which was in power at the state then — had secured only seven seats.
Written by Tora Agarwala
Guwahati | Updated: April 15, 2021 22:25 IST
Former Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma (File)
The Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) election results threw up a hung house on Thursday.
Out of the 29 seats in the 30-member council in Meghalaya (one is nominated by the government) that went to polls on April 12, Congress emerged as the single largest party winning 12 seats. Right behind it was Chief Minister Conrad Sangma's National People's Party (NPP) with 11 seats. BJP, the NPP's ally at the state government, was in direct contest at the ADC poll, managed to bag two seats. The remaining were won by three independents and one by the Garo National Council (GNC).
In 2021, the Congress has managed to improve its overall performance raising its tally to 12 seats. "We are thankful to people for trusting us," said former chief minister Mukul Sangma of the Congress. He added that people could see the widespread "misgovernance, corruption and mismanagement of the council" and wanted a change.
Despite the NPP getting one more seat in comparison to 2015, the party faced two major upsets with incumbent Chief Executive Member (CEM) Dipul Marak losing the Rochonpara seat to Independent Arbinestone Marak. The Tura seat, which falls within CM Conrad Sangma's turf, was also wrested by the BJP from the NPP.
Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya, NPP's Preston Tynsong said that the party "accepts the verdict of the voters". "Now we will sit down and discuss how to strengthen our party base further," he said.
Following the hung house, both rivals NPP and Congress seem hopeful of forming the new council, with the help of allies.
While Congress's James Sangma said they were looking forward to "engaging" with the GNC and the independent candidates about forming the new council, NPP's Tynsong said that the party was also "working out how to form the executive council." CM Conrad Sangma told a regional news channel that he "respects the mandate" and that his party was "hopeful" and would "discuss the matter with the BJP and other independent candidates." While Dr M Chuba Ao, BJP state in-charge, Meghalaya said he could not comment until he "discussed the issue with the party workers, and the allies, he said that "Our allies are in a comfortable majority, so we will discuss how to go forward."
The GHADC is an autonomous district council created under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, a special provision that allows for greater political autonomy and decentralised governance in certain tribal areas of the Northeast. Meghalaya has three autonomous district councils — the other two being the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council and the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council.
A total of 182 candidates were in the fray across the five districts that fall under the jurisdiction of the GHADC: East Garo Hills district, West Garo Hills district, South Garo Hills district, North Garo Hills district and South West Garo Hills district.
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