of eastern Honduras for the remains of lost civilizations. Come join us in 2008.
During the summer of 2007, we spent two months working in the Telica Valley near the towns of Juticalpa and San Francisco de La Paz, Honduras. Forty-three archaeological sites in the region were added to the "Atlas of Mesoamerican Sites" which you can find on this website. Two sites, Chichicaste and Dos Quebradas were intensively surveyed, mapped, and investigated. The findings were beyond expectations and will provide an opportunity to develop a better understanding of the role eastern Honduras communities played throughout Mesoamerica from A.D. 250-1200. Preliminary analyses suggest that some eastern Honduras communities were chiefdoms or early states with complex socio-political systems with connections to groups living far to the west and south of Honduras.
Our 2007 field season included archaeological site detection and registration through archival research, analysis of remote sensing imagery, interviews with local residents and property owners, and pedestrian survey. Exploratory excavations were completed at two prehistoric sites located between Juticalpa and San Francisco de La Paz, Honduras. A laboratory was setup in the Casa Cultural y Museo de Olancho located on the main plaza in Juticalpa. Artifacts recovered in surface collections and excavations were catalogued. Preliminary analysis of recovered archaeological materials including ceramics, lithics, plant and animal remains were completed prior to the close of our 2007 season. The sites of Chichicaste and Dos Quebradas were mapped using a laser total station and Global Positioning Systems data recorders. This research was and continues to be funded by the Auburn Montgomery Research Grant-In-Aid Council.
Students are invited to contact us regarding future field seasons. A tentative schedule of 2008 activities follows. Student participants have the option to spend from 2 - 10 weeks of intensive study in the field for variable credit. Graduate students from accredited universities and colleges are invited to contact us regarding opportunities for theses or dissertations. During your stay in Juticalpa, you will be the guest of a local host family. The family will provide meals as well as housing and laundry. Download a copy of the 2008 program here.
Monday, May 12, 2008 First class meeting.
Monday, May 19, 2008 Faculty and staff depart from Atlanta for Tegucigalpa.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Travel by bus to Juticalpa.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Orientation and tour of Juticalpa.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 Field season begins, research center, lectures, and sites.
Wednesday and Thursday, July 30 and 31, 2008 Close field season, secure laboratory, and prepare for departure.
Friday, August 1, 2008 Return to Tegucigalpa, closing dinner.
Saturday, August 2, 2008 Depart Tegucigalpa for Atlanta and travel by automobile to Montgomery.
Most Saturdays and Sundays will be designated as free time. Students may arrange local travel and tours in groups.
*Alternative departure dates are available for 2 or 4 week sessions.
Formal lectures and field lectures conducted by Auburn Montgomery faculty as well as professors from other universities and invited Honduran speakers will focus on the archaeology, geography, prehistory, and history of Central America, ecology and culture-ecology of eastern Honduras, and field and lab methods in archaeology and geography. Readings will provide background on local and regional archaeology and geography as well as specific field and laboratory techniques.
The geography of Middle America.
The environment, natural history and ecology of eastern Honduras and Central America.
Prehistory of Honduras and its neighbors.
Conquest of the New World.
Recent history of Mesoamerica and Central America.
Culture and society in modern Honduras.
Survey of Archaeology in Mesoamerica and South America.
Theories for the rise of complex civilization.
Site formation processes and stratigraphy.
Field survey methods in archaeology.
Natural history of the region: identifying plant and animal friends and foes.
Pace or tape and compass.
Laser total stations and GIS.
Signed release of liability, required by Auburn University Montgomery. Find the required forms and check list here.
Students are responsible for all costs related to participation and completion of this course.
Proof of immunizations prior to departure for Honduras.
Adams, R.E.W. 1997 "Ancient Civilizations of the New World." Westview Press, Boulder.
Prem, H.J. 1997 "The Ancient Americas: A Brief History and Guide to Research." Translated by K. Kurbjuhn. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Stephens, J.L. 1969 "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, Volume 1." Dover Publications. New York.
Roundtrip airfare, Atlanta to Tegucigalpa. Estimate - $ 900.00.
Room and board in host-family home or local hotel. Estimate - $ 120.00 per week.
Tuition based upon enrolled credit hours at Auburn University Montgomery. Auburn Montgomery students should apply for a Student Research Fellowship.
Your estimate of travel expenses for optional visits, tours, or activities.
Any items of a personal nature such as, telephone charges, snack foods, etc.


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I ("King, beauty, astonishment, guru, vulnerability, owner and arrow") is an upcoming Tamil romantic action thriller film directed by S. Shankar and produced by Venu Ravichandran's Aascar Films. The film stars actor Vikram and Amy Jackson along with Suresh Gopi and Upen Patel. The cinematographer is P. C. Sreeram and music is composed by A. R. Rahman. The dubbed Telugu version of the film has been titled as Manoharudu. Weta Digital has worked on the digital make-up and background arts for the film. The film will be released worldwide in at least 17 languages, in 2014. "I" is Shankar's second collaboration with Vikram and Aascar films after their successful Anniyan (2005).
Amy Louise Jackson (born 31 January 1991) is a British model and actress, working mainly in the South Indian film industry but also in Hindi language films of Bollywood. She won the Miss Teen World competition in 2009 and then went on to win Miss Liverpool in 2010. She made her acting debut with the 2010 Tamil period-drama Madrasapattinam, and followed it up with her first Bollywood release in 2012, with the romantic drama Ekk Deewana Tha. She is set to make her debut in Telugu cinema with Yevadu in 2013.
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The Singles — сборник, состоящий из трёх синглов панк-рок-группы Bikini Kill. Компиляция была выпущена в 1998 году независимой фирмой . Джоан Джетт выступила продюсером записи, а также сыграла на гитаре и спела на первых трёх треках. В 2018 году Bikini Kill переиздали сборник на компакт-диске и 12-дюймовом виниле.

Содержание альбома
Альбом состоит из трёх синглов, выпущенных Bikini Kill: «New Radio» (спродюсированном Джоан Джетт и выпущеном в 1993 году), а также «The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation» 7" и «I Like Fucking» — выпущенные в 1995 году. Альбом «по большей части посвящён поиску и политике радости». Две песни на сборнике спела барабанщица Тоби Вэйл.

Песня «Demirep» (согласно информации конверта 7-дюймового сингла слово означает «женщину с сомнительной репутацией; авантюристку») начинается со звуков ладушек (), в которые играют вокалистка группы, Кэтлин Ханна, и Джоан Джетт.

Текст песни «I Hate Danger» — би-сайда сингла «I Like Fucking» и одна из песен, спетых Вэйл, — содержит метафоры  женщин.

Отзывы критиков
The Singles получил положительные отзывы от музыкальных критиков, большинство из них, отметили более яркий и попсовый продакшен как одну из изюминок сборника. Редактор AllMusic Стив Хьюи оценил альбом на 4 из 5 звёзд, отметив, что «в нём отсутствует шумное, мрачное, бессвязное звучание, а яркое продюсирование и мелодичные хуки производят сильное впечатление». Критик Роберт Кристгау также отозвался об альбоме в положительном ключе — охарактеризовав The Singles «поразительной и впечатляющей [записью]».

В 2018 году публицистка Дженн Пелли из Pitchfork, оценила сборник почётным знаком «Лучшее Новое Переиздание» (Best New Reissue) в развёрнутом обзоре с итоговой оценкой 10 из 10. Она назвала The Singles «определяющим документом феминистской панк-группы, чья музыка остаётся актуальной, праведной и невозмутимо крутой» и описала Bikini Kill как «крик в лицо тишины, разрушающий её, превращающий её рабство в абсолютное облегчение».

Список композиций

Участники записи
 Кэтлин Ханна — вокал (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), бас (4, 9)
  — бас (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), ударные (4, 9)
  — гитара
 Тоби Вэйл — ударные (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), вокал (4, 9)
 Джоан Джетт — вокал (1, 2, 3), гитара (1, 2, 3)

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Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard sales double previous records
By Prince McLean
Retail sales of Mac OS X Snow Leopard upgrades, boosted by a new low price, resulted in strong sales that doubled the previously record-setting launch of Leopard.
Speaking in the company's Q4 earnings conference call, Chief Operations Officer Tim Cook said that "the upgrade sales of Snow Leopard, which we include family and box sets, were more than double what we experienced from Leopard over the same five-week sales period."
Cook noted, "that was much more than we planned, very pleasantly surprised."
Leapfrogging the Leopard Launch
In December 2007, NPD reported that the first full month of Mac OS X Leopard sales had beat the previous Tiger launch by 20.5 percent. Leopard was released at the end of October 2007.
"It's really stunning to see Apple have one blow-out OS launch after another," NPD analyst Chris Swenson told AppleInsider at the time. "It's clear that Apple has hit upon the right strategy for rolling out new versions of its OS."
The 2005 release of Tiger itself had achieved a 30 percent increase over the 2003 Panther update, and 100 percent greater sales than the 2002 release of Jaguar.
Satisfaction spawns sales
A month later, ChangeWave Research founder Tobin Smith reported that customer satisfaction with Leopard was helping to drive dramatic new increases in Mac sales.
"It comes as no surprise that Apple sets the standard in terms of customer satisfaction," Smith said, "but there's a new twist on why they're outperforming the rest of the industry —it's the amazing customer satisfaction rating on Apple's new Leopard OS."
ChangeWave reported that 81 percent its 4,600 survey participants had ranked Leopard as "very satisfied," compared to only 51-53 percent of Windows XP users or 15-27% of Windows Vista. The satisfaction survey targeted the preinstalled operating system of users who had bought a new computer within the last 90 days.
Maintaining Mac momentum
Strong sales and favorable reviews of Snow Leopard harmonize with the unprecedented sales of over 3 million Macs in the quarter ending in October.
Cook credited Snow Leopard's release with boosting sales of Macs in the quarter, saying that "with every new OS you have some pent-up demand that ships with the operating system as people hold to get the latest."
Last month, NPD reported that sales of Snow Leopard were strong and maintaining greater sustained momentum that previous releases. While Leopard and Tiger saw sales drop more than 60 percent following their initial launch, sales of Snow Leopard reportedly dipped only 25 percent in week two.
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Apple's iPod touch sales up 100% as iPhone units set new record
Apple Retail Stores achieve highest quarterly revenue ever

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A steady stream of people visited the Red Store during the weekend of 13 - 14 September to admire WI records and artefacts from the late 1940s, when the Lerryn Institute was founded, to the present day. Guests also enjoyed the complimentary tea/coffee - and (of course!) the home-made cookies.
The range and quality of the craft-work on display was awe-inspiring, and the beautifully mounted wall displays built up a vivid picture of a lot of people having a good time while developing all sorts of new skills and interests - and facing some interesting challenges - over the years. And it continues: several visitors to the exhibition took the opportunity to sign up for a new course just being developed.
Distinguished people present included Mary Northcott, Lerryn WI's first President and still an active member, as well as guests from the village and from other WIs. We were delighted to see you all. Thank you for coming.


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Written by Feather Douglas
Last night I watched a documentary that I have had since 2016. It was about the Toowoomba Grantham flood disaster of January 2011 when communities in Queensland were devastated by a deluge of enormous proportions. It struck me, as I watched, how different people are from what they were 9 years ( or even 4 years ) ago.
As I watched, I had one word come in to my mind. HUMANITY. What is lacking today is our sense of humanity. Our sense of caring and compassion and regard for others.
Have we changed so much? Or is it that our Governments and media have changed and are expecting us to follow suit?
I can speak with some degree of authority about what happened that day in 2011. I was there, in Toowoomba. It had been a long dry period of years and we had been on water rationing for so long that it had become a habit to never squander water. A shower was a 2 minute once a day event and flushing the toilet was on an as needs basis. Gardens lay wilted and forlorn and we just held on to the hope that rain would eventually
And fall it did. By January 10th 2011, the ground was soaked and unable to drink anymore. Its thirst had been quenched.
But it kept raining and the intensity seemed to be increasing. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it started to pour down with a ferocity I hope never to see again.
By now, the water was cascading down the mountain and the small town of Grantham, where I once worked, was in the path of the deluge that would claim 12 lives and destroy an entire community.
The devastation in Grantham was staggering, not just in its ferocity but also the speed with which the disaster struck. Without warning.
Days later the flood waters flowed on to Brisbane and our Capital city was facing a disaster not seen since the 1974 flood.
You may wonder why I am talking about this today in 2020 when so much is happening that is more important than a tragic event that happened nearly 10 years ago.
It is because I was struck by the change in Government response and people's attitudes in the decade that has passed.
The broadcasters were compassionate and stuck to factual reporting.
No one talked about Climate Change.
Afterwards, we were " locked down " - not by Government dictate but by practicality. The roads were washed out, bridges gone and we were marooned on a mountain top with rationing and limited supplies. No one stock piled toilet paper. We went for bread and milk and canned goods. We didn't hoard.
Not because we couldn't, but because we wouldn't.
Over the days and weeks that followed, the stench of the rotten food, water soaked carpet and furniture was everywhere. I will never forget that smell.
But local businesses mucked in and we all began the task of rebuilding our lives, our sense of community and our sense of self.
The media broadcast messages of support and our politicians did likewise.
Of course, in the aftermath the blame game started. The Toowoomba City Council was blamed for inadequate storm water drainage. The owners of a quarry were blamed. The Queensland Government was blamed for not opening the spillway at a dam early enough.
But no one ever blamed the people.
I cannot help but compare the tragedy of 2011 with the tragedy that is 2020.
A virus from China has flooded us with a different kind of devastation. A society consumed with fear and dread.
A society that is divided and suspicious and full of blame.
It is no longer a time to rally the humanity that lies within all of us. It is now a time to blame the people. The media and the Government are desperate to blame us, not the politicians who allowed this to happen or the country that created the virus in the first place.
The blame is planted on our shoulders for failing to do " the right thing. " We are encouraged to report each other, socially isolate and be suspicious of our neighbours.
The media and the Government are pitting fellow resident against fellow resident and encouraging a sense of disunity while using the catch cry that " we are all in this together. "
No, we are not.
We are in this alone. The people are not allowed to hug, help and hail each others bravery. We are being not only encouraged, but forced to live in isolation.
As I watched the documentary, I almost wanted to weep with sorrow at the loss that we have suffered that is far greater than any we endured in 2011.
The loss of humanity. The loss of our shared communal security.
That port in a storm. That wonderful, human need to be part of a group, a family and that comfort of shared sorrow.
As our elderly die from grief and our children cower with fear that Santa may give them a virus, it is nothing short of mass cruelty to allow this media and politically driven fear campaign to continue.
As our loved ones die in isolation and we are denied the RIGHT to act and interact as is our instinct, I can only say that we have lost something that is our most precious gift: our sense of humanity.
This looks like an ideal Christmas gift for your Grandkids?
The War on Trump is a war on humanity.
It might not wipe out humanity, but it sure could give civilization a hard time.
The Smaller World that China has gifted us


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Rectification Rectified – FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corporation Ltd
In this key decision, the Court of Appeal gives detailed consideration to the principles underpinning various doctrines in contract to ascertain the correct test for rectification of a written instrument because of the presence of a common mistake.
The Claimant-Respondent ("the Parent") was the holding company of a large corporate group. In 2012, the Parent had agreed to provide security in connection with a complex transaction for a corporate acquisition in which the Defendant-Appellant was the security agent.Such security was intended to be by way of assignment of the benefit of a shareholder loan. It transpired in 2016, however, that, by an oversight, the Parent had not actually executed the relevant assignment. Thus, two deeds were executed on 18 November 2016 with the intention that they would provide the missing security.
The mechanism chosen to provide the security was accession by the Parent to two other security agreements, executed by other subsidiaries as part of the transaction, and to which the Defendant-Appellant was also party as security agent. These other security agreements, however, did not merely provide for the missing security, but also imposed additional, and more onerous, obligations on the Parent. The Parent therefore claimed rectification of the 2016 deeds.
In the court below, the judge found that: (i) no one involved in the transaction realised before or at the time of execution of the deeds that their effect went far beyond provision of the missing security; (ii) it was both 'objectively' and 'subjectively' the common intention of the parties to execute a document which satisfied the Parent's obligation to grant security over the shareholder loan and which did no more than this. The judge therefore granted rectification of the deeds so as to exclude from their scope the additional obligations.
The security agent appealed on the basis that, following the speech of Lord Hoffmann in Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] UKHL 38, the common intention of the parties is to be determined objectively in a test analogous, if not identical, to that applicable to the interpretation of contracts.
The Court of Appeal began with the traditional jurisdiction of equity to correct mistakes in written instruments by rectification. The old cases clearly showed it was settled law that the alleged mistake in the written instrument was to be considered against what the parties had subjectively intended that instrument to record. The parties were, therefore, expected to give evidence as to what had been in their minds and what they had intended when the instrument was executed.
In the 19th century, however, a new line of authority emerged which held that a contractual document could only be rectified to bring it into conformity with a pre-existing contract which the subsequent document had, owing to a mutual mistake, failed to record accurately. Rectification was, therefore, akin to specific performance of the prior contract.
Dicta in subsequent cases cast some doubt on this so-called 'antecedent contract' theory. These cases suggested that it was not necessary to find a binding contract antecedent to the document sought to rectified; it sufficed to show there was a 'common continuing intention' between the parties regarding a particular provision or matter recorded in the document. Alternative terms for what was required were: "concurrent intention"; "common agreement"; "real agreement"; "true consensus of the parties"; and "true consensus of their minds."
The controversy was finally resolved in Joscelyne v Nissen [1970] 2 QB 86. In this case, the Court of Appeal clearly and authoritatively established that a prior concluded contract is not necessary for rectification; a common intention continuing at the time when a contract is made is sufficient, subject only to the qualification that some "outward expression of accord" is required. Thus, it is not sufficient that each party privately and independently had the same intention as the other; there must be some outward communication and agreement of such subjective intentions between the parties. Such outward expression of accord, however, need not be an express declaration; the shared understanding may be tacit.
The law was thus apparently settled, until Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] UKHL 38. As the House of Lords allowed this appeal on the issue of contract interpretation, the issue of rectification did not arise. Nevertheless, while acknowledging that the question was "academic", Lord Hoffmann, with whom the other members of the Appellate Committee agreed, expressed the opinion that, had it not succeeded on the issue of interpretation, the appellant would have been entitled to an order for rectification and that the test, essentially, was the same.
The argument was that the requisite "continuing common intention," though not required to be a legally binding contract, need not involve any concurrence of the parties' actual subjective intentions. Its existence must be ascertained objectively by asking what a reasonable observer would have understood the intentions of the parties to be.
Although this part of Lord Hoffmann's opinion was expressly acknowledged as obiter dicta, the principles have been applied in subsequent cases. Noting, however, that in those cases, the correctness of the approach was not in dispute, the Court of Appeal in the present case considered it necessary to decide whether the dicta in Chartbrook was correct in law.
As a matter of principle, the Court of Appeal recognised that rectification may be granted in two circumstances: (i) where there was an antecedent contract which the subsequent document sought to be rectified failed to record accurately; and (ii) where the parties had not made a binding prior contract but had a continuing common intention in respect of a particular matter in the document sought to be rectified.
The key finding was that the juridical bases for granting rectification in each case differ. Where there is a prior contract, rectification is analogous to specific performance of this antecedent contract and the remedy is granted on the principle that agreements must be kept. The matter for the court therefore is to ascertain the intentions of the parties, expressed in the prior contract, according to the objective standard applicable to ordinary contractual interpretation.
Where there is no prior legally binding contract, however, the principle differs. Here, the basis for granting rectification is the equitable doctrine that a party will not be allowed to enforce the terms of a written contract, objectively ascertained, when to do so is against conscience because it is inconsistent with what both parties in fact intended (and mutually understood each other to intend) those terms to be when the document was executed. The mistake effectively operates as a fraud, and the jurisdiction for equity to intervene is ultimately based on the principle of good faith and conscience.
In the absence of a binding contract, therefore, provided that the common intention is clearly demonstrated, the Court of Appeal considered that
"there is no sound justification for giving effect to the meaning that a hypothetical reasonable observer would have attributed to the words used in preference to what the parties actually intended the effect of their contract to be."
Given the distinct bases for the grant of rectification, the Court of Appeal further did not consider it anomalous to apply an objective test where rectification is based on a prior concluded contract and a subjective test where it is based on an actual consensus ad idem as to a common continuing intention.
Applying this analysis to the present facts, as found by the judge below, the Court of Appeal considered it was a 'classic case for rectification' and dismissed the appeal. Other factors the Court considered relevant were: (i) the fact that the Parent could have executed a unilateral instrument assigning the benefit of the loan to provide the missing security, and if rectification had been sought, the court would have undoubtedly been concerned with the Parent's subjective intentions; and (ii) on the findings of the judge below, this was clearly a case in which the parties had been mistaken as to the legal effect of the deeds, not their commercial consequences.
This closely reasoned case provides insights into several different issues of legal principle. Not only does it provide much-needed clarification on the law of rectification, the judgment also merits reading in full for its discussions of other doctrines of contract law, notably mistake and contractual interpretation; the similarities and differences between bilateral documents and agreements, such as contracts, and unilateral documents, such as wills; and the doctrine of binding precedent.
In respect of rectification, the case clarifies that there are two different tests for rectification, depending on whether or not there is an antecedent contract. Where there is such contract, the test is objective.
Where there is not, the subjective test for the parties' actual intentions, coupled with the requirement that there be some form of outward expression of accord raises the threshold for the grant of the remedy. Although it has been suggested in academic commentary that the outward expression of accord is more a question of evidence, not of the substantive law, the Court of Appeal expressly held that such proposition was not supported by authorities. Furthermore, the Court of Appeal also rejected the academic criticism of the subjective test as likely to result in fewer contracts being rectified. In the view of the Court of Appeal, such criticism was in principle wrong, and rather endorsed the alternative position, which practitioners should bear in mind:
"formal, written contracts should be presumptively upheld and instances of rectification should be rare. Any other approach would undermine the importance commercial parties put on the final written agreement."
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You know what time it is? It's time to harness the chaos that is your jewelry drawer. Or, maybe you're like me and your jewelry is everywhere—rings in your purse, earrings next to your toothpaste in the medicine cabinet, and necklaces sitting in a tangle heap atop your nightstand. Never being able to find my jewelry is huge problem, while the other dilemma is that when I do unearth my favorite necklace, it's twisted around rings and bracelets and pins.
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The end of the special edition of Return of the Jedi sees many planets in the Star Wars galaxy celebrating the fall of the Empire. But Aftermath, a new novel by Chuck Wendig, is going to show us what happened next according to Disney's new canon—and it's not the happy ending we thought it was.
Aftermath is one of the first post-Return of the Jedi, pre-Force Awakens tie-ins that are part of Disney's new "Journey to The Force Awakens" plan to flesh out the 30 years between Episodes VI and VII in their new canon. While we've had a few hints and teases about the book—including the fact that it establishes the old-Expanded Universe idea of the New Republic being set up in the wake of the Emperor's death—but Entertainment Weekly have now released an extensive excerpt from the novel's opening that tells us pretty much what happened immediately after those celebrating crowds on Coruscant brought down the statue of the Emperor at the end of Jedi.
The sound like a giant bone breaking.
A fracture appears at the base of the statue.
Applause as it comes crashing down.
The head of the statue snaps off, goes rolling and crashing into a fountain. Dark water splashes. The crowd laughs.
And then: The whooping of klaxons. Red lights strobe. Three airspeeders swoop down from the traffic lanes above—Imperial police. Red-and- black helmets. The glow of their lights reflected back in their helmets.
There comes no warning. No demand to stand down.
The laser cannons at the fore of each airspeeder open fire. Red bolts sear the air. The crowd is cut apart. Bodies dropped and stitched with fire.
But still, those gathered are not cowed. They are no longer a crowd. Now they are a mob. They start picking up hunks of the Palpatine statue and lobbing them up at the airspeeders. One of the speeders swings to the side to avoid an incoming chunk of stone—and it bumps another speeder, interrupting its fire. Coruscanti citizens climb up the stone spire behind both speeders—a spire on which are written the Imperial values of order, control, and the rule of law—and begin jumping onto the police cruisers. One helmeted cop is flung from his vehicle. The other crawls out onto the hood of his speeder, opening fire with a pair of blasters—just as a hunk of stone cracks him in the helmet, knocking him to the ground.
The other two airspeeders lift higher and keep firing.
There's much more at the link below, but basically Return of the Jedi's happy ending now manages to stay happy for... like, about five seconds maybe? Which is kind of a bummer, but I guess we need a reason for the Rebels and the Empire to shed their names and go at it again in The Force Awakens.
Star Wars: Aftermath will be out on September 4th, which might as well be renamed as "Global Give All Your Money To Disney Day" at this point.


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MTA looks for support for its new education council
by Derek Clouthier May 1, 2019 @DerekClouthier
WINNIPEG, Man. – The Manitoba Trucking Association's (MTA) newly-formed education council is searching for members to help steer the effort in the right direction.
Supporting the design, development, and implementation of an educational program aimed at making the MTA a premier training resource for the trucking industry, the association is looking for representatives from the fields of human resources, financial services, dispatch, fleet management, safety and compliance, and the driver services sector.
Neil Cooke, manager of education and training for the MTA, said his association recognizes the need for this type of training, which will support the professional development of future industry employees.
"By supporting these aspirations, the MTA looks to enhance the current skills and abilities of a workforce that is constantly adapting to changes in technologies and business practices," said Cooke.
Curriculum development of the education program will leverage and adapt programing that already exists, given it meets the needs of the industry and the program. Cooke said a last resort will be to follow standard curriculum development practices.
"The MTA has been working with post-secondary institutions, corporate trainers, and related associations to build a catalogue of courses that are aligned with the seven themes identified in the MTA educational initiative," said Cooke. "This catalogue will be reviewed by the education council and priority list of courses generated to support the development of a bi-annual course calendar."
Those seven themes include communications, technology, managerial, adult education instructor, coaching and mentoring, logistics, and technical skills.
So far, representatives from the MTA's associated trades division and vehicle maintenance council have committed to provide representation on the education council.
Cooke said the training being developed by the education council is in no way intended to compete with any carrier's in-house training. It is rather intended to augment existing in-house programing of some carriers and be made available to those that don't currently provide any training options.
"The education and training needs of MTA member companies are very diverse, and as such the program and course offerings will reflect this," said Cooke. "The educational initiative had seven major themes or domains, but from these seven areas over 70 individual course needs were identified. This speaks volumes to the bona fide professional development needs MTA members have identified as necessary to support the continued success of the association and the industry."
Once all council members are established, they will be tasked with developing an education charter to guide the council and ensure future council members have a structure to follow. Members will then meet quarterly to advise on programing needs, outcomes, and evaluation data.
"Council members will play a vital role in influencing the MTA's ability to recruit, retain, and develop a workforce in a national landscape that is highly competitive," said Cooke.
Anyone interested in being part of the MTA's education council is encouraged to contact Cooke at ncooke@trucking.mb.ca or 204-632-6600.
by Derek Clouthier @DerekClouthier
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Noble1 says:
"The Manitoba Trucking Association's (MTA) newly-formed education council is searching for members to help steer the effort in the right direction."
"Once all council members are established, they will be tasked with developing an education charter to guide the council ".
You see , a Truck Drivers Federation(TDF) owned collectively by truck drivers could do this on its own ! And it would have all resources and "members" already at its fingertips !
What these associations are attempting to do is to reinvent the wheel and they lack resources ! They need "members" to "guide" them rather than being a "guide" themselves , LOL !
You see , it's the 'members" who are the backbone in influencing and creating change to improve the industry !
A Truck Drivers Federation(TDF) owned collectively by truck drivers(members)would already possess this advantage !
Don't give your collective leverage away , UNITE and be in control of your destiny !
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This is the best news yet. You definitely need input from the people that have experience in the trucking industry.
I have 40 years of trucking and dispatch behind me and still drive a rig when I need to.
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Foresthill Divide Chamber Of Commerce > History > Foresthill Road – Scenic and Historical Guide
In 1996 longtime Foresthill resident Geri Grant put together a history of the Foresthill Road that gives some insight into the varied life and charecters that the Foresthill Divide has seen since the mid 1800's.
Written by Geri Grant
Our beautiful Foresthill Road now begins at Lincoln Way and Interstate 80. It is a 17-mile drive from this point to the unincorporated town of Foresthill, and it is definitely a scenic cruise worth taking. The Foresthill Bridge was built in the early 1960s as a road which was meant to cross the reservoir created by the Auburn Dam, which is yet to be built. The bridge was built, but the dam project is still being disputed by many as environmentally destructive and not earthquake safe. Prior to the halting of the dam construction, much private property was bought by the Federal Government as "take" area, thus leaving acreage undeveloped and unpopulated on the Foresthill Divide from Lincoln Way to about the Monte Verde Inn, 9 miles up the road. This has created a preserve of our canyon view of the Middle Fork of the American River and acres of meadows and trees on the North Fork side, lush and unspoiled by homes or livestock.
Beginning at the bridge which is a half-mile long, we see bikers, joggers, and tourists walking and enjoying the view which is over 700 feet from river to bridge, higher than the St. Louis Arches (a tourist attraction in St. Louis, Mo). From the Foresthill Bridge, we see soaring hawks, eagles, the rushing North Fork of the American River below, the heights of Auburn to the west, and a view of the Sierras often covered with snow caps to the east. In between the distant Sierra peaks and the bridge is the most beautiful Divide in the world (the writer is admittedly biased) — the mountainous partition of land between the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River, called the Foresthill Divide.
The Foresthill Road is an adventure to drive — even if you do not look at the scenery which is a crime in itself. The road curves pleasantly and often surprisingly to newcomers. The first ten miles from the bridge have been significantly improved in recent years and are only moderately curvy. The next seven miles are much tighter and winding, but scheduled to begin improvement in 1996 (now behind schedule). There is a possibility of seeing deer, wild turkey, bear, skunk, squirrels, and mountain lions during the entire 17-mile drive. In addition, there are oak, black walnut, Madrone, pine, cedar, dogwood, and fir trees filling the landscape, against a smogless sky. We have wildflowers such as the California Poppy, Lupin, and Sweet Pea blooming along the roadside much of the year.
About a mile after crossing the bridge heading up the Divide, the Old Foresthill Road intersects the new. There have been at least four different paths from Auburn since 1850 that have been known as the Foresthill Road, and the Old Foresthill Road here is the most recent predecessor to the current road. Through the years, these trails have borne miners, settlers, loggers, entrepreneurs, outlaws, mules, horses, wagons, stage coaches, and of course automobiles. Each road was at a different level of the canyon and each succeeding road was an improvement on its predecessor with less curves.
A digression at this point seems merited to relate a few tales of the Old Foresthill Road. The Old Foresthill Road begins at Highway 49 in Auburn, heading down the canyon toward the confluence of the North Fork and Middle Forks of the American River. This road was the primary route to the Foresthill Divide and Foresthill between from the early 1900s to the early 60s. Even in days of the automobile, it would take one to one and one-half hours, depending on weather and traffic to reach Foresthill from this point.
The first segment of the Old Foresthill Road (from Auburn to the North Fork, still Highway 49) has a curve where a creek runs down the high side of the road wall and there is a lovely plateau on the opposite side of the road, suitable for a small homesite, with running water and a view. An elderly gentleman decided this was the spot for him and he parked his trailer there for many years on this curve, refusing to be run off. This became known as the Old Man with the Trailer Curve.
"Old Simms" was a Foresthill resident who created his own legend on the Old Foresthill Road. One evening around 1950, Old Simms imbibed too much and realized this fact while driving up the road
about 1/2 mile above the old Foresthill Bridge. Therefore, he climbed into the back seat to sleep off his liquor. However, he neglected to turn off the engine and the car was still moving. The car took him down to the river, but he climbed out unharmed. This same gentlemen was shot in the head at another time while living on the Divide. The bullet entered his skull and split into two segments, but didn't seem to change anything inside. He lived to be a ripe old age and died of natural causes.
About 75 years ago, a Mr. Sutcliff was making his last return to Michigan Bluff for burial by coffin in a horse drawn cart past the Old Foresthill Bridge moving up toward the Foresthill Divide. The road became so narrow in one spot that the horses had to jump the traces in order to make the turn. When they jumped at this time, the wagon bumped so hard that the coffin bounced out, merrily down to the river, to the horror of the driver. With help, the coffin was retrieved no worse for the ride, and Mr Sutcliff was buried in Michigan Bluff as planned.
When this road was built, there was another narrowing around a point that was only wide enough for a car in each direction. The rock in this area was so hard, the construction crews gave up on widening the road here, so they put up an iron pipe rail to deter automobiles from going into the canyon. This Iron Railing became a stopping point to get out and look over the edge, as many do today on the Foresthill Bridge.
This Old Foresthill Road has been newly repaired. It was closed at Mammoth Bar between the Foresthill Road and Highway 49 due to a severe washout undermining and collapsing an expansion of about 100 feet of road in the early spring rains of 1995. The night the road washed out in Spring, 1995, a sign was put up indicating the road was closed due to "slide." This sign has been posted many times in the past and regular commuters who used this route had learned that the "slides" were often easy to maneuver around and still get through to Highway 49, saving about 15 minutes of driving rather than going through Auburn. Thus, a regular commuter happened upon the "road closed due to slide" sign on his daily drive from Todd's Valley in the wee morning hours while still dark. Deciding he could handle a little old slide as in the past, he ignored the sign and went around it, driving at a "normal" speed. When his headlights came upon the washout, it was too late to stop, and he began the roll into the canyon in his car. On the way down, he was thrown out of the car, while the car proceeded down the canyon and has yet to be found. He was fortunate enough to have only broken ribs, and made his way on foot back up to the Foresthill Road, where he hitchhiked to medical aid.
Back again to the present day Foresthill Road after crossing the Foresthill Bridge, you will next pass Lower Lake Clementine Road on the North Fork side of the road leading to Lake Clementine, a small lake built during depression years by the U.S. Government to employ people and to be used for a reservoir for tailings from hydraulic mining in the area. At that time, it was thought that bringing back hydraulic mining in the area could help an economic recovery. A second "holding dam" was to be built at Rucky Chucky; however in testing for seismic faults, the Corps of Engineers used a stick of dynamite in an existing tunnel which resulted in a big slide into Rucky Chucky Canyon, causing abandonment of the project. The hydraulic mining was never revived because of strict legislation enforcing the control of tailings, thus making it unprofitable, so the lake never served its intended purpose, but is a lovely recreational area in the summer. The slide into Rucky Chucky Canyon accounts for the huge rocks at the bottom of the canyon which can be driven to via Driver's Flat Road, a few miles up the Foresthill Road.
Robbers' Roost is a turnout on the left-hand side of the road with a view overlooking the North Fork. The Roost is the huge rock cliff that stands alone about 10:00 when standing at the viewpoint. The Rock is so named because it was used as a lookout by stage robber accomplices during the gold rush days. A lookout would be stationed at the Rock, ready to signal the horseback bandits coming up the Divide to meet the stagecoach. From this vantage point, the lookout would be able to determine if the stagecoach was accompanied by armed guards or a posse. The lookout would signal his/her bandits by mirror reflections from the sun whether or not to pursue the hoist. One version of this tale is that the holdup group was led by Black Bart and the signal person was his girlfriend. Supposedly Black Bart retired as a gentleman, paid off by Wells Fargo to never rob again since they had been foiled for years in trying to apprehend him in an act of robbery.
On the Middle Fork side of the road is the remains of an old stone cellar. The Bureau of Land Management burned this house down after purchasing the land. This land was known as the Spargo Ranch. Addie Spargo Quinn and her retired taxi cab driver husband built a restaurant they called the Grizzly Bear House in honor of the gold rush days, when "Grizzly Bear" was a stage stop at the same location. The proprietors in the roadhouse days kept "pet" deer that they would identify with red ribbons around their necks and sometimes bells. One hunter saw a forked buck during hunting season on his way up the Divide. The hunter stopped his car and went for his broken down rifle in the trunk of his car. The buck just stared at him, motionless. The amazed driver assembled the rifle while the buck stared. He aimed the rifle and killed the buck. He was mighty proud until he went to tag him and saw the red ribbon on his neck.
Just beyond Grizzly Bear, on the opposite side of the current road, is a level area of meadow which was called Driver's Flat. Here tired horses and mule teams would be given a welcome respite from the steep grade of one of the old Foresthill roads for about a mile or so of travel. A road further up the Divide is named Driver's Flat Road because a politician was mistaken on where the historic Driver's Flat actually was.
On the North Fork side of the road, just above upper Lake Clementine Road is Tin Can Flat. Tin Can Flat was once the home of a reclusive bachelor by the name of Shorty Balderson. He lived in a little shack, his only proud possession being a grand piano. The shack was of a size to provide room for a small cook stove, a small table, and the piano. Shorty's bed was a youth-size mattress on top of the piano. Shorty would get into his "spirits" and sometimes play a mighty fine piano until the wee hours of morning. His tunes could be heard coming and going on the Divide. Just above Tin Can Flat was once a huge water tank which was used to fill water trucks in times of forest fires. The concrete tank is still there today. Upper Lake Clementine Road on the North Fork of the American River leads to a lovely camping ground on the river before it flows to Lake Clementine.
On the Middle Fork side of the road, just above Lake Clementine, is the site of McSaveny's sawmill. It was one of many sawmills which have come and gone on the Divide. The mill was notorious for a huge sawdust pile which has succumbed to nature over the years.
Butcher Ranch on the Middle Fork side of the road – where an aging corral still stands, was one of many stagecoach stops on the Divide. (The only true remnants of the original ranch are the rock walls of a foundation.) There, horses could be watered, bought, or sold; there was a blacksmith for shoeing, and a hotel with card room and bar. The Centennial Mine is located in this area — one of many gold mines from the Gold Rush days. The climb up the Divide was extremely hard on horses. They often could not go any further when they reached a stagecoach stop and the owners would sell them and buy fresh ones from the proprietors. The proprietors would then rest and fatten up the horses and resell them. In depression years, the Ranch was used as a post office for general delivery by many inhabitants who did not have a home, but weathered out the depression on the Foresthill Divide. A recent proprietor was Mike Walmer in the 1930s. Mike moved to Michigan Bluff and operated the old hotel and dance hall further up the Divide.
Driver's Flat Road is on the right-hand side of the Foresthill Road misnamed as previously mentioned. You can reach Rucky Chucky River and a camping/picnic/fishing area by driving down this road which is adequate for standard passenger vehicles.
Myers' Rock is a large rock on the North Fork bank of the Divide. One road improvement was charted to go through the spot where the rock is today. When the time came to move the rock, the road crew attempted to move it first by towing, then pushing. It would not budge. They then resorted to explosives, but it would not destruct. They finally dug the road around one side of the rock and left it where it was. It was named for its former property owners – who also had a slight reputation for stubbornness. Just beyond Myers' Rock There is a road on the North Fork side of the Divide which leads to the Hadsel quartz stamping mine, no longer in existence, a noisemaker that has not been sorely missed.
Next is a turnout on the Middle Fork Side overlooking the Rucky Chucky River to the left, and the Middle Fork to the right. The Rucky Chucky area seen from here is the camping and picnic area located at the end of Driver's Flat Road.
The Cracker Box House on the Middle Fork side was located where there is now an old apple tree. The house built by Basil Pavilla was higher than it was wide, and it had no interior stairway. Access to the second story was only by ladder on the exterior of the home.
What is presently the Monte Verde Inn — the lovely plantation-type house on the left hand side of the road was formerly the Chicken Ranch in the late 1800s. There was a toll road leading to the Chicken Ranch. The owner used to perpetuate the mud holes on the road so he could get additional money for pulling wagons out. There was also a huge truck garden at this location that supplied vegetables to the whole Foresthill Divide. After the Chicken Ranch, this ranch was eventually purchased by a sea captain named Walker. Captain Walker had a beautiful home built on this prime land in the early 1930s. Just as it was about finished, a worker was taking some paint off some boards, using a blow torch. The house ignited and burned down before anyone ever lived there. Captain Walker rebuilt the house, but he died before he had the opportunity to move in. He had two spinster sisters who inhabited the ranch after it was rebuilt. It is now a bed and breakfast inn, and its owners are not related to the original builder.
Old Joe's Grave is a monument on the right-hand side of the road. Old Joe was not a human, but a lead horse for a stage coach. At the time of his demise, a strong lead horse was very valuable and highly revered. The stagecoach was held up one day when Old Joe was in the lead. The robber decided a little fear was necessary to speed up delivery of the loot, so he shot Old Joe. The grave site and monument honor his memory, and it is said that the community would not have been quite as upset if the driver had been the one shot.
A roadhouse called "Everybody's Inn" on the right-hand side of the road has changed names many times over the years, best known to old-timers as The Old Oaken Bucket. During the commercial gold mining days, there was a practice by many miners called "hygrading." This meant they pilfered some gold while being paid to take out all gold for their employers. Before the restaurant was built, a Foresthill resident leased the land, and with the hygrader and one other miner dug a tunnel through serpentine rock behind the current restaurant, calling it a "mine." The only gold ever "found" in their tunnel was the hygrade already procured, but it was now pronounced legitimate.
The intersection of the Spring Garden Road and the Foresthill Road was formerly a busy location. There were beehives, teepees, and a one-room school house here for many years in the first half of this century. There was also a post office there for a long time. The road was originally the only road from Auburn to Yankee Jim's — a settlement at the end of the Spring Garden Road which was once a thriving mining town, so this was a thriving intersection of traffic.
On the middle fork side of the road, just across from the intersection in an outcropping of rock, a gold prospector buried some gold to come back and retrieve at a later date. To his misfortune, he bragged to someone who betrayed his friendship and dug up the treasure before the prospector returned to retrieve it.
Just beyond the intersection of the Spring Garden Road on the North Fork side of the Divide was the Talley Ranch. There was a baseball field built there about 1931 or 1932, which hosted many a lively game between the settlements of Todd Valley, Foresthill, and Spring Garden. The Souheads are an Indian family of long standing on the Divide. Jack Souhead, one of this family, injured his leg in a baseball game at this field and it was amputated as a result.
Another post office on the Divide was located on McKeon Road and operated by the DeMaria Family. It was utilized by many miners and squatters for general delivery during the depression. During the depression years, the CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps, had a camp located at the Red Rock/Cold Springs Roads area of Todd Valley Estates, just off the Foresthill Road on the Middle Fork side.
There was a "Duncan Ranch" between the upper and lower Todd Valley Roads on the North Fork side of the Divide. Todd's Valley Estates — On the Middle Fork Side of the Divide was named after a Foresthill Divide pioneer who had a ranch further up the road, Dr. Todd. A medical doctor, he established an roadhouse/stagecoach stop that predated the gold rush. This housing development which was named for him has evolved into beautiful home sites of 1-acre and 2-acre lots. Deer and turkey roam with abandon through Todd Valley Estates, somehow sensing they are a protected species by the inhabitants who are primarily migrators from larger cities, seeking to maintain the wonderful environment they "happened into". Todd Valley Estates was formerly part of the Bradley Ranch.
Then there is a hill, now called Peckham Hill, and before road improvements it was a steep incline that challenged horses, mules, and even the automobiles in adverse weather conditions. The name was originally North Star Hill; however, there was a sign at this particular point in the road, pointing to an area which was named by its founders as Peckham Hill, about three miles off to the right. People eventually started calling North Star Hill "Peckham Hill" when they wanted to describe the spot where they got stuck because of the sign.
Just below the current Idlewheels Mobile Home Park entrance was an old wagon stop and roadhouse owned by a Sam Frasier. The Divide had many roadhouses, often close together, because prior to automobiles and strong headlights, people would have to stop where they were when darkness fell, pitch black, as it does on a moonless night on the Divide.
The Foresthill Middle School on the Middle Fork Side of the Divide is a former site of two reservoirs which were built to catch and store water for Pond Pit. The head waters of the two ditches were the south branch of Shirttail Canyon, just below the confluence of Finning Mill Creek and McBride Creek. The ditches took water from each tributary stream they crossed — Kent Canyon, Yellow Jacket, Brush, Mill Creek, Temperance, etc. Pond Ditch headed in Volcano Canyon and traversed near the south edge of the present town of Foresthill.
The grocery store on the right (Worton's) is a modern-day supermarket to the folks on the Divide because the Divide because its predecessors were small, narrow-aisled Mom & Pop stores with limited selection and quantity. The view of the canyon from the parking lot and inside from the meat section is spectacular and worth taking in. Dardenelle's Pit, directly southeast under the market, picked up water from Secret, El Dorado, Bulion, Volcano, and other small tributaries.
The next landmark is the former mill site which was owned respectively by Bendix, Stockton Box, and Georgia Pacific, who closed it down in 1992 in a downsizing effort. The site has been designated as a location for a high school, hopefully in the near future, and 110 acres have been purchased for this purpose by Placer Unified School District. Prior to the big-name mills, there were two major lumber mills in the Foresthill community, the Finning Mill and the Hughes Mill (which was purchased from the Finning family and relocated to just above the town on the Middle Fork side of the Divide). Lumber has been and will probably continue to be the major resource on the Divide for many years. In present day, the remainder of the current mill site has been sold to a group of businessmen who plan to develop an industrial park for small/light industry.
Mosquito Ridge Road branches off to the right just below Foresthill and leads to French Meadows and Hell Hole – two lakes with campgrounds surrounded by nature at its best, Big Trees – a grove of giant sequoias, and a spectacular scenic drive on winding mountain road.
Continuing on the Foresthill Road past Mosquito Ridge, a pizza and hamburger establishment called "Johnny's" is the antecedent of the Red & White Grocery which was a family-owned business, built in the mid 1930's by John Ford. A bizarre robbery about 20 years ago cannot help but draw a smile in the telling. The proprietors were burglarized and came running out when they heard noises, only to find the robber jumping into a beat-up car, filled with family members, including kids, and threw his car rapidly into reverse to exit the area. However, he stripped his gears in his haste and could not get the car out of reverse. The proprietors called the police and when asked what kind of car the culprit was driving, the
woman said she "couldn't tell cars too good, but it should be easy to find 'cause it's the only one going backwards down the Foresthill Road." The robber was apprehended.
The Courthouse Cafe on the right was the home of a well known and much respected Judge Schuller and his family for fifty years prior to 1994 when it was sold uninhabited and decaying to its current owner. An expensive renovation has made this a delightful coffee house with fine desserts, tea, and light meals. The tiny gift shops in its surrounding village have been added in the renovation and are refreshing in their decor and commodities.
An old-fashioned hardware store – Grant's Plumbing & Hardware is one-half block left on Gold Street. Grant's has been in business for 50 years and they feature camping supplies as well as traditional hardware items. The Boardwalk — the historic buildings in red on the left was a former social center of town. The building on the corner housed Langstaff's Store – a grocery business for many years. The grocery also had an assayer's office where gold was weighed and paid.. Next to the now-empty store is an antique shop, an ammunition and ladies' nightwear store, a general store, and Merriam's Photography – with old-tyme photographs and modern photo services as well.
This "settlement" of Foresthill is an unincorporated village which has been another stage-stop since the 49er days. The Forest House has been a hotel and restaurant in town since about 1860, as well as being a social center for meeting, greeting, and dancing since the 1900s, although it burned to the ground more than once. It has housed a brothel in past ears and featured a gambling salon beginning 1948. (Slot machines were common in business establishments in the late 1940's and the 1950's in Foresthill.) It is currently a hotel, with unique old fashioned rooms, but modern plumbing, fine dining in the Cedar Room, and a coffee shop.
Church Street crosses the Foresthill Road and a right turn here leads to a 49er era cemetery and a breathtaking view of the canyon descending to the Middle Fork of the American River, and looking across to the Georgetown Divide — directly to settlement called "Volcanoville." The cemetery was started in the early 1850s, but the oldest readable marker is 1858.
Continuing up the Foresthill Road just past Church Street you will see the Tin Roof Bed and Breakfast on the left-hand side of the road — a recently renovated historic home. Just past the grammar school on the right is a church bell which is all that remains of St. Joseph's Catholic Church which dates back to the 1860s. The bell was cast in Sheffield, England, shipped to Boston in 1860. From there it was shipped around the Horn to San Francisco. It was boated from San Francisco to Sacramento, then pulled by a six-horse team to Foresthill. The local miners raised $3500.00 to pay for it, which was quite expensive in those days. St. Joseph's Church burned to the ground in 1952, and the bell is all that remains.
The Catholic Cemetery is ahead on the left-hand side of the road. The Catholics and the Protestants needed separate cemeteries to facilitate sorting when it came time for heaven or hell. This cemetery is a little younger than the Protestant one, dating back to the 1861.
This completes the 17-mile drive to Foresthill. The Foresthill Road continues 30 miles further to Robinson Flat (a camping area), where automobiles can choose a rough dirt road to Soda Springs just off Highway 80, or a rough dirt road to French Meadows and Hell Hole, eventually arriving back at the Foresthill Road to exit down the Divide. A third and more comfortable choice would be to turn around and return the paved Foresthill Road.


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Football Position Recap: Quarterbacks
One of Iowa State's most peculiar positions.
By Levi Stevenson@LeviRStev Jan 8, 2018, 11:41am CST
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Season Recap
Going into 2017, the quarterback position was just about the least controversial on the entire team, with Jacob Park expected to become one of the Big 12's best on the heels of a better than expected 2016. However, after four games, Park took an indefinite leave of absence from the team to work through some personal issues. In stepped Kyle Kempt.
The journeyman redshirt senior from Massilon, OH had never gotten his fair shake in college, never playing a down at either Oregon State or Hutchinson Community College. After leaving Hutchinson, Kempt walked on to the Iowa State football team for Matt Campbell and became 2016's Scout Team Player of the Year.
Park's departure came during the week leading up to a matchup with the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman, in what would certainly be the most difficult game of the season. Surely, a guy that had never started a collegiate game in his life would be crushed by pressure of making his debut in Norman against Baker Mayfield and one of the most storied programs in college football history.
So what did he do? Kempt rolled into Norman with his level-headed, emotionless demeanor and went out and won the damn football game. Seriously. The guy out-dueled the eventual Heisman trophy winner, Baker Mayfield, in Norman.
After taking down Kansas and Texas Tech over the next two weeks, in came #4 TCU and the Big 12's top ranked defense to Jack Trice Stadium. Even while nursing a shoulder injury, Kempt came in and threw for just over 200 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception.
Here is Kempt's unbridled, passionate, and emotional response to beating the #4 team in the country:
Long story short, Kyle Kempt became the model of consistency and dependability. The best way to describe Kempt is the arm and legs of 38 year-old Peyton Manning, mixed with the mind of Alex Smith. He combined patience, confidence, and decision making into an astounding 15 to 3 touchdown to interception ratio. His ability to limit (and almost entirely eliminate) turnovers, even without having anything resembling a strong throwing arm, was an important factor in Iowa State's success on offense.
He isn't a running threat, doesn't have anything resembling a strong arm, and he had no experience. But you know what Kyle Kempt is? Guts, intelligence, and leadership in it's most pure form. He showed that playing quarterback is about so much more than raw talent. Playing quarterback is just as much about making great decisions and being a leader, which Kempt did with flying colors. He also taught us all a lesson that sometimes the best solution isn't the most obvious.
Kyle Kempt's journey is remarkable, and will be remembered for a long, long time. Regardless of whether he ever plays another down of football, Kyle will be able to hang his head high and know that when he finally got his shot, he made the most of it.
Grade: A+
Position MVP: Kyle Kempt
For all of the reasons described above, Kempt is the obvious winner here. Looking back, Kyle might have been exactly what the Cyclones needed to not only beat Oklahoma, but to have the season they did. Jacob Park is undoubtedly the more talented quarterback, but Kempt's demeanor, intelligence, and mistake-free play was exactly the prescription for a young team heading into an extremely hostile environment in Norman.
Highlight of the Season:
There are certainly a lot of great candidates for this season. Kempt's game winning throw to beat Oklahoma, and either of Zeb Noland's long TD passes against Baylor make perfectly worthy candidates here, but (spoiler alert) those might end up in the season highlight reel for the receivers. My personal favorite throw from this season is actually the first goal line toss by Kempt in the Kansas State game. In a way, this throw is actually it's own metaphor for this season for the quarterbacks. It's a little wobbly and doesn't have much zip on it, but completing this pass requires a quarterback and receiver on exactly the same page, and an accurate throw with great touch.
If you have a suggestion for Highlight of the Season by a quarterback, leave it in the comments.
Breakout Player
The obvious choice here is Kempt, but for the sake of changing it up a little, I'm going to go with Zeb Noland. The redshirt freshman tore his ACL at the beginning of the 2016 season, forcing him out crucial practice reps in his true freshman season. After Kyle Kempt was forced out of the Oklahoma State game due to injury, the gunslinger from Georgia showed off his big arm and impressive accuracy in the second half against the Pokes, as well as in his first career start against Baylor. In the Baylor game, Matt Campbell and Tom Manning took advantage of Noland's arm strength, dialing up an aggressive passing scheme that produced two long touchdown passes to Allen Lazard and Hakeem Butler.
Kempt is currently waiting to hear back on a waiver application from the NCAA to gain a sixth year of elgibility, but let's assume he does not get his extra year for the sake of argument.
Going into 2018, the Cyclones will not have much experience to rely on, with Noland being the only player in the quarterback room to have even participated in a regular season practice. Redshirt freshman Devon Moore tore his ACL during his first training camp, and will likely be seen as the backup heading into next season.
Highly-touted dual threat quarterback Re-al Mitchell is enrolled early at Iowa State, and will be involved in spring practices. He looks every bit the part of a multi-year starter later in this career, but Matt Campbell will probably prefer to redshirt him. That said, Mitchell is talented enough that he could begin pushing Noland with a strong spring and fall training camp.
If Kempt is not granted his extra year of eligibility, there's a decent chance the Cyclones could pursue a graduate transfer to compete with Noland for the starting job. Former Washington quarterback and 4-star recruit K.J. Carta-Samuels has already taken a visit to Ames, and will be a player to keep an eye on going forward.
How would you grade the Cyclone quarterbacks for 2017?
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All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories
By E.L. Doctorow
304 pp.
Reviewed by Phil Harvey
A collection of mostly outstanding tales from one of the masters.
Stories are self-announcing, their voice and circumstances "decided and immutable." So says E.L. Doctorow is his preface to his latest collection of short stories. For the most part, Doctorow does what he says. All stories in All the Time in the World are skillfully executed by a master wordsmith. A few are outstanding.
The best story is the first, "Wakefield," presumably an homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne's story of the same name. Here, Doctorow brings us especially close to his protagonist. We sit right on Howard Wakefield's shoulders as he finds himself, to his own surprise, deserting his wife and two teenage daughters, running away to the attic of his own garage where no one has been for years. He hides out and sleeps by day and scavenges in garbage cans at night, learning how to get discarded food while it's still warm. He watches as the police and relatives come and go from his house, treating him as dead. He forces himself to sleep in the open. He toughens up, becomes almost feral, his hair and beard a long matted mess that disguises him on those few occasions he dares to walk about town in the daylight. He swings between happiness in his new life to utter despair. Two teenagers with Down syndrome live in the basement of the house next door. Wakefield stumbles into their rooms one night, and they all become friends. The teenagers adopt Wakefield as they would a pet, bringing him sandwiches and water.
All the while he spies from his attic hideaway, and occasionally from beneath an open window, on his wife Diana, and their daughters. When Diana's former boyfriend shows up for dinner, Wakefield sees that they are all learning to live without him, which impacts him terribly. The story moves methodically to its conclusion, commanding our interest all the way, and leaving us with the portrait of a character we will never forget.
Also excellent is "A House on the Plains." Here Doctorow is at his cool, distanced best. In a mid-nineteenth century setting, the young protagonist and his elegant, imperious mother – Mama – move to an isolated farm, leaving a questionable and mysterious past (and the narrator's girlfriend) in Chicago. Settled on the farm, Mama runs some newspaper ads for hard-working gentlemen of means she hopes to entice to share her farming enterprise and, we presume, to marry her. The men – mostly "Norwegies" from Minnesota – come and go and we hear nothing further about them; Mama does not marry. Meanwhile we learn that the crude and unattractive handyman has won Mama's favor, though we don't know how. We also learn that the balance in Mama's bank account improves inexplicably. Layer by layer the onion is peeled, masterfully, gradually revealing what is going on. I won't spoil the ending except to say that, upon finishing this story, I had a vision of the author putting down his pen and saying softly to himself, "Top that, Stephen King."
I have little patience with plotless stories, and there are several here. Doctorow aficionados will enjoy the dreamlike quality of "All the Time in the World," and the poetic language of "Lunar Notes: The Songs of Bill Bathgate," but I can't pluck anything lasting from them. "All the Time…" gives us an interesting character who is, I think, dreaming. His voices always tell him that he, or they, have all the time in the world. "Until what?" "Until something happens." But nothing ever does.
The Billy Bathgate songs, preceded by numbers that (I think) announce the minutes needed to sing or read them, are full of wonderful images and Doctorow's masterful prose. Some readers will love them. To me, they wander confusingly.
I also have trouble with not ascribed, unpunctuated dialog and "Edgemont Drive" is made entirely of it. It's an interesting (though hardly profound) story of a rudderless poet who seeps into the lives of a couple who inhabit his former (and still spiritual) home. They take him in and he repays their hospitality by dying in the upstairs bedroom. There's nice irony here, but for me the story is undermined by having to backtrack to figure out who is saying what to whom.
Also somewhat abstract is "The Hunter," the story of a schoolteacher who seems to be losing her grip. She behaves, by the standards of those around her, in irrational ways though we readers admire her pluck. We never meet the hunter of the title; he fires a rifle from a distance and a bullet hits the wall of a deserted mansion where the teacher stands. Was he aiming for her? Is it a dream? Has she lost her sanity? We don't know.
I liked "Jolene: A Life." The story is told objectively, from a distance, and Doctorow can pull you in to his stories, coolly.
Jolene starts early linking up with men, mostly bad ones. Doctorow's early description of her lays out the theme: "She was a home wrecker but also a widow but also a juvenile with no living relatives." Jolene is locked up in a sanatorium for a while, escapes by taking a female attendant as a lover, marries a tattoo artist, leaves him, goes to Las Vegas, links up with wealthy Sal, splits, and marries Brad G. Benton in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But being married to two men at once is by no means the worst of her troubles. As the story approaches its conclusion we move in close to Jolene and the ending is wrenching. I not only felt for her, but expect to remember her.
The remaining stories are solid, effective, rewarding, though not on the level of "A House on the Prairie" or, especially, "Wakefield." "Willi" packs a punch, a story of adultery and violence on a farm in 1910. The ending is abrupt and startling. It is another tale that peels away layers as Doctorow slowly reveals what's going on.
"The Writer in the Family" is a nice showpiece for the author's always engaging irony. A young man is asked by relatives to write letters from his dead father to his father's decrepit mother who is deemed too frail to bear the shock of her son's death. The writer manages to sabotage the process.
"Assimilation" tells of Ramón, a character I like, who accepts $2,000 to marry an Eastern European girl so she can get a green card and, eventually, marry her own boyfriend and bring him to the States. There are Mafia undercurrents here and the evolving relationship between Ramón and the girl, while not unexpected, is quirky, real and satisfying. But too many questions remain at the end.
"Walter John Harmon," like half the stories in this book, has been published in an earlier collection. The title character is a guru prophet in a utopian religious community, revered by all the members. When he unexpectedly leaves the community we get a satisfying dose of the author's religious views. The faithful, left behind, decide that Walter John Harmon, who they finally understand has deserted them (taking one of their wives with him) had in fact created a spiritual miracle, a beautiful paradox of "a prophesy fulfilling itself by means of its negation." Hallelujah.
Religious themes also move the action in "The Heist." An eight-foot hollow brass crucifix is stolen from a church and deposited, somehow, on the roof of a synagogue. The minister who pursues his church's cross seems to be coming apart at the seams, but one must work hard to figure out what's going on here.
Six of the stories in this collection have been published in book form previously ("Walter John Harmon," "A House on the Plains" and "Jolene: A Life") in Sweet Land Stories; "The Writer in the Family," "Willi" and "The Hunter" in Lives of the Poets. But you have to buy this book to get "Wakefield." It's worth it.
Phil Harvey's short stories have appeared in 13 publications.
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Angling Direct has posted an increase in sales and profits in the first half of its financial year In the six months to 31 July, the… View Article
13 October, 2021 | by Angela Beevers
Angling Direct has posted an increase in sales and profits in the first half of its financial year
In the six months to 31 July, the online fishing tackle retailer's revenue climbed by 19.5% to £38.4 million as pre-tax profit surged by 174.2% to £3.7 million.
In a statement, the group said it had performed well against its priorities for the year, including its plans to establish an in-region online European fulfilment which is now entering the implementation phase. It now anticipates that pre IFRS 16 EBITDA for the year ending 31 January 2022 will be no less than £5 million, which is ahead of current market expectations.
Andy Torrance, chief executive of Angling Direct, said: "We are pleased to have delivered a robust financial performance in the first half of the year, building on the operational and strategic progress made last year. These results demonstrate that the increasingly efficient, market leading omni-channel nature of the company's trading platform, combined with its strong balance sheet, ensures it is well placed to serve customers across all channels as it emerges from the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic."
During the period, the company's investment in its digital channel in the UK helped online conversion to grow by 80 bps to 6.3%. It also invested in its UK distribution centre capacity to protect its supply position relative to the wider market.
Looking ahead, Torrance said: "The group has delivered strong progress against its stated key priorities for FY22 in the first half, including its plans to establish in-region online European fulfilment which is now entering implementation phase. With the group's leading customer offering and optimised operational capabilities, combined with the scale of the market opportunity, the Board remains optimistic about the growth prospects and overall success of the business."
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Joseph "Pat" Patrick LaFleur
Joseph "Pat" Patrick LaFleur passed away on Thursday, July 12, 2018, at the age of 72.
A Memorial Service is scheduled for August 4, 2018 at 11:00 AM at First Baptist Church of Basile located at 3001 Schamberg Street, Basile, La.
Pat is survived by three daughters; Connie L. Roy and Rodney of Eunice, Lolita L. Featherston and Eric of Minden, Yolanda "Scoobie" LaFleur-Smith and Tara of Mowata, two brothers; Robert LaFleur of Basile, Michael Granger of Basile, two sisters; Charlotte Granger of Basile and Patricia LeBlanc of Basile, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Pat was preceded in death by his parents, Percy LaFleur Jr. and Viola Gautreaux LaFleur, one brother, Ray Allen Bushnell.
Quirk and Son Funeral Home in Eunice is in charge of the arrangements.
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