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How do we get rid of gerrymandering?
2018-11-18 2018-11-11 pnrj public policy, statistics	election, FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, North Carolina, political science, politics, voting
Nov 18 JDN 2458441
I don't mean in a technical sense; there is a large literature in political science on better voting mechanisms, and this is basically a solved problem. Proportional representation, algorithmic redistricting, or (my personal favorite) reweighted range voting would eradicate gerrymandering forever.
No, I mean strategically and politically—how do we actually make this happen?
Let's set aside the Senate. (No, really. Set it aside. Get rid of it. "Take my wife… please.") The Senate should not exist. It is fundamentally anathema to the most basic principle of democracy, "one person, one vote"; and even its most ardent supporters at the time admitted it had absolutely no principled justification for existing. Smaller states are wildly overrepresented (Wyoming, 580,000 people, gets the same number of Senators as California, 39 million), and non-states are not represented (DC has more people than Wyoming, and Puerto Rico has more people than Iowa). The "Senate popular vote" thus doesn't really make sense as a concept. But this is not "gerrymandering", as there is no redistricting process that can be used strategically to tilt voting results in favor of one party or another.
It is in the House of Representatives that gerrymandering is a problem.
North Carolina is a particularly extreme example. Republicans won 50.3% of the popular vote in this year's House election; North Carolina has 13 seats; so, any reasonable person would think that the Republicans should get 7 of the 13 seats. Under algorithmic redistricting, they would have received 8 of 13 seats. Under proportional representation, they would have received, you guessed it, exactly 7. And under reweighted range voting? Well, that depends on how much people like each party. Assuming that Democrats and Republicans are about equally strong in their preferences, we would also expect the Republicans to win about 7. They in fact received 10 of 13 seats.
Indeed, as FiveThirtyEight found, this is almost the best the Republicans could possibly have done, if they had applied the optimal gerrymandering configuration. There are a couple of districts on the real map that occasionally swing which wouldn't under the truly optimal gerrymandering; but none of these would flip Democrat more than 20% of the time.
Most states are not as gerrymandered as North Carolina. But there is a pattern you'll notice among the highly-gerrymandered states.
Alabama is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Arkansas is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Idaho is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Mississippi is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
As discussed, North Carolina is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
South Carolina is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Texas is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Wisconsin is close to optimally gerrymandered for Republicans.
Tennessee is close to optimally gerrymandered for Democrats.
Arizona is close to algorithmic redistricting.
California is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Connecticut is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Michigan is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Missouri is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Ohio is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Oregon is close to algorithmic redistricting.
Illinois is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Democrats.
Kentucky is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Democrats.
Louisiana is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Democrats.
Maryland is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Democrats.
Minnesota is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Republicans.
New Jersey is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Republicans.
Pennsylvania is close to algorithmic redistricting, with some bias toward Republicans.
Colorado is close to proportional representation.
Florida is close to proportional representation.
Iowa is close to proportional representation.
Maine is close to proportional representation.
Nebraska is close to proportional representation.
Nevada is close to proportional representation.
New Hampshire is close to proportional representation.
New Mexico is close to proportional representation.
Washington is close to proportional representation.
Georgia is somewhere between proportional representation and algorithmic redistricting.
Indiana is somewhere between proportional representation and algorithmic redistricting.
New York is somewhere between proportional representation and algorithmic redistricting.
Virginia is somewhere between proportional representation and algorithmic redistricting.
Hawaii is so overwhelmingly Democrat it's impossible to gerrymander.
Rhode Island is so overwhelmingly Democrat it's impossible to gerrymander.
Kansas is so overwhelmingly Republican it's impossible to gerrymander.
Oklahoma is so overwhelmingly Republican it's impossible to gerrymander.
Utah is so overwhelmingly Republican it's impossible to gerrymander.
West Virginia is so overwhelmingly Republican it's impossible to gerrymander.
You may have noticed the pattern. Most states are either close to algorithmic redistricting (14), close to proportional representation (9), or somewhere in between those (4). Of these, 4 are slightly biased toward Democrats and 3 are slightly biased toward Republicans.
6 states are so partisan that gerrymandering isn't really possible there.
6 states are missing from the FiveThirtyEight analysis; I think they couldn't get good data on them.
Of the remaining 9 states, 1 is strongly gerrymandered toward Democrats (gaining a whopping 1 seat, by the way), and 8 are strongly gerrymandered toward Republicans.
If we look at the nation as a whole, switching from the current system to proportional representation would increase the number of Democrat seats from 168 to 174 (+6), decrease the number of Republican seats from 195 to 179 (-16), and increase the number of competitive seats from 72 to 82 (+10).
Going to algorithmic redistricting instead would reduce the number of Democrat seats from 168 to 151 (-17), decrease the number of Republican seats from 195 to 180 (-15), and increase the number of competitive seats from 72 to a whopping 104 (+32).
Proportional representation minimizes wasted votes and best represents public opinion (with the possible exception of reweighted range voting, which we can't really forecast because it uses more expressive information than what polls currently provide). It is thus to be preferred. Relative to the current system, proportional representation would decrease the representation of Republicans relative to Democrats by 24 seats—over 5% of the entire House.
Thus, let us not speak of gerrymandering as a "both sides" sort of problem. There is a very clear pattern here: Gerrymandering systematically favors Republicans.
Yet this does not answer the question I posed: How do we actually fix this?
The answer is going to sound a bit paradoxical: We must motivate voters to vote more so that voters will be better represented.
I have an acquaintance who has complained about this apparently paradoxical assertion: How can we vote to make our votes matter? (He advocates using violence instead.)
But the key thing to understand here is that it isn't that our votes don't matter at all—it is merely that they don't matter enough.
If we were living in an authoritarian regime with sham elections (as some far-left people I've spoken to actually seem to believe), then indeed voting would be pointless. You couldn't vote out Saddam Hussein or Benito Mussolini, even though they both did hold "elections" to make you think you had some voice. At that point, yes, obviously the only remaining choices are revolution or foreign invasion. (It does seem worth noting that both regimes fell by the latter, not the former.)
The US has not fallen that far just yet.
Votes in the US do not count evenly—but they do still count.
We have to work harder than our opponents for the same level of success, but we can still succeed.
Our legs may be shackled to weights, but they are not yet chained to posts in the ground.
Indeed, several states in this very election passed referenda to create independent redistricting commissions, and Democrats have gained at least 32 seats in the House—"at least" because some states are still counting mail-in ballots or undergoing recounts.
The one that has me on the edge of my seat is right here in Orange County, which several outlets (including the New York Times) have made preliminary projections in favor of Mimi Walters (R) but Nate Silver is forecasting higher probability for Katie Porter (D). It says "100% of precincts reporting", but there are still as many ballots uncounted as there are counted, because California now has almost twice as many voters who vote by mail than in person.
Unfortunately, some of the states that are most highly gerrymandered don't allow citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives (North Carolina, for instance). This is likely no coincidence. But this still doesn't make us powerless. If your state is highly gerrymandered, make noise about it. Join or even organize protests. Write letters to legislators. Post on social media. Create memes.
Even most Republican voters don't believe in gerrymandering. They want to win fair and square. Even if you can't get them to vote for the candidates you want, reach out to them to get them to complain to their legislators about the injustice of the gerrymandering itself. Appeal to their patriotic values; election manipulation is clearly not what America stands for.
If your state is not highly gerrymandered, think bigger. We should be pushing for a Constitutional amendment implementing either proportional representation or algorithmic redistricting. The majority of states already have reasonably fair districts; if we can get 2/3 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to agree on such an amendment, we don't need to win North Carolina or Mississippi.
The powerful persistence of bigotry
2016-05-18 2016-05-18 pnrj cognitive science, critique of neoclassical economics, current events, ethics, heuristics and biases, public policy	bigotry, discrimination, Expanding Circle, experiment, last-place aversion, LGBT, North Carolina, Peter Singer, racism, sexism, tribal paradigm
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Bigotry has been a part of human society since the beginning—people have been hating people they perceive as different since as long as there have been people, and maybe even before that. I wouldn't be surprised to find that different tribes of chimpanzees or even elephants hold bigoted beliefs about each other.
Yet it may surprise you that neoclassical economics has basically no explanation for this. There is a long-standing famous argument that bigotry is inherently irrational: If you hire based on anything aside from actual qualifications, you are leaving money on the table for your company. Because women CEOs are paid less and perform better, simply ending discrimination against women in top executive positions could save any typical large multinational corporation tens of millions of dollars a year. And yet, they don't! Fancy that.
More recently there has been work on the concept of statistical discrimination, under which it is rational (in the sense of narrowly-defined economic self-interest) to discriminate because categories like race and gender may provide some statistically valid stereotype information. For example, "Black people are poor" is obviously not true across the board, but race is strongly correlated with wealth in the US; "Asians are smart" is not a universal truth, but Asian-Americans do have very high educational attainment. In the absence of more reliable information that might be your best option for making good decisions. Of course, this creates a vicious cycle where people in the positive stereotype group are better off and have more incentive to improve their skills than people in the negative stereotype group, thus perpetuating the statistical validity of the stereotype.
But of course that assumes that the stereotypes are statistically valid, and that employers don't have more reliable information. Yet many stereotypes aren't even true statistically: If "women are bad drivers", then why do men cause 75% of traffic fatalities? Furthermore, in most cases employers have more reliable information—resumes with education and employment records. Asian-Americans are indeed more likely to have bachelor's degrees than Latino Americans, but when it say right on Mr. Lorenzo's resume that he has a B.A. and on Mr. Suzuki's resume that he doesn't, that racial stereotype no longer provides you with any further information. Yet even if the resumes are identical, employers will be more likely to hire a White applicant than a Black applicant, and more likely to hire a male applicant than a female applicant—we have directly tested this in experiments. In an experiment where employers had direct performance figures in front of them, they were still more likely to choose the man when they had the same scores—and sometimes even when the woman had a higher score!
Even our assessments of competence are often biased, probably subconsciously; given the same essay to review, most reviewers find more spelling errors and are more concerned about those errors if they are told that the author is Black. If they thought the author was White, they thought of the errors as "minor mistakes" by a student with "otherwise good potential"; but if they thought the author was Black, they "can't believe he got into this school in the first place". These reviewers were reading the same essay. The alleged author's race was decided randomly. Most if not all of these reviewers were not consciously racist. Subconscious racial biases are all over the place; almost everyone exhibits some subconscious racial bias.
No, discrimination isn't just rational inference based on valid (if unfortunate and self-reinforcing) statistical trends. There is a significant component of just outright irrational bigotry.
We're seeing this play out in North Carolina; due to their arbitrary discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and especially transgender people, they are now hemorrhaging jobs as employers pull out, and their federal funding for student loans is now in jeopardy due to the obvious Title IX violation. This is obviously not in the best interest of the people of North Carolina (even the ones who aren't LGBT!); and it's all being justified on the grounds of an epidemic of sexual assaults by people pretending to be trans that doesn't even exist. It turns out that more Republican Senators have been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than transgender people—and while the number of transgender people in the US is surprisingly hard to measure, it's clearly a lot larger than the number of Republican Senators!
In fact, discrimination is even more irrational than it may seem, because empirically the benefits of discrimination (such as they are—short-term narrow economic self-interest) fall almost entirely on the rich while the harms fall mainly on the poor, yet poor people are much more likely to be racist! Since income and education are highly correlated, education accounts for some of this effect. This is reason to be hopeful, for as educational attainment has soared, we have found that racism has decreased.
But education doesn't seem to explain the full effect. One theory to account this is what's called last-place aversion—a highly pernicious heuristic where people are less concerned about their own absolute status than they are about not having the worst status. In economic experiments, people are usually more willing to give money to people worse off than them than to those better off than them—unless giving it to the worse-off would make those people better off than they themselves are. I think we actually need to do further study to see what happens if it would make those other people exactly as well-off as they are, because that turns out to be absolutely critical to whether people would be willing to support a basic income. In other words, do people count "tied for last"? Would they rather play a game where everyone gets $100, or one where they get $50 but everyone else only gets $10?
I would hope that humanity is better than that—that we would want to play the $100 game, which is analogous to a basic income. But when I look at the extreme and persistent inequality that has plagued human society for millennia, I begin to wonder if perhaps there really are a lot of people who think of the world in such zero-sum, purely relative terms, and care more about being better than others than they do about doing well themselves. Perhaps the horrific poverty of Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia is, for many First World people, not a bug but a feature; we feel richer when we know they are poorer. Scarcity seems to amplify this zero-sum thinking; racism gets worse whenever we have economic downturns. Precisely because discrimination is economically inefficient, this can create a vicious cycle where poverty causes bigotry which worsens poverty.
There is also something deeper going on, something evolutionary; bigotry is part of what I call the tribal paradigm, the core aspect of human psychology that defines identity in terms of in-groups which are good and out-groups which are bad. We will probably never fully escape the tribal paradigm, but this is not a reason to give up hope; we have made substantial progress in reducing bigotry in many places. What seems to happen is that people learn to expand their mental tribe, so that it encompasses larger and larger groups—not just White Americans but all Americans, or not just Americans but all human beings. Peter Singer calls this the Expanding Circle (also the title of his book on it). We may one day be able to make our tribe large enough to encompass all sentient beings in the universe; at that point, it's just fine if we are only interested in advancing the interests of those in our tribe, because our tribe would include everyone. Yet I don't think any of us are quite there yet, and some people have a really long way to go.
But with these expanding tribes in mind, perhaps I can leave you with a fact that is as counter-intuitive as it is encouraging, and even easier still to take out of context: Racism was better than what came before it. What I mean by this is not that racism is good—of course it's terrible—but that in order to be racism, to define the whole world into a small number of "racial groups", people already had to enormously expand their mental tribe from where it started. When we evolved on the African savannah millions of years ago, our tribe was 150 people; to this day, that's about the number of people we actually feel close to and interact with on a personal level. We could have stopped there, and for millennia we did. But over time we managed to expand beyond that number, to a village of 1,000, a town of 10,000, a city of 100,000. More recently we attained mental tribes of whole nations, in some case hundreds of millions of people. Racism is about that same scale, if not a bit larger; what most people (rather arbitrarily, and in a way that changes over time) call "White" constitutes about a billion people. "Asian" (including South Asian) is almost four billion. These are astonishingly huge figures, some seven orders of magnitude larger than what we originally evolved to handle. The ability to feel empathy for all "White" people is just a little bit smaller than the ability to feel empathy for all people period. Similarly, while today the gender in "all men are created equal" is jarring to us, the idea at the time really was an incredibly radical broadening of the moral horizon—Half the world? Are you mad?
Therefore I am confident that one day, not too far from now, the world will take that next step, that next order of magnitude, which many of us already have (or try to), and we will at last conquer bigotry, and if not eradicate it entirely then force it completely into the most distant shadows and deny it its power over our society.
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After moving blindly to a poor area of Los Angeles, Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart learned that low-income neighborhoods where rents run cheap often espouse violence. Though crime data is available more publicly than ever and a single Google search could have warned Stewart of the potential dangers that accompany certain parts of the city, the art pop songwriter ended up returning to California from North Carolina without an inkling of what he was in for. And while gang activity and violent crime might be hitting record lows in gentrifying metropolises across America, Stewart still wasn't deprived of the opportunity to make an album about the horrors of the inner city — specifically, about how getting robbed is bad and about how some people aren't white.
Named after a violent Japanese porno for no apparent reason other than to name-check something that was subversive 44 years ago, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is the most boring, inane, and useless work Xiu Xiu has produced to date (that covers album notwithstanding). The group's ninth studio album, it wears all the trappings of "dark" without coughing up anything of substance to challenge the listener. Synths squeal, beats shiver, and Stewart does his breathless, flaky tenor (submerged much deeper in the mix than usual), but rather than cut the rusty stuff with jarring lyricism or perfect melody, Angel Guts bottoms out in repetitive scatological muck. This album is offensive not because it broaches subject matter no other musicians will touch, but because it skips across the surface of content other musicians have been tackling thoughtfully for years. This is an account of a white guy living in what he'd call the ghetto, and in the middle of a limp description of a mugging at gunpoint, it contains the lyric, "Once we felt sorry for you people/ But not that sorry."
"You people." There's also a song called "Black Dick", and most of its lyrics are those two words choked out over and over again, as though a penis belonging to a Black person were an unthinkable object of horror. Another line from the same song goes: "One cheek like Jesus/ The other cheek like Jesús." I think Stewart is trying to describe sex with someone half-Mexican (those are ass cheeks, not the face kind) while also invoking the New Testament. Then there are disembodied tits erupting like "a volcano on fire." The track is so close to self-parody that at least it's humorous.
About three songs approach the level of tenderness that marks Xiu Xiu's most effective work, but in sound and in word, they're rehashes. "New Life Immigration" threads lyrics about loving suicide into a mirror of Knife Play's "Dr. Troll", while "Bitter Melon", for all its sweetness, plays like an Air Force b-side, or maybe a companion to "Yellow Raspberry". "Botanica de Los Angeles" is the closest Xiu Xiu gets to anthemic, but while Angela Seo's instrumentation soars, Stewart just sounds bored and exhausted as he lists the names of some people who are evidently dead. The songs that are okay sound derivative; the songs that sound new are oozing messes that rough up everything that's ever made Xiu Xiu work.
Here is an incomplete list of topics that Jamie Stewart has written about with warmth, empathy, and humanity: domestic abuse, child molestation, gender dysphoria, homophobia, misogyny, the Iraq war, the United States military-industrial complex, mental breakdowns, suicidal ideation, deeply complicated familial love, deeply complicated romantic love, eating disorders, addiction, kink, starvation. Here is an incomplete list of topics that Jamie Stewart has written about with callous disregard for the inner lives of people who are not like him: race, urban dysfunction, white supremacy, poverty.
Coming from someone who claims to hate violence, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is a surprisingly misanthropic piece of work. Then again, the record was billed in its press release as "the sound of Xiu Xiu's death." The way Stewart pronounces "transsexuals" and "homosexuals" on "A Knife in the Sun" lights up the hope in me that everything here is deliberately ironic, a way for Xiu Xiu to axe itself out of music altogether in a burst of hysterical glory. The fact that Stewart is the group's only white-dude member bolsters that idea. I'm content with thinking of Guts as a melodramatic suicide. I only hope that's how it's intended.
Essential Tracks: "Lawrence Liquors"
Aziz Ansari announces North American tour
Album Review: Sun Kil Moon – Benji


The mystery of our everyday lives is that Jesus is with us, but we often don't recognize him. This week we will reflect on his presence with us, as we continue to ask for the grace of joy with Jesus risen.
When Jesus appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, after his resurrection, they didn't know he was with them. They were quite caught up in their discouragement. Good Friday had been devastating to the hopes they had. They were so down because their expectations had died on that Friday. And in their self-pity, there was no room in their imagination for the Good News that God was trying to reveal to them.
This week we want to enter into the scene of the road to Emmaus and recognize this pattern in our lives. We will try to notice, through our background reflections each day, the ways we get absorbed in problems, discouragements, and worries and are unable to see Jesus with us.
We want to focus on two key parts of the story. Jesus makes the breakthrough in two ways. He begins by "opening up the Scriptures to them." This is very much what Jesus has been doing for us during this retreat. We have come to understand the story and to appreciate how he came to enter our lives completely. We now know the patterns we face of not wanting to embrace our lives completely, resisting our own diminishment and death. The temptations to riches, honors, and pride abound. Jesus has been confronting our discouragement by revealing himself to us and inviting us to fall in love with him and his pattern of giving his life away. And we have seen the scandal of the cross as his revelation that his gift of self is for me. How often our hearts have burned within us!
Jesus then comes into their home with them and ritually gives them a way to recognize him and remember him. When he "took the bread," they must have seen him as the one who is there to nourish them with the daily bread that he promised would sustain them. When he "blessed it," they must have remembered how he gave thanks to God and placed his life in God's hands. When he "broke it," they knew he was the one whose life is broken open to reveal servant love to us. And, finally, when he "gave it to them," they knew who they were again—his disciples. Isn't this how we come to recognize him today?
Use the resources here to get started with this week. Our joy with Jesus grows this week as we come to know, through his self-revelation, in the way he gives himself to us in the breaking of bread, that he is alive and with us.
As we approach the end of this retreat, please fill out the anonymous form to the right, to give us feedback on the retreat and your interest in some more online help for prayer in the future. Thank you.


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A roundup of the sports information of the week
BICYCLE RACING—JACQUES ANQUETIL, 28, of France, after 22 days and 2,654 miles, coasted into Paris ahead of some 100 other perspiring opponents to become overall winner of the Tour de France by four minutes and 59 seconds. Jacques cautiously pedaled into the lead three days before the end of the race to win his third Tour since 1957.
BOATING—AMERICA'S CUP 12-meter candidates finished two weeks of rugged observation trials off Newport, R.I. that included the dismasting (see page 20) of defending champion Columbia. The newest boat, Ted Hood's Nefertiti, was beaten only by Weatherly and emerged with the best record. The final standings were: Nefertiti 10-2, Weatherly 7-4, Columbia 4-6, Easterner 1-10. Meanwhile, the challenger, Australia's Gretel, arrived by freighter in New Jersey.
Ernest B. Fay of Houston skippered his 5.5-meter yacht, Pride, to victory over Durward Knowles, helmsman of the Bahama entry, John B., to win the International Gold Cup, 3-2, in Marstrand, Sweden.
BOXING—EMILE GRIFFITH, 23, of New York, in his first fight since his tragic fatal knockout of Benny (Kid) Paret, March 24, retained his world welterweight title in Las Vegas by scoring a 15-round, unanimous decision over Ralph Dupas of New Orleans before a slim gathering of 5,169 spectators (see page 18).
Duilio Loi of Italy retained his European welterweight crown by outpointing his countryman, Fortunato Manca, in a 15-round bout witnessed by 30,000 fans at Cagliari's sports stadium in Sardinia. It was the 114th victory for the 33-year-old champion, who, in 14 years, has never been knocked out.
GOLF—ARNOLD PALMER shot a magnificent 71-69-67-69 on Scotland's demanding Old Troon course to make a rout of the 102nd British Open and win the title for the second straight time. His 12-under-par 276, a record for the tournament, enabled him to finish six strokes ahead of Runner-up Kel Nagle (see page 12).
Dick Sikes, two-iron-thin 22-year-old University of Arkansas golf team captain, who carries his own bag, defeated tiny but tenacious Hung Soo Ahn of Honolulu 3 and 1 to win his second straight U.S. Public Links championship in Buffalo. Sikes's excellent putting finally wore down his Hawaiian foe in the final holes.
Bruce Crampton, 26, of Sydney, Australia shot a five-under-par 66 on the last day to win the $35,000 Motor City Open in Detroit. Don Massengale and Dave Hill tied for second, three strokes back, with 14-under-par 270s for 72 holes.
Mickey Wright shot a 36 on the front nine, enabling her to cruise home in front by seven strokes in the soggy final round of the $10,000 Milwaukee Women's Open. Patty Berg and Jo Ann Prentice tied for second at 296. Miss Wright's victory was worth $1,350, boosting her 1962 earnings to $10,-357, tops for LPGA.
Carol Sorenson, 19, of Janesville, Wis. sank a five-foot putt for her fifth birdie to defeat Barbara Fay White 8 and 7 in the 36-hole final of the Women's Western Amateur championship in South Bend, Ind. Miss Sorenson, the women's collegiate champion, was one under par for 29 holes.
HARNESS RACING—SU MAC LAD ($2.70) showed no signs of the hoof injury that had sidelined him for 10 months, whisking through the mile distance in 2:02[4/5] to win the Invitation Handicap trot at Monticello. The 8-year-old gelding, owned by Irving Berkemeyer, needed the modest first-place purse of $2,500 to regain the lead as top money winner among trotters with $457,999, compared to $457,327 for Darn Safe.
HORSE RACING—CYANE ($20.20) drove through a field of eight others in the $84,550 Dwyer Handicap at Aqueduct for his first major victory of the year. Ridden by Eldon Nelson, the colt finished the mile and a quarter in an exceptionally fast 2:01[3/5]. Flying Johnnie was a strong second, three-quarters of a length back, while Crimson Satan, the favorite, ran a tired and thoroughly beaten fourth.
North South Gal ($26.20), in another upset, caught favorite Cicada and Bramalea loafing alongside each other at the top of the stretch and dashed past to win the $57,763 Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park. Leroy Moyers rode the surprising New England invader over the nine furlongs in 1:52 to beat Bramalea by a length and a half. Cicada finished third, two and a half lengths farther back. PROVE IT ($5.20) did by coming from behind at the top of the stretch to win the $162,100 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park. With Henry Moreno up. Prove It covered the mile and a quarter in two minutes fiat and beat Windy Sands to the wire by a comfortable three and a quarter lengths. The stallion's victory was worth $102,100 for Owner Rex C. Ellsworth and brought him his second Gold Cup trophy (Swaps won for him in 1956). Meanwhile, two other major stake races (see page 44) were being won by: CARRY BACK ($9), who set a track record while taking the $109,150 Monmouth Handicap at Monmouth Park, and RIDAN ($3.60), who triumphed in the $102,250 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park.
RODEO—MEL POTTER, 26, onetime Wisconsin cranberry and mink farmer now living in Tucson, won top money at the $87,275 Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alta. A professional cowboy for the past 12 years, he collected the $2,200 first prize by winning the calf-roping contest in the annual six-day Stampede.
SHOOTING—The 68TH INDIANA STATE TRAPSHOOT in Clinton, Ind. was highlighted by a perfect squad record of 500x500 set by Earl Toliver, Herschel Cheek, Roy Williams, C. W. Hulen and Dennis Kingen. All five men broke 100-straight, equaling the world record made at the Grand American Trapshoot in 1959.
SWIMMING—INDIANA UNIVERSITY broke five world and six U.S. records in a special exhibition meet in Louisville. Ted Stickles swam the 440-yard individual medley in 4:51 to smash his own world 440-yard and 400-meter marks. Other world records: 220-yard backstroke, Tom Stock, 2:13.8; 110-yard butterfly, Lary Schulhof, 59.8; 440-yard medley relay, Chet Jastremski, Pete Sintz, Schulhof and Stock, 4:09.3.
Fred Baldasare, 38, of Cocoa Beach, Fla. established a world record of a sort by swimming the English Channel from Calais, France to Sandwich bay, England in 18 hours and I minute—underwater. After two previous subsurface failures, the Florida film producer one-upped the 100-some people who have swum the distance the old-fashioned way, on top.
TENNIS—UNITED STATES team swept through Canada 5-0 in the first round of the American Zone Davis Cup eliminations but Coach Pancho Gonzalez was not pleased that his players dropped two sets. The U.S. won the first two singles matches as Chuck McKinley of St. Ann, Mo. lost a set to Francois Godbout before winning 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Jon Douglas of Santa Monica, Calif. suffered a similar inconvenience before defeating Don Fontana, Canada's playing captain, 6-4, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. The same two Canadians teamed to face the U.S. doubles champions, Dennis Ralston of Bakersfield, Calif. and McKinley, and were beaten 11-9, 7-5, 6-1 and still Coach Gonzalez fretted. In the final singles, however, McKinley made the man happy by blasting Harry Fauquier 6-3, 6-0, 6-2, and Ralston whipped Godbout 6-2, 9-7, 6-4. The U.S. team will meet Mexico next month.
In other Davis Cup play, Italy beat England to clinch a berth in the final round of the European Zone for the eighth straight year. The Italians will next play Sweden, which qualified by defeating South Africa.
WRESTLING—13 U.S. HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLERS from Oklahoma and Colorado won their third consecutive victory against a Japanese all-star team in Tokyo. Tom Lumly, retired Tulsa contractor and oilman, contributed $13,000 to finance the trip, conceived as a goodwill exchange of high school athletes.
MILEPOSTS—EXPANDED: The NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION to 10 teams this week, as it took in last season's winner of the American Basketball League, the Cleveland Pipers, and their prized new player, Jerry Lucas. The [move may be the dying breath of the one-year-old ABL.
FOLDED: NATIONAL BOWLING LEAGUE, after failing to secure a television contract.
DIED: TOMMY MILTON, 68, winner of the Indianapolis 500-mile automobile race in 1921 and 1923, in Mt. Clemens, Mich.
DIED: HARRY E. (Moose) McCORMICK, 81, former New York Giant outfielder and pinch hitter who figured in one of baseball's most zany incidents, when he scored a run that didn't count in the famous "Merkle boner" play that gave the Cubs a pennant, in Lewisburg, Pa.


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require "spec_helper"

describe Mongoid::Relations::Builders::Embedded::One do

  let(:base) do
    double
  end

  let(:builder) do
    described_class.new(base, metadata, object)
  end

  describe "#build" do

    context "when provided nil" do

      let(:metadata) do
        double(klass: Name, name: :name)
      end

      let(:builder) do
        described_class.new(nil, metadata, nil)
      end

      let(:document) do
        builder.build
      end

      it "returns nil" do
        expect(document).to be_nil
      end
    end

    context "when provided a document" do

      let(:metadata) do
        double(klass: Name, name: :name)
      end

      let(:object) do
        Name.new
      end

      let(:document) do
        builder.build
      end

      it "returns the document" do
        expect(document).to eq(object)
      end
    end

    context "when no type is in the object" do

      let(:metadata) do
        double(klass: Name, name: :name)
      end

      let(:object) do
        { "first_name" => "Corbin" }
      end

      let(:document) do
        builder.build
      end

      it "creates the correct type of document" do
        expect(document).to be_a_kind_of(Name)
      end

      it "sets the object on the document" do
        expect(document.first_name).to eq("Corbin")
      end
    end

    context "when a type is in the object" do

      let(:metadata) do
        double(klass: Writer, name: :writer)
      end

      let(:object) do
        { "_type" => PdfWriter.name, "speed" => 100 }
      end

      let(:document) do
        builder.build
      end

      it "creates the correct type of document" do
        expect(document).to be_a_kind_of(PdfWriter)
      end

      it "sets the object on the document" do
        expect(document.speed).to eq(100)
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The Dragon Lords 2: False Idols
by Jon Hollins
ON SALE: 29th August 2017
Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Fantasy
'Jon Hollins is a one-of-a-kind storyteller, a master of epic fun and nonstop action' Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld
A heist story with a difference: Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure.
The Dragons who once ruled over the land are dead. The motley crew that stole the dragons' gold and stumbled through a revolution are rich, and praised as saviors. Everyone gets to live happily ever after, right?
Well, it might have worked out that way if the dragons in Kondorra had been the only ones. If they hadn't been just the tip of the spear about to fall upon the whole world . . .
The Dragon Lords: False Idols combines non-stop action, death-defying adventure and a never-before-assembled cast of wisecracking misfits. This series is a worthy addition to every fantasy lover's horde.
So freaking hilarious . . . fast paced, hard to put down and incredibly entertaining with some truly memorable characters
Reality's a Bore
Ideal for fans of humorous capers and heist stories - such as Ocean's Eleven, Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard Sequence series and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga
As a stand-alone novel, it's extremely satisfying; as the beginning of a proposed series, it promises excitement and thrills for years to come. Highly recommended
FantasyLiterature.com
Hollins's seat-of-the-pants fantasy comedy snowballs wildly into a glorious disaster of fire, magic, multiple threats to people's intestines, and fun-for the reader, if not the characters . . . a dragon's hoard for any fan of comic fantasy
Humor, action, snappy dialogue, and creative solutions to unusual problems . . . in this quirky tale, it's the infighting and the unforeseen circumstances that makes things so entertaining
Unlike other books which contain a rag-tag gaggle of wacky adventure types, this book is actually good. And I mean, really really good
Tiny Reviews
The Dragon Lords


"Piper Tales" – Chapter 2 – Not Fast Enough!
Chapter 2 – Not Fast Enough!
Wham! Bill kicked the ball hard shooting it like a bullet over the pitcher's head and into the outfield where it whizzed past Rhett and smacked against the chain-link fence! Rhett followed the ball, grabbed it and heaved it toward third base! The catch was good but a split-second later than Bill's arrival.
Next up was the new girl, Maddie,. She was almost a year older than everyone else in sixth grade and taller than all the boys. "Doesn't matter", Rhett thought, "She's probably like all the other girls and can't kick worth a hoot." He was wrong. This time the ball didn't hit the fence, it cleared it! Then it bounced twice along the road and landed in the drainage ditch!
Miss Lynn pointed and called across the field , "Rhett! Go get it!" He rounded the fence as Bill and Maddie gave each other a high-five and was just about to pluck the ball from the ditch when a movement in the grass caught his eye. He jumped, thinking it might be a snake and was relieved to see a puppy instead. He reached out to touch it but it quickly ran between his legs and disappeared inside the pipe at the end of the ditch.
Rhett finished the note and was hurrying to pass it to Bill when Miss Lynn turned back around from writing on the white board. "Rhett", she said coolly, "You can bring that note to me now." "What note?" Rhett incredulously asked, raising his empty hands. "The note you and Bill have been passing back and forth during our discussion of the major battles of the American Revolution. Bill, please give Rhett the note".
Bill handed it over and, with his face turning as red as his hair, Rhett bowed his head and walked to the front of the class. Miss Lynn unfolded the paper, read the note, looked at Rhett and then did what the class had previously agreed would happen as punishment for passing notes in class. She read it aloud.
For a moment everyone was quiet and then someone said, "You can't just leave it there!" Suddenly pandemonium broke out with everyone talking at once! Things only settled down when Miss Lynn raised her yellow card of warning, while holding the red one right behind it. A red card meant extra homework for everyone.
Last week: Three abandoned puppies found refuge in a drainage pipe near Whitman Academy, a small rural school for grades K-12.
One Response to ""Piper Tales" – Chapter 2 – Not Fast Enough!"


The Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (BHFTA) went into effect on August 1, 2006. Under the agreement most Bahraini goods enter the United States free of duty and the merchandise processing fee (MPF) and virtually all will enter free by the time it is fully implemented by January 1, 2015.
The document is the certification used by Bahraini producers and exporters, and US importers, when attesting that their goods meet the requirements of the Bahrain FTA.
General notes, including the General Rules of Origin, Definitions, Value (including Regional Value Content and De Minimis), Sets, Packing and Packaging Materials, Indirect Materials, Recordkeeping and the all-important Product Specific Rules of Origin.
Effective January 1, 2015 goods of Bahrain are not subject to quota.
The reconciliation Prototype is an alternate method of submitting on-going, high-volume post-importation Bahrain FTA claims. Like standard 19 USC 1520(d) claims, they must be made within one-year of importation and all preference program requirements and responsibilities remain in effect.
Bahrain FTA Text: Complete text of the agreement.
Bahrain FTA Regulations: A current link to the e-CFR website including: Import Requirements, Filing a Claim, Regional Value Content (RVC) Certification, Post-Importation Refunds, Rules of Origin, Origin Verifications, Transshipment, and Penalties.
USITC Publication 3830: This publication includes the modifications to the HTSUS, the Duty Phase-Out Schedule and other important information.


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Which players are ahead of Sergio Aguero in the all-time Premier League goal scorers list?
Aguero notched a hat-trick in City's 6-0 demolition of Watford at Vicarage Road that has sent them top of the table.
Pep Guardiola's side were in a buoyant mood with Gabriel Jesus, Nicolas Otamendi and Raheem Sterling also getting in on the action in their thrashing of Marco Silva's side.
It was the little Argentinian who stole the show, however, and his three goals today makes him the Premier League's top scorer with five for the season so far.
Aguero also now stands as the joint 12th highest scorer in Premier League history - but which players are ahead of him?
CLICK THROUGH THE GALLERY ABOVE TO SEE THE TOP 12 PREMIER LEAGUE GOAL SCORERS OF ALL TIME.


We have all seen the "endless" wormhole effect on screen. Pretty much any sci-fi show depicting space travel will eventually have one. They look much more complex than they actually are to produce. What appears to be a seemingly endless drive of twists and turns for the camera, can easily be done using a single tube shape, some deformers, and animated UVs.
Aidy Burrows of CGMasters.net shows us that there is no need to create a huge elaborate setup. Instead, Aidy uses animated UV's which will allow you to not even move the camera at all, but still have it look as if it is traveling through the wormhole effect.
There are all kinds of good things in this tutorial. How to use cycles materials to display real time feedback, some procedural modeling and animation techniques, using Blender's Bendy Bones to rig for animation, and more.
Want to learn more effects like this in Blender? The Space VFX Elements: the Ultimate Guide to Creating the Galaxy in Blender is 12+ hours video course about space. Quasars, gas giants, planets, black holes, asteroids and more.


Welcome to Marcolès in Cantal! Between the Parc des Volcans d'Auvergne (Auvergne Volcanoes Park) to the north-east and the Parc des Causses du Quercy to the south-west, our handsome medieval village is an invitation to the gentle pleasures of the Cantal's Châtaigneraie region. In summer, the Cantal mountains, the Puys chain and the valley of the Lot, with villages classed amongst the most beautiful in France, offer a wonderful playground for walkers and explorers. In winter, the Lioran ski area, nestled amid the pines of the Cantal massif, offers 44 runs and 60 km of fun.
Medieval Marcolès has achieved "Petite Cité de Caractère" status: the characteristic village is at the heart of Cantal's Châtaigneraie region and lively all year round.
Superb landscapes, AOP rated cheeses, the biggest volcano in Europe..., a must-see destination!


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Erik Ragnar Jonsson, född 8 april 1909 i Botkyrka, död 12 juni 1996 i Bromma, var en svensk målare och tecknare.

Han var son till pianobyggaren Anders Jonsson och Elsa Mellbin samt från 1935 gift med Ingrid C. Levin. Efter avslutad skolgång anställdes han vid Stockholm stad och på sin fritid bedrev han självstudier i teckning och målning som ledde till att han kunde arbeta som illustrationstecknare vid sidan av sitt ordinarie arbete. Han drabbades av en svår sjukdom som tvingade honom till ett par års sängvistelse och under den tiden utökade han sin kunskap i måleri. Han debuterade med en lovordad utställning i Kiruna 1950 som följdes upp med en utställning i Sandviken. Han blev heltidskonstnär 1951 och ställde ut separat på De ungas salong i Stockholm 1952. För Skandinaviska bankens kontor i Stockholm utförde han en större freskomålning. Hans konst består av landskap, figurer och porträtt.

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Svenskt konstnärslexikon del III, sid 313, Allhems förlag, Malmö.

Svenska målare under 1900-talet
Svenska tecknare under 1900-talet
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You guys probably have deduced that I have no interest in talking about this pregnancy issue. If you want a comment from me, here it is. Following the lead of Thoreau, I will say that by the time I was a senior in high school, in every class there was a girl with child, or who had had a child. In those environs you quickly discover that teen-pregnancy is no joke. Later I discovered that pregnancy, period, is no joke. I don't know what else to say short of wishing the whole Palin fam the best.
UPDATE #3: OK, think we've all vented, no?


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Mesothelioma, also known as Malignant Mesothelioma, is an uncommon and deadly type of cancer. It is most often found in the thin linings of the body's organs. Specifically, mesothelioma is typically found in the linings of the lungs.The primary and only known cause of mesothelioma is asbestos.
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The symptoms of mesothelioma can take time to develop and show. Many times a person with asbestos will not know that they have the disease because of the subtlety of the early symptoms. Some patients experience no symptoms at all. In many cases, mesothelioma goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for a extensive amount of time. By the time a person becomes aware that the are infected with the disease, treatment becomes more difficult.
One of the biggest groups affected by Mesothelioma is the railroad worker population. Many railroad worker disease are a direct result of constant asbestos exposure. The most common disease among railroad workers is asbestosis and mesothelioma.
Since asbestos-related cancers and mesothelioma both have properties of latency, it is dire that you seek medical attention as soon as you know or believe you may have been exposed to asbestos. Second to informing your physician, it is important that you contact a Mesothelioma Attorney or an Asbestos Illness Lawyer who is familiar with asbestos cases. This is particularly important if you have acquired the illness as a result of your work environment or occupation (such as working on a railroad.) The longer you wait, the more difficult it may be to prove your case.
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There are different types of appliances in your house which can be categorized into heavy duty appliances and small ones. Each of these types requires special treatment. Moving heavy appliances is not only difficult but also dangerous which is why it's so important to entrust a reliable and professional company to move appliances for you. Small items like toaster or kettle can be packed into a carton board box or a plastic bin.
If you feel like you have enough expertise to pack all the goods by yourself, be careful and take the right precautions. Also, you should make sure that all the appliances are sealed properly to avoid moisture penetration, as it can ruin the goods, and use packing paper to fill empty spots and prevent movements inside.


DJ Tennis, Fort Romeau and Andy Stott will also play the Nevada gathering next spring.
Further Future has announced more names for its second festival, happening from April 29th through May 1st in 2016.
The festival comes from Burning Man crew Robot Heart, and takes place somewhere in the Nevada desert. (The exact location info is still under wraps). Their first wave of artists for 2016 included Dixon, Oneohtrix Point Never, Voices From The Lake, Derrick Carter, Greg Wilson and Jane Fitz. Now they've added a second batch of heavy hitters, including Nicolas Jaar, Four Tet, Frank & Tony, DJ Tennis, Fort Romeau and Andy Stott. Fabric resident Terry Francis, Telefon Tel Aviv and Tropic Of Cancer are also booked. There will also be talks by music industry leaders as well as science and business figures. The festival's stated mission is to "transcend the common festival experience by curating an unorthodox spectrum of genres while also cultivating an equally diverse selection of workshops, wellness sessions, and speakers."
Tropic Of Cancer is the solo project of Camella Lobo.
Out on Hospital Productions, the seven-track LP sees the techno artist reunite with former collaborator Camella Lobo.
The UK artist explains how he builds a universe through his DJ sets.
Launching later this month, RA LAX will include radio shows, talks and parties run in partnership with various local outfits.
Sacred Machine will be released via Noiztank in October.


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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Two ONS Priority Bills
ONS is a critical voice in the advocacy arena, helping to steward bills that are important to the future of oncology nursing practice and successful patient-centered care. On October 28, 2019, two ONS priority bills—the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act ([PCHETA], H.R. 647) and the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 728)—passed the U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous bipartisan support.
Both bills have been at the center of ONS's advocacy efforts to support the oncology nursing profession as it continues to tackle the challenges associated with treating and care for patients with cancer.
Passing PCHETA in the House
Introduced on January 17, 2019, the PCHETA bill became part of the House's 116th congressional session. ONS worked with coalition partners to secure enough cosponsors for the legislation to move forward. As part of ONS's 2019 Capitol Hill Days, oncology nurses from throughout the country met with their elected representatives to further education and support for PCHETA.
Authored by Representatives Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Buddy Carter (R-GA), this legislation would create programs to train the next generation of hospice and palliative care providers, educate patients about the benefits of hospice and palliative care, and expand research in these fields. PCHETA passed with 296 bipartisan cosponsors and endorsements from 54 national organizations, including ONS.
Elements of the bill include:
Workforce training to ensure education centers, curricula, and teachers expand interdisciplinary training in palliative and hospice care and establish programs to attract and retain providers
Education and awareness efforts, creating a national campaign to inform patients, families, and healthcare professionals regarding the benefits of palliative care and services available to support patients with serious illnesses
Enhanced focus on research to direct the National Institutes of Health to use existing authorities and funding to expand palliative care research to advance clinical practice and improve care delivery for patients with serious illnesses
ONS's work will continue in the Senate to secure bipartisan support to continue the legislative process.
Title VIII Nursing Workforce Funding
With overwhelming bipartisan support, House members recognized the important role of nursing in health care and pledged their support to further workforce funding by passing H.R. 728.
"As the proud husband of a nurse, I know full-well that nurses are the backbone of our nation's healthcare system. Any challenge facing nurses hurts the well-being of the American people. Unfortunately, we are on the verge of a nursing shortage that will leave far too many without the care they need," Representative Dave Joyce (R-OH), lead sponsor of the bill, said in a release. "I applaud the House for passing this important legislation and urge the Senate to act quickly so we can get it signed into law as soon as possible."
The Title VIII Act will promote programs in nursing education, help prepare the next generation of nurses, and further support communities across the country. Lead sponsors of H.R. 728, along with Joyce, were Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David McKinley (R-WV), and Lauren Underwood (D-IL), who is a nurse herself. Their extraordinary leadership and acknowledgment of nursing practice is a commitment to better quality health care in the United States.
Elements of the Title VIII Workforce bill include:
Grants to career ladder programs to promote advancement for nursing personnel in a variety of settings, as well as cross training or specialty training among diverse population groups, and the advancement of individuals to become nurses
Reauthorization of funding at the Health Resources and Services Administration for nursing workforce, education, and training programs, specifically, $77,585,000 for advanced education nursing grants; $18,037,000 for nursing workforce diversity programs; $43,590,000 for nurse education, practice, and quality grants; $90,620,000 for Nurse Corps loan repayment and scholarship programs; and $29,640,000 for the nurse faculty loan repayment program
Recognizing the role of clinical nurse specialists and making technical changes to existing nurse workforce programs to recognize diversity in the nursing profession and nurses practicing in a variety of settings
Working together with representatives from the Senate, ONS will focus its efforts on bipartisan support and additional cosponsors for the bill.
Advocate for Change
For both PCHETA and the Title VIII Workforce Act, it's critical that oncology nurses recognize their power to effect change and lend their voices to ONS's ongoing advocacy efforts. By working together with elected officials on both sides of the aisle, nurses can provide invaluable guidance and education to see these bills become federal law.
Learn more about how to join your voice to cause at ONS's Center for Advocacy and Health Policy.
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Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 1, 1956 (Thursday)
Elvis appeared in Memphis Traffic Court as a witness to the garage incident a few days earlier. The woman who drove the other car was charged with reckless driving.
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 2, 1956 (Friday)
Elvis was stopped for speeding on Riverside Drive in Memphis.
Later, between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm, he signed autographs at the newly opened Bob Neal record shop. (photos)
The Colonel informed his attorney that Bob Neal has no longer any business association with Elvis, and the recent unpleasantness with Hank Snow has been resolved.
This came as a big surprise to Hank Snow.
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 3, 1956 (Saturday)
Before flying to Shreveport with his cousin Gene Smith, Elvis wrote a cheque for $500 towards the purchase of a house located at 1034 Audubon Drive, east of downtown Memphis.
LIVE PERFORMANCE(S) - Louisiana Hayride
The Municipal Auditorium, 705 Grand Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana. (8:00 pm - 11:30 pm)
Musicians: Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Elvis Presley - Lead Guitar: Scotty Moore - Bass: Bill Black - Drums:
D.J. Fontana.
Songs performed: "Baby, Let's Play House", "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Tutti Frutti".
Best Sellers in Stores:
"Lisbon Antigua" by Nelson Riddle.
Most Played In Jukeboxes:
"The Rock and Roll Waltz" by Kay Starr.
Most Played By Jockeys:
"I Forgot To Remember To Forget" by Elvis Presley.
"Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley. #9
"Why Baby Why" by Red Sovine & Webb Pierce.
"I Forgot To Remember To Forget" by Elvis Presley. #4
"The Great Pretender" by the Platters.
BILLBOARD POP CHART
The Top 100:
"Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley. #68
No LP Chart
BILLBOARD POP CHART (EP)
No EP Chart
"Heartbreak Hotel" became the first Presley song to enter the national chart. It entered the "Top 100" at #68. (photo)
Billboard also reported under the headline: A WINNAH! "Presley Hot As $1 Pistol On Victor".
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 4, 1956 (Sunday)
Elvis and Gene Smith flew home to Memphis.
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 5, 1956 (Monday)
Elvis and Gene flew to Nashville, and returned to Memphis later in the evening.
This may have been to sort out the contract between Elvis and the Colonel, with both Bob Neal and Hank Snow conveniently and officially out of the picture.
The Presley's paid a $250.00 deposit towards the purchase of their new home at Audubon Drive from the Welsh Plywood Corporation for $29,500. (photo)
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 6, 1956 (Tuesday)
Elvis: "A Day in the Life" March 7, 1956 (Wednesday)
RCA's Bill Bullock wrote to the Colonel and expressed concern that sales were slowing down in some parts of the country. He wanted Parker to take Elvis off the country and western circuit and book him on pop shows in the north and on the west coast.
William Morris forwarded the script of a movie titled "The Rainmaker" starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. It was to be used for Elvis' upcoming screen test. The Agency also mentioned the possibility of a 15 minute radio series for Elvis. The Colonel gave Elvis the script and told him "The script is not to be shared with anyone".
Elvis: "A Day in the Life"


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In book three of Vampire Texas Rangers: When Texas Ranger Donte Chaverez's boss hands him a new assignment escorting his sister-in-law's friend, Donte thinks nothing other than just another job. However, what it turns out to be is a life changing experience—a dream he never thought would come true.
I am a retired military wife and homeschool mom. I have often joked that we started our second life when daughter graduated from school, and then less than a year later hubby retired from military. But the reality is, we did start a new life, because life as we had known it for so many years, went through a drastic change.
It was about four years ago that my daughter started urging me to write. "You have a great imagination for storytelling!" She insisted. I didn't think so, but decided to give it a try. We spent many hours sitting at our local Wendy's brainstorming the story line for my books. And while she insists I have such a great imagination, she is the one that truly has the gift for writing action scenes and has given me many fantastic ideas to incorporate in my books.
My writing has become a family affair. My husband runs my website; I would have never been able to set it up and have it running smoothly. My daughter helps me keep up with all of the social media, and is now my full time writing partner. It didn't take us very long to realize that we each specialized in different areas, and when put together, we rock! The fact that the family is involved in making my dream come true makes this journey fun. We can be found sitting around the table tossing around ideas for future stories, or how a story can be improved often.
When not writing, I love to read, and play games with the family. Friday night is family game night. I make homemade pizza and we play cards, board games, or WII tennis and bowling. I have broken at least ten WII tennis rackets from hitting the ceiling fan or furniture. I've even come close to hitting my own daughter! She doesn't think it is very amusing, but still loves to sit on the couch and watch mom and dad at war.


I can't get enough of Blake Lively's style!! From casual to glamourous she has a style that everyone wants. And I love that you never know what to expect from her because she has so many different styles.
I love this time of year!! I had such a fun time hosting our last fit camp of 2017 (Yes I'm also a coach and trainer. ;). And of course I had to add in some Christmas music to my workout playlist for the last fit camp, this is definitely going to continue. Personally I like to mix up the Christmas songs with other upbeat non-Christmas songs to keep it fun for those who are not as into it. #trainertip lol. But literally just rock out your Christmas spirit. haha!!
"Sleigh Ride" - Karmin - So good, I love how upbeat it is. Perfect for sweating it out!
"Underneath the Tree" - Kelly Clarkson - Can't go wrong with some Kelly C.
"Jingle Bell Rock" -Glee Cast Version - Somehow a Christmas isn't Christmas without some glee songs.
"Santa Tell Me" - Ariana Grande - I've been replaying this over and over again. Her voice is just so amazing though.


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Birth*: Hedrick Alfred Falkner was born on 1 February 1914 at NC.
He was the son of Noel J. Falkner and Betty Haithcock.
Death*: Helen Joyce Falkner died on 25 October 2014 at NC at age 68 .
[S549] 1930 Franklin Co., N.C. Census, pg 198b.
Birth*: Henry Falkner was born circa 1830.
Birth*: Henry Bateman Falkner was born in March 1870 at Granville Co., NC.
He was the son of Thomas N. Falkner and Amanda E. Champion.
Birth*: Henry H. Falkner was born circa 1852 at MA.
Marriage*: He married Pattie M. Turner on 22 July 1872 at Warren Co., NC.
He was the son of Richard Pierce Falkner and Elizabeth Frances Hoyle.
Marriage*: Henry Pierce Falkner married Maggie May Gupton, daughter of William Thomas Gupton and Nancy Alice Joyner, on 7 December 1913 at Vance Co., NC.
[S328] Letter, unknown author to unknown recipient, E:Mail dated 1 Nov 1998.
Birth*: Hilliard Lewis Falkner was born circa 1856 at Franklin Co., NC.
He was the son of Sarah Falkner.
[S180] Unknown volume, Franklin Co., N.C. Death Certificate: from death certificate for Henrietta Faulkner Burnett, Register of Deeds Franklin Co, NC Courthouse.
Death*: Horace Eugene Falkner died on 9 January 1957 at Henderson, Vance Co., NC, at age 59 .
Burial*: He was buried circa 11 January 1957 at Elmwood Cemetery, Henderson, Vance Co., NC.
He was the son of Horace Eugene Falkner and Lonie Bryant Nelson.
[S160] Unknown volume, Vance County, N.C. Birth Register: Vol 9, page 108, Register of Deeds Vance Co., NC Courthouse.
[S69] Unknown author, The Heritage of Vance County, N.C., pg 189.
[S229] Henderson Daily Dispatch, 13 Oct 2003.
Birth*: Hulda Falkner was born circa 1814 at NC.
She was the daughter of (?) Falkner.
Death*: Imogene Falkner died before March 1933 at NC .
He was the son of John Wesley Thompson Falkner and Sarah A. Sally Murry.
Birth*: Jacob Falkner was born before 1740; Estimated based on Land Patent.
Marriage*: James Falkner married (?) Bennett.
Birth*: James Falkner was born circa 1803 at Orange Co., NC.
He was the son of Moses Falkner and Susannah Saulter.
Birth*: James Falkner was born circa 1841 at NC.
[S2] Granville Co., N.C. Marriage Register unknown file number, pg 107.
Birth*: James Falkner was born circa 1829.
Birth*: James Falkner was born circa 1803 at NC There are three James' married prior to 1830 that could be sons of Bartholomew. They are R828, R830, and R5097.
Birth*: James A. Falkner was born in January 1855 at NC.
He was the son of Alexander Ball "Sandy" Falkner and Roxanna W. Saintsing.
Marriage*: James Edgar Falkner married Ida A. Powell circa 1909 at Vance Co., NC.
[S2257] 1870 Alamance Co., N.C. Census.
He was the son of James Edgar Falkner and Ida A. Powell.
Birth*: James M. Falkner was born circa 1805.
Marriage*: He married Emily Gasten on 30 July 1829 at Butts Co., TN.