In India, the Anglo-Indian community is well known for enjoying and performing country music. An annual concert festival called "Blazing Guitars" held in Chennai brings together Anglo-Indian musicians from all over the country (including some who have emigrated to places like Australia). The year 2003 brought home – grown Indian, Bobby Cash to the forefront of the country music culture in India when he became India's first international country music artist to chart singles in Australia.
A self-described “torch and twang singer”, k.d. lang was never going to be a traditional country star. With her androgynous looks and tear-in-the-throat vocals that could make a man cry, this Canadian singer-songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta was propelled to fame in the 90s with her breakout album, Ingénue. Since starting out in a Patsy Cline tribute band, Lang was a true country kid with hits like ‘Crying’ and ‘I’m Down to My Last Cigarette’ before finding crossover success with the pop single, ‘Constant Craving’. She also has collaborated with the likes of Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett and even Cline’s former producer, Owen Bradley on 1989’s Shadowland.
The most successful British country music act of the 21st century are Ward Thomas and the Shires. In 2015, the Shires' album Brave, became the first UK country act ever to chart in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart and they became the first UK country act to receive an award from the American Country Music Association. In 2016, Ward Thomas then became the first UK country act to hit number 1 in the UK Albums Chart with their album Cartwheels.
With her Grammy-adorned breakout solo LP, Ingénue, k.d. lang transformed from a country traditionalist to an impressionistic pop crooner, draping her dazzling mezzo-soprano over samba rhythms ("Miss Chatelaine"), oceanic cabaret-jazz ("Save Me") and breezy orchestrations from collaborator Ben Mink ("The Mind of Love"). No longer chasing the ghost of Patsy Cline, she pursued unique stylistic combinations—imbuing her formative "torch and twang" with a tapestry of colors: accordion, viola, marimba, the tropical-flavored pedal-steel of session master Greg Leisz. The album is best remembered, and summarized, by the lonesome yearning of hit single "Constant Craving." "Always someone marches brave / Here beneath my skin," Lang sings. Two decades later, she's still marching bravely—still shifting her sound with each song cycle. But Ingénue remains her signature statement.—Ryan Reed
Country influences can be heard on rock records through the 1960s, including the Beatles' 1964 recordings "I'll Cry Instead", "Baby's in Black" and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", the Byrds' 1965 cover version of Porter Wagoner's "Satisfied Mind", on the Rolling Stones "High and Dry" (1966), as well as Buffalo Springfield's "Go and Say Goodbye" (1966) and "Kind Woman" (1968). According to The Encyclopedia of Country Music, the Beatles' "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", their cover of the Buck Owens country hit "Act Naturally" and their 1965 album Rubber Soul can all be seen "with hindsight" as examples of country rock. In 1966, as many rock artists moved increasingly towards expansive and experimental psychedelia, Bob Dylan spearheaded the back-to-basics roots revival when he went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde, using notable local musicians like Charlie McCoy. This, and the subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, John Wesley Harding (1967) and Nashville Skyline (1969), have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians.
That said, it's up to you to determine what are the best country rock bands. If you know country rock and notice that someone is missing from this list of country rock bands, feel free to add them. This list answers the questions "who are the best country rock bands of all time?" and "who is the greatest country rock musician ever?" If you know enough about the genre, please vote based on the quality of the band's music instead of just voting for the most popular country rock bands that you might've heard of.
For many years after European settlement Canada, First Nations and Inuit peoples were discouraged from practicing their traditional ceremonies. However, impacts varied significantly depending on such aspects as the time period, relative population size, relation quality, resistance, etc. In 1606–1607 Marc Lescarbot collected the earliest extant transcriptions of songs from the Americas: three songs of Henri Membertou, the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, present-day Nova Scotia.
Country rock is a genre that started in the 1960s but became prominent in the 1970s. The late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres. In the aftermath of the British Invasion, many desired a return to the "old values" of rock n' roll. At the same time there was a lack of enthusiasm in the country sector for Nashville-produced music. What resulted was a crossbred genre known as country rock. Early innovators in this new style of music in the 1960s and 1970s included Bob Dylan, who was the first to revert to country music with his 1967 album John Wesley Harding (and even more so with that album's follow-up, Nashville Skyline), followed by Gene Clark, Clark's former band The Byrds (with Gram Parsons on Sweetheart of the Rodeo) and its spin-off The Flying Burrito Brothers (also featuring Gram Parsons), guitarist Clarence White, Michael Nesmith (The Monkees and the First National Band), the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Commander Cody, The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, Buffalo Springfield, and Eagles, among many, even the former folk music duo Ian & Sylvia, who formed Great Speckled Bird in 1969. The Eagles would become the most successful of these country rock acts, and their compilation album Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) remains the second best-selling album of all time in the US with 29 million copies sold. The Rolling Stones also got into the act with songs like "Dead Flowers" and a country version of "Honky Tonk Women".
In the past, country music had an extensive presence, especially on the Canadian national broadcaster, CBC Television. The show Don Messer's Jubilee significantly affected country music in Canada; for instance, it was the program that launched Anne Murray's career. Gordie Tapp's Country Hoedown and its successor, The Tommy Hunter Show, ran for a combined 36 years on the CBC, from 1956 to 1992; in its last nine years on air, the U.S. cable network TNN carried Hunter's show.
More important than recordings for the growth of country music was broadcast radio. Small radio stations appeared in the larger Southern and Midwestern cities in the 1920s, and many devoted part of their airtime to live or recorded music suited to white rural audiences. Two regular programs of great influence were the “National Barn Dance” from Chicago, begun in 1924, and the “Grand Ole Opry” from Nashville, begun in 1925. The immediate popularity of such programs encouraged more recordings and the appearance of talented musicians from the hills at radio and record studios. Among these were the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, whose performances strongly influenced later musicians. These early recordings were of ballads and country dance tunes and featured the fiddle and guitar as lead instruments over a rhythmic foundation of guitar or banjo. Other instruments occasionally used included Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, and mandolin; vocals were done either by a single voice or in high close harmony.
The Tamworth Country Music Festival began in 1973 and now attracts up to 100,000 visitors annually. Held in Tamworth, New South Wales (country music capital of Australia), it celebrates the culture and heritage of Australian country music. During the festival the CMAA holds the Country Music Awards of Australia ceremony awarding the Golden Guitar trophies. Other significant country music festivals include the Whittlesea Country Music Festival (near Melbourne) and the Mildura Country Music Festival for "independent" performers during October, and the Canberra Country Music Festival held in the national capital during November. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnfhM4KCyw


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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is hopeful that restarted comprehensive settlement negotiations between newly elected Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci and Greek Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis could bear fruit to find a concrete resolution for the Cyprus issue.
During a live interview on the private Turkish NTV channel, Erdogan said, “I wish this road goes to a resolution. If a positive result emerges from these negotiations, the Cyprus issue could no longer be recognised as a political problem.”
“If both northern Cyprus and southern Cyprus are recognised as the founding states in the negotiations, a serious step will be taken forward,” he added.
The Turkish President also emphasised the significance of a joint declaration by the two sides on February 11, 2014. He said Anastasiadis looked positively on the joint declaration at the time but stepped back later.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met in the United Nations buffer zone in Cyprus on last year under the auspices of the organisation's envoy to the island, Espen Barth Eide. They issued a joint declaration following the meeting.
The declaration said, “The status quo is unacceptable and its prolongation will have negative consequences for the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.” It also stated that there should be a settlement based on a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation along with political equality.
“There will be a single united Cyprus citizenship, regulated by federal law. All citizens of the united Cyprus shall also be citizens of either the Greek Cypriot constituent state or the Turkish Cypriot constituent state,” it added.
Mustafa Akinci, following the elections, spoke about his desire to restart negotiations with the Greek Cypriots.
Akinci and Anastasiades toured Nicosia’s historical sites on May 23, in what was called an unprecedented move, and their meetings will resume on May 28.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, during his visit to the speaker of the TRNC [Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus] Parliament in Cyprus, “There will hopefully be a permanent and just resolution based on a bi-communality and political equality in the framework of February 11th joint declaration along with the support of the TRNC parliament.”
Cavusoglu stated that he will join with the meeting of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Kuwait following his Cyprus visit and raise the Cyprus issue there during the session.
He also touched upon Turkey’s water supply project to northern Cyprus when he visited the TRNC prime minister in his office. He said he hopes the project could be effective by July 20 and the water supplied, which he called “the water of peace,” could also be given to the southern Cypriots.
On July 20, 1974, the Turkish government militarily intervened the northern part of the island with the intention of protecting the Turkish population after a short-lived Greek-orchestrated coup on the island aimed at union with Greece (a concept known in Greek as Enosis).
Since 1974, the island has been divided into two spheres of government, the south being governed by the Greek Cypriot administration and the north being governed by the Turkish Cypriots.
The island became independent in 1960 as the Republic of Cyprus and three countries, Turkey, Greece, and Britain, were made its guarantor states, according to the Zürich and London Agreements. Having a diverse population of both Greeks and Turks, following the establishment of the Republic many disagreements emerged between the ethnic groups on the island who failed to resolve their differences.
The last major effort to break the deadlock and settle the Cyprus dispute was the Annan Plan, the UN proposal for the federation and consequent accession of a united Cyprus to the EU in 2004 initiated by then Secretary General Kofi Annan. While the Turkish Cypriots approved the plan, the Greek Cypriots rejected it overwhelmingly and entered the EU alone.
Erdogan has also commented on Turkey’s guarantorship of Cyprus and said “We will never renounce our rights existing as a result of being a guarantor state.”
He criticised efforts to make the EU a guarantor of Cyprus and underlined that the EU has already failed to fulfill its own duties following the rejection of the Annan Plan by the Greek Cypriots in 2004.
“We can not forget these facts. We have to make sure above everything that our brothers and kin will be safe in the northern Cyprus,” he added.
The 1960 Treaty of Guarantee states that guarantor powers have a duty to prevent the Republic of Cyprus from participating in any political or economic union with any other state or the partition of the island.

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Men fencers place in championship
By Mark Hurst
The men's varsity fencing team traveled to University of Massachusetts at Amherst last Sunday to compete in the New England Fencing Championships. The top two fencers in each of the three weapon squads competed against 12 other New England teams for team, squad and individual trophies.
After 12 hours of fencing, the results were impressive. Out of 24 foilsmen, Luis Maldonado '92 and team captain Freeland Abbott '92 placed fifth and third, respectively.
Out of 24 sabermen, Rene Despinos '94 and saber squad leader Mark Hurst '94 placed fourth and third, respectively. The most glorious individual trophy went to epee squad leader Henrik Martin '93, who placed first out of 24 epees.
There were also achievements on the squad and team levels of the championship. The saber squad, commanded by the two freshmen sabermen Hurst and Despinos, placed second out of 12 saber squads.
The most exciting competition of the day, however, was the team competition for the sword Excalibur. MIT and Brown University were tied at the beginning of the last team bout of the day, but Brown edged out MIT. MIT took second place out of 12 teams by three touches.
More fencing comes to MIT this weekend as Maldonado, Martin, Ed Chin '92 and Hurst represent MIT's hopes for a national trophy at the NCAA individual national qualifiers.
(Mark Hurst '94 is a member of the men's fencing team.)


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In this video, Wolfgang Hempell discusses ‘The Open Source Microscopy Concept’ showcasing the flexible IX3 inverted microscope frame series. This series provides solutions by enabling a customizable hardware set-up. The new open source frame concept has been designed around an infinite light path made easily accessible with interchangeable optical modules that can be swapped in and out of the light path, enabling the creation of various distinct systems on one inverted microscope frame. In addition, Wolfgang demonstrates the cellVivo system, a modular and flexible ‘one size fits all’ incubation system, which is fully adaptable for basic and high-end inverted microscopes. Interview filmed by SelectScience at analytica 2014.


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ITV News can reveal plans are being developed to build Jersey's new hospital at Overdale on the edge of St Helier.
The plans would see part of the main building sunk into the valley which leads down to the inner road, to reduce the impact on the skyline.
Opposite the existing Overdale entrance is a field which has been earmarked for up to 80 affordable homes for health workers.
The George V Cottages housing development, operated by Andium Homes, would be demolished to make way for a new entrance, with a multi-storey car park built in the valley behind.
The project is being led by Assistant Chief Minister Chris Taylor who believes there is a majority of support within the Council of Ministers, and growing support among States Members.
His aim is to begin a process of evaluating 'three or four' sites as part of a formal due diligence process which he then expects to demonstrate the viability of Overdale.
A proposition to formally remove the existing hospital site at Gloucester Street in St Helier as the preferred site is due to be debated by politicians in a fortnight.
Constable Taylor expects the new hospital to cost less than the current project, which has a price tag of £466 million.
He believes the project could begin 'before the end of this year' if previous public and political opposition which has dogged other attempts to begin hospital construction are avoided. He told ITV News 'bad PR' was part of the problem in previous years.
Neighbours who live next door to the Overdale site have told ITV News they back the plans.
Hospital consultant Dr David Ng is pleased efforts to find a site other than next to the existing hospital are gathering momentum.
Earlier this month, a second planning application to build the new hospital next to the current one was rejected by the Environment Minister, Deputy John Young, following a planning inquiry. The Chief Minister, Senator John Le Fondre, said it would be 'prudent' to pause all work while options were considered.


Love & Loss from Steady Rollin is jam packed with adrenaline and character; play this one loud!
This collection of blues styles from Kat Danser won’t get you down but provide a much-needed lift with polished music and poignant lyrics at the beginning of the year.
For over 50 years Dave Thomas has been on the frontline of blues music. On One More Mile, he presents some of the best of those years.
The Inspector Cluzo turn up (or down) with a live album from the Spring of 2020.
Tamsin Quin is an Acoustic Folk/Blues songwriter and musician from South West England. Here, she writes for us about the inspirational Joni Mitchell.
Pokey LaFarge returns with his new album, Rock Bottom Rhapsody; a personal story of getting to the bottom of the glass and beyond.
Good to report that the Robert Cray we know and love is at the heart of the new album, That’s What I Heard.
The Muggs are a blues rock trio from Detroit, Michigan. Slave To Sound Volume 5 is another in a line of solid blues rock releases.


The three new CIVITAS projects, funded under the same Horizon 2020 call, will collaborate to better inform their research development to build a vision of future on-demand urban logistics
SENATOR, LEAD and ULaaDS are part of CIVITAS, a network of cities dedicated to cleaner and better transport in Europe and beyond. Since it was launched by the European Comission in 2002, the CIVITAS Initiative has tested and implemented over 800measures and urban transport solutions as part of demonstration projects in more than 80 Living Lab cities Europe Wide. The three projects are considered “sister” projects because they are research projects that run under CIVITAS 2020 Initiative, that focus on establishing new knowledge or exploring the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution related to transport.
Moreover, SENATOR, LEAD and ULaads are Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) funded under the same Horizon 2020 call: LC-MG-1-10-2019 Logistics solutions that deal with requirements of the ‘on demand economy’ and for shared-connected and low-emission logistics operations. Their research have the challenge of prioritizing and combining competing interests from the private side and public (policy) side in urban, metropolitan and peri-urban areas. This are experiencing a huge increase in demand for new logistics solutions that deal with the requirements of the ‘on demand economy’ and incorporate opportunities for shared, connected and low-emission logistics operations. Actions will result in a clear understanding of cost effective (non-vehicle technology based) strategies, measures and tools to achieve essentially zero emission city logistics in major European urban centres by 2030.
The three projects will be in constant collaboration to better inform about their research development and to build a vision of future on-demand urban logistics.
Know more about the SENATOR’s “sister” projects:
LEAD: Digital Twins for low emission last mile logistics
36 months | 25 partners | 10 countries | 6 Living Labs | 60+ models
LEAD project will create Digital Twins of urban logistics networks in six TEN-T urban nodes (Madrid, The Hague, Lyon, Budapest, Oslo, Porto), to support experimentation and decision making with on-demand logistics operations in a public-private urban setting.
City logistics solutions will be represented by a set of value case scenarios that address the requirements of the on-demand economy and the pressures caused by the increase of parcel deliveries while aligning competing interests and creating value for all different stakeholders. Each value case will combine a number of measures coined as LEAD Strategies to cover the complete dynamics and complexity of a city’s logistics challenges.
The project was launched in June 2020 and it is coordinated by ETM Madrid.
Find more information about the project here.
ULaaDS: Urban Logistics as an on-Demand Service
35 months | 24 partners | 9 countries | 3 Pilot Cities | 4 Satellite Cities
ULaaDS project offers a new approach to system innovation in urban logistics. It aims to develop sustainable and liveable cities through re-localisation of logistics activities and re-configuration of freight flows at different scales.
To materialise this vision, ULaaDS will create 5 new urban logistics business models and schemes (Containerised Last-Mile, Marketplace for City Logistics, City-Wide UFT Platform, and Location, Infrastructure and Vehicle Capacity Sharing) within 3 “lighthouse” pilot cities: Bremen, Mechelen, Groningen – plus 4 “satellite” cities: Alba Iulia, Bergen, Edinburgh, Rome – and assess their social, environmental and economic impact.
They will assess their economic, environmental and social impact, converting the findings into decision support tools and guidelines to be taken up by other urban areas. It aims to allow both people and businesses to seamlessly use alternative models of shopping and delivery.
The project was launched in September 2020 and it is coordinated by Freie Hansestadt Bremen.
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Indigenous Australian literature is a unique and vital part of the country’s literary scene. In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of Indigenous authors being published, with many voices coming to the fore and telling their stories.
This guide will introduce you to some of the most important Indigenous Australian authors and their works. It will also provide an overview of the history of Indigenous literature in Australia, from early oral storytelling traditions through to the present day. So, whether you’re a budding reader or an experienced one, this guide will help you explore the rich and diverse world of Indigenous Australian literature.
The History of Indigenous Australian Literature
Indigenous Australian literature has its roots in oral storytelling traditions. For millennia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have passed down stories from generation to generation. These stories often deal with important cultural themes, such as Dreamtime mythology or the history of specific clans.
Some of the earliest examples of written Indigenous literature date back to the 18th Century, when European settlers began documenting Aboriginal oral traditions. One notable example is David Unaipon’s Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines (1927), which contains a collection of traditional Aboriginal stories that were record by Unaipon, himself an Aboriginal man.
It wasn’t until the 1960s and 1970s that a wave of Indigenous writers began publishing works in English. This was around the time that the civil rights movement was gaining momentum in Australia, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought for recognition and equality. Some notable authors from this period include Oodgeroo Noonuccal (aka Kath Walker), Kevin Gilbert, Mudrooroo Narogin, and Beryl Curtain.
Indigenous Australian Literature Today
Since then, the number of Indigenous writers published in Australia has grown exponentially. In 2020 alone, there were over 100 books published by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors – this includes fiction, poetry, children’s books, non-fiction, and more. Some of the most acclaimed contemporary Indigenous writers include Sam Wagan Watson, Alexis Wright, Bruce Pascoe, Miranda Tapsell, and Tony Birch.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature provides a vital window into understanding Australia’s past and present. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of this country and its people.
Start reading today!
Indigenous Australian literature is an essential part of the country’s literary scene. It is rich and diverse, with many voices telling their stories. This guide has introduced you to some of the most important Indigenous Australian authors and their works, as well as providing an overview of the history of Indigenous literature in Australia. So get reading and start exploring this vital part of our national story!

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Notice of Public Rights and Publication of Unaudited Annual Governance & Accountability ReturnTemporary Road Closure - Crich Monument Race - 14 July 2018
Notice of Public Rights and Publication of Unaudited Annual Governance & Accountability Return
Posted: Tue, 29 May 2018 09:05 by Carolyn Jennings
Are you interested in getting involved with the Mobile Library Service Review? Want to take part in the Focus Group and give your views? If so, go to www.derbyshire.gov.uk/librariesforderbyshire to find out more.
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL PARISH MEETING FOR CRICH
The Annual Parish Meeting is taking place this year on 9th April 2018, commencing 7.00pm in the Parish Room, Glebe Field Centre, Crich.
Local Government electors for the Parish will be entitled to vote at the meeting which will be open to the public.
The Agenda is available for viewing on this website under 'Agendas & Minutes'.
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For all those who can make money from their computers, a nomadic lifestyle is more accessible. It allows you to move from place to place, explore different countries and cities, and still get things done. Nomad List is a crowdsourced website of possible destinations for living and working.
The founder of Nomad List, Pieter Levels, realized that “With more people worldwide flocking to the cities, these cities are becoming more expensive. And if you combine that with more jobs going online and being able to be done remotely, it seems logical for people to find the place to live where they can have the best lives for the lowest cost.”
Nomad List allows you to relocate to a place that best fits your needs, whether you want to live in a cheaper or a more expensive place, warmer or colder. Nomad List is organized in a way to filter places based on different criteria. Of course, there’s the cost of living, but also criteria such as air quality, safety, internet speed, weather…
You can search the best places that are low on racism, gay-friendly or female friendly. Also, there are options for you to choose cities with plenty of nature surrounding it, beaches, or leisure and fun stuff to do. Currently, the first on the list is Bangkok, with a great combination of all the important criteria and the last five places go to five cities in Turkey.
This website also offers you to set up trips and see the planned trips of others. There’s a chat, forum and even a place for setting a meetup. Also, one part of the website is reserved for stories on nomadic lifestyle and there’s a link that leads you to remote jobs, a list of available jobs you can do anywhere.
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- There are challenges but that's what makes it more fun: Shraddha Kapoor on learning advanced dance techniques
Shraddha Kapoor is running round the clock schedule for her multiple releases including big-budget film Saaho, multi-starrer Chhichhore and dance film Street Dancer. The actress is a big dance lover and the testimony of the same are the new advanced techniques that she learned during the prep of Street Dancer.
- Anonymous airport security officer praises Shraddha Kapoor, calls her 'sweet'
Shraddha Kapoor is a busy bee these days. The actress is juggling between her shoots and matching up with her professional deadlines. Meanwhile, she is also taking out time to spend some quality time with family and friends and also share some kindness wherever she go.
- Watch: Shraddha Kapoor is all praise for acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal dancing on her ‘Cham Cham’ song
Shraddha took to her Instagram handle to share the video with her fans and followers.In the video, Laxmi can be seen shaking her legs to the tunes of ‘Cham Cham’ from Shraddha and Tiger Shroff starrer ‘Baaghi’.
- Here's what father Jackie Shroff has to say about his son Tiger Shroff's relationship with Disha Patani
Bollywood young guns Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani are always in the news for their rumoured relationship. The couple can be seen together at outings, events and award functions but has never come out in open.
- Sushant Singh Rajput takes dance lessons from 'Chhichhore' co-star Shraddha Kapoor
Director Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore features Shraddha Kapoor and Sushant Singh Rajput in pivotal roles. Recently, he posted a video with Naveen Polishetty where they enacted a whole Bollywood song (Koi Mil Gaya from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai).

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When Irish singer and songwriter Wallis Bird was eighteen months old, she was involved in a horrible accident that caused her to lose all her fingers on one hand. Thankfully the doctors were able to reattach four of them, but she ended up spending much of her childhood relearning how to hold things and function normally again. This then bled into how she was forced to learn guitar and create the vibrant music she is known for. So for her seventh studio album 'Hands', she is searching for acceptance of who she is and how even the darkest moments of her past have defined who she is today.
Despite the harrowing story that influenced her new record, 'Hands' is an instantly broad and upbeat listen from start to finish. While she has dabbled with fresher and more adventurous tones on her previous outings, the singles littered throughout 'Hands' have this genuinely inventive approach to them. Channelling an 80s synth vibe for the track 'I Lose Myself Completely', and the almost Tune-Yards-inspired gem that is 'What's Wrong With Changing', there is this bubbling energy running throughout her latest full-length that has resulted in some truly warm and loveable cuts.
Wallis Bird may have spent the majority of her early days struggling for a home as she moved from label to label, but 'Hands' sees her rediscover the expressive nature she has always looked to conjure. Bold and exciting at almost every turn, she is standing out as one of the more invigorating artists working today.

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Real estate shares a role as one of the largest components of our national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is a fancy way of saying our national revenue stream. As a primary component, we would be foolish to ignore this segment of the economy when we are looking at strategies. In fact, if we understand the real estate market, we will find that there are not only a lot of opportunities for us in this space, but real estate is a strong indicator of economic health and predictive trending.
Not Just One Real Estate Market
First, let’s look at the three different real estate segments. Residential is a simple way of saying all of the single family and multi-family (1-4 units) that will be bought and sold during the year. One of the reasons it is critical to look at the residential real estate segment though is not just the purchase and sale of new and existing homes, but the construction of new homes to satisfy demand in the market.
The dollars turned over through construction are significant, but if we look past new housing starts we find some interesting data. New housing starts have been one of our main indicators of economic health. From this information we can understand the sentiment behind a major market driving force, but in today’s economy, we have to look beyond housing starts directly into the demand equation that dictates housing starts. Here we begin to do this.
The next segment is commercial. For our purposes, we will divide commercial into two components – standard commercial and multi-family (more than 4 units). The reason it is important to look at these components separately is not because of the dollar difference, but because of the different message each of these segments provides. One represents corporate growth (or shrinkage) and the other represents home rental vs home ownership across a broad spectrum. These are cross-over segments. We look at both as an aggregate to derive overall commercial activity, but then we must segregate multi-family to understand rental demand metrics.
Housing related expenditures including construction, transactions and related services makes up roughly 15% to 19% depending on the year and activity. This is a significant portion of our GDP which is a little less than $18 trillion (unfortunately less than our current national debt) so it follows that, without this metric, any economic discussion would be incomplete.
In the real estate section we discuss several key aspects of real estate and the real estate market. There are two obvious divisions which are residential real estate and commercial real estate. Within those two categories are overlapping subcategories including investor, owner occupants, developers / contractors and brokers.
In the articles and newsletter to follow, we will explore each of these categories more in depth. Signup for the newsletter today.


On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee released the formerly classified memo written by Representative Devin Nunes casting doubt on the political motivations of the FBI. Some say it proves bias; others have demonstrated how it omits facts and muddies timing to make a partisan point. But as writing goes, it’s like chasing a rabbit down the rabbit hole.
There are excellent analyses of the Nunes memo in places like the Lawfare blog, National Review, and The New York Times. It certainly has created more confusion than clarity. I’m not here to point out the bias in the memo — it’s absolutely biased, as is the Democratic counter-memo, which will doubtless be leaked soon. I’m going to explain why and how the writing is murky.
There is a subject line, which reads like this:
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
As my regular readers know, the title should tell the story. This doesn’t. It leaves out key words like “Donald Trump.”
A more accurate description would be this title:
How the FBI slanted evidence in its investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign
Of course, that’s a bit too honest for politics.
As the text begins, we see that the memo lacks what every complex piece of writing needs: an executive summary. In this case, the missing summary would look like this:
The FBI got a warrant to spy on Carter Page, former adviser to the Donald Trump campaign. They didn’t tell the court that their evidence for the warrant was biased and questionable. This shows that the FBI is out to get Donald Trump.
The first statement is a fact. The second statement is an opinion; there’s evidence here, but lots of information and context is missing. The third statement is not in the memo, but it’s what you’re supposed to read between the lines.
If Nunes or his staff had actually written a clear executive summary like this, it would have saved us all a lot of time in evaluating the rest of the memo.
Translating the murkiest bits of the Nunes memo
The memo is trying to make a case. Clarity matters for that. Let’s look at some of the most confusing passages in the memo.
Here’s the opening paragraph:
This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Our findings, which are detailed below, 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.
Again, this doesn’t tell the truth fully or clearly. “Significant,” “raise concerns” and “troubling” are weasel words. And the purpose of the memo is not to provide an update, it is to generate accusations. Here’s an accurate translation:
This memorandum demonstrates that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in illegal ways in their investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Clearer, but more incendiary.
This passage is supposed to get to the heart of the matter (I added bold here to indicate passive voice):
[T]he FISC’s rigor in protecting the rights of Americans, which is reinforced by 90-day renewals of surveillance orders, is necessarily dependent on the government’s production to the court of all material and relevant facts. This should include information potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application that is known by the government. In the case of Carter Page, the government had at least four independent opportunities before the FISC to accurately provide an accounting of the relevant facts. However, our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.
Accusations sound much less nasty when written in the passive voice, like this one. Here’s what it’s trying to say:
The FBI agents investigating collusion with Russia included only information to show that a warrant to spy on Carter Page was worthwhile, and didn’t include anything in his defense.
Here’s a passage about Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Trump dossier that the FBI used to back up its request for the warrant (bold here was in the original).
Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.” This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications. . . . During this same time period, Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.
Got all that? Here’s what it sounds like in normal language.
Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. He supplied his research to senior Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr. Bruce Ohr’s wife worked for Fusion GPS. After digging up all this dirt, Steele decided that Trump shouldn’t be president.
Laid out this way, it’s clear that Steele was biased — but people who do opposition research aren’t hired for their balanced perspectives, they’re hired for their investigation skills. It was the job of the FBI to evaluate the validity of the claims in the dossier. There’s nothing in the memo about whether they did that job well, or whether these claims, regardless of their sources, were accurate — or at least accurate enough to get a warrant.
This is the most confusing bit of all:
The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos. The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an “insurance” policy against President Trump’s election.
OK, let’s get this straight. Strzok, who was fired for bias, opened an investigation based on information from Papadopolous, whose was mentioned in the application for the warrant, but we don’t know how or why. This is hard to translate, but I’ll take a shot at it:
You can ignore anything from Papadopolous, because he was supervised by an agent who was biased against Trump. I can’t tell you what the Papadopolous revelations have to do with this bit about Carter Page and a warrant, but I just wanted to get that in here.
ROAM explains the problem with this memo
First, let’s get this out the way: can you believe we are talking about memos and dossiers in the Twenty-First Century? This sounds like a bunch of ad executives talking in 1972.
To understand the lack of clarity in this memo, recall the ROAM framework for writing: Readers, Objective, Action, iMpression. Here’s how I interpret ROAM for this memo:
- Ostensibly, other members of the Intelligence Committee.
- Actually, after this release, voters and media.
- Ostensibly, to clarify concerns the author has about processes at the Department of Justice.
- Actually, to cast doubt on bias at the FBI and thereby call into question anything it comes up with to threaten Trump.
- Ostensibly, to rein in abuses at the FBI.
- Actually, to provide a justification for bias-based firings.
- Ostensibly, that Nunes is delivering an objective and concerned analysis.
- Actually, that Nunes is presenting incomplete and biased information, exactly as he accuses the FBI of doing.
The challenge for the author here is that he cannot come off as balanced and partisan at the same time. If he’s partisan, the quality of his work is in doubt. If he were balanced, we’d see some of the information he’d omitted. Sometimes, it pays to raise points that show you’re not taking only one side. That’s what Nunes says the FBI needed to do. I wish our elected officials would do the same, but of course, this is politics.


Chelsea could be making a saving of more than £25million on prospective new signing Timo Werner according to a valuation of the player.
The Germany international is expected to make the move to Stamford Bridge this summer, with the Blues having reportedly met RB Leipzig’s £53million buy-out clause.
And according to the CIES Football Observatory transfer value list, Chelsea appear to have secured Werner at a bargain.
The list presents the 100 big-five league players (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1) with the highest estimated transfer values, according to the CIES Football Observatory algorithm.
Werner features among the most valuable forwards in the world at €90.3million, or just over £79million.
The valuation will come as a huge boost to Frank Lampard and his team, but may be met with dismay by Liverpool, who passed on the opportunity to sign Werner despite the player seeming destined to move to Anfield.
Chelsea have other players who feature in the value list, most notably Mason Mount, who is ranked as the second most valuable midfielder in world football.
The 21-year-old is valued at €102.5million (around £91.5million), placing him second to only Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes (€104.9million/£93.6million) and ahead of Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong (€102.1million/£92.1million).
Jorginho also features in the most valuable midfielders at €65.9million (£58.8million), just behind former Tottenham star Christian Eriksen (€66million/£58.9million).
Blues goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga is rated as the third most valuable stopper in the world at €76.4million (£68.1million), behind Manchester City’s Ederson (€86.8million/£77.4million) and Liverpool’s Alisson (€84.2million/£75.1million).


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Toch Thina, the host of our new series, Cambodian Eats!
5 provinces. 5 cuisines. 5 thought-provoking questions around these environments.
EP 1: Mondulkiri 🌿⛰
EP 2: Stung Treng province🌿
EP 3: Pursat province🌿
EP 4: Kampot province🌿🦀
EP 5: Kampong Speu🌿🌴
Cambodian Eats! is a multimedia project about Cambodian local unique dishes in various provinces and reporting the communities behind them. We aim to encourage young Cambodians to play a role in preserving the identity, traditions, and environment that make us Cambodians proud—five thought-provoking questions around these facing environmental issues. Powered by Focus – Ready for Tomorrow, this project was made possible with the support of Internews Earth Journalism Network.
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Stitch Every Day Month-to-Month Subscription - Monthly Charts & Goodies Subscription
Our Stitch Every Day subscription is full for the next shipment. To sign up for the wait list for the February shipment (which goes out in January 2020), please click here.
In the five years since StitchyBox first opened, we've received numerous requests for a cross-stitch-chart-focused shipment, and I am happy to say it is finally here!
Stitch Every Day is a monthly subscription box with that goal, to help get you stitching every day. Each box consists of an individually wrapped goody for each day of it's month (January 2020 has 31 packages, February has 29, etc), just like our popular Countdown Boxes. 19 of the packages are small charts (25x33 stitches), that you can stitch as part of a single mosaic project for the month, or use in other smalls. The remaining day packages include small embellishments or thread yardage you can use in stitching these designs, or add to your stash for a future project. The border file (shown in the second image) will be emailed to you once we process your sign-up. You can stitch multiple months together to create a large sampler by adding additional blocks to the original border.
Please note: This is not a full kit - you will need to provide thread and fabric from your stash to stitch these designs. All are charted in DMC cotton floss, to make conversion to other threads easy.
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that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails using the same principles as the homopolar motor
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. Railguns use two sliding or rolling contacts that permit a large electric current
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to pass through the projectile. This current interacts with the strong magnetic fields generated by the rails and this accelerates the projectile. Particular characteristics are the lack of propellant (only the projectile and the electrical energy to launch it are required to be expended) and the ability to launch projectiles much faster than firearms-based technology allows.
Railguns have long existed as experimental and demonstrator technology.


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Having God’s people praying for me is one of the greatest blessings in my life. The Scriptures teach the prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective, and I hope someday God will grant me the opportunity to see how the prayers of His people strengthened my life and ministry.
If you don’t already do so, I’d like to encourage you to start doing so on a regular basis–at least weekly. Praying for your minister is one of the most simple but valuable ways you can bless your church. It will bless your life as well.
… is through small groups.
It’s the primary means by which our church does pastoral care. Many churches strive to maintain a system in which if a person has a need, they go on the church prayer list, perhaps it’s even announced, and then they hope to be visited by someone–usually a pastor/minister. Often, for the sake of discretion, details are left out, and because many present don’t know the person (at least if the church is over about 250 in attendance), the person’s request isn’t taken as seriously and handled very personally. There is a sense that someone else will take care of them. Often this doesn’t happen–or people who don’t know them well do a lesser job because they don’t know the person–and the person knows that. Some dread not knowing someone in the church has a need they didn’t know about. Why? As long as it’s receiving care–who cares. If you are that close to a person–you’ll find out. If you’re not–no need to be nosy 🙂

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
University is about to begin again and I am really excited! It will be my first semester at ETH Zürich and I cannot wait to meet my future colleagues. In the meantime, I have been working in the low-cost microscope I told y’all ladies about in my last post.
Probably, you are wondering how a webcam can become a microscope. This is indeed magic because it is so simple! BBC Science explains it really well in the following article so that everyone can do it.
How can a webcam become a microscope?
The webcam’s digital camera works by capturing light through a small lens on to a CMOS or CCD image sensor.
The sensor converts the picture into a digital format that is transmitted to the computer usually via a USB cable.
The lens on the camera is designed to take a wide-angle view and focus it on to the small sensor.
But if you flip the lens around, this process is reversed and the very small image appears magnified instead.
This way a basic webcam should be able to achieve 200x magnification.
Amazing, right? If you are not sure of how CMOS or CCD sensors work (I had only a vague idea myself) I recommend you the following tutorial.
I used an old webcam I had at home and I am quite happy with the results (about 50x for free!) although I couldn’t get 200x magnification as claimed in the article but maybe with a newer camera it would work even better!
The image above is part of the results I obtained and it is a picture of my phone screen. Can you see the rgb leds? I think it is pretty cool!
I also discovered that using this very same principle other people already built digital microscopes (I have been scooped!) and since they cost the same as a new webcam (yes, I destroyed my old webcam so I need to buy a new one) I think I will get one of these instead.
To conclude, I would like to mention something that made me feel so proud of myself for a little while. One of my Linkedin contacts saw my projects on GitHub and decided to collaborate: he is helping me to improve the cardiology project code. GitHub is really working!


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Berane Airport is a small airport in Montenegro, serving the region of Berane.
Local name: Aerodrom Berane, Dolac Airport size: small airport Serving area: Berane Longest runway: 0 (ft)
IATA: IVG, ICAO: LYBR
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Hotels and places to stay
Videos from the area of the airport
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Small airport - 37 mi (60 km) Podgorica Airport
Large airport - 45 mi (74 km) Tivat Airport
Medium airport - 65 mi (105 km) Ponikve Airport
Small airport - 74 mi (119 km) Dubrovnik Airport
Medium airport - 83 mi (134 km) Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa
Large airport - 99 mi (159 km) Sarajevo International Airport
Large airport - 103 mi (166 km) Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
Large airport - 139 mi (223 km) Bari / Palese International Airport
Large airport - 198 mi (319 km)
Bigger and popular cities in the wider vicinity are these:
- Bajram Curri
- Bijelo Polje
- Nova Varos
These are some smaller cities that might be interesting. They are all rather close.


20 years ago
(July 29 and July 31, 1992)
The man suspected of committing the June 26 and July 8 robberies of the North Lake Drive, Prestonsburg branch of the Bank Josephine has been captured, and is reportedly in police custody at Cabell County, West Virginia. Jeffrey Mullins, 32, a native of Hi Hat, was captured early Saturday morning at the Route 17 Motel in Ceredo, West Virginia, where he had been staying with a female companion.
Two area fire departments responded to a blaze at Eastern, Friday afternoon. The Maytown Fire Department received a call at about 11:15 a.m., last Friday, according to Chief Darrell Bradley. They were joined by nine firefighters from the Garrett Fire Department. The fire was at the Eastern home of Geneva Joseph.
Many of the Democratic candidates for Congress talked during the primary about getting I-66, the new east-west interstate highway, to pass through our region. John Doug Hays, winner of the primary, has taken the highway issue in a new direction. North and south. Hays says that he supports the completion of two four-lane connector highways which would link U.S. 23 to I-73, a new north-south highway which will run from Detroit, Michigan, to Charleston, South Carolina. It will run along the western border of West Virginia just across the Big Sandy River from Pike, Martin and Lawrence counties.
A low blood sugar level apparently contributed to a three-car accident in Floyd County, Thursday morning, that injured two men and blocked traffic on Route 23 for nearly an hour. Deputy Sergeant Lloyd Powers of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday, that Francis Phillip Lindberg, of Cary, North Carolina, suffered from a low blood sugar level which caused him to become disoriented.
The Floyd County Sheriff’s Department announced, Tuesday, that a Floyd County man has been making unauthorized stops of motorists in the Mud Creek area and pretending to be a sheriff’s deputy. Levi Hamilton, of Teaberry, is not a deputy and is not associated with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department in any way, Omery C. Hall of the department said Tuesday.
Three Magoffin County men were victims of a drive-by shooting this week at a nightclub near the Floyd County line. At approximately 3 a.m., Tuesday, an unidentified motorist fired shots into the Two Keys Lounge, located at Ivyton, four miles east of Salyersville on Route 114.
There died: Josie Breeding, 96, of Kite, Sunday, at her residence; Franklin D. Fults, 59, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Floyd County, Thursday, at Grant Hospital, Columbus; Edward Stumbo, 73, of Yorkville, July 17, at his home; Benjamin Franklin Hicks Sr., 73, of Morehead, Wednesday, at St. Claire Medical Center; James Ratliff, 69, of Martin, Thursday, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Lexington; Charlie Goodman, 89, of Stanville, Thursday, at Mountain Manor Nursing Home, Pikeville; Barbara Jean Akers Burchett, 33, of Dana, Thursday, at St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington; Ronald Dale Tackett, 37, of Virgie, Friday, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital; John C. Fairchild, Wednesday, at Rockville, Maryland; Gracie Lee Patton Justice, 78, of Allen, Friday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; William Wade Moore Jr., 77, of West Prestonsburg, Friday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Ray Collins, 81, of Prestonsburg, Saturday, at Veterans Administration Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia; James Michael Hunter, 59, of Lexington, formerly of Man, West Virginia, Friday, at Paintsville; Clifford H. Brown, 69, of Hi Hat, Monday, at his residence; Lura Stafford Moore, 99, of Prestonsburg, Wednesday, at her residence; Mary Elizabeth Ellis Branham, 80, of Prestonsburg, July 21, at Highlands Regional Medical Center.
30 years ago
(Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1982)
Responding to a plea, made last Friday, at a special ffiscal court meeting by Supt. of Schools, Pete Grigsby Jr. for a share in the “liquor tax,” the court voted to set the tax at 10 percent and to divide the “take” equally between the county and the schools.
On the whole, compliance with the new state “tarp” law requiring coal trucks to be covered has been good, but not all “button up” before leaving the loading point; District Judge Harold Stumbo said that “the next no-tarp charge that comes before me, and all others after that, will cost the violater a $500 fine, plus costs.”
The evidence will show that Eddie Slone Jr. shot and killed Paul Douglas Stanley and Terry D. Johnson with a .22 caliber revolver as they approached a house in Wheelwright on the night of January 30, the prosecuting attorney told a circuit court jury here at the opening of Slone’s murder trial, Tuesday.
There died: Madie C. Shepherd, 60, of Price, last Thursday at her home; Achilles (Kill) Williams, 67, of Auxier, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Worley Kidd, 78, of Harold, last Thursday at Our Lady of the Way Hospital; Evan Tackett, 74, of Teaberry, Thursday at Grandview Hospital in Dayton, Ohio; Lewis Boyd, 93, of Regina, Saturday, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital.
40 years ago
(August 2, 1972)
Comprehensive Health Care Inc., has $104,800 to finance planning of a new comprehensive health program for this county, if acceptable to the Office of Economic Opportunity and its Office of Health Affairs, but it has no planner, and may not have one for months to come.
While the state of Kentucky continues with planning for a major camping facility in the Goble Branch area of Dewey Lake, with no work done after two years, the U.S. Corps of Engineers has developed a similar area at German, 15 miles upstream, which is attracting an estimated 180 persons a day during the week, and 300 or more daily on Saturdays and Sundays.
Miss Sharon O’Quinn, 17, of Garrett, was named “Miss Big Sandy RECC, 1972” at the recent annual membership meeting at Paintsville.
“Big” movies showing locally included “Catch 22” and “The Godfather.” Also, lest we forget, the blockbuster, “Ben,” sequel to “Willard,” a movie about intelligent and murderous culvert rats, was playing at a theatre here.
Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Howard, a daughter, Ginger Kay, July 22, at the Methodist Hospital, Pikeville.
There died: Mrs. Vivian Frasure, 44, formerly of Garrett, in Wayne, Mich.; Norman B. Hamilton, 37, formerly of Banner, Monday, at Brockport, N.Y., of injuries suffered two weeks earlier in an auto mishap; Mrs. Evelyn Gibson Slone, 77, of Blue River, last Tuesday; Elder K. Lewis, 78, of Banner, Wednesday, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Clint Patton, 67, formerly of Martin, Tuesday, at home at Hamilton, O.; Frank Skeens, 78, of Dwale, Wednesday, at the Paintsville Hospital; Mrs. Eliza Jane Coburn, 82, formerly of Garrett, Wednesday, at Kendallville, Ind.; Fred Daniels, 67, Friday, at Harold; Nero Shepherd, 56, of Water Gap, Tuesday, at Lexington; Henry Bentley, 97, of Virgie, formerly of Floyd County, Friday; Lewis Bolen, 58, of Garrett, Saturday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin; Savage W. Allen, 61, of Covington, native of Prestonsburg, Monday, at a Covington hospital; Alex Prater, 78, of Alger, O., native of Hueysville, July 23, at Kenton, Ohio.
50 years ago
(August 2, 1962)
The University of Kentucky has completed its study for architectural design of the Prestonsburg Community College, and from that study it envisions a potential of 350 full-time students the first year of college operation, plus 150 adult part-time students.
Construction of a brand new, modern village as an addition to Prestonsburg, was ready to begin this week, as the Prestonsburg Municipal Housing Commission received from the Housing & Home Finance Agency of the Public Housing Administration, authority to award a contract on the construction of 40 low-rent public housing units here.
Dr. James D. Adams, of Prestonsburg, has been appointed by President Kennedy to serve as medical advisor of Selective Service Local Board No. 166 here, it was announced this week.
Mack Daniel has resigned as manager of Crown Bowling Lanes. Hansel Cooley has been employed to succeed him.
Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Collins, formerly of Floyd County, a daughter, Kathy Gail, July 19, at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
There died: Mrs. Sadie Smith Goble, formerly of Prestonsburg, July 22, at St. Petersburg, Fla.; Floyd Daniels, 62, native of this county, last Thursday, when a tractor which he was operating on his farm at Pemberton, New Jersey, overturned; Gracie Conley, 38, formerly of this county, July 19, at Lima, Ohio.
60 years ago
(July 31, 1952)
The First National Bank has procured an option on the Mrs. W. H. Jones property at the corner of Broadway and Court street, as a site for its future bank building.
W. & W.’s “On the Village Green” program, last Sunday, saluted the town of Martin.
Thirteen Masonic lodges of this district sent approximately 100 representatives to the Saturday night meeting at Wayland.
The State Highway Department is studying original plans of the weakened West Prestonsburg bridge with a view to repairing it.
Although Floyd County has had seven polio cases this summer, and is fourth in the state in the severity of its epidemic, health offficials this week expressed the relief that incidence of the disease is waning.
Mr. and Mrs. James Stephens, of Cliff, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, August 17.
Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Howard, of Wayland, observed their silver wedding anniversary, last Wednesday.
There died: Tilden Martin, 74, of Dema, Sunday, at a Paintsville hospital; Samuel T. Bingham Jr., 66, last Thursday, at his home on Bull Creek; Sid Frasure, 36, of Langley, Sunday, at a Martin hospital; Oscar Lee Vanderpool, 34, McDowell merchant, Wednesday, at a Martin hospital.
70 years ago
(July 30, 1942)
The 235-man draft quota, for August, is the heaviest demand yet made on Floyd manpower by Selective Service during the present war.
Eight-year-old Sylvia Wilton, who, with her mother, has left bomb-torn London for sanctuary in America, is a guest at the home on the Auxier road, near here, of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Combs.
B. F. Combs, Prestonsburg attorney, has traded his Clark County farm for Winchester business property.
The second annual fish fry to be staged by the Floyd County Fish & Game Club, will be held Sunday, at Allen, and will feature the world-famous Topperweins, husband-and-wife firearms experts.
Two men and a woman were jailed here this week in the Saturday afternoon slaying, at Weeksbury, of “Pebble” Tackett, of Pike County.
There died: Mrs. Willie Johnson, 62, of Banner, Friday, at Allen; Ira Conn, about 30, of Arkansas Creek, Tuesday night, by electrocution in a truck mine at Hunter; W. H. Lynch, 75, Martin merchant, July 22, at his home near Martin; Mrs. Russell Howard, 63, Sunday, at Betsy Layne; Mrs. Shirley Burton, 45, of Auxier, at Lexington, Saturday; Isaac Lee Layne, 62, July 22, at his home at Tram.