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Christian Law of Succession in
Christians in India have had different laws on succession. The British Indian Government enacted the Indian Succession Act of 1865 on the recommendations of the 3rd Law Commission. This Act was intended to be applied to different communities in
An authoritative exposition and critical analysis of Christian law of succession in
Indian Succession Act
The Indian Succession Act of 1865 was comprehensively amended and consolidated by the Indian Succession Act of 1925. Neither the Indian Succession Act of 1865, nor the Act of 1925 was to apply to Christians in the whole of
The Christians in the former Princely State of Travancore were governed by the provisions of the Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916 in matters of intestate succession. The Christians in the former Princely State of Cochin were governed by the provisions of the Cochin Christian Succession Act of 1921 in matters of intestate succession.
While so the Supreme Court of India in 1986 declared that with the coming into force of the Part B States (Laws) Act 1951, the Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916 stood repealed with effect from 1 April 1951 and held that Christians in the Travancore area were and are governed by the Indian Succession Act, 1925. Following this decision, the High Court of Kerala declared that the Cochin Christian Succession Act of 1921 also stands repealed with effect from 1 April 1951. As the law declared by the Supreme Court and the High Court are binding, the Indian Succession Act of 1925 is the law relating to succession applicable to the great majority of Christians in
The intestate's property
If a person has not made a testamentary disposition of his property which is capable of taking effect, he is deemed to have died intestate in respect of his entire estate.
Rules of distribution
The Succession Act contemplates only those relationships that arise from a lawful marriage. Where an intestate has left a widow and if he has left lineal descendants, that is, children and children's children, 1/3 of his property shall belong to the widow, and the remaining 2/3 shall go to the lineal descendants. If the intestate has no lineal descendants, but has left persons who are of kindred to him, ½ of his property shall belong to the widow and the other ½ shall go to those who are of kindred to him. If the intestate has left none who are of kindred to him, the whole of the property shall belong to the widow.
The phrase "lineal descendant" means a descendant born out of a lawful marriage. Thus a daughter's illegitimate son or a son's illegitimate daughter or other illegitimate issue cannot be said to be a lineal descendant. An illegitimate child is not a child within the meaning of the Act. Therefore such a child has no share in the property of the parents. But in Jane Antony v Siyath 2008 (4) KLT 1002 Kerala High Court recognised the right of illegitimate child under Indian Succession Act upholding the lower court verdict.
The term "kindred" means relations by blood through a lawful marriage. Therefore, relations by illegitimate birth are not recognised as kindred under the Act. Kindred does not include relation by affinity such as mother-in-law or step mother or stepfather. Thus, a stepfather or stepmother has no legal right of succession to the property of his or her stepchildren. The position is the same in the case of a father-in-law as well.
A husband has no right to inherit the property of a divorced wife. In case of a judicial separation under the Indian Divorce Act, 1869, the property of the wife would devolve upon her legal heirs as if her husband were dead.
A daughter-in-law has no right of succession to the estate of her intestate father-in-law.
Where the intestate has left a widow, and where there are no lineal descendants, the widow's share is one half of the estate of the intestate, as is provided under section 33(b).
Where an intestate has left no child, but only a grandchild or grandchildren and no other remote descendant, the property shall belong to the grandchild if only one grandchild is left by the intestate and if there are grandchildren, the property shall belong to the surviving grandchildren in equal shares. It means that in a situation contemplated under this section, the distribution is per capita and not stirpital.
The father of an intestate succeeds to the property to the exclusion of the mother. This is based on the English Common Law principle that he would have taken her share if arising jure mariti. When a Hindu convert to Christianity dies intestate, it is the father, in the given situation, who succeeds to the property. The religious faith of the father is immaterial for the purposes of succession. What is material is that the deceased should have belonged to the Christian religion on the date of his death. The religion of the heirs is immaterial. But the English view that a man is not the father of the illegitimate children applies also under the Indian Succession Act.
As there is no statutory recognition for adoption by Christians in
Any money or other property given by an intestate to a child, for his/her advancement in life, would not be taken into consideration at the time of distribution of the property of the intestate. Therefore, the practice of Christian daughters executing release deeds at the time of marriage so as to get them excluded from succession may not achieve the desired result, because only if there is a pre-existing right it can be conveyed. In the case of a Christian daughter, she has no pre-existing right in the family property and her rights arise when her parents die intestate. Therefore a release deed executed after the date of intestacy alone would be valid.
Apart from immovable property, the properties of the intestate that are to be distributed among the legal heirs include the following-
Fixed Deposits in a Bank
When a person dies intestate after making a fixed deposit in a bank, the nomination made in favour of one will not dis-entitle the legal heirs to claim a distributive share.
Joint account in a bank
Unless a contrary intention is proved, when an amount is deposited in a joint account on the terms that it was to be payable to either of the survivor, it must be included in the partible property among the legal heirs, for the purposes of intestate succession.
Succession to the service benefits of a Government servant who dies intestate, cannot be affected by nomination. A nominee is only a trustee for legal heirs and the right of the legal heirs cannot be taken away by nomination.
A nominee's interest in the amount received under a policy of insurance, when the assured dies intestate, is subject to the claims of legal heirs of the assured, under the law of succession.
In the absence of lineal descendants and kindred to the deceased, the property shall go to the Government. The Collector has power to issue notification directing claimants to such properties to prefer and establish their claims under Regulation No. VII of 1817, clauses 6 to 9 read with clause 5 of standing Order No.197. But when a claim of escheat is put forward by the Government the onus lies heavily on the appellant to prove the absence of any heir of the respondent anywhere in the world. Before the plea of escheat can be entertained there must be a public notice given by the Government so that if there is any claimant anywhere in the country or for that matter in the world, he may come forward to contest the claim of the State. When the state takes the property it does so subject to the liabilities of the deceased.
Apart from all these situations, there are instances of complications in matters of succession involving priests and nuns. In such cases, the first and foremost hurdle is that though Succession Act has not contemplated or incorporated the principle of civil death, yet the courts have tried to bring in that principle through the interpretative process.
The concept of civil death
In a decision rendered prior to the enactment of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Supreme Court, in the context of Hindu Law, held that entrance of one person into a religious order operates as civil death. Even in
Catholic priests and succession
One of the earlier decisions in this matter was rendered by the Travancore High Court in 1079 M.E. In this case, it was contended that a monk may be linked to a Hindu ascetic. A Hindu ascetic under Hindu Law loses his civil rights by entering into the 4th order, i.e., Sanyasam. But no such law was shown to exist among Roman Catholics. It was opined by the Court that the origin of the concept of loss of civil rights in a monk must be attributed to custom, and no such custom was also proved. The court, therefore, held that among Roman Catholics, the rights in the family property of a person taking holy orders as a monk were not by law or usage extinguished. Thus a Roman Catholic Priest was allowed a distributive share in the property of his natural family.
The Madras High Court also took the same view from an affidavit angle, In a dispute as regards the right of inheritance when a Roman Catholic priest died intestate, the court held that the law of intestate succession applicable to Catholic priests is Part V of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, and that inheritance is allowed only to the natural heirs of the deceased priest and not to the superior of the priest. However, in the case of a nun the position is still different.
Nun and succession
The view taken by the Karnataka High Court is that a nun is entitled to a distributive share in the property of her natural family in the event of opening of succession due to intestacy. Whereas the High Court of Kerala opined that with the taking of perpetual vow by a nun the person concerned ceased to have any connection with the members of her natural family. So far as the natural family was concerned the woman was taken as dead and therefore, the parents and other members were not to be taken as blood relations thereafter. It was held that legal effect of a person becoming a nun is that she cannot thereafter be considered as having a father or mother or relatives. And therefore, the Court allowed the Mother Superior to receive the service benefits of the deceased nun in preference to her natural heirs.
In yet another case, the Kerala High Court held that the Mother Superior of a Holy Order of Catholic Nuns is the legal representative of a deceased nun of that congregation. The Mother Superior being the head of the convent, is entitled to claim compensation on account of the death of the nun. The Court further opined that the deceased suffered a civil death by becoming a member of the Holy Order and that the natural heirs mentioned in Sections 41 to 48 of the Indian Succession Act would not be her legal heirs. If she had made a Will it was to take effect at once as though she were naturally dead. So also if one of her kinsman dies leaving properties which according to ordinary rules of inheritance would descend to her, she would be overlooked as though she were no longer alive.
Now therefore, it can be seen that the views taken by the Karnataka High Court and the Kerala High Court are diametrically opposed as regards the status of a nun under the Indian Succession Act. So also, the approach of the Court is at variance vis-à-vis a priest and a nun.
Heirship and Succession Certificate
Public authorities like Banks and other Financial Institutions and third party purchasers would require of the legal heirs of an intestate to establish their legal right to the property of the intestate by submission of Heirship Certificate or Succession Certificates. The Heirship Certificates are issued by Revenue Authorities and Succession Certificates are issued by the Administrator General or the District Court or the High Court. Both the District Courts and the High Courts have concurrent jurisdiction in the matter.
The rules relating to intestate succession among Christians would come into operation only if the deceased had not executed a will or any document of gift or a settlement deed. In the absence of the aforesaid documents the rules regulating succession enumerated under sections 29 to 49 in Part V of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 would come into play. But, if there is a Will executed by the deceased, the general law as contained in sections 57 to 391 would apply.
Where a Will was executed by a deceased, succession to his property is regulated by the provisions of the Will. If an executor is named in the Will, he has to get the Will probated as it is mandatory under section 213 of the Indian Succession Act. After obtaining probate, it is the duty of the executor to carry out the distribution of the property in accordance with the provisions of the Will. It may be noted that probate can be granted only to the executor appointed under a Will as is provided under section 222. If no executor is appointed by the Will, anyone of the persons claiming a right under the Will can file a petition for obtaining letters of administration as is provided under section 219. [But if the deceased has died intestate, wife or husband, as the case may be, has got preferential right to get letters of administration as is provided under section 219 (a) and (e).] In the case of Christians, those persons who are connected either by marriage or consanguinity are entitled to obtain letters of administration. On receipt of letters of administration, the intention of the testator as embodied in the Will has to be carried out by the person who obtained letters of administration as is provided under section 216. As section 212 exempts Christians also from the operation of that section, it is not mandatory for Christians to obtain letters of administration for establishing right to the property of an intestate. Therefore, in the absence of a Will a suit can be filed for establishing the rights which can be followed up by partition. Against a preliminary decree in a suit for partition an appeal will lie and Final Decree will be drawn up only after the decision in the appeal. To give effect to the Final Decree, in case of difference of opinion among the parties, execution proceedings will have to be instituted. For and on behalf of the deceased, the grantee of probate or letters of administration alone shall have power to sue or prosecute any suit or otherwise act as representative of the deceased as is provided under section 216.
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Day for Daniel
The child safety legacy of Daniel Morcombe unites Australia like little else.
In Parliament today, on the eve of Day for Daniel, that unity will be on display with the Assistant Minister for Children and Families Michelle Landry, and the Morcombe family’s local Member of Parliament Ted O’Brien, calling on all MPs to join them by wearing red badges – Daniel was wearing a red T-shirt when he was abducted on 7 December 2003.
Member for Fairfax Ted O’Brien said the annual day is a timely reminder that it is everyone’s duty to protect children.
“Thanks to the brave and passionate work of his parents Bruce and Denise, Daniel’s legacy stands as our nation’s ongoing commitment to keeping children safe and protecting them from predators,” Mr O’Brien said.
“That message remains as important today as the horrifying day that Daniel’s life was stolen nearly 18 years ago. As time passes it is absolutely vital that we remain vigilant about child safety, and stay committed to the great work, awareness and education provided by the Daniel Morcombe Foundation.”
Assistant Minister Landry said that the annual Day for Daniel continues to have an important role in helping to make our communities safer for all children.
“Day for Daniel is an occasion where we remember Daniel Morcombe, and honour his legacy by recommitting ourselves to the critical work of keeping all children safe and protected,” Assistant Minister Landry said.
“Child protection is one of the Morrison Government’s top priorities, with a range of strategies and initiatives aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, and keeping children safe.
“By working together across both the government and community sectors, we can improve the way that we care for and protect our children.”
Set up by Daniel’s parents in 2005, The Daniel Morcombe Foundation educates and raises awareness on how young people can protect themselves and stay safe, and provides support for younger survivors of crime.
The Foundation has secured some significant achievements over the last 12 months, including the opening of Daniel House – which provides free counselling services for survivors of child crime, as well as also receiving a silver award in the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards.
Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest national day of action to raise community awareness of child safety, and is being held on Friday 25 October 2019.

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Hey there, fellow farmhouse fanatic! Feast your eyes on our Carved Tabletop Turkey – the must-have addition to your charming home setup. Here at Decor Steals we believe that every Thanksgiving meal needs a turkey (pun intended). We wanted to offer something for everyone: those who are looking for more of a whimsical and fun feel you can go with option A and for those of you who love a realistic and rustic feel you can go with option B! Or hey - you can always get BOTH STYLES!
Imagine one of these gracing your kitchen counter, living room mantel, or even as a centerpiece for your next gathering. It's like a nod to tradition with a stylish twist. So, if you're all about that cozy, country vibe, snag our Carved Tabletop Turkey and make your farmhouse decor dreams come true!
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Save the date for the 11th Annual Governor’s Invitational Golf Classic! This year’s event is set to take place Friday, July 26th! Stay tuned for more information. Space is limited to 27 teams.
This annual premiere classic benefits Central Wyoming Hospice and Transitions, and all the proceeds from the Golf Classic go to patient care. For more information, please call Rachel at (307) 577-4832 or email email@example.com


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Perthshire: To east of Kinross, on minor road east of B996, west side of Loch Leven, Kinross House.
Private NO 126020 OS: 58 KY13 7ET
OPEN: Available for exclusive use.
Tel: 01577 865626 Web: kinrosshouse.com
Site of L-plan tower house and courtyard, near Kinross House. The building was demolished in 1723. Standing in 100 acres of gardens and policies, Kinross House, a large symmetrical mansion of four storeys and an attic – and one of the finest examples of 17th-century architecture in Scotland – was built by Sir William Bruce, who was Royal Architect to Charles II. Bruce was also responsible for the rebuilding of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, as well as work at Thirlestane Castle, Hopetoun House and Caroline Park. There are formal walled gardens with yew hedges, roses and herbaceous borders, along with a fountain and statues, and Lochleven Castle was used as part of the designed landscape.
The house has a fine interior, including the Grand Salon, based on French designs of the time.
‘Keanross’ is prominently marked on Blaeu’s map of Fife.
This was a property of the Douglases in the 16th century, then of the Bruces from about 1680 and John Bruce of Kinross is on record in the 1700s. The estate was sold to the Grahams in 1777, and then went by marriage to the Montgomerys. The house was not used for most of the 19th century and lay largely unoccupied, and was held by the Montgomerys until 2011. It was then sold and refurbished.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, check any and all opening and access information with the sites themselves…
22 Edinburgh Road
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A new study suggests that the flavorings in e-cigarettes are associated with damage at the cellular level. Researchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York published findings online in the BMJ journal Tobacco Control showing that some flavors were more harmful than others. The study also found that increased battery voltage was linked to greater toxicity, a finding that echoes previous studies. Authors looked at a total of five flavors.
In this study, bronchial cells (cells that are in the respiratory tract) exhibited the most toxicity when exposed to strawberry flavoring. Significant cell toxicity was observed with menthol, coffee and strawberry while piña colada and tobacco flavors were linked to less cytotoxicity. Researchers did not analyze the chemical composition of the flavoring compounds.
“Our data indicate that combinations of product, voltages, and flavorings exist that are cytotoxic to airway epithelial cells,” the authors said. “Since our study focused on the acute effects of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products, our observations require verification in chronic exposure models, more relevant to regular use of ENDS products.”
Study author Maciej L. Goniewicz, PhD, PharmD, says more testing needs to be done to get a better understanding of the chemicals in e-cigarette flavorings. “Many of these flavorings have been widely used in foods and cosmetics, but they have never been tested when inhaled. With the rise of e-cigarette popularity, we need to be cautious and develop accurate and fast screening methods for inhalation effects of such flavorings.” she told MedPage Today.
The researchers utilized a unique testing method to conduct their study. They directly exposed bronchial cells to e-cigarette aerosol using air-liquid interface culture (ALI) with a smoking machine. They exposed cells to different ENDS products or a tank system pre-filled with liquids of different flavors and nicotine concentrations. The battery voltage was also varied. Researchers used ALI to expose bronchial epithelial cells to ENDS aerosol, tobacco smoke and air (as a control). Six different ENDS products were used in the study.
Compared to controls (cells exposed to air), cells exposed to ENDS aerosol had reduced metabolic activity and increased released of several interleukins and chemokines, molecules that play an important role in immune response. Tobacco smoke was more damaging than most e-cigarette products. The study also found that toxicity varied significantly depending in the type of e-cigarette product, battery output voltage and flavor.
“Interestingly, it was not nicotine or nicotine solvents, but other additives in e-cigarettes that affected respiratory cells used in our study,” said Goniewicz.
The authors stated “Further studies are needed to investigate the cytotoxic effect of single flavoring chemicals in ENDS liquids, combinations of these ingredients, and the effects of alternate ENDS liquid products with the same flavor name. Our study indicates that testing toxicity of ENDS products should not be limited to individual flavoring chemicals, since the ENDS liquids are complex mixtures, and other product features (e.g., voltage) contribute to overall toxicity of ENDS aerosol.”

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CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted to approve over $5 million in additional Cumberland County Recovery Grants at the Commissioners’ Finance Meeting that took place on Nov. 23.
The board approved $5,406,757 at the meeting. By a vote of 2-1, Commissioners Jean Foschi and Vince DiFilippo voted to approve the grants for P25 Radios.
Funding for the Cumberland County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities and Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation was also approved.
A total of $3,783,757 in funding was approved for the purchase of P25 radios for Cumberland County fire, police, EMS, and municipal emergency management departments.
Cumberland County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities was allocated $873,000. They will be putting $500,000 towards affordable housing and $250,000 towards the creation of a land bank. The remaining $123,000 will be put towards gap funding to cover administration of community development block grants and the 2023 community business development subsidy.
The Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation (CAEDC) received an additional $750,000 in grants. This will include $500,000 for tourism product development grants and $250,000 for small business revolving loan fund.
The county has granted a total of $22,664,618 in Cumberland County Recovery Grants and has allocated $25 million for county revenue replacement. The remaining amount of $3,172,534 will be allocated at a later time.
Nov. 9, 2022: The Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 with Commissioners Jean Foschi and Vince DiFilippo voting in the affirmative to approve $1.2 million in Cumberland County Recovery Grants for Business/Non-profit and COVID-19 recovery, and $25 million for county revenue replacement.
Oct. 26, 2022: Cumberland County Commissioners voted 2-1 to approve $6,434,235 million in Cumberland County Recovery Grants for infrastructure projects in the county. Twenty-one municipalities were awarded funding for improvement projects.
Oct. 12, 2022: Cumberland County Commissioners unanimously voted to approve $7,112,908 million in Cumberland County Recovery Grants for mental health and physical health organizations across the county. Seventeen organizations were awarded funding to improve the physical and mental health of residents directly & indirectly impacted by COVID-19.
Sept. 29, 2021: Cumberland County Commissioners voted to award three Cumberland County higher education institutions $2.5 million through the Cumberland County Recovery Grant Program.
There were three primary goals established for the funding:
- Improve the physical and mental health of county residents directly & indirectly impacted by COVID-19
- Revitalize Cumberland County communities negatively impacted by COVID-19
- Restore and deliver government service impeded, delayed, or cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic

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Authors: Rhode Island Blues (v1.1)
Rhode Island Blues
tells the story of
Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four- year-old film editor in
who believes her only living relative is
her stormy and wild grandmother, Felicity. Troubled by her mother s long-ago
suicide and her father s abandonment, Sophia overworks, incessantly
contemplates her past, and continues a flat sexual affair with the famous
director of her latest film. But when she travels to
to help her grandmother settle into a
retirement center, she begins to unravel mysteries about her family history
that she never knew, while finding relatives she had no idea existed.
Fay Weldon’s extraordinary wit lights up
every page. Staggeringly beautiful and honest,
Rhode Island Blues
tells a story of longing, love, and, ultimately,
forgiveness, as it holds a magnifying glass to the human heart.
THE FAT WOMAN’S JOKE
DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN
THE PRESIDENT’S CHILD
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL
THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN
THE RULES OF LIFE
LEADER OF THE BAND
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY
WOLF THE MECHANICAL DOG
NOBODY LIKES ME
Short Story Collections
WATCHING ME, WATCHING YOU
A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER
LETTERS TO ALICE
Atlantic Monthly Press
Copyright © 2000 by Fay Weldon
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who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should
send their inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.
novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, and incidents
portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
First published in 2000 by Flamingo,
a registered trade mark of
United States of America
Library of Congress
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Nursing home patients—Fiction. 2.
Granddaughters—Fiction. 4. Nursing homes—Fiction. 5. Grandmothers— Fiction. 6.
—Fiction. I. Title.
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from I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES translated by Richard Wilhelm, rendered into
English by Cary F Baynes (Arkana, 1989) copyright 1950 and 1967 by Bollingen
Foundations Inc. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
old enough to speak the truth,
said my grandmother, her voice
bouncing over the Atlantic waves, ridiculously girlish. ‘Nothing stops me now,
Sophia, not prudence, or kindness, or fear of the consequences. I am
eighty-five. What I think I say. It is my privilege. If people don’t like what
they hear they can always dismiss it as dementia.
grandmother Felicity had seldom refrained from speaking the truth out of
compassion for others, but I was too tired and guilty to argue, let alone
she was only eighty-three, not
eighty-five. Felicity spoke from her white clapboard house on a hillside
outside Norwich, Connecticut, with its under-floor music system and giant
well-stocked fridge, full of uneatable doughy products in bright ugly bags,
Lite this and Lite that, and I listened to her reproaches in a cramped brick
apartment in London’s Soho. Her voice echoed through an expensive, languid,
graceful, lonely, spacious, carpetless house: she kept the doors unlocked and
the windows undraped, squares of dark looking out into even blacker night,
where for all anyone knew axe murderers lurked. My voice in reply lacked echo:
here in central
the rooms were small and cluttered and the windows were barred, and
thick drapes kept out the worst of the late-night surge of noise as the gay
pubs below emptied out and the gay clubs began to fill. I felt safer here than
I ever did when visiting Felicity on her grassy hillside. A prostitute worked
on the storey below mine, sopping up any sexual fury which might feel inclined
to stray up the stairs, and a graphic designer worked above me, all fastidious
control and expertise, which I liked to think seeped downwards to me.
was a fashionable, expensive and desirable address for
. I could walk to work, which I valued,
though it meant pushing my way through crowds both celebratory and perverse:
the tight butts of the sexually motivated and the spreading butts of gawking
tourists an equal nonsense. Was there no way of averaging them out, turning
them all into everyday non-loitering citizens? But then you might as well be
living in a suburb, and for my kind of person that meant the end.
was tired because I had just got back from work, and it was late at night. I
was guilty because it was two weeks since my grandmother’s noisy friend and
neighbour Joy - neighbour in the sense that their two great lonely houses were
just about within hailing distance - had called me to shout down the line that
Felicity, who lived alone, had had a stroke and was in hospital in
. I had a deadline to meet. I am a film
editor. There comes a certain point in a film production when the editor ceases
to be dispensable: when you just can’t afford to be ill, go insane, have a sick
grandmother. Joy’s call came at just such a moment. You have to be there in the
editing suite and that’s that. There are things in your head which are in
was a feature
film, a US/UK co-production with pretensions, a big budget, a big-time director
(Harry Krassner), and a host of marketing people now hovering and arranging PR
and previews, while I still struggled under pressure of time to make something
erotic out of not-enough footage of teenage copulation which neither party had
seemed to go to with much pleasure. I did not fly to my grandmother’s side. I
simply forgot her until I could afford to remember her. Now here she was again,
her suppertime my bedtime, not that she ever acknowledged a difference in time
zones if she could help it.
I gritted my teeth.
Sometimes the ghost of my mad mother stands between myself and
Felicity, damming up the flow of family feeling; a sepulchral figure, like one
of those school-crossing ladies who step out unexpectedly into the road to let
the children through, making the traffic squeal to an unwilling halt.
had a recurring dream when I was small in which my mother did exactly that,
only the sign in her hand read not
Except I knew that if she ever turned the
sign, the other side would have my name on it.
It would read,
’. I always
managed to wake myself up before I had to face the terror of the other side. I
could do that as a child - control my dreams. I think that’s why I’m reckoned
to be a good film editor: what is this job of mine but the controlling of other
people’s fantasies? I take sleeping pills, most nights: they stop my own
dreams. I have enough of them by day to keep anyone sane.
it happened Felicity had been let out of hospital within the day, having
suffered nothing more than a slight speech impediment, which had by now
cleared. But I wasn’t to know that at the time.
she was saying, ‘I want to sell this house. The truth is I’m bored to hell. I
keep waiting for something to happen but happenings seem to have run out. Is it
my age?’ Well, come the eighth decade I daresay ‘happenings’, by which most
women mean love striking out of a clear sky, would indeed run out. Everything
must come to an end. She said she was thinking of moving into assisted housing:
some kind of old-persons’ community. I said I was not sure this was a recipe
for a lively life. She said just because people were old didn’t mean they
weren’t still alive. She was going to hold her nose and jump: the house was
already on the market, she was already selling bits and pieces in the local
flea markets, there were some family things I might want to have, and if so I
had better come over and claim them.
As I’d callously worked on after
Joy’s first phone call, resisting the notion that in the face of death all
things to do with life should pause, I knew that if Felicity would only just die
the issue of fault would be set to rest, forever unresolved. I could just be
me, sprung out of nowhere, product of my generation, with the past irrelevant,
family history forgotten, left to freely enjoy the numerous satisfactions of
here and now, part of the New London Ciabatta Culture, as the great Harry
Krassner was accustomed to describing it.
, Sophia King, film editor, living day-by-day in some
windowless room with bad air conditioning and the soothing hum of computerized
technology, but free of the past. Easier by far to make sense of Harry
Krassner’s uneven footage than of real life, to let images on film provide
beginnings, middles, ends and morals. Real life is all subtext, never with a
decent explanation, no day of judgement to make things clear, God nothing more
than a long-departed editor, too idle to make sense of the reels. Off to his
grandmother’s funeral mid-plot, no doubt.
into therapy, peel off the onion layers,
dreams into narrative, still the irritating haphazardness of everyday real life
remains. Film seems more honest to me: actuality filtered through a camera.
Felicity must not be allowed to interfere with my life, in death any more than
she had in life. Bored she might be, but she had her comforts, money from dead
Utrillo on her wall, a neighbour called
Joy, who shouted energetically down the telephone. I remembered how, when I was
ten years old and Felicity was my only source of good cheer, she had cut
herself off from me, left her daughter Angel, my mother, to die without her,
fled back home to the States and not even come back for the funeral. I had
forgotten how angry I was with her: how little I was prepared to forgive her.
What had been her own emergency, her own internal editing, so desperately required
that she abandoned us? Once, when I was small, ordinary simple family love had
flowed from me to Felicity only to be fed back by her, through this act, as
mother had done even worse by the pair of us, of course, and returned love with
hate, as insane people will to their nearest and dearest, be they parent or
child, and there can be nothing worse in the world. But at least my mother
Angel had the excuse of being mad. Felicity was reckoned sane.
didn’t come over and visit me in hospital when for all you knew I might have
been dying,’ said Felicity now, at my sleeping time, suppertime for her. What
did she care about my convenience? What was the point of reminding her of the
were only in hospital for a night,’ I protested.
might have been my last night,’ she said. ‘I was fairly frightened, I can tell
brutal! And I was so tired. I had only just returned from the cutting room when
the phone call came. Harry Krassner would be in at ten the next morning, with
the producer, for what I hoped against hope would be an acceptance of the fine
cut. I was not sure which seemed the more fictional - Felicity’s phone call or
the hours I’d just lived through. My eyes were tired and itching. All I wanted
to do was sleep. This voice out of the past: still with the actressy lilt, just
a little croakier than last time she’d phoned, a few months back, might have
been coming out of some late-night film on TV for all it was impinging upon my
consciousness. Yet she and I were each other’s only relative. My mother’s death
was decades back. We both had new skins. I had to pay attention. ‘You’d have
home even before I’d got to the hospital,’ I
pointed out. ‘You weren’t to know that,’ she remarked, acutely. ‘But then you
never thought family was very important.’
isn’t true,’ I snivelled. ‘It’s you who chose to live somewhere else. This is
was ridiculous: it was like the first time you go to visit a therapist: all
they have to do is say something sympathetic and look at you kindly: whereupon
self-pity overwhelms you and you weep and weep and weep, believe you must
really be in a mess and sign up for two years. I put my weakness down to
exhaustion: some feeling that I wasn’t me at all, just one of the
of some bad late-night TV film, providing the formulaic
was that or go under myself,’ she said,
little herself. ‘All I ever got from family was reproaches.’ (A splendid case
of projection, but Felicity, like so many of her generation, was a
pre-Freudian. Hopeless to start wrangling, let alone say she’d started it.) She
pulled herself together magnificently. ‘It was a moment of weakness in me to
want you to be present while I died. If someone is not there while you live why
should you want them there when you die?
Just because they
share a quarter of your genetic make-up.
It isn’t rational. Do you have
any views as to what death actually is?’
I said. If I had I wasn’t going to tell Felicity and certainly not while I was
so tearful and tired.
wouldn’t,’ said my grandmother Felicity. ‘You have been permanently depressed
since Angel died. You won’t allow yourself a minute’s free time in case you
catch yourself contemplating the nature of the universe. I don’t blame you,
it’s fairly rotten.’ The stroke must have had some effect on Felicity for since
my mother Angel’s death she had scarcely mentioned her name in my presence. My
deranged mother died when she was thirty-five: my father hung around to do a desultory
job of bringing me up, before dying
when I was
eighteen, of lung cancer. He didn’t smoke, either, or only marihuana.
fact is,’ said Felicity, who had deserted my mother and me at the time of our
worst tribulations, and I could not forget it, ‘I’m not fit to live on my own
any more. I spilt a pint of boiling milk over my arm yesterday and it’s hurting
did you want boiling milk for?’ I asked. This is the trouble with being a film
editor. It’s the little motivations, the little
you have to make sense of before you can approach the bigger issues.
was a silence from the other end. I thought longingly of bed. I had not made it
that morning; that is to say I had not even shaken out the duvet and replaced it
with some thought for the future. It’s like that towards the end of a film gig.
Afterwards, you can clean and tidy and housewife to your heart’s content, put
in marble bathrooms with the vast wages you’ve had no time or inclination to
spend: in the meantime home’s just somewhere you lay your head on a sweaty
pillow until it’s time to get up and go to work again.

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Victor Rivera, the founder and former chief executive of the nonprofit Bronx Parent Housing Network, admitted to accepting kickbacks from contractors working with the organization and laundering the money through entities he controlled, according to the city Department of Investigation.
As part of the plea agreement, Rivera is to face a prison sentence and, according to federal court documents, agreed to forfeit $1.2 million. Since 2017, Rivera’s organization has received more than $274 million in city funding to operate shelters.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Rivera in March of 2021, saying he had used some of the money to pay the mortgage on his personal home. Rivera owned a $780,000 home with a heated swimming pool and waterfall in Stony Point, N.Y., and another house in the Poconos. Rivers was arrested weeks after a New York Times investigation last year showed he had run the group with near impunity: Ten women, including homeless women and employees, accused him of sexual assault and harassment, while Rivera also enriched himself with money meant for his nonprofit. The scheme lasted from 2013 to 2020, as Rivera rose to become a major player in the city’s massive social safety net. In public, he frequently invoked a compelling personal story: He said he grew up poor in the South Bronx, even becoming homeless for a time, and went to prison for drug possession before turning his life around. As the city money came in, Rivera’s personal fortune grew, according to The Times investigation. His salary swelled to $306,000 in 2019, and the organization also leased him a Mercedes-Benz with a custom license plate promoting his charity: BPHN ORG.
He used the nonprofit’s finances with for-profit housing companies he owned, steering lucrative contracts to friends and associates and providing jobs to several members of his family, according to the investigation.
The authorities did not specify which contractors paid Rivera off, and exactly how much money he collected or how he laundered the money. But The Times had reported that Rivera started a for-profit company in 2011, Community Outreach Consulting Firm, that provided housing for people living with H.I.V. and AIDS. Former employees of the Bronx Parent Housing Network told The Times the firm shared staff and resources with the nonprofit group. When Rivera stepped down from the consulting company in 2018, his wife, who also worked at the firm, took over.
According to The Times investigation; they found that Bronx Parent Housing Network awarded $184,000 in maintenance contracts to a friend of Rivera who had performed work at a building Rivera personally owned in the Bronx. Rivera’s organization also steered millions of dollars in rent payments to a company owned by his onetime business partner.
Rivera was ousted from his position at the Bronx Parent Housing Network after The Times story was published. Rivera had faced another criminal inquiry: The Bronx district attorney’s office opened an investigation into Rivera following allegations, reported in The Times, of a pattern of sexual misconduct, including assault.
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Write down a rough menu plan for the week. If you know, for example, that you are going to have chicken on Monday, pork on Tuesday, homemade pizza on Wednesday, pasta on Thursday and fish on Friday, you will know which day to take what foods out of the freezer to thaw. This will also help you avoid last-minute runs to a fast-food restaurant or to the grocery store to pick up a forgotten ingredient.
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Gangs join forces to ‘take out’ cops, Baltimore PD alleges
Baltimore police said it has credible information that street gangs have joined forces to attack police.
The statement was issued minutes before the funeral service for Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore police custody earlier this month.
According to the Baltimore Police Department, there is “credible information” that various prison and street gangs entered a partnership to “take-out (sic) law enforcement officers.”
“Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers,”
the release said, adding a request to the media to distribute the warning to…
“the public and law enforcement nationwide.”
— JoyLepolaStewart (@jlepolastewart) April 27, 2015
The gangs named in the release are Black Guerrilla Family, Bloods and Crips. All three started out in the Los Angeles area, before spreading throughout the US. According to publicly available estimates, Crips may have up to 35,000 members and Bloods up to 20,000, with the BGF estimated at up to 300 members and 50,000 “associates.”
From the Tragedy of Bro Freddie to the Triumph of Unity…Bloods, Crips and the FOI united!… https://t.co/5iy73zn4Ux
— Farajii Muhammad (@Farajii) April 25, 2015
Nation of Islam activists said on Saturday they had brokered a “truce” between the long-time rivals Bloods and Crips, and posted a photo on social media showing the members of two gangs wearing their colors and posing together.
However, a number of local residents, activists and observers have greeted the police announcement with skepticism, posting on social media that the timing of its release was “too convenient.” One Baltimore resident described the statement as “controlling the narrative”.
Another called the release a “cynical attempt by the BPD to distract the media from Freddie Gray’s funeral.”
I'm sorry, without specifics you need to see that this is a cynical attempt by the BPD to distract the media from Freddie Gray's funeral.
— Paul Gardner (@paulmgardner) April 27, 2015
Several thousand people gathered at Gray’s funeral, which began at 11:00am local time at Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist Church.
On April 12, Gray was apprehended by members of the Baltimore Police Department after fleeing on foot from a cluster of officers. He suffered a severe injury to his spinal cord while in the custody of the BPD and died a week later. Six police officers remain suspended pending the results of an internal investigation into the affair.
Protests erupted across Baltimore after Gray’s arrest and intensified following his death. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the family of Freddie Gray have urged protesters to remain peaceful, but police reportedly arrested dozens over the weekend when rallies turned violent.


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The multitude of Chilean mail-order bride web sites speaks for itself – the demand for Chile ladies for marriage is immense, particularly among American men. You could wonder what the cornerstone of such popularity is. The answer is the unique persona traits of ladies of Chile that make them desirable wives.
Chilean brides are not reserved. Quite the opposite, they’re outgoing and open-minded. They are properly aware of the other cultures and lifestyles, so they easily modify in one other place, taking up some new traditions, but leaving theirs as effectively. What Agosín believes is strongest about the arpilleras — and which has remained true both then and now — is their ability to heart women’s voices in nonviolent protest.
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Greater than 350,000 folks marched by means of central Santiago on eight March to have a good time Worldwide Women’s Day and Chile’s first ever feminist strike. Most have been younger women; some had introduced their partners and kids. Underneath the watchful eyes of the Carabineros, Chile’s nationwide police, they sang, danced and shouted. Stray dogs followed the joyful but offended demonstration.
Michelle Bachelet was and is Chile’s first female president, first serving from 2006 to 2010, and successful the presidency again in 2013 for her current term, which can end in 2017. She was additionally the executive director of UN Ladies (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls), a company inside the UN working toward international empowerment for girls, ending violence in opposition to girls, encouraging ladies to become involved in politics and management roles, amongst other goals. Her presidencies have been marred by some scandals, which have affected her approval score among Chileans, however agree or disagree along with her politics, her involvement in national and international politics is a huge step forward for ladies in every single place.
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Have you ever tried to disregard a toothache? They can be quite tough. After a while, you end up having no alternative but to consult a dentist. The same thing happens when your eyesight starts to blur. When you have trouble reading street signs, you’ll most likely schedule an appointment with an ophthalmologist. The concern is, you might not show nearly as much urgency when your hearing starts to go.
And that could be an oversight. Neglected hearing loss can be the reason for considerable health problems (especially mental problems). Regrettably, it’s pretty hard to address your diminishing hearing if you don’t know about it. And that’s problem number two.
You Might Have Hearing Loss if You Notice These Symptoms
We commonly don’t appreciate our hearing. A loud performance? No big deal.. Blasting ear pods? You like to listen to your podcasts like this. But your overall hearing will be considerably affected by every one of these choices, especially in the long run.
It can, unfortunately, be hard to detect these impacts. Hearing loss can creep up on you gradually, with symptoms that progress so slowly as to be essentially invisible. That’s why it’s a good idea to identify some primary red flags (and to take care of them sooner than later):
- You regularly need to ask people to repeat themselves
- Distorted or muffled sounding voices from individuals near you (family, co-workers, friends)
- You can’t keep a set of earbuds because you keep blowing the speakers
- You have an especially difficult time hearing consonants when listening to casual speech
- Your short term memory seems to suddenly fail sometimes
- When you’re in a crowded noisy environment you have a hard time keeping up with conversations
- You have a hard time falling asleep at night and feel tired for no apparent reason
- You usually have to crank up the volume on your devices
These symptoms, red flags, or warnings are all pretty well known. If your loss of hearing comes on particularly gradually, your brain will immediately start compensating for any hearing loss that occurs, making you somewhat oblivious, at first, to your symptoms. That’s the reason why any of these warning symptoms should be taken seriously, which means you should make an appointment to see your hearing specialist.
What Going to Happen if You Ignore Your Hearing Loss?
Some individuals are, indeed, stubborn. Or they just don’t like the concept of wearing a hearing aid. They maintain this fear that wearing a hearing aid is some kind of direct marker for old age (as though continuously asking somebody to speak louder is a signifier of unending youth). But in actuality, most contemporary hearing aids are virtually unseen (and it doesn’t hurt when you can hear and engage in conversations).
Nevertheless, it’s worth talking about what might take place if you neglect your hearing loss:
- Your hearing might worsen: If you don’t utilize hearing aids or increased hearing protection, You’ll keep turning up your devices. Or you won’t utilize earplugs when you attend rock concerts. Which means you’ll keep doing damage to your ears and your hearing will almost certainly continue to decline because of it.
- Your relationships could fray: When you have a tough time understanding what your family and friends are saying, something can change in the relationship: you start having fewer interactions with them. You quit saying hi, you quit checking in, you distance yourself. And that can ruin some of those relationships, specifically if the issue is hearing loss that you have kept secret (and not some unexpressed bitterness).
- Cognitive decline and depression could result: As your relationships falter and going out becomes more challenging, you might start to experience signs of depression. You might also begin to experience some cognitive decline without the auditory activation your brain is used to, your neural physiology begins to experience certain changes. If your hearing loss isn’t treated, it can result in longterm cognitive worries.
Don’t Neglect Your Hearing Loss
Later on, clearly, bigger and more significant issues can be caused by hearing loss. Conversely, your quality of life can be substantially improved by acknowledging and managing your hearing loss. Your daily life is more full and your relationships improve when you begin to hear better. And increasing your awareness, either by consulting a hearing specialist or downloading a noise-monitoring app, can enhance your overall hearing health.
Hearing loss is certainly a health condition you shouldn’t dismiss. The sooner you find the correct treatment, the happier you’ll be. Don’t wait until the proverbial toothache becomes too painful to ignore.


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Mental health checkups come door-to-door after Hurricane Michael
LYNN HAVEN — Puttering around the yard, Jeanette Williams was working to keep busy.
She didn’t want to remember the way the winds of Hurricane Michael felt as they shook her house while she prayed alone inside on her knees four months ago. She wasn’t ready to deal the nightmares that caused her to wake up in the middle of night searching her Lynn Haven home for mysterious noises she was pretty sure weren’t real. And she knew she had to keep her hands busy or she would turn back to the cigarettes she worked so hard to quit.
Then, one of her neighbors, accompanied by four strangers, showed up in her front yard.
“Hi Jeanette, can we come talk?” Diane Robinson asked. “We’re asking people how they’re doing after the storm.”
“Where were you last week when I was having a nervous breakdown?” Williams answered.
In recent weeks, Life Management Center had launched “Project Hope,” sending counselors door-to-door and stationing them at the Disaster Recovery Centers to try to meet people where they are. It’s a nine-month program running in six counties — Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and Washington — aiming to reach people who are struggling to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Michael and maybe don’t realize it, or wouldn’t normally engage with a place like Life Management.
“We know there’s a need, but we haven’t been inundated with requests,” said Life Management Community Relations Specialist Tricia Pearce. “People might not realize it or might not be trying to reach out.”
A review of the research by the medical journal Psychological Medicine found that, on average, 30 to 40 percent of disaster victims report Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) compared to the rate of 5 to 19 percent in the general population. Upticks of suicide and substance abuse issues are also noted in studies.
For a look at hurricanes in particular, after Hurricane Andrew a study that surveyed survivors at the six month mark found PTSD had increased by 26 percent, and then by 29 percent at 30 month mark. Another survey of 200 adults six months after Hurricane Sandy found an increased prevalence of PTSD by 14.5 percent, and a 6 percent increase in major depressive disorder.
It’s not just PTSD. Studies after Hurricane Katrina found rises in “sub-threshold PTSD,” a variation of generalized anxiety disorder, that has symptoms including irritability, diffuse anger, guilt and health worries. Locally, people just called it “Katrina brain.”
But as common as all this is, it can be hard to recognize it in yourself.
“People say, ‘I’m fine,’ when I start a conversation,” said Project Hope Counselor Jamaica Thompkins. “Then I get them talking.”
The counselors are not out there trying to diagnosis people.
It’s not a trick to get people into therapy, Thompkins said. Rather, Pearce said, it’s meant to provide self-help tools or, when people want it, help people to connect with the resources that are out there.
“Our mentality is, we ask people how are you,” Thompkins said.
On a typical day, Thompkins, joined by another counselor for safety, will head to areas hard-hit, where she thinks there might be a need, such as where FEMA trailers are parked or maybe a neighborhood someone told her about. Then, they get out of the car and talk to anyone outside.
At one stop, she talks to a family of four that were staying in their Foxwood apartment during the storm, reading the passage of the Bible where Jesus called the quelled the seas over and over again as the roof came off home. They teared up telling their story, and she comforts them before giving them a number for a hotline they can “whenever” they need it. She gives away pamphlets to another two people, undeterred by barking dogs, before realizing she’s talked to everyone outside.
At the next stop, Thompkins talks an Army Corp of Engineers worker inspecting trailers that she met a few weeks ago while doing rounds. The worker tells her about one woman living in a condemned trailer with no power or running water. The story is the woman has a substance abuse problem and because of that, has been too ashamed to ask for help from anyone or even apply to FEMA. Thompkins has been by before, but promises to go again. If that doesn’t work, she promises to send someone else to try.
It was at the next stop where Thompkins and her team ran into Williams outside.
And while their visit was a surprise, it was like Williams had been standing in the yard waiting for them. By her own admission she's not the type of person to participate or ask for help. Since the storm, it had gotten to the point where “all of the sudden you’re lonely, just being alone,” she said.
With just a tiny bit of coaxing, she was talking.
“I didn’t leave because they always hype it up so bad. They are just trying to separate you from what little money you got, and then you got all this stuff piled up you don’t need,” Williams said. “Then it hit … All they have got to do is say ‘tropical storm’ and I’m going. Don’t know where I am going, but I’m gone.”
She started crying from the stress of the memories, and then the exhaustion of picking up the pieces, getting her roof fixed, the lack of sleep and even the stress of the things she’s always done, like driving family members to their various appointments. She cried from the loss of her husband and her son.
“You know crying is good healing,” Thompkins said. “When you hold it all bottled up inside that’s when you start having those aches and pains and anxieties when you let out. Have you ever had a good cry?”
“I’m afraid if I ever start I won’t stop,” Williams responded.
“You have to let it go,” Thompkins said.
And while Williams worried the quiet tears would never stop, within ten minutes they had. There was a group hug, a list of things to try to ease some of the stress, a promise to come back and even the potential of turning Robinson into a new walking buddy.
“You know, I feel a little bit better,” Williams said.
And without that bit of accomplishment, the group handed her a pamphlet and set off to see who they would meet next.
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Clarksville, TN – Rossview High School’s boys soccer team has been one of the upper-level teams in District 10-AAA since the school opened, but never winning back-to-back district titles.
That is until now, as the Hawks (13-3-4) made it make-to-back tournament titles with a 2-0, May 8th, victory over West Creek High School.
“I couldn’t be prouder of this group of boys,” Rossview coach Danny Chartrand said. “I’ve been telling anyone that would lesson that we’re 16 or 17 (players) deep and they’re genuinely not selfish and understand what the team is and they’re willing to play the minutes, do what we ask them to do, no matter where it is on the field.“It’s our first back-to-back district championships, so that’s something we hope to build on and keep it rolling.”
The Hawks came out and really pressured West Creek (10-9-0) in the opening minutes of the match, with the Coyotes making their first appearance in the district tournament finals and Rossview wanting to take advantage of that.
The strategy paid off for Rossview in the ninth minute, as the Hawks finally broke through with a goal from Dylan Schwartz, off an assist from Jarrod Stanford.
“The first half was pretty disappointing in the things we wanted to do defensively,” West Creek coach Seth Ramsey said. “We really wanted to try to limit their possession and we just didn’t do that.”
Rossview would add a second first-half goal 20 minutes later, with Dominic Kubas scoring off an assist from Marco Rodriquez.
“It helps always when you can get on the board early-on,” Chartrand said. “For many years I’ve been preaching the first five minutes of a half, the last five minutes of a half and the first five minutes after scoring a goal is scored are critical times in a soccer match.
“We didn’t get it (a goal) in the first five minutes, but we pressed the first five and got the opportunity to put the ball in the net in the first 10 minutes and that changes the game a little bit.”
The Coyotes on the other hand didn’t have a shot in the first half against the Hawks defense, but did make some adjustments at half time, along with picking up their aggressiveness to record five shots – four on goal – after intermission.
“It was a little disappointing not to be able to break through and find the back of the net at the end of a shot,” Ramsey said. “I think in the second half we played a lot stronger.
Sammy Shelton was in goal for Rossview, recording four save in the shutout, while Brad Rolen had eight save in a losing effort for the Coyotes.
Both teams move on to the Region 5-AAA Tournament, starting on May 20th, with Rossview hosting Station Camp High School and West Creek traveling to Mt. Juliet High School.
Both matches are scheduled to start at 7:00pm.
District 10-AAA Offensive MVP: Mason Gasaway, Clarksville High School
District 10-AAA Defensive MVP: Dale Cook, West Creek High School
District 10-AAA All-District Team
Rossview High School: Keith Scarbro, Dylan Schwartz, Akash Patel, Riley Benson
Clarksville High School: Mason Gasaway, Heath Meyer, Darmin Garduza
West Creek High School: Dale Cook, Mark Bussell
Springfield High School: Dakota Carlisle, Matt Herscher
Henry County High School: Ivan Hernandez
Northeast High School: John Jasmer
Northwest High School: Estaban Onate
Kenwood High School: James Ferebee
Honorable Mention: James Stevens (Rossview), Trevor Greiff (Clarksville High), James Granclin (West Creek), Matt Herscher (Springfield), Gabe Spring (Northeast), Shan Price (Henry County), Nathan Hammett (Northwest), Nick Truay (Kenwood).
District 10-AAA All-Tournament Team
Rossview High School: James Stevens, Sammy Shelton, Jack Lorey, Riley Benson
West Creek High School: Luis Santamaria, Brad Rolen, Manuel Angel
Clarksville High School: Cameron Pena, Ryan Gasaway
Springfield High School: David Calderon, Alejandro Angel
Henry County High School: Adam Owen
Northeast High School: Aarin Buchanan
Northwest High School: Max Ludwig
Kenwood High School: Alex Brack


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Members of the Terra Nova Garden Club pick raspberries in the fruit and vegetable garden at
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During raspberry season when I was a kid, I wouldn't stray too far around the neighborhood on my yellow bike with the banana seat. Instead I'd hover near our raspberry patch and try to will the berries to ripen. Careful to avoid the thorny stems, I'd reach in to give the red berries a gentle tug. They release easily when they are ripe. I can't think of one thing our family would cook with them. I probably ate every single tart berry standing barefoot in the backyard.
The pick-your-own raspberry field is open this week at Von Thun's Farm in Monmouth Junction. I can't resist their berries when I see them at the farmers market. Look for a place to pick berries near your home at localharvest.org.
One of the simplest and best recipes to have up your sleeve is a raspberry sauce. Pastry blog Brave Tart uses a few drops of rose or orange flower water to make its blue, black, or raspberry reduction truly special. Spoon some underneath a cake when you serve it. Drizzle it over ice cream or swirl into your breakfast yogurt.
Baking expert Dorie Greenspan calls her raspberry and Meyer lemon squares a "cross between traditional lemon squares and a très French lemon-streusel tart." The raspberries are used two ways — first scattered over an almond crust and then embedded in the lemon curd filling. More are added on top of the streusel topping close to finishing up in the oven.
Lemon raspberry pie crust hearts from Joy the Baker had me reaching for my rolling pin. My heart-shaped cookie cutters need a workout more than at Valentine's Day. These little personal portions are cute and practical, too. You need a tremendous amount of raspberries to make a pie. Here you will need just a few berries per heart.
To me, the most elegant raspberry dessert option is the French macaron. Laduree, the famous shop in Paris, has a recipe for framboise macarons in their book, "Laduree: The Sweet Recipes" (Hachette, $39.95). Making them at home will save you a bundle on airfare to Paris, but will cost you an afternoon in the kitchen.
For those who find puttering around at the stove during summer is foolish, the raspberry fool is the perfect dessert for you. Whip some cream, toast up cubes of ethereal angel food cake and layer with mashed raspberries in a pretty glass.
Raspberry season is fleeting. Freeze them in Ziploc bags for use all year. I lay them out on a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze until firm before packing the bags.
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As an “American Idol” judge, Steven Tyler expects to find the best talent in the country via the fast-tracked, reality TV talent show. As a veteran rock star, the Aerosmith frontman admits he likes the old way America found its idols.
“You know, (Aerosmith) had to play every state in America in three years — by ’74, we’d played it three times around — and I always thought that in order to become an American idol, or any kind of idol, you have to pay your dues,” Tyler explained on Monday night’s “Late Show With David Letterman.” “But you know, today’s a different world. They’re out there. It's just that we had to pick through 120,000 (‘Idol’ hopefuls) to get these 20, so I think we’re doing all right.”
Letterman remained unconvinced.
"I prefer the process that gave us you to this process," the late night host responded. "I think that legitimizes. By the time you're ready, you're ready, and we have the honest, legitimate stamp of approval. Three years you toured every state in the country, three different times. That’s what I want.”
If Tyler’s initial reaction to Letterman’s sentiment was any indication, that’s what he wants, too — or would want, if it weren’t for a certain career move.
"I tend to agree," Tyler nodded before quickly coming to the defense of his new job. “But you know, this way is more fun. It’s more excruciating. We get to put them through hell and they do it. And they come out of the wormhole looking good.”


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Richmond, VA, July 12, 2021 (Globalrelease Wire) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a major decision in a case that could restore billions of dollars in Post-9/11 educational benefits for veterans. The court affirmed the decision previously issued by the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”) in the case Rudisill v. McDonough (formerly BO v. Wilkie), which determined that veterans with separately qualifying periods of military service are entitled to GI Bill benefits for each period of service.
“We are extremely pleased with the outcome of this case and what it means for our country’s veterans,” said Hunton Andrews Kurth lawyer Timothy L. McHugh, who represented the appellee, Jim Rudisill. “An estimated 1.7 million post-9/11 era veterans could benefit from this ruling, so it is truly an impactful decision for those who have bravely served.”
Since World War II, Congress has provided veterans with different GI Bill benefits for different periods of qualifying service. Never has Congress required veterans with different periods of qualifying service to forfeit one benefit to receive another. Nevertheless, since 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) has required veterans with more than one period of separately qualifying service to relinquish or exhaust their entitlement to their Montgomery GI Bill benefits before using their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, thereby capping most veterans’ combined GI Bill benefits at 36 months.
In Rudisill v. McDonough, the court held that veterans with periods of separately qualifying military service are entitled to GI Bill education benefits for each period of service, subject only to an overall statutory cap of 48 months. In 2015, Rudisill, a decorated Army combat veteran who was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, applied for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits so that he could attend Yale Divinity School to become an Army chaplain. Based on its interpretation of the law, the VA forced Rudisill to forfeit his remaining Montgomery benefits and limited his Post-9/11 benefits to the amount of the forfeited benefits. While Rudisill has since given up his Yale admission and is now ineligible to return to the Army due to his age, he continued the appeal process with the hope of using them in different educational setting, and helping other veterans in their fight for benefits. He is now using his restored benefits to attend another seminary program while continuing to serve as an FBI agent.
”Post 9-11 GI Bill benefits are generous and have the ability to produce life-changing results for veterans and their families. The court’s decision ensures that our veterans have the opportunity to receive the full complement of educational benefits, as promised by Congress,” said David J. DePippo, a Dominion Energy attorney who also represented Rudisill.
On August 15, 2019, the Veterans Court rejected the VA’s practice of requiring veterans with more than one period of separately qualifying service to relinquish or exhaust their entitlement to Montgomery GI Bill benefits before utilizing their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, thereby capping most veterans’ combined GI Bill benefits at 36 months. Instead, the Veterans Court restored one year of educational benefits to all post-9/11 “veterans with multiple periods” of otherwise qualifying active-duty service. That decision was poised potentially to restore billions of dollars in Post-9/11 GI Bill and other educational benefits to military service members. The VA appealed, and the case was then heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which on July 8, 2021, affirmed the Veterans Court’s decision.
Rudisill’s legal team includes Hunton Andrews Kurth attorney Timothy L. McHugh and Dominion Energy Senior Counsel David J. DePippo, as well as lawyers and staff with Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Veterans Pro Bono Program.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is proud of its community service and leadership among law firms in the United States, where the firm’s tradition of pro bono service is well recognized. At the end of the firm’s fiscal year on March 31, 2021, its lawyers had donated more than 58,000 pro bono hours to underserved communities. This represented more than 4% of the firm’s gross billable hours and commemorates 28 continuous years of meeting or exceeding the Pro Bono Institute’s Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge of donating at least 3% of the firm’s annual billable hours to pro bono service.
Dominion Energy, where 1 in every 5 new hires is a veteran, has supported the military, veterans, and their families since World War I, and continues its focus on those who serve our country today.
Throughout Dominion Energy’s lengthy history of service to its communities, the company has made support for the military, veterans and their families a priority. Beginning in World War I, when employees sent soldiers care packages, and continuing until today, the company has focused on those who serve our country. G.I. Jobs ranked Dominion Energy #5 in its 2019 list of the top military-friendly companies nationwide. The company respects the hard and important work the VA does and looks forward to helping them implement this order and getting veterans the benefits they have earned.
About Dominion Energy
More than 7 million customers in 16 states energize their homes and businesses with electricity or natural gas from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, Va. The company is committed to sustainable, reliable, affordable and safe energy and to achieving net zero carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its power generation and gas infrastructure operations by 2050. Please visit DominionEnergy.com to learn more.
About Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
With over 900 lawyers in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP serves clients across a broad range of complex transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. We are known for our strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, and retail and consumer products industries, as well as our considerable experience in more than 100 distinct areas of practice, including privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property, environmental, and mergers and acquisitions. Our full-service litigation practice is one of the largest in the country, with particular depth in key litigation markets such as Texas, California, Florida and the Mid-Atlantic.


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Dan and Alan also talk a la carte streaming and the lack of fall cancellations
Happy Thursday, boys and girls! We pushed back this week's Firewall & Iceberg Podcast by a few days to give Dan a chance to catch up on "The Knick," which we discussed along with the first season of "Manhattan." Before that, we reviewed NBC's "Constantine," and answered mail about the lack of network cancellations, the consequences of a cable cancellation, and the potentially awesome and/or expensive a la carte cable future.
"Constantine" (00:01:10 - 00:12:40)
Listener Mail - No Cancelations (00:13:00 - 00:31:35)
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On September 19, 2011, the California Memorial Project held its 9th annual Remembrance Day ceremonies across the state. This occasion provided an opportunity to honor and restore dignity to people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities who lived and died at state institutions and developmental centers. There were 11 ceremonies at 10 different sites, which included: Metropolitan State Hospital, the California State University – Channel Islands (CSUCI, which lies on the former grounds of Camarillo State Hospital), Stockton Rural Cemetery, Porterville Cemetery, Napa State Hospital, Parkview Cemetery in Manteca, Ukiah Rural Cemetery, Agnews Historical Cemetery, Sonoma Developmental Center and Patton State Hospital (which took place on October 10th in conjunction with a dedication ceremony for a monument placed at the cemetery).
The ceremonies are held each year on the third Monday in September, which was proclaimed “California Memorial Project Remembrance Day” by the California state assembly in 2010. This event brings together consumers, family members, advocates and supporters to share their experiences and celebrate the lives of people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities. Numerous speakers from the local communities shared their thoughts and personal stories, many of which shed light on the history of mistreatment, neglect, and the stigma and discrimination that people with disabilities continue to face in their day-to-day lives. In addition, many people participated by sharing poems or music or even a guided meditation. Each ceremony honors a moment of silence, which is an occasion to acknowledge and respect the more than 45,000 people who lived and died in state institutions without the dignity they deserved, in life or in death. Many sites also had booths on display with pictures and detailed information about the history of the various state hospitals.
This year, the California Memorial Project also held dedication ceremonies for memorial plaques that were placed on the CSUCI campus and Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, and a large granite monument that was completed in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health that now stands at the cemetery of Patton State Hospital.
Many attendees found the ceremonies very meaningful and enlightening. Karyn Bates, a mental health consumer and member of the Ventura Client Network who attended the Camarillo ceremony said, “This memorial project was a very soulful and memorable occasion…We are very moved and impressed by your document displays and event planning and overall dedication.”
Next year’s ceremonies will be held on September 17, 2012. We hope that you will join us in our celebrations.

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How to Automate Invoice Processing?
Automated Invoice Processing delivers significant value to organisations and finance teams that require higher processing speed and accuracy whilst meeting budget constraints and compliance rules and regulations.
The financial data used to produce, send, check and pay an Invoice typically resides within more than one system and is supported by spreadsheets and other data sources such a CRM and ERP databases. Automated Invoice Processing traditionally has been a complex affair requiring a range of technology and process definition with complicated rules and authorisation for sign off at different levels. This is no longer the case and please review this video clip.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Poeppig's Rosemallow - Hibiscus poeppigii
Poeppig's rosemallow (Hibiscus poeppigii) is a perennial evergreen species native to extreme south Florida - Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. It is quite rare in Florida and listed by the state as an endangered species. This is a tropical hibiscus, also is found in the West Indies and Mexico. Throughout its range, it is found in upland woods and in open coastal areas, often in shallow soils with limestone beneath.
Poeppig's rosemallow is a semi-woody dwarf shrub. It often reaches mature heights of 2-4 feet, but may grow as tall as 6 feet in ideal conditions. Unlike most of Florida's native hibiscus, it does not die back to the ground in winter, but keeps its leaves and may bloom during any month. It is cold sensitive and will be killed by temperatures below freezing. Therefore, it is best used in parts of tropical Florida or as a potted plant that can be moved indoors during nights that dip below 30 degrees F.
Poeppig's rosemallow produces multiple thin stems that ascend off the main semi-woody trunk. The ovate, deeply toothed leaves are alternate along the stem and both the leaves and the green stems are roughly hairy. Overall, the plant assumes a somewhat rounded appearance - more so if kept lightly pruned.
While not an exceptionally beautiful foliage plant, Poeppig's rosemallow compensates by producing good numbers of carmine red, bell-shaped blooms. Each is only about 1 inch long, but they are enchanting. Small, rounded seed capsules follow about a month later.
In the right location, Poeppig's rosemallow makes an interesting addition to the home landscape. It is drought and salt tolerant, performs well in full to partial sunlight and fits well into many landscape settings. Regrettably, it is not widely propagated and not currently offered by any of the native plant nurseries affiliated with FANN - the Florida Association of Native Nurseries. It can be purchased from a few south Florida native plant sources with some sleuthing. Currently, we have a few seedlings from our plants at Hawthorn Hill that we hope to have ready for sale in spring 2014. Inquire if you are interested.