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Pastor allegedly revealed desire to 'eat' Nicki Minaj's 'booty'
by A.R. Shaw
via William Dewberry MySpace page
A man of God may have reacted unholy when viewing an image of Nicki Minaj on Instagram. The incident allegedly took place after Nicki Minaj posted a photo of herself that shows most of her derriére. Pastor William Henry Dewberry III, of Church of God in Christ in Memphis, was reportedly inspired to respond to the photo.
"I'll love to eat your booty @nickiminaj," Dewberry allegedly wrote in the comments section on Nicki Minaj's Instagram page, according to Complex. When it was discovered that the comment came from Dewberry's account, some in the religious community was appalled by his actions.
Dewberry went to Facebook and asked for prayers because he claimed that someone had made a fake account under his name. However, the account features a multitude of images of Dewberry and his family and there are interactions between him and his followers.
Dewberry is the latest prominent pastor to catch flack for sinful behaviors. In January, Pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, who is a church leader at Jacob Chapel church in Tallahassee, Florida, was caught with his pants down. Pastor Simmons decided to visit the married church member who was at home alone while her children were at school and her husband was at work. During his visit to the home, Pastor Simmons and the woman began having sex in a bed that belonged to the woman's daughter. But while they were having sex, the woman's youngest son became ill at school. Her husband decided to get their child and take him home so that he could rest. However, when the woman's husband opened the door, he caught her having sex with Pastor Simmons. Without grabbing any clothes, Pastor Simmons ran from the home naked while others could see him at that Sienna Square apartments.
Another case in January involved Rev. Hosea Stubblefield of Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Houston. Stubblefield admited his transgressions and revealed that he has recorded between 5 to 10 sex tapes over the past 10 years. He said that he did not make a sex tape during his tenure as pastor at Salem over the past year. However, a woman claims that she saw more than 10 sex videos while they were together.
Dewberry maintains that he did not lust for Nicki Minaj on Instagram. But the past has proven that even pastors can become weak when it deals with matters of the flesh.
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A.R. Shaw
A.R. Shaw is an author and journalist who documents culture, politics, and entertainment. He has covered The Obama White House, the summer Olympics in London, and currently serves as Lifestyle Editor for Rolling Out magazine. Shaw's latest book, Trap History, delves into the history and global dominance of Trap music. Follow his journey on TrapHistory.Com, Twitter @arshaw and Instagram @arshaw23.
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To start with, it won Best Picture. That's not always a good indicator, but in this case I have to agree with them. Easily the best movie I've seen in a couple years. The cast alone is phenomenal: Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, and even Leo was great. Add to that the fact that it's a movie about the Irish mob in South Boston, and you've got the recipe for amazing suspense, action, and great characters. I won't spoil it for you, but this has to go on your "must see" list. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, and I really wish I'd seen it in the theater. Oh, and any soundtrack that includes Flogging Molly is okay in my book... :D.
I agree man. The only competition i thought it had was Babel, which I thouroughly enjoyed as well. Assuming you watched the entirety of the oscars, or at least saw a recap - I was really happy for Forrest Whitaker. If any of you haven´t seen "The Last King of Scotland", you should find it. It's tremendous.
On a side note - I thought Blood Diamond was a lot better than I expected it to be. Hounsou was great - I was pulling for him for supporting actor - and I thought DiCaprio was really good as well. It's definitely worth a rent if it's out on DVD back home.


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0November 11, 2018
Centenary marked on Remembrance Day
Services were held across Merseyside on Remembrance Sunday on the 100th anniversary of the WWI Armistice.
Memorial unveiled for Dunkirk hero
A Dunkirk and Battle of Britain hero from the Wirral has had a memorial unveiled in his honour.
Hillsborough survivors' tribute unveiled
A tribute plaque has been unveiled to honour and recognise the survivors of the Hillsborough disaster.
0January 30, 2017
Running 5K every day in memory of James
A Merseyside man is running 5K every day in 2017 to raise money for the James Bulger Memorial Trust.
Funds raised for Mandela memorial plans
Plans for a memorial to commemorate Nelson Mandela in a Liverpool Park are moving forward.
Road traffic victims honoured at service
The unheralded victims of road traffic accidents were honoured at a memorial service.
Liam honoured by walk in his memory
A march in memory of LJMU student Liam Fletcher was held to highlight the dangers of depression.
Holocaust survivor shares painful memories
The first-hand experiences of a Holocaust survivor will be shared with more than 650 students across the Wirral.
Merseyside's traffic victims remembered
Victims of road collisions in Merseyside were remembered in a moving memorial service in St John's Gardens.
Merseyside school pays tribute to Sam
A Merseyside school has held a memorial service for a pupil who died after being swept out to sea.

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More bare-bones cable TV movie than polished feature film, veteran writer/director George Gallo's coming of age indie Local Color, about a young would-be artist (Trevor Morgan) and his elderly mentor (Armin Mueller-Stahl), lacks the quality storytelling and visual beauty needed for all-important critical acclaim and positive word of mouth. Older arthouse fans will enjoy Local Color 's easygoing, overly familiar story, arguably the film's strongest asset. Clichéd dialogue, poorly drawn characters and uninspired performances will prevent Thousand Oaks, CA-based distributor Monterey Media from attracting more discerning film fans and a sizable audience.
Artists interested in the film's debates about classic, representational art versus more avant-garde work will be disappointed by how simply Gallo represents the art of painting. Despite the presence of well-known cast members Ray Liotta, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Durning and Samantha Mathis, Local Color has extremely limited potential in the specialty film market and will experience slightly larger audiences on DVD.
In small town New York circa 1974, teenager Johnny Talia (Morgan) convinces veteran painter Nicoli Seroff (Mueller-Stahl) to become his teacher and share all he knows about art. Johnny spends the summer at Seroff's house in rural Pennsylvania and while helping out with daily chores gains a mentor, a friend and the courage to become a professional artist.
Coming of age dramas like Local Color may be audience friendly but suffer by comparison to the many standout entries in the genre: Dead Poets Society and October Sky, among others. While the film's follow-your-dream message is inspiring, its characters and storytelling are superficial. Gallo, clearly inspired by his own story as a young painter in Mamaroneck, NY and his friendship with a Russian artist, fails to craft his sentimentality into something original and compelling. It's difficult to capture the glory of making art, whether painting or poetry, on film. While some standout filmmakers have succeeded, Robert Altman ( Vincent & Theo ) and Julian Schnabel ( Before Night Falls ) come to mind, Gallo, so woven into his own story, fails.
Armin Mueller-Stahl is believably colorful as Seroff, a short-tempered curmudgeon with an appetite for vodka. Mueller-Stahl is convincing, whether working in front of his easel or debating his work at the dinner table. The same is not true for Trevor Morgan, a veteran character actor at 22. Boyishly handsome with shaggy dark hair and a thin build, Morgan makes dull use of Johnny's naiveté and shyness. Morgan never brings Johnny alive and without an engaging student, the film's student/teacher drama collapses. Ray Liotta, in a minor role as Johnny's unsupportive father, trots out his wise guy personality in a performance that's one-note at best. Charles Durning makes no impact as a frame shop owner who introduces Johnny to Seroff. Samantha Mathis, as Seroff's friendly neighbor, gives the most grounded performance in the film.
For Gallo, a longtime writer and director of hit Hollywood comedies, Local Color is a bold reminder that talent in one genre does not always transfer to another. Gallo has the skills for generating laughs. His ability to tug heartstrings remains up for debate. Cameraman Michael Negrin makes good use of the films' Louisiana locations. Unfortunately, clumsy narration and composer Chris Boardman's clumsier score emphasize all the trite aspects of the story.
Marketing campaigns that emphasize Mueller-Stahl and the film's student/teacher relationship will help generate audience support. Visual artists may also provide a small niche audience for the film. Still, despite modest box office potential, Local Color, shot in 2006, may be the start of a successful chapter in dramatic storytelling for Gallo. There's enough good about Local Color to award him additional chances.


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What is your favourite poem and who is your favourite poet?
A very hard question, because sometimes I like to read funny poems and sometimes I prefer something moody and mysterious. But I've admired Brian Patten's A Small Dragon for a L.. O.. N.. G.. time and Charles Causley is my BIG hero because he wrote such beautiful, rhyming poems.
Which of your own poems are you most fond of?
That's a tricky question too. I'm proud of some of my serious poems because they make people feel dreamy or shivery or both at once. My favourite silly poem is called Fowl Play and it's about a chicken football team led by a rooster called David Peckham. My dreamiest non-rhyming poem is The Black Cat which is about my kind old tomcat who died last year. It's not quite true but the cat in the poem is a lot like him.
Did you start to write poems because you were just bored, or because you didn't have any hobbies?
but some of your poems are sad aren't they?
And the way they darted across the lawn.
What's your best place to write a poem?
I do have favourite places. Weedy corners of the garden. My own, quiet den (which is full of cat books and pictures) But the real answer is anywhere, anytime. Especially after a long walk. So I suppose I should say – my notebook. I take it with me wherever I go. Just in case.
What do you do when you haven't got an idea?
How do you write so quickly?
Panic mainly. Some days my calendar says Finish those poems now! And somehow – I do!
How many poems have you written? I bet over fifty.
You're not wrong. I've written hundreds. It's ridiculous. I've filled folders and boxes and shelves and cupboards and lofts and I just can't stop. Help!
Yes. Sometimes I scribble them out. Sometimes I turn them into missiles and throw them in the bin (if I don't miss.) But sometimes I go back to them later and do my best to make them better.
Do you ever use your poems to raise money for other people?
Yes. I've printed some little books of Christmas poems, and they've helped to raise funds for people with cancer and muscular dystrophy.


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3ie, in partnership with the Uganda Office of the Prime Minister (OPM Uganda), implemented a multi-year programme to strengthen the production and use of evaluation evidence with selected ministries. The Ugandan government identified key development issues in which quality evidence about programme effectiveness was lacking. 3ie supported a range of evaluations to help fill those evidence gaps. Moreover, 3ie worked with the ministries to strengthen evidence use in their work. OPM Uganda is a member of 3ie, and we have been working with them for many years to build a culture of evidence use and strengthen the national monitoring and evaluation system.
We funded five process evaluations and three impact evaluations of flagship government programmes: the School Grants, Youth Livelihoods and Family Planning programmes. The impact evaluation designs were informed by process evaluations carried out in the initial phase of the evidenceprogramme.
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3ie supported the rollout of the Prime Minister's Integrated Management Information System (PIMIS) in the Ministry of Education and Sports. The project involved revamping the current education monitoring and information system to capture programme data that could be used for evaluations and for tracking and improving implementation. The new system offers improved graphical visualisation of budgets and project performance. It has also improved the availability of breakdowns of the planned budget for different fund sources i.e. government-funded, donor-funded or off budget. This 3ie-funded project has created interest among other donors for supporting the PIMIS rollout in other ministries.
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We supported the government's capacity development in monitoring and evaluation in several ways. Apart from providing ongoing quality assurance advice for evaluations and other work funded under this programme, we also organised multiple workshops and clinics on evidence production and use. Government staff from different ministries, as well as OPM Uganda, have strengthened their capacities to commission and use evaluations, develop programme theories of change and write policy briefs. We also funded government staff to attend evaluation training workshops and major evaluation conferences through our bursary programme.
In early 2018, 3ie, in partnership with OPM Uganda, carried out an evaluation capacity assessment of selected ministries. We used the findings to inform the development of a targeted capacity strengthening plan that 3ie helped deliver.
Evidence impact: rapid assessment of public sector organisations
3ie and OPM Uganda commissioned a rapid assessment of 13 public sector organisations in the country in August 2016. The assessment looked at relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. It also contributed to establishing best practices, guidelines and checklists so that the government could carry out similar assessments in the future. Based on the assessment's recommendations, the government issued a stipulation that put the creation of new agencies, authorities and local governments on hold until further notice. The cabinet directive has introduced the possibility of consolidating and restructuring existing public sector organisations. On the request of the cabinet, 3ie and OPM Uganda also commissioned the rapid assessment of the remaining organisations.
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By JOAN GAYLORD
Hour Staff Writer
February is Black History Month, a time to pause and reflect upon the many contributions to American culture by African-Americans. To celebrate, Norwalk Community College has planned a month of events that are free and open to the community.
"Renewing America: Pictures of Promise," an art exhibit that explores African-American culture, will be on view all month in the West Campus Art Gallery. Among the artists exhibiting their work is Jo-Ann Claybourne of Norwalk.
In the atrium of East Campus, visitors may discover the many every-day inventions that we use that were the inspiration of African-Americans. The exhibit opens today and runs through Feb. 20.
In addition to the exhibits, NCC has scheduled several performances during the month including live music, dance and plays. On Wednesday the community is invited to a performance of "Voices: Those Who Wore the Shoe," a play that explores slavery in America. It will be held in the PepsiCo Theater at 11 a.m. A second play titled, "A Star Ain't Nothing But a Hole in Heaven," will be performed in the evening on Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m., also in the Theater.
The Bob Lamothe Band will present an exploration of the history of the blues on Thursday Feb. 19. NCC has scheduled two performances, the first at 5:30 p.m. followed by a second at 7 p.m. in the East Campus Atrium.
The renowned African Dance and Drum Troupe "Sounds of Africa" will perform at 11 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 23 in the Theater.
Also included as part of the month-long observance will be two lectures designed to explore unique chapters of American history. Rev. Lindsay Curtis, pastor of Grace Baptist Church and president of the Norwalk chapter of the NAACP, will speak on Tuesday about "Civil Rights: An Obsession." Curtis will lecture at 11:30 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. in the Pepsico Theater.
On Feb. 25, NCC will host a discussion about Toussaint L'Ouverture, the slave who defeated Napoleon and freed Haiti. Sponsored by the NCC HASTA Club and the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, time and location are to be announced.
This is the first year NCC has planned a month of cultural events, said Dean of Students Marilyn Hodge. Black History Month is a federally-recognized nationwide celebration that is an expansion of Negro History Week, first observed in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
For more education stories, visit The Hour's education blog, "School Clips" at http://blogs.thehour.com/schoolclips/
Staff writer Joan Gaylord covers education. She may be reached at (203) 354-1005 or jgaylord@thehour.com


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Perry Baker makes it into Guinness World Record book
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USA 7s speedster Perry Baker has made it to the Guinness World record book.
Baker had the highest number of clean breaks made in the World Rugby 7s series tournaments.
As of 6th of April this year, the former NFL player has made 235 clean breaks often leading to sensational tries.
"It happened to me, it can happen to you."
NFL heartbreak to best in the world, @SpeedSt11ck refused to give up. #HSBC7s pic.twitter.com/aKePtRqd9h
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This makes it the highest clean breaks made in the World Sevens Series tournaments by a player.
One of my coaches bought the Guinness world records book 2020 for Christmas and look who's in it. Can't tell me focus,determination and working hard doesn't blossom. All glory to God ??
A post shared by Perry Baker (@pbake11) on Dec 22, 2019 at 8:06am PST
In a recent tweet, Baker shared how his focus, determination and hard work in sevens rugby has paid off for him.
Baker recorded 190 tries in over 222 matches and has also won the World Rugby Player of the year twice in 2017 and 2018.


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Ottawa Senators Mid-Season Report Card
Originally posted at: The Hockey Writers
As the 2011-2012 season began, most expected it to be a long arduous season of rebuilding for the Ottawa Senators. Now at the mid-point of the season the Sens find themselves surprisingly in fifth place in the Eastern Conference with 50 points.
The season began as expected as the Sens had a 1-5-0 start in their first six games. However, they pulled it together and finished the month 7-5 with a series of dramatic come from behind and over time wins, becoming this seasons "Cardiac Kid" team
Since then, the Sens record in the month of November was 5-5-2. In December they managed a 7-5-3 record. So far in January they are an impressive 3-0-1 record for a season result of 22-15-6.
Looking at the roster at the start of the season compared to the same time last year, there were a lot of questions. Gone from the previous years manifest were Mike Fisher, Chris Kelly, Alexi Kovalev, Jarkko Ruutu, Ryan Shannon, Marek Svatos, Chris Campoli, and both goalies Pascal Leclaire, and Brian Elliott. All these departures made way for Bobby Butler, Erik Condra, Colin Greening, Stephane Da Costa, Zack Smith, and Jared Cowen who were all auditioned for regular roles on the NHL club.
In addition, GM Bryan Murray added Zenon Konopka, Nikita Filatov, Craig Anderson, and Alex Auld via trade and free agency. The most notable additions came on draft day however, as the Sens stocked the cupboard with Mika Zibanejad, Stefan Noesen, Matt Puempel, and Shane Prince.
Going into the season, Sens fans may have been embracing a season of loss and evaluation while looking to the future and a rebuild. Securing another lottery pick while developing, and identifying the talent of their young players. It is reasonable to think that Sens fans would be hoping GM Murray would continue to purge some veterans off the roster. Specifically defensemen Sergei Gonchar and Filip Kuba, who were both booed by fans at the season home opening introductions.
Here is a report card style breakdown, player-by-player of the Sens roster to evaluate each players performance year-to-date
Image By: Peter Harling
Daniel Alfredsson
GP 37, G14, A 19, 33 Points, (+/-) 4
Grade: A-
The Sens Captain has played an inspiring season, overcoming off-season back surgery and an early season concussion. With the NHL All-Star game in Ottawa this season, and Alfredsson being the leading fan voted player, expect him to be one of the Captains.
GP 38, W 20, L 12, OTL 4, GAA 3.13, SV% .902
Acquired late last season, Anderson was immediately labeled as the best goaltender in modern franchise history. His play has been spotty at times, but overall he is getting the job done.
Alex Auld
GP 10, W 1, L 3, OTL 2, GAA 3.73, SV% .875
Grade: F
Auld's second stint in Ottawa has been a complete failure. He has started 10 games, but only finished six. His stats are awful. Auld has allowed future goalie Robin Lehner to develop properly in the AHL. If Anderson goes down to injury, Lehner will vault past Auld to be the starter.
Bobby Butler
GP 32, G 4, A 4, 8 Points, (+/-) 3
Grade: D-
After showing chemistry with Jason Spezza in last seasons second half, scoring 10 goals and 21 points, Butler has failed to produce this season. Butler is a scoring winger who is not scoring. Unless he gets hot, he will not be on the Sens roster next season.
Matt Carkner
GP 13, G 1, A 1, 2 Points, (+/-) -2
Carkner missed the start of the season with a knee injury. His return has brought even more toughness to the most penalized team in the NHL. Carkner is an excellent fifth-sixth tough, character, shut-down defender.
Erik Condra
GP 42, G 7, A 10, 17 Points, (+/-) 13
Condra is a defensive winger and is leading the Sens in +/- with plus-13. In addition to solid defense and penalty killing, Condra has chipped in 17 points.
Jared Cowen
GP 43, G 4, A 8, 12 Points, (+/-) 1
Cowen has been a tower of power on the Sens blue line. Cowen is exactly what the Sens defense has been lacking. He is a big, mean, stay at home, shutdown defender. Cowen has shown the poise of a veteran in his own end. Any offense he produces is a bonus! Going into the season there were Calder Trophy hopes in Ottawa for David Rundblad. But it is Cowen who will be the Senators nominee for rookie of the year.
Stephane Da Costa
Grade: C-
Da Costa was unable to secure the second line center position despite injuries to Peter Regin and the demotion of Mika Zibanejad. With the addition of Kyle Turris, his future is now uncertain. Da Costa is still in his first pro season and can continue to develop in Binghamton of the AHL. Da Costa showed plenty of skill despite not being able to score consistently. If he can round out his game, and make the adjustment from college hockey to pro hockey he may yet make the NHL with the Senators, or elsewhere.
Kaspars Daugavins
Daugavins is an energy winger who brings more defense than offense. He was a surprise to make the team after being called up and staying with the team. Daugavins is a quality depth player who is very expendable.
Nick Foligno
GP 43, G 12, A 13, 25 Points, (+/-) -4
Foligno is finally showing signs of the break-out the Sens were hoping for. Foligno has scored consistently since an experiment that saw him assume second line centre. He has carried that momentum in both his offence and physical game as he has started to deliver big time hits. He is now a legitimate top six forward in the NHL
Sergei Gonchar
GP 36, G 2, A 21, 23 Points, (+/-) 0
Gonchar is having a bounce back season. After only scoring 27 points and posting a plus/minus -15 last season he has surpassed most expectations. However, with a cap hit of $5.5 million is he meeting his contract expectations?
Colin Greening
GP 43, G 9, A 11, 20 Points, (+/-) -4
Going into the season, Greening was not a lock to make the team. Not only has he made it, he has clinched the top winger spot with Spezza and Michalek. Greening has developed into a solid NHL power forward. After a sensational start, he is showing signs of slowing down. For now, Greening is exceeding expectations.
Karlsson is enjoying a breakout season. Not only has he become the Sens number one defenseman, he is arguably the best in the NHL. Leading the NHL defense scoring in points and All-Star votes, the future is bright for Karlsson
Zenon Konopka
Konopka was acquired as an off season free agent. His role is to play fourth line centre, providing face-off support and toughness.
Filip Kuba
GP 34, G 4, A 8, 12 Points, (+/-) 13
Last season Murray could not give Kuba away as he played a poor season while struggling with injuries. This season has been a bounce back campaign for Kuba and he has reestablished some trade value. Given the Sens depth on defense he may still be trade bait at the deadline.
Grade: D
The former first round ninth overall pick has failed to meet expectations. It would be in both Lee's and the Sens best interest to move on.
Milan Michalek
GP 38, G 20, A 8, 28 Points, (+/-) -4
The combination of playing on the top line with Spezza, and being healthy has allowed Michalek to have an all-star season. Michalek was leading the NHL in goals before he missed time with a concussion.
Chris Neil
GP 34, G 6, A 8, 14 Points, (+/-) -8
Neil is a player lots of teams would love to have. Neil is consistently at the top of the league in hits and penalty minutes. His presence can influence the momentum, and outcome of a game.
The Veteran shutdown defenseman logs big minutes for the Sens against the opposition's top line. Never much of an offensive threat, but at his best when you don't notice him
Peter Regin
After a breakout playoff performance in 2010 Regin has been plagued by a series of serious shoulder injuries. This season is all but done for him, and his career is now in question.
GP 43, G 12, A 9, 21 Points, (+/-) 5
Smith was not expected to make the team, but he has far exceeded expectations. Smith is very versatile; he has size, plays two-way, and has provided offensive support. He is an ideal third line center.
Jason Spezza
GP 43, G 15, A 27, 42 Points, (+/-) 0
A clean bill of health has allowed Spezza to reestablish himself as a premier center in the NHL. He is strong on the draw and has developed his defensive game, reducing his turnovers dramatically.
Kyle Turris
GP 16, G 1, A 6, 7 Points (+/-) 6
After holding out in a contract dispute, then demanding a trade out of Phoenix, Turris was acquired for David Rundblad. Since joining the Sens, he has been thrust into the second line center position and played well. Expectations will be high for the former third overall draft pick. For now he is playing well. Expectations will be raised once the honeymoon era ends, then the pressure will mount.
Overall Team Grade: A-
Going into the second half of the season and as we approach the trade deadline, the Ottawa Senators are exceeding the expectations of most. Some players have failed to meet expectations, while others have surpassed theirs. Overall, what looked like a season that had the makings of a complete nightmare has become a Cinderella story.
By: Peter Harling
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Joy-Anna Duggar weds Austin Forsyth: 'I feel so blessed'
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By Embry Roberts
Joy-Anna Duggar, 19, and Austin Forsyth, 22, have officially tied the knot!
With a friendship of 15 years preceding their courtship and eventual engagement, the two have known each other almost their whole lives. And now, they've vowed to spend the rest of them together, too.
"What an absolutely wonderful day our family will always treasure," read a post on the Duggar family website. "As parents, we could not be more grateful for the godly woman Joy has become, and the loving husband she married! We love you, Joy and Austin and are so happy for you both, as you embark on this exciting journey together!"
The Duggars had double the reason to rejoice: At an event celebrating the newly married couple, Joy's older brother, Joseph, 22, proposed to Kendra Caldwell, 18. Looks like another Duggar family wedding is just around the corner.
At an event celebrating Joy-Anna Duggar's marriage to Austin Forsythe, Joy's older brother, Joseph, 22, proposed to Kendra Caldwell, 18.tlc.com
The rest of us will get to experience part of Joy and Austin's special day when their wedding is featured on the premiere episode of "Counting On," airing June 12 on TLC.
"The moment I said 'I do' was just a huge burden off my shoulder," Austin revealed in their announcement. "I'm just looking forward to getting to share my life — its good times and its challenges — with my best friend."
"Saying our vows and saying 'I do' and committing our lives to each other is so incredible," Joy-Anna added. "I feel so blessed to be married to him."
The two were so excited to begin their lives together that they moved up their original wedding plans, putting their engagement at just three months.
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For the most part, this is a good page on Chaturanga. However, it doesn't say what happens when a pawn reaches the King's starting square. Does it promote to a prince, as in Tamerlane's Chess? That doesn't seem likely, because princes are mentioned nowhere on the page. Maybe the pawn just stays there without promoting. Or does it promote to a Counsellor? Another thing--some earlier comments discussed whether 2 or 4 player chaturanga was older, with the theory that 4-players was the first version being 'refuted' almost immediately. However, I have some evidence which seems to suggest that the four player game was older. It's the name of the game--literally! According to this site, Chaturanga means 'quadripartite'. The 'official' theory is that it refers to the four types of pieces. Pawns (soldiers), elephants, rooks (chariots), and horses. However, I find that hard to believe. It seems to me that the armies are actually 'pentapartite', because wouldn't the Counsellor count as a fifth part of the army? Or am I missing something important? I see no reason why the name Chaturanga (quadripartite) couldn't have originally referred to the four players playing the game, and then when the four was reduced to two, someone came up with an explanation ('four types of pieces') to justify keeping the same name. I'm only an amateur chess-variantist right now (I don't have access to Murray, Gollon, or any of those books) so any replies would be appreciated.


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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — US Virgin Islands (USVI) Delegate to Congress Stacey E. Plaskett easily defeated contender Ronald E. Russell, former senator and practicing attorney who mounted a campaign against Ms Plaskett hoping to unseat the freshman congresswoman in Saturday's, August 6, 2016, primary election.
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With my schedule being completely hectic recently, admittedly, fitness has taken a little bit of a back seat for now. Well, another reason is that I have managed to damage my sternum and the surrounding muscles, so unfortunately, I have been advised to stay off the weights *doh*. Anyway, to get myself back into the game, I have bought myself a number of items from the ELLESPORT Fitness Wear For Women. This is the first time that I have ever bought from the ELLESPORT and personally, I was incredibly impressed with the variety on their website. If you are also someone who also loves bright colours, bold patterns, and comfortable fitness clothing, then this is the website to visit.
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There are several ways we go about creating a logo, and the process is contingent upon the client's budget. The most expensive way we create a logo is from scratch. Typically, many hours go into it and several rounds of changes. The least expensive way is to find a logo we like and to recreate something similar. We have both types of work in our portfolio. If you need a new logo, or a logo redesign, feel free to call us. Don't let your company's limited budget stop you from having an attractive identity.
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This is a private room in a two story- apartment located in a nice, quiet neighborhood. The room is rather small but has a double bed so it suits two people. There are two shared bathrooms with a shower. I live in the apartment with my 2 daughters. We have 2 dogs and a cat.
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We struggle to look forward to and live for eternity because our distorted view of heaven is not all that compelling to us. However, God's promise is that ultimate joy awaits us in heaven and for eternity, when we will see the Lord face to face. This is the final message of the series on Joy and was given by Pastor Peter Cho.
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UK Free TV shows the coverage area for a radio transmitter as a coloured overlay (orange for FM, other colours for DAB) on the grey map. We have computed the coverage by combining the terrain with the official radiation pattern. A single click will select the transmitter to view the coverage for a single site, and a double click goes to a page showing full details. Click on the buttons in the right-hand corner of the map to choose from different frequencies (or multiplexes for DAB).
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Injuries and ill health is costing UK construction £1.29 billion a year | Sitestak
Injuries and ill health to workers is costing the UK construction industry approximately £1.29 billion a year, according to a new study of data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by the construction site storage experts at Sitestak. Estimated cost of injury and ill health to construction exceeds £1.2 billion
The research, which looked at recently published statistics from the HSE, found that the estimated cost from ill health and injury in UK construction to be between £963 and £1,476 million per year, with the central estimate being £1,291 million (£1.29 billion).
The central estimate cost of injuries in UK construction alone is £659 million – higher than in other heavy goods and services industries including agriculture (£199 million), transport and storage (£322 million) and even manufacturing (£658 million).
Male construction workers are seven times more likely to be injured
Despite this high cost, there was a 7.85% year-on-year decrease in 2019/20 in non-fatal injuries to employees and self-employed people in construction in Great Britain. Huge strides have been made to safety on construction sites over the last decade, with non-fatal injuries in UK construction having decreased by 45.56%.
That said, the research also shows that male construction workers are seven times more likely than women to have a non-fatal accident or injury at work – and not just because there are more male workers. In 2019/20 there were 395 non-fatal accidents per 100,000 male construction workers compared to just 52 non-fatal accidents per 100,000 female construction workers.
Falls and being struck are the biggest drivers of fatalities
However, progress still needs to be made on minimising the number of more serious injuries. Fatalities to construction workers in Great Britain have actually risen slightly over the last two years from 1.36 people per 100,000 in 2018/19 to 1.84 people per 100,000 in 2020/21. Over the whole of the last decade there has been a modest decrease in fatal injuries of just 2.44%.
In 2020/21 most fatalities in UK construction were men and the leading causes of death was falling from a height (20) or being struck (9) either against, by an object or by a moving vehicle. Older workers are also more likely to suffer fatality. In 2019/20 there were 3.78 deaths per 100,000 construction workers aged 60-64 compared to just 1.13 deaths per 100,000 workers aged 25 to 34.
Peter James, Managing Director of SiteStak comments: "While the number of construction-related injuries are on a slow overall decline, our study reveals that ill health in the industry is still leading to a large human and financial cost. Fatal and non-fatal injuries in construction remain stubbornly high and it is sad to see that males and older workers seem to be disproportionately affected."
"Unfortunately, we hear all too often of accidents caused by poor organisation and chaotic building sites. It's not just that more materials lying on construction sites tends to lead to more trips and falls. Disorganisation also leads to greater human movement around building sites, which means a greater chance of a fall or being struck. Given our findings we would like to see more measures to ward against injury where feasible. This should include better management of construction sites and could also mean stronger adherence to health and safety procedures, greater use of safety apparel, more regular breaks and more thorough risk assessments.
The SiteStak materials management system has been specifically designed to improve organisation on building sites. It helps to prevent trips and falls by reducing excess materials lying on site and the need for human movement across building sites. Its new saw guide and clamp also helps to prevent injury and encourages better posture during use.
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You'll get the best of both worlds – a summer intensive with exceptional technical and artistic training and a one-of-a-kind dance experience giving you an inside scoop on life inside of a professional company. Ballet Idaho and their dancers will be your host. For three days you'll become part of a professional ballet company.
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The Greenough Family and the Boston Tea Party
By Jamaica Plain Historical Society | December 16, 2021
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The Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773, and brothers David and John Greenough were embroiled in the controversy, and boycott of tea imported by the East India Company that led to the Boston Tea Party.
Learn more about how the Boston Tea Party affected the Greenough family from a lecture by historian Peter Drummey. Drummey is a Jamaica Plain resident and Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society where the Greenough family papers are housed.
The lecture was originally held at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, and was sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society.
The following article is the text of the lecture, was originally published on Jamaica Plain Historical Society's website. It has been republished on Jamaica Plain News with JPHS' permission. Click here to read the article on JPHS' website, and listen to audio of the lecture.
Boston Tea Party, The History of North America. London: E. Newberry, 1789. Engraving. Plate opposite p. 58. (Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
I'm beginning this evening with a letter written by Samuel Adams to James Warren, dated December 28, 1773. That's just twelve days after the Boston Tea Party. Adams writes from Boston to James Warren—who is another leader of the patriot cause in colonial Massachusetts. Warren and his famous wife, the playwright, Mercy Otis Warren, lived in Plymouth.
As you'll see and hear this evening, several times in my talk, there's a great advantage in telling a story that is dependent on evidence in contemporary letters. That is, to have really good evidence, what you need to have is someone who is interested and well informed and at a distance. And tonight I'll be talking about people living and working here in Boston and their close relatives living on the Upper Cape—in Wellfleet and Truro and Provincetown, at the outer reach of Cape Cod. And this is right at the time of the beginning of the Revolution.
In this letter, Adams writes to Warren—and I have to use my reading glasses as I go through this. Stop me if you have any questions, but make sure to gesture wildly when you do. Adams writes:
It is a great consolation to find, that our friends in the country approve of the conduct of this and the neighboring towns at the late meetings. We are assured of this by the letters we almost daily receive. I think we have put our enemies in the wrong; and they must in the judgment of rational men, be answerable for the destruction of the tea, which their own obstinacy had rendered necessary. Notwithstanding what your Tories have given out, the people here are universally pleased, excepting the disconcerted Hutchinson [that is, their royal governor] and his few, very few, adherents.
Adams goes on to explain what happened and the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party in Boston, and gives Warren a detailed account, but then, at the end of his letter, he adds a P.S., rather mysteriously, "We are concerned that we hear nothing of the tea at Cape Cod."
My purpose tonight is to tell you about the tea at Cape Cod. And to do so—let me explain what I plan to do—I'm going to tell you the story of two shipwrecks: one that takes place in the fall of 1773, just before the Boston Tea Party, and another five years later, during the Revolution, and how they're connected to people and the members of the family that occupied this house before and after the Revolution.
First, we all should—and I'll see if I can remember them—know the names of the three ships that brought the tea to Boston, the East India Tea Company that came to Boston in November of 1773—the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. But in fact there was a fourth ship that came here to Boston. Other ships went to other ports in the American colonies.
But this fourth ship, a small brig named the William, was on its way to Boston. It had loaded with tea, six tons of tea, in England. It was bringing the tea back to Boston when it went ashore off of Provincetown in early December 1773.
Now, the first connection to this house is that the captain of that ship is a very young man—probably 21 or 22, depending on when his birthday was—named Joseph Loring. And he's one of the younger sons of Joshua Loring, who built this house. So Joseph Loring is the captain of the tea ship, which doesn't get here to Boston, but goes ashore. The tea is salvaged. The six tons, 12,000 pounds, of tea is salvaged from that ship. And along with it, 300 streetlights, which are coming to Boston. This is planned to be the first illumination of Boston. In fact, in some respects, this is the important part of the story. Those streetlights are salvaged and finally make it to Boston, but that's not my story for the evening.
But the tea that's on its way here, this boycotted tea, this tea that came taxed—does everyone know generally the background of this? Let me just quickly explain.
Before the Revolution, the consumption of tea everywhere in the world, and especially in the American colonies, rose gigantically, very quickly. This is tea that is still coming from China. It's transported by the British East India Company that has a monopoly on the sale of tea in England, which then is re-exported to America, and it's very heavily taxed.
And because of this high tax on the tea, and a tax on its way to England, and then an additional tax—well, I'll get to that in a minute—this heavy tax on the tea makes this East India tea very expensive, and the competition is tea that's being imported, mainly through Holland, and then smuggled into America. The East India Company has this monopoly. Smugglers are bringing tea into America to avoid paying this heavy tax and undercutting the British East India Company.
There are other problems with the business of the British East India Company. So in the early 1770s, the East India Company, which is very important in England, one of the real first large companies in England, the English government depended on it for taxes and for control of places in the Far East. To rescue this company that's in terrible financial circumstances the British government starts rebating this very heavy tax that they placed upon the tea to the British East India Company to save it financially. And at the same time they're doing that, which means that the cost of the tea goes way down because it's no longer being heavily taxed with this tax that it's taxed when it goes to England, but, at the same time, as part of this long struggle with taxation in the American colonies, the British apply a relatively modest tax to the tea that's being imported to the American colonies.
And this, I think unexpectedly in England, sets off a firestorm here. This is part of the struggle that we all know. This is "taxation without representation." The people here have no say in that tax. In England they see the Parliament that's applying the taxes being representative of all citizens of England, wherever they live. That's not how people here in America see it.
At the same time, here in America, this tea being imported by the East India Company, now at a much-reduced price, even with this modest additional three-pence-per-pound tax attached to it, is now undercutting the smuggled tea coming into America.
So this places people, especially people in business, in a real dilemma. Their main way of doing business has been disrupted. The British are forcing Americans to pay a tax, but it's a very modest tax. On the other hand, this very modest tax is very important in the struggle between the royal government and the American colonists because one thing that's really important is: Who pays the royal officials here—the governors, the judges, the people, and the customs agents here. Who's paying their salaries? And that's what the British government is looking for this tax to do. It makes the officials of the royal government independent of popular will here. It's no longer the people here paying the salaries of these agents of government that can be paid directly by the royal government based upon this tax. That's the theory. And it means there's this head-on clash.
And in America, in the American colonies, there's almost a universal boycott, a decision to resist the importation of this tea, which is being imported on a gigantic scale. The little ship William is carrying six tons of tea, but that's one or two percent of the amount of tea that's coming as part of this enormous shipment of tea into America, just a tiny percentage of it.
So young Joseph Loring—the son of the famous Captain Loring who built this house—puts his ship ashore in Provincetown. The cargo is salvaged. And then, in the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party here in Boston, where all the tea that came on the other three ships has been destroyed, the Clark family makes this heroic effort to rescue what's left of the tea, the tea from the William, and move it into Boston. And most of the tea comes here to Boston—out of 58 chests, I think, 56 come to Boston.
There are two chests left, two big chests full of hundreds of pounds of tea left out on Cape Cod. And those two chests of tea come into the hands of a young schoolteacher and businessman in Wellfleet named John Greenough. And John Greenough is the son of Thomas Greenough, the Boston merchant, who has in two marriages about fifteen children. And in his first marriage, his fifth child is John Greenough, who's born in the 1740s, and goes to Yale. And that's an interesting point, as someone whose father wants him to have a college education, but not at Harvard. I don't know for a fact, but he probably thinks that Harvard is a little bit too liberal along religious lines.
So, as many people did, he sends his son to Yale to get a good education — one of his sons, John (another younger son goes to Yale much later) — but sends his son to Yale. And then John Greenough comes back, marries on Cape Cod in the 1760s, settles in Wellfleet, which only becomes a town, divides off from Eastham, in 1763, and sets himself up in business there as being probably, except for the minister, the only college-educated man in town and the teacher at a school there, and also in business to keep himself going.
So, at the time the William comes on shore, a sprig off of the family that built this house is the captain of the ship, and a brother of the future owner of this house, an older brother of David Stoddard Greenough, is on shore there, making his way in business, including the salvaging of shipwrecks.
The outer reaches of Cape Cod are an extraordinarily dangerous place for shipping. There was talk about building the Cape Cod Canal going back at least to the time of the American Revolution if not before. It took a long time building. But these are the dangerous grounds where lots of ships come ashore, and there's this ship that's a victim of the storm at the time of this incident.
So anyway, all by means of preface, John Greenough ends up as the owner of the two remaining chests of tea that arrive in Provincetown. And his idea is, it doesn't matter about the boycott and the taxes, he has this tea salvaged from the shipwreck that he can sell, as he would sell anything else he salvaged from any other shipwreck and make a good profit on it.
And he runs into all sorts of difficulty with the people living in his town, Wellfleet, and people living in Provincetown who were still adamant about enforcing this boycott. There's this divide between the people who see this as a business opportunity—John Greenough bring the chief representative—and people seeing this is simply more of what they called "the cursed tea" that everyone had made these non-importation agreements and boycotts to stop being imported.
So there's a stalemate between John Greenough and his neighbors. And this is an interesting time because this is a time where there certainly are democratic impulses at work in society, but still this is the well-educated person with good family connections living in Wellfleet that then is a town of about 1200, as I say, a new town broken off from Eastham, a place where people are scrambling to make their living, and here one of the principal figures, a big man in town, is going against the popular will.
It's not just the popular will that John Greenough is going against. He's also going against his family because his father, Thomas Greenough, the merchant in Boston, is an active member of this patriot movement (resistance to royal authority), is a member of the Committee of Correspondence in Boston, the network (before the American Revolution) of committees spread out through the towns, principally in New England, but everywhere in the colonies, coordinating the resistance against the royal government.
And his younger half-brother—although there were so many families at the time of the Revolution where there'd be through (usually) death and childbirth, there'd be multiple marriages where we would call people stepbrothers and –sisters— at the time of the Revolution, John Greenough doesn't refer to his brother David Stoddard as a stepbrother. He just thinks of him as a brother, even though they have different mothers.
But the severe criticism of John Greenough comes from his own father, who's a member of the apparatus resisting royal authority in Boston, and his much-younger brother, his brother David, who is ten years younger than he, and living at the time in Wellfleet as well.
I'm giving you a copy of a wonderful letter that's at the Massachusetts Historical Society. And this is a letter that David writes to his brother John. He writes:
The report was brought here today by some credible men from Truro, as very much surprised me as well as all other of your friends, that is, that you was a-going to bring one or two chests of that cursed tea to Wellfleet to sell, which is a cause of me hiring Gershon Rider to carry this letter to the Cape [he's only referring to the outer-most Provincetown part of Cape Cod as the Cape] to be left there for you. Earnestly I beseech you, as a friend and brother, as you value your own interest and the credit of our family, not to concern yourself anyways with the tea. If you have bought any, I'd advise you rather to sink it in the sea than to bring any of it here. For my part, I can hardly believe so good a friend to your country as you always professed to be would shift sides so quick at the prospect of a little profit.
David goes on to tell his older brother that he wouldn't even pay six pence a pound for this tea. The letter's wonderful, and I apologize for not giving you a transcription to go along with it, but even though the handwriting is very rough and ready, it's wonderful. And he manages in the course of the letter to refer to the "cursed" or "tested" tea about six times and to Jonathon Clark, the son in this business enterprise, as "Clark, that Tea Devil" to get the salvaged tea. I'll just point out at the very end of the letter on the back, he writes, "In haste I must conclude, your loving brother, if you don't concern with any tea. P.S. Your family is well."
So, this is funny to read but sincerely done. And what happens is—this letter is written in January, just a few weeks after the Boston Tea Party—over the course of about the next six or eight months, there's this ferocious struggle basically between John Greenough against everybody else on Cape Cod and his family here at home. And the story is generally understood as John Greenough being forced to bend to the popular will and apologize to the town of Wellfleet for his actions. And this event is, I think, fairly celebrated as a sort of miniature version of the Boston Tea Party at a distance.
People dressed up as Indians seize the tea in Provincetown and burn it. They waylay John Greenough on the road and disperse and damage some of his remaining tea. He's sort of confused. I guess he hasn't been reading the newspapers because he doesn't recognize these people as being disguised Indians. He describes them as "black face" and thinks they may have been town ruffians who had followed him to steal his tea.
So this is a wonderful and complicated story. We have at the Massachusetts Historical Society an enormous collection of Greenough papers and a very small collection of John Greenough's letters and drafts of letters he wrote to family members in the town of Wellfleet about this, and then letters written to and by his father and brother David and a younger brother William, who had gone off to Yale by that time, describing these events.
So my take on this is that John Greenough bent enough to get by, but he didn't bend much. And he ended up getting this tea back away from the town fathers in Wellfleet and selling part of it. And then, to their credit, the Clark business enterprise told them just to keep whatever he made from it.
And there would end our story as this little interesting event, and there's one other point I'd love to make, which brings us back to this house.
In this discussion through correspondence, there is a letter where John Greenough is writing to Boston, where he says the tea that's in his hands is not his tea. It's Captain Loring's father's tea. So the implication here is that he's acting, in some sort of business enterprise, as an agent for Joshua Loring, who built this house.
I found no other evidence about this other than this reference. It's a very interesting reference. My suspicion is they may have counted two chests of tea as being maybe the captain's share of the cargo from this voyage, and that Joseph Loring, being so young, that maybe in fact it is his father's property in the sense that he put up the money or loaned the ship. But it is striking that the families that, one after the other, owned this property were so connected to this story and the fact that Loring may have been the secret hand behind this whole business I think is wonderful.
So you have this struggle over the tea, kind of a miniature version of the Boston Tea Party, taking place on the outer edges of Cape Cod. And that would be the end of the story except that the world is a more complicated place than that brief story implies.
I'd like to take a minute or two more to tell you about another shipwreck that takes place a few years later in almost exactly the same place and that is in the fall of 1778.
Question: Can you pinpoint on the map…?
This map is a map from 1774, so you have this patriot song to celebrate the Boston Tea Party [in a handout]. And what you're seeing is one section of an enormous map of New England published in England in 1774. On this map — I'm glad you pointed this out because Wellfleet isn't on the map yet. They're so ill informed in England that where on the map its written "Billingsgate," Billingsgate where Wellfleet is now is. Billingsgate was a local name for part of Wellfleet.
So at the very end, where Provincetown is, where it says "Cape Cod" on the map, that's the dangerous point at the end of Cape Cod in Provincetown. The ships are being driven onto the shoals and onto the great beach that extends southward, the ocean-facing beach on outer Cape Cod, and that's where both these shipwrecks that I'm talking about took place.
Another thing — and I'm glad you pointed this out, one thing that makes this story really interesting; it's a hundred miles overland from Boston to Wellfleet. So this is a very considerable journey at the time of the American Revolution. So Wellfleet would be this very isolated place, except when you think about it, Wellfleet's not really very far from Boston if you're sailing from Cape Cod Bay.
In fact, in a striking way, the outer part of Cape Cod for reasons of communication and business, is much more closely connected with Boston than places twenty or thirty miles west of here where the transportation is overland on or by horseback. So, as far away as it is, there is a close connection in terms of communication and business and also this shared maritime interest.
Let me just first tell you what happens to John Greenough in the aftermath in his disastrous attempt to sell tea. He becomes an extraordinarily important person in the history of the Revolution here in Massachusetts. In spite of his falling out with the town, he represents Wellfleet in the Massachusetts legislature and the House of Representatives during the Revolution, and is an extraordinarily active member of that, and in the revolutionary government of Massachusetts, he plays a leading role during the Revolution. The person who has been antagonistic to the boycott, who has resisted this patriotic movement before the war, becomes an important figure at the local level in the war itself.
Massachusetts doesn't have an executive during the Revolution until the constitution that we live under today is written in 1780. There's a five-year hiatus. The royal governor is so anathema; there is no governor during the first part of the Revolution here. In Massachusetts, from 1775 to 1780, the chief of authority lies in a committee out of the Massachusetts legislature.
And John Greenough serves first in the legislature itself, and then as a member of what would be called today the governor's council, but there is no governor so they don't actually call it the governor's council, but he's on this executive committee that's running the Revolutionary War effort.
And, while he's here in Boston much of the time, he is representing Wellfleet and has these connections there. And in 1778, when the French enter the Revolution on the side of the American revolutionary movement, they send a fleet, first to New York and then it comes to Newport in Rhode Island, which is a British naval base, and there's an attempt to capture Newport and it fails, and the French fleet is damaged in a storm, and it comes to Boston to undergo repairs. And the British fleet follows the French fleet here. And one of their large warships, a ship of the line, named the Somerset, goes ashore on Cape Cod just about the same place that several years before, the William went ashore.
And if the Somerset is familiar to you, and it probably isn't but it should be, because think back to your youth when you all read, I'm sure, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride." Revere in that poem, as he did in real life, makes this system for signals, and then he rowed across to Charlestown, as Longfellow writes:
Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
Across the moon like a prison bar,
So the Somerset had been stationed here in Boston before the Revolution, part of this enforcement of these customs regulations, bombarded Bunker Hill during the Battle of Bunker Hill, sailed with the Royal Navy to New York and later on served for the first years of the Revolution on its way back here to blockade the French as it goes ashore on Cape Cod.
This is an enormous ship. It's about the same size when you think about it, as the ship Constitution that's here moored in the harbor, except that it has an additional gun deck so it would be a bigger, tubbier ship with seventy guns.
So this ship drives on shore. Wellfleet, which has 1200 inhabitants, has 400 surprise visitors, prisoners to take care of. And they have this extraordinarily valuable ship loaded with guns and war material. And they have to think of someone who can undertake the salvage. And that's John Greenough.
So John Greenough's last great task in the Revolution was the salvage of cannons from the ship Somerset that were moved here to Castle Island, and under Paul Revere's command in the later part of the Revolution.
Question: Did it go ashore on the ocean side or on the bay side?
I believe on the ocean side because it reappears every several years, Or perhaps longer. The skeleton of the ship reappears on the great beach in Wellfleet even today. The last time it did, they did this wonderful survey of it. So there is a relic buried in the sand on Cape Cod of this.
So John Greenough undertakes this, not all of the cannons by a long shot, but undertakes this salvage mission. So here the villain of my piece in the first part of it becomes the hero of it. His worthy family—it's not that Thomas Greenough didn't play important parts, but in fact, their major role in the Revolution to some degree ended where the Revolution began — they were participants in this move to Revolution. Whereas John Greenough, the person who held back, was the person, when the war began, who had the kind of administrative and technical skills that counted as the war moved forward.
John Greenough dies in July of 1791 so he did not see the Revolution complete, just as the operations in Virginia began leading up to the Battle of Yorktown. The Lorings leave this house in 1774. It's sold and then resold. And then in 1784, after the end of the Revolution, David Stoddard Greenough, the young firebrand son, moves here, and he and his family live happily ever after for 150 years here.
And with that, I wanted to leave plenty of time for questions, but I'll just stop. I'll preempt a question, just because some people have already asked me about this. I'd just like to say one word because sometimes I'm asked about this, and that is: How does the Boston Tea Party relate to the modern political Tea Party movement? And my first answer would be to simply say, not at all. And the reason for that is because the people of that time are so different from now. People like John Greenough, if John Greenough appeared among us this evening, his life and his life experience is so different from today, it would be as if he had dropped from a star.
Just to give you a couple of examples, it's not that people aren't religious today and aren't deeply religious today, but people in 18th century New England are animated by religion in a way that would be very difficult for us to comprehend.
On the other side of your map, just as another example, one thing I gave you is a Patriot song, or verses, from the time of the Boston Tea Party, and I wanted to point out that the refrain of this song ends:
Bostonians SONS keep up your courage good,
Or Dye, like Martyrs, in fair Free-born Blood.
But people are simply animated by causes and a sense of sacrifice that's largely lacking from our thoughts today.
Now just to contradict myself, like my story did, I would say that there are a number of things in the world around us that do resonate in thinking about the time leading up to the Revolution, that people's deep concern and alienation from government is as true today among at least some people as it was then. Also the strong feeling held by many people involved in the revolutionary movement that the world is full of dark conspiracies, that if you could just figure how people were manipulating the world to their advantage and your disadvantage, you'd have the secret of this.
In every depiction—this is an exaggeration, but not much—in every depiction, cartoon depiction, of English political life at the time of the Revolution printed here in America, in Boston, many by Paul Revere—most of which he plagiarized and copied, but that's another story—many of those depictions will show British political figures, and they're all wearing Scotch bonnets, with pompoms, because there are feathers and hackles in them. There was this feeling that behind the British crown, there was this conspiracy of big men in England who were manipulating the British government for their own personal interest. If Americans could just break through to their peers in England, they would understand our problems and put everything to right.
That's not the same thing necessarily as what's happening here, but this deep disturbance within the population and this feeling of alienation from a government that seems distant and unfeeling, those are things that are familiar I think in our lives, or are things we see other people expressing. And perhaps there, there really is some connection.
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Today in Transportation History – 1943: 2nd US Helicopter Flight Leads to Much More
Frank N. Piasecki, an engineer, made the second successful U.S. helicopter flight. In 1940, he helped form the P-V Engineering Forum to build and improve upon Igor Sikorsky's pioneering helicopter flight over American soil the previous year. Piasecki's company, however, was strapped for cash. He and his engineering team ended up becoming expert scroungers, searching in venues such as junkyards for discarded automobile and airplane parts to use for their planned helicopter.
Piasecki also saved money through the recruitment of engineering students to help prepare blueprints for the helicopter free of charge. These efforts resulted in a single-person, single-rotor helicopter called the P-V model, which was painted silver with maroon trim and lettering (the official colors of the University of Pennsylvania, where Piasecki and members of his team had studied).
Frank Piasecki, c. 1951
The original test flight of this helicopter happened in error over a field just outside Philadelphia on April 11, 1943. Piasecki was seated in the running helicopter, which was tethered to the ground by a clothesline, to double-check some devices. The clothesline broke, however, and Piasecki – with only 14 hours of airplane piloting experience under his belt – found himself airborne. Fortunately, he was able to navigate the PV-2 and land it safely.
The helicopter's maiden flight proved to be not only safe and successful but smooth in several important and unprecedented ways. Thanks to its three dynamically balanced rotor blades, for example, the PV-2 vibrated less and proved easier than Sikorsky's models to control when flying.
The debut of the PV-2 reaped several long-term and even historic dividends for Piasecki and his enterprise. For one thing, he earned the first helicopter pilot's license ever awarded by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. On a larger scale, the U.S. government became receptive to the idea of using helicopters to help defeat the Axis powers during World War II at that time. Consequently, Piasecki launched a career supplying the PV-2 and other helicopters for military use. This was an ironic development in light of Piasecki's early expectations that helicopters would become airborne automobiles for more general use.
Piasecki eventually donated the original PV-2 to the Smithsonian Institution. He spent the next several decades continuing to seek ways to advance helicopter design and development. Piasecki died in 2008 at the age of 88.
For more information on Frank N. Piasecki, please check out http://www.piasecki.com/frank.php and his 15 February 2008 New York Times obituary at https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15piasecki.html.
Additional information on Piasecki's PV-2 helicopter is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PV-2.
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