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Tag Archives: Jeremiah Bull
Arthur Bull, Blakeslee, Bull
1855: A Brookdale engagement
14 April 2019 Molly C.	15 Comments
Sepia Saturday 465. Eighth in a series on the early life of my paternal great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, a Union Civil War widow.
The years 1854-56 were pivotal ones for my paternal great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull. In 1854, at 16, she moved with her family from New York's Southern Tier to Brookdale, Susquehanna Co., Penna.
There she came of age and got engaged to her future husband — my great-great grandfather Arthur T. Bull, a tanner from nearby Corbettsville, Broome Co., N.Y.
The Lovers by William Powell Firth (1855). Sometime between 1854-56, my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth Blakeslee of Brookdale, Penna., became engaged to my great-great grandfather Arthur T. Bull of Corbettsville, N.Y. But where and how did they meet? Image: Art Institute Chicago
So how did my great-great grandparents meet — and how long had they known each other?
Geographic proximity
During the 1855 New York State census, my great-great grandfather Arthur, 21, was living in Town of Conklin, Broome Co., N.Y. — where my great-great grandmother Mary lived until about 1854.
According to the census, Arthur had lived in Conklin for only a year — which would place his arrival around 1854. However, another source suggests he may have arrived earlier.
A History of Broome County (1885) says Arthur's father, Jeremiah Bull, took over a foundry in Corbettsville (in Town of Conklin) and turned it into a tannery two years earlier — in 1852.
Conklin Centre, where Mary lived in 1852, was about three miles north of Corbettsville — so she and Arthur could have met while they were living near one another. (See map above.)
Arthur was relatively new to the area — perhaps a welcome change for Mary from the local young men she had grown up with. And even after she moved to south Brookdale, Penna., Mary's home was still just three miles from Corbettsville.
In addition, Mary undoubtedly returned to Conklin periodically to visit her sister Rhoda Ann (Blakeslee) Whitney, who still lived there. So she may have met Arthur during one of her visits.
A Presbyterian connection
Since Arthur and Mary were married by a Presbyterian minister, there is also a good chance that they met at church.
According to J.H. French's Gazetteer of the State of New York (1860), Town of Conklin had a Presbyterian church where they may have worshipped when they were both lived nearby.
As described below, there was also Presbyterian church in Lawsville Centre, Penna. — built circa 1850 — which was about three miles south of Mary's home in Brookdale, Penna. and six miles south of Arthur's Corbettsville, N.Y., residence.
Source: Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Penna. (1887)
Other intriguing possibilities
As a tanner, Arthur may have worked in the Conklin area where his father owned a tannery for a few years — or in Brookdale where a large tannery near the saw mill employed 25 men, which "gave the place a busy appearance" according to the Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Penna. (1887).
The Brookdale, Penna., tannery operated from 1851-1885. Could my great-great grandfather Arthur T. Bull have worked there? Source: Centennial History of Susquehanna Co., Penna. (1887)
Could Arthur and Mary have met when tannery work brought him to Brookdale? It's hard to know without his employment details.
Of course it's always possible they met by a more traditional route: through their families.
The Bulls and Blakeslees may have been acquainted — with Arthur's father Jeremiah owning a business, Mary's dad Zebulon working as a rural postmaster and both families possibly attending the same church. So maybe their parents had a hand in introducing their children in hopes of making a match.
However it happened, meet they did — and by 1856 wedding bells were ringing for my great-great grandparents Mary Elizabeth Blakeslee and Arthur T. Bull.
Up next: The Blakeslee-Bull wedding. Meanwhile, please visit the blogs of this week's other Sepia Saturday participants here.
Arthur BullArthur T. BullJeremiah BullMary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) BullRhoda Ann (Blakeslee) WhitneyZebulon Blakeslee
Arthur Bull, Blakeslee, Bull, Charboneau
A decade in Moose River Settlement
4 March 2016 Molly C.
After exploring how Moose River Settlement was established, I wanted to know more about the daily lives of my Bull ancestors after their 1875 move to the then-thriving hamlet.
South Branch of the Moose River (1912). A man driving a horse drawn sled loaded with logs along Moose River in the Adirondack Mountains. Logs piled along the river, and in the distance is a man standing on a log bridge. From 1875-1885, my Bull ancestors lived on this river in Moose River Settlement — an area with sufficient forests, water and transportation for leather tanning. Photo: New York State Archives Digital Collections
That's when I discovered author Judy Jones — who wrote about her own contemporary journey of discovery after she and her family bought a camp in the area and became curious about its history.
Early in her book Moose River Diary – In Search of The Settlement (2011) she sums up a quest that sounds very much like my own and provides many details I am grateful for:
Now we knew the origin of Moose River Settlement, but that was all. Then, in a series of minute snippets, we learned a little more. We learned that a village of three hundred citizens once bustled in a place called Moose River. There had been a sawmill and tanneries and a boarding house and private homes. There had been a general store and a schoolhouse and a post office and a fine hotel. But then what? And what became of the place?
One of those tanneries employed my great, great grandfather Arthur Bull (a tannery foreman) and his father — my ggg grandfather Jeremiah Bull (who returned to tannery work at age 70).
Perhaps it was Lyon and Snyder's Mammoth Tannery — built in 1866 at Moose River Settlement and one of the largest in the Adirondack region. Such a substantial operation could certainly have enticed my Bull ancestors to leave the Southern Tier for the promise of steady work in the North Country — and for hundreds of others to join them as co-workers and neighbors.
And Moose River Settlement appears to have fulfilled some of my Bull ancestors' expectations — because they remained there for a decade from 1875-1885.
Log jam on Moose River (1948). Men working to clear log jam on the Moose River near Lyonsdale in the Adirondack Mountain foothills — the area where my Bull ancestors lived from 1875-85. Image: New York State Archives Digital Collections
Highlights of the Moose River years
During their time in Moose River, my great, great grandparents Arthur and Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull saw their oldest children grow to adulthood, start work and begin families of their own. One of these was my great grandmother Eva May Bull who married a local lad — my great grandfather William Lawrence Charboneau.
And Arthur and Mary became the proud parents of two more children — daughter Alice I. Bull and son Waples H. Bull — who were both born at Moose River Settlement.
Yet my Bull ancestors were also growing older, and health issues began to arise during their Moose River years. Arthur's heart and lung complaints — for which he was hospitalized during his Union Army service in the U.S. Civil War — reasserted themselves, making it harder for him to work.
So in 1880 — about five years after moving to Moose River Settlement — Arthur Bull filed for a veteran's Invalid Pension from the federal government and began seeing local doctors in connection with his application.
There will be more details in future posts on this and other aspects of my Bull ancestors' Moose River years.
But first I have news to share about my Irish ancestors — William Patrick and Katherine (Gormley) Dempsey — starting with the next post.
Arthur BullEva May (Bull) CharboneauJeremiah BullLyon and Snyder Mammoth TanneryMary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) BullMoose River Settlement NYWilliam Lawrence Charboneau
Blakeslee, Bull
A Lyonsdale loss
29 January 2016 Molly C.
Fifth and last in a series tracking my ancestor Arthur Bull's family from the Catskills to the Adirondack foothills (1870-1875).
Three generations of my Bull ancestors — my great, great grandfather Arthur Bull, his wife and children, and his parents — appear to have moved north together from Broome County on New York's Southern Tier to Lewis County in the Adirondacks region.
Distant view of a 600-tree maple sugar bush near Lowville, Lewis Co., N.Y. (1911). The landscape and climate in New York's North Country marked a change from what the Bull family was used to on the Southern Tier. Perhaps the harsher 1875 winter proved too much for my great, great, great grandmother Mary Bull. Image: New York State Archives Digital Collections
The Bulls seem to have pulled up stakes in late 1874, after the marriage of Arthur's oldest daughter in Binghamton, N.Y.
For by early 1875 the extended family was already in Town of Lyonsdale, Lewis Co., N.Y. at the time of the next major event in their lives — the death of Arthur's mother, Mary, at Moose River Settlement on 15 Jan. 1875.
Vital records registration was not required in New York State until 1881, so I have not found a death certificate for my great, great, great grandmother Mary Bull.
However, a notice of her death and burial (141 years ago this month) appeared in the Broome Republican and was abstracted in the book Genealogical gleanings from early Broome County, New York newspapers (1812-1880) abstracted and compiled by Maurice R. Hitt, Jr. — yet another clue my dad and I discovered together at the Onondaga County Public Library.
BULL, Mary [BR, 27 Jan. 1875] Died 15 Jan. at Moore [sic] River, Lewis Co., NY: Mary Bull, wife of Jeremiah Bull. Age: 65 yrs. 5 mo. 8 da. Bur. in the Shawsville Cem., Conklin, NY.
The abstract does not say whether my ancestor Mary Bull's funeral took place in Lewis County (where she died) or in Conklin, Broome County, N.Y. (where she lived for much of her adult life and was buried).
But I have visited my great, great, great grandmother's grave in Shawsville Cemetery, and the inscription on her stone is consistent with the date in the newspaper abstract.
WIFE OF
DIED JAN. 15, 1875
Aged 65 y'rs & 5 m's.
Mary's death must have been particularly difficult for the Bull family, coming so soon after they moved north in search of a better life. Was the relocation too much for her? Had the harsher winter weather laid her low? Once again I long for family letters or a diary to fill in these personal details.
With Mary's death, my great, great, great grandfather Jeremiah Bull became a widower. According to the 1875 New York State Census for Town of Boonville, Oneida County, N.Y. — enumerated on 7 June — he took up residence in a boarding house in the village of Hawkinsville, N.Y., and at age 70 returned to work as a tanner.
The Bull family surely mourned the loss of my great, great, grandmother Mary Bull. But before long they had a happier occasion to celebrate — the 1876 birth at Moose River Settlement of Arthur and Mary Elizabeth's eighth child, daughter Alice Istora Bull.
More on my Bull ancestors at Moose River Settlement in the next post.
Arthur BullJeremiah BullLewis County NYMary BullMary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) BullMoose River Settlement NY


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A lacquered wood box and cover of hexagonal form, supported on a high, straight foot, the cover with domed sides and a flat top. The black lacquered exterior of the box is inlaid with small pieces of mother-of-pearl. The flat top is decorated with two figures in a landscape setting. A literati, seated on the edge of a lake, is looking at the wavy flow whilst his attendant stands by his side under a tree. A jagged rock formation can be seen in the far distance. The sides of the cover are decorated with floral sprigs, with different flower branches to the sides of the base section, between bands of formal diaper pattern. The interior is covered in bright vermillion lacquer.
The Ryukyu Islands held close connections with China during the Ming dynasty, but from the early 17th century were closer to Japan.[1] Although much controversy remains over the attribution of certain lacquer pieces to either China or the Ryukyus, the shape of the present box and its decorative scheme strongly suggest an attribution to Ryukyu manufacture. In the early 17th century a new mother-of-pearl inlay technique was introduced to Ryukyu craftsmen from China, which involved boiling the molluscs and peeling off very thin layers, resulting in an increased iridescence when pieces were inlaid in lacquer.[2] Hexagonal lacquer boxes were common products in Ryukyu; a stacked hexagonal box now preserved in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt-am-Main, is decorated with a closely comparable scene of figures in a landscape setting.[3] There are, however, also parallels with Chinese lacquer of this period, such as a circular box in the Nezu Museum in Japan, which also shows a figure sitting beside a river, accompanied by an attendant.[4]
Watt, J.C.Y. and Ford, B.B. East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1991, p. 329
Watt, J.C.Y. and Ford, B.B. op. cit. p. 336
Gabbert, G., Ostasiatische Lackkunst, Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt-am-Main, 1978, no.75, p.90
Catalogue of Selected Masterpieces from the Nezu Collections, Decorative Art, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2001, no. 208, p. 175
黑漆嵌螺鈿人物六角形蓋盒
琉球 十七 – 十八世紀 長:14.5 公分 高:7 公分
六角形蓋盒,隨形圈足,蓋壁隆起接平頂。通體髹黑漆為地,以螺鈿鑲嵌紋飾。盒面嵌一長袍文人於樹
下席地而坐,臨岸眺望流水,一侍童側立,遠景襯有山石及流雲。蓋及盒壁均嵌纏枝花卉紋。盒內及盒
底髹紅漆。此螺鈿漆盒雖為琉球製作,由其裝飾風格與構圖可窺見當時與中國的工藝交流。此類六角形
螺鈿漆盒為常見琉球製品,如德國法蘭克福奧曼工藝美術博物館所藏之疊層漆盒。日本根津美術館則藏
有一件裝飾風格相仿之中國製圓形漆盒。
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031 Blue-and-white porcelain paperweight →← 032 Mother-of-pearl panel with figures in a landscape
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From now on you can simply call her Lindsay or Lindsay Sullivan. The actress formerly known as Lindsay Lohan is dropping the Lohan part of her name in a bid to distance herself from her father with whom she has a very strained relationship. Her mother and sister will follow suit and drop Lohan and instead go by Sullivan which is the mother's maiden name. Michael Lohan, who was arrested last week and charged with assaulting his girlfriend is said to be shocked and hurt by the name change.
The first major U.S female vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, died of complications from blood cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday. She was 75. Ferraro a Democrat, was Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1984 presidential election.
Her fiancé is not a big fan of her new slimmed down body. The singer turned actress dropped an incredibly eighty pounds but she says her fiancé misses the old, curvier her.
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Erdogan Rising: What next for Turkey and the West?
Talk Monday 18th November, 7:00PM
The original modern populist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a complex, polarising figure who mastered macho divide-and-rule politics a decade and a half before Donald Trump cottoned on. Many believe he has used it to lead his country – a young democracy on the fringe of Europe – into spiralling authoritarianism.
As president, he commands a following so devoted they compose songs in his honour, adorn their homes with his picture, and lay down their lives to keep him in power.
Yet Erdogan is no ordinary dictator. His elections are won by tiny margins, and Turkey remains defined by its two warring cults: those who worship Erdogan, the wilful Muslim nationalist with a tightening authoritarian grip, and those who stand behind Ataturk, the secularist, westward-looking leader who founded the republic and remains its best loved icon long after his death.
So where is Turkey headed next? How is Erdogan viewed by his international counterparts and how will Turkey's invasion into north east Syria affect the stability of the region and the wider world?
Join The Times correspondents Anthony Loyd and Hannah Lucinda Smith, long-time Erdogan observer and author of recently-published "Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey" as they explore the character, politics and beliefs of Turkey's president.
Hannah Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the Times correspondent for nearly a decade, reporting on the ground from the onset of the Arab Spring through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil war, unprecedented refugee influx and the explosive, bloody 2016 coup attempt that threatened to topple – and kill – Erdogan. During her time in the country, she has also reported from inside rebel-held Syria, on the front lines of the battle against Isis in Iraq. She is author of the recently published "Erdogan Rising".
Anthony Loyd (Chair) is senior foreign correspondent for The Times. His career began in 1993 when he started reporting from the war in Bosnia. Since then he has written from innumerable conflict zones, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Chechnya and Kosovo. He is author of My War Gone By I Miss It So and Another Bloody Love Letter. He has witnessed the atrocities committed by Bashar al-Assad's regime, the brutal rise of the self-styled Islamic State and the desperate struggle of the Syrian people caught between the two.
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2019 Year 12 Results Now Available
The 2019 WACE exhibitions and awards have been publicly announced and these are now available on the Top Scores site.
This year a special shout-out goes to Lucy Jarrett (Presbyterian Ladies College), who was the only student to chalk up a total of seven awards, including two Subject Exhibitions and a further three Subject Certificates of Excellence.
Congratulations to all of this year's high achievers.
Year 12 in Western Australia
In Western Australia, students who complete year 11 and 12 studies gain a Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE). The WACE framework replaced the former system based upon the Tertiary Entrance Exam (TEE).
A WACE qualification requires a minimum of 20 units or equivalent, 10 units of which must be at year 12. Units are chosen from the ATAR, General, Foundation, VET or Preliminary courses. The ATAR courses are for students who are aiming to go to university.
To gain a WACE qualification, students must achieve a grade C or higher in at least 14 units, with a minimum of six of those being at a year 12 level. These must include at least four year 12 ATAR courses or Cert II VET study units.
About WACE Awards
The W.A. School Curriculum and Standards Authority recognises academic prowess through a range of exhibitions, awards and medals.
The two Beazley Medals are awarded to the top students overall from the academic (highest General Exhibition score) and vocational programs (best VET results).
General Exhibitions are awarded to the top 50 students based on their averaged scaled marks in five courses and/or subjects.
Subject/Course Exhibitions are awarded to the students who obtain the highest raw exam score in each individual WACE course or subject.
Certificates of Excellence (formerly Certificates of Distinction) are awarded to the top 0.5% of students in each tertiary entrance subject based on their examination marks.
Certificates of Distinction and Certificates of Merit, formerly Certificates of Commendation (2012-2015) or Certificates of Excellence (prior to 2012), are awarded to students who obtain at least 150 points (Certificate of Merit) or 190 points (Certificate of Distinction) across 20 year 11 and year 12 course units or equivalents, of which 10 are at year 12 level.
Administration of the WACE
The WACE program is administered by the W.A. School Curriculum and Standards Authority, formerly the W.A. Curriculum Council.
The S.C.S.A. is responsible for the accreditation of senior school courses, as well as the conduct of the year 12 external examinations, the assessment of student achievements, and record-keeping in relation to students' participation, assessment and achievements.
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WACE Honour Roll - All Student Awards and Prizes (2019)
ABDI, IKRAM Cert of Merit
ABDULLAH, SHAYAN ASIF Cert of Distinction
ABDULLATIF, MARIAM ELMOHANNED Cert of Distinction
ABDULLATIF, MARIAM ELMOHANNED Subject Cert of Excellence
General Exhibition Award Winners (2019)
1 SINGLETON, CHARLOTTE
2 ZHENG, GARY
3 JEYARAJAN, DEEPAK RAJAN
4 JIANG, SINENG
Subject/Course Exhibition Winners (2019)
Accounting and Finance ANNADURAI, AAKASH
Ancient History ROBERTSON, KATE ELISE
Applied Information Technology HUYNH, JACQUELINE
Biology MICHALEK, DOMINIKA
Australian National Prize Winners, WA (2014)
Afiat, Brandon Christ Church Grammar School
Alsop, Sam Frederick Irwin Anglican School
Anthony, Erin Corpus Christi College
Chia, Benjamin Tze Hern All Saints College
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When a young boy is implicated in a murder, Brady goes hunting for the real killer
In Pete Brady's new hometown, hunting is a religion, and he is expected to convert if he's to run the local newspaper. When Sheriff Garitty takes his son out for his first hunt, he invites Pete to join them in the deer stand—a drafty, miserable place that would be unbearable if young Scotty weren't so excited. Pete is staring down his rifle barrel, trying to decide if he has the nerve to kill a deer, when a shot rings out. The boy has hit his target. But when they go to retrieve the kill, they find it isn't a deer, but a man.
Scotty has trained his whole life for this moment, and Pete can't believe he would have mistaken a man—even a drunk like Dwayne Elkins—for an animal. To clear the boy's name, Brady goes in search of an ingenious killer, and soon finds himself in the crosshairs.
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com Open RoadReleased: Aug 26, 2014ISBN: 9781497663299Format: book
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A cold drizzle leaked down from the treetops, making a steady patter on the carpet of dead pine needles. The lean, dark-haired man with the rifle crouched on the little stool, waiting, as the wooden platform swayed ever so slightly in the chill breeze. Despite the forest and the wooden walls, the stocking cap, kapock jacket, and gloves, the cold cut through him like a scythe and he wondered for the fiftieth time what he was doing out here.
He looked away from the weapon and down at the thermos on the floor beside him. He'd already downed half the coffee; any more and he'd have to relieve himself, which would mean movement and the chance of frightening the prey.
He sighed and turned back to the rifle. It was a bolt action Remington Model Seven, its clip holding four .243 caliber cartridges. As he lined up the front and rear sights, he tried to imagine whether he would have the nerve to shoot if a target presented itself. With his glasses fogged, he wondered if he would hit anything.
It was the sheriff's fault, he decided. The insistence of Sheriff Matt Garitty that he come with them, participate in Scotty's first hunt. Maybe even get a buck for himself, as if it were the pinnacle of a man's existence to kill a deer.
All in all, a hell of a way to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving, thought Pete Brady, owner, editor, and publisher of the Troy Parish Express.
And he'd almost been saved; Garitty had been scheduled to drive down to Baton Rouge for a political caucus, but at the last minute it had been canceled, so that late last night Brady had gotten the call: We're on for tomorrow. Bundle up good, though. It's gonna be a cold one.
And cold was the word, Brady reflected with a shiver. The hell of it was that with Louisiana winters, one week might be below freezing and the next might be in the seventies. A little luck and he'd have been able to wait until a day when there was sun and a blue sky.
But he'd noticed that deer hunting wasn't like that; people seemed to delight in telling about the hardships they'd suffered, and the long hours in the deer stand, with the damn thing swaying under them. But even today most hunters seemed to have stayed indoors. A few distant gunshots here and there, and then, but for the rain, silence, as the hunters had retreated from the wet. All except for Matt, Scotty, and Brady, that is.
Right now Brady didn't know what he would have given the most for, the heat of the sun or the feel of solid earth beneath his feet.
Garitty had told him it was part of the local culture and that if he was going to print photographs of trophy deer in the Express, as everyone expected, he ought to at least know what hunting was all about. Brady had demurred at first: As a native of New Orleans, he'd never had much to do with guns and viewed hunting as left over from barbarian times. Besides, guns were something people killed other people with, and anybody who doubted that could read the Picayune.
But in Troy everything was different; men carried gunracks in their pickups and boys were given .22s in the fifth or sixth grade. Hunting was a religion and in late fall and early winter, during hunting season, men bragged about the size of the buck they had shot.
So Brady had reluctantly accepted Garitty's challenge. Feeling a bit foolish for a middle-aged man, he had accompanied the sheriff's thirteen-year-old, Scotty, to the range and listened intently as a deputy instructed them in safety procedures. Then, only after the range officer was satisfied, did they begin to practice on the wooden deer cutouts that Garitty had installed as targets.
At first Brady had recoiled at the idea of shooting the figures. The sheriff, taking a page from the FBI academy, had rigged a moving belt with the deer targets cleverly intermixed with targets of human beings. So Brady held his fire on every occasion, eventually becoming shamed by the sheriff's son, who, firing from the position beside him, seemed to have no such compunction. But finally the editor persuaded himself to take a chance, so that by the end of the day he was hitting the deer cutouts with gratifying accuracy and the human figures not at all.
Of course, it wasn't exactly like being a cop, he told himself. These figures weren't supposed to shoot back, even in real life. Which sent pangs of renewed guilt surging through him. Because how much sport was it, he asked himself, to kill a creature that had done him no harm and never would? He'd watched the range officer's demonstration of the high-powered bullets he was using. A .243 bullet left the barrel at three thousand feet per second with two thousand foot pounds of energy. That meant that when it hit a small target, like a rabbit, the animal simply exploded. When it hit a larger creature, such as a deer, it tumbled around inside and tore a gaping hole where it exited—if, indeed, it exited in one piece. The .35 caliber round Scotty was using wasn't much different.
When he mentioned it to Matt Garitty, though, the sheriff had only shrugged.
Have to thin the deer population, he said. And besides, Scotty's been looking forward to it for the last three years.
But the deer … Brady protested.
Everything has to die, Garitty drawled. At least this way it's clean and quick.
And Brady knew it would do no good to argue.
So now he crouched in the stand, blowing out great clouds of vapor and trying to pull the poncho back up to cover his head against the tormenting rain.
God, he thought, I hope they get one. Because if they didn't he had the sick feeling that he might be expected to come out here and go through this again.
Then a worse thought struck him: Suppose he were the one to see a deer? What then? He sighted down the barrel, squinting through the rear sight at the little trail below. What if a deer appeared now, picking its way down the track, searching for the grain in the bait box below? Would he have the guts to squeeze the trigger? It was easy with the pop-ups, almost reflex. But with a living, breathing animal it was different.
He took a deep breath, blinked away a raindrop, and sighted again through the gray mist. He wasn't a vegetarian. Garitty had rubbed that point in. So why was he refusing to do his own killing? After all, the deer would be eaten.
It was, Brady had argued, because hunters took such delight in what they did. What was it Aristophanes had said? Small boys throw stones at frogs in sport, but the frogs die in earnest.
Evolution. Garitty had shrugged. Not that people around here much believed in it, but unlike most of them the sheriff had gone to college and knew it for a fact: Man was a hunter for three million years or so. It was a little late to turn things around.
Brady felt his finger tighten on the trigger and he closed his eyes as he tried to imagine his target. The trouble was there were lots of people he'd met that he'd rather have had in the sights.
He tried to envision the scene: The undergrowth would waver, blur, and a fuzzy face would peer out. For an eternal instant he would stare into those soulful eyes, and then he would become aware of the rack of antlers—antlers that made this a prize animal. So he would reach for the safety, slowly flick it off, take careful aim …
That was when the shot exploded across the forest.
His eyes came open with a start, and even as the echoes died away it took him a moment to realize what had happened.
One of the others had spotted a deer. And judging from the closeness of the shot, it was the sheriff's son, Scotty, whose stand was the next one, about three hundred yards down the trail.
He heard a faint shout. Scotty, almost certainly, yelling that he had gotten one. Anxious to find an excuse to put an end to this misery, Brady threw off the poncho and made his way cautiously down the wooden ladder, conscious of its swaying at every movement.
His foot touched the ground, his boot sinking into the soft pine needles, and he said a silent prayer of thanks. The rain filtered down on him in a steady sprinkle and he thought longingly of the poncho he'd left behind. But Matt Garitty had been adamant: the orange safety vest outside at all times, and it was just about impossible to fit it over the poncho. Besides, he was soaked through by now, anyway.
He heard the boy shout again and he wondered how long it would take them to lug the buck out of the woods on one of the three-wheelers. Better than having to carry it by hand, he told himself, skirting a broad puddle in the trail and feeling the dead briars grab at his sleeve.
He came to a bend in the trail and let out a Hello so they'd know he was here. In the distance he heard the low rumble of an ATV and knew that Matt was on his way here, as well.
Scotty stood in the middle of the trail, the bolt of his rifle open, his eyes bright.
I got one, he said, pointing. Right over there, in the thicket. I heard it try to run away, but I know I got it. At least a ten pointer.
Brady tried to mumble congratulations but it came out like a cough. At that moment, with a revving of the engine, Matt emerged from the other direction on the four-wheeled ATV.
What is it, Scotty? he asked.
His son repeated the claim, pointing at the tangle across the trail.
It was too thick in there to go by myself, Scotty said. I figured I'd wait for you.
His father nodded and unslung his own lever action carbine.
Well, we'll take a look at this monster, he drawled, giving Brady a wink. Was it a moose or an elk?
Dad! Scotty protested.
Garitty smiled and started for the thicket, machete in one hand, carbine in the other. Brady let the boy go after his father and then followed a few yards behind. The briars scraped at his face and when he tried to push them away they snagged his clothes.
Well, you hit something, I reckon, the sheriff said, pointing at a spot of blood on the ground. By the time Brady reached it, though, the rain had blotted it away.
A hundred yards later Brady was beginning to wonder if Scotty had seen anything at all.
I promise it was right there, in the brush next to the trail, Brady heard the boy say, from ahead of him. The bushes moved and when I looked—
The others stopped and Brady emerged from the briars to collide with them.
Oh, Jesus, he heard Matt Garitty say. The boy beside him made an unintelligible little sound between a gasp and a sob. Brady walked around the pair and stared down at what lay before them.
It was a man, his body twisted where he had fallen, surprise showing in his open, dead eyes. One hand was twisted under him and his legs were bent at the knees, as if he had died before his body had touched the ground. It was, thought Brady, noting the ugly hole in the right cheek, a miracle the man had made it this far.
Brady reached down under the orange vest, touched the man's wet shirt above the heart and then stood up again, trembling.
It can't be, Scotty cried out. It was a deer. I promise. I saw it.
The sheriff of Troy Parish stared woodenly ahead in shock and then slowly turned away. That was when Brady saw that Matt was trembling, too.
For a long time there was silence, punctuated only by the patter of raindrops on the leaves and the soft sobbing of the boy. Then Brady stooped back down to look at the dead man.
I know him, he said. This is—
Dwayne Elkins, Matt said in a strange, choked voice. Runs the car dealership here.
Brady gave the blonde, slightly bloated face another look. Yes. Of course. He hadn't had many dealings with the man, except for a few ads in the Express.
Dad, it can't be … Scotty protested, looking from one to the other. It couldn't have been my bullet. I saw a deer, not a man. Dad, you have to believe me.
The sheriff reached out, put an arm around his son and held him.
Dad, you've got to believe—
Garitty bit his lip and finally gave a little shrug. We have to get word back to town, he mumbled. The coroner, the chief deputy—
I'll go, Brady volunteered.
You don't know how to drive an ATV, Garitty said. Besides, all I have to do is get back to my truck and use the radio. It's only a mile or so. He turned to his son. Come on Scotty. Won't do you any good to stand around here.
Brady watched them go, a boy on the verge of becoming a man, and a grown man who seemed suddenly on the verge of becoming old.
For a long while he stood over the corpse, staring down at the glazed eyes, the swollen, purple lips, and the entry wound on the cheek, smudged red like an obscene kiss. He gently touched the other side of the head and felt blood; the bullet had exited from near the left ear, after destroying the brain. Not much chance for surviving a shot like that.
He had been at many death scenes, most of them in New Orleans when he'd been a crime reporter for the Times-Picayune. Always before he'd been able to distance himself. Always, that is, until his main source on a crime exposé, Ozzie, was murdered. That had hit hard, and when Brady won a Pulitzer on the strength of his work, it had only made things worse. He'd left the Picayune, bought the Express from old Emmett Larson, and moved to Troy, a quiet town in the pine hills of north Louisiana. He'd made new friends, like Matt and Mitzi Garitty, and had even managed to pair himself with Emmett's beautiful daughter, Kelly. Away from the chaos of New Orleans, with its senseless violence, he had found new structure, and now that structure was threatened by something he could not comprehend.
Because he had taken the course with Scotty. The boy knew a deer when he saw one. His father had made sure of that.
So how could he have shot a man by mistake?
And Brady sighed, feeling suddenly very weary. It was the same story every year: How many accidental shootings were there in the state every hunting season? Many of them were related to alcohol and downright negligence. But some were genuine accidents, a temporary lapse of judgment, or overeagerness on the part of a neophyte.
He wrenched his thoughts away and back to the victim.
What did he know about Dwayne Elkins? Not much, really. In his late thirties at the time of his death, Dwayne had been married to Debra Penniman, granddaughter of old Garth Penniman, who had founded the dealership back in the twenties. Dwayne had more or less inherited his job as a result of his marriage. Maybe that was why Brady had heard a few rumors that the marriage wasn't a particularly happy one. He had a sudden thought and bent over the body. Putting his nose a half inch from the dead man's mouth he sniffed.
Dwayne Elkins exuded the strong odor of liquor. Brady patted the corpse's pockets, searching for a bottle or a flask, but there was nothing. Elkins must have left it at his camp, which, as best Brady could make it, was about a mile and a half away, just off the National Forest.
It was odd Elkins would be here, Brady thought, then reminded himself that if Elkins was drunk, he might do lots of odd things; it was a behavior pattern Brady recognized well from his own days as a heavy drinker, though he tried to forget that part of his life.
So the scenario was clear: Elkins had been at his camp, either alone or with friends. After a few drinks he had decided to go hunting, not realizing that other hunters were present. And he had blundered into the sights of a boy who'd never been on a deer hunt before, worse luck for both.
Except that there was no rifle nearby. The man had gone hunting without a weapon.
An hour later Brady still shivered in the rain, watching a pair of deputies bind the body onto a stretcher. Then he slowly walked back with them the long mile to where Garitty's truck was parked. Except that now, instead of just the truck, there was a Sheriff's Department jeep and the pickup that belonged to the chief deputy.
Garitty and the boy sat inside the sheriff's blue pickup, the motor running to keep them warm. Even through the fogged windshield Brady could make out the pallor on his friend's face.
He tapped on the window. I think they've about wrapped it up, he told Garitty when the lawman rolled the glass down.
The sheriff nodded. There'll be some things to do back at the office. I've handed over the … he hesitated, then said it, "investigation to Ed Larimore." His face looked pinched, as if he had suddenly lost weight.
Right, Brady said. Well, I'll go back with one of the deputies.
Because after all, he thought, as the jeep bumped over the almost impassable road, a man ought to be alone with his son at a time like this.
As if there was anything either of them could say to the other that would make things right.
That night Brady sat alone in the Express office, while the rain dripped from the eaves and cars made slick sounds against the wet streets as they passed. Through the glass of the front door he could see the red bulbs of the Christmas lights that had just been strung over the streets yesterday. But instead of inspiring cheer the red glow reminded him of ambulances and police cars. He had returned home to take a shower and change and then gone over to Matt's house, to see if there was anything he could do. But, after making the necessary written statement, the sheriff had relapsed into gloom and Scotty had vanished into his room, with only Mitzi trying to keep up a front, so Brady had left, realizing there was nothing to be done. He'd given his own statement to a worried-looking Ed Larimore, the chief deputy, who shook his head and allowed that Elkins had been off the trail and should have known better than to mix liquor and gunpowder, as the saying went. But the implication still hung over them like a shroud: Scott should have paid more attention.
Brady started home again then, but he hadn't made it past the newspaper office. The house was empty, because Kelly was in Baton Rouge. She'd left Friday, pleading work to do in Baton Rouge on her journalism thesis that Brady was learning to hate. So Brady had gone to the office, which, while deserted on a Saturday, would still have bits and pieces for the edition he would put out Thursday. He would occupy himself with a few unfinished tasks; a story he had to write on the school Christmas pageant, a few lines on Bert Masefield's son who'd just graduated from Basic at Fort Polk, Ripley Dillon's interview with Miller Purdy, the environmentalist, who was protesting the construction of a new state correctional facility west of town.


Tubby Smith and the Golden Gophers defeated Bemidji State 71-58 in their exhibition opener Tuesday night. The Beavers' David Berthene led all scorers with 21 points. Trevor Mbakwe led Minnesota with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
Tubby Smith and the Golden Gophers defeated Bemidji State 71-58 in their exhibition opener Tuesday night. The Beavers' David Berthene led all scorers with 21 points. Trevor Mbakwe led Minnesota with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
Trevor Mbakwe returned to game action for the first time in nearly a year as the Gophers blasted Minnesota-State Mankato 81-56 in an exhibition game Thursday night at Williams Arena.
The Minnesota Lynx defeated the Connecticut Sun, 87-85 in exhibition action Thursday night. The defending WNBA champions were led in scoring by Siemone Augustus, who finished with 12 points. Rookie Devereaux Peters added nine points and seven rebounds.
The University of Minnesota women's basketball team takes on Concordia-St. Paul at Williams Arena on Wednesday night for the first exhibition game of the season. The men will face Minnesota State-Mankato at the Barn for their first exhibition contest on Thursday.


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Home»News»Bullet for My Valentine Announce Fall 2018 Tour Dates & Release "Over It" Video
Bullet for My Valentine Announce Fall 2018 Tour Dates & Release "Over It" Video
By Dom Vigil April 27, 2018
Bullet for My Valentine have announced a Fall 2018 U.S. tour in support of their forthcoming album Gravity. All dates, including the band's current U.S. headline and festival shows, are listed below.
The fall "Gravity" tour kicks off on September 13 in Kansas City and wraps up on October 16 in Las Vegas. Special guests will be announced at a later date.
An exclusive 24-hour ticket pre-sale for fans will begin on Friday, April 27 at 10am local time at this location. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 4, at 10am local time. Each ticket purchased online for any of the U.S. dates on Gravity tour will include a copy of Bullet For My Valentine's new album, Gravity. Go HERE for additional details.
The band also dropped the video for the new single "Over It." Watch it now below!
Pre-order Gravity HERE. Fans who pre-order the album will receive an instant download of unreleased album track, "Piece of Me," along with "Over It."
Gravity, out June 29th, is BFMV's first album under the Search and Destroy/ Spinefarm Records banner, and aptly sees the band rewriting their own future – finding new ways to invent heavy noise and remaining unshackled by the legacy that comes with being masters of their trade.
The four musicians have stretched their creative wings like never before, delicately balancing film-score electronica and icy synths in their trademark hellfire of hard rock. With drummer Jason Bowld joining founding members, singer/guitarist Matt Tuck and fellow axeman Michael "Padge" Paget, plus bassist Jamie Mathias, who has been a part of the Bullet story since 2015, this is a band reborn.
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ON TOUR:
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE WITH TRIVIUM + TOOTHGRINDER
4/28: Sunrise, FL @ Ft. Rock*
4/29: Jacksonville, FL @ Welcome to Rockville*
5/1: Knoxville, TN @ The International
5/2: Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
5/4: Charlotte, NC @ Carolina Rebellion*
5/5: Virginia Beach, VA @ WNOR/FM99 Lunatic Luau*
5/6: Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore Silver Spring
5/8: Niagara Falls, NY @ The Rapids Theatre
5/10: Portland, ME @ Aura
5/11: Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
5/12: Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
5/14: Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
5/15: Montclair, NJ @ The Wellmont Theater
5/17: New York, NY @ Irving Plaza#
5/18: Stroudsburg, PA @ Sherman Theater
5/19: Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range*
#No Trivium
SPECIAL GUESTS TBA:
9/13: Kansas City, MO @ Harrah's
9/15: St. Paul, MN @ The Myth
9/18: St. Louis, MO @ The Paegant
9/20: Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
9/21: Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
9/22: Austin, TX @ Emo's
9/24: San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theater
9/25: Houston, TX @ House of Blues
9/27: Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
9/30: Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live
10/2: Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
10/3: Syracuse, NY @ SI Hall
10/4: Boston, MA @ House of Blues
10/7: Detroit, MI @ Fillmore Detroit
10/9: Wichita, KS @ Cotillion Ballroom
10/10: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
10/12: Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
10/14: Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival*
10/16: Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
*Festival


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U.S. women's pair is second after two routines at Puurs World Cup
World Cup Qualifications
Flanders International Acro Cup Qualification Results: Age Group & Junior | Jr.+ & Senior
PUURS, Belgium, April 13, 2019 – 2019 Maia World Cup women's pair bronze-medalists Emily Davis and Aubrey Rosilier, both of San Antonio, Texas/Acrobatic Gymnastics of San Antonio, are second in the rankings for the all-around heading into tomorrow's finals at the Puurs (Belgium) World Cup. The senior women's group of Isabel Chang of Columbia, Md., Alexandra Galdkova of Fairfax, Va., and Sydney Martin of Glenwood, Md., all of Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, who are at the top of the all-around rankings, are among the six U.S. groups and pairs that are competing in the finals at the Flanders Flanders International Acro Cup, which is held in conjunction with the World Cup at the Sporthal De Vrijhals. Fans can follow the action live via the event's official website.
In the women's pair, the U.S. duo posted a 54.950 for their two-event score routine to slip by the Ukraine's Yuliia Plypiak and Olksandra-Mariia Tabachynska's 54.880. The U.S. pair's two routine scores were 27.530 for balance and 27.410 for dynamic. Portugal's Rita Ferreira and Ana Teixeira earned the top mark at 56.370. In the mixed pair, Aisley Boynton of Riverside, Calif., and Sean Obley of Mesa, Ariz., who train at Aspire Kids Sports Center, remained in 15th place at 49.540 (25.780/23.760). Russia's Victoria Aksenova and Kirill Startsev topped the mixed pair ranking at 59.260.
The U.S. men's pair Angel Felix and Braiden McDougall, both of Riverside, Calif./Realis Gymnastics Academy, received a 53.060 for their two-routine mark (26.400; 26.660). Russia's Timofei Ivanov and Maksim Karavaev are first in the event's two-routine ranking at 57.020. The U.S. women's group of Elanor Chang of Columbia, Md., Grace Vonder Harr of Imperial, Mo., and Kayla Vonder Haar of Imperial, who train at Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, placed 10th for two routines at 54.090 (26.940; 27.150). Belgium's Talia de Troyer, Britt Vanderdonckt and Charlotte van Royen snared a total of 57.710 for the top spot.
The scores and placements for the U.S. Team groups and pairs competing in the Flanders Flanders International Acro Cup, and those competing in the finals are listed first and have an "*". The scores listed are for two events (balance and dynamic) combined.
Women's group: Isabel Chang of Columbia, Md., Alexandra Galdkova of Fairfax, Va., and Sydney Martin of Glenwood, Md., all of Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, 1st, 54.870 (27.600; 27.270)
Men's group*: Ethan Chang of Columbia, Md., Devon Freed of Mt. Airy, Md., Samuel Lacy of Columbia, and Cade Shields of Columbia, Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, 2nd, 52.730 (25.800; 26.930).
Women's group*: Riley Freed of Mt. Airy, Md., Jessica Kicza of Woodbine, Md., and Mariam Tutberidze of Owings Mill, Md., Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, 9th, 52.300 (26.400; 25.900).
Women's pair*: Catherine Borcherding and Destiny Nolting, both of Pacific, Mo./Show Me Acro, 5th, 50.400 (25.550; 24.850).
Women's group: Bethany Glick of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., Ellianne Sousa of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., and Emma Sousa of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., Cal Elite Kids, 16th, 51.600 (25.950; 25.650).
Women's group*: Meghan Kampmann, Catherine Lacy and Cecelia Shadrick, Laurel, Md./Emilia's Acro Gymnastics and Cheer, 11th, 51.250 (25.550, 25.700).
Women's pair:* Kaylee DeSantis and Reese Morgan, New Orleans, La./Crescent City Gymnastics, 11th, 51.400 (25.700; 25.700).
Women's pair: Maria Wooden and Leah Yun, Rockville, Md./Xtreme Acro, 20th, 48.700 (23.300; 25.400).
The World Cup finals begin at 6 p.m. Times are local to Puurs, which is six hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern time zone.
For the detailed Flanders International Acro Cup schedule, click here. The finals schedule is below; times are local to Puurs, which is six hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern time zone


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Q: Binding doesnot work in WinRT - XAML I have my own control and the binding does not work in it. Below is the code that I tried to bind.
The code in XAML
<cc:MyControl Name="myControl" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" ItemSource="{Binding Path=Document}"></cc:MyControl>

The code in CodeBehind for ItemSource Dependency Property
 public Object ItemSource
    {
        get { return (Object)GetValue(ItemSourceProperty); }
        set { SetValue(ItemSourceProperty, value); }
    }

public static readonly DependencyProperty ItemSourceProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("ItemSource", typeof(Object), typeof(MyControl), new PropertyMetadata(null, new PropertyChangedCallback(DocumentLoadCallBack)));

 private static void DocumentLoadCallBack(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
}

This does not gets even triggered.....
But When I provide ItemSource with some data without binding as below, the DocumentLoadCallBack gets triggered.
<cc:MyControl Name="myControl" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" ItemSource="ImagePath"></cc:MyControl>

The "Document" bind property code
public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
{
private StorageFile _doc = null;
    public StorageFile Document
    {
        get
        {
            if (this._doc == null)
            {
                this._doc = GetDoc().Result;
            }
            return this._doc;
        }
        set
        {
            this._doc = value;
        }
    }

    private async Task<StorageFile> GetDoc()
    {
        //return imagedocument location
    }
}

Anyone, help me out on this?

A: You are using async method inside of the get accesor of the property.
So when you try to do get it wouldn't return a result because the method is async and you shouldn't do like that.
You should read first the file (Load event for example) then update the property and not read the file inside of the property.
This isn't a very good dev practice.

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Among the first books to focus on physician engagement during a Lean effort, Sustaining Lean in Healthcare: Developing and Engaging Physician Leadership explains how to ensure ongoing physician participation long after the consultant leaves. Dr. Michael Nelson, an early adopter of Lean in healthcare, explains how to use these synergic tools to achieve consistently high levels of quality and clinical care outcomes.
The book begins with a Lean primer that provides a firm foundation in essential Lean conceptsincluding value stream maps, 6S, Kanban, Heijunka, and Gemba Walks. Next, it examines how to create a physician engagement plan and covers the specific responsibilities of physician leadership through the Lean transformation. Explaining what to look for when judging success, it provides numerous examples that demonstrate how to sustain success over the long term.
Complete with tips for spotting the danger signs that might indicate your plan is off course, this book details time-tested techniques and strategies for reducing waste in healthcare. It supplies a methodology for establishing shared expectations of success with your medical team early on in the process, as well as a proven framework for simultaneous Lean deployment across multiple locations.
In this book , Dr. Nelson draws on his forty years of medical practice and his experience as an early adopter of Lean for healthcare, to identify a crucial piece to aligning healthcare organizations for success; Physician Engagement. Healthcare executives and clinicians will appreciate and learn from Dr. Nelsons insight.
Instead of writing another how-to book, Mike has taken the opportunity to provide insights that are sure to help any healthcare organization sustain the impact of its Lean engagement.
provides realistic estimates of timelines for projects, expected satisfaction, quality, and financial paybacks, as well as the time commitments required for Lean healthcare initiatives to become durable successes.
simplifies and organizes the steps needed to effectively and successfully take advantage of the significant contributions Lean management can make .
Edward D. Martin, MD, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Martin Blanck & Associates, Inc.
Lean has become a critical predictor of successful systems going forward. Sustaining Lean in Healthcare is the book to get this done.