Businesses expect their input prices to jump by 4.6% in 2017.
"Activity in the region's service sector held steady": that's how the New York Fed today introduced the December results of its Business Leader Survey, which covers the region's service sector. "Steady" in this case means a negative 0.6 in the diffusion index of Business Activity, where everything below zero indicates that conditions deteriorated over the past month.
The last time the Business Activity index was positive was in July. It has been negative for much of the time over the past 12 months. In the current survey, 27% of respondents reported that conditions improved over the month, and 27% said conditions worsened.
And this is happening in the thriving service sector in the New York Fed's district (State of New York, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey, Fairfield County in Connecticut, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands).
In the chart below, the Current Conditions index (blue line) indicates whether the reality, as businesses are experiencing it, is improving or deteriorating. Now at -0.6.
The report on the service sector in the New York Fed's district was this sort of mixed bag. But what I want to focus on are the inflation measures. People often think that inflation – as in consumer price inflation or wholesale price inflation – is a result of strong demand and a healthy economy, and that there cannot be any inflation when demand is lousy.
But that's not the case. Inflation can increase, and sharply so, for a number of reasons other than demand. Inflation expectations have something to do with it. That's why they're tracked in so many ways. A separate report released today by the New York Fed, the Supplemental Survey Report, sheds some additional light on businesses' inflation expectations for 2017: they're jumping.
Respondents in the service sector reported that their prices paid in 2016 already rose 4.1%, and those in the manufacturing sector reported that their prices paid rose by 4.0%. In December a year ago, they'd reported that prices paid in 2015 had increased 3.5%.
And for 2017, they expect prices paid to increase by about 4.6%.
Among the major categories, employee benefits were the biggest culprit in 2016 in actual prices paid. In 2017, they're expected to soar 7.7% for the service sector and 6.5% for the manufacturing sector. Liability insurance, fire insurance, and other types of insurance are next, with an expected increase of 4.2% and 3.4% respectively. But expectations of wage increases "remained fairly subdued," at 3.5% and 3.8% respectively, followed by outside services, energy, and other commodities. All of these percentage increases are higher than the increases in 2016. That's the acceleration of inflation for businesses.
Prices paid to rise by 8% or more: 11.6% of service firms and 11.7% of manufacturing firms expect prices paid to rise in this range. That's up from a year ago of 11.0% and 7.6% respectively.
Prices paid to rise 2% to 8%: 49.7% of the service sector firms and 49.1% of the manufacturing firms expect prices paid to rise in this range in 2017. That's up from 47.4% and 42.3% a year ago.
Prices paid to increase by less than 2%: 33.9% of service firms and 33.5% of manufacturing firms expect prices paid to increase in this range in 2017. That's down from 35.6% and 43.4% respectively a year ago.
Prices paid to fall: Only a handful of firms expect prices paid to fall.
What these business leaders are indicating is that inflation as measured by their input costs has accelerated in 2016 from a year earlier, and is expected to accelerate further in 2017. These input prices for service and manufacturing firms are expected to rise on average by 4.6% in 2017.
That's a lot faster than the official measures for consumer price inflation – CPI and the Fed's preferred PCE. They're currently below 2%. These are the types of inflation pressures that are now building up deep in the pipeline, despite lackluster demand.
Even Japanese consumers, supposedly suffering from two decades of deflation, are getting whacked. No one escapes. Read… How Inflation Bites Much More than the Official Hoax and 160 Comments.
Seems to sound like a lot of hipe if you ask me, whether if any future inflation occurs in the near term. Hipe is driving up oil and industrial metal prices recently as people assume we will buy loads of stuff in 2017, but what if the status quote remains? That any people's extra savings goes towards paying down debt, or paying health care costs, or higher mortgage bills now that the rates are rising, or just money put into a savings account..
FIRE inflation feeding through to the productive economy.
Wage earners are losing ground.
For about three decades now, due to "free" trade.
Momma always told me, "inflation was like a cup of Ivanka coffee" it goes up and they take it down.
Contraction isn't inflationary last I checked. Amazon is doing their duty helping to eliminate retail jobs, wonder how Treasury tax receipts are doing?
World wide dumping of treasuries and QE to infinity/printing dollars full bore. Venezuela in the US here we go.
I believe we have been here before. Remember Peter Schiff?
-Lexus es300 97 was $36,000- .
much better & luxurious car. That's + 14%/20 yrs .
-They overbuild. Flood the market when it's too late. Beyond peak.
a recession or a major slump.
when the JPY:USD will be 300 .
-Are they going to flood the market ??
I have mentioned the digital camera market before and I think there are similarities.
A DSLR camera with capabilities similar to a current $300 entry model might have cost $5000 just 15 years ago, and the current model will have far more features and higher operational speed. So prices have come down a lot, although image quality maybe isn't in every way as good and prices for good lenses have increased a bit instead of decreased.
However … there is now a clear trend that prices of the more higher end DSLR and mirrorless cameras are going UP instead of down (especially in Europe, less so in US because of the surging dollar), because sales numbers and turnover for camera companies have been declining strongly for several years due to smartphones, market saturation in general etc. Camera manufacturers are getting squeezed and without new markets to tap, they can only increase prices and hope the customers accept. And sooner or later, some of the big players may go out of business because raising prices shrinks the market even further.
The same might start to happen with cars due to trends like car sharing (instead of owning), autonomous cars and less appeal of cars in general for the average consumer (due to congestion, taxes etc.). This might become evident even faster for 'quality' cars using conventional combustion engines. You might get a car that looks better and more luxury for the money from the outside and from the spec sheet, but if the price is lower the real quality under the hood is probably lower as well. If you want real quality (high mechanical quality, durability, reliability etc.), the only way for prices is up.
Michael, could you check the formatting of your commnents. You're putting line breaks in the middle of the sentence, which puts the rest of the sentence into a new line, which makes it hard to read. If you use a smartphone, it might look ok on your particular device, but it looks like a poem on other devices.
Inflation wouldn't affect the end consumer if business people were to lower their expectations and a life style above their station in life.
China could help by reducing its manufacturing coats so that the prices to customers are unchanged.
We should pursue deflation !
I've personally gone from "upper middle class" to "working poor" during my work career.
Even after promotions. Even working a job where there has supposedly been a "shortage of skilled technicians" for 10-15 years.
That's what happens with 5%/every three year "raises" and 2-3% COLAs over 30 years.
Your loss of standard of living is more noticeable when you stay off the "housing ladder"/"cash out refi" wagon.
It's simple really. The suit types are incentivized to cut "overhead", mainly labor costs. Those that don't get laid off outright get force fed pay and benefit cuts. Don't like it? You are invited to GTFOOD, and find a new, better paying job in a job market that resembles the Great Depression for most of the Wretched Refuse.
The money saved goes into the pockets of the suits and the shareholders.
Same with outsourcing. Was Carrier AC going to charge less for their AC systems by relocating to Mexico? Hell no. The suits would be rewarded handsomely for their "tough" decision.
Do you should be the suit type or an investor, trader, hedge fund manager etc.
Inflation in everything you need resulting in stagnating economy elsewhere and deflation in everything you want.
Control healthcare costs and regulate monopolies.
I agree, monopolies are a key issue. Monopolies lead to reduced competition. less innovation, and less jobs. This is also a key reason why there is great wealth disparity like in 1929 – only the business owners benefit through cost cutting. The economies of scale don't provide benefit to the overall world economy when there is rampant joblessness.
Forbidding large mergers is one of the most pain-free ways to prevent job losses from continuing. If several huge companies are broken up, we would actually create many high-end jobs.
I can accept job losses from innovation. I can take job losses from globalization. What I have a hard time accepting are job losses caused by Fat Cats that want to unfairly reduce competition. In a chess game, you simply can't buy out your opponent before he makes a good move.
Regulators shouldn't allow this to happen, yet they do – likely because our corrupt campaign finance system. Money buys power, kills fairness and competition.
Right. Regulators allow this to happen because they are corrupted by neo-liberal capitalism. Neo-liberals deny and don't want people to understand that capitalism lacking regulations is fertile ground for monopolies; just like in the wild where the top of the food chain remains unchanged for millions of years. Capitalism money corrupts regulators, the masses no longer trust regulators (i.e. The Government) and therefore demand less government intervention and less regulation and as a result, this creates a breeding ground for monopolies.
Because of the circus of Regulatory Capture. Regulators often have worked for those they are regulating and then when they quit regulating the go back to work for the same or get paid as consultants. And the law doesn't prevent this because the thinking is that ONLY those who have worked in certain type of business can have any idea how to regulate it.. So the foxes guards the hen houses.
Hurdle the little guy through regulation that monopoly can avoid by moving off shore.
But I suspect that rising healthcare costs and insurance overhead, neither of which "benefit" employees, were the main culprits.
What bothers me is that the knee-jerk reaction to such trends is to cut benefits to employees in real terms, rather than focus on the real problems of rent-seeking, monopoly, and regulatory capture.
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If I were a "malicious seller" I'd say the New York Fed has finally stopped cooking the books. But since I am above such behavior, they must have finally adjusted their emtrics to the situation on the ground: those are numbers we have long seen.
First hand example: between 2005 and 2016 Honda has hiked the price of their industrial/gardening/agricultural engines and spare parts every January except for 2009. The price increase has always been between 3.5 and 5%.
These engines are in my opinion a better inflationary indicator than cars and electronics, as improvements have been minimal over this time frame and mostly tied to emission regulation and attempts to reduce manufacturing costs.
Apart from a few karting enthusiasts and DIY mechanics, the general public is highly unlikely to buy these engines, so the cost increase is mostly born by equipment manufacturers.
That's part of the reason why these days the quality gap between "homeowner" and "professional" grade equipment is widening: the big manufacturers such as Husqvarna AB know extremely well their retail customers' wages have not kept up with real world inflation in a long time so they cut everything they can.
This past Summer I saw the new lawnmowers Husqvarna AB is selling on the European market. At the moment they are assembled in Italy from Chinese components but that may change in the future as the Swedish group recently opened a new assembly plant in Spain and another in Poland.
To be honest I would be embarrassed to sell such a product, but I also understand the pressures Husqvarna AB is under. Nobody is immune these days.
While 30 years ago many tools were designed to last a lifetime, now many of them are more of the 'disposable' philosophy … It won't last but the price is so low that most consumers will not care and simply buy a new tool when they need it for a job. Probably the average consumer is also using far less tools nowadays compared to one generation ago.
And it's not just tools, it's almost everything. Someone else mentioned here how the quality of T-shirts went down the drain, probably even faster than the prices declined.
I use power tools a lot, almost every day. The cheap Chinese stuff is so much less expensive than the more expensive brands (which may be made in China as well) , that I don't worry about damage, theft, loss and product life anymore. I've had more tools lost and stolen than I ever had just wear out or break from normal use.
I've also got friends who've bought the expensive brands and had plenty of problems with quality and product life. Most are now converts to cheaper tools.
yes, I can imagine; I think it is just a bit sad how these things have changed, certainly not good for the environment.
Yes! Quality has absolutely gone into the toilet. I bought a heavy duty shop vice recently from a well known company that sells Chinese goods. Won't say the name but it rhymes with 'Barbour weight' I bought the more expensive model with the swiveling head ant wasn't exactly 'cheap' ($60 on sale) and the machining on it looked pretty good (the usual tell for bottom or the barrel chi-crap) but after about a month of use the vice head broke off! Yes, -actually fractured and broke off. This was about a 2.5″ thick cast iron cylinder. I was shocked (and pissed) at how poor the metal actually was. Pissed enough to actually hual the thing back to HF and they did replace it outright but I consider it a lesson learned.
I am a tradesman (carpenter) and ex shop teacher. A decent vise is at least $250. I doubt they are even available, anymore. On my important main tools I buy 1st class. Dewalt compound, General table saw, stuff like that. Canadian Tire actually offers a very good Mastercraft plunge router, which a rule of thumb is $100 per hp for a decent model (Hitachi, etc). For welding I buy the cheapest 4 1/2 inch grinders possible and buy them in bulk when they are under $20 as loss-leaders. I have them set up with a different application in each one so I do not have to take time and change from grinder disk to wire wheel, etc. They last about a year before the bearings go.
Right now we are using a Honda lawn mower that is probably 35 years old. It has been through two families. We will replace it this year with another one which will undoubtably cost 3X what a Briggs and Stratton piece of Chinese crap costs. My kids will get it one day.
Regarding bench vices: I take FZA doesn't sell their products outside of Europe.
They are still exactly the same as they were forty years ago and they are still made in Italy in their old factory. I had a look at their catalog recently and they still list exactly the same cast iron ones I have, which are 28 years old, down to the markings.
Good article. Business expenses are rising sharply but whether they can pass them on to their customers is another matter. It may be that profits will be under even more pressure. Profit margins will mean-revert.
The Business Climate index looked good before the recession and never came close to recovering to those previous numbers. Is that a sign of how poor this country is getting?
"But that's not the case. Inflation can increase, and sharply so, for a number of reasons other than demand. Inflation expectations have something to do with it." But not much- you don't run a fever just because you think you might get the flu. There is a close and inexorable correlation between inflation and the growth of the national debt, though recent increases in domestic oil production through fracking have helped keep the PPI lower than it otherwise would have been.
If you want tools that will last, you have to pay top dollar and do your homework. Many are German made.
For things like a vise; literally, I would be looking on Craigslist or EBAY for an old American made beauty…..well it wouldn't be pretty to look at after all these years, but I'll bet you a bottom dollar it works great still.
Harbor Freight is ok for certain things. I buy expendables there like nitrile gloves, chip brushes, cheap abrasives, etc. But you get what you pay for in general.
legislators are not trying to reduce the cost of doing business.
these costs can only be absorbed by large companies crowding out the little guy . " level the playing field " .
As I've said before, and I don't care what people with no experience in the sector says, Big Business loves tight regulation. It's a small price to pay to eliminate competition or to make it less efficient.
Big Business can afford to deal with legally mandated higher costs through a variety of means: outsourcing, moving to States which give them tax breaks offsetting insurance costs, hiring interinal workers… and they can do so while maintaining their profit margins.
Their smaller competitors either cannot (and so have to pass higher costs to their customers) or can do so only by reducing their margins from next to nothing to almost nothing.
Of course Big Business is not that smart: see their cavorting to "keep the Chinese out" of certain markets only for their CEO's to sell off the family jewels once Chinese oligarchs and SOEs came waving not so big wands of cash.
agree, I see the same here in Europe.
Getting CE approval for a new consumer product or e.g. our version of FDA approval for some diagnostic test costs loads of money for lawyers and government agencies that small companies can hardly afford. It doesn't have any real value because it is just paperwork and doesn't add any actual certification. If it doesn't eliminate the competition entirely it at least makes new products from small competitors way more expensive. It stifles innovation as well, so big companies have more time to milk their aging products.


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Say you want to know the exact amount of tree loss Earth has seen over time — can you look at a bunch of old satellite photos and just compare the greener areas?
Well, according to a Nature paper out today, yes we can! The authors did almost exactly that, analyzing 35 years of satellite data to determine the changes in land cover. And while the methods may sound straightforward, the results are a bit less intuitive: It turns out Earth is actually gaining tree cover and losing bare ground cover.
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The study authors also crunched the numbers a little bit. They found that 60 percent of these changes were associated with direct human activities, and the remaining 40 percent with indirect causes like climate change. And generally mountains seemed to gain tree cover while arid and semi-arid ecosystems lost vegetation cover.
While this seems like great news, it doesn't negate the destruction of tropical rainforests or other environmental concerns. More data is always useful, and this study will likely help model land-use changes and vegetation-climate interactions, but the biggest takeaway is one the authors end on.
"The results of this study reflect a human-dominated Earth system," they write. Whatever changes we see, for good or ill, are a result of our own actions.
For more, see "Co2 is Greening the planet" – Scientific American.
The Black Plague reforested Europe. The Black Plague reforested Detroit, too.
As the next-to-last paragraph indicates, the reforestation in more temperate latitudes does not mean the tropical rainforests, home to far more species of flora and fauna, are no longer in peril. Losing these reservoirs of biodiversity will not be offset by the resurgence of more homogeneous new growth forests elsewhere.
A bunch of trees does NOT a forest make. A fully diverse forest is a super-complex ecosystem that cannot be easily or quickly be re-created by simply planting new trees, while razing old forests, even if the tree count surpasses the number of integrated old trees. It takes a very long time for a true forest to develop. Tree plantations, while removing some carbon, do not count as "forests" or even woodland, they are farms, ie agriculture.


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The Panthers got on the scoreboard during the 12th minute when Alex Barber threw a ball to Eliza Van Voorhis, who turned and lofted a shot over Wesleyan goalkeeper Zoe Cassels-Brown from 30 yards away.
Wesleyan's best chance of the opening half came in the 20th minute following a Middlebury hand ball just outside the penalty area, but a shot by Katie Stewart Frizzell went wide left.
Middlebury doubled its lead at the 41:21 mark. Eliza Robinson collected a loose ball in the middle of the pitch, sending a pass to Cate Shellenback, who lofted a shot from the right 10 yards away over the charging Cardinal goalie.
After the halftime break, Alex Barber gave the Panthers a three-goal advantage, putting in a loose ball for her second of the season at 57:13.
Gretchen McGrath put the hosts up 4-0 with a shot into the bottom-left corner, after her initial shot was blocked in the 61st minute. She added her second of the match at 77:35, following a great individual effort from the left corner.
The Cardinals best opportunity of the second half came in the 83rd minute when Elizabeth Vann rifled a shot from 25 yards out, but Middlebury goalie Eva Shaw caught the attempt to preserve the shutout.
Cassels-Brown made eight saves in goal for the Cardinals. Ursula Alwang had three stops in 69:43 minutes, while Eva Shaw made one save in the final 20:17 of action.
The Cardinals head to Rhode Island College on Tuesday for a 6:00 p.m. contest, before returning home for their final two regular season contests.


Coming is the presentation from our App Masters Connect Vegas with my friend Pek. He shares how he's able to sell to some of the biggest brands, his brilliant land and expand strategy and how selling into the future will help you grow sales.
Pek Pongpaet is the Managing Partner at Impekable.
Pek works to get a client and establishes a relationship. Once that relationship is in place, he will work on expanding by asking them if there are other groups within their company that he may be able to help. They would usually refer someone then Pek would ask for an intro and before you know it, he'd be working with the person with multiple, simultaneous projects.
Translating this to consumer relationship, this would mean having a customer download your app and thinking about how you can increase their lifetime value. This should be your end goal.
This is all about pre-selling. Pek shared about friends he know who are already done with their sales for the next 8 months. They have already pre-booked clients that if they will have more business, they won't have any choice but the grow their team. The idea of selling something and gaining business so far in advance will make you feel secure so it is a very useful skill.


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Main » 2019 » April » 2 » ABB Shows the Factory of the Future to German Chancellor and PM of Sweden
ABB Shows the Factory of the Future to German Chancellor and PM of Sweden
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven were given a glimpse into the factory of the future by ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer
HANOVER, Germany-Monday 1 April 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer explained how a production cell would work in the factory of the future, where robots will collaborate with humans. They were shown how iconic, two-armed YuMi® robots together with single-armed YuMi® put together wristwatches individually with unparalleled precision, using the revolutionary versatile transport system from ABB's newly formed Robotics & Discrete Automation business. Federal Chancellor Merkel and Swedish Prime Minister Löfven showed high interest in the factory of the future.
"The future of production will be smarter, more flexible and closer to the customer," said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. "We bring together electrification, automation, robotics and digitalization to create solutions for tomorrow. Even today, ABB is uniquely combining human and machine with its robotic and automation solutions to open up new opportunities."
At this year's Hannover Messe, ABB is showing how increasingly smart digital technologies are coming together to transform the way we power, produce, work, live and move. As the official Hannover Messe partner country of 2019, Sweden is the focus of the world's most important industrial fair, and ABB - established in 1988 from the merger of Sweden's ASEA and Switzerland's BBC - also looks with pride on its Swedish heritage.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader with a comprehensive offering for digital industries. With a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB is today a leader in digital industries with four customer-focused, globally leading businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation, supported by its common ABB Ability™ digital platform. ABB's market-leading Power Grids business will be divested to Hitachi in 2020. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. www.abb.com
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Fox gets into the comic book adaptation game with Gotham, and Previously.TV's resident Gotham watcher Nick Rheinwald-Jones is here to talk about it with us! Around The Dial rolls through The Flash, Chicago PD, The Good Wife, and How To Get Away With Murder. True professional Olivia Kwan updates us on the latest Face Off even though its "childhood fears" theme was so scary that her mom only let her watch a little bit of it. Tara busts out the last "We Are All Domer" of the season (or maybe forever...?). Nick offers up the Season 3 finale of Episodes for submission into The Canon, and then after we call out the week's Winner and Loser, it's a game that's so vain, it probably thinks this Game Time's about it. Quit morbidly fixating on local street crime and listen!


Fans of Beyonce have lashed out on Twitter, after more than 200 alleged unretouched photos from her 2013 L'Oreal cosmetic campaign were leaked on a fan site called The Beyonce World , the Daily Mail reports.
The 33-year-old superstar, known for her hit track Flawless, appears to have uneven and pimply skin under heavily applied foundation in the supposed pre-Photoshop images.
claiming they are not real.
The outtakes appear to be from Beyonce's adverts for L'Oreal's Feria and Infallible products, which advertise hair dyes, lipsticks and foundations.
Due to the widespread condemnation of the images, though, the fan site has since removed them and has posted a message, the Daily Mail informs.


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Q: Convert bitmap to jpeg without using WriteableBitmap or similar in Windows Phone 8 app? I already know how to use the WriteableBitmap object (with the WriteableBitmapEx extensions) to convert a bitmap to a JPEG stream.  The problem is that WriteableBitmap objects must be created on the UI thread, mandating the user of RunAsync() or Dispatcher.BeginInvoke() to push the code to the UI thread, otherwise I get an RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD or UnauthorizedAccess exception.  Pushing the code to the UI thread makes the flow of the code harder to control and slows things down quite a bit by adding a thread switch.  Since my app is processing frames coming in from the phone's camera in real-time, that thread switch is a big performance hit.
Does anyone know how to convert a bitmap to a JPEG stream or array of bytes without using a WriteableBitmap object or any other object that has to be created/executed from the UI thread?
UPDATE: The bitmap source is a Stream object with the bitmap in its buffer.  The reason I am using WriteableBitmap is because I need to convert the bitmap to JPEG format and I am using Writeable bitmap to get that done.

A: You can use the managed version of libjpeg, libjpeg.net
Being compatible with Silverlight profile I assume it will work under Windows store apps, so with this you don't need to create any UI object.

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All is well that ends well for Ara Mina weeks after she expressed her dismay over a certain TV show.
In a recent post by the star on her Instagram account, Ara categorically identified the then nameless show.
Ara revealed on the caption that she has already ironed things out with the network bosses.
She also expressed her apologies to the network for her actions and for putting her sentiments in social media.
It may be recalled that Ara's sentiment against the show became palpable, at least to the press, when she didn't attend the show's press conference.
Aside from that show, Ara is also part of the upcoming film My Ex and Whys of Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil, which is set to come out in theaters this coming February 15.


We're so proud of Alexander Katz. He won the Open Section and $240 with a perfect score (4 out of 4). Pictured below is Alexander, a student of ICA since the age of 5, then and now. In December Alexander graduated from M.I.T., a semester in advance, and is now working on acquiring his GM norm before re-locating to California to start a new job!
Winning the ICA Open U1600 Section with a perfect score (4 out of 4) was Lily Del Pilar. Lily's been a student at ICA for over 7 years. She was awarded $140 and gained 100+ rating points!
Grant Goldman, also an ICA student, won 2nd place and $105.


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Gigantic Watermelon Resides in Upstate New York
Credit: Dave Coombs/TSM
A Mount Vernon pastor who loves to donate produce to the less fortunate is not yet ready to part with his 111-pound watermelon.
Pastor Hugh Farrish, 77, owns a farm in Goshen, in southern New York State, near the New Jersey border. He often donates his wares to the Bowen Memorial Baptist Church in nearby Mount Vernon to help the needy. Farrish told News 12 in Westchester he was inspired by his grandfather's similar charitable deeds. News 12 TV has a full report, an interview, and a video of the giant melon.
The Guinness Book of World Records claims the heaviest watermelon on record weighed 350.5 pounds and was grown and displayed in 2013 by Chris Kent of Sevierville, Tennessee.
As for Farrish, he says when he's ready to part with the melon, he plans on sharing it with others. That's gonna be one heck of a fruit salad.
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Image via WikipediaIt's National Biscuit Month, a tasty holiday to be sure. If you are a dietician, you should probably just move on to the next post, because these babies are not health food, but they are good for the soul. Whether eaten plain, dressed with your favorite condiment(s), turned into a breakfast sandwich, topping a casserole or sopping up the rest of the gravy on the plate, they are a treat.
This is my personal recipe, so it makes a bunch. It will feed a large family or give you plenty to share.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Stir thoroughly to combine. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until crumbly. Stir in buttermilk just until mixture holds together. Do not overmix. Dump mixture onto a generously floured surface and knead lightly until it doesn't stick to you. Overworking will lead to tough biscuits. Handle as little as you can. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a floured cutter and place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until golden.


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ICU staff traumatised, with half suffering PTSD and anxiety
India McTaggart
A nurse works on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London. - Victoria Jones/PA
Intensive care staff were so traumatised during the first wave that nearly half have shown symptoms of PTSD, problem drinking and other conditions, a study has found.
Experts at King's College London have blamed the scale of mental health problems on the high number of patient deaths, combined with the difficulty of providing decent end-of-life care.
They also found that the challenges of communicating with loved-ones who were barred from wards contributed to the stress, as well as fear of catching the virus.
Published in the journal Occupational Medicine, the results showed that poor mental health was more likely among nurses working in ICU than doctors or any other healthcare staff.
Professor Neil Greenberg, who led the study, said: "The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life."
More than 700 healthcare workers from nine intensive care units across England took part in an anonymous web-based survey in June and July last year.
The respondents comprised 291 doctors, 344 nurses, and 74 other healthcare staff.
While over half - 59 per cent - reported good wellbeing, a 45 per cent were found to meet the clinical threshold for either for a range of psychiatric problems: 40 per cent for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), 11 per cent for severe anxiety, seven per cent for problem drinking, and six per cent for severe depression.
More than one in eight respondents reported having frequent thoughts of being better off dead or of self-harm in the previous two weeks.
Professor Greenberg said the results "should serve as a stark reminder to NHS managers of the pressing need to protect the mental health of ICU workers now in order to ensure they can deliver vital care to those in need".
The new King's study follows a recent wide-scale survey by the British Medical Association, which suggested high levels of depression and anxiety among NHS staff.
Professor Greenberg called for the urgent adoption of a "national strategy to protect staff mental health and decrease the risk of functional impairment of ICU staff".
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It's obvious that when it's dark, you need light. But what about ensuring daytime visibility?
Keep these Life Jacket Facts in Mind Whatever kind of paddling you like to do, it's important to always wear your life jacket (or PFD) while you're out on the water. Think of it like wearing a seat belt in your car - you probably won't find yourself in a situation where you need it, but it's a precaution that can be live saving should the worst happen.


Every two or three months of training in the gym to amplify muscle you arrange a full week to rest from the gym to restore the nervous system whole and strengthen the immune system and give the body a rest, and this kind of comfort working to restore the recovery and re-formation of muscle tissue consumed.
Is always required to provide the body protein needed to build and amplify muscle, and building various tissues, enzymes, hormones, muscle needs from 1 to 5 g protein per pound of body weight, and this depends on the strength of the training, and there is also a need for carbohydrates, which are considered a source of primary energy for the body, glycogen must be returned in full after training directly so that no more than an hour after all the training.
Sleeping key factor too to amplify muscle building and re-hospitalization her full, cells occurs during deep sleep, and tissue repair and muscle fiber is also during sleep, number of clocks suitable for sleeping be from 7 to 8 hours per day to maximize the benefits of exaggerating the muscle.
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Chrysolina platypoda is een keversoort uit de familie bladkevers (Chrysomelidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1950 gepubliceerd door Bechyné.

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In the Apg3 classification there is no Subclass Proteidae. There are several small Orders diverging early at the beginning of the Eudicotyledons after the first two Orders Ceratophyllales and Ranunculales: Sabiales, Proteales, Trochodendrales, Buxales, Gunnerales, Dilleniales, Saxifragales, Vitales. These have not been assigned to a Class or Subclass.
In the Plant theory most of these Orders are taken together in one Order Proteales and one Subclass Proteidae. The Orders taken together are: Sabiales, Proteales, Trochodendrales, Buxales, Gunnerales, Vitales. Proteidae are a Subclass of the Fabanae. They have the emphasis on the Silicon series.
Dilleniales is placed in the Class Asteranae and Saxifragales is placed in the Class Malvanae. The table below gives the placements in the different systems.
The placement and classification of Proteidae is problematic as few remedies of them are known in homeopathy. Viewed from the point of phylogeny Proteidae is paraphyletic. In the Plant theory this is accepted and named prephyletic. This is explained in the Chapter "Classes, Cladistics".
Proteales is the only Order in Proteidae and is thus in Phase 1.


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Q: How to set defaultTab in easyTabs all-dominant? I'm loading by ajax content in a div-container by several navigation links and using this following script to set the defaultTab:
$(document).ready( function() {
  $("#tab-container").easytabs({updateHash: true, defaultTab: "li:eq(3)"});
});

That works fine until I get used something like '#tab1-9' in the url by clicking on a tab. Then it doesn't matter how I set the defaultTab.
How can I set this defaultTab despite of the content in the url?

A: You can manually change the tab on page reload even if url contains some #tabId. That plugin has a method built in for this.

EasyTabs currently has one public method, called select, which allows
  you to select a tab via JavaScript.

Just add this code in your $(document).ready() function:
$('#tab-container').easytabs('select', '#default-tab-link'); after this line: $("#tab-container").easytabs({updateHash: true, defaultTab: "li:eq(3)"});
Then your code should be like this:
$(document).ready( function() {
  $("#tab-container").easytabs({updateHash: true, defaultTab: "li:eq(3)"});
  $('#tab-container').easytabs('select', '#default-tab-link');
});

And in your html code, inside third li item(which you want to be default) set the id attribute of <a> tag to default-tab-link

A: I have found:
$("#tab-container").easytabs({updateHash: true, defaultTab: "li:eq("+nTab+")", active: nTab});
$('#tab-container').easytabs('select', '#tabs1-'+String.fromCharCode(nTab+97));

This works also in fiddle here.
Thank you very much for your hint.


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Economics, Politics & Rights
The Little Dictators
John David Lewis May 15, 2006
America is the land in which productive individuals were largely set free of the coercive power of the government. The result was the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. But, over the past two generations, our freedom has been subordinated, in myriad ways, to the "Little Dictators" among us. The language of despotism is proper to them, for they wield the force of the government and demand obedience to their commands. To disobey them is to risk loss of career, property, and even life.
Who are the Little Dictators? Here are some real examples I have known; you can probably think of others. The local building inspector is one; he decides whether I can live year-round in the cottage I bought. Others include the fire inspector who decides whether a small day-care center—barely able to stay open—has to spend $10,000 for a fire door to cover a residential-type kitchen stove; the planning commission that decides whether I can build a house on my lot; the bureaucrat who collects money for permission to drive a car; the health inspector who says he is not sure whether he will allow a house to be built in this part of town; the zoning board that decides a restaurant is OK on this lot, but not on that one.
Their names are friendly; their power immense. One I knew, "Jim," had final say over whether a 42-story office building in a major city could open. Another, "Marty," said he did not care that his failure to read a blueprint had cost a small business $10,000—"that don't matter" were his words. Another, an inspector named "CJ" (the initials have been changed to protect his victims) was asked whether building requirements had changed "in his town"; he said, "I haven't decided. I'll let you know." Another, "Frank," showed up smelly and unshaven at the final inspection of a new high-tech manufacturing plant, and delayed its opening for three days pending a test of the fire alarm system's batteries.
Some personalize everything. "I ain't gonna allow it," I heard one decree, as he told a contractor to tear down a stone chimney and start over because the hearth was an inch too narrow. Another told me, "I ain't lettin' no more cottages be converted to year-round use. There's too many now," as he slapped a red tag on my neighbor's door. Once I was doing a project at a very remote site, which took hours to get to, including a boat trip. An offical said, to my face, that he'd require our technicians to return as often as he saw fit: "Not everyone can work in my town." Another made similar demands at a major state university; his son was our competitor, and had lost the bid.
These Little Dictators have the power of government guns to enforce their decisions. To avoid their wrath, a productive individual must suppress his rational judgment, and go by the rules they enforce. They are enemies of independent thought and comrades of conformity. Their whims and their rules coercively substitute for reality in the minds of their victims.
Americans should be up in arms about this tyranny in their midst. But they are not. Many have come to see the world as the Little Dictators wish it to be. Without the security of their decrees, many people would feel dread at the thought of making their own decisions. But this is dictatorship—the dictatorship of petty bureaucrats for sure, but dictatorship nonetheless—and it is growing by leaps and bounds. When Americans regain their understanding of liberty, they will feel a proper sense of outrage against these tin-badge despots, and the legislatures that empower them. But, first they must regain that understanding.
From Diane Viewing, May 19, 2006
How are these fungi to be eradicated? They are not elected, evidently answer to no one, and have the power of government force behind their pronouncements. Their whims rule, and any appeal to reason is met with indifference, scorn, or laughter. The concept of property rights has become null in their hands.
From John Lewis, May 22, 2006
Dear Ms. Viewing:
Great question—and fungi is a perfect description: non-productive organisms living off of others.
The first thing to ask is: where did they come from? The answer is: philosophy. They came from the idea that to live by one's own rational judgment is scary, but to let others judge for us is safe—that businessmen are selfish brutes but bureaucrats have our best interests at heart—that the possibility of a problem anywhere means that everyone must submit to inspection everywhere—that nature's storms, earthquakes and diseases are normal, but power plants are unnatural and dangerous—that freedom applies to areas that I want to be free, but not to the freedoms of others—that we can compromise our liberty in some small area without threatening freedom across the board—that the Little Dictators deserve some credit for the prosperity we enjoy—that the government must have any powers needed to create a safe, stagnant world, because individual reason is flawed, inefficacious or malicious. Most people will deny many of these ideas if stated as such, but they use every one of them whenever they concede that the alternative to the Little Dictators is a frightening chaos of uncontrolled men.
To end this scourge people need to regain the self-esteem needed to act on their own judgments, and to take the consequences. They need to understand that reason—not conformity to whims—is how man lives, and that the alternative is a dictatorship that grows like a fungus that devours the host. The first step to ending such outrages is never to accept that they are necessary despite a few bad apples. The most dangerous of the Little Dictators I know are the conscientious ones, who pursue their tasks legally and with the support of their victims. Do what they demand if the alternative is personal ruin, but don't sanction them.
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About John David Lewis
John David Lewis was a contributing editor to TOS from the journal's second issue, in 2006, until his death, on January 3, 2012. He was a visiting associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University. He held a PhD in classics from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of London. He had also been a senior research scholar in history and classics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, and a fellow of the Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. He published in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Social Philosophy and Policy, Polis, Dike, and Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and lectured on classics, military history, and contemporary political issues at numerous universities and for private groups. His research interests were in ancient Greek and Roman thought, military history, and their connections to the modern day. His books are Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens (Duckworth, 2006), Early Greek Lawgivers (Bristol Classical Press, August, 2007), and Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History (Princeton,2010). Dr. Lewis also wrote for Capitalism Magazine. His website is www.JohnDavidLewis.com.
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BREAKFAST AT THE LEGION from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. $2 from every breakfast goes to support the Legion. Table service Provided every Saturday morning by members of the local Cadets.
GLOUCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY -- Please come to the Gloucester Horticultural Society's monthly meeting at the Queenswood Heights Community Centre, doors open at 6 p.m., the meeting starts at 7 p.m. Guest speaker: Jordan of Bird and Bee. He will talk about collecting, storing and sharing seeds. Guests welcome free of charge. Email: Gloucester@gardenontario.org.
FETE FRISSONS 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Shenjman Arts Centre. Celebrate Winterlude in Orléans and shake up winter with a day of family fun! Enjoy free musical entertainment, face-painting, art making, storytelling, dancing and outdoor fun in the snow!
Lions Magical Village, a holiday tradition like no other
Since its inception in 1998, the Gloucester North Lions Club Magical Village has become a unique holiday tradition, attracting hundreds of people every year while raising tens of thou-sands of dollars for local foodbanks.
And thanks to a couple of relative newbies to the club, the Village will continue to attract people and raise money for years to come.
Leanne Moffat checks out the fire station with her son Sebastien as a model train goes by. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
It had been rumoured that this would be the final year for the Village which is made up of more than one hundred miniature buildings and figurines, thousands of brightly coloured lights and five model trains, but thanks to a commitment made by Robert Toupin and Nancy Wolstenholme the lights will stay lit and the trains will keep running for the foreseeable future.
"There's no way we were going to walk away," says Toupin who will be taking the lead on the Magical Village next year. "We have to keep it going for te kids. I mean we do it to help support the food banks, but we really do it for the kids. To see their faces light up when they see the trains and all the minature houses, it's really very special."
Last year, over 2,000 people passed through the Magical Village, leaving over $13,000 in donations. Another $2,000 was collected fom various sponsors, bring the total amount of money raised to over $15,000. As in years past, the funds were split between the Glouceter Community Food Cupboard, the Orléans Cumberland Community Resource Centre food bank and Camp Banting.
Judging by the number of people who past through the Village during a one hour period last Friday, they shouldn't have any trouble matching last year's amount. A number of the people, like Leanne Moffat, were seeing the Village for the first time.
"This is so cool. It's very well done. Very festive," said Moffat, who was there with her six-year-old son Sebastian.
Naz Abdulrob was another first timer. He noticed the Village set up across from the Foot Locker store as he was passing by with his wife and his four kids.
"This so nice for the kids and adults too. It is very beautiful. From now on we will come back every year," said Abdulrob.
Edith has been bringing her 10-year-old grandaughter Ciara to the Magical Village every year since she was little.
"My favourite part is just looking at all the houses," said Ciara.
The Magical Village was created by former Gloucester Mayor Claudette Cain in 1998. When the city amalgamated in 2001, ownership of the Village was handed over to the Gloucester Food Cupboard which in turn handed it over to the Gloucester North Lions Club in 2005.
The Magical Village is open Wednesday to Friday from noon to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, except on Dec. 23 when it is open from noon to 8:30 p.m. and Christmas Eve from noon to 5 p.m..
(This story was made possible thanks to the generous support of our local business partners.)
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Q: Wordpress - Editing Custom Post Type defined by Theme I have a wordpress theme applied to my wordpress site.
It has its own custom post type named 'company'. I am trying to enable archiving on this post type but I cannot find where I can do that.
Resources online suggest it would be in functions.php of the theme but it does not seem to be there.
Is there anywhere else in Wordpress where an author can define their own custom post types?
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Dirk Kuytsays that he never expected Feyenoord only to have achieved Europa League qualification
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Former Liverpool star Dirk Kuytsays that he never expected Feyenoord only to have achieved Europa League qualification for the upcoming campaign.
The Dutchman will be joining Feyenoord once his contract expires with Turkish club Fenerbahce. He has already announced the agreement with the Dutch club and the process of rejoining the former Dutch champions is expected to be a mere formality. Unlike in recent seasons whenKuyt has been used to playing in the Champions League, he will find a different set up at his former club. He represented Feyenoord from 2003 to 2006 before moving onto Liverpool.
After six seasons with the Merseyside outfit, he joined Fenerbahce for € 1 million in 2012. Since his move, he has quickly became a fan favourite at the club due to his endless work rate and quality.Kuyt may not have won many titles in his career, but he is keen to make a difference at Feyenoord nonetheless. The Dutch Eredivisie team struggled for form last season and they could only manage a fourth place finish – behind AZ Alkmaar. PSV Eindhoven managed to win the title with Ajax coming in a distant second place. A whopping 17 points separated the two teams. Furthermore, a shocking 29 points separated PSV and Feyenoord.
"I never expected that Feyenoord would get no European football.But on the other hand, I see a team with so much quality that I have great faith in the future. So I'm not talking about the last six or seven games because before that I could see Feyenoord playing games with the same players and a lot of promise.I'm convinced we can all do something beautiful together," said the striker, who has also expressed his desire to one-day return to Turkish club Fenerbahce. Kuyt has signed a one-year contract with the Dutch team.


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Q: Partitioning my new system I have recently built a new computer and have  500GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I am having trouble deciding how to partition my space. Any recommendations?

A: I usually do swap,root,and home partitions. If you have a good amount of memory, you probably won't need a swap partition most of the time, but the rare time you run out of memory it could slow you down to a crawl. The old recommendation was to use the same amount of swap as your memory, but if you've got plenty of ram then less should be okay. For root, I usually make that partition 20-30 gigs. I've only used about 5 right now (of my 30GB root) but I don't install a lot of big programs. Then make the home partition as big as you need (save space for more partitions if you want to dual boot with another distro).

A: 500 MB means 500 GB?

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*Take 200 GB for the system on the ssd.

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*Create no swap partition
(depends on the ram size, not more than 8 GB swap partition, mostly
unused).

*The rest of the ssd use for programms and backups of
important files on the hdd.

*Store the data on the hdd.

*/tmp should be on a ramdisk to reduce write operations on the ssd.

I think there is no generally correct answer.

A: Yet another answer:
I have similar configuration (500GB SSD and 2TB HDD).
I have one file system for each disk (both are encrypted).
The SSD has the OS, plus /home. The HDD has directories with all the bulky stuff: music, photos, and plenty of rather large VM images. There are soft links from the SSD tree to the HDD contents where necessary.
In the past I used to be partition-happy, but this leads to a lot of wasted disk space.


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Ivey A. Thomas
Madison County, Florida
Ivey A. Thomas and Isham J. Thomas are shown as members of the Isham B. Thomas household on the Alachua County, Florida 1860 federal census. However, they are listed after the other household members and are shown as farm laborers and not as children of Isham B. Thomas1. I have been looking into both these persons as a possible link to determine more information about Isham B. Thomas thinking they must be some way related to each other and to Isham B. Hopefully, someone will have some information on these people....
Ivey Thomas, son of William M. and Nancy Thomas, was born November 16, 1840 in Madison County, Florida, according to his Florida Confederate Pension application. He died August 26, 1922, also in Madison County, Florida, where he lived in the Lovett community. His death certificate does not list a date of birth, nor give any information about his parents.
The 1860 census shows Ivey's age as 18 which roughly coincides with his date of birth of November 16, 1840 shown on his Confederate Pension application.
Will records at the Madison County courthouse, Madison, Florida, for William M. Thomas specifically show Ivey A. Thomas and William H. Thomas as his sons and heirs. William M. Thomas died in Madison County sometime between October 1 and November 11, 1857 and his will was probated there. This will left his estate to his wife (unnamed) and upon her death, equally to his two sons when they came of age.
The 1850 Madison County federal census shows William M. Thomas as a farmer. He and all members of his household were born in Georgia:
William M. Thomas 41 M
Nancy Thomas 44 F
Jermiah Thomas 10 M
William Thomas 7 M
Based on the age of Jermiah, and the names of his father and brother matching William M.'s will, I suspect that Jermiah and Ivey are the same person.
Ivey Thomas' pension application shows he served in the Confederate Army during the civil war. He first enlisted in Madison County on April 5, 1861 in Company F of the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment. Upon the expiration of his enlistment, he was discharged at Montgomery, Alabama, on April 4, 1862. He later enlisted in Hardee's Company H of the 9th Georgia Infantry Regiment. On August 30, 1862 he was wounded in the right thigh in the second Battle of Manassas. He was permanently disabled and was sent home from the hospital and remained at home during the rest of the war. The Florida State Archives website contains an image of a civil war postcard addressed to Ivey Thomas.
Ivey Thomas married three times, all in Brooks County, Georgia:
Bride's Name
Marriage Date/
Catherine McMullen July 21, 1864
Book A, Page 50 Probably divorced around 1877. 3 children.
Feby Johnson July 4, 1880
Book B, Page 474 No known children from this marriage.
Julia Thompson August 13, 1884
Book C, Page 159 Survived him. 1 child.
Brooks County, Georgia, and Madison County, Florida, border each other along the state line. Real estate records show several property transactions involving Ivey Thomas for land in both Brooks County and Madison County and the property apparently straddled the state line. An 1877 transaction showed that Catherine Thomas was residing in Hillsborough County, Florida while Ivey was in Madison County indicating they were living apart at that time. I have not yet found any record of divorces for Ivey A. Thomas. However, the 1885 Florida census for Madison County shows Catherine (Kate) as divorced and living under the name "K. Morris" with her daughter, M. L. Thomas, and two Morris children aged 6 and 3 also in the household.
Also, there are some actions involving real estate owned jointly by Ivey and his brother, William H. Thomas. William's wife is identified as Laura L. Thomas on an 1876 deed. William married L. L. Blocker on February 7, 1867, in Madison County, Florida. Laura Blocker was the daughter of Haley T. and Sarah Blocker and was born in Leon County, Florida about 1851 and died September 1884 in Madison County.
A July 10, 1902 Madison County deed from Ivey A. and Julia Thomas to their daughter, Jessie T. Thomas, conveyed Ivey's and Julia's real and personal property to Jessie leaving Ivey and Julia a life estate.
There is a record of a marriage of Jessie T. Thomas to Clarence Cramer on August 5, 1906.
Madison County probate records showed Ivey A. Thomas died at Lovett in Madison County on August 26, 1922. His will, dated May 26, 1906, was filed for probate on September 4, 1924, in Will Record Book 3, pages 1-4. Additional documents are filed in Administration Record Book 2, pages 269-272.
County of Madison
I, Ivey A. Thomas do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
I hereby bequeath to my daughter Jennie Quinn one dollar to my daughter Mary Church one dollar, to my daughter Nannie Sloan one dollar, and to my daughter Jessie Thomas one dollar, the rest of my property both real and personal, wheresoever the same may be, to my beloved wife Julia to have and use during her natural life then at her death all of said property both real and personal to go to and belong to my daughter Jessie.
I hereby appoint my said wife the executrix of this my last will and testament. My will is that my said wife shall not be required to give any bond or security to the Judge of Probate for the faithful execution of the duties of executrix.
In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of May A.D. 1906.
Ivey A. Thomas(L.S.)
Signed, published and declared by the above named Ivey A. Thomas as his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request have signed as witnesses of the same.
O.P. Bond, D.W. Jarvis, J.D. Cone
W.J. Jarvis, Notary Public State of Florida at Large
Probate documents filed October 12, 1922 show he was survived by:
Julia Thomas, widow
Mrs. Howell Quinn, daughter
Mrs. Minnie Sloan, daughter (not listed as "Nannie")
Charlie Church, Jr., grandchild
Lucius Church, grandchild
Ivey Thomas Cramer, grandchild
Based on the above, Ivey Thomas had four children:
Birth/Marriage/Death Information
Jennie Thomas Born November 2, 1864
Married James Howell Quinn December 21, 1882 in Jefferson County, Florida.
Died October 12, 1924, in Miami, Dade County, Florida
Mary Thomas Born about 1868.
Mamie Lea Thomas married Charles Shea Church October 25, 1885.
Died between 1906 and 1922
Nannie Lee Thomas Born May 1875
Married John Fisher Sloan about 1894.
Died January 15, 1953.
Jessie T. Thomas Born March 1885
Married Clarence Cramer August 5, 1906
Died between 1910 and 1920 (census information)
Jessie Thomas was born in 1885 according to the 1900 census and her mother would have been Julia Thompson. Catherine (Kate) McMullen was the mother of Jennie (Jennie's death certificate), Nannie (census records) and Mary (census records). Since Ivey Thomas eluded both the 1870 and 1880 federal censuses as well as the 1885 Florida state census, those records are not available to clarify things further.
Daughters Mary Thomas Church and Jessie Thomas Cramer apparently did not survive Ivey Thomas as their shares of his estate went to their children
In a September 4, 1924 filing with the court, Julia Thomas stated that Ivey A Thomas was survived by herself; two daughters, Jennie Quinn and Nannie Sloan; and three grandchildren, Charlie Quinn, Lucius Quinn and Ivey Thomas. There is no mention of the name "Cramer" for the grandson Ivey Thomas. Also, the surnames for the other two grandchildren are now listed as "Quinn" rather than "Church." The court records in the Will Record Book regarding this 1924 entry in the probate case are typewritten transcriptions, so both the Minnie-Nannie Sloan and the grandchildren's name conflicts are probably typographical errors.
If you have any connection to or information about any of these people, please contact me, as I am at a dead end concerning the relationships, if any, between Isham B. and Ivey A. and Isham J. Thomas.
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1 Information regarding Isham B. Thomas as a possible parent is found here.


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