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American Made Monsters
The engines that power the automobiles of today are a bit more ferocious than the 0.75hp Benz Velo that debuted in 1886 with a top speed of 10 MPH. In honor of the menacing spirit that Halloween season entails, we felt it necessary to highlight some of the monstrous engines American car companies are using to bring their vehicles to life. We're taking a quick look at 8 American Made Monsters that deliver unnecessarily large amounts of horsepower and torque to thrill-seeking drivers.
The following list is in order starting with the lowest horsepower up through the most ominous and powerful beasts that are slashing up the roadways. So if you feel the ground shake and hear a bone chilling growl, don't check under the bed, check the driveway.
Ford Shelby GT350 – 5.2L Ti-VCT V8
This behemoth begins its life in a pampered manner, being hand-built by a two-person team. However, this soft upbringing does not equate to a weak mindset. The aptly named "Voodoo" engine puts out an impressive 526-hp and 429 lb.-ft. of torque and propels the 'stang from 0-60 in just 3.9 seconds. Something not lost on Ford was the need for an optional true 6-speed manual, letting the driver take this vehicle by the reigns as it was truly meant to be.
Knowing that the growl of the GT350 would be a signature, muffler bypass valves were installed to help strengthen its vocal chords. This is activated when switching from Normal to Sport-Mode, where the GT350 will then bypass the mufflers more frequently. Sport-Mode also tightens the response of the magnetically adjustable shock absorbers and lessens the power assist to the steering for a connected road feel. In addition to this, the racing style crankshaft creates even more vibration and deep tones that bellow from the V8.
If you need even more power, and can be patient, there are rumors surrounding a 2018 Ford Shelby GT 500 that may be powered by a 5.0 Twin Turbo that could surpass the 740hp range…Scary, yet so appealing.
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 – 6.2L Supercharged V8
Although this menace dropped 200-lbs, the widened front fenders, 20" forged aluminum wheels, and wing-style rear spoiler add the look of additional muscle, while also providing greater stability. Chevrolet designed a new look to front-end to give the ZL1 an aggressive appearance, featuring a very large intake to keep the 640-hp V8 nice and cool. The new wavy pattern within this large intake provides some flowing lines to the rigid, angry appearance.
Chevrolet gives you the choice between a standard six-speed manual transmission with active rev matching and an all-new 10-speed automatic with paddle-shifting that helps maintain optimum RPM levels for supreme responsiveness. The performance-tuned suspension system that includes Magnetic Ride technology that adapts 1,000 times per second, adjusting the suspension for performance driving.
Cadillac CTS-V – 6.2L Small Block V8
Cadillac's most powerful production model ever is propelled by a 6.2L V8 that puts out 640-hp and 630 lb.-ft. of torque. This is essentially a 4-door family sedan with the power of a race car. Revised side skirts along with a lowered suspension give the road hugging CTS-V a low and wide stance that resembles that of a predator waiting to pounce. It's the most intimidating 4-door we have seen.
The grille a features a brand-new mesh pattern that adds the luxurious look that is synonymous with the Cadillac name. Paddle-shifters, launch control, Performance Algorithm Shifting, and a vented carbon fiber hood help to further the track appeal of the CTS-V. And if you're more of the high-maintenance type, the luxurious interior of the CTS-V will deliver the high level of comfort you expect from a Cadillac. But don't let this comfort fool you; this thing is uninhibited at its core.
Dodge SRT Viper – 8.4L V10
While there are numerous configurations available, the Viper shows it fangs in full force when upgrading to the $118,759 ACR. The 8.4L that powers this serpent is the only V10 on our list and is the largest passenger-car engine currently in production. This massive engine generates 645-hp and launches this from 0-60 in just 3 seconds. With a rumored top speed of 206 mph, this street legal monster can hold its own against track vehicles that are tuned specifically for racing.
The Viper ACR also holds more track records than any production car in the world with a total of thirteen road course lap records. This 2017 version of the Viper supposedly marks the end of the 25-year run for the Viper. But will it return from its lair to haunt the streets in the future? We can only hope so.
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 – 6.2L V8
Chevrolet's latest redesign of the Corvette is absolutely striking. The sharp edges mixed with the classic Corvette elements pierce your inner need to drive and beckon you to monster-mash the gas. The widened rear wheels make it easier for the 'Vette to dig its claws into the pavement and keep you losing traction while accelerating through turns. The Z06 is also equipped with run flats, just in case the road bites back.
The available Aero Package helps get the most out of the 650-hp and 650lb.-ft. of torque by adding a front splitter, aerodynamic accents around the front wheel openings, a carbon fiber hood with a large vent, and a rear spoiler for more downforce. Upgraded cooling components have been added to prevent the overheating that lead-footed drivers were experiencing with the previous model. The available two-tone red and gray GT racing seats can be paired with red stitching to ensure the interior is just as sinister as the engine that boosts this monster from 0-60 in just 2.95 seconds.
Dodge Hellcat Challenger & Charger– Supercharged 6.2L V8
The Dodge Charger/Challenger Hellcat sounds like the stuff of fantasy, a rarity in today's automotive marketplace, packing 707 HP with a claimed top speed of over 200 MPH. Paired with performance upgrades & options all around, this hellion is a binge-drinking (top shelf of course) premium fuel connoisseur. The sick & twisted purr of the 6.2L Hemi Supercharged engine is no kitten. With this big-cat running the streets, it's clear that American Muscle is dominating the streets once again just because it can; filling the driver with a perverse sort of patriotism.
Tesla Model S P90D – 90kWh Twin Electric
While it may not have the same menacing look as the other vehicles on this list, the P90D is no pushover. This is the epitome of the saying "a wolf in sheep's clothing." The 90kWh twin electric motors of the P90D are said to produce 762-hp and 713lb.-ft. of torque. The Ludicrous mode upgrade decreases the 0-60 time by 10%, down to 2.8 seconds. With a quarter mile time of 10.9 seconds, this time is now 20% faster than the standard Model S.
The forthcoming Model S P100D is rumored to be even faster. Early statistics show that only two production vehicles have a quicker 0-60 time; the million-dollar LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder. Quite shocking for an electronically powered vehicle (I apologize for the terrible pun).
Fleet Focus – 2017 Buick LaCrosse


But if you were a hipster before it was cool...what does that make you?
Everything in the universe is designed. There are no problems if you don't make problems.
For that matter, it is not a sin: To smoke a filtered pipe with a filter. (I prefer 9mm).
It's not a sin for a man to cry.
It's not a sin for the rest of us to laugh at the little crybaby.
It's not a sin to smoke a Brylon pipe... oh wait....yes it is!!!!
It's not a sin to smoke it, it's a sin to enjoy it.
It's not a sin to light your pipe with a Bic.
Hell, I hope not. I'll be rotting for eternity if so.
Yeah. If I was smoking my last pipe before they marched me to the gallows, I'd use matches, but bics are just so convenient. Cheap, no burned matchsticks to clean up.
It's not a sin to think 5-minute smoke breaks are ridiculous.
When my three-year-old niece is here we refrain from smoking inside, which I do not mind in the least. Her mom & my gal both smoke cigarettes, and when they announce a smoke break, they stay outside just long enough to choke down a coffin nail...which is just long enough to get my pipe going. I'm just settling in and they're ready to head back inside.
It is not a sin to smoke a pipe in public, or to ignore the stares and odd looks from folk who don't realize that it's not a sin to smoke a pipe in public.
My son in law kept asking me about smoking a pipe with me, so I bought him one.
It's not a sin to stack coupon codes at P&C until you can get a new Peterson's for $40. Then buy 4 of them.
They had a sale on Petes recently. Arans were $50 - a 20% code & free shipping for spending over $79. I almost felt guilty. Then again, I had to return 2 of them for flaws.
It's not a sin that Laudisi picked up Peterson.
It's not even a sin to buy a Peterson in the first place (as long as the return process is easy). Here's to a new era of Laudisi-Peterson QC in 2019!


Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's engagement photos were my main form of pop-culture sustenance in December 2017. Harry's beard! Meghan's dress! That giant ring! Every photo Kensington Palace shared from the shoot was just so regal. They're so beautiful the only entity who could have possibly taken them is an angel that happens to be a huge fan of Suits.
Well, an angel and Alexi Lubomirski, the person who actually shot Meghan and Harry's engagement photos. "It was one of the easiest, most joyful jobs because they were so deliciously in love," Lubomirski told E! News in an interview on Monday, (April 9), adding he only had to tell the couple, "Just be yourselves, and I will take pictures of you."
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Limited deluxe edition of 500 copies in gatefold sleeve with all instrumentals.
Finally ''Seven Days To Engineer'' gets a proper vinyl release through hhv.de. The entire project was made in 7 days back in 1998 and marked the first solo joint by one half of the legendary Westcoast crew The Nonce. 2 tracks with Yusef are included as well as features by Aceyalone and The Oracle Jayne Doe.


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Today, Ryley started Holiday Program for the very.first.time.
Who was worried about how Ryley would go?
Why on earth did I waste my energy being worried?
The agency I work for runs recreational activities and they also run a holiday program. I really only found out all about it recently (keep in mind I have worked here for nearly 7 years). Part of me thinks I wasn't really ready to send Ryley to things like a holiday program, so I probably didn't really pursue the information. And I admit, part of me felt a bit guilty for even considering sending him to a holiday program.
Well, now I have learnt.
Ryley basically ran in and sat himself down and started playing. Before I even could say goodbye. There were people who already knew him (I swear he knows more people than me), and he was so excited to not be spending the day with boring old mum or dad.
He has two days each week where he gets to play with his mates, make new ones, and do fun stuff.
I am guessing he won't want to come home!!
The thing I find the hardest is trusting people to look after him. The PEG thing is usually what scares people away, when really, it is so easy to do. I guess I am not used to people who WANT to hang out with Ryley and take care of him and spend time with him.
I have to admit, it sure is nice (for both Ryley and me!!).
So school holidays have just taken on a whole new meaning...NO STRESS woohoo!!!!
Excellent news. Sounds like he is going to have a great time.
I hope you all have lots of fun on the holidays. The no stress thing for you sounds wonderful!
So glad to hear Ryley likes holiday program. Cailtin loves it too! She was only going part time but loved it so much she goes full time while I am working. Her holiday program goes on an excursion every day so this is espeically exciting for her as it means she gets to go on the bus every day.


I read a fairly decent amount of new releases in a year, since I'm a NetGalley member and get the advance review copies of books I pick out, so I'm sure I'll fall somewhere between 1-30 which is the first level.
The challenge is hosted by Lexxie and Brandee of the (un) Conventional Bookworms blog and their New Release Challenge Sign-Up (sign up here) is that second link I just made. The basic rules are that the book has to be released and reviewed in 2019, all formats are ok, and the book needs to have at least 100 pages. The sign-up page has all the fun details.
I will go for the first level of 1-30 and list my books on this page.


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Mike Decker arrowed this nice buck at 40 yards on the evening of October 26, 2012 .
Michael Carr took this 11-point in Albany County during the second week of the 2012 gun season with his 20 gauge shotgun. The buck dressed out at 164 lbs.
Ron Hart harvested this handsome Montgomery County 8-point on November 17, 2012 at 320 yards with his Ruger .270 cal rifle. The buck scored 151-3/8 gross, netted 146-3/8 and weighed in at 185 lbs.
Bernard Kosciuk arrowed this 8-point on December 23, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. in Suffolk County at 45 yards. Bernard puts the buck at 125 inches with a dressed weight of 140 lbs.
Joe McDonald shot this 10-point in Onondaga County on November 17, 2012. The buck grossed 147-0 and netted 143-1
Bob Kirsch with his Wyoming County, nine point taken on 10/21/2012. The buck weighed 189 lbs, ans scored163-7 gross and 157 net.
Jeff Fox of Canandaigua, NY harvested this ice 10-point in Livingston County, NY in the Town of Mount Morris on 11/18/2012. The buck scored 161-2
Richard McGilvray took this 11-point during the second week of the 2012 archery season in Cattaraugus County. Richard arrowed the buck from ground at 35 yards with his compound bow and is his biggest deer to date.
Michael Kellogg, of Waterville, NY took this 15-point Oneida County buck on Thanksgiving day 2012. The buck has an inside spread of 17.5 inches and green scores 155 6/8.
Randy White harvested this 127 inch, 8 point on opening day of archery season 2012 in Arcade, NY
Randy White kept the dice rolling with a 147 inch 9-point on opening day of gun season 2012 also in Arcade, NY.
This 12-point was taken by Joe Saroli in the Town of Hector, NY - Schuyler County on November 17, 2012. The buck dressed out at 179 lbs.
Ben Barkley of the Sylvan Falls Club took this buck on November 23, 2012 in St. Lawrence County.
The 9 point had a 20" spread with an 8" double brow tine.
Rian Digati shot this buck on 12-2-12 on Heron Hill Vineyards in Urbana, NY -
Steuben county. Grapes and acorns seems to be a good mix when it comes
to growing whitetails.
Tyler Barber poses with his Livingston County 11-point taken on 12/18/12 in Caledonia.
Heather White with her 12-point taken in Hillsdale, NY, Columbia County, on 11/18/12. This is very her first deer.
Heather used her Dad's .25-06 to make the 150 yard shot. The buck green scores 151-5 and the dressed out at 168 pounds.
Tom Rowland harvested this handsome Ontario County 12-point on 11/17/2012 with his muzzleloader at 30 yds. The buck scores a gross 142 .
Mindi Lewis with her Livingston County
8-point, taken on the last day of 2012 regular season.
JT Murray poses with his big, no brow tines, Orleans County Buck.
Cayuga County buck taken by Tony Bottar on 11/18/2012. The buck is aged at 4-1/2 and weighs in at 205.
Mike Gilman with his 10 point taken in Cohocton, NY - Steuben County on November 17, 2012.
Greg Sanders of Jefferson County shot this big 10-point on November 7, 2012. The 4-1/2 year old buck has green score of 158-7/8 and weighs in at 174 lbs.
Pat Smart of the Ham Val hunting club orginated in 2004 by a group of men with a passion to hunt whitetails took this Onondaga County (7F) 10-point on the first weekend of shotgun season and has yet to be scored.
Matt Bennett with his Livingston County Buck taken with TC Muzzlelaoder on 12/12/12.
Gene Salvino, of Coxsackie, NY took this 11-point non-typical buck while hunting in Greene County Thanksgiving morning. The buck has a 23-1/2-inch spread with a green score of 163 4/8 and weighing in at 175 pounds.
Tom Tagliareni took this 14-point buck on November 24, 2012 in Steuben County. The buck had an inside spread of 19 1/2 inches.
Thomas Chappell took this 10-point in Canandaigua,NY - Ontario County on 11/07/2012. He and a big 8-point were both chasing a hot doe and he came in at 32 yards. The buck scored 136" with a 17.5 " inside spread and 9 inch g-3's. He weighed almost 230lbs on the hoof. Tom's best archery buck.
Paul LaFond poses with his 15-point Ontario County bruiser, dressed weight approx. 170 with a green score of 167 4/8
Michael Corbelli with his 144 Class, 9 point, 202 lb field dressed and taken on Nov 15, 2012 in Genesee County, NY
Tom Wills got his 8-point just less than a hour before Debbie Wills got hers on 11/18/12. Both bucks were taken on the Wills' own 30 acres in Newfane, NY - Niagara County.
Josh VanDresar and his 8-point Otsego County Buck
Jeff Ames took this 10-point in Steuben County on 12/4/12 right before the weather front moved in. The green score is 134.
Ten-point taken in Livingston County by Gary "Rags" Myers. The buck gross scored 169.4, field dressed at 205. Taken with Encore 50 Cal. muzzle loader on 11/25/12.
Doug McCall of Cortland County poses with his 10-point taken with bow on Nov 1, 2012. Green score is 136. Actual dressed weight was 198 lbs. Inside spread is 19.5". Aged at 3 1/2.
Louis Backlas took this main frame 12-point buck 10/14/12 with his bow! The buck green scored 152 and was taken in Wyoming County NY.
10-point taken on the fourth day of gun 2012 in Chautauqua County, NY by Nathan Ingerson
Ray Swope took this main frame 12-point monster in the Town of New Haven - Oswego County on 11/28/2012. Unofficial green score is 190-6/8 gross, 181-3/8 net. The buck weighed in on certified scales at 165 lbs.
Jeremy Green took this wide antlered monster in Genesee County on 12/4/2012
Joe Borzilleri and his 9-point taken with CVA Accura Muzzleloader in Livingston County. Letchworth State Park River Bottom. The buck dressed out at 203 lbs,
12-point shot by Ronnie Wiggins on November 10, 2012 in Lyons, NY - Wayne County during bow season. The buck dressed out at almost 200 lbs and scores around 145.
Trevor Noonan shot this beauty on opening day in Mohawk, NY - Herkimer County. no score yut, but the buck weighed 190 lbs field dressed.
Coray Ciao arrowed this 10-point on Columbus Day, 2012. The Livingston County (8H) buck aged at 3-1/2 years old.
Big 8-pointer taken by Benny Leto on November 18, 2012 in Otsego County, NY using a .243 Sako A7. This brute weighed 195 lbs AFTER being field dressed, had an inside spread of 19" and gross scored 115 5/8".
Tom Hayward ll with his Seneca County 8-point taken with bow on 11/11/12.
Tom Hayward with another Seneca County buck, a 9-point taken with gun on 11/18/12. The buck dressed out at 190 lbs.
Eric Van Leer with his opening day 2012 regular season buck: Taxidermist scored it at 155. Weight estimated at 188. The buck is a 10-point. Town of Kill: Ulysses, (Nearest Village Trumansburg, NY). Taken with Remington 1100 with rifled barrel & Leopold variable scope.
Mike Yochum with his 10-point taken in Steuben County on 11/30/2012. Green scored 154.
Tony Casella took this buck in Ontario County. He was taken with a 20 gauge single shot shotgun at 175 yards on opening day of regular season 2012. His gross score was 131-1/8.
Martin Ringelberg with his Ontario County buck taken with muzzleoader at 160 yards on 11/19/20212
Tom Taber arrowed this big buck in Schuyler County with an official green score of 152-6/8. The buck weighs in at 190 lbs and was shot on 11/04/2012.
Jody Smith took this beautiful 8 point buck on October 7th during archery season 2012. The bucks tines measure 12-1/2 " long, and aged out at 2 ½ years old. His biggest buck to date. Killed in Livingston, NY. 8H region.
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Matthew David McConaughey ( born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). He appeared in such films as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller A Time to Kill (1996), the comedy film Larger than Life (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), the science fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy EDtv (1999), and the war film U-571 (2000).
In the 2000s, Matthew McConaughey became best known for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). Since 2011, he has preferred dramatic roles, in such films as The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Bernie (2011), Killer Joe (2011), The Paperboy (2012), Mud (2012), Magic Mike (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Sea of Trees, and Free State of Jones (both 2016).
McConaughey achieved much success in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, McConaughey portrayed Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the biographical film Dallas Buyers Club, which earned him the Academy Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, all for Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. In 2014, he starred as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO's crime drama anthology series True Detective, for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award and TCA Award, and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as starring in the critically acclaimed Interstellar.
Matthew David McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (ne McCabe, born 1932), is known as "Kay" or "KMac" and is a former kindergarten teacher and published author who taught McConaughey. She was originally from Trenton, New Jersey. His father, James Donald "Jim" McConaughey, was from Louisiana and ran an oil pipe supply business; he played for the Kentucky Wildcats and the Houston Cougars college football teams. In 1953, Jim was drafted in the 27th round by the NFL's Green Bay Packers. He was released before the season began and never played an official league game in the NFL.
McConaughey's mother and late father married each other three times, having divorced each other twice. He has two older brothers: Michael Patrick McConaughey (born 1954) and Patrick James McConaughey (born 1963, adopted). Michael, nicknamed "Rooster", is a self-made millionaire who stars in the CNBC docu-series West Texas Investors Club. McConaughey's ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish. He is a relative of Confederate brigadier general Dandridge McRae. He had a Methodist upbringing.
McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas, in 1980, where he attended Longview High School. He lived in Australia for a year, in Warnervale, New South Wales, as a Rotary exchange student in 1988. He attended the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where he joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He began in the fall of 1989 and graduated in the spring of 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Radio-Television-Film. His original plan had changed as he wanted to attend Southern Methodist University until one of his brothers told him that private school tuition would have been a burden on the family's finances. He also had planned to attend law school after graduation from college, but he realized he was not interested in becoming a lawyer.
1991-2000: Beginnings
McConaughey began working in television commercials, including one for the Austin, Texas daily newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, which is credited as his first speaking role. The line, "How else am I gonna keep up with my 'Horns?" a reference to his beloved Texas Longhorns sports teams gave the local community a look at the young actor, before he was cast in Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused. In 1992, he was cast as "Joe" in Trisha Yearwood's video for her hit song "Walkaway Joe."
After some smaller roles in Angels in the Outfield, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Boys on the Side, the television series Unsolved Mysteries, and as the male lead in the Trisha Yearwood music video for the song "Walkaway Joe", McConaughey's big break came as the lawyer Jake Brigance in the film A Time to Kill (1996), based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. In the late 1990s, McConaughey was cast in leading roles in more movies, including Contact, Amistad, The Newton Boys, EDtv and U-571.
2001-11: Romantic comedies
McConaughey in 2008, participating in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon
By the early 2000s, he was frequently cast in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, both of which were successful at the box office. During this period, he appeared as a firefighter in the low-budget film Tiptoes, with Kate Beckinsale, in Two for the Money as a protg to Al Pacino's gambling mogul, and in Frailty, with Bill Paxton, who also directed.
McConaughey starred in the 2005 feature film Sahara, along with Steve Zahn and Penlope Cruz. Prior to the release of the film, he promoted it by sailing down the Amazon River and trekking to Mali. That same year, McConaughey was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2005. In 2006, he co-starred with Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch and as Marshall head football coach Jack Lengyal in We Are Marshall. McConaughey also provided voice work in an ad campaign for the Peace Corps in late 2006. He replaced Owen Wilson in Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder after Wilson's suicide attempt. On January 21, 2008, McConaughey became the new spokesman for the national radio campaign, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner", replacing Sam Elliott.
2012present: "The McConaissance"
McConaughey at the premiere of Dallas Buyers Club at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
McConaughey recognized that his "lifestyle, living on the beach, running with my shirt off, doing romantic comedies" had caused him to be typecast for certain roles, and he sought dramatic work with other themes. He said:
I got to feeling like, for a few years, I was doing something that I liked to do with romantic and action comedies. But believe me, I noticed there were other things that were not coming in. And if they were coming in, it was in an independent form with a much smaller paycheck, and nobody really wanting to get behind them … But I knew I could say no to the things I'd been doing. In saying no to those things, I knew work was going to dry up for awhile … Year and a half, still nothing. At two years, all of a sudden, in my opinion, I became a new good idea for some good directors.
In 2012, McConaughey starred alongside Channing Tatum in Magic Mike, based on Tatum's early life, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh. He returned to his East Texas roots, working again with director Richard Linklater on Bernie, playing district attorney Danny Buck Davidson. In June 2012, McConaughey was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2013, he portrayed Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club. The role of a rodeo rider who discovers he has AIDS and struggles to get treatment required him to lose nearly 50 lb (22 kg). The film gathered wide critical acclaim and earned McConaughey many acting awards, including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Drama, and the coveted Academy Award for Best Actor. His co-star Jared Leto won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making Dallas Buyers Club the first film since Mystic River (2003) to win both awards. He also featured in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street as Mark Hanna, an early boss of Jordan Belfort.
McConaughey at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
During this time, McConaughey recorded a public service announcement in Austin, Texas for the LBJ Presidential Library. In April 2014, Time magazine included McConaughey in its annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World." In August 2014, the Lincoln Motor Company signed a multi-year collaboration with McConaughey for an ad campaign. The commercials, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), featured McConaughey as a storyteller driving around in Lincoln's MKC crossover. Shortly after the commercials debuted in September 2014, they were parodied by Ellen DeGeneres, Conan O'Brien, Jim Carrey, South Park, and Saturday Night Live. Overall sales for Lincoln increased by 25 percent one month after the ads debuted. The series of commercials starring McConaughey continued until October 2015; during this period he also endorsed the MKZ sedan and MKX crossover.
In 2014, he shared star billing with Woody Harrelson in HBO's crime drama anthology series True Detective. For his role as Rust Cohle, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, which he lost to Bryan Cranston and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Miniseries or Television Film. With his first Oscar win and the critical acclaim received for True Detective, "McConaughey seems to be tapping into something essential, remaining himself while stretching, getting older while staying the same age." Critic Rachel Syme dubbed his recognition and performances while taking on more complex, dramatic roles as "The McConaissance."
McConaughey also played Cooper, a widowed father and astronaut, alongside Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, and Casey Affleck in Christopher Nolan's science fiction film Interstellar (2014). After finishing Gus Van Sant's 2015 film The Sea of Trees with Ken Watanabe, In 2016, McConaughey starred in two films, Free State of Jones and Gold, and voiced leading characters in two animated films, Kubo and the Two Strings and Sing.
In 2016, McConaughey was hired as creative director and celebrity spokesman for Wild Turkey's latest campaign, to bring in more women and more international customers.
McConaughey starred in the Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower (2017), as Walter Padick. His upcoming roles include true life gangster drama White Boy Rick,Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum, and, opposite Diane Lane and Anne Hathaway, in the erotic thriller Serenity.
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McConaughey and his wife in 2010
McConaughey met Brazilian model and television performer Camila Alves in 2006. The couple became engaged on December 25, 2011, and were married in a private Catholic ceremony on June 9, 2012, in Austin, Texas, where they reside. Together, they have three children: sons Levi Alves McConaughey (born July 7, 2008) and Livingston Alves McConaughey (born December 28, 2012), and daughter Vida Alves McConaughey (born January 3, 2010).
McConaughey is a Christian and attends a non-denominational church.
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Is this the factory original system battery? If so, it's long past its expected lifespan and likely needs to be replaced.
Yes, but its not dead because i opened the battery and every lithuim battery was ok!
Anybody have an idea that might fix my problem please tell me .
Replace the battery. It's not clear how you determined the battery is OK, but there's a lot more to the operation of a battery pack than the condition of the cells -- and this battery is about six years old - or well beyond twice its expected lifespan.
From 3 or 6 Months i was going to clean the laptop so i got my spray and shut down the computer while the battery was inside the computer, while the computer was shutting down and the battery inside i got my spray and throw on the laptop keyboard because some of the keys was not working, then i listened that the hard drive like stopped and the computer shut down as if i was clicking on the power button and the laptop did not turn on for 1 week but while it was not turning on, when i put the AC adapter it would show the battery is charging, when i tried turning on the laptop and it run perfectly the battery was Ok and i kept using the battery and after some days the battery was on 15% and it needed to be charged and i plugged in the AC adapter and it was not charging.
While i was working on the laptop suddenly some of the laptop keys was not working i disassembly the laptop and re plug the cable again and the problem was still not fixed so i took the cable off and put the keyboard and everything and what i was telling up is what happened and the cable till now is disconnected.
Might be because the keyboard cable is unplugged? Or what?
That changes the diagnosis appreciably. Since you used a liquid - most likely conductive - on a system that was powered up (with the battery in, the system is live at all times), you likely shorted out the charging system - you may have just a bad battery (due to age; this system is somewhere around four or five years old), but it's probable the mainboard is bad as well.
Since both together will be 50% or more of the cost of a replacement system, your best course of action is to retire the system and replace it.


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In 1941 the New York Times article that is transcribed below described how the people of Serbia and Montenegro rebelled, demanding war against the 'unstoppable' German Nazi juggernaut. The world held its collective breath.
The date mentioned in (some) history books is March 27, 1941. But perhaps the more important date is March 26th.
In the article "NATO Stages a War Provocation in the Balkans," I wrote that in 1990, as they launched their second effort in 50 years to breakup Yugoslavia, the German establishment and the Vatican were fully aware that it was the Serbs who had opposed their earlier alliances, standing up to the Hapsburg Empire and then to Nazi Germany, whose ability to wage war depended on the support of clerical-fascist parties and movements in the European states - most obviously but not only Croatia, Slovakia and the Baltic states - and outside Europe as well.
In 1990, the German establishment and the Vatican (now supported by the US) knew that if they were going to again mobilize the regional forces that Nazi Germany had relied on to destroy Yugoslavia, they had to 'neutralize' the Serbian people, the glue of Yugoslavia. The Serbs had to be physically attacked and slandered in the world media as the supposed 'new Nazis.' In order to sell this lie, in their endless reporting on the Balkans the media had to omit the complicating fact that the people of Serbia and Montenegro had rebelled against their own government in order to oppose the Nazi alliance early in World War II.
As posted below, the New York Times of March 27, 1941 reported that, on March 26th, following many days of massive demonstrations while the Yugoslav government vacillated over whether and how much to surrender to Nazi Germany, the Serbian and Montenegrin populations rose up. With the active participation of the Orthodox church, they demanded an end to a government that, on March 25th, had finally and entirely caved in to the Nazis. They demanded war against the fascist Axis powers that had, until then, marched unimpeded across Europe. In response to this passionate popular revolt, on March 27th the Yugoslav Air Force overthrew the capitulationist government.
These events electrified a world that had come to fear that the Nazis were unstoppable. And they infuriated Adolf Hitler, who, on March 26th, had begun critical talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. As the New York Times reported in several articles , Japan was unwilling to declare war on Britain unless Yugoslavia was definitely in the German camp.
Hitler responded to the March 27th coup d'état - and to the mass demonstrations that inspired, accompanied and followed the coup - by ordering the invasion of Yugoslavia. In order to invade Yugoslavia, he had to postpone the invasion of the Soviet Union. This delay meant that the Nazi army got caught in the deadly Russian winter, a disaster for the Nazis. Therefore, it is reasonably argued that the events described below - the actions the people of Serbia and Montenegro took in March of 1941- made the defeat of Nazism possible.
Here is the March 26th report.
By Telephone to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
The anger aroused in Central Serbia and Montenegro when the Yugoslav Government signed the Tripartite Pact in Vienna [thus officially entering into a relationship of subservience to Nazi Germany - J.I.] seemed tonight to be approaching a condition of revolt at Kragujevac and Cetinje, capital of old Montenegro.
The irate peasantry of Central Serbia and the mountaineers of Montenegro were reported marching into their respective capitals by the thousands, demanding arms and leadership for war against the Germans who already are threatening invasion of Yugoslavia "to save it from itself."
While the secret Yugoslav police, using lists prepared weeks ago by Gestapo [German secret police - NY Times] agents, began rounding up Serbian patriots, komitaji leaders, opposition party members and student leaders, dissension was spreading within the capital. Eight demonstrations were under way in the outskirts of the capital and the crowds, some of them armed with clubs and small caliber pistols, planned a march on the center of the city.
Steel-helmeted policemen rushed in fast trucks to "danger points" about Belgrade as evening fell. The gendarmes were posted beyond the Slabia and the upper end of Belgrade above the University Building, upon the Kralja Alexandra Bridge and the great circle at the Mostar intersection beyond "Government Row" on the Milosa Velikog.
Alarmed by the spread of dissension, the government forbade the playing and singing of sectional war songs.
Reports tonight from the provinces said the authorities were attempting similar measures outside the capital but with little effect. The threat of heavy fines and jail sentences restrained most musicians in the Belgrade kafanas, but the people sang their forbidden songs with a will and without interference.
This correspondent learned late tonight that a resolution was being prepared by the leaders of the Serbian Patriotic Society, komitajis, the Sokols and others for presentation to Prince Regent Paul tomorrow demanding the expulsion of "the traitorous Cvetkovitch government" and immediate formation of a nationalist government.
On the eve of tomorrow's Episcopal Council of the nineteen Serbian Orthodox Missions called by the Serbian Patriarch, priests and monks appeared in the cafes late today distributing pamphlets calling upon the people to revolt. Serbian priests and monks have conspired and fought with the peasants against suppressors and invaders for nearly 200 years. The present Patriarch is a son of a komitaji leader.
"Approve of them? I place myself at the head of them!"
Police cars were assembled about the Presidency today after the Premier and Foreign Minister had returned from Vienna. The patrol was increased about the Belgrade Terazia, the great diagonal square in the heart of the city.
A Yugoslav revolt, however, if it comes, is expected to start in Central Serbia and Montenegro, where public opinion has already reached explosive pitch, according to telephoned information from eyewitnesses today.
Beginning with the arrival of the provincial editions of the Politika early yesterday exposing the true intentions of the government [to go through with the signing in Vienna - J.I.] in a front page editorial, the Kragujevac population turned protests into action. Komitaji "cells" were organized today and small arms distributed. Road patrols were organized and ambush units formed to fight the enemy as always, in guerrilla warfare.
pentine stream of Montenegrin mountaineers, armed with hunting rifles and even old flintlocks, long knifes and pitchforks. They marched into Podgorica, Berane and Cetinje. They gathered in the public square before the Cetinje City Hall and demanded more arms and army leadership to revolt against the Cvetkovitch government. Elsewhere in the provinces, meantime, the anti-German, anti-government demonstrations continued.
"What will the army do?" is the paramount question being asked by all civilian Yugoslavs tonight.
Some of the young army leaders have said that the army never will fire on the Yugoslav people. But foreign military experts in Belgrade insisted today that the Yugoslav Army - one of the best organized in Europe - would follow the orders of the General Staff even to put down a popular revolt.
The sentiment of the General Staff is uncertain. The War Minister, General Peter Pesitch, however, was a compromise appointee of last November when more radical elements of the army were demanding a showdown with Italy over the bombing of Bitolj and the flagrant violations of Yugoslav territory.
Leading military experts here say that the staff colonels and the majors will succeed to active command in most General Staff posts if it comes to war with Germany.
In Zagreb and Sarajevo students demonstrated in an orderly manner, quite openly distributing pamphlets deploring the government's action; at Nish and Skoplje [in Serbia and Macedonia, respectively - J.I.] crowds of peasants congregated on the main squares and before the City Hall, calling on the government to resign and chanting Serbian marching songs.
Following Monday's disastrous demonstration at Banja Luka [in Bosnia-Herzegovina, now part of Republika Srpska - J.I.], in which many were hurt, disturbances broke out intermittently yesterday and today.
In Belgrade shortly before noon today some 250 to 300 university students, wearing British, American and Greek flags in the lapels of their blue jackets, swarmed onto Terazia Square, chanting, singing and waving Serbian flags. Allowed to proceed momentarily they attempted to turn into Poincare Street on which is located the German legation.
Large forces of steel-helmeted police charged three times, swinging their batons and slightly injuring a few of the students as well as a few impassive onlookers. Eighteen were arrested.
Another demonstration was reported planned for tonight on the campus near the Technological University. The police apparently learned of this plan for they were exceptionally active throughout the day arresting students and youth leaders in the capital and suburbs.
Another unconfirmed report late this afternoon stated that colleges and universities throughout the country would be closed for a period - variously reported for the rest of this week or until after the orthodox Easter Sunday, April 20, as a retaliatory measure for today's disturbances, which, in most cases, were traced directly to student instigation.
Grammar school students in a fashionable school on the outskirts of town today were punished and the school closed when two classes of students walked out of the German class and refused to attend a lecture. German is the second language in Yugoslavia.
Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch, the Foreign Minister, Dr. Alexander Cincar-Markovitch, and their suite returned from Vienna [from the meeting with the Nazis - J.I.] at 9:06 A.M. today in their special train. Members of the Cabinet, Hungarian, Rumanian and Bulgarian [all of whom were at this point part of the Nazi machine - J.I.] chargés d'affaires and an impressive array of special police were on hand to greet them.
There was no flag-waving from a handful of silent spectators who were the almost continuous receivers of orders to "keep moving." The Premier and Foreign Minister, accompanied by Vice Premier Vladimir Matchek, drove in closed cars first to the Presidency, then to the White Palace on the hill, where they were closeted with Prince Regent Paul for an hour and a half.
Later this afternoon the Premier, accompanied by M. Matchek, returned and had another long talk with the Regent.
Thereafter, reports immediately began to circulate that several political leaders, including Branko Chubrilovitch, had been arrested. Though this could not be confirmed late this evening it was significant that none of these men was seen in their customary haunts and most of their friends had also disappeared.
Reports broadcast on foreign stations and a German radio station announced that "there were enough German soldiers" on the Yugoslav frontier to march in and "maintain order" should disturbances continue, aroused considerable resentment.
Semi-official German sources in Belgrade denied that any such statement had been made, but many listeners claim to have heard one German broadcast which, though not couched in exactly those terms, did make a reference to "sufficient German troops" being present on the frontier.
Police precautions in the capital are tremendous. Patrols of tin-helmeted policemen repeatedly halt automobiles, investigating their occupants before allowing them to proceed. Some are searching for arms and there are understood to have been many arrests.
Telephone and telegraph censorship is increasing in efficiency. American correspondents can still telephone abroad, though their conversations have been repeatedly cut during the day. British correspondents, however, are experiencing considerably more difficulty. They were all called into the Press Ministry today and informed by an attaché that their copy of last night had been recorded and transcribed.
All were warned that a repetition of this "false news of opposition in the country expanding to demonstrations" would lead to their immediate expulsion. At present writing none has yet been arrested or requested to leave the country, but it is understood many expect this measure soon.
American correspondents, though still somewhat more at liberty to telephone abroad, are also working under tremendous difficulties. A frequent change of bases of operations has enabled many to reach their foreign bureaus. It has been learned from sources close to the government that many of them will be requested to leave the country in the near future - probably on grounds of spreading "false information."
An army coup is ruled out by foreign military attachés best informed about the state of the Army.
A German invasion, they say, might follow any such action. An Army coup probably would produce General Dusan Simovitch, presently Air Staff chieftain, as Commander in Chief of the forces of the new Yugoslav Government established - probably at Kragujevac or Cetinje - with the immediate accession of King Peter to the throne.
Prince Regent Paul is taking surprisingly little blame for the capitulation. Yet it is known that the Prince Regent is the real dictator of Yugoslavia and simply confers with the government on national issues. It was Prince Paul who acceded to the German demands and first sent M. Cvetkovitch and Dr. Cincar-Markovitch to Germany.
It was Prince Paul who received the Reich's demands from them upon their return to Belgrade. It was Prince Paul who laid the issue before the government and forced the first compromise agreement to a nonaggression pact. It was Prince Paul who received the new German demands - for signature of the Tripartite Pact and surrender upon all but two major German proposals - and it was Prince Paul who forced the patchwork and incomplete government to accept.
Finally, it was Prince Paul who gave the last instructions to the Premier and Foreign Minister and sent them on their way to Vienna and the capitulation which has brought the country clambering to its feet with loud demands for the overthrow of the "government of surrender" and war with Serbia's ancient enemy.
The majority of the Serbians understand the significance of this apparent oversight in the placing of the blame.
"Prince Paul, after all," one of them said today, "is a Karageorgeovitch [i.e., a member of the dynasty begun by George Petrovic, known as 'Black George' (Kara-George), who led the 1804-1813 Serbian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. - J.I.]. Whatever he has done he still belongs to the dynasty founded upon the fighting blood of the Serbs and most of us feel that he has made this the greatest mistake of his life because he has been educated and lived too much away from the real life of us."
This is a reference to Prince Paul's Oxford education and gentle mannerisms, so displeasing to Serbian elders.
King Peter is fondly regarded by most Serbs as "the son of his father," meaning that his short temper, his impatience and his imperious manner are direct throwbacks from King Alexander, who was assassinated at Marseille in 1934. The young King, kept in the background, appears only for events of a strictly localized nature - the opening of a new hospital or the beginning of a relief fund campaign.
In the meantime he lives his private life with a group of Serbian young people in their late teens, sometimes motoring into the countroy on week-end visits to Avala, one of his country places. His appearance upon the highways, even when speeding at fifty miles per hour behind four motorcycle escorts, always brings cheers from the peasants, who uncap themselves and stand shouting until the car has vanished over the horizon.
 In March 1941, the New York Times published several articles that referred to Tokyo's conviction that Yugoslavia was strategically key and its consequent concern over the events culminating in the coup d'état of March 27, 1941, which occurred while Foreign Minister Matsuoka was in Berlin. Here is a brief report of what was being said in Tokyo the day after the Yugoslav coup.
The dramatic turnabout of Yugoslavia at a moment when Germany is anxious to demonstrate to Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, how united Europe is against Britain is being viewed in Japan with some dismay, but with all the greater attention. The press agrees that while the ultimate outcome is still in doubt, it might, in the words of the newspaper Asahi, produce "some unforeseen disaster in Southeastern Europe."
The Japan Times-Advertiser explains that the German "Blitz" method has apparently been replaced by a glacier movement that "slowly and inevitably replaces the old order of completely independent States by a Reich union of European nations." But, it adds, the fall of the Yugoslav Government that signed the Axis pact "is extremely important news and likely to change the whole course of events in Asia Minor."


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US Supreme Court Decisions On-Line> Volume 43 > GRIFFIN V. THOMPSON, 43 U. S. 244 (1844)
GRIFFIN V. THOMPSON, 43 U. S. 244 (1844)
Griffin v. Thompson, 43 U.S. 2 How. 244 244 (1844)
Griffin v. Thompson
ON CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION FROM THE JUDGES OF THE
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
A marshal has no right to receive bank notes in discharge of an execution unless authorized to do so by the plaintiff.
If the marshal does receive such papers, the court, in the exercise of its power to correct the irregularities of its officer, will refuse a motion of the defendant to have satisfaction entered on the judgment, and refuse also to quash a second fieri facias.
This was a motion made by Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin to have satisfaction entered on an execution of fieri facias, which issued from the clerk's office of the court against them on 4 June, 1840, in favor of Robert Thompson, for the sum of $1,740.02, with interest thereon at the rate of 8 percent per annum, from 7 November, 1839, until paid, together with costs. And also to quash an execution of fieri facias which issued against them, chanrobles.com-red
in favor of said Thompson, on the same judgment, on 6 November, 1841.
In support of this motion, the plaintiffs below read in evidence first an execution of fi. fa. numbered 874, which was sued out of the court against Griffin in favor of Thompson on 1 January, 1840, returnable on the 1st Monday of May ensuing, for the sum of $1,740.02 and the costs, this being the amount of a judgment recovered in the court on 7 November, 1839. Upon this execution was endorsed the return of the marshal, dated May 4, 1840, setting forth the levy of that process on 25 March, 1840, on certain subjects of property, the execution of a forthcoming bond by Griffin with Ervin as surety for the delivery of the property at the day and place of sale, and the forfeiture of the bond by the failure of the obligors to comply with its condition. Accompanying this return is a receipt in these words:
"January 2, 1840. Received on this execution one thousand dollars in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank."
"WM. M. GWIN, Marshal"
"By his deputy, JNO. F. COOK"
The plaintiffs next produced in evidence their forfeited forthcoming bond with the execution of fieri facias sued thereon, in favor of Thompson on 4 June, 1840, returnable to the 1st Monday of November with the following endorsements and returns thereon, viz.:
"Endorsement on fi. fa."
"No security of any kind is to be taken. This execution is entitled to a credit of one thousand dollars, paid 2 January, 1840, in Union post notes. See marshal's return on fi. fa. No. 874, to May term, 1840."
"[Signed] WM. BURNS, Cl'k"
"Marshal's Return"
"Made on this case four hundred dollars, Nov. 3, 1840. Received balance of this case, in full for costs &c., say five hundred and fifteen 30/100 dollars."
"Nov. 3, 1840 By W. L. BATTO, Dept."
They then read in support of their motion the execution of fieri facias sued forth against them in favor of Thompson, on 6 November, 1841, which execution is the same that the plaintiff in the court below moved to quash. Upon it is the following endorsement: chanrobles.com-red
"Endorsement"
"This execution is entitled to a credit of $803.47, paid 3 November, 1840, on fi. fa. No. 451, to November term, 1840. No security of any kind is to be taken for balance."
"W. H. BROWN, Clerk"
"Marshal's return, 'stayed by supersedeas', received April 1, 1842."
"A. MILLER, Ml"
"By Dept. J. S. GOOCH"
"They then read in evidence to the court the following receipts which were proved to be signed by, and in the handwriting of, John F. Cook, who at the date of said receipts, and before, was a deputy of William M. Gwin, Marshal of the Southern District of Mississippi, which receipts are in the words and figures following, to-wit.: "
"Received of Thomas Griffin the sum of eight hundred dollars, to be applied to part payment of an execution obtained vs. him at the November term, 1839, of circuit court United States as security for I. Griffin, which amount I am to credit said execution with."
"December 10, 1839 W. M. GWIN, Marshal"
"Received of Thomas Griffin the sum of two hundred dollars in Union Bank money, to be applied to a certain execution I hold vs. said Griffin, or I am to return the said money to the said Griffin."
"February 17, 1840 JNO. F. COOK"
The said sums of $800 and $200, mentioned in said receipts, constituting the $100 in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank, returned by the marshal as received on 2 January, 1840, on execution of fieri facias hereinbefore referred to, dated 1 January, 1840.
They also read in evidence to the court the following additional receipts, to-wit.:
"Thompson"
"v. Circuit Court U.S. fi. fa. to Nov. term, 1840"
"Griffin and Surety"
"Received of Thomas Griffin in the above stated case, the sum of four hundred dollars in Louisiana money."
"November 3, 1840 W. M. GWIN, Marshal"
"Per deputy, JNO. F. COOK"
"Received of Thomas Griffin the sum of five hundred dollars,
to be applied to the payment of an execution, in the hands of the marshal, of Thompson v. Thomas Griffin and sureties."
"Nov. 1840 WM. M. GWIN, Marshal"
The said Robert Thompson then, in opposition to said motion, read in evidence to the court, the judgment pronounced at its November term, 1841, quashing so much of the return of the marshal made on the execution of fieri facias numbered 874, which issued on the first day of January, 1840, as stated that he has "received on said execution one thousand dollars in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank," which judgment is in the words and figures following, to-wit.:
"Robert Thompson"
"v."
"Thomas Griffin"
"Motion by the plaintiff to quash that part of the marshal's return on fi. fa. No. 874, to May term, 1840, which is as follows: 'January 2, 1840. Received on this execution one thousand dollars in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank.'"
"Motion sustained and said marshal's return on said fi. fa. quashed, and an alias fi. fa. ordered to May term, 1842."
The said Thompson then introduced Joseph Holt as a witness, who being sworn, stated that he was one of the plaintiff's attorneys of record, who obtained the said judgment of $1,740.02 against said Thomas Griffin at the November term, 1839, of the court, and that as the attorney of record of the said plaintiff (Robert Thompson), he had full authority to collect said judgment, and to control the executions which might issue thereon; that supposing the execution on said judgment when issued would come into the hands of the said "Jno. F. Cook," deputy marshal; he had a conversation with him a short time after the judgment was rendered, say sometime in the month of November, 1839, in which he notified the said Cook distinctly that good money would be required to be collected on said judgment, and that he must receive no other kind of money on the execution, when it should come into his hands. That he saw said Cook several times during the ensuing winter, but that he (Cook) never mentioned to him that he had made any collection on said judgment. That the first knowledge or intimation witness had of the receipt of the $1,000 in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank, chanrobles.com-red
mentioned in the return of the said Cook on the execution as collected 2 January, 1840, was in the month of May, 1840, when going into the marshal's office at Jackson, Mississippi, he found the said execution had just been returned, with the receipt of the $1,000, in post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank, endorsed thereon as aforesaid.
Witness at once refused to receive said post notes from the marshal in part satisfaction of said execution, and has ever since refused, and still refuses to receive them. Witness further stated, that at the time referred to (May, 1840), said post notes had greatly depreciated in value, and were not worth more than fifty cents to the dollar, and that on 17 February, 1840, said post notes were worth but seventy-five cents to the dollar. That he immediately entered a motion to quash said return of the said deputy marshal (Cook), which motion was sustained by the court at its November term, 1841. Witness further stated that in a conversation he had held with said Thomas Griffin, he (Griffin) had stated that the $800 mentioned in said receipt, dated 10 December, 1839, and the $200 mentioned in said receipt, dated 17 February, 1840, constituting together the $1,000 returned as made on 2 January, 1840, in "post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank," were paid by him to said John F. Cook, deputy marshal as aforesaid, at times mentioned in the said receipts respectively, in post notes of the said Mississippi Union Bank. It was also in proof that, on 10 December, 1839, the post notes of the Mississippi Union Bank were current in the State of Mississippi, and were generally received by the sheriffs and marshal unless instructions to the contrary were given by plaintiffs or their attorneys. It was also admitted that Griffin had no actual notice of the instructions given by the plaintiff's attorney in this case to said John F. Cook, deputy marshal. This was all the evidence offered either in support or in opposition to the plaintiff's motion. Whereupon on the question whether satisfaction should be entered on said execution of fieri facias, which was sued out on 4 June, 1840, in favor of said Robert Thompson v. Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin for the sum of $1,740.02 with interest and costs as aforesaid, and also on the question whether said execution of fieri facias which was sued out against the said Griffin and Ervin on 6 November, 1841, should be quashed, the judges were opposed in opinion, and the questions were ordered to be certified to this Court for decision. chanrobles.com-red
MR. JUSTICE DANIEL delivered the opinion of the Court.
This Court is unable to perceive upon what principle of law either of the objects sought by the motion of the plaintiffs in the circuit court could have been accorded to them. It cannot be questioned that the defendant in that motion was entitled to the full benefit and operation of his execution, and these were to cause to be made for him of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of his debtor, the sum of $1,740.02 of lawful money of the United States. With his claim thus solemnly ascertained of record, we are aware of no authority, from any source, which can compel him to commute it, or to receive in satisfaction thereof any other thing which he shall not voluntarily elect. But least of all should such an authority be recognized in a quarter more fruitful than any other of abuses in its exercise -- for instance, from the will either of the debtor or the officer whose position would enable him in some degree to practice on both creditor and debtor. To permit either the debtor or the officer to impose upon the creditor the receipt of depreciated paper in payment would be to permit not merely a repeal of the judgment, but a violation, a virtual abrogation indeed, of the contract on which it was founded, for none can fail to perceive the thousand fraudulent devices for profit or favor which the toleration of such a practice would naturally call into action to defeat the rights of creditors. The courts of justice might thus be made to subserve only the purposes of dishonesty and be transformed into engines of monstrous wrong. It has been argued in support of this motion that banknotes constitute good and lawful payment if received; that as the law recognizes their circulation, debtors may lawfully tender them in payment, and creditors, may lawfully receive them though not legally bound to do so. From these postulates it is then attempted to draw the following conclusions: 1. That the marshal is the plaintiff's agent, who by the execution may receive the plaintiff's debt. 2. That he who may lawfully receive payment, may have a lawful tender of payment made to him. 3. That if a tender or payment of banknotes to the principal, not by him objected to, is a good tender or payment, the like tender or payment to the agent is equally good. This argument, to say the least of it, is wholly untenable. 'Tis undoubtedly true that the creditor may receive either banknotes or blank paper in satisfaction of his debt, for the reason that his power over that debt is supreme, and he may release it without payment of any kind, if he think proper. But the fallacy of the argument here chanrobles.com-red
consists in totally misconceiving the situation and functions of the marshal. He is properly the officer of the law, rather than the agent of the parties, and is bound to fulfill the behests of the law, and this too without special instruction or admonition from any person. If, then, when commanded to levy a sum of money, he make a return that he has not done this, but has of his own mere will substituted for money depreciated banknotes, his return is an admission on oath that he has both disobeyed his orders and transcended his powers, for legally he has no powers save those he derives from the precept he is ordered to obey. Can it be doubted that upon application from those whose interests are involved in the performance of his duties by the marshal, it is the right and the duty of the court in such a case to correct the irregularities of its officer and to compel him to perform his duty? There is inherent in every court a power to supervise the conduct of its officers and the execution of its judgments and process. Without this power, courts would be wholly impotent and useless. The returns of the marshal in this case upon the final process in his hands, showing the receipt by him of depreciated bank paper in satisfaction of that process which ordered him to collect money, are held to be departures from the performance of his duty as plainly enjoined by the process itself, are deemed therefore illegal and void, and ought, upon the application of the party injured thereby, to have been set aside and annulled by the court. In conformity with the principles herein sanctioned, we therefore order it to be certified to the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi that satisfaction should not be entered on the execution of fieri facias which was sued out in this case on 4 June, 1840, in favor of the said Robert Thompson v. the said Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin, for the sum of $1,740.02 with interest and costs, and further that the execution of fi. fa. which was sued out against the said Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin on the sixth day of November, 1841, should not be quashed, and that the motion of the plaintiff in the circuit court should be
Overruled.
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, and on the points and questions on which the judges of the said circuit court were opposed in opinion, and which were certified to this Court for its opinion agreeably to the act of Congress chanrobles.com-red
in such case made and provided, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof it is the opinion of this Court that satisfaction should not be entered on the execution of fieri facias, which was sued out in this case on 4 June, 1840, in favor of the said Robert Thompson against the said Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin for the sum of $1,740.02, with interest and costs, and further that the execution of fi. fa. which was sued out against the said Thomas Griffin and Hugh Ervin on 6 November, 1841, should not be quashed, and that the motion of the plaintiff in the circuit court should be overruled. Whereupon it is now here ordered and adjudged that it be so certified to the said circuit court.


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Roberto Mancini had two contracts while manager of Manchester City, one paid via the club Sheikh Mansour owns in Abu Dhabi, according to the latest information released by Football Leaks.
Mancini led City to their first Premier League title in 2012 and played a crucial part in their rise to Europe's football elite. On signing for the club he allegedly not only agreed an annual salary there but also a further, more lucrative basic deal as a consultant with Al Jazira Sports and Cultural Club, which is controlled by City's owner.
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Christians Under Siege in Troubled Egypt
At least 37 churches have been burned or damaged
Reason Staff | 8.22.2013 12:04 PM
Egyptian authorities should take the necessary steps to protect churches and religious institutions against mob attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Since August 14, 2013, attackers have torched and looted scores of churches and Christian property across the country, leaving at least four people dead. Authorities should also investigate why security forces were largely absent or failed to intervene even when they had been informed of ongoing attacks.
Immediately following the violent dispersal of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo on August 14, crowds of men attacked at least 42 churches, burning or damaging 37, as well as dozens of other Christian religious institutions in the governorates of Minya, Asyut, Fayum, Giza, Suez, Sohag, Bani Suef, and North Sinai. Human Rights Watch has verified with family members and a lawyer that at least three Coptic Christians and one Muslim were killed as a result of sectarian attacks in Dalga, Minya city, and Cairo.
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Archaeologists Study Possible Vietnam War–Era Training Ground
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA—Archaeologists are investigating a possible Vietnam War–era military training site at Fort Jackson, an initial entry training center for the U.S. Army in South Carolina, according to an ABC News report. Stacey Young of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology said the surviving system of tunnels in the woods at Fort Jackson may have been accompanied by buildings or huts, since post features have been found at some of the tunnel entrances. The mock village is thought to have been used from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s. "There's not a lot of documentation on it, so we believe it was put together by soldiers who had experience in Vietnam, came back, and built something from what they believed represented the environment overseas," said Henry Howe of the Basic Combat Training Museum on Fort Jackson. The researchers will also look for traces of other mock villages as part of the project. To read about a 2,000-year-old mortuary complex that was repeatedly bombed during the Vietnam War, go to "Letter from Laos: A Singular Landscape."


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Dr. Joseph Penzien
Dr. Joseph Penzien Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering , University of California, Berkeley
Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering | University of California, Berkeley
Primary Section Civil & Environmental Engineering
Memorial Tribute
BRUCE ALAN BOLT 1930–2005
BORIS BRESLER 1918–2000
KIYOSHI MUTO 1903-1989
BY ANIL K. CHOPRA AND KARL S. PISTER
JOSEPH PENZIEN died on September 19, 2011, as a consequence of a fall at his home in Lafayette, California. He was born on November 27, 1924, on a farm near Philip, South Dakota. The family lived in a tarpaper ...
JOSEPH PENZIEN died on September 19, 2011, as a consequence of a fall at his home in Lafayette, California. He was born on November 27, 1924, on a farm near Philip, South Dakota. The family lived in a tarpaper shack with no running water and he attended a one-room school with sixteen classmates.
The Great Depression of 1932, together with the drought that produced the Dust Bowl, prompted the family to move to a farm in Nampa, Idaho, where Joe helped his father and completed high school. Aided by a series of fortuitous circumstances, he attended the University of Washington and received a BS in civil engineering in 1945. During the next two years he worked first for the Army Corps of Engineers and then as a lecturer at the University of Washington. He received a full scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his ScD in civil engineering in 1950—and married Jeanne Ellen Hunson.
Their children are Robert Joseph, Karen Estelle, Donna Marie, and Charlene May. He then joined Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, working on blast effects on structures, followed by similar work at . Convair in Ft. Worth, Texas. In 1953 he joined the faculty of the Division of Civil Engineering and Irrigation in the Department of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor. Moving through the ranks he was promoted to professor in 1962 and retired in 1988.
He moved to Taipei, Taiwan, with the consulting firm Eastern International Engineers, which he had started with local partners in the early 1980s. After a year there he returned to his home and with Wen S. Tseng launched International Civil Engineering Consultants, a Berkeley firm that he chaired until 2007. Together with colleagues Ray Clough and Vitelmo Bertero, Joe developed the teaching and research programs in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering that many considered the best in the world. His scholarly contributions and engineering analysis and design expertise received international acclaim.
Among his many accomplishments we note the following. He developed perhaps the earliest course in random vibrations and their relevance to earthquake engineering, offered in civil engineering departments in the United States. As founding director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), his leadership was responsible for the rapid recognition of EERC as one of the foremost research centers in the world in earthquake engineering.
With Dixon Rea he was responsible for designing and operating the first modern servo-controlled shaking table of significant size. The center attracted a stream of visitors from all over the world, especially from Japan. Joe's special rapport with Japanese earthquake engineers led to significant collaboration in research over three decades.
In addition to his impact on research, his book Dynamics of Structures (McGraw-Hill, 1975), coauthored with Ray Clough, was a landmark in terms of its broad scope, comprehensive coverage, and philosophy. It was translated into six languages and influenced several generations of students and engineers as well as subsequent textbook writers.
That his career as an engineering scholar and consulting engineer had a major impact is validated by his honors and awards: he was a member of the National Academy of Engineering; fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics; honorary member of the Peruvian Association of Earthquake Engineering, US Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Architectural Institute of Japan, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and International Association of Earthquake Engineering; and winner of ASCE's Nathan M. Newmark Medal (1983), Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal (1986), and Ernest F. Howard Award (2000); the California Earthquake Safety Foundation's Alfred E. Alquist Medal (1996); the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's George W. Housner Medal (1993) and Distinguished Lecture Award (2000); the Silver Medal of Paris (1980); and the Berkeley Citation (1988). In 2008 he was recognized as a Legend of Earthquake Engineering during the 14th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, in Beijing.
From a tarpaper shack near the badlands of South Dakota to an elegant home in Lafayette; from a one-room school to a high school student who did not have the funds for college to a doctoral degree at MIT in 2½ years; from a farming family of eight children whose father did not trust educated people to an eminent professorship at the University of California, Berkeley—Joe traveled a long, hard road with incredible success. As his colleagues we stand in grateful appreciation of his friendship, and of the gracious, kind, humble, and generous person that was Joseph Penzien.
*Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Academic Senate
Pioneering research on probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering, with emphasis on linear and non-linear structural response analysis.