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Spotlight: TASMANIAN HISTORY – A SKETCH OF OLD TIMES; EMBODYING THE BUSH CAREER OF MATTHEW BRADY by J. E. Calder (Pt. 1)
Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954), Saturday 16 August 1873, page 3
TASMANIAN HISTORY.
THE FIRST TROUBLES OF GOVERNOR ARTHUR
A SKETCH OF OLD TIMES; EMBODYING THE BUSH CAREER OF MATTHEW BRADY.
Written by J. E. Calder.
To the reader of Tasmanian history, the most remarkable passages, after those relating to the capture and extinction of the Native tribes, are those that embody the details of the careers of the most remarkable of the bushrangers, who have at different times held the country, so to speak, in their hands. They stand before us it is true, without any of the artificial adornments with which writers customarily invest the robber heroes of Europe, and with a far less romantic and euphonious designation, than the brigands or banditti of the historical lands I speak of, and with plain vernacular names, that it may be grate too harshly on the ear of the sentimental reader of English narratives. The acts of the bushrangers of the remote and unclassical land of Tasmania, may be hardly readable, when achieved by men bearing such vulgar plebeian names as Michael Howe or Matthew Brady, even though the details of their marauding lives, are a hundred times less revolting than those of the ferocious bands who still infest many of the European states. With rare exceptions they shed no man's blood, and the two men above named, never in wantonness; and though both of them destroyed life, it was when writhing under strong and not unnatural excitement, created more by the treachery of the victims themselves, than by their own malevolence. That there were amongst the fugitives of Tasmania, men as infamous as the brutal brigands of Europe, is true; such for example as Pearce, Jeffreys and Wheelan; but the majority of them were neither cruel nor very ferocious, nor quite devoid of the better feelings of our nature, of which they often gave proof in practising forbearance, even under circumstances when forbearance could hardly be expected of them, and where persons under less temptation have not always proved too forgiving. The remission of vengeance is always a pleasing act; but in the brigand, who stands himself beyond the line that mercy never crosses, forbearance, such as Brady more than once evinced, must be accounted to be a redeeming quality, particularly in his case, who lived in times when clemency was never shown to men of his kind. Of the disposition of the strangely compounded man there is a clever sketch in Montgomery Martin's Colonial Magazine for 1840 (a London publication), written by a writer long resident in Tasmania. He thus speaks of Brady at page 412 :- "If he did much injury, he also evinced much forbearance. He never wantonly sacrificed human life, and on no occasion was female delicacy outraged or insulted. This was much from a proscribed outlaw, the possessor of unlimited temporary power, who well knew that no aggravation of crime would enhance his amount of punishment, whenever he fell into the hands of justice," &c.
Bushranging in Tasmania extended over two protracted periods. The first one began soon after the establishment of the colony in 1804, and only ended with the death of Michael Howe on the 21st October, 1818, when there intervened a period of repose of rather more than five and a half years, during which it was that the occupation of the lands of the country commenced in earnest; for it was not until Howe's gang was thoroughly rooted out and himself destroyed, that this took place, except in a very limited degree. The plague broke out again in June of 1824, when Matthew Brady and thirteen others escaped from Macquarie Harbour; and this second period never quite died out until the cessation of transportation in 1853, which put a complete end to it; Brady's bush career lasted not quite two years.
Matthew Brady, but whose proper name was Bready, (so at least he is styled in both Gaol and Ship records), was born at Manchester, just about the close of last century. His occupation in England was that of a gentleman's servant, probably a groom, as he was an excellent and even a graceful rider, and perfect in his horsemanship.
For some delinquency, he was tried at Lancaster, on the 17th of April, of 1820, and received a seven-year sentence of transportation, and arrived here in the convict ship Juliana, on the 29th of the following December.
As a young man his habits appear to have been more scampish than profligate, and the Reports of his conduct, whether in gaol or on board ship, enumerate a long list of offences committed after his conviction, and conclude with the general statement of his conduct, as bad in one instance, and very bad in the other. But his transgressions do not seem to have been grave ones, mere infractions of discipline in most cases, to which through life he was notoriously inattentive. In Tasmania, his worst misdeeds before taking the bush, were that he twice attempted to escape from the colony as a stowaway on board ship, for one of which it was, that he was sent to the penal settlement of Macquarie Harbour for the unexpired portion of his sentence, about five years, a doom from which, considering the severities customarily practised at those dreadful places of torment, it is not to be wondered at, that he determined to escape, should chance ever offer the means of getting away.
It will be known to most of your readers, that Macquarie Harbour is an extensive inlet of the bleak West coast of Tasmania, the climate of which part of the colony is at least twice as humid as that of the eastern hemisphere of the island. The prevailing winds are from North West round to South West, and after traversing the breadths of the vast Pacific, are mostly so loaded with vapour,that the rainfall all along the western shore-line is very much heavier than elsewhere. This is attributable to the peculiar configuration of the country, which is occupied by very elevated land through nearly all its central length, on either side of which the climates, in so far as moisture is concerned, are very different. This elevated region naturally acts as a screen to the districts of the east, intercepting, and thus warding off, most of the vast volume of vapour that rolls in from the west or stormy quarter. A chilly and humid atmosphere, and the general repulsive aspect of the place, have long conferred on Macquarie Harbour the character of being the most dreary spot within the four shores of Tasmania.
The area of this so-called harbour is about a hundred square miles. It abounds with mud-flats, having deep water passages between them. The outlet of the harbour, called formerly "the Gates," is so narrow, that the place is not discernible from the sea, or hardly so; and Lieutenant Flinders, when surveying the coast of the island, passed on without discovering that there was any break in the coast line here, which was first ascertained by the late Captain James Kelly, on the 28th December, 1815. It is a bar-mouthed inlet, and the rush of water through the entrance, at every turn of tide, is very great. It is indeed so narrow, that, as I have stood here, I have thought that in my youthful cricketing days I could have thrown the ball across it. The depth on the bar does not exceed eight or ten feet; and to increase the difficulties of entrance, a low rock or two stand nearly within it. It is the estuary of two fine rivers called the King and Gordon, each of which drains a large extent of mountainous and marshy country.
Forests that are intricate beyond conception, and absolutely impervious to unpractised bush travellers, grow round most parts of it, and extend inland for many miles; thus cutting off all hope of successful escape from it in a landward direction; while the chances of getting away by sea (at least to the prisoners who were kept here) were nearly as hopeless, for the gates were not only guarded by military and police, but the pilot, Lucas (a man more dreaded by the convicts than any other) was also stationed as nearly as could be, at this point.
There are two small islands within this harbour, about eighteen miles from the gates, that were used for settlement purposes. The chief establishment was on one called Sarah Island, said to cover about twenty-five acres ; and the lesser one, named Grummet Island, was the receptacle of all the worst characters of the place, that is to say of such as Governmental severity had demoralised and brutified beyond hope of regeneration.
The excessive difficulties of escaping into the distant settled districts from hence, recommended it to our third Governor, Colonel Sorell, as a place of banishment ; and determined him at the close of 1821, to establish one here, and it was, formed accordingly.
Sorell was only the ruler of a dependent province; and his orders for the Government of the place were received from a higher quarter, and he was forced to adopt the disciplinary usages of the parent colony, as New South Wales was then called, and Macquarie Harbour, like Norfolk Island, soon became a place of unmitigated and unbearable torment, and not one of reform.
Reformation by the means in force here fifty years ago, whose tendency was only to deprave, was never affected by them, or very seldom indeed. The late Mr. Lempriere, who for several years filled the post of Chief Commissary at Macquarie Harbour, informs us in his history of this old settlement, that in all his experiences he knew of but one example of it, which may be read of in the second volume of the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, &c., at pages 207-8.
To escape from those abodes of misery and despair, was always the predominating idea in the minds of these sufferers: and to compass this the rashest enterprises were often undertaken; and it is recorded in one of the Parliamentary Blue Books of 1838 that of one hundred and sixteen men who absconded from this place in something less than four and a half years from the time of its first establishment, no less than one hundred and one of them came to untimely ends, either by ordinary executions, shooting down by the military and police, drowning, or perishing miserably in the woods. Of this last named class there were seventy-five instances. Of the small remainder nothing is known. They probably died by the spears of the natives.
To this place Matthew Brady was sent, as related above, in 1821. Here as elsewhere he was ever in some scrape or other, and for upwards of two years endured all that was miserable in a convict's life at Macquarie Harbour.
As the settlement was always badly provisioned it was determined to establish what was called a farm on the mainland opposite to Sarah Island, that vegetables at least might be had, which were much wanted to counteract the evils of constant salt meat diet ; and Brady was one of the farm employés at the time of his escape, which event is thus described by the historian of the settlement, D. A. C. G. Lempriere, who resided there for several years :-
"From this spot, in June, 1824, a party of convicts, which afterwards formed one of the most formidable bands of bushrangers that ever infested Tasmania, made their escape. These men had planned to run away with one of the barges, when the commandant, accompanied by the surgeon, visited the place where they were working.
"It was soon perceived there was something wrong amongst the prisoners ; and the commandant succeeded in reaching the boat, and in pushing off, just before the fellows ran to seize her. The poor doctor was not so fortunate, he was taken prisoner by the gang, who after a kind of council of war, determined to give the doctor, in his own person, an example of the scenes he had so often witnessed-the application of the cat-o'-ninetails. The instrument of torture was in a few minutes prepared, and ready for action. It was in vain, the intended victim attempted to expostulate-it was in vain, that argument in arrest of judgment flowed from his trembling lips ; he was ordered to strip. There appeared no remedy, and he slowly managed to get off his coat, when a deliverer appeared in the shape of Brady, who had been a patient in the hospital, and kindly treated by the doctor , he would not allow him to be touched.
"The men made good their escape in the open boat, though closely pursued by the pilot, Mr. Lucas, a most active and determined man, who during the time he was stationed at Macquarie Harbour, became the terror of the runaways ; for they scarcely ever entertained hopes of escape, when they knew he was pursuing them."
The runaways, fourteen in number, cleared the heads of Macquarie Harbour on the 9th of June, (two days after the attack on the commandant), and immediately bore away for the shores of the Derwent, under every inch of canvas that their boat could live under. The wind was at W.S.W. at the time, and the sail was close-hauled ; and though the sea ran very high, they dare not relieve her ; for with the fiery and resolute Lucas in sight, and only a few miles astern of them, their capture was certain, had they shortened sail in the least. Both were crack sea boats, and of that class called whaleboats, rigged mostly with a lug sail, and which though dangerous in a high degree under bad management, will live almost anywhere and in any weather if well handled. The runaways were unarmed, and therefore no match for Lucas if he came up with them, for he had soldiers with him, and as his own well-trained crew were also armed, they were forced to run for it at all hazards, or be taken.
Their course was southerly inclining a little to the east until they rounded the South West Cape, which is about a hundred and ten miles from the Gates of Macquarie Harbour, and then easterly and north-easterly for ninety or a hundred more, before they could reach Storm Bay, where they landed after a ten days' voyage, somewhere on the east coast of that magnificent estuary of the Derwent river.
It is surmised that they escaped from Lucas by landing at night in some one of the nooks of the coast, and that he thus passed them by, still believing that they were ahead of him, and thus he lost their track. Baffled in this manner this excellent servant of the public, who was never known to evade his duty in any manner, and who in long after years sacrificed his life to it, never landed anywhere except at night, until he reached Hobart Town, and apprised the Government of the escape of these desperate fellows. His boat voyage, which began on the same day that the pirates passed through the Gates, 9th of June, terminated on the 18th. The bushrangers were not far behind him, for they entered the Derwent and landed the next day.
Amongst the fourteen runaways was a Scotchman named James Crawford, who it is said formerly held a commission as lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and he commanded the boat expedition, and he is also said to have directed the first shore movements of the party, but from the conduct of Brady at the outrage at the doctor, which he repressed in spite of the others, it is pretty clear that ashore he was one of the leading spirits of the party from the first, for which his daring character, disregard of self in all times of danger, circumspection in attack and retreat, and undoubted natural talents, fitted him.
In Tasmania, Brady's name is not always mentioned reproachfully. There are many still living who remember his visits to their parents' homesteads, and their reports of his bearing (leaving his robber practices out of the question), are not very unfavourable, and though it was his constant custom to bind all the inmates of the places he plundered, females and children excepted, he never permitted any more serious outrage to be inflicted on their persons, and it is reported that he had frequent bitter misunderstandings with his men on the subject, who were often inclined to be disorderly, and who he more than once forced to restore such of their plunder as their victims particularly desired to retain, such, for example, as family papers or souvenirs, that had a value in the estimation of their rightful owners, beyond their mere intrinsic worth, and though these forced restitutions gave rise to many quarrels, he was always inexorable. His deportment to females is always named to his credit, and his uniform respectful demeanour in their presence was so well known, that his appearance at any homestead was much less feared by the women than the men. The latter, especially the men servants, never escaped the indignity of being tied up in couples like hounds. If there were no military or police in the neighbourhood of any house that he took possession of, he often held it for a whole day or more, but strove to make his visit as little disagreeable as possible, in the presence of his grim freebooters, and being a man of good address, he seldom failed of partially allaying the fears of the occupants. It is, however, complained of him that he was too fond of fun and practical jesting to have been quite agreeable, and that he too often made all the menials of the household helplessly drunk when he left, which looked like carrying frolic too far. But this conduct, which was mistaken for mischievous fun, was in reality a piece of policy only; for he well knew that it was from the convict class of servants, and hardly any others, that treachery was to be feared, and that they were the men and not their masters, who were in league with the police, and by leaving them hopelessly drunk, he had nothing to fear from them till he was far enough away.
Many of the old bushrangers had the same bad opinion of those men ; and I think it was Dunne, a most notorious bush robber, who, as he was being led captive to Hobart Town, chanced to be marched through a chain-gang working on the roads, who he, in a seemingly subdued state of mind, asked his conductors to permit him to address; and they, thinking he meant only to give them a little seasonable admonition, allowed him to do so; whereupon he commenced his exhortation by charging such of them as had any thought of taking the bush "to shoot every _____ assigned servant where-ever they met them," as they were the men, he said, who were the real betrayers of all "honest fellows," meaning thereby persons of his own class.
One or two instances only are cited when Brady's people were absolutely mischievous; but those were the acts of the most riotous of his followers, Bird, Murphy, and McCabe, whom he sometimes found it impossible to restrain. But acts like theirs were quite at variance with the usual tenor of his bush career. It is indeed said that Colonel Arthur was himself not insensible of this man's merits, and that he would have saved him when taken at last in compliance with the general wish of the colonists, only that the blood of one man was on his hands. Of this, however, I have no proof, and relate it on hearsay only, hardly, indeed, believing it, as that Governor was not overflowing with clemency to men of Brady's class, and not very likely to be merciful to any of his people, by one of whom he was once within an ace of being shot himself, as I shall presently relate.
On what point of the shores of the Derwent it was that the bushrangers landed after their voyage from Macquarie Harbour, I have no precise information; but believe it was at Clarence Plains. They were hardly ashore before they began operations on the highway. The first traveller whom they met was a Mr. Patrick Brodie, who they stopped and robbed of what he had about him, Almost directly afterwards, they possessed themselves of firearms and ammunition, which they took from a man in the service of Lieutenant Gunn, who from that moment became one of the most zealous and determined of the pursuers of this party. He chanced to be in Hobart Town at the moment; but directly he heard of this robbery, he started after them with a party, and very soon came on them; and attacking them on the instant, captured five of the four-teen in less than five minutes. This occurred on the 25th of June, or less than a week after their landing. This bad beginning was made still worse,by the voluntary surrender of a sixth. For the above named robberies, and one or two others, the men taken by Gunn, were tried almost directly, were sentenced to die, and died accordingly on the 22nd of July.
Very few acts of bushranging had been committed in the colony since the fall of Michael Howe, nearly six years before this time. The sudden appearance, therefore, of so numerous a horde of freebooters as were now in the field, created great excitement everywhere. But in the midst of all this ferment, the Governor preserved, or pretended to observe, an attitude of perfect tranquility, which the colonists regarded as most unseasonable. The inhabitants of Hobart Town, almost to a man, offered him their services, to be used in any way he might direct in the suppression of these men. But Colonel Arthur, with the characteristic disdain of civilians, too usual with soldiers, politely rejected the offer. He himself was satisfied with stationing a few detachments of military at those points of the interior which these during rovers were the most likely to visit, and to offer a small reward, £10, for the capture of any member of the band.
The spirit of the military in the colony, seems to have been more torpid at this period, than it was in Howe's time, when nearly everything that was done to crush bushranging was achieved by them. But they now received more than one defeat from Brady; and what was done at this time, in repressing this and other gangs, was more generally the work of the police and civilians, than of the soldiers. Even Lieutenant Gunn, who took the first of them, and who continued the pursuit of them till they disabled him, was not now in the service, having quitted it some years before ; and though he retained his military designation, being on half-pay, he was at present a farmer of the Tea Tree Brush. This gentleman, of whom I shall have more to say presently, was formerly in the Bourbon Regiment, which he joined sometime about the close of the career of Napoleon I., and was placed on the half-pay list shortly after the end of the war, and so remained unattached till his death in 1868. He was a man of gigantic stature, being, he once told me, six feet seven inches high. He was cool and daring in a high degree, and was never known to fail in anything that he undertook, except the destruction of Brady's band, which about seventeen months afterwards (under very extraordinary circumstances), took his party instead. But this resolute man never gave in himself, till nearly shot to pieces. This was the most dramatic incident of Brady's career ; and tragical as it was, in so far as Gunn's fate was concerned, was so full of comic adventure, that it, is strange it has never formed the subject of stage representation, as Howe's exploits have.
It would unnecessarily extend this paper to relate all the lesser adventures of these depredators. I shall therefore pass over, either with slight notice or none at all, those that are of little interest, or of, which the particulars are imperfect. Brady's career of outrage, which lasted scarcely two years, comprised, of house and highway robberies, something like three hundred instances, that would require a volume to describe, the most of which are not worth noticing. Of this latter class were several in which his party were engaged, between the dates of their repulsion by Gunn and their attack on the residence of Mr. Robert Taylor, of Valleyfield, where they were also defeated.
This gentleman's farm house stood on gently rising ground near to the Macquarie River, formerly called the Relief, which is one of the many affluents of the South Esk. The country hereabouts is either open or is lightly-wooded grass land, and the districts that surround it may be be fairly ranked amongst the elite of Tasmanian pastures.
Mr. Taylor was a very elderly person, having passed through more than the allotted years of human life, being seventy-four years old at the time he was called on to resist the onslaught of seven armed bushrangers (to which the party was now reduced), headed by Crawford, who led the attack. There were in the house at the moment, Taylor and his aged wife, two sons, and two daughters, besides several free domestics whom Mr. Taylor had brought from Scotland when he left home.
In the fore part of the day of this assault, 15th July, the bushrangers had robbed the residence of a lady, who is spoken of in the annals of the time as the widow Smith, from which they had removed considerable booty, making prisoners of several of her servants, who they loaded like pack-horses with their plunder, and who they also took along with them to direct their march on Valleyfield, which they meant to assail that night. With this view they pushed forward as rapidly as their heavily laden prisoners could travel, and came in view of Taylor's cottage just about dusk. In their way thither they fell in with one of Taylor's sons, a mere youth, who, like one of Jacob's children, was tending his father's flock in the wilderness. It was now midwinter, and this young man was heavily clothed against the cutting gales, which are felt chillily enough at this season, particularly in the open country, and to this circumstance it was that he owed his life, from the misdirected fire of a friend, who, in the heat and excitement of the fight, and the duskiness of the long twilight of a Tasmanian evening, mistook him for one of the assailing host. Seeing the advantage of having one of Taylor's family with them, he was seized and placed in front, with the view of distracting the fire of the garrison, in case the two parties came to blows. Crawford loaded him like the rest; and on his being asked if he thought his father would fight, replied that he was quite sure he would. "Oh, then," said Crawford, "we will give you the post of honour, so go to the front and let him shoot you first," and he was forced to march in the van.
Taylor's family were quietly seated within for the night, all except the young shepherd, who they were, however, expecting home every moment. But the dogs, of which there are always several about a bush homestead, especially in troublous times, were very uneasy, and, though nothing could be seen, it was evident that there was something astir more than usual. Their restlessness excited old Taylor's suspicions that all was not right, and he went round the premises, but could hear or see nothing. Still the dogs would not lie down, but continued watchful and unquiet, which convinced their master that it was unsafe to disregard the warning of those vigilant sentinels. I have said before that the country hereabouts is open, and Taylor or some one of his household, going out again to see if he could discover the cause of their disturbance, now saw the advancing party approaching, in number about a dozen ; and as several of them carried arms, there remained no doubt of their being on an evil errand. Old Taylor, who, notwithstanding his age, retained much of the energy and fire of youth, now marshalled his sons and servants, and told them that the bushrangers were coming down on Valleyfield, and that he meant to resist them, and asked which of them would stand by him. They all volunteered excepting one man who demurred, saying they would all be killed, and that he would not fight, and then went to the rear of the premises, and oddly enough was the only one who was killed in the fray that followed. Taylor then armed his friends, and put himself at their head to repel the advancing party, if it proved a hostile one, of which he was speedily made sensible by his shepherd son, who called out to him that the place was in danger, and not to fire on him. The father recognised the voice, and guessing that he was a prisoner, forbade his people to fire until they could distinguish friend from foe. A sharp sighted servant led off by letting fly at the bushrangers; on which young Taylor, who had all the pluck and spirit of his aged father, threw off his load, and rushed over to his friends, who received him with a joyous shout of welcome, and the firing became general. The bushrangers were as determined to carry Valleyfield, as the others were to prevent it, and plenty of shots were exchanged between the two parties; but as usual in such cases, when daylight is failing, many were ineffectual. Old Taylor was ably seconded by his people, and owed his own life to the gallantry of the youth, who had just before escaped from the bushrangers, who, seeing one of them levelling his piece at his father threw himself on him, and he succumbed to the stripling, who though no match for him, brought him to the ground by the suddenness of the assault, and the energetic exertion of whatever strength he possessed. This man who he had under him was Crawford. A servant instantly shot the fallen brigand, but not fatally, and his followers rushed to his assistance, but were unable to beat back their adversaries, or even to reach their leader. In the melée, a shot from one of the defenders hit the youth, who was struggling with Crawford. The official account that I am writing from says :- "A servant came to the aid of his young master, and in attempting to shoot his opponent, by some intervention of lamentable fate, he missed his aim, and mortally pierced the beloved object of his zeal." But in the times I am writing of, newspaper correspondents were not always reliable; and there is one if not two misstatements in this short quotation. The shot, though a dangerous one, was not mortal, and he recovered from it, to die by the hands of a more merciless foe than the bushrangers, namely, the natives, who speared him to death in November of 1826. I believe there is also another grave mistake in this report, but which I am not quite able to correct.
The fight was now going against the attacking force; but notwithstanding this, one or two of them, amongst whom was the sanguinary McCabe, got to the back of the premises, where he found the unfortunate non-combatant John Lowe. Irritated at the desperate resistance that his party had met with, he sent his bayonet through his heart, and the thrust proved instantly mortal.
Crawford and another man named James Bains were made prisoners by the Taylor party, and another bushranger was badly shot, but escaped capture. Brady, who now took the command, drew off the rest of his people, now reduced to five, including the wounded man, who had lost an eye in the fight, but was carried off by the others.
Of Taylor's party, none were killed but Lowe, and none hurt except the youth who was accidentally shot.
A writer in M. Martin's Magazine, speaking of this skirmish, says that the ladies in the house "were not idle spectators of the scene in which their father, brothers, and friends were so hotly engaged," but, like the heroines of Saragosa, "charged the supernumerary firearms of the father and brothers, and evinced the most praiseworthy fortitude."
As soon as this act of resistance was publicly known, the whole colony rang with the praise of the heroic family who had taught the outlaws such a lesson, and the inhabitants presented the family with a piece of plate in acknowledgment and admiration of their spirited conduct.
The prisoners, Crawford and Bains, were tried at Launceston, and died some time in September following ; but owing to the loose state of the newspaper reports of the time, I cannot say when exactly. The notice, such as it is, of their trial and death will be found in the Gazette of the 24th September, 1824.
The five robbers who escaped now turned to the South, and travelled thitherward quite unobserved, and even passed through Hobart Town itself unnoticed, the head-quarters of the Government, where Colonel Arthur had his official residence. In less than six weeks after the attack on Valleyfield, Brady was plundering the settlers of the valley of Brown's River, about ten miles south of Hobart Town. He even extended his visit a dozen miles further down, namely, to Oyster Cove, the future and last residence of the captive natives, where he robbed the establishment of Mr. David Wedge. He then returned to Hobart Town, which he actually entered a second time on the night of the 23rd of August, and slept there with all his people under the very noses of the military and police. Whatever the authorities could have been thinking about to suffer such a gang to pass between their legs twice in less than ten days unperceived, and even unsuspected, is unaccountable. Nor were these the only times that Brady and his riotous followers slept in Hobart Town, in contempt of the Government. The police report, published in the Gazette, of 27th August, 1824, speaking of their present movements says :- "The banditti were on a hill within three minutes' walk of the police office at eight o'clock in the evening." With singular audacity they entered and slept in the hut of a Government overseer named Chandler, not nearly a mile from the police station, and only quitted town next morning ; and having seized two men from the street to act as guides, they pushed on for the settlement called the Black Snake, about ten miles north-westerly of Hobart Town. Here they dismissed their guides, and went to their usual work directly, attacking the farm houses, and plundering their owners all round of their cash, ammunition, and provisions ; while the Hobart Town police were all astir to take them alive or dead, as they returned from Brown's River, where it was thought they were still concealed.
Before the many robberies which they had committed amongst the terror-struck farmers of the Black Snake were known to the Government, the light-footed marauders were off again, and were next heard of in the neighbourhood of the river called the Plenty – a well known affluent of the Derwent, which, as we all know, has in recent years obtained attention as the scene of an experiment for the propagation of the English salmon. This stream is about thirty miles from Hobart Town; and here Brady and his wearied followers established themselves on the last day of August.
[To be continued].
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Rick Scott is rejecting a request to release from prison a central Florida man jailed for firing a warning shot.
Scott on Wednesday refused a clemency plea from the family of Orville Lee Wollard. Wollard is serving a 20-year prison term for firing his gun inside his Polk County house to scare his daughter's boyfriend.
The governor and members of the Cabinet considered the request during a meeting of the state's executive clemency board.
Wollard's case was cited by legislators as one reason to change Florida's 10-20-Life law.
That's the 1999 law that requires anyone who shows a gun while committing certain felonies to be sentenced to 10 years in prison. If someone is shot and wounded, the sentence increases to 25 years to life.
Scott earlier this year signed into law a measure that allows an exception to the law for warning shots.


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Japan's lower house approves 60 billion dollar stimulus
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Israel approves plan to ease Gaza blockade
In Uncategorized on June 18, 2010 at 4:30 am
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel on Thursday approved a plan to ease its blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip following weeks of international pressure, but provided few details on what new goods would be allowed in.
The security cabinet's decision came in the wake of mounting international calls to ease the four-year blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory in the wake of a deadly raid on a fleet of aid ships on May 31.
United Nations trucks carry supplies into Rafah town after crossing the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on June 16. AFP
Under the plan, Israel would "liberalise the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza (and) expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects that are under international supervision," the government said in a statement.
But it also stressed that Israel would "continue existing security procedures to prevent the inflow of weapons and war materiel."
Hamas swiftly rejected the plan, which senior leader Ismail Radwan dismissed as an attempt to "relieve the pressure" following the flotilla incident.
"We in Hamas reject the Zionist decision, which is an attempt to obscure the international decision to completely lift the siege on the Gaza Strip," he told AFP.
The plan is reportedly based on understandings reached in recent days by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair that call for switching from a list of allowed items to a list of banned goods.
It would also allow the entry of more building materials for UN-sponsored construction projects.
Israel was reportedly considering a plan to station EU and Palestinian Authority inspectors at the border to inspect incoming goods, but that proposal did not appear to be included in Thursday's decision.
Currently thousands of products — some as banal as toilet paper and ginger — are listed by Israel as constituting a "security" risk and prevented from reaching Gaza.
The list also includes construction materials, like metal pipes and cement, which Israel fears could be used for building makeshift rockets and constructing underground bunkers and tunnels.
On Wednesday, Israel allowed eight trucks loaded with kitchen equipment to enter Gaza for the first time since 2006, following recent decisions to allow in snack foods and other household items that were previously banned.
Blair had earlier this week told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that the plan would "allow us to keep weapons and weapon materials out of Gaza, but on the other hand to help the Palestinian population there."
Blair had negotiated on behalf of the Middle East peace Quartet consisting of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
He said the ultimate aim was to eradicate the need for smuggling through a network of tunnels running under Gaza's border with Egypt, through which thousands of goods are brought daily and sold at inflated prices.
Netanyahu has insisted, however, that Israel's naval blockade remain in place — a measure he says is crucial to prevent Gaza from "turning into an Iranian port" through which arms would flow freely.
Israel has faced mounting calls to lift the siege following its deadly raid on an aid flotilla trying to run the blockade, in which nine Turkish activists were shot dead by navy seals.
It has argued that the closures — imposed when an Israeli soldier was seized by Gaza militants in a deadly June 2006 raid and tightened a year later when Hamas took over — are needed to contain the Islamist movement.
In the cabinet decision Israel said it "expects the international community to work toward the immediate release of Gilad Shalit," now 23 years old, who is believed to be held by Hamas at a secret location in Gaza.
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Italy approves 24 billion euro austerity drive
In Uncategorized on May 26, 2010 at 1:22 pm
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Spanish government approves tough austerity plan
In Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 at 9:15 am
MADRID, May 20, 2010 (AFP) – The Spanish government Thursday approved a 15-billion-euro (18.8-billion-dollar) austerity plan aimed at reining in the huge public deficit, as thousands of workers protested against the measure.
The plan was approved at a cabinet meeting as public sector workers took to the streets to vent their fury at the measures, which include a five percent pay cut for civil servants.
Unions have also called a strike of civil servants for June 8.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez De la Vega acknowledged that approving the measures, which must still be passed by parliament, "has not been an easy decision to take" but the government "is also aware that it is not easy to accept."
"We are confident of the understanding of all because these are necessary and essential measures which a responsible government had to face while thinking of the future of all," she told a news conference after the cabinet meeting.
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, under pressure from both Spain's EU partners and the markets, announced the austerity measures last week in a bid to shore up Spain's public finances after fears it could follow Greece into a debt crisis.
The cuts are on top of a 50-billion-euro austerity package announced in January designed to slash public deficit to the eurozone limit of three percent of gross domestic product by 2013 from 11.2 percent last year.
The latest measures include an average five-percent pay cut for public sector workers from June, and a pay freeze from 2011. Pensions except for the poorest will also be frozen in 2011.
The government also plans to scrap a 2,500-euro payout to parents for the birth of children, a key part of Zapatero's social platform to boost Spain's flagging birth rate.
The salaries of Zapatero and government ministers will also be cut by 15 percent and those of secretaries of state by 10 percent.
"It is a great effort thanks to which we will undoubtedly return to the path of growth," de la Vega said.
Finance Minister Elena Salgado said the pay cuts would lead to savings of 2.3 billion euros in 2010 and 2.2 billion in 2011.
The pensions freeze will save some 1.5 billion euros in 2011 and the birth payment around 1.25 billion.
She said the cuts also mean the government has lowered its 2011 growth forecast from 1.8 percent to 1.3 percent.
Spain entered recession in the second quarter of 2008 as the global financial meltdown compounded a crisis in the property market, which had been a major driver for growth in the preceding years.
Official data Wednesday showed the economy scraped out of recession in the first quarter, boosted by a rise in exports and household spending, but analysts have warned that any pick-up could be short lived.
The recession has sent the unemployment rate soaring to more than 20 percent in the first quarter.
Migrant workers perform during a protest marking the 24-hours general strike against the austerity measures in central Athens, Greece on May 20, 2010. AFP photo
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Government approves Bien Hoa City growth
In Vietnam Economy on February 28, 2010 at 11:30 am
QĐND – Friday, February 26, 2010, 22:23 (GMT+7)
Authorities of Dong Nai province said the southern province has received approval from the Government to expand its capital, Bien Hoa City by more than 26,400 ha and 284,000 residents.
Under the expansion projects, Bien Hoa City will include the communes of An Hoa, Long Hung, Phuoc Tan and Tam Phuong, which cover 10,899 ha with more than 92,000 residents in total. The communes are presently located in Long Thanh district.
Source: VNA
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U.S. approves first "ethical" human stem cell lines
In World on December 4, 2009 at 4:42 am
The U.S. government approved the first 13 batches of human embryonic stem cells on Wednesday, enabling researchers using them to get millions of dollars in federal funding as promised by President Barack Obama in March.
The batches, known as lines, were made by two researchers at Harvard University and Rockefeller University using private funds, said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.
"Today we are announcing the approval of the first 13 stem cell lines," Collins told reporters in a telephone briefing.
In March, Obama lifted restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
He could not lift a restriction set by Congress, called the Dickey-Wicker amendment, that forbids the use of federal money to make the stem cells, which require destruction of a human embryo. But the decision made it possible for researchers to use federal funds to work with cells that others have made.
Ampoules containing a medium for stem cell storage in a file photo
The NIH set up a panel to decide which stem cell lines met strict ethical restrictions. The cells, for instance, have to have been made using an embryo donated from leftovers at fertility clinics, and parents must have signed detailed consent forms.
Stem cells are the body's ultimate master cells. They make up days-old embryos and have the power to give rise to all the cells and tissues in the body.
Scientists hope to use them to transform medicine by growing new tissue and repairing damage. Opponents say it is wrong to destroy human embryos for any reason.
ETHICALLY ACCEPTABLE
But Collins said the NIH-approved lines represent an acceptable compromise. "I think the broad consensus among most of the public … is that stem cell research of this ethically acceptable kind should go forward," he said.
"These were derived from embryos derived under ethically sound consent processes."
The first 13 lines were "open and shut" cases, he said. Another 96 lines are under consideration and more approvals can be expected in the coming days, Collins said.
"I think people are champing at the bit," he said. "This is the first down payment in what is going to be a much longer list of such lines."
Eleven of the lines were made by Dr. George Daley of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Massachusetts. He said his lab started making the stem cells in 2006 using private donations and is looking forward to getting federal money.
"It is a huge boost. It is a stimulus to my research," said Daley, who said he has hired three technicians in the past two weeks.
"I can point to people and say 'Thank God for Obama — you're here'," Daley said in a telephone interview.
"We have been very fortunate at Harvard to have been the beneficiaries of philanthropy but it has dried up in past years, in part because of the economy and in part because of the perception that the government was about to step in and clear everything up."
The NIH says it has funded 30 proposals totaling more than $20 million that would use human embryonic stem cells. Now the researchers can get the cells and get going, it said.
"This group of grants includes research using human embryonic stem cells for the therapeutic regeneration of diseased or damaged heart muscle cells, developing systems for the production of neural stem cells" among others, it said.
Collins said these cells are still needed for research even though scientists have found ways to turn ordinary cells into what resemble embryonic stem cells.
"I think one could make a very strong case that we need both," he said.
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PM approves double taxation avoidance agreement with Israel
In Vietnam Economy on October 21, 2009 at 1:10 am
QĐND – Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 20:51 (GMT+7)
The Prime Minister has approved the double taxation avoidance agreement and contraband prevention, targeting taxes levied on earnings and properties between Vietnam and Israel.
The agreement was signed in Hanoi on August 4.
According to figures from the Ministry of Industry and Trade , Vietnam and Israel 's two way trade reached 163 million USD last year. Vietnam exported shoes, clothes, and agricultural products to Israel while importing hi-tech equipment, chemicals and fertilisers from the country.
Israeli companies have invested in some construction projects in Vietnam such as the Hanoi-based Landmark and the Ho Chi Minh City-based Capital Fund buildings.
Israel currently ranks 60th among 85 countries and territories investing in Vietnam with eight projects and a total registered capital of nearly 12 million USD.
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Thailand approves tough laws for Thaksin coup rally
In World on September 15, 2009 at 5:14 pm
BANGKOK, Sept 15, 2009 (AFP) – Thailand's cabinet agreed Tuesday to invoke harsh security laws allowing the deployment of troops for protests this weekend on the third anniversary of a coup against former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thai soldiers patrol a check security at Government House in Bangkok on September 15, 2009 (AFP photo)
The move raises tensions ahead of the planned mass rally on Saturday in Bangkok by the "Red Shirt" movement, which wants current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to quit and call fresh elections.
Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said the Internal Security Act would be in force from Friday until Tuesday in the centre of the capital "as the demonstration is likely to turn into political chaos."
"This law will both ensure the safety of protesters and allow us to control the situation. Police will be the core force with the military acting as assistants, but the number of forces depends on the situation," he said.
The act will effectively ban protests in Bangkok's historic Dusit district, which is home to several potential flashpoint locations including Parliament and Government House, where the cabinet offices are located.
The protest comes a day before Abhisit is due to leave for the United States for the UN General Assembly and the G20 summit. Thaksin was toppled by the military in 2006 while he was away at the UN.
The Red Shirts have twice called off previous rallies in recent weeks after the government invoked the act, but they vowed to go ahead with this weekend's demonstration.
"Unarmed and peaceful protest is guaranteed under the constitution. The government has no need to be afraid of this demonstration," Jatuporn Prompan, one of the movement's senior leaders, told AFP.
In April similar Red Shirt protests spiralled into riots which forced the cancellation of a major Asian summit and led to mass unrest in Bangkok, leaving two people dead and 123 injured.
The Red Shirts backed down on that occasion after troops threatened to use force, but they have recently reignited their campaign by lodging a petition with the king last week for a royal pardon for Thaksin.
Thaksin fled the country a year ago to escape a two-year jail term for corruption, but the divide between his supporters and his foes continues to cause turmoil in the kingdom.
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Defiant Israel approves settlements boost
In World on September 8, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Israel on Monday gave the go-ahead to build hundreds of new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank, defying warnings that the move jeopardises any resumption of Middle East peace talks.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak authorised the construction of 455 units, most of them in the large settlement blocs that Israel has said it wants to keep in the event of a final peace agreement.
The move — coming just days ahead of a planned visit to the region by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell — has sparked criticism that it will undermine US-led efforts to restart the stalled peace process.
"Israel's decision … nullifies any effect that a settlement freeze, when and if announced, will have," top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said in a statement.
"It further undermines faith in the peace process, and the belief that Israel is a credible partner for peace."
Israeli right wing activists hold up banners as they demonstrate near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, seen in background, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
When Israel last week announced its intention to approve a spurt of settlement building before considering a halt demanded by the United States, Washington and Europe also warned against the move.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas blasted the plans as unacceptable.
He warned that if Israel goes ahead there will be no point in his holding a three-way meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month.
"We will not go back to the negotiating table before a halt to the settlement building," Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP on Monday in Saudi Arabia.
The Israeli anti-settlement Peace Now group said in a statement that "these building approvals transform any peace process into a political farce."
"The settlers are receiving … a significant gift from the government of Israel in the form of settlements extending tens of kilometres (miles) deep into the West Bank," it said.
But settler representatives blasted Monday's authorisation as not enough.
"We are extremely disappointed," Pinhas Wallerstein, head of the Yesha settler umbrella organisation, told AFP. "I'm ashamed of the attitude of my government, which is not resisting American pressure."
Later Monday, several hundred opponents of the freeze attended a protest in Maaleh Adumim, the largest West Bank settlement, urging the government to build new settlement neighborhoods.
"The Americans don't run this country, Israelis do," said Science and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, a junior member of the coalition.
Across the other side of a police cordon, dozens of Peace Now activists chanted: "Yes to peace, no to settlements."
Washington has for months pushed Israel to freeze all settlement activity and for Arab states to take steps towards normalising relations with the Jewish state in order to revive peace talks.
Amid media speculation that some Arab states may answer Obama's call and agree to normalisation steps, such as issuing visas or overflight rights, Abbas on Monday called "for a unified Arab stance in face of Israel."
The increased settlement building is part of Netanyahu's efforts to appease the hawks in his right-wing Likud party who virulently oppose any freeze, Israeli analysts say.
Any moratorium on construction would exclude some 2,500 homes already being built in the West Bank, as well as any building in annexed east Jerusalem.
Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — together home to some half a million Israelis — are considered illegal by the international community and one of the thorniest issues in the decades-old Middle East conflict.


Warning: minor ideological rantage ensuing. If for no other reason than the first week of term, disorganised students are demanding my attention in all directions, Eskom is running random load shedding power cuts again, and I need distraction.
This is a very interesting article on the rise of TERF activism in the UK - TERFs being trans-exclusionist radical feminists. I'm familiar with what I find to be their deeply unpleasant ideologies from hanging out on Tumblr, where salvos in a TERF campaign occasionally come over my dash, in the ongoing TERF attempt to persuade (mostly young) feminists that "queer" is a slur and should not be used. (The above usually accompanied by deft rebuttals from the actual blogs I follow, who are more or less uniformly Sensible People). TERFs don't think that trans women are women, they insist on identifying them by their biologically male bodies, and have a series of frankly paranoid outrages about "male" bodies in female bathrooms and prisons, and the "erasure" of women by the inclusion of trans women in feminist debates. TERFs are, in fact, the Mrs Grundies of feminist thinking, and to my mind they personify a narrow-minded outrage that makes them horribly akin to the closed-minded frothings of the religious right.
I am a little blindsided by how angry and nauseous the whole TERF ideology makes me, it seems to prod me with pointy sticks deep in my personal organ of justice. I think TERFs are motivated by a horrible and toxic mix of rage and fear, and while rage and fear in themselves are probably a valid response to the damages enacted by patriarchal culture, what I can't forgive is the way in which TERFs choose to respond to their anger at and fear of male bodies and cultural identity by turning on the most marginal and already vulnerable people they can find who they see as being part of that male identity. They are, in fact, punching down, with considerable malice.
And their rage and fear comes with a side order of power-tripping and desire for artificially simplified discourse; they are punching down in the service of an attempt to render simple and clear-cut debates about identity and culture which are anything but. That's what the whole dog-whistling with "queer" is about: queer identity is necessarily complex, it demands recognition and celebration of identities and identifications which don't fit easily into the male/female/gay/lesbian boxes.
It's ugly and predatory, to identify an already vulnerable target and go after it with single-minded determination, but it's also blindly hypocritical. Because if women/feminists are damaged and victimised by patriarchy, how much more damaged and victimised are those women who are born into biologically male bodies, and into cultural assumptions about male identity, which make them, whether they like it or not, a part of it? If TERFs are rejecting maleness with such frothing hatred, how much stronger and more difficult is the response of a trans woman whose rejection of that "maleness" entails so much more active and instrumental a resistance of cultural labelling? Trans women deny the male body a thousand times more fiercely than any TERF with a bathroom fixation, and they go through seven colours of hell to enact that denial. Quite apart from the costs of physical transition, our culture is getting better at gender identity only very slowly, and it still encodes gender stereotypically in ways which make it difficult and painful to resist.
I like the linked article's comments about British feminism and its comparative privilege, lack of intersectionality, and links with colonialsim; it surmises that Irish and American feminists have in many ways grown beyond this absolutism because they have been forced to accommodate experiences of subject positions based on race or colonial experiences as well as gender. TERF ideology is possibly so maddening to me because it is so obliviously privileged, but that's an insight into its workings, not an excuse; above all, I find it inherently, unforgivably cruel.


Nancy Pelosi wrote and asked President Donald Trump for a delay of the State of The Union Address on Wednesday.
President Trump did not immediately respond to Pelosi's letter. But on Thursday, a letter went from President Trump to Pelosi, postponing her journey outside the country.
The same reason Pelosi had offered for her suggestion to delay the State of the Union Address - government shutdown that Trump advanced in his letter grounding her journey.
One week or so before Pelosi's letter to President Trump, the Democrats had stopped negotiations for a way forward on the wall imbroglio and the need to reopen government.
Vengeance has displayed its face in this part of the world from the days of President Barack Obama's administration. It is also possible that vengeance has been in place before Obama, and that Obama merely became a victim of the act from the Republicans - who stalled some of Obama's programs and Obama embarked on the use of executive power for survival as president.
What did the Republicans suffered in the hands of the Democrats before Obama's administration that was responsible for the Republicans' acts? The question is pertinent, because the Republicans act during the Obama's administration is the root of the present antagonism by Democrats, over the wall funding.with ludicrous and strange songs such as wall is immoral, need for technology and not wall etc.
Remove the vengeance act, everyone knows that America needs a wall in the southern border with Mexico to stop free inflow of illegal immigrants, illicit drugs and dangerous criminals from around the world into the country. No other person has mentioned this fact than William Barr during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And for this truth Senator Kamala Harris of California had already said she would not vote for Barr's confirmation as attorney general.And she is running for president!
Barr said the truth. Fast food workers are demonstrating asking for better pay beyond the minimum wage. What has been responsible for low wage amid increase in rent and standard of living? Isn't it myriad availability of cheap labor and illegal immigrants readiness to offer their service at the lowest pay and and incapacitating legal migrants in seeking higher pay?
Already, about 2000 Hondurans have set out on their way to the United States. According to one BBC report based on interview of the Hondurans, many of them are being forced out of their country by economic reasons. No single one has advanced a reason permissible for Asylum application.
It is a good development that the vengeance has blown into the open here. It can be managed.But it will require the sincerity of all players to be ready to work to eschew hate, because without hate there can be no vengeance. The cause of the hate between the Republicans and the Democrats must be established. It is certainly not the election of Trump that is the root, but his election or his defeat of Hillary Clinton has exacerbated it.
Trump is swimming in the hate from the Democrats and he is returning in the best possible way available to him. Schumer had told Trump to return to his senses and Trump had said when the Democrats return to their senses. Respect for one another has been thrown into the winds.
The letter from Pelosi to Trump .without having first clarify from the Secret Service or the Department of the Homeland Security and the grounding on Pelosi on Thursday from a journey abroad is a force of the vengeance on the land. Of course, Pelosi did not need to have written the letter, just as Trump did not need to ground her. And they both hid behind genuine reasons to advance their positions, but we all know they are wrong.
And the Republicans are talking about having the State of the Union Address in the senate, and that it is good for Pelosi to remain here to negotiate the wall funding and re-opening of government. One can almost sense the national emergency coming as a solution to the political impasse here.


My drawings and paintings are inspired by the beauty of the prairie, the sky and the creatures that call it home. I like to think of the natural world around me as "God's Canvas", and I am challenged to attempt to capture an essence of what I observe on this "canvas" with others in my art. I am particularly drawn to focus on the small, but beautiful, elements in nature that are easily overlooked or taken for granted. I enjoy working in several different media, depending on the subject.
Nature and the Flint Hills is the subject of most of my work. My enjoyment of bird-watching and photography led me on the path of creating a series of regional bird paintings.
I am a member of local Wamego, KS based, artists association, The Columbian Artist Group and the Missouri Valley Impressionist Society. Art has been selected in juried regional and international shows, and is in numerous private collections and featured in SouthWind Art Gallery books "State of the Art-Kansas", based on work in the Kansas 150 Show, and "Topeka: A Great Arts Town", featuring work from the Paint Topeka event, and part of the Flint Hills Discovery Center's 2013 "Through the Artist's Eyes" exhibit, and selected to be part of the 2014 Symphony of the Flint Hills Art exhibition and auction.


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This is a great collection of beautiful moldings.


Pulse Associates have successfully delivered Phase 1 of a project to reconfigure and extend the life of Bridge House, a 4 storey prefabricated building at University of Lincoln.
This appointment will further strengthen our involvement in the Higher Education sector, and we look forward to developing a long-lasting relationship with Nottingham University.
Pulse Associates have been appointed as Quantity Surveyor on another student residential development in Nottingham.


Last night I was involved in a concert of the music of Benjamin Britten (in this his 100th anniversary year), singing as part of the BBC Singers. We had joined forces with the Romsey Choral Society, a Winchester-based ensemble whose director, Jamie W. Hall, is a member of the BBC Singers. In addition to a selection of choral works by Britten we also performed a new piece by Hall (to words by another mutual colleague, Reuben Thomas). The programme was given as part of the education wing of the Singers' work and was introduced and conducted by Paul Brough.
This entry was posted in Concert, Education, Recording and tagged bbc singers, britten, choral, chorus on April 24, 2013 by CheyneyK.
This morning I participated in a course hosted by Morley College in South London as one of the BBC Singers. We were helping a class prepare for an April performance of Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child Of Our Time in which they will be singing the spirituals that Tippett chose to interpolate into his 'Passion'-structured work in place of chorales.
There was a really very large turn out for this event which followed a familiar format for workshops in which we performed the pieces and then joined the class to help in learning the music and the finer requirements of its performance.
This entry was posted in Education on March 1, 2013 by CheyneyK.


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Suspect: How we planned school girls' kidnap
Sunday, March 6, 2016 5:21 pm
Emmanuel Arigidi, the prime suspect
Kazeem Ugbodaga
The prime suspect in the kidnap of the three girls of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Emmanuel Arigidi has narrated how they ploted the kidnap of the kids.
Arigidi, 37, from Ondo State said they were 12 in number who planned the operation, but noted that one Lamiameni was the one who brought the deal, which was planned at Majidun area of Lagos.
"We are 12 in number that carried out the operation. We planned the operation in Majidun and after that, we went to Maya bridge to enter Canoe and went to the school around 8pm. After we gained entrance into the school, we took away three girls and we took them to our hideout," he said.
Arigidi, left, and two other suspects
He added that along the line, he had misunderstanding with other members of the gang, as he insisted that the girls should be returned to where they were kidnapped due to the tight security system in Lagos State.
"But along the line, we had disagreement among ourselves and I was actually the one that started it. I told other members of the gang that what we have done is not good and that I don't like it. I know that security in Lagos State is now tight and I was telling others that there was no way we would get away with this kind of job considering the level of security in the state.
"When I told them that we should end the assignment, other members of the gang threatened to kill me and then I took Canoe to run away.Three days after I ran away, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) then arrested me somewhere in Majidun and that was how I told them how we planned the attack," he narrated.
Arigidi added that "One thing I will like to say is that if not for the fact that I was arrested, they would not have seen the girls because I was the one who revealed everything to the police."
The prime suspect, who said he is a traditioner bone setter, said the leader of the gang was one Felix who hailed from Edo State, saying that he had not been arrested as he had escaped into the forest with other members of the gang.
He stated that three local guns and four riffles were used in the operation, which he said were brought in by Felix.
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Game controller for the Nintendo GameCube & Nintendo Wii video game consoles.
Go classic on your Wii.
The GameCube controller is the standard controller for the GameCube video game console.
• Compatible with Nintendo Game Cube NGC Wii game consoles.
• The perfect controller for Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart, Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime or any other classic Nintendo GameCube games.
Size: 6.5cm x 14cm x 10cm (excluding cable).
Connectivity: GameCube or Nintendo Wii controller port.


The book of Ruth is a masterful short story, complete with an unfolding plot, character development, extensive dialogue and a gratifying resolution to the conflict. The story provides an essential connection between two time periods in the life of the nation of Israel: a very difficult and unstable time when the land was sporadically governed by a series of judges, and an era where kings (with an emphasis on King David) were the rulers of God's people. The story of Ruth helps make the transition between these two eras.
NOTE: While is is a one-week study, it requires the group to read the book of Ruth the week prior. This is not intended to be used as a one-off study without the week of prior reading.
Watch this short video on your own. It will give you a little context about the state of ancient Israel during the period that the story of Ruth takes place.
Provide every group member with a link to this page at least a week before beginning the study. Everyone will need to read the book of Ruth before the session.
Walk through the Icebreakers in the Discussion Guide.
The video is produced by The Bible Project.


Muhammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 in the Punjab Province of British India (present-day Pakistan). He studied at Government College Lahore and decided to continue his higher education in the West. He studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in England, where he obtained Bachelor of Arts and then moved to Germany to study doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
During the 1930s he was an active person in the Muslim League, supporting federation of the Islam provinces into one single state. This would protect Muslims rights and their self-determination and promote peace in India. Iqbal was a prominent politician and also became popular as a poet, who is often regarded to be the Poet of the East.
Iqbal died in 1938 and never saw his dream to come true. Today he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, whose views became the basis for declaration of its independence from India.


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It Was Just Banter
A Hater's Encyclopedia to Orlando City
All the hate. All in one place.
By J. Sam Jones May 13, 2018, 11:05am EDT
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A forward from the author
Welcome to a Hater's Encyclopedia to Orlando City. We're back to where it all began. The Hater's Guides began less than a year ago when my heart, consumed by spite and pettiness, poured forth those feelings into an amalgam of hacky jokes, syntax that was poor and mispellings that was the Hater's Guide to Orlando City. Just look at how far we've come since then.
In this edition we at DSS wanted to go even bigger. We wanted to give you a reference for all things Orlando Hate. For that reason, we've included and built upon some of the insights from the original Guide. We've also added a whole bunch of new, even dumber things. Like any good scholastic reference, the subjects of hate are in alphabetical order. We want to make this as comprehensive as possible so if you feel a subject has been unfairly overlooked, please notify us and we — if it's deemed worthy of inclusion — will update the Encyclopedia as soon as possible with proper credit given.
As always minimal effort has been put into this. There has been little research, next to zero editing and there's a legitimate chance that you won't find any of this entertaining in any way. If you take any of this seriously you deserve to be made fun of. As a commenter once eloquently stated even after reading a disclaimer about how dumb and irrevocably pointless this article would be…
"This is a waste of time. Nothing here folks."
FAQ (for Orlando fans only)
Q: Why is this FAQ even here?
A: We realized that you, the Orlando fan, may have some questions regarding the Encyclopedia. We also realize that for much of the fan base reading is hard. Please do your best to help the others work through the harder words.
Q: That feels a little uncalled for.....
A: Right?! Isn't this fun?!!!
Q: Why are you so obsessed with us?
A: You ever see a dude with a face tattoo and then for the next couple of hours you can't stop thinking about what made them do that?
Q: Are you proud of yourself for actually taking the time to do this?
A: ...........no.
Q: So you admit you had nothing better to do?
A: ....................................yes.
Q: Are all Atlanta fans like this?
A: No. Much of them are well adjusted, very kind and pleasant people with much less free time.
Q: Should I complain about this on Twitter?
A: Ohmygod yes keep giving us clicks. It's how we get paid.
Q: So...........you catch Kid Rock when he came through Atlanta?
A: No. Please stop asking.
Allen, RJ
A fullback who failed to make it in the Danish 1st Division and a man, like most in Orlando, desperately praying no one notices his hairline. He is in his first year in Orlando after leaving New York, the city equivalent of leaving a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to go eat at Golden Corral. His one endorsement is "Concave Football Boot", a modern football boot for modern uncles everywhere. They are hot trash.
Aztex
Founded in 2008 in Austin, Texas, Austin Aztex FC were the precursors to the original USL edition of Orlando City SC. The team moved in 2010 to both literally and figuratively move down a tier by moving to Orlando and joining the USL Pro League. The club was named due to the owner's desire to make an important historical society known as the Aztecs appeal more to what he called "the cool kids" by adding an X to the original Aztecs name to make the CS sound at the end of the name. "Do you get it?" he kept asking. "It's an X, which isn't how you actually spell it, but — you may not believe this, but stick with me — that X, which is one letter instead of two, makes the same sound as the original name! Ok, let me explain it one more time..."
B, Orlando City
A team with name that has all the creativity of...*looks at Atlanta's USL team*...dang it.
Anyway, playing soccer/living in Orlando was so bad for them they decided to just sit this year out. They'll resume play in 2019 having moved down from USL to USL Division III to see if they can actually win something. It's that thing you and your friends did/do in intramurals where you knew you had no chance in the main league so you played in the "non-competitive" league to see if you could get a free t-shirt or trophy or whatever out of it. You still probably didn't.
The official facewear of Orlando's Ultras. Because you have to hide your face when you're up to all your hooligan adventures because who knows what the cops will do if they catch you on the cameras yelling "Atlanta sucks!" and running away before the family of four walking to the game has time to even turn around. Like freaking '1984' up in here, bros. Make sure you've got a skeleton face on your bandana though so you look extra sick. Like, actually sick. Like you're actually dying. Will totally help the team make the playoffs and make you look extra intimidating as a member of the #PurpleUndead.
Everyone good with not talking about either of our teams? Good? Good.
Bendik, Joe
Goalkeeper for Orlando City. From Harrison High School in Kennesaw, rGeorgia just outside Atlanta. Like the fourth most-famous athlete from Harrison behind a college freshman who hasn't even taken his first official snap yet and three or ten other people I'm too lazy to look up because who cares, it's Joe Bendik. Failed to make it in the Norwegian Tippeligaen before heading to MLS. Failed to stop this goal:
And this one:
This squad never quits @TitoVillalba15 with the last minute equalizer!! pic.twitter.com/bzqev4PtnQ
— Atlanta United FC (@ATLUTD) July 29, 2017
An alternate leg wear for Orlando fans who can't find a clean pair of jean shorts (see: Jean Shorts). Good for carrying things like wallet, keys, phone, and all your playoff (see: Playoff) ticket stubs.
City Beautiful, The
The nickname of Orlando given to them by themselves. You can tell because phonics still hasn't reached Florida (see: Florida) and all of their names and writing makes you feel like you're having a minor stroke.
Colman, Josue
19-year-old midfielder who failed to make it in the Paraguayan Primera Division. Orlando's first "Oh man, Atlanta is buying a bunch of young, exciting players, we should do that too, did everyone see what we did, someone appreciate us now, we have young players too, lookit everyone, young, South American, we're as good as Atlanta now right? Right? Guys?" signings.
The official musical artist of Orlando City SC.
An entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. That's it. That's all we've got here. All of these jokes have been made. There are no more. Orlando City fans called, they want their lazy banter back. Yes, of course they'll hold. Not like they have anything better to do in Orlando.
Dwyer, Dom
A forward for Orlando City. The most expensive domestic transfer in MLS history, Sporting Kansas City received $900,000 of allocation money, and could receive up to as much as $1.6 million dollars for Dwyer. A member of the original Orlando City SC (see: Louisville), Dwyer was welcomed back with open arms to Orlando, while Kansas City welcomed all that money with open arms and proceeded to by the talent that has them at the top of the Supporters' Shield standings. Orlando has Dom Dwyer and a fun song to sing at least though. That's something, I guess. Atlanta United routinely feels bad for Dwyer and allows him open headers in front of goal as a way of expressing sympathy for him having to move back to Orlando after he thought he had escaped.
Edwards Jr., Earl
A backup goalkeeper for Orlando City. Determined to not be as good as Joe Bendik (see: Bendik, Joe). I don't have a joke, I just feel bad.
El-Munir, Mohamed
A left back for Orlando City. Failed to make it in the Libyan Premier League (twice), Serbian First League (twice), Belarusian Premier League (just the once) and Serbian Superliga (just the once I think. Could be the same league as the other Serbian one. Who cares.)
Once irresponsibly played almost an entire half in the Serbian First League with a broken foot as a terrible example to the kids of Serbia who should learn to report pain and not play through injury for the sake of toxic masculinity. Which may or may not be a problem in Serbia. Again, no idea.
He has 16 CAPS for the Libyan national team which is almost as impressive as playing for Orlando City SC in that you, the reader, could put this dumb article down right now, travel to either team's current location, and instantly be the best soccer player in that location. No seriously, try it.
A safety device used to warn large populations of potential fire hazards and to wake people up at 3:45 in the morning after you dox team communications staff and find the team hotel even after your supporters (see: Supporter's Groups) doxxed an MLS referee and had to be told they probably shouldn't do that again. You know, like children.
A state. Was largely uninhabitable until the invention of air conditioning allowed large numbers of people to move to the state and somehow make it even more uninhabitable. Noted for it's large alligator population and...umm...I don't know, Pitbull? I guess? Pitbull is from Florida right?
Apparently, the symbol of the city is this fountain?
I guess it's appropriate that the city symbol is something usually found as the centerpiece of retirement communities and near-vacant malls to make them seem fancy.
Giro, Victor "PC"
Left back for Orlando City. Goes by the nickname PC, a symbol of his growing dissatisfaction with the liberal media attempting to keep him from speaking his mind. He figures if he keeps it PC then the libs won't be able to touch him no matter what he does. You can distinguish him on the pitch by the giant Pepe the Frog lapel pin he wears on his shirt collar and the red armband he wears despite not being the designated captain. because he looks like a player for Corinthians named Pablo Cesar apparently. PC failed to make it in Brazil's Serie A, the Portuguese Premeira Liga and the NASL before joining Orlando City.
Grinwis, Adam
Another Orlando City Keeper who somehow isn't as good as Joe Bendik.
Hater's Guide
A thing Orlando fans seem to have opinions on. (See "Hater's Guide to SKC", bottom of page)
Higuiata, Cristian
A Midfielder for Orlando City. Failed to make it in the Colombian First Division before joining Orlando City. Has been a regular part of the Orlando City XI since the club's inaugural season, leading them to such major accomplishments like (See: History)
Heath, Adrian
The original coach of the first Orlando City SC (see: Louisville) and the MLS edition. Heath led what is now Louisville City FC to three USL Pro League (Third Division) titles before taking the reigns of the MLS OCSC. He was decidedly less successful and now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his son Harrison.
Something you get to claim when you've been a team two (!) whole years longer than another team. As soon as you claim it, remember to repeat it as much as possible and rely it as your one fallback when discussing your team. It's the only way you'll be able to put on your purple skeleton bandana and look at yourself in the mirror in the morning without completely hating yourself.
The official clothing retailer of Orlando City SC and The City Beautiful.
The perfect legwear for the Orlando City fan on the go. And not like the athletic looking jean shorts you see in South America. Like the John Cena versions. Adults wear these in Orlando. The more they cover your knee, the higher your social status.
Jernigan, Aaron
The founding father of Orlando. In fact, he was so influential in the creation of the city, the town was originally named "Jernigan". He was later found guilty of murder. To their credit, even people in 1850's central Florida knew when it was time for a swift rebrand.
Johnson, Will
Still playing for Orlando City.
The first designated player in Orlando City SC history. Led them to such accomplishments like (see: History). Failed to make it in the Brazilian First Division, Serie A, and La Liga before coming to Orlando City. Listed his greatest accomplishment as "scoring that one time against Atlanta even though we only got a draw out of it." Never quite made it in MLS despite rumors of great potential. Now retired, he plans to take up watercolors and hopes that his art will allow him to finally make something of himself.
Grimace from McDonaldland: The kit
Kljestan, Sacha
From Parker Cleveland's definitive literature on the subject:
With Kljestan they now have a lanky 30-something toddler who stalks the field throwing tantrums for 90 minutes. Add to it a fanbase dedicated illustrating their toughness with petty vandalism and pulling fire alarms and it's easy to see that OCSC has basically nothing that approaches a redeeming quality to the team, and Kljestan doesn't change that.
Kreis, Jason
Manager. Went to Duke.
Larin, Cyle
The team's all-time leader in appearances and goals, and a man who's .182 BAC level made him forget that even Canadians drive on the right side of the road.
A man who wears flannels to party in Florida during the middle of the summer.
A man who freely admits to an under the table agreement between his employer and local police to keep players in less than admirable situations out of police custody and off the local news.
A man who hated Orlando so much, he refused to practice with the team and forced a move to Turkish Super Lig side Besiktas. Following the cues of it's fan base, the team took the time to post a whiny message about it on the internet. He has made just two appearances for Besiktas.
Largest Crowd
The largest crowd in OCSC history is 62,510. Which is cute.
The mascot/nickname of OCSC. It doesn't even describe their kits and therefore makes no sense.
Lindley, Cameron
Only three appearances for OCSC. You're probably more familiar with him from that time he hit on your girlfriend at a bar and told you to "chill, bro" when you tried to intervene.
The first line of the Wikipedia passage about Orlando's "local culture" — and I swear to God this is true — is, "A substantial amount of the teenage and young adult populations identify as being goth, emo, or punk"
It goes on to say, "Major companies, such as Hot Topic and Vans have noticed and taken advantage of this. Hot Topic, an emo retailer, established 5 stores in Orlando."
It's unclear whether this video took place in Orlando. And by that I mean, It has never been more clear that this video took place in Orlando.
Where the original Orlando City Soccer Club moved to when the MLS club was announced. This is where all of that team's trophies are located as Louisville City FC is the actual continuation of the original OCSC. Not the MLS team currently in Orlando. Who have no trophies.
A nightmare lion that loves the movie Step Up 2: The Streets, and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC.
Meram, Justin
Michigan Man. Forward for Orlando City. Failed in MLS before accepting failure as his birthright and just sucking it up and moving to Orlando in 2018. As ennui has set in, he realizes scoring is fruitless endeavor, created solely to momentarily satisfy our lust for instant gratification. "What's the point of scoring when death pays no attention to box scores?" he asks each horrified child who walks onto the field with him before games. He has yet to score a goal in nine appearances for Orlando.
The films The Florida Project, Ernest Saves Christmas, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and Never Back Down take place in and were filmed entirely in Orlando. No complaints here. Keep up the great work, y'all.
Mueller, Chris
Forward for Orlando City. Played his youth career with a team called the Chicago Sockers. Rookie of the Year Candidate. Don't have a joke or anything just really wanted to include the "Sockers" thing.
Matchbox Twenty, NSYNC*, Backstreet Boys, a whole bunch of emo-pop bands. No complaints here. Keep up the great work, y'all.
The owner of Orlando City is Flavio de Augusto da Silva, a man who is named Flavio and has been rated the most influential Brazilian leader in the world. Flavio made his money by appearing as the rich bad guy in the Brazilian remake of every 80's comedy.
He also acquired money by starting Wise Up at age 23, with a $10,000 loan and a single idea – to teach fluent English to adults in 18 months. A mere 18 years later, Wise Up now has over 400 schools operating in six countries, and was an official sponsor of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He bought Orlando City with the idea of using soccer as vehicle to teach English to Floridians but it has proven to be his toughest challenge yet.
While Flavio, is the fiscal owner of the club, other's have staked their claim to the title through other means (see: Villalba, Tito).
Cherish this joke while we still have it y'all. They might actually find a way to not be one of the 12 worst teams in the league for the first time in team history. It's a long season though, and they're constantly finding new ways to be incompetent.
What you call someone when you're out of ideas.
Powers, Dillon
Midfielder for Orlando City. Former MLS Rookie of the Year. Now takes time to work at a record store and sell Herbalife products and sometimes both at the same time in between occasionally playing soccer.
Last year, he left Colorado for Orlando and seemed somewhat optimistic.
pic.twitter.com/uXoONlUUve
— Dillon Powers (@powerhour5) August 10, 2017
After that he didn't tweet again until the reality of having to be in Florida struck.
This feels like a bad dream I can't wake up from.
— Dillon Powers (@powerhour5) October 11, 2017
Prayers, Dillon.
Carrot Top, A.J. Pierzynski, Daniel Tosh, two members of *NSYNC, and Casey Anthony. No complaints here. Keep up the great work, y'all.
There seems to be some contention in both fan bases about whether these matches between OCSC and Atlanta United constitute a rivalry. There is a clear answer.
From the definitive literature on the subject: They are in majority insanely unlikable people from a state that exists solely for insanely unlikeable people and happens to be right next to ours. There are soccer reasons to dislike them, there are innate human reasons to dislike them but most of all, it's just more fun to dislike them.
If all the talk on social media, and the billboards, and the empty threats made by 130-pound UCF engineering students wearing skeleton bandanas and cargo shorts didn't exist then Sunday would just be another game.
Rosell, Oriol
Midfielder for Orlando City. Failed to make it in Spain, MLS, and bunch of places in Portugal before coming to Orlando. A graduate of La Masia, Barcelona's famous youth academy, "Uri" is prominently featured on their "Wall of Failure" at the front of the building to remind young Blaugrana that they are owed nothing, and will be given nothing. Another one of Orlando's many "Ohmygod everyone is going to lose their minds if we don't keep up with Atlanta" signings this offseason.
Tainan, Taiwan. Not even the capital of Taiwan. You know what is the capital? Taipei. You know who's sister city that is? Atlanta. That's right. Point Five Stripes. WHY ARE WE EVEN PLAYING THIS GAME?
Spector, Jonathan
Defender for Orlando City. Jonathan's Grandfather was the first player in Boston Celtics history. By far the most interesting thing having anything to do with this soccer team.
Orlando City plays at the aptly named Orlando City Stadium. Atlanta United has never lost at Orlando City Stadium.
Orlando City built the stadium with entirely private funds like chumps who don't even know how to defraud taxpayers.
Suntrust Center
The Suntrust Center would be tied for 28th tallest in Atlanta with something called the Two Alliance Center. Not even top-25. Their tallest building wouldn't even get a number by its name on the ESPN ticker. It looks like the 'roided lovechild of the Texas School Book Depository where Kennedy was shot and Disney's Tower of Terror making it by far the most beautiful piece of architecture in Orlando.
Supporter's Groups
Ruckus (see: Fire Alarm) and Iron Lion Firm.
Both groups have been suspended/given a stern talking to by the club for cursing at Disney World and for setting off fireworks in the middle of a Tampa Bay Rowdies crowd. In a more recent development, both groups are banned from the next four games in Atlanta after breaking bleachers at Bobby Dodd (hardcore), continuing a storied tradition of being banned from places that are honestly probably just sick of inhaling AXE body spray.
They look like this.
That's it. That's the whole joke. (see: Local Culture, see Hot Topic)
Sutter, Scott
Don't even care what position he is. Played for teams called Grasshopper and Young Boys. In the same career. Nothing else matters but that.
Over 62 million people a year come to the outskirts of Orlando each year to leave almost as soon as they've arrived.
They leave hot, at each other's throats and angry that they were somehow tricked into paying thousands of dollars to stand in line, eat bad food and watch tacky theme park shows.
That Orlando has been able to keep up the ruse that their theme parks aren't awful money vacuums for this long is commendable and frankly they should be applauded for pulling off one of the greatest "Turn Stockholm Syndrome into money" schemes in American history.
The super fun website where Orlando fans are allowed to run wild and fail to recognize when things are photoshopped and say the word "history" (see: History) a bunch.
Undisputed 2018 College Football National Champions. Notable for being named champions despite not having to make the playoffs, an idea known to Orlando City fans as "the frikkin dream, bro."
USL Pro Edition, Orlando City SC
Orlando City SC was founded in 2010 as a team in the third division, USL Pro League. Their logo was drawn by the first artsy looking kid they found outside of a UCF dorm.
Their first professional team took the field in 2011 and actually won the USL Pro championship. They would win again in 2013 and 2014, proving that a team from Orlando can actually make the playoffs and be successful, just as long as they're two divisions below MLS.
In 2015, they left for Louisville (see Louisville) and became Louisville City FC.
Villalba, Tito
(see: Owner)
Villarreal, Jose
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HE GOT TRADED IN 2017 FROM LOS ANGELES TO ORLANDO CITY FOR A SUPERDRAFT PICK. A THIRD ROUND SUPERDRAFT PICK. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED TO BE TRADED FOR SOME TRAINING CONES. IT WASN'T EVEN A PICK IN THIS YEAR'S SUPERDRAFT. IT'S THE 2019 SUPERDRAFT. HE GOT TRADED FOR SOME TRAINING CONES TO BE DISCOVERED LATER. AND HE HAD TO MOVE TO ORLANDO FROM LOS ANGELES, THE CITY EQUIVALENT OF EATING AT A FIVE STAR RESTAURANT THEN HAVING TO GO TO GUY FIERI'S TIMES SQUARE RESTAURANT FOR EVERY MEAL.
The city is far enough inland that it doesn't get wrecked by hurricanes all the time. However, despite being the largest inland city in the state, it's just the fourth largest overall. The other three are on the coast.
The conclusion? Millions of people would rather be hit by a literal hurricane than live in Orlando.
Yotun, Yoshimar
A midfielder for Orlando City. Joined Orlando midway through last season when Orlando was in the midst of panicking because they realized they were going to miss the playoffs again (see: Dom Dwyer) so they brought in Yoshi who led them to a stunning 10th place finish in the East.
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