Brampton has seen a number of jobs leave the city for some time, and now there's more of that on the way.
This time it's in the meat and poultry sector.
Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian packaged meat company, announced today that they are building a world class poultry facility in London, Ontario at a cost of $660 million that will bring over 1,400 full and part time jobs.
But at the same time, the company also announced that they will be closing plants in Brampton, Toronto and St. Marys.
"We will provide them with job opportunities at the new facility and other Maple Leaf plants, and services to help them eventually secure new employment," McCain added.
The union representing meat and poultry workers released this statement, adding how this will affect some 324 workers in Brampton.
Funding for the London plant includes a capital investment of approximately $605.5 million from Maple Leaf Foods, an investment of $34.5 million from the province and a $20 million investment from the federal government under the Strategic Innovation Fund.
The funding was pointed out by a representative of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation that the federal and provincial governments were, in his opinion, paying MLF to lay people off.
Construction for the London plant is slated to begin in 2019.


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Q: Show that estimators are consistent and show which is more efficient I have two independent binomial
$X_1 =$ binomial $(n,p)$
and
$X_2 = $ binomial $(2n,p)$
we assume that $n$ is known but $p$ is an unknown parameter
I want to show that
$P_1= 1/3n(X_1+X_2)$
and
$P_2= 1/2n(X_1+0.5X_2)$
are both consistent estimators.
I already know that $E(P_1)$ and $E(P_2) = p$ and are both unbiased estimators of p but how can I prove that they are consistent?
I think that I'm doing something wrong as I'm getting the same Variance for both estimators.
Var($P_1)$ and Var$(P_2) = p(1-p)$ which would make them both equally efficient.
Could someone please check my solution?

A: All you have to show is that the variance of your estimator goes to zero as $n$ goes to infinity.
$$\textsf{Var}(P_1) = \textsf{Var}(\frac{1}{3n} (X_1 + X_2))  = \frac{1}{9n^2} [\textsf{Var}(X_1) + \textsf{Var}(X_2) ] $$
Using the variance of a binomial that is $\textsf{Var}(X) = np(1-p)$
$$\textsf{Var}(P_1)  = \frac{1}{9n^2} [np(1-p) + 2np(1-p) ] = \frac{3np(1-p)}{9n^2} = \frac{p(1-p)}{3n} \rightarrow 0 $$
as $n \rightarrow \infty$.
More info could be found on this YouTube lecture on minute 00:40:23.

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Fools, Fixed Games and the Future of Our Nation
Reggie Jackson fools the umpires into thinking he unintentionally interfered with a play in the 1978 World Series.
Years ago, I played Little League baseball. Those were good times. I was a pretty good player and I played on some winning teams. I learned about teamwork and sportsmanship.
I also learned a little about the dark side of some people. Not the players. They were kids like me, getting exposure to the kind of competition we would be accustomed to years later.
It was the parents, and specifically, some of the coaches. I will never forget what happened one season.
In Little League we had split seasons. There were two halves. Teams competed to win at least one of the half seasons to assure a spot in the championship. If a team won both halves, there was no championship – that team was declared the winner.
My team lost the first half narrowly to our rivals. In the second half, we were poised to win and face our rivals in the championship.
Then something happened.
Our rivals were set to play a game against another team. My brother, who was on my team, and I went to see the game. We hoped our rivals would beat the other team, which was challenging us for the second half.
We saw our rivals take the field. Some guy who had never pitched the entire season took the mound. He threw pitches in the dirt to a catcher who had barely gotten the equipment on! We tried to find our rivals' best player, who had clobbered several home runs that season. He was not on the field: he was on the bench.
The other team came to bat. The first hitter grounded a ball toward the second baseman, who started to step toward it. Then he stopped and watched the ball roll by. The next batter popped the ball into the outfield. Two outfielders looked at each other and laughed as the ball dropped.
The game went on like this. My brother and I watched for a while, stunned that no one was stopping it. We went home and told my dad, who called the league commissioner's office and relayed our account. The commissioner said he would get back to him. He never did.
Who would throw a Little League game?
People who put their self-interest before respect for the rules.
As I grew older, I realized this tactic was quite common. Friends shoplifted. Classmates cheated on tests. Co-workers embezzled money.
And this was small fish, compared to the prizes at stake in our society.
Those who deceive and flaunt rules will always have the advantage. With no concern for ethics, they can achieve their goals using every option available.
So why do we, who are aware of these deceptions, bother to bring them to the attention of others?
Because life is a lot like baseball.
We may hit the ball or we may strike out.
But we won't let someone make a fool of us.
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Fools and Children Speak the Truth
A French proverb tells us that only fools and children speak the truth.
Many children grow up believing in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It obviously isn't because they researched the issue on what happens to their teeth after they put them under their pillows or how a sleigh run by reindeers can fly all over the world in one night.
Someone told them to believe it.
I believed in these things as a kid because it felt good. I liked to believe that someone was thinking about me and giving me rewards.
It was all plausible to me because I did not give the details of any of these myths much of a thought.
For most of us where I grew up, these were among the first things that someone (i.e. adults) told us to believe. The beliefs of the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were our first official theories.
We laughed off any suggestion that they were not real. After all, everyone we knew believed in them, so we did, too. Anyone who said anything to the contrary was not with us. They were just foolish.
The best theory in alternative to the official one was, of course, the theory that adults were lying to us about where the money we would find underneath our pillows or gifts under the Christmas tree would come from. Our parents – lie to us?
It was a lie to help us enjoy our childhood, long before we became adults ourselves and faced big responsibilities. The lie made us feel safe. Never mind it was barely plausible.
But the white lies didn't stop there. And it wasn't just being lied to, either.
We learned to lie and accept lies out of comfort. I could not stand eating certain vegetables as a child. I also learned my mom feared looking old. So, at around the age of eight, I lied to my mom by telling her she looked 30 (she was 31 when I was born) to get her approval to skip the vegetables.
In high school, I had a date with a girl who offered no opinions, thoughts or ideas on anything during our dinner. I should have told her that I did not want to see her again. Instead, to avoid the discomfort of dirty looks from her friends who were in my classes, I waited for her to tell me that I was not a high priority.
I don't know who told the lie that I just needed to get a bachelor's degree to get a good job. But I felt conditioned to believe it. Then I discovered the cold truth when I took a job shortly after college graduation that did not even pay minimum wage and for which I slaved to try to please a boss who could not be pleased.
We are simply conditioned to avoid truths that would wake us from our slumber of comfort. We are conditioned to respond negatively to unpleasant truths.
I had trouble believing any of my English ancestors held slaves. My family wouldn't do that! But I couldn't help but notice a black man named Edgerton Hartwell while watching National Football League games. There were so few blacks in England during the time my ancestors were there, the proof that people I am related to owned slaves stares back at me.
The issue here is not really the truth. It is comfort. Few will risk stepping out of their comfort to speak up for the truth. It is so much easier to stay asleep and tell ourselves that at least we aren't foolish.
The Republicans Don't Lie, They Just Don't Like Yes or No Questions
I voted Democratic in the recent elections and am something less than thrilled with the new team of Republicans who will take control of the House. As I mentioned in a recent column, I still do not understand what the "Tea Party" stands for. I have my doubts about John Boehner but will try to give him the chance the Republicans still haven't given Barack Obama.
I turned the TV to "Real Time" with Bill Maher recently and saw a Republican who I don't think is all that bad and who seems fairly bright. His name is Darrell Issa of California's 49th House District and he will head the House Oversight Committee starting in January.
Issa, Maher and Fareed Zakaria had an interesting exchange that shows I may want to hold on to my concerns. Here was the gist of their discussion:
Zakaria pointed out that if Congress refuses to extend the Bush tax cuts, they will save about $700 billion. Many Republicans have contended that this will be a tax raise. So be it. It would certainly help us to reduce the debt.
Maher kept asking Issa if he supported the extension of the tax cuts or not. The question was relevant and simple. But Issa never answered it.
Issa responded by saying he wants a "fairer, flatter tax with less loopholes." It was a typical politician response, except that the election is over!
Zakaria prodded Issa in a way that few in the media seem capable or willing to do. He simply pointed out that cutting out loopholes would lead to a tax increase on someone.
When Issa balked, Zakaria called the talk of "less loopholes" a euphemism. And euphemisms, he said, were really no better than lies.
When the conversation changed to budget cuts, Maher asked Issa where the budget should be reduced, pointing out that a very small percentage of the budget, about 15%, accounts for non-defense discretionary spending.
Issa bravely shifted the conversation to the issue of entitlements, saying that Congress should use a means test for those on unemployment benefits and those on Medicare and Social Security. Maher responded by saying that his ideas meant cutting two popular programs.
Issa used phrases that probably fool the typical voter into thinking that he does not favor tax increases and that he will not cut Medicare or Social Security. Of course, politicians have done this type of double-talk for years and Issa seems pretty good at it.
But if Issa really is among the brightest and most competent of the new Republican team, I simply do not see a whole lot of change ahead of us. Instead, I see the recent election "sweep" by Republicans as a euphemism for "only the names have changed."

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Good news expected for leasehold buy-to-let landlords
The Government announced plans to crackdown on overpriced property management charges to create a fairer system for tenants and leaseholders.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) will consider whether a new independent regulatory body is needed to look at implementing measures that will protect consumers from unfair costs and overpriced service charges and give leaseholders a say over their property management agent.
The call for a consultation comes after reports from Which? that owners and landlords are being ripped-off by as much as £700 million in unnecessary charges each year. In one example, a landlord was charged £500 by a property agent just to repair a shower door.
This could be good news for landlords with leasehold private rented properties (usually flats) that are subject to sometimes extortionate ground rent and service charges for the upkeep and maintenance of a communal block.
If the proposed measures are put in place, there will be more transparency over what is being charged and what those charges are for, making the costs associated with investing in a leasehold buy-to-let more forecastable.
In light of this news, we thought we'd look at some of the things landlords should consider when thinking of investing in a leasehold property to let.
Restrictions of the lease It may be the case that the lease prohibits you from sub-letting or renting the property altogether. In less extreme cases, you might not be allowed pets. This may not bother some landlords, but others who are animal lovers may be more than happy to rent to pet owners!
Length of lease You should be looking at properties with long leases – at least 99 years. Shorter leases can have a negative impact on the value of the property and also diminish saleability. Your mortgage company may also require a minimum lease length before lending to you. You can extend leases, but this costs money and you usually need to own the property for two years before being eligible.
Service and ground rent charges With a leasehold property, you don't own the land so you will need to pay a ground rent to the freeholder. This is normally a fixed fee paid annually. In addition, you'll be required to pay a service charge for repairs and maintenance to the communal building and gardens. This cost in particular can be as little as £10 a month but can also run into the thousands. It usually increases annually as well.
Sinking fund Some leases include a sinking fund, which holds back some money for unexpected repairs or big jobs such as replacing the roof. This will add to your running costs, but could avoid you having to pay out a chunky amount (which is equally divided between all leaseholders, even if you've only just purchased the property) for work. If there isn't a sinking fund, it's probably worth finding out if any major jobs are planned in the near future which you will have to contribute to.
The managing agent As the Government's proposals highlight, some property management agents are exploiting leaseholders and unfairly overcharging while providing a poor service. It's therefore definitely worth spending some time finding out who is responsible for the management of your building. Do some online research and ask other people in the building what they are like to deal with and how transparent their charges are.
The verdict? In most cases, it's probably better for landlords to invest in freehold properties over which they have complete control. That said, it does also mean that they are 100% liable for all maintenance and repairs.
Leasehold properties are usually cheaper and as long as you know what you're doing and are clear about the ongoing running costs, there's no reason why a leasehold buy-to-let couldn't be a profitable investment.
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Well I read some of the comments regarding the history of the Estudillo Mansion and I might add some info that you may be interested in.
Adelaide was a Rubidoux, born Feb. 1, 1848 in Jurupa, CA Died October 29, 1924 in Riverside, CA. She was the daughter of Louis Rubidoux (Robidoux) and Guadalupe Garcia. She married first J. inocente Valdez 9-22-1862 in Aqua Mansa, CA. His parents Jose Maria & Manuela Duarte. She married second Jose Antonio Estudillo 1-3-1875 his parents Jose Antonio & M Victoria Dominguez. You can find this information in the book "Louis Robidoux, The Pioneer" written by Clyde M. Rabideau.
Now, I have done some research on Guadalupe Garcia and Louis Rubidoux met her in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was Maria Guadalupe Garcia de Noriega from a very old Spanish family traced back to the 1400 era in Spain and her family was sent to New Mexico by the Spanish Government. Guadalupe after Louis Rubidoux passed away and after several years sold the Ranch in Jurupa now the town of Rubidoux and she moved in with her daughter Adelaide and lived with her at Soboba Springs Ranch until her death in 1892. Louis Rubidoux and Guadalupe Garcia were Raynaldo Willard Rubidoux's great, great grandparents. Louis to Abundo to Willard Patrick to Lyman to Raynaldo Rubidoux is the direct line.
An Indian princes might have been a nice story but Louis Rubidoux was very very French and Guadalupe was very very Spanish. The other Estudillo brother, Francisco married Carmelita Rubidoux, Adelaide's sister, who was born 1844 in Corralitos, Sonora, New Mexico and died 10-23-1873 Aqua Mansa, CA. She first married Emanuel Palomares June 5, 1862 in Aqua Mansa, CA his parents Ignacio & Concepcion Lopez. She married second Francisco Estiudillo March 16, 1866 in Aqua Mansa, CA, his parents same as Antonio who married Adelaide. Hope this is helpful information. Cora Rubidoux, wife of Raynaldo Rubidoux.
Regarding John Quintana brother of Lucy Quintana who married Willard Patrick Rubidoux. Here is what I know. John Quintana born in 1887 CA death 1953 Butte, CA parents were Juan Quintana born 1858 in San Bernardino Co. married Maria Antonia Cooper.
We can find nothing at all on Antonia Cooper other than she was English according to Lucy Quintana. Juan Quintan and Antonia Cooper appear on the christening records of Aurelia Mary Quintana born 1885 death 1959 married Gus A. James.
Juan Quintana, it appears no where else that I could find but his father's profile and not positive but think it is correct.
Diego Quintana born 1822 New Mexico death 1-24-1906 San Bernardino Co. lived in 1880 in Agua Mansa 1886 in Jurupa and was a stock raiser married Maria de los Santos Higuera born 1823 CA.
Diego Quintana's parents are Gabriel Quintana and Encarnacion Pacheco.
Maria de los Santos Higuera's parents are Salvador Higuera and Maria Juliana Ricarda Soto born 1802.
Rose M. Quintan, John's sister, married Manuel Rubidoux and Lucy Quintana married Willard Patrick Rubidoux both Rubidouxs were Abundo's sons.
or was in the Ship buisness. He may have been a Captian on a ship but we can find absolutely nothing on her.
The chapter about the history of this mansion is closed. The property has been fenced in and the building has been dismantled. Crews have been working all this week tearing down the old building. The old brink that covered the mansion have been saved and put on pallets. For what purpose is unclear. As far as the other two buildings on the property I am not sure of their fate. But I think it would be safe to say that those would be and probably have been demolished also.
Anything being saved will probably be used for the twin Estudillo mansion on the other side of town.. they already raided the Sobaba mansion for things like door knobs and light fixtures when they renovated the Estudillo mansion a few years ago.
My great, great grandfather born in Santa Barbara CA in 1849, and died in 1934 in Riverside CA. Per marriage documents, Manuel De Albar married a Lucy Quintana in 1876 in San Diego (March 3.) Manuel worked as a top hand at the Estudillo Ranch. He said in one account that the Sr. Estudillo was his uncle, through marriage. Manuel and his wife Amelia, later adopted a boy named Joseph Andrew Robidoux. Andrew took the name De Albar as a surname for most of his life and considered the De Albar's as his parents. The marriage between "Lucy" was short lived, but I cannot find any more information on the union. Manuel also mentioned the working for the well known cattleman, Charles Thomas in the 1860's. Manuel's only daughter Tomasa, later married Abundo Quintana. Born in Riverside1884, died in Stockton CA in 1952. I am trying to get more information on Lucy Quintana, and also trying to unravel the story of Joseph Andrew Robidoux. Andrew, as he was called, died in 1941.


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Q: Logstash file input plugin Currently I am using file input plugin to go over my log archive but file input plugin is not the right solution for me because file input plugin inherently expects that file is stream of events and not as a static file. Now, this is causing a great deal of problem for me because my log archive has a 100,000 + log files and I logstash opens a handle on all these files which are never going to change.
I am facing following problems
1) Logstash fails with problem mentioned in SO
2) With those many open file handles log archival storage is getting very slow.
Does anybody know a way to let logstash know that treat files statically or once a file is processed do not keep file handle on it.
In logstash Jira bug, I was told to write my own plugin with some other suggestions which won't help me much.

A: Logstash file input can process static file. You need to add this configuration
file {
     path => "/your/logs/path"
     start_position => "beginning"
}

After adding the start_position, logstash reads the file from the beginning. Please refer here for more information. Remember that this option only modifies "first contact" situations where a file is new and not seen before. If a file has already been seen before, this option has no effect. Otherwise you have set your sincedb_path to /dev/null .

For the first question, I have answer in the comment. Please try to add the maximum file opened.
For my suggestion, You can try to write a script copy the log file to the logstash monitor path and move it out constantly. You have to estimate the time that logstash process a log file.

A: look out for this also turn on -v and --debug for logstash
{:timestamp=>"2016-05-06T18:47:35.896000+0530",
 :message=>"_discover_file: /datafiles/server.log:
**skipping because it was last modified more than 86400.0 seconds ago**",
 :level=>:debug, :file=>"filewatch/watch.rb", :line=>"330",
 :method=>"_discover_file"}

solution is to touch the file or change the ignore_older setting


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However, with the rise of consumerism, the democratization of information, even medical information, via the internet means the patient has more access than ever to expert advice and opinions from around the globe.
They now have access to information about heart disease and diabetes and other chronic conditions that they never had before and this empowers them to be in control of their own health.
However, all of this information often leaves their heads spinning and while they know they need to make lifestyle changes based on information they receive from their doctor as well as information they receive online, they struggle to adjust their lives to help them meet their health goals.
This is where health communities come in. Peer support becomes the channel where large amounts of information are distilled into actionable changes a patient can make to improve their health.
Here's how to use peer communities to support behavior change.
It all starts with getting patients into the health community in the first place. We know first hand how difficult this can be. Patients won't join communities if they don't first believe in the value. If they never join, hey won't reap the benefits of the peer support available to them.
One way to help them see the value is for a trusted person like their clinician to communicate why social support is so important to their health and wellness.
What many patients don't realize is that fighting illness in isolation introduces greater health risks. Isolation increases complications with cardiac disease and can lead to chronic stress. Lonely patients also make lifestyle choices that worsen chronic disease such as smoking and obesity.
Loneliness is defined as "the discrepancy between a person's desired and actual social relationships." The problem is that chronic disease often leads to isolation - sometimes real, sometimes perceived.
In many cases, patients are limited in activities or behaviors that previously defined their life. They often grieve over the loss of things they loved and feel that no one among their friends and family truly understand what they are going through.
Patients can never win the battle of isolation on their own, and they need to be aware just how dangerous it can be to their health. Communicate to patients the value of community in helping them overcome feelings of isolation.
Patients don't realize the emotional struggles that often accompany chronic disease and even if they do, many think they can deal with negative emotions on their own. However, unresolved emotional struggles lead to further affective disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Depression in the medically ill is difficult to diagnose since it mimics disease symptoms. To complicate matters, patients often don't recognize symptoms themselves.
This is why patients need a community of "peer experts." Often their peers as well as the community's health coach can help them deal with negative emotions and see symptoms of depression to help them seek medical help when necessary.
In this new era of digital consumerism, patients are used to being in the driver's seat and making decisions for themselves. They expect the companies they engage with to meet their needs and wants. They are surrounded by Amazon and Netflix and Instagram where they get immediate gratification and what they want when they want it.
Healthcare, however, has been slow to adjust to this market of consumers. With easy access to everything from groceries to entertainment, patients won't cater to healthcare's needs anymore. They expect healthcare to cater to them.
In community support, this means that joining communities needs to be simple and quick. No wait times or confusing interfaces. For patients to actually join patient communities, the process needs to be seamless and even delightful to match what they are used to outside of healthcare.
The education industry conducts significant study on communication. Healthcare can learn much from the models of communication that teachers and schools use to help patients learn about their own health. Increasingly, active learning is gaining a vital role.
Active learning encourages application of knowledge. It encourages initiative and critical thinking as well as collaboration between teachers and students.
Traditional healthcare has been based on a model of passive learning. Clinicians give information. Patients receive it. Beyond that, they rarely interact with health knowledge.
Active learning applied in healthcare means patients engage in conversation about their health. The more patients discuss, the more they learn, the more they apply. Instructive, encouraging discussions motivate patients to follow through on goals.
To help your patients engage in meaningful conversations, facilitate discussion in your online community where patients support each other, find motivation, and receive health education.
Where communication is present, conflict can be close behind. While some view conflict as negative, it actually can bring communities closer together. However, to ensure communitiy interactions remain positive, even with conflict, healthcare communities should have someone who plays the role of community manager.
To encourage community support, patients need a mindset shift about disagreement. Each disagreement is an opportunity for both sides to grow and develop.
Don't let toxic communication (name calling, cheap shots, and the like) go unattended. Address the issue, but don't jump to conclusions. Encourage individuals to listen by asking questions rather than spouting accusations.
Many theories exist about motivation - why and how it works. A study conducted at Harvard revealed that few things motivate people more than progress. Patients need to believe they can accomplish their goals.
Motivation comes in many forms like positive feedback, healthy conversation, community brainstorming and shared experiences. All of this is present in community support. With the help of community, patients will have the motivation to succeed.
Patient-generated solutions play an important role in affecting change. Clinicians offer medical expertise and guidance but can't always contribute experiential knowledge. Those dealing with disease on a daily basis have fresh perspectives on patients' real needs.
This is why collaborative brainstorming is so important. Patients need creative solutions for daily problems. As each member participates in brainstorming, they're encouraged to view their own problems differently. They're motivated to not give up. Rather, they learn to innovate new solutions to any new problem that surfaces.
While medical professionals tend to rely on tried and true methods (as they should), patients are free to think outside the box. They can innovate solutions for problems clinicians don't interact with. As such, patient brainstorming provides an extra level of support in the medical field.
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The radar chart—also known as a Spider Chart, Web Chart, Polar Chart and Star Plots (among other names)—is used to compare one or multiple categories (e.g. competitors, products, etc.) across different variables (e.g. quality indices, performance metrics, etc.). The distance/radius of each point to the center is proportional to the maximum magnitude of the variable or its highest record.
A radar chart is ideal to reveal similarities and differences (outliers) between your categories. It's especially effective to visualize cyclic data and the positioning of one or two categories across different the variables.
How to create a radar chart with Vizzlo?
On the tab "APPEARANCE," click on "Edit polar axes" to define your variables.
Then, click on any line to start editing it on its active card.
Alternatively, copy and paste/or import your data into Vizzlo's spreadsheet.
Explore the "LAYOUT SETTINGS" options of the tab "APPEARANCE" to customize the display of the grid, choose to fill areas, and show or hide tick marks and data markers.
Choose a Vizzlo theme or customize one with your preferred font-color combination.
Pro tip: Before pasting your data into Vizzlo's spreadsheet, make sure the number formats are matching your data source. Click on the "wheel" icons in the spreadsheet columns to see the number formatting options.


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According to beat writer James Wagner of the Washington Post, Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos got the stitches removed from his surgically-repaired left hand on Tuesday afternoon and has now been cleared to begin basic rehab activities.
Ramos underwent left hamate bone surgery on April 2 and is still probably at least four weeks away from returning to Washington's active roster. Chances are it will take the backstop another several weeks after his activation to return to full strength. Hamate bone injuries are notorious for sapping power, and Ramos had some of the best batted ball distance in the majors over the past few seasons.
The 26-year-old tallied 16 home runs and 59 RBI in just 78 games last summer for the Nationals.
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News sites: quadruple your bandwidth at no additional cost — guaranteed!
Gary Stock of Nexcerpt tells Steve Outing that 90% of some news pages consist of stuff the reader never sees. Only 10% is actual "content". The rest is structure. This has a couple of implications.
First, it takes four or five times as long to load the page as it should.
Third, this is yet another powerful argument for cascading style sheets, which load only once and persist in the reader's cache.
I tried this out on the San Jose Mercury News home page and he's right. There are 81756 characters in the page source, of which roughly 8000 (less than 10%) are content — including navigation text and some script elements.
It's hardly a coincidence that the sites with the highest content/markup ratios also have the most news on them. The Wall Street Journal fits three times as much news into three-quarters of the space as the Mercury News.
Imagine a technology that could quadruple your bandwidth (and reduce your overhead) at no additional cost. Would you adopt it?


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The most days at sea by a male ocean rower (solo) is 844 and was achieved by Erden Eruç (Turkey) who rowed his boat, Around-n-Over, around the world between 10 July 2007 and 27 May 2012.
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It is one of the most explosive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to that end, the USA, along with most other countries, has maintained its embassy in Tel Aviv, saying the status of Jerusalem should be resolved between the sides in negotiations.
The newly opened museum made the announcement in a series of tweets, without confirming whether it had purchased , or is simply borrowing, the $450.3 million masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi , ca. Last week, it was announced on Twitter that Salvator Mundi would heading to The Louvre Abu Dhabi. Da Vinci's " La Belle Ferronnière " is on loan there from the Louvre in Paris.
A Democrat lawmaker has weighed in on recent reports Donald Trump spends up to eight hours of his day in front of the TV and argued most Americans would get sacked for doing the same. Other gob-smacking nuggets of info include the fact that he's been known to giddily call his mates after crafting "the ideal tweet ", that he can't deal with not seeing himself on TV, and that he told bewildered members of the press that he doesn't actually watch that much TV because of documents .
Israel says that all of Jerusalem is its capital. Phillips warned, though, that the president should make it clear this move does not take the place of any negotiations that would be needed to officially change the status of the holy site.
Meanwhile, the two Jewish Republican members of Congress, Reps. US President Donald Trump was warmly welcomed following his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Mr. Trump began his remarks retelling the story of Hanukkah before congratulating the Jewish faithful in attendance for his decision one day earlier.
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Chapter 5 John & Elizabeth
February 10, 1988, Early Morning in the Barn
Elizabeth woke for some reason and twisted about in bed to see the clock. 3:38, and her husband John's side of the bed was cold. She thought for a minute about scrunching back under the warm quilt and pretending that she never woke up, but a mixture of curiosity, worry, guilt, and love made her sit up and put her warm feet on the cold wooden floor. She sighed.
Making her way into the kitchen, she smelled the coffee and noticed the half-empty pot. She called gently down into the basement, so as not to wake any children, just to see if he was down in his workshop. Then she remembered the children were all in town spending the night at her parents. There was no answer from the workshop, but she didn't expect one; several ewes were pregnant and due soon, and he was most likely in the barn.
She peered through the kitchen window, but there just wasn't a good view of the barn from the house. That had always frustrated her — who would build a barn that you couldn't see from the house? Or more likely, why wouldn't you put windows in the house, so you could see the barn?
Her warmest wool socks were stuffed into her barn boots by the door. She pulled them both on and shrugged into her barn coat; the lantern by the door was gone. Perhaps she should fill a thermos with more coffee.
Trudging out to the barn through the new snow wasn't easy, but at least the snow had stopped and the stars were plentiful and twinkling in the cold night sky. She stopped for just a minute to gaze upwards and listen to the snowy silence of a winter night in the country. A great horned owl hooted in the distance and added mystery to the stillness.
She followed John's larger footprints and quietly let herself in the man door around the side of the old barn. Through the dim overhead light she could see her husband in one of the far stalls. He had his back to her and was kneeling in front of Bathsheba, one of their best ewes, who was on her side in front of him. As Elizabeth got closer, she could see a lamb cuddled up next to the big, wooly mama. A large bubble of fluid lay on the ground behind her, and John's arm was up to his elbow inside Bathsheba's birth canal.
"I'm here," she said softly, not to startle him. "Is there anything you need?"
"I just don't know if I can turn this second one," he said, his voice muffled because his face was leaning against the matted wool of a sheep's rump. "The first one there came easy, I guess, but it's been almost an hour and a half for this one."
"I can try," she volunteered. "My arm is smaller." There was nothing she liked less than lambing season. Give her children, chickens, plants, fruit trees, even bees, and she was fearless, but the possibility of death that hung in the air during lambing always gave her pause. They'd lost relatively few lambs — it was true. And John always knew which ewes to breed for easy births. Those who had a hard time were sold for meat or sheepskins, depending on their age.
"I can feel its little elbows locked,'' he said. "And I just don't want to hurt Bathsheba. Give me another minute." John knew his wife's hesitancy on helping with lambs; she'd done it in the past and was gentle and unflappable. But afterwards, when the lamb was stillborn, he had found her crying — shut up and hiding in the little room downstairs with the extra bales of straw. He tried not to ask for her help unless it was absolutely necessary.
Bathsheba had borne twin lambs with no problems for the last three springs. Even as a first time mama, she'd been fine. She was one of their Icelandic ewes, known for their amazing wool. They didn't have too many, most of their sheep were Katahdins, raised for meat and didn't have to be sheared. But Elizabeth had wanted just a few for wool, and John had chosen the best breed for wool and easy lambing. He, too, had come to love Bathsheba, with her proud horns and soft grey wool.
Elizabeth watched her Mennonite husband intently; it was in times like this that she was so grateful for him. He was strong, silent, dependable. He always knew what he was about and where his strength came from. He never doubted, and she was often in awe of his unwavering faith. She thought of the two men who had lost their lives in the accident earlier this evening, and of the truck driver's wife, who most certainly now knew that she was a widow — her life changed in an instant. Silently she prayed for peace for the new widow that she didn't even know, and then she thanked God for her blessings — John, the children, the farm, her parents both still living and close by — and she ended the prayer thanking God for the blessings of new life, for Bathsheba, the new little lamb by her side, and the one being born to be delivered safely tonight in the sheep stall.
John twisted a bit and suddenly sighed. "Ah, there she goes," he said quietly; and with a gentle tug, he pulled out his arm and with it plopped the tiny lamb, yellowish and gooey. Bathsheba turned to lick and clean the newborn, and the one by her side bleated its displeasure. He looked back at her. "Were you praying?" he asked smiling.
She smiled back at him. "I was," she answered joyfully. "For two fine healthy lambs and a good end to a difficult birth for Bathsheba." They stood together looking down at the new family. John gently pushed the newborn over to suck the colostrum.
"I guess I should wash off," he said, but he made no move to go anywhere.
"I've got more coffee," Elizabeth said as she brought out the thermos. "And I'll get a warm rag." She walked over to the large trough sink right inside the door. With a closet next to the sink, she thought this might have been the smartest suggestion she'd ever had — running hot and cold water in the barn — and a deep sink to fill buckets. The barn was far enough away from the house and she'd spent her first winter as a pregnant farmer's wife hauling buckets of water to the chickens who were wintered that year in the barn. John eagerly agreed that it was a necessity when she had mentioned it — he already had visions of sheep farming and keeping real livestock in the barn. That running water and sink trough committed them to being real farmers. That and the fence… She smiled as she wrung out two soft old towels with warm water — one for Bathsheba and her lambs and one for her husband.
When she returned, John had turned over two buckets for sitting. She gave him the warm wet rags and poured coffee. "I'll share," he smiled as she handed him the thermos cup. "Have a seat, my dear. It's the best seat in the house."
"It is," she agreed. "So what do we have here?"
"Two happy little girls already sucking at Mama," he smiled, rubbing his arm briskly with the wet towel. "And it really wasn't that difficult. I probably didn't even need to help, but I do love that Bathsheba girl. Listen to her talking to them."
Indeed, as they were nursing, Bathsheba was still licking them clean and making little mama sheep noises to her babies. "Two girls! What a fine start to lambing season! How about the others?" Elizabeth asked. Now that danger seemed to be over, she was relaxed — a successful farm birth is a joyous occasion.
"Well, there's nine more, you know?" He thought she had been counting, but often she was distracted with children and chickens and food, and he was never sure how much attention she paid to the sheep. They were in his care. "But they are all still eating fine — no one's off their food yet, so I think we'll have at least a day or two of good night's sleeping."
"Too bad the children missed this," she mused. "Eli would have been the first one out here — and more help than I was," she admitted.
"Didn't need help, did we Bathsheba?" John rubbed her wool and checked her back end to make sure all was well. He sat back down and took the cup of coffee from her. "Since we're here in the barn in the middle of the night, drinking coffee, and celebrating two young ewe lambs," he paused. "What do you think of trying to buy the orchard this spring?" He pointed across the road as if she didn't know where the orchard was.
Yes, the orchard… Across the road, adjacent to Mary's. They'd talked and talked about it, but never could decide if it was the right time. Elizabeth spoke her thoughts out loud — If we don't offer him something soon, the trees will be so broken down, none of them will be worth trying to save…
"Yes," John nodded. "It's the truth."
Elizabeth bit her lip, wondering if she had really spoken that thought aloud. And so she added, "But we don't even know IF he will sell, OR what he wants for it… We've just been talking about it forever, it seems."
John looked warily at her and grinned. "Have I worn you down at last?" he asked.
"I look over at those apples just rotting on the trees, and it kills me — you know that. But…" She started to say something, bit her lip again, and stopped.
"Yes, we both know the monetary objections," he said. "But the farm is doing well, we've got, God willing, ten to twenty new lambs coming and all the seeds for this year are bought and paid for. That's a first! In March! Perhaps, it's time to ask, at least. Then we can know and act on it. Or not," he added.
Elizabeth nodded. She had prayed and prayed over this and never had seen or heard a clear answer. But tonight's events, the thoughts of life ending suddenly no matter what you did or who you were — well, trusting God and stepping out in faith to live your life as best you can — Was that an answer? Perhaps.
She took her husband's hand and squeezed it. "We'll never know until we ask, will we?"
He pulled her up from her elegant bucket seat. "Sheep grazing among the apple trees?"
"Only in the spring and summer," she warned. "You have to keep them away from my apples in the fall."
He kissed her.
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The Best YA Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2016
Dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA continue to be some of the most popular stories that come out in the market, and the year 2016 certainly delivered! Below is a list of some of the best books in the genre released over the past year, so if you're looking to get some dystopian/post-apocalyptic YA fix, you've come to the right place!
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The world that humans live in now is a world that's devoid of hunger, disease, war, and misery. But perhaps the biggest battle that humanity has won is the battle against death, as people cannot die anymore. The only ones who can end lives are Scythes – and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the population under control. Citra and Rowan are both apprentices to a scythe – something that neither of them wants. They must master the art of taking a life, and it's a skill that they must perfect, because failing would mean that they would lose their own lives.
What do the readers say?
"Scythe is a very meditative piece about what it means to lose one of humanity's most important aspects: impermanence. Those expecting a YA dystopian thrill ride such as Hunger Games or Divergent will likely be frustrated by the slow pacing, philosophizing, and bleakness. But Scythe is well written, has engaging heros, ends on a solid story arc, and nicely sets up the conflict for future volumes." – Talvi, Amazon user. [Review from Amazon]
Blue Screen by Dan Wells
Los Angeles, the year 2050. It's a city of open doors as long as you have a djinni, a device implanted in your head. Everyone's virtually online twenty-four hours a day, and for the citizens, the connection given by the djinni is like oxygen, opening up a world of opportunities for people who know how to manipulate it. And Marisa Carneseca is one of them. She practically lives on the net, playing games and going to school, or perhaps doing questionable things with her friends Sahara and Anja. And Anja gets her hands on the Bluescreen, a drug that plugs into a person's djinni and delivers a nonchemical, safe, high. But it's too good to be true, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that's bigger than they ever dreamed of.
"If you are a gamer who enjoys strong female characters, you'll love this book. Bluescreen was full of exciting tech and nerdy game references (fps and mmo in particular; the author said he was inspired in particular by League of Legends) that made me particularly gleeful. The cast was diverse – the lead character, Marisa, is of Mexican heritage, while there are also Chinese and Indian characters who are fully developed with their own agency." – Britt Mabry, Amazon reviewer. [Review from Amazon]
Flawed by Cecilia Ahern
Celestine North's life seems perfect. She's a model daughter and sister, is well liked by everyone – from classmates to teachers – and is dating the charming Art Crevan. But when Celestine becomes faced with a situation in which she makes the wrong decision, her life gets altered greatly – because her mistake has life-changing repercussions, and she could be imprisoned or branded. Or worse, be found flawed.
"I felt the anger and the frustration of the Flawed and those who questioned the morality of the society but were afraid to speak up in fear of being declared "Flawed." A great dystopian novel that O would highly recommend to all especially young adults and dystopian readers." – Vikki, Amazon reviewer. [Review from Amazon]
Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs
Elena Martinez is about to turn eighteen, and she has to finish a critical job by then, or else she'll be homeless. But she gets an unexpected by the powerful LA tech giant, Aether Corporation, to go on a secret mission and bring back data from the future. Along with other recruits, Chris, Trent, Adam, and Zoe, she must acquire the information that Aether needs, and if they succeed they'll be set for life. It's the perfect offer, one that Elena can't refuse. But when she and her companions arrive into the future, they sense that something's wrong. And Elena and her friends have to break the only rule they were given – not to look into their own fates. With only twenty-four hours to get back to the present and to find a way to stop the inevitable future – and a grisly murder – from happening, Elena and the rest have to race against time. But changing the timeline has deadly consequences, and Elena must learn who to trust as she fights for her life.
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Caldwell, David
by Blackwell P. Robinson, 1979
22 Mar. 1725–25 Aug. 1824
See also: Caldwell School
David Caldwell, Presbyterian minister, educator, physician, and statesman, was born in Lancaster, Pa., of Ulster Scot ancestry. He was the oldest of four sons of Andrew and Martha Caldwell, who were respectable farmers. David served as an apprentice to a house carpenter for four years and then carpentered on his own for four more years until he was twenty-five.
Deeply intent on becoming a Presbyterian minister, he made a contract with his three younger brothers, whereby he relinquished all claims to the parental estate in exchange for their help in securing enough money to send him through college. Accordingly, at the age of twenty-five, he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1761 at the age of thirty-six. After teaching a year and serving a year as a tutor at his alma mater, while he studied theology, he was licensed as a clergyman in 1763 by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. He served the next two years as a supply minister in various places in his native colony. His first definite assignment came on 16 May 1765, when he was appointed "to labor at least one whole year as a missionary in North Carolina." Ordained in July 1765, at the age of forty, he became one of the earliest Presbyterian divines in the sparsely and recently settled North Carolina back country.
Caldwell's move to what is now Guilford County came through the invitation of members of the Nottingham Colony of Pennsylvania, an Ulster Scot Presbyterian group who had asked him, before they came to North Carolina in the 1750s, to become their pastor after his ordination. In present central Guilford County he became pastor of Buffalo and Alamance churches, established by the Nottingham Colony. He was married in 1766 to Rachel Craighead, the daughter of the Reverend Alexander Craighead of Mecklenburg County, generally recognized as the most prominent Presbyterian minister west of the Yadkin River. The couple settled on a tract of land about three miles west of the center of present-day Greensboro, and two years later, in 1768, Caldwell was officially installed as pastor of Alamance and Buffalo congregations, which he served for nearly sixty years.
Meanwhile, in 1767, he established what came to be known as Dr. David Caldwell's Log College, a theological and classical school for young men that was soon recognized as one of the most outstanding schools in the South. His biographer, the Reverend Eli Caruthers, who succeeded him as pastor of Buffalo Church, wrote that "five of his scholars became governors of different states; many more members of Congress, some of whom occupied high standing . . . and a much greater number became lawyers, judges, physicians, and ministers of the gospel." Training from fifty to sixty students each year, he was, in the words of one of his pupils, "probably more useful to the church than any other man in the United States."
Aware also of the physical needs of his pioneer flock in the absence of a physician, Caldwell secured medical books from Philadelphia and soon became a self-taught, practicing physician. Because his doctor's fees, if there were any, and his two hundred dollar per year ministerial salary fell far short of providing for the Caldwell family of eight sons and a daughter, he turned to the successful cultivation of his land, eventually amounting to 550 acres on which he ran a successful plantation-type business.
In addition to these varied pursuits, Caldwell championed the cause of freedom in the War of the Regulation, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. In the Regulator movement, culminating in the nearby Battle of Alamance, 16 May 1771, he was present on the battlefield and tried valiantly but in vain to persuade Royal Governor William Tryon to settle the matter without bloodshed. With the coming of the Revolution, he represented Guilford County at the Halifax provincial congress that wrote and adopted the constitution of 1776 and also at the Hillsborough constitutional convention that refused to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Caldwell, along with a majority of the delegates, insisted on a Bill of Rights.
As an ardent patriot during the Revolution, he exhorted his congregations to take up the sword; his biographer stated that every adult male member of Buffalo and Alamance churches joined in the fight when Lord Cornwallis invaded the area in March 1781. News of Caldwell's activities provoked the British general to offer a two-hundred-pound reward for his capture, and Caldwell was forced to hide out in the swamps before and during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 15 Mar. 1781. After Cornwallis's departure, Caldwell went to the battlefield and aided a British physician in caring for the sick and wounded and burying the dead. When he returned to his home nearby, he found that Cornwallis's army had camped on his property and had destroyed what could not be devoured. The family Bible, private papers, sermons, and library—all were maliciously burned by the British officers who used the Caldwell house for their headquarters. Mrs. Caldwell and her children were forced to retire to a smoke house, where they survived for two days and nights with no food other than a few dried peaches she had happened to have in her pockets. Caruthers reported that when the British army left, "every panel of fence on the premises was consumed or carried away; every living thing was destroyed except one old goose."
After the war, Caldwell returned to his school, his churches, his medical practice, and his farm. In 1794 he was offered the first presidency of The University of North Carolina, because "beyond a doubt he was recognized as the leading educator of the state." Declining this offer, he continued to teach at his Log College until old age compelled him to retire, though as late as 1816 he was instructing a number of private students, among whom were John Motley Morehead and Archibald Debow Murphey, and he continued his ministry until 1820, when he was ninety-five.
Caldwell performed his last service to his country at the age of eighty-eight. When the United States entered the War of 1812, a meeting was held at the Guilford County Courthouse to round up volunteers, but none rallied to the cause. In order to avoid a draft, Caldwell was invited to preach at the courthouse on the subject of volunteering. So feeble that he had to be helped up the steps to the judge's bench, he nonetheless displayed a patriotic fervor equal to the occasion, taking as his text: "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." When he finished speaking, there were more volunteers than were needed.
Caldwell died in his hundredth year and was buried at Buffalo Church. Perhaps Stephen B. Weeks best summarized Caldwell's great contributions when he wrote that, in the early days, "none did a nobler or more enduring work toward the greatness of the state than the Rev. David Caldwell, D.D., preacher, teacher and physician, counsellor and guide for his friends and neighbors, servant of the people in many ways, state builder and protagonist of learning in the wilderness of North Carolina."
No portrait of Caldwell was painted from life, but Mrs. Lottie P. Leonard, former art teacher at Claude Kiser Junior High School, painted one from written descriptions. It hangs in the Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Greensboro.
Caldwell's house and Log College, which were located on present Hobbs Road, just off Friendly Road, have long since disappeared, though recent excavations by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History have revealed the exact sites. On 6 Jan. 1975, the City Council of Greensboro voted unanimously to appropriate about ninety thousand dollars to help the David Caldwell Log College Corporation purchase about ten acres of the original site of these two structures (including his dam site and three springs); the city manager was authorized to negotiate for the purchase of an additional eight and a half acres of adjacent property to form a David Caldwell Memorial Park. It is hoped that approximately thirty acres will eventually comprise this historical and ecological project.
Ethel Stephens Arnett, For Whom Our Schools Were Named (1973).
E. W. Caruthers, A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell (1842).
John H. Wheeler, Historical Sketches of North Carolina (1851).
Arnett, Ethel Stephens. David Caldwell. Greensboro: Media, 1976.
Caruthers, E. W. A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D.D. 2003. NC Collection also has the 1842 edition.
Baroody, John C. Archaeological Investigations at the Site of David Caldwell's Log College. 1980.
David Caldwell, City of Greensboro: http://greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=970
A timeline of North Carolina colleges (1766–1861), LearnNC: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/5229
"The Presbyterian Church In North Carolina." N.C. Highway Historical Marker JJ-1, N.C. Office of Archives & History. https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/division-historical-resources/nc-highway-historical-marker-program/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&k=Markers&sv=JJ-1 (accessed January 11, 2013).
"David Caldwell 1725-1824." N.C. Highway Historical Marker J-2, N.C. Office of Archives & History. https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/division-historical-resources/nc-highway-historical-marker-program/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&k=Markers&sv=J-2 (accessed January 11, 2013).
Caldwell, Finis Jay. 2008. Dr. David Caldwell: an 18th century flame for Christ : 1725-1824. Kennett, MO (2011 St. Francis St., Kennett, 63857-1566): Finis Jay Caldwell, Jr.
Colonial period (1600-1763)
Robinson, Blackwell P.
1 January 1979 | Robinson, Blackwell P.
This article omits the fact
Permalink Submitted by Cindy (not verified) on Wed, 07/17/2019 - 18:59
This article omits the fact that David Cadwell owned slaves. Isn't this an important detail to include in his biography? One of the slaves he owned was the woman named Ede - who ran away from the Caldwells because they were going to separate her from her husband and children. She was hiding in the woods and went to the Levi Coffin farm for help when her infant became ill. Levi Coffin Jr. was a teenager and convinced David Caldwell to let her remain with her family at the Caldwell farm, and convinced Ede to return to the farm. I think this story is important. Ede's portrait is hanging on a wall at the Greensboro museum. This NCpedia biography should mention the fact that Caldwell owned Slaves (Ede and her husband and family were just a few of them). I think that telling a little bit about the story of Ede can also show that ultimately, David Caldwell was a reasonable man.
In 2008, my father--Finis J.
Permalink Submitted by Craig B Caldwell (not verified) on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 06:54
In 2008, my father--Finis J. Caldwell--published his first book. It serves as both biography and history, relating Dr. Caldwell's contributions to church and American histories. He currently resides in Kennett MO.
Dear Mr. Caldwell, Dr. David
Permalink Submitted by Jane Caldwell P... (not verified) on Tue, 07/04/2017 - 16:59
Dear Mr. Caldwell, Dr. David Caldwell is my Great-great-great-great grandfather. I appreciate this thorough description of David Caldwell and I would love to know the name of your father's book. Thank you! JCP
I've just started work on
Permalink Submitted by David Caldwell ... (not verified) on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 10:13
I've just started work on this. David Caldwell RUSSELL left Rocky River Presbyterian Church in Rocky River, North Carolina around 1816(?) and founded Valley Creek Presbyterian Church near what is now Selma Alabama. Valley Creek Presbyterian Church is celebrating its 200 th. Anniversary this weekend(May 15, 2016) at our annual homecoming.
P. S. Please pardon my spelling. I've got a new I-Pad and it is smarter ( or dumber ?) than I am.
Dear Craig,
Permalink Submitted by kagan on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 09:33
Thank you for visiting this entry and sharing your father's book with us. I've added it to the entry under "Additional Resources."
Kelly Agan, Government & Heritage Library
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