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Civil & Strange
Cláir Ní Aonghusa
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Title: Civil & Strange
Author: Cláir Ní Aonghusa
Finely observed and utterly transporting, Cl ir N Aonghusa s debut takes us inside a vibrant rural Ireland and three interconnected lives on the cusp of change.Eager to escape her failed marriage, Ellen hopes to recapture the magic of her childhood summers when she decides to leave Dublin for the small village of Ballindoon She is surprised when her uncle Matt, a neaFinely observed and utterly transporting, Cl ir N Aonghusa s debut takes us inside a vibrant rural Ireland and three interconnected lives on the cusp of change.Eager to escape her failed marriage, Ellen hopes to recapture the magic of her childhood summers when she decides to leave Dublin for the small village of Ballindoon She is surprised when her uncle Matt, a nearby farmer, welcomes her with the rather mystifying advice to play it civil and strange, a local expression meaning be polite on the surface but keep your distance and even surprised to find herself attracting the attentions of a younger man But when the two of them are spotted together and Ellen becomes the focus of her fellow villagers gossip and judgment, Matt s words resonate in a new way Ellen realizes how little she understands about life in Ballindoon, leading her to question not only her choices, but herself Meanwhile, she grows closer to Matt and to his friend Beatrice, a widow still troubled by her eldest child s suicide, and begins to glimpse how the web of connection that defines village life can also be sustaining which frees her to take a few risks of her own To Ellen s great wonder, as the events of this transformative, tumultuous year play out in all three of their lives, it becomes clear that even tradition bound Ballindoon can allow for new beginnings Anchored by the cadences of its Irish setting and the love story at its heart, Civil and Strange offers a moving exploration of the possibilities open to us, at any age, in any place, if only we are brave enough to embrace them.
Civil Strange Finely observed and utterly transporting Cl ir N Aonghusa s debut takes us inside a vibrant rural Ireland and three interconnected lives on the cusp of change Eager to escape her failed marriage Ell
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Civil Strange I picked this up only because the sleeve made a comparison with John McGahern Well sorry to say, McGahern she s not The book didn t dig deep enough into Irish rural society, rural prejudice, parochial Catholic psyche or the real issues of loneliness, suicide, etc however often these topics were touched The novel s surroundings rural Ireland are also dangerous topics The non Irish audience which I can only imagine as American wouldn t couldn t understand the stage Irish vernacular T [...]
I LOVED THIS BOOK Set in a small Irish town, where everyone over the age of puberty seems to have suffered a hard loss of some kind and stoically trying to keep a stiff upper lip , true privacy is an unheard of commodity If your daughter is a pregnant teenager she is deemed a slut but if she quietly goes off to London to have an abortion she is marked to burn in hell for all eternity There is no winning side for anyone who steps outside of the age old s and tradition of local society A free thin [...]
Not perfect, but a very good portrait of life in a small Irish village I ve spent quite a bit of time in one of those that effectively dramatizes the tensions that have arisen as Irish s changed so quickly and drastically over the past couple of decades It s odd that this only has two reviews on , and I actually found it and checked it out because it came up for review in a batch of books that weren t circulating well at my library I think the cover blurb comparing Ni Aonghusa to Maeve Binchy an [...]
Ellen has recently separated from her husband As she heads to divorce she wants to leave Dublin and life as she knows it behind As she tries to figure out where to go she realizes that the house that she inherited from her cousins who she used to visit every summer would be the perfect place to go The house is in major disrepair so Ellen sets about fixing the place up Eugene comes in to redo her kitchen and there is an immediate chemistry between them Life in a rural area is quite different from [...]
While reading comments The scenic images this book conjures make me want to move to Wicklow and become a shepherdess I must admit the reading is going a bit slowly than I like, but I find myself wanting to know what happens hence, the author must be doing something right Post reading comments So I ve finished it Overall a disappointment I know I previously said I found myself wanting to know the outcome of the bookever, I realised I never felt connected to any of the characters I found the main [...]
Interesting character study focusing on the inhabitants of a small town in Ireland After her divorce, in an attempt to capture some of the joys of childhood, Ellen moves from Dublin to a small country town where she had spent her childhood summers When she begins to date a younger man, she soon finds herself the target of town gossip.People who live in small towns will recognize the daily interactions of the residents and how everyone knows or thinks they know everything about everybody else Uni [...]
This is a story of a changing culture even for the people living in Ireland Ellen, unlike most young people there, moves to the rural area of Balindoon from Dublin to distance herself from her soon to be ex husband and her mother The author does a wonderful job with showing how daunting living in a small town can be for someone who only visited her aunts there during the summer as a child The title comes from advice her Uncle Matt gave her, Be civil and strange, be polite but don t let them know [...]
Readers enjoying the latter part of their lives will enjoy this novel of second chances The small village in Ireland in which it takes place seems bound by its Catholic rules for living and inflicts these on the friends who are both civil and strange to each other But the return of Ellen who is in her late 30 s and who begins by being sucked into the connections and the taboos in the village also helps others to explore some new possibilities Very thoughtful, upbeat, and thought provoking.
I really wanted to like this book, but I just didn t I wanted to like the characters, but their angst is so defined, so constructed, that they do not read like real people Filled with mean spirited, malicious, gossiping supporting characters, the main characters moved in stilted predictable ways, maintaining a high level of secrecy from each other and themselves The author did try to get her heroine to grow, but it lacked any real ness to it Any my goodness there was no humor None.
This book was a disappointment I picked it up because the cover reminded me of the village in Dingle Harbor in Ireland that we visited, and of course, I love anything set in Ireland The writing was fine, but the characters were so so and nothing ever really happened Lots of wierd conflict that or less got resolved in the end, but overall, I m sorry I spent the time I did on this book As the movie reviewers would say, thumbs DOWN
This book made me think a bit It would be easy to write it off as a higher brow Maeve Binchy romantic undertones set in Ireland but the I think about it, it really raises questions about who you decide to be, how the things that happen to you can change you and the course of your life, and about how decisions we make can be about making something of a life, not just letting it happen Anyway I ll keep an eye out for a second book by this author.
Novel takes places in an Irish village where a separated schoolteacher Ellen purchases the home where she spent fondly remembered summers as a child She goes there primarily to escape the big city Dublin and her mother Kitty Competently written A little trite and predictable, but still a pleasant read about the Irish countryside Some romance, some family drama, etc.
A great story about a small Irish town Ellen relocates after a divorce to the town where she spent her summers as a child She spends time with her Uncle Matt who is also going through some difficult times She doesn t quite fit in with the locals, but she keeps trying They don t understand why she would want to leave Dublin for such a small town.
I liked the overall feel of this book, written in the same vein as Maeve Binchy However, I was disappointed with the feeling of unfinished business at the end Too many loose ends and conflicts I would have liked to have seen resolved If the author comes out with a sequel she will have redeemed herself.
Although, I didn t find the lead character in this book highly appealing, I still thoroughly enjoyed this book The inner voices, aired ethics, the philosophical talking and thinking about the old Ireland and how it conflicted with the new, was really interesting I appreciate it when a book gives you some sort of an inner construct to understanding people This book did that for me.
I m giving this 4 stars because I m so thrilled to have found another fun Irish author in the vein of Maeve Binchy The only thing that took me a while to adjust to was the use of present tense in the narration But all in all a good read
Emerging from a broken marriage, Ellen moves away from Dublin and buys her dead aunts house in the village she visited as a child.This is a lovely book, full to the brim with decent characters, poetic descriptions and well fitted musings on contemporary life.
A really good read Story line is not unusual a young woman breaks up her marriage and goes back to the family home in Ballindoon, Ireland to rebuild But the characters are great lots of variety, and definitely not Friendly Village I really enjoyed reading it
An interesting story about how we have to live with our choices, even ones that may have taken us down the wrong road The prose was a bit flat at points, and my interest would lag at places though.
I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, for some way that the author tied everything together and the ending was just lame.
read in 2008 and thought it was very good have wondered for years of this author has written anything else since.
This was 2 and 1 2, I guess It s a story that takes place in Ireland but I couldn t find much to like about most of the characters Maeve Binchy it isn t.
The story had promise, but that promise is never really fulfilled.
This was a pretty good book Has a bit of Maeve Binchy feel, set in Ireland.
Interesting book, well written, and successfully skipped a tripe though still too tidy ending Does effectively show the struggles of the new Ireland.
Reviewed by Swapna at S Krishna Reads skrishnasbooks 2008 10
loved the book Life in a small Irish village
What I am enjoying most is the Irish use of the English language And maybe I will change the spelling of my first name to match this author s
I kept waiting for this book to get interesting it never did The story was lifeless and boring.
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Prince Harry is certainly keeping busy on the royal tour this week. In addition to his announced engagements in Malawi today, the Duke of Sussex is guest-editing National Geographic's Instagram account, @natgeo.
In an effort to raise awareness about the importance of trees to the global eco-system, Harry is launching a social media campaign with the publication called "Looking Up," which will encourage people to share photos of the trees in their communities.
According to a press release from Buckingham Palace announcing the project, "Throughout the day, The Duke, will work with National Geographic to post images from renowned National Geographic photographers, highlighting indigenous trees and our shared responsibility in preserving what we have and so desperately need to survive."
Prince Harry helps to plant a tree at the Chobe Tree Reserve in Kasane Bostwana on the royal tour.
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If you'd like to take part in the royal's efforts, the hashtags you should include in your caption include #lookingup #forestsforthefuture #sussexroyal and #treesfortomorrow.
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Electronic states in rare-earth 1:2:3 oxides: Photoemission and Raman studies
In Sang Yang, A. G. Schrott, C. C. Tsuei, G. Burns, F. H. Dacol
X-ray photoemission spectra (XPS) and Raman measurements of Y1-xEuxBa2Cu3O7 and Eu1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7 are compared to those of Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7. It is shown that, with increasing x, the binding energies of the Ba core levels of Eu1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7 shift towards higher values as in Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7, while those of Y1-xEuxBa2Cu3O7 do not, despite similar changes in Ba-O interatomic distances in the latter two systems. Raman measurements of Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7 show a frequency increase of the Ba and apical-oxygen modes with increasing x, but a much smaller frequency increase in Y1-xEuxBa2Cu3O7. The XPS and Raman results reflect changes in the Ba-O hybridization and correlate with both the suppression of superconductivity in both Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7 and Eu1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7, and with the retention of superconductivity in Y1-xEuxBa2Cu3O7.
Dive into the research topics of 'Electronic states in rare-earth 1:2:3 oxides: Photoemission and Raman studies'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
photoelectric emission Physics & Astronomy 100%
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Yang, I. S., Schrott, A. G., Tsuei, C. C., Burns, G., & Dacol, F. H. (1991). Electronic states in rare-earth 1:2:3 oxides: Photoemission and Raman studies. Physical Review B, 43(13), 10544-10547. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.43.10544
Yang, In Sang ; Schrott, A. G. ; Tsuei, C. C. et al. / Electronic states in rare-earth 1:2:3 oxides : Photoemission and Raman studies. In: Physical Review B. 1991 ; Vol. 43, No. 13. pp. 10544-10547.
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Q: Ruby on Rails/Activerecord mySQL modeling This is a pretty simple question really, but let's say I'm creating a model for Person.  Person obviously has first name, last name, age, etc.  But the person also has contact info consisting of things like address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip, country, phone 1, phone 2, etc...
Does it make more sense to create a model for Person and then list that contact information as tables in the model or to also create, say, a ContactInfo (or Address, etc) model, then associate the Person to ContactInfo through an association (Person has_one ContactInfo/Person has_one Address/Address belongs_to Person, etc)?
Which of these is a better approach and what are the benefits/drawbacks to each method?
edit: in re to j..
So with this approach, would I have to then create an Addressable model?
script/generate model Addressable

class Addressable < ActiveRecord::Base
    #stuff here?
end

or is this unnecessary?
Also, would i need to add this line to the create_users.rb:
t.references :addressable, :polymorphic => true

I feel like I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what.  I appreciate the help a ton, btw!  Thanks!

A: I'd create separated tables/models for address, phone and stuff like this and would make them polymorphic. Like this:
class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true
end

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_one :address, :as => :addressable
end

I believe this is the best way because later you may need to add, for example, a Company model and it'll be easy to make it addressable.
Edit
Using the address as example, you'd need an Address model, not Addressable.
And you'll have to add
t.references :addressable, :polymorphic => true

or
t.belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true

to your create_addresses migration, so you'll have the addressable_id and addressable_type in the addresses table.
Let me know if you have any other doubts :]

A: the answer above makes sense, but think about how many fields you need and how many records you have to manage. creating a table for each additional field may be too much effort.
another approach could be something more flexible: create a table (say, person_details) with 3 fields: person_id:integer, field_name:string, field_data:string, then the model:
class PersonDetail < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :person
end

this way you can add whatever additional field you need: phone1..phoneN, address1..addressN, and so on.
another similar approach is to pre-determine fields names, to avoid different labels during inserts:
class PersonDetail < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :person

  FIELD_NAMES => { 'Address' => 1, 'Phone' => 2)
end

in this case you'll declare the field_name as integer (because it stores only the value of the hash, not a string).

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Call it a stretch, but it'd be a nice surprise if part one shown up in time for Usagi's birthday this summer.
I doubt we are getting it in summer, they should have started with promotion by now. I believe they will start promotion on Usagi's birthday and the premier will be either winter or spring 2020.
Actually I am not so sure anymore... Sailor Drops is shutting down... Not a good sign.
Actually I am not so sure anymore... Sailor Drop is shuting down... Not a good sign.
Oh no...if we don't get the movies, I'll be very sad and sadly it will show that despite the third season being decent Crystal truly was a failure (two godawful seasons followed by a decent third one is not a good show).
Maybe SM Drops is over because they reached the end of Stars?
Well, to discontinue the service completely is still strange.
It's Banda Namco right? Maybe they are cooking up something better? Another Story Re-release? New SM action-adventure? I know I'm dreaming...was SM Drops a success?
^Nobody knows, it launched in September 2015 in Japan and April 2016 internationally and as of March 2018 reached 3 million downloads worldwide which I guess is low compared to DBZ Dokkan Battle which was a few months older than Drops (January in Japan, July internationally) and as of last Summer reached 250 million downloads.
Oh, stop it. If was truly crystal was a failure it wouldn't even get season 3 or a movie. You don't have to like it but saying it was a complete failure. Is just exaggerating.As for drops that's an app game. That had nothing to do with crystal . They have their own revenue.It's more likely they didn't get much of a profit. To continue the services.Games like that need revenue to keep going.
OK, sorry (and I didn't even say I didn't like it, I thought season 3 was fine!!). What I meant by "failure" was I felt it failed to live up to expectations, mostly the first two seasons, and they almost turned the reputation of the franchise into a joke.
ok, that's quite a difference. i don't know that dragon ball game but drops is a candy crush clone, which i don't find that exciting. the best thing about drops are the watercolor map-backgrounds. they look like if they came straight out of the 90s anime and juxtaposed all the locations next to eachother. i love it!
I'd love it if they released a book of all the artwork for the game (the backgrounds, the characters, concept art, etc) since I thought a lot of it was pretty/cute. I really enjoyed playing it, so I hope they do release an offline version; I guess we'll see what happens.
Okay what you said makes sense now.Sorry I overeacted.I think expectations is fans personal opinions on the first time.
It's alright, and I can understand. Sometimes I don't word what I'm saying right, admittedly.
"I use to think I waited too long for Dream films...until I met a person who waited for Kingdom Hearts 3".
How was that game? I haven't played much of the KH series myself, but just wondering, did it live up to the hype?


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Homepage Metro Rome metro map with attractions
Rome metro map with attractions
Rome metro map with tourist attractions. Rome metro map with attractions (Lazio - Italy) to print. Rome metro map with attractions (Lazio - Italy) to download. The Metro of Rome only has three lines and is currently the smallest metro system in Europe. Nevertheless, Rome metro reaches the city most important attractions. Starting with the Ottaviano station for the Vatican, St. Peter Basilica, the Vatican Museums (including the Sistine Chapel), St. Angelo Castle as you can see in Rome metro map with attractions. Flaminio Station for Piazza del Popolo, Villa Borghese Park. Spagna station for the beautiful areas of Rome, Piazza di Spagna, the Church of the Trinità dei Monti and Villa Medici. Barberini Station for the Trevi Fountain, the Barberini Museum and the Quirinale Palace.
Rome metro map with tourist attractions
Although the Rome metro only comprises three lines, it gets to most of the city top attractions. These are the most important metro stops to keep in mind: Repubblica Station for the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs. Termini Station for the central train station and many cheap accommodations including the majority of youth hostels in Rome as its shown in Rome metro map with attractions. Vittorio Emanuale Station for the National Museum of Asian Art. San Giovanni Station for the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Cinecittà Station for the Cinecittà Cinema City.
Most visitors will only be travelling in a compact area in the centre of Rome where all the main attractions and hotel districts are situated as its mentioned in Rome metro map with attractions. The Rome metro system is very simple, at the moment just 3 lines, only two of which are of use to tourists. If you are planning on using public transport extensively to get around Rome and visit attractions outside the tourist hotspots in the centre then investing in a Rome bus and Metro map is worthwhile.


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Q: Prove that $M_{n\times n}(K)$ and $P_{n^2-1}[x]$ are not isomorphic rings Prove that $M_{n\times n}(K)$ and $P_{n^2-1}[x]$ (polynomials with degree less than or equal to $n^2-1$) are not isomorphic rings for any field $K$ and $n\ge 2$
Let $f: M_{n\times n}(K)\to P_{n^2-1}[x]$ a ring isomorphism. Let $A\in M_{n\times n}(K)$ so that $f(A)$ is not the zero polynomial: $f(AI_n)=f(A)f(I_n)$ but $AI_n=A$ hence $f(A)=f(A)f(I_n)\Rightarrow 1=f(I_n)$
But since $f$ is any ring isomorphism then I don't what polynomial is $f(I_n)$. Is this the correct approach? I would really appreciate if you can help me :)

A: If $d \in \mathbb{N}$, then usually $P_d(x)$ means $K[x]/(x^{d+1})$, and is called a truncated polynomial algebra. This is a ring and it should not be confused with the vector space of polynomials of degree $\leq d$. This is just (a version of) the underlying $K$-vector space. You cannot multiply polynomials of degree $\leq d$ to get polynomials of degree $\leq d$, but you can multiply in $P_d(x)$. (It is a common habit to ignore forgetful functors, but this here is one of lots examples where this is no good idea.)
In our case, $P_{n^2-1}(x) = K[x]/(x^{n^2})$. The underlying vector space has dimension $n^2$, which is also the dimension of $M_{n \times n}(K)$. Hence, the underlying vector spaces of $P_{n^2-1}(x)$ and $M_{n \times n}(K)$ are isomorphic.
But they are not isomorphic rings (when $n>1$), and there are many reasons for this. The simplest one is that $P_{n^2-1}(x)$ is commutative, and $M_{n \times n}(K)$ is not.


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Huskies need some stops to end the fade
By Andrew Harvey February 18, 2016 6 Comments4 Mins Read
Dejounte "Baby Boy" Murray is a young star on a young team, but the Huskies may be too green for their own good. / Drew Sellers, Sportspress Northwest
On a three-game skid, the University of Washington men's basketball team is under pressure. After getting swept on the road against Utah and Colorado, the 15-10 Huskies (7-6 Pac-12) need to make up major ground against California Thursday (8 p.m., FOX Sports 1) and Stanford Saturday (5 p.m., Pac-12 Networks).
With the Huskies on the bubble of the NCAA tournament projections, hopes hang heavily on a sweep. Despite a poor second half against Utah, and a poor first half against Colorado, coach Lorenzo Romar said that now is not the time to change his team's "switch all the time" defensive strategy.
"We've done it the right way this year, a lot of times," said Romar. "That's why we're able to have success. But when it breaks down, it really breaks down; there probably would be more breakdowns if we did it another way. Once we've gone this far, then we come in and say, 'OK, we're going to change and do it this way,' we forget what we were doing before.
"You have to guard against tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking . . . that's when you end up not being good at anything."
The problem is consistency. The Huskies specifically have struggled with big men recently. A forward has been the opposition's top scorer in the past three games.
More worrisome for Romar, those forwards also cleaned up offensive rebounds that have cost Washington crucial possessions. Arizona's Ryan Anderson and Colorado's Wesley Gordon both had eight offensive boards against the Huskies.
Still, Romar defended his team's play over the course of the season, even as he admitted that stretches of recent games had been "very bad.
"If you look at our games, take (the first game against Arizona) away, find me a game that we have not had a chance to win," he said. "This team is in every game, so it's a matter of a few things getting a little better and turning the corner. It's a matter of three, four, five possessions a game, where if we're better — I'm not exaggerating — we literally would be in first place.
"We're not approaching it like, 'This is a disaster, what's going on here?' We're talking about if we can get a little better here, and a little better here, we're going to be just fine."
That little bit of improvement is where Washington's fate, and possibly Romar's, will be decided over the last five games of the regular season. The freshmen-laden Huskies proved that they could play above their age earlier in the conference stage, but have been showing signs of fatigue lately.
Is it too much for a young team to manage? Was it always going to be too much? First-year collegiate athletes and the word "dependable" are seldom together in the same sentence, even with the sort of exceptional talent Romar brought to Montlake.
The freshmen had high expectations when they walked in to the gym for the first day of practice. An entire city was looking to see them end a four-year tournament drought, and possibly even restore some basketball relevance to a city that's been in a state of post-partum depression since the Sonics left in 2008.
When a team relies so heavily on youth, however, slip-ups are inevitable. Even talented ones make errors, miss assignments, miss shots. The heat of the moment gets to them.
Powerhouse teams can temper instability with veterans. Juniors and seniors have been there. Washington does not have that luxury, except for fifth-year senior Andrew Andrews.
The Huskies' hopes come down to a race to maturity, developing resistance to the weight of expectations drawn from a fast start in conference play. To make the tournament, Washington has to be something it's not shown yet — consistent.
MrPrimeMinister on February 18, 2016 8:50 am
It just seems the region is content with the hoops program consistently being middle-of-the-pack. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
notaboomer on February 18, 2016 11:20 am
some coaches can recruit but not coach so well in close games. romar is one of them. tom izzo (msu) strikes me as one who can both recruit and coach. it's too bad b/c uw has major talent this season.
rosetta_stoned on February 18, 2016 11:57 am
Wait. What? You mean the men's hoop team is fading down the stretch?
Gee. Never seen that before.
disqus_0fotImVld4 on February 18, 2016 12:39 pm
Offensive rebounds. Give me a Jon Brockman-type rebounder, a force inside. Go get me that man and don't bother coming back until you have him in tow.
1coolguy on February 18, 2016 11:46 pm
Stops? Huskies? Romar? Hello – where have you been the past 10+ years? Romar has no idea how to coach defense, none. It's all about the easy stuff – playground, one-on-one ball. Throw it up, hope it goes in.
Pixdawg13 on February 19, 2016 4:26 am
It's fairly clear several of these posters are totally clueless. "stoned" obviously never saw any of Romar's teams for the first 8 years or so he was the coach–you know, when the hallmark of his team was getting better continually from January through March. And "1coolguy" who obviously isn't, clearly doesn't remember the teams with Overton and others who were known for their fierce defense.
Maybe those guys think the NBA All-Star game is good basketball.


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Hurley: It's Officially Time To Sound The Alarms On Tom Brady's Offense
Filed Under:Houston Texans, Josh McDaniels, Michael Hurley, New England Patriots, Sports News, Tom Brady
By Michael Hurley, CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — In Baltimore, trailing 17-0 early, it was a tough spot. In windy and chilly Philly, it wasn't easy. In an unrelenting downpour against Dallas, life was difficult.
As the Patriots' offense stumbled through the third quarter of this 2019 season, it was slightly alarming. Still, some of the struggle could easily be explained.
That was, until Sunday night in Houston. In perfect conditions, against a mostly terrible defense, with essentially a full complement of players, the opportunity was there for Tom Brady and Josh McDaniels to get back to being Tom Brady and Josh McDaniels.
Instead, after mounting an impressive opening drive, the offense stalled at the 5-yard line and settled for a field goal. After that, the Patriots' possessions in the first half ended thusly:
–Gained 6 yards, Interception
–Gained 20 yards, Punt
Then the second half began. Here's what the Patriots did to start the third quarter:
–Lost 1 yard, Punt
–Gained 51 yards, Turnover On Downs
At that point, the Texans led 21-3, and despite an offensive awakening of sorts in the fourth quarter, there was simply no coming back for the Patriots on this night.
Statistically, it looked like an offensive bonanza for Brady and Co. As a team, they gained 448 yards of offense, their second-highest total of the season and their most since Week 1. They ran for 145 yards, which was a season high, and they put up 22 points, their most as an offense since Week 7 at the Jets. Individually, Brady had one of his best games of the season, throwing for 326 yards and three touchdowns with one interception.
Yet aside from some fantasy owners who cashed in with some late points, those stats essentially mean nothing. Anybody who watched the Patriots' offense stumble through the game when it actually mattered knows that the Patriots' problems can no longer be written off or explained away. They are very, very real.
Remember, heading into this game, the Texans' defense ranked 25th in the NFL in passing yards allowed. They had the second-worst third-down defense and an equally bad red zone defense, and they carried interception rates and sack rates that ranked among the NFL's very worst defenses. By almost every statistical measure, the Texans were and are one of the five worst defenses in the NFL.
Leftover Patriots Thoughts: Perspective On 10-2 Record
Through the first 40 or so minutes of Sunday night's game, you would've never known. Bradley Roby picked off a Tom Brady pass late in the first quarter, leading directly to seven points for the home team.
On their next possession, Brady scrambled for 13 yards to convert one third down, but he threw incomplete on the next third down. On their next possession, after moving the sticks twice, the Patriots failed to pick up a Roby blitz up the middle. The defensive back easily sacked Brady to force another Patriots punt.
The Patriots were moving the ball on their final possession of the first half, before hitting a wall at the Houston 39-yard line. With a first-and-10 from the 39 with 41 seconds left in the half, and with one timeout in their back pocket, Brady threw incomplete on three straight plays. Instead of even getting a long field goal attempt, the Patriots had to punt.
It was that kind of night.
"Just execution. Just got to do a better job," a boilerplate Brady said after the game. "Tough to get behind and come back. Just put ourselves in a pretty deep hole, and you can't do that on the road."
Later, Brady was a bit more blunt.
"If don't play good, you don't win," he said. "We didn't deserve it."
That much is indisputable. The question now is whether or not the Patriots' offense can pull a repeat of last season, develop a late-season identity, and ride it all the way to a Super Bowl.
If one were to try to answer that question at this moment, the answer would be a resounding no. To be fair, though, if one were to have been asked that same question last year after a grisly loss in Pittsburgh in which they scored just 10 points to drop to 9-5, just days before losing one of their best receivers to a suspension? The answer, likewise, would have been no.
That is now the challenge for McDaniels. For as much as there will be made about the personnel and the lack of experienced, dangerous pass-catching options for Brady, the reality is that the game plans have not been up to par for some time now. That is to say, what McDaniels thought would work to start games has simply been proven ineffective, going back several weeks.
Patriots' First Half Drives (kneeldowns excluded)
–At Houston: 5 drives, 151 yards, 3 points
–Vs. Dallas: 6 drives, 153 yards, 10 points (two missed field goals)
–At Philadelphia: 5 drives, 133 yards, 9 points
–At Baltimore: 7 drives, 171 yards, 13 points
–Vs. Cleveland: 6 drives, 170 yards, 10 points (plus defensive TD)
Playing with a lead has been a hallmark of the Patriots' run of unprecedented success. They haven't had that luxury for the past five weeks, a stretch that accounts for about one-third of the season.
On Sunday night, it was particularly perplexing why the Patriots abandoned the run so quickly. On their first drive, Sony Michel gained 31 yards on five carries, bursting through the gut of the Houston defense for 17 yards to get the ball to the Houston 7-yard line. The first play call from inside the 10 was another handoff to Michel, this one for two yards, before the play-calling got … strange.
The second-down play called for Brady to roll to his right, limiting his options to half the field. He threw incomplete to a well-covered Jakobi Meyers. On third down from the 5-yard line, Brady took a shotgun snap, scanned his options, and failed to drop a perfect pass over the linebacker's head and into the arms of Phillip Dorsett under the goal posts.
After moving the ball 69 yards and getting 38 of those yards from the ground game, McDaniels didn't feel confident that the offense could power the ball into the end zone from five yards out. Later, when facing a fourth-and-1 on the Houston 42, McDaniels dialed up a pass play instead of a run. It was unsuccessful.
Similarly, after Michel gained 33 yards on six carries on the opening drive, the running back only got four more carries for the rest of the night.
The Patriots' second drive went incomplete pass, short completion, interception. The third drive saw Brady hand the ball off just once, leading to a punt. They ran with James White a bit on their next drive without success, and Brady took a third-down sack, leading to another punt.
The sequence brought to mind a comment from McDaniels in the "Do Your Job" special that aired in September, when the offensive coordinator shared a message that Bill Belichick delivered last year after the loss in Pittsburgh.
"[Belichick said], 'If you keep holding on to what you'd rather be — no-huddle, spread formations, 34 points a game — then you're probably going to end up regretting a lot of things at the end of the year,'" McDaniels shared in the NFL Films special. "'What are we really good at? What's the most consistent part of our team offensively?' And then you commit to it."
To this point, it's been impossible for the Patriots to know exactly how their offense should and can function at its best. N'Keal Harry has been involved for just three games. Josh Gordon was in, then out. Antonio Brown, too. Without Isaiah Wynn for half of a season, the run game was in shambles. Ted Karras was reaching a certain comfort level as David Andrews' replacement, but he suffered a knee injury on Sunday night, leaving the Patriots with their third-string center in the middle of their line. Both James Develin and then Jakob Johnson suffered season-ending injuries, thus forcing the offense to change significantly. Tight end production — both as pass catchers and run blockers — has been inconsistent at best. Finding a consistent and reliable role has proven difficult for the likes of Meyers, Mohamed Sanu and Phillip Dorsett.
Taken together, it leaves the Patriots with some rather difficult questions: What are they really good at? What's the most consistent part of their team offensively?
Last year, McDaniels and Brady found their answer. This year, with just four weeks left to figure it out, it's time to figure it out once more.
You can email Michael Hurley or find him on Twitter @michaelFhurley.


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Council 'planning move to new offices'
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A local authority in Scotland is thinking about moving its leisure staff to new offices as it seeks to gain greater efficiency.
North Lanarkshire Council would have to pay out approximately £540,000 to move North Lanarkshire Leisure to new commercial premises, reports the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser. However, it is facing some pressure from those against the proposal, as it comes at a time when the body is working against a backdrop of cuts worth about £2 million.
The proposal includes moving employees from the Time Capsule in Coatbridge to the Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. It is suggested that while the minimum cost would be £540,000, it could actually turn out to be much higher.
North Lanarkshire Council funds the leisure organisation with taxpayers' money and Airdrie MSP Alex Neil described the plan as a "complete waste of public money". It noted that the council must cut £73 million from its budget and lose about 1,300 jobs.
A spokesman for North Lanarkshire Leisure explained it is just one of several options being considered by the body. It is thought that the major advantage of a move to the stadium is the potential to free up space for alternative uses at its existing base.
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Time running out for GOP in U.S. House
Henry Rodgers of the Daily Caller reports on Republicans' plans for their closing weeks in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives.
With seconds ticking off the clock, Republicans have precious little time to get their agenda through the House before Democrats seize control of the chamber and all its investigatory power.
Some of the most influential Republicans in Congress say the party still plans to drive legislative items through the House and to President Donald Trump's desk, with a few key pieces of legislation at the forefront such as Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who was challenging California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy for the position of minority leader, naming a list of items he wants to have passed.
"Republicans still have an opportunity to do what we said. We should fund the border security wall, pass a farm bill that requires able-bodied adults to work if they receive welfare, and keep working to hold the FBI and [Department of Justice] accountable for their misconduct during and after the 2016 election," Jordan told The Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.
American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp echoed a very similar message to TheDCNF, when asked if Republicans will suffer greatly after losing the majority of the House to the Democratic Party on Nov. 6. Schlapp also recommended the Trump administration find issues that both parties can agree on, in order to actually get legislation passed.


Mid-Mountain covers climbs between Willow Canyon Circle (~milepost 16) up to the Palisades Ranger Station (milepost 19.4).
This large area has a huge diversity of climbing in cool ponderosa pine forest, offering a great respite from the desert. However, large portions of the forest in this area were burned in the 2004 Aspen Fire. Be on the lookout for falling dead trees and other hazards in burn areas.


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CRRF'n the Archives
The entries below are examples of items from the CRRF Archives. They provide some of the stories, insights, resources, and inspirational materials that remain relevant for current rural and remote communities. Check them out to discover what we have learned over the years and to appreciate the legacy of innovations and dedicated people that have made today's initiatives possible.
We welcome your comments, stories, archival materials, and inquiries.
(Jan. 2021) Towards a Whole Rural Policy for Canada
Agriculture can only be understood in its full economic, social, and environmental context. In 1994, this was a radical perspective. It was our message when members of the ARRG network were invited to make a presentation to a joint committee of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
Seven ARRG members elaborated the implications of this perspective for rural women, the quality of rural life, community networks, local initiatives, and the operation of complex systems. Check out the record of these presentation via http://billreimer.ca/research/files/TowardsAWholeRuralPolicyForCanadaARRGWorkingPapersSeriesNumber7-1994.pdf. Did we get it right? Have things changed? What is your vision today?
"*We cannot expect a major revitalization of rural Canada, but absolute population growth is likely to be positive, particularly in non-farm regions and those close to large urban centres…
We cannot expect urban standards of service delivery, but with appropriate monitoring and exploration we should be able to make more efficient use of the means at our disposal…
The identification of general benefits and resources provided by rural areas would serve as a basis for justifying the transfer of funds from urban to rural areas as well as the limitation of costs that exported to the rural areas." (Towards a Whole Rural Policy for Canada, 1994, p41)
(Dec. 2020) Rural Canada insights: 41 flyers
This is a series of 41 flyers in English and 26 in French that identify some of the key insights from the New Rural Economy Project of CRRF. Download and copy them for events or places where you think they may be useful. They made a great series for posting on office doors or at conferences in the pre-COVID days. Perhaps you can think of ways they may be used in our current, more online, world. If you do, let us know so that we can pass on your suggestions to others. https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/sociology-anthropology/research/nre/research-findings.html#flyers
Local Tour: Wolfville, NS 1993
We made three decisions regarding our annual conferences that have served us well over the years. The first was to meet in rural areas wherever possible (more than 1 hour from an international airport); the second was to give program control to the local community; and the third was to integrate local tours by which participants learned about community challenges and initiatives.
Local Tour: Corner Brook, NL, 1995
(Nov. 2020) Opportunities for rural Canada
As part of the 11-year New Rural Economy Project, David Bruce and his cohorts produced a series of 8 videos regarding the ways in which rural communities are turning the challenges they face into new opportunities. In the process, the videos identify the general lessons emerging from these examples so that other communities might be inspired in similar ways. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD2150009BF83CF5 "
In 1988, Ray Bollman (Statistics Canada), Fran Shaver (Concordia U.), and I (Tony Fuller) attended the International Rural Sociological Society conference in Bologna where Harriet Friedmann in her presentation first hinted at global restructuring. Ray and I felt that Canadian scholars were probably not very well equipped to debate such ideas and to measure their potential impacts in Canada's diverse rural regions. Ray's response was to increasingly make available data on rural social and economic issues, while mine was to press for a think tank that would attract top scholars such as Peter Apedaile, Phil Ehrensaft, Hartly Furtan, Bruno Jean, Bill Reimer, Fran Shaver, and Jack Stabler. Together, we persuaded Ag. Canada to sponsor the first group meeting in Regina to the tune of $2,000… The conference marked for the first time officially that rural was not necessarily agricultural. This was not popular in Saskatoon, especially among the farm women's group!" [Tony Fuller, 2020/06/08: What I Remember.docx and email 2020/10/21
(Oct. 2020) A 32-year legacy
Our present activities and insights rest on a 32-year history of research, discussion, collaboration, and projects among researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community people. Over those 3 decades we have learned a great deal about rural places, people, and communities. They serve as a solid foundation for our current activities and hopefully a source of pride and inspiration for the present cohort of participants. Check out the following video that outlines the first 30 years of that history. You may be surprised how many of the insights are reflected in our current discussions and initiatives.
http://www.billreimer.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Reimer30YearsOfCRRF02.pdf
"I would like to add another item to the discussion of evolution of CRRF. Lynden Johnson was the head of the federal Rural Secretariat and collaborated on some projects with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC, now known as Colleges and Institutes Canada). He was quite insistent that CRRF should include college-based researchers in its network. As a result, I was the first college-based researcher to address a CRRF conference (Tweed, I think it was 2004) and I believe there has been college representation at CRRF conferences ever since. Unlike other research networks I have been part of over the years, CRRF people have been very welcoming of the applied research perspective of colleges." [Nelson Rogers, 2020/10/16-email]


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Five key topics for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Jessica Mairs | 22 May 2018 Leave a comment
The Venice Architecture Biennale kicks off this week. Ahead of the opening, Dezeen architecture editor Jessica Mairs looks at some of the topics likely to dominate conversation, from the future of social housing to cruising culture.
Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, are the curators of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public from 26 May to 25 November 2018.
They selected the theme Freespace, to encourage architects to explore how "a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity" can contribute to the built environment.
"We see architecture as the translation of need in its widest sense into meaningful space," they said. "It is our hope that the word Freespace allows us to burrow into the aspirations, ambitions and generosity of architecture."
The topic will be covered extensively within the main exhibition, which Grafton has curated in the Biennale's main venues – the Arsenale and the Giardini. It will also be touched on within each of this year's 63 national pavilions, offering scope for a range of different interpretations.
Here's a look at the five topics we expect to receive the most attention:
Lessons from social housing
Mass housing is always a major topic of conversation at the Biennale, but this year in particular will shine a light on important examples from the past and ask what we can learn from them.
The demolition of one of London's most famous postwar housing estates will be the focus of an exhibition by the V&A. The museum has transported a huge chunk of the brutalist housing complex Robin Hood Gardens (pictured) to Venice for the show, to demonstrate the vision of architects Alison and Peter Smithson for "streets in the sky".
Elsewhere, the Unfolding Pavilion will invite Biennale visitors to an apartment inside the Giudecca Social Housing Complex (main image), completed by Italian architect Gino Valle in 1986. One of its aims is to show what a building of humble origin and budget might be able to offer to a neighbourhood. After the exhibition is over, the flat will be renovated to become a new family home.
How sex can shape a city
The introduction of apps like Grindr, which allow users to connect with strangers located close to them, has cultivated a new form of sexual practice in cities that is no longer restricted to public spaces such as parks and toilets.
This will be covered extensively in the Cruising Pavilion, an exhibition focused on the "conflictual architecture of cruising". Through the work of architects including Andrés Jaque and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, it will reveal the emergence of a "new psychosexual geography".
Walls that create segregation
One of the biggest news stories of the past year has been the construction of a new border wall between Mexico and the USA. But this year also marks an important milestone for another famous wall – the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer that it stood.
The implications of border walls will be investigated in the German Pavilion. In a show called Unbuilding Walls, the curators plan to look at the results of division.
Religious spaces in the 21st century
The Vatican City makes its debut at the Biennale this year, offering a new focus on religious architecture. With a series of chapels designed by architects including Norman Foster, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Teronobu Fujimori, it will pose the question: what does a place of worship look like in the 21st century?
Israel has also made religion the focus of its pavilion. Statu Quo: Structures of Negotiation explores the "fragile system of co-existence" across five holy sites, laid claim to by both Israel and Palestine. The curators hope to show how architecture can be used as a tool for negotiating different identities.
The role of the European Union
The UK's decision to leave the European Union is likely to plan a big role in this year's exhibition, as Europe waits to see what impact it will have.
Caruso St John Architects and Marcus Taylor's curation of the British pavilion, Island, will address Brexit by creating a new space that welcomes visitors onto the roof of the building, offering them a view out over the other national pavilions in the Giardini and beyond. The space inside the pavilion itself will be left empty.
Belgium will also reflect on challenges posed by the European Union, particularly "its key territorial, physical and symbolic presence in Brussels", in a show called Eurotopie. Like the British pavilion, the exhibition will offer space where guests are encouraged to discuss Europe.
Top architecture stories


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Music Soothes, Energizes and Heals Us
by Kathleen Barnes
results in signifi cantly lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. The more intense the experience is in singing or playing an instrument, the greater the stress reduction. A collaborative study by several Swedish universities showed that group singing caused participants' heart rates to synchronize, producing relaxation effects similar to that achieved through group meditation. Cancer: Gaynor used music to treat
s primeval drumbeats echo across an African savannah, the rhythms circle the globe, picked
up by the chants and rattles of shamans gracing Amazonian jungles and Siberian tundra. They're repeated in Gregorian chants fi lling medieval cathedrals and "om" meditations sounding in Himalayan caves and yoga classes everywhere. They gently echo in the repeated tones of mothers' lullabies, happy hummings as we go about our day and the melodies of Mozart. Music is the soundtrack of our lives,
whether we're aware of it or not. It exists within, uniting and guiding us, and has helped heal body and spirit since the dawn of humanity. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists recently discovered that the universe itself has a song.
Pioneering Practitioners From the soothing tones of a harp to the jarring screeches of a construction site, the stress-reducing or stress-producing properties of sound are familiar to us all. "Stress is an underlying cause of the vast majority of all illnesses, and sound and music are effective in relieving stress and bringing stillness," says Jonathan Goldman, an internationally recognized pioneer in harmonics and sound healing and director of the Sound Healers Association in Boulder, Colorado. Through researching his many books, including The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing, Goldman is convinced of the
profound effect sound has on the human organism. "The simple chanting of the sound 'om,' or 'aum,' in addition to instilling calmness and relaxation, causes the release of melatonin and nitric oxide. It relaxes blood vessels, releases soothing endorphins, reduces the heart rate and slows breathing," he explains. "Sound can change our immune function," wrote the late Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, former director of medical oncology at New York's Weill-Cornell Medical College for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in his book The Healing Power of Sound. "After either chanting or listening to certain forms of music, your Interleukin-1 level, an index of your immune system, goes up between 12-and-a-half and 15 percent. Further, about 20 minutes after listening to meditative-type music, the immunoglobulin levels in the blood are signifi cantly increased. Even the heart rate and blood pressure are lowered. There's no part of your body not affected. Its effects even show up on a cellular and sub-cellular level."
Practical Applications Consider some of music's scientifi cally validated health benefi ts: Stress: Singing, whether carrying a tune or not, is a powerful way to combat stress, according to many studies. A recent joint study by German and British researchers published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience confi rms that simply listening to soothing music
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even advanced cancer patients for decades, considering it a "disease of disharmony." He advocated re- harmonizing the body with sound vibrations that affect virtually every cell, especially enhancing immune function and potentially preventing cancer from spreading. Gaynor primarily used crystal bowls to produce deep relaxation and harmonize dysrhythmic cells in patients, but also confi rmed the healing effects of certain vibratory tones of drumming and Tibetan metal gongs. Several studies confi rm that listening
to any kind of soothing music relieves anxiety in cancer patients; a large study from Philadelphia's Drexel University confi rms that it also relieves pain, lowers blood pressure, improves breathing and minimizes nausea associated with chemotherapy. Depression: Drumming can better counter depression than the prescription drug Prozac, according to a recent study by England's Royal College of Music. Those that participated in a weekly drumming group experienced signifi cantly reduced symptoms compared to a control group.
Substance Abuse: University of California, Los Angeles, scientists found that drumming was especially helpful for a group of Native Americans struggling with such issues. Smartphone Addiction: Korean
research found that music therapy is helpful in overcoming this condition. Immune Dysfunction: The same British study of drumming's antidepressant effects saw similar improvement in immune function, plus an anti-infl ammatory response that continued for at least three months after the study period. Neuroendocrine Disorders:
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In July 2015, USAID LEAF, with partners USFS IP, SilvaCarbon, USAID LEAD and SERVIR, held a regional forum on developing and financing low emission development strategies (LEDS) for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector. The workshop brought together over 130 participants from the government, civil society, academia, the international donor community and the private sector from 11 countries across Asia to discuss and debate the role of AFOLU LEDS and how to move from a promising start to implementation of sustainably financed large-scale LEDS that contribute to national emission reduction targets.
Over the three-day forum, participants shared experience and lessons learned from existing AFOLU LEDS efforts across the Asia Pacific region, identified best practices and core principles in developing successful AFOLU LEDS, and investigated ways to bridge the gap between financiers' interest in low emission investments and needs for financial support at the field level. In addition, country delegates outlined key next steps they will take back to accelerate LEDS efforts in their home countries.
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Opening Rice Lake
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Once the earliest days of pioneer settlement in Cobourg were over, the townsmen began looking inland. Peter Robinson's settlement of 2,000 poor Irish at Peterborough had got them thinking about the amount of trade that could be brought through Cobourg if it was properly managed.
Leading the way was that entrepreneur par excellence, James Gray Bethune. Bethune had arrived in Cobourg sometime in about 1816. At first he dabbled in mills and things, but finally settled on running his general store in town, eventually combining the store with the post office and setting himself up as the first local cashier of the Bank of Upper Canada.
Artist's rendition of the Pemedash - later renamed the OtonabeeBethune quickly saw that the key to the problem was Rice Lake. In the early 1830's it was still clear to everyone that water transport was the most efficient and cheapest way of moving goods and people around. By 1831 Cobourg's harbour development was well under way (more on Cobourg's Harbour). Port Hope's harbour was mired in political difficulties and the Trent River was virtually impossible to use because of the number of falls and rapids. If an overland passage could be arranged between Rice Lake and Cobourg, this would form a relatively short portage which would bring all the produce of the back country through Cobourg's harbour.
Bethune started by launching a tubby little, flat-bottomed, steamer at Sully (later Harwood). There was already a fairly adequate road from Cobourg to Sully, which the Irish, among others, had used for some time. The steamer was first called the Pemedash — after a shortened form of the native word for Rice Lake — though it was soon renamed the Otonabee. With a bit of clearing of the rocks in the Otonabee River, it was possible to get the Pemedash close enough to Peterborough to open a regular route from there down to Sully then overland to Cobourg on a regular basis. Soon Bethune was advertising in the Cobourg Star that the boat left Peterborough every day at 8:00 a.m., and a corresponding stage left Cobourg at the same time, making the connection at Sully.
He then built another steamer which he took up to Peterborough, sawed in half, and portaged the two halves over to Chemong Lake at Bridgenorth, where he launched it for use on the upper lakes. The key to the upper lakes was the rapids at Bobcaygeon, so Bethune set out to do something about that as well.
Fortunately Bethune knew all the right people. He and a group of right-minded businessmen petitioned the legislature for the right to set up a company for regulation of the navigation of the inland waterways. The fact that the people on his committee were also in the legislature which granted them these rights was only sound business procedure for the time. So too was the minor detail that most of them had bought extensive properties along the route of the proposed waterway, which immediately leapt dramatically in value.
Cobourg's Harbour in 1840Most of these directors took a back seat, concentrating on making money and leaving Bethune to do the work. Bethune hired the Cobourg engineer F. P. Rubidge to survey the waterway, with special emphasis on the falls at Bobcaygeon. Rubidge came up with a scheme to build a lock there which would link Chemong Lake with the lower lakes down to Peterborough, and drew up the necessary plans.
Unfortunately Rubidge didn't really know how to build a lock. First he misunderstood the actual low-water levels of the lakes involved. This is crucial. In order to have a proper lock it is necessary to have water at both ends. High-water levels are relatively easy to spot, but low-levels require a more prolonged survey. The bottom of the lower gate of any lock rests against a sill in order to resist the pressure of the water coming downstream. The workmen found that when the water was let out of the lock, the sill was high and dry above the lake below it. They also found that the rock in the area was so porous that when the lock was full the water simply seeped away into the ground.
The lock was useless and had to be redone. But now the money was gone too.
When the committee earlier allowed Bethune to take over the project they also failed to supervise the spending of the money. Bethune was the representative of the Bank of Upper Canada and was a fairly glad hand at lending money out for what he thought were worthy investments, a surprising number of which involved him or his relatives. So chaotic was his book-keeping that it soon became clear that no one could figure out what was his and what the bank's.
When in July of 1834 the bank inspectors were about to descend on Cobourg to have a look, it appears that Bethune attempted to stage a clumsy robbery of his own bank in order to buy time. Nothing was ever proven. but they did discover some 9,000 pounds were out in loans, a sum way beyond what the bank could authorize. Bethune was made responsible and frantically tried to sell everything he owned in order to raise the money. He failed. After an unsuccessful attempt to run for a seat in the legislature - which would have given him immunity - Bethune threw in the towel and, after a brief period in the local debtor's prison at Cobourg, he took off for Rochester where he died impoverished a few years later.
The first attempt to exploit the inland waterway was a complete failure, particularly since the settlers above the Bobcaygeon lock now had an utterly useless dam beside their pointless lock. Thus they couldn't even run the old rapids the way they did before.
Now it was the railway company's turn to try.
Written by Colin Caldwell
Part 3 is on this page and an index is below.
Part 1: Peter Robinson's Dream
Part 2: The founding of Peterborough
Part 3: Opening Rice lake
Part 4: The Railway Flop
Part 5: The Plank Road
Part 6: D'Arcy Boulton's dream
Part 7: Turning the sod
Part 8: Building the bridge
Part 9: The Ice
Part 10: New Blood takes over
Part 11: The Yanks are coming
Part 12: The Marmora connection
Epilogue: Railway Saga Epilogue


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