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The touching motivation behind Boston College's win over undefeated No. 1 Syracuse
Dick Kelley
American baseball player
The patches on the Boston College uniforms are small and simple, bearing the man's initials: "DK." But the meaning behind the patch is immense, deep and powerful.
Powerful enough to inspire a group of young men to do something Wednesday night that seemed inconceivable.
Dick Kelley is gone, passing away last week and being buried Tuesday after a long and courageous fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). Yet the longtime men's basketball media relations director was the spirit that moved the 7-19 Eagles to absolutely shock the college basketball world, upsetting undefeated No. 1 Syracuse 62-59 in overtime in the Carrier Dome.
There is no doubt. This win – the Eagles' biggest in years and most improbable in decades – was for Dick.
"There is absolutely no question in my mind," associate athletic director Chris Cameron told Yahoo Sports. "That's who they were playing for."
Two days earlier, that's who the Eagles were crying for. They attended Kelley's wake Monday as a team, their final tribute in Kelley's wrenching final year of life. Wheelchair-bound, Kelley was forced last season to give up the job he loved at the school he attended and grew up cheering for. He passed away last Thursday in Massachusetts General Hospital in the company of his parents, Ann and Ed, at the age of 48.
The Kelleys knew how much BC meant to their son, especially BC basketball. So they moved the wake from its planned date of Tuesday to Monday so the team could say goodbye to a friend, a mentor and a tireless advocate before heading to Syracuse.
"Boston College was his life," Cameron said. "He found his mission in life working with young people here."
The love for Kelley was evidenced by the throngs at the wake. A crowd of 600-700 attended. The gathering was from 4 to 8 p.m., and the line stretched out the door of the funeral home by 3:30. Football coach Steve Addazio waited outside in the cold for an hour to pay his respects.
Kelley's death became an inevitability long ago, but that didn't lessen the grief at his time of passing. Cameron described the BC athletic building as "a powderkeg of emotion" this week.
When the players arrived at the wake, some were inconsolable, Cameron said. Especially juniors Patrick Heckmann and Ryan Anderson.
"Ryan wrote something that said Dick had had the biggest effect on him of anyone at Boston College," Cameron said.
Playing in Kelley's honor two days later, Anderson was ferocious inside, pulling down a season-high 14 rebounds and doggedly guarding the paint against the long and athletic Syracuse front line.
That was the kind of effort it took for the Eagles to triumph in a game nobody but themselves believed they could come close to winning.
This is a team that has had every reason to give up – on the season, and on this game in particular. The Eagles had beaten just five Division I opponents, and their only two Atlantic Coast Conference victories were over last-place Virginia Tech. Besides the Hokies, BC hadn't beaten a D-I team since Nov. 26.
And now they were supposed to walk into the Carrier Dome and beat the No. 1 Orange?
But what BC has lacked in talent and success, it has made up for in character. The Eagles hadn't quit on the season, not even close. They had lost six games by four points or fewer, and were just 12 points short of four more ACC victories. In fact, they had Syracuse on the ropes in the second half in Chestnut Hill last month before faltering late and losing by 10.
Even as the howls for fourth-year coach Steve Donahue to be fired have intensified, his team has kept playing hard. And even as Syracuse pushed out to a 13-point lead in the second half, seemingly ending the game, BC refused to relent.
The Eagles kept pouring in 3-pointers over the vaunted Orange zone – 11 of them on the night, in 22 attempts. They contested everything Syracuse tried offensively, hounding leading scorer C.J. Fair into a 7-for-23 nightmare and holding sharpshooting guard Trevor Cooney to just a single made 3-pointer.
And at the end, at a time when Syracuse has simply made one play after another to win a succession of nailbiter games, it was BC that rose to the occasion. Nobody was bigger in the final seconds than guard Lonnie Jackson, a 56 percent foul shooter who peered into a sea of orange-clad fans and the deep shooting background of the Dome and swished four straight free throws to win the game.
Donahue needed the victory as much as any coach in the country needs one. But his first comments to ESPN after the game were about the emotions of the week, not this moment of triumph.
"The first thing he said was about Dick," Cameron said. "Knowing him, that was his first thought."
It was one of the biggest wins in Boston College basketball history, and almost inarguably its most emotional. Whether it alters the trajectory of this difficult season remains to be seen, but for one night that was immaterial.
What mattered more than anything was winning one for Dick.
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Data Mining and Analysis in the Engineering Field
Dr. Vishal Bhatnagar
Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research, Delhi, India
Call for Chapters:
Proposals Submission Deadline: No later than May 05, 2013 for Round Two
To Be Published by IGI Global:http://bit.ly/SHdfnI
Data Mining is all about finding nuggets of valuable and hidden information from large data sets. The Data Mining tools and techniques are finding immense applications in the modern day especially in the field of Engineering. These applications need to be addressed and explained in one book to understand the importance of the Data Mining applications, whether it is Software Engineering, Virtual reality, fractals or any other emerging application in Engineering field. The continuing efforts towards finding new application areas of Data Mining has ultimately resulted in finding valuable and important hidden patterns from Scientific and Engineering fields. This will widen the application area, and more interest will be created in budding researchers to pursue their research in Data Mining. The implications of Data Mining and analysis can be understood by the facts that whether it's a public or private sector organization considering which ever area which
is not restricted to Scientific, Engineering or Business purpose, all are taking advantage of the analytics using Data Mining tools and techniques to reveal the hidden and unknown information from the available data. This has been widened primarily because of the large, or can we say terabyte, of data which is collected by all the organizations over the years in the form of databases or data- warehouse in soft mode. The new and emerging areas of Data Mining and analysis techniques have surprised many researchers and business persons who are actually gaining a lot of hidden and unknown information for increasing their ROI.
Overall Objective of the Book
The objective of the proposed publication is to make researchers and other prospective readers aware of the latest trends and patterns in the inclusion of the Data Mining analysis tools and techniques in the Engineering areas which had there establishment and own importance like Software Engineering which are used by the common men so that a better system can be developed with improved and modern techniques of Data Mining analysis. The Data Mining and analysis applications in the Engineering field of especially Software Engineering, Fractals, and Virtual Reality would be gathered from eminent researchers across globe and would be part of this edited book.  The mission of the proposed publication is to come up with an edited book which aims at latest and most advanced topic inclusion and simultaneous discussion of contributions of renowned researchers whose work created a revolution in the area. The unique characteristics of the publication would be:
1) The proposed work of eminent researchers in the application of Data Mining analysis in emerging Engineering areas like Software Engineering, Fractals and Virtual Reality which are current topics of research will be part of this edited Volume.
2) The book will be targeted towards providing quality; best and latest research by eminent researchers discussing how such research affects and significantly influences common people in their everyday life.  This can include medical field application of fractals or finding new metric and its importance in Software Engineering.
3) The published work will have significant influence on business users, common people and a great impact on society
The impact of the contribution through this edited book is going to be widespread considering the very fact that areas like Software Engineering are developed and established fields. Widening its growth by finding some significant impact of the Data Mining in this will create a boom in the software industry, where entrepreneurs are constantly in search of such novel and brilliant technological inclusion for making effective and productive Software. Similarly, finding the Data Mining analysis viability in the areas of Multimedia application like Virtual Reality, which itself is gaining tremendous popularity in the current scenario, would add to its benefit by finding more and crisp output from the inclusion of Data Mining.
Potential uses:
1) Researchers will be able to learn the latest application areas of Data Mining and analysis in the engineering field.
2) Business users will get to know how inclusion of analytics using Data Mining can provide added advantages for them in their professions.
3) Common people will get the secure edge for their data which is revealed in the application of Data Mining in wide engineering field using privacy preservation techniques like anonymization.
1) Engineers
2) Researchers
3) Common people
4) Business users.
The analysis using Data Mining is all about the revealing of hidden and unknown information from the huge available data. The analytical techniques of Data Mining which are primarily making it happen are:
1) Classification
2) Clustering
3) Association Rule Mining
4) Neural network
5) Genetic algorithms
These techniques are able to classify the given data on the basis of whether it is a supervised or unsupervised learning methodology. In the case of supervised learning, the dependent and independent variables are considered. There are set of independent variables on the basis of which the value of the dependent variable is predicted while in the case of unsupervised learning the useful information is searched by forming the clusters or group. The variables in both the case can be nominal, ordinal, categorical or continuous variables depending upon the available data which enable us to apply the various algorithms of the different techniques discussed above. Considering its wider application area, it was found and identified by the editor that many engineering areas like Software Engineering which is established over years had tremendous scope and usage of analytical tools of Data Mining in its effective implementation. Similarly, another vital and key
area identified is that in fractals, which is key engineering area in today's world can use and is using Data Mining in its effective implementation. This thought was further widened by understanding the importance of Virtual Reality and Data Mining analysis coming together for finding enormous application in diversified fields of engineering and sciences. These areas are already hot topics in the research. By the inclusion of the analysis using Data Mining in such areas, the application and usability of all the said areas will be widened. The researchers are already working in this area. The editors is finding the Data Mining applications as great potential in above said areas which only needs to be put together from ideas across the globe in the form of the book to help emerging and new researchers who can use the floated ideas for future Enhancement and betterment for the society.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:
We are accepting article proposals within the following fields of research for this exhaustive publication. The authors can come with novel proposal highlighting emerging engineering areas getting benefitted through application of Data Mining and analysis. Please feel free to suggest other areas related to your expertise not necessarily listed below:
·          Visual Data Mining.
·          Engineering applications like Telecommunication and Scientific applications of 3D models for medical research and dynamic models for representation of abstract concepts and ideas using data-mining applications
·          Use of dynamic 3D models for simulating biological or social processes
·          Data Mining applications and usability in Design of VR systems and VEs
·          Assessment of Virtual Reality Systems using data mining and Analysis
·          Use of Data analysis in Motion capture, synthesis and Geometric modeling
·          Virtual exploration of solution spaces and Evolutionary computations
·          Security impact on application of data mining in Virtual reality data
·          Data Mining in document hierarchies, code repositories, bug report databases.
·          Rules Extraction using data mining in Historical data
·          Software repositories Mining, Prediction of Software escalation
·          Software project management and maintenance using data mining
·          Data Mining Assisted Software/program Renovation, understand ability and Design Recovery
·          Data Mining for Software Process discovery, design, Quality, Component Identification, Selection, Specification, Debugging,  Explanation , Optimization,  Re-Engineering, Re-use  and security.
·          Use of Data Mining in Software packaging, identification of Software Plagiarism
·          Use of fractals dimension theory  in Clustering Analysis
·          Use of Fractal dimension theory in varied applicative area like biomedical, image processing
·          Neural networks for parallel computation of fractal sets
·          Distributed Data Stream mining using fractals
·          Time series analysis using fractals
·          Identification of self-similar fractals in various engineering fields using Data Mining Techniques like Clustering
·          Analytical Optimization of Fractal dimension based future selection algorithms.
·          You name the topic
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 05, 2013, a 2-3 page article proposal clearly explaining the mission, concerns, and classification (Which field of engineering are you finding application of Data Mining and analysis) of his or her proposed article. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified ongoing (but no more than two weeks after receiving the proposal) about the status of their proposals and sent article guidelines for preparing an article (3,000-5,000 words) and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. Full articles with definitions are expected to be submitted by two months after proposals are accepted (with last article deadline onNovember 05, 2013). All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 05, 2013 (Round Two)
Notification of Acceptance: Ongoing
Full Chapter Due: Two months after proposals are accepted
Review Results Returned: Ongoing
Final Chapter Submission: December 01, 2013
Final Deadline:December 15, 2013
Editorial Advisory Board Members
The Chief Editor will be advised and supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), consisting of leading specialized experts from the academia and industry. The current members of the EAB include:
·          Prof. Witold Pedrycz, Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
·          Prof. Shao-cheng Qu, Professor, Department of Information & Technology, Central China Normal University, Hubei, China
·          Prof. Alexandr Savinov, SAP Research, Germany
·          Prof. Marenglen Biba, Professor(CSE), Albania
·          Prof. Zekâi Şen, Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
·          Prof. Michael N. Katehakis, Professor & Chair, Department of Management & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
·          Prof. Shu-Ching Chen, Professor & Graduate Program Director, Florida International University, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Miami, FL 33199, USA
·          Prof. Zhongyu (Joan) Lu, Professor, Dept. of Informatics, University of Huddersfield (UK).
·          Alessandro Fiori, Project manager, Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) – Candiolo (Italy)
·          Prof. Jagannath V Aghav, Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, COE, Pune (India)
·          Dr. Yudong Zhang, Research Scientist, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
·          Dr. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
Associate Professor (CSE)
Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research,
Govt. Of NCT of Delhi
Geeta Colony, Delhi, India
Pin-code: 110031
Telephone: +91-11-22405027, +91-9810460676
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Q: Can't import meta graph with op for MaxBytesInUse When I try to import a meta graph using saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph(meta_graph_path, clear_devices=True) I get KeyError: 'MaxBytesInUse' from within the importer.
Tensorflow version: 1.7-gpu-python3
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Here is the stack trace of the error:
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/training/saver.py in import_meta_graph(meta_graph_or_file, clear_devices, import_scope, **kwargs)
       1953       clear_devices=clear_devices,
       1954       import_scope=import_scope,
    -> 1955       **kwargs)
       1956
       1957   if meta_graph_def.HasField("saver_def"):

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/meta_graph.py in import_scoped_meta_graph(meta_graph_or_file, clear_devices, graph, import_scope, input_map, unbound_inputs_col_name, restore_collections_predicate)
        741         name=(import_scope or scope_to_prepend_to_names),
        742         input_map=input_map,
    --> 743         producer_op_list=producer_op_list)
        744
        745     # Restores all the other collections.

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/util/deprecation.py in new_func(*args, **kwargs)
        430                 'in a future version' if date is None else ('after %s' % date),
        431                 instructions)
    --> 432       return func(*args, **kwargs)
        433     return tf_decorator.make_decorator(func, new_func, 'deprecated',
        434                                        _add_deprecated_arg_notice_to_docstring(

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/importer.py in import_graph_def(graph_def, input_map, return_elements, name, op_dict, producer_op_list)
        458   if producer_op_list is not None:
        459     # TODO(skyewm): make a copy of graph_def so we're not mutating the argument?
    --> 460     _RemoveDefaultAttrs(op_dict, producer_op_list, graph_def)
        461
        462   graph = ops.get_default_graph()

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/importer.py in _RemoveDefaultAttrs(op_dict, producer_op_list, graph_def)
        225     # Remove any default attr values that aren't in op_def.
        226     if node.op in producer_op_dict:
    --> 227       op_def = op_dict[node.op]
        228       producer_op_def = producer_op_dict[node.op]
        229       # We make a copy of node.attr to iterate through since we may modify

    KeyError: 'MaxBytesInUse'

A: Add dir(tf.contrib)
See the link: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/10130

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One of those who is interested in who becomes the next governor is Jonathan. He played a key role in the emergence of Dickson as governor in 2012. In 2016, Jonathan stepped up his support for Dickson, even though he was no more in power.
The PDP campaign song at the time was that it would be a very serious embarrassment for Jonathan if he lost the seat to Timipre Sylva of the APC.
But in the recent past, the relationship between the duo has been everything but harmonious. If anything, two of them appear to be pretending that all is well. TNN learnt that while Dickson has already commenced the search for his successor, he is afraid that Jonathan may pull a surprise at the dying minute.
When his attention was drawn to the recent visit of the president to the governor, he simply laughed and said "that is the game he is playing. Or what did you want the former president to do? Let me ask you, what do you make of the invitation of Obasanjo to commission a project and they sent an invitation to the former president to just come and sit down, so that they can further humiliate the man? Is that how to do things?
Meanwhile, there are speculations that Dickson may be looking at the direction of Mr Douye Diri as his successor. TNN learnt that the plan is for Diri to first contest for the senate seat, to take over from Senator Emmanuel Paulker, and thereafter, vacate the seat for the governorship seat the next year.
But some top politicians from the state have confided in TNN about the plot to frustrate the move. One of them claimed that everything would be done to make sure that whoever Dickson would bring as his successor is frustrated and made to fail, because "if we allow it, it will simply mean that Dickson would have got a third term through the back door.


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Ferrater Mora and written expression
Ferrater Mora's intense concern with the language he used to express his own ideas can be seen by the fact that he had to struggle against the constant temptation to rewrite and refine the language of his earlier books and essays. He mentions this desire in his "Confesion preliminar" of his Obras selectas (1967) and again in the "Prólogo a la nueva edición" of Las palabras y los hombres
Both Moron Arroyo, the thinker, and Joan Oliver, the poet, mention the clarity of Ferrater Mora's writing. Moron Arroyo has said that Ferrater Mora's writing is characterized by grace and irony. Oliver has described Ferrater Mora as, "a philosopher who loves language almost as much as a poet loves it. To be sure, his love of language is a thinker's love. Since the subject matter of philosophy is thought, the literary style must confine itself to the expression and molding of thought, but there is no reason why this language should not combine precision with beauty. When that happens we obtain the limpidity and clarity that are characteristic of Ferrater Mora's philosophical prose. He has the will and the power to clarify the often labyrinthine ways of the wisdom to which he has devoted his life." Both Moron Arroyo and Oliver also remark on the increasing transparency of Ferrater Mora's writing.
If we examine the evolution of Ferrater Mora's writing from his earliest book, Cóctel de verdad (A True Cocktail or A Real Cocktail, not a Cocktail of Truth), to his later books, his increasingly skillful mastery of language is evident. He makes a conscious effort, "to pluck out," as Oliver says, "all verbosity." Ferrater Mora acknowledges as much in the initial note to Fundamentos de filosofia, where he asserted that he has tried to express his ideas in a more efficient and direct way.
Ferrater Mora's interest in language was not limited, however, to a concern for the language that he used to express his ideas; he was interested in language per se. He returns to questions concerning the nature of language again and again. Often he speaks of the problems of translating from one language to another, while at other times he investigates the use of language to formulate ideas, to give a picture of the world, to elicit emotion and so forth. No doubt this concern for language helps to explain his production of novels and short stories in his later life.
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Руан () је лучки град на северозападу Француске. Град лежи на реци Сена. Седиште је департмана Приморска Сена и региона Горња Нормандија. По подацима из 2006. године број становника у месту је био 107.904.

Историја

Први остаци људских насеља на овом подручју потичу из времена 9 до 6 хиљада година пре наше ере.

Око године 100. нове ере, Римљани су основали град Ротомагус на месту данашњег Руана. Од 4. века, град је био седиште бискупа (први бискуп био је Св. Виктрис 385—410).

Године 841, Викинзи су по први пут упали у град.
Судећи по хроникама из времена викиншких инвазија, 911. град је постао престоница Нормандијског војводства. Енглеску је 1066. освојио нормандијски војвода Вилијам Освајач.

Трупе француског краља Филипа II су освојиле Руан 1204.

19. јануара 1419, за време Стогодишњег рата, краљ Енглеске Хенри V је освојио Руан и целу Нормандију. Јованка Орлеанка је спаљена на ломачи у Руану 30. маја 1431.

Карло VII је 1449. поново освојио Руан за Француску.

Железничка пруга од Париза до Руана је отворена 1843.

За време Француско-пруског рата Руан је окупирала војска пруске (од децембра 1870. до јуна 1871).

У Другом светском рату Руан је од јуна 1940. до августа 1944. био под немачком окупацијом. Град је у овом периоду тешко бомбардован, нарочито мостови на Сени и железничка станица.

Географија

Клима

Демографија

Знаменитости

Виктор Иго је називао Руан "Градом стотину црквених торњева". Многе грађевине су уништене бомбардовањем у Другом светском рату.
 Импозантна готичка базилика Сен-Уен (дугачка 130 -{m}-).
 Готичка Катедрала у Руану, која је била инспирација Клоду Монеу. Њен звоник је висок 151 m.
 Палата правде (Le Palais de Justice) је највећа европска готичка профана грађевина.
 Велики астрономски сат (Le Gros Horloge) из 14. века.
 Кула Јованке Орлеанке

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 Франсоа Оланд, бивши председник Француске
 Жак Анкетиј, петоструки победник бициклистичке трке Тур де Франс
 Самуел Бошар, теолог, оријенталист и географ
 Бернар ле Бовије де Фонтенел, писац
 Рене Робер Кавелије, истраживач, први открио Луизијану
 Пјер Корнеј, писац
 Пјер Луј Дулонг, физичар и хемичар
 Марсел Дипре, композитор и оргуљаш
 Гистав Флобер, писац
 Теодор Жерико, сликар
 Жан Жувене, француски сликар класицизма
 Морис Леблан, писац (творац прича о Арсену Лупену)
 Шарл Жил Анри Никол, лекар, добитник Нобелове награде
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 Давид Трезеге, фудбалер
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Руан је 28. лука Европе (по количини транспортоване робе), и пета лука Француске. То је највећа лука Европе за транспорт жита, и највећа француска за транспорт брашна и ђубрива.

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Criminal Encyclopedia
Information About Famous Criminals
Outlawry
Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough – 1911
By admin | November 12, 2016
"I could have won against two bullets, but not against six"
THE CRIME:
David Graham Phillips in 1908 (the victim)
David Graham Phillips was born on 31 October 1867 in Madison, Indiana. After a career as a journalist, in 1901 he became a successful novelist with the publication of The Great God Success. His regimented attitude to work would have put modern writers to shame. Each day he worked at his desk until the early hours and then rose late. He wrote 6,000 words a day. He once said, "If I were to die tomorrow, I would be six years ahead of the game." Mr Phillips lived with his sister, Carolyn Frevert, in the National Arts Club on the south side of Gramercy Park in New York.
On 23 January 1911 he got up late as usual and got dressed in the affected style of a dandy, topped off with a black alpine hat. He set off for his club, the Princeton, to collect his post. He walked eastward on 21st Street when a man stood in front of him with a .32 calibre automatic pistol. The man fired six times and Mr Phillips slumped onto the railings outside the club, where florist John Jacoby caught him before he hit the ground.
The attacker cried out, "There you are! I guess that does for you" before pointing the gun at his own head, saying "I'll finish the job now" and killing himself. Newton James and Frank Davis, two members of the Princeton Club, and Mr Jacoby carried Mr Phillips inside where they put him on a sofa in the foyer. The novelist was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Examination revealed that one of the bullets had punctured a lung, another had missed the vital organs but the rest had hit the left forearm, both thighs and the right hip. An operation removed the bullet that remained in his body and doctors declared the prognosis good.
21st Street, New York City, USA
THE AFTERMATH:
After the operation Mr Phillips told his sister that he had received anonymous threatening letters and telephone calls. One sent just before the shooting read, "This is your last day." The novelist's condition worsened on 24 January and he suffered internal haemorrhages in his stomach and lung.
Just before he lapsed into a coma, he said, "I could have won against two bullets, but not against six." He died at 11.10pm. In the killer's pocket was an envelope which identified him as 31 year-old Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a paranoid, deranged music teacher and socialist, who had moved into the Rand School of Social Science on East19th Street on 2 November 1910. It was thought that Goldsborough had taken grave offence at Margaret Severence, a character in one of the novelist's books The Fashionable Adventures Of Joshua Craig, and assumed it was a character assassination of his sister. However, Goldsborough's family blamed the murder and suicide on a bad case of the flu.
YOU SHOULD KNOW:
Goldsborough's younger brother had been committed to a lunatic asylum in Washington not long before the murder.
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Q: custom delegate method not call i have first display start_game screen than after when i click button that time display popupview using xib.in xib class i have create delegate method.when i close the popupview that time call delegate method but not calling
here is my delegate class
    .h File
    #import
@protocol digbuttonalertdelegate;

@interface digbuttonalert : UIViewController
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *bg_image;

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *lbl_title;
@property (nonatomic, weak) id<digbuttonalertdelegate> delegate;
@end
@protocol digbuttonalertdelegate <NSObject>
@optional
-(void)digalertclose;
@end

.m File

#import "digbuttonalert.h"
#import "suggestion_alert.h"
#import "UIViewController+CWPopup.h"
#import "zoom_alert.h"
@interface digbuttonalert ()
{
    bool status;
}
@end

@implementation digbuttonalert

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    status=0;
    UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(tapDetected)];
    singleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
    [self.bg_image setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
    [self.bg_image addGestureRecognizer:singleTap];

    // Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
- (IBAction)close:(id)sender {
   }
-(void)tapDetected{
    NSLog(@"single Tap on imageview");

    if(status==0)
    {
        self.lbl_title.text=@"As you walk you will discover the hidden map.This circle will show your progress.";
        status=1;
    }
    else
    {

        [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
        if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(digalertclose)]) {
            [self.delegate digalertclose];

        }

    }

}

here this class i want to call method
 #import "digbuttonalert.h"
     @interface start_games ()  <MJSecondPopupDelegate,digbuttonalertdelegate>
    {
     - (void)viewDidLoad {
digbuttonalert *next=[[digbuttonalert alloc]init];
    next.delegate=self;

    next.modalTransitionStyle=UIWebPaginationModeRightToLeft;
    next.modalPresentationStyle=17;
    [self presentViewController:next animated:YES completion:nil];

            }
        - (void)digalertclose
        {

            [self StartTimer];
            [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]setObject:@"false" forKey:@"alertstatus"];
        }

A: Change .m file with below :
@protocol digbuttonalertdelegate <NSObject>
    @optional
    -(void)digalertclose;
 @end

 @interface digbuttonalert : UIViewController
    @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *bg_image;
    @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *lbl_title;
    @property (nonatomic, weak) id<digbuttonalertdelegate> delegate;
 @end

And follow basic tutorial steps : enter link description here

A: Please implement digalertclose delegate in start_games controller like this
-(void)digalertclose {
}

You make digalertclose optional thats why crash does not occur if you remove optional keyword from digbuttonalertdelegate protocol you can see that there will be a crash because you try to fire a delegate but does not implement it.

A: *

*In your digbuttonalert.h protocol is defined twice.

*There is no @end for the interface.

Should be something like
ClassA.h
@protocol YourProtocol <NSObject>

@optional
-(void)yourProtocolOptionalMethod

@end

@interface ClassA.h

@property (weak, nonatomic) id <YourProtocol> delegate;

@end

ClassA.m
-(void) someClassAMethod {
     [self.delegate yourProtocolOptionalMethod];
}

ClassB.h
#import "ClassA.h"
@interface ClassB <YourProtocol>

@end

ClassB.m
-(void) someClassBMethod {
    ClassA *classA = [ClassA alloc] init];
    classA.delegate = self;
}

After setting the delegate now when you will call the delegate from ClassA then it will trigger the protocol implemented method in ClassB
-(void)yourProtocolOptionalMethod {
    NSlog(@"");
}

A: On your class , you need to declare the delegate like this:
@interface YourViewController () < digbuttonalertdelegate >


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5 New Wave Gins Reinventing a Stodgy Spirit
The original cocktail spirit is back and better than ever.
By Emily Singer
Henry Phillips
For those who care about liquor, knowing gin is imperative. It's the original cocktail spirit, a foundation for martinis and negronis. Gin, mixed with tonic water, was prescribed as an antimalarial, and with lime juice to stave off scurvy within the British Navy (so prescribed by an Admiral Gimlette, hence "gimlet"). In the 18th century, it was called "Mother's Ruin," consumed with such vigor that England's population stagnated; a century earlier, it was known as "Dutch courage," a source of blind encouragement for rebel soldiers during the 30 Years War.
The origins of gin date back a full millennium, when Benedictine monks in Salerno, Italy, added juniper berries and herbs to grain alcohol for medicinal purposes. But today's best gins bear little resemblance to early iterations, or even the gins of the last century. For cocktail aficionados, that's very good news.
A Guide to Traditional Styles of Gin
Genever: A Dutch predecessor to gin made from barley-based grain alcohol distilled to 45% ABV and infused with botanicals and spices (usually imported by the Dutch East India Company).
London Dry: The most common and most juniper-dominant style of gin. While London Dry gin does not have to be made in London, it must be distilled in copper pots and carry an ABV greater than 35%.
Old Tom: Sweeter than London Dry but drier than Genever. It was produced by clandestine distillers in 18th-century England, which would hang plaques in the shape of black cats (or tom cats) above their doors to mark their buildings as gin distributors.
Plymouth: A dry gin distilled in the town of Plymouth, England. Slightly less dry than London Dry, with an earthier flavor.
Navy Strength: A 57% ABV (or greater) gin created specifically for the British Royal Navy.
Gin is made by rectifying, or re-distilling, neutral alcohol that has been infused with botanicals, one of which must be juniper. Historically, most gins were sharp and pine-heavy, best paired with other flavors (hence gin's overwhelming presence in cocktails). It wasn't until the late 20th century, with the introduction of labels like Bombay Sapphire and Hendrick's, that the tides began to turn. Both are still grounded in juniper, but use other ingredients — lemon peel in the former, and cucumber and rose in the latter — as a foil against pine-forward notes.
Today, gin, like so many other things, is having its craft moment. But beyond the fact that the new wave of gin strays from the past, there's little to unite the products of today's small distilleries — no regional styles or genres by which to categorize the spirit. "You have small-batch, you have London Dry, and then there's all these little gray areas with botanical-heavy, citrus-heavy [flavors]," explained Cait Moorhead, general manager and head bartender at The Winslow, a gin bar in Manhattan. "Distilleries want a niche product: a gin that's beautiful, but also has something that nobody else has." With that, Moorhead gave us her five favorite new wave gins — all with distinct flavor profiles, and all smooth enough to consume neat.
Brockman's Gin
Brockman's set out to change global perceptions of gin with a spirit smooth enough to sip neat. Berry-forward and with a lingering nuttiness, it's one of The Winslow's most approachable options, or what Moorhead calls a "gateway gin."
Flavor: berry-forward
Botanicals: juniper, blueberries, blackberries, cassia bark, licorice, lemon peel, coriander, angelica, orange peel, almonds, orris
Uncle Val's Botanical Gin
Headquartered in California, distilled in Oregon and inspired by regional Tuscan flora, Uncle Val's Botanical Gin skews citrusy, but remains tempered by the inclusion of lavender and sage, resulting in a green, earthy taste.
Flavor: herbaceous, citrus-forward
Botanicals: juniper, cucumber, lemon, sage, lavender
The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
Most tipplers associate Islay with whisky, but The Botanist, distilled by Bruichladdich, is proof that the small island's un-aged spirits are equally compelling. "The Botanist's gin has a lot going on. It's complex, but not overwhelming, and still very clean," said Moorhead. The distillery crafts its gin from 22 local, hand-foraged ingredients, plus nine traditional and widely used gin botanicals. Those ingredients are used in a 17-hour distillation process that imbues the spirit with floral, herbaceous notes that reflect its provenance.
Flavor: herbaceous
Botanicals: angelica root, cassia bark, cinnamon bark, coriander seed, juniper berries, lemon peel, licorice root, orange peel, orris, apple mint, chamomile, creeping thistle, downy birch, elder, gorse, hawthorn, heather, lady's bedstraw, lemon balm, meadowsweet, mugwort, red clover, spearmint, sweet cicely, bog myrtle, tansy, water mint, white clover, wild thyme, wood sage
Empire Spirits Project Smoked Gin
The brainchild of chef-turned-distiller Jake Sawabini, Empire Spirits Project formulates gins with boundary-pushing cocktails in mind. The Smoked Gin is, quite literally, unlike anything else on the market. Infused with applewood smoke and Szechuan peppercorn, it's unapologetically bold yet surprisingly sippable. "It plays well in a gin Manhattan," Moorhead said. "It's not quite a substitute for whiskey, not quite a substitute for mezcal, but it has all of these notes that you're not expecting from gin, which is great. You end up using it for something you never thought you'd use gin for."
Flavor: smoky
Botanicals: juniper, applewood smoke, caraway, peppercorn
Barr Hill Gin
Technically an Old Tom–style gin, Caledonia Spirits' Barr Hill Gin is made from a Vermont-grown, corn-based grain alcohol, infused with local juniper and distilled through raw honey. "It has a touch of sweetness — just a nice, little note," Moorhead said, adding that it lends itself very well to cocktails.
Flavor: sweet, pine-forward
Botanicals: juniper, raw honey
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Montgomery Youth Hockey Association
CBHL Champions!
By MYHA, 03/02/20, 12:00PM EST
Congratulations to the 10U AA Blue, 12U B White and 19U Girls teams for winning CBHL Championships in 2020!
10U beat Howard 1-0
The Blue Devils took the one-goal lead during the first period and managed to hold it for the rest of the game.
12U B White Beat Potomac 3-2
MYHA scored the game's first goal at 10:28 (Aidan Cook #21) in the first period. Potomac scored 1 goal in the 2nd period, and 1 goal in the 3rd only for MYHA to score a game-tying goal (Henry Horwell #3) at 6:49 in the 3rd period.
Overtime was scoreless - shootout time!
After 4 rounds with 1 goal for each team, and the game on his stick, MYHA (Tommy Pilkington #88), nets the championship-winning goal to put the MYHA 12U B White past the Potomac Patriots.
This caps an undefeated 21-0 season for the Blue Devils!
19U Girls beat Carolina Eagles 4-3
It was a thrilling game with MYHA scoring a goal with 2 minutes left in the third period to take their first lead in the game (3-2). With 17 seconds remaining, Carolina tied it up during a 5 on 3 power play. On to overtime, with MYHA playing the first 4:31 minutes on the penalty kill. With only 12 seconds left in overtime, the Blue Devils scored a goal to win 4-3.
16U AA Blue advanced to the 16U National Division Championship with a thrilling 2-1 victory over the Howard Huskies. The Blue Devils had to kill off a 90 second 5v3 powerplay with 1:53 left in the third period. Luke Cashion then scored the short-handed game winner with 2 seconds remaining. MYHA will play the #1 team in the country, Ashburn Xtreme for the championship at the Ashburn Ice House at 2:30 pm today.
https://youtu.be/jrmqBlYDr_c
19U Girls advanced to the 19U Divison championship 6-2 over the Tricity Eagles. They will face the Carolina Eagles at 4:30 pm today at Skate Frederick.
14U AA advanced to the 14U National Division championship 4-3 over the Tricity Eagles. They will face Ashburn at 3:40 pm today at the Ashburn Ice House.
12U Girls Wales advanced to the 12U Wales Division championship 12-6 over the Baltimore Stars. They will face Howard at 1:00 pm today at Skate Frederick.
10U AA Blue advanced to the 10U National Division championship 6-3 over the Reston Raiders. They will have face Howard at 11:10 am today at the Ashburn Ice House.
Tag(s): Girls Travel 19U
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Studies have continually shown a link between periodontal disease and the development of heart disease. Although the cause and effect relationship has yet to be determined, research has indicated that periodontal disease does in fact increase the risk of developing heart disease. Leading researchers believe that chronic inflammation caused by persistent periodontal disease may be responsible for the association. The presence of periodontal disease can also cause existing heart conditions to become progressively worse.
Patients who are at risk for developing infective endocarditis may require antibiotics prior to receiving dental treatment. Our Los Angeles periodontist will help determine if the patient's heart condition will necessitate the use of antibiotics prior to performing dental procedures.
Researchers have also discovered a link between periodontal disease and strokes. In a study which examined the causal relationship between oral infection and its risk factor for stroke, individuals who were diagnosed with cerebrovascular ischemia were more likely to have oral infection compared to individuals in the control group.
Contact our periodontist today to schedule a comprehensive periodontal evaluation.
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Q: Background Image not showing in Spring MVC I am inserting a background image from a CSS property. I have also tried using mvc:resources mapping in spring-servlet.xml file, but it doesn't work.
JSP file:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Login and Registration Form</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${pageContext.servletContext.contextPath}/resources/user/css/style.css">

            <form class="register-form">
                <input type="text" placeholder="User.name" /> <input type="password"
                    placeholder="Password" /> <input type="email" placeholder="Email" />
                <button>Sign Up</button>

                    Have an account? Log in

            </form>

CSS file:
body{
    background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.6),rgba(0,0,0,0.6)),url(WEB-INF/css/images/bicycle1.png);
    height: 100vh;
    background-size: cover;
    background-position: center;
}

spring-servlet.xml file:
    <context:annotation-config />

    <annotation-driven />
    <default-servlet-handler/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.*" />

    <beans:bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </beans:bean>

Error:
In browser console: bicycle1.png:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)   bicycle1.png:1

A: Add in the web.xml
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>YouServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.you.app.YouServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>YouServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


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Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 14:18 GMT
Q&A: What the Budget means to you
Will you be richer or poorer as a result of the budget?
Chancellor Gordon Brown has just delivered what could be his last Budget. What impact will the changes have on the personal finances of millions of Britons?
I am in work, what is in the Budget for me?
The big news is that the basic rate of income tax has been cut by 2p to 20p from April 2008.
At the same time, the 10p income tax rate on the first £2,150 earned (2006/2007 tax year) above your personal allowance is being abolished.
This means in effect that you will have to pay 20% as soon as you earn more than your personal allowance rate.
In addition, the upper earnings limit for National Insurance will rise to bring it in line with the 40% income tax threshold.
As a result, high earners will pay more National Insurance.
Overall - taking all the income tax and National Insurance changes into account - many people will find they are no better-off.
I am a pensioner, what is there for me?
The Budget 2007 [1.76MB]
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Many will be cheered by the news that income tax personal allowances will rise dramatically.
For pensioners under the age of 75 the tax free allowance will rise in stages from £7,280 to £9,770 in 2011. This may offset the extra cost due to the abolition of the 10% income tax rate.
But because of complex rules where the amount you earn will affect your tax free allowance, pensioners earning more than £26,000 may find that they receive no benefit from the higher allowances announced by Gordon Brown.
The Pension credit guarantee will rise to £130 by 2010.
People who have lost their retirement savings when their company pension scheme went bust received a welcome boost.
The chancellor pledged that the amount of money being made available to the Financial Assistance Scheme - which pays money to people who have lost their pensions - would quadruple from £2bn to £8bn.
Recently, the government has faced a high-profile campaign to force it to compensate people who have lost their pensions.
We drive a gas-guzzling people carrier, will the Budget mean extra expense?
Yes it will.
The Chancellor has upped Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) on the highest polluting vehicles, including many people carriers and 4x4s.
The annual cost of VED for the most polluting vehicles will rise from £210 to £300 this year and then £400 in 2008.
Further pain could be on the way. In the past two Budgets the chancellor has raised VED on the most-polluting cars by far more than inflation.
Now may be the time to switch to a less polluting car.
As part of the government's carrot and stick approach, vehicles with smaller engines in the lowest polluting categories will pay lower VED.
Vehicles in band B will see VED cut by 30%.
A 2p increase in petrol duty has been deferred until October.
I am concerned about the environment, is anything new being done?
The environment is one of the hot political topics of the moment.
All three main political parties are keen to highlight their green credentials.
Recently, the Conservatives proposed that people who take more than their fair share of flights to pay more tax - in effect, proposing a "polluter pays" approach.
Driving a "gas guzzler" will become more expensive
The chancellor has taken a different approach, trying to offer sweeteners for people to adopt a more green lifestyle.
For example, extra grants will be available to pensioners installing insulation.
I am a saver, is there any reason for me to celebrate?
Yes the amount of money you can pay into a cash Individual Savings Account (ISA) will rise from £3,000 to £3,600.
More than 16 million Britons have an ISA.
I am on a low income, what extra is on offer?
Tax credits are the main method that the chancellor wants to "make work pay".
Working tax credit, claimed by 1.5 million Britons, will receive a £1bn boost.
The chancellor said the average working tax credit claimant would be £7.10 per week better off as a result.
Lone parents will get a weekly bonus for their first year in work.
I have children. What extra help is available to me?
Child benefit will rise 15% by 2010.
In the pre-Budget report, the chancellor announced additional child benefit that would be paid to mothers with new babies.
In April, benefit payments for the poorest children will rise to £64 a week.
Investment in education has been marked out as a priority for a possible future Brown premiership.
Gordon Brown wants education to be a priority
In addition, greater investment is being made in apprenticeship schemes. This could boost your children's prospects of finding employment when they leave school.
Is there anything else?
The Inheritance Tax ( IHT) threshold will rise to £350,000 by 2010.
Previous Budgets had set in train an increase in the IHT threshold to £325,000 by 2009.
The duty on beer and wine is set to rise in line with inflation but duty on spirits is frozen again.
Brown cuts basic tax rate by 2p
Cameron: Brown in 'deep hole'
Lib Dems slam tax changes
Corporation tax cut to 28%
Brown predicts strong economy
Cars bear brunt of green taxes
Pension victims offered cash
New ISA limits for 2008
Education spend to reach £74bn
Council tax report urges reform
Q&A: The Budget and you
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Q: Turning dynamically created texboxes' values into JSON data I am trying to create an application that will allow users to add a textbox and then submit the data in the textbox to a JSON file. I have tried using Ajax, but am unsure how it works with dynamically created objects. Any help in any language would be appreciated.
Here is the code to create the textbox:
    $(document).ready(function(){
                 var counter = 2;
                 $("#addButton").click(function () {
                if(counter>1000000){
                        alert("Exceeded Text Box Limit");
                        return false;
                }
                var newTextBoxDiv = $(document.createElement('div'))
                     .attr("id", 'TextBoxDiv' + counter);
                newTextBoxDiv.after().html(
                      '<input type="text" class="title" name="title[]' + counter +
                      '" id="title' + counter + '" value="" >');

 );
                newTextBoxDiv.appendTo("#Spacer");
                counter++;
 });

Also, is it possible to remove this data if the user removes a text box? Thanks in advance.

A: This might Get u started
once You have created the TextBox u have to attach a click event handler to the created textbox by using
$( "container" ).on( "click", "#Yourcontrol", function() {
 var TextBoxVal = $(this).val();
//write logic to send Data
});

you can serialize the data using form.serilize()Serilize() method and send it to the  server side.

The .serialize() method creates a text string in standard URL-encoded
  notation. It can act on a jQuery object that has selected individual
  form controls, such as , , and : $( "input,
  textarea, select" ).serialize();


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Home | Sports | Monday night win gets Rangers back on track
The New York Rangers beat the San Jose Sharks 4-0 Monday night, ending a 3 game losing streak. Getty Images.
Monday night win gets Rangers back on track
Jillian Gordon Sports
The New York Rangers put an end to their three-game losing streak with a big win over the San Jose Sharks on Monday night. The Rangers bested the Sharks 4-0, establishing strong forechecking and support in all zones early on.
The change was welcomed by Rangers fans, who were happy to see the team's sense of urgency, cohesiveness and high energy return to their game play.
"We had more energy in the room going into the game," Rangers assistant captain Marc Staal said, "It felt like everyone was committed to turning the tides a little bit. The way we were playing, we weren't happy with it. A team like San Jose, as well as they're playing, coming in here and challenging us, I thought we did a good job of raising our level of play."
The Rangers were last season's President Trophy winners, finishing the year with 113 points. The team was not about to allow themselves to slip into mediocrity so early in the new season.
The Rangers swarmed the Sharks early on, turning up the pressure in the offensive zone. Marc Staal opened up the scoring halfway through the first period. Mats Zuccarello added to the score midway through the second.
Jesper Fast scored early on in the third, making the score 3-0 and essentially sealing the deal. Finally, Viktor Stalberg had the last say, scoring a goal with just over three minutes remaining.
The team played great defensively, limiting the Sharks chances on net. They allowed their goaltender to see the puck well, and played a very controlled game.
"There weren't any 2-on-1s like we had [been giving up]," Antti Raanta told reporters, "[W]hen everybody is behind the puck and when we lost the puck in the offensive zone there were always three guys coming back and the fourth and fifth forward were also coming back. That was really good today."
New goaltender Antti Raanta impressed fans by allowing no goals on all 22 shots last night. This was his fourth career shutout in 40 NHL games. The netminder was acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks in June.
The Rangers penalty kill squad also deserves some recognition. They only allowed one shot on goal in the 3:39 when they were shorthanded in the game. Over the past three games, the penalty kill is 10-for-10.
Rangers fans can only hope that the renewed energy in their beloved team is a sign of things to come.
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Степа́н (Стефа́н) Іва́нович Тома́ра (бл. 1640, Османська Греція — 1715, Переяслав) — державний і військовий діяч Гетьманщини, переяславський полковник (1708-1715). Великий землевласник.

Походження

Народився близько 1640 року в історичній області Епір у Греції (тоді входила до складу Османської імперії) в родині купця Івана (Яна) Томорки. Мав родичів на Сицилії. Не пізніше 1649, «в разсуждении согласия религии», батько оселився на Лівобережній Україні (згаданий у Реєстрі Війська Запорозького як козак Третьої Переяславської полкової сотні). Тримав крамницю «турських» (турецьких) товарів у Переяславі, користувався покровительством полковника і наказного гетьмана Якима Сомка. У 1667 був «військовим індуктором» (збирачем податків) для гетьмана Івана Брюховецького. 1668 перейшов на службу до Петра Дорошенка, переселився до Канева. Виконував дипломатичні доручення правобережного гетьмана. 1676 повернувся до Переяслава.

Життєпис

Степан Іванович Томара разом з братом Василем 1676 року поступив на службу до гетьмана Івана Самойловича «гетьманським дворянином» (ад'ютантом). 1681 очолив Домонтівську сотню Переяславського полку, проте вже наступного року поступився урядом іншому іноземцеві — Тодорашкові Волошину. 1683 вдруге обійняв уряд домонтівського сотника.

Брав участь у Кримських походах 1687 і 1689. 1687 був серед коломацьких змовників проти гетьмана Самойловича. У 1689 вперше став наказним переяславським полковником. 16 травня 1689 дістав тяжке поранення у битві з кримськими татарами в Чорній Долині. Того ж року позбувся сотництва на користь Андрія Костенка.

Втретє обраний домонтівським сотником у 1692. У 1694 перейшов на уряд переяславського полкового осавула, який тримав 12 років. У 1695-1696 брав участь в Азовських походах. 1701 — у поході в Балтію та битві під Ерестфером проти шведського війська. 1704 — у поході в Польщу. З 1704 обіймав уряд полкового обозного. З невідомих причин не взяв участі у боях за Ляховичі у 1706, де майже весь Переяславський полк був узятий шведами в полон. З 1706 вдруге очолював полк як наказний полковник через перебування полковника Івана Мировича у полоні.

У жовтні 1708 Переяславський полк на чолі з Томарою спільно зі Стародубським полком, який очолював Іван Скоропадський, стеріг від шведів Смоленщину та північні кордони Гетьманщини. Вони були відрізані від основних сил Івана Мазепи московським військом, тому не змогли з'єднатися з гетьманом. Томара взяв участь у раді в Глухові 6 листопада, на якій Скоропадський був обраний гетьманом замість Мазепи, а самого наказного переяславського полковника затвердили як повного полковника.

У 1710 командував полком під час штурму Риги. У 1711, під час Прутського походу Петра І, здійснив допоміжний рейд на Кам'яний Затон.

Помер 1715 року у Переяславі, там же й був похований. Після його смерті виборів нового полковника не було до 1726, полком керували наказні старшини.

Маєтки

1681 володів двором у Переяславі. 1 березня 1689 отримав гетьманський універсал на володіння селами Богушковою Слобідкою, Бубнівською Слобідкою та Підставками з млином на річці Супої (підтверджено у 1692 жалуваною грамотою). 15 березня того ж року придбав греблю на річці Сулі під Домонтовом у військового товариша Івана Шастного за 100 злотих. 1698 як посаг за дружину Лизогубівну отримав млини на греблі Межиріцькій.

12 грудня 1696 придбав двір у Переяславі у Київського Микільського монастиря. 7 лютого 1698 — двір з плецом у Переяславі у священника Данила. 7 березня 1699 — двір з плецом у козака Феська Лисого. 21 травня того ж року — плец у Гайшині у Матвія Молчаненка. 11 лютого 1703 — хутір у селі Пристромах у брата Василя Томари. 20 червня того ж року — плец у Переяславі у Кузьми Хлюптевича. 16 квітня 1705 — плец Сомковський у вороньківського сотника Івана Берла. 9 грудня 1706 — хутір у Переяславі за річкою Трубежем у Лавріна та Юрка Петренків. 12 травня 1707 — там же хутір у Івана Солодовника. 13 травня того ж року — там же плец у вдови Василя Соломки.

3 липня 1707 отримав гетьманський універсал на греблю на річці Рось. 14 листопада 1708 (після участі у Глухівській раді) — царську грамоту на Биків, Вороньки, Веприк, Білоцерківці, Козацьке, Красне, Усівку та Кулажинці. 20 листопада того ж року отримав універсал гетьмана Івана Скоропадського на Горобіївку та Хмільну у Канівському полку на Правобережжі. 23 вересня 1709 отримав гетьманський універсал на ґрунти біля Богуслава на річці Чеборті (?).

На ранг полковника тримав Скопці, Великий Крупіль, Козлів, Леляки, Помоклі, Вінинці, Хоцьки, Стовп'яги, Старе, Кальне, Войтівці, Лісняки (?), Соснову, Ташань, слободу Безуглівку (придбав), Семенівку (осадив).

2 липня 1714 отримав гетьманський універсал на Богушкову Слобідку, Нехайки, Войтівці та Коврайські Хутори. 3 грудня того ж року купив окіп і гай у козака Березанської сотні Степана Яненка. 14 грудня — ліс у Комарівці у військових товаришів Андрія Богданенка та Тимофія Степаненка. 21 січня 1715 — ліс і лан при селі Мала Каратуль в Олексія Чортонка.

Родина

Першим шлюбом був одружений з Варварою Войтович. 1698 одружився другим шлюбом з Пелагеєю — донькою чернігівського полковника Якова Лизогуба. Пелагея Томара померла у 1715, невдовзі після чоловіка, у Прилуках, по дорозі до Глухова, куди вона їхала клопотатися перед гетьманом щодо чоловікової спадщини. Від двох шлюбів мав трьох синів і дев'ятьох доньок (більшість дітей від другого шлюбу).

 Син Василь (? — 1736) — наказний переяславський полковник (1715, 1730, 1731, 1735-1736), загинув у Кримському поході;
 Син Модест (світське ім'я невідоме) — архімандрит Михайлівського Золотоверхого монастиря.

Через шлюби дітей поріднився з козацько-старшинськими родинами Гриневичів, Кулябок, Черняхівських, Зарудних, Дуніних-Борковських, Марковичів, Саковичів, Кондратьєвих, Фридрикевичів, Леонтовичів, Синдаровських, Лисаневичів. За підрахунками В. Кривошеї, родинні зв'язки з Томарами у першій половині XVIII століття мали половина сотників і полкової старшини Переяславського полку. Шлюб доньки Феодосії з Григорієм Фридрикевичем — прийомним онуком Івана Мазепи — зробив Степана Томару свояком гетьмана.

Джерела

 Заруба В. Козацька старшина Гетьманської України (1648—1782): персональний склад та родинні зв'язки. — Дніпропетровськ, 2011.
 Кривошея В. Козацька старшина Гетьманщини: Енциклопедія. — Київ, 2010.
 Модзалевський В. Малоросійський родословник. Том  5. — Київ, 1996.

Уродженці Епіру
Померли в Переяславі
Томари
Військовики Гетьманщини XVII століття
Сотники Гетьманщини та Слобідської України
Переяславські полковники
Соратники та прибічники Івана Мазепи
Греки в Україні
Персоналії:Переяслав


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Kelly Osbourne Gets A New Puppy!
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: black button eyes., caramel, Coyote, Family, fiance, happy birthday, Kelly Osbourne, Luke Worrall;, Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzy's pooch, Pomeranian puppy, Puppy, sid, Woody
And puppy makes four for Kelly Osbourne and her motley family, which includes fiance Luke Worrall; Sid, the Pomeranian puppy she received as a birthday gift last year; and now Woody, a teeny, 1-lb. brown Pom that resembles a ball of caramel fluff with a pair of black button eyes.
Over the course of several messages posted to Twitter in recent days, Osbourne announced that she was traveling on a private plane to pick up a new puppy for her father, Ozzy Osbourne, who had "been so down" since a coyote attacked and killed his dog, Little Bit, last summer.
They found the perfect companion for dad, "We also have my dad's new dog with us I can't wait he is not gonna believe his eyes."
Celebs Take A Stand Against Puppy Mills
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: Against, Alex McCord, Celebs, City, dangers, Heather Morris, horrors, HSUS, Humane Society of the United States, Jesse Metcalfe, Katrina Bowden, Mills, New York, Nigel Barker, Puppy, Puppy Mills, top Puppy Mills
We all know about the dangers and horrors of puppy mills, and hope that sooner rather than later, they come to an end. So the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) recently recruited some celebrities to help spread the message, as they promoted the upcoming season of television shows in New York City.
Katrina Bowden (30 Rock), Jesse Metcalfe (Chase) and Heather Morris (Glee), among others, signed a "Stop Puppy Mills" poster and even filmed video spots urging animal lovers to "make adoption your first option." Reality stars Alex McCord and Nigel Barker lent their names to the cause, as well.
The HSUS Stop Puppy Mills campaign works to crack down on puppy mills through public policy, investigations and humane education. Throughout the past two years, the organization has helped shut down 24 mills and rescue more than 5,200 dogs.
Victoria Beckham — And a Puppy!
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: Ellen von Unwerth, Glamour magazine, Puppy, Victoria Beckham
It's taken a long time for Victoria Beckham to shake her frigid sophisticate image, but after two years in the States, the former Spice Girl has started to show more of her true colors.
Beckham takes to the cover of the March issue of Glamour magazine, dressed in a loose-fitting, casual t-shirt, a pair of denim jeans from her own line … and a little blonde puppy draped over her shoulders! The puppy (not a member of the Beckham family) modeled with Beckham in the rest of the cover shoot, photographed by Ellen von Unwerth, posing inside a basin and wearing a party hat.
The designing mom got down-to-earth in the rest of the spread, as well as in her Q&A, with questions that came from readers. In response to one, she said, "Absolutely [heels make my feet] hurt. Absolutely! I'm not going to lie. But no pain, no gain, as they say. I don't mind. I will suffer. I don't wear heels every day, but when I'm out, that's how I feel confident."
Miley Cyrus Shows Off Her New Puppy
27 Jan 2010 6 Comments
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: Disney Channel, Miley Cyrus, New Puppy, Puppy
You pretty much have to be cute on some level to make it as a star on the Disney Channel. And if degree of cuteness dictates level of success, then Miley Cyrus must be the cutest Disney Channel star of all time. But she's hedging her bets.
Just to keep her cuteness locked down for a little longer, Cyrus — aka Hannah Montana — recently was spotted out and about with her adorably fuzzy new puppy in her arms.
His name is Mate, inspired by Cyrus's nickname for her Australian boyfriend. No word yet to confirm the pooch's breed, but really, who cares? The thing is adorable as all getout. Isn't that all we really need to know?
Jeff Koons's 'Puppy' Named Art Work Of The Decade
05 Jan 2010 1 Comment
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: "art work of the decade", "glorious phantasmagorical masterpiece.", Jeff Koons's, New York, New York Times Style Magazine, Puppy
A giant puppy sculpture made entirely of live flowers has been anointed the "art work of the decade" by New York Magazine. Created by contemporary artist Jeff Koons, the sculpture, simply entitled Puppy, is heralded by the magazine as a "glorious phantasmagorical masterpiece."
Fantastical it is. Over 70,000 flowering plants — including marigolds, petunias, begonias and impatiens — were carefully placed over a soaring stainless steel structure to form the unmistakable image of a West Highland white terrier puppy with its pointed ears and rounded head cocked slightly to the right. Inside the Puppy sculpture, 25 tons of soil kept moist by an internal irrigation system allowed the bright, colorful flowers to stay alive.
But why a puppy? It's a symbol, Koons told the Public Art Fund, of "love, warmth and happiness."
Puppy stopped traffic when it was unveiled at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City in the summer of 2000, where it was declared a "contemporary masterpiece" and a "triumph of scale, color and materials." The colossal sculpture was acquired by art collector Peter Brant, and it sits today on Brant's 53-acre estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, where it costs a reported $75,000 per year to maintain. According to New York Times Style Magazine, each spring, 10 men work for 12 days replanting the tens of thousands of blooms that make up Puppy.
Still, it's all worth it to Puppy's owner, Brant, who considers the sculpture one of Koons's greatest works. "To me it was like the greatest public sculpture that I'd seen, as important as anything done in the last couple of hundred years," Brant told The Art Newspaper earlier this year. "It's probably my favorite work of art."
Deaf Puppy Learns Sign Language
23 Dec 2009 1 Comment
by ezquara in Uncategorized Tags: Deaf Puppy, Dogs Trust Salisbury, Language, Mrs Carley, Newton Tony, Puppy, Sign Language, Snowy Deaf Puppy, Wilts
Snowy was handed in to an animal charity because her owners could not cope with having a deaf dog.However, within just three weeks of training, the four-month-old Jack Russell can sit, stay and walk, by responding to hand gestures. The pet has learned a vocabulary of different commands including, sit, stop, lie down, roll over, come back and walk on.
Staff at the Dogs Trust Salisbury in Newton Tony, Wilts, hope that they will now be able to find Snowy a home because of her newly-acquired obedience.Her trainer, Leslie Carley, described Snowy as "the brightest spark" among the animals at the centre.Mrs Carley, a support relations officer, said: "Snowy is very bright and learned remarkably quickly, so she's picked up half a dozen commands already.
"When she first came in she didn't have a clue what was going on and would chase around causing trouble."But she has these amazing big soft eyes that notice every movement and function better without hearing so she's picked up the sign language amazingly quickly."It's incredibly that she's only four months old – but I suppose it's easy to teach a young dog new tricks."


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IP in More Detail - Overview
Patentsadminip4all20162018-12-12T14:02:52+00:00
Reg. Trade Mark Rights
Academic Discussion
10 Things all businesses should know about Patents
The basic theory of the patent system is the same in all industrialised countries and is very simple. Each jurisdiction, or its personification, grants the inventor an exclusive monopoly for a limited period in his new invention in return for his full disclosure of the invention so that the general public will be able to practice the invention once the patent has expired.
The term 'invention' has been given the meaning used in ordinary speech, and an invention is therefore defined as "the discovery or production of some new or improved process or product".
A patent will only be granted for an invention which meets all of the following criteria:
The invention is new;
The invention involves an inventive step (i.e. it is not obvious);
The invention is capable of industrial application (i.e. it is useful); and which
Is not otherwise excluded by the statutory exceptions to grant.
An invention must not have been publically disclosed before the application for the patent has been filed with at least one patent office.
Once granted, a patent does not give the owner the right to work the invention, but it does give the owner the right to prevent all other third parties without the owner's consent from doing so.
The owner of the patent is in the first instance, the inventor who is the person or persons that actually devised the invention. However, where the invention was devised by an employee in the course of his employment, the owner of the patent will be his employer.
A patent will remain in force for up to 20 years subject to the payment of an annual renewal fee.
The cost of obtaining a patent will vary and will depend up on the subject matter of the invention (e.g. is it a chemical or pharmaceutical process or a mechanical device), and its complexity. However, an inventor should always seek the assistance of a qualified patent attorney to ensure that the patent application is drafted correctly. A sum of at least £3,000 should be set aside to fund the filing of a simple UK patent application.
The average time to receive notice of the grant of a patent is three to four years from the date of filing at the UK Patent Registry.
A successful claim for infringement of a patent can be made against a third party who did not know he was infringing a patent or that a patent was even in force. In such circumstances, however, the remedies available to the patent owner may be more limited.


Destruction of the Trevaughan Toll-House.
Thomas Howell and David Howell, were charged (together with other persons to the jurors unknown), with having, on the 13th of February last , at the parish of Lampeter Velfrey, in the county of Penbroke, unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, did then and there unlawfully, and with force, demolish and pull down the dwelling-house of one William Rees, there situate. They were further charged with demolishing and pulling down the office of the said William Rees, and in other counts, with beginning to demolish, &c.
Mr. Chilton [Counsel for the Crown] addressed the Jury as follows:— The prisoners at the bar were charged with riotously and tumultuously assembling, with other persons, and unlawfully demolishing the dwelling-house of William Rees. The question you will have to try is, whether the two prisoners, or either of them, were acting in the outrage which took place at Trevaughan, on the 13th of February last . It will surprise you, that persons in their station in life should be so engaged. It is my duty to advert to that of which you are not ignorant, namely, that there has prevailed in this and the adjoining county, what I may term a war of extermination against the toll-gates on the roads. I regret the circumstance most unfeignedly, and I am sure my learned friend will join with me in the wish, that the result of this trial may have the effect of explaining to the misguided people, that they are in the wrong. Roads in this country are almost necessaries of life, and they cannot be kept in repair, unless funds are raised for the purpose. Lawless men may just as well invade your farms, because you cannot give away the produce of them, as that people should destroy toll-gates because the keepers of them exact the tolls which are lawfully demanded for passing over the roads. The evidence by which I shall call upon you to come to the conclusion that the prisoners did take a part in the outrage is the following:— Wm. Rees will tell you, that he is the keeper of the Trevaughan gates; he has been tenant of the tolls for one or two years; he will tell you that within a short time the gates have been three times taken away by mobs. This so much alarmed him, that he became afraid to sleep in the toll-house. He used to go about ten o'clock in the evening to sleep in the house of Rees Isaacs, a little distance off, and subsequently he slept in the house of David Thomas. He will tell you that, on the night of the 13th of February last , he had not been long at Thomas's house, before Rees Isaacs came to inform him that "Rebecca was at the gates." He immediately ran towards the gates, and went into a garden belonging to the cottage of Keturah Howell, about 100 yards from them. This place commanded a full view of the toll-house and gates, but it was not near enough to enable him to distinguish the features of any of the parties engaged in the work of destruction. He reckoned from 16 to 20 persons there, and heard the discharge of fire arms. He saw them employed in carrying pieces of wood, the fragments of the toll house and gates, across a field near the toll-house, towards the river Taff, for the purpose of throwing them into the river. After the house had been pulled down, the mob ran across this field as if alarmed, and dispersed. Rees then went towards the toll-house, and in ten minutes after he saw the prisoner, Thomas Howell, coming on, in company with two other persons whom he did not know, across the field I have spoken of, in a direction from the river. Thomas Howells then addressed him as follows:— "It is hard on you to lose your house, you had better come with me to get a damper." After that Thomas Howells went on in the direction of the bridge, which would lead him to Whitland. The next witness I will call before you is Lewis Griffiths; he will tell you that between eight and nine, on the night of the 13th of February , he went to bed at the Goldon Lion, in Whitland. There were two persons sleeping with him. Some time afterwards he was awakened by a voice calling out, "Rebecca is come." Thomas Howell, one of the prisoners, was at the bedside, and gave him some beer. Howell then left the room, and Griffiths hastily dressed himself, and went out after him; he overtook Howell and David Thomas, the son of the landlord of the Golden Lion, who were going towards the toll-house. When they got to Trevaughan bridge, he saw remnants of the gates being carried to the river, and he saw the mob busily engaged in pulling down the house. At this time, a man approached them with a gun, and snapped the cap on it. Thomas Howell then cried out "Hurrah, Rebecca." The man took off his hat, asked for money, and Thomas Howell took some out of his pocket, and put it into the hat. The man then went off, and Howell, Griffiths, and Thomas followed him towards the gates; when they got there, the mob were at work pulling the house down. Griffiths will tell you that David Howell, the other prisoner, was on the pine end of the house, at work with a hatchet, which he once dropped, and Lewis Griffiths picked it up, and gave it back to him. The man who had the gun then came up, and said to Thomas Howells, "you must take this while I work;" and Howell with the gun kept back the people, who were pushing towards the house. Shortly after, Howell returned the gun to the man, and took up a shovel, with which he began to pull down the house. After a short time, a cry was heard, "they are coming," when the mob all ran towards the river. They then returned, and called at Benjamin Watt's house, where they had some beer; after which, Lewis Griffiths returned to the Golden Lion, and went to bed. These gentlemen are the facts against the prisoners, in addition to which I shall call before you the Rev. John Evans, who committed the prisoners on this charge, who will tell you that, when he asked the prisoner, Thomas Howell, if he had anything to say, he answered, that he was not at the Golden Lion at all on the night in question, and he called a man named Walter John to prove this; but when John was examined, he was obliged to admit that both he and Thomas Howell had been at the Golden Lion that night, and that he left Howell there. Gentlemen, I humbly submit, that if I am able to bring these proofs before you, it will be your painful duty to find the prisoners guilty; if you have any doubt on the subject, of course you will, under the direction of his Lordship, give the prisoners or either of them the benefit of that doubt.
William Rees examined by Mr. N. Carne:— I live at Trevaughan, in the parish of Lampeter-Velfrey, in this county. I am the tenant of the Trevaughan toll gates. I occupied the toll-house up to the time of its destruction. The house is situated between the two gates. I rent the tolls under the Trustees of the Whitland Trust. There was an attack on the house and gates on the night of the 16th January The gates have been destroyed three times. I slept in the house till the 16th January , and not after. Between that time and the 13th February , the house was repaired. I was there in the evening of the 13th , and left about ten o'clock . The reason why I did not sleep there after the 16th January was, because the windows were not glazed. I went to David Thomas's house to sleep on the 13th February ; his house is about 300 yards from the gates. I went to bed about twelve o'clock , and had not been there long before Rees Isaacs came, and told me they were breaking the gates. I then got up, and went through the fields to Keturah Howells's garden. This was about 80 yards from the toll-house. I could see the toll-house clearly from where I stood. I heard a great noise, and saw them tearing down the gates. I saw about twenty persons there. I did not go near, because I was afraid. They were throwing stones at the people who peeped out. I saw the mob carrying the toll bar and the timber from the house towards the river, which ran along-side of a field at the back of Martha Phillips's house. Whilst I was looking at the mob, they all ran away at once; some ran through the road, and others across the field towards the river. After they left, I went towards the toll-house. I found the roof destroyed, also the front wall; the joists of the floor were down at one end. I know the prisoner, Thos. Howell. I have known him for three or four years. I saw him that night about ten minutes after the toll-house had been pulled down; he came over the hedge from the meadow behind Martha Phillips's house. There were two or three persons with him. I don't know whether Lewis Griffiths was there. Thomas Howell said to me, "Rebecca has done bad work to pull down the house." I said, "Yes, and I am very cold." Thomas Howell said, "You had better have a damper of ale." This was in Welsh. Thomas Howell then went towards Trevaughan bridge, and one of the men went with him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Evans [one of the lawyers for the accused "by special permission"]:— I knew Thomas Howell very well, and he knew me, as the toll-keeper. I was standing near the toll-house when he spoke to me. This gate had been erected between forty and fifty years.
Lewis Griffiths examined by Mr. Chilton:— I live at Pant-y-park Mill, and am a miller. I was at the Golden Lion, Whitland, on the 13th February . I went to bed there between nine and ten o'clock . I slept on the ground floor. There were two other men who slept with me; they went to bed before me. I think one of them was Griffith Griffiths, of Llanddarog. I went to Whitland to sell pigs. I went asleep, and was awakened by Thos. Howell; he attempted to drench me with beer. About this time, a man came in, and said, "Rebecca is come." I did not know Thomas Howell before. He and John Thomas then went out, and the pig drovers and I got up and followed. I overtook Thomas Howell and John Thomas. The latter is the son of the landlord of the Golden Lion. Thomas Howell said, "We had better go down near the toll-house." I said, "better not." We went across a field over a brook towards Trevaughan bridge. While standing on the bridge, a man came up with a gun in his hand. I saw the flash of a percussion cap. Thomas Howell then cried out, "Hurrah, Becca." The man then begged some money of Thos. Howell, and he gave him some; the man seemed to grumble at it, when Howell gave him some more. The man then asked me for money. I said, I had none for him. The man then went back, and Howell asked if he should come on, when the man gave a turn with the gun for him to come. We then went on to the toll-house. When I got there, I saw the prisoner, David Howell, on the pine end of the toll-house; he had a hatchet in his hand, which he dropped. I picked it up, and gave it to him. There were from sixteen to twenty engaged. When we got there, Thos. Howell took the gun from the man who carried it, and the man took up a shovel and began tearing the house. A little while after, the man said, "I must have the gun, and you must work." Thomas Howell then returned the gun and took the shovel, and began to tear down the house. An alarm was then given that somebody was coming. The people then ran across a field towards the river. Thomas Howell, David Thomas, and I, went with them. After a time we came back again across the field; the other people went off in a different direction. When we returned, Thomas Howell spoke to a person who I think was the gate-keeper; they spoke in Welsh. We then crossed the bridge to Watts's house, and had some beer. I left Howell and Thomas there, and returned to the Golden Lion. There were two of the men who had petticoats on, and something about their heads.
Cross-examined by Mr. Evans:— This was in the middle of the night. All the people ran out of the Golden Lion when the cry came that "Becca was come." I am not a daughter of Becca. I went there to see what was going on. The gate is about a quarter of a mile from the Golden Lion. I was close to Thomas Howell all the time, except when he had the gun. English was spoken when they were tearing down the house. The man with the gun spoke to Howell in English; he said, "I want some money, Howell." That was the first time I knew Howell's name. I went to Whitland fair on Monday , the pig fair was on Tuesday . I stopped there four days. I heard of the reward of 100l. on Friday . I did not hear about it on Tuesday morning . I mentioned about Howell on Friday before I heard of the reward. I staid at Whitland four days to find out more about Rebecca. I had never seen Thos. Howell before that night. I had seen David Howell on the Monday . I had beer in me when I went to bed. I was not drunk. I saw Thos. Howell at Whitland the night after the toll-house was destroyed, and had some quarrel with him. I wanted to find out Rebecca because I thought it was an unlawful thing.
Rev. John Evans:– I am a Magistrate for this county. The prisoners were committed by me on this charge. I asked Thos. Howell if he had anything to say, after cautioning him not to say anything that might injure himself. He said he had not been at the Golden Lion that night, that Walter John had gone in to light his pipe, and came out, and accompanied Howell to Llwyndrissy gate. Walter John was examined on behalf of the prisoner. Howell said to him, you know you came with me to Llwyndrissy gate. Walter hesitated for a short time, and said he would speak the truth.
Examined by Mr. Evans:– This was not taken down in writing.
Walter John examined by Mr. N. Carne:– This witness proved that the prisoner, Thomas Howell, had, on the night of the 13th , accompanied him from St. Clears to the Golden Lion, where John left him and went home.
John Thomas, landlord of the Golden Lion, was also called to prove that Thomas Howell was in his house, when the cry came that Becca had arrived.
Mr. Evans then addressed the jury for the prisoners in a most able speech, in the course of which he strongly animadverted on the testimony of Lewis Griffiths. He pointed out the improbabilities of his story, and submitted that Griffiths had selected the prisoner, Thos. Howell, as his victim, in order to gain the reward of 100l., and to get his revenge on him, for the quarrel that took place between them on the night after the destruction of the gates. He did not deny that the prisoner, Thos. Howell, was present, but he contended that he was there only in the character of a spectator; the riot had commenced before he arrived, and it was shewn, by the evidence of Walter John, that Thos. Howell had been at St. Clears all day, and therefore could not have been aware of the attack. As far as concerned the prisoner, David Howell, the only evidence that touched him was that given by Lewis Griffith, and he (Mr. Evans) confidently submitted that the jury could not, on the unsupported testimony of a drunken man, convict either of the prisoners of the charge.
His Lordship shortly summed up, leaving it to the jury to say, whether, on the evidence adduced, they could find the prisoners, or either of them guilty. If they had any doubt, of course the prisoners were entitled to the benefit of it.
The jury the retired, and in about ten minutes returned with a verdict of "Not Guilty" for both prisoners.
As soon as the audience heard the verdict, they signified their approbation of it by a loud and long cheer, which with great difficulty was silenced.
It sounds like Lewis Griffith wasn't a particularly convincing witness, but I note also that the prosecutor felt the need to condescend to the jury by telling them how important it was that society not just permit people to go around destroying toll gates they don't like. Evidently, he didn't think this point was sufficiently well-established. This may mean that jury nullification was another explanation for the verdict — that the jury thought the accused had indeed done the deed, but that such a deed didn't make them "guilty" in the jury's eyes.
Henry Tobit Evans, in his book on the Rebecca Riots, says that "On their [the defendants'] committal, his [Griffith's] departure was hissed and hooted by a crowd of women and girls who had assembled to witness it." But I don't know what became of him after the trial.