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Some people are required to return Economic Impact Payments that were sent erroneously
The IRS and the U.S. Treasury had disbursed 160.4 million Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) as of May 31, 2020, according to a new report. These are the payments being sent to eligible individuals in response to the economic threats caused by COVID-19. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that $269.3 billion of EIPs have already been sent through a combination of electronic transfers to bank accounts, paper checks and prepaid debit cards.
Eligible individuals receive $1,200 or $2,400 for a married couple filing a joint return. Individuals may also receive up to an additional $500 for each qualifying child. Those with adjusted gross income over a threshold receive a reduced amount.
Deceased individuals
However, the IRS says some payments were sent erroneously and should be returned. For example, the tax agency says an EIP made to someone who died before receipt of the payment should be returned. Instructions for returning the payment can be found here: https://bit.ly/31ioZ8W
The entire EIP should be returned unless it was made to joint filers and one spouse hadn't died before receipt. In that case, you only need to return the EIP portion made to the decedent. This amount is $1,200 unless your adjusted gross income exceeded $150,000. If you cannot deposit the payment because it was issued to both spouses and one spouse is deceased, return the check as described in the link above. Once the IRS receives and processes your returned payment, an EIP will be reissued.
The GAO report states that almost 1.1 million payments totaling nearly $1.4 billion had been sent to deceased individuals, as of April 30, 2020. However, these figures don't "reflect returned checks or rejected direct deposits, the amount of which IRS and the Treasury are still determining."
In addition, the IRS states that EIPs sent to incarcerated individuals should be returned.
Payments that don't have to be returned
The IRS notes on its website that some people receiving an erroneous payment don't have to return it. For example, if a child's parents who aren't married to each other both get an additional $500 for the same qualifying child, one of them isn't required to pay it back.
But each parent should keep Notice 1444, which the IRS will mail to them within 15 days after the EIP is made, with their 2020 tax records.
Some individuals still waiting
Be aware that the government is still sending out EIPs. If you believe you're eligible for one but haven't received it, you will be able to claim your payment when you file your 2020 tax return.
If you need the payment sooner, you can call the IRS EIP line at 800-919-9835 but the Treasury Department notes that "call volumes are high, so call times may be longer than anticipated."
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A rhinoceros hide shield or dhal with four large and two smaller enamelled and diamond inlaid bosses in the form of curled-up cheetahs. An enamelled and diamond crescent-shaped mount fixed to the top of the shield and in the centre, a diamond-shaped openwork ornament inlaid with emeralds and diamonds. This type of 'mount' was usually attached to ornate sashes worn as belt and was probably added to the shield once the Prince returned to England. The edge of the shield is embellished with a gold textile border embroidered with pearls in floral motifs.
The whole shield was originally lacquered, but by the time of its presentation to the Prince, the lacquer had worn off to leave a speckled surface suggesting that the shield predates the tour. Given the large size of the shield and its lavish ornamentation, it was probably adapted for ceremonial wear.


Focal-plane, speeds 1 - 1/1000, B. Speeds are varied by delaying the second blind. Flash synchronisation.
Auto-stop on film advance coupled to shutter. Film advance tensions shutter.
Microscope attachment. Comprises: Prontor-Press shutter, speeds 1 - 1/125, B, T, with flash synchronisation; Focusing telescope and beam splitter; 1/3x tube to attach camera to shutter.
The MD was a simplified model without rangefinder or view-finder, it was intended for use with a microscope or other scientific uses. It was replaced by the MDa in 1966.


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Chair's biography
Full Name: Roy Wilsher
Born: (yr) 1963 in Barnet, North London, England
Career History: Roy began his career in the Fire Service in 1981, in North London leading onto various roles there and the West End. In 1996 Roy achieved a 1st Class B.Eng(Hons) Fire Safety Engineering. In 1998 Roy became Senior Divisional Fire Safety Officer, responsible for 11 boroughs in North and West London. Became a Chartered Engineer in 2000. Roy was project lead for the restructure of London Fire Brigade in 2001, and became Assistant Commissioner for Fire Safety in London in 2002. In 2004 Roy joined Hertfordshire as Deputy Chief Fire Officer and was appointed Chief Fire Officer in 2005. In April 2011 Roy took up an expanded role of Director for Community Protection and Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire, including county wide Trading Standards, Emergency Planning and the County Community Safety Unit. From April 2013 to March 2017 Roy was also Chief Executive for Hertfordshire's Police and Crime Commissioner.
Roy was appointed as the first Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) in April 2017.
Roy chairs the Council, a UK wide body and represents NFCC in national and international forums. In his role he also provides support to Officers and Fire & Rescue Services, providing professional advice to Fire Service Management Committee, Home Office and the Devolved Administrations as appropriate.
Previously Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service Roy worked tirelessly to create one of the higher performing and lower cost fire services. Some of Roy's most significant successes in Hertfordshire include:
Introducing the highly successful LiFE scheme; for young people, focusing on reducing arson, anti-social behaviour, as well as building confidence and problem solving skills.
Fire Gold through the Buncefield Oil Terminal fire 2005.
Preparing and overseeing a successful 2012 Olympic Games' national operation as lead National Strategic Adviser.
Roy has played and continues to play a significant role on a national and international level. His major roles and achievements include:
2011 - strategic lead for the UK rescue response for the Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Director of Operations for Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA 2011-2017), Chair of Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) board since inception, Vice-chair of the National Fire Service Strategic Resilience Board, Chair of Fire Service National Operational Guidance Board 2012-2018, now overseeing the NFCC Central Programme Office.
Attending a number of major incidents: the Putney gas explosion, the mortar bomb attack on Downing Street, fire bomb attacks on Oxford Street and Operational Commander for the Paddington rail crash.
Project Director for Exercise Orion in 2010.
Lead National Strategic Adviser under the National Co-ordination and Advisory Framework (NCAF) since 2008. Assisting in a number of national deployments
Chair of CFOA's National Operations Committee 2011-2017.
Member of Expert Panel advising Government following the Grenfell Tragedy
Advice to Fire Standards Board and Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
Represents Fire & Rescue on the Home Office Strategic Capabilities Board
Board Member Defence Fire Risk Management Organisation (DFRMO)
Children's Burns Trust
Honours:
Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM) – Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013
Awarded OBE in New Year's Honours list 2007
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 2002
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, Queen's Golden Jubilee medal
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Dragon candle holders are ornamental and decorative items. These show-products when kept in a room corner or on a table beautify the place. People believe that candle lit pleases the fire elementals and brings good fortune to the aura of the house.
Variety of dragon candle holders made of different materials like gold, bronze, crystal, ivory, gem stones and sandstone are available in the market. You can find these products with a variety of designs and themes like mystical and gothic. Hanging dragon candle holder, biting dragon candle holder, triple dragon candle holder, dragon wizard statue candle holder and hundreds of different designs you can get.
Prezents.co.uk, a leading online store of gifts and home d�cor products, has a wide collection of dragon candle holders in different materials, colors, designs and themes. It has two Celtic dragon knot candle holders in Gothic gray, 14cm in height, costs 5.10 pounds. Excalibers sword with dragon in gothic gray, 22cm in length, costs 12.72 pounds. Megalithic dragon candle holder in gothic gray with crystal ball, 19cm in height, costs 12.72 pounds. Two Celtic entwined dragon candle holders in Gothic gray with Celtic design and dragon figure, 13cm in height, costs 11.91 pounds. There are so many other varieties of these products in the portal.
The site has also other dragon-themed items like dragon lamps. There is a magnificent gothic gray dragon supporting a frosted flame shade on a Celtic design base, 36cm in height, values 22.12 pounds. A dragon lava lamp comes fitted with a UK plug and a blue water, red wax bottle and a purple dragon creates the base and a smaller dragon sits on the top, 48cm in length, costs 29.78 pounds.
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Did Google take data from your WiFi?
We might all be part of a class-action lawsuit against Google
By Greg Crowe
It looks as though there is a line forming to sue Google over its collecting wireless user data with the company's Street View camera vehicles.
As Google's camera cars ambled down streets taking and uploading pictures, they also allegedly scooped up some other data fragments from unencrypted wireless networks. Massachusetts is trying to get all Wi-Fi users in the state as part of a class action suit, while Oregon wants its class to include users in Oregon and Washington state. California, meanwhile, is seeking class-action status for all U.S. residents. Really? I'm suing Google now?
Google had admitted earlier this month that the company has been collecting this data for a couple years, and didn't realize it was doing it. Google claims that code for an early experimental project wound up in the Street View code. Whether you believe Google, I can tell you from experience that version control is the second hardest thing to accomplish in software development. The only thing more difficult is getting programmers to document their code. The more people that work on a project, the harder it is to make sure that the most current version of each and every piece is present before you compile the code. This makes me inclined to believe Google when it says it was unintentional.
Intentional or not, is it actionable? Some attorneys have said that there may not be a case because the data was already publicly accessible. Also, plaintiffs may have to prove that a person's specific data was collected in order to be part of the suit. So I may not be suing Google after all.
Unfortunately, what companies like Google may learn from this is that when you make a mistake, stay quiet. Google made the announcement of the discovery that the company had inadvertently been collecting this data, and as thanks for its honesty, the company gets sued by everyone in the U.S.
I don't really have a good answer here. I just know I need to get my suit dry-cleaned. I want to make a good impression in court in case I end up suing Google.
Greg Crowe is a former GCN staff writer who covered mobile technology.


MATHURA, India — Salma Khan, a petite, young woman, shows off her one room store where she sells food products such as lentils, flour, packaged noodles and biscuits. She is particularly pleased about two recent additions to her tiny village shop. In the midst of the stacks of groceries is a pedestal fan that helps her combat summer heat of above 40 C, and high on the wall in one corner is a foot-long fluorescent light. Both are powered by a battery connected to a solar panel on the roof of the shop.
Simpa Networks, a company headquartered in Noida, a vibrant business district near New Delhi, supplied her with the energy pack that came equipped with lights, a small fan and ports that can be used for charging two mobile phones.
It is not cheap. Customers have to make a down payment of 2,500 rupees ($43.2) and then pay monthly installments of about 780 rupees over 28 months before they get to keep the kit. But in a country where about 400 million people have no access to power, Companies like Simpa are playing a crucial role in bridging the "power gap" in a country with a notorious infrastructure.
For every household in India to have electricity, 750 houses need to be connected every hour for the next 10 years, according to Arunabha Ghosh, founder of Clean Energy Access Network, an alliance of businesses taking clean energy to the nation's poorest communities. "That's the kind of challenge and opportunity we're talking about," he said.
"There's a correlation between being off-grid and being poor," said Nikhil Jaisinghani, co-founder of Mera Gao Power (Hindi for My Village Power). It is another startup that takes solar power to villagers in Uttar Pradesh. He said the "microgrids" set up by his company reach rural villages, unlike the national power lines.
There are roughly 250 such companies operating in India and most are tiny and unprofitable. Solar power companies have an additional hurdle — during monsoon season, their products cannot charge to full capacity and customers often complain.
Yet some of them believe they are on the path to a sustainable business model. Simpa, for example, started out in 2011 and it now has several branches that are profitable even if the company itself — still investing heavily — is not.
Most of these companies buy existing technology and bundle it up at affordable prices to encourage potential customers to replace kerosene lanterns and candles with solar power. They offer a variety of solutions ranging from solar-powered lights to setting up solar power microgrids that can power a hamlet of up to a hundred homes.
Salma, 21, and her husband Nawab Khan, 25, are typical beneficiaries of this service. They live in Son, a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest and one of its poorest.
Of its 33 million households, only 12 million have electricity. Twenty million rely on kerosene and 67,000 are too poor even for that, according to government data.
The Khans used to count themselves lucky for being on the grid, even if they only had power for less than five hours a day, and certainly not every day. They often had to rely on kerosene lanterns and candles to get through their evening chores. That all changed three months ago when they bought Simpa's energy pack, along with around 50 others in their village. It came with three lights. Apart from the one in the store, a second light is installed in the room where their four daughters sleep, while the third is on their veranda.
"Earlier the house would get black with soot from the kerosene lamps," said Salma. "Now it's clean," she said, pointing to the smooth, blotch-free ceiling. A door from the children's room opens out into the courtyard, where the toilet is. The illumination from the light in the children's room is strong enough to brighten the courtyard and she no longer has to take her youngest daughter, eight-month-old Nahira, to the bathroom in the dark. Nor does she have to worry about the kerosene lamps being tipped over by her children when they play.
Shyam Singh, another resident in Son village, said his four daughters could study before they go to school at half-past six in the morning now that they have a Simpa-powered light.
Singh, who runs a drugstore in Son, said his home was supposed to be connected to electricity but the power has never worked. "Now, I don't even remember that we have it," he said.
Simpa currently has close to 7,000 customers in the state and is adding up to 1 thousand a month.
MGP, Jaisinghani's company, focuses on hamlets of up to 1 hundred households. It constructs a microgrid by stringing together two solar panels within 90 meters of a village and then puts up distribution lines to connect the grid to the homes. Every home in the village that has signed up gets lights and mobile phone chargers for a one time connection fee of 50 rupees and a weekly service fee of 25 rupees. And all of this takes just day to set up.
"It's not a household solution, it's a village solution," said Jaisinghani.
It has so far wired up 1 thousand hamlets or about 17,000 homes across Uttar Pradesh.
Another company, OMC Power, offers a different model altogether. It was set up by former executives from the telecom sector and it provides solar power to telecom towers in rural India. Telecom companies become their "anchor customers" and it piggy-backs on that business to offer solar power to villages in the vicinity of the towers. Now, two-thirds of its revenues are coming from those rural households.
To do that, OMC offers villagers a solar lantern that costs 150 rupees a month. It generates up to 10 watts of electricity, enough to light a room. A more expensive solution is the bijli box (bijli is Hindi for electricity). For 350 rupees a month, customers can power two solar lanterns, a fan and a cellphone charger.
These products need to be recharged every night and the company uses a "milkman delivery model" to serve its customers, says Anil Raj, chief executive and co-founder of OMC. Every morning, OMC delivers to each household a fully-charged lantern or bijli box to replace the depleted one.
He said India's solar sector today resembles the country's telecom sector back in the mid-1990s, when that was just opening up. "And it has as much, and maybe even more, transformative power as the telecom sector," Raj said.


SPOKANE, Wash. – The glow that burnt by a Mayfair Professional Building in North Spokane on Friday broken Jeff Henneberg's dental office, though a business will lift on.
Dr. Henneberg and his staff separate their time between dual offices: a North Spokane plcae where it took in patients on Thursdays and Fridays and another bureau during Spokane Valley where they take patients Monday by Wednesday.
CHARLESTOWN — On Saturday, a staff of Arrowhead Dental Associates gave South County residents incompetent to means unchanging dental caring something to grin about.
LOGAN TWP. – Bright colors and fun scenes cover a walls during Holdbrook Pediatric Dentistry, a township's newest office, that non-stop the doors to new patients Monday.


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A Haunting of My Own
Mr. Grumpy's seething was replaced with grudging tolerance. He was still watching me, but if I played it cool, he would, too.
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Myersville, Maryland.
This Halloween, I will be the guest speaker of the Myersville-Wolfsville Area Historical Society, presenting on local ghosts and paranormal phenomenon. Whilst this part of Maryland is rich in folkloric creatures such as a flying monster called the Snallygaster, or the Veiled Lady—a sort of banshee who plagued the environs of South Mountain—neither these nor other similar tales are particularly believable or verifiable.
I will stretch as far afield as Antietam and Gettysburg for parts of my lecture, but one paranormal story, at least, will be from Myersville, and it is my own. I share it now knowing it could be as figmental as the ghostly forms that once circled above Frederick's Rose Hill Manor, or the Christmas Eve Phantom Flutist of Emmitsburg, who purportedly plays, as he did in life, over his dead father's grave.
The setting for this tale is the cemetery of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, directly across Main Street from my home.
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Author Ann Longmore-EtheridgePosted on September 13, 2018 December 29, 2018 Categories ghostsTags Attila Von Szalay, electronic voice phenomenon, Frank Sumption, Frederick County, Frederick Jurgenson, geneology, ghost box, ghosts, history, Instrumental Transcommunication, Maryland, Myersville, Myersville-Wolfsville Historial Society, paranormal research, people, Raymond Bayliss, religion, Routzhan family, Sarah Wilson Estep, science, technology, United States, USA1 Comment on A Haunting of My Own
"There Lived an Old Man in Our Little Place"
Every village has its quirky characters. My own, Myersville, Maryland, was once home to a cantankerous teacher, reverend, and still-breaker nicknamed "Buffalo Bill."
Main Street and Wolfsville Road, Myersville, Maryland, circa 1905. Courtesy Myersville and Wolfsville Area Historical Society.
"Myersville—Emphasizing the need for lights in the streets of Myersville, there was a stoning encounter on Saturday night, when Robert J. Ridgely, a school teacher at Burkittsville and a resident of Myersville, was stoned by four or five young men of the town. Reports have it that Mr. Ridgely stoned back, but as the teacher could not be located this morning, this could not be verified.
Frederick News, 6 October, 1915
Mr. Ridgley has an ugly cut over one eye, which bled profusely, and Wilber Shepley, one of those in the in the party stoning Mr. Ridgley, also has a cut, probably inflicted by a stone, although one report has it that Mr. Shepley sustained the cut by striking a telephone pole, while running.
"The stoning incident has aroused a number of people in the town, and it is stated that there is a stronger sentiment for electric lights, many residents claiming the affair would not have happened had the town been well lighted."
The victim in this article, Robert Johnson Ridgley was born in Myersville in January 1867 to William Worth Ridgley (1822-1901) and his wife Martha Matilda Johnson (1834-1920). (Note: The family name is spelled variously as Ridgely, Ridgeley, and Ridgley. For consistency only, I am using the latter.) William Ridgley was well-known in the area for his success as a farmer although he was blind. His tenacity and determination were inherited by his son.
As an adult, Robert Ridgley received a scholarship from the Maryland State Normal School in Baltimore, later rechristened Towson University, starting his studies in September 1895. Before that, he was a teacher at Loys Public School. After his father's death, he lived with his mother and a servant, Susan Shank, the latter of whom worked for Ridgley until at least until 1940. Keeping a long-term, live-in servant of this type is a positive testimony to Ridgely's character, which was sometimes maligned by his fellow Myersvillians.
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Author Ann Longmore-EtheridgePosted on July 25, 2018 December 29, 2018 Categories Murder and MayhemTags 19th century, 20th Century, agriculture, Church of the Brethren, crime, Dunkards, Edwardian era, Frederick County, Harmony, homosexuality, Internal Revenue Service, Maryland, moonshiners, Myersville, newspaper reports, people, prohibition, religion, Ridgley family, social customs, teaching, transexuality, United Brethren, United States, USA, Victorian era3 Comments on "There Lived an Old Man in Our Little Place"
A Widower's Search for Solace
"Some of my best friends have told me that I need not expect to be happy anymore unless I would marry again and have advised me to do so."
Letter from Joseph Brown to Emeline Hoffman, page one. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection.
Myersville, July 10th, 1852
Dear Emeline,
I hope you will not think hard of me for thus approaching you so unexpectedly, as my mind has bin [sic] for some time a good deal taken up with you in regard to coming to see you in order to have some private conversations with you, not knowing at all whether my company would be agreeable or not, but take this plan of ascertaining something about the state of your mind.
Dear Emma, you are well acquainted with me and know all about my situation. You know that I have bin unfortunate in the loss of a very dear and kind companion, one in who my whole soul delighted to honor and respect. But she has gone I trust from a world of trouble and sorrow to one of happiness and joy, and I can have no more comfort nor consolation from her anymore, only with a firm hope and expectation of meeting her again in those blissful regions where parting shall be no more. I can do no more than to respect her memory, which I will ever do.
We read in the Bible that it is not good for man to be alone. I have realized that to be a very true saying indeed. I was once as happy as any person could be in the enjoyment in the company of my much-lamented Mary, but how different my case. With all I have I have no enjoyment & some of my best friends have told me that I need not expect to be happy anymore unless I would marry again and have advised me to do so, although I do not wish to do so for some time yet. But I have come to the conclusion to do so providing I can suit myself. I now feel like a lost sheep, lonely and without anyone to cheer me or comfort me, and if it was not for the comforts and the consolations of religion, I would often times have to despair in sorrow. But thanks be to God that he still comforts and consoles me. I find that I can never be happy again in this world without fixing my affection on one again in who I am satisfied will be a kind companion to me, and dear Emeline, you appear to the only one I can have any idea of going to see at the present and of fixing my affection upon.
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Postcards: Email by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
"Thank you dear for the nice letter you sent us and all the kisses. Hope you are a good boy. Did you throw Herbert out of bed Sunday morning?"
Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection.
Today's postcards convey "Wish you were here!" almost exclusively, but in the first decades of the 20th Century this method regularly moved information to friends and family who resided even just a few miles away. The short messages often read much like modern email, and when in combination with the photos on the front, can seem like old-school versions of modern Facebook posts.
On 4 March, 1914, this cheerful, beautifully colored postcard of Hagerstown, Maryland's Broadway (above) was sent to Mrs. C. L. Pennison, Newton, Massachusetts, care of Peckitts on Sugar Hill. The message reads, "Dear Catherine, I was pleased to get your card on Monday while at home. But surprised to hear you are in the White Mountains. I hope you will soon recover your health up there. We were in the midst of a blizzard Monday but are enjoying pleasant weather now. I am well and enjoy my work. Yours, B."
Ann Longmore-Collection.
This postcard of the Washington Street Bridge, Monticello, Indiana, was addressed to Miss Ruthie Brown of Modesto, Illinois, and mailed 4 July, 1913. The reverse reads, "Dear Ruth: This is where I am spending the day. This morning our car struck a buggy just as we were going up the hill beyond this bridge. I hope you are having a lovely vacation. Would like to hear from you very much. Grace Mc. 1 Danville, Ind."
Courtesy Jack and Beverly Wilgus Collection.
Beverly Wilgus, the owner of this example, writes, "This postcard was mailed by a grandfather to his granddaughter in November, 1912. The caption 'Tommy's first and Turkey's last picture" [has an] unpleasant edge. The image is embossed and gives the figures a slight 3D effect. It was sent to Dorothy Flower in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, by Grandpa Midley."
The message reads, "Dear Dorothy: How would you like to have your picture taken this way? I suppose you would rather have some of the turkey to eat. Hope you will have some for your Thanksgiving dinner. Am going to try to get to No. Uxbridge to see you soon."
Courtesy James Morley Collection.
Margaret Ripley was a nurse in France during World War I. The above is one of a series of postcards she sent to her sister back in Surrey, England. "Had 2 nice days here unfortunately Louvre & all museums shut but seen as much as possible. Off to Dunkirk tomorrow to typhoid hospital—so glad to feel we may at last get real work in connection with war. Have enjoyed our week's holiday very much & were hoping to stay on here a few more days. Love to E & children. Hope they are well again. Mar."
Although the photographic image is from a decade previous, this postcard's stamp was cancelled 24 December, 1922. Addressed to Mr. S. Schmall, 4549 Calumet St., Chicago, Illinois, the delightful message reads: "Thank you dear for the nice letter you sent us and all the kisses. Hope you are a good boy. Did you throw Herbert out of bed Sunday morning? Love to you & all. Aunt Alice."
Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection
Postmarked 30 October, 1917, this postcard was sent by the United Brethren Sunday School of Myersville, Maryland, to Helen Keller and family. "U B ready for the U.B. Rally. We need you on Rally Day. Remember the date: Nov. 11th. Do not disappoint us. Help us make this our best Rally Day." (If there was a smiling emoticon after "Do not disappoint us," I would feel less creeped out.)
According to Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary, "In liturgical Protestant churches, Rally Day marks the beginning of the church calendar year. It typically occurs at the end of September or the beginning of October. Although not all Protestant churches observe this day, the customs associated with it include giving Bibles to children, promoting children from one Sunday school grade to the next, welcoming new members into the church, and making a formal presentation of church goals for the coming year."
Beverly Wilgus writes, "This multiple-print, real photo postcard shows two soldiers in a studio prop biplane flying over a real San Antonio streetscape. A banner reading 'San Antonio 1911' flies from the wing. Even though the plane is obviously phony, the two airmen appear to be real pilots since the message on the back reads, 'Our first lesson what do you think of it? Geo.'"
I'm thinking Photoshop, version 1.911. Ω
Author Ann Longmore-EtheridgePosted on February 20, 2017 July 25, 2017 Categories PostcardsTags 1900s, 1910s, 20th Century, biplane, children, communication, Edwardian era, Ellerton, France, girls, handcoloring, Indiana, Maryland, Monticello, Myersville, Paris, postcard, San Antonio, Texas, Thanksgiving, Travel, turkey1 Comment on Postcards: Email by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
Louisa Linebaugh: Moving on from Myersville
At the start of the decade, she lived in a bustling family with every indication of prosperity, as her exuberant mid-1860s teenage fashion shows.
Written on reverse: "Louisa Linebaugh, Myersville, Maryland," albumen carte de visite, circa 1963. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection.
Louisa Caroline Linebaugh was a distant cousin of mine through several of my maternal lines (Dutrow and Summers). She was born 11 September, 1846, in the small rural town of Myersville, Frederick County, Maryland, the daughter of wagonmaker, wheelwright, and farmer Jonathan Linebaugh (1807-1864) and his wife Catharine Shank (1813-1871), whom he married 10 April, 1835. Catharine was the daughter of Jacob Shank (1781-1867) and Catharine Dutrow (1785-1839).
Myersville, Maryland, has been my home for more than 20 years and was also that of my grandfather, Roy Cyrus Garnand, and many generations before him. Until the 21st Century, it was a contentedly rural place—and still remains mostly so, despite the growth of Frederick City and Myersville's inclusion amongst the bedroom communities of both Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
An early 20th Century topographical ode says of the town: "I turn away a moment to a landscape lovelier still, Where bloom the fields that circle 'round historic Myersville, And far beyond the village fair the mountains lift again, The blue peaks rising high above the rich and fruitful plain." (Middletown Valley in Song and Story by Thomas C. Harbaugh, 1910.)
Some of my maternal ancestors were Swiss and Germans who came to Maryland in the 1700s. In 1707, the Swiss explorer Franz-Louis Michel traveled through the area, drew up a map, then went back to Switzerland. Hard on his trail was another Swiss explorer, Christoph von Graffenreid, who also mapped parts of the region. The activities of both these adventurers and their positive descriptions of the fertile land may have directly influenced my Swiss fourth-great-grandfather Georg Gernandt to set sail in late 1737 from Rotterdam to Philadelphia on the ship St. Andrew Galley. After landing on 24 September, Georg took the oath of allegiance and made his way through Pennsylvania to what is now Myersville, knowing that Lord Baltimore had officially thrown open the area for settlement in 1732. Another Swiss fourth-great-grandfather, Johann Jacob Werenfels, was born in Basel 28 January, 1731. He came alone to Philadelphia in 1749 aboard The Crown, which docked in Philadelphia on 30 August, 1749. Werenfels lived for a while in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he met his bride Hannah Hartman. They later came to Frederick County. Jacob and Hannah Werenfels were the parents of 11 children and are buried in the middle of a wheat field on their farm south of modern-day Wolfsville.
An antique postcard of the Moravian Church in Oley where the Leinbachs worshipped.
The Linebaughs can be traced to Germany, where they generally used the spelling Leinbach. Johannes Leinbach was born in today's Langenselbold, Isenberg, Hessen—then the princedom of the Count of Isenburg-Birstein—on 9 March, 1674, and is believed to have emigrated to America in 1723. By his death on 27 November, 1747, he was in Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania—the father of at least seven children and a respected member of the Moravian Christian sect with its five guiding principles of simplicity, happiness, unintrusiveness, fellowship, and service. Leinbach's eldest son, Friedrich Johan, was born July 15, 1703, in Germany, before his family emigrated, and died 6 July, 1784 in Graceham, Frederick County. John Linebaugh, as he became known, was the Linebaughs' first ancestor in Maryland.
Alice America Linebaugh (1852-1926), circa 1870.
Louisa was one of nine children, all born in Myersville. The others were Sarah Ann (1836-1908), John Henry (1837-1911), Mary Elizabeth (1839-?), Ann Rebecca (1842-1843), Catherine Magdalena (1844-1889), Charlotte Maria (1849-1938), Alice America (1852-1926), and Howard Newton (1856-1900).
The years between 1860 an 1870 altered everything Louisa knew. At the start of the decade, she lived in a bustling family with every indication of prosperity—even in wartime, as her exuberant mid-1860s teenage fashion shows. But shortly after this carte de visite (CDV) was taken, on 26 December, 1864, her father died at the age of 57, and the family in Myersville rapidly dispersed.
The home of the Linebaugh family in Myersville, courtesy of the Frederick County Historical Society.
One of those who left Maryland behind was Louisa's eldest brother, John Henry. When the Civil War began, the young man was attending Dickenson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in hope of becoming a teacher. He may be the Henry Linebaugh who served in the 7th Maryland Infantry. Or the truth may be that he was a reporter during the war, which was proposed by his descendant Pat Mulso, the executive director of the Freeborn County Historical Museum in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
"The story passed down is that John was a reporter during the war and unpopular in his version of journalism and his death had to be staged to save his life. Whether this is true or not, he did serve in the Civil War and he did leave his native state of Maryland after the war and moved to Ohio where he married my great-grandmother, Margaret Jane Patten. He taught school in Richmond, Ind., and walked home to Liberty, Ohio, on the weekends to be with his family," wrote Mulso in a 10 April, 2010, article in the Albert Lea Tribune. "After getting established, he built a home in Ellerton, Ohio, located a few miles south of Liberty. He became a justice of the peace, a wagon maker, a funeral director, a steam mill sawmill owner, and operator and owned many farms in the area. He employed several workers and kept a daily journal of the daily events involving his business and life in general. I guess you could say that he was quite an entrepreneur in his time, but he had no success in collecting the debts owed him so my great-grandmother would have to hitch up the buggy and go collect the debts, of course, for a percentage of the money collected as her pay. They raised a large family with many tragedies occurring during the times, but were a very close and hard-working family."
Back in Myersville, by 1870, only widowed mother Catharine and Louisa remained in the family home. Within a year of the 1870 census's enumeration, her mother was dead, aged 58. Catharine Shank Linebaugh was buried beside her husband in the cemetery of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, directly across the street from my present home.
A section of Myersville's Main Street, in which the Linebaughs lived, taken circa 1910 from the belfry of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Louisa would have known the pictured houses well, as they all date from her years as a town resident.
Apparently feeling no personal or financial reason to stay in Myersville, Louisa chose to emigrate to Ohio to join John Henry and his family. Once there, she met and married Henry Benton Getter (1850-1935). Henry was the son of George Getter (1805–1875) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Wertz (1808-1901). Getter was born 9 Oct 1850, in Ellerton, Ohio.
The young couple established a family farm in Jefferson, Ohio, and had the following children: Cora May (1875-1911), Florence Estella, (1877-1951), Ida Kate (1879-1964), Bessie Olive (1881-1958), Herman Cleveland (1884-1955), Carrie Effie (1888-1973), and Carl Victor (1890-1967).
After loading this CDV to my Flickr photostream, I connected with another Linebaugh relation who provided a transcript of a letter by Louisa's son, Reverend Herman Getter of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, New Philadelphia, Ohio. It reads, in part: "Thru the kind Providence of God these two families became friends and grandfather George Getter married Mary Wertz about the year 1828. To their union were born 13 children—11 boys and two girls. Henry, being the next to the youngest, is my father. He was born on the old Getter homestead 7 miles south-west of Dayton, 4 miles South of National Soldiers home, in the year 1850…. My mother's father [Jonathan Linebaugh] was a very pious man, having preached in the Church of the Brethren for a number of years. After the death of my mother's parents [she came] to Ohio and made her home with her brother in Montgomery Co. not far distant from my father's home. They afterward became acquainted and were married in the year 1874. Seven children were born to them 5 girls and two boys. I being the fifth oldest.
"My father's people have always been a thrifty agriculture people…. Thru hard labor, they drained the swamps and cleared the forests, and made them to blossom like the rose. Surely God has given to none more noble ancestors, and finer [illegible] parents, than are mine. Happy and grateful am I that they are both living and enjoying the best of health. They reside on the old Getter homestead, having purchased it some years ago.
Louisa Linebaugh Getter in middle age.
"It was near this place where I was born on September 18, 1884. My parents being staunch Lutherans, I was baptized in infancy by the Sainted Rev. Albright who was at that time preaching in Salem's Lutheran Church in the village of Ellerton. Early in life, I was taught to love the church and her teachings and was a regular attendant at Sunday School and Church Services. Many a time I would rather have gone fishing and swimming than attend church on a hot Summer's day, but knew better than even suggest going, for Father was very rigid in this respect."
The flavor of what Louisa's Ellerton farm life was like can be glimpsed in a letter in the collection of the University of Alabama sent in April 1895 from Ellerton resident Amanda Donatien to her sister Bell Cahill in Dayton. "We will not come over Easter. The horses has [sic] been working hard the last two weeks and besides, I think it your turn to come see me…. I have a lot of work to do right now. I am making soap this week," Amanda noted. "Bell, I will come as soon as I can and when I do I will bring you some sewing to do. Now you must be ready to do it. Get your thimble ready. If I had any chance to send you some fresh eggs before Easter, I would do so." Amanda concluded by saying that she must stop writing because her son was waiting to take the pencil to school.
Louisa Linebaugh Getter died 22 April, 1923, age 75 years, seven months, and 11 days, in Ellerton. She was buried 25 April, 1923, at Ellerton Cemetery. On her death certificate, the cause given is hyperthyroidism (Graves Disease), in which the thyroid kicks into overproduction causing weight loss, trembling hands, extreme tachycardia, anxiety, muscle weakness, and—worst of all—insomnia. The sufferers of Graves Disease can die, literally, of exhaustion, or can pass away suddenly from heart failure. How horrible the disease can be is something I understand, for I suffered from it when I was in my mid-twenties. Today there is a cure. In Louisa's time, there was not.
Twelve years after his mother's passing, the New Philadelphia Daily Times of 16 August, 1935, carried an item notifying parishioners that Rev. Getter had gone to Dayton to be at the bedside of his critically ill father. After a fortnight, on 29 August, Getter died in Dayton Hospital. Rev. Getter's father was laid to rest beside his mother in Ellerton. Ω
The former Linebaugh home in 2018.
Author Ann Longmore-EtheridgePosted on November 25, 2016 September 17, 2019 Categories Identified CDVsTags 1800s, 19th century, carte de visite, CDV, costume, Fashion, Genealogy, Germany, Getter family, Linebaugh family, Maryland, Moravians, Myersville, Ohio, Pennsylvania, portrait, United States, Victorian era4 Comments on Louisa Linebaugh: Moving on from Myersville


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The Leaders Institute LLC et al v. Jackson et al, No. 3:2014cv03572 - Document 167 (N.D. Tex. 2017)
Court Description: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER: The Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Defendants' Expedited Motion for Leave to Amend Counterclaims (Doc. 142 ). Should Defendants choose to amend their pleadings to the extent permitted by the Court above, they must do so by 4/3/2017. Under Rule 15(a)(3), Plaintiffs will have 14 days to answer. The Court DENIES without prejudice all pending Motions for Summary Judgement (Docs. 146 & 149 ). The parties may re-file summary judgment motions after Plaintiffs have had the opportunity to respond to Defendants' amended counterclaims. The Court thus EXTENDS the deadline for dispositive motions until 5/8/2017. (Ordered by Judge Jane J. Boyle on 3/29/2017) (sss)
The Leaders Institute LLC et al v. Jackson et al Doc. 167 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION THE LEADER'S INSTITUTE, LLC and DOUG STANEART, § § § Plaintiffs, § § v. § CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:14-CV-3572-B § ROBERT JACKSON and MAGNOVO § TRAINING GROUP, LLC, § § Defendants. § MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER Before the Court is Defendants Robert Jackson and Magnovo Training Group, LLC's (collectively Defendant or Defendants) Expedited Motion for Leave to Amend Counterclaims. Doc. 142, Defs.' Expedited Mot. for Leave to Am. Countercl. [hereinafter Defs.' Mot.]. For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Defendants' Motion. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs The Leader's Institute, LLC and Doug Staneart (collectively Plaintiff or Plaintiffs) initially filed their lawsuit in this Court on October 2, 2014. Doc. 1, Pls.' Orig. Compl. Put simply, Plaintiffs, purveyors of corporate leadership and team-building events using a trademarked "Build-ABike" training method, allege Defendant, a former independent contractor of Plaintiff, breached an independent contractor agreement by going into the corporate training business against Plaintiff using a similar method, and violated Plaintiff's "Build-A-Bike" trademark by registering confusingly -1- Dockets.Justia.com similar domain names—such as www.letsbuildabike.com, www.charitybuildabike.com, www.buildabikecharity.com, and www.buildabikeforcharity.com—in a deliberate attempt to confuse consumers. See generally id. Accordingly, Plaintiffs' causes of action against Defendants include, inter alia, claims for federal trademark infringement, violations of federal anti-cybersquatting law, breach of contract, unfair competition, and tortious interference with prospective business relations. On December 17, 2015, Plaintiffs filed their Third Amended Complaint. Doc. 82, Pls.' 3d Am. Compl. In response, Defendants filed an Answer on January 11, 2016. Doc. 91, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 3d Am. Compl. Defendants' Answer also included counterclaims for, inter alia, tortious interference with business relations, fraud and defamation, and copyright infringement against Plaintiff. See generally id. According to Defendants, Plaintiff registered four internet domain names—(1) http://bicycle-team-building.org/, (2) http://bicycles-team-building.com/, (3) http://bicycleteambiulding.org/, and (4) http://bicycleteambuildings.org/—and "[f]ollowing such domain registrations, . . . caused such registered domains to then 'frame' Defendant Magnovo's internet website . . ., whereby the full content of [Defendant's] website, including the Copyrighted Works, was presented within and under Plaintiffs' registered domain name as though Plaintiffs owned and operated such Magnovo website content and Copyrighted Works." Id. ¶¶ 256–57. At that time Defendants also accused Plaintiffs of: (1) "retaliating against Jackson due to Jackson resigning and starting his own consulting firm"; (2)"holding Defendants' business out as that of Plaintiffs"; (3) creating a "false persona" to "obtain a Magnovo client proposal document" and then using "the Magnovo client proposal document, along with printouts of Magnovo's website, in order to fraudulently file a trademark application for 'MAGNOVO' with the United States Patent and -2- Trademark Office"; and (4) making "defamatory statements . . . to current and former [The Leader's Institute] employees" that "Jackson is the subject of a 'sting operation' and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for criminal violations." Id. ¶¶ 225, 233, 237–42. The Court's Scheduling Order in this case required that all pleading amendments be submitted by December 24, 2015. Doc. 61, Sched. Order 1. On August 8, 2016, with leave of Court, Plaintiffs filed their Fourth Amended Complaint. Doc. 130, Pls.' 4th Am. Compl. On August 19, 2016, Defendants filed an Answer to Plaintiffs' Fourth Amended Complaint, which included the same counterclaims as its January 11, 2016 Answer to Plaintiffs' Third Amended Complaint, including the following: (1) abuse of process; (2) tortious interference with business relations; (3) fraud and defamation; (4) cancellation of Plaintiffs' trademarks; (5) attorneys' fees; and (6) federal copyright infringement. Doc. 131, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 4th Am. Compl. ¶¶ 230–74. On September 21, 2016, Defendants moved for leave to amend their counterclaims "based on recently discovered acts of Plaintiffs and in order to clarify counterclaims previously pleaded." Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 1. Specifically, Defendants allege they discovered on July 27, 2016, that Plaintiffs "content scraped, framed, mirrored, copied and reposted Magnovo website data, including Magnovo's logo, and proprietary photos from" two of Defendants' websites, onto another site allegedly managed by Plaintiffs at www.charityteambuildingevent.com. Id. at 2. Based on the newly discovered website, Defendants seek to amend their counterclaims by: (1) adding additional counterclaims for (i) money had and received, (ii) retaliation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), (iii) false advertising under the Lanham Act, and (iv) tortious interference with prospective contracts; (2) dropping their claims for fraud and attorneys' fees; and (3) supplementing their -3- remaining causes of action with additional facts and allegations. See id. at 5; Doc. 142-1, Defs.' [Proposed] Am. Countercls. ¶¶ 21–72. Plaintiffs have responded, Doc. 154, Pls.' Resp., and Defendants have replied. Doc 162, Defs.' Reply. Thus, Defendants' Motion is ripe for this Court's review. II. LEGAL STANDARD A. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 Once a court has entered a scheduling order and the deadline for amending pleadings has passed, the decision to permit post-deadline amendments is governed by Rule 16(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. S & W Enters., L.L.C. v. South Trust Bank of Ala., 315 F.3d 533, 536 (5th Cir. 2003) ("We take this opportunity to make clear that Rule 16(b) governs amendment of pleadings after a scheduling order deadline has expired."). Under Rule 16(b), a scheduling order should not be modified unless there is a showing of good cause. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4) ("A schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the judge's consent."). The Fifth Circuit has set forth four factors to determine whether a movant has established good cause for modification of a scheduling order to allow an untimely amendment of pleadings: (1) the explanation for the failure to timely move for leave to amend; (2) the importance of the amendment; (3) potential prejudice in allowing the amendment; and (4) the availability of a continuance to cure such prejudice. S & W Enters., L.L.C., 315 F.3d at 536 (quotations and alterations omitted). "The 'good cause' standard focuses on the diligence of the party seeking a modification of the scheduling order." Forge v. City of Ball, No. 3:03-CV-0256, 2004 WL 1243151, -4- at *2 (N.D. Tex. June 4, 2004). A party's mere inadvertence to meet a deadline and the absence of prejudice to the opposing side are insufficient to establish good cause. Id. Rather, one must show that "despite his diligence, he could not have reasonably met the scheduling deadline." Id. (quoting Am. Tourmaline Fields v. Int'l Paper Co., No. 3:96-CV-3363, 1998 WL 874825, at *1 (N.D. Tex. Dec. 7, 1998)). Rule 15(a), which governs the substance of amendments and allows for liberal leave to amend, only comes into play once the moving party has demonstrated good cause under Rule 16(b). S & W Enters., L.L.C., 315 F.3d at 536 n.4 ("[T]he presence of a scheduling order renders the Rule 15 inquiry secondary."). Here, Defendants seek leave to amend their counterclaims nearly nine months after the December 24, 2015 deadline for amending pleadings established in the Scheduling Order. See Doc. 61, Sched. Order; Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. (filed September 21, 2016). Thus, Rule 16(b) governs whether to permit an amendment. See S & W Enters. L.L.C., 315 F.3d at 536. Only if Defendants have demonstrated good cause will the Court consider whether granting leave to amend is consistent with Rule 15. See id. at 536 n.4. B. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15 Under Rule 15(a), courts "should freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires." Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). But this "generous standard is tempered by the necessary power of a district court to manage a case." Priester v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 708 F.3d 667, 678 (5th Cir. 2013) (quoting Schiller v. Physicians Res. Grp. Inc., 342 F.3d 563, 566 (5th Cir. 2003)). Although Rule 15 indicates a bias in favor of granting leave to amend, leave is by no means automatic. Southmark Corp. v. Schulte Roth & Zabel (In re Southmark Corp.), 88 F.3d 311, 318 (5th Cir. 1996) (citing Wimm v. -5- Jack Eckerd Corp., 3 F.3d 137, 139 (5th Cir. 1993)). A district court must have a "substantial reason" to deny leave, yet the decision remains within the court's discretion. Smith v. EMC Corp., 393 F.3d 590, 595 (5th Cir. 2004) (citing Quintanilla v. Tex. Television, Inc., 139 F.3d 494, 499 (5th Cir. 1998)). In its discretion, the court should consider several factors, including "undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of the allowance of the amendment, [and] futility of the amendment." Rosenzweig v. Azurix Corp., 332 F.3d 854, 864 (5th Cir. 2003) (quoting Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962)). Absent one of these factors, leave should be freely given. Id. (citing Foman, 371 U.S. at 182). III. ANALYSIS The Court begins its analysis under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) before deciding whether to analyze the Defendants' Motion under the more liberal Rule 15(a) standard. See S & W Enters., L.L.C., 315 F.3d at 536. In their Motion and Reply, Defendants argue that the Court should grant leave to amend under Rules of Civil Procedure 15 and 16, however, their arguments under each respective rule are closely related and thus will be addressed concurrently. See Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 4–7; Doc. 162, Defs.' Reply 3–9. Defendants assert that: (1) the reason they failed to timely move for leave to amend is because they were not aware of the newly discovered website until after the pleadings amendment deadline passed, Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 5; (2) they had previously submitted written discovery requests to Plaintiffs before the pleading deadline, which were "broad enough" to cover disclosing the newly discovered website, id. at 3; (3) the amendment is important -6- because without it Defendants will have to file a new lawsuit alleging the additional counterclaims, Doc. 162, Defs.' Reply 4–6; and (4) allowing the proposed amendments would not prejudice Plaintiffs because there is likely no need for additional discovery. Id. at 4; Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 6. In response, Plaintiffs argue that "Defendants cannot overcome their burden under Rule 16 to show good cause for any of their proposed amendments, other than to add [the newly discovered website] to the list of domain names included in Defendants' previously-asserted claim for copyright infringement." Doc. 154, Pls.' Resp. 4. Plaintiffs contend that allowing Defendants leave to amend their counterclaims in light of the newly discovered website is improper because the new counterclaims are all premised upon information Defendants already knew when they filed their January 11, 2016 counterclaims. Id. at 4–6. Plaintiffs concede that Defendants did not know of the newly discovered website until after the deadline to amend pleadings. Id. at 4. Nonetheless, Plaintiffs argue that Defendants fail to show why the newly discovered website is any different from the four other allegedly fraudulent websites asserted in Defendants' previous counterclaims such as would warrant the proposed amendments and additional counterclaims. Id. Plaintiffs also argue they would be substantially prejudiced given the expired discovery, expert designation, and dispositive motions deadlines. Id. at 6. Plaintiffs point out that since at least January 11, 2016—the date Defendants filed their currently-pending counterclaims in response to Plaintiff's Third Amended Complaint—Defendants were aware of (1) "the previously-identified domain names," (2) "the trademark application for MAGNOVO," and (3) the "allegations made to law-enforcement agencies and the framing of various websites," all of which also form the basis for Defendants' new proposed counterclaims. Id. -7- at 4–6; Doc. 91, Defs.' Answer, Defenses, and Countercls. to Pls.' 3rd Am. Compl. ¶¶ 231, 233, 237, 240–41, 243, 256–57 [hereinafter Defs.' Answer to 3rd Am. Compl.]. Similarly, Defendants live counterclaims, filed on August 19, 2016, in response to Plaintiffs' Fourth Amended Complaint, are based on Plaintiff allegedly: (1) "retaliating against Jackson due to Jackson resigning and starting his own consulting firm"; (2) "filing a fraudulent trademark application for MAGNOVO"; (3) "informing current and former TLI employees that Jackson is the subject of a 'sting operation' and is being investigated by the [FBI] for criminal violations"; and (4) registering four domain names that "'frame' Defendant Magnovo's internet website . . . whereby the full content of Magnovo's . . . website, including the Copyrighted Works, was presented within and under Plaintiffs' registered domain name." Doc. 131, Defs.' Answer to 4th Am. Compl. ¶¶ 239, 245, 251, 270–71. Defendants sole arguments for the amendments sought are that they did not know of the newly discovered website until July 27, 2016, after the pleading amendment deadline, and that their new counterclaims are important to asserting their rights against Plaintiffs. Doc. 162, Defs.' Reply 4–5. Thus, Defendants now seek to bring in additional counterclaims through the newly discovered website based on the same alleged actions of Plaintiffs for which Defendants previously asserted counterclaims in their Answer to Plaintiffs' Third and Fourth Amended Complaint. Although Defendants have sufficiently shown that they did not know of the newly discovered website until July 27, 2016, they have failed to show why this discovery warrants the additional counterclaims based on facts previously known as early as January 11, 2016. There is no reason Defendants could not have brought these additional counterclaims in their January 11, 2016 or August 19, 2016 Answers -8- to Plaintiffs' Third and Fourth Amended Complaint. See Doc. 91, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 3rd Am. Compl. ¶¶ 231, 233, 237, 240-41, 243, 256-57; Doc. 131, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 4th Am. Compl. ¶¶ 239, 245, 251, 270-71. Additionally, Defendants have not shown how Plaintiffs' newly discovered website, which allegedly "content scraped, framed, mirrored, copied and reposted Magnovo website data, including Magnovo's logo, and proprietary photos," Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 2, is any different from the other four previously known websites that Defendants previously alleged "'frame[d]' Defendant Magnovo's internet website . . . whereby the full content of Magnovo's Bicycle Team Building website, including the Copyrighted Works, was presented within and under Plaintiffs' registered domain name as though Plaintiffs owned and operated such Magnovo website content and Copyrighted Works." Doc. 91, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 3rd Am. Compl. ¶¶ 256–57; Doc. 131, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 4th Am. Compl. ¶¶ 270–71. Thus, the Court finds that Defendants' reliance on previously known information for their new counterclaims, as well as their failure to show how the newly discovered website is different than the previously known websites, does not sufficiently explain Defendants' failure to timely move for leave to amend. See S & W Enters., L.L.C., 315 F.3d at 536. Even assuming Defendants' additional counterclaims are "important" for purposes of Rule 16, allowing Defendants to completely amend their counterclaims with new claims and information at this late stage in the litigation when they have failed to show "good cause" for their failure to timely move would be prejudicial to Plaintiffs. In their Motion and Response, Defendants argue that Plaintiffs are not prejudiced by the addition of four new counterclaims because the new counterclaims will likely not require any additional discovery. Doc. 142, Defs.' Mot. 6; Doc. 162, -9- Defs.' Resp. 4. However, the Court finds that Defendants' proposed lack of the need for additional discovery on four new counterclaims further demonstrates that Defendants were already aware of the facts that form the basis of these counterclaims. Because the Court finds that Defendants have failed to show "good cause" under Rule 16(b), the Court need not consider whether leave to amend is warranted under the less stringent Rule 15 standard. See S & W Enters., L.L.C., at 536 n.4. However, the Court does find that Defendants have shown "good cause" to add the newly discovered website to the list of the four other websites in their previously pleaded federal copyright infringement claim. See Doc. 91, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 3rd Am. Compl. ¶ 256; Doc. 131, Defs.' Answer to Pls.' 4th Am. Compl. ¶ 270. Defendants have shown that, "despite their diligence," they did not know about the newly discovered website until after the amending pleadings deadline. See Forge, 2004 WL 1243151, at *2. Also, in their response, Plaintiffs stated they are unopposed to the addition of the newly discovered website to the existing copyright infringement counterclaim. Doc. 154, Pls.' Resp. 6–7. Therefore, the Court concludes that Defendants have sustained their burden under Rule 16(b) for adding the newly discovered website under the federal copyright infringement claim. The Court will now consider whether to grant leave to amend under the less onerous Rule 15 standard with regard to adding the newly discovered website. Absent "undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of the allowance of the amendment, [or] futility of the amendment," leave should be freely given. Rosenzweig, 332 F.3d at 864 (quoting Forman, 371 U.S. at 182). As explained above, the delay and prejudice from adding the - 10 - newly discovered website is not undue, and there is no indication of bad faith. Therefore, the Court concludes that Defendants have sustained their burden under Rule 15. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS in part Defendants' Expedited Motion for Leave to Amend Counterclaims only to the extent that Defendants may add the newly discovered website under their existing federal copyright infringement claim. In all other respects, Defendants' Motion is DENIED. IV. CONCLUSION For these reasons, the Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Defendants' Expedited Motion for Leave to Amend Counterclaims (Doc. 142). Should Defendants choose to amend their pleadings to the extent permitted by the Court above, they must do so by April 3, 2017. Under Rule 15(a)(3), Plaintiffs will have 14 days to answer. To allow the parties an opportunity to file dispositive motions in relation to their live pleadings, the Court DENIES without prejudice all pending Motions for Summary Judgement (Docs. 146 & 149). The parties may re-file summary judgment motions after Plaintiffs have had the opportunity to respond to Defendants' amended counterclaims. The Court thus EXTENDS the deadline for dispositive motions until May 8, 2017. SO ORDERED. SIGNED: March 29, 2017. _________________________________ JANE J. BOYLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE - 11 -


Architectural partnership of Derry and Belfast formed between JOHN BOYD JOHN BOYD and WILLIAM BATT WILLIAM BATT circa 1862. The practice is described as of Londonderry and Belfast in 1862 and 1863.(1) By 1869 it was based in Donegall Square, Belfast. It was dissolved in 1871.(2) Pupils and assistants in the office included TIMOTHY HEVEY TIMOTHY HEVEY . See also GEORGE A. BOYD. GEORGE A. BOYD.
(1) DB 4, 1 Oct 1862, 254; 5, 15 May 1863, 81.
(2) Northern Star & Ulster Observer, 28 Mar 1871, 2, cited by Sean O'Reilly, 'Timothy Hevey (1846-1878): an episode in Irish High Victorian architecture', PhD thesis, submitted to the National University of Ireland, June 1994, 25.
Nature: Improvements to male portion. Tenders invited, Apr 1861. Contractor: Francis McGaughey.
Nature: House, for Capt. Lewis Mansergh Buchanan; 'a large multi-gabled and aggressively picturesqe villa with decorative bargeboards, hip knob, and ornamental chimneys' (Rowan). Contractor: Mullen, Omagh.
Nature: B & B win limited competition for remodelling 'Dr Denham's church'.
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COMMONS ROAD (MILLFIELD), CORK SPINNING & WEAVING CO.
Nature: Improvements & additions 'to be carried out soon in a free and ornamental adaptation of the Italian style'. New porch, front windows, cut stone window dressings &c.
Nature: B & B win competition for design of fever hospital.
Nature: 2 new villas at Knock Station on Co. Down Railway, one with a small tower. Contractor: Croft, Belfast.
Nature: New church in Early Pointed Gothic style, with 130 ft tower & spire. To seat 550. Site granted and cost borne by Thomas Strain, Esq. FS laid 6 Mar 1866 by J. Brownlow; opened May 1867. Contractor: John Hanna, Newtownards.
Nature: Terrace of 8 houses at rear of Queen's College.
Nature: New church replacing chapel of 1806. Gothic. Internal dimensions 50' x 24'. Brick with coloured bricks interspersed.
Nature: New church on site granted by Salters' Company. Begun Spring 1866. Contractor: George R. Tipping.
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 23.
Nature: New Early English Gothic school opened Apr 1868. Whinstone walls. 46'9 x 25'. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey, Belfast.
Nature: Schoolhouse at rear of church.
Nature: Small Gothic church. FS laid 8 Sep 1868 by Duke of Manchester. Opened Mar or Apr 1869. Contractor: John Collen, Portadown. To cost £1,000.
Refs: IB 10, 15 Sep 1868, 233; 11, 15 Mar 1869, 71; B 27, 3 Apr 1869, 273; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 505.
Nature: Competition entrants, who won £20 first prize. Project not carried out.
Refs: P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 23, no. 3 (1995), 300.
Nature: B & B win competiton.
Refs: IB 11, 15 Mar 1869, 71; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 176.
Nature: Italian style villa, for Hugh White. Brick with cut-stone dressings. Cost: £2,600.
Nature: New warehouse nearly opposite Ulster Railway Station nearing completion, Feb 1869. 3 storeys, with attic floor in mansard roof lighted by lofty dormers. Front faced with Allan & Mann's white brick. Cost: £3,000. Contractor: James McCracken & Son.
Nature: Pair of stuccoed terrace house with big timber porches.
Nature: Addition of chancel, W. tower & spire & adjoining robing room (to church of 1659?) (East window, 1875).
Refs: Signed, undated drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 7 (repr. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org); Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 229(ILLUS.).


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Duke Energy Florida's Catherine Stempien on solar energy, rate hikes and women in leadership
Margie Manning
Catherine Stempien is president of Duke Energy Florida.
The president of Duke Energy Florida, Catherine Stempien, says the utility company is "building a smarter energy future."
Catherine Stempien, president, Duke Energy Florida
Stempien, named Florida president for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) 14 months ago, visited the St. Pete Catalyst studio earlier this week for a wide-ranging discussion of Duke's investment in solar energy and other technologies, rates and women in leadership positions.
Based in St. Petersburg, Stempien is responsible for the financial performance of the company's Florida operations and manages state and local regulatory and government relations, and community affairs.
She previously held other executive positions at Duke, including senior vice president of corporate development, executing acquisitions and divestures and helping the company develop its external growth strategy. She's also practiced law.
The conversation is excerpted below. Listen to the entire interview here.
https://stpetecatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Duke-Energy-News-Story.mp3
What are you doing as you plan the future of Duke?
We traditionally produce energy in large-scale plants that distribute energy out to customers. In Florida, a large percentage of generation comes from burning natural gas. We're doing some things in Florida to provide extra diversity of gas supplies. We're also seeing the price of renewable energy going down. We are building 700 megawatts of large scale renewable power here in the state.
On the delivery side, the way power comes into your house, we are investing $1.1 billion in our energy grid. We are installing self-healing grids, which will detect faults and re-route the power to a safer more reliable grid. We're also doing targeted undergrounding, for areas suffering from reliability problems as a result of trees coming down on the lines and areas that are hard to access. We are using data analytics to target those areas and then we're trying to underground some of those areas.
There was a recent article in the New York Times critical of the way Florida utilities deal with solar power. Did you read that article?
I was disappointed in the piece. I don't believe it contained the most up-to-date information on what we're doing.
We have a renewable power services center and have increased the number of employees we have making those connections. That has happened over the last 18 months. We have shortened the period of time for customers who want to connect with solar panels onto our grid. We are connecting 700 customers a month onto our system who are using solar rooftop panels.
We also are putting universal solar onto our system. We're installing large solar farms, which we believe are a much better economic cost-effective way for our customers to access solar power. Not everybody has the ability to invest capital for their own rooftop. Not everybody has the right house or even owns a house where they can have solar. We want to provide customers with renewable generation options. As we continue to build more of these solar plants in the State of Florida, more and more of their power will come from solar energy.
As Duke invests in solar and other projects, what's the impact on rates?
When you look at the total bill and all of the investments … your total bill will rise less than the annual rate of inflation.
What makes the utility industry conducive to female leadership?
I think there are some exceptional women in leadership in the energy field, but I feel like we have a lot more to do. Our industry is about serving people. It's almost a calling for the employees who work for my company. That sense of mission is not unique to women, but I do think a lot of women are looking for jobs that can be meaningful, and that's right for me personally. I can go out every day and feel like I'm doing something to help people and to advance our communities.
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"We are connecting 700 customers a month onto our system who are using solar rooftop panels." 7.4 Million customer, 700 per month…..that's about 880 years.
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Q: Displaying chart using angularjs-nvd3-directives doesn't work So I made a simple Angular - nvd3 project. I'm using liveData.example from this Github Library (angularjs-nvd3-directives). I improve it a little bit in order to use my REST API.
This is my REST API:
http://amr2.mybluemix.net/getmet/list

And this is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">

    <title>Angular.js nvd3.js Live Data Chart Example</title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="nv.d3.css"/>

    <input type="text" ng-model="cityName"/>

Example Data

    <nvd3-line-chart
            data="exampleData"
            id="exampleId"
            width="800"
            height="400"
            showXAxis="true"
            showYAxis="true"
            tooltips="true"
            interactive="true"
            xAxisTickFormat="xAxisTickFormatFunction()"
            margin="{left:100,top:20,bottom:20,right:10}"
            yAxisLabel="Temperature (F)"
            xAxisLabel="Date"
            >
        <svg></svg>
    </nvd3-line-chart>

Now the code doesn't work. Can you guys show me whats wrong with this code?
Thanks in advance.

A: Maybe this can help to solve  that problem..
I had encountered the same problem above that you mentioned.
My code snippets are below .
Just use $scope.apply in timer function ..
setInterval(function(){
        $scope.$apply(function(){
          //  var data= $scope.exampleData;
            $scope.exampleData = data;
          //   console.log( 'Client ON ### setInterval called!!  ' ,            $scope.exampleData[0].values[0]);
        });
    }, 200);  // 0.2 sec

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Q: using render or redirect_to I have a form
<%= form_tag update_path do %>
         <%= text_field_tag :test_input, @text %>
         <%= submit_tag "update" %>
<% end %>

#mycontroller
def update
    @text= 'abcde'
    render  :max_channel #redirect_to :max_channel
end

if I use render, it update my text_field_tag but it change my url to localhost:3000/update.
redirect_to don't update my text and I don't know why. How can I use redirect_to to update text_field_tag

A: If you use redirect_to then you will need to pass the parameters with the request since the redirect_to goes to a different URL.  Some good background information on redirect and render is given in the SO question  Are redirect_to and render exchangeable?

A: redirect_to will make the browser request a new page(here is your max_channel), and current context will be lost. That's why you cannot update @text in the max_channel page.
while render will use current context to render max_channel page.
you can get more from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#using-redirect-to.
You can save @text to somewhere(say your sqlite) and retrieve it in the method corresponding to max_channel.


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Here's how the Navy says it's going to fix sailor pay issues
Big Navy on Thursday announced sweeping reforms to sailor pay systems that have caused a variety of headaches in the fleet. Sailors are shown here manning the rails aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford in June 2021. (Navy)
Big Navy is pledging to do better when it comes to systemic shortfalls impacting sailor pay, including Basic Allowance for Housing, special pay entitlements and permanent change of station travel pay, as well as separation and retirement processing.
In a task order announced Thursday by the commanders of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Naval Forces Europe-Africa, leadership pledged to "quickly improve the timeliness and accuracy of Sailors' pay."
"Our Sailors and their families must be paid accurately, consistently, reliably and, most importantly, on time," the task order states. "This is both a quality of life and a readiness issue, and it is certainly Commanders' business."
Most significantly for the men and women out in the fleet, by Dec. 31 "all Sailors will receive pay and entitlements within 14 days of becoming eligible for the pay or entitlement."
You can read the task order at the link below.
Coordinated Task Order
"Good, bad or ugly, it is important that we get after issues that are impeding readiness and our ability to be the best Navy in the world," said Adm. Daryl Caudle, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, in a statement. "Input from our fleet Sailors made it very clear that our pay system is not running smoothly, which is impacting Sailor and family readiness. Timely and accurate pay for our Sailors is a no-fail mission and the task order is our initial plan to get after it."
These issues stem from a lack of standard processes, inadequate training for pay administrators and "immature information technology" coupled with an over-centralization of transaction service and regional support centers, the commander of MyNavy Career Center, Rear Adm. Stu Satterwhite, said in a statement.
All these issues were aggravated by "a surge of high-priority transactions" supporting families in the wake of the Red Hill fuel spill in Hawaii, leading to "a large number of pay transactions" that need to be drawn down.
Officials did not respond to Navy Times' follow-up questions regarding the precise number of sailors affected by deadline, but the broad and high-profile nature of Thursday's task order suggests these are not isolated incidents.
"Bottom line, the amount of work in waiting is completely unacceptable, and we are working toward quickly drawing it down and getting our Sailor Pay program back on track," Satterwhite said in the statement. "We are in the process of transitioning to a more modern program that manages timely and accurate pay for our Sailors."
In addition to pay issues, the task order states that other lines of effort regarding sailor services during maintenance availabilities and unaccompanied housing will also be addressed "in the coming weeks."
"We expect every supporting Commander to aggressively correct problems within his or her area of responsibility and complete assigned tasks with a sense of urgency and enthusiastic passion," the order states. "If a barrier is discovered that is beyond your ability to resolve, rapidly elevate it."
Some sailors' pay and benefits messed up by 'unanticipated errors' this summer
The issues arose last month as Big Navy transitions over to a new personnel system.
By Diana Stancy Correll and Geoff Ziezulewicz
The admirals plan to work with the chief of naval personnel in the near term to get rid of a backlog of overdue PCS and separation and retirement claims, ensuring sailors have their DD-214s in hand before they leave the service, no later than Dec. 15.
In addition, they plan to make sure no claims older than 30 days are in the queue by that date.
The Navy also plans to transition its MyNavy Career Center enterprise to a new Human Resources Information System by the end of 2022, which will aim to provide "timely and accurate Sailor Pay and entitlements within 14 days of that initial documented submission without the need to resubmit."
The Navy is also bringing sailors in for training at centers where claims are processed.
After the training, these "waterfront tiger teams" will head back to their commands to serve as a point person for such transactions.
Those teams will start coming into place by the end of the month, according to the Navy.
The effort will also include returning pay and personnel administration and release authority to the commands by Oct. 30.
Navy Times has reported on these issues repeatedly in the past year, but Chief of Naval Personnel public affairs officers have regularly framed the widespread problems as temporary blips on the way to a more modern and efficient pay and personnel network.
Some newly retired sailors' pay and Tricare benefits affected by technical glitches
The Navy's transition to a new personnel system has also affected some active-duty sailors' pay, ID cards and Tricare benefits.
By Karen Jowers
In August, CNP spokesman Capt. Dave Hecht told Navy Times that "unanticipated errors" last summer occurred as Big Navy transitioned its personnel systems, leaving some sailors unpaid, without ID cards and unable to access Tricare benefits.
Hecht said then that most of the issues had been resolved, but that the problems stemmed from the Navy consolidating its Navy Enlisted System and Officer Personnel Information System into a streamlined Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System, or NSIPS.
"Unfortunately, there were errors and issues which impacted Sailors," he said. "As errors were identified, they have been aggressively worked."
Aviation sailors aboard the aircraft carrier George Washington in 2019. (Navy)
Back then, Hecht said any remaining pay issues were expected to be resolved by Sept. 1.
"The complexities of these very old legacy systems were known, and challenges were anticipated," Hecht said. "Issues impacting pay receive the highest priority to ensure that every Sailor receives everything to which they are entitled, and actions were taken within 24 hours of issue identification to resolve the issues."
But pay issues have stubbornly persisted, as have delays in sailors receiving their DD-214 paperwork upon leaving the service.
Understandably frustrated sailors and spouses have regularly taken to trolling the MyNavy HR Facebook page for what they perceive as a lack of answers or clarity regarding the timeline for fixing such critical problems.
In a video posted to the page last month, Fleet Master Chief for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Delbert Terrell gave a nod to the trolling and said the comments "cut right to the bone."
"You're absolutely right to be critical of our performance," Terrell said. "It's your pay, it's your benefits, it's your career. … When we don't hit the mark, it has a direct impact on you, your shipmates and your families."
MyNavy HR Facebook to sailors: please stop trolling us
The Facebook page has morphed into a motley array of justifiable sailor snark
One recently retired sailor told Navy Times in September that he got his first retired paycheck Sept. 11, nearly six weeks after it was supposed to start on Aug. 1. While he said he was fine financially before the retired pay kicked in, he is concerned about others.
"I remain concerned about their process," he said. "Why not put effort into communicating problems rather than staying quiet? … I could really see this having an effect on people. … This could be crippling for someone with dependents and limited emergency savings."
One officer who had her pay affected by the system outage last summer wondered why Big Navy wasn't better prepared for these challenges.
"I feel privileged that my spouse can pay our bills, but I know there are people who probably aren't so fortunate to have someone else that they can rely on," the officer told Navy Times.
The officer, who noted the local personnel support office reported being flooded with "a lot of angry calls" about the system outage, questioned whether everyone was in the loop about the transition and its issues.
"The most disappointing part is that the people who are tasked with bringing people into the Navy and doing what we think is important work, to take care of our sailors, they weren't prepared to do their jobs," the officer added. "Instead, 'Joe Shmoe' is fielding tons of angry phone calls from people like me. They're trying to do their jobs, and the Navy didn't prepare to do that."
Navy personnel and pay system upgrades will make it easier to use, officials promise
Sailors will experience more automation the next time they log into NP2, a move designed to streamline the PCS process.
By Diana Stancy Correll
Under the task order, every command will be ordered to submit weekly pay transaction reports that will include "the number of transactions in the queue, the oldest pay transaction, the number of transactions returned that week, and the average days to process entitlements from initiation to payment," according to the task order.
Commanders will also have to report any outstanding pay claims that have not been processed or submitted to the career center within two weeks, including corrective actions and causes.
Each fleet's manpower and personnel department, or N1, will also be responsible for tracking trends, providing training and overseeing command visits, among other duties.
About Geoff Ziezulewicz
Geoff is a senior staff reporter for Military Times, focusing on the Navy. He covered Iraq and Afghanistan extensively and was most recently a reporter at the Chicago Tribune. He welcomes any and all kinds of tips at geoffz@militarytimes.com.
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Problems not only geology but animals. Happy Lent!
Hello, I've changed my wordpress theme for my blog since it was getting a little hard to read, even for me, with the grey on black. If it's a little too big for you, you can change your zoom on your web browser.
I've done various posts about Easter over the years I've been blogging. The story of the crucifixion and resurrection is even more contradictory than the Christmas story, with events claimed to have happened in one gospel which would preclude events happening in other gospels. What we generally get is a version that combines whatever the Christian wants to claim, though its a synthesis of all four gospels plus Acts. I was watching Rick Steves' travel special on how Easter is celebrated in Europe and he gave a version that mixed everything together and ignored the problematic bits. It was still a very good special, and worth sitting through the pledge breaks to see it.
However, it does matter. If this god doesn't do as the bible claims, both in the OT and NT, then there is no reason to believe in the books or the god. This god is claimed to be the judge and jury on what is good and evil and this god repeatedly hands out punishment in the bible. Now, what the rabbi seems to be doing here is finding an excuse to ignore the question by the student because if he says that this god does punish evil, the next question is "How?" "Where?" and most importantly "When?" And since the rabbi cannot show that this god does anything at all, much less punishing the wicked and helping the good, he finds himself with a problem. In reality, there is no divine intervention to show that this god exists or gives a damn about morality. Indeed, we can see that this god's morals change with how humans change, not the other way around.
Gellman tries to avoid the problem by insisting that people should be good because being good is the "right thing to do", it's beneficial, etc. Well then no one needs this god at all. There is no need for a blood sacrifice to appease a god for humans being just as this god would know they would be. The whole thing is nonsense.
I would challenge the Christians who read my blog to actually read the gospels and Acts and consider the discrepancies in the stories, e.g. number of angels, what JC did, etc. If the most important story for your religion is so screwed up, then why should anyone believe it?
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