Many of our services are open to residents of any community age 60 and over. If you have questions about your eligibility, please call us.
Through a partnership with Senior Transportation Connection (STC) services are available to eligible riders. Destinations include local shopping, individual health care and other appointments, and to and from agency programming. Registration is required prior to using this service.
An evening and weekend transportation service for seniors and disabled riders goes countywide, with the help of a federal grant. STC PLUS originally launched in North Olmsted, as a new option for evening and weekend travel for seniors and adults with disabilities. STC PLUS allows passengers from anywhere in Cuyahoga County to book their own travel in a fully accessible vehicle, for social, recreation and worship purposes. Ask about this option when calling to register.
Each weekday, a congregate meal is offered in one or more of the communities served by the agency. Those 60 and over of any community may make reservations for the meal (reservations are taken by phone no later than Wednesday at 5:00 for the following week's meals) by calling (216) 650-4029.
Community Partnership on Aging also offers three scratch-prepared meal options: Cafe Lunch, Lunch 'N' Movie in Mayfield Village and Lite Bite Lunches. Please refer to the CPA newsletter accessible from our Home Page or click on the Cafe Services tab on the right side of our Home Page.
Licensed Social Workers provide in-home visits to people 60 and older who may benefit from assistance, or who have questions or concerns about matters affecting their physical, social, financial, or emotional well-being or independence. After determining if ongoing help is needed, you, and your family, if you wish, can be referred for ongoing services.
Other services offered through Outreach include the administration of Ohio Benefits Bank (to determine eligibility for discounts and entitlement programs); Healthy IDEAS (for management of depression) program; information and referral; education; consultation; supportive counseling; and support with life transitions and decision making.
Homemaker staff employed by the agency provide assistance to those unable to perform routine housekeeping tasks. Priority is given to those who do not have others who can assist them, who have health issues, or who are unable to pay for private services. Service is approximately two hours every two weeks. Service can include linen changing, dusting, vacuuming and other light housekeeping tasks.
Active adults 55 and over from any community are welcome to participate in one or multi-day trips to a variety of destinations. Trips are planned to provide comfortable travel to exciting and educational destinations, along with companionship and lasting memories.
A variety of exercise classes, wellness opportunities; AARP Drivers Safety and Matter of Balance classes; educational programs; entertainment, cultural programs; and social groups are offered daily according to the calendar of events contained within the agency's monthly newsletter. All programs, classes and events are open to the public, although registration may be required.
Offering opportunities to engage in meaningful activity by volunteering or receiving volunteer services are a focus of this program. Our volunteer coordinator will work with those in need of services to determine their needs. She will also work with potential volunteers to learn about their skills, life experiences and interests so that a successful match can occur. Volunteers assist with a wide range of projects including serving on committees, clerical work; escorting trips; assisting with agency programs; minor home repairs; offering friendly visits; cleaning yards; assisting with trash or recycling removal; and much more. See the Volunteer Opportunities page if you wish to offer volunteer services.
When an older resident of our communities needs help around the hose, they can make use of the list of skilled chore people available in our office. The list is compiled from references and referrals from other seniors so that you can feel more comfortable using services. Names of service-people are provided to callers when a request for chore information is received.
If you are someone who needs grab bars, hand rails or other minor modifications to your home in order to remain independent, consider applying for our Safe at Home program. Applications are available here or from one of our office locations.
The program offers older adult homeowners in member cities access to both durable medical equipment and dollars that will enable those of lower income or face other barriers to apply for and receive tools and equipment that will assist in adapting their homes for comfort and safety.
The tools and equipment may include (but are not limited to): grab bars for showers, baths and other transitional areas; transition strips; motion detector lights; carpet stretching; light bulbs; flashlights; batteries; radios; shower chairs; hand-held shower faucets and more; hand rails; and other items determined to be needed.
The Safe At Home Program is administered by a Community Partnership on Aging Social Worker and will include a home assessment as well as an application with income and asset verification. Additionally, Safe At Home utilizes local businesses and contractors for purchase and installation of the equipment, which will, in turn, assist in boosting the local economy. Click this link to access the Safe at Home application.
Our Community Partnership on Aging News is published monthly and contains current information on events, programs and the daily menu. It is available at our offices, lunch sites, community centers, city halls and at various locations throughout the community, as well as on the agency website at www.communitypartnershiponaging.com. For a small subscription fee, the newsletter can be mailed to your home. If you would like the CPA newsletter mailed, send a check for $9.00 to Community Partnership on Aging at our main office at 1370 Victory Dr., South Euclid, Ohio 44121. Make sure you reference the newsletter subscription on your check.
To find out if you or a loved one is eligible, call 216-291-3902.
Click the image of our newsletter to view it on your computer browser; or, scroll to the bottom of our home page to find out how you can get a paper copy!
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Reservations must be made no later than the Wednesday prior to lunch. Call 216-650-4029.
Event and Trip tickets are transferable.
In the event that Community Partnership on Aging deems it necessary to cancel an event or a trip refunds will be provided.


69 acres of waterfront property privately set on the edge of the Adirondacks. Waterfront land on East Canada Creek for as far as you can see. Was used for a snowmobile racetrack. Partially wooded lot that runs the whole property on top of the mountain for privacy and great for hunting. Centrally located an hour and a half from Syracuse or Albany. Many trails throughout property. Perfect building site with electric at road. Real Estate broker related to seller.


I don't want to be labeled a poser, so allow me to confess right upfront that I am not a sanguivore. I have never felt the urge or compulsion to consume blood. My passion for vampirism trends strictly towards the folkloric and Mythic. I never even knew a sanguivore–a living human being who consumes blood, either animal or human–until I got this gig, and met a few of them online. They're terrific people, inasmuch as one can tell from online interactions, and I believe one can tell a LOT, as people as a general rule tend to let their darksides come to the forefront over the Internet. So no, I'm not a sanguivore. I have no personal experience with the consumption of blood. But I do know some folks who are, and who do. I will, then, allow them to have the floor on the subject.
Alexia Ashford over at THE RED CELLAR recently answered some questions from a skeptical reader. She is not a fetishist. She doesn't consume blood to be "hip" or to pretend that she is a centuries-old supernatural creature. She claims to have a physical requirement, and who are we to say otherwise? Any competent doctor will tell you that there is a LOT they do not know about the human body, a lot that nobody knows. Check out the question and answer session. It's well worth a read, and will help you to better understand this controversial topic.


This is my hobby project: wireless outlets on a minimal budget. I can set the lighting for my whole apartment by talking to Siri or tapping a button.
With that initial open-source project, I was able to get the baseline functionality working. It was up to me, though, to extend it into a simple, robust solution that would let me have comprehensive control over my house.
First, I needed to have a way to tell which outlets were on and which were off, especially since most of my ideas required it. To do that, I wrote a simple state saver that was directly tied to the central mechanism so nothing would get out of sync. I also wanted the ability to control outlets for an entire room, so I added in a routine to flexibly call one or more outlets with a basic URL. Those two things then allowed me to design a touch interface that would show me which rooms were on and let me turn on a bunch of lights all at once.
Additionally, I reflected my actual floor plan in the design of room controls. It makes the most sense to a visual, spatial sort of person like me, and it definitely proves its worthiness when I can zip through my place, tapping a room on as I pass by.
All of this is contained in a lightweight, responsive webpage that includes plenty of old browser support so that I can access it from any device at home—from old iPhones to menubar apps.
Once I had that system in place, I wanted to see how much I could embellish it. That's where I included homebridge and homebridge-http, two additional open-source projects that connect with my state saver system. By integrating those into my project, I can politely ask Siri to "turn on the kitchen," and my request will turn on the lights just as if I had tapped that button.
My next challenge with this system will be to figure out dimmable switches and the usefulness of non-light switches. More tinkering awaits.


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Q: PHP filter_var function outputs nothing I have the following code:
$email = 'test@example.com';
echo $email.'<br>';
echo filter_var('test@example.com',FILTER_SANITZE_EMAIL).' SANITIZED-EMAIL';

and it the output is as follows:
test@example.com
SANITIZED-EMAIL

Clearly the email is completely turned into an empty string. Similarly the filter_var with FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING does the same thing. What am I missing here?

A: Your code does give errors:

Notice: Use of undefined constant FILTER_SANITZE_EMAIL - assumed
  'FILTER_SANITZE_EMAIL' in /var/www/html/test.php on line 4
Warning: filter_var() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in
  /var/www/html/test.php on line 4 SANITIZED-EMAIL

It has to be FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL not FILTER_SANITZE_EMAIL - so it's just a typo.

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If looks deceived, would you ask someone's age & then fall in love?? If yes, then is it actually "Falling" in love?
Age difference has been a constant criteria in a relationship & it becomes the talk of the town if the woman is elder to the man, even if it by a mere year. Gautam, a 25-year-old finance professional is in love with Roshni. With more than a decade older, Roshni is more than a decade older than Gautam. Being in the same office, they have known each other professionally but their conversations soon turn personal, an emotional bond is formed & they fall in love.
Its only when Gautam confesses his love for Roshni to his best friend Rohit & sister Richa, all hell breaks loose. He is questioned logically by his friend & sister about the age gap, how will he be dealing with it personally & professionally as Roshni will always be ahead of him in career unless she quits, getting married, having a baby, etc etc Once ready to propose marriage to Roshni, Gautam now has doubts & decides to move to Singapore for a year long training which he has chosen not to attend as that would strain his relationship. Spending time in Singapore & few other incidents, makes him realise his actual feelings & he comes back to propose Roshni.
Happily engaged, Roshni too starts realising the impact of the age gap between the two. Couple of instances & her best friend provide her a reality check. With the engagement done & just few days before the wedding, Roshni & Gautam re-consider their decision to get married. Do they actually get married? Read the book to figure it out.


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Director of Marketing, Alumni Affairs
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Requisition Number: 35296
Salary: $5,058 - $12,592 monthly
The UCLA Alumni Affairs Marketing team's primary goal is to engage alumni, parents and friends with UCLA. The marketing team supports Alumni Affairs programs, events and initiatives, serving the greater UCLA community by utilizing all available promotional channels, both print and digital, to disperse a wide variety of news and information.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Alumni Marketing & Creative Engagement, the Director of Marketing will be a key brand steward within the Alumni Association responsible for the development, implementation and execution of strategic marketing plans. This highly visible position will interact with all departments within Alumni Affairs and will work collaboratively with marketing team colleagues and alumni affairs staff to create, implement and deliver marketing materials, products and services for alumni networks and alumni programs. The Director is primarily responsible for building and supporting a comprehensive Alumni Affairs communication strategy, conceptualizing, developing, and implementing marketing plans consistent with the goals and strategies of UCLA Alumni Affairs.
For full application instructions and position description, please visit: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=82747
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction
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UCLA is known worldwide for the breadth and quality of its academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletic programs. UCLA offers undergraduate degrees in more than 127 majors and graduate degrees in 198 program areas. UCLA has 11 highly regarded professional schools. Eight are ranked among the nation's top 15 in their field by U.S. News & World Report. UCLA is consistently among the most popular campus in the nation for undergraduate applicants. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Benefits:UCLA offers a comprehensive benefits package, including an average of three weeks' vacation per year; an average of 12 days per year sick leave; 13 paid holidays per year; health, dental and optical benefits; life insurance; disability insurance; the University of California Retirement Plan with 5 year vesting and various voluntary UC Savings Plans. There are also special programs and privileges available, such as accessibility to cultural and recreational programs, athletic events, and the University Credit Union.
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I was part of big MNCs for 10+years and then moved to work for myself. Now have 50+ clients around the globe (many from freelancer.com).
I work with PHP / HTML / CSS / JS / Java in terms of technologies.
Lately, I have been working with WordPress & Opencart for many projects.
Computer Science degree, followed by a Games Design MA, followed by 2 years of experience providing services to several game development companies.


Property for Rent | 2349 Jefferson Street #106 | JB Real Estate & Investment Inc.
Hey ! I would like to request a showing of 2349 Jefferson Street #106. Let me know what times you are available. Thank you!
Welcome home to the most sought after and in demand resort style living at The Foundry, conveniently located across the street from Wilson Park for all your outdoor exercise activities. No need to drive to the Farmer's Market, just walk across the street twice a week for fresh produce and food stations. No need to "park and ride", instead "walk and ride" to the buses that will whisk you to the Hollywood Bowl! Use of	read more the outdoor building amenities include the swimming pool, cabana, jacuzzi/spa, restroom, shower, BBQ grill, dining area and seating, fireplace and lounge areas. This 1,290 sq. ft. 2BD 2BA open floor plan air-conditioned unit has newly restored hardwood floors, carpet in bedrooms, a private balcony and has been freshly painted. Display some of your favorite items on the floating shelves. A gorgeous wood panel wall dons the master bedroom. Both bedrooms have 2 closets each for all of your storage needs. Included inside the unit: stackable washer/dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave oven and stove. This unit is also conveniently located in the building where you may either park outside on the street with easy access through the side door OR you may utilize the nearby elevator to quickly access the garage for the 2 side-by-side assigned gated subterranean parking spaces. There is ample parking on the street for your guests as well. In addition, there are 2 assigned storage units located in the garage. A MUST SEE!
This listing is courtesy of the listing agent Diana Woo (#SKIMDIAN), with the office Keller Williams South Bay.
All data for this listing was last updated on January 02, 2019 at 11:43AM.


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Today was a OK day that started off good. Around lunchtime the pain in my shoulder acted up, it may have been because during my morning walk I moved my head too far back following a hawk putting on a good show. I noticed that as time progressed some low-level pain in my shoulder. However, it stayed at a low level until I ended my shopping at Home Depot before lunch. I got the pain under control with Tylenol and resting before I visited the Dentist.
No two days are every the same. Today things turned out different again. Getting up I felt no upper leg/buttocks and foot pain, even my shoulder-back-shoulder pain is was barely notable. My first activity was to help with preparing Breakfast. This is becoming a regular routine again. After Dianne and Denise left for work, I went upstairs to my office to continue trying to sort things out. For most of the morning I was busy with trying to figure out how to arrange my office, now that I have retired from my standards work. Ray was able to get through to me for our daily FaceTime session.
Another good night of sleep, waking up around 4:30. I did not have to take any break through pill. The pain locations after waking up were my left hip (no cramping), left shoulder and lower back, all below pain level 6, which is acceptable without the need for any break through meds.


Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion have acquired Ghost Moth by debut novelist Michele Forbes following an auction.
Editor Sophie Buchan bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Kent D Wolf at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, with plans to publish in December 2013. It will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in the US.
The book is set during the hot Irish summer of 1969, and follows Katherine, a former actress, and George, a firefighter, as they struggle to keep buried secrets from destroying their marriage.
Buchan said: "I knew from the very first page that I wanted to publish Ghost Moth. Michele Forbes has a voice that demands to be read, a voice with such beauty and power that I found myself spellbound as she took her sentences in directions that were as surprising as they were apt. I'm incredibly excited to be publishing Ghost Moth and introducing a voice so preternaturally assured that it feels odd to call it 'new'".


New from W. R. MEADOWS comes AIR-SHIELD ALUMINUM FLASHING self-adhering, roll-type flexible membrane flashing with an aluminum facer. This nominally 40-mil thick product is an air, vapor, and liquid moisture barrier. When properly applied, AIR-SHIELD ALUMINUM FLASHING reduces the risk of rot and mold development.
AIR-SHIELD ALUMINUM FLASHING provides protection against water infiltration in critical detail areas, such as window and door openings, deck-to-wall intersections, corner boards, wall-to-wall tie-inns, and many other non-roof detail areas. The aluminum-faced film provides improved sealant adhesion and extended UV exposure for up to one year.
"AIR-SHIELD ALUMINUM FLASHING rounds out our line of air barrier accessory products by now providing an option for rough opening detailing that allows a greater selection of compatible sealants," said Russ Snow, Building Science Specialist at W. R. MEADOWS.


Islamabad: Pakistani nation will observe Kashmir Solidarity Day on February 5 (Thursday) with the pledge to continue support for Kashmiris' just struggle against illegal Indian occupation of the state since October 27, 1947.
Islamabad: The government and people of Pakistan will observe Kashmir Solidarity Day, tomorrow, to give to the world a loud and clear message that the hearts of Pakistanis and Kashmiris throb in unison.
Islamabad: Pakistani nation will observe Kashmir Solidarity Day on Thursday (February 5) with the pledge to continue support for Kashmiris in their just struggle for the right to self-determination and against illegal Indian occupation of the state since October 27,1947.
Islamabad: Kashmir Solidarity Day will be observed in Pakistan on Thursday give political and moral support to the people of occupied Kashmir in their struggle for liberation.
Islamabad: On the eve of Kashmir solidarity day, Pakistan Wednesday reiterated that any amount of elections cannot be a substitute for plebiscite under the auspices of the UN as he raised concerns over brutalities committed by Delhi-led forces in Indian Kashmir.
Srinagar: Indian Government Forces Wednesday fired several shots in air to disperse the protestors who cordoned off armoured Army vehicles and hurled Kangri's (fire-pots) after Army and SOG personnel allegedly thrashed a local youth during a search operation in Herman hamlet of South Kashmir's Shopian district.


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Complaints spark reminder for boaties to learn water rules
By: Waikato Regional Council
Published: Tue 5 Feb 2019 10:22 AM
Boaties are being reminded to learn the rules of the water after a string of recent complaints to Waikato Regional Council harbourmasters.
"Our harbourmasters are patrolling regularly, especially at this time of the year when there are so many people in and on the water. But we can't be at all locations at once," said maritime services team leader, Richard Barnett.
"We've had complaints of fast vessels, such as power boats and jet skis, speeding above the limits around areas like Horahora as well as other popular Waikato spots, and failing to keep right to prevent collisions.
"They're basic rules, but they have been designed to keep everybody on and in the water safe," Mr Barnett said.
The rules are available at www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/navigation and include:
Jet skis must be registered if they are to be used in the Waikato region.
On inland waters, you must not exceed 5 knots within 50 metres of swimmers, other boats and structures (such as the Horahora bridge) or within 30 metres of the shore.
On coastal waters, you must not exceed 5 knots within 50 metres of swimmers and other boats, and 200 metres of structures and the shoreline.
Ultimately, it's the skipper's responsibility to know the rules and follow them, and to ensure the safety of everyone on board their vessels, Mr Barnett said.
Skippers should also be assessing any risks and the impacts their wake may have on other vessels, swimmers, shorelines and structures, he said. "Don't be that person who creates annoying wakes and makes it hard for people to launch or retrieve their boats from the ramps."
Mr Barnett also encouraged boaties handing over responsibility for their vessels to young people to first make sure they know the key rules and risks.
"There are a lot of safe boaties out there keeping an eye out for each other, but it's the young teens that really need their parents' time and attention to teach them the rules. And the Coastguard has excellent day skipper's courses too."
Members of the public are encouraged to report unsafe boating behaviours to the council harbourmasters by calling 0800 800 401.


The fuel discounts for Atlas Corporate Fleet have now expanded to include savings from TA, Petro, Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores, Roady's Truck Stops, and Sapp Brothers Travel Centers. Don't forget we still have discounts from Pilot and Flying J. More detail included in the blog post.
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Castaway Bay may refer to:

Castaway Bay (Sandusky, Ohio), an indoor water park near Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio
Castaway Bay (Sea World), a themed area at Sea World in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Now that spring has finally sprung and the last of winter's wrath has hopefully packed up for its seasonal holiday, it's time to take back your favorite room in the house… or rather, outside the house! Brush off that pollen and bring back out the chair cushions because it's time to reclaim your outdoor oasis. From timeless front porch rockers to exotic coastal escapes, indulge in our latest inspirational top picks of each outdoor style and be ready to refresh your retreat this season!
Built for barbecues and basking in the warm sunshine, think of a deck as an outdoor room without the four walls. Typically attached to the house and raised off the ground, a deck is a luxurious landing just waiting to become the stage of your next summertime soiree.
If you prefer to keep two feet on the ground, the patio is where your party is located! From sprawling tile terraces to brick beauties, the patio is usually paved and stretches into the yard on ground level. Due to its proximity to the earth, scenic landscaping surrounding a patio is often a key aesthetic feature.
Once upon a time, recognized as a resting point before one would enter the home (hence the Southern saying, "Sit a spell,"), porches are shady sanctuaries, covered and located usually near the home's front or back door. Extensive wrap around porches are lovingly deemed verandas and are home to welcoming porch swings and rocking chairs, reserved for life's more leisurely moments.
Creative designers and architects aren't just thinking outside the box, but outside the house with clever transitional indoor/outdoor hybrid spaces that blur the line between interior and exterior. From expansive sliding glass doors that can open up the home to full walls that raise up, it is now possible to have the best of both worlds!
Not ready to hire the contractor just yet? Create a fresh feeling for spring in your outdoor space with one of Karastan's innovative indoor/outdoor rug styles from the luxurious Portico Collection!
How do you enjoy outdoor living? Let us know in the comments!


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Q: Is there any way I can define a http filter like what we did in J2EE apps? I am writing an web application using django, I am trying to do user authentication for all http requests, is there any way in django allow me define a http filter like what we do in J2ee, then all http request comes to my filter first then i can do some operations like checking user id, check permisson etc?
Thanks in advance.

A: I am not sure about filters, but i can tell you for sure, is that you can make use of decorators in django.
You can create a custom decorator, and attach the custom decorator on top of the view that you want to check for user id, check permission etc.
You can check the following link
https://passingcuriosity.com/2009/writing-view-decorators-for-django/
which is useful.


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Q: How to disable tab discarding (unloading) in Google Chrome? Chrome frequently discards (i.e. 'unloads') tabs that haven't been active for a while. That makes sense if low on RAM, but I have ~70GB spare RAM.
I put this into the address bar: chrome://discards and can see all open tabs and their discard status (AKA 'Loading State') i.e. loaded vs unloaded).
How can I configure chrome to never discard tabs?
What I know so far
I can see someone's asked how to do it using javascript (here).
I tried searching Chrome settings but no results:

I also tried searching the flags (chrome://flags/) for anything related to 'tabs', 'unloading', 'discarding' etc, but couldn't spot anything there either.


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St Andrew's Day 2021: how a fisherman became Scotland's patron saint
there is a little boozer atop a hill in London called the house of Commons which on Tuesday was once hit by an uncongenial snowstorm. A handful of MPs had been locked in; masses had been locked out.
It wasn't a problem, however, since the anti-Covid measures they planned to speak about – masks, self-isolation and so forth – had already taken impact in advance that day (at 4am). Left to litigate a very misplaced cause were one Labour backbencher, one Lib Dem (which, to be truthful, is what they consider a quorum), a Scottish Nat, who wasn't going to vote on the matter however can be heard on it however, and a dozen Tory punters satisfied to spend a couple of hours stranded away from the trouble and strife, arguing the toss over their favourite matter.
Pull a barstool; pour us a pint. Let's communicate freedom!
"I Am keen on liberty," mentioned Daisy Cooper (Lib Dem), nevertheless it will have to forestall when we unfold disease and harm other folks. That Is lacking the purpose, countered Steve Baker (Con): one may decide to put on a mask to protect others, however the moment an individual is *pressured* to do the proper factor, freedom is going out the window. Dignity, too. we are facing "a basic choice among heaven and heading towards hell," declared Mr Baker, who most popular to be at the "path to heaven". That stated, if Heaven turns out to be non-smoking, i think a few Tories will illuminate a cigar and blow smoke in angels' faces.
"Why don't contributors at the executive benches wear face coverings?" demanded an MP. "Because we're not on a bus!" came the fruity answer.
the issue with masks, joked Sir Christopher Chope "is that very few folks do put on them accurately. The World Well Being Organization writes that as quickly as you take off your facemask, you want to wash your hands and you wish to discard your facemask after which wash your arms again!"
Clive Betts (Lab) instructed the house that miscreants who do not wear a mask, while requested why, simply make up an exemption my friend Herbert always says "athletes foot", and demanded to grasp what could be performed to establish the truth – reflecting the inquisitional tone that so unsettled Steve Brine (Con). Under the phrases of this legislation, mentioned Mr Brine, one might be compelled to move into isolation after entering touch with a "suspected" case of the omicron variant, no matter what that means.
"There's a component of Salem witch trials about this," he mentioned, the talk turning hyperbolic as the hours ticked by. If this have been Massachusetts in 1692, in fact, Labour can be calling for preventative measures against cackling hags and the Tory backbenches may insist that being became a frog is a matter of private choice.
At 3.45pm, the snow lifted lengthy sufficient for masses of MPs to trek bravely into the chamber and vote: masks handed 434-24, isolation by means of 431-36. The caucus for freedom proved small.
Then, as the solar fell and the wind picked up once more, such a lot of our wise MPs, deferring to the precautionary idea, evacuated the status quo and toddled off house.
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AVIAÂ, the international group purchasing organisation (GPO) for business aviation, is expanding their suite of insurance offerings for its growing membership of aircraft owners and operators. The goal is to offer lower costs, increased efficiencies, and reinvestment into risk management programmes for their members.
AVIAÂ's insurance offerings include hull and liability, but also employee benefits, Workers Compensation, Travel Accident, Loss of Pilot License, and Management Liabilities. And importantly, the insurance service pillar will be seamlessly integrated within the company's broader managed procurement services offering, which covers fuel, maintenance, FBO handling, crew training, satellite services and more.
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FRONTEX FLASH REPORT – Irregular migration into EU at lowest level since 2013
The number of irregular border crossings detected on the European Union's external borders last year fell to the lowest level since 2013 due to a drop in the number of people reaching European shores via the Central and Western Mediterranean routes. Preliminary 2019 data collected by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, showed a 6% fall in illegal border crossings along the EU's external borders to just over 139 000. This is 92% below the record number set in 2015. The number of irregular migrants crossing the Central Mediterranean fell roughly 41% to around 14 000. Nationals of Tunisia and Sudan accounted for the largest share of detections on this route. The total number of irregular migrants detected in the Western Mediterranean dropped approximately 58% to around 24 000, with Moroccans and Algerians making up the largest percentage.
Eeastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans
Despite the general downward trend, the Eastern Mediterranean saw growing migratory pressure starting in the spring. It peaked in September and then started falling in accordance with the seasonal trend. In all of 2019, there were more than 82 000 irregular migrants detected on this route, roughly 46% more than in the previous year.
In the second half of 2019, irregular arrivals in the region were at the highest since the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement in March 2016, although still well below the figures recorded in 2015 and early 2016 with the situation before the Statement.
Some persons transferred from the Greek islands to the mainland appear to have continued on the Western Balkan migratory route. There has been an increase in detections on the Greek-Albanian border after the start of the Frontex joint operation in May. In the second half of the year, a significant number of detections was reported on the EU borders with Serbia.
In total, around 14 000 irregular crossings were detected at the EU's borders on the Western Balkan route last year – more than double the 2018 figure.
On the Eastern Mediterranean route and the related Western Balkan route, nationals of Afghanistan and Syria accounted for over half of all registered irregular arrivals.
Top nationality
Overall, Afghans were the main nationality of newly arrived irregular migrants in 2019, representing almost a quarter of all arrivals. The number of Afghan migrants was nearly three times (+167%) the figure from the previous year. Roughly four out of five were registered on the Eastern Mediterranean route, while nearly all the rest on the Western Balkan route.
The most recent available data also suggest a higher percentage of women among the newly arrived migrants in 2019. In the first ten months of last year, around 23% of migrants were women compared with 19% in 2018. EU countries counted approximately 14 600 migrant children younger than 14 in the January-October period, almost one thousand more than in all of 2018.
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Kia Nurse is Just Getting Started
Nurse showed promise in her rookie year with the WNBA's New York Liberty and built on that during the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup as Canada's star player.
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Canada Shows Basketball World It's Ready for Primetime
Powered by a dominant R.J. Barrett, Canada won its first-ever FIBA basketball gold by taking the U19 World Cup. It was a defining moment for the sport in Canada.
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Dusan Domovic Bulut showed off some moves at FIBA's 3x3 Nanjing Challenger. This one's so pretty, it deserves its own name. The NutGod.
After a Long Fight, FIBA Finally Lifts its Ban on Religious Headwear
This week FIBA announced a new uniform rule that allows basketball players to wear headcoverings—the result of years of campaigning by athletes like Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir and Indira Kaljo.
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These Past Two US Men's Basketball Exhibition Games Are a Window into the Hurting They'll Put on the World
For the rest of the world, the scariest part is that this team hasn't even reached its full potential.
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Under The Hardwood, The Sand: The Case for Basketball on the Beach
Basketball as it is played today bears little resemblance to the game James Naismith invented. But to get back to basketball's roots, we must go to the beach.
Corbin Smith
High Hopes and Olympic Hoop Dreams in France
As France's elder statesmen of basketball—Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, Mickaël Gelabale—near the ends of their careers, Les Bleus are dead-set on defending their EuroBasket title and getting a bid to Rio.
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Angry Birds and the Bizarre World of International Basketball Corruption
This story has everything: prankster whistleblowers, three-on-three basketball, scandals, and a peek into basketball's weirdest melodrama.
Jack Ross
FIBA's Rules on Head Coverings Are Screwing Over Athletes and Basketball
As FIBA continues to botch its regulations on head coverings in basketball, the cost weighs heavily on both athletes and basketball itself.
The Hague, Croatian Nightclubs, Embezzlement, And Biggie Smalls: The Dario Saric Saga
Dario Saric's journey to the NBA came with a family crisis, agent drama, and several false starts, but that's not even the half of it.
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Team USA is going to the FIBA World Cup without a bevy of stars. They'll be fine.
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A devastating leg injury was an ironic cap to a year that saw Paul George take the next step.
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Family history across the seas
My family history in Australia and overseas and related migration research
My Families
Genealogists for Families
East Clare, Ireland
Dorfprozelten, Bavaria
My Beyond the Internet Topics
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Miss Daisy Frances King: I wish I'd known you better
Posted on 30 April, 2012 by cassmob
Some weeks ago, Lorine from Olive Tree Genealogy posed this topic as part of the Sharing Memories series: People I wish I'd known better. Of course the first thought is all those family members who I know only from documents and deductions, and if I'm lucky the odd photograph. However I guessed that wasn't the real intent of the question, and my next thought was "Miss King".
Three little mementoes sent to me by Miss King and treasured for decades.
When I was a young girl, there was an "elderly" spinster living in the house across the road. While I thought she was old, in reality she was perhaps not far past retirement when she came to live in our street. My memory tells me dimly that sometimes I would be invited over for a cold drink and I suppose a biscuit. I faintly recall lots of quality furniture in the house and the story went that she was well off. I suspect she possibly wasn't all that well off as she had worked as a typist or secretary throughout her life.[i] Having been trawling through Trove I'm wondering if perhaps she is the "Miss Daisy King" who was secretary to the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce.
Daisy Frances King was born in early 1885 in country Queensland to parents Nathaniel Irvine King and his wife Emily Sloane[ii]. Daisy had three sisters and one brother. School records suggest they lived in Marburg c1894 before later moving to Brisbane.
The reason Miss King has a special place in my memories down all these years is because of her kindnesses to that young girl who lived across the street from her. Miss King travelled overseas a few times and each time she brought some small gift back to me which I've treasured to this day: a little Welsh dragon, a Japanese-print handkerchief and a miniature Chinese doll.
I never dreamt that one day I too would travel to Ireland.
In my memory box I also have a postcard which she wrote to me from Ireland. On the postcard she wrote: Dear Pauline, I am sending this from Ireland where a number of donkeys are used for carrying light loads. This dear little fellow is taking a rest in the field. Hope you are very well. From D F King. The postcard was sent while she was overseas for an extended trip in 1958, and I'm guessing the Welsh dragon probably dates from that trip too. However the other two treasures may have been from a different trip.
In those days it was impossibly exotic for people to travel overseas. The only other people we knew who did so were my "rich" relations in Far North Queensland and that was partly business travel. My mother had always wanted to travel but perhaps it was Miss King who fanned the flame. If so, you've seen from my A to Z posts just how successfully the fire was set.
Another special memory I have of Miss King is that she took me to the ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre when I was still quite young, perhaps 10 to 12 years old. I think it was Swan Lake that we saw but I'm not certain, I just remember the beauty of the costumes and the dance. No doubt I was on my absolutely best behaviour.
It astonishes me somehow that this lady, very similar in age to my grandmother (another of her neighbours), was so very kind and generous to me. The electoral rolls suggest Miss King lived in the street for about 15 years, but I don't think this is correct. A young family with a child arrived when I was in my early teens or even a bit younger, so Miss King must have moved before then. My mother tells me Miss King went to a home and that after she died her nephew inherited the house. Miss King died in Brisbane in 1973, when I was living in Papua New Guinea, perhaps this partly explains how I didn't know what had happened to her.
I feel quite shamed that I did not reciprocate her many kindnesses to me by staying in touch. Perhaps the happy memories I've had of her all these years go some way to redressing my omissions.
Thank you Miss King for your generous spirit. I wish I'd known you better.
[i] Electoral rolls 1913-1969.
[ii] Qld BDM indexes.
Posted in Brisbane, Kunkel Family History, Sharing Memories	| Tagged Daisy Frances King, Emily Sloane, Nathaniel Irvine King, Sharing Memories	| 14 Replies
Z zzzzs through Zöller and Zurich
I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I'm not sure which). This is the final post in the series.
Z is for zzzzzz
After a solid month of posting from A to Z, I reckon it might be time for a short nap. I'm pleased to have achieved my goal of documenting some of the important places in our distant family history, as well as more recent ones. Thank you to everyone who has followed along on this journey. I've appreciated your support and comments throughout.
Z is for Zöller, Zoller, Zeller, Ziller
This Bavarian family name has so many mis-recordings and spelling variations that they're known in my household as the Ziller, Zeller, Zollers. Throw in Tiller, Seller, Sellar, Sellars and you can see the research dilemma. Thank heavens for wildcards!
I have an interest in this name because three of the Dorfprozelten families I research were named Zöller. They were:
Joseph Zöller and his wife Anna Rosina (nee Neubeck) and children Oswald 12 and Carl 8 arrived in Melbourne on the Boomerang on 11 May 1855, and from there were transshipped to Moreton Bay. The family settled in Toowoomba.
Franz Ignaz Zöller and his wife Catherine (nee Beutel) arrived in Sydney on the Peru on 23 May 1855, with "their" children Joseph 10, Caroline 7, Michael 4, and Maria 1. They too were transshiped to Moreton Bay to take up their employment there. Further research and collaboration with family historians, and assistance from the Dorfprozelten local historian, has now established that Joseph and Caroline were in fact the Ignaz's nephew and niece, children of his deceased brother. Ignaz and his family first lived south of Brisbane near Beaudesert and later on the Darling Downs.
Franz Michael Zöller arrived in Sydney on the Commodore Perry on 26 April 1855. Franz Michael's wife, Maria (nee Krebs) had died on the voyage so he had the care of their children Oswald 11 and Maria 3. Eldest son John, 19, appears to have been contracted out independently in Newcastle soon after arrival. Michael and the other children remained in Sydney.
In addition a single woman who arrived independently was Maria Rosalia Günzer aka Mary Rosalie Zöller, the illegitimate daughter of Franz Ignaz's brother and sister to Joseph and Caroline mentioned above.
I've written about the ones who came to Queensland in Queensland Family History Society's Q150 publication and presented a paper on the Dorfprozelten immigrants at the 2006 Australasian Congress of Genealogy and Heraldry in Darwin. The paper is published in the proceedings for those with an interest in these families.
Z is for Zurich and the end of winter (Switzerland)
When we first travelled to Europe all those years ago, one of the most exciting events we happened upon was the end of winter festival in Zurich. Pure beginners' luck! I don't know if it still occurs but it involved the members of the ancient guilds parading through the streets, women throwing flowers to them or racing out to give them a kiss, and culminated in the burning of a snowman's effigy to symbolise the end of winter. Somehow we found some new mates who shared their beer steins and toasted the end of winter with us.
Turns out this festival still exists (logically why would it not-it's been going for nearly 200 years) and is called the Sechseläuten festival, (normally held on the third Sunday and Monday in April) and and the snowman is called the Böögg. Isn't the internet a wonderful place!
Today I thought I'd share some of those images with you in this slideshow.
Posted in A to Z 2012, Cass family history, Family History, Travel	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, Boomerang, Commodore Perry, Dorfprozelten, End of winter parade, Peru, Zeller, Zoller, Zurich	| 7 Replies
Finally the Dry Season!
Yes we've all been a bit over-eager thinking the Dry Season was coming early but:
The dragonflies were out in force weeks ago (sign of the Dry)
The boats are back in Fannie Bay and the sailing classes have started
The Open Garden program has started (really looking forward to this!)
The grandchildren already reckon the pool is too cold (it is 22oC after all)
The air conditioning is no longer required by 10am
We look for long sleeves and trousers in the mornings (it is 22oC after all)
The skies are vivid blue and the ocean aquamarine
Finally the lightning, thunder and downpours have stopped
Yay!! It's the Dry Season – no rain, cool weather, lots of fun events around town.
Woo hoo! Bring it on!
Hellooo the Dry Season
Yes, I know it's a beer ad, but it's clever, and this is Darwin after all.
Posted in Family History, Life in the Top End	| Tagged Dry Season, Open Gardens	| 11 Replies
New Gavin family blog
Long-term followers of my blog will have read many posts about the Gavin family, either searching for them in Ireland, their links to the convict Gavans, or the young men who went to World War I.
Thanks to my recent posts and last year's Anzac Day post, a 3rd cousin has got in touch with me. She holds many photos of her branch of the Gavin family and we're hoping we can sort out some blanks on photos we each have. She's been inspired to start her own blog and has put up some wonderful photos of the young Gavin men in uniform and their parents. I've been thrilled to finally put faces to the names of these people I've known about and been researching for so long. Louise also has lots of family anecdotes so it will be interesting to learn more about the family through her stories rather than just through documents.
I'm really hoping I may yet be able to put names to some of the faces on this Wordless Wednesday photo.
This is the link to the Gavin Coman blog. Why not pop over and have a look at the photos and say g'day to Louise.
Posted in Gavin Family Queensland, Queensland, World War I	| Tagged Coman, Gavin family	| 5 Replies
Y yearns for Yass and Young
I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I'm not sure which).
Y is for Young and yearning for gold (New South Wales)
Chinese lions guard the entrance. © P Cass 2011
Many years ago my father told me that his great-grandfather George Kunkel was at the goldfields of Lambing Flat or Captains Flat in far south-eastern New South Wales. When I started researching my family history, this was one of my early investigations. I soon found that the discovery of gold at Captains Flat didn't occur until 1882 and it seemed impossible that he would have been gold-digging as the family would have been busy establishing their farm at the time.
Lambing Flat near Young might have been more of a possibility as it had opened earlier, 1860, but even so the family were then in Ipswich with George working as a pork butcher and Mary was having a child most years. Now much as I loved my father he wasn't always what you could call a "reliable witness", as he had a tendency to either tell you nothing at all, or turn the story around. On the other hand, he was the only child of his father, who in turn was George Kunkel's eldest grandchild, so perhaps there was truth in there somewhere.
Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Garden, Young. © P Cass 2011
On a driving trip in 1994, I visited the Lambing Flat Museum in Young and finding nothing, mentally filed this story as improbable if not impossible. Perhaps George really had been on the Victorian goldfields which would have fitted with his approximate arrival in Australia.
Some years later, new indexes were created of Queensland's earliest Equity cases in the Supreme Court. Accustomed to searching indexes and finding nary a mention of the Kunkel surname, I nearly fell off my chair to find him mentioned. Soon after I visited Queensland State Archives to look at the relevant documents and was thrilled to find that not only was George Kunkel a witness to the case, but the defendant, Carl Diflo, also mentions that he knew George in the old country (Bavaria) and that he was a pork butcher on the Tooloom goldfields not far over the border in New South Wales[i]. Eureka!
The Galloping Horse overlooks the tranquil lake. It is a replica of an original found in a Han Dynasty tomb. © P Cass 2011
It seemed I had the root of the story about George's adventures on the goldfields. He hadn't been digging for gold but was pork butchering for the men, probably a more reliable way of earning money. On top of which, this had all occurred in 1859, when birth records etc suggest he was safely ensconced in Ipswich. Another interesting by-product from this court case, is that while the other Germans needed translators, there is no indication that George was given or required one. I doubt his English was so much better after being married to an Irish woman for only two years, so perhaps he'd been able to speak some English when he arrived. Questions, questions.
The birds at the Lambing Flat Gardens were keen for a feed and this black swan followed us around. I thought his tail feathers were just gorgeous. © P Cass 2011.
Perhaps George really had been at some of the other goldfields but I'll probably never know. Still the family stories stay in my mind, so when we X-Trailled into Young last year en route to Canberra we made a point of visiting the Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Garden on the outskirts of the town. The site commemorates the Lambing Flat Riots when the European miners turned against the Chinese who were on the goldfields in one of Australia's most severe race riots. Nowadays it is a peaceful park perfect for families to spend a few hours relaxing. However there is another perspective put forward in this article which I found most interesting albeit somewhat strident.
Y is for Yass (New South Wales)
I have no genealogical connection of my own to Yass but I do have an interest in the Irish Orphan Girls who came from East Clare to Australia around the end of the Great Famine. The community and authorities of New South Wales were already objecting to being sent Britain's rejects from its workhouses and especially these young Irish girls who were perceived to be ignorant and dirty Irish peasants with loose morals. So as the Thomas Arbuthnot arrived in Sydney on 3 February 1850, with its 193 Irish orphan girls, there was already great deal of resistance and antipathy to them. In this context, the achievements of the ship's Surgeon Superintendent, Charles Edward Strutt, and the girls he'd delivered safely to their new country, were even more remarkable. Strutt had insisted that cleanliness was vital and also ensured the girls were well treated on the long voyage. Such was their affection and respect for him, that when he asked for volunteers to accompany him to Yass where there was a need for 105 servants, 130 girls wanted to go with him. And so they set forth on yet another long journey, loaded on 15 drays with their belongings[ii]. One of the girls on the dray may have been Mary Hurley who was employed at nearby Burrowa. Her sea chest made the journey from the Gort Workhouse in Galway to Sydney, probably on the drays to Yass thence to Burrowa, and 161 years later was an iconic feature in the Not Just Ned exhibition in Canberra.
As the girls and Strutt steadily made their way to Yass, all the newspaper commentary was negative: they did not want these ignorant Irish Catholic peasants in their community. Strutt was clever though, they stopped before they came into the town and the girls got into their best clean clothes so that when they arrived they looked the picture of cleanliness and tidiness. Within days, the community tide had turned and the girls were welcomed whole-heartedly. Even then Strutt continued his care for the girls, ensuring they were placed with good employers and visited them all before leaving. What a remarkable man! No doubt these young women form the foundation of many an Irish-descended family in the Yass area.
In writing this synopsis of Yass and the orphan girls I've drawn heavily on two books, Richard Reid's Farewell my children and Barefoot and Pregnant Volume 2, by Trevor McLaughlin. If you have an interest in these immigrants, these books are essential reading. There is also an online database for all these orphan immigrants here.
I'd be interested in hearing from descendants of any of the orphans from East Clare in particular eg Scariff, Bodyke, Sixmilebridge, or Kilseily/Broadford.
[i] Kiesar v Diflo. Queensland State Archives, Supreme Court records. SCT/U1 1859-1860
[ii] Reid R, Farewell my children, pages 150-152
Posted in A to Z 2012, Family History, Irish family history, Kunkel Family History	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, Carl Diflo, George Kunkel, Irish Orphan girls, Lambing Flat, Tooloom, Yass, Young	| 6 Replies
Beyond the Internet: Week 17 Hospital records
This is Week 17 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. This week the topic is Hospital admissions and records, which can be surprisingly useful.
I'd love it if you wanted to join in and tell us about your successes with these records, or share your experience, especially if you live overseas and use different set of records. If possible please provide a link to your post on this page.
Hospital notices
In the early days of settlement some hospital boards published their statistics annually and included the names of patients who had died. This can be useful where death indexes prove difficult.
As an example: Francis (Franz Ignaz) Zöller died on 28 April 1862 from phlebitis suppuratoria in Toowoomba Hospital as reported in the Darling Downs Gazette (DDG).[1] The death index is for Tiller.
Similarly, depending on the "chattiness" of the newspaper, you may get ambulance reports of family members being taken to hospital for injuries large and small.
These examples highlight a couple of things: (1) even though the DDG is on Trove, the name doesn't come up. Would you look nearly a year after his death for information? (2) the value of indexes provided by the local family history society.
Hospital Admission Books: Where to find them
If you are researching in Queensland, you are in luck. Judy Webster's excellent site provides indexes to some of the hospital admission records held by the Queensland State Archives. QSA also has some indexes available. Judy also has some useful background information about the costs to patients' families. If you have Queensland family history, do have a thorough browse of Judy's site as it's full of information, and she also has a great book you can buy, which I've found very useful.
How do you do check the records if you want to do this yourself? Well go to your state archives catalogue (usually online these days) and search by the name of the hospital. Be careful that the name of the hospital you know it by today, may not always have been its name eg I initially searched for "Royal Brisbane Hospital" but using "Brisbane Hospital admissions" is what gives results.
Also keep in mind that you may be wise to search the mental asylum records as people were admitted for a variety of conditions from post-natal depression to full psychosis. Once again, Judy Webster also has indexes for Qld while the Public Records Office of Victoria has some of their records available online to download and browse. Use this link for mental asylum records at State Records of NSW.
Hospital records: What might you find
Reasonably obviously this is likely to change over time, however some early admission records provide wonderful information about the person's immigration, place of residence, next of kin and the like. A few years ago I browsed these records looking for details on anyone from East Clare or for any clues to my Germans, and there is a wealth of information in them.
An example: Thanks to Judy's index, I easily found the admission record for Carl Diflo to Brisbane Hospital. Carl Diflo was admitted to the Brisbane Hospital on 17 November 1856 and discharged on 29 November 1856.[2] I believe this is the man I research among my Dorfprozelten immigrants. The age stated is not correct, but he is a German Catholic and the surname is very unusual. Carl was suffering from rheumatism and severe pains in his feet. He had been living on salt meat for more than a year in the bush. This lets me deduce a fair bit about his early life in Moreton Bay after arrival in 1855.
For various reasons the Diflo family had a terrible time in Australia and his daughter Phoebe Nevison was also admitted to the Rockhampton asylum with what seems to be post-natal depression. Her file includes details of the cost of her care, and a letter from her husband explaining his difficulty in paying as well as providing information about his work and their children.
Military Hospitals
Following on from the various Anzac Day posts, it's worth considering where our relatives were sent to recuperate from war injuries, and how they were treated.
This post from Helen Smith is an excellent example of how different sources of information can be used to reveal more of their experience in the military hospital.
Next week: Benevolent Asylums
[1] Deaths in Australia, Volume 2, extracted from The Darling Downs Gazette August 1860-Dec 1865, Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society Inc, Toowoomba, 2002, page 31 (Ziller). Darling Downs Gazette 5 March 1863, annual report, page 3. Qld Death certificate 1862/C000089 indexed as Tiller: Francis Tiller, son of Peter Tiller and Magdalene Villers, consistent with the names of Franz Ignaz's parents.
[2] Queensland State Archives Item ID2903, Case book, Microfilm Z1626, page 509.
Posted in BEYOND THE INTERNET, Dorfprozelten research, Family History	| Tagged asylums, Helen V Smith, hospital admissions, hospital records, judy webster	| 11 Replies
X is for X-Trailing into the distance
Since we got our Nissan X-Trail about four years ago, it's taken us on some long adventures, though to be honest its 4WD facility hasn't had much of a workout.
Heading for ruin, but I loved this old building seen en route to Townsville. © P Cass 2008.
The first long trip we took in the X-Trail combined genealogy and travel very nicely. We drove to Cairns in Far North Queensland visiting family sites such as Hughenden, Charters Towers, Townsville and Ingham along the way. Many were the cemeteries we explored for family plots and photos. We also visited a whole raft of family history centres, mining them for the indexes specific to the area. Oh yes, and we did have a holiday, exploring Magnetic Island which I used to visit as a child, and the mountains-to-reefs of the Cairns area. All in all we had great fun, and a very productive time indeed.
Peter's grandparents' gravestone in the Ouyen cemetery. © P Cass.
The longest trip the little X-Trail has achieved was Darwin to Tasmania (Tassie) via Adelaide and Melbourne. I think we notched up around 9,500 kms on that drive which was to celebrate a "special" birthday for us both. Despite the long drive Darwin-Adelaide, we had a lot of fun in the holiday sector of our journey. We ate lots of great fresh food in Tasmania, drank equally good wine and whisky, saw the yachts from the Sydney-Hobart race and admired some wonderful natural scenery. Of course what is any trip without a genealogy aspect, so we stopped along the way at a couple of places in western Victoria where my husband's family has links: Ouyen, Horsham and North Laen.
A view in Oatlands showing the historic windmill. I loved that the stone walls near it were restored by women who learnt the skills. © P Cass.
In Tassie we visited the town of Oatlands where my husband's convict ancestor spent some of his sentence. Oatlands has a wonderful array of old Georgian buildings and we fell in love with its vibe. A visit to the archives in Hobart revealed a few more clues about his ancestor and eliminated a possible migration record for my O'Briens.
Last year we drove Darwin-Brisbane-Canberra return and had quite a lot of genealogy fun. The timing of the trip was for us to attend the Not Just Ned exhibition and for me to enjoy three days of fun at Shamrock in the Bush 2011. As always, archives, family history centres, and cemeteries featured in our itinerary as well as seeing the countryside looking very green and lush after the early 2011 floods throughout the west.
The Murphys Creek railway station, of importance to the Kunkel family history. Murphys Creek was severely affected by the 2011 floods. © P Cass
On St Patrick's Day 2011, we took Ms X-Trail for a quick skip down the Stuart Highway and I wrote about the scenery and the birds we saw here.
The X-Trail has given us a ton of fun, as well as a solution to the "X is for….." conundrum.
Posted in A to Z 2012, Cass family history, Family History, McSherry Family, Melvin Family history, Travel	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, North Laen, Not Just Ned, Oatlands, Ouyen, Shamrock in the Bush, Tasmania, X-Trail	| 2 Replies
W wanders around the world
W is for West Drayton (Nottinghamshire, England)
West Drayton church where John Cass was buried. © P Cass 2006
My husband's Cass ancestors were in West Drayton in the early 19th century where his 3x great grandfather, John Cass, was a teacher. John and his wife Suzannah had married in Southwark, London, so presumably there was a reason for them to relocate. We visited the small village in 2006 but didn't manage to find out any more about the family's life or work in West Drayton. We did hit it lucky with information for John Cass's widow in Retford and Moorgate, thanks to a kind gentleman in West Drayton who referred us to the local library.
If any of my English readers have home-grown tips on how to pursue this further, I'd be very pleased to hear of them.
W is for Wewak (Papua New Guinea)
Another guest post from Mr Cassmob in the A to Z series on the places he lived in Papua New Guinea. Although we visited there for a weekend while we lived in Goroka, our memories of it from that time are hazy.
The beautiful crushed-coral beach at Wewak. © P Cass
Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea where I lived at Brandi High School, 9 miles outside Wewak, when his father was Headmaster there in the late 1950s. The school – dormitories, classrooms, kitchen – was built on the river flats. All the buildings were on stilts 3-4 feet high, so that when the river overflowed after heavy rains, the floods ran under the buildings, across the soccer fields and down to the sea. From the Cassmobs' house high on the hill, they looked out over the school and the jungle to the black-sand beach, where the incoming waves created an unremitting 24-hour roar which was deafening at first and then merged into the background.
This was the time of Indonesia's konfrontasi with Malaya. Australia expanded its defence capabilities, including construction of airstrips in theSepik mountains and building a new barracks for the Pacific Islands Regiment at Moem Point between Wewak and Brandi. This meant goodbye to lazy Sundays picnicking on Moem Beach and snorkelling over the coral reef 10 yards offshore.
W is for Würzburg (Bavaria, Germany)
Rococo splendour in Würzburg. © P Cass
Würzburg is the home of the archdiocesan archives for the Catholic church in the Franconia region. I'm sure in my short visit I only scratched the surface of what was available, hampered by language as well as time. However among their holdings are the parish registers and family books (Familienbücher) for the various Catholic parishes. Würzburg itself is also a pretty city with lovely old buildings to view, but what is sight-seeing when family history opportunities await. I also visited the general archives in an attempt to find out whether there were any military records from the 19th century, or departure permissions, but I was told (I think) that there were none. Of course we may have mutually misunderstood what the other person was trying to ask/convey.
W is for Wales (United Kingdom)
My Partridge family hover around the Welsh-English border and my 3x great grandfather states his place of birth as Monmouth (county or city, is the question). I believe I've found the correct baptism in Monmouth itself based on naming patterns and if so, I do indeed have links to Wales. We passed round the perimeter of Monmouth on a recent visit to the UK but didn't have time to sightsee.
W is for Wallumbilla (near Roma, Queensland)
The Paterson and Kunkel families lived in the small settlement of Pickenjennie on the outskirts of Wallumbilla, while another set of relations, the Lees, lived in Wallumbilla itself. There have been Kunkel descendants in or near the town since the late 19th century.
If you have an interest in Wallumbilla I can recommend these two books:
Onward with Honour: Wallumbilla Primary School history by Roslyn Stemmler, 1993
Prickly Pear Frenchman by Roslyn Stemmler, 2009 ( I get very jealous of Roslyn's collections of letters)
Posted in A to Z 2012, Cass family history, Family History, Kunkel Family History, Queensland	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, John Cass, St Saviour's Southwark, Wallubilla, West Drayton Nottinghamshire, Wewak, Wurzburg	| 5 Replies
V is for the Valiant of Villers-Bretonneux: Lest we forget
I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. Today's post is both historical and genealogical, as in Australia and New Zealand we celebrate 25 April as Anzac Day, commemorating the landing at Gallipoli and all the Australian and New Zealand military contributions since then. Tying in the with Trans-Tasman Anzac Day challenge I'll also talk about the effect of one soldier's death.
Villers-Brettoneux war cemetery and Memorial on a foggy, freezing winter's morning . © P Cass 1992.
On a freezing cold morning in late November 1992, we set forth from Amiens on a pilgrimage to the Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. Despite the national significance of the site to both Australia and France, our purpose that day was personal. We'd come to see the name of my grandfather's cousin, James Thomas Paterson, on the Memorial's large wall, among the names of those whose bodies were never found.
Villers-Brettoneux © P Cass 1992
So dense was the fog that we drove straight past this immense Memorial without seeing it and had to turn back. Perhaps it was the fog and the crunching of ice underfoot as we walked the cemetery that brought me undone. I sobbed for those men lost so far from home, who had fought in conditions such as these, to which mostly they were unaccustomed, fighting for duty and a cause they believed in, for a people in a foreign land. As we wandered among the immaculately kept graves, the French gardeners worked respectfully to ensure the final resting place of the soldiers buried in the cemetery section was kept immaculate.
Part of the Memorial wall at Villers-Brettoneux which lists the names of the soldiers with no known grave. © P Cass 1992
Slowly we approached the Memorial at the back of the site, and its vast list of engraved names: the one you see in Anzac Day TV broadcasts. There are 10,765 names on that wall[i]; 10,765 Australian Diggers fallen in France but with no known grave; 10,765 men whose names are engraved in the hearts and minds of families who would never be able to visit their grave. Imagine the sheer loss behind those numbers if you can.
Let me tell you a story behind just one of those names. James Thomas Paterson was the grandson of Bavarian-born George Mathias Kunkel and his wife Mary O'Brien. James's parents were Archibald and Catherine Paterson. When James was a lad, his family moved from Stanthorpe west to Pickenjennie near Wallumbilla where his father purchased land and worked on the railway lines by day. By the time of the big droughts in the 1910s, James was working as a farmer. Times were tough and that may have contributed in some way to his decision to join the war effort in World War I.
Jim had already served with the Roma Commonwealth Light Horse (a militia force) and there's no doubt he felt a strong sense of duty to join up, as he made his wife-to-be promise before he married her that she would not stop him joining up. The recruiting train steamed into Wallumbilla en route to Roma on 17 August 1915, and the local men were encouraged to enlist[ii] through meetings and appeals for troops. Jim was not among those who signed up immediately but he left Wallumbilla by train on 27 August to enlist. Days later the small town held its Patriotic Day celebrations, attended by 500 people and raising £140 for the war effort. Paradoxically the Dalby recruiting officer complained that "it was a serious thing that the sinews of the country were going away in such shoals"[iii]when Brisbane men were not pulling their weight.
Wedding photo of James Paterson and his bride, Lizzie Cahill, kindly provided by their grandson.
James married Lizzie Maud Cahill on 1 November 1915, shortly before he was to leave for the front. The Toowoomba Chronicle[iv] reported on their wedding in detail and Jim's grandson has provided a copy of the wedding photo to the AWM. Oral history reports that while Jim had some money set aside, Lizzie insisted they splash out a bit.
Initially posted to the 25th Battalion, Jim was absorbed into the 49th on arrival in Egypt and was transferred to the Western Front, via Marseilles, in June 1916. Jim copped a Blighty, a wounded elbow, at the Battle of Mouquet Farm near Thiepval. Returning in December 1916, he was probably in time[v] to celebrate Christmas behind the lines with his battalion including snowball fights, building snow kangaroos in lieu of snowmen, and partaking of the Australian Comforts Fund'sgood tucker and treats.
James Thomas Paterson's daughter, grandson and great-grandson at his memorial tree in the Avenue of Heroes, Roma, 2002. Photograph courtesy of the family and used with permission.
It was a shocking winter in northern France in 1916/17 with arctic conditions and thunderstorms. In April the allied forces attacked the German front line and during this battle James Paterson and C Company were attached to the 50th Battalion. During the assault of 5 April 1917, half of C Company were killed or injured, including James Paterson. As Lizzie followed the news at home over that Easter weekend, she would have had no inkling that her husband had been killed. There is no record on the file of when she was advised of his death but it wasn't until late May that James's death was confirmed. Lizzie's nomination for Jim's Roll of Honour entry says simply "Man's Duty".
The couple had a daughter, born in late July 1916. Jim had insisted that she be given a good Aussie nickname, and so Elizabeth Maud (Mary) came to be called Cooee as a young girl. Although Jim never met his daughter his family believes he did see her photograph. Imagine the tragedy of a man never seeing his child before he dies, and his child only knowing her father through his photograph and her mother's stories.
Lizzie was a petite redhead in appearance but she was strong and determined, supporting her daughter through her hard work as a station cook. She continued to write to the Army seeking further information and any of her husband's effects for their daughter. How wonderful that although this man died in the service of his country, Jim's family line continues through his daughter (still alive) and her family.
James Thomas Paterson's plaque in Roma's Avenue of Heroes.
Of course a death like this also affects the whole family. We know nothing of how Jim's parents took the news of their son's death but it would have been a great shock and his mother died of cancer six months later. From oral history we know that his grandmother Mary Kunkel was not told of her grandson's death, protecting her from further sadness as her husband had died only a few months earlier. Jim's brother Dan Paterson joined up soon after Jim's death. Dan's own experience and that of his brother meant that he hated war, and eventually burned his own Light Horse uniform, plumed hat and all.
The town of Roma in western Queensland planted an avenue of bottle trees in honour of its fallen World War I heroes.
Towns throughout western Queensland felt the losses of their men keenly. Every town and village had contributed men to the war effort and most had lost one or many. Each town commemorated them in different ways. Roma's memorial was different. The town planted rows of bottle trees, one for each soldier lost in the war. James Thomas Paterson was one of those men whose sacrifice was remembered in this way by the community and by his family.
[i] Various numbers are cited in different sources. I have used the number from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
[ii] The Brisbane Courier of 23 August 1915, reported that as of that date 109 fit men had been recruited from this recruiting train.
[iii] The Brisbane Courier, 2 September 1915, page 7.
[iv] The Toowoomba Chronicle, 2 November 1915, page 6
[v] While he left for France on 4 December 1916, the records show him rejoining the unit on 6 January 1917, hence the uncertainty.
Posted in A to Z 2012, Anzac Day, Military, World War I	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, Anzac Day 2012, Daniel Paterson, James Thomas Paterson, Pickenjennie, Villers-Brettoneux, Wallumbilla, World War I	| 49 Replies
U is for Urana and Ubud
I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I'm not sure which), but sometimes like today it involves a simple travelogue as well.
U is for Urana (New South Wales, Australia)
Urana's Soldiers Memorial Hall, another type of war memorial. © P Cass 2004
My 2xgreat-grandmother Mary O'Brien from County Clare, and her sister Bridget, reportedly travelled to Australia together around 1852-53. Bridget's death certificate indicates she had spent one year in Queensland so it appears they both came to Queensland first to settle and work. However Bridget then moved to New South Wales, though the reason why is unknown. It does seem strange that she left her sister behind to move a further 1500kms away. Perhaps she'd already met her husband-to-be and went interstate to join him. Like Mary, the story is that they met their future husbands on the voyage over, a not uncommon tale. Unfortunately as I can find no record of their arrival I can't even begin to verify or reject the story.
A typical Australian country shed with corrugated iron and a windmill overlooks the lake at Urana. © P Cass 2004
Bridget apparently married John Widdup in Albury on the NSW-Victoria border around 1858 (not on the NSW indices) and around 1864 they moved from there to Urana in the Riverina district between the two great rivers, the Murray and the Murrumbidgee. In 1866 the town had been in existence for seven years and had two hotels, the Urana and the Royal, several dwellings, "a post and telegraph station, two large stores, a police station and a lock up, and a church".[1] The stores serviced the squatters as well as the shepherds and boundary riders who managed their stock.[2] Even in 1872, the town's population was only 100 people with a periodic influx of shearers. I do find it interesting that both Bridget and her sister Mary chose to live their Australian lives in fairly small communities, perhaps drawing on their experience is the distant townland of Ballykelly, Parish of Kilseily.
John Widdup was the town's pound keeper, responsible for wandering stock, but he also played an important role as Chairman of the Board in the establishment of the Urana School. Bridget was no doubt kept busy with their large family. Oral history also suggests she may have been a local midwife.
Bridget O'Brien Widdup is buried with her daughter Louisa Luckie in the Catholic Section of the Urana Cemetery. © P Cass 2004
John died in Urana on 29 February 1876, aged 48 years though strangely his death is unrecorded in the registration books. He was buried in the Church of England section of the Urana cemetery. Although united in life, they were not united in death as his wife Bridget lies in the Roman Catholic section. Their religious separation in death makes me suspect that religion was a major issue in their marriage.
The Widdup family settled permanently in Urana, and nearby areas including Narrandera, and to this day there are family members living in the area.
U is for Ubud (Bali)
Bali is just a hop, skip and jump from Darwin so it tends to be a short-stay holiday for many Darwinites. Due to its general reputation as a young Aussies' party place, Bali had never been on my travel list until we came here to live. There's so much more to Bali than partying, and I'm sure we've only scratched the surface but the stand-out features are the friendliness of the people and their focus on religious practices.
Ubud is perfect for "chilling out" as you can do a bit of browsing, but also enjoy the cooler weather that comes with being in the mountains. Ubud is the setting of the Love segment in the book and movie Eat, Pray, Love, but personally I haven't seen any Brazilian eye-candy hanging around.
We both love the gardens, tropical flowers and statues so I thought I'd just include a slideshow of some of these (but you get the Urana ones first).
Posted in A to Z 2012, New South Wales, O'Brien family, Travel	| Tagged A to Z challenge 2012, Ubud, Urana, Widdup	| 3 Replies
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Q: Cocos3D - Texture not displayed I'm facing hard times trying to get the texture to work in Cocos3D. Here's what I've done.
STEP 1: Via MakeHuman, I created a male model with materials that includes jeans, hair and Tshirt.
STEP 2: I exported the Blender Exchange Tarzen.mhx file that include texture images.
STEP 3: Via Blender, I imported the Tarzen.mhx file and saved this workspace in the same directory as the texture images as Tarzen.blend. That allowed the Tarzen.pod file to symbolically points to the texture images path relatively.
STEP 4: Without any further changes to Blender, I exported the Tarzen.pod file. PVRShaman displays the model with all textures correctly.
STEP 5: I copied the Tarzen.pod and all texture images into xCode's resource folder and execute the code. Interestingly, only the skin color and hair color looks correctly but the jeans and TShirt always show up black.
Any idea why? Thanks.

A: "Without The" helped me resolved this issue by first remove the texture then added back in using the following code:
CC3MeshNode * jeans = [rezNode getMeshNodeNamed:@"Bison:jeans01"];
[jeans.material removeAllTextures];
[jeans.material addTexture:[CC3Texture textureFromFile:@"jeans_basic_diffuse.png"]];


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Q: How can I flatten an array of objects to return the exact result I need? I have an array of objects like so:
0: Object
1: Object
2: Object
3: Object
4: Object

Then when you open each object up I have some data inside like so:
id: "restore-product"
result: 0

Currently the data is output like the above but what I would love is to be able to manipulate it so i can get the returned array of objects to look like this:
[[id:"restore-product",result:0],[id:"enhance-product",result:20]]

Then when the time comes I can loop through each item and find the highest value out of the objects and get the id of that highest value.
Currently I have this function that pushes items into the array:
var amounts = [];
    $.each(entries, function(i, entry){

      amounts.push(entry);

    });

== edit here ===
This is what i use to get the highest value:
var lowest = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
var highest = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
var tmp;
for (var i=entries.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
    tmp = entries[i].result;
    if (tmp < lowest) lowest = tmp;
    if (tmp > highest) highest = tmp;
}
console.log(highest, lowest);

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

A: There's a much simpler way of finding the highest value with a matching ID. Just setup two tracker variables and update them as you move through the array.
var id = null;
var localMax = Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER;
for (var i = 0; i < entries.length; i++) {
  var obj = objects[i];
  if (obj.result > localMax) {
    id = obj.id;
    localMax = obj.result;
  }
}

A: The function you need is something like this:
function getIdFromMaximumResult(arr) {
  var id, maxResult = Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER;
  $.each(arr, function(i, object) {
    if (object.result > maxResult) {
      maxResult = object.result;
      id = object.id;
    }
  });
  return id;
}

A: The easiest way would be to sort the array and take either the last (ascending sort) or first (descending sort) value from the result.
Ascending sort
var sorted = yourArray.sort(function(a, b) {
        return a.result < b.result ? -1 : +(a.result > b.result);
    }),
    highest = sorted[sorted.length - 1];

console.log(highest.id);

You could also use sorted.pop() but note that this actually removes the item from the original array too.
Descending sort
var sorted = yourArray.sort(function(a, b) {
        return a.result > b.result ? -1 : +(a.result < b.result);
    }),
    highest = sorted[0];

console.log(highest.id);

You could also use sorted.shift() but note that this actually removes the item from the original array too.

If you need any further action, for example get all id's whose result match the highest (if any), you can now use other array methods such as filter.
var sameResult = yourArray.filter(function(data) {
        return data.result === highest.result;
    });

console.log(sameResult);

If you want an array containing only the id's, use map
var idOnly = sameResult.map(function(data) {
        return data.id;
    });

console.log(idOnly);

A: You can use Array.prototype.reduce()
var minMax = data.reduce(function(minMax, curr){
   minMax.min = curr.result < minMax.min ? curr.result : minMax.min;
   minMax.max = curr.result > minMax.max ? curr.result : minMax.max;
   return minMax;
},{min:Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY, max: Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER} );

console.log(minMax)// {min:0, max:323}


Ashlee and Dylan married up on the Gold Coast at Osteria, Casuarina where Ashlee grew up. Ashlee and Dylan have a pretty significant connection to the military have served once Ashlee loved the idea of incorporating a slight military theme to their special day.
Poppies were also Ashlee's favourite flowers and a significant tribute to that beautiful theme. These two lovely humans have a lovely way with each other, It was an absolute pleasure to fly up watch them be married by their closest friends and families.