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The Lone Ranger Festival: Who Was That Masked Man?
Mike Wendland
One of the great things about RV travel in the summertime is pretty much no matter where you are in North America, you're within an easy drive of a festival of some sort. And the good ones, more often than not, are in small towns. Such was the case this weekend for Jennifer and me as we made our way to Oxford, MI and the annual Lone Ranger Festival.
A Johnny Depp-inspired Tonto
Located about 40 miles north of Detroit, Oxford is a village of 3,400 whose big claim to fame is that is the hometown of Brace Beemer, the radio actor who played the Lone Ranger on radio from 1941-1953. In all, Beemer portrayed the old-West lawman in nearly 3,000 installments broadcast by 129 radio stations worldwide. He was the perfect cowboy hero, 6 feet 3 tall and blessed with a booming voice that demanded attention.
Local farmers brought their tractors to the parade in costume
Oxford was proud of Beemer, who retired to a 300 acre horse ranch just outside of town and died in 1965. Rightly so. His personification of the ideal lawman persisted throughout the years, causing his voice to become almost synonymous with the very idea of The Lone Ranger. It was so familiar to fans of the original radio show that actor Clayton Moore imitated it for the television adaptation.
Lots of people wore the Lone Ranger's mask!
So it's only fitting that his hometown celebrate with a festival. On a perfect summer Saturday, the whole town and lots of visitors came for a parade, some amusements, an ice cream social at the local Methodist church and good old small town festival BBQ, kettle korn and snow cones, along with a dunk tank and lots of live music.
Oxford is a place where the local high school band can unabashedly play "God Bless America" and the spectators along the parade route doff their hats, sing along and clap. It's where farmers wash and shine up their tractors and drive them into town and Cub Scouts, the local beauty shop, a "yodeling Princess" and Main Street business leaders ride horses, scooters, unicycles, floats and old cars to wave at their neighbors.
Even little girls like the look
And lots of folks wear Lone Ranger masks.
There were really three different forms of the Lone Ranger. The Bruce Beemer Radio Show. The old black and white Clayton More TV show of the 50's and the 2013 Film starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Arnie Hammer as the Masked Man.
The local dance group
We saw versions of all three in Oxford at the festival and throughly enjoyed ourselves
Hi Ho Silver and Away!
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Mike Wendland is a veteran journalist who, with his wife, Jennifer, travels North America in a small motorhome, blogging about the people, places, joys and adventure of RV life on the road at RVLifestyle.com. He and Jennifer also host the weekly RV Podcast and do twice-weekly videos on the YouTube RV Lifestyle Channel. They have written 10 books on RV travel.


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After a miraculous run that ultimately led to defeat in the Stanley Cup Final, Anton Khudobin re-signed with the Dallas Stars on a three-year contract worth $10 million ($3.333 million per season) through the 2022-23 season.
The 34-year-old goaltender was originally drafted by the Minnesota Wild in the seventh round (206th overall) of the 2004 NHL Draft and made his league debut with Wild in the 2009-10 season and spent parts of two seasons with Minnesota.
On Feb. 28, 2011, Khudobin was traded to the Boston Bruins, where he played until he joined the Carolina Hurricanes as a free agent on July 5, 2013.
After parts of two seasons with Carolina, the Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan native was dealt to the Anaheim Ducks on June 27, 2015, then appeared in nine games with the Ducks before he was sent down to the San Diego Gulls (AHL).
He returned to Boston on July 1, 2016, with a two-year deal, then left the Bruins again via free agency for Dallas on July 1, 2018, serving as the Stars' backup goaltender in a 1A/1B tandem with Ben Bishop for the last two seasons.
Khudobin made his first NHL postseason start and earned his first career Stanley Cup Playoff shutout in the 2020 postseason and had a 16-8-4 record with a 2.22 goals against average and a .930 save percentage in 30 games played in the 2019-20 regular season for Dallas.
He has a career 99-76-25 record in 218 NHL games spanning 11 seasons for the Wild, Bruins, Hurricanes, Ducks and Stars with a career 2.46 GAA and a career .919 SV%, as well as eight shutouts in that time.
In 27 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, Khudobin has a 14-10 record with a 2.63 GAA, as well as a .919 SV% and one shutout.
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A north east mental health and disability care provider has selected artwork by an award-winning service user to feature on its Christmas card.
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (NTW) decided to choose the seasonal image of a Robin Red Breast to be the design of the Trust's official Christmas greeting.
The original painting was created by a service user who was supported by the Arts' Project at NTW's Northgate hospital in Morpeth which provides support for people with learning disabilities.
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Q: c# Reading XML with repeated elements into DataSet I am trying to read an XML file into a DataSet using DataSet.ReadXML.
The problem is that some of the nodes have repeating elements with the same name.These repeating elements are being ignored when imported into the dataset.
For example:
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Any suggestions or assistance are welcome.

A: System.Data.DataSet is probably not the user-friendly way of consuming XML data, especially when you don't have a schema readily available. Various alternatives are available, probably the simplest one is using classes from the System.Xml.Linq namespace (available in .NET 3.5+), e.g.:
var xDoc = XDocument.Parse(YOUR_XML);
//get contents of all `element` elements in `node1` as list
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These tuxedos are available in our store in North Hollywood, California. If you are in the greater Los Angeles area, please stop by our store to see our collection.
When should I reserve my tuxedo?
Its never too early to shop for your tuxedos. In general, you should start picking out the men's formalwear after you have bought the Prom dress, and decided on the colors and style of the bridesmaid dresses. The first visit should be with your fiancé to decide on the styles of the groom's and attendant's tuxedos. Based on the colors of the Prom Dates dress, you can choose vests or cummerbunds for the attendants. .
How do I decide on accessories?
Generally, the attendants wear accessories associated with the colors that are chosen for the Prom. Full back vests are the newest items in men's formalwear. They are more comfortable and will make you look like you own your tuxedo because most tux shops don't carry full back vests. We have the largest selection of full back vests in stock in the Los Angeles area. They come in all colors and various styles. The professionals at Gregory's will help you choose the accessories for your party. Another important accessory is the shoe. We have three beautiful styles to chose from. You can try on all of these accessories at our store until you find the right ones.
Who should wear a tuxedo?
The Groom and attendants of course, but not exclusively. The ring bearer and candle boys should also be in a tuxedo. The fathers will look and feel better in a tuxedo rather than a suit. After all, it wouldn't look good if the bride's father gave her away in a suit. It would also be a big compliment to the grandfathers to have them wear a tuxedo. he way to do this is to write Black Tie Invited.
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 19 avril (21 avril du calendrier romain) : début à Rome du consulat de Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus et Quintus Caedicius ; Marcus Atilius Regulus est subrogé à Caedicius après son décès.
 Été : expédition de Régulus et de Manlius Vulso en Afrique, à la tête de  légionnaires embarqués dans 330 navires (256/255 av. J.-C.). La flotte d'Hamilcar, qui veut l'arrêter, est écrasée au cap Ecnome, au sud de la Sicile. Les Romains débarquent en Afrique près de Clypea, qui est prise, puis après leur victoire à la bataille d'Adys près de Tunis, menacent Carthage. Les conditions imposées par le Sénat romain — abandon de la Sicile et de la Sardaigne, paiement des frais de la guerre, tribut annuel, reddition des prisonniers sans rançon, interdiction de faire la paix et la guerre sans l'aveu du Sénat, obligation de secourir Rome en cas de besoin, limitation de la marine de guerre (Dion Cassius, Fragments, CL) — équivalent à la disparition de la puissance punique. Les négociateurs carthaginois les rejettent.

 Début du règne de Léonidas II, roi de Sparte (256-243 puis 240-236 av. J.-C.).
 En Chine, Luoyang est prise par le roi de Qin. Nanwang, le dernier empereur de la dynastie des Zhou orientaux est déposé. L'extension de Qin est contenue quelque temps par l'alliance des six autres puissances. Mais celle-ci ne dure que 15 ans, et Qin annexe progressivement ses voisins après 230 av. J.-C..
 Lu est annexé par Chu.

Naissances

 Han Gaozu, fondateur de la dynastie Han (ou en 247 av. J.-C.).

Décès

 Quintus Caedicius, homme politique romain.

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Harland Elbert (Bud) Cofer: September 1, 2022
Published 1:11 pm Thursday, September 15, 2022
By Nichole Buchanan
Harland Elbert (Bud) Cofer, Jr. passed away peacefully on September 1, 2022.
He was born in Atlanta, December 28, 1922 to Harland Elbert Cofer, Sr and Vivian Bowie Cofer.
He graduated from Emory University and received a PhD in geology from the University of Illinois. He served in World War II as a gunner on a B29 in the Army Air Force. While home on leave in 1945, he married Anne, the love of his life.
They built a life together focused on their family of six children, his career, and shared service to their community.
Bud started his career teaching at Emory University leaving in 1956 to work for American Cyanamid Company. He left industry in 1966 to return to his first love, teaching. He was affectionately known as "Doc" around the campus of Georgia Southwestern College where he taught, held several administrative positions, and advised the Kappa Sigma fraternity, officially retiring in 1988. He was designated professor emeritus, keeping research projects and an office at the college until 2006, when he and Anne moved to Charleston to be closer to family.
He was a man of many talents and wide interests. He stayed current on scientific literature and was a well-read student of history. He loved art, music, and poetry and was known to captivate his young children with poetry recitations. He could wire lamps, build a brick wall or patio, turn a standard tricycle into a race car, and fix nearly any broken toy. In addition to his devotion to family and to the college community, he was dedicated to his church, serving multiple terms over the years as an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Americus, Georgia.
Bud was foremost a devoted husband to his beloved wife of 76 years, Anne Borders Cofer, who he cherished. She preceded him in death in 2021. Together they raised six children. He was a nurturing father, and leaves five daughters, Lu C Hall (Mike) of Leesburg, Ga, Susan C Johnson (David), Betsy C Whitaker (David), Ginny C Ross, and Nancy Cofer-Shabica (Stephen) all of Charleston, SC. He was predeceased by his son, Charles Stephen Cofer. His daughter-in-law, Elaine Stubbs, was dear to him.
He was "granddaddy" to fifteen including Charles S (Chip) Cofer (Amy), Mandi Cofer Wilks (Matt), Anna Cofer Johnson, LeeAnn Hall Johansen (Darrel), Geoffrey Hall (Tara), Beau Johnson (Kristen), Harli Johnson Palme (Kevin), Riley Whitaker, Saylor Whitaker DeJoy (Chris), Ginger Ross Griffin (Brent), Ricky Ross (Sandi), Vale
Cofer-Shabica (Cassie Houtz), Betsy Cofer-Shabica, Rachel Shabica Wade (Jeff) and Molly Shabica Tankoano (Tank). Many of his grandchildren found in him a wise and honest counselor.
He had twenty eight great grandchildren. They are Chase Cofer, Abbey Cofer, Emma Cofer, Ben Wilks, Brody Wilks, Sadie Jo Wilks, Andrew Bell, Alex Bell, Bennett Nelson, Anna Johansen, Joshua Johansen (Devereaux), Katelyn Johansen, Elliott Hall, Henry Hall, Parker Johnson, Sam Johnson, Mattie Clark Palme, Pearl Palme, Vivian Palme, Camden DeJoy, Pressley DeJoy, Courtney Jano Ross (Triston), Katie Ross, Noah Wade, Ezra Wade, Tovi Tankoano, Mica Tankoano, and Ronan Vale Houtz. He also had two great-great grandchildren, Matthias and Roki Storm Jano Ross.
He is survived by a sister, Ann Cofer, of Atlanta, Ga.
The family extends deep thanks to the staff of Franke at Seaside and Lutheran Hospice for their kind care of our father.
Burial will be private. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Donations may be made to the Charles Stephen Cofer Research Fund at Georgia Southwestern State University, GSW Foundation Inc., PO Box 926, Americus Ga. 31709 or to Lutheran Hospice, 1885 Rifle Range Rd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464.
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Visit the website and use the online journey planner to help plan your trip. You select the day and time of travel and the planner calculates an itinerary for you. You can also download MyTransLink app and check your journey in real-time.
For more information on the Cairns bus network, timetables, routes and fares, or for 24 hour customer assistance or journey planner information, call TransLink or visit their website.


Now that northern California is easing up on the morning frost and ice, I can't help but think of the warmer days that are ahead. It seems each January I get the urge to wear my spring and summer clothes, while deep down I know I won't be able to start wearing them (comfortably) until June. But that's what fashion is: the vessel through which you dream, even if your surrounding reality is completely different.
great outfit and i love how your hair looks!!
I love these looks. Your style is so full of light.
Wow. First off, you're so darn cute. Second, you dress to impress with creative looks. How can we resist you??
Gorgeous photos! Every look represented is awesome!
I want to cry because I'm not you.
STOP BEING SO DAMN GORGEOUS!!!!
I'm loving your outfits! They are so beautiful x.
These are all so cute. I couldn't even pick a favorite. I want to wear my spring clothes right now too. I can't wait until March!
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Friendship secures Cathy Tyson for UK tour of She Called Me Mother
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Michelle Inniss & Cathy Tyson
A 20-year friendship between celebrated actress Cathy Tyson and creative writing student Michelle Inniss has blossomed into a new theatrical project after the pair's paths crossed once again at Brunel University London.
Michelle, who is completing a Master's degree in Creative Writing, has secured funding from Black Theatre Live for a UK tour of her play She Called Me Mother, about an elderly homeless Trinidadian woman who sells the Big Issue.
The role is played by Cathy, herself a graduate of Brunel, and based on a real Caribbean woman who Michelle used to see and talk to at London Bridge station when she took the train to visit her own mother in South East London.
Cathy, who won two US film critics' awards and was nominated for a BAFTA and Golden Globe for the 1986 film Mona Lisa, and starred in ITV's Band of Gold, left Brunel in 2013 with a degree in English and Drama.
Cathy and Michelle's friendship dates back to the 1970s when they were both school students at the Catholic girls' school, St Winifred's, in Dingle, Liverpool, where they both grew up.
"We'd kept in touch for over 20 years," explained Michelle. "So I sent Cathy my play, and she read it and liked it."
The drama was originally written as a poetic monologue in vernacular Trinidadian, challenging for a performer but a voice familiar to Michelle, whose parents are from Trinidad.
"I have that voice situated very well within. I've lived in Liverpool, and then London. I've been exposed to so many different cultures," she added.
Michelle began writing creatively in 2005. A year later she was runner up for the Decibel Penguin Prize, then open to black writers only.
She was later shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize in 2010, and longlisted for a production with the Angle new playwrights' scheme at the Bush Theatre, West London, in 2011.
Cathy says she was drawn to the play instantly when she received it. "When Michelle sent the script to me I fell in love with the language immediately. My father was from Trinidad so I was already familiar with the speech.
"You don't often see elderly black women on the stage, and it's such a wonderful opportunity to bring an overshadowed character to life."
She Called Me Mother will premiere in Stratford Circus, East London in October before going on tour (dates and venues to be confirmed).
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Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI), a shipbuilding affiliate of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), announced today it attracted 300 billion won investment via pre-IPO.
Under the agreement HSHI signed with IMM Private Equity, a leading Korean private equity firm, HSHI will issue 5.36 million new convertible preferred shares and IMM PE will pay 300 billion won in total to acquire the shares at 56,000 won per share.
That deal brings HSHI's total market value at 2.5 trillion won. IMM PE's investment in HSHI today will also serve as an opportunity to re-evaluate the corporate value of HHI that takes up 83.7% of HSHI.
The investment of IMM PE that has been inactive in investing in shipping and shipbuilding sectors including Hanjin Newport and Hyundai Merchant Marine's LNG business shows its confidence in the recovery of shipbuilding industry for years to come.
Even in 2016 when market conditions were adverse with a dearth of orders, HSHI turned a profit with 3.8686 trillion won in sales and 171.5 billion won in operating profits with new orders of 15 ships valued at $1.1 billion in total. Moreover in March this year, HSHI won $240 million order to build four units of the world's first LNG-fueled Ice-Clas Aframax tankers from Sovcomflot, the Russia's state-owned shipping company.
IMM PE is a leading Korean private equity firm that was established in 2006. IMM PE has currently $2.5 billion worth asset under management and has been investing in sectors including consumer/industrial goods and health care.


This house is on a steeply sloping site in the Bronte gully backing onto a park and within 200 metres of the beach. The client requested a casual family home which is easy to maintain but which captured the ambience of its environment and capitalised on its unique opportunities.The house is separated from a carport by a rocky landscaped courtyard which creates a quiet, private context for the house. It consists of a series of concrete split level floor plates which descend 9 meters down the site to a lush green north facing garden. The top levels of the house are the living areas while bedrooms and more private family spaces are revealed on the lower levels. The clients' art collection is revealed on the circulation path through the house. Water detention, hydroponic heating and storage are packed in the lowest level. The house straddles a subterranean watercourse which was exposed below the previous house during construction. A number of floaters were bridged and stabilized on the site and some left exposed to provide a "sense of place".


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when you push the peddle and the hst speed lever moves it allows oil under pressure to activate the servo piston. the servo piston is what actually moves the swash plate not the speed lever. so yes you may have a charge or high pressure problem or an internal leak. do you have a shop manual?
did they raise the pressure or lower it?
So in theory if I can climb steep hills and get 24-26 mph the high pressure valve should be ok and I should be looking at the charge valve correct?
probably not. your problem is probably involved in the control valves that send oil to the servo piston befor it can move the swash plate. if your charge pressure was weak i don't think you would have power. it could be your charge pump though.
There are two hydraulic pumps and circuts in the RTV-X HST. One is the swash plate pump which pumps the fluid which drives the swash plate motor which drives the wheels. The other is a gear pump which provides pressure to control the swash plate of the swash plate pump. Which one does "charge pressure" refer to?
there is a gear pump that puts up aprox 100 psi "i think". this charge pressure is what fills the high pressure pumps and operates some but not all of the controls servos etc. there is also a high pressure bleed of circuit that is used to buffer the servo solenoid and some other things. if you have the book it is all in there. if the charge pressure is low there can be cavitation occur in the high pressure positive displacement pump and motor. think about what i just said "positive displacement" once the oil is pumped it is exchanged directly to the corresponding "positive displacement" motor. there is no room for error or something gets bent. the high pressure relief valve is the safety to prevent failure. a misconception is if you turn up the pressure you will make it go faster.
I'm away from my WSM for a few days. I'll have a look at the hydraulic flow diagrams when I get back. I remember that the gear pump supplies fluid for the swash pump control circuit.
Valves or values were changed? What are the new numbers?


Best way to farm Plates is to set fights in a way that you can kill enemies instantly and as fast as possible.
i bought it from JP Google store and now trying it a bit.
Sadly, it's not compatible with any of my devices.
Thanks @mastertrek, I must have misread the post.
@marco1718, depends on monster but if you grind for a bit at all floors you will find all Metal Monsters as they appear often. The Higher the floor, the better Metal Monsters you will find which give more EP. Metal Bulls should be available somewhere in the middle of the Goddess Shrine or close to the Top.
I don't remember but if you can farm gold easily you probably can use strongest weapons from Shops to turn weapons to max.. At least I got my +999 equipment in Fernz Gate that way..
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Did you ever wonder about the name of Africa Road in southern Delaware County? Where the name "Africa Road" came from? I wondered.
"One of the most famous Underground Railroad routes in central Ohio was Africa Road. This was the setting of one of the most extra-ordinary chapters in Underground Railroad history. The tiny unincorporated zone in southern Delaware County which was once the community of Africa touches the southern border of what is now Alum Creek State Park. Prior to 1840, the hamlet then known as East Orange was a rural crossroads north of the bustling town of Westerville. Country gentlefolk had erected small cabins there as temporary housing while building permanent homes on their estates. After a time, the woodlands north of Westerville harbored a cluster of these abandoned cabins, as folks moved into their newly completed houses."
Were the abandoned houses used by escaped slaves temporarily? Or did Africa in southern Delaware County become a community of escaped slaves? The DNR site goes on to say: "One of the few pro-slavery landowners in the area sarcastically nicknamed the community "Africa," and the name stuck. Ever since, the community and the road have proudly kept the name, although the story behind it has been nearly forgotten"
The Worthington and Flint areas were also involved in the anti slavery movement and the Underground Railroad. Churches in Central Ohio were active in the Underground Railroad to Freedom for slaves from the south.
The third word prompt in the NaBloPoMo is the word Freedom. I guess I am supposed to define Freedom. What came to mind first? I have to admit, the Janice Joplin song from the 1960s, "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, " and I don't even know what that means. The word Freedom makes me think of Westerville and the history of the Underground Railroad... after I get over puzzling over the 'Me and Bobby McGee' lyrics. There is a subdivision named Freedom Colony in Westerville, in Franklin County.
On another note.... If anyone knows how to keep a Google map from shifting, I would love to know. Africa Road is east of Alum Creek Lake (reservoir) and Walnut Creek but the map keeps shifting to the west. Another mystery? The body of water on the Google map says "Williams Lake" ????? The body of water is the Alum Creek Reservoir. Who is William? Is Williams Lake another name for the Alum Creek Reservoir? Who was William? Or Williams? The Alum Creek Lake (reservoir) is not that old... was there a small lake there previously?
Just south of Lewis Center was a small villiage called Williamsville. It was located on what is now route 23. It was founded by Ansin Williams but it eventually disappeared. There is a marker near the Cemetary where the Church used to be.
It is my understanding that the original community of free Blacks that did the real labor of the UR is now drowned under that reservoir. My ancestor Wlliam Cratty, a well-known spokespoerson for abolition worked with the people there to help keep the UR functioning in that area and further to the west with numerous alternate routes across the area between Columbus and Marysville.


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Q: Why should virtual functions not be used excessively? I just read that we should not use virtual function excessively. People felt that less virtual functions tends to have fewer bugs and reduces maintenance.
What kind of bugs and disadvantages can appear due to virtual functions?
I'm interested in context of C++ or Java.

One reason I can think of is virtual function may be slower than normal functions due to v-table lookup.

A: Virtual functions are slightly slower than regular functions.  But that difference is so small as to not make a difference in all but the most extreme circumstances.
I think the best reason to eschew virtual functions is to protect against interface misuse.
It's a good idea to write classes to be open for extension, but there's such a thing as too open.  By carefully planning which functions are virtual, you can control (and protect) how a class can be extended.
The bugs and maintenance problems appear when a class is extended such that it breaks the contract of the base class.  Here's an example:
class Widget
{
    private WidgetThing _thing;

    public virtual void Initialize()
    {
        _thing = new WidgetThing();
    }
}

class DoubleWidget : Widget
{
    private WidgetThing _double;

    public override void Initialize()
    {
        // Whoops! Forgot to call base.Initalize()
        _double = new WidgetThing();
    }
}

Here, DoubleWidget broke the parent class because Widget._thing is null.  There's a fairly standard way to fix this:
class Widget
{
    private WidgetThing _thing;

    public void Initialize()
    {
        _thing = new WidgetThing();
        OnInitialize();
    }

    protected virtual void OnInitialize() { }
}

class DoubleWidget : Widget
{
    private WidgetThing _double;

    protected override void OnInitialize()
    {
        _double = new WidgetThing();
    }
}

Now Widget won't run into a NullReferenceException later.

A: Every dependency increases complexity of the code, and makes it more difficult to maintain. When you define your function as virtual, you create dependency of your class on some other code, that might not even exist at the moment.
For example, in C, you can easily find what foo() does - there's just one foo(). In C++ without virtual functions, it's slightly more complicated: you need to explore your class and its base classes to find which foo() we need. But at least you can do it deterministically in advance, not in runtime. With virtual functions, we can't tell which foo() is executed, since it can be defined in one the subclasses.
(Another thing is the performance issue that you mentioned, due to v-table).

A: I suspect you misunderstood the statement.
Excessively is a very subjective term, I think that in this case it meant "when you don't need it", not that you should avoid it when it can be useful.
In my experience, some students, when they learn about virtual functions and get burned the first time by forgetting to make a function virtual, think that it is prudent to simply make every function virtual.
Since virtual functions do incur a cost on every method invocation (which in C++ cannot usually be avoided because of separate compilation), you are essentially paying now for every method call and also preventing inlining. Many instructors discourage students from doing this, though the term "excessive" is a very poor choice.
In Java, a "virtual" behavior (dynamic dispatching) is the default. However, The JVM can optimize things on the fly, and could theoretically eliminate some of the virtual calls when the target identity is clear. In additional, final methods or methods in final classes can often be resolved to a single target as well at compile time.

A: In C++: --

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*Virtual functions have a slight performance penalty.  Normally it is too small to make any difference but in a tight loop it might be significant.

*A virtual function increases the size of each object by one pointer.  Again this is typically insignificant, but if you create millions of small objects it could be a factor.

*Classes with virtual functions are generally meant to be inherited from.  The derived classes may replace some, all or none of the virtual functions.  This can create additional complexity and complexity is the programmers mortal enemy.  For example, a derived class may poorly implement a virtual function.  This may break a part of the base class that relies on the virtual function.
Now let me be clear: I am not saying "don't use virtual functions".  They are a vital and important part of C++.  Just be aware of the potential for complexity.

A: We recently had a perfect example of how misuse of virtual functions introduces bugs.
There is a shared library that features a message handler:
class CMessageHandler {
public:
   virtual void OnException( std::exception& e );
   ///other irrelevant stuff
};

the intent is that you can inherit from that class and use it for custom error handling:
class YourMessageHandler : public CMessageHandler {
public:
   virtual void OnException( std::exception& e ) { //custom reaction here }
};

The error handling mechanism uses a CMessageHandler* pointer, so it doesn't care of the actual type of the object. The function is virtual, so whenever an overloaded version exists the latter is called.
Cool, right? Yes, it was until the developers of the shared library changed the base class:
class CMessageHandler {
public:
   virtual void OnException( const std::exception& e ); //<-- notice const here
   ///other irrelevant stuff
};

... and the overloads just stopped working.
You see what happened? After the base class was changed the overloads stopped to be the overloads from C++ point of view - they became new, other, unrelated functions.
The base class had the default implementation not marked as pure virtual, so the derived classes were not forced to overload the default implementation. And finally the functon was only called in case of error handling which isn't used every here and there. So the bug was silently introduced and lived unnoticed for a quite long period.
The only way to eliminate it once and for all was to do a search on all the codebase and edit all the relevant pieces of code.

A: I dont know where you read that, but imho this is not about performance at all.
Maybe its more about "prefer composition about inheritance" and problems which can occur if your classes/methods are not final (im talking mostly java here) but not really designed for reuse. There are many things which can go really wrong:

*

*Maybe you use virtual methods in your
constructor - once theyre overridden,
your base class calls the overridden
method, which may use ressources
initialized in the subclass
constructor - which runs later (NPE rises).

*Imagine an add and an addAll method
in a list class. addAll calls add
many times and both are virtual.
Somebody may override them to count
how many items have been added at
all. If you dont document that addAll
calls add, the developer may (and
will) override both add and addAll
(and add some counter++ stuff to
them). But now, if you youse addAll,
each item is count twice (add and
addAll) which leads to incorrect
results and hard to find bugs.
To sum this up, if you dont design your class for being extended (provide hooks, document some of the important implementation things), you shouldnt allow inheritance at all because this can lead to mean bugs. Also its easy to remove a final modifier (and maybe redesign it for reuseability) from one of your classes if needed, but its impossible to make a non-final class (where subclassing lead to errors) final because others may have subclassed it already.
Maybe it was really about performance, then im at least off topic. But if it wasnt, there you have some good reasons not to make your classes extendable if you dont really need it.
More information about stuff like that in Blochs Effective Java (this particular post was written a few days after I read item 16 ("prefer composition over inheritance") and 17 ("design and document for inheritance or else prohibit it") - amazing book.

A: You've posted some blanket statements that I would think most pragmatic programmers would shrug off as being misinformed or misinterpreted.  But, there do exist anti-virtual zealots, and their code can be just as bad for performance and maintenance.
In Java, everything is virtual by default.  Saying you shouldn't use virtual functions excessively is pretty strong.
In C++, you must declare a function virtual, but it's perfectly acceptable to use them when appropriate.

I just read that we should not use virtual function excessively.

It's hard to define "excessively"... certainly "use virtual functions when appropriate" is good advice.

People felt that less virtual functions tends to have fewer bugs and reduces maintenance.
  I'm not able to get what kind of bugs and disadvantages can appear due to virtual functions.

Poorly designed code is hard to maintain.  Period.
If you're a library maintainer, debugging code buried in a tall class hierarchy, it can be difficult to trace where code is actually being executed, without the benefit of a powerful IDE, it's often hard to tell just which class overrides the behavior.  It can lead to a lot of jumping around between files tracing inheritance trees.
So, there are some rules of thumb, all with exceptions:

*

*Keep your hierarchies shallow.  Tall trees make for confusing classes.

*In c++, if your class has virtual functions, use a virtual destructor (if not, it's probably a bug)

*As with any hierarchy, keep to a 'is-a' relationship between derived and base classes.

*You have to be aware, that a virtual function may not be called at all... so don't add implicit expectations.

*There's a hard-to-argue case to be made that virtual functions are slower.  It's dynamically bound, so it's often the case.  Whether it matters in most of the cases that its cited is certainly debatable.  Profile and optimize instead :)

*In C++, don't use virtual when it's not needed.  There's semantic meaning involved in marking a function virtual - don't abuse it.  Let the reader know that "yes, this may be overridden!".

*Prefer pure virtual interfaces to a hierarchy that mixes implementation.  It's cleaner and much easier to understand.

The reality of the situation is that virtual functions are incredibly useful, and these shades of doubt are unlikely coming from balanced sources - virtual functions have been widely used for a very long time.  More newer languages are adopting them as the default than otherwise.

A: I worked sporadically as a consultant on the same C++ system over a period of about 7 years, checking on the work of about 4-5 programmers. Every time I went back the system had gotten worse and worse. At some point somebody decided to remove all the virtual functions and replace them with a very obtuse factory/RTTI-based system that essentially did everything the virtual functions were already doing but worse, more expensively, thousands of lines more code, lots of work, lots of testing, ... Completely and utterly pointless, and clearly fear-of-the-unknown-driven.
They had also hand-written dozens of copy constructors, with errors, when the compiler would have produced them automatically, error-free, with about three exceptions where a hand-written version was required.
Moral: don't fight the language. It gives you things: use them.

A: The virtual table gets created for each class, having virtual functions or deriving from a class containing virtual functions. This consumes more than usual space.
The compiler needs to silently insert extra code for ensuring that the late binding takes place instead of the early binding. This consumes more than usual time.

A: In Java, there is no virtual keyword, but all methods (functions) are virtual, except the ones marked as final, static methods and private instance methods. Using virtual functions is not a bad practice at all, but because generally they cannot be resolved in compile-time, and compiler can't perform optimizations on them, they tend to be a little slower. The JVM has to figure out at run-time, which is the exact method that needs to be called. Note that this is not a big problem by any means, and you should consider it only if your goal is to create a very high-performance application.
For example, one of the biggest optimizations in Apache Spark 2 (which runs on JVM) was to reduce number of virtual function dispatches, to gain a better performance.


Greetings, Lion fans…..now that we've all dried out from the disappointment of the previous week, lets take a look at how the Lion offense matches up with the defense of the Bald Eagles of Lock Haven.
OVERVIEW-Let's state the obvious-the Lion offense, to this point in the season, has been offensive. Last week against Colorado State-Pueblo, the Lions were held without an offensive touchdown for the first time in recent memory. It was known coming into the season that replacing the best quarterback in school history, as well as three positions on the offensive line would a chore.
Surprisingly, though, the offensive line has been a source of strength, providing both Preston Wheeler and Kane Wilson with time to throw, and opening up the running lanes. Where the Lions have had their issues have been at quarterback. Preston Wheeler, other than one half against A&M-Kingsville, has struggled with decision making and timing with his receivers. Last week, Kane Wilson saw some action, but both had their problems with the weather conditions. EJ Thompson suffered a major injury in which he left the field on a stretcher, and in an air cast. Vincent Hobbs has seen constant double teams from every opponent. Chance Cooper and Matt Childers have provided some depth and bright spots, but the Lions have yet to return to the explosive, excitement a minute offense that has been their hallmark in the past. They have yet to have an play of over 50 yards.
This week provides that opportunity. Lock Haven comes in with a 1-3 record, allowing almost 430 yards per game defensively, and 43 points per game. The Bald Eagles have yet to hold an opponent under 30 points.
CAST OF CHARACTERS-The Lions are led in passing by Wheeler, 63-117, 617 yards, 4 TD's, 4 Int's. The rushing attack is led by Carandale Hale, 46-241, 2 TD's and EJ Thompson, 32-135, 1TD. Marquis Wimberly leads the Lions in receiving, with 19 catches for 206 yards and 2 touchdowns. Chance Cooper follows with 14 for 155, Matt Childers with 12-142 and a touchdown, and Vincent Hobbs, with 11 for 70 and a touchdown.
The Bald Eagles are led by linebacker Obadaiah Asare with 33 tackles, followed by safety Javon Whitfield with 32, and linebacker Fernando Flores with 28. Both Whitfield and free safety Dontae Mason have three interceptions each.
The Lions have a decided size advantage, averaging 6'1″ 200 lbs. at the skills positions, and 6'3″ 278 lbs. on the offensive line. Lock Haven averages 6'0″ 187 lbs. in the secondary, and 6'1″ 241 lbs. in the front seven.
THE BOTTOM LINE-The Lions have problems on offense that they must solve, and this is the time to get it done. After this week, conference play begins in earnest with a road trip to Wichita Falls, and the rival Midwestern State Mustangs. Frankly, it is not going to get any easier for Matt Storm and his charges. The bright spot is, the problems they have faced so far are very fixable. If the Lions just play like they are very capable of playing, they will soon return to their high-flying, high scoring ways.
See You At The Hawk. . Hopefully, this week, a dry one.


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By Karla Vallance Karla Vallance is a newswriter for CNN in Atlanta.
UNHEARD MELODIES By Warren Leamon Atlanta: Longstreet Press 214 pp., $16.95 `I walked uneasy on my youth's fine lawns And sought for definitions.'
SO opens ``Unheard Melodies,'' a novel of growing up.
It's the story of a boy as he starts to put the pieces together, as he starts to understand - as he starts to hear the melodies.
The story is set in the Buckhead, Ga., of the 1940s and '50s. Buckhead is now a chic neighborhood of Atlanta - posh shops and sleek bistros. But it was once more than just the upwardly mobile place to live.
When this novel takes place, Buckhead is mostly middle-class homes and brick apartment buildings in a quiet community north of the city, with storefronts clustered at the corner of Paces Ferry and Peachtree Roads. Trucks still deliver ice for the icebox, and open streetcars are starting to be replaced by trolleys.
Warren Leamon - now a teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens - grew up in Buckhead during the '40s and '50s before it grew up.
He has written a haunting book. It haunts partly because it is a story of a place that is no longer - and of a man who is no longer the boy he used to be. Another reason is the vivid sense of place it evokes. You practically sweat while reading of dripping-hot Atlanta summer afternoons. And you feel the mildew in the dark, cool basement where ``it was always late November,'' and where the narrator rigs up a musty old blanket to curtain off his own private corner.
The story is firmly anchored in a time and place. It feels tangible, real, solid. But like any good novel that relies on a given locale, it transcends place. This novel works because it is so humanly present, because it keys so uncannily into the deepest thoughts of a young person.
So knowing nothing about Paces Ferry Road or Piedmont Park is no obstacle. The strength of the novel is in its universal themes. There's the moment Leamon is playing basketball on a Catholic church's grounds and meets a young nun. He discovers that the nuns don't run him off the basketball court because he is a Protestant - as he always thought. It is because the sound of the dribbling ball distracts the sisters from their prayers.
When he pedals his bicycle through dark Sunday mornings to deliver newspapers, he realizes for the first time that Buckhead buildings exist independent of him - even when he isn't there. He discovers that the girl he craves being near feels just as lonely and isolated as he does.
There is a Southern feel to this book. Leamon weaves in some particularly Southern notions, such as the fact that women handle family and religion, men take care of themselves and business. He wonders out loud if there is a particularly Southern connection between religious fundamentalism and drinking binges.
I grew up in a different part of the country, yet reading about the author's dawnings of understanding, I was swept back into recognitions from my own youth in the cornfields of the Midwest. Those small moments when suddenly an understanding is crystallized, an insight is clarified and sharpened. Leamon's epiphanies from small childhood experiences led to my own.
The earliest chapters are tedious. The reader has to take on faith that it matters to hear about the chickens in the backyard, and about Aunt Mary from Charlotte, N.C., who arrives for her yearly visit. Uncle Luther, just hasn't been the same since the war. Grandmother is in a dither about an alleged thief who stole one blue velvet shoe, and she thinks the South Pole is the hottest spot on earth. It's a funky introduction to some oddball relatives.
But this offbeat start is crucial to set the scene and the tone for the novel, since we are seeing the world - or what he knows of it - through the eyes of the unnamed boy narrator. If at first it's hard to make sense of or care about the relatives, it's because the boy is bewildered by them. Everything beyond the borders of Buckhead is alien and uncertain to him.
But slowly, he starts to fit the pieces together, much as he fills in the boxes of crossword puzzles with Aunt Mary. He starts to understand - and Leamon is right on target in evoking those thoughts and rhythms.
WHILE the book is clearly nostalgic for an earlier, simpler time, this is not a joyful reminiscence. Sadness lingers. There is disillusionment in the boy's breaking out of the borders of Buckhead to the rest of Atlanta and the countryside - and world - beyond.
Leamon parallels the boy's life with the maturing of the neighborhood he grew up in. This book openly yearns for a classic ``return to innocence,'' even while it never truly understands what innocence is. It is diffused with a nostalgia for what used to be. Yet, neither the boy-man nor Buckhead could or would ever return to what it used to be, to an earlier, narrower world. So when the author writes of a new subdivision being ``a part of the rampant growth that destroyed my world,'' he knows darn well that world was gone anyway.
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Diebold Ellsworth Hughes, a retired Edgewood Arsenal chemist who founded a Northeast Baltimore real estate firm, died Wednesday at the age of 83.
Diebold Ellsworth Hughes, a retired Edgewood Arsenal chemist who founded a Northeast Baltimore real estate firm, died of a heart attack Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 83 and lived in Morgan Park.
Born in Milton, N.C., he was the son of Adolphus and Katie Hughes, who owned and operated a tobacco farm near the Virginia-Maryland border.
He earned a chemistry degree from what is now North Carolina Central University in 1957. He came to Baltimore during his college summers and worked at Bethlehem Steel and stayed with a sister who had moved here. He then served in the Army, moved to Baltimore and bought a home through a veteran's mortgage program.
He became a Department of Defense chemist at Edgewood Arsenal, where he worked for the Army's chemical weapons detection division for 32 years.
As a sideline to his work at Edgewood, Mr. Hughes began selling real estate in 1962. He was initially an agent for the Mann Agency. He worked alongside his wife, the former Barbara Graves, who initially was his office manager, and had an office at his home, then located on Ready Avenue in Govans.
"He had a dream of making a fortune, and he listened to his father who told him to 'stay on his books,'" said another son, Jerome Hughes of Asheville, N.C.
In 1966, he founded the Hughes Realty Co., a brokerage now located on East Belvedere Avenue in Northeast Baltimore.
Family members said that although Mr. Hughes encountered discrimination in selling real estate in the 1960s and 1970s, he did not complain and chose to work things out for himself.
His son said his father's turning point occurred when he got his broker's license and he established an agency with other people working with him.
Denise Hairston, a marketing coordinator at St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, recalled Mr. Hughes' ability to work with new buyers.
Mr. Hughes spent his free time with his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He also liked bargain hunting with coupons at grocery stores and hosting backyard cookouts.
A funeral will be held at noon Saturday at Union Baptist Church, 1219 Druid Hill Ave., where he had been president of its Welcome Circle. As a young man, he had taught Sunday school at New Haven Baptist Church in Milton, N.C.
In addition to his wife of 54 years and his two sons, survivors include two additional sons, Rodney Hughes of Baltimore and Carlton Hughes of Sacramento, Calif.; three sisters, Katie Richmond of Milton, N.C., Martha Lee of Baltimore and Carolyn Bigelow of Teaneck, N.J.; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.


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Garford Joseph, the manager of the Hurricane Maria damaged Windsor Park Sports Stadium (WPSS) is hopeful that the WPSS will be ready for hosting matches in 2019 as well as the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) in October 2018 as the world of cricket begin raising crucial funds this week at Lords in England.
Joseph said 70 percent of the Stadium's roof was destroyed and 100 percent of the roof of the player's pavilion.
"Fifteen gates have all been destroyed along with our stairwells. We have had lots of damage and our playing surface was also compromised," he said.
Joseph said that a Public Works Department assessment estimated that the damage caused to the WPSS was valued at six million dollars.
"Government is now in the process at getting the repairs done, we are waiting for one contractor to make a submission to the Minister so we expect the work to commence within the next month at the stadium," he said
He continued: "All things equal our target is to ensure that the stadium will be up and ready for the 2018 World Creole Festival once we are not affected by any hurricane or other natural disasters in 2018.
"Estimates have also been submitted for the grounds to have it in a proper shape and complete rehabilitation. At the moment it's playable but not to international standard," he said.
"The WCMF will be held at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium and when you come to the World Creole Festival you won't even know it was affected and our aim is to have the facility ready for the hosting of an international match in 2019 and with the help and assistance from the government I think we are all set to have the repair works all going," Joseph noted.
Officially opened on October 24, 2007 and built at a cost of $33million, the WPSS is a gift from China. Meantime, the WPSS will benefit from a charity cricket match between the West Indies and Rest of the World XI at Lord's on 31st May 2018.
The match was granted international status by International Cricket Council and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
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Peter Andrew Miller was 24 years old at the time of his death. He was murdered at his home at Camden Place, Gt Yarmouth.
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BOSTON - If the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wants to lift its children out of poverty, it should put its focus on their parents at the same time, according to a new Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count policy report.
The report says what's called a "two-generation" approach is needed to give families tools to get on a track to better economic opportunities. Patricia Cromwell, director of strategic initiatives at the Casey Foundation, said helping families become more stable leads to lower stress levels and increases the odds for stronger parent-child relationships.
"So, we're encouraging states and local practitioners to look at the whole family as they address both the parent and child needs together," she said.
About 143,000 of the Commonwealth's young children are growing up in low-income households.
The report recommends bringing together state and federal employment, education and child-care programs to collaborate in creating better opportunities for parents and children, which will in turn strengthen families.
Cromwell sees beneficial long-term gains for kids, both in terms of academic achievement and long-term earning potential.
"So, there's research that shows it makes a lot of sense to be thinking about the whole household in addition to the child," she said, "and this is why it's pushing us to create some more examples and show some premise."
Cromwell said the two-generational approach produces good outcomes.
"Supporting parents in their ability to get and keep a job and be a strong parent," she said, "the same time as supporting kids to get a good start early in learning, as well as a good start in school."
According to the report, nearly half of the nation's young children are growing up in lower-income households.


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Families--the Gift That Keeps on Giving.
Posted by Mary Ann Rodman
November is the Month of Giving Thanks. Everybody else saves it for Turkey-and-Football-Thursday, but we Teaching Authors take the whole month to be thankful. Cutting to the chase, I am thankful for my family. Not just my husband and daughter and extremely needy dog. I am thankful for my extended family...not only both sides of my family, but both sides of my husband's as well.
Me, my daughter and husband. Benihana wouldn't let us bring the dog.
Whether it's luck or karma or whatever, my entire family are terrific storytellers. Not that any of them thought that of themselves. They didn't think there was anything particularly fascinating about their lives. I beg to differ.
It began with Mom. I loved stories. Not just the ones in books, but the ones Mom told about her childhood. To an only child like me, living on a farm with seven siblings who lived to prank the neighbors sounded exotic. Mom, who was so self conscious about writing, she wrote rough drafts of letters to her family, was a hilariously uninhibited storyteller. The first stories I ever wrote were based on Mom's childhood. She hooked me on writing and family stories.
From left-Mom, a visitor, Aunt Georgia, Uncle Jim. My grandfather
is behind Jim, the other adults are the parents of the boy in front.
Mom's youngest sibling was my favorite aunt, who had a unique perspective on the family. Born when my grandmother was 45, (unimaginable in the 1920's), she was the only child at home during WWII. My mother and her brothers were in the service, one sister married, the other two working and rarely home. The stories she told me were ones my mother never knew. Her sweet, gentle remembrances of the Pittsburgh homefront formed the core of Jimmy's Stars.
Aunts Agnes,left and Sarah, hanging laundry, 1944
Aunt Agnes as a young woman
From Mom's family, I learned the concepts of point of view and unreliable narrator. My aunts and uncles could tell me a story I had heard from Mom, but each had a totally different take it on it. The same family tale from eight different people, and each remembered a detail the others didn't. Each felt differently about the same event. I learned that people could experience the same event, yet perceive it in a different way. In my nuclear family, there were only two sides of a story, mine and my parents. What a revelation to learn that all adults didn't see things the same way! I learned truth could be a personal perception.
The only picture of all Mom's siblings, minus one. In front, from
left, Sarah, Mary Anne, Mom. Back, Georgia, Andy, Jim, Agnes
My Grandmother Rodman dropped out of fourth grade. She was needed at home to raise her five half siblings as her mother slowly died of "consumption." Her stories were distinctly Dickensian. Her older brothers left home at 12 and 14 to get away from their "evil stepfather", who abused all of the children. When her mother died, and "evil stepfather" tried to marry my 14-year-old grandmother, she too ran away and became a "hired girl," always with the idea of returning for the "little'uns." As a young mother, she, my grandfather, my dad and his older brother lived through the deadliest tornado in American history. I heard these stories over and over. My grandmother had a keen eye for detail, and knew how to sequence a story, building to the climax. Again, she didn't think her life was anything but ordinary....but in addition to the violence of her childhood, and the gore and horror of "The Storm," her stories contained descriptions of making peanut brittle, being given her dead mother's clothes ("Somebody ought to get some wear out of them.") memorizing poetry for contests at her one room school house. I soaked it all in.
Grandmother Rodman, my Meemaw. She told her stories while crocheting,
or as she is doing here, embroidering.
My father-in-law John, age 2
My father-in-law John could tie with my grandmother for The Childhood Most Like a Dickens Novel prize. Losing his train engineer father in a wreck at age four, dying slowly at home from burns from the exploding locomotive boiler. His mother leaving him and his three-year-old sister with maiden aunts, while she went to chiropractic college in St. Louis. She was a take-charge-lady who wasn't counting on remarriage to save her little family. Although she did remarry, the family bounced from state to state during the Depression, barely getting by.
While his childhood was grim, his adult life was nothing but sheer luck. He joined the Navy in the 1930's to pay for college. He did his time, then went to Purdue, only to be recalled in 1940. His base? Pearl Harbor. His ship left for maneuvers Dec 4, 1941, missing the attack on the US fleet. Over the next four years, he survived two ships sunk in torpedo attacks, met and married my mother-in-law, an Australian debutante, and fought in so many naval battles I've lost track. The Battle of Savo Island is the one I remember.
Like my grandmother, my father-in-law John had an incredible memory. He once told me that when he couldn't sleep, he reimagining every night watch on ship--the other sailors, the weather, the enemy vessels. I could (and did) listen to him for hours. He was the only WWII veteran I knew who would talk about being in combat...while sober.
John, high school graduation and sister Virginia.
"You're a good listener," he'd say. "None of my kids care anything about the war or family history." I couldn't imagine someone not caring about their family's past, but my husband and sister-in-law didn't. I am sad that they cared so little for their father's brave and incredible life.
Babs' engagement picture, 1943
My mother in law could also spin a yarn, before Alzheimer's took her past. I mean, who has a father who founded a political party and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth? Who grew up in a mansion on Sydney Harbor, facing what would one day by the Sydney Opera House? Raised by nannies and sent to a convent school, and was a junior Australian tennis champ? Who squabbled with her younger sister (by ten months) as to which was the "pretty one" and which was the "sporty one." Who worked for MGM Australia after the University of Sydney "invited" her to leave? ("I don't believe you are quite focused on your education. Perhaps later.") My mother-in-law, that's who. And speaking of different POV's, I heard all these stories again, during the one delightful and memorable afternoon I spent with her sister, still living in Sydney. (She assured me that she was the pretty one!)
This group of storytellers also includes my horde of cousins, thirty plus including second and third cousins. The Rodman bunch have my grandmother's eye for detail. The Smith crew have the same deadpan humor as Mom. Oh, and then there are their parents, aunts and uncles by marriage. Dad's older brother brought home a British war bride who had hair-raising stories of living through the London Blitz. Aunt Agnes's husband had a Horatio Alger childhood, the kind that only a smart and enterprising boy in Depression Era Pittsburgh could have experienced. (Favorite story--selling a war bond to Art Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, as part of a newsboys' bond drive.)
Just some of the cousins. From left, me, Melissa, Kelly, Fran
This is my family. They all have(had) their quirks and prejudices and ongoing feuds with other family members. They also had guts and drive to live through hard times, wars and personal sorrow. Lucky for me, they didn't believe in forgetting their pasts, good or bad. They told me, always the eager listener.
As a child, I overheard Mom talking about me.
"She's a writer," Mom said, in an exasperated voice. "I don't know where she gets it."
But I do--from Mom and Dad, Meemaw and Pawpaw. Aunts Agnes, Sarah and Georgia. Uncles Tom, Andy and Jim. Uncle Gee and Aunt Eileen. In-laws John and Babs, and Babs' sister Adele. All my cousins, but especially Sherry, Val, Melissa and Walt. Thank you all. Through you, I've lived other lives and times. You gave me the gift of our families stories. The best gift a writer can have.
Labels: family stories, Mary Ann Rodman, oral history, Time for Thanks-Giving
love how much I have learned about you and your family of storytellers, Mary Ann ~ thank you <3
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Classic baking – how a blind cook manages.
Banana bread is one of those essentials for any baker's repertoire and here I was learning a new version with Kelly in Virginia Beach (USA) (https://youtu.be/I47dQTqhuKY).
First, I needed to better understand the American measuring system of cups. I do have them at home but have always tended to rely on my trusty talking scales which I can switch between ounces and grams. It is good to a point but doesn't really cope with amounts of 5 grams or less – one just has to guess!
Kelly, of course, could see when her wonderfully crunchy topping and the banana bread all looked cooked. That doesn't work for me but a careful finger can feel whether the right amount of sponginess has been reached and I also use my speaking thermometer just to check. Bread gets to about 91C and cakes a few degrees higher because of the sugar content.
You can find the banana bread recipe (and lots more) at www.bakingbllind.com.
I'm talking about celery, of course. Flamboyant TV chef Keith Floyd was an ardent peeler but Rich from Virginia Beach couldn't see the point as you can see and hear (https://youtu.be/VjSOY1REX-A).
For my part, I prefer to peel off the "whiskers" from the outside of a stick of celery whether I'm serving raw in a Waldorf salad or cooked in a casserole or sauté.
Former US Navy Beachmaster Rich presented us with his "treasure of the sea" rockfish that is popular in Virginia Beach, on the Atlantic East coast of America. We cooked the 1.68 lb whole fish on his Webber barbecue for 14 minutes – times will vary with different barbecues and different sized fish. Keeping the flavouring simple meant that the flavour of the fish shone through but was also perfumed by the apple wood smoke.
Meanwhile, we had the whole celery debate, much to the delight of his non-cooking wife, Cathy. The vegetable sauté featured the multi-coloured heirloom carrots and the yellow Yukon potatoes, flecked with green spinach and the golden chicken stock. Rich had made his own stock from chicken carcases and was rather more receptive to my idea of roasting the bones before making the stock.
We were two true enthusiasts sharing our passion for kitchen gadgets: rich showed me his garlic slicer, lemon squeezer, two types of peelers, his knife sharpener, the glass loaf pans and his superb sauté pan. Each item had been carefully considered and practically tested – not just the latest fad that sits at the back of the kitchen drawer for years!
It was a real delight to find someone as passionate about cooking who really knew what he was doing from practical experience and not just reading recipe books.
The comfortable companionship of cooking together can be the perfect ingredient for sharing life stories. Amidst potato peeling and pan stirring in Virginia Beach (USA), I heard all about Kate's love story and more (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDpWGy_FYpo&t=1s ).
While we struggled to skin recalcitrant puppydrum fish for our classic English fish pie, Kate told me about re-discovering her childhood sweetheart after years of separation and her boldness in moving across the Atlantic to create a new future with him. You can hear her happiness and enthusiasm for her completely new life. Not just a new country and relationship but she's also created a new business too. Having developed a range of natural skin-care treatments to manage her own sensitivity to commercial products, she has a growing market for her range of hand-crafted preparations. See more on her Facebook page Simple Luxury Skin Care and you can contact her for a menu of products.
And the kitchen revelations didn't stop there. The local Virginian Pilot journalist covering our Baking Blind cooking session shared her own struggle with the onset of sight loss. Just as I'd had to face such a life-changing situation two decades ago, she was having to learn new ways of working using some of the special adaptations, equipment and adjustments to her professional work. She is another shining example of how determination wrapped around the right amount of help can mean that acquiring a disability needn't be career-ending.
And, meanwhile, Kate and I continued to struggle with the local puppydrum fish. Locally caught especially for our fish pie dish, it nearly proved more than a match for us when trying to remove the exceptionally tough skin. On the other hand, it might have been so much easier if I'd realised it needed doing before cutting the fish up! Just one of those kitchen dramas that happen when you are blind. But it was still a delicious dish that, amazingly, seems very little known in America – the "old" country still has some traditional secrets to share with them. You can try the recipe too (http://www.bakingblind.com/fish%20pie.htm) for a simple home supper or vamped up with more luxurious ingredients to delight guests.
Wrens know how to organise.
The volume climbed at the WRNS 100 centenary lunch party while it took minimum effort to put together a great chicken dish to feed the crowd– see how we did it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMp_N573JSA).
Jo, my old naval colleague, took our week in Virginia Beach, USA, by the scruff of the neck and shook it until every minute was completely occupied. She produced a programme with military precision having co-opted a corps of collaborative cooks all ready to create their culinary magic on camera.
During one short week we managed to pack in four different sorts of bread, soup, three different fish dishes, party chicken, two desserts and the most peculiar "overnight casserole" that turned out to be a strange savoury bread-and-butter pudding! Amidst all of this, we caught a glimpse of Virginia Beach and the huge naval base at Norfolk, managed another lunch party and a great Mexican welcome dinner. It took all my stamina to keep up with the tight schedule but it was superb to meet so many other enthusiastic cooks. But there was no stopping Jo: she kept teaching her Pilates classes, taking her exercise sessions and even managed to pack in a country music concert – I just tried to catch up on sleep!
Safe haven from storm violence.
Tropical Storm Nate turned a long difficult drive across Costa Rica in to a scary six hour ordeal of white-knuckled battle with flooded roads, wind-tossed debris and torrential rain. Undaunted, and probably foolishly, we carried on to reach the capital city, San Jose, so you can see this masterclass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD1cHjsQogs) of home-cooked Costa Rican dishes by professional chef Mario. Finding him was tricky in the dark and awful weather and, as is usual in Costa Rica, no address: you just have to phone your host and they come to find you!
His kitchen was a haven of peace after all the hours of storm noise – and it quickly filled with the gentler sounds and smells of cooking. It was just blissful to relax with a glass of wine and excellent simple food expertly cooked after a difficult day.
And the following morning was just as tricky. I'd been planning a farewell kitchen session with the Costa Rican association of blind people in the capital's top cookery school. But we found that the city had been closed down as the government warned everyone to stay inside due to the continuing storm. We heard from contacts in the UK that flights to San Jose were cancelled and began to wonder if we would be able to fly out the following day.
The hotel only offered a breakfast buffet so videographer toby went on a scavenging hunt to secure enough food and water for the day, in case the situation got even more risky.
Thank goodness the weather was rather calmer next day and the flight out was possible. But, after all the drama and fabulous food of costa rica, we would have preferred our last memories to have been better than the rather dry sandwiches and warm water of our final meal there. If you want Western comforts mixed with life on the wild side, Costa Rica is just perfect – but perhaps better outside the rainy season!


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This is definitely one of those books that will keep you guessing until the very end! The main character, Charlie Caldwell, is a returning Vietnam Vet who went through a terrible time, which he can not get out of his head--nor can he talk about it. At that time Vets were not always treated the way they should have been and most, to this day, have not recovered from what that war entailed. He goes home to a place for which he has no real affection only to find out that the girl who has ruined him for all others has been murdered.
As he tries to unravel this murder he meets a woman who has a little girl. He immediately knows he likes her-but kind of holds back-for a while. He also meets up with an honest and caring attorney who worries about all involved-not just his client. And slowly but surely the killer instincts taught him by the army begin to appear, but only when someone he likes is threatened.
This is the story primarily of a man trying to get his life or a life back after the horrors of war and the remaining problems of his childhood. I truly loved this novel and defy you to guess "Who really Murdered Miranda Costa?"
...Miranda DeCosta has been murdered. Death, as Charlie Caldwell has so cruelly learned, cheats one out of any opportunity to set life on the correct path.
Charlie has come to devinia, the tiny central California town where he grew up, bent on confronting Miranda over the event that defined and destroyed every romantic relationship he has ever entertained.
Questions about Miranda's unraveling life and violent murder gradually invade Charlie's consciousness. Bits and pieces of seemingly insignificant information begin to nag at him causing him to question whether the man locked behind bars and charged with her murder is, on fact, the real killer.
Mr. McCabe's 2012 debut novel, Betrayed, attracted both national and international attention rising in the U.S. to #8 in Amazon's promotional Mystery – Thriller category and making it to #40 on Amazon's Mystery, Thriller & Suspense list in Germany for English language books, garnering strong reviews and solid reader support. Mr. McCabe has been interviewed on nationally syndicated radio shows including WGCV radio from Washington, D.C., and WCIT from Lima, Ohio. Feature articles about Mr. McCabe have appeared in major publications such as AOL Finance, Kiplinger Review, Business Insider Magazine.
love it! this actually sounds like something i would read. most reviews are romance (gag). i prefer nonfiction but love a little mystery here and there!
This is right up my alley. Added it to my ever-growing reading list. I really need to take a speed reading course!
This one sounds so good! It blows my mind that our Vietnam Vets did not get respect. They sacrificed so much.
I just accepted this book for review on my blog. I'm so glad to see it getting good reviews.
These stories are always so sad because I just can't imagine what these men go through. Another really great review Michele.
That sounds like a great book. I am so glad things have changed for our veterans over the years.
This book looks like an excellent read. I will look into it. Thanks!
I think this is actually a book my husband would enjoy. He doesn't read much but I think he will read this one.
This kind of book or story will get you frustrated at times because of the interesting characters, just imagine you'd be guessing until the end of the story lol.
I love your book reviews! Adding this on to my need to get list!
My FIL told me how the VETs then was treated.
Sounds like an interesting read. I will check this out at amazon.
A good story I bet, i like the guessing part, makes you confuse for a minute and then the puzzles just starting to connect later on in the story.


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