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James Anderson sounds alarm bells over England's relationship with Test cricket
English cricket overhauled its outdated relationship with the limited-over game in the aftermath of a dire showing at the 2015 World.
James Anderson has almost 20 years of experience in the international arena (Jason O'Brien/PA)
By Rory Dollard, PA Cricket Correspondent
James Anderson has sounded alarm bells over England's relationship with Test cricket, suggesting the white-ball game has become too dominant.
Only one person in history has played more than Anderson's 168 Tests, Indian great Sachin Tendulkar, and he has almost 20 years of experience in the international arena to inform his opinion.
So when he speaks on the subject, it is a good idea to listen. The 39-year-old has been stung by England's Ashes capitulation, with the urn surrendered after just 12 days of action and three resounding defeats, and he is clear that the players themselves must shoulder the blame.
But he has also been around long enough to have seen trends and priorities wax and wane in the sport and believes the current priorities are wrong.
A genius as work at the MCG. #Ashes | #AUSvENG pic.twitter.com/bIFRCvfADM
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) December 27, 2021
English cricket overhauled its outdated relationship with the limited-over game in the aftermath of a dire showing at the 2015 World Cup and the results since are there for all to see: world champions in the same tournament four years later, world number one in Twenty20 cricket and supplier of choice for franchise competitions all over the globe.
All the while, Joe Root's Test team has entered a period of decline that has yielded a record nine defeats in 2021 and a grossly uncompetitive performance on the marquee tour of Australia.
Anderson said: "It's hard when you're in it, to start dissecting everything. We don't want to start thinking about the whole domestic structure and whatever else.
"But what I will say is, I would just like to think that maybe the balance between red and white ball cricket is there, going forward.
"There has been a huge (change of) direction with white ball cricket, a big push with that since 2015. I think that, at the minute, it's tipped slightly towards white ball and it has done for the last few years.
England have struggled in recent weeks (Jason O'Brien/PA)
"If you look at our performances in Test cricket over the last few years, they've been pretty inconsistent. So, from that point of view we can hopefully just redress that balance a little bit."
While pundits pick over the bones of England's Ashes woe and administrators mull over potential ways to arrest the slide, Anderson and his team-mates still have the small matter of two more Test matches to prepare for.
The mood at nets has been sombre for the past 48 hours – two days that should have seen the concluding acts of a Boxing Day Test that did not even reach the halfway mark – and Anderson left the usual cliches untouched as he assessed morale.
The Lancastrian has a hard-won reputation for grumpiness, but he is not alone in that at the moment.
"It's not been my favourite tour, for sure. The lads are pretty flat at the minute if I'm being brutally honest," he said.
Australia win the third Test and retain the Ashes.
Scorecard: https://t.co/nJMtTINVx5#Ashes | #AUSvENG pic.twitter.com/hExjpxHMrw
"We're 3-0 down in an Ashes series after some pretty poor performances so it's hard to not be flat. From that point of view it's not been fun. We honestly came here thinking we could win. I truly believe that. We had that belief and it's been completely taken away. We've been beaten by a very good team, I have to say.
"They've coped with the situation and the conditions better than we have in the games and we've just not been able to cope with the pressure that they've put on us. We have to somehow, the next few days, turn it around and show people what we're made of."
Four years ago Anderson set himself the challenge of one more crack at Australia in their back yard after a wounding 4-0 defeat and, while he has defied all expectations to do so, he will leave for the final time with the same bitter taste.
"I know I said it last time, but I would be extremely surprised if I was here in four years' time!" he said.
"Obviously I didn't want that to be my last memory of Australia so I came back and this is going to be it."
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Fewer congregations are 100 percent white and non-Hispanic, according to the National Congregations Study.
Congregations have become more ethnically and racially diverse even since 1998, according to the National Congregations Study. In 1998, 20 percent of attendees were in congregations that were completely white and nonhispanic; in 2006-07, 14 percent were.
Let me be clear about what this means. We do not see significant increases since 1998 in the proportion of predominantly Latino or Asian or African American congregations in the United States. Nor do we see any significant increase in what we might call deeply diverse congregations, meaning congregations that have, say, equal numbers of blacks and whites, or a relatively equal mix of black, whites, and Asians, or a sizeable proportion of Latinos in a predominantly nonLatino, white congregation.
What we do see is a significant increase in the presence of some minorities in predominantly white congregations. Fewer congregations, in other words, are 100 percent white and nonHispanic.
Catholic churches are substantially more likely than Protestant churches to have some minority presence even when they are predominantly white, but the jump in minority presence has occurred in Protestant as well as in Catholic churches. Interestingly, there is no corresponding trend within predominantly black churches. Those churches are no more likely to have some whites, Latinos, Asians, or immigrants today than they did in 1998.
I do not want to overstate the significance of this trend. It definitely is too soon to discard the old saw that 11 a.m. Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week. The vast majority of American congregations remain overwhelmingly white or black or Hispanic or Asian or whatever--but there also has been noticeable progress. Our congregations, like our society, are still far from a place in which color and nationality are invisible, but there has been some change in a positive direction. Somewhat like black-white intermarriage, which is increasing even though it remains rare, increasing minority presence in predominantly white congregations represents some progress, however small, in a society in which ethnicity and, especially, race, still divide us.
It also is worth asking whether even a few African Americans or Hispanics or recent immigrants in a congregation might affect that congregation's life in important ways. John Green, a Professor at the University of Akron and one of the nation's leading experts on religion and politics, has said that congregations are easier to politicize when they are more homogeneous. Is a clergyperson with even one black family in the pews likely to talk in quite the same way about race and about social welfare issues as he would if that family was not there? Is the congregation with even one Latino family likely to approach immigration reform in quite the same way? How this increasing pluralism might be changing congregations is a subject worthy of additional research and reflection.


I liked the elements of the original story that were kept in this one and the updates to the story as well. But I read this two months ago (whoops I'm late on reviewing) and I can't remember specific details from the novel because it was actually so boring.
I did like the additional characters that were introduced in this story and some of the back story was interesting. I also liked how the "magic" was introduced because I thought it was really cool.
I am glad I listened to this one on audio because I'm not sure I would have finished it otherwise. If you are looking for a retelling of Peter Pan, this is one. But that's about the only recommendation I can give to it.
I'm a big fan of such type of books and Peter and the Starcatchers is one of my favorite. The author is amazing and I've read almost all of his books.


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Chennai: Computer Age Management Services (CAMS), India's premier Registrar and Transfer Agent for Mutual Funds launched PAN based e Mandate that can be set-up electronically using eSign facility. This facility launched in www.camsonline.com as well as on the mobile app. myCAMS will soon be available in Mutual Fund houses website and distributors' websites and portals as well.
Setting up the CAMS e Mandate will be a completely paperless process. The only requirement is Aadhaar link in the bank account where the mandate has to be registered.
Investors can set up the CAMS e Mandate and use it whenever they initiate a new SIP. As the e Mandate is registered at a PAN level, it allows for setting up any number of Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) across all funds serviced by CAMS. Filling up separate mandate forms every time a SIP is started / renewed will now be a practice of the past.
Speaking on the launch of CAMS e Mandate, Anuj Kumar , Deputy CEO, CAMS explained "The conventional method to set up SIPs with a mandate involved laborious practices like filling out forms, cheque copy, submission to Bank via Mutual Funds / Registrar, registration process at the bank and eventually starting the SIP only after 30 days. Investors had to repeat the process for every new SIP. CAMS e Mandate will aim at transforming the way mandates are registered with a complete digital process and foster faster commencement of SIPs. Registration at PAN level makes the CAMS e Mandate uniquely versatile".
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The renowned Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was the site for Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services' 2015 Celebrating Children Awards Reception on Saturday, October 3rd.
Paulette and Henry Matson with students from Hathaway-Sycamores' Learning Lab
Some 400 people attended the annual event, which raised over $300,000 that will help fund the therapeutic and other crucial support services that Hathaway-Sycamores – one of Los Angeles County's largest mental health and welfare agencies – provides each year to thousands of children, youth, young adults, and families facing serious life challenges.
Those on hand for this family friendly event had the opportunity to roam with the dinosaurs as they explored the museum after hours. Guests enjoyed hands on demonstrations by students and teachers from Hathaway-Sycamores' Learning Lab, museum tours for the kids and families, a cocktail reception, and a delicious dinner buffet.
The heart of the Celebrating Children event, however, was the presentation of the Hathaway-Sycamores' Celebrating Children Award, which honors an individual or family that exemplifies the values of integrity, leadership and commitment to the well-being of children, adults, families, and communities. This year's award recipients were philanthropists and longtime Long Beach residents Paulette and Henry Matson. The Matsons have been supporters of Hathaway-Sycamores for more than 15 years. Henry Matson is an active member of the Hathaway-Sycamores Board; he served as Board Chair from 2009-2011 and is a current Advisory Board Member. The Matsons' dedication to education and mentoring youth has fueled their continued generous support of Hathaway-Sycamores' Learning Lab located at the Highland Park Family Resource Center. Paulette explained their commitment to supporting Hathaway-Sycamores, "Why do we do this? There's only one answer, it makes a difference!"
Jeff Patton, Debbie Manners, Henry & Paulette Matson, and Ken Goldstein.
Located in an economically disadvantaged neighbored, the Family Resource Center's Learning Lab offers a broad range of free services – including tutoring, SAT prep classes, college-application assistance and one-on-one mentoring to students ages 5-18. It is the only free resource of its kind in the community, and has helped area youth receive millions of dollars in scholarships to the top universities in the nation. Guest had the opportunity to meet one of those students, Alejandra Negrete, who shared her story in person and in the video "Learning a Different Way." Alejandra is currently attending the University of California, Irvine with a full scholarship. According to Alejandra, "Without the Learning Lab, I'd probably be at home with a minimum wage job." Today, she is aiming higher and plans to become a lawyer. Click here to watch the "Learning a Different Way" video.
Commenting on the Celebrating Children Award recipients, Hathaway-Sycamores' President and CEO Debra Manners said, "Paulette and Henry Matson are champions and ambassadors of the work we do at Hathaway-Sycamores. Their commitment to creating opportunities for the kids we serve is making a difference in the community, one child at a time."
This year's Celebrating Children Awards Reception was chaired by Hathaway-Sycamores' Board member Ken Goldstein. Special thanks also are extended to this year's Celebrating Children major corporate sponsors, including: The Gas Company/Sempra Energy; Lucas Horsfall; The Morrison & Foerster Foundation; The Resort at Pelican Hill; Wells Fargo; Bob Smith Toyota; Earthlink; Green Hasson Janks; Kaiser Permanente; Omidyar Foundation; Bob & Gregg Smith; The Story Plant; and Western Asset. Deep gratitude additionally is expressed to individual major sponsors, including: Paulette and Henry Matson; Gayle and Michael Galper; Penny Kirby; Harvey Knell; Steve Madison; Jim Huser; Lisa and Brad Freer; Jay Greaves and David Sigmund; Shelley and Ken Goldstein; Hilary and Scott Hodgkins; Paulette and Bob Lang; Debbie Manners; Bessie Ramirez Ruiz and Luis Ruiz; Annsley and George Strong; Nancy and Gino Thomas; and Jan Hotchkin Tinoco and Mark Tinoco.
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LIVE: NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS – 08/03/2012
Posted by Daniel Ladd on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
– THE CONTINENTAL, PRESTON –
Boldly venturing north tonight to experience some premier psych-drone-folk direct from France. After last year's appearance at the Tusk Festival in Newcastle (supposedly only the duo's second gig in the UK), Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte of Natural Snow Buildings must have caught the live performance bug as they are in the UK and Ireland for a full tour – with Preston as a stop off.
What they lack in gigs they make up for in records – the band are hugely prolific in terms of their recorded output as Natural Snow Buildings, and solo as Twinsistermoon (Mehdi Ameziane) and Isengrind (Solange Gularte) and each release tends to be limited and extensive (long tracks and double albums are features of their discography). There is a lot to take in being a Natural Snow Buildings fan, and new releases tend to just appear unannounced with semi-regularity and you are happy with that. A full blown tour was a bit of pleasant surprise therefore, and for fans of music from the leftfield this is surely not one to be missed.
But NSB's tour seems to have been somewhat overlooked by North West fans of the experimental and odd, as numbers in The Continental seem disappointingly low tonight even for this tiny venue. And tiny it is, tonight's gig is held in a room at the back of The Continental – a pub in the suburbs of Preston, about 20 minutes walk from the centre of the city. It's not an 'alternative' pub either (even though it hosts gigs regularly), it's like a proper food serving gastro-pub, with adverts for Mothers Day meal deals and groups of lads fresh from five-a-side drinking pints.
There can't be more than 70 odd people here tonight, NSB are obviously obscure but they seem to be able to keep releasing stuff prolifically and their performance at Tusk Festival (review here) was pretty well anticipated, so I am not sure why there aren't more people, especially when I've seen artists of a similar nature attract much bigger crowds in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle. Maybe Preston is too far off the beaten track for some – but I wouldn't have thought so, fans are usually used to having to seek this stuff out.
The promoters (Tuff Life Boogie / They Eat Culture) are alright with me for putting on shows like this though – they are part of a number of North West promoters who are making new and unusual music much more accessible. Tonight they have tried to give the assembled few real bang for their buck (£7 on the door) – but I am not sure the night is entirely successful.
The evening begins with the 'Totally Wired Collective' and as it is a not-for-profit group based in Lancaster I will be diplomatic, but I couldn't stick around for the combination of live poetry reading, music, and film projections (the projector frequently stopped working anyway). Related to the collective is Woodcraft Folk (also Lancastrian), a duo playing analog synths, effects and live drums, who are a bit like a rustically themed Harmonia or Cluster, Broadcast or Boards of Canada. The sound is like an obscure 70's nature documentary soundtrack played on primitive electronic instruments – it's aural nostalgia for a time before I was born, all warm and folksy and reassuringly vintage. Live it is accompanied by some unsettlingly engaging archive footage of odd monastic ceremonies and interpretive dance which weirdly adds to the effect of the music, it takes you somewhere that is serene but sinister – it's seems ok but you just know it's not quite right!
Tonight is an equally scarce appearance from the Woodcraft Folk, which is good, even though I don't think it should have equal billing with Natural Snow Buildings. This is where I think things fall down – tonight's show has the strap line of "an ultra-rare pairing of two genuinely enigmatic outfits, this is a superlative one-off". It sounds stupid, but I think NSBs appearance tonight was enough of a one-off….with both acts performing it seemed like a show of two-halves when NSB would really have benefited from being the solo attraction and paired with a more sympathetic opening artist.
By the time NSB take to the stage the crowd has thinned a little more (the Lancastrians must have brought along a bit of a contingent) but it matters little now. For the few left over there is a hushed anticipation as the duo strike up a long droning epic – these are favoured tonight over the shorter, folky, song based compositions which feature Mehdi Ameziane's high-pitched whispered vocals and which are a further staple of NSB's repertoire.
NSB's live performance is apparently part improvised and part based on their back catalogue. Not having the cash to hoover up all their works (even if I could find them), I cannot claim to have heard all NSB's music, but I believe I recognise "Ghost That Was Your Life" from last year's Twinsistermoon LP, "Drift The Water Soul" from the brilliant Waves of The Random Sea LP, and "Os Deus Cannibais" from the mammoth 2009 LP/comic 'Shadow Kingdom'. Although I may have imagined all that and could be completely wrong – it's not a criticism but NSB can be fairly indistinguishable, but that's part of the appeal, allowing the music to wash over in one long sonic drift. Sure there were breaks in the sound at points tonight, and an odd 'thank you' from the band, but largely it is just layers and layers of psychedelic ambience filling every inch of the room.
That NSB make this sound with seemingly such insubstantial means is all the more impressive – just two guitars (which they play seated and frequently with violin bows) and a bank of effects and pedals littering the floor. Again, the music is long, repetitive, and develops minimally but it's not boring, arduous or overbearing – it's one of the appealing factors of NSB that you can put on a CD and not notice that over an hour has elapsed. Tonight's show lasts roughly 75 minutes but could've gone on much longer – especially considering some of NSBs songs last for half an hour….There is no gimmicky stagecraft, no between song banter, no projections or visuals (which is odd for a band with the best sleeve art ever). It's all pretty understated, the duo are not so much aloof but it's just clear that gigs are all about presenting the sound in a live setting and not much else.
It was a weird one tonight therefore – maybe I had built it up too much before hand, but I think NSB are so distinctive and unique and as this tour is unlikely to be repeated anytime soon they deserved to be presented in a context all of their own. Fair play to the promoters for trying to provide something doubly unique, but I would've preferred to have this split into two separate gigs and let both Woodcraft Folk and Natural Snow Buildings a bit of space so I could properly take it all in.
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4 Responses to "LIVE: NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS – 08/03/2012"
rhub says:
Great review Daniel, and I'm surprised that this is the only review I have found about any of these gigs on this surprise UK tour. I was at the Hebden Bridge gig the following night, and this review could have easily been about the gig I was at – it was the exact same experience, an intense wall of psychedelic ambient played to a slightly bemused, and fairly thin, crowd. But the sound system at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club was superb for such a small venue, and the experience for me, as a diehard NSB fan, was overwhelming.
I only wish that they had played to the crowd just slightly more – just a bit more of their more folky/vocal repertoire would have definitely won them some more fans (if they had played something like the reworked version of Spells, which is on Beyond The Veil, as their encore I might have just died, haha), but I don't think that this was ever going to be a 'greatest hits' set. I'm very familiar with almost all of NSB's music, and I don't think that anything they played has been released before – from talking to Mehdi & Solange afterwards, it was simply a set of new music which is what they're just playing at the moment, without so much as a nod to any of their previously released material.
I videoed about 40mins of it in really good HD quality before my memory card ran out (!), I should have it all uploaded to youtube by next weekend, and the band said they were happy to share. In fact, for such seemingly dark and enigmatic people, they couldn't have been more happy and smiley afterwards. I just hope that they return to these shores again, and maybe bring some handcrafted Solange backdrops and just a couple of their 'greatest hits' next time!
Dan Ladd says:
Hi – thanks for the comment, I am new to reviewing (and a total amateur) but I love to write about the music I love…..
I didn't realise it was all completely unreleased material played live – snatches of sound seemed familiar to me and that's why I referred to some song titles, but nice to know that I was kidding myself and was completely wrong! I only discovered NSB about 2 years ago and there is still a lot I need to hear…..
I wasn't brave enough to talk to Solange and Mehdi (although they were very nice when I bought my copy of Beyond The Veil) – maybe if I had I would've got better info for this review!
Regardless, NSB need to tour more – they were a real highlight of last year's TUSK Festival and this tour should have received far more attention.
Thank you so much for commenting though!
Finally got the video of the Hebden Bridge gig uploaded (about 40mins in total, the first 3 tracks from their set), links as follows if you're interested…
Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_WBIfQoQU
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFAG9dkkPa8
Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmmw1EVGZCU
Part 4 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM49MgoDVk8
Wonderful footage – thanks for sharing!! Now just imagine that live sound with some of Solange's artwork projected on stage…..now that would be a show stopper! Like I said in the review, best sleeve artwork of any band ever.


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23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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(Thomas) Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as a Secretary of Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860) and the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853).
He is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederate States of America, having served as the Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress, when delegates of the secessionist states issued creation of the Confederacy.
Cobb served for two weeks between the foundation of the Confederacy and the election of Jefferson Davis as first President. This made him, as the Speaker of the Congress, provisional Head of State at this time. Because of this he is sometimes called[citation needed], even if mistakenly, first President of the Confederacy, although he never held the title of President or Acting President.
1 Early life and career
1.1 Congressman
1.2 Speaker of the House
1.3 Governor of Georgia
1.4 Return to Congress and Secretary of the Treasury
1.5 A Founder of the Confederacy
2 Civil War
3 Postbellum
Born in Jefferson County, Georgia, Cobb was raised in Athens, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and became solicitor general of the western judicial circuit of Georgia.
Congressman[]
He was elected as Democrat to the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st Congresses. He was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Mileage during the 28th Congress, and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives during the 31st Congress.
He sided with President Andrew Jackson on the question of nullification; was an efficient supporter of President James K. Polk's administration during the Mexican-American War; and was an ardent advocate of slavery extension into the territories, but when the Compromise of 1850 had been agreed upon, he became its staunch supporter as a Union Democrat. He joined Georgia Whigs Alexander Stephens and Robert Toombs in a statewide campaign to elect delegates to a state convention that overwhelmingly affirmed, in the Georgia Platform, that the state accepted the Compromise as the final resolution to the outstanding slavery issues. On that issue, Cobb was elected governor of Georgia by a large majority.
Speaker of the House[]
In 1850, as Speaker he would have been next in line to the Presidency for two days due to Vice Presidential vacancy and a president pro tempore not being appointed yet, except he did not meet the minimum eligibility for the presidency of being 35 years old. When Zachary Taylor died on July 9, Vice President Millard Fillmore became President. The president pro tempore of the Senate was not appointed until July 11 when William Rufus de Vane King took that position.
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President Buchanan and his Cabinet
From left to right: Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt and Jeremiah S. Black, (c. 1859)
Governor of Georgia[]
In 1851, he left the House to serve as the Governor of Georgia, holding that post until 1853. He published A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery (1856).[1]
Return to Congress and Secretary of the Treasury[]
He was elected to the 34th Congress and then took the position of Secretary of the Treasury in Buchanan's Cabinet. He served for three years, resigning in December 1860. At one time, Cobb was Buchanan's choice for his successor.[2]
A Founder of the Confederacy[]
In 1860, Cobb ceased to be a Unionist, and became a leader of the secession movement. He was president of a convention of the seceded states that assembled in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 24, 1861. Under Cobb's guidance, the delegates drafted a constitution for the new Confederacy. He served as Speaker and as President Pro Tempore of several sessions of the Confederate Provisional Congress, before resigning to join the military when war erupted.
Civil War[]
Cobb enlisted in the Confederate Army and was named as Colonel of the 16th Georgia Infantry. He was appointed a brigadier general on February 13, 1862, and assigned command of a brigade in what became the Army of Northern Virginia. Between February and June 1862, he represented the Confederate authorities in negotiations with Union officers for an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war. His efforts in these discussions contributed to the Dix-Hill Cartel accord reached in July 1862.[3]
Cobb saw combat during the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles. Cobb's brigade played a key role in the fighting at Crampton's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain, where it arrived at a critical time to delay a Union advance through the gap. His men also fought at the subsequent Battle of Antietam.
In October 1862, Cobb was detached from the Army of Northern Virginia and sent to the District of Middle Florida. He was promoted to major general on September 9, 1863, and placed in command of the District of Georgia and Florida. He suggested the construction of a prisoner-of-war camp in southern Georgia, a location thought to be safe from Union invaders. This idea led to the creation of Andersonville prison. When William T. Sherman's armies entered Georgia during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and subsequent March to the Sea, General Cobb commanded the Georgia reserve corps. In the spring of 1865, with the Confederacy clearly waning, he and his troops were sent to Columbus, Georgia to help oppose Wilson's Raid. He led the hopeless Confederate resistance in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865.
During Sherman's March to the Sea, the army camped one night near Cobb's plantation. When Sherman discovered that the house he planned to stay in for the night was Cobb's, "one of the leading rebels of the South, then a general in the Southern army," he confiscated Cobb's property and leveled the plantation, instructing his subordinates to "spare nothing."[4]
In the closing days of the war, Cobb fruitlessly opposed General Robert E. Lee's eleventh hour proposal of enlisting slaves into the army. Fearing this move would completely discredit the fundamental justification of slavery that blacks were inferior people, he said, "You cannot make soldiers of slaves, or slaves of soldiers. The day you make a soldier of them is the beginning of the end of the Revolution. And if slaves seem good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong."[5]
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Howell Cobb in his postbellum.
He surrendered at Macon, Georgia, April 20, 1865.
Postbellum[]
Following the war, Cobb returned home and resumed his law practice, but despite pressure from his former constituents and soldiers, he refused to make any public remarks on Reconstruction policy until he received a presidential pardon, although he privately opposed it. Finally receiving that document in early 1868, he then vigorously opposed the Reconstruction Acts, making a series of speeches that summer that bitterly denounced the policies of the reigning Radical Republicans in Congress.
Taking a break from his schedule of political speeches, Cobb decided to vacation in New York City in the autumn. He died of a heart attack in that city. His body was returned to Athens, Georgia, for burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery.[6]
Thomas Willis Cobb was a cousin and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb a younger brother of Howell Cobb. His great uncle and namesake, Howell Cobb, had been a U.S. Congressman from 1807–1812, and then served as an officer in the War of 1812.
↑ NIE
↑ Klein (1962), pp. 11.
↑ Official Records, Series II, Vol. 3, pp. 338-340, 812-13, Vol. 4, pp. 31-32, 48.
↑ "Memoirs, ch.21". William Tecumseh Sherman. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sherman/memoirs/general-sherman-march-sea.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
↑ Encyclopedia Britannica
↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Howell Cobb at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2009-04-17
US Department of War (1880 - 1901). The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Howell Cobb (1815-1868)
U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb at Find a Grave Retrieved on 2008-02-13
Montgomery, Horace, Howell Cobb's Confederate Career. (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Confederate Publishing, 1959).
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The last remnants of the thick morning fog clung to the horizon, but with a bright sun overhead it promised a full evaporation within the hour. A mixture of relief and fear washed over her. Land. With the warnings of torpedoes, nothing looked more reassuring, but with landfall came a closer step to Catherine- and Ashleigh's next conflict. What price would she have to pay to convince Catherine to be with Sam? Were there other romantic options in Edensbury besides her faithless sister?
Sam's voice broke through her thoughts.
"Why didn't you bring your plate camera? Didn't you say it made clearer photos?"
"It's with my luggage." He shook his head and placed his palm over his heart. "My pride and joy and much too nice a camera to toss around on the deck of a ship."
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"Hold it like this."
He stood behind her now, his arms hemmed her in on each side to steady the camera and his breath warmed her ear. She swallowed, or tried to, but her dry mouth wouldn't cooperate. Stop these feelings, Ashleigh. Ignore them.
She forced the rising heat in her chest to chill and took a deep breath, attention fixed on the site through the lens. It was remarkable how one could frame a piece of the world. The monstrous ocean wasn't as frightening in such small doses. In fact, the angle at which the sun glazed the water held a magical, almost hypnotic quality. So vast and mysterious, and yet as beautiful as starlight's reflection in a pond.
"It's beautiful. It truly frames the world."
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"Oh yes, it's lovely." She pulled back and smiled up at him, but hadn't calculated his extreme closeness.
His face hovered just above hers, eyes so intense, she thought he might read her rebel thoughts. His brow tilted upward, slightly, as if he was searching for an answer to an unvoiced question.
She didn't have an answer. She couldn't have an answer.
As if drugged, she drew her attention from his and back to the camera lens. The sea rumbled out to meet the distant shore, waves as confused as the emotions crashing about in her heart. She couldn't wait to get off of this boat. There would be plenty of opportunities to flee Sam's closeness in Edensbury. She knew all the hiding places at her mother's home.
As a child, hiding had been a survival skill honed to near-perfection.
She blinked the framed scene back into view. A strange stream of bubbles broke into her line of vision making a surprisingly straight path through the waves. A fish? Whale? Whatever it was, it moved fast.
"Sam, look here. There's some strange fish coming up from the water toward the ship."
His lips quirked into a doubtful smirk as he took the camera. "A fish coming toward the ship?" He peered through. "I don't know of any fi—" His breath caught and his body stiffened. "No."
His exclamation pierced through her and echoed from her own lips. "What, Sam? It can't be—"
"Torpedo on the starboard side!"
The shout rang down from a place above her followed immediately by another from somewhere else on the boat. A chill trembled down her spine. Sam's gaze locked with Ashleigh's and everything slowed. Sounds muffled except for the thrumming of her heartbeat in her ears. Sam pushed his camera aside and took hold of her shoulders just as an explosion sent them staggering like ragdolls toward the railing. Ash and dust flew into the air and rained down upon them, a few pieces stinging against her back. No, dear Lord. We've been hit.
Pepper D. Basham's book one in her Penned in Time Series, The Thorn Bearer, is intriguingly beautiful and aw-inspiring! Readers will absolutely not be able to or want to put down the heart-wrenching and stunningly inspirational story of struggle, forgiveness, and love. Ashleigh Dougall fights with herself to forgive past wrongs from her father, who stole her innocence, and her fiancé, Michael, who broke her heart, and her older sister, Catherine, who for some reason hates her. But more tragedy strikes when Ashleigh's ship, the Lusitania, sinks on its way to Europe. To help forget her pain, Ashleigh serves in a war-hospital as a nurse in war-torn Europe. And, as her childhood friendship with Sam blossoms, can Ashleigh hope to find forgiveness and love? Readers will be consumed by the feelings of the characters, whether pains and sorrow or blissful joy. Pepper has crafted a charming and gorgeous story that readers of inspirational, historical fiction, focusing on WWI, will immediate fall in love with.
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Q: SQL - match records from one table to another table based on several columns I have two tables:
tblhobby
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+
   | name  |hobby1 |hobby2 |hobby3 |
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+
   | kris  | ball  | swim  | dance |
   | james | eat   | sing  | sleep |
   | amy   | swim  | eat   | watch |
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+

tblavailable_hobby
+----------------+
| available_hobby|
+----------------+
| ball           |
| dance          |
| swim           |
| eat            |
| watch          |
+----------------+

the sql query should take all the columns in tblhobby and match it with tblavailable_hobby.  If all the hobbies match to the available_hobby, then the person is selected
the query should produce
+--------+
| name   |
+--------+
| kris   |
| amy    |
+--------+

Please help
Thanks for the answers. I have inherited this database and not able to normalize it at the moment.  however, I would like to add another twist to the question.  Suppose:
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+
   | name  |hobby1 |hobby2 |hobby3 |
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+
   | kris  | ball  | swim  | dance |
   | james | eat   | sing  | sleep |
   | amy   | swim  | eat   | watch |
   | brad  | ball  |       | dance |
   +-------+-------+-------+-------+

I would like to get
+--------+
| name   |
+--------+
| kris   |
| amy    |
| brad   |
+--------+

how would i go about with it?

A: Poor DB design, but, assuming you have to live with it:
SELECT h.name
    FROM tblhobby h
        INNER JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah1
            ON h.hobby1 = ah1.available_hobby
        INNER JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah2
            ON h.hobby2 = ah2.available_hobby
        INNER JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah3
            ON h.hobby3 = ah3.available_hobby

EDIT: Answering the twist proposed in the comments below.
SELECT h.name
    FROM tblhobby h
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah1
            ON h.hobby1 = ah1.available_hobby
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah2
            ON h.hobby2 = ah2.available_hobby
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah3
            ON h.hobby3 = ah3.available_hobby
    WHERE (h.hobby1 IS NULL OR ah1.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)
        AND (h.hobby2 IS NULL OR ah2.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)
        AND (h.hobby3 IS NULL OR ah3.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)

A: I know this doesn't answer your question directly, and others have pointed out that your table design is problematic. What it should look like is this:
Table: Person
Id    Name
-------------
1     Kris
2     James
3     Amy

table: PersonHobby (Join table)
PersonId HobbyId
----------------
1        1 -- Kris likes to ball
1        2 --   "           dance
1        3 --   "           swim
2        4  -- James likes to eat

Table: Hobby
Id   Name
--------------
1    Ball
2    Dance
3    Swim
4    Eat
etc.

This design uses the concept of a Join or Junction table that allows you make many-to-many relationships between data. In this case people and hobbies.
You then query the data like this:
SELECT *
FROM Person p
JOIN PersonHobby AS ph on p.Id = ph.PersonId
JOIN Hobby       AS h  on h.Id = ph.HobbyId

WHERE ... -- filter as you need to

The PersonHobbies table in my example takes a table of Persons and a table of Hobbies and enables relationships between Persons and Hobbies. I know this will probably look like more work to you... extra tables, extra columns. But trust us, this design will make your life much simpler in the near future. In fact, you're already feeling the pain of your design by trying to figure out a query which should be much simpler than it is against your current db.
I would like to produce a WHERE filter to match your requirements but I don't quite understand what you're after. Could you explain in some more detail?

A: You can use a query to transform your existing table into a "virtual table", which I think should be easier to work with.  Save this SQL statement as qryHobbiesUnion.
SELECT [name] AS person, hobby1 AS hobby
FROM tblhobby
WHERE (((hobby1) Is Not Null))
UNION
SELECT [name], hobby2
FROM tblhobby
WHERE (((hobby2) Is Not Null))
UNION
SELECT [name], hobby3
FROM tblhobby
WHERE (((hobby3) Is Not Null));

I enclosed "name" in square brackets because it's a reserved word.  And I aliased [name] as person to avoid problems with square brackets when using qryHobbiesUnion in a subquery later.
I assumed any "empty" values for hobby will be Null.  If blanks could also be empty strings (""), change the WHERE clauses to a pattern like this:
WHERE Len(hobby1 & "") > 0

After you determine which version of the WHERE clause returns the correct rows, save the query and use it in another query.
SELECT sub.person
FROM
    [SELECT qh.person, qh.hobby, ah.available_hobby
    FROM
        qryHobbiesUnion AS qh
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby AS ah
        ON qh.hobby = ah.available_hobby
        ]. AS sub
GROUP BY sub.person
HAVING (((Count(sub.hobby))=Count([sub].[available_hobby])));

Using your second set of sample data, that query returns the 3 person names you wanted: amy; brad; and kris.
If tblhobby contained a row for a person with all the hobby fields empty, this query would not include that person's name.  That makes sense to me because it seems your intention is to identify the people whose hobby choices are all matched in tblavailable_hobby.  So a person with no hobby selections has no matches.  If you want different behavior, this will probably get uglier.  :-)

A: Really you must learn more about relational databases.  Your design isn't good.  You should have table with people and a table with hobbies.  Then you should have a table the relates the two tables by an ID.
Your tables should look likes this
TABLE: People
COLUMNS: PID (INT, Primary Key), NAME
TABLE: Hobbies
COLUMNS: HID (INT, Primary Key), Hobby
TABLE: PeoplesHobbies
COLUMNS: ID, PID, HID
THEN your query would look something like this
select * from people `p` inner join PeoplesHobbies `ph` on p.PID = ph.PID inner join on Hobbies `h` on ph.HID = h.HID where p.NAME = 'JOHN'

A: SELECT name
FROM tblhobby AS h
WHERE EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM tblavailable_hobby AS ah1
          WHERE h.hobby1 = ah1.available_hobby
        )
  AND EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM tblavailable_hobby AS ah2
          WHERE h.hobby2 = ah2.available_hobby
        )
  AND EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM tblavailable_hobby AS ah3
          WHERE h.hobby3 = ah3.available_hobby
        )

A: Borrowing from Joe's answer:
SELECT h.name
    FROM tblhobby h
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah1
            ON h.hobby1 = ah1.available_hobby
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah2
            ON h.hobby2 = ah2.available_hobby
        LEFT JOIN tblavailable_hobby ah3
            ON h.hobby3 = ah3.available_hobby
WHERE (h.hobby1 IS NULL OR ah1.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)
    AND (h.hobby2 IS NULL OR ah2.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)
    AND (h.hobby3 IS NULL OR ah3.available_hobby IS NOT NULL)

ypercube's answer can be similarly extended.

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Jerry Lewis conjured up one of his simplest concepts for this 1961 hit, but it required a lot of scaffolding. The Ladies Man puts love-scarred Jerry (who has sworn off women) in an all-girl boarding house, infuriated by the constant temptation. Except for the opening sequences, the film is entirely shot in the four-story-high, cut-away set of the boarding house, one of the most elaborate indoor sets ever made in Hollywood up to that time. Lewis, as director, finds dozens of angles to shoot within the set; this movie is one of the reasons the French are always talking about his directorial genius. (Jean-Luc Godard, who once called Lewis "the only one in Hollywood who's doing something different, the only one who isn't falling in with the established categories," borrowed the cut-away building idea for his film Tout va bien.)
There's some great physical stuff, such as Lewis trying desperately to save the crushed hat of visiting tough guy Buddy Lester, plus a lot of Lewis vocal whining, especially concerning his name: Herbert Heebert, not Herby Heebert. The film has its share of gags falling flat, but for Lewis fans it's prime stuff, not far from the high-water mark of The Nutty Professor. —Robert Horton
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In The Ladies Man, Herbert H. Herbert (Lewis) has been dumped by his childhood sweetheart and has sworn off women. Then he unwittingly takes a job as a houseboy at an all-female boarding house. Surrounded by women, Herbert becomes the go-to guy who means well but does very little right.
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Q: Doughts and crosses in windows form application can someone tell me why I can't run my program? I'm trying to create doughts and crosses in windows form applications I tried changing the code and stuff but I've tried everything but I think something is wrong with my function at the bottom. By now, I wanted to program to run, generate 9 buttons and when I click on them an "X" or "O" would appear depending whose turn is it.
PS. I haven't added the win condition function yet I wanted to test if the program is working as it should.
Thanks in advance.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    Button[] gameButtons = new Button[9]; //array of buttons for markers(X's and O's)
    bool cross = true; //cross is set to true if the next marker is to be a cross

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Text = "More Complex Version of Noughts and Crosses";
        this.BackColor = Color.BlanchedAlmond;
        this.Width = 400;
        this.Height = 400;

        for (int i = 0; i < gameButtons.Length; i++)
        {
            int index = i;
            this.gameButtons[i] = new Button();
            int x = 50 + (i % 3) * 50;
            int y = 50 + (i / 3) * 50;

            this.gameButtons[i].Location = new System.Drawing.Point(x, y);
            this.gameButtons[i].Name = "btn" + (index + 1);
            this.gameButtons[i].Size = new System.Drawing.Size(50, 50);
            this.gameButtons[i].TabIndex = i;
            //this.gameButtons[i].Text = Convert.ToString(index);
            this.gameButtons[i].UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
            this.gameButtons[i].Visible = true;

            gameButtons[i].Click += (sender1, ex) => this.buttonHasBeenPressed(sender,index);
            this.Controls.Add(gameButtons[i]);
        }

    }

            private void buttonHasBeenPressed(object sender,int i)
            {
                if (((Button)sender).Text == "")
                {
                    if (cross == true)
                    {
                        ((Button)sender).Text = "X";
                        gameButtons[i] = 'X';
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        ((Button)sender).Text = "O";
                        gameButtons[i] = 'O';
                    }
                    cross = !cross;
                }
            }
}

Edit: The first problem was solved, thanks a lot to everyone :) But now I'm struggling to find the win condition. I've used this code but I'm getting a compiler error that I don't seem to understand how to fix it. This is the code I've made up:
private void threeInARow(int a, int b, int c, object sender)
    {
        if (gameButtons[a]==gameButtons[b] && gameButtons[a]==gameButtons[c])
        {
            if (gameButtons[a]='X')
            {
                MessageBox.Show("the winner is crosses");
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("the winner is noughts");
            }
        }

The error is on my my first if it says "cannot implicitly convert type char to system.windows.forms.button"

A: Firstly, you have some compile errors:
// These two lines both throw the error:
// Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
gameButtons[i] = 'X';
gameButtons[i] = 'O';

This is because you're trying to set a button to a character. This is not necessary, since you've already changed the text of the button, and you can remove these lines.
Next, you get a runtime exception when clicking on a button, on this line:
// The following line fails with the error:
// Unable to cast object of type 'WinFormTest.Form1' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'.
if (((Button)sender).Text == "")

This is because the sender is the Form1 object, and not the button. The reason for this is that, in your assignment of the event to the button Click, you are passing sender instead of sender1 to the event, and, since the assignment of this event is happening in the Form.Load event, sender is the Form1. So you need to change the assignment to pass sender1 instead:
gameButtons[i].Click += (sender1, ex) => this.buttonHasBeenPressed(sender1, index);

The next problem you're having (since you've modified the code in the original question) is in the threeInARow method here:
if (gameButtons[a] = 'X') // Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'Button'

The reason for this is that gameButtons is an array of Button objects, so gameButtons[a] represents a Button, and you can't assign the character 'X' to a Button (they are two different types). Since you've already assigned a value to the Text property of each button (which is of string type), you can just use that instead.
Also, you are using a single = sign, which is an assignment. You want to do a comparison, which uses a double == sign. So, putting these together, you will get:
if (gameButtons[a].Text == "X")

You have added similar problematic code to your buttonHasBeenPressed method, which you should just remove since we can compare the Text properties and don't need this additional assignement:
gameButtons[i] = 'X'; // Remove these invalid assignments

That takes care of the compile error, but you still have another problem in your comparisons with this line:
if (gameButtons[a] == gameButtons[b] && . . .

This line is asking if the Button reference in the array at index a is pointing to the exact same object as the Button reference in the array at index b. This will never be the case because you (correctly) initialized your array with 9 unique buttons.
What you really want to do is compare the Text property of each button, like so:
if (gameButtons[a].Text == gameButtons[b].Text && . . .

Lastly, you have included an Object parameter named sender to your method that you aren't using, so you might as well remove that (or do something with it in your method).
So, putting this all together you have:
private void threeInARow(int a, int b, int c)
{
    if (gameButtons[a].Text == gameButtons[b].Text && gameButtons[a].Text == gameButtons[c].Text)
    {
        if (gameButtons[a].Text == "X")
        {
            MessageBox.Show("the winner is crosses");
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("the winner is noughts");
        }
    }
}

A: See code below :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        Button[] gameButtons = new Button[9]; //array of buttons for markers(X's and O's)
        bool cross = true; //cross is set to true if the next marker is to be a cross
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.Load += new EventHandler(Form1_Load);
        }
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Text = "More Complex Version of Noughts and Crosses";
            this.BackColor = Color.BlanchedAlmond;
            this.Width = 400;
            this.Height = 400;

            for (int i = 0; i < gameButtons.Length; i++)
            {
                int index = i;
                this.gameButtons[i] = new Button();
                int x = 50 + (i % 3) * 50;
                int y = 50 + (i / 3) * 50;

                this.gameButtons[i].Location = new System.Drawing.Point(x, y);
                this.gameButtons[i].Name = "btn" + (index + 1);
                this.gameButtons[i].Size = new System.Drawing.Size(50, 50);
                this.gameButtons[i].TabIndex = i;
                //this.gameButtons[i].Text = Convert.ToString(index);
                this.gameButtons[i].UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
                this.gameButtons[i].Visible = true;

                gameButtons[i].Click +=  new EventHandler(buttonHasBeenPressed);
                this.Controls.Add(gameButtons[i]);
            }

        }
        private void buttonHasBeenPressed(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (((Button)sender).Text == "")
            {
                if (cross == true)
                {
                    ((Button)sender).Text = "X";
                    //gameButtons[i].Text = "X";
                }
                else
                {
                    ((Button)sender).Text = "O";
                    //gameButtons[i].Text = 'O';
                }
                cross = !cross;
            }
        }
    }
}


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