We all have big days (and big nights), but none come close to the Big Day Out. With music being my other great love (sorry fashion, you're going to have to make some room) this was one line up I wasn't going to miss. Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Killers. Vampire Weekend. Band of Horses. And heaps of other Aussie and international acts, I couldn't have dreamed of anything better.
Here's what I wore. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a full length photo. So I did what any good blogger does and make it up (almost exactly item for item) on Polyvore. Dungarees are a festival must. As are a sold pair of boots. But oh my... there were so many fashion fails. But that will have to wait for another post.
Side note: I wanted to start including music into my blog. What do you guys think?


There is some additional information that companies need to create a reputation management culture. . It's not enough just to try to fix things, but we want to be proactive inside your business to make sure that every single person in your company is on the same page. And they're all motivated to do one thing, do a great job your customers, give them a first-class experience, and get a five-star review to keep that five-star reputation going. So you can see when you have a plan like this put together, you can be the leader in your market online!
-Create a professionally designed review postcard. The cards are specifically designed and printed for your business with a QR code intended for customers with Android or Apple smart phones.
-Create review business cards for staff to present to customers to actually give reviews. Having a business card tells customers where they can put reviews, how easily accessible it is to give review is vital for creating a 5 star review.
-Create e-mail template. E-mails are a very easy way to get reviews, but you have to write them in a certain way using a template that motivates people to read it and to take action to respond to it.
Now, one of the big insider strategies that we create for our customers is a private review page. See, what we want to do is we want to be able to have a one-stop shop for everyone to be able to post their reviews. So here's the question. Would you rather someone post a review on Yelp that's not so good or would you rather them put it in your own personal review area where that reviewed never see the light of day? Well, that's what we do. We create a private review page so that all of the reviews are funneled into one area. And then when we receive them, we post them online and the only ones that we post are the really good ones. And the ones that aren't so good, you get a private email making sure that you can address that before that customer actually goes and post a review online that isn't going to really reflect a five-star reputation.
Now, a posted review strategy is critical and here's why? Even if you were to collect these reviews for yourself, well, businesses can't post a review that actually comes from customers. And the reason is that all of these different review sites have created sophisticated filters that delete all reviews that are posted from the same computer IP network. So that means if you take a few reviews and have your staff post them, they instantly get filtered and even delete it. But what we've developed are proprietary systems and processes that can post reviews for a company without being filtered or defeated.
So when you have a private review page to be able to collect all your reviews and be able to filter them as well, and then a proprietary system to post our reviews that's a one-two knockout punch to be able to dominate your market online and really separate yourself from everyone else in the industry.
So once we actually build a five-star reputation, how do we actually market it?
Video Marketing-Video reviews convert 5X faster than text reviews and since Paramount Fine Foods has video's that gives a brief story on what happens at each of the 4 stores, it will generate more traffic to your website.
Website Marketing– Do you have reviews on the front page of your website right now? Well, as you can see that's the most powerful thing that you could be doing. The latest review to your website can be posted almost in real time which gives the business nearly instant authority.
Social Media Marketing-You know, I really talked about social media, social media, social media,(Facebook.com& Twitter.com) but no one really can convert social media into leads until now. Because when you're using reputation marketing in your social media it's incredibly powerful.
E-Mail Marketing-When you combine e-mail it with reputation marketing a powerful system is created. So every time you send an offer, every time you tell them discount, whenever you actually send out newsletters or any type of email marketing you do, you must couple it with your five-star reputation.
Maps Marketing– We actually look for businesses where someone types in a keyword they're looking for you. Are you the one that's up on the map, and more importantly, are you the one with the great reputation? Remember, they might find you and they might find your competition, but they're looking for a company to do business with that has the best reputation.
Sales Marketing– Companies that take advantage of this can literally double their sales closing. Just imagine the ability to sit in front of a customer that's kind of on the fence of whether they should go with you or buy your product or services. And then you say don't take my word for it. Let's actually go online and see what other customers that were just like you and what they thought about working with us. And then you read all your five-star reviews in front of them.
How Do You Manage Your Five Star Reputation?
I will not go into detail in explaining how each of the 7 steps is used to manage your 5 star reputation. During the presentation on Thursday, you really understood the overall framework of this section and no further elaboration is necessary.
Now lastly, manage your reputation by marketing only the five-star reviews. Now, this is really important because even an average review, even though it's good, isn't going to convert very well unless it has the right information, the right social and buying triggers inside of it. So we continually monitor for the right reviews to be able to post on your website and all over the web in order to market that reputation online. So it's real important that you pick the best reviews because you don't need a lot. Remember, 10, 12, 15 maximum to really be able to convert the people that show up at your website or to be able to convert others in different sales media, presentations and wherever you're doing in your marketing.
Now, one of the most important things you need to do with your reputation marketing strategy is create a reputation marketing culture inside your business. So here's the question. You expect your staff to give first-class service to every single one of your customers, right? Well, what's your plan to inspire your staff to give first-class service to those customers and get raving reviews? See, what we want to do is we want to actually build a reputation marketing culture so all of your staff are on the same page. So what's the plan? The plan is to build a personalized reputation training center. And this is what we do for our customers.
Page Marketing can provide for your business a personalized reputation training center for every single staff member that you have that they can go to and understand and learn what reputation marketing is. And more importantly, the way that they actually treat the customer today is the reason that we are going to get a new customer tomorrow. You're business is always one customer away from getting a bad reputation online. Most importantly, if a part of your business has bad reviews, changing your operations to improve customer service and satisfaction WILL eliminate/reduce them!!! And your entire staff needs to know that, everything from the customer service person to the salesperson and everybody in between. So, we'll make sure that your entire team understands by developing a personalized reputation training center for them.
They will be able to login. They will be able to actually watch training videos on what reputation is all about. And then what we're going to make sure that they're really are on your page and making sure that they're focused on giving first-class customer service, is we're going to give them a quiz. They will be up to take the quiz and we'll score them. Then we're going to send those results directly to you so you can see what part of your staff really understands reputation marketing and making sure that, again, that the way they treat the customer today and how great of an experience they have, is the reason you're going to get the next customer in the door.
And then what we're going to do is, we're going to allow them to retake that quiz. Because we don't really care how many they get wrong. We just want to make sure they're getting the right answers and they get the concepts correctly. So we're going to really partner with every single one of our customers to be able to do that. We want to really change your culture and make a difference. More importantly, we want to help companies that really provide great products and services in the market place build that five-star representation and be able to create a great reputation marketing strategy, because your reputation is everything. It's the most important ingredient for converting leads and dominating your market and really getting that phone to ring with new business.


Subaru takes a look into the future with EyeSight. Two cameras are mounted by the rearview mirror to monitor traffic and react to conditions even before you do. Basically, EyeSight sees the problem and initiates action to help avoid the trouble. EyeSight will also sound an alert and flash a visual warning if there's danger of a collision and will apply the brakes automatically if you don't. It can also optimize cruise control and warn drivers when they're swaying outside their lane. EyeSight is available on many new Subaru models from Williams Subaru.
EyeSight uses stereo cameras to produce stereo images and identify the vehicle in front, obstacles, traffic lanes and other items. It's very similar to fighter jet radar. Under the right circumstances, it will apply the brakes or decrease the throttle to help reduce the severity of, or help avoid a collision.
This function combines the benefits of Cruise Control with active monitoring of the road ahead by EyeSight, and it issues warnings and activates automatic braking when needed. Adaptive Cruise Control can regulate vehicle speed in order to keep a safe following distance from the car ahead. It does not replace Conventional Cruise Control, which can still be used when desired. Lead Vehicle Start Alert notifies the driver when the vehicle in front has started moving but the EyeSight driver's vehicle has not.
This function can recognize an impending collision with the vehicle or obstacle in front of the EyeSight vehicle, alert the driver and even automatically apply the brakes to help avoid a collision or minimize the impact when a collision is inevitable.
If EyeSight recognizes an impending collision with the vehicle or obstacle in front of the EyeSight vehicle, and the driver is applying the brakes but not with enough brake pedal force, Pre-Collision Brake Assist automatically applies up to full braking pressure in order to try to shorten braking distances.
This function is designed to help prevent drivers from accelerating into a stopped vehicle or other obstacle in front of them. It warns the drivers and reduces engine power until he or she applies the brakes to avoid an impact. Pre-Collision Throttle Management is helpful when (1) the driver inadvertently selects Drive instead of Reverse and starts to accelerate toward a parked car, wall or parking structure or (2) when starting to merge onto another road when the vehicle ahead accelerates, but then stops.
Lane Departure Warning alerts drivers when they unintentionally move out of their travel lane. It takes no corrective vehicle action other than issuing visual and audible warnings. Lane Sway Warning acts in a similar way, detecting unusual back and forth vehicle movement within the driver's lane of travel that is usually indicative of a drowsy driver.
Williams Subaru is proud to be your local Charlotte Subaru dealer serving Concord, Kannapolis, Huntersville, Mooresville, Monroe, Hickory, & Gastonia, NC plus Fort Mill & Rock Hill, SC! We look forward to serving you and meeting all of your automotive needs!


Another example of Dwarf Fortress awesomeness. As you can see armor protects against a pike like it should and would in reality. This injury would have required a crutch (which are oddly hard to find in adventure mode) if it penetrated or I didn't have armor there.
Pikes used to be made of wood, or if they weren't they were terrible to use in close combat because of the lack of momentum, due to them being a defensive weapon meant to be used at charging enemies and such. So it makes sense that they're worthless when you have an angry flail wielding dwarf in your face.
And immediately after this I was hit in the head by a whip so hard that my skull caved into my brain, killing me. Get some, lose some. Such is Dwarf Fortress.


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Enrollment reaches new records throughout CSU System
By Tony Phifer
An incoming class that includes more than 1,200 first-generation students has helped vault Colorado State University to record enrollment levels for 2019-20 as Colorado's land-grant school pushed past 34,000 in total enrollment for the first time.
The growth in total enrollment is part of an ongoing pattern, bolstered by strong growth in undergraduate enrollment on the Fort Collins campus over the past five years. Total enrollment grew during that time from 32,236 students in 2015 to 34,166 total students today. In that same period, the number of CSU undergraduate students studying on campus has grown from 24,433 in 2015 to 26,559 this fall – an increase of 2,126 students.
"We are proud that more people than ever have chosen Colorado State University to learn and prepare themselves for their careers," President Joyce McConnell said. "And we are especially proud of the 1,200 first-generation scholars who, in the spirit of CSU's land-grant mission, have chosen our campus and know that we are committed to their success as they take this important step in their lives."
The announcement came Oct. 4 at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the CSU System, where the presidents of all three CSU campuses reviewed their latest enrollment figures. The figures will be officially presented to the Board in December.
In the 2019 CSU incoming class
57% (2,957) of the students are women, boosting CSU's overall female enrollment to 52.4%.
1 in 11 students attended a Poudre School District school. Fossil Ridge High School had the most local students in the class (85), followed by Fort Collins (69). Around the state, Cherry Creek (63), Rock Canyon (61) and Mountain Vista (55) trail the two city schools.
1,501 members have a tie to CSU (family member, alumnus or current employee).
The average age of the new Ram undergrads is 18. The youngest is 16, the oldest 30.
89 students were valedictorian or salutatorian at their high school.
There are 28 sets of twins.
The states outside Colorado that send the most students to CSU are California (423), Texas (157), Illinois (140), Washington (62), Arizona (57) and Minnesota (57).
The flagship Fort Collins campus' success also carried over to the rest of the CSU System – CSU, CSU Global and CSU Pueblo – which combined for record enrollment. Together, those institutions are providing impactful and transformational education opportunities to more than 57,000 students.
"This fall sets a record in student enrollment across our entire CSU System – pointing to the importance of our long-term investments in student success and an exceptional learning environment," said CSU System Chancellor Tony Frank. "We consistently work to provide degree programs that people want – and delivery mechanisms that meet people where they live. From our stellar campus-based programs to fully online degrees and partnerships like the new Sturm Collaboration Campus with Arapahoe Community College and Douglas County, CSU is working to make outstanding education accessible across Colorado."
Around the system
CSU Pueblo, where 84% of students are from Colorado, this year brought a surge in graduate student enrollment – with graduate enrollment up 32% in a single year, thanks to a new graduate program in social work and Doctor of Nursing Practice, and offering a master's in education online. CSU Pueblo's student population this year is 35% first-generation, 55% women, and more than half the university's students are from traditionally underrepresented populations.
CSU Global, the nation's first fully accredited, fully online university, has 19,083 students this fall. Of those students, 58% are women, 28% are underserved minority students, 38% are first-generation, and 14% are in the military.
On the Fort Collins campus, more than 64% of new first-year students are Colorado residents, with one-in-three of those students self-identifying as from diverse backgrounds. Fifty-seven percent are women. Twenty-four percent of the new class are the first in their family to attend college.
In addition, 1,839 first-year students are from the seven-county Denver metro area – 56% of all Colorado students in the incoming class – and 190 of those are from Denver Public Schools high schools.
"These aren't just numbers to us," said Board of Governors Chair Nancy Tuor. "Every student who chooses CSU matters to us, and we are invested in seeing them through to graduation and on to successful lives and careers. To see that investment continue to attract some of Colorado's brightest and most promising students is testament to the value of a CSU degree."
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These arrests follow the fighting in the Congolese capital on the morning of Saturday November 11 last when 4 people were killed, including three civilians and an FARDC soldier.
The Governor of the city and province of Kinshasa launched an official press release saying that the arrests are the result of the decision to prevent any unauthorised protest or demonstration in Kinshasa.
In the press release, the Governor announced a reinforcement of police patrols in Kinshasa, and clarified that 39 women and 87 minors, including 3 babies, are among those arrested.
The press release also states that the male street children will be transferred to a pilot center for national service in Kanyama Kasese in the province of Katanga, while the women will be transferred to a center in Menkao, on the Bateke plateau in Kinshasa.
This intervention of the PNC, which continued until Monday November 13, and which is welcomed in some ways, also raises serious questions.
Not all the arrested people were implicated in the confrontations of November 11 in Kinshasa. Consequently, if no charges are made against them, they must be released.
The current performance of the PNC, due to the support of MONUC and EUPOL, has enabled them to reach an acceptable standard in relation to respect for human rights.
As they await prosecution, the people arrested in obvious law and order offences and those against which charges were already made are likely to be kept in Makala prison.
On the other hand it is difficult to understand why this same police force, on the order of the Admiral Liwanga Mata Nyamunyobo, Governor of the city-province of Kinshasa, decides to send some of those arrested to centres of paramilitary and civic formation which have not been operational for a long time.
However, even if the arrests of people implicated or non implicated in the unrest forms part of the prerogatives of the police force, no legislation makes it possible for the security services to transfer, against their will, the people who have not yet been prosecuted to centres of formation where the living conditions leave something to be desired.
While waiting to see whether the Kinshasa police authorities will go through with this plan, one must also question the conditions of detention in the Provincial Inspection of Kinshasa (IPKin), when one knows the living conditions in the Kinshasa prisons.


The strategy of the Histrionic solution can be interpreted from the discussion by John M.Oldham and Lois B. Morris of the Dramatic personality style.
I am an interesting, exciting person.
In order to be happy I need other people to pay attention to me.
Unless I entertain or impress people, I am nothing.
If I don't keep others engaged with me, they won't like me.
The way to get what I want is to dazzle or amuse people.
If people don't respond very positively to me, they are rotten.
It is awful for people to ignore me.
I should be the center of attention.
I don't have to bother to think things through�I can go by my "gut" feeling.
If I entertain people, they will not notice my weaknesses.
If I feel like doing something, I should go ahead and do it.
People will pay attention only if I act in extreme ways.
Feelings and intuition are much more important that rational thinking and planning (362).
Dramatic types are all heart. They have been granted the gift of feeling, with which they color the lives of everyone around them. When possessed of great talent, Dramatic men and women can transform human emotion into the highest art form. Even in their daily lives, their wit, their laughter, their sense of beauty, their flamboyance, and their sensuality can lift the spirits of a roomful of strangers. All the world's a stage for individuals with this very common personality style. Life is never dull or boring for them and certainly not for those who share it with them. Dramatic people fill their world with excitement; things happen in their lives.
Feelings. Dramatic men and women live in an emotional world. They are sensation oriented, emotionally demonstrative, and physically affectionate, They react emotionally to events and can shift quickly from mood to mood.
Color. They experience life vividly and expansively. They have rich imaginations, they tell entertaining stories, and they are drawn to romance and melodrama.
Attention. Dramatic people like to be seen and noticed. They are often the center of attention, and they rise to the occasion when all eyes are on them.
Appearance. They pay a lot of attention to grooming, and they enjoy clothes, style, and fashion.
Sexual attraction. In appearance and behavior, Dramatic individuals enjoy their sexuality. They are seductive, engaging, charming tempters and temptresses.
Engagement. Easily putting their trust in others, they are able to become quickly involved in relationships.
The spirit is willing. People with Dramatic personality style eagerly respond to new ideas and suggestions from others.
Charity, Affability, Empathy, Sensitivity, Considerateness, Friendliness, Compassion.


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Q: Inquietud sobre permutacion de numeros Buen dia amigos. Veran, tengo el siguiente codigo:
function permutate($elements, $perm = array(), &$permArray = array()){
    if(empty($elements)){
       array_push($permArray,$perm); return;
    }

    for($i=0;$i<=count($elements)-1;$i++){
       array_push($perm,$elements[$i]);
       $tmp = $elements; array_splice($tmp,$i,1);
       permutate($tmp,$perm,$permArray);
       array_pop($perm);
    }

    return $permArray;
}

$p = permutate(str_split($_POST[numero]));
$result = array();
$result = array_unique($result);

Ese codigo lo que hace es que me muestra todas las permutaciones posibles de un numero sin repeticiones. Por ejemplo, si deseo permutar el numero: 1234 me muestra las siguientes permutas.
1234
1243
1324
1342
1423
1432
2134
2143
2314
2341
2413
2431
3124
3142
3214
3241
3412
3421
4123
4132
4213
4231
4312
4321

Lo que yo estoy buscando es que el codigo me muestre un resultado como el siguiente
1234 - 1243 - 2143 -2134

Es decir, que haga la permutacion de numeros en grupos de 2, los dos primeros y los dos ultimos (12 y 34) y me arroje las 4 permutaciones posibles.
Agradezco mucho su ayuda de antemano

A: Podrías poner esta condición al principio de la función:
    if(count($perm) == 2)
        if(($perm[0] != str_split($_POST[numero])[0] || $perm[1] != str_split($_POST[numero])[1])
          &&
          ($perm[0] != str_split($_POST[numero])[1] || $perm[1] != str_split($_POST[numero])[0]))
            return;

Pero creo que sólo sirve cuando son cuatro números y todos distintos.

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Our education is much more powerful than we may realize. It is the ticket that allows us to open the doors of opportunities and make changes in our lives and the lives of those around us. This beautiful quote from Nelson Mandela helps us remember the power of our education.


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When you come for the first time you will be asked to complete a registration form for your child so that we know who's there, have a record of your contact details and know of any allergies and health conditions.
On Sundays we provide a substantial and healthy meal for all the children. Feel free to talk to the leaders if you have any allergy or dietary requirements, or you could let us know in advance by emailing Malc.
We provide a fun, safe and nurturing environment to learn about the Bible and play games with each other. At the end of each session parents are given a breakdown of what the children have been learning and doing throughout the session.
We have a room set aside for parents who would like to take their children out of the main auditorium during the service. The room is set up to be baby friendly and there is an audio link to the service so you won't miss anything.
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The Derry Farm of Angus McDiarmid
Posted on May 11, 2021 by lindaseccaspina
This 200-acre farm – lot 24, concession 5 was originally a Clergy Reserve. In 1854 it was purchased from the Crown by Angus McDiarmid.The price paid was 100 pounds Sterling. Angus McDiarmid came to Canada with his father, Duncan, in 1818, and settled on the west half of the farm. Being a Clergy Reserve, he could not obtain title, but remained as a squatter until the lot was thrown open for sale.
This history of the east 100 acres is rather vague. It seems certain that a man named Leslie once lived here, but at what time and for how long is not known. He, too, must have had only squatter's rights. In any case the entire lot was farmed by Mr. McDiarmid long before thedate of its purchase.
Angus McDiarmid married Annie Livingstone, a first cousin of the African missionary, her father, Donald, who is buried in Kennedy's Cemetery, being an uncle of the explorer. The McDiarmids had a family of eight children, named as follows:
Donald, who died while he was studying to enter the ministry; Dr. Peter, who practiced medicine
In Iowa; Dr. Duncan, who practiced in Western Ontario; Dr. James, who also practiced
in Western Ontario; John, who inherited the farm; Margaret, who married John
Ferguson, living on the farm directly to the north of her home; Janet, who never
married; and Mary, who married Joseph Kidd. A fourth girl, Jessie McDiarmid,
although only a first cousin of the others, was brought up as a sister.
The present home is very old, having been built by Angus McDiarmid but the date is not known. It is a log house. The logs were covered with metal siding around 1900. Today the house is covered with aluminum siding. It was screened from the sixth line by a grove of trees which was planted by Dr. Duncan McDiarmid while a young man.
He had been teaching in a grammar school in Glengarry County, and had asked for a raise of salary to 700 dollars. On being refused he resigned, and while at home he planted the trees. Some of these trees are still growing on the property today. At one point there was an earlier log home which stood at a point to the south of the present one, and across the creek, but all traces of it hav disappeared. Angus McDiarmid, on his decease was succeeded by his son John, who married Janet McRorie. John conducted a singing school in The Derry during the 1870's. He died at an early age leaving two boys, James and John.
His widow married Samuel Simpson, who lived on the farm until John the 2nd reached his majority. John the 2nd also known as Jack married Tena Drummond and had four children, Viola, Roy, Earl and Eric. John died in 1938 and Earl took over the farm. Earl married Mary Thom and they had two daughters. Marjorie married Douglas Campbell and lives on the ninth line of Beckwith. Catherine married Neil Thomas, their home is built on a corner of the McDiarmid farm. Earl died in 1975 and Mary in 2002. John Campbell, Earl's grandson and his son Joey Campbell are farming the McDiarmid land today. Earl's grandaughter Janine McLeod (Thomas) and her family live in the house built by Angus. Seven generations of the Angus McDiarmid family have lived on and worked this farm.
Beckwith Heritage Committee-Information submitted by Leona Kidd
Cemteries
Kennedy Cemtery-459 Glenashton Road Lot 24, Con 8 The cemetery was named after the Kennedy family who settled in Beckwith in 1818 from the Parish of Comrie of Perthshire Scotland. The land belonged to John Kennedy and later owned by Robert Kennedy. An annual memorial service is held in June of each year, along with the Dewar Cemetery. 4.
459 Glenashton Road Lot 24, Con 7 The Dewar Cemetery is named after the Dewar family who settled from Perthshire Scotland in 1818. The land for Dewar Cemetery was donated by Mrs. Archie Dewar on the condition that the family plot would receive perpetual care.
Old Kirk of Beckwith township. The remains of the recently demolished Old Kirk Ruins may be seen near Carleton Place on the Seventh Line road of Beckwith township, two miles south and a mile east of Blacks Corners. The stone church was built in 1832, replacing a log church building. It served the first two Canadian generations of the first large settlement of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders in the district of Upper Canada north of the Rideau River.
Perth Courier, November 7, 1873–On Monday last Angus McDiarmid of Beckwith went to Prospect village to make some purchases. On returning home, which he had left in apparent good health, he was taken suddenly ill and sat down by the side of the road where he was afterwards found dead. The cause of his sudden death was heart disease. He was a man much respected in his neighborhood.
The Lanark Era – Wed May 19th 1897Malvern, York County, Ontario, on Saturday, Dr. McDiarmid, aged 67 years. A son of the late Angus McDiarmid, and a cousin to William, Duncan, and Robert McDiarmid of Carleton Place .
The Derry" while recognized as a community for almost two hundred years has never been officially recognized as a place name on a map. Yet "The Derry" is a well known location throughout the larger community of southeastern Lanark and southwestern Carleton Counties, Ontario. The Derry compromises the former school section, SS No. 6, and generally recognized as lots 17 through 26 of concessions 5 and 6 Beckwith Township.
In "The Story of the Derry", (p. 52), George Kidd writes about origin of "The Derry" as the name of this community.
The origin of the name "Derry" is directly connected with this farm (S.W. 1/2 Lot 22, Concession 5, Beckwith; Robert Ferguson farm). The story is told by James D. Ferguson of Winnipeg: "The word 'derry' means a grove, such as is comprised principally of ash, oak or birch trees. It seems probable that my grandmother, finding all these trees growing on her son's farm gave the place this name, which eventually came to include the whole community." Mr. Ferguson states further: "There is a song which I heard sung long ago, but I remember only the chorus-
Hame, Derry, hame: and it's hame we ought to be
Hame Derry, hame: to our ain countree
Where the ash and the oak and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all growing green in our ain countree."
There is a place in Perthshire of the same name. The fact that it is always spoken of as "The Derry", and not "Derry" seems conclusive evidence that the word is the Gaelic name for a grove, containing especially those trees mentioned in the song. The baptismal records for Donald Ferguson's children all include "Donald Ferguson in Derrie and his wife Mary Ferguson his spouse had their son baptized"; providing additional insight about the origin of the name given to the community.
Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, many of the farms were owned by descendants of the pioneers who had arrived beginning in 1818. The Ferguson, Kidd, McLaren, McDiarmid, and Stewart families lived on farms carved out of the forests by their ancestors. Other families associated with the settlement of the Derry – Leach, McEwen and Davis lived nearby as did descendants of the Scott family. But a decade into the twenty-first century much has changed. Only one surname of the pioneer families, i.e., Kidd, is found on the many mailboxes which line both the sixth line, now Kidd Road and the fifth line, now Ferguson Road. A great-great-great-granddaughter of Angus McDiarmid lives in the home which he built and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Leach lives nearby in the fourth concession overlooking the farms of The Derry.
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My favourite picture from Donna.. children of dorothea mcdiarmid of anna bertha cram and wm judson mcdiarmid
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Tales of Beckwith — Edward Kidd 11 Years Old
Posted on August 16, 2018 by lindaseccaspina
The Man who Disappeared– Stories of Dr. G. E. Kidd
Clipped from
The Ottawa Citizen,
14 Nov 1927, Mon,
05 Sep 1925, Sat,
Did You Ever Notice This in Beckwith Park? Thanks to Gary Box
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Hobo's and Tragedies in Beckwith
"Teachester" Munro and the S.S. No. 9 Beckwith 11th Line East School
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Orena Villa of Beckwith — Boy do I feel Stupid– Duff Williamson and McNeely Genealogy
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Watson Kidd Genealogy Bancroft
Posted on February 23, 2018 by lindaseccaspina
From Jill Bartley
Here are the photos of my Grandfather Harold Walter Watson and Doreen Hilda Watson (nee McCormack) of Bancroft ON. My Grandfather's Mother was Christie Robinson Kidd. That is my Grandmother Doreen Watson in from of her Mother in Laws house. Her mother in law was Christie Kidd
Here is a link to Christie and John Watson's grave. CLICK HERE
From our LCGS president Jayne Monro- Ouimet
Jill, thank you so much for the Photos, And the brief family history.
I will have a look at the Kidd family information that I have. The Kidd's settled in Beckwith Township and then branched out.
The Watson – Kidd family possibly descends from Alexander Kidd a Scotsman. This may be the same Alexander Kidd who settled in Bathurst Township, Lanark Co. in 1815, but who moved after a few years to the Peterborough area. The Kidd families in Beckwith Township were emigrated from Ireland.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina's books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin' Mamas (USA)
Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what's there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.
Beckwith One Room Schools– Leona Kidd
Things You Don't Know About Carlow Lodge and the Kidds
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Carlow Lodge was built in three sections in Burritts Rapids running down the hill to the bridge over the Rideau River. The house was built in 1850 by William Kidd a very successful Irishmen.
The shutters on the front of the house have or had small shamrocks cut in them.
The front fanlight at Carlow Lodge once spelled out Carlow Lodge out of coloured glass.
William Kidd first moved to The Derry in Beckwith in 1820 and later opening a general store when he moved to Burritt Rapids in 1840. This red brick building still stands today.
(Update– You can research all you want sometimes the facts are wrong and that is why I rely on your help to document our local history. I received this note this morning. Bill M wrote:
William Kidd of Burritt's Rapids was the son of Thomas Kidd who settled in the Cuckoo's Nest, not in The Derry. English fashion model Jodie Kidd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Kidd.) is a gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of William Kidd and through the pioneer Ennis family to she is distantly related to people in Lanark County.
Thanks Bill!
William Kidd had two sons Thomas Albert and Edward.
Edward was a master cheese maker and had many cheese factories. In 1866 was noted as a pioneer cheese manufacturer and exporter.
After he fought in the Fenian Raids son Thomas Albert Kidd became the postmaster in 1866 and remained Postmaster for 50 years.
In 1916 J. Harold Kidd took over as Postmaster until his retirement in 1950.
In Harold Kidd's living room the walls were covered with photos of family members, famous visitors and important events.
Mrs. Kidd painted her drawing room door with pastel coloured flowers and her art work adorned the house.
Harold Kidd was the one that brought electricity to Marlborough County for over 200 customers, and this development on the Rideau River was eventually bought by Hydro Ontario.
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 26 Dec 1928, Wed, Page 2
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 20 Dec 1973,
Built circa 1832, Burritt Farm was erected on land granted to Daniel Burritt the Younger on May 17, 1802.
This neoclassical home, with its roots in the early architecture of Greece and Rome, stands graciously on the banks of the Rideau River. It's gardens have been a labor of love over the span of more than 50 years. Knee-high burdock and five trees (three still remaining) was the challenge that awaited the homeowners. The garden "evolved" into the beautifully serene and bucolic splendor which will greet ticket holders. Stroll through the formal cutting garden, peaceful riverbank and then follow the graceful curves of the colorful perennial borders.
"This property remains one of the most outstanding, both architecturally and historically, in Rideau Township."
More Memories of The Beckwith McTavish House
Home and Garden Before Home and Garden Magazine
The James Black Homestead
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The Legendary Kentucky Restaurant That Feels Just Like Your Best Friend's Basement
If a restaurant has been around for decades and has managed to thrive without changing much, it's earned a legendary status. Kentucky has an assortment of these beloved eateries, ranging from fine dining to classic dive bars. In terms of the best dive bars in Kentucky, Charlie Brown's in Lexington definitely tops the list. The dark, laid-back atmosphere of this restaurant and bar are what set it apart, and the food is pretty great too. Many visitors can't get enough of this legendary Kentucky restaurant that feels just like your best friend's basement – in the best way possible.
Located on the south side of Lexington, Charlie Brown's is a dive bar and restaurant that many locals know and love. It's been around for over 30 years and continues to be a popular destination for regulars and newbies alike.
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Its unassuming exterior keeps Charlie Brown's a bit of a hidden gem, and it's one of those places you need to know about to even know it's there. But once inside, you're in for several surprises.
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If you think back to high school and hanging out at your best friend's house, you may think of a basement of mismatched couches, dim lighting, and vintage signage decorating the walls. That is exactly what Charlie Brown's feels like.
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There are tables throughout the space, as well as couches that are ideal for a date night or gathering with friends. You seat yourself when you come in and a server will come around to take orders for food and drinks.
While many love the interior dining space of Charlie Brown's, the patio in the back is also quite pleasant. You can order food or drinks out here as well, and it's even pet-friendly if you'd like to bring your dog along!
Of course, as a dive bar, there are many drink options, but the food menu is also great. The Hot Pepper Cheese, shown below, is a must-try appetizer and one of the most popular items on the menu.
Charlie Brown's is also known for their burgers, and they offer several. The Black & Blue Burger, as well as the Bison Burger are both excellent choices.
It's probably been a while since you've hung out in a best friend's old-school basement, so it's time to check out Charlie Brown's and relive those memories. Grab a friend or two and have a seat on the mismatched couches in this classic - and legendary - dive bar and restaurant in Kentucky.
Charlie Brown's has earned a legendary status in Lexington, but it's also one of the best dive bars in Kentucky. Have you hung out at Charlie Brown's in Lexington? Is it on your list to try? Let us know in the comments!
For more on Charlie Brown's, follow along on Facebook here and check out its full menu here. The bar and restaurant open at 11 a.m. Monday – Saturday and Noon on Sunday. To find it, head here:
Address: 816 East Euclid Avenue, Lexington, KY, 40502
And for another legendary Lexington eatery, but with a totally different appeal, check out our previous article here.
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Soccer is a sport in which diving isn't only prevalent, it's practically become a requirement. It is an art form. So there is no shame in referees trying to make sure that a dive doesn't decide a possibly game-changing situation.
However it's rare that even a dive-loving star like Manchester City's Sergio Aguero would give up a promising fast-break scoring opportunity just to earn a free kick. Apparently the officials Sunday's Manchester City vs. Liverpool disagree with that theory.
CHEATING. That's cheating. That foul could've easily ended with Moreno receiving a yellow card. Instead, it wasn't called at all. That's some egregiously flawed refereeing by any standards.
I understand that the refs can't see everything, but in a situation like this where the players aren't obscured and there are line judges and officials all over the place, this should never go uncalled. Moreno didn't even come close to making contact with the ball, and the way Aguero falls is very obviously the result of real contact.
It's just so obvious. One of my greatest sports pet peeves is blatantly lazy officiating. It drives me nuts. So in the spirit of really driving my point home, here are 12 things that are as inarguable as that flagrant foul by Alberto Moreno.
7) That Mark Wahlberg is from Boston.
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History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. 03
...9. GEORGEWESLEYSOUTHWORTH,' son of George Myron, and grandson of Ira 7, b. in Boston, Mass., July 28, 1865. in.... (Boston, Mass., Massachusetts, United States - 1865)
275 years of McMurphy's (and their descendants) in America
...Jo Anne Ricker, daughter of Frank Myron and Georgia Myrtle (Lindsey) Ricker, who was born 1 Sep 1941 in La... (La Grande, United States - 1941)
New England families, genealogical and memorial : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of...
...(X) Robert Myron, son of Hon. Charles Sidney Cutting, was born at Palatine. Cook county, Illinois,... (Palatine, United States - 1882)
The biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of representative men of Chicago, Minnesota cities and the World's Columbian exposition : with illustrations on steel, v....
...is the third son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett, descendants of early settlers of New England. In 1854... (Hartland, Minnesota, United States - 1854)
One century in the United States : histories of Joachim Bastjan/Baustian and descendants
...Grinnell, Iowa, the son of Richard Myron and Lola Baustian Sears, he received his elementary education at Chester No. 2... (Chester, United States - 1936)
...(X) Robert Myron, son of Hon. Charles Sidney Cutting, was born at Palatine, Cook county, Illinois,... (Palatine, Cook county, Illinois, United States - 1882)
Scarsdale Inquirer, Volume XXXV, Number 40 1953/10/02
...Howell was the son of Albert Myron and Mary Frances Woodhull Howell. A graduate of the Barnard School for Boys... (New York City, New York, United States - 1899)
Obituary - Merlin Dean Matteson - ObitTree - North America Obituaries
...Quasqueton, Iowa, the son of Clifford Myron and Florence Lucille (Polk) Matteson. He graduated with the class of... (Quasqueton, United States - 1936)
The Macgill--McGill family of Maryland : a genealogical record of over 400 years beginning 1537, ending 1948
...d 6-29-1939 Rockville, son of Nathan Myron & Isabelle (Wilson) Ward, of Balto. Mr. W. S. Ward was in the... (Rockville, United States - 1939)
The hand-book of Chicago biography : a compendium of useful biographical information for reference and study
...April 28,1850,being a son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett, of old New England stock. In [S54... (Hartland, Illinois, United States - 1850)
Obituary - Delbert Pratt - ObitTree - North America Obituaries
...Market, Iowa, the son of Dwight Myron and Bernice Agatha (Cunningham) Pratt. He passed away on Monday evening, March 14,... (New, United States - 1931)
The ancestors and descendants of the Rev'd Henry Clarke and his wife, Catherine Pendleton, of Madison County, New York
... John H., son of Daniel A. and Adaline (Myron) Burgett, born April 28, 1850, in Hartland, Vt. Residence, Chicago.... (Hartland, New York, United States - 1850)
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois
...5, 1822, a daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Cole) Myron. Her father was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and her... (Belfast, Ireland - 1822)
Maine : a history (Volume 5)
...Winfield Benjamin Trickey, son of George Myron and Ann Eliza (Jewell) Trickey, was born November 19, 1881, in East Corinth,... (East Corinth, Maine, United States - 1881)
The National cyclopaedia of American biography, being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders...
...April 28, 1850, son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett. He is descended from one of the old New... (Hartland, United States - 1850)
...Mr. Burgett was married to Adeline Myron, who was born in Randolph, Mass., April 5, 1822, a daughter of Thomas... (Randolph, Mass., Massachusetts, United States - 1822)
The Sharples--Sharpless family
...HENRY MYRON LYDAY, son of Henry Myron and Mary Evdyn (Wilson) Lyday, was bora in Los Angdes, Calif, on 12... (Los, United States - 1921)
Peter and Mary HalenLubeck Greenleaf of New Jersey and sons Peter and Joseph of Illinois also kinfolk
...Gladys Faye (6), daughter of Clyde Myron (5) and Mildred Catherine (wieglenda) Meighen, was born 6 Feb. 1944, while the... (Seattle, Washington, United States - 1944)
Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs,
...(IX) George Myron, son of Marcus Bartlett and Hannah Barker (Norton) Allen, was born at North... (North, New York, United States - 1871)
Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America : and his antecedents in the old world
...m. Southwick, Dec. 31, 1850, Hiram Myron, b. W. Sp'f'd, Mass, Oct. 16, 1828, son of Jonathan and Martha (Ely)... (Ely, United States - 1828)
Obituary - Janet Coners - ObitTree - North America Obituaries
...Elaine Lyons, the daughter of Earl Myron and Marie Josephine (Konz) Lyons was born on June 21, 1934, in Stately... (Stately Township, United States - 1934)
The ancestors and descendants of William Campbell (1779-1853) and Polly Miller (1788-1847)
...at Sayre. the son of Charles Myron and Mary Camp' bell Dunham. He was employed j at the lngersoll-Rand in... (Sayre, United States - 1930)
...Lytic. They have one child. Robert Myron, ment Robert M.ron, son of Hon. Charles Sidney Cutting, was born .it Palatine,... (Cook county, Illinois, United States - 1854)
Genealogy of the Vermont Gages
...207 Willis Myron son of Richard Butler married 10-19ml G95 at Ashland, Heb. to Ella Vandeman.... (Ashland, United States - 1901)
Gage family
... Willis Myron son of Richard Butler married 10-19-1895 at Ashland, Nob. to Ella Vandeman. He... (Ashland, United States - 1895)
A standard history of Stark County, Ohio: an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial,...
...he is a son of William Myron " and Mary Alice (Wert) Justus. The grandfather was James Justus and many... (Massillon, Ohio, United States - 1879)
A Biographical history, with portraits, of prominent men of the great West : illustrations in steel
...is the third son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett. descendants of early settlers in New England. In... (New, Illinois, United States - 1850)
...Grinnell, Iowa, the daughter of Richard Myron and Lola Baustian Sears. She received her elementary education at Chester No. 2... (Chester, United States - 1937)
History of Howard County in the World War
...I erriday, John Thomas Myron (30), son of John and Jenni. I-Vrriday. was born iu Anderson, Ind., Oct.... (Leesburg, Indiana, United States - 1899)
History of Knox County, Illinois, its cities, towns, and people, v. 02
...Gabrielson was married to Miss Christina Myron, a daughter of Ole O. and Karina Myron. Her father was born August... (Stoughton, Illinois, United States - 1886)
The families of Ephraim and Maria Conger Davis and Robert and Sarah Jane McCray Whiting
...Craig James Othrow, son of James Myron and Margaret Ellen Sharf Othrow. He was bom in Columbus, Ohio.... (Columbus, United States - 1959)
The Irvington Gazette 1914/12/31
...a separation in Syracuse. Mrs. Florence M. Myron, adopted daughter of Thomas Ryan, ex-Mayor of Syracuse, has filed papers in... (Syracuse, New York, United States - 1903)
The Biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of representative men of Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition
...is the third son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett, descendants of early settlers of New England. In 1554... (Hartland, Illinois, United States - 1554)
A history of Ontario county, New York, and its people
...Otis A., mentioned below , James Myron and Milo C. (V) Otis A., son of John Webster, was born at... (Franklin, Delaware county, Delaware, United States - 1866)
The National cyclopaedia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and...
...April 28, 1850, son of Daniel A. and Adeline (Myron) Burgett. - He is descended from one of the old... (Lewistown, United States - 1850)
...DONALD CHESTER LYDAY, son of Henry Myron and Mary Evdyn (WUson) Lyday, was bom in Los Angeles, Calif, cm 9... (Los, United States - 1931)
Nathan Wood and his descendants, 1776-1976 : a bicentennial memorial
...Charles Franklin Coffee, son of George Myron and Edna Addie (Hively) Coffee. He was born 7 Dec. 1940 in Muskogee,... (Muskogee, United States - 1940)
Obituary - Beulah Heller - ObitTree - North America Obituaries
...Independence, Kansas, the daughter of George Myron and Nona Iola (Freiermuth) Burtnett. She grew up in Iola and graduated from... (Iola, United States - 1915)
Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his antecedents in the Old world,
...m. Southwick, Dec. 31. 1850, Hiram Myron, b. W. Sp'f'd, Mass., Oct. 16, 1828, son of Jonathan and Martha (Ely)... (Ely, United States - 1828)
...Dec. 3T. 1850, Hiram Myron, b. W Sp'f'd, Mass., Oct. 16, 1828, son of Jonathan and Martha (Ely)... (Ely, United States - 1828)
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois : history of Fulton County, v. 03
...Burgett was married _ to Adeline Myron, who was born in Randolph, Mass., April 5, 1822, a. daughter of Thomas... (Randolph, Mass., Massachusetts, United States - 1822)
A history of Ontario County, New York, and its people, v. 02
...Sarah Otis A.. mentioned below, James Myron and Milo C. (V) Otis A.. son of Jolm .Vebster, was born at... (Spencerport, Monroe county, New York, United States - 1852)
Sycamore Tribune 1952/06/06
...1873 , the daughter of James Myron and Ann Ewing Dayton , early pioneers of this community . She attended... (Sycamore, Illinois, United States - 1873)
The Post-Register ( Idaho Falls, Idaho) Obituaries, January through December 1965.
...1909, at Annis, son of Edwin Myron and Sylvia Ellis Carr. He mar¬ ried Lucie Marie Evans March... (Annis, Idaho, United States - 1909)
Obituary - James Harry Trotter - ObitTree - North America Obituaries
...in Jacksonville, the son of James Myron and Lorine Finn Trotter. He married Colleen Evans on May 21, 1988 in... (Jacksonville, United States - 1988)
Owego. Some account of the early settlement of the village in Tioga County, N.Y., called Ah-wa-ga by the Indians, which name was corrupted by...
...played the leading parts and Daniel Myron acted Irish characters in the farces. Lizzie Ross, a daughter of Tony Ross,... (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - 1865)
Minnesota and its people, vol. 3
...2, 1875, the son of Helge and Bertha (Bottolson) Myron, his father being a native of Norway and his mother... (Vermilion, Minnesota, United States - 1875)
...RICHARD WILSON LYDAY, son of Henry Myron and Mary Evelyn (Wilson) Lyday, was bom in Los Angeles, Calif, on 7... (Los, United States - 1993)
Oklahoma, a history of the state and its people, vol. 3
...December 31, 1883, son of Thomas J. and Grace (Myron) Pitchlym, the last-mentioned of whom was born in Washington, of... (Washington, Maryland, United States - 1883)
Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley : comprising the counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania. Containing sketches of prominent and representative...
...to Mary A,, daughter of John W. Myron, a merchant and stock dea-ler of Ennisville, Huntingdon county, Pa.... (Jack-son township, Pennsylvania, United States - 1854)
Think about searching the collection 'Coats of arms'
Think about searching the collection 'Other documents'
Last Name : MYRON
Magazines 202
Other documents 6
Coats of arms 4


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South Dakota landowners question safety, easements of CO2 pipelines
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By Beth Warden
Published: Dec. 29, 2021 at 10:14 PM CST
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -Reducing carbon dioxide emissions can be seen as a noble effort. The concept of converting CO2 to liquid and sending it to underground storage is a solution for some, and a concern for others.
The company Navigator CO2 says their Heartland Greenway Systems pipeline could reduce CO2 emissions from ethanol and fertilization plants by 50 percent. The CO2 is still created but how it's processed would be completely different.
Instead of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere, it
would be captured, compressed, dehydrated, liquified, and transported in an underground pipeline. The diameter of the pipe ranges from 6 to 24 inches.
Elizabeth Burns-Thomspon with navigator CO2says it would all be underground.
"We do intend to be at least five feet deep and in many places deeper than that? Our general rule is we want to be below any and all other infrastructure that's in place," said Burns-Thomspon.
The final destination, Illinois; deep underground.
"About a mile to a mile and a half underground, where you reach this porous space, the CO2 is injected and then permanently stored," said Burns-Thomspon.
The best-case scenario, lower carbon emissions, and the hope of a cleaner environment. The worst-case scenario: a breech, pressurized CO2 escaping, robbing oxygen of every living thing in its wake.
In February 2020, a CO2 pipe burst in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Emergency crews struggled to operate their oxygen-deprived vehicle to search for victims. One of the first responders describes finding three individuals exposed to what appeared to be a green fog that had escaped the pressurized pipe.
"All of them were unresponsive, a white foam coming from their nose and their mouth," said the emergency responder.
After administering oxygen and medical care, all recovered. Approximately 300 people were evacuated.
We asked, what is different with the proposed pipeline and were told the Heartland Greenway pipeline will be deeper, the metal more flexible to adjust to pressure, and a safer content of what's inside the pipe.
"Looking to have at least 98% pure CO2; and purity is incredibly important to not only a safe operation of the system, but also in the event that there would be any type of unfortunate release," said Burns-Thomspon.
In Spink County, landowner Ed Fischbach is dealing with surveyors who want to enter his property for the summit carbon solution pipeline. He's told them to leave. This is not the Heartland Greenway pipeline, but Summit Carbon Solutions. In July Fischbach says he and his neighbors received a letter. Three days letter the surveyors arrived.
"I am not going to take the risk to sacrifice my livestock or my family. This is just too unknown this whole thing to risk having that come through," said Fischbach.
He is concerned about eminent domain revolving around a for-profit corporation and points to the power poles, natural gas lines, and water pipes on his property he allowed because he believed it to be for the greater good of the community, and the organizations were non-profit.
The project still has to go through all permitting processes with state, county, city, and public utility commissions.
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As communities in Brookings, Moody, and Minnehaha counties review the possible Heartland Greenway Pipeline, they are invited to community meetings. On-location events are scheduled in Garretson and Flandreau on January 18th. An online event is on January 25th. The pipeline company still needs to go through the permitting process with city, county, state, PUC, and other regulatory entities.
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Vana-Lahetaguse ist ein Dorf (estnisch küla) auf der größten estnischen Insel Saaremaa. Es gehört zur Landgemeinde Saaremaa (bis 2017: Landgemeinde Lääne-Saare) im Kreis Saare.

Das Dorf hat keinen Einwohner mehr (Stand 1. Januar 2016). Seine Fläche beträgt 2,87 km². Es befindet sich unweit der Westküste der Insel Saaremaa.

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Profile of environmental conditions in the state of Maranhão
Maranhão. Secretária de Recursos Naturais, Tecnologia e Meio Ambiente
Meeting: World Commission on Environment and Development, Public Hearing, 28-29, 31 Oct. 1985, BR
Parallel text in English and Portuguese
Related to DAP 87-4249 under which IDRC supported the WCED to acquire and duplicate original papers, submissions, tapes and transcripts, became the depository of all original archival materials and received the right to microfiche the collection for broader dissemination
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Brundtland Commission / Commission Brundtland (WCED)
Information Sciences and Systems Division / Division des sciences et systèmes d'information
Selected speeches on the Commission and its report by Dr. Mansour Khalid, Vice Chairman of the World Commission on Environment and Development
Khalid, Mansour (WCED, Geneva?, CH, 1988)
Crimes contre l'environnement
Canada. Law Reform Commission; Canada. Commission de reforme du droit; Swaigen, John; Bunt, Gail; Schrecker, T.F.; Hatherly, M.E.; Mitchell, H. (WCED, Geneva?, CH, 1985)
Verbatim transcripts of the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development held in Halifax on May 31, 1986
World Commission on Environment and Development (World Commission on Environment and Development, Geneva, CH, 1986)


This lecture was delivered by Col. Robert Ingersoll in San Francisco Cal., June 27, 1877. It was a reply to various clergymen of that city, who had made violent attacks upon him after the delivery of his lectures, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child," and "The Ghosts." Thanks once again to Julian Haydon for sending me this.
AGAINST the aspersions of the pulpit and the religious press, I offer in evidence this magnificent audience. Although I represent but a small part of the holy cause of intellectual liberty, even that part shall not be defiled or smirched by a single personality. Whatever I say, I shall say because I believe it will tend to make this world grander, man nearer just, the father kinder, the mother more loving, the children more affectionate, and because I believe it will make an additional flower bloom in the pathway of every one who hears me.
In the first place, what have I said? What has been my offence? What have I done? I am spoken of by the clergy as though I were a wolf that in the absence of the good shepherd had fattened upon his innocent flock. What have I said?
I delivered a lecture entitled, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child." In that lecture I said that man was entitled to physical and intellectual liberty. I defined physical liberty to be the right to do right; the right to do anything that did not interfere with the real happiness of others. I defined intellectual liberty to be the right to think right, and the right to think wrong—provided you did your best to think right.
The right to do right is my definition of physical liberty. "The right of one human being ceases where the right of another commences." My definition of intellectual liberty is, the right to think, whether you think right or wrong, provided you do your best to think right.
I believe in Liberty, Fraternity and Equality—the Blessed Trinity of Humanity.
I believe in Observation, Reason and Experience—the Blessed Trinity of Science.
I believe in Man, Woman and Child—the Blessed Trinity of Life and Joy.
I have said, and still say, that you have no right to endeavor by force to compel another to think your way—that man has no right to compel his fellow-man to adopt his creed, by torture or social ostracism. I have said, and still say, that even an infinite God has and can have no right to compel by force or threats even the meanest of mankind to accept a dogma abhorrent to his mind. As a matter of fact such a power is incapable of being exercised. You may compel a man to say that he has changed his mind. You may force him to say that he agrees with you. In this way, however, you make hypocrites, not converts. Is it possible that a god wishes the worship of a slave? Does a god desire the homage of a coward? Does he really long for the adoration of a hypocrite? Is it possible that he requires the worship of one who dare not think?
If I were a god it seems to me that I had rather have the esteem and love of one grand, brave man, with plenty of heart and plenty of brain, than the blind worship, the ignorant adoration, the trembling homage of a universe of men afraid to reason. And yet I am warned by the orthodox guardians of this great city not to think. I am told that I am in danger of hell; that for me to express my honest convictions is to excite the wrath of God. They inform me that unless I believe in a certain way, meaning their way, I am in danger of everlasting fire.
There was a time when these threats whitened the faces of men with fear. That time has substantially passed away. For a hundred years hell has been gradually growing cool, the flames have been slowly dying out, the brimstone is nearly exhausted, the fires have been burning lower and lower, and the climate gradually changing. To such an extent has the change already been effected that if I were going there to-night I would take an overcoat and a box of matches.
The next thing I have said is, that woman is the equal of man; that she has every right that man has, and one more—the right to be protected, because she is the weaker. I have said that marriage should be an absolutely perfect partnership of body and soul; that a man should treat his wife like a splendid flower, and that she should fill his life with perfume and with joy. I have said that a husband had no right to be morose; that he had no right to assassinate the sunshine and murder the joy of life.
I have said that when he went home he should go like a ray of light, and fill his house so full of joy that it would burst out of the doors and windows and illumine even the darkness of night. I said that marriage was the holiest, highest, the most sacred institution among men; that it took millions of years for woman to advance from the condition of absolute servitude, from the absolute slavery where the Bible found her and left her, up to the position she occupies at present.
I have pleaded for the rights of woman, for the rights of wives, and what is more, for the rights of little children. I have said that they could be governed by affection, by love, and that my heart went out to all the children of poverty and of crime; to the children that live in the narrow streets and in the sub-cellars; to the children that run and hide when they hear the footsteps of a brutal father, the children that grow pale when they hear their names pronounced even by a mother; to all the little children, the flotsam and jetsam upon the wide, rude sea of life. I have said that my heart goes out to them one and all; I have asked fathers and mothers to cease beating their own flesh and blood. I have said to them, When your child does wrong, put your arms around him; let him feel your heart beat against his. It is easier to control your child with a kiss than with a club.
For expressing these sentiments, I have been denounced by the religious press and by ministers in their pulpits as a demon, as an enemy of order, as a fiend, as an infamous man. Of this, however, I make no complaint. A few years ago they would have burned me at the stake and I should have been compelled to look upon their hypocritical faces through flame and smoke. They cannot do it now or they would.
One hundred years ago I would have been burned, simply for pleading for the rights of men. Fifty years ago I would have been imprisoned. Fifty years ago my wife and my children would have been torn from my arms in the name of the most merciful God. Twenty-five years ago I could not have made a living in the United States at the practice of law; but I can now. I would not then have been allowed to express my thought; but I can now, and I will. And when I think about the liberty I now enjoy, the whole horizon is illuminated with glory and the air is filled with wings.
I then delivered another lecture entitled "Ghosts," in which I sought to show that man had been controlled by phantoms of his own imagination; in which I sought to show these imps of darkness, these devils, had all been produced by superstition; in which I endeavored to prove that man had groveled in the dust before monsters of his own creation; in which I endeavored to demonstrate that the many had delved in the soil that the few might live in idleness, that the many had lived in caves and dens that the few might dwell in palaces of gold; in which I endeavored to show that man had received nothing from these ghosts except hatred, except ignorance, except unhappiness, and that in the name of phantoms man had covered the face of the world with tears.
And for this, I have been assailed, in the name, I presume, of universal forgiveness. So far as any argument I have produced is concerned, it cannot in any way make the slightest difference whether I am a good or a bad man. It cannot in any way make the slightest difference whether my personal character is good or bad. That is not the question, though, so far as I am concerned, I am willing to stake the whole question upon that issue. That is not, however, the thing to be discussed, nor the thing to be decided. The question is, whether what I said is true.
I did say that from ghosts we had obtained certain things—among other things a book known as the Bible. From the ghosts we received that book; and the believers in ghosts pretend that upon that book rests the doctrine of the immortality of the human soul. This I deny.
Whether or not the soul is immortal is a fact in nature and cannot be changed by any book whatever. If I am immortal, I am. If am not, no book can render me so. It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.
The doctrine of immortality is not based upon any book. The foundation of that idea is not a creed. The idea of immortality, which, like a sea, has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, beating with its countless waves of hope and fear against the shores and rocks of fate and time, was not born of any book, was not born of a creed. It is not the child of any religion. It was born of human affection; and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the eternal bow—Hope shining upon the tears of Grief.
I did say that these ghosts taught that human slavery was right. If there is a crime beneath the shining stars it is the crime of enslaving a human being. Slavery enslaves not only the slave, but the master as well. When you put a chain upon the limbs of another, you put a fetter also upon your own brain. I had rather be a slave than a slaveholder. The slave can at least be just—the slaveholder cannot. I had rather be robbed than be a robber. I had rather be stolen from than to be a thief. I have said, and I do say, that the Bible upheld, sustained and sanctioned the institution of human slavery; and before I get through I will prove it.
I said that to the same book we are indebted, to a great degree, for the doctrine of witchcraft. Relying upon its supposed sacred texts, people were hanged and their bodies burned for getting up storms at sea with the intent of drowning royal vermin. Every possible offence was punished under the name of witchcraft, from souring beer to high treason.
I also said, and I still say, that the book we obtained from the ghosts, for the guidance of man, upheld the infamy of infamies, called polygamy; and I will also prove that. And the same book teaches, not political liberty, but political tyranny.
I also said that the author of the book given us by the ghosts knew nothing about astronomy, still less about geology, still less, if possible, about medicine, and still less about legislation.
This is what I have said concerning the aristocracy of the air. I am well aware that having said it I ought to be able to prove the truth of my words. I have said these things. No one ever said them in better nature than I have. I have not the slightest malice—a victor never felt malice. As soon as I had said these things, various gentlemen felt called upon to answer me. I want to say that if there is anything I like in the world it is fairness. And one reason I like it so well is that I have had so little of it. I can say, if I wish, extremely mean and hateful things. I have read a great many religious papers and discussions and think that I now know all the infamous words in our language. I know how to account for every noble action by a mean and wretched motive, and that, in my judgment, embraces nearly the entire science of modern theology. The moment I delivered a lecture upon "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child," I was charged with having said that there is nothing back of nature, and that nature with its infinite arms embraces everything; and thereupon I was informed that I believed in nothing but matter and force, that I believed only in earth, that I did not believe in spirit. If by spirit you mean that which thinks, then I am a believer in spirit. If you mean by spirit the something that says "I," the something that reasons, hopes, loves and aspires, then I am a believer in spirit.
Whatever spirit there is in the universe must be a natural thing, and not superimposed upon nature. All that I can say is, that whatever is, is natural. And there is as much goodness, in my judgment, as much spirit in this world as in any other; and you are just as near the heart of the universe here as you can be anywhere. One of your clergymen says in answer, as he supposes, to me, that there is matter and force and spirit. Well, can matter exist without force? What would keep it together? What would keep the finest possible conceivable atom together unless there was force? Can you imagine such a thing as matter without force? Can you conceive of force without matter? Can you conceive of force floating about attached to nothing? Can you possibly conceive of this? No human being can conceive of force without matter. "You cannot conceive of force being harnessed or hitched to matter as you would hitch horses to a carriage." You cannot. Now, what is spirit? They say spirit is the first thing that was. It seems to me, however, as though spirit was the blossom, the fruit of all, not the commencement.
They say it was first. Very well. Spirit without force, a spirit without any matter—what would that spirit do? No force, no matter!—a spirit living in an infinite vacuum. What would such a spirit turn its particular attention to? This spirit, according to these theologians, created the world, the universe; and if it did, there must have been a time when it commenced to create; and back of that there must have been an eternity spent in absolute idleness. Now, is it possible that a spirit existed during an eternity without any force and without any matter? Is it possible that force could exist without matter or spirit? Is it possible that matter could exist alone, if by matter you mean something without force? The only answer I can give to all these questions is, I do not know.
For my part, I do not know what spirit is, if there is any. I do not know what matter is, neither am I acquainted with the elements of force. If you mean by matter that which I can touch, that which occupies space, then I believe in matter. If you mean by force anything that can overcome weight, that can overcome what we call gravity or inertia; if you mean by force that which moves the molecules of matter, or the movement itself, then I believe in force. If you mean by spirit that which thinks and loves, then I believe in spirit. There is, however, no propriety in wasting any time about the science of metaphysics. I will give you my definition of metaphysics: Two fools get together; each admits what neither can prove, and thereupon both of them say, "hence we infer." That is all there is of metaphysics.
These gentlemen, however, say to me that all my doctrine about the treatment of wives and children, all my ideas of the rights of man, all these are wrong, because I am not exactly correct as to my notion of spirit. They say that spirit existed first, at least an eternity before there was any force or any matter. Exactly how spirit could act without force we do not understand. That we must take upon credit. How spirit could create matter without force is a serious question, and we are too reverent to press such an inquiry. We are bound to be satisfied, however, that spirit is entirely independent of force and matter, and any man who denies this must be "a malevolent and infamous wretch."
Another reverend gentleman proceeds to denounce all I have said as the doctrine of negation. And we are informed by him—speaking I presume from experience—that negation is a poor thing to die by. He tells us that the last hours are the grand testing hours. They are the hours when atheists disown their principles and infidels bewail their folly—"that Voltaire and Thomas Paine wrote sharply against Christianity, but their death-bed scenes are too harrowing for recital"—He also states that "another French infidel philosopher tried in vain to fortify Voltaire, but that a stronger man than Voltaire had taken possession of him, and he cried 'Retire! it is you that have brought me to my present state—Begone! what a rich glory you have brought me.'"
This, my friends, is the same old, old falsehood that has been repeated again and again by the lips of hatred and hypocrisy. There is not in one of these stories a solitary word of truth; and every intelligent man knows all these death-bed accounts to be entirely and utterly false. They are taken, however, by the mass of the church as evidence that all opposition to Christianity, so-called, fills the bed of the dying infidel and scoffer with serpents and scorpions. So far as my experience goes, the bad die in many instances as placidly as the good. I have sometimes thought that a hardened wretch, upon whose memory is engraved the record of nearly every possible crime, dies without a shudder, without a tremor, while some grand, good man, remembering during his last moments an unkind word spoken to a stranger, it may be in the heat of anger, dies with remorseful words upon his lips.
Nearly every murderer who is hanged, dies with an immensity of nerve, but I never thought it proved that he had lived a good and useful life. Neither have I imagined that it sanctified the crime for which he suffered death. The fact is, that when man approaches natural death, his powers, his intellectual faculties fail and grow dim. He becomes a child. He has less and less sense. And just in proportion as he loses his reasoning powers, he goes back to the superstitions of his childhood. The scenes of youth cluster about him and he is again in the lap of his mother.
"A' made a finer end, and went away, an it had been my christom child; a' parted ev'n just between twelve and one, ev'n at the turning o' the tide; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' end, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields."
As the genius of Shakespeare makes Falstaff a child again upon sunny slopes, decked with daisies, so death takes the dying back to the scenes of their childhood, and they are clasped once more to the breasts of mothers. They go back, for the reason that nearly every superstition in the world has been sanctified by some sweet and placid mother.
Remember, the superstition has never sanctified the mother, but the mother has sanctified the superstition. The young Mohammedan, who now lies dying upon some field of battle, thinks sweet and tender thoughts of home and mother, and will, as the blood oozes from his veins, repeat some holy verse from the blessed Koran.
Every superstition in the world that is now held sacred has been made so by mothers, by fathers, by the recollections of home. I know what it has cost the noble, the brave, the tender, to throw away every superstition, although sanctified by the memory of those they loved. Whoever has thrown away these superstitions has been pursued by his fellow-men, From the day of the death of Voltaire the church has pursued him as though he had been the vilest criminal.
A little over one hundred years ago, Catholicism, the inventor of instruments of torture, red with the innocent blood of millions, felt in its heartless breast the dagger of Voltaire. From that blow the Catholic Church never can recover. Livid with hatred she launched at her assassin the curse of Rome, and ignorant Protestants have echoed that curse. For myself, I like Voltaire, and whenever I think of that name, it is to me as a plume floating above some grand knight—a knight who rides to a walled city and demands an unconditional surrender. I like him.
He was once imprisoned in the Bastile, and while in that frightful fortress—and I like to tell it—he changed his name. His name was Francois Marie Arouet. In his gloomy cell he changed this name to Voltaire, and when some sixty years afterward the Bastile was torn down to the very dust, "Voltaire" was the battle cry of the destroyers who did it. I like him because he did more for religious toleration than any other man who ever lived or died. I admire him because he did more to do away with torture in civil proceedings than any other man. I like him because he was always upon the side of justice, upon the side of progress.
I like him in spite of his faults, because he had many and splendid virtues. I like him because his doctrines have never brought unhappiness to any country. I like him because he hated tyranny; and when he died he died as serenely as ever mortal died; he spoke to his servant recognizing him as a man. He said to him, calling him by name: "My friend, farewell." These were the last words of Voltaire. And this was the only frightful scene enacted at his bed of death. I like Voltaire, because for half a century he was the intellectual emperor of Europe. I like him, because from his throne at the foot of the Alps he pointed the finger of scorn at every hypocrite in Christendom.
I will give to any clergyman in the city of San Francisco a thousand dollars in gold to substantiate the story that the death of Voltaire was not as peaceful as the coming of the dawn. The same absurd story is told of Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was a patriot—he was the first man in the world to write these words: "The Free and Independent States of America." He was the first man to convince the American people that they ought to separate themselves from Great Britain. "His pen did as much, to say the least, for the liberty of America, as the sword of Washington." The men who have enjoyed the benefit of his heroic services repay them with slander and calumny. If there is in this world a crime, ingratitude is a crime. And as for myself, I am not willing to receive anything from any man without making at least an acknowledgment of my obligation. Y et these clergymen, whose very right to stand in their pulpits and preach, was secured to them by such men as Thomas Paine, delight in slandering the reputation of that great man. They tell their hearers that he died in fear,—that he died in agony, hearing devils rattle chains, and that the infinite God condescended to frighten a dying man. I will give one thousand dollars in gold to any clergyman in San Francisco who will substantiate the truth of the absurd stories concerning the death of Thomas Paine. There is not one word of truth in these accounts; not one word.
Let me ask one thing, and let me ask it, if you please, in what is called a reverent spirit. Suppose that Voltaire and Thomas Paine, and Volney and Hume and Hobbes had cried out when dying "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" what would the clergymen of this city then have said? To resort to these foolish calumnies about the great men who have opposed the superstitions of the world, is in my judgment, unbecoming any intelligent man.
The real question is not, who is afraid to die? The question is, who is right? The great question is not, who died right, but who lived right?
There is infinitely more responsibility in living than in dying. The moment of death is the most unimportant moment of life. Nothing can be done then. You cannot even do a favor for a friend, except to remember him in your will. It is a moment when life ceases to be of value. While living, while you have health and strength, you can augment the happiness of your fellow-men; and the man who has made others happy need not be afraid to die. Yet these believers, as they call themselves, these believers who hope for immortality—thousands of them, will rob their neighbors, thousands of them will do numberless acts of injustice, when, according to their belief, the witnesses of their infamy will live forever; and the men whom they have injured and outraged, will meet them in every glittering star through all the ages yet to be.
As for me, I would rather do a generous action, and read the record in the grateful faces of my fellow-men.


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