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Offline wolfhawaii

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Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« on: September 08, 2009, 07:32:25 pm »
Quote (by Ashby)
Posted - 11/02/2008
..........Faux Indians specialize in cruelty as a means of control. Faux Indians served me the single most painful experience of my adult life. What happened to me will NEVER happen to another if I have anything to say about it ....and I do.(end Ashby quote)
(quote by Moma Porcupine)
I wonder who these people were? I haven't seen where she has specifically named them or said what they did to her. Is this someone who is listed here? Is this someone NAFPS could list a warning about? (end quote by Moma Porcupine)

I have been doing some reading and trying to understand these seems according to Ashby's website Faux Indians that the cause of her "crusade" is her former association with  the Diamond Brown Sr. family of Snowbird community. Has anyone (especially from ECBI) researched these allegations thoroughly? I am concerned by these allegations but find Ashby to be a questionable resource based on her history of interactions with others on the Internet. I could use some help trying to sort this out.

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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2009, 08:55:30 pm »
In case it helps: <>

(Googling "Diamond Brown" AND ANY OF "cherokee", "snowbird", "betsy-ashby",
BUT EXCLUDING FALSE HITS WITH THE WORDS "tote", "carat", "sapphire", "brick",
"kamik", "doberman", "rolex", "geneve", "monaco", "bahama", "keyword", "desiree".
You can add or subtract search terms at the page this link brings up.)

For what it's worth, the only allegations of wrongdoing I found in that are Ashby's own.

Offline wolfhawaii

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2009, 09:53:07 pm »

This is Ashby's site referencing what got her started routing out Faux Indians. If there is substance to her allegations this is a serious issue; if there is NO substance to them it is also very serious from another perspective.

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2009, 11:16:00 pm »
 From what I read in the link you provided, it seems the issue there is exploiters, which of course is the same thing that is hunted down and exposed on this site. However as has been pointed out by many including Educated Indian, and Moma Porcupine on this site; Ashby has gone above and beyond hunting down exploiters and has wrongly turned her attention to unenrolled mixedbloods. I have seen Ashby engage in that behavior myself, and have challenged her on it many times.  She is wrong for doing that, and has no business in the area of Indian identity when she is in fact not one herself.

 Also as has been pointed out on this site, if those who are enrolled or undeniably Indian point out to Ashby that she is in the wrong for her behavior, she then attacks them as well. Often times when this happens she accuses them of backing exploiters or other things. I have seen that myself as well.

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2009, 12:34:25 am »
According to info posted on her site, Ashby was adopted into a clan based on her alleged contact with the Brown Sr. family.....something must have gone downhill since then. She chooses to focus mainly on Gayle Brown (GC) and doesn't have much to say regarding Diamond Brown Sr., which i find curious.

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 02:41:54 am »
Ashby, in her attacks upon me, as an unenrolled mixed blood, posted my husband's name, address, and phone number.
Ray had been quite ill for years, both physically and emotionally.
She then posted him as a domestic abuser and a predator.
He had pushed me, and I used that as an excuse to get him into counseling, and the help he so badly needed.
Court records are public records.
Ray was a very private, proud and generous person.
I made the mistake of telling him what was happening.
He was more fragile than I thought.
He committed suicide not long after that.
This past July 8th, I walked in and found him.
I think the harassment and the lies, the opening up of his most private life, all just too much for him.

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2009, 05:31:15 am »
Sorry to hear about your husband, you have my sincere condolences. I have not been able to read far enough back on alt.native to see why Ashby was attacking you, but she seems to enjoy being cruel. The people she is attacking at Snowbird have a reputation as helpers and i hope someone here with some time and good research skills can determine if the affadavits listed on Ashby's site have merit or not.

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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2009, 06:26:59 am »
Public documentation: <>

Note that despite being provided that link, Ashby insists Ray isn't really dead, and continues to attack "him" as well as Ms. RunningWolf.

Ironically, in another issue on her website, Ashby proudly asserted that "Being Virginians, we did not wish to mess with folks while they were grieving. You just don't do that in the South regardless of how much someone has offended you...".

She sure abandoned that principle when "messing with" Ms. RunningWolf while she was grieving.

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2009, 02:37:14 pm »
Sorry to hear about your husband, you have my sincere condolences. I have not been able to read far enough back on alt.native to see why Ashby was attacking you, but she seems to enjoy being cruel. The people she is attacking at Snowbird have a reputation as helpers and i hope someone here with some time and good research skills can determine if the affadavits listed on Ashby's site have merit or not.
Well, at first it was supposedly in "defense" of Bernard Red Cherries and Sal Serbin.  I had voiced an opinion on another blog about Sal Serbin.  Then she found a dreamcatcher that I supposedly made,
It is not mine,  I never use yarn, nor did I make those small ones.  The "legend" shown may have my name on it, the seller may have gotten another d.c. from my brother in law as she was married to him, but that tacky thing is not my work.  So she then attacked me on "selling" ceremony to poor misguided pagans.  The seller also stated I was Navajo.  I am not.
Then it was my birth date.  I had a passport with my dad showing my dob as 1935, I also had a driver's license that my mother attested to my date of birth showing 1937.  My actual dob is 1940.
I went to a boarding school which took in Native children, mostly mixed bloods, and "wayward" teens.  It was funded partially from government funding, but mostly from donations.  I am sure most have seen the type of ads that go out asking for donations to church funded schools.
I choose not to name that  school, as that function has been long closed, and the organization now caters to upper middle class and  wealthy students.  I understand they are doing a good job, and why upset that?  It will not change  my life, nor will it bring back the dead.
I have refused to say what Nations my dad was affiliated with.  I have said  that in the past, and will not give her that information.  As I am not enrolled in either Nation, what would be the point of her calling the enrollment department?
These are her supposed points of contention.
Oh, then there is the issue with my husband.  I am not even going to go there.  Nor will I bring up the supposed "sock puppets".

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2009, 04:08:21 pm »

I am really sorry to hear of how seriously your husband may have been impacted by Betsy's seemingly pointless harrassment.
There already many examples of this in the thread on Enemies of NAFPS.

It's hard to know all the particualrs of a dispute that happened somewhere else, and I have only managed to read through part of this, but from what I read, Nora summed it up pretty well. Betsy is once again seeming to make a huge big deal out of some very minor things, and presenting a collection of evidence which doesn't necesssarily lead to the conclusion she reaches.

Betsy is also accusing Nora of pretending to be her own friends, and saying she has posted under various screen names for years. In some of these accusations Betsy posted links to the threads and long rows of numbers she says anyone with the intellegence of a snail darter would know proved this. Other times Betsy just posts the date and time of the posts so i'm not even sure if anyone could access them and apparently my own intellegence is less than a snail darter because it's all incomprehensible goobldy gook to me.

If Betsy thought Nora plays with sock pupppets, it would seem reasonable to alert people and point out the evidence, but to continue to pursue this and her other minor complaints like some serious criminal behavoir has occured seems really inappropriate.

It seems like maybe Betsy has a really hard time judging porportions and she can't tell the difference between what may be at worst a normal human personality quirk, and someone who is misrepresenting themself to wrongly gain a serious position of public trust.

For the record , here is an example of the type of harrassment that was going on...

From: Guardian <>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Local: Sat, Jul 4 2009
Subject: Re: Norah-Christine Runningwolf is BUSTED

Hello again  Runningwolf/James/Anuh1/Bravesheart
I did not want you or anyone else to think I had forgotten you....oh
noooooooooooo, far from it.

When you aligned yourself with a sexual predator, you gave yourself a
boost on my priority list.
When someone sinks that low, I know
EXACTLY what I am dealing with, so I decided to do a deep dig.

I am still compiling megs of data into an understandable spreadsheet,
but I should have your Faux Indian page up by late next week.

I know what you have been doing on alt.native for at least TEN YEARS,
and you are one SICK PUPPY!

I read how you created, then killed off "Anuh1" ...that got you lots
of attention huh?  SICK!!!!
I also know that the "Bravesheart" posts were coming from your
location too.  You will be surprised at what an AOL network engineer
with 20 years experience can tell from a few little headers.  How
fortunate that I happen to know one  <BEG>

I am not going to waste time arguing with your sockpuppets on Usenet,
I am just going to put all the info on a website,  mass mail the link
to our entire mailing list, and let people see for themselves what a
MAGGOT you really are!

You will continue to attack me and spread lies about me.... I know
that.  It is the price of telling the truth about a LIAR like will spread yet more lies about me.  Like  DUH..that is all
on-line frauds like you do to create your characters.  You are
running  the Good Nic/Bad Nic scam, and I am going to prove it, once
and for all.

I have no intention of wasting my time responding to your many
sockpuppets.  I am going to spend that time exposing you for what you
really are...  a skanky, chicken hawk ANGLO PERVERT who has no morals
or values whatsoever!  I really do not care what people think of me,
but your willingness to use a sexual predator's "anonymous" website as
ammunition tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about you.  It also
guaranteed to you permanent spot on the web with the rest of the pervs
we have exposed.

I just wanted you to know your posts referencing "anonymous rumors"
about me, spread by a man who sold sex tours to Asia where raping
children is legal have insured that you and James/Bravesheart, etc.
will be publicly exposed as the fraud you are on  a domain that gets
about 1500-2000 hits a day.

My bold

To people reading this, it sounds like Betsy is saying Nora is personally affiliated with a pervert.

Other posts reveal the person Betsy is accusing of being a pervert, is someone she calls Wheeler. (more on this below ) From stuff I read over on, it sounds like Wheeler created a webpage which made somes serious allegations against Betsy, and Betsy was accusing Wheeler of being a pervert. Who accused who first I don't know , but the sanity of everyone involved seems questionable, and IMO all of these allegations are about as credible as something you see written on the wall of a public toilet....

Though I haven't found where this happened , it sounds like Betsy is accusing Nora of somehow republishing these accusations... However, even if Nora did this,  I'm not sure why Betsy would assume that Nora would somehow personally know the person who put up this website - or that she would know she was 'alligning" herself with someone Betsy had accused of being a pervert. From what i've seen of Betsy in action, there wouldn't need to be any logical connection at all...

Betsy makes it sound like Nora and her family were personaly involved with the person who created this website which makes serious allegations agaist Betsy, and that Nora and family were somehow actively supporting his alleged perverted activities.

Notice in this post, Betsy doesn't name Wheeler in what she is saying. She just repeatedly links Nora with someone she accuses of being a pervert.  As far as I know there is no logical reason to assume any personal relationship exists, but some readers could easily get the impression the alleged pervert is someone Nora is personally affiliated with ( such as her husband ) and not an to entirely different situation and person. This is especially true if Betsy was also posting information about a prior charge of domestic violence.

It's also clearly stated that the webpage Betsy is threatening to create, which would be dedicated to discrediting Nora and her family  as faux Indians, is being done in retaliation for Nora allegedly somehow mentioning the accusations against Betsy on this other website. It also sounds like Betsy was planning on using this alleged alligence to somehow make it sound Nora and her family are perverts. Otherwise why would Betsy call Nora a chicken hawk?

This is a really serious accusation and according to my sense of right and wrong , would not at all be justified by Nora's alleged mention of some of the information on Wheeler's website, or any of the other seemingly trivial complaints Betsy has about Nora.

What seems totally goulish, is that while claiming to be justified in persecuting Nora and her family for somehow reposting these allegations, Betsy claims she hasn't had these seriously defamatory allegations against her removed from this website because she is intentionally using this as bait ....

Guardian <>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009
Local: Wed, Aug 5 2009

Subject: Re: Do any of you know of this person?
Oh, I might have also forgotten to mention that every time someone
reposts Wheeler'libel, it gives me (ie my attorney)  "John Doe"
Subpoena rights to their provider's identifying info for the account
libeling me.... in order to determine if the offender is worth suing.
If they are not worth suing, I can legally expose and confront the
people who hid behind what they thought were anonymous accounts to
defame me.

Now you know why Wheeler's website is still up.  ROFLUIPM

What kind of person thinks like this?

The only consistent concern I can see Betsy executing, is she tends to go after vulnerable unenrolled mixed blood people. ( even though enrolled Native people have repeatedly told Betsy that most of them are who they say they are)

Not everything in the links below would apply to betsy, but I did find some of it seems to describe her tactics exactly.

I'm thinking people who may feel unfairly harrassed by her might find some of this helpful.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know if any of this would be relevent, or if any laws were broken , but I seem to recal Betsy saying sahe is in NC and it might be something to look into...

Seeing Betsy Ashby's tactics is like watching a train wreak and as she sort of claims to be doing the same thing we try to do here, it makes me want to try to explain the difference, and point out how she goes off the rails.

The nicest thing I can say about betsy is if she is sincere in wanting to do some good ( which at this point I doubt - but everyone can change ) she really needs to learn some better communication skills. If she is really exposing a liar, telling the truth in a gentle polite way will be humiliating enough . She doesn't need to call people names, or make an effort to punish and humiliate these people beyond simply telling the truth.

Just from what I have seen, it seems Betsy would improve her effectiveness if she could understand that presenting evidence (especially selected evidence) that supports a conclusion does not necessarily mean the conclusion is "the truth" . Usually evidence can be used to support several conclusions, and exactly how evidence should be interpreted can be debated from various angles. Ultimently, exposing people misrepresenting themself on line isn't about reaching a guilty verdict which  can be resolved by a jail sentence or some other imposed punishment. What we do here online can only resolve these problems by teaching people critical thinking skills and empowering people that it's OK to ask questions. From ALL angles.

Wolfhawaii, I think  your suggestion that some of us could go over some of Betsy's research is a good one. One problem is that I am not comfortable visiting her website or viewing anything she has posted (links or pictures) .

If someone could do a basic summery of the evidence she has posted, it's alleged source and her conclusions maybe some of us here could do some peer reviews of her findings.

I really do feel concerned Betsy is confusing the issues even more with her nasty, petty, personal attacks and by sticking stuff together to "build a case" that isn't really connected.

People who post in NAFPS make mistakes, but at least there is enough people involved here we don't all have the same biases, blind spots  and opinions and if someone gets off track in their personal interpretation , someone else is likely to challenge this by pointing this out.

Sorry this is so long, but i really do feel concerned about the damage this person seems to be causing...

Offline NCRunningWolf

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2009, 05:08:24 pm »
I did not post that site in which Ashby is maligned. Although she has stated what is on the internet is fair game, evidently not when it concerns her. The numbers she posts "proving" I am all these people, or have a cast of hundreds in my living room are false.  Anv was a dear friend of mine, and certainly not me, nor am I James.  My husband, towards the end of his life, was unable to dial a phone well, let alone operate a computer.  I am not really sure where her animosity towards me comes from.  I live alone in the desert, away from many people and my family, and the  ng's were a social place for me.  I now have to go to moderated groups.  As I lived on two reservations for many years, my kids are enrolled, native issues are not only an interest, but have some concerns for me. I was sorry to see alt. native, (which was always kinda  rough and tumble, but never like this!!), fall prey.
I am not sure how things work, but I do know that Lisa is in Hawaii, and not in Arizona, as Ashby insists, and Anv posted out of Mt. Judah, Arkansas.  I am not sure where James is at the moment, he was in Montana.  Bravesheart posts out of Georgia, and also uses E.Y.Y. as a screen name.
It is just too confusing to me.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2009, 05:24:27 pm by NCRunningWolf »

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2009, 05:21:51 pm »
This may explain her animosity.
I have repeatedly said that I am so against new age people purloining Ceremony. I have spoken out against having non-Natives at Sun Dance and doing sweats.
I believe it is dangerous to call up Spirits and then not know what to do with them.
I thinks it really ticks the Spirit off, and an angry Spirit is a dangerous one.
Ashby has a woman now who claims to have all the Peruvian Indian Ceremony knowledge.
I wonder if I spoke out against someone or something she  supports?

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Re: Ashby's Faux Indian Odyssey
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2009, 01:56:05 am »
... I seem to recall Betsy saying she is in NC and it might be something to look into...
(fixed broken link)

Betsy has a home in NC, but goes back to her "compound" (store and campground) in VA to run events.

That passage of NC law does seem to fit, doesn't it?

... to knowingly make any false statement concerning [...] indecent conduct or criminal conduct of the person telephoned* or of any member of his family or household with the intent to abuse, annoy, threaten, terrify, harass, or embarrass...

* For purposes of this section, the term "telephonic communications" shall include communications made or received by way of a telephone answering machine or recorder, telefacsimile machine, or computer modem.

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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2009, 07:22:55 pm »
Stumbled upon this, and it's a bit gratifying. The original faux "Miami shaman" that Ashby defended and first began attacking NAFPS for daring to criticize, John Wilde AKA Grey Medicine Wolfe, himself was criticized by VA Indian tribes and leaders. Wolfe agreed to quit doing his faux version of sweatlodges.

Not only that, Ashby basically admitted Wolfe is not really a Miami at all. In Ashby's words:
"...John never claimed to be a Tribal member, he just said one of his ancestors made whoopee with a Miami Indian, which is the truth according to his Mother and Grandmother."

IOW, he possibly had a single Miami descendant according to family tradition, but he's not Miami. Ashby's description makes it sound like a brief liason, not anyone ever having been raised in Miami culture. It may've been a single great grandparent, or perhaps even further back. He's a PODIA with 1/8 or less unproven allegation of BQ, no contact, and knowing little about Miami tradition.

Naturally Ashby had to resort to her typical bigotry, claiming it somehow proves persecution by "fundie Christians."

For the record, Ashby, criticism is not persecution. And there's no sign that the Tidewater NDNs are fundamentalists except your paranoid bigoted description.

It's also worth noting her reaction included asking all VA pagans to cease all support of NDN causes, and a further bizarre bit of bigotry where she claims that NDNs can't be Christians. Quick, someone tell the Yaqui. Or the whole NAC.

It's to Wilde's credit that he agreed to do the right thing when asked to, quit his faux sweatlodges. Quite a contrast between his graciousness and ethical behavior and Ashby's hysteria and vicious bigoted grudges.

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« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2009, 02:26:06 am »
This may seem off topic, however, in response to some people claiming sockpuppetry of others.
But opednews has been hacked. and in there little page of discussion of that, there is this, which
seems to refute some statements made as to ip's being traceable.
I would assume that other IP's may have the same way of doing things, as it would appear to me, a total technoidiot, as a more cost efficient way to go.
Bold underlining is mine.

"If you use an AOL internet address, you might find yourself unable to
log in. Let us know and we can fix that. **The problem is that AOL
uses the same IP address for thousands of people,
** so if we ban one
person with an AOL email address, all the people with the same IP are
affected, until we whitelist them. If you get such a message, you
should get an email with a link. Send it to me rob at opednews dot com
and I can quickly fix the problem."


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Expect unusual images and ‘people’ stories that cover more than 90 years of ‘marketing, circumstance and chance’ in a lively presentation that will provide some insight as to why the 3rd ‘A1’ locomotive built by the LNER for a specific job, became a ‘UK plc’ brand as familiar as HP Sauce and Big Ben.

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Bob Gwynne is an outstanding speaker from the National Railway Museum in York and author of a book on the Flying Scotsman. It is a topic that needs no introduction!

The event will be hosted by Jonathan Aylen – President of the Newcomen Society

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The Obligatory Acts of Wudu’ (the Ablution)

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Wudu’ (ablution) has certain components which, if not fulfilled according to the correct Islamic procedures, make one’s ablution void.

The Obligatory Acts of Wudu’ (the Ablution)

Washing the face involves “pouring”” or “running” water from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the jaws.

1- Intention

This is the desire to do the action and to please Allah by following His command. It is purely an act of the heart, for the tongue (verbal pronouncement, and so on) has nothing to do with it.

To pronounce it is not part of the Islamic law. That the intention is obligatory is shown in the following: `Umar related that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Every action is based on the intention (behind it), and everyone shall have what he intended” (Al-Bukhari, An-Nasa’i, Ibn Majahh, At-Tirmidhi)

2- Washing the face

This involves “pouring” or “running” water from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the jaws, and from one ear to the other.

3- Washing the arms to the elbow

The elbows must be washed, for the Prophet, upon whom be peace, did so.

4- Wiping the head

This means to wipe one’s head with his hand. It is not sufficient just to place the hand on the head or to touch the head with a wet finger. The apparent meaning of the Qur’anic words, “…and wipe over your heads…” (Al-Ma’idah 5:6) does not imply that all of the head needs to be wiped. It has been recorded that the Prophet used to wipe his head three different ways:

1- Wiping all of his head. ‘Abdullah ibn Zayd reported that the Prophet, upon whom be peace, wiped his entire head with his hands. He started with the front of his head, then moved to the back, and then returned his hands to the front. (the group)

2- Wiping over the turban only. Said `Amru ibn Umayyah, “I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) wipe over his turban and shoes.” (Ahmad, Al-Bukhari and Ibn Majah).

Bilal reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Wipe over your shoes and head covering.” (Ahmad) `Umar once said, “May Allah not purify the one who does not consider wiping over the turban to be purifying.” Many hadiths have been related on this topic by Al-Bukhari, Muslim and others. Most of the scholars agree with them.

Wiping over the front portion of the scalp and the turban

Al-Mughirah ibn Shu`bah said that the Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, made ablution and wiped over the front portion of his scalp, his turban and his socks. (Muslim)

There is, however, no strong hadith that he wiped over part of his head, even though Al-Ma`idah: apparently implies it. It is also not sufficient just to wipe over locks of hair that proceed from the head or along the sides of the head.

Washing the feet and the heels

This has been confirmed in mutawatir (continuous) reports from the Prophet (peace be upon him) concerning his actions and statements. Ibn ‘Umar said, “The Prophet lagged behind us in one of our travels. He caught up with us after we had delayed the afternoon prayer. We started to make ablution and were wiping over our feet, when the Prophet said, ‘Woe to the heels, save them from the Hell-fire,’ repeating it two or three times.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

Needless to say, the preceding obligations are the ones that Allah has mentioned in. (Al-Ma’idah)

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Ballymoney Literary and Debating Society gave us The Beauty Queen of Leenane on stage in the Town Hall last evening.

Unfortunately the company was struck by a double whammy when both the female lead and her understudy took ill and were unable to appear. The lead role was taken by the play’s producer and she read all her lines from a copy of the book, carried throughout in her right hand!

The good news is that she was magnificent! She clearly knew most of the lines by heart and was carrying the script only for confidence.

It was the best evening’s theatre so far and Adjudicator Scott Marshall loved it too. He did, however, add that the competitive element was sorely affected, so expect few honours to go this way at the end of the week.

I urge everyone in Newry to get to the Town Hall tonight to see local group Newpoint perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

By all accounts, it is excellent!

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Blue Bell Ice Cream's Broken Arrow plant will resume production this week, according to the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce.

The company shut down the facility in April after some of its products were found to be contaminated with listeria.

At a news conference Monday afternoon, Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce president Wes Smithwick said 70% of the plant's work force is back at work this week, the other 30% will return next week.

"This is a day we've been waiting for the past several months," Smithwick said. He said it will take months for Blue Bell to ramp up to full production at the factory.

The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Director Stan Stromberg said he's received notification from Blue Bell that it is restarting production at the plant.

The plant was cleared for production about two weeks ago after submitting a plan to the Department of Agriculture, Stromberg said. Under the new plan, the company has agreed to test every batch of ice cream for listeria for a year before sending it out to consumers.

The company has also agreed to notify the Department of Agriculture if any batch tests positive for the bacteria.

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  • Several countries in the Asian-Pacific area are experiencing surges of Covid-19 infections, in some cases leading to new lockdowns and safety measures.

  • On Friday, Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam all introduced new safety measures to try and slow the sudden surge in new cases.

  • Experts believe that the record number of new cases in the region is, in part, due to the more contagious Delta variant of the disease as well as low local vaccination numbers.

  • Indonesia has been particularly hard hit with their 7-day average of new cases and deaths more than doubling over the last week. A partial lockdown was imposed on July 3 to try and slow the spread.

  • Malaysia, which continues to be under a strict national lockdown, also saw a record number of new cases on Friday.

  • Overall, the numbers are still small in comparison to the United States, India and Brazil, but health experts are concerned that this could lead to yet another wave of infections.

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LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government says it has spent over $5bn since 2016 to fight poverty in the country.

 Thìe Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this during the presentation of letters of engagement and electronic tablets to 248 monitors of the National Social Investment Programme NSIP programme in Adamawa State over the weekend.

Farouq revealed that President Buhari has since 2016 backed his pledge to pull 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.

This she said the President has done by committing $1bn through the National Social Investment Program to reduce poverty and inequality.

Nigerians, however, took to social media to react to the claims being made by the Minister.

While some accused the Federal government of constantly dishing out lies to poor masses others were of the opinion that this is another means the government intends to utilise in stealing money.

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@Don mike, “This one na serious fightoo. $5bn and Nigerians is still capital of poverty in the world.”

@Jonathan, “Yet we are still no1 poverty striken country.How funny!”

@Tobi_Akinsola, “ In this same Nigeria or another country has name Nigeria?”

@Double Tee,” Another notice of embezzled money.”

@Alexandria, “ Madam how far north which is the poverty hub in Nigeria.”

@Appleofgod, “This government too like lie eeh.”

@Openseceret, “ This woman is the female version of Liar Mohammed.”

@Gbenga, “Madam how many people are we including you and all the politicians. Why not pay directly to our accounts millions per head. Madam liar. Your lies have chased the Devil away.”

@Samuel, “Funny news. Why is this government always lying.”

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Shepherd Kaplan Krochuk, LLC (“SKK”), a leading, independently owned, SEC Registered Investment Advisory firm (RIA), announced today its acquisition of Peak Capital Management (“PCM”), an SEC RIA firm based in Denver, Colorado, that develops disciplined, rules-based investment strategies designed to evaluate risk on a daily basis and adapt accordingly. PCM also advises high net worth families, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, and third-party advisors through portfolio management, research, and outsourced chief investment officer capabilities. PCM’s founder and Chief Investment Officer Brian Lockhart has joined SKK’s management board and has become an equity member. PCM’s Chief Compliance Officer Geoffry Eliason has also been promoted to PCM’s Chief Operating Officer as part of this acquisition.

“The acquisition of PCM is a natural fit with our existing business and adds expertise and professional resources that will enhance our ability to provide the highest level of investment management capabilities to our clients,” said David Kaplan, SKK’s co-founder and Managing Member. Brian Lockhart added, “We have gotten to know the SKK team over the past several years through utilizing their Private Equity and Venture funds and have found that their business is a terrific complement to ours. We both view the world of investing through a lens that is focused on attractive returns built on a foundation of risk mitigation.”

PCM will continue to provide wealth management services and manage their Dynamic Risk Hedged (“DRH”) strategies. Together, the firms manage assets in excess of $6.9 billion. David Shepherd, SKK’s co-founder and Managing Member, said, “We’re thrilled to have Brian and his team join SKK. They have built a successful, growing client-centered firm that will flourish even more when combined with the infrastructure, resources and investment opportunities that SKK offers.”

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Peak Capital Management (“PCM”) was formed in June 2007 as a limited liability company (LLC) and is registered as an investment advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission. PCM develops investment strategies designed to manage risk utilizing an absolute return philosophy. The basis of these strategies is to seek an investment return less dependent on the returns in the stock and fixed income markets while seeking to reduce volatility.

Brian Lockhart is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Peak Capital Management, LLC (PCM). With over 20 years of portfolio management experience, he serves as the co-portfolio manager of PCM’s suite of proprietary strategies. Brian directs the company’s dynamic allocation of PCM’s unique ETF investment strategies implemented on behalf of high net worth and institutional clients. Brian has been featured in multiple media outlets including Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week.

About Shepherd Kaplan Krochuk, LLC:

With more than 20 years of experience delivering fiduciary management and investing services and over $6.7 billion of assets under management, SKK combines a deep bench of talented professionals with a cutting-edge, proprietary technology platform to meet the unique needs of our private clients. SKK takes pride in its ability to provide institutional capabilities with boutique quality client service. SKK provides a wide variety of services and capabilities within two divisions: Wealth Management and Asset Management.

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How to negotiate a lockdown

Where to meet for safe, socially distanced time with friends when everything is closed

After the announcement by Gov. Gavin Newsom that San Luis Obispo County was officially part of the newly created and highly fictional "Southern California region" as far as the new COVID-19 state of emergency went, I ventured forth for one last dinner al fresco before the next day's shutdown. A friend and I headed for the Creamery Marketplace in downtown SLO where seven restaurants share a large courtyard. It was a chilly night, so we thought we'd eat at a Peruvian place, Mistura, where some spicy dishes might warm us up.

The scene was one of high conviviality—imaginatively masked diners, some with families, others in parties of two, occupied almost every well-spaced and highly sanitized table. Fortified with two Pisco sours and stuffed with a sea bass and quinoa salad plate, we resisted finishing with the ice cream towers the Nite Creamery was selling at a fast clip. Instead we wandered around and discovered the Joliene Bakery, Active Coffee Co., and a cider bar, all of which I vowed to sample as soon as the lockdown order was lifted. I thought that after this gourmet outing, I could wait out the next three weeks.

But no. I soon became as stir crazy as I had been back in March and resolved to find a way to get out while not endangering myself and others. I live in a small apartment within a larger complex, and all our common spaces—computer room, meeting spaces, library, and hot tub—have been closed since March 2020. The nearby restaurants that had gone from takeout and delivery in April to outdoor dining in summer and early fall were once again closed in December. Where to meet friends for food and drink became the challenge. My search was on.

I remembered that a local SLO restaurant, the Nautical Bean, had two stone tables and benches out back and surely such hefty objects could not be stored away with the lightweight tables and chairs that used to sit out front. And I was right. So for the next three days, I planned meetings with friends that took place at those tables Although this could be considered "semi-legal," other people had the same idea, and the restaurants near these tables could easily have charged $5 for customers to sit there.

Next, while shopping for a French press to make coffee in the most elegant and tasteful way, I found another location (to remain a secret) that had four steel seats (also can't be moved) near another coffee shop. Again, some other clever folks had spotted the seats and settled in for lunch and drinks.

Finally, as I drove home, I spotted people in front of a restaurant dining on their own beach chairs, which they had set up in a small circle so as to sit 6 feet apart. Aha and voila! Was this to be the next trend? That is to say, will there be moveable feasts all over the city as people get tired of being cooped up? These early innovators were moving in, or you might say, squatting, wherever they found a restaurant that appealed to them. As long as no one called the COVID-19 cops (luckily, we still don't seem to have these) or citizen vigilantes, the moveable feast idea seems doable.

So take your choice, fellow citizens, and follow one of my helpful hints. Or better yet, come up with still more ways to negotiate the lockdown. And please, send me your suggestions when you do. Δ

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Stick a fork in them: 2012 Minnesota Vikings

Being average is an achievement for the 2012 Minnesota Vikings. Little was expected of this team, and they remain right in the middle of the playoff race at 6-6 to start December.

Yet they will be the first team at .500 or better to get forked by our wildly subjective panel because average won't be enough in a deep NFC. The Vikings, losers of four of five games, have shown repeatedly they can't consistently beat quality competition. Their remaining opponents (Chicago Bears, St. Louis Rams, Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers) have a combined record of 32-15-1. Minnesota would be lucky to go 2-2 the rest of the way. It's hard to win in the NFL without a passing game.

What went wrong

The Vikings organization and its fans have to feel mixed emotions about this season. They have overachieved, yet they haven't achieved their primary goal this season: Developing Christian Ponder. If this season was about "finding out if Ponder is the guy," the answer is clear. Only Blaine Gabbert and John Skelton have thrown for fewer yards-per-attempt. Ponder's accuracy, confidence, and decision-making have all been shaky.

No quarterback with over 300 attempts has fewer plays over 20 yards. For perspective, Matt Cassel has more big plays than Ponder with 107 fewer attempts. It's not all Ponder's fault of course. His wide receivers are very poor after Percy Harvin, who has battled injuries again. The playcalling can be too conservative. But Ponder has been stuck in a hole for two months and can't seem to dig himself out.

His yardage numbers since Week 7: 58, 251, 63, 221, 159, 119. Even his biggest game in that group (against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) was a rough performance.

We could pick on other aspects of the Vikings team like their -6 turnover margin, the Jerome Simpson signing, a mediocre guard tandem or their need for a decent linebacker. But that's all window dressing. They need a passing game. That comes back to Ponder.

What went right

They started out 4-1 after winning only three games all of last year. While five of their six wins were against teams with losing records, that sixth win was an thorough smackdown of the San Francisco 49ers. This team can be physical and the defense has vastly improved since last year's disaster.

Adrian Peterson is an MVP candidate and freak of nature. This year perhaps above all others thus far will help cement his legacy as an all-time great. No. 4 overall pick Matt Kalil has come as advertised on the left side of the offensive line. Center John Sullivan and right tackle Phil Loadholdt have been effective. Kyle Rudolph has been a solid puzzle piece. Percy Harvin remained wildly valuable, but still not durable.

On defense, the team didn't excel in any area but has improved to solid. Jared Allen has declined some, but Antoine Winfield has enjoyed a terrific season. Kevin Williams has been more effective with less snaps. First-round pick, safety Harrison Smith, has looked like a keeper. The team had a nice draft.

What still matters

We know the Vikings remain in the playoff race, but even winning two more games would be a strong finish for this team. Even one more win wouldn't be that bad, if that win came against the Packers or Bears. Getting Ponder to turn things around in the final month is huge. It's not just that he's struggled this year, he's regressed as the season wore on.

What changes are coming

The coaching staff and front office should be all set unless the Vikings pulled a surprise move and replaced offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave. It's too early to "give up" on Ponder, but bringing in more competition for him will be key. Harvin is entering the last year of his deal and is sure to make noise if he doesn't get a big extension in the offseason.

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US stocks close mostly lower as oil prices slide

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A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange Monday.Mark Lennihan — The Associated Press

A slide in oil and natural gas companies led U.S. stock indexes mostly lower Monday, even as the Nasdaq composite index eked out another record high.

Energy sector stocks declined the most, weighed down by lower prices for crude oil and other energy futures. Utilities and phone company stocks also fell sharply. But gains among health care and technology stocks helped lift the Nasdaq, extending a winning streak into its fifth day.

Absent major new economic data, investors mostly focused on company earnings and several corporate deals, including UnitedHealth’s $2.3 billion cash-and-stock buyout of Surgical Care Affiliates.

All told, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 76.42 points, or 0.4 percent, to 19,887.38. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slid 8.08 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,268.90. The Nasdaq rose 10.76 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,531.82.

The market’s postelection rally sputtered the last week of December. So far this year, the major stock indexes have mostly inched higher. That could change toward the end of the week, when the next big wave of company earnings news starts rolling in.

Disappointing quarterly earnings pulled Acuity Brands down nearly 15 percent, making it the biggest decliner in the S&P 500 on Monday. The lighting maker’s results fell well short of what analysts were expecting. The stock slid $34.85 to $202.51.

Investors rewarded strong earnings from Global Payments. The electronic payment processing company climbed 7.2 percent. The stock led all the gainers in the S&P 500, adding $5.34 to $79.79.

Company deals sent some stocks higher.

Insurer UnitedHealth’s bid for Surgical Care Affiliates drove the surgical care center operator’s shares up $7.90, or 16.2 percent, to $56.65. UnitedHealth slipped 46 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $161.95.

VCA vaulted 28.3 percent after the pet health care company agreed to be acquired by food and drinks company Mars Inc. for around $7.7 billion. The deal also includes $1.4 billion in debt. Shares in VCA added $20.02 to $90.79.

Several oil and gas companies also racked up losses as energy futures prices fell.

Southwestern Energy fell 50 cents, or 4.9 percent, to $9.75, while Range Resources lost $1.47, or 4.3 percent, to $32.76. Devon Energy was off $2.09, or 4.3 percent, at $46.58.

U.S. benchmark crude oil fell $2.03, or 3.8 percent, to close at $51.96 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price oil sold internationally, slid $2.16, or 3.8 percent, to close at $54.94 a barrel in London.

In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline lost 6 cents to $1.57 a gallon and heating oil fell 7 cents to $1.64 a gallon. Natural gas futures shed 18 cents, or 5.5 percent, to $3.10 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Markets overseas were also mixed.

Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.37 percent from 2.42 percent late Friday.

The pound fell to $1.2163 from $1.2274, its lowest level since October, amid indications the British government is inclined to opt for a full break away from the European Union’s single market. The dollar fell to 116.06 yen from 117.02 yen in late trading Friday. The euro rose to $1.0577 from $1.0532.

In metals trading, the price of gold rose $11.50, or 1 percent, to $1,184.90 an ounce. Silver added 16 cents, or 1 percent, to $16.68 an ounce. Copper fell a penny to $2.54 a pound.


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Durhamville celebrating bicentennial Sept. 17

DURHAMVILLE -- The Bicentennial of Durhamville will be held at noon on Saturday, Sept. 17. It will be called Heritage Day throughout the hamlet. With the sounding of the fire siren the marchers will proceed down the parade route on Center Street, past the Durhamville Baptist Church, Firehouse, the old Union Schoolhouse and continue out Foster Street. At Railroad Street the route will turn left and circle the Veteran's Memorial Field to the post office on Canal Street. Gathered at the post office reviewing stand will be Bicentennial Committee, dignitaries, and honor guest to observe the parade and to welcome the community. Following the raising of the American flag, Pledge of Allegiance and invocation; introductions will be made.

A brief summary of the founding and history of the hamlet will be presented which will be followed by music selections, Dignitary remarks and a reading of any proclamations received from the various governmental agencies. A solemn moment in the celebration will be the placing of a wreath at the "Durhamville Historical Marker" in memory of the residents and friends who over the past 200 years, settled and built the character of the community called Durhamville. A musical selection will lead the dignitaries to "The Joining of the Waters" site on Seibel's Bridge over the canal.

Meanwhile, making their way along the Towpath; two riders on horseback are closing in on Durhamville from the east and the west. The east rider represents Eliphalet Frazee, the founder and original settler in the area while coming from the west is Eber Durham, the person who leased the surplus canal water from New York state and developed the industry that made Durhamville a vibrant Erie Canal town. As the riders reach the Seibel's Bridge site they will dismount and present their symbolic water from Albany's Hudson River and Buffalo's Lake Erie to the "Joining of the Waters" committee.

After a brief ceremony, the waters will be mixed in the "joining cask" and poured off the bridge to mix with the water of the original Erie Canal. The "Joining of the Waters" ceremony represents a reenactment of the original "Wedding of the Waters" ceremony that took place in 1825 at the opening of the Erie Canal. It was felt that with Durhamville being in the "Middle Section" of the original canal and the fact that the canal played such an important role in the development and 'character' of the community, no other fitting tribute could be made.


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Don Pesci: Back to Kumbaya in Connecticut?

The Connecticut state Senate.
The Connecticut state Senate.The Associated Press

Connecticut’s State Senate is split 18-18 between Democrats and Republicans, and this election season – even with Donald Trump heading the Republican Presidential ticket – Connecticut Republicans made gains in the State House and Senate.

Among those crying in their beers the day after the nation sent Mr. Trump to the White House was Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, who remarked to his media columnist, James Rutenberg, “We’ve got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than we talk to — especially if you happen to be a New York-based news organization — and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world.”

Collared journalists at the Times likely were shocked by Trump’s victory. Mr. Trump did better than former Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney among black voters, 8-6 percent, and Hispanics, 29-27 percent, according to Pew research. Trump almost tied Romney among all women, 42-44 percent, and he trounced among white women, 53-43 percent.

Here in Connecticut, Mr. Trump was not swamped by Mrs. Clinton. Following the capture of the White House by Mr. Trump and the seizure of both houses of Congress by Republicans, Democrats have lost their OZ. Gov. Dannel Malloy – approval rating 24 percent – will not be able to reinvent his political career by seeking sanctuary in a Hillary Clinton administration. Any hope that Connecticut’s two progressive U.S. Senators, Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, will be able to command a chairmanship of important Senate committees have been dashed.

And at some point during the Trump presidency, the lack of a single Republican within Connecticut’s all Democratic U.S. Congressional Delegation may be sorely felt. The national progressive contraption will not survive the artificial prop of a progressive-minded President who was willing to create legislation by executive decree. Mr. Trump will not need the consent of Congress to sweep away with his pen all the constitutionally dubious executive dictates of his now lame-duck predecessor.

During the upcoming elections in two years, it appears that state Republicans will have Mr. Malloy – or, at the very least, the Malloy administration – to kick around again. There is a slight chance that the crony capitalist Democrat and leaders in his Party may begin, following their repeated losses in the General Assembly, to equitably share government with Republicans, if only as a self-protective measure. The state Republican Party, however, may be more demanding than Democrat leaders have been used to; years in the wilderness strengthen the powers of resistance, and kumbaya has been off the table for the entire Malloy Administration.

The upcoming struggle over the state constitutional cap may provide an instance of state GOP assertiveness. Initially, the cap on spending was attached to former Governor Lowell Weicker’s income tax measure as a ploy to garner votes in favor of the income tax within the General Assembly. However, definitions necessary to implement the tax were never provided, and last year Attorney General George Jepsen correctly declared the spending cap inoperative.

A real spending cap worthy of the name cap should really control spending. The 24 member committee providing definitions to members of the General Assembly so that the cap may be constitutionally applied is split on an important point. Democrats doubtless would prefer a cap that excludes state employee pensions because pensions represent a large portion of Connecticut’s debt. Co-Chairman of the committee Bill Cibes, the past head of Mr. Weicker’s Office of Policy Management, considered by many the architect of the Weicker income tax, has in the recent past urged the abolition of the constitutional cap. Mr. Cibes claims to be offended when those now charged with determining the borders of the spending cap mention the state’s “death spiral.” He is doubly offended when they note that state spending is, partly owing to Mr. Cibes’s heroic efforts in implementing the Weicker-Cibes income tax, “out of control.”

It would be a hopeful sign if Republicans should resist further attempts to enfeeble their necessary opposition; state spending is indeed out of control, and Connecticut will enter a death spiral unless state government seriously controls spending. An authentic attempt to control spending would oppose putting arsonists such as Mr. Cibes in charge of the fire brigade and insist that any effective definition of a spending cap that does not include every dollar appropriated for spending is a recipe for more out of control spending.

Don Pesci is a writer who lives in Vernon. E-mail him at


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Elves In Search of Bond Mates: Excerpted from ELK KILLERS

Excerpted from ELF KILLERS

It was still dark when the dour Elf woman gathered up the skirt of her leine and stepped into the wet big bluestem grass. “Would someone tell me why we have to be out in the Strah before the crack of dawn?” she said. “Isn’t this when the shawkyn spooghey begin their daily hunts?”

“You volunteered with the rest of us, Brede,” said Vorona, as she waded through the grassbehind her, “so it’s our turn first. And as for the chosen hour, I’m sorry to say, but the strike falcons determine that. Olloo says that the only time both birds leave the nest is right at sunrise. One of them goes out to hunt and the other one comes back right away to sit on the eggs all morning.”

Brede fell silent and made a childish face which was ugly even in the dark, but filed into the tall grass with everyone else.

“The wild strike falcons make grass nests a foot and a half across in the middle of big mounds of grass and sticks, maybe three feet high by about ten feet across,” said Olloo as he walked, looking from side to side at Vorona, Roseen, Kieran, Oisin and Doona, Brede, Nessa, Markus, Donachan and Martyn to see if everyone was hearing him. “They place these in loose colonies, ten to twenty rods away from each other in all directions. I’ve been watching an especially large colony not quite a league north of here, so that’s where we’re going. I just hope we’re not too late getting started.”

images“So what do we do when we get there?” said Oisin as he held Doona’s hand and tramped along beside him.

“I want to leave everyone in a group,” said Olloo, “armed and ready and out of sight of the colony while I scout about the nests to see if the birds are away. If they are, I’ll gather eggs and fetch them out, two or three at a time.”

They fell silent right away as they struggled through the grass, trying to keep up with him, since he was quite afraid that they were late. Just before the sun peeped over the Eternal Mountains, he made them kneel in the grass back to back with their bows ready and then he disappeared into the waving grass. A redwing blackbird circled overhead, scolding. He was back in short order with four eggs, which he handed to Vorona, Roseen, Nessie and Markus before vanishing once more. Right away he returned, catching his breath as he handed out eggs to Brede (who beamed with delight in spite of herself), Donachan and Martyn.

“Hey!” whispered out Kieran as he pointed away through the grass. “Isn’t that a nest, yonder?”

“That’s dangerous!” whispered Olloo, suddenly wide-eyed. “We’re not outside the colony at all.”

Kieran jogged over to the nest at once, held up an egg and dashed back with it. “I hope it’s alive. You think so?” he said, handing it to Olloo.

“It’s warm and dry. I’ll bet it is.” he said, as Nessie and Markus trotted out of sight.

Suddenly, there was a shrill screeching. Olloo sprinted through the grass to find Nessie and Markus at the edge of a nearby nest with two baby strike falcons shrieking with all their might as they stood in their shell fragments. “They’re going to get us killed if I don’t do them in…” he said, grabbing for his knife.

“No!” cried Nessie as she lunged at the babies and scooped them into her shawl, golden-girl-photographyquietingthem at once.

“They stopped screaming, all right,” said Olloo, but they might not bond with you if you take them. Either way, they’ve already made their noise, so we’d better get out of here, now.”

“My egg’s in the nest, Markus. Would you get it for me?”

“We have to go, or the parents will kill us,” said Olloo. “Come on!”

“I’m calling her Cronney. I want to give my egg to…”

“We can figure it out at home. Let’s beat it, kids!”


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Review of The Octopus

I just finished reading The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris. It was an amazing portrayal of the plight of the farmers in California’s Central Valley, struggling against the injustice of the railroad, an octopus-like monster reaching its tentacles into every corner of the farmers’ land. When the railroad tries to take the farmers’ land out from under them and raise shipping prices so they have no profits left, a group of them forms a League to fight the railroad. Meanwhile, Norris portrays beautiful details of the farmers’ private lives, such as the hardened and coarse Annixter falling in love with a woman, marrying her, and changing his ways to become more caring towards others because of his love for her.

But in the end, the farmers lose to the railroad. One farmer, an ex-engineer, becomes so disheartened by losing his profits to the railroad, that he holds up a train and steals its money. He is caught and sent to prison for life. Later, the League goes to meet the railroad men, financiers, and deputies coming to take their land. When a man on horseback accidentally knocks down one of the farmers, the others think he was intentionally attacked and begin firing. The deputies return fire and kill most of the main characters. The railroad men survive.

This killing leaves the wives and families of the farmers alone and without means of survival. One of the wives ends up begging on the streets of San Francisco and finally dies of starvation, with her small child still complaining she is hungry and her mother has no food for her. Meanwhile, the children of the railroad men are surrounded by opulence and delicacies of every kind. It is ironic how children are born into the world, some with great privilege, others with great burdens they must carry from their parents, and they must form their lives based on that.

But in a telling twist of fate, the financier of the railroad visits his new grain elevator where wheat pours into the hold. While looking at the wheat, he falls in and is drowned by an ever-falling cascade of wheat that raises higher and higher until he is buried in it. This suggests that fate, God, or perhaps merely a larger force of life, causes people to meet their just ends, being punished by the very thing they used to punish other people.

I would recommend this book to others, for its eloquent style and writing, its beautiful descriptions of the characters’ personal lives intermingled with more pedestrian concerns of farm life, and the sweeping plotting moving to an exciting climax with the confrontations that occur in Book II. It shows the despair that the railroad drives the farmers to, to the point that they think the only thing the railroad does listen to or is frightened of is “the people with dynamite in their hands.” It shows the beauty of a farmer who is also an artist, who retouches and improves his poetry so that he forgets the agitation of his struggles and becomes absorbed in writing a great poem. It shows the sadness of the ex-engineer’s loving mother, who bewails that her son has turned to crime against the railroad, saying, “They drove him and goaded him till he couldn’t stand it any longer, and now they mean to kill him for turning on them.” It shows the tininess of humans and their concerns, compared to the “great, majestic, silent ocean of the Wheat itself,” which humans can barely affect. It shows how one farmer feels “Everything to which he had set his mind failed—his great epic, his efforts to help the people who surrounded him, even his attempted destruction of the enemy, all these had come to nothing.” And yet for all this floundering and tragedy, frustration and failure, Norris portrays an underlying good force that continues on, balancing out all the negativity of people’s lives. Some may call this God, others fate, or others merely a good “force” that Norris refers to. It any event, the novel suggests there is hope for us all even when temporarily evil may appear to have overwhelmed us.

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Capcom's had a pretty good start to this financial year, with Monster Hunter Tri for Wii and Super Street Fighter IV
and Lost Planet 2 on the HD consoles. Hopefully you haven't had enough of the blue-and-yellow publisher yet, as they have a boatload of titles for you over the next year.

Aiming to bring half a dozen Wii titles to gamers and 16 to DS owners, the company's sales interestingly point to similar sales targets for both: 1.7m units for DS and 1.6m on Wii. Capcom's overall estimates for sales and profits are increased over the past financial year, indicating the company's hoping to buck the sales decrease of other companies.

Nintendo's recent sales reports also pointed to interesting gaps between the two formats' software figures, but it clearly hasn't deterred Capcom from releasing titles. Six Wii games before April 2011 may not seem so optimistic, but considering we've already had Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and Monster Hunter Tri this year it's unlikely anyone will complain if the next five releases are as good as those two.


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Historical Details

Miller, Frederick Family History

Courtesy of Our Heritage: Niobrarans and Neighbors, 10/15/2020

by Hedwick E. Heins

Fredrick W. Miller and his wife, Caroline, settled on a homestead 14 miles southwest of Keeline in 1914. This homestead runs across the Muddy Creek.  They had six children; Erick, Harry, Hedwick, Paul, Hulda and Otto, who are all living at this time.

Farming was their occupation and running a few cattle.  Mr. Miller worked away from home a great part of the time, also the two older boys. Even mother took on odd jobs taking care of sick and doing housework. In the fall she would go potato picking.

Our transportation was a team of horses and buggy. There was no tractors, everything being done with horses.  Other land was rented and more farm work done.

Cows were milked and cream sold. There were chickens to help out on the grocery bill and always a large garden. It was not easy going, wages were small and many mouths to feed, but we stayed healthy.

School was a big problem, as there were no schools at first. In the fall of 1915 a small one was built. The summer before we went to school in a dugout, under ground. That was owned by a neighbor, Art McGuire, but we were finally rained out.

There was a rainy spell and water came in everywhere.      Then we were moved to a vacant homestead house, which was one small room. School terms were very short.

In 1927 the children all had either married or were out working and the homestead was sold. Mr. and Mrs. Miller moved to Missouri. Seven years later they returned to Wyoming and rented places for awhile, later moving into Keeline, where Mr. Miller passed away. Mrs. Miller lived in Lusk several years, then later made her home among her children. She passed away in, 1969 at the age of 92.

One of the most outstanding memories of my childhood is the one room homestead shack. There was a kitchen range, which was not a small cracker box made to heat a couple sauce pans, but a big cast iron monster, five or six feet long, with a nickel trimmed oven large enough to bake 8 loaves of bread.  The stove had a fire box large enough to accommodate man-sized sticks of wood (which were hauled from the timber with horses and wagon, a two day trip), while an equally large extension on the back of the stove contained five gallons of hot water (called a reservoir). There were also a large wood box and a coal pail. It was five miles to the nearest spring for water, also five miles to a mail box and 14 miles to Keeline.

Rattlesnakes were plentiful and coyotes made music before a storm. The cellar was the only way to keep food cool.

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FQB "Thankful" Collection welcomes the Season of Fall/Autumn to your creative ideas! Acorns falling, the changing colours of the leaves and the last blooms of Summer are here to be enjoyed. The warm Fall colours of this kit are sure to delight, and if you have a disagreeable day outside....head indoors and enjoy the pleasures of this Season through this Nitwit Collections™ digital kit!

  • 37 "Fat Quarter Fabric" Background Papers (in various colours and patterns)
  • 2 Acorns, each one regained from a friendly, but well fed squirrel!
  • 1 Border corner element of Fall flowers and foliage
  • 3 Bows with centred knots...and you thought shoelace knots were tough to untie?!
  • 7 Buttons, some with patterned finishes and some in simpler tones
  • 1 Flower cluster showcasing the beauty that Fall flowers portray
  • 1 Flower cluster that would be perfect to frame in a photo or edge your card or layout with
  • 1 Flower cluster in a different arrangement
  • 3 Hanging tags with journal areas ready for you to write on
  • 3 Journal cards embellished with the floral sights of this digital kit
  • 6 Journal strips in the colours of this digital kit, and blank for your words, dates, and titles!
  • 6 Journal tags dressed in their Fall blooms for a more elegant approach to your journaling or sentiments
  • 1 Fall leaf in purple ( a Maple leaf....does it give you a clue to where we are located??)
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MLB rumors: Twins place pair of ex-Yankees on injured list; Tigers’ potential trade target sidelined

Rob Refsnyder

The Minnesota Twins placed outfielder Rob Refsnyder on the injured list Monday.AP

A pair of former New York Yankees are down and out with the Minnesota Twins.

Minnesota announced Monday it placed outfielder Rob Refsnyder and right-hander Michael Pineda on the injured list.

Betsy Helfand of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Pineda was removed from Sunday’s game with right forearm tightness. Pineda missed time last month recovering from an abscess on his inner thigh which required medical attention.

The right-hander is 3-4 with a 3.70 ERA in 11 starts this season. Pineda spent four seasons with the Yankees (2014-17) and won a career-best 12 games in 2015. Pineda debuted with the Seattle Mariners in 2011 and was an All-Star that year, finishing fifth in voting for American League Rookie of the Year.

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As for Refsnyder, reports he “had been dealing with the hamstring issue for ‘a little while now,’ manager Rocco Baldelli said on June 14. Refsnyder had played through the injury, but he couldn’t get loose on the day he was placed on the IL.”

Refsnyder had a been a breath of fresh air for the Twins, filling in for injured center fielder Byron Buxton, hitting .321 in 18 games.

Refsnyder was a fifth-round pick by the Yankees in the 2012 MLB Draft. New York traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2017, and he was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians after the season. Then there were stops with Tampa Bay Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers, before landing with the Twins this season.

Staying in the American League Central, the Detroit Tigers saw Matthew Boyd leave Monday’s 10-3 win over the Kansas City Royals in the third inning with what the team called left arm discomfort.

“It’s very disappointing on the night,” manager A.J. Hinch said per, “because he was throwing the ball pretty well, probably the best fastball that he’s had in the last month. He said he felt great, and then this snuck up on us. ... He said he felt a little something in his tricep. And then (athletic trainer Doug Teter) asked him: ‘Was it just that one pitch or has it been the entire inning?’ He said the entire inning it just feels funny. So we immediately removed him from the game. That’s going to set forth some tests and things like that.”

The 30-year-old Boyd was a trade target of the Yankees before the 2020 non-waiver deadline. He’s 3-6 with a 3.44 ERA in 13 starts this season, making him a popular name as the 2021 trade deadline approaches on July 30.

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