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In His Own Words: A Kuck | Baxter Paralegal Shares His Personal Immigration Story
By: Charles Kuck, Past ABIL President
Musings on Immigration
The identity of the United States is firmly rooted in the idea that this country is a "nation of immigrants." In fact, up until February 22, 2018, the mission statement for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services governmental agency ("USCIS") described "America's promise as a nation of immigrants." While the wording of this mission statement has been changed, this country nonetheless continues to be a nation of immigrants and a nation of nations. No revision to a mission statement will change this.
While we may be a nation of immigrants, no two immigrants have the same story. Rather, each of their unique stories help make up the multicultural, melting pot narrative of our country.
For today's post on the Kuck | Baxter Musing on Immigration Blog, we're going to do something a bit different than our usual blog postings. At the immigration law firm of Kuck | Baxter, we have a diverse arsenal of attorneys and staff, including many with immigrant backgrounds. One of our amazing paralegals, Raymond Partolan, was born in the Philippines and came to the U.S. with his family at just fifteen months old. In 2012, he became a beneficiary of President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). He was granted a two-year reprieve from deportation and was able to obtain a work permit and driver's license. Mr. Partolan, who self-describes as a proud Filipino-American, has contributed in countless ways to his community. He was salutatorian of his high school class and student body president at Mercer University. After graduating from college with a near perfect GPA, he worked as a Program Associate for Atlanta's Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the first nonprofit law and advocacy center dedicated to the civil, social, and economic rights of Asian immigrants and refugees in Georgia and the Southeast. In 2017, he left his role at Asian Americans Advancing Justice to pursue a career in immigration law and joined Kuck | Baxter Immigration Partners as an immigration paralegal. He works in the Family Practice Immigration Group, helping clients with a wide array of family immigration law matters.
Mr. Partolan says he first wrote down his personal immigration story right after the Presidential Election of 2016. After having so many people ask him about his immigration story and the challenges faced by being an undocumented immigrant in this country, he decided to write down his story in his personal blog—a story that he importantly and emphatically notes is still being written.
Click here to read Mr. Partolan's immigration story as self-published on his blog named "Outside of the Shadows".
*The above hyperlink will direct you to Mr. Partolan's blog. The materials and blog posts on his website and any related links are provided for informational purposes only. They are not intended as and do not constitute legal advice and should not be acted on as such. The materials and links are neither the legal opinions of Kuck | Baxter or any of its attorneys, staff, or clients nor are the materials represented as being all-inclusive, correct, complete, or up-to-date. You should not rely on any information on this website or its links. If you hare having an immigration law issue we suggest you seek the advice of a skilled immigration attorney.
We are proud to have Mr. Partolan as part of the Kuck | Baxter team. While Mr. Partolan's educational and professional success is exceptional, the fact that he is an immigrant is not. After all, foreign-born residents now living in the United States make up approximately 15 percent of the U.S. population.
Are you facing an immigration law issue and need legal guidance? With incredibly high stakes and an immigration law system that is both littered with bureaucratic red tape and is notoriously difficult for laypersons to navigate, we know how disruptive and stressful immigration law issues can be on individuals and their loved ones. We strongly recommend that no one try to go at it alone but rather work with an experienced immigration lawyer. The exceptional team of immigration attorneys at Kuck | Baxter handles a wide array of immigration law matters for individuals, families, small and large business, and investors.
We stand by you throughout the entire process, doing everything in our power to help you achieve a favorable outcome. While we cannot guarantee results, your chances of success are significantly higher when working with a skilled immigration attorney rather than going at it alone.


HARVEST GRAND PRIX RACE 2 RECAP AND QUOTES
Posted by Patrick Stephan on Saturday, October 3rd 2020
CHEVROLET RACING IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIES
INDYCAR HARVEST GP
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE
RACE 2 RECAP AND QUOTES
Power, Chevrolet complete INDYCAR Harvest GP sweep
Race 1 winner Newgarden within 32 points of title lead; Chevy scores 199th win
INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 3, 2020) – Will Power led all 75 laps of Race 2 of the INDYCAR Harvest GP on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course to claim his second victory of the season in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet and 39th of his NTT INDYCAR SERIES career.
Chevrolet swept the doubleheader as reigning NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Josef Newgarden, driving the No. 1 Team Penske Chevrolet, won the 85-lap Race 1 on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course on Oct. 2.
Chevrolet has registered 88 victories in 148 NTT INDYCAR SERIES races since returning to manufacturer competition in 2012. Overall, Chevrolet has 199 wins in Indy car racing (under AAA, USAC, CART, Champ Car, IRL and INDYCAR sanction):
Chevrolet 2.2-liter V6 twin turbocharged direct-injected engine supplier – 88: INDYCAR (2012-present)
Chevrolet V8 engine supplier — 104: CART (1987-1993) and Indy Racing League (2002-05)
Miscellaneous victories credited to Chevrolet — 7: USAC and CART (1965-81)
"Just so happy to have Verizon, Chevy in Victory Lane again," said Power, who won by .8932 of a second over Colton Herta in the caution-free race. "We had two Hondas trying to attack us (toward the end of the race), but the Chevy had very good power and drivability, so I'm over the moon to get another win."
It is the ninth time in his career that Power has won from the pole, including four times on the IMS road course (2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020). The win tied Al Unser for fifth on the all-time Indy car victory list.
Earlier in the day, Power claimed his fourth NTT P1 Award of the season and 61st pole of his career. Power, who has earned 37 of his career poles since 2012 in a Chevrolet-powered car, is six behind leader Mario Andretti on the all-time Indy car list.
Chevrolet has amassed 98 earned poles (102 counting poles based on entrant points when qualifications were canceled because of inclement weather) in the 148 races.
Newgarden finished fourth and Pato O'Ward, driving the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet, placed fifth. Simon Pagenaud rounded out the Team Chevy top 10 with a 10th-place finish in the DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet.
Newgarden closed to 32 points of front-runner Scott Dixon in the chase for the driver championship heading into the heading into the season finale Oct. 25 on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn temporary street circuit in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Firestone GP of St. Petersburg will be telecast by NBC at 2:30 p.m. ET. Newgarden won the 2019 race, which was the season opener.
CHEVROLET UNOFFICIAL FINISHING RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1 Will Power, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet
4 Josef Newgarden, No. 1 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet
5 Pato O'Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet
10 Simon Pagenaud, No. 22 DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet
17 Rinus VeeKay, No. 21 Sonax Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet
18 Sebastien Bourdais, No. 14 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet
19 Max Chilton, No. 59 Gallagher Carlin Chevrolet
20 Conor Daly, No. 20 U.S. Air Force Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet
21 Helio Castroneves, No. 7 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet
23 Charlie Kimball, No. 4 Tresiba AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet
24 Sage Karam, No. 24 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Oil2Soil Chevrolet
25 Dalton Kellett, No. 41 K-Line AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet
TOP FIVE UNOFFICIAL FINISHING RESULTS:
2 Colton Herta, No. 88 Capstone Andretti Autosport Honda
3 Alexander Rossi, No. 27 AutoNation Andretti Autosport Honda
WILL POWER, NO. 12 VERIZON TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET – RACE WINNER: "The tires had gone away and it was a tough battle and I had to work very hard to keep him behind. I am just so happy to have Verizon and Chevy in Victory Lane again. We had two Hondas trying to attack us there but my Chevy had very good power and drive-ability, so just over the moon to get another win, especially at this place."
JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 1 HITACHI TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET – FINISHED 4TH "We were a little shy of where we needed to be. If we had a phenomenal day like we had yesterday, we would be in really good shape. We were just mediocre today. I think we had a car to compete with Will and Herta and Rossi up there but we just didn't start up there high enough. With the start, I got kind of buried on the inside and I tried to get as much as I could on the outside but then Santino came in running tight – but he was fine. It just got tight and I got pushed back a little too far. The key for us was being up higher earlier today. I just had to work for a lot just like Scott did. If we had a cleaner qualifying run, I think we really would have had a better day. I'm really thankful to Team Chevy. There were two wins for Team Chevy here this weekend. They did a phenomenal job, and obviously having Hitachi support is always big for us. Look, we're in it with a shot. We're going to go to St. Pete and try and win this championship. I just wish we were in a little closer position."
RINUS VEEKAY, NO. 21 SONAX ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET – FINISHED 17TH: "Way different race than yesterday! I wish there had been some kind of yellow so we could have done something! Two stints on blacks, that was tough. We were not quick on the blacks yesterday and that did not change for today. The last stint on reds was pretty okay, we just had some unfortunate things happen today. I wasn't completely happy with the handling of the car, but we didn't get the set up quite right – it happens! Everyone gave 100%, including me, and that just wasn't enough today. Let's head to St. Pete and send it!"
MAX CHILTON, NO. 59 GALLAGHER CARLIN CHEVROLET – FINISHED 19TH: "It was a really tough day out there today. We had an issue on the start where we got blocked and lost quite a few spots, but thankfully we were able to make them up throughout the race. We just really struggled on blacks. The reds were manageable, but the blacks had zero grip. I just didn't feel like I could be as aggressive today as I was yesterday, so unfortunately we weren't as competitive as we were in Race 1. Even with the fuel saving, we were still able to make up positions throughout the race especially when we were on the reds. Obviously I wish we could've improved today and gotten a top 10, but it just wasn't in the cards for us."
CHARLIE KIMBALL, NO. 4 TRESIBA CHEVROLET – FINISHED 23RD: "Honestly kind of a frustrating day. We made the decision strategically to do something different than the 14 and something different than the 41. We started on used alternate Firestones. The pace just wasn't great. The second stint on our first set of primes (tires) we just really struggled to find lap time, so from yesterday to today we seemed to have gotten a little outside the window. I don't know if it was weather conditions, track conditions or just the tires we had left after using a little more on yesterday's race but going for the three stop we had to make really good lap time and we struggled with a little bit during the second stint of the race. But at the end the lap times weren't bad on the third and fourth stints. We just need to figure out how to make the car better in qualifying so we don't have to throw Hail Mary's."
DALTON KELLETT, NO. 41 K LINE USA CHEVROLET – FINISHED 25TH: "Definitely not the way we wanted to end the season for the No. 41 K Line Insulators USA crew. We thought we were looking pretty good going into the race with the two new sets of Firestone alternates (tires). When we went to sticker reds, we didn't quite have the pace and it just seemed like the car couldn't quite take the extra little bit of aggression to try to get that next few tenths out of it. Had a couple mistakes in (turn) 1 trying to push the brakes out a little bit deeper but getting front lock up, so that really hurt us having to take the run off road there. At the end of the day we didn't quite have the pace or the consistency to pull off the strategy that we were trying to go for which was a bummer for the team. I think we've worked really hard all season and we've definitely made improvements but obviously today showed there's some work that we have to do. We have to sit down and think really hard over what's been good about the changes that we've made so far and what hasn't worked and come up with a plan from there. "
SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS, NO. 14 AJ FOYT RACING CHEVROLET – FINISHED 18TH "It was a pretty trying weekend, not where we want to be but it's just the beginning of the relationship. We're hoping to build something and prepare as best as possible for next year. In some respects we achieved that. We've got a lot of work ahead of us but if it was easy I may not be here. We have a lot to think about, a lot to go through and analyze and see what may explain what we've experienced this weekend. Starting from where we started today makes things very difficult but we were on the right strategy with the two-stopper because everyone who had a halfway decent day was on the two stop strategy. Passing was once again extremely difficult. Just a shame we got caught up in some guys' messes when they tangled and got back on track like Ericsson running off the track and making us lose a couple of positions. We never could recover from that because passing was so difficult. At the end of the day, live and learn. Everybody tried real hard, the mechanics did a great job throwing all the changes that we wanted to try at the car and that was quite a bit all weekend long. We'll keep working at it and move forward
CONOR DALY, NO. 20 U.S. AIR FORCE CHEVROLET – FINISHED 20TH: "As made a move into Turn 1 on Lap 2, we had a glitch and lost the throttle for a couple of seconds. I had to fall back to last, but honestly from then on, we had really good pace. Our second stint on new reds was great, we got up to 14th from dead last. We were making great progress but couldn't maintain the speed on the last set of used reds. The 41 car blocked us pretty aggressively and was not very sportsmanlike, which was a shame. We just had to hang on to the finish."
HELIO CASTRONEVES, NO. 7 ARROW MCLAREN CHEVROLET – FINISHED 21ST "The result doesn't show how much work everyone from Arrow McLaren SP put into this weekend to make sure I was comfortable. We tried a different strategy, and even if the strategy wasn't right, it was right for me because I could push and understand more of the car on reds. I wish we could have another qualifying and race tomorrow. I can't thank Sam, Ric, Zak and Arrow McLaren SP enough for an amazing job. The car is in one piece which is great. Great experience. Hopefully Oliver continues to look after his health."
PATO O'WARD, NO. 5 ARROW MCLAREN SP CHEVROLET – FINISHED FIFTH "We ended up where we started, we didn't go backwards, we didn't go forwards. I think we maximized absolutely everything we could out of the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet. Our black tire pace was where we really lost our chance at a podium. We have some work to do, but there's one more race to go. We are going to try and get a win before the year ends. We are going to give it hell in St. Pete."
SIMON PAGENAUD, NO. 22 DXC TECHNOLOGY TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET – FINISHED 10TH: "It was a big weekend for Team Penske. Will did a great job today and congratulations to him for the win. We worked hard today for a top-10 finish with the DXC Technology Chevrolet and it was a good way for us to end the weekend. With another good finish today by Josef, Team Penske has a chance to race for the championship at St. Pete so we're all looking forward to the finale and a good result there.."
SAGE KARAM, NO. 24 DREYER & REINBOLD RACING OIL2SOIL CHEVROLET – FINISHED 24th: "While the results didn't show it today, our Oil2Soil Chevy was much better in qualifying and the race from Thursday and Friday. We made some changes overnight that helped the race car. It's tough out there. We ran P3 in qualifying today and, I pulled into the pits and looked at the time sheet, and I'm 11th. Wow, this series is very difficult. In the race, we tried the Firestone red tires and the car wasn't as good as on the Firestone blacks. Later in the race, I was running very competitive laps but we lost a lot early. Our pit stops were very good today. The big thing for the DRR team, who is just getting back into road racing after a seven-year layoff, is that we learned quite a bit with the doubleheader race weekend. We lost some valuable time on Thursday in practice when we had a fuel pressure issue. But we will take the info and study it for the future races."
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Yeshivah statement in response to our civil case settlement, and my response
In response to last Friday's civil case settlement, the Yeshivah Centre has issued the following public statement/propaganda:
We welcome the news that on 14 September 2018, a settlement was reached with Manny Waks in relation to his abuse that occurred at the Yeshivah Centre. We hope that it provides some tangible recognition of the seriousness of the abuse and the hurt suffered. We also share the sentiments stated by Manny on Friday, that this milestone will assist him in moving forward and form part of the healing process.
As an institution, we condemn any form of abuse and acknowledge the serious harm it causes. We remain committed to provide a safe environment for all children in our care and continue to work tirelessly toward ensuring the regretful mistakes of the past are never repeated.
The Yeshivah Centre encourages anyone who has experienced or is aware of sexual abuse having occurred at the Yeshivah Centre to contact the police (Moorabbin SOCIT unit: 03 9556-6124).
It seems that, despite settling with me, Yeshivah and the Chabad establishment are still unable to take full responsibility and identify what they have done. The penny has not yet dropped.
Our settlement was only partially "in relation to his abuse that occurred at the Yeshivah Centre". Like many other victims/survivors who have taken legal action against Yeshivah, my claim involved not only compensation for the abuse I suffered decades ago at Yeshivah but also for the cover-ups, intimidation, bullying and harassment which they meted out to my family and I in recent years after I sought justice for the abuse that occurred decades earlier. Indeed, this disgraceful response by Yeshivah was the reason they were called to two public hearings of the Royal Commission.
(Rabbi) Chaim Tzvi Groner
There were no two people more directly responsible for Yeshivah's appalling response to their victims than (Rabbis) Chaim Tzvi Groner and Zvi Telsner. The Yeshivah Centre and broader Chabad establishment continue to ignore their responsibility for the chillul Hashem (desecration of God's name) and chillul Chabad/Lubavitch (desecration of the Chabad community), which they have perpetrated in recent years.
While Yeshivah may "condemn any form of abuse" unfortunately they still do not condemn the mistreatment of those who have been abused on their watch. For so long as that remains the case, any commitment "to provide a safe environment for all children (in our care) and…to work tirelessly toward ensuring the regretful mistakes of the past are never repeated" is misleading and dangerous. The mistakes of the past are being repeated every time (Rabbi) Groner participates in Board decisions and every time (Rabbi) Telsner advises Yeshivah congregants and receives his wage.
Yeshivah remains a morally corrupt and an unsafe institution for children.
While I've reached a settlement with them, I will continue to highlight their hypocrisy and immoral behaviour. I can assure you that they have not bought my silence.


African-American professor finds more than 2 in 3 hate crimes are fake
This post was first published at Fellowship of the Minds
Jason L. Riley reports for the Wall St. Journal, June 25, 2020, that Wilfred Reilly, an assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University, compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine.
Reilly then put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake hate-crime a1llegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He maintains that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but that what can be said "with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large. We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples."
Reilly calls the Jussie Smollett case "the archetype of a hate crime hoax" and "one of the most flamboyant examples of the genre." According to Rilley, an openly gay black man residing in Chicago — one of the country's most liberal and diverse metropolises — is set upon by two white Donald Trump supporters who brandish bleach and a noose while shouting racial and antigay slurs "was a situation so extreme and bizarre that I think we would have had to look at how much racial progress the U.S. had actually made had it really occurred."
But, of course, Smollett had made it all up, including buying the rope for the noose himself, and paying two Nigerian brothers to pose as his attackers.
Although the appointment of last week's appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to take up the Smollett case is a good sign, Professor Reilly notes that media interest and coverage of the Smollett case has all but evaporated. He points out in his new book, Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War, on about 100 fake hate-crimes, that the initial media publicity for supposed hate crimes tends all but to disappear if the allegations are exposed as fake. and that the media's relative lack of interest in exposing hoaxes that don't involve famous figures is a big part of the problem.
Reilly's interest in hate crimes dates to his graduate-school days, when he became aware of several widely reported incidents in the vicinity of his hometown, Chicago, that turned out to be fake. In 2012 a popular gay bar in suburban Chicago was destroyed by fire, and the owner cited homophobia as the reason. The same year, black students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside reported death threats from hate groups and found a noose hanging from a dorm room door. Ultimately, the owner of the bar pleaded guilty to arson and insurance fraud, and a black student at the university fessed up to sending racist threats and planting the noose.
Reilly found that "This phenomenon of fake hate crimes did not appear to be small-scale or regionally based." Some examples:
A gay pastor in Texas accused a Whole Foods store of selling him a cake with a slur written in icing. The store produced video evidence that the pastor was lying.
A white woman in Oregon disfigured her own face with acid and claimed a black man had attacked her. Later, she admitted fabricating the entire story.
After signs that read "blacks only" and "whites only" were found at bathroom entrances on the University at Buffalo campus in upstate New York, a black graduate student confessed to posting them.
Reilly's bigger concern is the politicization of hate crimes, especially where racial minorities are the supposed victims. Those alleged incidents are invariably seized upon by politicians and activists looking to feed a belief among liberals that discrimination and oppression are the main drivers of inequality. According to Reilly, "In the mainstream media we hear almost constant talk about scary new forms of racism: 'white privilege,' 'cultural appropriation,' and 'subtle bigotry," but "a huge percentage of the horrific hate crimes cited as evidence of contemporary bigotry are fakes."
Wall St. Journal doesn't identify Professor Wilfred Reilly as black, but his pic on a Kentucky State University website shows him to be one.
Dr. Wilfred Reilly is that rare academic who actually thinks for himself and is not a captive of the Left's pernicious group-think. His contact info.:
Mail: Hathaway Hall, Room 201
School of Government, Policy and Justice Studies
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Ray Sefo talks difficulty in decision to cancel PFL's 2020 season
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The Professional Fighters League was one of the first promotions to take definitive action amid the coronavirus outbreak.
After putting the season on hold, PFL decided to cancel their entire 2020 season, with all contracted fighters to receive monthly stipends.
It wasn't an easy decision to make, but PFL president Ray Sefo says due to the nature of the promotion's format, it would have been too difficult to try and resume operations with so much uncertainty surrounding the global pandemic.
"The decision was a difficult one because there's so many fighters of course," Sefo told MMA Junkie. "But when we looked at this world crisis and where it was heading, it just wasn't safe for our fighters to even get ready and at that point when we made the decision, there was just so many people getting affected and people dying left, right and center which was pretty sad.
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"So the safety of our fighters and our staff was the most important thing that played a big part in making that decision and we had to push the season as you know. The fighters, they gotta fight five times to get to the finals but also, the season takes like eight to nine months to complete so we just knew time-frame wise, the safety of our athletes and of course fans and everybody else involved, it was just the best thing to do."
The focus will now be on the 2021 season, as the promotion has no intentions of holding one-off shows in the meantime. PFL has recently signed the likes of former Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Justin Willis and Tyler Diamond, who will all have to wait before getting to make their promotional debuts.
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Liam McAlinden: "I heard the new head coach had mentioned he knew about me...that was really good to hear."
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Liam McAlinden vows to impress Kenny Jackett
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Liam McAlinden says he is ready for the step-up to senior football for Wolves next season.
Kenny Jackett has already vowed to mould a 'young and vibrant' team and the 19-year-old striker – who recently switched from Northern Ireland to the Republic – is likely to be a central figure.
"I heard the new head coach had mentioned he knew about me and that was really good to hear," the Cannock-born ace said.
"I've been making sure I have kept myself fit during the close season so I can come back and try to impress.
"I had a lot of games for the Under-21s last season, which was a good standard, so I feel I am ready to take the next step but I know it's up to me to prove it and earn my chance."
McAlinden made his debut as a substitute against Burnley at the end of April having been around Dean Saunders' first team for the final eight games.
"It has been a very difficult time for Wolves over the last couple of years but I think now it is about looking forward," McAlinden said.
"League One will be difficult but we will all be thinking positively and it would be something special for any of us to be involved in a push for promotion.
"We've got a new head coach in and it's a fresh start and up to us to make the most of it and do what we can to help the team.
"All the way through I feel I have managed to score goals where I have played, whether it be Academy or Under-21 football.
"Now it's about trying to prove I am capable of playing in League One and, if I can do that, trying to score goals again."
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update 13.
calamity in cameroon
7 March - 7 April, 2007
Total kilometers cycled: 19,250
Specific country info on routes & roads/food & accommodation/the locals available here.
It was with a sigh of relief that we crossed the border into Cameroon. The last 100 kilometers in Nigeria had been trying and we weary cyclists were in need of some R&R. Given the often horrific African road conditions, our Kogas have performed admirably, but after almost 20,000 kilometers we were bound to have some minor breakdowns. The derailleur failed us first, and forced Eric to backtrack to Calabar to hunt down a replacement. Not as easy as it sounds, since (unusually in Africa) bicycles are a rare sight, After several hours making the rounds in the market he finally chanced upon a small shop selling shoddy Chinese made spare parts. The replacement certainly doesn't compare with the original Shimano XT, but it will do in a pinch. Next came the chain, which inopportunely snapped in two on a bumpy track 50 kilometers from the remote Ekang border crossing. This would have been a routine repair, except that the tool required to mend or change the chain (a so-called chain-breaker) also broke. Eric took to pushing and we prayed for a vehicle to pass. In good time one did, but seeing our desperation the driver tried to extort the exorbitant sum of $100 USD to transport us to the next town. Thoroughly disgusted by his opportunism, we continued our tramp through the jungle. Eventually we were spared a 50 KM trek by an ingenious villager who deftly repaired the chain using a big nail and a wrench (or spanner for those of you in the UK ).
By the time we reached the border post, we were beat and bedraggled and hardly in the mood for hassles. The officer on the Nigerian side, who was obviously bored out of his mind, set off on a tirade as soon as we presented ourselves in his office. It was unacceptable for tourists to 'lollygag' about town 'consorting with idlers' before making themselves known to the proper authorities. After apologizing profusely for our breach of conduct (we had thought there would be no harm in drinking a coca-cola before exiting the country) he seemed to take a liking to us. In the end he was sorry to see us go and disappointed that we hadn't taken him up on his offer to camp outside his office. Our friendly official assured us that we were always welcome to come back and spend the night on the Nigeria side, where he could personally ensure our security and comfort .
There was a long wait on the other side of the border because the Cameroonian functionary had gone down to the river to bathe. When the officer finally did return he struck us as a jovial type, and although we normally avoid all undue contact with officialdom, we saw no harm in taking him up on his offer to camp. We had a great time 'snapping' the officers, debating the merits of life in Africa versus Europe, gazing at the star-filled sky and even enjoyed a refreshing communal wash in the river. Our stay in Cameroon was off to a good start--too bad our luck didn't hold.
We were riding through unspoiled equatorial rainforest now and were thankful to be tackling the deeply rutted roads during the dry season, before they turned into a river of red-earth. Over the months we had grown used to potholes and sand, washboard corrugations and rocky surfaces that resembled riverbeds. It seemed hardly worth the effort to complain about the state of the road as this was par for the course in Africa. Instead we let ourselves be enveloped by the dense jungle-- the distant bird calls, the gentle trickle of a nearby stream, the incessant whining of insects and the heavy, humid air. The locals were friendly and when we stopped to fill up on water we were offered fresh pineapple and mangoes. Perfect cycling apart from the annoying chants of 'white, white, white' from adults and children alike.
March 8th marks International Womens Day. Largely unnoticed in the West, this is serious cause for celebration in Cameroon. Throughout the day local politicians make lofty speeches, all-female teams take to the field for football matches, and young women in traditional attire move to the music of their ancestors. At sundown, as the official festivities wind down, the drinking spots start filling up, the music starts blaring and the locals get down to the serious business of getting very drunk. We'd done a fair bit of climbing on that particular day, had no interest in going on a drinking spree and wanted nothing more than to wash off the layer of accumulated grime and curl up in bed for a peaceful night's sleep. Difficult when you're being assaulted from all sides with a mixture of bad French rap and cheesy love songs being emitted from man-sized speakers at ear-shattering noise levels. We've also grown used to noise in Africa, but this was unbearable. Around midnight Amaya, suffering a severe migraine by this time, lumbered over to the nearest establishment and pleaded with the proprietor to turn down the music. He snickered at her request. In desperation she trotted off to the Catholic Mission Hospital up the road where an understanding Italian nun accommodated her in a quiet and spotlessly clean private room. In the morning we set off, Eric groggy and grumpy and Amaya energetic and refreshed, to face a demanding 20 KM climb snaking through Cameroon's tropical highlands.
Our arrival that afternoon in Bamenda coincided with the onset of the rains. The wind began to gust and then in quite spectacular fashion, the heavens opened and we were caught in the deluge. Fortunately, we found cover before the hail came thundering down, but the temperature plummeted so quickly we had to dig out our fleece jackets to keep warm. Everyone was in high spirits and the cool air was a relief after the hot and sticky weather we had endured. As we rode into town we spotted the first white person we'd seen since Benin. We couldn't help staring, just as the villagers do when we enter their settlements.
After treating ourselves to some decent meals and lazing around Bamenda for a few days, we felt ready to take on the Ring Road, reputed to traverse some of the finest scenery in all of Africa. We'd been forewarned of washed-out bridges, impossibly steep climbs and the usual dirt tracks supposedly impassable in the rainy season. Day one was a magnificent ride past terraced farmland and verdant rice paddies with volcanic mountains providing the backdrop. Day two proved to be one of the most demanding rides to date. Heading out of Wum we quickly left the rolling meadows behind and the gravel on the narrow track gave way to large rocks and deep crevices making riding impossible. We resigned ourselves to pushing and heaved our bikes up the steep inclines, slipping and sliding as we went. A gang of unkempt children with their pack of scrawny dogs followed silently behind. Ahead we saw the track winding its way around the mountainside and then disappearing into the distance. It was a daunting sight, even more so when a Fulani herder on horseback galloped by. This was obviously no place for wheeled vehicles. Nevertheless, we were reluctant to turn back--thus admitting defeat-- and so we struggled on. It was late afternoon and our arms were aching before we arrived in Fundong, at an altitude of 1400 meters, just 40 kilometers from our starting point.
Day three of the Ring Road found us back on tarmac and Eric whizzed through the mist and down the mountainside at perilous speeds. Amaya, whose mother was a nurse and fed her a steady diet of gory tales from the emergency room throughout her childhood, clipped along at a more prudent pace. And then suddenly Eric was sprawled out on the pavement, his gear scattered by the roadside and his bike all bent out of shape. Someone had had the bright idea of putting a speed bump at the bottom of a very long and steep hill. This was bad news for unwary cyclists and Eric had been taken by surprise. Almost immediately concerned passers-by pulled over to help. The locals ousted the goats they were transporting in the trunk, loaded Eric and his bike into their car and carted him off for treatment as a nearby Baptist mission hospital.
The upshot of this little mishap is that we've had to extend our stay in Cameroon. Eric's got a fractured clavicle and the doctor recommends at least 4 weeks off the bike. We've found a small house to rent here in Bamenda and are passing the days reading novels from the British Council Library, solving Sudoku puzzles, practicing yoga, volunteering at a local NGO and frittering away the rest of the time on the internet. In an effort to keep fit, Amaya has taken up jogging, and most days is followed around the field by a group of giggling school children.
Extending our visas was a taxing experience and a test of our patience and ability to...er...kiss ass. Cameroon was ranked dead last in a recent corruption index. Unless you want to fill the director's car up with petrol or slip a little something extra to the man in charge, playing the obsequious and grateful "whiteman" is the only way to get things done. We were shuffled around from office to office for four days before the pompous officials deigned to give us the magic stamp allowing us to spend 30 more days in Cameroon. You would think the country would be happy to take our 50,000 CFA (100 USD).
So, what's next? We would like to continue down the west coast of Africa through Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Congos and then on to Angola, Namibia and finally South Africa. This route will be complicated due to the rains in Gabon, the recent fighting in Kinshasa and the Angolan's unwillingness to grant visas. For now, we're just focusing on rest and recovery, we'll let the future sort itself out later.
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What Destiny 2 Does Right – and Wrong
Nikola Muckajev
Bungie's latest installment in the Destiny franchise has hit the ground running – and there's a lot it's learned from its predecessor.
Space mages, laser-blasts, and a massive spherical omnipotence. Yep, Destiny 2 hits all the checkmarks that its forebear did, but manages to do it with an air of experience and elegance that was far-removed from the first installation in Bungie's new epic franchise.
The first Destiny was a fantastic game – about two years after its initial release date. What Bungie promised and what they delivered were two very different things. By the end of the game's content lifecycle, Bungie had achieved what they had set out to. Unfortunately, it took a lot of missteps along the way with the player community in tow for them to figure it all out.
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Destiny 2 has thus far managed to circumvent the majority of the issues that previously hampered the franchise. A campaign, narrative injections in small and large doses, working PvP, a high amount of replayable content, a raid, and a wonderfully crafted hook to get you playing hours on end will enter the hallmarks as one of the best launches in recent memory.
That's all without mentioning that Bungie has broken out of the shackles that kept the first Destiny tied to a Sony console. For as snooty as it may seem, we can't stress enough the importance of trying to play Destiny 2 on PC – it really becomes an entirely different game.
Although one could argue that Destiny 1 didn't set a very high bar in terms of a narrative, D2 does its best with what has been laid out as a foundation in the infamous grimoire cards. It's a little upsetting, then, when you realize that the entire campaign of the vanilla game is just one giant set-up for whatever comes next.
The main Cabal antagonist, Ghaul, cuts an imposing figure for all of a third of the campaign – after which we only see him in a series of pre-rendered cutscenes that mostly amount to him pacing around his command center to and fro. We'll leave out the exact details of what happens next for those of you that've yet to finish it, but it suffices to say that the main narrative leaves one feeling as if they've just watched a five-hour reboot sequence.
Thankfully, Destiny 2 still places its focus on where it matters: gunplay and loot. It may take several hours before it settles in, but once it does – it's in there for good. Bungie have crafted a remarkably slick and polished experiences with dozens of varying gameplay loops that equally reward effort.
There doesn't seem to be much of a difference of what activity you're doing, as you'll more-or-less find it in a Bright Engram. These little nuggets of loot are doled out once a refills the XP bar each time at level cap. Not a bad idea, right? Except for when you attach microtransctions to it.
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While one could go out and farm activities for XP to convert into Bright Engrams, they can just as easily load up on Silver and exchange those for a handful. If you guessed that Silver is only purchasable through real-world money, you guessed right. Although buying Bright Engrams cheapens the experience only for the player utilizing it, it is disheartening to see Bungie place another revenue stream so blatantly. They may argue that it's only an optional shortcut for players looking to invest more money – and they're right, but it's still a blatant grab at more funds, and one that never needed to be included.
Ultimately, the experience presented by Bungie is more than worth the price of admission. The added voice lines, character interactions, and existence of a sing player/co-op campaign that unlocks for additional replayability in the end was a great addition. The art remains on the same industry-leading standard, along with a score that will make any Martin McDonnel fan squeal with glee. Destiny 2 may still share some of the symptoms plaguing triple-A games, but they've managed no to let it gestate into a cancer the likes of which EA is currently dealing with – at least, not for now.
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Created: Tuesday, 12 April 2011	Last Updated: Wednesday, 26 February 2014	Written by Nathan Zipfel	Print	Email
FROM THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY OF DELAWARE TO THE SECOND WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN
The sparsely-peopled territory, which in the anger of defeat at the removal of the court-house from "Old Chester"—for so the ancient borough now began to be termed, to distinguish it from the newly-born West Chester—had formed a separate county government, now began bravely to organize its local administration, select its officers, and prepared to meet the obligations it had assumed. So bitter had been the quarrel respecting the removal of the seat of justice in the old county of Chester, that in those townships which had been erected into Delaware County, regret for the step taken seldom found utterance, notwithstanding the cost of separate government soon began to be oppressive to the taxpayers. The people unwillingly paid their taxes, scolded the rulers for want of economy in county matters, but rarely reflected that the additional cost had been the direct outcoming of their own action. The burden of maintaining public highways and county bridges particularly bore heavily on the people. The Queen's Highway from Darby to Chester, and the King's Highway from Chester to the State of Delaware, formed the direct line of communication to the Southern States, and travel was exceedingly heavy on these roads. The county was unable to keep those thoroughfares in good repair; their condition in winter time was so wretched that the press of that day, as well as travelers' letters, constantly referred to them in the most uncomplimentary terms. The State, at length, in order that the county of Delaware might be relieved in a measure of the oppressive cost for the maintenance of these roads, which, in the major part, was incurred for the benefit of persons residing without her borders, authorized the county commissioners, by act of Assembly, April 11, 1799, to place toll-gates on the post-road for the term of five years, when the law expired by limitation, and to collect tolls from persons using that highway. The county commissioners, in compliance with the law, placed a toll-gate at the bridge over Ridley Creek, and the following schedule of tolls was observed:
Coach, light wagon, or other pleasurable carriage, with Four wheels and four horses 25 cents.
Coach, light wagon, or other pleasurable carriage, with two wheels and two horses 15 "
Chairs, sulkey, etc., with one horse 10 "
Sleigh, with two horses 6"
Man and horse 2"
Wagon, with four horses 12 "
Wagon, with two horses 8"
Cart and horse 4"
Every additional horse to carriages of pleasure 4"
Every additional horse to carriages of burden 2"
In 1793 the yellow fever raged as a dire pestilence in Philadelphia. It is related that a party of boys in that year, at Chester, went in a boat to a vessel lying in the stream on which were several persons ill with the disease, and in that way it was communicated to some of the residents of the town and neighborhood, but it did not spread, nor was it as fatal as the same malady proved to be five years thereafter. Ninety-four years before the period of which I am now writing, in 1699, when for the first time we have undoubted record of the yellow fever visiting the shores of the Delaware, Chester and the adjacent settlements suffered severely, but beyond that fact very meagre particulars respecting it have been preserved. In 1793, however, the scourge in Philadelphia was so malignant that the city was almost depopulated; those of its inhabitants, as a rule, who had the means, fled for safety to the surrounding country districts. The record of the noble deeds of a few men who remained in Philadelphia in that appalling time to minister to the sick and dying, as well as to give assistance and succor to the poor and needy, in true heroism far exceeds the achievements of the ordinary class of soldiers with whom history deals, who amid the din and smoke of battle sought the bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth, and for their courage have received the unstinted praises of poets and historians alike. Nor is the cool, calm bravery of the men alluded to the only matter disclosed by the minutes of citizens which is worthy of commendation: in other respects these records present a grand testimonial to the higher and better nature of mankind.
I have just narrated the difficulties encountered by the inhabitants of this section in meeting the expenses of the county; but when the cry of distress went up from Philadelphia it awakened a responsive sympathy throughout our territory, and from people in all condition of circumstances contributions freely came. It is an interesting fact that the first donation from Delaware County, which was received Oct. 4, 1793, was from "Widow Grubb, of Chester," who presented "eighteen bundles of shirts and shifts for the use of the orphans under the care of the committee." On the 12th of the same month, John Pearson, of Darby, informed that body that a sum of money had been collected for the use of the orphans, and the same day Benjamin Brannan, of Upper Darby, gave notice that the people of Delaware County were raising money for the relief of the sick in the hospital and for persons in distress. On the 15th the committee was notified that £161 6s. 6d. had been collected in Delaware County; that Nathaniel Newlin, of Darby, was ready to pay that sum to any person authorized to receive it. The letter also stated that further contributions might be looked for. Henry De Forest was instructed to go to Newlin's house, near Darby, and receive the money, which he did. October 16th Mathew Carey and Caleb Lownes met Isaac Lloyd at Weed's Ferry, on the Schuylkill, from whom they received $1448.21, being part of the subscription made by citizens of Philadelphia residing in the neighborhood of Darby, to be applied to the use of the sick and poor of that city. Two days thereafter, the 28th, Mathew Carey and Caleb Lownes by appointment visited Nathaniel Newlin's house, and received $641.91, a further donation from Delaware County, while the same day Thomas Levis, of Springfield, sent $13 for the like purpose. On December 1st, John Pearson, of Darby, paid £12 10s., an additional sum raised by our people, and on Jan. 18, 1794, the committee acknowledge $34.69 from citizens of Philadelphia residing in and near Darby. The contribution from Delaware County amounted in all to S1291.57, a record of which this locality may justly be proud, when it is remembered that at that time the population was less than ten thousand persons all told. The sum just stated was exclusive of the donations "from citizens of Philadelphia residing in and near Darby," which fund was contributed, among others, by Col. Thomas Leiper, of Ridley; John Wall, a large real-estate owner in our county; Edward Tilghman, that distinguished lawyer, who refused the chief-justiceship of Pennsylvania, that it might be bestowed on his kinsman, William Tilghman, and whose country-seat was in Nether Providence, where Samuel C. Lewis now resides; Raper Hoskins, who then owned the estate, and spent his summers at Greenbank, more recently the Porter House, at Chester, and others deserving prominent places in the history of Delaware County, as well as in that of the city of Philadelphia.
In 1798 the yellow fever visited Philadelphia again, and once more the people fled, many carrying with them the seeds of the disease in their systems, to spread it at the places of refuge they sought. Mrs. Deborah Logan records that a woman from Philadelphia, dying of the fever in Chester, "exacted a promise from some of her friends that her body should be brought back to the city and buried in consecrated ground, and that in consequence of this bad vow the infection was first caught in the borough (Chester), where it spread with frightful rapidity, and depopulated whole families and streets."* On Edgmont Avenue, from Fourth Street to the river, there were then only seventeen houses within the space mentioned; more than thirty persons died, while in one of those dwellings** all the family excepting a boy of five years fell a victim to the plague. Indeed, it is stated that almost one-fifth of the population of Chester was swept away before the fever had subsided. At Chester Mills, now Upland, it was very virulent. Richard Flower, the owner of the mills, was so severely attacked that he was believed to be dead; but when the burial party was about to place him in the coffin he spoke, and subsequently recovered, to live nearly half a century thereafter. The cooper-shop at that place was made a hospital, and it is traditionally asserted that three dead bodies at one time were then awaiting interment. Only thirty persons constituted the entire population. In other localities near by the disease was equally fatal.
The power of the Federal government to impose taxes, or in any wise to act within the limits of the several States, was during Washington's administration very imperfectly understood, and from that ignorance the difficulties in Western Pennsylvania, known in history as the Whiskey Insurrection, had their origin. The settlers of that part of our commonwealth were largely Scotch-Irish, and naturally in traditions descended from fathers to sons recitals of the oppressive acts of the excisemen in the mother-country in discharging their official duties, which narrations had so moulded the opinions of their descendants that, throughout all our colonial and early State history, any excise tax was regarded with open disapproval by a large class of citizens. During the Revolutionary war the whole people submitted to the levying of duties on distilled liquors, yet at the conclusion of that contest those who were opposed to the measure combined and secured the repeal of the act of 1772 providing for the tax. Hence when Congress, on March 3, 1791, at the suggestion of Secretary Hamilton, imposed a duty of four pence per gallon on distilled liquors, the law was openly defied in Fayette, Alleghany, Westmoreland, and Washington Counties of this State. President Washington, on Sept. 15, 1792, issued a proclamation requiring all persons to cease their resistance and submit to the law, which failed to have the desired effect. On June 5, 1794, Congress amended the law, which action on its part, instead of satisfying those hostile to the tax, merely resulted in making them more clamorous for its absolute repeal. Deputy marshals and collectors, who had theretofore only been tarred and feathered, were now fired upon by large bodies of armed men and compelled to promise they would not attempt to exercise their authority. The Federal government, however, determined to enforce the law, and instructions were issued to indict those distillers who refused to pay the duties. These instructions on the part of the administration were productive of widespread disorder and organized open defiance. President Washington, on Aug. 9, 1794, published another proclamation, requiring all associations whose object was resistance to the excise law to disperse on or before the 1st of September following, at the same time directing a force of nearly thirteen thousand men to be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia to suppress the insurrectionary movement, which body of soldiers was required "to be held in readiness to march at a moment's warning."
On the same day Governor Mifflin called for the quota assigned to Pennsylvania, five thousand two hundred men, directing them to be armed and equipped as quickly as possible. The number of troops required from Delaware County was twenty cavalrymen and sixteen artillerymen, which force was to compose part of the Second Brigade of the Third Division, under command of Brig.-Gen. Thomas Proctor.*** The call, however, was not responded to with alacrity, for Secretary Dallas, in his report to the Senate of Pennsylvania, says, "Returns from the County of Delaware, dated the 6th of September, 1794, stating a variety of difficulties that leave little hope of procuring by regular drafts the quota of this county," and he reiterated that assertion in his "report relative to the want of promptness of the militia,"(4*) dated Jan. 16, 1795. Indeed, from a letter written by Attorney-General Ingersoll to Governor Mifflin, May 25, 1795, it appears that in order to raise the quota in both Chester and Delaware Counties three thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars had to be paid in bounties, Secretary Dallas pledging his personal credit to procure the amount expended.(5*) Why the quota of Delaware County was placed at only thirty-six men is difficult to understand, when we remember that in May of the same year, under the call of the President for ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-four militia in Pennsylvania to be held in readiness during the threatening difficulties on the frontier, our county was required to furnish two hundred and sixty-two men. And it is equally incomprehensible why any difficulty was had in raising thirty-six men in the Whiskey Insurrection, when it is considered that in May, 1794, Governor Mifflin had ordered Adjt. Gen. Harmer to immediately organize and equip the militia of Philadelphia and the county of Delaware to be in readiness, if needed, to prevent any breaches of the neutrality laws by the cruisers of England or France within this State, or the equipment of any privateer at Philadelphia by either of the belligerent powers.
However, Capt. William Graham, a lawyer, of Chester, raised a company of cavalry, the greater part of the organization being recruited or drafted from the neighborhood of Chester, and the quota of Delaware County was filled. When the troop was ready to march the ladies of Ridley township presented it with a white silk flag, trimmed with fringe of like material. On it was painted a figure of Washington in full military costume, to whom an American eagle was descending bearing in its claws a sprig of laurel, while from its mouth was a ribbon with the motto, "Liberty or Death." The allegorical picture was surrounded by flags, drums, cannons, and other military emblems.(6*)
Governor Henry Lee, of Virginia, as chief commander of the army, took up the line of march for the scene of tumult, and an imposing body it was when we recall that Governor Thomas Mifflin led the Pennsylvania troops, Governor Richard Howell, of New Jersey, those from his State, Governor Thomas S. Lee those from Maryland, and Gen. Daniel Morgan those from Virginia. President Washington, accompanied by Gen. Knox, Secretary of War, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, and Judge Richard Peters, followed the army. In the mean time the more conservative part of the inhabitants of the offending counties, when they learned that the overwhelming force was coming against them, dispatched a committee to visit the President. An interview was had, and the campaign finally ended without further bloodshed. A few of the leaders in the insurrectionary outbreak were subsequently tried, and convicted of treason. They were, however, pardoned by Washington, and the rebellion, which at one time promised to be difficult of suppression, melted away before the determined action of the Federal government.
The general history of Delaware County, until the declaration of war between Great Britain and the United States, is very meagre of stirring incidents, and little took place excepting those matters which belong to the story of the several townships, or judicial narrative, which will be related under these headings, so that it is unnecessary to refer to those events in this summary of the county's annals. Dr. Smith has so admirably portrayed this placid period in our history that a reproduction of his statement will sufficiently represent the quiet but certain progress of that day. "Owing to the European war that raged during this period," he says, "the commerce of our country was benefited, and there was an increased demand for its agricultural products. Our county fully shared these advantages, and the result was an effort on the part of our farmers to improve their lands, and thereby to increase their products. These lands in many places had become exhausted by a system of bad farming that is generally adopted in new countries, and it was not then uncommon to see large tracts abandoned for agricultural purposes and left uninclosed. These exhausted tracts generally received the appellation of 'old fields.' The use of gypsum and lime as manures now began to be introduced; the former at first worked almost miracles by the increased productiveness it imparted to the soil. It was soon discovered, however, that its effects were greatly diminished by repeated application, and, as a consequence, it became less used; while lime, though slow in developing its benefits, soon became the general favorite with our farmers, and deservedly so, for it cannot be denied that it was owing to its extensive and continued application, combined with a better system of farming, that much of this county has been brought from an exhausted condition to its present state of fertility and productiveness."
* Mrs. Deborah Logan's manuscript "Reminiscences of Chester," contributed as notes to John F. Watson's "Visit to Chester in 1827," in collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
** The house adjoining on the north, the present residence of Jonathan Pennell.
*** In William Whitehead's "Historical Sketch of the Borough of Chester" (Directory of Chester, 1859—60) it is stated, "Chester sent a company of infantry to the scene of disturbance, under the command of Capt. William Graham." Dr. Smith merely says that Delaware County furnished a company under Capt. Graham, and refers to the Directory of Chester as authority for the statement. An article written in 1854 by William H. Dillingham, and published in the West Chester Republican (quoted at large in Martin's "History of Chester," pp. 169—170), entitled "Reminiscences of William Graham, Esq.," says, "He commanded a troop of cavalry in the western expedition." Benjamin M. Nead, Esq., of Harrisburg, in a sketch of the life of Brig.-Gen. Thomas Proctor (Penna. Mag. of History, vol. iv. p. 466), states that "on August 7, 1794, Gen. Proctor was placed in command of the First Brigade, which marched with 1849 men, 96 of which were from Delaware county." The foregoing statement is the only one wherein the gross number of men is given, other than that which is presented in the text. The latter I derived from various papers (in the fourth volume, second series, Pennsylvania Archives) relating to the Whiskey Insurrection. Yet Mr. Nead may be correct in the number mentioned, for he is a gentleman whose assertion on an historical point is always worthy of respect and consideration. Unfortunately, I cannot find on record, at Media, the election returns for the year 1794. The troops called into service voted in the fields, and the duplicates for that year, if they could be found in the prothonotary's office, would give the names of every man from this county, and, of course, to obtain the number would be a simple matter of addition.
(4*) Penna. Archives, 2d series, vol. iv. p. 306.
(5*) Ib., p. 532.
(6*) In 1840 this flag was in the possession of Dr. Joseph Wilson. It was carried in the great Whig procession, at Chester, on July 23d of that year by the delegation from Springfield.
Source: Page(s) 83-86, History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, by Henry Graham Ashmead, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. 1884
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