| Central Baptist Church Records, 1895-1901
Editor's note: The actual deed as recorded contained a clause that the land would belong to the church for so long as it was used for church purposes. After the church dissolved, the land apparently reverted to the Knight family, and as of April, 2000, the land belongs to Georgia-Pacific Corp. through its North American Timber Company] Central Church June 9th 1895 Services by Bro. Sims, but no conference on account inclement weather.
J. R. Rodgers church clerk Central Church July 13th 1895
After services by Bro. J. B. Sims, the church assembled in conference. 1st Minute of last meeting was read and adopted. 2nd Called for reference. 1st The dimensions committee made a report, to-wit, They had agreed on a house thirty-six feet wide, Sixty feet long, Eighteen foot walls, one door on each side, three by seven feet, one in front end five feet and eight in wide.
Sidecar takes centre of collector’s attention
The Ural story begins in 1939, during the USSRs pre-World War II planning. Despite the Molotov/von Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union knew it would soon be going to war against Adolf Hitler, the ruthless dictator of the German Third Reich. Joseph Stalin ordered the military to prepare all areas of operation, including the ground forces that would defend the Russian motherland against invading German Panzers, ground troops, and Special Forces. Having seen the effects of the Blitzkrieg against the Polish Army, mobilisation was of paramount importance to the USSR. A meeting was held at the USSR Defence Ministry to discuss what motorcycle model was most suitable for the Red Army. The Army had wanted to modernise its equipment after termination of the military conflict with Finland, as the motorcycles it had been using had not worked satisfactorily.
Stocks await Bernanke
Investors shrugged off a string of bad economic news on Tuesday, including a surge in wholesale prices and a weak reading on consumer confidence, to finish that session higher. But they appeared less upbeat on Wednesday, as the dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro and crude prices kept up their record run. All eyes are on Bernanke, who is due to testify before the House Financial Services Committee. Investors will be looking for clues about what the Fed plans to do with interest rates. They'll also scrutinize comments any comments he makes about the economy and credit problems. Also, two economic reports are expected today. Durable orders are expected to show decline of 4% in January, according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com. In December, durable goods orders fell 5.2%.
2 held, cops ‘unearth’ court blasts plot
The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on Saturday claimed to have unearthed the plot behind the serial court blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi after the arrest of two alleged members of the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami. The two — Mohammad Tariq Kasmi of Rani Sarai in Azamgarh, and Khalid Mujahid of Madiyahun, Jaunpur — were caught near Barabanki station, 30 km from Lucknow, around 6.20 am. The cops claimed to have seized 1.25 kg of RDX and three detonators from Tariq and ammonium nitrate and three more detonators from Mujahid. Additional Director-General (law and order) Brij Lal said Tariq, who has been an active member of HuJI since 2003, was part of its administrative wing while Mujahid used to execute the assignments, which included planting bombs.
City's two-wheel transformation
London is likely to become one of the most cycle-friendly places in the world, with a series of two-wheeler superhighways cutting a swath through traffic and congestion. Plans for the super-cycleways will be unveiled next week as part of an initiative to stimulate a 400% increase in the number of people pedalling round the capital by 2025. At a cost of £400m, the 12 routes are intended to be the motorways of cycling and are likely to be emulated by other cities across the UK. Londoners without bikes will be able to use one of the city's free bicycles. "We want nothing short of a cycling transformation in London," said the mayor, Ken Livingstone. "We are announcing the biggest investment in cycling in London's history, which will mean that thousands more Londoners can cycle in confidence, on routes that take them quickly and safely to where they want to go." The cycle scheme is one of several environmental announcements expected in the capital over the coming weeks, including a decision on plans for a £25-a-day congestion charge on the highest-polluting vehicles and a proposal to re-fit 900 civic buildings across the capital to make them more energy-efficient.
Too much adulation is barely enough
I say the coverage we have of the Oscars is too little, too brief, too fly-by-night. We do not need to cut back these orgies of acclaim, we need to extend them, to spread out in minute detail the glittering panoply of famous, soon-to-be-famous and should-not-have-found-fame-in-the-first-place participants. What, apart from interest rates, rental prices and attaining eternal slenderness, do we obsess about more than celebrity? What water cooler topic fills our office days, our magazine literature and our news and current affairs shows? Famous people. Famous people and what they do and say and wear and buy and decide to marry in a European castle. We might not know what some of our relatives have been up to recently but you'd be hard pressed to find a friend or colleague who doesn't know Nicole Kidman is expecting a baby.
the has-been
And because he got pounded at the polls, Schwarzenegger turned himself back into a centrist who's now riding the wave instead of drowning in the tsunami. Rigged districts defeat the very reason we have a House of Representatives in the first place. The founders wanted one chamber that would be held accountable to the popular will every two years. When the Electoral College is wrong, at least it's a wrong the framers intended. Thanks to DeLay, conservatives who now want their party to surrender Congress in November may find that they can't lose for trying. The irony is profoundly tragic: A Republican Congress that owed its existence to the term-limits movement went on to build the most absurd system of incumbent protection since the Great Wall of China. If the GOP somehow holds on next month, voters will have every right to suspect the election was stolen.
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