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In the News (Sat 22 Nov 08)

  
  First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Erskine Childers
In 1921 Childers was elected to the Dail Eireann as TD for County Wicklow; in March that year he was appointed Dail Minister for Publicity and editor of the Irish Bulletin, a republican newsletter.
A principal secretary in the Irish peace delegation to London in late 1921 Childers himself strongly opposed the terms of the proposed treaty.
An appeal pending in the High Court, Childers was nonetheless executed by firing squad in Portobello Barracks on 24 November 1922.
www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/childers.htm   (530 words)

  
 The Richmond Review, Essay, Pen and Sword: The Enigma of Erskine Childers by Brett F. Woods
But while Childers, at least at this early juncture, never openly questioned the rectitude of British imperialist attitudes, it is entirely possible that his conversations with Boer prisoners first led him to ponder the fundamental dichotomy between his own love of freedom and the nature of empire (Knight xi).
Childers aligned himself with the Irish in the south and, due to his convictions, even engaged in a bit of gun running for the Irish Volunteers.
Childers was armed with the ivory handled, miniature.32 calibre Spanish automatic pistol presented to him by Michael Collins, but did not fire, fearing that some of the non-combatants in the house might be injured.
www.richmondreview.co.uk /library/pen__and_sword.html   (4030 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Welfare Brat: A Memoir by
The Childers family culture was infused with alcohol and drugs, and relations between the sexes were muddled by simultaneous feelings of rage and desire toward men.
The depth and complexity of the individuals, particularly Childers's alternately selfish and sympathetic mother, is a testament to her compassion as a writer and her ability to empathize with and forgive people's flaws.
Childers neither romanticizes nor bemoans her family's struggle, but tells her story candidly in prose that sparkles with energy and wit, speaking wisely on everything from race relations to the Church's stance on birth control.
www.powells.com /biblio?show=1582345864   (620 words)

  
 Childers pledges AVMA presidency to unity - September 1, 2005
Childers, who, at the time, was AVMA president-elect, was addressing the AVMA House of Delegates July 15 prior to the AVMA Annual Convention in Minneapolis.
Childers, a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, has owned and managed a small animal practice in Cranston since the 1950s.
As AVMA president, Dr. Childers said he would encourage the commission of financial surveys for the purpose of motivating undergraduates to seek specialty status, which results in higher-paying jobs.
www.avma.org /onlnews/javma/sep05/050901i.asp   (950 words)

  
 Michelle Childers: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Childers said one teacher is in recovery from an accident, so the children have written her letters; when she writes back, they get mail.
Childers did not qualify for a grant this term, but still feels the rates at the CDC are very reasonable for the structured care that is provided.
Childers is a history major and plans to finish at MHCC this summer.
www.zoominfo.com /people/Childers_Michelle_1013815074.aspx   (533 words)

  
 The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, 1903
The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, 1903
Childers, shown here in a photo around the time of the Boer War, was a cousin of Hugh Childers, who served Gladstone as First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of War.
Childers became an advocate of Irish Home Rule and he and his wife used their sailboat to smuggle to the Irish rebels in July, 1914, arms which served as the basis for the Easter uprising of 1916.
www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/rec/rs.html   (434 words)

  
 Honor the fallen: Marine 2nd Lt. Therrel S. Childers
Second Lt. Therrel Childers, 30, whose parents live in Powell, died March 21 after being shot in the abdomen in an assault on a pumping station in Iraq.
Childers’ father, Joe, and brother, Sam, attended a memorial service at the South Carolina university in late October, at which the Citadel Chorale sang and a list of Citadel alumni who died in the past year was read.
Childers grew up in a military family primarily in Harrison County, Miss., and enlisted after high school.
www.militarycity.com /valor/256526.html   (350 words)

  
 Flying Childers
Flying Childers was bred by Colonel Leonard Childers of Cantley Hall, Doncaster in Yorkshire, sired by Richard Darley's Arabian, imported from Aleppo, Syria around 1704.
Carrying the name of his breeder, "Childers" was sold to the Duke of Devonshire, for whom he raced and alternately became known as Devonshire Childers or Flying Childers.
Flying Childers was a successful sire but nearly as good at stud as he was on the turf.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/FlyingChilders.html   (591 words)

  
 Home Page
Childers Photography is a full service photography studio.
Childers Photography is one of Dayton, Ohio's best wedding photography studios.
Childers Photography wedding style is the "Contemporary Artist".
www.childersphoto.com   (88 words)

  
  cbs2chicago.com - Mary Ann Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stationed in Israel, Childers was the first Chicago television reporter to file from the Persian Gulf during the War in 1991.
During her 14 years at Chicago’s WLS-TV, Childers was the first female to anchor a leading 10:00 PM newscast in Chicago.
Childers began her broadcasting career in Chicago as an associate producer for “The Phil Donahue Show,” and worked at WAVE-TV in Louisville, Ky., and at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Ind. before coming back home to Chicago.
cbs2chicago.com /bios/local_bio_092155531.html   (683 words)

  
  Carl C. Childers
Childers, C.C. Biological control of phytophagous mites on Florida citrus utilizing predatory arthropods.
Childers, C.C. The nature and extent of feeding and oviposition injuries to plants by thrips, pp.
Childers, C.C. Practical use of horticultural mineral oils integrated pest and disease management programs and their impact on natural enemies, pp.
entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu /childers.htm   (625 words)

  
  Breakingnews: Childers sentenced to 3 1/2 years in Escambia bribery case
Childers, 69, was brought to the Okaloosa County Courthouse from the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, where he has been serving a 60-day sentence since Tuesday for unrelated violations of Florida's open-government "sunshine" law.
Childers was sentenced by Circuit Judge Jere Tolton, who served in the Legislature with him as a state representative in the 1970s.
Childers eventually pleaded no contest to the latter charge, but he reserved the right to appeal it and the conviction.
www.sptimes.com /2003/05/16/Breakingnews/Childers_sentenced_to.shtml   (706 words)

  
 Complaint Against Judge Childers - Kidjacked
Childers is fully aware of this possible consequence - during the course of the ten-day trial, he specifically heard detailed testimony from cultural, behavioral, and psychological experts about the bond, reunification, and root-seeking that occurs between adopted children and their birth parents, especially among those of interracial or intercultural upbringing.
Childers labeled Anna Mae's mother as a woman marked by "a pattern of instability, deceitfulness and dishonesty" and ignored her successful care of her other children in the four-year battle to defend her parental rights.
Childers knew that to prove willful abandonment, he must also discount Hes' April 9, 2001 petition to modify custody, because that petition was filed only two months and twelve days after the last visit and two months prior to the Bakers' petition to terminate the Hes' parental rights.
kidjacked.com /judges/he/complaint_against_judge_childers.asp   (11679 words)

  
 Robert Erskine Childers Summary
Robert Erskine Childers was born in London on 25 June 1870, the son of Anna Mary Henrietta Barton Childers and Robert Caesar Childers, the famous Orientalist.
Childers was born in London to a Protestant family originally from Glendalough, Ireland.
Childers was secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty with the British government, but he was vehemently opposed to the final draft of the agreement, particularly the clauses that required Irish leaders to take an Oath of Allegiance to the British king.
www.bookrags.com /Robert_Erskine_Childers   (2114 words)

  
 Orthodontist Kyle R. Childers, DMD, MS, serving Benton, Harrisburg, and DuQuoin
Childers was born and raised in Marion, Illinois.
Childers attends numerous continuous education seminars and is committed to remaining current in all aspects of his orthodontic practice.
Childers is a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Benton, where he serves as Deacon and Sunday school teacher for the married couples class ages 20-30.
www.childersbraces.com /team.htm   (1455 words)

  
 99-7023 -- McFarland v. Childers -- 05/10/2000
The district court ruled that Agent Childers was not entitled to qualified immunity on either of plaintiff Amy Jewel McFarland's claims: (1) that Agent Childers improperly detained her on October 25, 1996, thereby violating the Fourth Amendment; and (2) that Agent Childers violated the Fourth Amendment by executing probable cause affidavits wrongfully charging Ms.
It stated that "[g]iven the explanations provided by [Agent Childers] for the actions that she took and the law governing detention and probable cause for arrests," it could not determine on summary judgment that Agent Childers's actions were reasonable.
In particular, Agent Childers argues that a public official could reasonably conclude that, under Oklahoma law, evidence that one has lied to a police officer may be sufficient to support a charge of being an accessory after the fact to the commission of a felony.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2000/05/99-7023.htm   (5336 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Welfare Brat: A Memoir: Books: Mary Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Childers neither romanticizes nor bemoans her family's struggle, but tells her story candidly in prose that sparkles with energy and wit, speaking wisely on everything from race relations to the Church's stance on birth control.
Childers describes her journey from a childhood growing up on welfare in the Bronx, one of seven children with four different fathers, to her life as a consultant with a Ph.D. in English literature.
Childers' unusual spirit allowed her to achieve academically and socially, however, the author does not leave out the harsh realities of trying to achieve in a world that likes to insist that all it takes to "make it" is hard work, when in reality, the odds are stacked against those in poverty.
www.amazon.com /Welfare-Brat-Memoir-Mary-Childers/dp/1582345864   (3073 words)

  
 Childers hopes to extend 4th year as starter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Childers took the customary razzing from her older teammates, had to sweep the floor, pay her dues.
Childers moves out on the wing, where she can connect on three-point shots with regularity or drop the ball back inside to Pedersen.
Childers has earned an academic scholarship to Arizona State (top 3 percent of her class) but is considering playing basketball at Colorado College, Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and the University of Redlands in California.
www.azcentral.com /sports/preps/se/articles/1203sev-childers03.html   (789 words)

  
 Childers empowers women who have Syndrome O
Childers can explain to them, in layman’s terms, how PCO is due to an underlying metabolic problem known as insulin resistance.
Childers, once miserable in her own body, referred to the condition as a “vicious cycle of overnourishment, ovarian confusion and ovulation disruption.”
As Childers helps other women prepare their own individual strategic plans, she tells them, “We must not forget we are setting examples for our children.
www.thesylvaherald.com /081904/html/childers_empowers_women_who_ha.html   (953 words)

  
 Bartlet's Bartlett's Childers
Later called Bleeding Childers due to his vascular problems, his name was changed again after his purchase by John Bartlet of Nuttle Court (also spelled Nutwith Coate), near Masham, Yorkshire.
Miss Mayes (b f 1737) was the dam of the useful sire Skim (gr c 1746), he the sire of Young Hag (gr f 1761), the taproot of Family 5-a.
Several unnamed daughters of Bartlet's Childers were early foundation mares in a number of families, including Family 3, Family 22, and Family 35.
www.bloodlines.net /TB/Bios/BartletsChilders.htm   (1982 words)

  
 World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Lt. Col. Ernest Childers
Childers received the Medal of Honor for heroic action in 1943 when, up against machine gun fire, he and eight men charged the enemy.
Childers, Creek Indian, is one of two Chilocco alumni to receive the Medal of Honor.
Childers' nephew said his uncle is a hero among military men and women and American Indians.
www.medalofhonor.com /ErnestChilders.htm   (2046 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Childers, shown here in a photo around the time of the Boer War, was a cousin of Hugh Childers, who served Gladstone as First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of War.
Although the book was not published until 1915 in the United States, Childers in 1903 traveled to the United States, where he met and married Mollie Osgood, daughter of a Boston physician.
Childers became an advocate of Irish Home Rule and he and his wife used their sailboat to smuggle to the Irish rebels in July, 1914, arms which served as the basis for the Easter uprising of 1916.
robroy.dyndns.info /books/rec/childers.html   (439 words)

  
 Childers - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
The name of the town of Childers comes either from the village of Childre in Oxfordshire (there are other Oxfordshire names in the area including Didcot, Abingdon and the Isis River) or from the Rt Hon Hugh Childers, Auditor-General of Victoria.
The centrepieces of Childers charm are the Childers Pharmaceutical Museum and the Olde Butcher Shoppe, both of which are specialist museums where the history of particular trades can be explored.
Over the road is the Childers Court House (1897) which is a fine and well preserved example of the kind of country Court Houses built throughout Queensland at the turn of the century.
www.smh.com.au /news/Queensland/Childers/2005/02/17/1108500202242.html   (1686 words)

  
 State: Childers freed pending appeals
Childers, 69, had served all but two weeks of the 60 days he received for discussing public business in private with other commissioners.
Circuit Judge Jere Tolton has sentenced Childers to 31/2 years in prison for bribing another suspended commissioner, Willie Junior, to vote for the county's purchase of a defunct Pensacola soccer complex from an old friend of Childers in 2001.
Maney ruled that Childers could be freed under the same bail in the sunshine case.
www.sptimes.com /2003/06/20/State/Childers_freed_pendin.shtml   (296 words)

  
 Binky Records - Squirrel Records - Southern Music at its Best
The lure of Nashville was too much for Bob Childers to resist and in 1986 he made the move.
But just as Childer's music was gaining the acceptance he had worked so hard for, the rest of his world started to collapse.
Bob Childers once wrote, "it's a long time from seed to the grain." Nothing could be more true when thinking about this project.
www.binkyrecords.com /artists/childers   (1376 words)

  
 The Many Lives of Nathan Childers
Childers is a man of essential contradictions both in his literary and his personal life.
This would be possible were it not that it is well known that he was also running guns in Afghanistan for the CIA at the same time, all of which is a remarkable feat for a habitue of the Parisian Cafes.
Her attempts to trace the literary influences in Childers' work probably have nothing to do whatever influences may exist but they are as close to the truth as any other account would be.
www.tiac.net /~cri/1998/childers3.html   (459 words)

  
 Childers
As a substitute for the group presentation, Childers assigned a research paper requiring students to interview a professional in the workplace or research the importance of communication skills in the workplace.
Childers watched the tapes and provided comments on evaluation sheets sent back to the students.
Childers advised those in the course to find their audiences through clubs or other organizations in their area.
www.news.ecu.edu /poe/1004/childers.html   (830 words)

  
 A. Layle "Petey" Childers
Childers won a prize in high school, you know, and that would be wrong.
Childers, a man is trimming the trees and he has poison ivy, and he’s scratching so much he can’t get much work done.
Childers, you know, and she was an antique bug.
www.nps.gov /hstr/OHP/childers_p/childers_interview.htm   (9278 words)

  
 The Many Lives of Nathan Childers
Childers is a man of essential contradictions both in his literary and his personal life.
This would be possible were it not that it is well known that he was also running guns in Afghanistan for the CIA at the same time, all of which is a remarkable feat for a habitue of the Parisian Cafes.
Her attempts to trace the literary influences in Childers' work probably have nothing to do whatever influences may exist but they are as close to the truth as any other account would be.
home.tiac.net /~cri/1998/childers3.html   (459 words)

  
 Childers Is Off To Kona - IRONMAN.com
The next thing Childers remembers she was sitting on the curb, her helmet cracked, an ambulance’s siren blaring in the background.
Childers’ lottery yarn is a fascinating one beyond her bicycle crash.
About once a week Childers leaves her house in the dark, straps on a headlamp and jogs 13 1/2 miles to work, then makes it a marathon day on the return home.
live.ironmanlive.com /events/ironman/worldchampionship/matthew-dale-profiles-lottery-winner-jill-childers   (985 words)

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