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One night last May, some twenty financiers and politicians met for dinner in the Tuscany private dining room at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. The eight-course meal included blinis with caviar; a fennel, grapefruit, and pomegranate salad; cocoa-encrusted beef tenderloin; and blue-cheese panna cotta. The richest man in the room was Leon Cooperman, a Bronx-born, sixty-nine-year-old billionaire. Cooperman is the founder of a hedge fund called Omega Advisors, but he has gained notice beyond Wall Street over the past year for his outspoken criticism of President Obama. Cooperman formalized his critique in a letter to the President late last year which was widely circulated in the business community; in an interview and in a speech, he has gone so far as to draw a parallel between Obama's election and the rise of the Third Reich.
The dinner was the highlight of the fourth annual SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT, a convention orchestrated by the fund manager Anthony Scaramucci; it brings together fund managers with brand-name speakers and journalists for four days of talking and partying. The star guest at the dinner was Al Gore, who was flanked by Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles, and the New York hedge-fund investor Orin Kramer, a friend of Gore's and a top Obama fund-raiser.
Discussion that night was wide-ranging. The group talked about Apple, on whose board Gore sits, and Google, where Gore is a senior adviser, as well as climate change and energy policy. The most electric moment of the evening, though, was an exchange between Cooperman and Gore. Heavyset, with a lumbering gait, Cooperman does not look like a hedge-fund plutocrat: Scaramucci affectionately describes him as "the worst-dressed billionaire on planet earth." Cooperman's business model isn't flashy, either. He began his finance career as an analyst of consumer companies at Goldman Sachs, and went on to make his fortune at Omega as a traditional stock-picker. He searches for companies that are cheap and which he hopes to sell when they become dear. (In 1998, Cooperman made a foray into emerging markets, investing more than a hundred million dollars as part of a bid to take over Azerbaijan's state oil company, but it went badly wrong. His firm lost most of its money and paid five hundred thousand dollars to settle a U.S.-government bribery investigation.) Cooperman had come to the dinner to give Gore a copy of the letter he'd written to President Obama. "I'd like you to read this," he told the former Vice-President. "You owe me a small favor. I voted for you," he said, referring to Gore's Presidential run, in 2000.
In the letter, Cooperman argued that Obama has needlessly antagonized the rich by making comments that are hostile to economic success. The prose, rife with compound metaphors and righteous indignation, is a good reflection of Cooperman's table talk. "The divisive, polarizing tone of your rhetoric is cleaving a widening gulf, at this point as much visceral as philosophical, between the downtrodden and those best positioned to help them," Cooperman wrote. "It is a gulf that is at once counterproductive and freighted with dangerous historical precedents."
At the dinner, Al Gore was diplomatic when presented with the letter, and asked Cooperman if he would accept higher taxes. Cooperman said that he would—if he was treated with respect, and the government didn't squander his money. Cooperman asked Gore what he thought the top marginal tax rate should be. Gore's reply was noncommittal, but he pleased the group by suggesting that no matter who wins in November the victor should surround himself with advisers with experience in the private sector.
Kramer, the hedge-fund manager and Obama fund-raiser, was quiet, but others in the room were enthusiastic. Villaraigosa gave Cooperman his direct phone number. Barry Sternlicht, the founder of the W hotel chain, and an Obama donor in 2008, said that he agreed totally with Cooperman. Scaramucci, the organizer of the dinner, told me the next day that the guests had witnessed the "activation" of a "sleeper cell" of hedge-fund managers against Obama. "That's what you see happening in the hedge-fund community, because they now have the power, because of Citizens United, to aggregate capital into political-action committees and to influence the debate," he said. "The President has a philosophy of disdain toward wealth creation. That's just obvious, O.K.? We talked about it all night." He later said, "If there's a pope of this movement, it's Lee Cooperman."
The growing antagonism of the super-wealthy toward Obama can seem mystifying, since Obama has served the rich quite well. His Administration supported the seven-hundred-billion-dollar TARP rescue package for Wall Street, and resisted calls from the Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, and others on the left, to nationalize the big banks in exchange for that largesse. At the end of September, the S. & P. 500, the benchmark U.S. stock index, had rebounded to just 6.9 per cent below its all-time pre-crisis high, on October 9, 2007. The economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty have found that ninety-three per cent of the gains during the 2009-10 recovery went to the top one per cent of earners. Those seated around the table at dinner with Al Gore had done even better: the top 0.01 per cent captured thirty-seven per cent of the total recovery pie, with a rebound in their incomes of more than twenty per cent, which amounted to an additional $4.2 million each.
Notwithstanding Occupy Wall Street's focus on the "one per cent," or Obama's choice of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars as the level at which taxes on family income should rise, the salient dividing line between rich and not rich is much higher up the income-distribution scale. Hostility toward the President is particularly strident among the ultra-rich.
This is the group that has benefitted most from the winner-take-all economy: the 0.1 per cent, whose share of the national income was 7.8 per cent in 2009, according to I.R.S. data. Moreover, even as the shifting tides of the global economy have rewarded the richest while squeezing the middle class, the U.S. tax system has favored the very top, as the tax returns of the Republican Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, have illustrated. In 2011, Romney paid an effective tax rate of just 14.1 per cent, and his income of $13.7 million places him in the 0.01-per-cent group.
When Obama first ran for President, four years ago, Wall Street formed an important and lucrative part of his base: he raised about sixteen million dollars from the financial sector, compared with McCain, who raised about nine million. Employees of Goldman Sachs contributed more to Obama's campaign than workers at any other firm, on Wall Street or beyond. Like many others in the financial-services industry, Leon Cooperman was impressed when he first saw Obama in action, at a Goldman Sachs event at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, in May, 2007. Goldman had assembled a group of hedge-fund managers to meet the junior senator from Illinois who had the temerity to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Cooperman said he was impressed by Obama's reply to a question about what he would do to taxes on the rich if he were elected. " 'Raise 'em.' Just like that. 'Raise 'em,' " Cooperman recalled Obama saying.
Although he voted for McCain in 2008, Cooperman was not compelled to enter the political debate until June, 2011, when he saw the President appear on TV during the debt-ceiling battle. Obama urged America's "millionaires and billionaires" to pay their fair share, pointing out that they were doing well at a time when both the American middle class and the American federal treasury were under pressure. "If you are a wealthy C.E.O. or hedge-fund manager in America right now, your taxes are lower than they have ever been. They are lower than they have been since the nineteen-fifties," the President said. "You can still ride on your corporate jet. You're just going to have to pay a little more."
Cooperman regarded the comments as a declaration of class warfare, and began to criticize Obama publicly. In September, at a CNBC conference in New York, he compared Hitler's rise to power with Obama's ascent to the Presidency, citing disaffected majorities in both countries who elected inexperienced leaders. A month before, Cooperman had written a mock, nine-point "Presidential platform," outlining his political convictions, which he distributed to his investors. In it, he called for a freeze on entitlements, a jump in the retirement age to seventy for everyone except "those that work at hard labor," and a temporary tax increase for the super-rich to help pay down the debt. He also called for significant spending cuts, so that the growth in government spending could be restricted to one per cent less than the increase in G.D.P. In November, he drafted the letter to the President. It was fifteen hundred words and took him two weeks to write. "I'm not a gifted writer," Cooperman recalled. "I spent a lot of time using a dictionary and a thesaurus. I wanted to sound intelligent." He got help from a friend, a former Omega employee. He also showed the letter to his wife, Toby.
The letter begins by acknowledging that Obama inherited an "economic mess," but what Cooperman seems to object to most is not the President's policies but the "highly politicized idiom" in which the debate surrounding them was being conducted:
You should endeavor to rise above the partisan fray and raise the level of discourse to one that is both more civil and more conciliatory.... Capitalism is not the source of our problems, as an economy or as a society, and capitalists are not the scourge that they are too often made out to be. As a group we employ many millions of taxpaying people, pay their salaries, provide them with healthcare coverage, start new companies, found new industries, create new products, fill store shelves at Christmas, and keep the wheels of commerce and progress (and indeed of government, by generating the income whose taxation funds it) moving. To frame the debate as one of rich-and-entitled versus poor-and-dispossessed is to both miss the point and further inflame an already incendiary environment.
Evident throughout the letter is a sense of victimization prevalent among so many of America's wealthiest people. In an extreme version of this, the rich feel that they have become the new, vilified underclass. T. J. Rodgers, a libertarian and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has taken to comparing Barack Obama's treatment of the rich to the oppression of ethnic minorities—an approach, he says, that the President, as an African-American, should be particularly sensitive to. Clifford S. Asness, the founding partner of the hedge fund AQR Capital Management, wrote an open letter to the President in 2009, after Obama blamed "a small group of speculators" for Chrysler's bankruptcy. Asness suggested that "hedge funds really need a community organizer," and accused the White House of "bullying" the financial sector. Dan Loeb, a hedge-fund manager who supported Obama in 2008, has compared his Wall Street peers who still support the President to "battered wives." "He really loves us and when he beats us, he doesn't mean it; he just gets a little angry," Loeb wrote in an e-mail in December, 2010, to a group of Wall Street financiers.
The purported activation of the fund-manager "sleeper cell" is more than the self-aggrandizement of the super-rich. It is having a material and intellectual impact on the 2012 campaign. Historically, incumbent Presidents have enjoyed a strong fund-raising advantage. Going into this year's race, President Obama had the further benefit of his record-breaking haul in 2008. Yet the Republican National Committee and Romney, a mechanical campaigner whose ability to inspire passion in the Republican base was widely questioned during the primaries, hold a huge cash advantage over Obama. The biggest shift has been among wealthy businesspeople, particularly in financial services. Romney's advantage is compounded by the advent of Super PACs in this Presidential campaign, which are not subject to the same contribution limits as parties or candidates. The Republican-aligned Restore Our Future, for instance, has raised ninety-six million dollars this election season, and many of its top donors, who give a million dollars or more, work in finance.
The President, in Cooperman's view, draws political support from those who are dependent on government. Last October, in a question-and-answer session at a Thomson Reuters event, Cooperman said, "Our problem, frankly, is as long as the President remains anti-wealth, anti-business, anti-energy, anti-private-aviation, he will never get the business community behind him. The problem and the complication is the forty or fifty per cent of the country on the dole that support him."
Framing the political debate as job creators on one side and the President and the fifty per cent of Americans who are supported by the state on the other was striking at the time. It has become even more so since Mitt Romney was secretly recorded at a closed-door fund-raiser in Florida, in May, saying that forty-seven per cent of Americans don't pay income taxes, are "dependent on the government," and will vote for President Obama "no matter what."
Romney's comment has been widely criticized as a mistake that could cost him the election, with even Republicans accusing their candidate of incompetence. Cooperman's statement six months earlier shows that Romney's forty-seven-per-cent remark wasn't an undisciplined slip by a gaffe-prone politician but, instead, the assertion of a view that is widely held by people of Romney's class.
America's super-rich feel aggrieved in part because they believe themselves to be fundamentally different from a leisured, hereditary gentry. In his letter, Cooperman detailed a Horatio Alger biography that has made him an avatar for the new super-rich. "While I have been richly rewarded by a life of hard work (and a great deal of luck), I was not to-the-manor-born," he wrote, going on to describe his humble beginnings in the South Bronx, as the son of working-class parents—his father was a plumber—who had emigrated from Poland. Cooperman makes it known that he gets up at 5:20 A.M. and is at his desk at Omega's offices in lower Manhattan, on the thirty-first floor of a building overlooking the East River and Brooklyn, by 6:40 A.M. He rarely gets home before 9 P.M., and most evenings he has a business dinner after leaving the office. "I say that I date my wife on the weekends," he told me one August afternoon at his office. The space is defiantly modest, furnished with nineteen-nineties-era glass coffee tables, unfashionable yellow couches, and family photographs.
Cooperman's pride in his work ethic is one source of his disdain for Obama. "When he ran for President, he'd never worked a day in his life. Never held a job," he said. Obama had, of course, worked—as a business researcher, a community organizer, a law professor, and an attorney at a law firm, not to mention an Illinois state legislator and a U.S. senator, before being elected President. But Cooperman was unimpressed. "He went into government service right out of Harvard," he said. "He never made payroll. He's never built anything."
Cooperman differs from many of his fellow super-rich in one important regard. He understands that he isn't just smart and hardworking but that he has also been lucky. "I joined the right firm in the right industry," he said. "I started an investment partnership at the right time." In the fall of 1963, he enrolled in dental school at the University of Pennsylvania, but within the first week he began to have doubts, and he dropped out soon afterward. "My father, may he rest in peace, was going to work saying, 'My son, the dentist,' " Cooperman said. "It was a total embarrassment amongst his friends."
Cooperman went on to make a series of fortunate choices. Chief among those was entering the financial markets, after graduating in 1967 from Columbia Business School. In the sixties, Wall Street wasn't yet the obvious destination for the smart and ambitious, but it was on the verge of becoming the most lucrative industry in America. Cooperman became an analyst at Goldman Sachs, at the time a scrappy partnership that had nearly failed during the Great Depression. In 1976, Cooperman was named a partner. He went on to found Goldman's asset-management business, but, after twenty-five years at the firm, he decided to start his own hedge fund. Between 1991, when Cooperman founded Omega, and the 2008 financial crisis was the best time in history to make a fortune in finance. Cooperman's partners who stayed behind at Goldman Sachs are hardly paupers—and those who stuck around for the 1999 I.P.O. are probably multimillionaires—but the real windfalls on Wall Street have been made by the financiers who founded their own investment firms in the period that Cooperman did.
Toby Cooperman grew up five miles away from her husband, in the west Bronx. She asked Cooperman out after they met in French class at Hunter College. Toby has two graduate degrees, in education and as a reading specialist, and works three days a week at a special-needs school in Chatham, New Jersey.
"Growing up lower-middle-class Jewish in the Bronx, I never knew a Republican," Toby Cooperman recalled. "Everybody loved Roosevelt." She is still a liberal, a position that puts her in the minority in their social circle. "She can be a socialist because she's married to a capitalist," Cooperman says of his wife, who is strongly pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. She calls Todd Akin, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry "morons," and she worries about the underclass. "I care more about the disadvantaged people of America," she said, comparing her politics with those of her husband. "I have friends who are very dependent on Medicare."
Even so, Toby, who voted for Obama in 2008, defers to her husband when it comes to taxation, and she admires his letter to Obama. "He used a lot of good words," she said.
The New York Post published an abridged version of the letter, and Cooperman e-mailed it to some of his friends and colleagues. It quickly went viral. Within a couple of weeks, Cooperman was being courted by everyone from CNBC and Fox to Al Jazeera. "I would say, unequivocally, I never got as much response in anything I've ever done, in business or outside of business, that I got in that letter," Cooperman said.
Cooperman keeps a bulging manila folder of congratulatory notes in his office at Omega. He received "hundreds and hundreds of e-mails." According to Cooperman, only one was nasty: "If I knew where you lived, I'd put a bomb in your car." The folder includes a letter from a former chief of Goldman Sachs and another from a current boss of one of the nation's top five banks. There are succinct letters of support from fellow Wall Street titans, typed on thick, embossed paper, and signed with a flourish, and long, angry screeds, which warn, as a ninety-two-year-old lawyer from Fort Worth, Texas, put it, that "Barack Obama is a Communist pure and simple, with a determined plan to convert America into a Communistic nation."
Like his wife, Cooperman doesn't approve of the right's blurring of the line between church and state, or its stance on gay marriage and abortion. Romney, he told me, has got to "appease the conservative wing of his party. But I don't think he's nuts like all those guys are." Like other plutocrats, Cooperman presents his complaint not as a selfish defense of his pocketbook but as a concern about the degradation of the American dream. Jamie Dimon, the C.E.O. of JP Morgan Chase, who was widely criticized this spring for the firm's highly risky trade that has led to at least six billion dollars in losses, has echoed Cooperman's view of the Obama Administration. Speaking on "Meet the Press" in May, Dimon said that he didn't mind paying higher taxes and wanted "a more equitable society." But the "anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people" by some Democrats had alienated Dimon so much that he said he would now call himself "a barely Democrat."
"It's a question of tone," Cooperman said. "The President makes it sound like the problems of the ninety-nine per cent are caused by the one per cent, and that's not the case." Yet some of the harshest language of this election cycle has come from the super-rich. Comparing Hitler and Obama, as Cooperman did last year at the CNBC conference, is something of a meme. In 2010, the private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, of the Blackstone Group, compared the President's as yet unsuccessful effort to eliminate some of the preferential tax treatment his sector receives to Hitler's invasion of Poland. After Cooperman made his Hitler comment, he has said, his wife called him a "schmuck." But he couldn't resist repeating the analogy when we spoke in May of this year. "You know, the largest and greatest country in the free world put a forty-seven-year-old guy that never worked a day in his life and made him in charge of the free world," Cooperman said. "Not totally different from taking Adolf Hitler in Germany and making him in charge of Germany because people were economically dissatisfied. Now, Obama's not Hitler. I don't even mean to say anything like that. But it is a question that the dissatisfaction of the populace was so great that they were willing to take a chance on an untested individual."
It's easy to see how even a resolutely unflashy billionaire like Cooperman can acquire a sense of entitlement. In a single hour at his desk one morning in April, the C.E.O.s of two well-known public companies were on the phone to Cooperman lobbying for his support. (He is a major investor in their firms.) Companies courting his investment dollars pick up Cooperman at Teterboro Airport in their private jets to give him a tour of their projects. The Coopermans have chosen an emphatically low-key life style, but when they went to visit a grandchild in Vermont one summer weekend they flew in a private plane.
Last July, before he had written the letter, Cooperman was invited to the White House for a reception to honor wealthy philanthropists who had signed Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least fifty per cent of their net worth to charity. At the event, Cooperman handed the President two copies of "Inspired: My Life (So Far) in Poems," a self-published book written by Courtney Cooperman, his fourteen-year-old granddaughter. Cooperman was surprised that the President didn't send him a thank-you note or that Malia and Sasha Obama, for whom the books were intended as a gift and to whom Courtney wrote a separate letter, didn't write to Courtney. (After Cooperman grumbled to a few friends, including Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, Michelle Obama did write. Booker, who was also a recipient of Courtney's book, promptly wrote her "a very nice note," Cooperman said.)
When Cooperman told me the story of his lucky escape from dental school, he concluded, "I probably make more than a thousand dentists, summed up." (A thousand dentists would need to work for a decade—and pay no taxes or living expenses—to collectively earn Cooperman's net worth.) During another conversation, Cooperman mentioned that over the weekend an acquaintance had come by to get some friendly advice on managing his personal finances. He was a seventy-two-year-old world-renowned cardiologist; his wife was one of the country's experts in women's medicine. Together, they had a net worth of around ten million dollars. "It was shocking how tight he was going to be in retirement," Cooperman said. "He needed four hundred thousand dollars a year to live on. He had a home in Florida, a home in New Jersey. He had certain habits he wanted to continue to pursue.
"I'm just saying that it's not an impressive amount of capital for two people that were leading physicians for their entire work life," Cooperman went on. "You know, I lost more today than they spent a lifetime accumulating."
One billionaire who is not part of Cooperman's "sleeper cell" is Warren Buffett. In 1982, Buffett sent Cooperman a note, praising one of the research reports he had written at Goldman Sachs. It hangs on Cooperman's office wall. Cooperman clearly cherishes the opportunities that the Giving Pledge has given him to spend time with Buffett. He also admires Buffett's life style, which is similar to his own. But Buffett's embrace of the rule that bears his name—President Obama's proposal that no millionaire should pay less than thirty per cent of his income in taxes—sets him apart from his peers.
Cooperman pointed out that Buffett had adroitly minimized his personal taxes for many years until his late-life star turn as the President's favorite billionaire. "I'm more charitable to him than most, because I have enormously high regard for him," Cooperman said. "There are a lot of people who think he's become extraordinarily hypocritical. . . . If he thinks it's so wrong, people say, 'Well, why doesn't he just give his money to the government?'"
Many billionaires have come to view charity as privatized taxation, paid at a level they determine, and to organizations they choose. "All things being equal, you'd rather have control of the money than the government," Cooperman said. "Even if you're giving it away, you'd rather give it away the way you want to give it away rather than the way the government gives it away." Cooperman and his wife focus their giving on Jewish issues, education, and their local community in New Jersey, and he is also setting up a foundation that will allow his children and grandchildren to support their own chosen causes after he dies.
Foster Friess, a retired mutual-fund investor from Wyoming who was the backer of the main Super PAC supporting the Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum, expounded on this view in a video interview in February. "People don't realize how wealthy people self-tax," he said. "If you have a certain cause, an art museum or a symphony, and you want to support it, it would be nice if you had the choice." The middle class anonymously and nervously pays its thirty-five per cent to the I.R.S., while the super-rich pay fourteen per cent, and are then praised for giving five or ten per cent more to pet causes, often with the perk of having their names engraved above the door.
Cooperman repeatedly emphasizes his willingness in principle to pay higher taxes, though he sees nothing wrong with paying at the lowest possible rate the law allows. Although Toby still lives in New Jersey, Cooperman told me that he has moved for most of the year to Florida, "because I had arthritis, and I just needed the warmer weather." He added, "Not to say there's no benefit of a zero state income tax versus ten."
Nick Hanauer is a Seattle entrepreneur and venture capitalist who was one of the first investors in Amazon. In a book published this year, he argues that since the Reagan era American capitalists have enjoyed a uniquely supportive set of ideological, political, and economic conditions. Their personal enrichment came to be seen as a precondition for the enrichment of everyone else. Lower taxes for them were a social good, rather than a selfish perk.
"If you are a job creator, your fifteen-per-cent tax rate is righteous. If you aren't, it is a con job," Hanauer told me. "The idea that the rich deserve to be rich is a very comforting idea if you are rich." Referring to Obama's "You didn't build that" remark, at a rally in Virginia in July, which became a flashpoint with the right, Hanauer said that "the notion that you built it yourself is what you need to believe to feel comfortable with yourself and your desire not to pay too much in taxes."
I asked Cooperman whether Romney should disclose his tax returns. Beyond 2011 and 2010, he has not released any others. "Only a fool pays taxes that you don't have to pay," Cooperman said. "So what am I going to learn? He made a lot of money and he paid less taxes than the average person, but he did it from legal means. Does that make me think less of him? It'll make me think more of him." Cooperman observed that the smart reaction to Romney's low effective tax rate would be to ask him for the name of his tax lawyer.
Cooperman prides himself both on not being partisan and on his streetwise Bronx kid's suspicion of politicians in general. But he's genuinely enthusiastic about Romney. He approves of Romney's commitment to his family and he admires Romney's private-sector experience. "He's an accomplished businessman," Cooperman said. "The fact that he's wealthy and successful I think is good, not bad."
Cooperman told me that he thought this was the most important election of his lifetime. In June, he made his biggest ever political contribution, when he wrote a fifty-thousand-dollar check supporting Mitt Romney's Presidential bid after Romney's brother, Scott, visited the Omega offices. Now Cooperman is planning another political volley. With his Omega partner Steven Einhorn and fellow-billionaire Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, he has drafted a second open letter, which he hopes will be co-signed by a large group of self-made billionaires, and published as a newspaper advertisement in some swing states. Cooperman estimates that it will cost around a million dollars, a sum he says the group will split. "It's going to be, you know, 'We are the one per cent that came from the ninety-nine per cent, and we want to see more of the ninety-nine per cent move in our direction, but we fear the President's policies discourage that from happening,' " Cooperman said.
At the SALT conference in Las Vegas, there was no shortage of wealthy financiers who shared Cooperman's view. At a "Titans of Wall Street" panel, Barry Sternlicht, the W hotel-chain founder, appeared with Dan Loeb, the hedge-fund manager who compared Wall Street supporters of Obama to "battered wives," and who has given three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Republican Super PACs and thousands more to Republican candidates this campaign cycle. Their session was off the record, but attendees said that the two investors inveighed passionately against the President's "anti-business" attitude. Another panelist suggested that Sternlicht and Loeb form a pro-business ticket and make a run for the White House. The audience cheered.
On the final day, Cooperman delivered a presentation on his top stock picks. A few hours later, the conference concluded in the Bellagio's grand ballroom, with the most billionaire-friendly speaker of all: Sarah Palin. She strode onto the stage and opened her talk with a rousing greeting, "Hello, one per cent! How y'all doing!" ♦


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In his book The Four Loves, C.S.Lewis talks about the various ways affection can turn bad. I expanded on his ideas about love in my book, A Final Word on Love. But here, I'm interested in Lewis' discussion of how some families react when a member excels beyond the confines of what has been the established boundaries of the family. I'm not talking about a black sheep in the negative sense, but one who goes beyond his kin in experience, ideas, education, or interests. The reaction--better said, the reactionary response--flows from a jealousy that is justified in the minds of the jealous by a belief the so-called errant member has somehow betrayed the family. The disgruntled members see the black sheep's outside interests as symptomatic of an unrequited love. In the minds of those who remained unchanged within the family circle, there is only one history, and that history must establish the future, so the history for each new generation remains identical to the last. If dad was a plumber, all his sons must be plumbers. If grandma gave red socks to the grandchildren at Christmas time, then the new grandmother must do the same for the new grandchildren, and so on.
Affection kept in its proper place is a good thing. But the affection that galvanized this family had turned into a demon imprisoning the family in a narrow confinement of a stagnant, fearful existence. When the black sheep returned, excited to share his discoveries, he met with a cold reception. With the fires of enthusiasm quickly quenched by the tepid suspicious looks from his loved ones, the black sheep would soon find himself being conveyed to a freezer well stocked with passive aggression, snide remarks, criticisms of anything he experienced, and comparisons to prove how much better it has always been within the family. All of which done in an attempt to shame the confused black sheep into capitulating and returning to the fold--even to dumb down to the level of denying he ever had a thought not thought by the rest. Some people it seems are threatened by relatives--especially children--who advance themselves. And they retaliate by accusing the hapless members of failing to love them. They might not explicitly say so, but they don't have to.
This pathology is all rather foreign to me because my family of origin always wanted to learn something new. My octogenarian father once asked if he could borrow my book on nanoparticles because he didn't know anything about them. So when I witness families terrified of their child's expanding universe--and yes, I do think it is a fear--I'm dumbfounded and saddened.
I have always wanted my children to be better than me, and to pursue their own dreams. I expressed this desire to some friends once over dinner, and they vilified me for it. They accused me of burdening my children with an impossible expectation. They weren't complimenting me, either. No, they were quite put off by my idea. Apparently, they saw no way for anyone to exceed beyond the PhD I had obtained. All I can say is, "I didn't expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition." After all, how far a person progresses academically is really only a small part of what defines him or her. Besides, there are all sorts of equally valuable skills and knowledge to be earned outside the Ivy walls. In any event, my friends were quite mistaken. My son--who has a master's degree--at thirty years is far more knowledgeable, experienced, and talented than I was at his age with my doctorate. He may not as yet Piled it higher and Deeper, but he has moved light-years beyond me, for which I am very proud. And he's gotten there through his own hard work.
What got me to thinking about all this is John the Baptist. God had called John to prepare the way for the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. John untiringly did his assigned task, bringing little attention to himself. Indeed, when given the third degree to find out whom he claimed to be, John said he was nothing more than a mere voice in the wilderness. People joined John as his disciples, but many would eventually abandon him to follow Jesus. And John encouraged it because all that mattered to John was exalting Jesus. In all that John did he communicated, "He must increase and I must decrease."
John loved with God's Love. Such love is never threatened, never jealous, never competitive, never haughty, never condescending, never shaming, never self-serving, but always striving to see the next person's life shine like a star in the firmament. And what's really fascinating about this love is, when it's allowed to flow, everyone comes away shining brightly in the sky.
What a better world it would be if everyone lived by the creed, "He must increase and I must decrease."
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I Must Decrease
In his book The Four Loves, C.S.Lewis talks about the various ways affection can turn bad. I expanded on his ideas about love in my book, A Final Word on Love. But here, I'm interested in Lewis' discussion of how some families react when a member excels beyond the confines of what has been the established boundaries of the family. I'm not talking about a black sheep in the negative sense, but one who goes beyond his kin in experience, ideas, education, or interests. The reaction--better said, the reactionary response--flows from a jealousy that is justified in the minds of the jealous by a belief the so-called errant member has somehow betrayed the family. The disgruntled members see the black sheep's outside interests as symptomatic of an unrequited love. In the minds of those who remained unchanged within the family circle, there is only one history, and that history must establish the future, so the history for each new generation remains identical to the last. If dad was a plumber, all his sons must be plumbers. If grandma gave red socks to the grandchildren at Christmas time, then the new grandmother must do the same for the new grandchildren, and so on.
Posted by Bruce Kokko at 6:50 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
All the World's a Sandbox
It seems more and more of my friends and acquaintances are feeling bummed these days. Everyone seems to be hunkering down in self-protection against some unseen, ill-defined, menace. I am hearing a lot of mumbling about a coming zombie apocalypse in the same breath of fiscal cliffs, lost freedoms, and declining incentives. A friend recently told me to watch and see if there won't be a glut of people leaving their jobs because it's more lucrative to stay room and sponge off the government.
I found myself praying about all of this fear and pending doom, lamenting about how the world is getting worse. But I' m not so sure about that. A more accurate statement is probably America is catching up with the rest of the world. Until recently, we've had it pretty darn good in this country--at least in my life time. We've remained largely insulated from the horrors and insecurities common in other parts of the world. What I have been sensing is not so much the world getting worse, but a slow collapse of the American firewall between me and the rest of the world. I'm feeling the heat, man.
So what?
Well, first of all, don't feel bad about feeling bad. We are human beings, not Vulcans (thank the Lord for that). Secondly, know your limitations, which for all of us are dangerously close to being limitless. Thirdly, know that we are all playing in the same sandbox. And regardless of whether we might own a truck or a tractor, a bucket and shovel, or nothing, we all deep down want only one thing: to be told by the person digging in the sand next to us that they are glad we are there with them.
Yes, some who perhaps possess more toys than you, or even own a part of the sandbox, might appear oblivious to such a basic need, but trust me, they aren't. I'm telling you, everyone wants to be able to play in the sandbox and be recognized and appreciated for it--everyone.
The sandbox has perhaps grown a bit more crowded; there's less sand to go around, and the toys have become smaller, more expensive, and more scarce. It seems like it's no fun to play anymore. Well, such a perspective is bound to depress anyone, even enough to make them want to give up. But the perspective is misguided. The problem is we are focused on the toys and the sandbox instead on what matters the most.
I'm proposing whether we live on Long Island or in a cardboard box in some remote jungle, which is to say we either own a piece of the sandbox and some toys or we dream about them, our contentment will ultimately only rest on one thing: being welcomed as a participant in the play. In short, we all simply want to love and be loved. I don't give a rip who we might be or what we might control, none of it matters except to love and be loved.
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, you're such an idealist--such a hopeless romantic--such a naivete.
If we continue to view life from the perspective of the sandbox and toys within it, we will throw up our hands in despair. Of course we will! Because at the end of the day there isn't much any of us on an individual basis can do about the current status of the sandbox or its toys. We might deny this, but deep down we all know it's true. Consequently, some of us--perhaps most of us--give up, and the rest of us retaliate. But these solutions only make matters worse for everybody.
Even though few of us can influence the sandbox or the toys, we can all most definitely affect everyone's basic human need. On an individual by individual basis, regardless of our estate, disposition, health, or what have you, each of us has it in his or her individual prerogative to help another see his or her value. All of us, regardless of the resources at hand, can exult another person. All of us can love another human being.
What would happen if we all did what we all are capable of doing, instead of complaining about what is actually beyond our influence?
By the third century AD, the Roman Empire had become a very nasty place. Infanticide and abortion were rampant. Plagues were taking thousands of lives. Money was so devalued, people resorted to bartering in order to survive. Wars and violence escalated as people tried to capitalize on the growing destabilization of the empire. The mighty Roman Dreadnought was listing and rapidly taking on water.
Sound familiar?
Yet in the midst of all that gloom and doom--yes, in spite of it--Christians, who were poor and persecuted, themselves--many to the point of painful death--sought to love their neighbor. Within the maelstrom of carnage and fear, Christians trusted their true king, Jesus the Christ, and did what He requires, and many people came to see their lives changed. The Empire around them went from rack to ruin, but many began to feel welcomed and honored again in the sandbox. To be sure, it was a fleeting phenomenon--fleeting because before long even the church would shift its attention away from the Christ to the sandbox and the toys.
If Jesus is our Lord, Master, King, only turning away from Him will limit us from making a difference, not any other limitation. Jesus equips us to love those in our home, our neighborhood, our jobs, our schools, or wherever we might be. Each of us can make a difference in the lives of those next to us. And if everyone were to love their neighbor, the sandbox would again become a wonderful place to play; there would be the sound of laughter instead of mourning--the fulfillment of dreams instead of bitter hopelessness.
The world will never be a utopia until Jesus returns to consummate His kingdom. But we would all do better to attend to the matters within our control than to abdicate responsibility or continue to grab all we can for ourselves. Jesus died on the cross that we might have the power to shine a light in the darkness. Apprehend His power, and lead that person next to you back to the sandbox.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Keep Those Glasses On
As you may have noticed, I'm having an absolute heyday sifting through the archives of Chemical and Engineering News. The latter is the official general interest news magazine of the American Chemical Society. C&E News goes back to 1923. Perusing those back issues, as when reading old newspapers or watching old newsreels, is about as close as one can get to stepping into a time machine. It's spellbinding to listen to ghosts from the past discuss their world. The listener never knows what gems he might unearth in the process.
One such gem was written by the famous, prolific writer and scientist, the late Dr. Isaac Asimov. His paper entitled, "The By-Product of Science Fiction," appeared on page 3882 of the August 13, 1956 edition of C&E News (I was only a little shy of two months old, then). Dr. Asimov was troubling over the anti-intellectualism rampant in American culture, and how good science fiction served as a stronghold for a much needed respect of intelligence, and a possible model for jump-starting education towards producing the scientists and engineers woefully underrepresented in the general population, yet thoroughly needed to keep America technologically competitive in the world.
Dr. Asimov observed that intellectual pursuits were severely stigmatized, and how the entertainment industry used eyeglasses as a devise in its assault against thinking men and women. Asimov wrote,
"Glasses in the popular visual arts of today are the symbol of developed intellect (presumably because of the belief on the part of the average man that educated men ruin their eyes through over-indulgence in the pernicious and unhealthy habit of reading). Ordinarily, the hero and heroine in a movie or television play do not wear glasses."
He was right, of course. I immediately thought of the scene in The Big Sleep where Marlowe goes into a bookshop to get out of the rain and to possibly acquire some information. He questions the female proprietor, and upon discovering she has a refined sophistication, quickly moves to know her better on a more personal basis, only to insist she first take off her glasses. She does, lets her hair down, too, and closes up shop for the afternoon. What transpires next is left to our imagination (an artifice the movie industry would do well to resurrect).
Dr. Asimov provided his own examples of how intelligence, as symbolized by the donning of eye-glasses, was synonymous with being unattractive, boring, and socially suicidal. He summed up his point this way:
"No, glasses are not literally glasses. They are merely a symbol, a symbol of intelligence. The audience is taught two things: a) Evidence of extensive education is a social hindrance and causes unhappiness; b) formal education is unnecessary, can be minimized at will, and the resulting limited intellectual development leads to happiness."
All of which sounds a bit like "ignorance is bliss." Perhaps it is. Thinking too much can be depressing; the famous mathematician, Kurt Godel, was found dead, laying in the fetal position.
The stigma of intelligence has, unfortunately, persisted into the present day. However, it isn't portrayed using eye-glasses so much any more; instead, the media have reincarnated the idea in the stereotypical geek.
Our society has put geeks on display. Like the freak shows of old, we exhibit our geniuses in cages to gawk at, ridicule, and tease. At best, we pity their malady; at worst, we despise them for it. And this happens for the same reason it happened a half-century ago: the belief that intelligence equals dull, uninteresting, and ugly.
I don't know why this is so. I suspect it is rooted in fear, somehow. Knowledge and the use of knowledge is power, and people tend to fear power they can't wield themselves. Alternatively, people might be afraid of what they might discover if they think about anything too intensely, so they avoid it--like turning up the volume on the car radio to drown out the sinister noise coming from the engine compartment.
Sadly, many Christians have bought into anti-intellectualism. This is a colossal tragedy because our Lord, Master, King, Jesus the Christ is God dwelling with us. We see God when we see Jesus. This means we can finally know and understand Truth. Jesus assures us that He is the only way, the truth and the life. And He tells us this truth--the Truth--shall set us free. Among many things, this means we can boldly engage in the myriad thoughts and ideas of this world to reveal truth and dismiss the lies; in short, we can fearlessly be lights shining in a dark world; indeed, that is why we are here.
Therefore, Christians should champion intelligence and the pursuit of knowledge. Because Jesus the Christ lives and we confess uncompromised allegiance to Him as dwellers in His kingdom, we can confidently and proudly keep those glasses on.
Posted by Bruce Kokko at 5:00 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
There's Still a Remnant
A powerful, heartwarming, and true redemption story recently passed my desk. It is actually fairly well known. In fact, the Christian song writer, Matthew West, wrote a song called, Forgiveness, in honor of the remarkable woman whose story it is (check it out on YouTube). It just goes to show I need to get out of my library more often.
If you already know the story, stay with me as I briefly review what happened for the rest of my readers who, as I, have been out of the loop.
Renee, a mother of twin daughters lost one of them in a car crash in Florida. A twenty four year old man named, Eric, was drunk and rammed into the girl's car killing both the girl and her friend. Grimly, it is an all too common fate in this world. I can't possibly know what it must be like to lose a child. I try to think of the worst thing that ever happened to me and multiply it by a thousand, but I fear the pain I manage to conjure up falls way short of what Renee must have felt, and still feels.
Eric was arrested, tried, and sentenced to twenty two years. It would seem all that was left for Renee to do was to pick up the pieces as best she could, and attempt to cope with unfathomable grief she was sure to carry the rest of her life.
But the story didn't end there. Renee kept the mangled car, put it on a trailer, and carted it around to high schools as a prop for her to use as she lectured on the evils of drinking and driving.
Renee soon realized, though, she was harboring an unforgiving heart; so she began visiting Eric in prison. She forgave him, and Eric, overwhelmed by such mercy when he couldn't even forgive himself, turned to Christ. After gaining permission from the authorities, Eric began accompanying Renee on her lecture tours. No longer was the message only about drunk driving, but a powerful witness to the healing impact of forgiveness. Eric has since become like a son to Renee and her husband, and a brother to their two other children. As a final gesture of restoration, Renee petitioned the court to have Eric's sentence reduced to eleven years so he can start his life anew. I understand Eric is due to be released this month.
Wow! Renee certainly knows who her King is, and knows what it means to dwell in His kingdom. If you listen to her, you will discover she is quick to deflect the story away from herself to God. Renee gives God all the glory for this amazing redemption story.
Much can be said, and has been said about forgiveness using Renee's story. But it is also an excellent illustration of true justice.
Renee could have, as many mothers have done in identical situations, demanded Eric's head on a platter. And she could have easily validated her request on the basis of justice: an eye for an eye.... And most people would have supported her. But Renee didn't pursue this natural reaction. Instead, she clearly stepped back from her emotions long enough to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit within her teach her something about true justice--that is, the justice of the Kingdom of God.
Think about it. Eye for an eye, what we call distributive justice--everyone gets their due--doesn't lead to a just state--the right order of things. If Eric's life had been taken in retribution for the loss of Renee's daughter's life, we would all end up where we started: the chaos--disorder--of death, where guilt and bitterness rule.
However, by extending mercy to Eric as Renee so lovingly did out of loving obedience to Jesus her Lord, King, Master, both her daughter's life and Eric's were redeemed. Renee's mercy snatched life from death, with the result of a movement from injustice to justice. Placing her grief, anger, hurt, and bitterness at the feet of Jesus the Christ, restored the relationships between the players and God and between the players and players, all to the glory of God.
Of course, Eric might have chosen to reject Renee's outreach of mercy, or exploit it, but such actions would have been his responsibility, alone. I cannot say if Renee considered this possibility when she first reached out to Eric. The fact she did reach out to him in mercy, tells me she fully trusted God to bring true and final justice to the situation--regardless of the outcome. And such trust on her part is not mindless, because true justice can only be administered in a given matter by someone who knows everything--past, present, future--of the circumstances, contexts, and lives involved. Only God has such perfect insight, so only God can be perfectly just.
I rejoice, and praise God upon hearing accounts of Christians such as Renee; because it is the still, small voice of God telling us in a murky, dark, and noisy world what He told the prophet Elijah in similar circumstances: "I still have a remnant who hasn't bowed to Baal."
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New Suspension Requirements - FMVSS 126 Decoded
How federally mandated stability control affects your truck
If you are a sharp-eyed reader you might have noticed ads in this magazine recently touting aftermarket suspension manufacturers' compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 126 (FMVSS 126), but you might not know exactly what that means. FMVSS 126 requires electronic stability control (ESC) on all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds GVW. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that ESC will reduce single-vehicle crashes of passenger cars by 34 percent and single vehicle crashes of SUVs by 59 percent, with a much greater reduction of rollover crashes.
But all of a sudden adding a suspension kit and big, aggressive tires isn't as easy as it used to be. Several of the top suspension manufacturers in the country stepped up to the plate, though, to demonstrate that their products can live in harmony with ESC systems, but it wasn't particularly cheap nor easy to do so.
Pro Comp was one of the first companies to pioneer this testing back in 2009 when GM released the GMT900 truck platform. "We learned right away how small changes could have huge effects on the ESC," explained Pro Comp marketing manager Mark Mathews. Pro Comp's parts are often installed by new car dealers, so Pro Comp wanted to provide assurance that its products would not adversely affect the ESC systems. Since 2009, Pro Comp has certified the Ford F-150, the new Silverado, the Jeep Wrangler JK, and most recently the Toyota Tundra.
BDS Suspension is another company that has aggressively tested its products, certifying the Ford F-150, Ram 1500, GM 1500, and Jeep JK kits in a variety of lift heights. "Our goal is to test each and every applicable suspension kit," revealed Glen Hard, COO of BDS's parent company Sport Truck USA. "These new regulations will help weed out some of the kits/manufacturers that produce subpar products."
Forward-thinking suspension manufactures see this as an opportunity to innovate. "It isn't just marketing hype; some trucks will simply be undriveable if they are not engineered right," said Mathews. "Before anything goes to the certification there is a lot of R&D done at our in-house facility with computer modeling, then testing the dirt and on the street."
All that research results in a better product for the consumer, who can confidently lift their new truck without concern.
What About Tires & Wheels?
One thing you might have noticed when different suspension manufacturers are touting their certifications is that they tell the tires and wheels the test was performed with. Wheel offset, tread pattern, and section width all have a large influence on how the ESC reacts. The further you get away from the stock parameters, the more dramatic the results. Suspension manufacturers can't test every possible tire and wheel combination, but choosing wheel offsets and tread patterns close to what was tested would be wise.
Check out the video below to see Pro Comp's Silverado in action during FMVSS 126 testing!


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Chicken, chicken meal, brown rice, oatmeal, barley, natural chicken flavors, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), alfalfa, tomato pomace, flaxseed, carrots, peas, cherries, apricots, cranberries, salt, potassium chloride, yeast culture (saccharomyces cerevisiae, enterococcus faecium, lactobacillus acidophilus, aspergillus niger, trichoderma longibrachiatum, bacillus subtillis), acai berry, glucosamine hydrochloride, tumeric, taurine, chicory extract, lecithin, pomegranate extract, garlic, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), choline chloride, yucca schidigera extract, chondroitin sulfate, zinc proteinate, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin, iron proteinate, pantothenic acid, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, copper proteinate, manganese proteinate, folic acid, calcium iodate, cobalt proteinate, biotin, selenium proteinate, vitamin B12 supplement, rosemary extract.
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Crude Protein (Min.) 24.0%
Crude Fat (Min.) 13.0%
Crude Fiber (Max.) 6.0%
Moisture (Max.) 10.0%
Selenium (Min.) 0.3 ppm
Vitamin E (Min.) 150 IU/kg
*Omega - 6 Fatty Acids (Min.) 2.0%
*Omega - 3 Fatty Acids (Min.) 0.40%
*Glucosamine (Min.) 550 ppm
*Chondroitin (Min.) 150 ppm
*Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (Min.) 100 mg/kg *Lactobacillus Acidophilus (Min) 50 million CFU/lb
*Enterococcus Faecium (Min) 35 million CFU/lb *Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Min) 900 million cells/lb
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile.
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Pure Vita Holistic Chicken and Brown Rice Adult is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages.
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product inclusive of water content. Once that is removed as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight and be more accurately place much further down the ingredient list. This is followed by a second named meat product, this time in meal form, which is most likely the true first ingredient in the food. These are the only meat ingredients in the food.
There are three grains amongst the top level ingredients, all of which are decent quality (rice, oatmeal & barley). This would suggest an average meat content (which users may address by the addition of real meat to the diet). We note the use of citric acid as a preservative, so this food should not be pre-moistened prior to feeding (pre-moistening foods preserved with citric acid increases the risk of bloat in large breed dogs).
There is a range of fruits and vegetables included, though we consider tomato pomace to be filler. There is also a good range of probiotics.
Overall, this looks to be a reasonable quality product, but is likely to be rather light in meat content.
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On February 14, just two months after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, an 18-year-old in Texas named Justin Carter was arrested.
Carter, an avid gamer, got into a spat with a fellow League of Legends player on Facebook. After being provoked and told he was "messed up in the head," Carter fired back with a startling comment:
I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten / And watch the blood of the innocent rain down/ And eat the beating heart of one of them.
Carter's father says the next messages Carter wrote included "lol" and "jk" to imply he was kidding.
"It's incredibly inappropriate when you take it out of context for sure," Jack Carter, Justin's father, tells NPR. "It was a sarcastic remark in response to an insult."
A woman in Canada was alarmed by Carter's questionable comment and notified authorities. Carter's home was then searched (although no weapons were found) and his computer was taken. The teen spent his 19th birthday in jail; this is the first time he's been incarcerated.
A jury in Texas' Comal County charged the teenager with making a terroristic threat in April, which is considered a third-degree felony. That means Carter could spend ten years in jail for the Facebook comment. The judge also gave him an unusually high bond, $500,000, which his family can't afford to pay.
Carter's trial is beginning this month but in the meantime, the teen's father says his son has fallen into a deep depression.
"He's very depressed, he's very scared," Jack Carter said, telling CNN that his son feels like he'll never leave prison. "He's pretty much lost all hope."
And in an interview with NPR, Jack Carter painted a more gruesome picture of his son's experience in jail. He says his son has had "concussions, black eyes" and "moved four times for his own protection." He also says his son is nude in solitary confinement because of his depression.
Carter's mother Jennifer posted the situation on Change.org and acquired nearly 100,000 signatures in support of her son's release. In addition, the Carter family has found a pro-bono lawyer to take on the case.
The trial will come down to this:
In a social media world where younger generations are learning to speak now and think later, how far does freedom of speech really go?
While Carter's father understands why authorities had to investigate his son, he doesn't feel an impulsive comment on Facebook should be this detrimental.
"He says he's really sorry. He just totally got caught up in the moment of the argument and didn't really think about the implications," Jack Carter tells NPR. "I miss my son. He's my friend. And I just want him out. Nobody's life should be ruined because of a sarcastic comment."


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta State rallied twice in game two to tie the game, but fell in the eleventh off a West Georgia single to left-center field. The Wolves took both games on Sunday afternoon 7-3, 4-3, after the Jags won the single affair on Saturday.
In the first inning of game two, sophomore Taylor Camp doubled and freshman Hunter Boose traded places with him two batters later for a 1-0 lead in the first.
ASU was ahead until the sixth when UWG senior Dylan Coleman squared to bunt, but slashed hit a single up the middle to tie the game 1-1. Senor Evan Hester hit a sacrifice fly to give the Wolves a 2-1 lead.
Boose lined a single over the shortstop to start the seventh, and advanced to second on a wild pitch two batters later. Junior Kevin Dodson took the game to extra innings, when he singled to plate Boose for a 2-2 tie.
ASU starter Josh Barks went 6.0 innings and gave up three hits for two earned runs, before he was relieved by freshman David Bermudez in the seventh.
Tied 3-3 through the tenth, reliever Curtis Parker came in the eleventh and struck out the first batter he faced. A single and error from the ASU infield, led to an RBI single for a 4-3 final score.
UWG starting pitcher Jamie Sexton went 7.0 innings and struck out 11. Randall Wright (2-0) got the win when he pitched in the tenth and eleventh.
ASU junior hurler Clint Echols (0-1) went 4.1 innings in game one to give up eight hits for six runs (three earned) and struck out five. West Georgia lefty starter Jonathan Black (1-0) went 8.1 innings in the win, allowing seven hits, three runs and striking out seven.
West Georgia's Hester singled in the first inning that plated Jake Shirley for a 1-0 lead. In the fourth with two outs, a walk and single put two runners on for UWG and a bobbled groundball from ASU scored an unearned run from second base. Echols hit the next batter and gave up a single down the left-field line for a 4-0 UWG advantage.
UWG added two more in the fifth off an RBI single to right field from junior Keith Borger. ASU senior righty Dylan Wall relieved Echols in the fifth to get out of the inning with a fly ball to left field.
ASU broke open the shutout in the bottom of the ninth when junior Nate Crown walked and Boose singled, before senior Seth Foster lined a single to left field that scored Crown. An error from the UWG catcher advanced runners to second and third and Camp's pinch-hit two-run double cleared the bases. The Wolves struck out the final batter to take a 7-3 win in game one.
Boose went 5-for-8 on the day with an RBI, while Camp went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Dodson 2-for-5 with an RBI.
The Jags host a single game against Erskine on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at LOS for a 2:00 p.m. first pitch.


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February was a strong month for job growth in Florida, as 66 of the state�s 67 counties saw their unemployment rates drop.
February was a strong month for job growth in Florida, as 66 of the state�s 67 counties saw their unemployment rates drop.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity released its February employment report Friday. Florida�s jobless rate of 7.7 percent was the lowest since October 2008.
�The state of Florida�s economy is coming back. It�s doing well,� said David Goetsch, a local economist. �It�s gotten through the recession, building has started again, tourists are back, and they�re not just back but they�re spending money.�
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January was touted as the first month in five years that the state�s unemployment rate dropped below the national average. However, the numbers were adjusted in the final report to show the state and national unemployment rates were both 7.9 percent.
They remained equal last month at 7.7 percent.
�With an unemployment rate of 7.7 percent, the lowest in more than four years, and nearly 300,000 private sector jobs created over the last two years, we have proof that it�s working,� Gov. Rick Scott said in a news release.
�Our efforts to reduce taxes, pay down state debt and grow the economy demonstrates our success in growing jobs for Florida families. While today�s announcement is great news, we know we have more work to do to ensure that every Florida family that wants a job can get one.�
Walton County had the second lowest unemployment rate in the state, dropping from 5.7 percent in January to 5.1 percent in February. Monroe County�s unemployment rate was 4.2 percent.
Okaloosa County�s jobless rate was 5.5 percent, the third lowest in Florida. That was an improvement of 0.5 percent from January.
Santa Rosa County tied with Lafayette County at 6.7 percent for the 21st lowest unemployment rate. Santa Rosa�s January figure was 7.3 percent.
Baker County in northeast Florida was the only county in the state to see its jobless rate rise in February, going from 7.1 percent in January to 7.4 percent.
Goetsch said the Department of Defense�s decision this week to reduce the number of unpaid leave days civilian workers must take as part of sequestration from 22 to 14 will be good news for the state and national unemployment rates.
�If the sequestration furlough days had stayed at 22, you would have seen members of the public employees union taking all 22 days at one time, which is enough for you to collect unemployment,� Goetsch said. �The unemployment numbers would have gone way up.
�The furlough is now not going to affect the unemployment numbers directly,� he added. �It will still affect them indirectly in that the people who get furloughed will begin to spend less money.�
Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.


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9 new paintings , 25 'rosette' series prints by mhny
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on view September 2016
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA
open M-Sa 9am-9pm
Showing a group of silkscreen prints on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas. The canvas use hand cut masks in layers while the silkscreen use hand cut rubylith to shoot screens/ print patterns.
The Louden Nelson Community Center is a great resource in the neighborhood with a fantastic history. Thanks to Jack Sprow for the opportunity
painting of center st entrance of Louden Nelson Community Center
trumpet flowers on Maple between cedar and center
hydrangea on Elm off cedar
gb helping w install
canvas of lighthouse spot called toilet bowl
set up in room 4
Signs and Waves
on view May 2016
@ The Bagelry
Downtown Santa Cruz
320 Cedar Street
Showing 14 paintings. Local made and inspired. The street names are the blocks between my current apartment and the Bagelry. Its my morning coffee spot. My children grew up eating bagels here. The paintings are from sketches of waves at the local beaches - mhny
'check-ops' solo show at Cotton Hustle in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
March 27, 2015
jwlkpress : garage studio in aptos with semi functional abdick offset press i got from a closed school in santa clara . works produced by mhny as jwlkpress 2008-2013, continues as works produced my mhny /jwlk / jwlkpress
faxed series of drawings w Jason Mitchell MIDAS


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MITCHELL;KILLICK;QUARTERMAIN .. Surrey UK
Thomas MITCHELL married Elizabeth ? about 1760 probably in Coulsdon Surrey UK and they had a daughter Elizabeth born 1764.
Elizabeth married three times;
1) 1785 William ROFFE and had six children William 1785 John 1786 Rebecca 1788 Hugh 1789 Elizabeth 1791 and Patience 1792.Husband William died 1793
2) 1793 James KILLICK at Southwark and had two children James 1794 and Mary 1796 both born Coulsdon.Husband James died 1797.
3) 1798 William QUARTERMAIN at Coulsdon and had three children Patience 1799 Robert 1800 and Fanny 1802 all at Coulsdon.
James Brackenrig
James was born in Scotland circa 1758 and died at Freeman's Reach, NSW, in 1844. He was the son of James Brackenrig and Elizabeth French. James was a Private in the NSW Corps and arrived in Sydney on the Neptune, in June 1790. He married
Catherine Eades (nee Miller) in Sydney in 1796. Catherine 'came free' as the wife of Joseph Eades, whom she married in England. Joseph also was a Private in NSW Corps. He was drowned in Sydney in 1796.
Children of Catherine and Joseph:
Ann Eades 1793 married Samuel Young
Mary Eades 1795
Joseph Eades 1789 Birmingham - 1864 Orange, NSW married Elizabeth Pritchard in
Children of Joseph and Elizabeth:
Henry 1814 England - 1857 Orange
Mary 1815 England - 1850 West Maitland
Joseph 1818 Pitt Town, NSW - 1879 Dubbo - married Ann Parker
Eleanor 1820 Sydney - 1880 West Maitland - married John Thomas Collins
Edward J 1823 Sydney
William 1825 Sydney
Elizabeth Eades 1792
Vienna Brackenrig Eades 1796 (both born Sydney).
Catherine died in childbirth in 1804.
Children of James Brackenrig and Catherine Miller:
Charles James Brackenrig born 1797 Sydney. married Marion Grace (Mary) Stubbs in 1819 in Sydney
Children of Charles and Marion :
Jane 1821 - married Charles Robins
Elizabeth Esther 1823 - married Thomas B Rossetter
James Thomas George 1825 - married Caroline Bee Sharpley
Children: James T born 1852 : Albert A 1854 : Arthur A 1854
Vienna Charlotte (Emma) 1827 - married John Butler
Charles John 1829 - married Mary Ann Bailey
Child: Marion S born 1860
George Robert 1834
Ann Susannah 1836 - married Andrew Doyle
Oswald Robin 1837 - married Catherine McNamara
Sarah Brackenrig born 1801
John Brackenrig born 1804.
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Luigi TINELLI was the American Consul in Oporto during the 1840s. He was Italian, and served alongside his compatriots in the US Civil War. There's a fair bit about him in the newspapers.
Tinelli, Luigi; born in Italy; Major in the Garibaldi Guards; transfered to become the Colonel of his own regiment, the 90th New York. National Archives Service Records of Louis Tinelli's Pension. During the war Tinelli recruited the Hancock Guards, which later were consolidated with the McClellan Rifles. Tinelli's two sons joined the Union as officers. At 18, Francis Tinelli enlisted as a private in his father's regiment, but was discharged to accept a commission as a lieutenant in the 13th Heavy Artillery, and Joseph J. Tinelli was acting Master in the Navy. In May of 1863, Louis Tinelli contracted malaria and was discharged for disability on the 31st, in New Orleans. Tinelli served with four companies at Fort Jefferson, Key West and Tortuga, Florida; died 1873 Key West, Fl.
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L W Tinelli
Post Name: Jefferson, Fort
Post Location: Florida
Post Commander: L W Tinelli
Military Place: Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida
Return Period: Jun 1862
William Nicholls born Truro Cornwall UK ... joined US Navy
William Nicholls born Truro Cornwall UK married Sarah Bell of Exeter UK but the marriage is not recorded in UK.
William served in the US Navy.
They had a daughter Ellen M Nicholls and the family is shown on the 1911 census living at Clunton Shropshire where William is stated to be a US Navy pensioner.
Fox Murder in West Australia
Australian Newspapers
The West Australian Wednesday 8th February 1899 (entered by JGT 16 June 2010)
Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
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A S Courtenay Ah Gor Ah Lee Ah Nee Alexander Fox Chinese Eliza Ann Myers eliza Ann Pantland Herman Heinrich Meier John Alexander Fox murder
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Nothing further of consequence has transpired with reference to the tragedy at Dalkeith, for although several members of the uniformed police and detective
forces have been unremittingly searching the neighbourhood of the crime for clues that may lead to the elucidation of the mystery, their labours have so far
been unrewarded. A theory that the murder was perpetrated earlier than Saturday has been advanced in certain quarters, this being based on the extent of the
putrefaction of the body of the murdered woman when discovered. Those competent to express an opinion lean to this belief, even assuming that the body lay
exposed to the hot sun for probably the whole of Saturday afternoon.
The arrest of a Chinaman on the far reaching charge of vagrancy, as mentioned in the West Australian yesterday, has created a somewhat strong feeling
amongst his compatriots in the city,for though it is not openly stated that the alleged vagrant is in any way connected with the crime, his arrest at the present
juncture is somewhat in the nature of a hint that he may be connected with the crime. A representative of this paper yesterday received from Mr. Louis Waugh
who is well known as a leading member of the Chinese portion of the community,a statement as follows :-" I do not think that a Chinaman had anything to do
with the murder. To begin with,Chinese, if they had a desire for revenge against Mr.Fox for having given evidence against them and got them sent to gaol,
would not revenge themselves by being cruel to Mr. Fox's wife. Some Chinamen of course are cruel, but not to women, and I think that no Chinaman would
do such a cruel thing as to chop open a woman's head with an axe. Then there are other things. For instance,if a Chinaman had chopped the poor woman with
an axe he would be so frightened at what he had done that he would go and bury the axe or throw it in the water, and not take it back to the house, like your
paper said. Then he would not wipe the axe. He would be too excited. The police can easily find out if the Chinaman they have locked up was down at
Claremont on Saturday, and I think that if he was in town all that Saturday afternoon, there are plenty of Chinamen who will be able to say they saw him."
Ah Nee, alias Ah Lee, alias Ah Gor, the Chinese arrested on a charge of " having no visible means of support," and who was one of the three recently
convicted of fruit stealing from Gallop's garden, was brought up on the former charge at the City Police Court yesterday morning, and formally remanded for
eight days.
A reporter of the West Australian had a conversation last night with Mr. Alexander Fox, a younger brother of John Fox, who is now in custody in connection
with the murder of his wife. Mr. Alexander Fox has been in the employment of Messrs.E.C.Shenton and Co.for about nine years,and is a bright,intelligent and
popular young fellow. In the remarks which he made to our reporter it was apparent that he felt deeply the sad fate which has overtaken his brother's wife.
His brother John, he said, had from his earliest youth been of notably sober and industrious habits. When engaged in the cultivation of a piece of ground in
Fitzgerald Street,before he went into the employment of Mr.Hearman, he was accustomed to work from early morning until late at night. He was afterwards,
when engaged by Mr Hearman, a trusted employee of the latter gentleman, for whom he acted as carter. He was with with Mr. Hearman for seven years, and
was en-trusted with the keys of the store,and had full access to the shop.After leaving Mr.Hearman, which he did of his own accord, he was in the
employment of Messrs.G.K. Snowball and Co., grocers,of Hay Street, for about a year, after which he went as gardener to Mr Gallop.
Have you been with your brother since the tragedy ? asked our reporter.
"I had a long conversation with him this afternoon, when he was also visited by other of his relatives," replied Mr. Fox. "In the course of our talk he said. 'I
don't know what they are keeping me here for,as my conscience is perfectly clear before God and myself.' From what I have gathered from my brother I can
give you a full account of his movements on Saturday. A little after nine o'clock on Saturday morning he started to make preparations for going into town to
make some purchases. The girls were to accompany him, and as ten o'clock drew near Mrs.Fox said, ' Hurry up children, and don't keep father waiting, or
you will miss the train." They left the house about five minutes before ten o'clock. He kissed his wife and the children also kissed their mother, who came to
the back door and waved her hand to them as they disappeared. They caught the train at Claremont at ten minutes to eleven. My brother came to see me in
town. He was in good spirits and looked in splendid health, which made me remark to a friend, ' Isn't Jack looking well ?' "
" My brother caught the 2 o'clock train from Perth, which arrives at Claremont half an hour later. When he got home he found that his wife was absent. The
matter at first caused him no uneasiness. He sent the children, who had accompanied him home, to look for her in and about the house, but they failed to find
her. My brother and his wife had been on friendly terms with Mr. and Mrs.K.Matthews, who occupy a house not in the garden but close by on the Nedlands
Estate. My brother then thought that his wife had run over to these neighbours, and he accordingly proceeded thither in search of her. When on his way there
he met two of Mr.Gallop's sons,and he asked them if they had seen his wife anywhere. They replied that they had not, and he remarked, ' I suppose she is over
at Bob's' (meaning Matthews' house). After conversing with them for a while, he left to go to Matthews' house, with the words, ' I will go and fetch her over.'
Mrs.Fox, however, was not at the house mentioned. He came back, and as his wife did not put in an appearance he went shortly afterwards to see Matthews
again. 'What do you think I had better do, Bob?' he said to him. ' Well, Jack,' Matthews answered, ' I would advise you to give information to the police.' My
brother and Matthews then went to Claremont to interview the police. They had some difficulty in finding them, as they were absent on patrol duty. On a
second visit, however, they were successful."
When did you first hear of the tragedy, Mr.Fox ? inquired the reporter.
" The first news I heard was at 11 o'clock on Sunday night. I telephoned to the police at Claremont, and then learned that my brother's wife had been brutally
murdered. On the following morning, until when I could not possibly get down to Claremont, I read particulars of the tragedy in the newspapers, and also that
my brother had been arrested."
Asked if his brother mentioned any theory in connection with the crime, Mr.Fox said :" None, beyond the one connecting a number of Chinese with the affair.
After several Chinese had been convicted of a theft of fruit from Mr.Gallop's garden, my brother spoke about the affair to me. He told me that when he met
the Chinese in the garden, one threatened him with a stick, and swore that if he had a gun he would shoot him. I told my brother that he had better look out, as
they might be nasty customers."
Concerning the discovery of the axe Mr.Fox said that his nephew (a son of his brother Joseph) had occasion to use the axe on Sunday morning, and he is
positive that there were no marks resembling blood stains on it then. " I have been informed, Mr. Fox added, "that the axe was fitted in the wound in the
deceased's head and that of course could not be done without some blood adhering."
Speaking with reference to his brother's wife, Mr. Fox said that she was a splendid housekeeper, and a woman of whom any man might well be proud. He
lived with them in the same house in Perth for some considerable time after their marriage, and they seemed to be always on most affectionate terms. On the
Sunday preceding the tragedy, he spent the day with them, a friend accompanying him from Perth. Mrs. Fox was then suffering from tooth- ache, and when he
inquired after her from his brother on Saturday, the latter replied that her teeth were still troubling her. Both his brother and Mrs.Fox were very fond of their
two girls. It had been found necessary to acquaint the children to some extent with what had occurred, and one, on being told, remarked, ' What a lucky thing I
kissed my mother before I went away.' "
An elder sister of Mrs.Fox,a Miss Eliza Ann Myers,in an interview with a reporter of the WEST AUSTRALIAN, furnished some interesting information
concerning her family. In the early sixties Herman Heinrich Meier,a native of Germany,emigrated from his Fatherland to London to evade military service
being then 20 years of age. On the 7th August 1864 Meier was married to Eliza Ann Pantland by the Rev.A.S.Courtenay, incumbant of St. James' Chapel,
Pentonville in the parish of Clerkenwell. Of this marriage were born three boys and four girls, Ellen Ann being the eldest. Rosa (Mrs. Fox) was born in the
King's Road Chelsea in 1868.
Of the children born to Mr.and Mrs.Meier,only three of the girls lived to become adults, for the three boys and one of the girls died some in infancy. In the
year 1876 the Meier family left England where they had lived in comparative comfort for Western Australia arriving in the ship "Hastings," the vessel in
which Bishop Parry came to the colony.
Arrived here, Meier took up a piece of land,but it was of such poor quality that the family,though they worked early and late and bore many privations,all
regretted the more comfortable circumstances they had left in England. Failing to making a success of farming, Meier took to working as a general labourer.
He eventually met his death by drowning at Roebourne, a sad feature of the case being that his body was never recovered. Meantime he had married again,
and his second marriage was fallowed by that of his daughter Rosa to John Alexander Fox, the youngest surviving daughter, Minna, being wedded, shortly
afterwards to a Mr. Powell,at present residing at Wongong. The Meier family made but few friends, for they were all of a very reserved disposition, "
keeping themselves," as Miss Myers puts it, " very much to themselves." It was not till they arrived in the colony that they Anglicised their name by
exchanging the German "Meier" for Myers.
Miss Myers, as may be readily understood, is much overcome by the tragic death of her sister,to whom she was very much attached. No inducement would
make her read any account of the crime, she stated, and as far as possible she endeavoured to keep her thoughts away from the tragedy. She seemed to be
unable to convince herself of the death of her sister,and the effort of endeavouring to speak of that sister's past life became so painful that she was compelled
to desist, being quite carried away with emotion.
In addition to the calamities members of the Fox and Myers families have sustained as referred to above, some five years ago a younger brother of John Fox
was killed by a gunshot wound. Many theories were advanced as to the cause of the young man's death, but it was finally shown that the young man met his
death by accident. It was shown that while cleaning out a hayshed he came across a gun lying on two pegs driven into the wall. Grasping the muzzle Fox
carelessly dragged it from its resting place not knowing that it was loaded. The hammer caught on one of the pegs, was drawn back and fell thus exploding
the charge which entered the throat of the victim of the mishap. Death was instantaneous of course, the medical evidence indeed showing that the young
fellow could not even have heard the explosion. This accident preyed very heavily on the father's mind, to such an extent Mr.Alex. Fox states that it
undoubtedly shortened his days. The father of John and Alex Fox was a partial cripple being for many years paralysed all down his left side. It has been
stated above that the father of Mrs.Fox was drowned, and that his body had never been recovered. A somewhat similar fate befel one of her uncles, Mrs.
Myers' brother, a Mr.Pantland, for he was lost in the snow in England, and his body was never seen again. Misfortune after misfortune seems to have
followed both families till they culminated in the awful, and to the many old friends and acquaintances of John Fox mysterious murder of Saturday, for there
are many who openly and firmly express the opinion that John Fox is the victim of a most unjust suspicion and that time will show that their belief that he is
incapable of such a crime is correct.
Perth April 14 1899
The trial of Fox for the murder of his wife at Dalkeith,near Clairmont, was concluded today The Chief Justice ,in summing up,said that the evidence as to the
tracks, as given by Crown witnesses, was most unsatisfactory, and the same remark applied to the blood stains. The theories of the Crown seemed to fall to
pieces like a pick of cards. Prisoner's demeanour,after the discovery of the murder was quite that of an innocent man. The jury,without leaving the box,
returned verdict of not guilty When Fox left the court the crowd cheered lum lustily.
John TUTCHIN of 'The Observator' friend of Daniel Defoe
TUTCHIN, JOHN (1661?-1707), whig pamphleteer was born about 1661, probably in Hampshire or the Isle of Wight (ef. Observator, iii. No. 87). He himself says (ib. 17 to 20 May, 8 to 12 July 1704) that he was born a freeman of the city of London, and that his father, grandfather, and several of his uncles were nonconformist ministers. No doubt he was nearly related to the Rev. Robert TUTCHIN of Newport, Isle of Wight, who, like his three sons, was ejected in 1662 (Palmer, The Nonconformist?s Memorial, 1802, 8. 349, ii. 262, 275-6). Tutchin seems to have been at school in Stepney, and is said by a distractor to have been expelled for stealing (The Devil turned Limner, 1704)....
30 Dec 1686 John Tutchin, of St Mildred's, Bread Street, Lond., Gent., Bachr, abt 25, & Mrs Elizabeth Hicks, of Newington Green, Midd., Spr, abt 22, at own disp.; at St Stephen, Colman Street, Lond.
I would like to know more about him and his relationship to Robert and Robert's three sons
ADLAM of Dilton near Westbury Wiltshire England
I have been searching for a link to my ggg/mother who was Ann ADLAM over many years.
The 1851 and 1861 census stated she was born in Wiltshire circa 1811 and her marriage certificate (1840) stated that her father was named 'Stephen'.
The 1871 census was a little more generous with her place of birth but very badly handwritten.
However I did make some enquiries and the consensus of opinions received were positive that the place of birth stated on the 1871 census was 'Penknap',Dilton,Westbury,Wiltshire.
Further information I obtained is as follows;
"The Sabbath School commenced when the chapel was being built in 1810.
Until the chapel was comfortably fitted up with pews and galleries, the school was conducted every Sabbath in some shops that were unoccupied near Pippin's Bridge, belonging to Mrs. Ballard, who was a great friend of the undertaking. It appears that this was the first Sunday School this side of Westbury.
Within a few Sabbaths, however, another Sunday School was established at Leigh Chapel. When the chapel was completed the school was moved thither, and here it was conducted twice every Lord's Day for 25 years. The first person who acted as Superintendant was Mr. Stephen ADLAM."
It appears that the school was for Baptist Children at Dilton so the difficulty of searching is as a result of the baptismal practices of that faith.
The reference to Stephen ADLAM is the only one that I have ever found in all my searching and I would respectfully ask if there could perhaps be any records related to this man and his family?
Ann ADLAM appears to have left Wiltshire sometime before 1840 for in that year she married my ggg/father at the parish church Paddington Green West London.
Her faith did not wane as several of her descendents were subsequently prominent in the Salvation Army.
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Peter Stastny, however, carried the flag in the opening ceremony of the Winter Games in 1994 for what was then the newly indepedent country of Slovakia.
So which team was Pops cheering for Thursday, when Slovakia played his son's United States men's squad in the opening game of the Olympic hockey tournament?
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