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Fast food workers in Seattle continued a series of walkouts Thursday, forcing several restaurants to close down for the day.
The movement, called "Good Jobs Seattle" calls for higher wages for fast food workers. The organization began its protests Wednesday night, forcing a Ballard Taco Bell to close because of a shortage of staffing.
Will Pitts, one of the strike organizers with Good Jobs Washington, tells KIRO Radio's Luke Burbank Show that workers are demanding $15 per hour. He says the median wage for fast food workers currently is $9.50 an hour.
"If you look at this nationally, the number of hours that one of these employees gets per week is 24 hours. So it's really nowhere near what it takes for one of these workers to really meet their basic needs."
Pitts says they've established that $15 an hour paid for 40 hours of work a week is what someone needs to support their basic needs living in Seattle.
"We think that's a very reasonable number and something that would really help all these workers support their basic needs and help the entire economy get moving again."
Six fast food locations in the Seattle area had to close due to the strikes, Pitts says. A Burger King on Lake City posted a sign letting patrons know they would be closed for the day.
"Due to all employees walking out for the strike for poverty today. We are understaffed and unable to serve you at this time. Sincerest apologies – management," read the sign.
Pitt thinks the striking demonstrations are raising awareness.
"It's really exciting to see all the energy today and all of the bravery from the workers who have stepped out," says Pitts. "We know we need to work together to improve conditions for fast food workers and other low-wage workers. We know it's not going to happen overnight, but this is building a movement."
Organizers also picketed at a number of other locations including the Lake City Burger King at 14340 15th Ave NE, the University District Taco del Mar at 1313 NE 42nd St, the Arby's at 601 S Michigan, and at the Capitol Hill Chipotle, Subway, and Qdoba.
A day's protests ended with a rally at Seattle's Denny Park, followed by a march to nearby fast food locations, including McDonald's.


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The chief reporter behind the disastrous Newsnight report that wrongly linked a former Tory peer with allegations of child sexual abuse was formally questioned on Monday by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's funding body.
Angus Stickler, the former BBC journalist who researched and fronted the Newsnight film on 2 November, was interviewed by the bureau's trustees in London.
He was asked to provider further information and return for questioning on Thursday.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has launched an urgent inquiry into the Newsnight film, which it says was "100% overseen by the BBC". The bureau's trustees, chaired by James Lee, hope to publish their report by Friday.
Newsnight's Bryn Estyn report fuelled false internet rumours that linked Lord McAlpine, a former Tory party treasurer, with allegations of child sexual abuse.
McApline has threatened to sue for defamation and Newsnight apologised for the inaccurate report on Friday.
The film led directly to the resignation of the BBC director general, George Entwistle, on Saturday night, and the BIJ managing editor, Iain Overton, who stepped down on Monday.
The not-for-profit news group has attempted to distance itself from the Newsnight scandal, saying that the BBC had full editorial control over the report.
The BIJ, based at City University in London, has confirmed that Stickler has taken a fully paid leave of absence pending the outcome of two separate inquiries into the Newsnight debacle.
An internal BBC inquiry by the BBC Scotland director, Ken MacQuarrie, concluded those responsible for the report had failed to make "basic journalistic checks" before it was aired on 2 November.
Overton was questioned by the trustees on Sunday, when he formally tendered his resignation, but is not believed to have been asked to return.
In a letter to the Times on Tuesday, the BIJ's lead trustees sought to "underline that the BBC did not 'outsource' its reputation to the bureau".
The letter was signed by the former chairman of the Financial Times Sir David Bell, journalism professor George Brock, and the bureau's main funders, David and Elaine Potter.
It said: "The BBC required, and had, full editorial control throughout the production of the Newsnight film transmitted on 2 November about the North Wales child abuse inquiry ... The Bureau's work has won awards by disclosing important information in the public interest and, with only this recent exception, by maintaining high standards of journalism."
Overton sparked an internet frenzy with his tweeted claim, hours before broadcast on 2 November, that Newsnight was about to reveal a "very senior political figure who is a paedophile", although he was not directly involved in the story. The trustees described the now-infamous tweet from Overton as "regrettable".
Overton said on Monday night: "I am incredibly sorry that people have had to resign over it. I am incredibly sorry we got the journalism wrong. I am incredibly sorry Steve Messham [the abuse victim featured in the report] must have been to hell and back, and I'm incredibly sorry for Lord McAlpine."
The episode could be devastating for the not-for-profit group, which has partnered with a number of national newspapers, including the Guardian, and broadcasters to run investigative stories, some of them award-winning.
Since launching in April 2010, the BIJ has received around £2m in grants and is funded by the David and Elaine Potter Foundation.
In a submission to the Leveson inquiry earlier this year, the BIJ said that costly legal cover was its main worry and urged Lord Justice Leveson to consider granting charitable status to independent investigative journalism groups.
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Psychologica Belgica is the official journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). BAPS promotes the development of psychological sciences in Belgium, at both fundamental and applied research levels. The journal ensures rigorous peer-review to maintain research integrity.
Psychological Belgica makes publications available online as soon as they are finalised. All publications are open access, making research available free of charge and without delay.
The journal has an Impact Factor of 1.524 and a 5 year impact factor of 1.594.
Subscribe to content alerts and other journal news here. You can also follow the journal on ResearchGate.
Psychologica Belgica has launched a new special collection, guest edited by Pieter Van Dessel. Research Integrity and Open Science in Psychology Research consists of papers that discuss outstanding issues such as the incentives for open science, that outline important determinants of research integrity, and that provide practical guidelines for improving research integrity such as through detailed preregistration and by providing more clarity regarding used research materials.
Papers are still being added so watch this space!
Posted on 14 Aug 2019
On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisations, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality.
cOAlition S signals the commitment to implement, by 1 January 2020, the necessary measures to fulfil its main principle: "By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms."
The editors of Psychologica Belgica welcome this initiative and, as a fully compliant Open Access journal with low APCs and CC BY licences, we invite submissions from all psychology researchers funded by participating organisations!
Posted on 06 Sep 2018
Research Integrity and Open Science in Psychology Research
Guest Editor: Pieter Van Dessel
Research integrity can be defined as a type of behavior that is directed at scientific goals (i.e., goals that facilitate scientific advancement). One important component of research integrity is open science which involves making scientific research, data, and dissemination accessible. Though research integrity and open science have become hot topics in psychological science, there are several important challenges and obstacles. The aim of this special issue is to discuss recent developments and outstanding issues in this domain and to provide guidelines that researchers can use to improve the openness and integrity of their research. We invite papers that focus on research integrity, ethical issues in psychological research and open science.
Prospective authors should read the information here about submitting to the journal. The submission deadline is 15th February 2019.
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In Memory: CS Student Corey NielsenSeptember 7, 2008
Corey Nielsen
Computer science student Corey Nielsen died August 25 from complications due to paraplegia and diabetes.
Illinois Named Top Wired College by PC Magazine: Coursework in CS cited as one reason whySeptember 4, 2008
PC Magazine named the University of Illinois the top wired college in the U.S. in a recent issue. Some of the reasons cited include intensive classes in parallel computing and data mining taught in CS and ECE, among others. Illinois improved its ranking from the 2006 edition, when it ranked 6th.
From PC Magazine:
Cloud Computing Initiative ProfiledSeptember 3, 2008
From the Chicago Tribune:
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are working with colleagues at Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo, as well as researchers in Europe and Asia, to build a global test bed for exploring system designs for the future.
CS PhD Alumnus Awarded SIGKDD Dissertation AwardSeptember 2, 2008
CS Alumnus Xiaoxin Yin
CS alumnus Xiaoxin Yin has been awarded the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation award by the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for his work while a PhD student at the University of Illinois. This annual award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.
Alumnus Named Director of IIIT DelhiSeptember 1, 2008
CS Alumnus Pankaj Jalote
University of Illinois computer science alumnus Pankaj Jalote was recently named director of IIIT Delhi, a new center established to act as a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research. The center aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified domain areas of IT.
Alumna Launches New Search Engine to Rival GoogleJuly 29, 2008
University of Illinois computer science alumna Anna Patterson is launching a new search engine to compete with Google. Patterson sold her last search engine technology to Google in 2004. Her new company, Cuil, claims a more comprehensive and efficient method of search. Patterson received her PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1998.
From the Associated Press:
"[Illinois CS alumna] Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
Cloud Computing Initiative to Study Internet-Scale SystemsJuly 28, 2008
Building on a long history of innovation in large-scale systems and parallel computing, the Illinois department of computer science today announced a joint research endeavor to investigate Internet-scale cloud computing systems.
2008 ITI Undergraduate Summer Intern Program UnderwayJuly 19, 2008
Undergraduate students from around the world were selected to receive 2008 summer internships from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois. Six students will be working with computer science faculty on various security related topics. 19 internships were awarded overall.
Illinois Receives Major U.S. Department of Defense Research Award for Secure Sharing of InformationJuly 13, 2008
Professor Jiawei Han
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is part of a six-university collaborative cyber security initiative that has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to receive a projected 7-year, $7.4 million grant.
PhD student Wins Best Paper AwardJuly 12, 2008
A paper co-authored by CS PhD student Nabil Schear and ECE professor David Nicol has brought home the Best Paper award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2008).
Sarita Adve Honored for Work on Memory Consistency ModelsJuly 8, 2008
Professor Sarita Adve
Computer science professor Sarita Adve has been honored with the Maurice Wilkes Award for her work on memory consistency models. The award is given annually by the ACM special interest group SIGARCH to honor outstanding contribution in field of computer architecture by a researcher in the first 20 years of their career.
Alumnus Jawed Karim was profiled recently by the LA Times for his Youniversity Ventures projectJuly 2, 2008
From the article:
"Despite netting $65 million in Google Inc. stock when the search giant bought YouTube, Karim, 28, lives in a dorm at Stanford University, where he's working toward a doctorate in computer science with the goal of becoming a professor.
Alumnus Publishes 2nd Edition of Visual Effects TextJune 8, 2008
Ron Brinkmann
University of Illinois computer science alumnus Ron Brinkmann has recently published the 2nd edition of his text on digital compositing for visual effects. His book, The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics, provides a complete guide to the technical and artistic elements of this process and is the leading book in the field.
PhD Students Win Best Student Paper Honors for Cell Phone Malware ResearchMay 26, 2008
A group of computer science PhD students have won Best Student Paper honors at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for their paper entitled "Cloaker: Hardware Supported Rootkit Concealment". The paper, authored by PhD students Francis David, Ellick Chan, and Jeffrey Carlyle and professor Roy Campbell, reveals the existence of a new class of malware that is immune to detection by current techniques.
Data Sciences Summer Institute BeginsMay 18, 2008
A unique 8-week program in the study and practice of knowledge discovery begins this week. The Data Sciences Summer Institute, part of the computer science Multi-Modal Information Access & Synthesis center, combines an intensive course in the mathematical foundations of data sciences with hands-on tutorials, a speaker series featuring experts from academia and industry, and group research projects.
Alumnus Starts Silicon Valley Alumni ClubMay 18, 2008
When CS alumnus Roland Geisler first moved to the Bay Area in 1999, he looked for ways to connect with other Illinois alumni. With no active Illinois alumni club, it was difficult to make those connections. When he returned in the Spring of 2007 to find that there was still no alumni club, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Geisler first contacted the UI Alumni Association. From them he learned that while they had often thought about establishing a club in the Bay Area, they had trouble finding alumni who were serious about starting it. Geisler was.
UI Named Center of Excellence in Info Assurance ResearchMay 14, 2008
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has announced that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the inaugural recipients of their newly created National
UI Named Center of Excellence in Info Assurance ResearchMay 14, 2008
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has announced that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the inaugural recipients of their newly created National
Mortal Kombat' Co-Creator and Alumnus Ed Boon ProfiledMay 11, 2008
In April, Midway announced the eighth version of the super successful American fighting series, Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe, debuting the likes of DC superheroes Superman and Batman along side Mortal Kombat characters Sub-Zero and Scorpion. CS alumnus Ed Boon, co-creator of the popular Mortal Kombat video game was interviewed recently by GameTap about the newest version of the popular video game.
GameTap: With Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe, why did you feel that you needed to do something so different?


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Mike Ryerson
Mike served in the Marine Corps from 1965 to 1969, arriving in South Vietnam in February of '66 and finally rotating home in March of '68 (25 months, four days and approximately 40 minutes, near as he can figure). He was a forward observer with 5th, 4th and 9th Marines until wounded (twice in the same day!) in May of '67, after which became an operations chief with 9th Marines Regimental Fire Support Coordination Center (FSCC) and finally the S-3 operations chief with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines.
Still working on a successful first marriage, Mike and his wife of 27 years have one son, who will start college next year. He suggests that he married well above his station and is thankful that their son takes after his mother.
Generally active and healthy, Mike has written extensively about the war and other subjects which are of interest to him but he hasn't penned a lot of poetry. To quote Mike, "My work tends to be rather profane; probably not a good mix for general audiences."


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Half Dome – Yosemite Musing
After nearly 9 months, the Obama Administration finally filled the post of Director of the NPS. Jon Jarvis was picked to head the huge Department of Interior post. He was confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate.
Jarvis, is a 30-year veteran of the Park Service. For the past 7 years he held the position of NPS Pacific West Regional Director. This region contains 54 national parks from Nevada through the Pacific to American Samoa and includes Yosemite. He also was in charge of Mount Rainier National Park. The impact to us is that one of his first jobs (we hope) will be to select the permanent Superintendent of Yosemite. Dave Uberaga has been acting Super since January.
Just in to the news desk – California State Park closure plan got some relief as the Governor now proposes to get $14M in savings without fully closing the parks. He wants to partially or seasonally close some parks, stop major equipment purchases this year, reduce spending on seasonal staff, reduce hours of operation and reduce ongoing maintenance. So they may not be shuttered, but bring your own TP!!
Unrelated thought worth quoting: "Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real. And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever." – The Beatles
*Mr. Half Dome -Rick Deutsch – www.HikeHalfDome.com


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Two weeks ago I successfully defended my dissertation proposal. I thought it might be worthwhile to share an abridged version so anyone interested might get a sense of what this project is shaping up to be. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. In this abridged version I've cut out the literature review.
"This extensive and populous country…retains its peculiar manners which have stamped the people as a peculiar race from the earliest periods of history."1 So writes Samuel Goodrich in 1845, using the pseudonym Peter Parley, under the heading "Hindostan" in his schoolbook Manners and Customs of the Principal Nations of The Globe. For, Goodrich, and for the children reading his grade school book, India was quite different from America. As common schools began to grow in the middle third of the nineteenth century, writers like Goodrich believed that children in America needed to have a global view. A view that included Asia and India. In his The Tales of Peter Parley About Asia (1845) Goodrich describes the people of India for his readers: "I shall now tell you of a people, who may be regarded as the most interesting of all the inhabitants of Asia, I mean the Hindoos…the Hindoos, in personal appearance, in disposition, in character, and in religion, are a distinct and peculiar nation."2 Children would find the Hindus interesting because they were so different from Americans—so "peculiar." As Goodrich pointed out, they looked different, lived differently, and believed in a different religion.
About a decade later, Henry David Thoreau bathed his mind in "the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy" of the Bhagavad Gita during his mornings at Walden Pond. For Thoreau, the sacred book of India made the modern world "and its literature seem puny and trivial." Laying the book aside, Thoreau made his way down to his well to draw water. The Gita still in his thoughts, at the well he met "the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahama and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Veda, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug." Thoreau's meditation on the Gita brought him to a place where "the pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."3 For Thoreau, the Brahman at the foot of the tree reading the Veda represented everything missing from his industrial American society. Through his romantic vision, Hindu religious culture represented an ancient spiritual wisdom that Thoreau believed American industrial society had lost.
In 1884 the Methodist run Christian Advocate offered a very different image of India's religions. The magazine published a report from the Rev. Samuel Knowles on "The Devi Patan Mela," a religious festival in India. Knowles narrates the scene his group of missionaries arrived to find: "Thirsty tired, and full of dust, we entered under the grand grove of tamarind trees that surrounds the gloomy temple of the blood-deluged idol goddess…it was calculated that one animal a minute was sacrificed sunrise to sunset of every day for a week." Like Thoreau, Knowles also sees Brahmins. "A number of blood-stained priests stand behind a stone in front of the temple," waiting to help devotees offer sacrifices to "the dishonored shrine."4
These three examples illustrate the variety of ways Americans imagined and represented Hindu religions in the nineteenth century. For the schoolbook writers, India was a land of barbarous, dark skinned, heathens that stood in contrast to the virtues of white, enlightened, Christian America. For Thoreau and his ilk, Indian religions held a spiritual truth that was missing in American Protestant culture. Americans needed to "bathe their minds" in India's spiritual waters as an antidote to rising materialism and industrialism. Missionaries, like the Methodists in the Advocate, viewed Hindu religions as dark heathenism in need of the conquering light of the Gospel. As these examples indicate, Americans held a variety of reactions and ideas about India and its religious culture, but all of these reactions shared a common understanding of religious difference. Whether viewed positively or negatively, all Americans believed that Hindu religions were altogether different from America's.
Furthermore, these visions of Hindu religions preceded the arrival of Hindus themselves. Swami Vivekananda's speech at the World's Parliament of religion is often cited as the beginning for Hinduism's history in America. On the one hand, this is true insofar as Vivekananda's Vedanta Society became the first Hindu religious institution to attract a following among Americans. But on the other hand, such a history fails to outline the events and ideas that made Vivekananda's movement possible. The history of Hinduism in America begins a century before Vivekananda when Americans first encountered Hindu religions through missions work, trade, travel narratives, and the popular press. By examining the representations of Hinduism that preceded Vivekananda, this dissertation traces out the ideas and images in American culture that made Vivekananda's work possible, thinkable even. In short, I point out the ground rules Vivekananda, and Hindus that would follow him, had to play by.
In this dissertation, I situate my investigation on the boundary of American culture. In the nineteenth century, Americans from a variety of backgrounds produced and consumed representations of Hindu religions. I argue that these representations took a myriad of forms and emphasized various themes about India but they were all predicated on a notion of religious difference—whatever Hindu religions were, they were not American. Thus, Hindu religions marked the edge of American culture. They were always already outside America, though they were then represented by Americans for Americans in American cultural forms. By sketching the borders of American culture in the period and by paying particular attention to the role of religion in maintaining this boundary, this dissertation will explore the different ways Americans used religion as a category for defining America. In a sense, this dissertation gets at "American religion" through the back door, by examining examples of what did not count as American religion during the century.
While other historians, most notably R. Laurence Moore, have argued that American religious history has been typified by "outsiders," these outsiders have most often still been Americans.5 They've been Catholic, Jewish, or Mormon Americans, they've been immigrant Americans, but they have been people living in America, nonetheless. I push past these outsiders to a group truly outside the boundaries of America. A group so far outside that it becomes hard to differentiate between imagination and representation. This dissertation, then, is not just about the boundaries of nineteenth century American culture. It is also a project in expanding the boundaries of what counts in American religious history.
Part of that expansionary project involves re-framing American religious history in global terms. Scholars of the American West have unsettled the traditional narrative of American religious history that begins in New England and moves West. Meanwhile, others have emphasized the transatlantic connections between America and Europe. Finally, a move toward accounting for movement and immigration has produced histories that account for the ways religions arrived in America. But all of these various frames are still tied to the geographic space of the American continent as the place where religions arrive. In taking a global view, I argue that Americans constructed religious ideas and practices through processes of movement and exchange that took place around the world. Women reading the Heathen Woman's Friend imagined life as a Hindu widow and prayed for them. New Englanders encountered images of Hindu gods that had accompanied cotton textiles on a ship from Madras. American Transcendentalists read Hindu texts imported from Britain, translated by officials in the East India Company in Calcutta, and compiled by Hindu pandits. Representations of Hindu religions did not simply arrive in America, rather, they were constructed through process of global travel and exchange. By focusing on global travel, America moves from a the destination point of religions, as in the typical narrative of Pilgrim arrival, to a node in a global network of travel and exchange.
Besides geography, I also push boundaries of historical periodization. While taking account of the Transcendentalists' interest in Hindu texts, most historians begin the history of Hindu religions in America with the 1893 World's Parliament of Religion and the arrival of Swami Vivekananda. I end my history there. While 1893 does mark the beginning of Vivekananda's work in America and the first concerted movement of converts to Hinduism, the history of Hindu religions in America goes back much further. I begin with the America-India trade at the turn of the nineteenth century. This trade between New England and the ports of India brought the first sustained encounters between Americans and Hindus. In the second decade of the century the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent out their first group of missionaries to India. Not to be outdone by their New England cousins, the Unitarians also sent out missionaries in the 1820s and were in correspondence with Hindu reformer Rammohun Roy. During the second half of the century, the Methodist Episcopal Church joined other Evangelical denominations in missionary work in India, Transcendentalists, Theosphists, and other metaphysicals explored Hindu religions, and national media outlets such as Harper's Monthly published accounts of religious life in India. A plethora of representations of Hindu religions from a variety of perspectives and serving diverse ends moved throughout American culture before Vivekananda ever stepped on stage in Chicago. American encounters with Hinduism in the twentieth century cannot be understood apart from these nineteenth century representations.
Broadly speaking, I organize American representations of Hinduism into three categories. First, some representations of Hindu religions took part in the construction and maintenance of an American national culture. Like the schoolbook example above, these representations combined religious difference with racial, social, and cultural differences to produce a full fledged American national culture that stood in direct opposition to Indian culture. Americans were white, Protestant, hard working, civilized and enlightened. Indians were brown, heathen, lazy, barbarous, and benighted. Second, Evangelical missionaries produced representations of Hinduism that dovetailed the nationalist images in their negativity but emphasized the need to convert Hindus and reform their culture. Where the religious difference was necessary for the production of national culture, the missionary representations sought to eventually erase religious difference through conversion. Hindus were still uncivilized heathens but they could be redeemed through missions work. Finally, the third set of representations differ from the first two because of their more romantic approach to Hindu religions. For metaphysicals like Thoreau, though they were still different from American religions, Hindu religions had something to offer America. Hindu religions possessed a spirituality and wisdom missing from American religious life. Within these broad groups a lot of diversity existed. The representations of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions differed from the Methodist Episcopal Church, Theosophists differed from Transcendentalists in how they represented and appropriated Hindu religions, and American national culture spoke in multiple voices regarding Hindu religions. This diversity points out the large number of nineteenth century Americans who imagined, encountered, and represented Hindu religions.
Sources and Methods
One of the most challenging aspects of this project is the breadth of the source material and the multiple forms it in which it exists. As the project is a study of representations in culture, most of my sources are drawn from published works. All of my research will be archival, however, some of the research will take place in digital archives and some will occur in brick and mortar archives. The digital sources, mostly magazines and popular literature, allow for full text searches. I can search an entire database for the terms "Hindu" or "Hindoo," for example, and find any text that contains them. This full-text searchability is an indispensable aspect of the project. Much of the material I am able to analyze would have been to hard to find in the past, requiring too much time searching and scanning microfilm or old magazine issues to find the scattered references to Hindu religions. The full text search has opened up a largesse of relevant source material that has gone unstudied. However, it would be shortsighted to rely only on digitized sources. I will also turn to traditional print or microfilm materials for harder to find sources. For example, I will be traveling to Salem, Massachusetts to conduct archival research at the Peabody Essex Museum in their collections relating to the trade between India and New England and I will use the microfilm archive of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. I will also use mostly hard copy primary sources for my research on Theosophy and New Thought.
Besides the division between hard copy and digital sources, the sources for this project fall into three categories: popular sources, religious sources, and professional sources. The popular sources consist of popular magazines such as Harper's New Monthly Magazine and Harper's Weekly and common school textbooks. A variety of magazines and journals from evangelical missionaries, Theosophists, Transcendentalists, free religionists, Unitarians, and New Thought writers make up the religious sources. Finally, I also consider publications from professional societies such as the American Orientalist Society along with medical journals and phrenological journals. Again, the goal is diversity. I want to find representations of Hindu religions in as many places as possible in order to emphasize their variety and their widely scattered presence in American culture. These sources represent diverse readerships, diverse Americans, and diverse levels of cultural power.
In approaching this variety of sources I draw on a variety of interpretive methods. Broadly speaking, this project sits at the crossroads of American studies, religious studies, and postcolonial studies. It fits American studies by focusing on the ways representations of Hinduism worked to produce understandings of what it meant to be American through frames of religious difference. But in its investigations into the formation of "Hinduism" as a category of religion in American culture, the project also relates to religious studies. Finally, by focusing on notions of difference, "the other," and power I engage work from the broad realm of postcolonial studies. Within these broad disciplines, my interpretation of the sources will draw on three themes: power, the nation, and global movement and travel.
In analyzing various representations of Hinduism I will pay particular attention to the ways power works on and through these representations. Influenced by Edward Said and Michel Foucault, this level of analysis investigates how constructions of self and other also construct hierarchies of domination.6 Said and Foucault also open up the discussion of how power works in the construction of categories. For example, the American missionary construction of Hinduism as dark, heathenish, and violent excused the violence of the British "civilizing mission" and maintained a hierarchy of religions with Protestant Christianity at the top. Along with Said and Foucault, I also rely on recent critical work by Tomoko Masuzawa, Talal Asad, David Chidester, and Richard King.7 These writers, in different ways and with different examples, each point to the ways European power is embedded in the category of religion and its subcategories. As I analyze representations of Hinduism I follow these scholars' example of paying close attention to the role of power in the formation of these representations. How does religious difference between the American and the Hindu work to establish a hierarchy between the two? How are representations of Hinduism used by some Americans, for example Transcendentalists and Theosophists, to resist the power of the Protestant establishment? How are representations of Hinduism constructed in relation to existing colonial and mercantile relationships between Americans, Britons, and Hindus?
In these representations, power is tied up with ideas about the nation. In thinking about the nation, I take Benedict Anderson's idea of the nation as an "imagined community" as my jumping off point8. From there I follow anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod's interest in "national culture." Abu-Lughod argues that "nation-states can be looked at both as cultural artifacts whose technologies of production and imagination can be analyzed and as modes of ordering everyday life that can be ethnographically investigated."9 I consider all of the sources I outlined above as part of American national culture. An important part of this project is investigating how representations of Hindu religions in these sources work to produce and imagine the American nation. To that end, I am further influenced by recent historians who have emphasized the role of religion, particularly Protestantism, in the American nation during the nineteenth century. Jon Butler, Steven K. Green, James Morone, and David Sehat have all argued, in different ways, for the centrality and power of a Protestant establishment in American culture that worked to Christianize America and buttress its social power during the nineteenth century.10 In analyzing my sources, I will pay close attention to how representations of Hinduism as a religious, cultural, and national Other work to reinforce and maintain a Protestant national American culture. For example, the representations of uncivilized, despotic, and heathen India in schoolbooks reinforced the idea of America as a Enlightened, Protestant, and democratic nation.
Finally, representations of Hindu religions appeared in American culture through processes of travel and movement. In the study of American religious history many scholars have pointed to the transatlantic connections between America and Britain.11 Meanwhile, the study of Hinduism in colonial India has begun to emphasize the need to consider the relationship between the colony and the metropole and investigate them together.12 To account for the movement of representations, this project will triangulate between America, Britain, and India. Representations of Hindu religions traveled into America from Britain and India. Evangelicals exchanged missionary reports about India between New England and London, Theosophists traveled to India, medical reports filtered to America from India, and schoolbook writers borrowed from British sources. Texts, images, narratives, and representations moved about between the three countries and part of my analysis involves accounting for this travel and how it shaped American ideas about Hindu religions.
Outline of Chapters
One of the major goals of this project is to emphasize the diversity of the representations of Hinduism Americans produced during the nineteenth century. To that end, I believe a broad essayist approach that examines a variety of case studies is in order. However, a logic runs throughout the dissertation that ties the various cases together. First, the cases are laid out in a general chronological order building from the early nineteenth century and ending in 1893. Second, the cases expand in geographic scope. The first section of the dissertation is focused on New England. The next section broadens out to consider sources tied to the larger northeast and then the third section takes on sources with a national scope.
The dissertation will begin with an introduction that opens up the central question of the project: What do representations of Hinduism as a religious Other tell us about nineteenth century American culture? I will then turn to a brief theoretical argument about the function of representation and difference in the constitution of cultural norms. In short, how "we" define "us" through "them." I will also situate my project within larger conversations in American religious history, studies of Hinduism in America and debates about the construction of "religion" and "Hinduism" as categories.
The body of the dissertation will be organized into three parts organized more or less chronologically. Part I begins in New England and focuses on a series of connections between India and America formed through institutions there. Part II moves to a discussion of various metaphysical religions that took an interest in Hindu religions. This part begins in New England with the Transcendentalists but then expands to account for Theosophists and New Thought practitioners. Part III moves to a discussion of popular and national culture. Here representations of Hinduism are analyzed from a variety of cultural forms—some more blatantly religious than others. The dissertation concludes where most histories of Hinduism in America begin, at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religion. While many scholars have seen the Parliament as the dawning of religious pluralism in America or even the beginning of Hinduism in America, I argue that the Parliament was a multi-vocal event comprised of missionary, metaphysical, and nationalistic representations of Hinduism. Indeed, part of Swami Vivekananda and other Asian speakers' success at the Parliament relied on their ability to work with and around the variety of representations that preceded them.
Part I. Yankee Hinduism
Chapter 1. From Salem to Calcutta
After a brief discussion of very early American ideas about religion in India found in sources such as Cotton Mather's India Christiania, I turn to focus this chapter around the early nineteenth century trade between New England and India, specifically the East India Marine Society. The Society was formed by merchants involved in the India trade who brought back various artifacts from India and set up a museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The collection is still held in Salem at what is now called the Peabody Essex Museum. Based on archival research at the museum I will first investigate the role of the India trade in producing representations and ideas of Hindu religions in New England and, second, the role of the Society and its museum in giving New Englanders access to these representations. The early contrast between American merchants and Hindu traders provides the first instance of a nationalist representation. Through the trade, American merchants posited a contrast between American culture and Hindu religions.
2. From the Haystack to the Orient
During this period of trade between New England and India, the first American Protestant missionaries left New England and went to India aboard merchant ships. Chapter 2 looks at the The Panoplist and the Missionary Herald, two publications that carried news from and about the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The ABCFM, a mostly Congregationalist organization, sent the first American missionaries to India in the first decades of the nineteenth century. This chapter will offer a brief history of the British Evangelical influences that led to the founding of the ABCFM and then analyze the representations of Hindu religions found in the organizations publications. This chapter offers the first example of the missionary representations of Hindu religions, where Hindu religions were approached as a darkness to be overcome by the light of Evangelical Christianity.
3. Unitarians and Their Raja
In response to trinitarian missionaries such as the ABCF, the Unitarians began to send missionaries to India in the 1820s. Also in the 1820s many Unitarians became interested in Rammohun Roy, a Hindu reformer who wrote a text entitled The Precepts of Jesus that summarized Jesus' ethical teachings from the New Testament. The Unitarians began to review and reprint Rammohun Roy's writings in their publications and corresponded with him and his Hindu reform organization the Brahmo Samaj. Chapter three narrates the relationship between the Unitarians, Rammohun Roy, and the Brahmo Samaj and analyzes the representation of Rammohun Roy's and the Brahmo's Hinduism in American Unitarian publications.
PART II. The Metaphysicals
4. The Gita, The Yogi, and the Over-Soul
Chapter 4 signals a transition from considering New England's encounters with Hindu religions to accounting for representations of Hindu religion constructed by Americans interested in metaphysical religion. I use the term "metaphysical" religion following the recent work of Catherine Albanese and in this chapter I begin with the Transcendentalists. Paying particular attention to Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, I argue that Hindu religions represented an "Eastern spirituality" for metaphysical Americans that contained everything missing in contemporary American culture. The Transcendentalists along with other American religious liberals, such as Walt Whitman, believed America's industrialization was leading to spiritual impoverishment and turned to Hindu religions as a solution. A good example of this turn is Whitman's poem "A Passage to India" where he paints a picture of a world that combines the industrious West with the mystical East. The Bhagavad Gita and the Laws of Manu, two Hindu texts translated by British East India Company officials, played an important role in how these metaphysical Americans represented India. This chapter will analyze the representations of Hindu religions produced by Transcendentalists and trace the influences of Hindu texts and British Orientalism on these representations.
5. American Mahatmas
Chapter 5 continues the discussion of metaphysical religion but begins to transition outside of New England by analyzing representations of Hindu religions in Theosophy and New Thought. While I need to conduct more research into exactly what Theosophists said and wrote about Hindu religions, my preliminary research indicates that they shared a similar view to the Transcendentalists. They represented Hindu religions, especially Hindu texts, as possessing a mystical ancient wisdom. They differed from the Transcendentalists in their emphasis on the esoteric nature of that wisdom. In this chapter I will analyze representations from Theosophists, most notably Madame Helena Blavastky, and writers in Theosophical journals and magazines along with New Thought writers, such as Ida Craddock.
PART III. Hinduism in American National Culture
6. Hindus in the Schools
I begin Part III, with its emphasis on the relationship between representations of Hindu religions and the American nation, with a chapter on images of Hindu religions in American common school textbooks. Antebellum common schools tried to educate American children and prepare them to be good American citizens. Educators emphasized virtue and knowledge as key components of the citizenry of the new republic. To that end, geography books gave students systems for gaining knowledge about other parts of the world. Through categories of difference built around race, religion, and society these schoolbooks tried to help students understand who they were and who other people were. The next step was to flesh out these categories with examples and authors did so in histories, readers, and even letter-writers. By presenting students with images of the horrors and immorality of Hindu religions and the benefits of British control, schoolbooks reinforced the importance and value of Christianity, democracy, "civilized" society, and white imperial control. By teaching about religious and cultural difference, these schoolbooks reinforced American traditions and attempted to educate the next generation of American citizens.
7. Methodist Hinduism
This chapter returns to missionary representations of Hindu religions and analyzes representations appearing in publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church, namely, the Christian Advocate, The Ladies' Repository, and the Heathen Woman's Friend. While the ABCFM materials date to the early part of the century, these Methodist sources are from the second half of the nineteenth century. As Methodism rose in influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the MEC's publications became nationally circulated and a part of American popular culture. This chapter offers an analysis of evangelical Protestant representations of Hindu religions and pays special attention to the role of these representations in the construction of a national evangelical culture. I am particularly interested in seeing what role representations of the Hindu other may have played in constructing an idea of America as a Christian (read Evangelical Protestant) nation.
8. Hindus in Harper's
Continuing with an investigation into American national culture, chapter 7 analyzes representations of Hindu religions in Harper's Weekly and Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The representations in these magazines continue the investigation into popular sources but they also mark the first examples of Hindu religions represented in sources that were not specifically religious or spiritually minded. While the Harper family was Methodist, their goal was to sell magazines not to spread the Gospel. The representations in the Harper's publications emerge at the intersection of American cultural Protestantism and the commodities of popular culture. The Harpers were also famous for their illustrations and their magazines provided some of the first popular images of Hinduism in America. In these popular bourgeois magazines Hindu religions became sources of entertainment, worldly knowledge, and a contrast to American values.
9. Explaining Hinduism
The final chapter of the dissertation pushes the furthest away from blatantly "religious" sources and considers representations of Hindu religions in scientific and medical sources. The nineteenth century saw the rise of professional science and professional medicine in America. This chapter examines four overlapping sources for representations of Hindu religions. First, some phrenologists believed their new science could explain religious belief and practice. In an 1874 issue of The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany an article titled "Phrenology of the Hindoos" attempted to do just that for Hindu religions. Second, American medical journals often took account of cholera outbreaks in India and noted the ways religious ritual factored into the spread of the disease. In these representations Hindu religions spread disease. Third, many leading doctors in the late nineteenth century, including William Osler, were part of the Charaka Club, a group dedicated to the history of medicine, especially its ancient history. The papers of this club often covered topics on ancient Hindu healing and were almost a more scientific version of the Theosophists' occult representations of ancient Hindu religions. Lastly, the American Oriental Society had its own academic and scientific approach to Hindu religions and produced its own representations based in the European tradition of Orientalist research. As I pursue more research into these sources my hypothesis is that they will yield more diverse representations of Hindu religions and further complicate the diversity of reactions Americans had to Hindu religions in this period.
Conclusion- Not the Dawn, but the Noontime: Hinduism and the World's Parliament of Religion
I will conclude the dissertation with the World's Parliament of Religion for two reasons. First, I want to make a historiographical point. Where most scholars would begin the history of Hinduism in America I choose to end mine. The Parliament was not the dawning of American religious pluralism and it was not the dawning of Hinduism in America. The Parliament served as a transition point between Hinduism as imagined and represented in American culture and Hinduism as presented (that is, as present) in gurus such as Swami Vivekananda. Second, many of the themes that emerge from the different representations analyzed in the previous chapters are present at the Parliament. The Parliament was part of a great nationalistic fair organized along a boundary of difference that kept the great Western culture on the fairgrounds and put the rest of the world on the midway. There were many missionaries and metaphysicals involved with the World's Parliament of religions. Also, the newspaper coverage of the Parliament and many of its Hindu delegates relied on the representations covered in this dissertation as context and background. My conclusion, then, argues that the various representations of Hindu religions all came to bear on the Parliament and were swirling around Vivekananda and the other Hindu delegates as they took the stage and found their way into the print media. I want to push back against the idea that the Parliament was either liberal Protestant triumph or the dawning of American religious pluralism and, instead, point out that it was a cacophony of diverse voices, images, and representations that resists a singular interpretation—just like Americans' reactions to Hindu religions.
1Samuel Goodrich, Manners and customs of the principal nations of the globe. (Boston: Bradbury Soden, 1845), 24.
2Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The tales of Peter Parley about Asia (Thomas, Cowperthwait & co., 1845), 108-109.
3Henry Thoreau, Walden and, Resistance to Civil Government : authoritative texts, Thoreau's journal, reviews, and essays in criticism, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992), 199.
4Samuel Knowles, "The Devi Patan Mela," The Christian Advocate, June 12, 1884.
5R. Laurence Robert Laurence Moore, Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
6Edward W Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979); Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge ; and, The Discourse on Language (New York: Pantheon Books, 1972).
7Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); David Chidester, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996); Richard King, Orientalism and Religion : Postcolonial theory, India and "the mystic East" (London ;;New York: Routledge, 1999).
8Benedict R. O'G Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Rev. and extended ed. (London: Verso, 1991).
9Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 9.
10Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, Studies in cultural history (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1990); Steven K. Steven Keith Green, The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); James A Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003); David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
11Richard Carwardine, Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Greenwood Press, 1978); Mark A Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (InterVarsity Press, 2003).
12David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance; the Dynamics of Modernization, 1773-1835 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969); Bernard S Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997); Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2001); Brian Pennington, Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).


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There's been quite the hullabaloo about changes to Facebook's privacy settings this week (no. 3,457 in a series), in particular, your inability to keep strangers from finding your Facebook profile. As is typical with all Facebook privacy changes, though, a lot of confusion and misinformation is being spread.
To sort out the mess, TY4NS asked Dr. Facebook (not his real name) to weigh in with answers to some of the most pressing questions. Dr. Facebook is a privacy expert of some note who wishes to remain anonymous because, well, it's none of your damned business, actually.
What's the deal with Facebook no longer allowing people to block name searches?
You used to be able to check a box that said, essentially, don't let strangers find my Facebook profile by searching on my name. And now you can't do that. Last December Facebook turned off that option for new users; this week, it started removing that feature from anyone who had been using it up until now. Those people saw something that looked like this:
Image credit: Facebook newsroom
Does this mean that anyone can now find everything you've ever posted to Facebook?
No. Nothing else has changed. What anyone else can find still depends on how you've set up your privacy controls, using the Privacy and Tools menu or the dropdown box on each post. If your status posts are set to "Friends" only by default, then only friends can see them. If they're set to "Everyone," then … you get the picture.
And just in case you don't, here's a picture:
So what's the practical effect of this change?
It depends.
You're starting to sound like a lawyer.
There's no need to get nasty.
If you've got a Facebook account and you're trying to hide from someone – like, say, an abusive ex spouse, a crazy stalker, or that incredibly annoying former co-worker you've been trying to avoid for the last 20 years -- the only way to do that is to find them and block them before they search for you. Otherwise, they can look for your name and find you. Nice, eh?
Now, if your name is a common one like Joe Smith or Sally Jones, they'll probably have to sort through thousands of profiles before they reach yours. If you're Zbigniew Brzezinski, though, not so much.
And the more information you share in your "About" info – like where you live or work or went to school, which Facebook makes public by default – the easier it will be for abusive, crazy, and annoying people to narrow down their search.
So why did Facebook do this?
You want the real reason or the official reason? The official reason comes via a blog post from Chief Privacy Officer Michael Richter:
The setting also made Facebook's search feature feel broken at times. For example, people told us that they found it confusing when they tried looking for someone who they knew personally and couldn't find them in search results, or when two people were in a Facebook Group and then couldn't find each other through search.
The real reason is because Facebook always wants to make as much information as public as possible so it's easier to monetize you via targeted ads. It's the same reason they insist on "real identities" for people who sign up. This is just another leak in the steady drip-drip-drip of your not-so-personal information.
What can people do about this, besides leave Facebook?
If you must use Facebook, and you still want to remain relatively private, you can do it using a fake name, like Neal Down or Ben Dover. You can go into your Account settings and change your name up to five times, though if you get too creative Facebook will flag it as a fake. (So, sadly, Seymour Butz will not work.) You should also remember to change your username – the name Facebook puts in your Timeline page URL – as well.
Doesn't this kind of fakery violate Facebook's terms of service?
Yes, totally. At the same time, though, Facebook has publically acknowledged there are something like 80 million fake accounts already, which means the real number of fakes is probably much larger. As a publically traded company, Facebook has absolutely no incentive to do anything that would make its membership numbers go down. So the odds of anything bad happening to your account are minimal.
Is this the worse thing to ever happen to privacy, like, ever?
You have heard of the NSA, I trust? There was a time when a change like this would have Facebook users hoisting torches and pitchforks; you could hear panties twisting all across the InterWebs. This change is going down pretty smoothly, in large part because there are so many worse privacy violations to worry about.
Still, social networks are one of the things spooks rely on to determine if you and/or your friends fit the profile of a bad guy and are thus worth spying on. So now would be an excellent time to pare your list of Facebook "friends" way back to actual friends, and to crank your privacy settings up to 11.
If you still want to engage in spammy exchanges of information with near-total strangers, you can always use LinkedIn – just as God and Reid Hoffman intended.
Got a question about social media or privacy? TY4NS blogger Dan Tynan may have the answer (and if not, he'll make something up). Follow him on Twitter: @tynanwrites For the latest IT news, analysis and how-to's, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.
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In the little book Epic, John eldredge admits that, "Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we've arrived to forty minutes late." But that's only because we don't yet understand the story God is telling. In Epic, a retelling of the Gospel in four acts, John opens our eyes to discover the beauty, danger and drama of the story unfolding all around us.
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The Voices Within project aimed to combine art, technology and accessibility to create an immersive, interactive experience that would enable people with physical and learning disabilities to delve deep into their memories and lives and present them to others in entirely new ways.
The project was funded by the Rix Thompson Rothenberg Foundation and the research was led by self-advocate Patricia Charlesworth. Working with The Rix Centre Charity's exploratory methods and technical expertise she developed a script for sharing her life story using a multimedia installation approach. Through the use The Centre's facilities and production management support, a prototype installation for Voices Within was created.


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Ed Shepherd Celebrates Centennial: born on the 4th of July
The World War II veteran, who survived the sinking of a Navy ship in 1943 and raised a family that honors his humor as well as his heroism, celebrated his 100th birthday on the Fourth of July.
Shepherd waved from a float during the parade in Edmonds on the 4th. Then he gathered with loved ones at a post-parade barbecue and party at the Elks Lodge. He shared a long table with four generations of his family, including his brother, daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Friends sat around other tables.
Edgar Shepherd survived the sinking of the USS Helena in the Battle of Kula Gulf. The light cruiser, which had come through the Pearl Harbor attack, was tasked with protecting other ships in the South Pacific during the Guadalcanal campaign. The Helena went down on July 6, 1943. Nearly 170 crewmen died. Shepherd was part of a group that clung to a lifeboat.
He kept a dollar bill signed by the sailors who survived. It was one of two bills he had in his pocket at the time. He used the other bill, a five, to pay for telegrams so they could tell their families they were alive.
Shepherd was born in Pennsylvania, one of four brothers. He joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. On the USS Helena, he worked in the plotting room, which included the control system for the guns. He also fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
After finishing his time at sea, he helped start a Navy reserve center in Colorado before moving to California to help his uncle open a doughnut shop. He got a job in Los Angeles at an electrical company where he worked for 24 years.
A friend persuaded him to visit Seattle, and Shepherd bought a house in Edmonds. He lives there with daughter Paula Kilbourne.
She once offered to take him whitewater rafting. He turned her down. She asked if he didn't think she'd be a good guide. That's not it, he told her. He clung to a rubber raft, adrift in dark waters after the USS Helena sank. He wasn't interested in getting on a raft again.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group that backs lower government spending, urged the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday to vote "no" on a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit and end the federal shutdown.
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Cougars Host UCLA in Final Home Series of 2007
May 17, 2007
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Washington State (25-24, 8-13) vs. UCLA 928-22, 12-6)
Friday-Sunday, May 18-20
3:30 p.m., 2 p.m., Noon
Bailey-Brayton Field Pullman, Wash.
Radio: KCLX Radio (1450 AM)
GameTracker: wsucougars.com
TV: FSN Northwest (Friday)
Series Record:
UCLA leads 31-13
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Last Cougar Home Win over UCLA: May 21, 2005 (10-7)
Last UCLA Road Win at WSU: May 22, 2005 (4-1)
Washington State University and FOX Sports Net recently announced that the May 18 baseball game between the Cougars and the UCLA Bruins will be broadcast live from Bailey-Brayton Field on FSN Northwest at 3:30 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. start but was moved ahead two hours to accommodate the broadcast. Friday's contest marks the second broadcast of a Cougar game in as many weeks after the network televised the series opener between Washington State and Stanford, May 5. Prior to that, the last time a game from Bailey-Brayton Field was broadcast live was May 12, 2002, when FSN Northwest aired the Washington State-Lewis-Clark State contest.
The Cougars snapped a seven-game losing skid to the Beavers with a 5-4 win Friday night victory then capped the series with a 5-3 victory Sunday. The series win was the first against Oregon State since the 2003 season when the Cougars took two of three in Corvallis. WSU hit .324 as a team against the Beavers, with over one third of their hits (12 of 35) begin the extra-base variety. Third baseman Paul Gran hit .462 (6-13) with a pair of home runs while Simi Reynolds was an identical 6-of-13 with two doubles, a triple and two RBIs. On the mound Jayson Miller worked eight innings of one-run ball in the series-clincher as the Cougars won its third conference series of the season.
Jayson Miller NAMED PAC-10 PITCHER OF THE WEEK
Junior Jayson Miller has been named the Pacific-10 Conference Pitcher of the Week following his performance last Sunday at No. 15 Oregon State, it was announced by Commissioner Tom Hansen. Miller, a left-handed pitcher out of Richland, Wash., picked up his fourth win of the season in a series-clinching victory against the defending national champion Beavers. Miller went eight innings, allowing one run on four hits with five strikeouts, before exiting at the start of the ninth inning. The Beavers hit .154 (4-26) against him and only twice had runners past second base and at one point, he retired 11 of 12 Beavers. For the season Miller is 4-2 with a 3.26 ERA. Over his last two games, he won against Stanford May 7, Miller is 2-0 with a 1.76 ERA in 15 1/3 innings pitched. He has recorded nine strikeouts against three walks while allowing just 10 hits in that span. Miller becomes the third Cougar pitcher to earn Pac-10 Player of the Week honors this season, joining freshman Connor Lambert and sophomore Ross Humes.
No player in the Cougar lineup has been hotter at the plate than third baseman Paul Gran. Following the second game of the Arizona State series the junior was hitting .255 with no extra-base hits in his previous eight games. Since that time, Gran has seen his season average rise to .328 while discovering a power surge that has seen him hit four home runs in his last six games. Over the last 16 games Gran is hitting .448 (30-67) with five home runs, 17 RBIs and 17 runs scored, to go with a .701 slugging percentage. Gran has hit safely in 14 of the 16 games with nine multi-hit games, including a season-high 5-for-5 outing in an 8-6 win over Stanford (5/6). The hot streak also coincides with Gran's move from short to third base, which occurred following the Arizona State series.
Following the weekend series against UCLA, the Cougars hit the road for the final time as they end the season with a three-game nonconference series at UC Davis, May 25-27. Gametimes for the series are 2:30 p.m. Friday, with both Saturday and Sunday's games beginning at 1 p.m.
All Washington State University baseball games can be heard live on KCLX Radio (1450 AM). Steve Grubbs begins his second season calling all the baseball action. In addition, all games can also be heard online at www.wsucougars.com and all home games and selected road contest can be followed on-line via Gametracker, also at wsucougars.com.
The Bruins enter the weekend series with a 28-22 overall record, 12-6 in Pac-10 play. Last week UCLA dropped all three games at Arizona State to fall out of the conference lead after winning each of its first five conference series. The sweep also dropped UCLA out of the national rankings according to Baseball America, though Collegiate Baseball still has them ranked No. 12. The Bruins are hitting .294 as a team, led by sophomore infielder Jermaine Curtis' .362 average. Sophomore short stop Brandon Crawford is close behind at .356, to fo with six home runs and team-bests of 16 doubles and 50 RBIs. On the mound the Bruins boast a team ERA of 5.00 as sophomore Tyson Brummett leads the way at 9-4 with a 3.40 ERA. Sophomore Tim Murphy, Saturday's scheduled starter, is 4-2 but has recorded 80 strikeouts in 56.2 innings pitched. Junior Brant Rustich leads the staff with six saves on the season.
With two saves during the Stanford series, sophomore Ross Humes became WSU's all-time single-season saves leader with 11. Humes passed former Cougar Reed Rainey (1984) after working one inning of scoreless relief in Monday's 4-2 win over the Cardinal. Humes had tied the mark in Sunday's victory as he went 1 2/3 innings, allowing one hit with one strikeout. For the season the lefthander from Federal Way, Wash., has converted 12 of 13 save opportunities, working a total of 19 innings in that stretch, allowing 10 hits, four runs, four walks with 20 strikeouts and an ERA of 1.89. Of the 10 hits only one has been for extra bases. His 13 career saves are tied for second on WSU's all-time list.
The 2007 Cougar home schedule comes to a close this weekend with the three-game series against UCLA. WSU has found playing at home rewarding this season with a 14-8 record, including a 5-2 mark over the past seven games. No one has enjoyed the friendly confines of Bailey-Brayton field more than junior Simi Reynolds, who is hitting .408 (20-49) at home. On the mound Sunday's scheduled starter Jayson Miller is 3-0 with a 1.60 ERA in eight appearances at Bailey-Brayton this season.
Junior third baseman Paul Gran had a career day in Sunday's 8-6 victory over Stanford. Gran connected for a career-high five hits, four singles and a home run, to go with three RBIs and two runs scored. After singling in the first, Gran drove home the Cougars first run with an RBI single in the third. He then led off the fifth inning with a solo home run, his third long ball of the season, before singling home a run in the sixth, giving WSU its first lead of the day at 6-5. Gran concluded his afternoon with a single through the left side in the eighth.
Coming in to the 2007 season, WSU head coach Donnie Marbut made finishing series a point of emphasis. Through the first 13 series of the season, the point has been received. WSU is 10-3 in series-ending games in 2007 following last Sunday's 5-3 win over No. 15 Oregon State. Equally impressive is the fact that all of the wins, excluding Texas and California, clinched series wins for WSU. Last season WSU was 5-7 in series-ending games.
The Cougars won their third conference series of the season by taking two of three at No. 15 Oregon State...WSU has tied or outhit its opponent in 11 of the last 15 games...WSU is 4-2 in its last two series against ranked team, taking 2 of 3 against No. 12 Arizona and winning the series at No. 15 OSU...senior Zach Borba had his 13th multi-hit game of the season in Saturday's contest at Oregon State, going 2-for-5...in Sunday's game, Borba was caught stealing for the first time in 14 attempts this season...senior Nick Cebula continued his string of impressive performances this past weekend...Cebula worked 1.2 innings of hitless relief in Friday's win at OSU and added an inning of scoreless relief at Portland...over his last six appearances, 5.0 innings, he has not allowed a run and surrendered just two hits . .sophomore designated hitter Travis Coulter has hit safely in six of his last seven games, going 13-for-31 (.419) in that span...senior Wayne Daman Jr. moved into ninth place on the all-time strikeouts list with 195 for his career...senior Mike Gilbert, in his first start behind the plate since March 25, went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a home run in a 5-3 win at Oregon State...junior Paul Gran has hit safely in 14 of his last 16 games, batting .448 (30-67) in that stretch...Gran had a career-high five hits in Game Two of the Stanford series...junior reliever Steve Kost has allowed just one earned run over his last 11 appearances, a total of 7.2 innings...sophomore catcher Greg Lagreid continues to flex his muscle as he connected for his sixth home run of the season at Gonzaga (4/17) after hitting just one home run last season...senior Jeff Miller continues to lead the team with seven home runs and 32 RBIS on the season...sophomore Jared Prince went 4-7 (.571) during the Oregon State series, collecting two hits in each of the two games he played...junior Simi Reynolds has hit in 12 of his last 14 games, going 21-48 (.438) in that span...Reynolds had back-to-back three-hit games to open the series at Oregon State.
Last Tuesday night's baseball game between Washington State University and Lewis-Clark State College at Bailey-Brayton Field was canceled due to LCSC's travel schedule for its postseason schedule. The game was a makeup of the previous week's contest that was canceled due to lightning. At the time of the lightning delay Lewis-Clark State held a 6-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, though the Cougars had runners at first and second with Cody Bartlett at the plate. The first sight of lightning occurred at 7:12 p.m. and the game was delayed at that point. The game was officially canceled at 8:41 p.m. as lightning continued in the Pullman area.
HEAD COACH Donnie Marbut
Donnie Marbut is in his third season as head coach at Washington State University and fourth overall after pending the 2004 season as an assistant on the Cougar staff. Marbut has amassed a 80-81 record in two-plus years, while his 57-60 mark in his first two seasons are the most wins by any Cougar coach in his first two years. Prior to WSU, Marbut served as head coach at Edmonds Community College from 2000-03, where he posted a 152-38 record and earned Coach of the Year honors in 2002 and 2003.
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When you arrive in Islay, take the A847 road to Portnahaven. Once you're in the village, turn left at the head of the bay and follow the road round so the bay and cottages are on your righthand side. The Bay is near the end of the row of cottages. There is a sign at the parking area. If you end up in front of the lighthouse, you've come too far!
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There are several ferry crossings each day from Kennacraig ferry terminal on the Mull of Kintyre. The ferry sails in to either Port Askaig or Port Ellen. Booking is essential if you are bringing a car.
Islay 01496 302209 or Kennacraig 01880 730253
The Glasgow/Campbeltown 926 service stops at the ferry terminal. You can book tickets in advance.
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.netCHARTING can be deployed quickly and easily without any special installation or registration requirements. It will work with a dedicated server, shared server, hosted server etc. so long as the server supports ASP.NET - as soon as you copy your files to your web server you can start using .netCHARTING!
NOTE: If you have a server license, please see the included install.txt for installation instructions.
Procedure (Website Version)
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.netCHARTING creates image files dynamically to display charting data. By default, these temporary images are written to the same directory of the calling script, alternatively, the TempDirectory property can be set to a path of your choice. Either way, the ASP.NET worker process must have permissions to write to this directory. If your permissions are not already configured to allow write access, right click on the directory in question and select properties, select security, permissions and add the ASPNET user with write permissions.
If you are remotely hosting contact your web host and ask for write permissions on the directory of your choice. These are the same permissions required to add any data to a database or modify a text or XML file. Your host may also have created a special directory for this case such as /data. In this case you can set the TempDirectory to this directory and make no permissions changes.
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