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A History of Women in America
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Michaele Weissman is a native of Belmont, Massachusetts. She studied history at Brandeis University and graduated in 1968. She lives in Manhattan and is employed as a newswriter and producer for WOR radio.
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Founding Mothers
The fate of the European women who came to the New World in the early days of colonial settlement was a life of nearly ceaseless hard work. Many who came were already accustomed to physical labor. Those who were not quickly adapted. In a totally undeveloped and sparsely populated land, the labor of every able-bodied settler was desperately needed, and women's traditional work--providing food, clothing, shelter, and the rudiments of hygiene--was essential to survival.
The demands of the New World allowed colonial women more freedom "to do" than was often available to women of later generations. This latitude was the product not of ideology, but of necessity. Colonial society did not support the idea of equality between men and women. European men brought with them to America the tenet that woman was man's inferior. This belief in female inferiority, however, was minimized by the conditions of the New World. So long as the colonies remained relatively undeveloped, women enjoyed a limited kind of independence.
Women were an integral part of all permanent settlements in the New World. When men traveled alone to America, they came as fortune hunters, adventurers looking for a pot of gold; such single men had no compelling reason to establish communities. Women acted as civilizers for men living alone in the wilderness. Where there were women, there were children who had to be taught. There was a future--a reason to establish laws, towns, churches, schools. The organizers of Virginia understood as much when they sought to attract women to their colony so that the men who came "might be faster tied to Virginia." The labor provided by a wife and children also helped transform the forest into farmland. In the early days of the Georgia settlement the proprietors advertised for male recruits with "industrious wives."
In many cases women emigrated together with men. Such was the case throughout New England and the middle colonies, where whole families often came in search of religious freedom. Elsewhere, particularly in the South, women had to be lured to America. Some colonies offered women the right to own their own land. Lord Baltimore of Maryland offered 100 acres for a planter, 100 acres for a wife, and 50 for a child. Women heads of families were treated in the same way as men.
Other less conventional methods were used to encourage female emigration. The British crown, which chartered the majority of settlements, allowed women convicts the option of emigrating to the colonies rather than serving out jail sentences at home. Many female prostitutes and thieves settled in the New World rather than submit to the notorious severity of English criminal "justice." (Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders is about such a woman--a London prostitute transported to America--who makes good.) Many of these women convicts were brought as indentured servants; they were obligated to serve a master for a number of years, without wages, before they were allowed their freedom.
Marriage was another inducement that encouraged women to come to the New World. Throughout colonial times men outnumbered women by three to one, or more. Women could be assured of finding husbands in America. One eager publicist for Carolina wrote, "If any maid or single woman have desire to go over, they will think themselves in the Golden Age, when men paid a Dowry for their wives; for if they be but civil, and under 50 years of age, some honest man or other will purchase them for their wives."
In 1619 an enterprising sea captain who had advertised for single women looking to marry transported 144 of them to Virginia. The captain paid for the women's passage and, on arrival, he sold them as "wives" for 120 pounds of fine Virginia tobacco apiece. There are reports of other captains who kidnaped young women off the streets of London rather than going to the trouble of advertising.
Of the 144 women who emigrated to Virginia in 1619 looking for husbands, only 35 were still alive six years later. Conditions in the New World, particularly for the first settlers, did not encourage long life. The months-long sail across the Atlantic was perilous--epidemics often carried off half or more of the passengers. At the end of the journey, there were new dangers to be faced.What is surprising is not the number of women who died early, but the number who survived. The bravery and stamina of the women in colonial times were renowned. William Byrd described one such woman living in a back settlement of Virginia in 1710, saying she was "a very civil" woman who showed "nothing of ruggedness, or immodesty in her carriage, yet she will carry a gun in the woods and kill deer, turkeys, etc., shoot down wild cattle, catch and tye hogs, knock down beeves with an ax and perform the most manful exercises as well as most men in these parts."
The lives of colonial women and men tended to center around farm and family. For the most part a traditional division of labor was observed, whereby men did the outside work--planting and harvesting crops--while women worked inside, transforming the raw products into usable commodities.
All of woman's work on the farm came under the general heading of "housewifery." What it included varied somewhat from region to region. The wives of southern planters rarely did their own weaving and spinning, while in the northern colonies these tasks took up many hours of a woman's day. In the South women tended their own herbal gardens and were expected to be expert at doctoring. White southern women of means were often responsible for the health needs of their slaves as well as those of their own families.
New England houses were small--one or two rooms and a loft. The houses of southern planters were larger and more lavish. The roughest living was on the frontier, where a house was often a one-room shack, sometimes even a lean-to or wigwam. William Byrd, commenting on one of these back-country homes, noted that it contained a dozen adults and children plus the household animals all "pigged lovingly together." Life on the frontier was long on mud, disease, and loneliness, short on the amenities. One historian has called the American frontier a slum with trees.
Despite local variations, women's activities were much the same throughout the colonies. First came supervision of the house. Women swept, scrubbed, laundered, polished. They made their own brooms, soap, polish. They carried water and did the laundry. They made starch. They ironed. They built fires and carried firewood. They made candles. They sewed everything--sheets, clothing, table linen, diapers. Women were usually in charge of the family bookkeeping. They ordered provisions, paid bills, and made sure the books were balanced.
It is virtually impossible for twentieth-century people to imagine the enormous job of food preparation in colonial times. Cooking was done on an open hearth that had to be tended constantly. Kettles, made of iron, often weighed forty pounds. Without refrigeration, meats had to be preserved by salting or pickling.
Rich and spicy sauces were the style, since they were needed to preserve food or to cover the taste of food that had been badly preserved. Women kept their own gardens, every fall putting up vast amounts of home-grown vegetables and fruit. They ran home bakeries and dairies, did the milking, made butter, and kept the hen yard.
Spinning and weaving cloth was another arduous job, involving more than a dozen operations from start to finish. Colonial women were also expected to be expert at knitting, quilting, and all sorts of sewing and embroidery. The following account, taken from the diary of a young colonial woman in 1775, indicates the emphasis placed on spinning, weaving, and needlecrafts. It also highlights the heavy work load colonial women took for granted.
Fixed gown for Prude . . . mended mothers riding hood, spun short thread . . . fix's two gowns for Welsh girls . . . carded, spun linen . . . worked on cheese basket . . . hatched flax with Hannah, we did 51 pounds a piece . . . pleated and ironed, . . . milked cows . . . spun linen . . . did 50 knots . . . made a broom of guineau wheat straw, spun thread to whiten . . . set a red dye, spun harness twine, scoured the pewter.
Colonial women also worked outside the home. In the villages, towns, and small cities of the eighteenth century they performed virtually every kind of job held by men. Women ran taverns, inns, and boarding houses. They were blacksmiths, silversmiths, wheelwrights, sailmakers, tailors, teachers, printers, newspaper publishers, and shopkeepers of every sort.Many women learned their trades from their husbands. A blacksmith, for example, would teach his wife the skill. If a tradeswoman was widowed, she frequently assumed the full responsibility for the business she had built with her husband. Many women acted as their husbands' business agents. Given the power of attorney by their mates, they were involved in all aspects of finance, including bringing debtors to court.That colonial women often participated in various sorts of legal proceedings is indicative of the colonial society's pragmatic approach toward women. Pre-Revolutionary Americans often bent the Common Law system (which in England largely excluded women) to suit their needs. Daniel Boorstin has explained this anomaly by noting that colonial America had no learned monopolies. Or, as William Byrd put it in a letter discussing the attractions of the New World, America was free from "Those three scourges of mankind--priests, lawyers and physicians." In the early days there were no bar associations or medical associations establishing proficiency requirements. In consequence, a woman with aptitude could learn a skill informally and practice a profession.
One of the most interesting women to lead a public life in colonial times was Margaret Brent, often referred to in seventeenth-century records as Mistress Margaret Brent, Spinster. Margaret, her sister Mary, and two brothers emigrated to Maryland from Great Britain in 1638. Lord Baltimore the proprietor of Maryland, attracted the Brents--who were wealthy Catholics--to his colony with promises of large land grants and the chance to live free of anti-Catholic discrimination.
The Brent sisters established their own plantations, which they ran without their brothers' help. In fact, Margaret Brent often acted as her brothers' representative and business adviser. Collecting payment in those days often involving suing in court. Records show Mistress Brent participating in 134 separate court actions during the eight years between 1642 and 1650. She usually won her case.
Brent's close personal friendship with Lord Calvert, Maryland's governor, eventually pushed her into the all-male world of politics. When Calvert lay dying in 1647, he called Brent to his bedside. In the presence of witnesses he made what has been called "perhaps the briefest will in the history of law": "I make you my sole executrix. Take all and pay all." As executrix, Brent assumed responsibility for Calvert's estates. Since Calvert had been granted the power of attorney for his brother, Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, at Calvert's death the power of attorney for Lord Baltimore, then in London, fell to Mistress Brent.
At the time Maryland was not a peaceful colony. Calvert's enemies hoped to take advantage of the confusion following his death to seize control, and it seemed for a time that they might succeed. The man Calvert named to the governorship, Thomas Greene, was not equal to the job. After Calvert's death the army was close to revolt; Brent appeased the military by paying the soldiers their long-overdue wages, raising the necessary funds by selling some of Lord Baltimore's cattle. She took other steps as well to stabilize the situation in Maryland. Members of the Assembly later told Lord Baltimore that "all would have gone to ruin" were it not for her actions.
Brent had so far established herself as a major political figure that many in the colony believed that she, not Thomas Greene, ought to be governor. Brent, however, did not seek to unseat Greene. In January 1648 she appeared before the Maryland Assembly and asked for two votes: one as Calvert's executrix, the other as Lord Baltimore's "attorney." It was the first time in parliamentary history that a woman had sought political recognition in a governing body. Governor Greene refused to have Brent seated, and the Assembly acceded to his wishes.
Subsequently Brent left Maryland and moved to Virginia, where she established a new plantation, which she called Peace. She continued throughout her life to be active in business, but she avoided politics.
It seems probable that throughout most of the colonial period more women practiced medicine than did men. Women were nurses, apothecaries, unlicensed physicians, and midwives. Only surgery--which at that time meant performing amputations--was dominated by men. The kind of doctoring women did was often an extension of their work at home. A woman charged with the well-being of a family learned to care for the sick, to treat common illnesses, and to make the aged and the dying comfortable. A woman with particular skill in this area could earn money by caring not only for the members of her family but for others as well.
In the same way a woman who kept an herb garden and had an interest in botany could earn a living making medicines, tonics, and syrups. These women apothecaries varied in their level of sophistication. Though some lacked knowledge beyond folklore, many others were serious scientists who devoted much time to studying the healing properties of plants. Such skill was attested to by a French visitor to Virginia who wrote of Mary Byrd, "She takes great care of her Negroes . . . and serves them herself as a doctor in times of sickness. She had made some interesting discoveries of the disorders incident to them and discovered a very salutary method of treating a sort of putrid fever which carries them off."
There is evidence to indicate that the women who practiced medicine in the 1700s often did a better job than the male professionals of the 1800s. Medicine in the 1700s was very practical and down to earth. Doctoring women focused on relieving the patient's symptoms, while male doctors of the next century were far more concerned with expounding learned--though usually inaccurate--theories concerning the origin of the disease.
The efficacy of the eighteenth-century brand of care was seen in the practice of midwifery, which was the only form of medicine women participated in that was often licensed. Midwives had to serve lengthy apprenticeships before being certified. As apprentices they observed hundreds of deliveries and, for the most part, learned how to let nature take its course. Midwives seem to have taken good care of their female patients and most certainly did less harm than male doctors in the 1800s, many of whom routinely infected their patients with "puerperal sepsis" (childbed fever) by failing to wash their hands.
The women workers described so far were part of colonial America's pool of "free labor." As "free" workers, women had some control over their earnings and over the products of their work. Another sizable class of women workers in colonial America were not "free," however. These were the indentured servants and the slaves.
It is estimated that half the migrants to the colonies came under indenture, and that a third of these were women. Most of the women who came to the New World in this situation were convicts from Great Britain. Women thieves, prostitutes, and vagrants were given the choice of emigrating or of serving lengthy prison terms. Sometimes the choice was Virginia or the noose. Depending on the crime, the period of bonded labor generally ran from four to seven years.
Indentured servants were transported to the colonies by sea captains who usually landed them in the middle colonies or the South; New England had relatively few indentured servants. The ship's captain assumed the expense of the passage. In the New World the captain "sold" his cargo of female servants for somewhere between ten and thirty pounds apiece, depending on the woman's age, health, and skills.
The relationship between indentured servant and master was a contractual one. Each side had legal responsibilities to the other--though, needless to say, the master usually had the upper hand. Servants had rights to food, clothing, and shelter. While masters had the right to work the indentured servant from sunup to sundown, they were prohibited from working a servant to death. In some cases masters were taken to court by their servants for failure to live up to their responsibilities. More often, however, it was the servant who was prosecuted, and indentured women tended to be punished more harshly for offenses than were men. Punishment was usually in the form of additional years of servitude.
The master was legally bound to provide certain necessities for starting a new life when the indentured servant's term of labor expired. The outfit usually included a new set of clothes, bushels of corn, perhaps tools for farming, and sometimes a parcel of land in an unsettled part of the colony. Male and female indentured servants were entitled to the same "freedom dues."
Indentured women were not allowed to marry during their term of service. Sexual transgression--becoming pregnant out of wedlock--was punished severely. An indentured servant woman who bore a child was usually made to add a year onto her service as repayment for the time she could not work during and after her pregnancy.
The choice of a marriage partner was probably the most important decision in the life of a colonial woman. Colonial society put great pressure on people to wed. A woman who did not marry was pitied and treated as less than an adult and, in several colonies, men who did not marry paid higher taxes than did family men. Rarely did single people run their own homes; instead, they were expected to align themselves with the family of a close relative.
Throughout the colonies young people were more or less free to choose their own mates--within certain boundaries. No person, male or female, was supposed to marry without parental consent. Young people were expected to marry persons of similar background. Parents were not supposed to push young people into marriages against their will, but among wealthy colonialists, particularly in the South, parents sometimes threatened to withhold an inheritance or a dowry to coerce children into marriages based on mercenary considerations.
In general, courtship customs were fairly relaxed. Young people spent much time together in group activities--skating, berrying, picnicking, riding, dancing. There were few chaperones, and courting couples usually had enough privacy to get to know one another.
Marriage was treated as an important social institution rather than a purely private affair. A man or woman who broke an engagement, for example, was often called to church or court and charged with breach of promise. If no satisfactory explanation could be produced, a stiff fine was levied against the jilter, to be paid to the injured party. Legal solutions to romantic difficulties were often sought. In New England, if a man "of good character" was refused permission to court by a young woman's parents, he could sue. Often he won his case. This custom was unique to Puritan New England, however; in no other area were there legal procedures for circumventing parental wishes. (Nevertheless, throughout the colonies young people could and did elope.)
Courtship customs among the Puritans were particularly interesting. Bundling was one of the most famous. Young couples who were serious in their courting spent the night in bed bundled in heavy bedclothes--with a "bundling board" between them. Apparently intercourse was not supposed to occur. What did take place, however, was considered a matter among the young woman and man and their consciences.
The origin and even the point of this custom is not entirely clear. There is no doubt, however, that bundling enjoyed popular approval. New Englanders persisted in the custom for 150 years or more. It faded during the French and Indian War, in the mid-1700s, when French soldiers misused the privilege, bundling with women whom they had no intention of marrying. As late as 1770, however, John Adams, future President of the United States, wrote, "I cannot entirely disapprove of bundling." (John Adams and his future wife Abigail Smith are not known to have indulged in bundling.) The custom continued among the Pennsylvania Dutch well into the 1800s.
The Puritan view of engagement as a legally binding state led to the practice of the "pre-contract." Young people who were planning to marry went to church and swore their troth. Once this ceremony was completed, they were married for all practical purposes. The commitment was considered a very serious one. If the young woman became pregnant after she was pre-contracted but before she married, no one was scandalized; the wedding date was simply pushed forward. One historian has discovered that of 200 persons admitted to the Congregationalist church in Groton, Massachusetts, between 1761 and 1775, about one-third confessed to having engaged in premarital sex. The confession was made by an equal number of men and women.
Throughout the colonies sexual transgressions committed by people not planning to marry, or already married, were considered far more serious than such acts by engaged couples. Women who bore children outside of marriage could be taken into court and sentenced to public whipping, branding, or fines. If a woman could not support her child, the court might demand that she reveal the father's name to force him to support his offspring. If she refused, there would be further punishment. If the woman did not know who the father was, or if she refused to say, the child was often taken from her and apprenticed to a tradesperson until the age of twenty-one.
In the view of most colonists, adultery was the worst crime a woman could commit. This attitude prevailed especially among families with property. Since men controlled nearly all property, it followed that no husband wanted a child fathered by another man to inherit his worldly goods. In strongly religious communities there was an attempt to treat male and female adulterers alike. Both were forced to go to church and confess in public. In New England confession was the only punishment demanded from those of high rank, while those of less social distinction often were branded, whipped, or dunked in a river.
Though divorce existed, for the most part social pressures against it were so extreme, and grounds so difficult to obtain, that in practice it was not a real option. An unhappy couple could be granted a legal separation, but it was a precarious situation for the woman. In many areas there were no laws forcing a man to support a wife with whom he was not living. Unless she had family money or skills by which she could support herself, or unless she was separating from a generous spouse, she would find it virtually impossible to leave her husband. In a separation the woman usually lost everything; even the children stayed with the father.
Rather than endure the legal formality of separation, many women simply ran away. Women on the run usually went west, where they could get a piece of land and often a new "husband." In fact such women were bigamists, but outside the more populated centers no one really cared. Even in cities such legalities were sometimes shrugged off. There is some doubt, for instance, whether Benjamin Franklin's wife's first husband was dead when she married Franklin.
Men often put items in newspapers to announce that their wives had "eloped from my bed and board." Sometimes these notices were printed to let merchants know the husband was no longer responsible for the wife's debts. Sometimes the ads were taken out in an attempt to recover the wife's belongings. Legally all property in a marriage, including a woman's clothing, belonged to her husband.
Women sometimes made off with large amounts of cash, silver, and jewelry. Often these goods were part of the woman's dowry, over which she lost legal control at marriage. Usually, however, women took the bare essentials when they ran away, as the following item from the Maryland Journal indicates. The advertisement charged one Anne Campbell with "robbing" her husband "of all her wearing apparel, a fine pair of English cotton curtains . . . two pillow cases . . . and a sidesaddle." This was not a great deal with which to start a new life.
For women marriage meant bearing children, lots of them. A popular colonial toast celebrated "Our land free, our men honest, and our women fruitful." Families with a dozen children were common. Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson, was the mother of twelve. Another wealthy Virginia lady, Martha Laurens Ramsey, bore eleven children in sixteen years. The sister of George Washington, Betty Washington Lewis, added eleven children to the three her husband had by his first wife. Mary Heathy of South Carolina bore seven children to her first husband, seven to her second and three to her third--seventeen in all! (Many of the very largest families, with sixteen, eighteen, or more children, came from widowed men who married a second and sometimes a third or fourth wife.)
Maternal and infant death rates were appallingly high. Giving birth every year was a terrible physical hardship. Infants born to mothers in weakened physical condition often did not survive their first year. A mortuary poem engraved on the tombstone of a Massachusetts woman told the all too familiar story:
She'd fourteen children with her
At the table of the Lord
The story of Mrs. Henry Laurens is not uncommon. Born in 1731, she married Henry Laurens, a southern planter, when she was nineteen years old. During the next twenty years she gave birth to twelve children. Seven of them were buried before her. In 1764 her husband wrote that it had been a year of sorrows. His eldest daughter had died; his wife was extremely ill. During the next four years Mrs. Laurens' health continued to deteriorate. Her husband wrote that she "suffered extremely"; nevertheless, she continued to bear children. Finally, in 1768, Mrs. Laurens, emotionally and physically exhausted by the birth and death of her last infant, gave birth to one more baby girl. Then, at the age of thirty-eight, Mrs. Laurens died. Her husband called her death a "stroke of providence." The last child she bore lived to be twenty-one years old before dying in childbirth.
Colonial people lived closely with death. Women gave birth at home, and they died at home. Most families experienced the death of at least one or two children. Sometimes living so close to death added a gray pallor to daily life. The little books children read at the time seem morbid by twentieth-century standards, including such verses as the following.
At night lie down, prepared to have thy sleep,
Thy death thy bed--thy grave.
Often, however, their familiarity with death and so many of the painful aspects of living strengthened colonial women. Whether they were bolstered by religious convictions, as so many colonials were, or a belief in what they called providence, colonial women often exhibited great fortitude and courage.
For the most part colonial women were fully equal to the realities of their lives. No doubt there were frightened women unable to endure the hardships, but these were a minority. Taken as a whole, the image of themselves that colonial women left behind is extraordinary for its spirit, energy, and stamina. It is a picture later generations of women shut off from the world looked back on with great respect and not a little nostalgia.
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Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman in ¿A History of Women in America¿ have successfully written a limited historical account of woman in American history through the process of minimizing any contribution to history made by any woman of color. Ms. Hymowitz and Ms. Weissman have sought to write a history of woman without including those woman who suffered, worked, and made it possible for those woman they have written about to aspire to the goals cataloged. The omission of woman of color weakens their historical account, and continues to reinforce the notion only the history of white women is of significant consequence. Although the first chapter outlines their limited perspective, the title of the book would lead one to think this was a comprehensive history.
This historical narrative was written in the 1970s, so it is badly in need of an updating. But the stories told of women's lives in America are fascinating and deeply interesting. The narrative reads almost like a novel. Yes, the editorial slant is highly influenced by the culture wars that raged in the '70s (and continue to rage today), but this is a great contribution to women's studies.
Although dated somewhat (written in the 1970's, and has not been updated), 'A History Of Women In America' does a good job narrating the struggle of women throughout the history of the United States. It tells about the individual economic and social struggles women had to endure in different eras, and it covers both the lives of common women and famous feminists like Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Antony, and Emma Goldman. Over all, a very good piece of historical work.
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As well as still life photographs I have also taken a few portraits in the studio, although much less than still lives. Studio portraiture is not my favourite genre of photography (I'm not very good at directing people) but I've had to have a go at it for my college and uni project.
This was actually the first photograph I ever took on a 5x4 camera as part of a workshop in college. It's a paper negative inspired by the work of Martin Schoeller.
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Production, which began June 6, is from presalt reservoirs in the Santos basin about 300 km offshore.
The well—the first in the drilling program to be connected to the FPSO—has the potential to produce 25,000 bo/d, but Petrobras is restricting output in the first month of operation to 13,000 bo/d of oil, it said, adding that production will be "ramped up as natural gas processing and reinjection systems are commissioned."
Lula Northeast field produces 29º gravity crude. Gas output will be piped to the Monteiro Lobato gas treatment unit in Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo state, through the Lula-Mexilhao gas pipeline, which started operations in fall 2011 (OGJ Online, Sept. 20, 2011). The Lula-Mexilhao pipeline extends 216 km, starting 2,145 m below sea level at the Cidade de Angra dos Reis FPSO, and ending at the Mexilhao platform, at a depth of 172 m.
Another seven production wells and six injection wells will be connected to the Cidade de Paraty FPSO in the upcoming months, Petrobras said. Peak production of 120,000 bo/d is expected in second-half 2014.
Lula field has an estimated total recoverable volume of 8.3 billion boe, according to Petrobras. Production started on the Cidade de Angra dos Reis FPSO in 2010 (OGJ Online, Oct. 28, 2010). The field was discovered in 2006.
Petrobras holds a 65% interest in the block. Its partners are BG E&P Brasil Ltda. 25% and Portugal Brasil SA 10%.


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I finished the Match Maker, and it's been through the washer and dryer and has done the usual magical Wollmeise transformation from stringy to squishy soft goodness.
I'm not presentable to model it, but maybe some time in the next couple of weeks I'll remember to get some pictures taken before I change after work.
I also started a Ten Stitch Wave the other night out of some hand spun that's one of my earliest projects.
I decided that was too narrow, so I ripped it and started a wider one.
And now I'm thinking it's too wide, but I haven't decided for sure yet.
I also started a Curl out of Hunter Hammersen's new book, Curls 2. This one is Equivocation.
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text: Wow, wow, wow! After reviewing these images, I admitted to a fellow editor that I just didn't know where to begin with these. We've seen the ingenious work of customizers, like SBTG and Lazy, and even Dave White's sneaker-inspired art, but these masterpieces take it to a whole new level. Artist Gabriel Dishaw, specializing in metal work, has fabricated a pair of Nike Dunks and Terminators. The "Junk Dunks," weighing in at 5 pounds, are composed of random everyday parts – sheets of metal, gears, wires and circuit boards. For his second pair, the artist takes on the concept of Frankenstein, an idea fitting for these 8 pound cannibalized Terminators. Taking over a month to fully manufacture, Dishaw "decided this time to do it right by making the entire package: from the shoes, to the shoe box, label, diagram and shoe tags." Take a look at the images and notice his full attention to detail, as he pays homage to some of his favorite inspirations. Truly a master of his craft, connoisseurs of unique work can check out Gabriel Dishaw's work at his site.


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Although my garage is not bad as it is right now but it is not awesome! So I could definitely use some inspiring photos to make it better in the future.
I found these inspiring photos from the www.
Pegboard - is the awesomeness in this photo. It holds almost anything and maximizes the vertical space. I also like how the pegboard are painted in two different colors but yet looks clean and organized.
I like how these items are not on the floor - again, maximizes the use of vertical space.
One of my favorite blogger Courtney's garage is just so pretty. Well decorated with curtains that it actually looks like an extension of her home. And I like how she has the shoe cubbies on each side of the door for frequently used shoes.
And why not put a cubby with a bench to sit while putting on or taking off our shoes, right?
And let's not forget to hang those bicycles up and oh yeah I would definitely want some couch in there too♥
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I found Rone Tempest's article (March 19) concerning the remnants of the British Raj in India very interesting. The piece was well-written and, for The Times, mercifully short.
It was, however, unfair to English cricket when it cited India's dominance in the so-called World Championship of Cricket (recently played in Australia) as an example of the students' mastery over their teachers. As I'm sure Tempest is well aware--but for some reason failed to mention--only days before the Australian one-day matches began, England completed a long and exhausting tour of the subcontinent. Over a period of almost two months, England won a series of five test matches (each lasting five days) by a total of 2-1 with two matches drawn. England also won the series of one-day international matches played against India.
Bearing these results in mind, to say that the students have surpassed their teachers just wasn't cricket.
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Franklin Sylvester Local History
and Genealogy Collection
Located in the Medina Library, the Franklin Sylvester Local History and Genealogy Collection was inaugurated September 1992. Named for the local cattle baron who donated the money for the first public library in Medina, the collection is devoted to basic genealogy resources and the rich history and colorful people of the immediate Medina County area.
Family History Center Affiliate Library
In October 2013, the Medina County District Library (MCDL) became a Family History Center Affiliate Library. On August 31st of 2016, The Family History Library (FHL) suspended loaning of microfilm. However, as an affiliate library, the Medina library grants access to some of the restricted images.
To search and view the images go to the FHL web site: https://familysearch.org Full access requires registering for free online.
This is a priceless resource and MCDL is excited to be offering this service to their members interested in discovering their family history.
- Getting Started
click here for a printable version
Searching Your Family History: Cardinal Rules of Genealogy Research
1. Begin collecting information with the known, yourself, and work backward one generation at a time towards the unknown, your ancestors. Don't skip to a famous person and try to make him/her fit into your history. Have at least this much information on each individual:
- Full name including women's maiden names
- Date and place of birth
- Date and place of marriages & divorces
- Date and place of death & burial
- List of siblings and children
But if that is all you have in your family history, it will be very boring. Use these types of sources to start filling in the gaps and make your family history come alive!
- Adoption Records
- Baby Announcements
- Baby Books
- Bank Books
- Baptism Records
- Birth Certificates
- Citizenship Papers
- Confirmation Record
- Death Announcements
- Death Certificates
- Diaries & Journals
- Diplomas
- Discharge Papers
- Divorce Papers
- Employment Records
- Family Bibles
- Family Business Papers
- Family Stories
- Family Letters
- Family Pictures
- Funeral Guest Books
- Graduation Records
- Heirloom Jewelry
- Immunization Records
- Income Tax Forms
- Insurance Records
- Land Records
- Marriage Records
- Military Awards
- Mother's Certificates
- Naturalization Papers
- Newspaper Clippings
- Obituaries
- Oral Histories
- Photo Albums
- Property Tax Receipt
- Report Cards
- Resumes
- School Records
- Scrapbooks
- Social Security Cards
- Wedding Albums
- Wedding Guestbook
- Wills & Estate Records
- Yearbooks
2. Read books on "how-to" do genealogy. The library has many fine books that explain the process of researching your family history. Learn from other's experience and don't make unnecessary mistakes.
Take genealogy classes either from the library or the local genealogical society.
3. Collect family stories and personal testimonies These should be verified in other sources. Talk to all of your relatives, particularly the older ones, and collect family stories and information from them.
Topics to ask about:
- Full Name
- Parents
- Siblings
- Childhood Home
- Family Relations
- Hobbies
- Family Income
- Seasons & Special Occasions
- Religion
- Birthdate & Place
- Marriage
- Children
- Politics
- Military
- Friends
- Schools
- Games
- Career
- Hometown
- Historic Events
- Family Traditions
- Sports
AND… Be sure to ask if anyone else has ever worked on the family history!
4. Organize your research and keep it organized!
- Use Ancestor Charts and Family Groups Sheets to organize your information. These charts are available free online:
Ancestral Chart
Family Group Sheet
- Choose a filing system and/or computer program to contain your research.
- Use a log to track your research. Who have you requested information from? Have they replied?
- Make back up copies of all records and computer files and store some copies away from your home (safety deposit box, someone else's home.)
- Protect irreplaceable documents in a secure location. NEVER take original documents on trips to do research.
5. Use a set format for recording your information
- Capitalize surnames, it makes them easier to read. I.E. John SMITH
- Dates; month, day, year. i.e. January 1, 1989. The month should be spelled out or use a three letter abbreviation to avoid confusion. Do not use a number for the month. Use four digits for the year since you will be researching different centuries.
- Places should go from the smallest, most local to the larger, i.e. City, County, State, Country. i.e. Lodi, Harrisville Township, Medina County, Ohio, USA.
- If you use any abbreviations, be sure to supply a key to what the abbreviations mean. Don't assume everyone uses the same abbreviations.
6. Completely document the source of your information.
- When gathering information from relatives, be sure to record the date and location of the interview and the full name and relationship to you of the person.
- When using an Internet source, cite the full name of the resource, and the date and how accessed.
- For government records, list location (city, county, state) and volume number and page and the date found.
- When using books, list the full title, author, copyright date, page number and where the book was located (ex. Delaware County District Library Local History room.)
- Put citations on your sources. For an explanation of this process you can read two resources:
"Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian"
"Evidence Explained, citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace"
- Your goal is to make it possible for someone else to retrace the steps in your research.
7. Use these resources to further your research
- Vital records, birth, death and marriage records, are generally held at county or parish court houses and state departments of vital statistics. Handybook for Genealogist and Ancestry's Redbook list where vital records can be found anywhere in the world. www.vitalrec.com is an online resource.
- Census records for the U.S. are held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. HeritageQuest.com and Ancestry.com (and the library version AncestryLibraryEdition) all provide access to the Federal census records.
- U.S. military records are held either at the National Archives http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/military/ or theNational Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC), in St. Louis, Missouri
- Libraries are good sources of information on general history, genealogy processes, state and national indexes, and local or county histories.
- Internet sources, like the ones mentioned above, as well as the GenWeb network of sites can help further your research.
All of these sources, and more, are covered in any good genealogy "how-to" book!
8. Share your research and your questions
- Produce copies of your research and share with interested family members.
- Make a copy for the libraries and genealogical societies in the counties and states where your ancestors resided.
- Share your research online with others interested in the same names and locations as you are, via mailing lists on Rootsweb.com and familysearch.com (Do not share information on living persons. Not everyone is as honest as you are!!)
9. Remember: You are never "finished" with your family history. For every new person you find, there are at least two more people you must find, the parents!
- Library Resources
Library Resources
Medina Library Genealogy: PDFPowerPoint
Video: What's Available at MCDL
Genealogy & Local History Events
Check MCDL's Events Calendar for Genealogy & Local History Events
Downloadable Genealogy Brochures
Databases Available at the Library
American Ancestors
Explore your New England ancestors' lives using American Ancestors' collection of 1.4 billion records from the United States, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond. Available only at Medina Library.
FamilySearch Affiliate Library
Search for your relatives in records from around the world. Access 135 million restricted records by using FamilySearch at any MCDL location.
A premier collection of historical U.S. military records that brings to life the details of America's military veterans with stories, photos, and personal documents.
Heritage Quest Online
HeritageQuest features the U. S. Census, 1790-1930 (1850-60 Slave Census Schedules not included), The Periodical Source Index (PERSI), A digitized collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books, Records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files and Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874).
MCDL Obituary Index
The Obituary Index covers obituaries, death notices, and probate notices that have appeared in the Medina County Gazette (1850 - present) and the Medina County Sentinel (1899 - 1962). Obituaries may be requested based on search results.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Ohio
Features detailed maps at building level for more than 400 Ohio communities from 1868 to the 1960s.
Medina County District Library Genealogy Blog
The Medina County District Library Genealogy Blog covers all topics of interest to genealogists and local historians with an emphasis on the undiscovered resources at MCDL.
- Local Resources
Local Resources
Robert Hyde Presents a Tour Through the History of Medina
Cleveland Memory Project - Medina page
The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975. A more complete description of the file's contents can be found in the about section of the database. For necrology information after 1975, please use the Cleveland News Index.
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
The online edition of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, a joint effort by Case Western Reserve University and the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Medina County Genealogical Society
Help and links for researching your Medina County ancestors.
The primary source for information on local Medina County genealogy and history.
Medina County Health Department
Medina County Historical Society
The official web site of the Medina County Historical Society featuring events, history and some photos.
The largest state genealogical society in the United States, the OGS is dedicated to researching the people who settled Ohio.
A collaborative project of the Ohio Historical Society and the State Library of Ohio.
Obituary index at the Rutherford B. Hayes library indexing death notices from many different Ohio counties, including the Wadsworth newspapers.
On this website are thousands of pages of information created by dedicated volunteers providing free Ohio genealogy resources.
Features an index to Ohio death records from the Ohio Historical Society covering 1913-1937.
Ohio Townships and Counties Map
Timeline of Medina County History
Created by Steve D. Hambley, PhD, the 2015 edition of the timeline includes a number of new illustrations, historical events and facts since the previous edition's release in the summer of 2009.
- National Resources
National Resources
American Memory provides free access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
A computerized database of 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War.
If your ancestors emigrated through Ellis Island during the years 1892 through 1924, you can search for them on this site.
The largest collection of family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Bureau of Land Management and the General Land Office provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present.
Great place to look up famous and not so famous graves, cemeteries and burial records.
Basic genealogy instruction links, plus information on how to use the genealogy resources at the National Archives.
A service organization that leads and educates the national genealogical community.
Rootsweb is the oldest and largest free genealogy site whose primary purpose is to connect people doing genealogy research.
Provides Internet web sites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
Information about where to obtain vital records from each state and county of the United States.
A 128 volume compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Research ancestors world-wide online.
- Library History
History of the Medina County District Library
1877 - The Medina Circulating Library Society was formed.
1899 - The Medina Circulating Library Society became Medina Library Association. A small building on the north side of the Public Square was purchased.
1904 - Franklin Sylvester a Medina County businessman, gave $10,000 to be used for a library. Mr. Sylvester and his wife, who had no heirs, decided to build a library in Medina to keep his name alive.
1905 - The corner of Washington and Broadway Streets was chosen as the site for the library.
1907 - The Franklin Sylvester Library opened in September with 2,000 volumes. Unfortunately, Mr. Sylvester died before his library was completed.
1933 - The Franklin Sylvester Library voted to extend the borrowing privileges to all Medina County residents, excluding Wadsworth, which already had a library.
1947 - In December, the County Budget Commission approved $9,300 for the purchase of a bookmobile to serve the county's rural areas.
1948 - The bookmobile was debuted at the County Fair and began servicing outlying areas. After the first year of operation staff registered over 4,000 borrowers and circulated 45,364 items.
Bookmobile service began at Brunswick elementary schools, the Lodi school and the Lodi town square, Valley City and at the Liverpool School.
1950 - Local organizations in Lodi started working on a campaign to have their own library.
The Bookmobile started making stops in Seville.
1958 - A second bookmobile was acquired. One had adult materials for community stops and the other carried materials for schools.
The Friends of the Lodi Library committee was formed.
An addition to the Medina Library was completed providing more stacks and a reading room.
1960 - The Friends of the Brunswick Library was incorporated and raised money to open a small library on Pearl Road.
The first Lodi Library opened in a room in the Lodi Advertiser. The Rotary Club purchased lumber for shelves; City Hardware and Western Auto donated paint; and volunteers donated time to put it all together.
1961 - The Seville Community Library was established. The Friends of the Seville Library, the Seville Lions, and Dandy Lions were instrumental in making the library a reality, but it was a total community effort.
1962 - The 1948 bookmobile was replaced.
1964 - The Friends of the Hinckley Library formed to start a library-building fund.
1965 - The Brunswick Library moved to the Brunswick Shopping Center under the bowling alley.
A room in the town hall opened as the first Hinckley library with 4000 books.
The American Legion Post 523 offered to rent part of their building to the Lodi Library. The Lodi Library moved into its new quarters in April of 1966.
1966 - The 1958 bookmobile was retired.
1970s - The Library Board of Trustees and the city of Brunswick agreed to construct a library.
1972 - A 5-year levy passed by Medina residents allowed for expansion of the Medina library.
1974 - The Friends of the Hinckley Library leased the Stouffer homestead on the corner of Routes 3 and 303. Community businesses and organizations renovated the home and supplied materials and labor. The Hinckley Library opened in 1975.
1975 - Work on the addition to the Medina Library began and was completed in August of 1976.
1976 - The former Elliott Funeral Home was purchased by the Friends of the Lodi Library and the Medina Library Board. The Lodi Community Library moved to its new facility in 1977.
1979 - Land on Center Road was donated and voters approved a bond issue to finance construction of a new Brunswick Library.
1980 - The 20,500-square foot Brunswick Library opened in December, with 70,000 volumes.
1982 - The library board voted to change its service area from a school district library to a county system and the library became the Medina County District Library.
Bookmobile service was suspended as it became too expensive to make repairs and improvements to school libraries made the school stops less necessary.
1985 - Irene Welday bequeathed $100,000 to build an addition on the Seville Library.
1986 - The Irene Welday wing of the Seville Library was opened.
1987 - Voters in Medina County passed an operating levy. It allowed for operating expenses, the purchase of a new bookmobile and the purchase of the building adjacent to the Medina library for Administrative offices.
1988 - The Lodi Library building was remodeled in with money from the Mary Still Trust and donations form the Friends of the Lodi Library.
1991 - A new 28-foot Bluebird bus took to the roads. After fourteen years of service this Bookmobile was retired in September of 2005.
1992 - An operating levy passed and allowed for expanded hours of operation, increased staffing, expanded services, enlarging the collections and renovations at all locations.
1996 - The library debuted its first website on 47 new personal computers offering full Internet access to its patrons. This service was met with both an overwhelming positive response and opposition from area residents who objected to the open access Internet Policy.
1997 - An Intellectual Freedom challenge ended with a victory at the polls when MCDL's 10 year levy was renewed.
2003 - The MCDL bond issue passed allowing for construction and expansion of libraries in Medina County. The Buckeye school area was earmarked for a new library due to the success of Bookmobile service there. The Steingass-Riggs family donated land the construction of the new library.
The Buckeye Library was the first new branch of MCDL opened in more than 20 years. The building houses the public library, the system's Maintenance and Delivery departments and Outreach Services and MCDL's Bookmobile and delivery vehicles.
The Hinckley Library, Stouffer homestead location closed due to deteriorating conditions. The Bookmobile provided library service through stops at the Hinckley, Sharon and Granger town halls.
2004 - The Hinckley Library opened in a new location at 1315 Ridge Road.
2005 - The current Bookmobile hit the road. It holds 4,000-5,000 items including books, magazines, audio books, CDs, and DVDs.
The Buckeye Library opened in December.
2006 - The Lodi Library moved its current location at 635 Wooster Street in February.
2007 - The expanded and renovated Brunswick Library opened in September.
The renovated Seville Library opened in September.
2008 - The renovated and expanded Medina Library was opened in January.
The new Highland Library opened in March.
2009 - State of Ohio reduced funding to all public libraries in Ohio. MCDL instituted layoffs and cutbacks in hours and services to accommodate the reduction in funding. Fees were instituted for some services.
2011 - In November it was discovered that the new Lodi Library had major structural issues causing MCDL to temporarily close down the branch and re-assign staff. The branch reopened in their meeting room in 2012, while the investigation continued to discover the cause of the structural deficiencies.
2013 – The Lodi Library moved temporarily into the Lodi Outlet location while reconstruction began on the permanent location.
2014 - The Lodi library moves back into the "new" repaired building.
2015 – Repurposing of library spaces commences in all branches.
2016 – The library is notified that they are the recipients of the Virginia Wheeler Martin genealogy collection and the funds to build a new genealogy room.
2017 – The Operating Levy from 2007 expires. The Library goes to the public in May for a renewal levy and a small .25 mill increase.


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There are a number of webcams in the vicinity, some of which cover the local ski area.
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Villars-sur-Ollon, commonly referred to as Villars, is a village in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, part of the municipality of Ollon. Accommodation in the village consists largely of chalets. It is also known for its boarding schools.
Villars is served by the Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye (BVB) railway, featuring an Abt rack system leading from the town center to a ski piste network.
The Village of Villars overlooks the Rhône Valley and views of Mont Blanc are clearly visible from parts of the village and the local ski area of Bretaye. Bretaye is linked to Villars by the BVB railway. There is also a gondola lift connecting the village to Roc d'Orsay, 200 metres above Bretaye.
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Your little ones will spell out words such as 'Captain America' before they learn how to walk! Oh wouldn't that be something? : )
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Our unique Tofufu ABC Block Bamboo Wall Art is made from 100% premium eco friendly bamboo and handmade in USA. With a pre-drilled keyhole notch on the back for easy hanging, our Bamboo Wall Art comes ready to hang as soon as our package arrives at your doorstep.
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Joachim Löw to remain as Germany coach
World Cup winner says his appetite to lead Die Mannschaft is a strong as ever after success in Brazil
Joachim Löw will remain as Germany manager. Photograph: Markus Gilliar - Pool /Getty Images
Germany World Cup-winning coach Joachim Löw remains committed to leading the side through to the European Championship in 2016, the 54-year-old said on Wednesday.
Löw was contracted to the German football federation (DFB) until July 2016, but said he had needed to take some time following his side's 1-0 World Cup final victory over Argentina 10 days ago.
In an interview on the DFB website he said he could think of nothing better than leading the side to the tournament in France, and was as motivated as he was on his first day on the job.
The Republic of Ireland are among those awaiting Löw and Germany in the Euro 2016 qualifiers. Martin O'Neill's side will face the world champions away first, on October 14th.
Germany open their campaign against Scotland on September 7th.
Löw took over the national team after the 2006 World Cup having previously been assistant to Jürgen Klinsmann.
As well as Germany's fourth World Cup triumph, he also led the side to the final at Euro 2008 and the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.
Germany captain Philipp Lahm retired from international soccer last week.


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Scholar Enrichment Programme (SEP) by U-Schos (short for UCSI Scholars' Circle) and UCSI University. We conducted a session on Creating Impact with approximately 400 scholars during the Scholar Enrichment Program 101 (SEP101).
Date : May 29, 2016 (Sunday)
Time : 1100 hrs – 1730 hrs
Venue : Multipurpose Hall (MPH), Block A, UCSI South Wing Campus


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Letters in reverse chronological order:
1/15/14Hi everyone. I have now received all the reports and they are all in the hands of our judges. I have some people working in all the workshops land I have 2 people to help in registration and a few offer to clean up after the fair for about 30 minutes. Is there anywhere that can help to set up. I will be at the church from 12:30-1:30 and from 2:45-4pm. If you can help at any of those times, even for a little while it would help. Although the tables are set, I need chairs set up at all of them for the students and for the awards ceremony. I also have to have all the workshops set up with what they need and I need to move a few tables into our narthex so that parents will have a nice place for coffee, some dunkin munchkins and conversation. Our judges room needs to be set up and our registration table needs to be set up.
The last thing is that we will be photocopying our program at the church so they will have to be assembled. The church is going to show me how to use the huge coffee pots so that both parents and judges have coffee on Saturday morning. Please let me know if you can even come for a half hour.
The church is located at 217 Dowlin Forge Road in Exton. It is at Calvary Chapel. Please do not mix it up with Calvary Fellowship which is right on Route 113. Calvary chapel is off Route 113 on Dowlin Forge Road. Please mapquest for directions or get on the Calvary Chapel Chester Springs website
I am encouraging parents to encourage the students to go to the workshops. The scientists and volunteers in these rooms have given up their Saturday for your children. Your judges have too. Remind your children to say "Thank You". Our judges are always amazed at how polite our students are. Many of our volunteers come back every year because they find our children delightful. I actually had letters from 2 judges from last year that felt bad that they could not come back this year due to business trips.
I hope that your kids have learned alot about something that they love. Each year it amazes me that these students have come up with some of the most creative projects that I have ever seen. I have been praying for your kids this week not to be nervous, to stay healthy and that everyone has safe travels to and from the fair. You all are truly wonderful parents and students. I will be happy to see you all on Saturday between 8:15-8:45.
It used to be that there was a snack bar at the fair. One of the few things this church has asked is that we do not change money in the church . We have honored that request. If you want a snack back and have not ordered one yet, please let me know. I will pack one for your child and you can send me the $3 in the mail later. I will be putting in chips, piece of fruit and beverage, which will be an ice tea or lemonade. Of course, we are continuing the free donut tradition. I will have some limited apples if someone has a gluten allergy.
I am really excited for all your students. I can't wait until Saturday. The medals are in, the prizes are in, the goody bags are all assembled. Things are getting ready for another year. When you come on Saturday morning, please bring my number with you. I will be on my cell from 6 am til fair time if you need to reach me. The number is 610-790-3789. If you get a message that says my mom doesn't know how to pick up her messages, please pay attention to that and just try calling back in a few minutes. Sometimes, I just accidentally figure it out and sometimes I can't get my messages, so please call back.
Yeah, Science Fair!!!Peggy Greene
As I am waiting for papers to roll in to send off to our judges, I thought I would send an email about what to expect on Saturday.
First of all, to let you know what is happening to your papers, they are being whisked via email to your judges so that they can think of questions to ask about your project to learn more about it. This way they can read all about your work in their spare time this week.
You should be at the fair between 8:15 and 8:45 to register, get your table number and set up your project. When you come in you will be told where to set up your project. Your number will be on the table. If there is no one at registration to help, please just look for the card number which has the project number on it. You will get that at registration along with a coupon for a Dunkin Donut and a paper with your judging times on it. Please show this to your parents so they can remind you if you forget or lose the paper......Otherwise you have to find me and I will be running all over the place on Saturday morning.
I will be giving an orientation talk to the judges around 8:45 and they will take a few minutes to look at projects about 8:50. Some parents have asked if there is going to be prayer before the fair. Not all people that attend the fair have the same faith. However, if anyone feels led to pray, please feel free to gather in narthex of the church at 8:50. At 9:00am the judging starts. The judging will be in 15 minute increments. If your child is signed up not to be judged, please know they still have a judging time. Someone will still come and give your child the attention they should have after completing such a large endeavor. They will just come to talk , not to score; so tell your child not to worry.
Your child should be at their boards at the times stated on the paper they were given. Other than that every 15 minutes there are workshops starting.
There will be flower dissection if you come out of the fellowship hall (where the projects are) and it is the first room on the right. If you go to where the big couches are and turn left and go down the corridor, there will be a room where you are to do some chromotography using crayola markers versus Sharpie markers. It really is pretty cool but you will be around isopropyl alcohol so please pay attention to the scientist in the room so you don't get any on your clothes. This is the same as rubbing alcohol for parents who want to know and there will be safety precautions. If you go back down the hall to the couches and go down the hall the other way you will come to the Narthex where your parents will be hanging out. Off to the side is a room. This is where you will be building a roller coaster in teams of two or three so bring some friends. The radioactive ping pong ball workshop will be in the other half of fellowship hall so you cannot be too loud in that one in case you disturb people being judged.
At around 11:15, the fair is open to the public. There may be a few people still being judged , so please if you see someone with a judge tag talking to someone , go look at someone else's project. Sometimes we do run a little late if three are many kids in one category. Friends and family can come and look at the projects. This is where we are in the tabulation room. The judges scores are added and we assign kids ribbons in ranks. There is a first rank, a second rank and a third rank. Kids that are in 4th grade and up that have expressed interest will find out whether they are going to the county fair. The kids will get a goody bag of science things that have been donated by various science organizations. The child that scores the highest score in their grade will get the outstanding project prize. There will also be two special prizes one for grades K-5 and one for grades 6-12. The awards will start at around 12noon and we should be done by 12:30.
About volunteers, we need a few people to help out in various ways as Lora and I cannot do everything ourselves. If you can help out for a while , please email me and tell me what you would like to do.
We need help in flower dissection, we need two people willing to be in the radioactive ping pong ball room (especially if you have an engineering background), someone could be in the chromotography room for about an hour in the beginning of the fair. I have someone to run the kitchen and that is a big help.
I also need help of two people that can help in the tabulation room as the judges finish up. This would be around 11:15 to make sure that all the forms are added correctly and the correct names are put on the correct ribbons. Lastly, if I could have 6-8 people help at the very end , I will not have to be there until 3pm like last year. I would love for these people to stay for no longer than 20-30 minutes to help. That way I can get some lunch with my kids who will also be helping out all day or in the fair. If someone thinks they can be there early, I could use help in registration as I have to spend time with judges. It just involves giving people their papers and helping them find their places.
Thanks everyone. I hope that you all have a wonderful time on Saturday. I have come a long way from someone who was kicked out of chemistry class because i caused a bad odor on one floor of our high school......My mom was asked to have me switch to Earth Science. Now I teach science and run a science fair. Science is fun. It is exciting. Although most things in science are predictable, there is that one time--well it's just thrilling. I hope you all have a great time at the fair.
One more note: If you did not guess what would happen or your hypothesis was wrong, please remember scientists learn just as much from being wrong as being right. You still did a great job.
If you need me, please email me. If you need me on fair morning I will be up and running by 6 am going to the stores to get the judges food and your donuts. My phone number is 610-790-3789. If I don't answer right away, I probably just can't get to my phone in time. The phone will say my mom does not know how to pick up messages so please call back in a few minutes. That does happen to be true, so please do call back in a few minutes.
I will pray for you all this week as you continue working and for safe travels on Saturday. Below is a link that has some great last minute info and questions that judges may ask.
Peggy Greene
2013 letter
Hi parents,
Now that you have registered for the science fair, I just wanted to give you a few updates. The first is about the report and log book. Everyone should keep a log book or a list of what they did when---kind of like a timeline for your project. Next is the report and the board. The report and the board are basically going to be the same information. Your board font size for printing will just be larger so that people can read it from a distance. Your report should have the following sections:
Abstract--This is a 250 word or less summary of your project. The following tells you how to write an abstract.
One of the main requirements for students who are entering our competition is to write an abstract about their research. The abstract must follow these guidelines:
After finishing research and experimentation, students are required to write a (maximum) 250 word, one-page abstract. The abstract should include the following:
a) purpose of the experiment
b) procedure
c) data
d) conclusions
It may also include any possible research applications. Only minimal reference to previous work may be included.
An abstract must not include the following:
a) acknowledgments (including naming the research institution and/ or
mentor with which you were working), or self-promotions and external endorsements
b) work or procedures done by the mentor
Introduction and Purpose--what is your question, what is your hypothesis and why did you choose your project. Older students grades 4-12 should include some background information.
It should be general in nature and include things that the judge may need to know to get up to speed in learning about your project.
Materials--Just a list of your materials that you used. Be specific if you can.
Procedures--Another list. Just number the steps that you did to complete your experiment or do your engineering project.
Results--These are any charts or graphs that you made about what happened with your experiment. Results for engineering students should be about problems you may have encountered and how you fixed any issues.
Discussion--For non engineering projects-- tell in words about your charts and graphs. eg. Test 1 showed a height of 1" but Test 2 with the baking powder had a height of 3"
Conclusion--It can be as basic as one line. "My hypothesis was correct" or "My hypothesis was incorrect". You may want to include another sentence or two to close your paper.
Most importantly, scientists do not use a lot of extra words or flowery writing. Include as many details as you can.
Last is your bibliography. Include any websites you used for background information, list people you talked to or places you visited for more info about your project. If it involved using a certain product include the website for that particular product.
*****The most important thing about your report is that I should have your student's paper one week in advance so that judges can read it and have questions ready for your student. You may email me this paper, but bring a copy that day with you.
If you need display boards--Staples and other office supplies have them and Showboard (internet based) has different colors online. It is best not to build your own because there are height and width limitations. Also on your board--take plenty of pictures of your scientist doing his/her work. Judges love that. Please you cannot bring food or chemicals of any kind---not even water to the fair as part of your display. If you need a laptop make sure it is fully charged. We cannot guarantee that there will be a place to plug it in. If you are hoping to advance to the next fair, electricity is not available.
On fair day, your students will be given a slip of paper with the times that they will be judged. Your student should be at their board when the judge arrives so promptness is important.
Also on fair day, there will be a number of workshops for your students to attend. There will be different workshops for different grade levels.
Also I could use some help on fair day. Usually there are a number of parents who stick around on fair day. There will be coffee and tea available for the parents. I would love it if I could have some parents volunteer to help on fair day. There is a lounge area for parents to congregate and relax. I need the following help:
Kitchen Help--Someone to come early and help with making coffee and cutting bagels for the judges breakfast. I would need that person to come around 8am.
Workshop Help--Owl Pellet workshop--I can tell someone how to do this and it comes with instructions. We have owl pellets to dissect and need someone to be in charge of helping the kids get it set up.
Once they are told what to do, everything goes smoothly. There will be bags to put their bones in that they find. There will be gloves for the students to use and all the owl pellets have been sterilized. It is perfectly safe. It will take about an hour of your time.
Cleanup--If you think that you can stay a little late and help cleanup, that would be great. We are not paying for this facility and they asked only two things. The first is that we clean up after ourselves. If 4-5 people can give me about 30 minutes of help, I will not have to spend all afternoon cleaning.
Registration--I will need someone to hand out table assignments and judging times to the kids. It will all be printed on a sheet of paper for each kid. Also if judges come in, please point them down the hall to the judging area. This will probably take about 45 minutes.
There will be a timeline of fair day coming up. After the judging is completed, people may come in and see all the projects. If you have grandparents or other relatives that would like to come, they should come at this time. Even though I do not know the official schedule yet, it will probably be around 11:15-
The awards should be ready to go by 12noon.
Snack Bar--The last few years there has been a snack bar at the fair with things for sale. The facility that we are using is asking us that we not sell snacks. Next year, we will probably sell snack bags in advance to help cover the extra cost of food, but this year we are providing a snack bag to all the children free of charge. These will probably consist of a donut, a piece of fruit and a bottle of water. We are trying to keep only clear liquids in our fellowship hall to make for easier cleanup. If you have a student that cannot have some of the snack, let us know.
On a related note, if anyone has a latex allergy, also let us know. Some of the workshops involve using gloves.
Peggy Greene


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Christmas Eve Outfit
Hi Friends,
Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you get to spend time with loved ones near and far tomorrow. The ones we love or lost are always close to our heart even if they are not with us!
I am wearing Sam Edelman Gillian Wedge Booties for Christmas eve, along with an all-black ensemble featuring a black leather motorcycle jacket. I added the vintage Pendleton Christmas scarf, but this all black outfit can be worn so many ways. Black is a timeless classic!
May your holiday be wonderful!


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I knew this would happen as soon as I heard about it ...Written by Bob McCormick on 5/28/2008 10:28:00 PM
Here's hoping that next Saturday's launch of STS-124 is a successful one. STS-124 will mark the launching of the Japanese "Kibo" laboratory module - which the Houston Chronicle appropriately names the "Lexus" of labs.
My fear is that the newsies will drown this fact out with an overreporting of the toilet problems onboard ISS. I was aware of problems last week, but the troubleshooting was over the weekend & there was no point in mentioning it. But of course, MSNBC got it and CNN has covered it at least twice, the morning yakkers have mentioned it, others have mentioned it as well, and now everyone seems to be aware of it.
Watch for the inevitable overcoverage of that story, and undercoverage of Kibo installation and activation. (sigh)
And while we're on it, congratulations to the Phoenix Lander Team! A successful landing, followed by successful command/telemetry troubleshooting gives them an A+ in my book.
The only downside I have with the Phoenix Lander is that, since I also work for NASA, there are many times when folks outside NASA confuse the JPL unmanned work (like the Phoenix Lander) with the JSC manned work (like Shuttle & ISS) - and I get innocent questions about what is up with the Phoenix Lander. (sigh)


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|Invisible Cities
His fingers typed fast. The keyboard was steaming. The processor was going as quickly as it could. He was relentless. Clic clic clic. He had to write 500 words within the next 7 minutes and he was running out of time. "The police found a strange object…." clic clic clic "… for no good reason, the neighbors…" clic clic clic "… thus creating a huge misunderstanding…" and he typed furiously. Suddenly, the phone rang. A shot. Puzzled he looked at his wet shirt. Blood... Clic... 500 words deleted, clic. One journalist down. The cursor blinked alone on the white page.


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Think math and poetry have nothing in common, aside from parallel lines? Think again. Celebrate Pi Day (March 14 = 3.14) by reading this selection of geometry-themed verse. A pi-encoding short story brings you full circle.
It's quite possibly the sexiest of numbers. Pi, defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, has long captured the public imagination with its infinite and nonrepeating decimal form. In a nod to pi's cultural cachet (and a bid for stronger math and science education), the US House of Representatives passed a resolution designating March 14 (3.14) as Pi Day in 2009. Outside of schools, commemorations of the holiday tend to involve a lot of pie eating. The city of Princeton, New Jersey, as the longtime home of Albert Einstein (born on March 14!), celebrates over an entire weekend; activities include a pi-recitation contest with a $314.15 prize. For you literary types who want in on the nerdiness, here's a Pi Day reading list: three geometry-themed poems followed by a short story constrained by the digits of that delightful constant.
John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" (1611)
Donne gave us one of the most innovative metaphors in love poetry, comparing himself and his lover to the two legs of a geometer's compass. Although his travels may take him on a distant arc, she always brings him home to the center of their circle.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), "The Definition of Love"
In contrast to Donne's, Marvell's geometry is a star-crossed one. Here the lovers are compared to the antipoles of a globe, bound to each other along every meridian and yet never able to unite.
For Fate with jealous eye does see
Two perfect loves, nor lets them close:
Their union would her ruin be,
And her tyrannic power depose.
And therefore her decrees of steel
Us as the distant poles have placed,
(Though love's whole world on us doth wheel)
Not by themselves to be embraced,
Unless the giddy heaven fall,
And earth some new convulsion tear,
And, us to join, the world should all
Be cramped into a planisphere.
As lines, so loves oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet;
But ours, so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" (1922)
Millay pays tribute to the father of geometry and author of the Elements. To be able to derive mathematics as Euclid did, she says, is to look upon Beauty in its purest essence.
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
Mike Keith, "Cadaeic Cadenza" (1996)
A mathematician and software engineer, Keith wrote a short story wherein the lengths of the successive words spell out the digits of pi, with a ten-letter word representing each zero. Nearly 4 thousand digits of pi show up. The story's protagonist, discovering that all of the books on his shelves have been translated into this constraint, must figure out what has happened.
We start with the familiar 3.14159:
A Poem
A Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore [...]
Hundreds of digits later, we encounter a mutated Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
Let us depart then,
While eventide's withering skies threaten,
Impersonating the sufferers etherising upon pallets;
Together henceforth go [...]
The playfulness is roundly enchanting. The possibilities for marrying math to poetry are infinite. Enjoy your reading, and here's wishing you a transcendental Pi Day.
Credit, from top: Flickr user amitp, Flickr user vivekrajkanhangad, Flickr user normanack, Flickr user fimoculous, Flickr user jorel314. Used with a creative commons license.


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Relationship as Reflection
Rarely a night goes by on tour where I do not have a conversation with someone who is wrestling through addiction, or depression, or life. I had a thought during one of these recent conversations that was helpful for me, and I thought it might be helpful for you. I don't want this to be a long post for you to read, or for me to write, so it won't be, but here was my thought:
To seek help in and through community, to talk to other human beings about what we wrestle through, and to want to - to need to - is not a reflection of weakness, but a way in which we rebel against the ultimacy of our culture's individualism by imaging ultimate Strength (i.e. - the Trinitarian Godhead in whose image we are made.)
To some of the people who end up talking to me about whatever it is we end up talking about after a show, I am the first person to know. I suppose that's an honor - one by which I'm equally encouraged and saddened by, because I hope that I will not be the last person to know. And there is always resistance when I push someone back toward his local community. Our culture shames our need for others. It shames our need for help. It shames the idea that we are anything but islands unto ourselves.
"Let us make man in our image..." And let us, as men and women, be encouraged by our opportunity to reflect that image - albeit broken and in need of great redemption - to one another, bearing one another's burdens, in love.
Let shame be despised where Christ left it.


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Okay, I couldn't help that reference to Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, and I apologize if I've used it before.
It's just that I'm excited (and I've waited a long time to use that quote!) about seeing the trailer for this film.
We've waited long and hard for some Inglourious Basterds footage and now finally we get to see the first trailer for the Quentin Tarantino/Brad Pitt team-up.
Click below to find out.
Head over to Yahoo Movies for the HD version.
Well, it certainly looks interesting. It also looks like it could be violent as hell (very unlike Tarantino) and high on comedy. In fact I was reminded of Dr Strangelove and the Coen Brother's back catalog when watching the trailer. However, what worries me slightly is the rather flat visuals. The cinematography looks dull and uninspired, and some of the sets appear to be of a straight to DVD standard - odd considering that this is a Brad Pitt starrer. Looks like the credit crunch is really hitting the Weinsteins.
Overall, Inglourious Basterds appears to have that man on a mission quality that Tarantino has been talking up for a decade, but the trailer seems to rather light on other basterds. Yes Eli Roth seems to have a good bit of the limelight (and appears to be re-living his "gorno" days) but the trailer seems to ignore the rest of Pitt's crew.
It is a teaser and the film isn't released until August 21, 2009 so I'm sure we'll see more in the coming months. Tarantino is a must-see film-maker and this isn't any different. Let's just hope that it measures up to the director's hype. As for the crazy Hitler... I'm still not sure
Okay, Stallone - lets see the first on set image of The Expendables.
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