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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: A Fantastic WeekendIn full: Great medals and tech shirt to all finishers, free gels and food at feed stations, fantastic set up at race HQ, friendly marshal team and volunteers. chip timing system and a fantastic finish in Moss Bank Park. Course is really good trail with everything thrown in and plenty of hills. A great day out all in the name of charity. See you all in 2015 Date of review: March 17, 2014
In short: the best marathon aroundIn full: If you have not run it you have never lived yet,a real special marathonDate of review: October 30, 2011
In short: Very Hard but Enjoyable!In full: Hard as nails course and not one for a first time marathon runner, great support and plenty water stations but they offer little else. Love the course and very cheap to run compared to other marathons. They dont call it toughest road marathon in the world for nothing!Date of review: September 29, 2011
In short: Great Day, Great Organisation! Very Very Enjoyable!In full: I survived Hell! It cost a bit to enter but you get free parking, fantastic medal, bottled water, very generous goodie bag and a Hell runner tee along with meeting the devil himself. Fantastic course (around 11 mile) and loved the bog of doom+ the bog disco and hills of hell! Very very enjoyable day, the only thing stopping me going back for more is the risk of injury! Would go back just as a spectator to watch the runners go through the bog which is located near the finish, plenty to do for the family as well A+++++.Date of review: September 12, 2011
In short: Great, A Real Trail Race!In full: Half of the run is a climb half of it is down hill, great views in a fantastic part of the world, a few car parking issues though.Date of review: September 4, 2011
In short: Great Run, Big PB Potential if Weather is GoodIn full: Very well organised and hard to fault, very good medal at finish,Very flat race.Date of review: August 28, 2011
In short: Good Organised Race Around Nice Private GroundsIn full: A great ultra for the beginer as it is 7 or 10 laps of a 10mile route, has flat bits with a few little hills but nothing to major. The good thing is you get a bag drop and every 10 miles you have access to your kit, you only really need to carry drink. Very supportive and well organised event and possibly do it again.Date of review: August 16, 2011
In short: Great Day-A Race Out of the Norm and a must!In full: A great day and everything went like clockwork which was surprising for a run that on paper seems extraordinary hard to organise i.e. across the bay whilst the tide is out and start 1 hour away from finish (the organisers put free coaches on for you). Loved running through the water in parts and the beach was wet and hard so not difficult to run on. Not organised but topped my day off at the 8 mile mark getting a flying display by a spitfire/hurricane and Lancaster bomber, enjoyed the parachutes at the start as well! Great event and a must for all you runners out there!!!! Plenty of drink stations out to sea and goody bag, medal and pick of fruit at the end, I would say its good value for money.Date of review: July 25, 2011
In short: Hard but A FANTASTIC ONE, a real gem!In full: Great organisation (Yes you where told to run with 2 ltrs of water) Marshalls willing you on all the way, very tough under foot with hills galore. A waist height river crossing and beautiful stunning scenery. What more could trail runners ask for? They also put on a slow race for walkers/runners but bare in mind this is no flat tarmac run around a city with endless amounts of water stations so would advise you are experienced in this sort of distance and carrying a day sack. Great weather and loads to do for the family whilst you are running (climbing wall, face painting, ice cream, pita sandwich shops, coffee man, bouncy castles) and loads of room on the fields to relax and do some sunbathing.Well done to everyone involved a real gem of a marathon!Date of review: July 4, 2011
In short: Great Scenery!Well marked Trail, No Major Hills, Little over priced, No Atmosphere but could build into a little gem!In full: First time this was held I believe, seem to be a bit of a disappointing turn out for them so the runners where well space out which is not a bad thing! Fantastic scenery and very well marked out trial a real credit to the organisers (my GPS sais it was 11.5miles though, could be my GPS playing up), good brief at the start and a great course, lots of countryside to admire as you run along and hardly any tarmac in sight! Unsure if some of the marshals really wanted to be there with only one showing any encouragements toward you, a little disappointed that for my £25 entry fee I received a Bandana and energy bar at the end, I loved the energy bar but will 90% of the runners ever wear a bandana? I wont! Maybe if the organisers gave you a nice printed running shirt then this would promote the race and more turn up next year? Water stations had cups of water but first one was closed when we ran past?? not that I would have needed one but just a point. One disappointing thing was the lack of atmosphere, but I guess the supporters just didn't turn up and not much to do apart from look at the glorious surrounding hills. I am sure these events are a nightmare to organise so well done to them and I would defiantly do it again and recommed it.Date of review: June 19, 2011
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I received TGY from an eBay seller "Cha Dao teas" that supposed to be premium quality and the vendor has sent me a lesser quality tea.
It doesn't have the buttery and milky lingering aftertaste of the sample I had last month. I am disappointed with this sort of poor customer service. What a cheek!
On the other hand, one of the vacuum sealed bags was busted. Maybe it was caused by Australian customs (we have very strict controls in this country), who knows.
Has anyone had this sort of experience with specific eBay vendors?
It is the last time I purchase tea from an ebay vendor except zen8teas for sure.


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Greek Election: The 'Winds of Change'
NEW YORK ( Bullion Bulls Canada ) -- As Western economies and Western societies continue to deteriorate, I find myself frequently appalled but rarely surprised. Thus it was a refreshing change to be "surprised" by this weekend's Greek election -- made even better by the fact it was a pleasant surprise.
The Western mainstream media had told us to expect the two rancid, Establishment parties in Greece (PASOK and New Democracy) to maintain their grip on power by circling the wagons and forming a Coalition of Convenience, to prevent the possibility of any real change. The script had seemingly been written.
PASOK and New Democracy would unite to serve the bankers and continue their Friedman Austerity : stomping on the poor and middle class to preserve the wealth and privilege of the aristocracy. As they finished the destruction of Greece's economy they would also complete their own self-annihilation. This would have then set the stage for a real "election" in Greece (i.e. an event where "change" was an option).
PASOK and New Democracy would vanish into political oblivion. A clean slate of political parties would emerge with a "radical" agenda: placing the interests of the Greek people ahead of those of Western bankers and their own Oligarchs. However, that's not what happened in this election.
Either Western media misrepresented Greek voter sentiment in their pre-election predictions, or (being a part of the rancid Establishment themselves) they simply failed to understand it. Greek voters, after being subjected to two years of political/economic rape, advanced the timetable. They "squeezed" PASOK and New Democracy in the same manner those two traitor-parties had been squeezing the people on behalf of the Oligarchs. Despite the full weight of the Greek Establishment making a last, desperate attempt to maintain the (corrupt) status quo; the voice of the Greek people was heard.
The effective winner in the election was the SYRIZA Party , which translates literally as "Coalition of the Radical Left". This simple translation tells us all we need to know about how far the Western political pendulum has swung to the right.
Representing the broad majority rather than the privileged few is now a concept of the "radical left." That principle used to go by a much more general label: democracy.
Eliminating corruption and restoring faith and trust in government is now a concept of the "radical left." That principle used to go by a much more general label: justice.
Placing feeding the people ahead of making interest payments to bankers as a political priority is now a concept of the "radical left". That principle used to go by a much more general label: compassion.


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Topic: Floating Key
Hi All,
I have a question regarding a design choice for an application I am building.
I have several classes that are related to a class call Comment:
Comment attributes as I see them are:
parent_id would be the id from the class that contains the comment and the parent_type would be the class name.
So at one point it could be class1 with a parent_id from class1 and also class2 with a parent_id from class2. The disctinction would be held in the parent_type.
My question is how to configure this in Rails.
What do I use in belongs_to and has_many?
I am trying to avoid having to use a seperate column for class1_id and class2_id because the class could extend in the future.
Any comments? Should I change the design?


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Glendale is looking for High School students to volunteer to support the VIP program. The AYSO VIP Program provides a quality soccer experience for children – and adults – whose physical or mental disabilities make it difficult to successfully participate on mainstream teams. These kids are Very Important Players (VIP) in AYSO. We recognize that all children need to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. The VIP program offers that acceptance and carries our philosophy of Everyone Plays® to new heights – giving everyone a chance to play.
VIP is looking for High School students to volunteer to support these wonderful athletes by being a "VIP Buddy". "VIP Buddies" provide individual assistance and encouragement to players at practice and games.
Saturday afternoons at Toll Middle School.
When: Thursdays
Practice time slots: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm depending on team ( New volunteers should arrive 15 minutes early).
Location: Montrose Park
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A helpful guide for yoga newcomers.
Having had an on-again, off-again love affair with yoga for about 15 years, I decided to give it another try recently. I am one of the fortunate ones born a natural gumby and not being on the shy side, I used to love impressing my fifth grade buddies with the fact that both my feet could go behind my head. I had to stop doing this in high school because it sent out a different message. Arriving for my first yoga class back in the late �90s, I was pleased that once again I could twist myself into all sorts of weird positions with the encouragement of others. And you can too! Here's how...
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Think it'll snow?Posted Friday, December 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM
The forecast for Bedford County calls for a 20 percent chance of snow tonight and Saturday morning. No accumulation is mentioned.
So I guess we'll see long lines at grocery stores this afternoon and Nashville TV newscasts leading off with "It may snow!"
I predict a few little flakes floating through the air. Your predictions?
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I think the people around here get overly excited and buy the store out when the "S" word is mentioned. I have lived around the world and lots of places have snow on the ground for months on end. People, you are not going to be snowed it! Take it easy and enjoy the very little white stuff that we do get....
Yes, I believe we will get a very small amount of snow tonight or Sat.
-- Posted by Harleytodd on Fri, Dec 4, 2009, at 11:55 AM
I think it would be awesome if we had some flurries during the parade. Of course, I don't have to walk in it, while twirling a baton...
-- Posted by Nobody'sFool on Fri, Dec 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM
I love our Tennessee "blizzards", only wish they stuck around a little longer for the kids to enjoy and just long enough to remind me I really don't love the snow as much as all those pretty pictures make me think I do. But then again, a nice white Christmas like when I was a kid would be ohh so nice.
-- Posted by wonderwhy on Fri, Dec 4, 2009, at 3:16 PM
I don't particularly care for snow, but it is pretty in a Thomas Kincaid/Norman Rockwell sort of way when one is inside where it's warm. I think we will see a flake or two over the weekend.
-- Posted by Tim Lokey on Fri, Dec 4, 2009, at 7:05 PM
I like snow.
I *despise* cold,damp,bleak,icy weather that gets in your bones and prompts worry about everyone without adequate food and shelter.
We should find a way to cocoon with good food,pass times and loved ones without taking on stuff that causes wrecks and pratfalls and forces children to make up lost school days in the heat of summer.
Summer lingers here until September.
Our autumns have just the merest chill.
Postcard snows debut in late December
in Shelbyville.
(I know it gives a person pause
But,in Shelbyville,Shelbyville.
Those SHOULD be the legal laws.)
(Hey,it worked for that guy who pulled the sword out of the stone.)
Yeah,I like snow in theory and picture prints by Currier & Ives but,in reality,when I want flakes,I'll put away my Head &Shoulders,get out my Post Toasties and holler at my favorite pixilated people.
-- Posted by quantumcat on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 3:54 AM
I am going out on a limb here and say, yes, definitely. To some, (if you look outside) you will know there was no guessing. But I have seen it snow here on the hill and do nothing in Bell Buckle, so.....
We have about .5 inches of snow. Our two newest cats are not sure what to think about it. Pepperz went diving out the door only to pull up short and slide on the wood deck. Sammy saw something was different and sat on the doorstep for a wile. I never did wait to see when he took his first step.
-- Posted by stevemills on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 7:34 AM
I got about an inch. I didn't know we were going to get any, so this is a big surprise!
-- Posted by espoontoon on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 9:53 AM
I was driving around looking for kids playing in snow so I could get a photo for Sunday's paper. Couldn't find any.
Do kids (or adult "kids") and snow not mix anymore? Or was there just not enough snow to do anything with, considering much of it had melted by late morning?
-- Posted by David Melson on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 10:35 AM
We got 1.25 inches in the southwestern part of the county.
-- Posted by wahoo on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 10:36 AM
Bedford County got about a half inch of snowfall! I knew tight away it was going to be a bad one. I'm so glad I went to Krogers early yesterday and bought 10 gallons of milk, 15 loaves of bread and a 50 roll pack of Charmin! Can't never tell when I'll be able to get out to the store again. I don't even know if I'll be able to get into work on Monday morning. I don't know what I'm going to do...I've never known such hardship!! I just know the schools are going to be closed for two weeks because of this storm. I swear it's almost as bad as the great flood of 2008 when I over filled the kiddie pool!! Think I should put chains on my tires?
-- Posted by Tim Lokey on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 11:19 AM
Too funny T&S. I was at the grocery store last night, not because it "might" snow, but because I truly needed a few things. The only conspiracy theory I believe in in the one between the grocery stores and the weather people. When the grocery stores need more customers they get the forcasters to predict snow!
-- Posted by Sharon22 on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 12:05 PM
Actually, Sharon22, I saw an article in the Huntsville Times a few years ago in which TV forecasters there admitted management plays up snow on newscasts to build ratings.
If even the slightest chance of accumulation exists, it becomes a lead story.
I'd guess it's the same in Nashville or any other Southern TV market.
-- Posted by David Melson on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 3:14 PM
David, I would actually believe that. Up in that snowy state I grew up in, the only time the weather made the lead story outside of its allotted weather time was when we had at least 10-12 inches at once, but that's when they were in cahots with the grocery stores.
-- Posted by Sharon22 on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 9:51 PM
I was extremely disturbed to wake up and see snow this morning. I normally love to see a little 'white stuff' but since we were moving today and were depending on the interstate I was a somewhat worried.
The interstate was stopped here in Murfreesboro with several on ramps closed because of accidents. Kudos to emergency crews though, they got us moving.
-- Posted by gottago on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 10:11 PM
I'm betting right now that many employers on Monday will get calls from distraught employees claiming they can't possibly make it in to work due to being "snowed in". lol
-- Posted by Tim Lokey on Sat, Dec 5, 2009, at 11:31 PM
My little darlings came running down the hallway at 615am...hats on, 4 layers and coats, ready to hit the whooping 1 1/2 inches of snow. Priceless! Our yard was the only one with footprints all over it...reminds me of the family circus cartoons! I was able to waylay them until about 700am and then there was no stopping them. And they were the only kids out in the whole neighborhood all day. (That I saw anyway) But that's the yankee in us...my mom said we were the same way as kids...didn't matter how many FEET of snow we had, we 3 kids were always out in it! So I'll take our little snow and enjoy as it melts away during the day! NOW I'm ready for spring! :)
-- Posted by neighborhood mom on Sun, Dec 6, 2009, at 8:08 AM
I predict we'll get about a inch. A lot of folks will have wrecks. It'll be almost gone by Sunday. And also Alabama will beat Florida and Tim Tebow will cry on the sidelines.
-- Posted by MyMrMarty on Sun, Dec 6, 2009, at 3:15 PM
After the fact predictions are always the best, aren't they? lol
-- Posted by Dianatn on Tue, Dec 8, 2009, at 11:19 AM
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Tea Kettles
Nothing relaxes you quite like a hot cuppa after a long day. Whether you prefer coffee, tea or cocoa, electric tea kettles are a must-have kitchen essential. Electric kettles are an efficient option to heat water for instant soups, too. Just heat the water in the kettle, and pour it over rice noodles, instant oats or instant soup for a hot meal within minutes.
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A milk frother is also an option if your espresso maker doesn't include the frothing function. Hand-held milk frothers allow you to control the amount of froth on your drink, while automatic frothers are easy to use. For a versatile option, choose an automatic frother than also makes hot cocoa. From herbal iced tea to espresso with hand-frothed milk, you can create a range of beverages for the whole family to enjoy.


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Topic: Reading Excel spreadsheets in Rails
I have a forthcoming application where users will want to load up columns of data in Excel (rather than XML or CSV) and I'll need to be able to read the column headings and push the data into the database. I don't need to manipulate the data via Excel - all I need is to get it out.
The best idea I can come up so far is to use something to extract the data out of the Excel file into CSV and then process the CSV. Gnumeric could read the Excel file but I know nothing of Gnumeric. Google Spreadsheets could load up the Excel file and then allow me to grab it as CSV but it doesn't (yet) have an API. EditGrid looks like Google Spreadsheets and may even be better but the licence remain to be explored and the API doesn't seem to include a file upload. There is also Spreadsheet-ParseExcel but it only goes up to Excel 2000. The ScriptingExcel page at rubygarden assumes you have Excel running on the server, which I won't!
I can't be the first person to try to do something really simple with Excel in Ruby (I'll use PHP if I have to!) so my googling skills clearly aren't good enough. Could someone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks
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Columbus mayor dons Viking garb
The Columbus Dispatch - September 07, 2011 03:53 PM
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The people in the funny hats and clothes are involved in Fasching! 1996, a traditional German celebration to be hosted Feb. 3 by the Columbus Council on World Affairs. They are, from left, Judy Chester, honorary co-chair Lee Hoskins and Mayor Greg Lashutka.
According to an article in the Dispatch at the time, Fasching! 1996 was celebrated with a gourmet European dinner and a traditional grand parade of costumes.
Festivities, held at Columbus Maennerchor, included music by the Farrenkopf Quartet, a costume contest and a silent auction of airline tickets, hot-air balloon rides, karate lessons and golf, theater and dinner packages.


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Ochs, Phil
Phil Ochs 1940–1976
American songwriter, singer, and musician.
Ochs was a major force in the folk music boom of the mid-sixties. His biting satirizations, offhand humor, and deep commitment to change made him one of the most important topical songwriters of that period. Only Bob Dylan was more popular among Greenwich Village songwriters and protest singers.
Ochs began writing songs during the early sixties while studying journalism at Ohio State University. He also began publishing a small radical newspaper called The Word, and the content of his songs paralleled its left-wing, journalistic approach. Ochs dropped out of school, went to New York, and recorded his first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing, in 1964. This collection of songs pointed the way to his future efforts, including "I Ain't Marching Anymore," "Draft Dodger Rag," and "There But for Fortune," Ochs became popular among American radicals, but his success came just as Dylan abandoned topical songwriting for rock, and Ochs's brand of songwriting did not gain a wider following. Still, his 1967 album Pleasures of the Harbor is generally regarded as his best, containing both tender ballads and stinging satire.
Ochs misjudged the timing of his comeback. In 1970 he played 50s rock 'n' roll at Carnegie Hall dressed in a gold lamé suit, and alienated the few fans he still had. This time, however, Ochs was a step ahead—the nostalgia trend was a few years away. He seemed to realize, however, that he could not escape his radical roots. He became depressed as he saw his brand of music dying and American youth becoming apathetic. His 1969 album Rehearsals for Retirement pictured his tombstone, and implied that his spirit had died with the 1968 Chicago convention. In 1976, despondent over his lack of commercial success and his inability to create new material, he committed suicide. Ochs expressed the political feelings of many young people with special eloquence. His songs are still felt to be listenable and to have meaning due to the sincerity, conviction, and belief in a better society that Ochs brought to them. (See also Contemporary Authors, obituary, Vols. 65-68.)
Gordon Friesen
Bob Dylan is 21, Phil Ochs 22, Mark Spoelstra 23, Len Chandler and Tom Paxton 25, and Peter LaFarge is the oldest of the bunch at 32…. Besides their youth they have another thing in common: they belong to a whole new school of topical songwriter-performers that has emerged in American this past year or so and is today at a peak of song production. Much of their work is of a surprisingly high artistic quality, and according to some critics may be superior as music and poetry to anything of this nature we have witnessed before. (pp. 12-13)
[It] must be said here that they are by no means just topical songwriters. Actually, they are in the main extraordinarily gifted and versatile….
[Above] all, these are keen-minded young men greatly concerned with the world around them….
They all share basic similarities. They are unafraid of "controversial" ideas and are determined that what they say shall be heard. Although each has his own individual style, their music—as well as their uninhibited approach to subject matter—is deeply grounded in American folksong. They are artists, and when they tackle such issues as peace and integration what comes out are not cliches, but good poetry which hits you where you aren't looking. (p. 13)
Ochs gets most of his songs straight out of the day's headlines ("William Worthy", "The A.M.A.", "Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi"). His lyrics are blunt and his wit razor sharp. (p. 16)
American music will never be quite the same again. The June-moon-croon-spoon days are gone. Something new has been added. (p. 23)
Gordon Friesen, "Something New Has Been Added," in Sing Out! (© 1963 Sing Out! Magazine, Inc.; 505-8th Ave., NY, NY 10018; excerpted with permission), Vol. 13, No. 4, October-November, 1963, pp. 12-13, 16, 23.∗
This young topical songwriter and singer [Phil Ochs] uses "all the news that's fit to sing"…. Ballads about situation in Cuba, Laos, Viet-Nam, to talk blues of automation and AMA, show versatility in his song range.
Ochs sings an eloquent tribute to late JFK, and song of pure poetical lyrics of present times, "There But For Fortune." He has put a few poems to music, and result is very listenable. His power is in awareness of the world situation and ability to express it with both humor and wit in musical verse.
"New Acts: Phil Ochs," in Variety (copyright 1964, by Variety, Inc.), February 26, 1964, p. 77.
Karl Dallas
If Bob Dylan is the king of protest—and some might say he's already abdicated—Phil Ochs … is the president.
Still in his mid twenties, he has reached a position where Dylan can say of him: "I just can't keep up with Phil. And he's getting better and better and better."…
Unlike some other protesters, his attacks aren't safe and generalised. He chooses his targets well, and he hits them hard—so hard, that when in one recent song he invited the State of Mississippi to "find yourself another country to belong to" he got protests from outraged liberals who said that the people of Mississippi aren't all bad.
In spite of this, Phil sees himself as primarily an artist….
Phil's songs have a tremendous impact, not the least because his protest isn't against the same old safe subjects, the Bomb, race hate and so on. It's easy to be against them.
Pete Seeger said the chorus of "Lou Marsh" was the finest he'd ever heard in a topical song. And this is about the murder of a social worker who was trying to keep teenage New York kids from fighting.
It's the sort of song that takes protest out of the safe, never-never land of "them" and turns it savagely against the responsibility of the individual for the ills of today.
Karl Dallas, "Dylan Said It—'I Can't Keep Up with Phil'," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), November 27, 1965, p. 10.
Josh Dunson
[Phil Ochs] has been especially effective in his talking blues, where his wonderful sense of humor has forced hostile audiences to laugh and even question their beliefs on such controversial topics as Cuba and Vietnam. Ochs' style is not poetic, it is, rather, straightforward and natural, well adapted to the understatement of the talking blues. (pp. 87-8)
["Talking Cuba"] is typical of Phil Ochs' work in its humor, and in the number of its versions—he is always rewriting and improving his songs. (p. 88)
His training as a journalist is an invaluable asset. Ochs' songs contain clearly stated ideas that are at times brilliantly merged with flowing tunes.
Perhaps the best example is "Links on the Chain." The central image is a chain that represents labor's strength. (pp. 88-9)
Josh Dunson, "Song Writer-Singers: Phil Ochs," in his Freedom in the Air: Song Movements of the Sixties (copyright © by International Publishers Co., Inc., 1965), International Publishers, 1965, pp. 86-9.
Gordon Friesan
Phil Ochs is one of those songwriter-performers who continues to hit where it hurts; who keeps trying for a clean knockout. It is true he writes "Changes," but in almost the same breath he turns out the Brechtian "Cops Of The World," one of the most scathing indictments yet of the brutal stormtrooper arrogance of Americans who contemplate themselves as the noble policemen of the globe….
In a sense Ochs is writing from the inside, as a representative of the social strata which has brought our present dilemma to pass. He is a modern type "folksinger," that is one with an urban, college campus background…. Once he got going, however, he went all the way; among his 200 songs, anti-war, anti-discrimination, anti-hypocrisy, are some of the bluntest that any songwriter has written in the sixties. And he keeps straight toward the goal he has set for himself, namely "to demolish some of the idiocies of our society."
Gordon Friesan, "Phil Ochs," in Sing Out! (© 1966 Sing Out! Magazine, Inc.; 505-8th Ave., NY, NY 10018; excerpted with permission), Vol. 16, No. 1, February-March, 1966, p. 3.
Karl Dallas
Phil Ochs is possibly the most controversial songwriter in America today, not excluding Dylan. He can write the most vicious political songs, but gets angry at anyone who tries to turn songwriters into propagandists….
But he is not only a political oracle. There is a strong vein of lyricism in his work, too, that came out in the lovely song "The Pleasures Of The Harbour"….
Karl Dallas, "Phil Ochs—America's Fieriest Songwriter," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), September 17, 1966, p. 27.
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Milton Okun
Phil Ochs was a journalism student when the idea of writing singing editorials occurred to him.
Although he has moved from bright and urgently topical songs into themes of more durability, such as "There but for Fortune," Phil perhaps made his greatest impact as a "troubadour of the New Left." His "living newspaper" was kept up to date in the early 1960s with fresh editions of "The Ballad of William Worthy," "Talking Vietnam Blues" and "I Ain't Marching Any More."
Phil was, for a time, very much a product of the New York Broadside school! of topical songwriting, speaking out on dozens of current issues with his joggy melodies, his biting and sarcastic lyrics and his tart wit....
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Jacques Vassal
Ochs is one of the prime figures of the urban folk revival and one of the finest, most innovative songwriters of recent years. (p. 156)
Some months before Tom Paxton's Ramblin' Boy was released …, Phil Ochs's first album came…. The title was significant: All the News That's Fit to Sing, an allusion to the well-known slogan of The New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print." His style, from the moment that he starts playing, is incisive, sometimes cynical. At this time he had a lot in common with Tom Paxton who, expressing above all the right of the individual to be free, refused to be considered as the voice of any particular party or ideology. In the meantime, while...
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Steve Lake
[The track on Ochs' first album, "All the News That's Fit To Sing,"] that attracted the most attention was "Lou Marsh," a sombre ballad relating the life and death of one Lou March, a New York Youth Board worker killed while trying to prevent a gang war.
Pete Seeger described the song's chorus as being the best he's ever heard in a topical song, while Sing Out magazine decreed that the album "will be as important in 1964 as Bob Dylan's 'Freewheelin'' album was in 1963."
It wasn't to be however, although it did bring Phil's work to the notice of other contemporary singer songwriters, and Joan Baez was later to take Phil's "There But For Fortune," and make that song his biggest...
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Josh Dunson
Phil's early songs, with humor, compassion, and anger, cut through conservative and liberal excuses for inaction. Often the songs would follow one after the other, three or four in a week, then a "dry period", and then some major event would happen and there was Phil, lying on the couch picking his tunes, matching lyrics, writing, rewriting and rewriting….
[The] songs Phil wrote came to reflect mass movements. The songs were better written and more incisive. Finally, the "Draft Dodger Rag" and "I Ain't Marching Anymore" became the adopted anthems of millions of students who knew they never would fight in the Vietnam War….
Phil learned what the labor movement was, and expressed...
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Peter Knobler
The girl on the ticket line wanted "two tickets to the Bob Dylan concert." In fact the evening was a "Concert Tribute to Phil Ochs," and the irony would not have been lost on Phil. Even past the very end he didn't give the people what they wanted….
Phil killed himself. If you must gauge your life, I think a good standard would be your effect on your friends. Another, if you're lucky, would be your effect on the public at large. Phil's friends gathered onstage at New York's Felt Forum with a socialist vision and one more opportunity to say it out loud. There have been moments in which that vision seemed a safer bet, closer to fruition, sometimes almost inevitable—but few in which its risks were...
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John Berendt
Ochs was known as the troubadour of the New Left. He was the most radically committed performer of the Sixties, several steps beyond Jane Fonda and about on a par with Dick Gregory. He wrote topical songs of protest and was as happy singing them at the barricades as at Carnegie Hall. They were, as he well understood, a form of political theater. They could stir emotions and, under the right circumstances, provoke action. This is what he deeply hoped would happen.
Ochs wrote songs with lyrics worth listening to. They were simple and direct and made their point whether with a heavy or a gentle touch. Bluntly honest, three of his funniest songs were actually directed at the hypocrisy of his own...
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Noel Coppage
We can surmise from information available about him that Ochs was, among other things, stubborn, idealistic, dedicated, and naïve. We can surmise something similar from the recordings he left behind and from a big, new early-late sampler … called "Chords of Fame." Ochs had the qualities that seem to be essential for a person of his calling…. If we knew which traits were exaggerated or sometimes out of control in Ochs, we would know something. You can't tell from Ed Sanders' huge batch of liner notes, although they make the dedication clear enough and hint at other things. Something proved deadly, or some combination did, for, as the Seventies dragged on, imitating a second-rate Eisenhower era, Phil Ochs did...
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Geoffrey Stokes
[One] feared that time had canceled [Phil Ochs's] art and greeted Chords of Fame with according trepidation. For he was a talking newspaper of sorts. Irreverent and angry, his were the quintessential topical songs, and timeliness was among their chief virtues. Also, one feared, among their chief limitations. Who wants yesterday's papers?
I do, it turns out. And so might you. Mostly because they aren't just yesterday's. Some of the cuts have merely antiquarian interest, but the overwhelming bulk of the album requires no apology….
[There] is an element of tending one's own garden in [the later compositions], but their apparent detachment from the affairs of the world is amply...
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TRENTON, N.J. -Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes and Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello were joined by New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, other area leaders, and scholars today at the Public Records Room of the Clerk's Office to unveil newly discovered historical documents, including several 19th Century slave manumissions.
The records, the oldest dating to 1839, document the transfer of three slaves who lived in Mercer County from property to free citizens. A manumission is the record of freedom for slaves.
Other records found also hold extreme significance in Mercer County history, including the incorporation records for the New Jersey State Normal School Association, the institution assembled to raise funds for the Trenton Normal School, now The College of New Jersey; the incorporation records for John A. Roebling & Sons, the world renowned, Trenton-based manufacturers specializing in suspension bridges like the Brooklyn Bridge; and the power of attorney reports from Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, a relative of the French emperor. The documents were discovered several months ago during an inventory project by Anna Shifton, a records specialist hired by Sollami Covello.
"These records indicate just how important Mercer County is when studying the history of New Jersey and also the United States," County Executive Hughes said. "We are privileged to be able to touch history, whether it be through records like these or by visiting the many sites that played vital roles in the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the Civil War."
Hughes thanked Sollami Covello for her commitment to preserving Mercer County history and Secretary of State Wells for agreeing to the critical task of accepting some of the documents for permanent preservation in the state archives.
"We, as a County already rich in history, are incredibly fortunate to have discovered these remarkable records," said Sollami Covello. "For too long slavery and discrimination separated the people of the United States. However, we must use these slave manumissions to remind ourselves of the equality conceived in the American dream."
Shifton, initially drawn to the word "slave" in Miscellaneous Papers Volume A, investigated and ultimately discovered the records for three manumissions: Priscilla, 36 years old, in 1839; Nanet Harris in 1849; and Solomon, of Hopewell, in 1859.
According to Dr. Herman Beavers, an African American studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the manumitted individuals claimed their freedom through the 1804 "Act for the [Gradual] Abolition of Slavery," which mandated freedom for female slaves at the age of 21 and male slaves at the age of 25. Even though the New Jersey legislature passed the Act for abolition in 1804, slavery was not eliminated for several decades. Dr. Beavers speculates that the discrepancy, between the 1804 Act and the manumission records found in the Clerk's Office, is due to the role of slavery in the urbanization and industrialization of New Jersey and 19th Century public opinion on slavery. New Jersey permanently abolished slavery in 1846.
Also attending the press conference were Mercer County Freeholder Anthony Carabelli, state Chief of Archives, Joseph Klett, Professor Roderick McDonald of Rider University and Dr. Joseph Myers of Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Sollami Covello expressed the importance of continued record preservation.
"It is important that we preserve all of these historical documents for future generations," said Sollami Covello, who pledged upon taking office in January 2006 to modernize the Clerk's Office. "Today, we must commit ourselves, with the aid of our modern resources, to a greater standard of preservation. The State Archives, a short walk from our office, is a better home for the historical documents because of their modern resources and professional staff."
The Mercer County Clerk's Office is voluntarily transferring the records to the State Archives, a first in the long partnership between the two branches. At the State Archives, the records will receive the level of protection they deserve. According to Ellen Callahan, Collection Manager for the Archives, the destination for the historic County records is a state-of-the-art facility, equipped with light, temperature and humidity regulation and professional archival staff to preserve the records for researchers.
Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells is responsible for the promotion and preservation of New Jersey history. With an extensive background in public service, she advocates for many causes, including history of which she oversees the Department of Archives and Records Management and the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Klett, Chief of Archives, is charged with the preservation of New Jersey's historical public records. Under his leadership, the State Archives has expanded to 33,000 cubic feet of paper records and 28,000 reels of microfilm and recently sent New Jersey's Bill of Rights to Philadelphia for digital scanning.
The director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Herman Beavers specializes in 19th and 20th Century African American literature. Beavers is also a published poet with works appearing in the Black American Literary Form and the Cincinnati Poetry Review.
A professor at Rider University, Roderick McDonald focuses on African American history with publications on slavery in the United States and Latin America.
Dr. Joseph Myers is a History professor at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities organization.
For more information about the Public Records Room, please visit the Mercer County Clerk's Office at 209 S. Broad St in Trenton or the County website at http://nj.gov/counties/mercer/.


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Varnhagen, Rahel
Rahel Varnhagen 1771-1833
(Born Rahel Levin; pseudonyms include Rahel Robert, Antonie Friederike, Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, and Rahel) German epistolary writer and diarist.
As the host of Berlin literary salons and a prolific writer of letters, Rahel Varnhagen is well known as an astute intellectual and a social commentator of her time. Varnhagen was considered a peer of such contemporaries as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Rebekka Friedländer, and Bettina von Arnim. Her salons provided neutral spaces for a heterogeneous community of intellectuals to engage in socio-political and artistic debates, while also offering opportunities to nurture powerful personal relationships. Varnhagen's writings, primarily her letters but also her diaries, demonstrate her sustained interest in issues associated with humanism and with women's emancipation.
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Varnhagen was born in Berlin on May 26, 1771, the daughter of Levin Markus Cohen, a jewelry merchant and financier, and Chaie, his wife. In later writings Varnhagen would describe her childhood as painful and neglected, but it was during her youth that Varnhagen learned the importance of social relationships. Her family, especially her father, enjoyed entertaining and the family household often had guests. Soon after her father's death in 1789 Varnhagen opened her first salon in the attic apartment of her parents' house. It welcomed a diverse mix of classes, genders and backgrounds—aristocrats, Jews, intellectuals, actors, and government officials all gathered to discuss current events, art, and social concerns. During the period in which she hosted this first salon, Varnhagen educated herself by hiring tutors and embracing the writings of Goethe and Jean Paul, among others. Varnhagen's was the most famous of the Berlin salons of the period and it operated from 1790 to 1806, eventually closing when French troops entered Berlin and its members dispersed. Varnhagen herself left Berlin in 1813 because of the war, residing in Prague in 1814 and working in hospitals to aid the injured.
In 1795 she met Karl Finckenstein, to whom she became engaged. Their relationship ended in 1800 because Varnhagen's Jewish heritage and Finckenstein's aristocratic background created difficulties. Between 1802 and 1804, Varnhagen was engaged to Don Raphael d'Urquijo, a Spanish diplomat. Though the relationship was passionate, their engagement ended in part because of d'Urquijo's disinterest in intellectual concerns and his jealous nature. Varnhagen's relationships with other men—Wilhelm Bokelmann, Alexander von der Marwitz, and Friedrich von Gentz—were characterized by heated intellectual discussions and tumultuousness, even when the relationships were platonic. In September 1814 Varnhagen married Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, a Prussian state official and historian, after converting to Protestantism to do so. By all accounts, theirs was a marriage of intellectual and social compatibility, with both expressing a liberalism at odds with the dominant conservative and restrictive culture. After moving to various diplomatic posting, the family returned to Berlin in 1819. Varnhagen's second salon, opened in 1819 and cohosted with her husband, lasted until 1832. Like the first, this salon was marked by its tolerance of dissenting opinions and the diversity of its members, who were some of the most prominent people in Berlin. The first substantial release of Varnhagen's writing occurred after her death in 1833 in her husband's collection, Rahel: Ein Buch des Andenkens für ihre Fruende: Als Handschrift gedrunkt (1833; Rahel: A Memorial Book for Her Friends).
Major Works
Varnhagen wrote thousands of letters that demonstrate her aptitude for the literary tradition of epistolary writing. Varnhagen expressed personal sentiments in her letters, of course, but she also incorporated diary entries, travel notes, literary criticism, reviews, essays on contemporary issues, treatises, and other forms of commentary. Her letters reveal an interest in humanism and individualism, and they emphasize self-knowledge, the constructed nature of identity, and the possibilities for individuals to transform themselves through experience and education. In keeping with these perspectives, the letters often center on the challenges encountered by those who are marginalized for various reasons. A common theme throughout is Varnhagen's identity as a Jewish woman who is constrained by both gender and ethnicity. The letters express the difficulties and limitations of being an outsider and also contemplate questions of assimilation while celebrating individuality. The letters also involve political and social issues, such as women's emancipation. They assert the existence of women's identity as individuals and support women's intellectual and physical emancipation. The letters call for a woman's right to education and vocational training, maternal rights, and a skepticism about the benefits of marriage for women. As a whole, Varnhagen's letters are concerned with the individual and the outsider, themes which reflect Varnhagen's reality as an individual with multiple identities: woman, Jew, converted Protestant, unmarried until her forties, intellectual and host of a famous salon.
Critical Reception
Varnhagen, as both a salonnière and an epistolary writer, is widely studied by those interested in nineteenth-century German culture, salons, and epistolary writing. Varnhagen's letters have been examined as a means for her to articulate, to construct, and to shift her identity, especially as a Jew and as a woman. Critics such as Liliane Weissberg and Dagmar Barnouw use Varnhagen's writings to analyze Jewish-German writing, the development of the German nation-state, and anti-Semitism. Kay Goodman and Doris Starr Guilloton are interested in Varnhagen's expression of women's identity and women's rights. Other scholars, including Lynne Tatlock, trace Vernhagen's letters as inspiration for subsequent generations of feminists, activists, and writers. Critics often cite her letters to demonstrate the influence of her salon and the force of her personality, as well as to highlight her self-aware writing. Generally, most scholars reinforce Edith Waldstein's assertion that Varnhagen's writings reveal her multiple subject positions and eschew a singular, cohesive identity.
Principal Works
Rahel: Ein Buch des Andenkens für ihre Freunde: Als Handschrift gedruckt [Rahel: A Memorial Book for her Friends] (letters and diaries) 1833; revised as Rahel: Ein Buch des Andenkens für ihre Fruende. 3 vols., 1834
Aus dem Nachlaß Varnhagen's von Ense: Briefwechsel zwischen Rahel und David Veit. 2 vols. (letters) 1861
Juden and Judentum in deutschen Briefen au drei Jahrhunderten (letters) 1935
Rahel Varnhagen in Umgan mit ihren Freuden (Briefe 1793-1833) (letters) 1967
Briefwechsel. 4 vols. (letters and diaries) 1979
Rahel-Bibliothek: Gesammelte Werke. 10 vols. (letters and diaries) 1983
Doris Starr Guilloton (essay 1978)
SOURCE: Guilloton, Doris Starr. "Toward a New Freedom: Rahel Varnhagen and the German Women Writers before 1848." In Woman as Mediatrix: Essays on Nineteenth-Century European Women Writers, edited by Avriel H. Goldberger, pp. 133-43. New York: Greenwood Press, 1978.
[In the following essay, Guilloton contends that Varnhagen's letters and literary salon promoted women's rights and asserted women's equality.]
Given the restricted status of women in Germany until recently, it is all the more noteworthy that the cause of their emancipation was championed nearly two hundred years ago. Its major spokeswomen—first Rahel Varnhagen and then Luise Mühlbach, Countess...
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Kay Goodman (essay date fall 1982)
SOURCE: Goodman, Kay. "Poesis and Praxis in Rahel Varnhagen's Letters." New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies 27 (fall 1982): 123-39.
[In the following essay, Goodman focuses on Varnhagen's letters, as well as those of her contemporary and friend Bettina von Arnim.]
When German feminists trace their literary and cultural roots, they usually begin with the romantic women living around 1800. It was the time of the great Berlin salons and the new romantic liaisons, and both of these phenomena challenged a strictly domestic image of women.1 The aura of sexual liberation in the lives of Caroline (Michaelis-Böhmer-Schlegel)...
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Lynne Tatlock (essay date April 1986)
SOURCE: Tatlock, Lynne. "The Young Germans in Praise of Famous Women: Ambivalent Advocates." German Life and Letters 39, no. 3 (April 1986): 193-209.
[In the following essay, Tatlock analyzes how Young Germany—a collective of writers who advocated women's emancipation in the 1830s—celebrated Varnhagen and her contemporaries Bettina von Arnim and Charlotte Stieglitz.]
That in the 1830's the group of writers known as Young Germany admired Rahel Varnhagen, Bettina von Arnim, and Charlotte Stieglitz is well known and has long been seen as consonant with their alleged interest in the emancipation of women. Recently Wulf Wülfing has examined the tendency of Young...
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Deborah Hertz (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Hertz, Deborah. "Inside Assimilation: Rebecca Friedländer's Rahel Varnhagen." In German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History, edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes, pp. 271-88. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
[In the following essay, Hertz considers the collection of Varnhagen's letters to Rebecca Friedländer as reflective of Varnhagen's desire for personal emancipation and her attempts to assimilate.]
Almost two centuries ago in Germany, Rahel Varnhagen was a much-admired, much-discussed phenomenon. During the last decade of the eighteenth century and again during the third decade of the...
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Edith Waldstein (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Waldstein, Edith. "Identity as Conflict and Conversation in Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833)." In Out of Line/"Ausgefallen": The Paradox of Marginality in the Writings of Nineteenth-Century German Women, edited by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Marianne Burkhard, pp. 95-113. Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1989.
[In the following essay, Waldstein notes that Varnhagen's letters reflect a constant renegotiation and reconstruction of Varnhagen's identity. Waldstein claims that these shifting identities reveal Varnhagen's various identities—woman, German, Jew, writer—without depicting a unified, traditional sense of self.]
In German literary history Rahel Varnhagen has...
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Liliane Weissberg (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Weissberg, Liliane. "Stepping Out: The Writing of Difference in Rahel Varnhagen's Letters." In Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis edited by Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz, pp. 140-53. New York: New York University Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Weissberg analyzes Varnhagen's letters for their articulations about Judaism and nation in order to explore the connections between anti-Semitism and the concept of a German nation-state.]
Nation f. vor Ende des 14. Jh. entlehnt aus lat. natio(nem), das als Ableitung von natus "geboren" … die blutmässige Einheit des Volkskörpers bezeichnet.
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Liliane Weissberg (essay date spring 1992)
SOURCE: Weissberg, Liliane. "Turns of Emancipation: On Rahel Varnhagen's Letters." Cultural Critique 21 (spring 1992): 219-38.
[In the following essay, Weissberg speculates that Varnhagen's letters offer a unique epistolary form that develops around ideas of emancipation and derives from Varnhagen's perspective as a Jewish female.]
Emancipation, the "deliverance from bondage or controlling influence,"1 is a term that has its origin in the Roman family and describes not just the liberation of slaves but also the freeing of children from paternal power. It developed into a political term associated with contracts and laws and...
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Dagmar Barnouw (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Barnouw, Dagmar. "Enlightenment, Identity, Transformation: Salomon Maimon and Rahel Varnhagen." In The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered: A Symposium in Honor of George L. Mosse, edited by Klaus L. Berghahn, pp. 39-58. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
[In the following essay, Barnouw claims that Varnhagen and Salomon Maiman, as German-Jewish writers, were influenced by both Enlightenment and Romantic concepts of identity and in particular the concepts of transformation, self-knowledge, and experience.]
In the Western world Jews as a group have been perceived as particularly talented for modernity. Socialized into a mixed secular-religious culture that has...
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Jay Gellar (essay 1997)
SOURCE: Gellar, Jay. "Circumcision and Jewish Women's Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Failed Assimilation." In Judaism Since Gender, edited by Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt, pp. 174-87. New York: Routledge, 1997.
[In the following essay, Gellar asserts that Varnhagen's writings demonstrate the obstacles surrounding her identity as a Jewish woman.]
Rahel Levin Varnhagen was born in Berlin in 1771, the eldest daughter of the wealthy jewel dealer Levin Markus and his wife Chaie. Her father was among the select group of Jewish men who possessed the Generalprivileg, which allowed his entire family to...
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Heidi Thomann Tewarson (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Tewarson, Heidi Thomann. "1833 Rahel Varnhagen, Salonnière and Epistolary Writer, Publishes Rahel: Ein Buch des Andenkens für ihre Freunde, a Collection of Letters and Diary Entries." In Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Jack Zipes, pp. 136-42. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Tewarson introduces the epistolary tradition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Germany, tracing its private and public manifestations and noting its contended status as literature. Tewarson uses this background to examine the style of Rahel's writings and to note her...
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Lilian R. Furst (essay date 1998)
Furst, Lilian R. "The Salons of Germain de Staël and Rahel Varnhagen." In Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age: Critical Essays in Comparative Literature, edited by Gregory Maertz, pp. 95-103. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1998.
[In the following essay, Furst discusses the literary salons of Varnhagen in Berlin and of Germain de Staël in Coppet to consider the salons' effects on cultural interaction in the Romantic Age.]
In any consideration of cultural interaction in the Romantic Age, one major social institution immediately springs to mind: the salon. The salon was instrumental in bringing together men and women...
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Further Reading
Weissberg, Liliane. "Changing Weather: A Review Essay." The Germanic Review 67, no. 2 (spring 1992): 77-86.
Reviews four books on Varnhagen. Weissberg also provides a brief biography and summarizes a conference devoted to the work of Varnhagen.
Arendt, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess. First Complete Edition. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. London: East and West Library, 1957. Reprint, with an introduction by Liliane Weissberg, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Offers a descriptive, rather than factual, biography of...
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About 400 people attended the sold-out event. "It was powerfully encouraging to see the generous support coming from alumni circles, our elected officials, the corporate and business sector, the community at-large, as well as University members," said DSU President Harry L. Williams. "And in a demonstration of students helping students, our Student Government Association used its own money to attend the event and provide support for scholarships."
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PHOENIX -- Jerry Jones is sure of two things: The Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo will come to an agreement soon on an extension, and Romo will "not be paid to be a bus driver."
(Of course, there's no disgrace in that, given how the Cowboys are traveling these days. Somebody has to be trusted with the Jonesmobile, a 45-foot-long luxury motor coach the owner purchased recently and took to the NFL scouting combine. It ain't exactly a soccer mom's minivan.)
But if he isn't driving the bus, Romo certainly is driving the discussion, and Jones addressed the quarterback's contract negotiations during a break in the NFL owners' meetings Tuesday. While Jones believes a deal will be done soon, he refused to pick a date.
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"We all have to decide what that day is, everybody involved -- his agents, him, me," Jones said. "It's not a concern of mine.
"The point that I do want to make, if we make this kind of commitment, is that I feel good about making it. I feel good about where he is in his career. I feel good about the time he has spent with (head coach) Jason Garrett and (quarterbacks coach) Wade Wilson. But with (new offensive coordinator) Bill Callahan involved, I do expect some new wrinkles, so to speak, relative to what Tony Romo can do."
In other words, the coaches have to do a better job.
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Romo, 32, threw for 4,903 yards last season while tossing 28 touchdown passes. But he also led the league (tying New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees) with 19 interceptions, the most Romo has thrown since 2007.
After watching Tom Brady take less than market value to give the New England Patriots salary-cap room to sign players (except Wes Welker, of course), the Cowboys are eager to strike a deal with Romo, who will count $16.8 million against the cap next year.
Hamstrung by salary-cap penalties, the Cowboys could use some relief this year, too: Jones said the team has only "five figures" in cap room available after signing linebacker Ernie Sims to a one-year deal for the league minimum on Sunday.
Fans, understandably frustrated at the Cowboys' quiet off-season, want Jones to run the fiscal hurry-up offense and create some cap space – even if it's just for draft picks, undrafted free agents and a rainy day.
"Probably what concerns (the fans) about a timetable is that they don't know if it'll be weeks out," Jones said. "I have a better feel for it than that. We're involved in dialogue, we're involved in negotiations. It's not the thing to do, him or me, to say that we'll have something done by midnight or tomorrow unless it's that imminent.
"You can't get that answer because you don't have it all ready to sign it. But I'm not concerned that it'll be drawn out."
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St. C. school levy is a replacement
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – As Election Day approaches, the St. Clairsville City School District continues to promote the proposed continuous 2.75-mill operating levy. It would replace the expiring 2002 operating levy.
Superintendent Walter Skaggs stresses the district's need for the levy and the administration's efforts to remain fiscally sound in the face of mounting needs and government cuts.
Skaggs said the levy would impose no additional taxes. It would replace the expiring 2002 operating levy. He noted the timing of the decision to place the levy on the ballot after the repayment this year of a 2.95 bond for the construction of a connector building.
"We held off as long as we possibly could because the bond would be paid in full," he said, adding that this would mean no increase in expenses to the taxpayer.
The 2001 bond passed by only three votes. This was after the public decisively voted down two levies in 1999 and 2000 to construct a new complex.
Administrators have pointed out water damage in the classrooms. The schools have resorted to measures such as covering computers and placing buckets out to catch rain during storms.
"The elementary roof is priority No. 1," Skaggs said, adding that the roof is well past its 20-year projected duration. "It's beyond its life's expectancy, and we need to replace that."
After the roof is repaired, focus would move to the doors and windows. The doors offer poor security and are a source of heat loss.
"Those are the big three things we need to get done." Skaggs said. "Those are our priorities."
He added that the staff has taken pay freezes in the past three years as well as concessions in insurance, retirement and staffing. More than 30 positions were eliminated or changed in the last five years. A total of 22 were eliminated with 13 reduced or replaced with entry level posts.
The district also has seen a $653,000 per year decrease in state collections from 2002 to 2013. Overall, Skaggs reported a $1.2 million reduction in state funding.
At the same time, the student population during past seven years has increased by 100 children. The student body is approximately 1,650. Skaggs noted the district's administrative expenditures per pupil are the lowest in the county.
St. Clairsville has consistently met most of the indicators on the state report card. About 80 percent of graduates then go on to two- or four-year programs.
The five years of staff cuts and adjustments resulted in a cumulative savings of $2.8 million, or 21 percent of the current budget.
Skaggs said the levy would bring necessary upgrades.
"It's by no means a cure-all," he said.
In addition, thanks go to community organizations and volunteers for assisting in projects to upgrade the elementary playground and the middle school auditorium, completed at no cost to the taxpayers. The district security plan was funded through a Homeland Security grant.
"I ask for the support of the community and the citizens of our district. We feel we've been fiscally responsible, and we will continue to be fiscally responsible and spend taxpayer money wisely," he said.
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I was disappointed with McCartney II, Pipes of Peace, Press To Play and Off the Ground. You could tell the brilliance was there on some of the songs but its like Paul didn't want to be brilliant from start to finish of an album but prove that he was just and ordinary guy by including mundane songs on his albums. Once he accepts that he is an extraordinary guy you get Flaming Pie and Driving Rain.
Erm....I think if anyone was capable of brilliance all of the time, they would provide it. To say that he "didn't want to" or included things to show he was a regular guy is kind of funny. He ALWAYS wants to be perfect, but sometimes things don't work out for the best. I like most of POP and PTP, btw. To each his own. But dont ever think the man doesn't try or aspires to be mediocre. He is human--he makes mistakes. He expects greatness. His standards are very high. He is NOT perfect.


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Hey New Jersey, you're an inspiration.
Yesterday's stunning announcement from Governor Chris Christie, killing a $8.7 billion commuter tunnel, could be viewed as an act of budgetary courage.
The tunnel, which would have expanded New Jersey's rail capacity into Manhattan, was already underway—and eagerly anticipated on both sides of the Hudson.
But, after several days of analysis, Gov. Christie stated that cost overruns could jack up the tunnel's price by several billion dollars. "The state is broke," he said at a news conference. "I don't have the money."
Christie is now facing furious criticism from politicians and commuters alike, who accuse him of making this high-profile choice to grease the wheels of his career. We're not ruling that out.
Still. Let's consider the act of backing out when you know you can't afford something. Consider the chutzpah it takes to reverse yourself, and say, "Sorry, I did the math, I can't swing it."
Financial sanity requires strange acts of bravery sometimes.
Boast. Did you ever walk away from a purchase you couldn't afford?