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For the first time, I feel that I really have a purpose. I have a true goal and real purpose in life. And that's a big thing for me.
Without this meditation I would have never been able to reflect back on myself and my life. That's for sure. Maybe I could have been able to cover up my pain or something with some other method, I don't know. But I would have never been able to look back on myself and see how I have acted and what my role and my part were in everything. I would still have blamed the world and blamed everybody else and kept that mindset that it was everybody else's fault and not mine. I've come to realize that it's also a big piece of pride that I'm carrying around. For me it was always very important how I appear to others and I didn't want to show myself weak, or didn't want to open up to other people. So I closed myself.
I was always comparing myself with others. If that other somehow had achieved something more than me, I didn't like that person. If that person had done less than me, then I could be 'humble'. Then I could be a nice person and take care of that person. Then I thought I was great because I was so nice to that weak person. So that was my life. Always measuring, always trying to come across as the best somehow. If there was no competition, I could be nice.
It might sound strange maybe, at least from the culture I come from where we're supposed to love ourselves and try to be better all the time. Because that's something I really tried to do, to love myself, to tell myself I was great. This meditation method is a bit of opposite of that. You realize that you are not great. And that's actually a big relief. It's really a big relief. Because it's a big burden, walking around thinking you are great, and thinking that you have to be great all the time. Now that I am freeing myself from that ego and pride, the world around me has become nicer; it treats me more gently nowadays. Yeah, it's funny. Before, the world was my enemy. It is not anymore.
This meditation is? "simple and so powerful"
Before meditation, the life I have lived from the outside looked good. Perhaps to the eyes of the people around me I was happy and confident with family, school and work but I was very worried and always felt pressured within. I always had this need to please everyone and was obsessed about maintaining an image for a good person in front of others. I was always hiding behind my fake smiles and heavy make-up, covering myself up to be perfectly good. Through the meditation I realized that this was all because I was so worried about how the world saw me. I was so worried that I never wore white socks or bright colors because people could then see how dirty my feet were. I felt as if the world was judging me for every little thing about me. My insecurities always overwhelmed me that I was haunted with insomnia.
However, reflecting back at my life, the meditation has really helped me see that I was only living inside this bubble. I was stuck inside a place where I cared only about my self-centered views and comparing myself and wanted to become better with my own standards that I had made to myself. Now that I look back at myself, I was so ridiculous! Riddling myself with so many worries.
I have done the meditation from level 2 in Korea, so I have not yet met people that know of the old me. However, even the people here say that from the time I've been here that I look brighter. I see my own change too, my insomnia is gone and I dance around in whatever colored socks, without makeup. When I no longer rely on the opinion of others, I feel much stronger and free. The greatest gift the mediation has allowed me is to allow me to see that the world does not spin around me. I have been living only for myself. For me, the greatest part of this meditation is to see reality, the true world, outside of my bubble.
People around me comment that I look prettier
I started this meditation after being exhausted in human relationships. That is probably why my greatest change comes from when I did level 2. Out of all, I gained self-esteem and thus I was able to be confident amongst other people. Perhaps people around me noticed my change too; they would comment that I looked prettier. I was even asked if I had gotten a boyfriend. These were words that I've never heard before. Level 3 and 4 were relatively long and tedious levels but as I heard "patience is sour but the fruit it bears is sweet". There weren't special changes that I noticed but I did feel that my mind was ever more relaxed. Even when being with others, I didn't feel cumbersome and my behaviour became more natural to the point that I could enjoy myself and be comfortable amongst them. This is perhaps because I came to realize through level 3-4 that I always carried an obsession to be a good person in front of others.
I wanted to be a person that was honest and well-liked by others, but on the other hand I feared that I may look like a fool if I do so. However, if I know when I should be nice and honest and behave accordingly while knowing when I am not expected to act in such manner, I think I can avoid looking like a fool. Therefore one can be wise and sensible in being nice and honest.
It took me a year and a half to receive such wisdom though the four levels. Some people may have taken a shorter time or a longer time than me to go through these levels, but to me right now the length it took is not important. If I put it clearly, what is important to me is to how much my mind has become peaceful and free. It is more valuable to me as 36 years of time wasn't able to bring such change. To the fact that I can empty out my mind; to that itself, I am grateful. This meditation allows you be grateful towards everything that is and was part of the same daily life you used to live, I wish that many others can feel the true happiness that comes from that.


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The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 allows large trucks, referred to as STAA trucks, to operate on routes that are part of the National Network.The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) provides standards for STAA trucks based on the Code of Federal Regulations Title 23 Part 658. These standards designate the minimum truck sizes that all states must allow on the National Network.
The National Network includes the Interstate System and other designated highways which were a part of the Federal-Aid Primary System on June 1, 1991. These other designated highways are listed in Title 23 Part 658, appendix A, however, states are encouraged to allow access for STAA trucks on all highways.
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Against a brick wall
Bill said, "better snap that quick before we pack it up" and I did. That's a one-of, custom Davidson with flat bars, disc brakes, and a single speed drivetrain. Could talk all day in the shop about the spec or summarize it best with a loud NICE!
Ride this bike with boots, denim, and leather or maybe Goth armor.
Ti-railed Brooks
Save the tweed and patent leather shoes for another bike. This one is for the urban assault rides.
Swap those dropouts to gear, fixed, or single
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La Chemise (mit Frou Frous)
Added Sep 9, 2011
by piackdy
London, United K...
Non-commital Renaissance style billowing top with optional cuffs and rose and bib brooches.
The top itself is a hybrid of a Italian Renaissance raglan chemise pattern I found online and Burda Style 2010-02-117/118 . I doubled up the layer for the front and back to preserve my modesty, but kept the sleeves single layer for softness. There's minimum cutting required – I used the full width of the 60" or so fabric for the body and half that width for the sleeves. See photo or my blog post for how it looked before the elastics went in
The cuffs and brooches were actually made from cut-offs from the sleeves – I had originally intended to make the sleeves double layered as well. Now it gives me extra options in how I wear it. See my second blog post for more pictures of different combinations
I usually stay away from billowy clothings and instead struggle with close-fitting projects. But this was a resounding success for me. I love the non-commital versatility and how well it works with different styling, like the vaguely country western styling photo here (worn with two other sewing projects – a scratch boucle pencil skirt and a stiff home-furnishing grade faux suede bolero).
Material Notes
Cotton gauze
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Sep 10, 2011, 04.03 AMby libra-s
Lovely! It suits you perfectly!
Sep 10, 2011, 12.21 AMby fifilina
i really love this, it's great! i'm hoping to make a whole lot of billowy dresses, best thing for hot, australian summer days.
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Direct loans are available to students who are matriculated, enrolled at least half time (6 credit hours), maintain academic progress, and have not exceeded their cost of attendance.
All recipients of loans must complete entrance counseling before the loan is disbursed, and exit counseling upon graduation, or dropping below a half time status (less than 6 credit hours).
All loans must be repaid; repayment begins 6 months after the student´s education at MVCC has been completed.
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Federal Direct Subsidized Loans
Direct Subsidized Loans are available to students who meet the conditions outlined above, and are determined to have a financial need as determined by the Department of Education based on the FAFSA information.
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The PLUS loan enables parents to borrow funds to apply toward their child´s educational expenses. The student must be in good academic standing.
Parent PLUS loan applications can be found at www.mvcc.edu or obtained at the financial aid office.
The loan cannot exceed the cost of attendance and takes into account any aid the student has received. Unlike student loans, parents must be in good standing with their credit history to qualify. Interest begins to accrue when the loan is disbursed, and there is no grace period.
Parents may defer payment while the student is enrolled for at least a half time basis, however, the interest will still accrue, and interest statements will be sent.
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Dependent Students for first year students: annual combined subsidized and/or unsubsidized loan of $3,500, plus an additional $2,000 unsubsidized. Total available: $5,500.
Dependent Students for second year students (30 cumulative hours): annual combined subsidized and/or unsubsidized loan of $4,500, plus an additional $2,000 unsubsidized. Total available: $6,500.
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Independent Undergraduate Students: Subsidized Loans: $23,000
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MVCC cannot disburse a student loan until this entire process has been completed. All borrowers are required to electronically sign the MPN. By signing, the student is agreeing to pay back any loan funds received for educational expenses. You will complete the MPN only once while a student at MVCC; it will be used for any additional borrowing while you are student here.
The MPN can be accessed at studentloans.gov, click on Complete New MPN for Student Loans, select the Subsidized/Unsubsidized option, and click on Proceed to MPN login.
Completing the MPN takes approximately 30 minutes. All 9 steps must be completed and a confirmation page received. Once the session is completed, an electronic confirmation will be sent to MVCC; this may take up to 4 days.
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Before receiving a student loan for the first time, borrowers must complete an online Entrance Counseling Session. This session provides useful tips and tools regarding loan responsibilities, interest rates, and payment options. Students can access the session at www.dl.ed.gov, click on Entrance & Exit Counseling, and complete the Stafford Loan Tutorial & Quiz. The session takes approximately 20-30 minutes; the session must be completed, and a confirmation message received. Unless the session has been completed, the electronic confirmation will not be sent to MVCC. As this is a federal requirement, the loan cannot be paid without this confirmation.
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When you have completed your studies, you will be required to receive exit counseling. This will give you an overview of your rights and responsibilities as a borrower, as well as information regarding payment options. After leaving school (or studying less than half time), you will be notified by the loan servicer that holds the loans. The notification will include payment options, where to send payments, and contact information.
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Who's Who In The Textbook Industry?
Textbook publishing is a business just like any other. At the very top of the textbook industry hierarchy you will find three main publishers.
1. Pearson
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These three publishers produce nearly 75 % and sell textbooks directly in the US. Each of these publishers reaps about a 20 % share of the sales. In addition to these main players, there are a few lesser publishers including:
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It is important to understand that the profit margin in the book industry is very high. Monies on when you sell textbooks online hover up to 60% of the original retail price of the book.
What Happens after Textbooks Leave the Publisher?
For the most part, publishers sell college textbooks (usually at net cost) to universities and colleges where they end up in campus bookstores. Of course, the aim of the college or University is to provide a high quality of education that will ensure they successfully stay in business. Campus bookstores share this motivation along with a need to make a profit.
University and college bookstores generally add a gross profit margin to a book's cost to create the selling price. This profit margin is usually about 25 %. It is important to realize that the store has paid certain costs to get the textbook, such as shipping costs and the basic costs of storing, managing and selling the book inventory. In college, university and truth bookstores usually only see a little under a 4 % profit on book sales.
What About Big Chain Stores?
Large chain such as Barnes & Noble and Follett sell textbooks back not only in their campus bookstores, but also in their national chain stores and online. Naturally, their motivation lies in profit and success. It's important to note that to attain the second part of their goal (success) it may be in their best interests to charge the most competitive prices.
Be that as it may, for standard textbooks, the net price of the book is generally pretty much the same for campus bookstores and for big chains. Still, there can be some difference in the retail price of a textbook from one store to another.
One area where students can really save money on books required for coursework is when purchasing nontraditional books for courses in the social sciences, humanities and the like. These types of books are not actually textbooks and are subject to a wide range of conditions when prices are determined.
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Ideally, college and university professors should be motivated by the desire to provide their students with a high quality of education. Professors have the deciding voice as to which books are used in their classes. Very often, they make these decisions based on a book publisher's recommendations, and they do not actually take the time to review the materials that they require their students to purchase.
Because professors do make the final recommendations and decisions regarding textbooks, they are heavily targeted by book sales representatives. Publishers are very fond of bundling expensive packages together that include CDs and other "extras" that add a great deal of cost to books without necessarily adding much in terms of value.
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Because the cost of textbooks is high from start to finish, students are always on the lookout for ways to save money on books. This is why approximately 35 % of the textbook industry today is made up of the used book/textbook buyback market. Unfortunately, the rising popularity of purchasing and selling used textbooks has spurred publishers to revise their texts more and more frequently and at high cost. This means that textbooks become "obsolete" very quickly.
Of course, the intent of the textbook publishers was to force their captive audience to have to buy new textbooks; however, it didn't work out that way. These days many students are simply refusing to buy textbooks at all. Instead, they:.
* Attend class, listen carefully and take good notes.
* Rely on photocopies of other students' books.
* Borrow other students textbooks.
* Find pirated text online.
* Rent textbooks.
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It seems apparent that the industry as it now stands is destined to go the way of the dinosaur. Its business model has been set up to generate hefty profits from the time they sell books to buyback to reselling used books. Changes will have to be made because the end consumers of the industry have wised up and become stubborn in their resistance to being fleeced.
Consideration for sell back your books, it is hoped that professors will become more aware and more diligent in textbook selection. They should make an effort to continue use of the same book over a period of years and not give in to the textbook industries' claims of obsolescence. This sort of diligence on the part of professors will make it possible for students to take advantage of money-saving textbook buyback companies that offer gently used, high quality textbooks at reasonable prices.
While students are to be lauded for their creativity and independent spirit, it's important to note that attempting to gain knowledge without any solid reference is pretty risky business. Combining the use of established, well-written textbooks with good classroom attendance and attention, along with the wealth of online materials available to students today, college and university students can feel sure of getting the best and most up-to-the-minute information available in any given subject.


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Hi Folks,
I worked on the Front-End to make my interface more user-friendly, I don't detail every modifications, we can split them in three:
My code is under Honeynet Subversion so you can consult it if you're curious !
I also corrected a lot of bugs even if some of them are a bit persistent.... Read more »
Hi folks,
It took me a long time to work on the data model, the back-end, to setup all my framework
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So I will post once a week I guess about new features I added.
I'd like to speak a bit about how my webapp works. The main goal is to separate every layer of my web.
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This week, you I added Read more »
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to share few things with you about my project.
I'm still very excited to work on my project and if anyone is intersted in what I've done, here is a short tutorial I created to setup the project quickly.
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As the GSoC started, this blog entry will introduce to you, myself and my project.
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Portrait of young man by Pollard Graham of Derby
Mounted print 250 x 350mm
Last week I wrote in the article "Which sibling is it?" about the importance of dating photographs in the process of identification of subjects. Today I return to this topic with an image sent to me three years ago by Graham Pare, who provided some background to the photograph:
It is the only photo I have from this area - my father's family were from Derbyshire, my great grandfather was Francis Willoughby Pare born Belper 1909 and his father was Robert Stanley Lee Pare, born Ripley 1887 - I guess it could be either of them, depending on your estimated year? There again it could be neither of them!
Imprint: Pollard Graham & Co, Head Office 108A Friar Gate, Derby
Negative number 68770
My response was as follows:
I believe that it was taken just before or during the First World War, perhaps between 1911 and 1916. This is from a comparison of the young man's clothing with other photos in my collection, as well as the number 68770 which you quoted from the reverse, and which I think must be a negative number. I have a post card photo of my own family by this studio with the negative number 70932, which is accurately dated at 13 Jul 1917, and I think yours must have been taken not too long before this date. I think it must therefore be the father, Robert Stanley Lee Pare, born in 1887, as the son would have been a maximum of seven years old, while the father was somewhere between 24 and 29. Does this fit with any conclusions you might have come to?
Portrait of young man by Pollard Graham of Derby
Mounted print
Then two years later I heard from Graham again with an update on the portrait:
I have now discovered that it is from my mother's side of my family and not my father's, as I originally thought. My brother had the same photo, but smaller, in his collection, and it was still in its original envelope!
Photograph envelope used by Pollard Graham of Derby
The envelope from Pollard Graham & Co. with Head Offices and Works at 108a Friar Gate, Derby is addressed to "Mr. S. Harding, The Rookery Cottage, Brixworth, Nr. Northampton," with a Derby postmark dated 31 July 1914, and the hand written negative number 68770.
The gentleman in the photo we now believe to be Sidney Harding, my grandfather's brother. At the outset of WW1, Sidney enlisted as a Private, regimental number 25220, with the South Wales Borderers (formerly 8145 Army Cyclist Corps) at Northampton, where he was working as an engineering apprentice. He spent periods attached to 229 Company Royal Engineers and the Machine Gun Corps. Sid was born in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, on 4th February 1894 and would have therefore been around 20 years old at the time of this photo.How nice for Graham to have not only an approximate date for the photograph, but also an address and a positive identification for the subject. I would be a little bit wary about the date, though, because the smaller mounted print posted within the envelope may have been an additional copy ordered after the original portrait had been received.
For me, however, the second portrait and the envelope with which it is associated provide additional information, rarely seen because these envelopes often don't survive.
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Firstly it demonstrates that in mid-1914, on the eve of the British declaration of war on Germany, Pollard Graham & Co. was operating, in addition to the Derby studio, seven branches in Coventry, Northampton, Burslem, Longton, Rotherham, Luton and Lincoln simultaneously. This appears to have been the peak of a rapid period of expansion for the firm, commencing around 1904. Between then and 1905 Pollard Graham opened new studios in Peterborough, Burnely, Leigh, Wigan and Northampton. Around 1910, he went into partnership with Albert Hutchinson - hence the "Pollard Graham & Co.." The Peterborough and Burnley branches were closed, followed by Leigh in 1911 and Wigan in 1913, balanced by the opening of several branches in other, presumably more attractive, towns elsewhere in the Midlands.
As discussed in a previous article, lack of business due to wartime hardships quickly caused the closure of all the branches, and the partnership between Graham and Hutchinson was formally dissolved in March 1915. The Derby studio appears to have remained in business for much of the war's duration, judging by the number of portraits of servicemen taken there (see Pollard Graham portfolio), although the number of customers was no doubt significantly reduced.
Environs of 108A Friargate, Derby, c.1912, by F.W. Scarratt
Image courtesy of Rod Jewell's Yesterday's Derby and its Districts
Secondly it indicates that the exposed negatives of portraits taken at the branch studios, in this case the Northampton branch, were sent to the firm's Derby headquarters for printing. I had already suspected this, since they included the words "Head Office and Works" in their card mounts from c.1910 to 1915, and because most, if not all, of the negative numbers used between 1895 and 1922 appear to fit into a single sequence. However, it's good to have confirmation that it was happening in July 1914. Presumably increased efficiencies in the postal service of the time made it feasible, and both economies of scale and the reduced capital requirement for individual branches made it worthwhile.
Sending large numbers of glass plate negatives from around the Midlands by post to the Derby Works in Friargate seems to me a venture fraught with risk. Perhaps I'm underestimating the transport methods available at the time, but I can't imagine that even a small proportion of losses due to breakage would have been acceptable to either the firm or their clients. I wonder, therefore, if they were by this stage using roll film rather than dry-plate glass negatives, rapid developments having been made in roll film technology on the 1890s and early 1900s. Kodak introduced 9 new roll film sizes - from 3½" x 3½" up to 7" x 5" - to the commercial market in 1898 alone. I appreciate that glass plates still provided higher quality prints, and remained popular for some years. It's clear that this subject needs more research, but perhaps a reader or two can help with some in depth knowledge of the cameras used by studios at that time.


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Ubuntu Launches Smartphone
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical the company behind the popular open-source desktop operating system Ubuntu, says a mobile version is a natural progression and will offer users a full desktop computing experience from a smartphone.
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I originally wrote this message on Christmas Eve, but for 3 days, weird blogger wouldn't accept any of my photos. UGH! so, the post is 3 days late... sorry for such a long gap... I was trying and trying and trying! In the meantime, we've been eating leftovers and sweets that we got in our stockings. Musty got me a box of the most AMAZING vegan chocolate caramels, by Sjaak's company. YUM!
Our big family dinner on Christmas Eve was a great success, full of love and family and friends and feasting! I spent all day in the kitchen and ended up with:
27 manicotti! (This is one of two pans of manicotti) I LOVE these, and so did my family, because there were only 4 left at the end of the night. Even my super meat-eating brother loved it! I use the "Green Goddess" filling (or something like that) from VwaV. I've altered it only a little bit by adding salt and by sauteeing the garlic in olive oil first. Then, boil your manicotti noodles until tender but not floppy. Then cover them in generous amounts of tomato sauce. Bake at 375 for about 45 min.
1 super super delicious pumpkin pie! I think this is the best vegan pumpkin pie I've ever made!
2 pear cranberry tarts from VwaV - a new family favorite!
1 Panforte, an italian dessert that I fell in love with in Italy... It's like a mega super dense fruit cake of sorts, but exceedingly good. It's got almonds, walnuts, dried figs, cocoa powder, sugar, corn syrup, a little bit of flour, candied orange peel, candied citron... Oh, it's so good. This was actually for lunch on Christmas day. The picture is so dark... oops
Also, my aunt S made some super delicious brussel sprouts, following the VwaV recipe. Oh man, these were great. I love that recipe. We've got a large number of brussel sprout lovers in our family, so they all got gobbled up!
Not pictured: 2 amazing!!! casseroles of veggie stuffing. YUM By the way, here's the stuffing recipe again (I posted it in the comments of the last post). This time, I added apples and walnuts (thanks for the idea, Chris!) - and it was even more delicious! So, I added them into the recipe too. :) I don't have an exact recipe... but I did this:
about 3/4 lb bread
2-4 T Earth Balance
1 onion, chopped
4-5 stalks celery, chopped
1/2 c coarsely chopped walnuts
1 medium apple, diced (smallish dice, but not tiny)
1 1/2 tsp fresh rosemary, chopped
1 T fresh sage chopped
1 T fresh thyme chopped
1/2 c fresh parsley
1/4 tsp pepper
2 c veg broth ** not sure of amount, I was just eyeballing it. I used mushroom broth for a strong flavor, and it was great.
Heat oven to 250 and toast the bread slices 10 min on both sides (20 min total). I did this earlier in the day, which saved a little time in the evening. chop your bread into 1/2 inch cubes. Now, raise the oven temp to 350 and lightly "butter" a casserole dish with a lid.
Melt earth balance in a large skillet on medium heat. Add the onions and celery and heat until onions are soft and clear. Add all the herbs, parsely, and pepper and stir it up. Lower heat to low. Add in the bread cubes and stir around. Start adding in the broth, a bit at a time... Keep adding broth until it looks like all the bread chunks have soaked up some broth (it will depend how moist you like your stuffing... but it's easy to eyeball it - I promise). Transfer it all to the "buttered" casserole dish. I threw in a couple extra teaspoons of broth for good measure. Cover and cook 30 min. Remove cover and cook another 5-10 min.
For lunch on Christmas day, we had an informal lunch ... leftovers and sandwiches. The meatys had turkey sandwiches... and us veggies used the extra manicotti filling on our sandwiches. YUM! That stuff is so versatile and tasty.
I hope you had a wonderful xmas celebration!!!


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• Bowers Elementary School, Harriman, will have Family Math and Reading Night for grades K-2 from 6 to 8 p.m. The school is at 120 Breazeale St.
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• A public country music show and dance featuring The Riverfront Band will be from 7 to 10 a.m. in the Harriman American Legion. Smoking and alcohol are prohibited.
AARP Tax-Aide is offering free income-tax assistance and preparation from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Tuesday from Feb. 5-April 9 in Kingston Community Center at 201 Patton Ferry Road.
AARP Tax-Aide is one of the nation's largest free volunteer-run tax assistance and preparation service available to taxpayers with low- and middle-income.
Special attention is given to those age 60 and older.
25 Years Ago
A groundbreaking ceremony in Oak Ridge kicked off the transformation of the Downtown Shopping Center to Oak Ridge Mall. It was planned for about 200 stores to occupy the center, which was to offer Roane Countians an alternative to Knoxville's West Town Mall.
10 Years Ago
Sincere sympathy to the family and friends of Edna Gillespie Hickey, who passed away Sunday, Jan. 13.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles William Hickey, and her parents. She leaves three sons and three daughters and their families.
She was a faithful member and worker at Euchee Chapel AME Church in Spring City. Service was held for her Thursday, Jan. 17. The Rev. L.B. Tate officiated.
Roane County Habitat for Humanity recently installed several new leaders and added two new board members.
These latest additions are part of Habitat's effort to continue to strengthen its board of directors and build more homes for families in need in the county.
Todd Fisher, who has been interim president for the last several months, was officially installed as president.
Fisher has extensive managerial experience in forming and leading high-performance teams in corporate, nonprofit and start-up organizations.
"Edible Landscaping: From Fruit to Nuts" is the topic of the Master Gardeners of Roane County's eighth winter workshop.
The daylong workshop will be on Feb. 2.
The Master Gardeners have teamed up with David Lockwood, Tennessee Extension Specialist for fruit and nuts; Roane County Extension Agent Grant Palmer; and Bradbury United Methodist Church to provide classroom training on a variety of fruit and nut crops and active, hands-on experience in an orchard.
Mid-East Community Action Agency's senior services department and Roane County Health Department are partnering to offer a chronic disease self-management program beginning Feb. 27.
Classes will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. each Wednesday through April 3 in the health department at 1362 N. Gateway Ave., Rockwood.
The workshop is for anyone who is dealing with a chronic health concern, including but not limited to heart disease, cancer, depression, asthma, COPD, chronic pain, or diabetes.
Bethel Presbyterian Church and the Kingston community have come together for the past three years to benefit area nonprofit organizations with the church's annual fall festival.
"This year's receipts saw an increase of 20 percent over last year due to the great turnout from the community," said Micki Anderson, one of the fall festival organizers.
The most recent fall festival started with a fellowship breakfast and a youth-led yard sale.
The history of perfume parallels the history of civilization. For almost as long as there have been human beings, people have used many and varied ways to capture the scents of flowers and plants to use when the real ones were not available.
Many primitive people used smoke perfumes. Aromatic plants, tree resins and fragrant herbs were burned, and garments and other textiles were held in the smoke to perfume them. Some American Indian tribes still do this as a ceremonial ritual. This, of course was the beginning of the development of incense.
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Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family!
My fifth great-grandfather, Valentine Corley, passed away this day in 1803 at the age of 82. Before writing this post, I didn't have any direct sources of information about him. His death date came from the Family Data Collection on Ancestry, which also lists his wife as Sarah Walker. Valentine lived and died in Virginia.
In preparation for this post however, I did another search for records for Valentine and found another Ancestry member posted scans and a transcription of Valentine's will. The will verifies that his wife's name was Sarah and also reveals that they owned several slaves by the names of Betty, Ruth, David, Sarah, Lucy, Fanny, Pleasant, Wiat, Daniel and Rob. The names of Valentine's children also appear: Aggathy, Ann, Mary, Milly, Asa, Caniel (my 4th great-grandfather) and William.


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I was thinking about saving this Caramel Pecan Coffee Cake recipe and posting it this Autumn since it is one of those decadent, rich and just plain melt in your mouth types of desserts or a side of deliciousness that I serve for with a breakfast entree. However, I have had so many people ask for the recipe, that I did not want to hold off.
Caramel Pecan Coffee Cake – Serves 10 generously
1 1/2 C butter softened, 2 C brown sugar, 1 C sugar, 5 eggs, 3 C flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 C half and half, 1 8oz bag of toffee chips and 1 C crushed pecans.
Caramel sauce – 14oz condensed milk, 1 C brown sugar, 2 TB butter and 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 11×7 or 13×9 (my preference) casserole dish.
In a large mixing bowl (preferably a stand alone with paddle), beat butter until creamy. Add sugars and beat until fluffy. Add eggs.
In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Alternate flour mixture with half and half as it helps to blend better. Once combined, stir in toffee bits and pecans. Pour batter into your pan and bake 60-75 minutes or until done. You may want to cover cake towards the end so it does not burn.
Caramel Sauce directions –
Combine condensed milk and brown sugar in a saucepan. Bring to boil, whisking constantly so it does not burn. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes, whisking frequently. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Stir until combined. Immediately drizzle caramel sauce over cake.
Once cooled, run a knife around the edges and flip upside down onto wax paper. Spoon glaze over the top. The glaze will thicken as it cools.


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High quality venues and ease of access are two prominent benefits in providing the best possible tennis camp experience.
San Rafael, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 23, 2011
Nike Tennis Camps offer junior and adult overnight and day camps at 81 locations nationwide. The camps provide first-rate instruction, match play, diversified social activities, exposure to life in a university setting – and the chance to build lasting friendships. More than 220,000 athletes have attended the camps over the course of Nike Tennis Camps' 35-year history.
"High quality venues and ease of access are two prominent benefits in providing the best possible tennis camp experience," said Wendy Shpiz, national marketing director, Nike Tennis Camps. "More than 95 percent of tennis campers live within a three-hour drive of our summer camps, so it's great to be able to provide more opportunities for more tennis players."
The new 2011 summer tennis camps are based in the following locations: University of Denver, Robbie Wagner's Tournament Training Center in Glen Cove, Purdue University, Charlotte Latin School, Colgate University, The Hampton's Montauk Racquet Club, The New Hampton School, Soka University, The Citadel, Main Sail Hotel in Tampa, Ocean Reef Club and Red Pine Club at the Canyons Resort.
About Nike Tennis Camps
Founded in 1975, Nike Tennis Camps is a division of US Sports Camps. Headquartered in San Rafael, CA (just outside of San Francisco), US Sports Camps is America's largest sports camp company, also offering Nike softball camps, running camps, soccer camps, and numerous other sports. What began 35 years as one tennis camp is now a national network with more than 500 camps across the country in a wide variety of sports.
For more information on Nike Tennis Camps and US Sports Camps, please visit the company's website at http://www.USSportsCamps.com or phone 1-800-NIKE-CAMP.
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Spangler wrote:I understand Attack of the Show and XPlay aren't the most quality of of shows, but I like them and watched G4 since the stations inception. It was announced that both shows will be cancelled in relation to G4's rebranding in December.
I'm really disappointed after hearing the news. Those were the only 2 shows left that had video game ties to the channel, and this marks the official death of G4. I'm really going to miss their E3 coverage along with Comic-Con. I looked forward to their coverage every year, and I'm going to miss true gamer fans like Morgan Web and Adam Sessler discussing games (I'm aware Sessler left the show earlier this year).
I know their are other better alternatives, but it won't be the same for me.
On an unrelated note, I don't know what this means for the Japanese version of Ninja Warrior.
I really had to rant somewhere.
I know. That kinda sucks. Not that I watched either religiously, but whenever I caught one, I was impressed. They better replace at least the video game one with something similar.


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Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages: 320
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Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a critical gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last. Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone. Well, sort of. Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and hear ghosts. This mysterious ability has always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she can undo it. But not with Logan's violet-hued spirit still hanging around. Because dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost. It doesn't help that Aura's new friend Zachary is so understanding--and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit. As Aura's relationships with the dead and the living grow ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura's heart...and clues to the secret of the Shift.My Review: Shade was a hauntingly, endearing supernatural novel. I was utterly impressed with the flow of the plot and the unique characters. The world that Jeri created was very original and fresh. In this community, people born after the shift had the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Pretty cool right? The violet-hued spirits were friendly while the dark "shades" were unpleasant and bitter. Aura was not the biggest fan of her ability. But, when her boyfriend Logan passed away, she was grateful for the chance to see him again. The raw emotions Aura went through was quite depressing. I could not imagine dealing with not only the loss of a loved one but also being surrounded by their ghost. I was saddened when Logan passed away, he was my favorite character. There was something about his demeanor that made me feel comfortable and fuzzy inside. He would of continued to be a great boyfriend to Aura if it wasn't for his stupid mistake. *sighs*
Now, throughout the book the suspense slowly developed with the mystery behind the Shift. No one with this ability was aware as to why this phenomenon occurred. Aura, a strong and passionate teen sought out answers behind her power, even though it was forbidden. I admired her determination and understanding that something shady was going on. Meanwhile, another character stood out to me, Zachary, a handsome new student from Scotland who held some interesting secrets. He genuinely cared for Aura and always kept her best interest at heart. The connection between the two was intriguing and I can't wait to see their progressing relationship in this series. Jeri concluded the first book perfectly, I am eagerly anticipating the sequel, Shift which comes out in May 2011. Overall, a great supernatural read which I recommend all YA lovers should read!
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Award-winning author Jeri Smith-Ready lives in Maryland with her husband, two cats, and the world's goofiest greyhound. Jeri's plans to save the earth were ruined when she realized she was more of a "problem maker" than a problem solver. To stay out of trouble, she keeps her Drama Drive strictly fictional. Her friends and family appreciate that. When not writing, Jeri she can usually be found—well, thinking about writing, or on Twitter. Like her characters, she loves music, movies, and staying up very, very late.
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Other books by Jeri:
-Wicked Game (WVMP Radio, Book #1)
-Bad to the Bone (WVMP Radio, Book #2)
-Bring On The Night (WVMP Radio, Book #3) - July 27, 2010
-Eyes of the Crow (Aspect of the Crow, Book #1)
-Voice of the Crow (Aspect of the Crow, Book #2)
-The Reawakened (Aspect of the Crow, Book #3)
-Requiem for the Devil
-The Wild's Call
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Alexander Frison - 20th Century Martyr
Limbach, M. "Alexander Frison - 20th Century Martyr." Sendbote Des Hl. Antonius, Offizielle Zeitschrift der Franziskaner-Minoriten, Basilica del Santo, Padu, 110. Jahrgang, Heft Nr. 1 Januar 2008.
Translation from German to English by Alex Herzog
German Text PDF Document (PDF 415KB)
This, the final article in a series, memorializes the fates of many faithful in the former Soviet Union. The little-known life and death of Bishop Alexander Frison is hereby cited as an example of the nameless victims of the Stalinist dictatorship.
On June 20, 1937, following months of imprisonment subsequent to a nine-day show trial in March of 1936, Alexander Frison suffered a martyr's death in Moscow. The false accusation leveled against him, namely, of acting as a German spy, was not ever very original. During the so-called "œcleansing period" of Josef Stalin this was a common indictment that seemed to require neither further precision nor any detailed investigation.
The Nameless. Confessions obtained via torture served to the outside to legitimize sentencing, should those in power even be interested in justifying themselves. Whether it was a politically motivated trial or simply a case Stalin's paranoia, the sentence would be determined from the outset. Suspected political enemies, former comrades-in-arms such as Trotzki or Bucharin fell victim just as military people with outstanding service records. At the same time, it also struck millions of apolitical people who were murdered simply for their ethnic or religious affiliation. Human stories which the world was aware of only perhaps numerically. No grand documents pay witness their personal martyrdom. Having people disappear, keeping them "nameless" as much as possible - this was and is part of the methodology of a dictatorial regime. Among the army of these nameless, Bishop Dr. Alexander Frison tends to take on at least a minimal outline form, even if not much is known about him. But it is exactly in this that he is one with all the other, nearly forgotten martyrs of the past century.
Ominous Developments. Even the biographical data we have for Frison are not entirely reliable. The data cited herein are based on the book "Deutsche Martyrologie" [German Martyrology] by Prelate Dr. Helmut Moss. What is certain is that Frison was from South Russia, an area in which Germans had settled ever since the time of the Tsarina Katherine II. He was born in May, 1875, in the village of Baden in the Kutschurgan region near Odessa, a settlement area of Germans predominantly from Alsace and Baden [Germany]. At the time this region was part of the Tiraspol Diocese. Following decades of tolerance, Russian nationalist trends arose toward the end of the 19th Century, tendencies that made life for these "strangers" increasingly difficult. In an attempt not to keep the Russian-Orthodox Church from further hostility, the Vatican had decided to name Tiraspol the seat of a bishopric, although (and perhaps because?) there was not a single Catholic church there. Odessa, and Saratov later, had been the actual seat of a bishop.
Secret Studies. The increasingly difficult relationship between Russia and its state church with the Vatican forced Alexander Frison to live under a false name at the Germanicum in Rome and enrolling in 1897 as Alexander Frank for his studies at the Gregoriana - studies that were Russians were not permitted to take part in. In 1902 he was ordained to the priesthood in his home diocese by Bishop von der Ropp. Another stay in Rome led to a doctoral degree and several pastoral engagements in his home region, and finally to a professorship at the priest seminary in Saratov. He is described as being modest and diligent, a Volga-German who enjoyed the good will of Vatican offices.
The Fight Against Catholics. The so-called October Revolution changed the situation in South Russia drastically, including and particularly for the churches. The Orthodox former state church lost its influence and was to suffer deeply under the Bolshevists. But the Catholic Church did not receive any mercy from the new people in power, either. Had it been assumed at first that the Catholic Church might from then on be treated better, it soon became clear that it would not be spared the fate of its sister church. Initial show trials and death sentences demonstrated that the Communists viewed the catholic Church as being steered by "anti-Communist agitators" in the Vatican. Thus they declared war on it, too.
Politicians in the West now had to try to support the endangered Catholics while attempting at the same time to cooperate somehow with the new State - a balancing act that failed. In 1926 it was none other than the Jesuit Herbigny who, as an envoy from the Vatican, found his way to Russia - officially responsible for famine aid by the Vatican. This was not a fortunate move, given the Jesuits had for centuries been viewed with suspicion in Russia. His activities were therefore observed with the utmost care, and thus it did not remain a secret that he had quietly ordained Alexander Frison as bishop. Soon after, Frison was put under house arrest. Additional arrests, on various grounds, soon followed.
The Arbitrary State. A decree on religion in 1929 had caused the situation for Catholics to become even more problematic and provided outstanding opportunities to oppress Christians with the flimsiest of accusations. For example, Bishop Alexander Frison was accused, among other matters, to have permitted minors to participate in religious services when religious instruction of children and youth was officially forbidden in Russia. In 1935 he was arrested a final time, and this time he would not be released. The accusation of espionage was just as arbitrary as all previous accusations and merely served as a means to get rid of the bishop. In the struggle by an atheistic State against religious concepts and institutions Bishop Dr. Alexander Frison died on account of his faith.
Hide Me Within They Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR
Witnesses for Christ: A German 20th Century Martyrology: German-Russian Bishops' Diocesan Priests and Priests from Religious Orders
Like Alexander Frison, Christians under Stalin had to live their faith in
secrecy. Today a memorial stone is to be erected in memory of the barely known victims of this regime.
Our appreciation is extended to Alex Herzog for translation of this article.


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Three yellow buses rolled through Twin Rivers just before the winter break, loaded with boxes of food and wrapped gifts for 20 families in need. Also on board were Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with other volunteers from the Twin Rivers central office.
"Thank you TRUSD for the love ... we are so grateful and humbled by the gifts," responded student Nani Poloai. "Maybe there really is a Santa Claus after all."
The volunteers started their day at the Sacramento Food Bank where they picked up donations of fresh fruits and vegetables. Before deliveries began, the buses stopped by the district office to collect gifts for all members of the families that were on the routes.
The gifts were donated and wrapped by central office volunteers.


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Budapest, Hungary
After five years in Chicago, Paul's father became an American citizen and, at that time, brought Paul from Hungary to join him in Chicago. He attended high school in Chicago but rather remarkably he missed out four years schooling in the process. Halmos says that there was some confusion since in Hungary four years of primary schooling were followed by eight years of secondary schooling. He had completed seven of these twelve years but Halmos said ( or ):
I hinted to the school authorities that I had completed three years of secondary school, and I was believed. ... a year and a half later, at the age of fifteen, I graduated from high school.
While still 15 he entered the University of Illinois to study chemical engineering. His age was not a problem, he said ( or ):
I was tall for my age and cocky. I pretended to be older and got along fine.
After one year he changed to mathematics and philosophy but did not particularly shine at mathematics ( or ):
I was a routine calculus student - I think I got B's. I did not understand about limits. I doubt that they taught it. ... But I was good at integrating and differentiating things in a mechanical sense. Somehow I like it. I kept fooling around with it.
Despite being so young when he entered his undergraduate course and despite changing from chemical engineering to mathematics and philosophy he still completed the four year degree in three years graduating in 1934. He began graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, still with philosophy as his main subject, mathematics as his minor subject.
It was not until the end of the academic year 1935-36 that Halmos made the move from philosophy to mathematics. After thinking that algebra was the right subject for him, he quickly changed to analysis and studied for his Ph.D. under Doob . This was awarded in 1938 for his thesis on measure-theoretic probability Invariants of Certain Stochastic Transformation: The Mathematical Theory of Gambling Systems. Jobs were not so easy to come by ( or ):
I typed 120 letters of application, mailed them out, and got two answers, both no. The University of Illinois took pity on me and kept me on as an instructor. So in 38-39 I had a job, but I kept applying.
In February 1939 Halmos was successful in obtaining a post at Reed College in Oregon. He accepted but in April his friend Warren Ambrose was offered a scholarship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Halmos wrote ( or ):
That made me mad. I wanted to go, too! I resigned my job, making the department head, whom I had never met, very unhappy, of course. I ... went to my father and asked to borrow a thousand dollars ... I wrote to Veblen and asked if I could become a member of the Institute for Advanced Study even though I had no fellowship. ... I moved to Princeton.
After six months Halmos was offered a fellowship, and in his second year at Princeton he became von Neumann 's assistant. Ambrose writes in :
This was wonderful for Paul because he ... idolised von Neumann ... This seemed to have been the first time in Paul's career when he received what he deserved and I think it must have been one of the happiest times in his life.
Halmos said of von Neumann :
... his speed, plus depth, plus insight, plus inspiration turned me on.
A debt that Halmos owes to von Neumann is that one of his lecture courses inspired Halmos's first book. In 1942 Halmos published Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces which was to bring him instant fame as an outstanding writer of mathematics.
After leaving the Institute for Advanced Study, Halmos was appointed to Syracuse University, New York. While in Syracuse he took part in teaching soldiers in the Army's Specialized Training Program. At the end of World War II Halmos decided it was time for a change and, in 1946, he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
In 1961 Halmos moved to the University of Michigan. In 1968-69 he served for one year as chairman of the mathematics department of the University of Hawaii. At the end of the year he accepted a professorship at Indiana University. He remained at Indiana until 1985 when he moved to Santa Clara. G L Alexanderson writes in :
In early 1984 I received a telephone call from Paul Halmos ... during which he said, among other things, that he would like to be someplace with more sunny days. The Bloomington winter seemed long. ... I responded that ... I would think about it. When I had, I called him and asked him whether he might consider Santa Clara... I raised the question of his joining us at Santa Clara with some hesitation because, though we may have good weather, Santa Clara is not the kind of institution at which Paul had spent his career.
Halmos is known for both his outstanding contributions to operator theory, ergodic theory , functional analysis , in particular Hilbert spaces , and for his series of exceptionally well written textbooks. These include Finite dimensional vector spaces (1942), Measure theory (1950), Introduction to Hilbert space and theory of spectral multiplicity (1951), Lectures on ergodic theory (1956), Entropy in ergodic theory (1959), Naive set theory (1960), Algebraic logic (1962), A Hilbert space problem book (1967) and Lectures on Boolean algebras (1974).
In 1983 he received the Steele Prize for exposition from the American Mathematical Society . The citation read:
The award for a book or substantial survey or research-expository paper is made to Paul R Halmos for his many graduate texts in mathematics, dealing with finite dimensional vector spaces, measure theory, ergodic theory and Hilbert space. Many of these books were the first systematic presentations of their subjects in English. Their felicitous style and content has had a vast influence on the teaching of mathematics in North America. His articles on how to write, talk and publish mathematics have helped all mathematicians to communicate their ideas and results more effectively.
Halmos has received many other awards for his writing and teaching. For example, in 1993, he received a Distinguished Teacher award from the Mathematical Association of America .
J B Conway writes in about Halmos's contributions to operator theory:
... Paul has a number of papers and theorems that anyone would be proud to call his own. But the thing that has always struck me about his work is the extraordinary number of topics and problems that are dominant themes in the current research of today and that have their origin in his work. Over the years Paul has demonstrated an uncanny ability to extract crucial properties from a given mathematical entity and lay it open before his colleagues in such a manner that there is a universal inclination to look and explore further.
Halmos has been a frequent visitor to Scotland. He attends regularly the four-yearly St Andrews Colloquium. I [EFR] first met him at the 1972 St Andrews Colloquium and fully agree with Alastair Gillespie's comments in :
These Colloquia are just the sort of things that Halmos relishes in - a happy mixture of expository mathematics and recreation - a mathematical holiday, in fact.
Halmos spent part of his 1973 sabbatical leave in Edinburgh and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He has also been awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the University of St Andrews.
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Credited directly to Danish pastor and philosopher Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872), the folk school model of adult education grew out of the French Revolution. Grundtvig was inspired by a report on public education written by the Marquis de Condorcet in 1792 that first advanced the concept of popular education, a movement that was part political and part pedagogical. The idea was to give the peasantry and other people from the lower echelons of society a higher educational level through personal development; what Grundtvig called "the living word." Grundtvig's model took hold in Denmark in the 1840s and spread across Europe, finally reaching the United States in the 1860s.
This illustration of the American Peoples School may have served as their bookplate.
In 1934, progressive educators Geneva and Søren Mathiasen established the American Peoples School in New York City based on the Grundtvig model. Situated in the former Denishawn School of the Dance (also the home of modern dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn*) and located near Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the American Peoples School held that "the essential of any general education is to enable people to live happier and more interesting lives." The idea was enlightenment rather than training, and the schools founders believed that "life itself is considered as one of the greatest of the arts, and care is taken to provide opportunity for gracious living and dignity." In Depression era New York City, with so many young single people living workaday lives away from home, the American Peoples School provided for that, at least until it closed due to wartime pressures on its funding in 1943.
Once again Stacks descends into first-person voice due to the personal nature of the subject. In 1994, I was working on a 300-hour internship in Antiochiana for my graduate program at Wright State University (a requirement that, after 18 years on the job, I assume I have met). Still needing a topic for my capstone project, Bob Fogarty, longtime professor of American history and editor of the Antioch Review since 1977, brought me one. An Antioch College graduate from the class of 1938 had in her possession the files of a school where she had once been resident director, files she was unsure what to do with. The school was the aforementioned American Peoples School, and the Antiochian was Agnes Forrest Gruliow. Her husband Leo, a journalist and translator of Russian, was the founding editor of the Current Digest of the Soviet Press, once the only English language source for news stories printed in the former USSR. I got to know them both over the course of the project, which I proposed as both the process of obtaining the donation of a manuscript collection as well as its preservation for posterity and arrangement for use.
When it came down to the actual signing of the deed that would transfer ownership of the collection to the College, it turned out that Agnes was not quite ready to give them up, a fairly common occurrence as I would learn over the next several years. Interestingly, the fact that she hung onto the collection made for a nice punch line at the end of my paper: that an archivist can do everything by the book and still not obtain the donation. So I returned to Yellow Springs empty handed and a little dejected but with greater understanding of some of the nuances of what was about to become my field.
I stayed in touch with the Gruliows, never once mentioning my desire to complete the transaction so as not to pressure them. Leo died in the late 1990s, followed by Agnes in December 2011. In early May 2012, Agnes' daughter contacted me in the hope that Antioch College still wanted to have the American Peoples School Collection for its archives. Seeing the papers as unfinished personal business, my first thought was: "Hey, if we don't, I do," but I told her that of course the College was still interested. The following week I went to the Gruliow residence in Columbus near the campus of Ohio State University where the Digest had been based since the 1960s. There I met their son Frank, named for his uncle, Agnes' brother, an Antiochian killed in action in the Second World War. Eighteen years after I started this project, Frank put his signature on my long unsigned deed, and, despite the fact that my MA is dated 1995, I felt like I finally finished college.
The very first file in the collection contains a manuscript for the following article by I.W. Bassow, whose identity I have been unable to confirm. Whoever he was, his admiration for the American Peoples School cannot be in question. Accompanying the manuscript is a rejection letter dated 1941 from the editor of an adult education journal on the verge of ceasing publication. The correspondence suggests that Bassow should submit his work to another title. Since both journals are in the Olive Kettering Library's vast periodical collection, it was possible to check, and it is likely that this is the first time his article has ever been published.
The magnificent house that served as the American Peoples School, located at 57 Stevenson Ave. in the Bronx. Apparently a high-rise apartment stands on the site today.
American Peoples School
I. W. Bassow
This year the American Peoples School is celebrating its seventh anniversary. Founded as an experiment in cooperative living by SA Mathiason in 1934, the school has made an important place for itself in the field of adult education. The purpose of the founder was to establish a resident center for young men and women in New York City to help them meet the problems created by urban life. But the past few years have seen a gradual change in the character of the school.
Before discussing these changes however I would like to present a description of the school for those who may be unacquainted with it.
The American Peoples School is an adaptation of the Danish Folkschool. It is a place where young men and women live together with their teachers in a cooperative attempt to live a rich cultural, social, and intellectual life. At present there are twenty-eight people living at the school, including teachers and students. The students' ages range from eighteen to thirty-five. The entire establishment is conducted along democratic lines and is controlled by the students themselves. It is supervised by an executive committee by them from among the student body and faculty. Sub-committees are responsible for cooking, cleaning, repairing, and other necessary work.
The school occupies a picturesque three story house near Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx which was formerly the dance studio of Ruth St. Denis. It is built in Tunisian style and is surrounded by a large and beautiful garden. The garden contains over three hundred varieties of flowers and shrubs and serves as an outdoor studio for the drawing and painting classes. The other classes and discussion groups are held around the great fireplace in the spacious main hall.
In order to accommodate the growing number of students an additional building was obtained in 1936 for use as a dormitory. The school is self sufficient and is supported entirely by the students' tuition payments. These payments amount to $12.50 a week for which students receive room and board.
The student body is a heterogeneous group. It is composed of men and women drawn from all walks of life and from all parts of the country. They have different social, political, and economic backgrounds, different kinds of education, and diverse interests. They work at all kinds of jobs. There is a writer, teacher, plumber, hair-dresser, secretary, social worker. Thus a student comes into contact with many different types of people. He becomes acquainted with fresh ideas and viewpoints. His interests broaden and he becomes a more interesting and stimulating person.
The teachers, who live with their students, try to consider themselves students also. They are always ready to learn from those they teach. And students with special training or ability often conduct classes of their own. In this way, both teachers and students come to regard the school as something which belongs to them. They learn to work with other people and subordinate their own desires to the common welfare.
A promotional mailer for the school.
The formal educational activities take place in the evening after the students return from work. The purpose of these activities is not so much to impart specific information to the students as it is to provide them with the opportunity for the full development of their talents and personalities. It is also intended that they provide the students with profitable recreation after a hard day's work. Therefore the subjects taught include a little of what is normally considered formal educational substance. Painting, drawing, folkdancing, group singing, sculpture, and other media of expression are the core of the curriculum. Stimulating discussions on contemporary problems, literature, art, and other topics of interest to the students are also part of the evening activities.
All barriers between student and teacher disappear in an environment like that of the American Peoples School. They do much together; they eat at the same table, they help each other wash dishes; they may even room together. This constant contact fosters a relationship which does not stop at the classroom door. Teacher and student become friends on the basis of common interests outside of the classroom as well as in it.
Although the original purpose of the school was to provide for the intellectual and social advancement of its regular students, the past few years have seen a change in this program. The school is becoming more and more a center for education of the people in the community. It is becoming a place where the people of the neighborhood can enjoy a pleasant evening doing the things they have always wanted to do. People who have always wanted to paint or draw or express themselves in some way now can do it at the school.
A regular program of activities has been established for the people of the community. This program has a two-fold aim. First, it attempts to acquaint outsiders with the school's regular program and activities. Second, it tries to fill the gap in the cultural life of the neighborhood by extending the school's educational and social benefit to all.
Special classes have been introduced with these objectives in mind. One of these is a housemaker's group designed to attract neighborhood housewives. This group discusses diet, cooking problems, intelligent purchasing, and other questions of interest to them.
Many people come to the painting and drawing classes. Most of them have never studied art before and now the school is providing them with the opportunity to do so. Some of the students have shown remarkable ability in their work. Elderly people in their fifties and sixties, who have never painted before, have proven by their fine work that it is never too late to learn. They pay a small fee for their instruction.
Another feature of the school's program which is attracting many new people is the weekly "Open House." On Saturday nights the school opens its doors to everyone in an invitation to join with the students and teachers in an evening of fun. A program of folkdancing, in which everyone participates, is the feature of the evening. The real spirit of the school comes out on occasions like this when a warm friendly feeling pervades the place. Strangers soon feel at home in the congenial atmosphere. A special class in folkdancing for beginners meets earlier in the week.
In attempting to reach out into the neighborhood, the school contacts various community organizations. The Parent-Teachers Association, social groups, and women's groups are some of these. The school, by serving these organizations, is gradually becoming regarded as something which belongs to the entire community, something which deserves the support of everyone. This idea of becoming an integral part of the community has been the outstanding development in the recent history of the school.
Another activity on a different front is the school's attempt to do its small bit in promoting good-will and friendship between the peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Although actual plans are still indefinite, the general idea is that the school provide a residence for Latin-Americans who come to New York to study. This will give the student a friendly and congenial place to live while he carries on his studies. He will also become acquainted with the democratic and cooperative spirit of the school, thus making his stay in the United States a richer and more fruitful experience. Students will be reached through the "Y" and various student organizations in Latin America.
*Shawn would found another school of modern dance on a rustic farm in the Berkshire Mountains called Jacob's Pillow in 1933 that he purchased from then Antioch College president Arthur E. Morgan in 1931. Morgan had originally intended to establish his own folk school on the property. Today Jacob's Pillow Dance is known for holding the oldest internationally acclaimed summer dance festival in the United States.


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