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We are just a couple of weeks away from the split of Motorola. The current Co-CEOs Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha will each become CEOs of their own companies under the Mototola umbrella.
Greg Brown will become the head of Motorola Solutions. The new Motorla Solutions will handle networking, radio and business and government solutions.
Sanjay Jha will continue working with mobile solutions, the unit he was brought in from Qualcomm to lead.
The official split will happen January 4th in the meantime both companies have been hard at work on the road doing investor road shows. Wall Street has also been hard at work preparing the two split companies.
Also their new logo has been revealed which has a very strong resemblance to the Motorola Droid eye.
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The Strange! The Beautiful! The Ordinary!
From time to time, as I slogged the Wrrrld Wide Web, I would
encounter a photograph. I thought it was interesting that people
would present pictures of themselves that way to a global audience.
After a while I started collecting the URLs of the pictures. Soon I
had accumulated a pretty good assortment, and I decided that I should
create a webpage about them. After all, second-order information is
what the WWW is all about.
I had neglected to collect any identifying information, so I
didn't have any idea who the people were. There wasn't any particular
theme or pattern. It wasn't a "babe"
collection or anything like that. It was just a cross section of
pictures of people I had found on the web, and the only thing that
they had in common was that I didn't know who they were.
I put a bunch of URLs on a page and called it The Gallery of the
There were no HTML tricks in the Gallery page, just a list of
<img> tags. But because the images existed on multiple
computers, the browsers tended to choke, sometimes crash. They were
optimized to suck data out of one server at a time. They didn't cope
very well with multiple servers. Also, there was a high likelihood
that at least one of those servers was down or ailing or overloaded.
There was also a high likelihood that one or more of the pictures had
been removed or relocated or renamed. The WWW is an extremely brittle
medium, and the Gallery of the Unknown demanded more than the WWW
could deliver.
I broke the Gallery into pages, each page having pointers to four
images and a link to the next page. The collection continued to grow
until I had 32 pages of people I didn't know. A page for every day of
the month...and more!
Twice I received mail from guys who had pictures in the gallery.
Gosh, it sure was good to hear from them, but then I knew who they
were, so I removed their pictures from the Gallery of the Unknown and
created a new gallery, the Gallery of the Known.
Then things got weird.
I went to Japan for a couple weeks. I was meeting with famous
Japanese companies, introducing them to our designs for the
socialization and commercialization of cyberspace. I encouraged
people to visit the Electric Communities website to learn more about
us, which many of them did.
They also visited my home page and many
of them also checked out the Gallery of the Unknown. After a few
days, I began to hear reports that the Gallery contained pictures
that were "impolite". I was curious about what that meant, but there
was nothing I could do about it until I got home.
It turned out that a crazy woman had discovered that her picture
was in the Gallery of the Unknown. She was upset about what she
supposed was a copyright violation. I think she was further upset
because I did not respond immediately to her email, which I could not
do because I was in Japan.
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pornographic picture, an extreme close up. I don't know if it was a
picture of herself, or of someone else I don't know.
By linking to a resource not under my explicit control, I had
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In any case, I was concerned about the image I was presenting.
When I got back to the States, I removed the impolite link from
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICfOF PENNSYLVANIA 4001 Uniud Stales Coruthoun lMallWut. Sixth and Market Stneu PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA 19106-1741 Cliamben Midiael Baylson (267) 299 -7520 United Statu District Jllllge August 24, 2004 Jlidge Mary Lisi, Chair Judicial Confenmce the U.S. Committee Finandal Disclosme One Columbus Circle, Wasbington, 20544 Re: Calendar Year 2003 Dear Judge Lisi: Thank you for your letter July 28, 2004 (copy enclosed), and response your questions requiring response: Part Vll, page lines 127-131 -No income was received and therefore the word None should have appeared Column B(2). 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Incorporating new technology in today's designs
Homebuilder John Wilkinson will not compromise sound construction practices or his word, even when he is dealing with a new construction system or technology.
As president of Rockport Construction Services, Wilkinson has enjoyed a nine-year successful relationship with Toronto builder-developer Jack Winberg of The Rockport Group. Wilkinson's forte is construction management which, together with thorough pre-construction planning and budget preparation, is akey to Rockport's customer commitment: to avoid or minimize surprises by careful planning and attention to detail.
"A good builder will make the right choices, even when he knows there is an easier, cheaper and faster way," says Wilkinson. "At Rockport, we have never put bottom-line considerations ahead of the promised quality of construction. The finished product is very important to us, and we are always on the lookout for a new way to build better and more efficiently."
Among its many projects, Rockport's "On Bogart Pond" multi-family residential community project in Newmarket, Ontario is a good example of the company's ability to embrace new technology in constructing a better building. Wilkinson points to the use of light-gauge steel and the Baxi Luna wall-hung boiler as two new Rockport construction systems used in building the 132-unit, five-storey Reflections on Bogart Pond retirement condominium apartments project, located 40 kilometers north of Toronto.
"Light-gauge steel has been used as a structural system in residential construction for the past five to 10 years. We combined light-gauge steel walls with a composite metal deck and concrete floor configuration," says Wilkinson.
"We also maximized the space and enhanced the energy efficiency for each of the 132 units by installing the Baxi Luna wall-hung boiler," he adds. Each apartment has a Baxi Luna and air handler discreetly housed in six-square-foot closet space. Individual unit temperature controls means a homeowner only pays for energy use when they are in the unit.
"Many seniors who live here prefer to spend winter months in warmer climates. Before leaving, they can turn their heating system right down, eliminating costs associated with winter heating," says Wilkinson. "By contrast, in a condominium with a central heating system that does not meter individual fuel unit use you end up paying for someone else's use of the system, even if you aren't there. The ability to control their own gas and electrical meters was a big benefits to purchasers of Reflections units."
Wilkinson says the structural system and the heating system are key upfront pre-construction design considerations on any project. "During the design stage of construction, I highly recommend that builders get a mock-up of a Baxi Luna wall-hung boiler closet installation," says Wilkinson. "It can free up premium living space, and eliminate mechanical room and bulkhead space needed by other heating systems."
Wilkinson is a hands-on builder who is personally involved in all of the details of construction. From design stage, pricing through systems alterations and finishing touches, he is always looking for ways to get the most efficient project.
"By the time we have completed a simplified working plan, we are confident that each and every building component is consistent with the conventions in the marketplace," notes Wilkinson. "We only deal with people we know will do the job well, and trades people respect the fact that we know our plans initimately and we expect them to do the same."
Rockport Construction Services manages residential and commercial developments by The Rockport Group, as well as other quality builders and developers. For instance, the construction management specialist has developed a strong relationship with C.D. Jarvis Inc, recently completing the Massey Estates in Toronto – early and under budget, using the Baxi Luna as the heating systen for each of the 47 units.
John Wilkinson takes pride in his firm's stringent process controls, which ensure they can avoid a list of extras on its projects. He has a core staff of three project managers, three superintendents and one stimator. He is also grateful that his enterprise has a track record for retaining quality trades people, and attracting and developing top young talent.
For the Reflections project, John enticed his son Jeff to assume project management duties, fresh out of university with a 5-year co-op civil engineering degree earned at The University of Waterloo. With the successful Reflections experience under his hat and a taste for managing a leading-edge project, Jeff will pursue a master of construction management at the University of Griffiths in Australia, right after the completion of the Reflections project this summer.
"We got to know and understand the heating system better through the Reflections project, but our family is no stranger to the Baxi Luna wall-hung boiler," says John Wilkinson. "The Baxi Luna was the perfect heating solution for the 1500-squarefoot family home I built on Toronto Island seven years ago."
Faced with a by-law restricting the size of residential properties on Toronto Island, Wilkinson's construction team, and notably the project's architect and mechanical contractor, selected the small, compact Baxi Luna as a way to maximize space and minimize energy costs.
"We installed the Baxi Luna in a little closet in the basement, and connected it to the in-floor radiant heating system in the finished basement, and then installed a fan coil in both the main floor and the top floor," notes Wilkinson. "Our heating costs are much lower than energy bills of most people we know who have similar-sized properties.
"The Baxi Luna is the perfect solution to a small house, allowing a homeowner to reclaim space that is otherwise wasted on space heaters, furnaces, stand-alone water tanks and bulkheads for venting," says Wilkinson. "You can put the Baxi Luna anywhere, because it is so compact and so quiet."
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This was the last weekend of being in our summer house. The marsh is turning from brilliant green to faded yellow. Summer is over now, I think. I'm ready for fall, really. But it was nice to have one last sunny, warm evening here too.
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Unintended Impacts: Fewer Black and Latino Freshmen at CUNY Senior Colleges After the Recession
Lazar Treschan, Apurva Mehrotra
Summary: When the Great Recession hit New York City, applications to the City University of New York (CUNY) surged, as families and students sought more affordable college options. Faced with greater numbers of higher scoring applicants to its senior colleges, CUNY responded by raising minimum admission requirements. This led to a sharp drop in the numbers and share of black and Latino freshmen entering CUNY's 11 senior colleges, with the greatest decreases at the most selective schools. "Unintended Impacts" describes these trends within the context of enrollment during the past ten years at CUNY.
In 2015, we updated the original findings of this report and found that the decline in black and Latino freshmen enrollment at top CUNY schools has continued:
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Manitoba Youth Job Centre Open May 15th
May 12, 2017
The Niverville Manitoba Youth Job Centre (MYJC) will be opening on Monday, May 15th for the summer.
Centres across Manitoba have been open annually for over 40 years of successful support in youth employment in Manitoba. The Niverville MYJC is sponsored by Manitoba Education and Training in partnership with Niverville's Town Office, and serves the communities of Niverville, Lorette, Landmark, Ile-Des-Chenes, La Salle, New Bothwell and St. Adolphe.
This year's MYJC Youth Engagement Leader is Janeen Peters. She has just completed her 4th year of study in Education at the University of Winnipeg, and is very excited to be working in the community this summer.
The MYJC is designed to meet the employment needs of students and youth, as well as the needs of employers who have vacant positions to fill, by offering a free referral service to those who wish to hire an eager, hard-working young person. Employers of all types – business and household – can take advantage of the free services the Centre provides. Only the most qualified candidates are referred, and the employer always has the final hiring decision.


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The Ravens are down to 53 players on their active roster and that group is looking healthy as they start the week of preparation for the start of the regular season.
Baltimore got several ailing players back at practice on Saturday. Cornerbacks Lardarius Webb, Jimmy Smith and Asa Jackson all returned to the field, giving the Ravens a much stronger look in the secondary than they've had for much of the summer. Running back Bernard Pierce was also back to work after suffering a concussion in the team's third preseason game, leaving coach John Harbaugh pleased with the way things are shaping up for his team.
"Very encouraging to get all those guys practicing," Harbaugh said, via the team's website. "I think we had everybody practicing today. It's encouraging to see that. Those guys all looked good. We'll just take it one day at a time from there."
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From within it's walls Manila springs forth. From Fort Santiago (the former bamboo palisaded fort of Rajah Sulayman) to Casa Manila (Imelda Marcos' recreation of a 19th century nobleman's home), from the baroque UNESCO treasure that is the San Agustin Church (the only survivor of World War II), to the ramshackle aesthetics of its sidestreet shanties, one can fully see and experience the history of the Philippines in just one location.
Fort Santiago and the Jose Rizal Shrine
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text: Happy Birthday, Dad Today would have been my father's 85th birthday. Here's a pic of him (on the left) with his cousin — doing one of the things he loved most: eating ice cream. He's been gone ten years now, but I still miss him terribly. Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2011 Category: Uncategorized


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News vom 15.04.2015
After the enormous success of the event in 2014, the Freie Universität Berlin Cairo Office offers new PhD & PostDoc vacancies to support Egyptian doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in applying for a DAAD scholarship (GERLS or GERSS ). If the offered position meets your own research interests and you have fulfilled all the necessary requirements, please apply for an acceptance letter.
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Acne is a skin condition that affects mostly teens; it produces noticeable pimples on the face head and neck, and sometimes the back. Secondary are the social and emotional issues as appearance is very important during this time of life.
The cause of juvenile acne is hormonal changes from puberty, mostly in teen girls and boys. This hormonal activity causes the sweat glands to produce oil which gets inflamed or may get infected by bacterial invasions, creating breakouts called acne. There may be clear-to-white or yellow pus. Also allergy issues may cause teen acne; look for sensitivity to dust or sanitary issues on the skin.
Medical treatments for acne include antibiotics which always have side effects and cause other problems. Anti-bacterial creams are also for symptomatic relief and do not address the cause.
Natural methods include balancing the teen's hormones and reducing foods that cause internal heat condition which is a sign of inflammation. It is best to eliminate fried foods and dairy products. Next is to clear the heat and inflammation by using herbs and cell salts. You may also use other remedies for allergies. See Allergies Natural Remedies.
Nutrition for acne includes the dietary supplements of Chromium chromate and Zinc. They have been shown to be helpful in eliminating acne. It takes 6 to 8 weeks with the use of the following selection of remedies to see best results.
Natural Healing Protocol: Combining supplements will do more to support your body's ability to function properly than using just one. Use the following remedies for best results — your ability to heal will depend on the severity and length of time your symptoms have been present.
Herbs for Teen Acne
Herbs are plants valued for their specific strengthening/ tonifying properties. Learn more about herbs >
Use the following three herbs together for 6 to 8 weeks:
1. Teen girls use Vitex for hormonal balance. (Do not use if pregnant.)
1. Teen boys use Sarsaparilla for hormonal balance.
2. Burdock root is for detoxification and blood purification.
3. Nettle has an anti-inflammatory action.
Cell Salts to Help Teen Acne
To make a cell salt solution, put up to 10 tablets of each cell salt in a 16- to 24-ounce bottle; fill with water and swirl to dissolve tablets. Sip throughout the day. Learn more about cell salts >
#3 Calc sulph 6X – skin problems, toxicity
#9 Nat mur 6X – acne from grief
#12 Silicea 6X – infected acne, shy, cold person
Teen Acne Homeopathic Remedies
Homeopathic remedies are non-toxic natural medicines safe for everyone including infants and pregnant or nursing women. You may use 6X, 30X, 6C or 30C potencies. Learn more about homeopathy >
Use a 30c twice a day. Use for 3 months for best results.
Juglans Regia – juvenile acne on back, face, chest. Inflammatory pustules on face as well as chest and back.
Kali brom – pustules with itching. Aggressive acne early and large size; bluish red pimples leaving scars. Burning and prickling – cystic, yellow pus, forehead, eyebrows, should and back.
Natrum muriaticum – acne on the back, feels isolated, effects from grief. Especially on hairy areas and around hairline; worse from sun and ocean.
Ovary 6c – for young women for teen hormonal acne with other hormonal remedies.
Pulsatilla – hormonal acne, unclean skin from eating pork; also from late nights. Light menstrual periods or suppressed periods in young women. (More female remedy when crying is involved.)
Selenium – acne, greasy skin, blisters, wet flakes on the heads of men that are balding; acne with oily skin, black heads (comedones); bad smelling sweat. In young women menses (monthly period) makes acne worse.
Sepia – hormonal acne around woman's period time. Yellow pimples especially on the chin. Irritable; acne worse before period. (Mostly for young women.)
Thuja – oily skin with blackheads, scarring, pustules with sunken centers. Feels ashamed by their appearance.
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Like my 'Up the Ante' sampler project, which grows steadily although the process has become fairly random. When I started out, I wanted to do specific blocks from some Block-of-the-month Craftsy classes to learn new techniques. For a while I did just that but quickly began to construct whichever block took my fancy at a time. I am surprised just how many blocks I already have stitched up this year, considering that it is not on my official 'want-to-get-done' list at all. =)
I put those blocks down as above for an IG snapshot when we were asked what we were currently doing with our scraps. I am getting excited about putting the blocks together to a quilt top at some point next year.
So what's new? Last, as previously mentioned, I had slightly amended the 'Anne's Flower' block and the colours flow much better now.
I also was constructing flying geese from triangle and other scraps only. These will be used as fill-in pieces on a need be basis. All blocks have completely different sizes and there will be plenty of gaps to fill in.
Here I had not been paying attention. I had two pieces of equal size of that blue dotted Joel Dewberry print and I had wanted to use them both in a rather different block. I did not think of that at the time I made the 'Plus' block and just went with a fabric combination I liked. I still like it. Then however I saw the other fabric piece peeking out of the scrap pile remembering. Best laid plans right? =)
I had counted the amount of fabrics used up until now but now I cannot find just where I noted down that number. Ah well ... Anyhow, I very much like the relaxedness of that project and am looking forward to keep working on it.
On a side note, I am very excited to read that Rachel Hauser @Stitched in Color will offer her Penny Sampler Class again in 2017. Her amazing design serves as inspiration piece and guiding principle for my own sampler quilt for which I intend to use Rachel's broken border approach. I am seriously contemplating to sign up but then again the quilty project plan for next year looks so busy already that I might not.
Decisions, decisions
I join up with 'Let's Bee Social'


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UPDATED Eyelash growth product round-up: do they work and are they safe
I posted a round-up of eyelash growth products, summarizing whether they worked and were safe. Since then, products have come and gone, new information has come to light and I've tested a few more. So here is an updated eyelash enhancer round-up.
Jan Marini Age Intervention Eyelash Conditioner. It certainly worked; my eyelashes were growing like weeds after three weeks of use. However, it was yanked off the market at the beginning of January, although you can still find it for sale here and there. It contained prostaglandin (an analogue to be precise), a powerful drug used to treat glaucoma. The positive side effect is that it makes your eyelashes darker, thicker and longer. Bad side effects can include burning/itching and change of eye color. I stopped using it as soon as I found out about prostaglandin.
Jan Marini's Marini Lash. Jan Marini has a new lash product without prostaglandin. I've just posted a review after trying it for three weeks. It works and it's safe.
Dermaquest's Dermalash. This also worked for me (see review). Longer lashes and some new growth. It has done a very good job of filling in my eyebrows as well. No glaucoma drugs (it uses amino acids and vitamin B) and I had no allergic reactions to it.
MD Lash Factor. This product reportedly works. It too contains prostaglandin. See Jan Marini, above.
Revitalash. Some reviewers report a burning sensation when using Revitalash. If it doesn't bother you, it does seem to work. Revitalash used to be based on an ingredient called bitamoprost (this is what prompted the FDA recall of Jan Marini's original product). Revitalash reformulated the product to use prostaglandin. The newest version is claimed to be 100% safe.
Keracyte-B. Keracyte-B is a scalp conditioner that uses elastatropin, a synthetic form of elastin. This is aimed at stimulating the hair follicle. There are some anti-aging ingredients, such as matrixyl 3000, mixed in too. It does not contain prostaglandin. I haven't tried it, but have heard that it works.
Renew Eyelash Revitalizer. For some reason, persons under 18 can't use Renew without a doctor's prescription. I haven't used it and haven't come across anyone who has. Renew doesn't contain prostaglandin. It really seems as though it is a hair regrowth product that is being marketed for eyelashes. The main ingredients are: tripeptide-1, a kind of protein used to prevent the breakdown of collagen, and biotin, a B vitamin used in hair regeneration products.
RefectoCil Longlash. This has the benefit of being cheap (about $20) and RefectoCil does not contain prostoglandin. I can't imagine that it works since it is just a concoction of plant extracts. If your esthetician tries to get you to try it, bear in mind that the maker markets it to salons by saying they can expect a 300% profit margin when they sell RefectoCil.
Lilash. This was developed by a doctor in Scotsdale. Thanks to a reader's sleuthing skills, we now know that the ingredients for Lilash contain a prostaglandin analogue. I've had reports of allergic reactions.
Talika. The best thing I can say about Talika is that it comes with a nice origination myth (a young French doctor treating World War II casualties in Paris in 1948 finds out that her potion of plant extracts heals wounds and makes eyelashes grow). I have read a review saying it doesn't work. Quelle surprise.
Mavala. This product is applied like mascara (most of them are applied like an eye-liner). Anyway, it doesn't work.
FNS Nutrilash. I tried this and it didn't work after four weeks. Perfectly safe though.
Lumilash. Reportedly in the works by Allergan. Not yet on the market and Allergan has just applied for FDA approval.
Peter Roth Thomas Lashes To Die For. Contains a prostaglandin analogue.
Intuit Beauty Enormous Lash. This one also contains a prostaglandin analogue, and this is how it appears in the ingredients list: 17 phenyl-13, 14-dihydoro trinor PGF 2 (Alpha). Not as "revolutionary" as Intuit claims.
Skin Research Laboratories Neulash. This contains prostaglandin analogue.
SD Lash. Made by Phoenix Medical, this has natural ingredients with the active being hexapeptide 11 (derived from yeast). Some readers have reported good results.
Skin Biology's Folligen. A copper peptide cream that is primarily designed for hair growth. It works by strengthening the hair follicles. I have had really good results on brows and lashes.
B Kamins Chemist Lash Fortifier. Natural ingredients of the kind found in hair growth products.
Hi, I'm looking for an eyelash growth product that is safe and natural.
I was looking at the ingredients for Dermalash and found this article: http://www.thebeautydivas.com/eyelash-enhancers/dermalash.html And now I'm wondering, what exactly is in the ingredient listed as "Eye Lashes Growth Promoter Complex?"
Hi CA,
We wrote about the Dermalash ingredients here: http://www.truthinaging.com/2008/04/dermalashs-active-ingredients.html.
Hi Marta,
Thanks for the response. I may have to try Jan Marini Lash. Hopefully they work for me :)
I still don't understand why Dermalash listed the ingredient as a "growth complex" and not what it was made up of. Oh well.
Great site btw.
I've have used Lilash. It definitely works. My lashes were fuller and longer and I started to see a difference in 3 weeks. But the prostagladin in Lilash started to scare me, so tried other more natural products with mixed results.
Hi all,
First thanks to Marta for all this information. I'm from Holland, until now we only find Talika in our shops, which I've tried but didn't work for me at all. I also started using Lilash, I bought it on ebay, on their website they claim te be safe. The product works very good! My lashes are fuller but definitely longer. Thanks for al your information, regards from The Netherland
I used Lilash for 1 1/2 years. I had AWESOME eyelashes. People would actually stop me to say I had the longest eyelashes they had ever seen. Unfortunately, I have developed an eye problem. After seeing five different eye doctors, three of whom were specialists, I have been told that it was most likely the prostaglandin in Lilash which damaged my eyes. I am quite disappointed, and I also feel a bit foolish for damaging my eyesight for vanity. Of course, I did not realize I was jeopardizing my vision. (In case you're wondering, I developed a spot on my cornea which has thinned by 50% in my left eye, and it also started in my right eye.) Anyway, my lashes are half of what they were....both in length and thickness. I'm not sure if they are any better than if I were using nothing on them. Is there really an eyelash enhancer without prostaglandins that works? I would LOVE to have my long, lush lashes back. I'm forty-two and need all of the beauty help I can get ;)
Has anyone tried LashX proline? It says it's safe for eyelash extension wearers. I want a product that will keep my natural lashes in good shape while wearing extensions, and stengthen them so that my extensions last longer. Thanks
Excellent post!! Do you have an update for a natural eyelash growth serum that actually works? Thanks
Any comments on Idol Lash?
Hello all,
i find this reviews very helpful,thanks Marta.
i would like to know if anyone tried the Idol lash?..they say its all natural and i read some reviews saying it works good and its cheap as well.
i cant open the updated 2009 roundup here.
sorry to hear about Rebeccas problem,its shame they didnt tell the consumers what prostaglandin can cause.
I use latisse once a week and it maintains my lashes. Haven't had any adverse effects. I would rather use something natural or FDA approved. I believe the chances of color change is only at a 4%. That's very low.
Thanks so much, Marta! I appreciate the quick post! :o)) That's good to hear! I've been using the new Enormous Lash for about a week and a half, and will let you know when/ if I see results. :o)
Hi Elle, I am sorry that I missed your post. You are right, no prostaglandin and it otherwise looks OK.
Hi Elle,
I'm sorry I missed this. I think it looks OK. (Probably time to update the eyelash roundup)
The new formula of Enormous Lash states that it DOES NOT contain prostaglandin or parabens. I posted the current ingredients on June 13th. The new formula does not contain the ingredients that you stated as being a prostaglandin analog. Do you see anything in the CURRENT ingredients for Enormous Lash that are dangerous, or have unsavory side effects?
Enormous Lash contains prostaglandin. Side effects can include burning/itching and change of eye color.
I bought the new enourmous lash from nordstroms is it safe to use????
The current Enormous Lash product on the market is by Beauty Society (No longer Intuit). The current ingredients are as follows: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerine, Potassium Olivoyl PCA, Arginine, Alanyk Glutamine, Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment, Phospholipids, Sphingolipids, Panthenol, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Isopentyl glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Trisoium EDTA. I did read your comment regarding Panthenol and Phenoxyethanol possibly being irritants. Is there anything else that appears to be a problem in this current formula?
I am currently using Peter Thomas Roth's Lashes To Die For. It is now the fifth day, so I'm not seeing any results yet, but I am making Photos of my eyes to mark the progress for myself and curious friends.
I would like to point out a side effect, which I have had since day one: My breast are painfully tender, similar to the days before I have my period. Before my period however, they are swollen, which they are not now.
I have checked the www a bit, and prostaglandins are actually hormones, crucial to giving birth and inducing abortion (see wikipedia, prostaglandin analogues). Although the packaging already states that you shouldn't use this stuff while pregnant or nursing, TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! You don't want to be losing your baby because of your lashes.
Great article very informatve, nice work
Will you review Beauty Lash MD & Long Lash MD?
I was disappointed to see that you think that Talkia Lipocils for eyelashes doesn't work. You haven't seen any growth with this product at all? Is it harmful to use?

As mentioned in the comment above yours, Marini Lash and Dermalash are safe (as is Folligen). See our post on Five Best eyelash and brow growth products:

http://www.truthinaging.com/2008/10/five-best-eyelash-and-brow-growth-products.html

so reading all these, is there any eyelash conditioner that is safe to try? it sounds like they all have some bad side effect in them that hasn't been perfected yet. if there's one that's safe, which is it?

Not being one to take chances, I stopped using it once I found out about the possible side effects. So I'd only been using it for three weeks and nothing untoward had happened by then. Perhaps you could take a chance and use it up (fingers crossed) and then switch to something safe and (at least for me, effective) like Dermalash or the new Marini Lash.

I *just* started using the Lash Factor MD. Unfortunately I bought it first and learned about it second. I really don't want my eyes to change color, and I'm wondering if you experienced that when you were using the prostaglandin products. If so, how long had you been using it when you saw the change.

THanks! Your report has been very helpful

I used the NewLash last night and when I woke up this morning I couldn't open my eyes. They were so sore, red like I have an infection and it was red all over almost to my cheekbones. It was horrible, I couldn't go outside. And from the review I just read its not save to use. I'm throwing it out, what a shame on the product and its company!

Thanks for the information on all these, do you know anything about Pink Magic Lash? It is another eyelash growth product as well.

I always wondered why the original Jan Marini specified using it on the upper lashes only. Now I know.

I'll try to find out more about the new Revitalash MD - the ingredients list just says LashGrow Formula. I'll contact Revitalash and get more information.

I have used Revitalash for at least a year. It works like a miracle. However, I stopped using it for my lower lashes since it seems to cause some discoloration of the skin. I noticed longer and fuller upper lashes in about 3 weeks, and it also worked on my eyebrow. I have never tried the newest formulated one, the one without the prostaglandins analog. The one that I am using is called Revitalash "R", not "MD". I am wondering if the newest reformulated version work as good as the older version. Also, I would like to compare the effectiveness between MD lash factor and Revitalash and their safety issues since I am considering switching over to see if MD lash factor works a little better. Please advise. Thank you.

I've just found out (via an article in Cosmetic Design) that Neulash contains isopropyl cloprostenate, a prostaglandin analogue. I've added a new post.

I have several friends who use NeuLash, and they have had phenomenal results. One lady's lashes are so long, she needs to trim them. No one reported side effects. The esthetician that sold it to them said that the formula had been sold to another company, and it would soon be packaged in a smaller container for $100 per unit. Right now (today) you can get it on shopNBC.com for $109.50.

Cheers,

Camay Jennings

The ingredient listing for Neulash looks almost identical to gloLash Enhance by gloMinerals minus the Soybean Oil and Phosphatidycholine:

Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Rhizobian Gum, Sodium Hyaluronate, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Biotin, Panthenol, Pantethine, Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans, Allantoin, Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Extract, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Cyclopentenoic Ester, Octapeptide-2, Copper Tripeptide-1, Glycerin, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Phosphatidycholine, Polypeptide-23, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenisen, Sorbic Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid

http://www.dermstore.com/product_gloLash+Enhance_12274.htm

I think these are the ingredients for Neulash:

Water, Rhizobian Gum, Sodium Hyaluronate, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Biotin, Panthenol, Panthetine, Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans, Allantoin, Pumpkin Seed Extract, Dipotassium, Glycyrrhizate, Cyclopentenoic Ester, Octapeptide-2, Copper Tripeptide-1, Polypeptide-23, Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenisen, Sorbic Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid

No prostaglandins. A couple of things are known irritants: Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenisen (I wrote about an FDA warning on them: http://www.truthinaging.com/2008/06/fda-warning-on-phenoxyethanol.html) and, for some people, panthenol

I just used a product called neulash. it is a eyelash conditioner that says it makes your eyelashes grow. I have seen other products out there, but this one I tired from Saks 5th Ave. When I tried it it, It started to make my eyes watery and sore. Does anyone know what is in it? I have heard of others who dont use chemicals in there's like Revitalash. Does Neulash use that ingredient like in jan marini that was pulled a while back?? I need to see my doctor, but I wanted to ask others what they thought...

Good catch. I'll add it straight away.

I'm curious if you plan on reviewing Enormous Lash

Enormous Lash is missing....


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Monday, 2 February 2015
Celebrating HEA fellowships
Great to be celebrating 60% of our full time academic staff now holding a HEA fellowship. An informal evening with a welcome address from our Vice Chancellor, Professor Susan Price. A lovely evening which captured well the spirit of collegiality which underpins our DEAP CPD Scheme and our PGCAP routes.
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WELL, we did several things, but what I was most excited about was a "permagarden training." What is a permagarden? Permagarden is another word for "permaculture," which simply means making a garden that you will use permanently. In other words, permagardening in rural South Africa is all about developing food security for people who live in poverty.
Since my camera had died, all photos are supplied by the wonderful Cassandra and Kevin M of our group: thanks Cassandra and Kevin for sharing photos! And these are of us gardening.
We had our training at an uber-plush hotel and I wondered for days, "where will we build a garden?" Apparently, the hotel graciously allowed our workshop presenter to install several gardens for the workshops/training (for different groups.) We worked in the back lot and made a garden!
The love of gardening has come to me late in life, but all the women in my family have gardened, so I'm sure I get it in my genes. Also, in one of the wars of my lifetime, I remember stocking water and canned goods in my basement and thinking, "You know, it might not be a bad idea to learn how to grow food."
I started with a couple of tomato plants years ago and from that first planting, my life-long passion of gardening began. Gardening, like anything else in life, so it seems, is "learning what not to do next time." I love the challenge and the creativity of it, but I mostly love watching things grow from a tiny, tiny seed to a robust, food-producing plant.
Sadly, I can't get excited about teaching English: not here in South Africa and not in the USA. I can, however, get excited about teaching others to become self-supporting through food production. I was super-psyched about this workshop!!
The big bummer for me, however, was that a community member of my village was supposed to come to the workshop with me, and I was hoping we could learn the techniques together and bring information back to our village as a team. Sadly, he was unable to come.
In three days, we learned about establishing permaculture gardens throughout the world and overviewed permaculture theory. However, the workshop was "hands on" and so, much to my delight, we made a garden!
We made a compost pile that was impressively heated enough to 160 degrees by the second day, double-dug a vegetable bed, dug a seedling bed, and planted tomatoes, beans, corn, peppers, and herbs. I had a great time, learned a lot, and laid my hands on a neem tree. (I knew neem trees were living in Africa, but had not yet seen them or learned to identify them.)
The permagarden training was my favorite training opportunity to date and I was greatly inspired.
Other days of training were devoted to reviewing and reflecting on our Peace Corps service to-date (since we're at the half-way mark) and we also spent a couple of days practicing Life Skills lessons with our counterparts. Happily, my counterpart from my village, who is also a teacher at my primary school, was able to come to our Life Skills training and it felt good and productive to be working with her. We agreed upon a couple of projects to bring back to the primary school and will be working to implement these in the coming weeks.
Accommodations for the week of training were at a super-nice hotel, and I must say, I was grateful for the respite from the harsher life I experience living in the village. Sometimes I wonder if Peace Corps strategically plans these meetings knowing when we need a break: I was certainly overdue!
I'm back to site now for a couple of days, busying myself with laundry and wiping the dust that the Kalahari has showered all over my trailer. It felt good to sleep in my own bed (even if it WAS under a mosquito net!) and I never thought I would say it, it felt good to be cooking for myself again. Soya Mince never tasted so good!
I returned home to a shower of goodies from home: you guys have been busy sending me things while I was in Pretoria! Emily C, my nearest volunteer, and a little-bitty slip of a young woman, carried pounds and pounds of goodies from the post office to my home, only to find herself locked out of my trailer and unable to get in. A neighbor agreed to hold all of the mail until my return, but I will need to keep Emily in Cokes and chocolate for our remaining year for being such a soldier for me! Thanks Emily!


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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi
So the big theme of the book I'm working on is turning out to be forgiveness. And I have to say, that was a bit of a surprise! I knew all along forgiveness was key, but didn't realize how pivotal it was really going to be.
Forgive. Seems like such an innocent little word, doesn't it? But it is a hard concept. At least for me. In the writing of some particular scenes, I had a horrible realization. I've been holding on to a lot of bitterness. Even a little anger. Let's just say it was quite cathartic to allow my heroine to let go of hers. In a way, I think I sort of learned to let go of mine.
I did have some help though. I happened to hear a fantastic sermon on forgiveness. Have you ever felt like the preacher was talking to you? Like he might as well just come stand right in front of you, point and say "This sermon was written especially for you, so listen." Well that was the uncomfortable position I found myself in a couple Sundays ago. The scripture was Ephisians 4:31--"let go of all bitterness, rage and anger." He asked us why, if God could keep forgiving us for all of the dumb stuff we do--why do we have such a hard time forgiving each other? Good point, huh?
So there you have it. Much easier said than done, I know.
The song of the day is "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley--because as he so profoundly implies, forgiveness is really the heart of the matter. I like this song so much that I've included some of my favorite lyrics:
There are people in your life who've come and gone
They let you down, you know they hurt your pride
You better put it all behind you baby; cause life goes on
You keep carryin' that anger; it'll eat you up inside, baby
Monday, October 27, 2008
To Err is Human...
2 comments:
- Anonymous said...
This is a great thought for any day!! And I love that song!!
- November 5, 2008 at 2:14 AM
- Christine Lynxwiler said...
I love this post. I had a similar epiphany about forgiveness with one of my past books, but now I'm realizing that forgiveness is a journey. And it's always good to have a reminder to just let it go. :) Thanks!
- November 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM
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In the Footsteps of Sojourner Truth
by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
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Part 2: New York City to Ulster County
A troubled son
I am pleading for the mothers
Who gaze in wild despair
Upon the hated auction-block,
And see their children there.
When she arrived in 1827 Manhattan from Ulster County, N.Y., where she was born, Sojourner Truth still carried the name Isabella Van Wagenen. She would have encountered a black community in Manhattan that had been there for more than a century, some of its members native Dutch speakers like herself. During her 14 years in New York City she would work as a domestic in several households, worship at several churches, engage in informal religious studies and evangelize at a home for reformed prostitutes.
Much of Isabella's time and energy at first was devoted to keeping her son, Peter, out of trouble, a trial with which I can identify. We've both mothered sons under adversity: I'm a single parent, and Isabella, whose child had been stolen away and illegally sold, fought to get him back and keep him out of harm's way. Sojourner Truth had four daughters too, but in reading about her life we learn much more about her son.
While in Manhattan, Isabella was drawn into a religious cult led by charismatic misogynist Robert Matthias. She moved to Westchester County when the cult established a commune in the town of Sing Sing (now Ossining), where the famed prison had just been built. The Kingdom of Matthias would eventually disband under a cloud of scandal, but not before Isabella had been economically, physically and sexually exploited. But she fought back: In a series of sensational court cases, she sued former members for slander, took her meager award and returned to Manhattan.
Her teenaged son had been running amok during her absence: gambling, thieving, loitering—even impersonating an Episcopal minister. With her encouragement, Peter shipped out of Nantucket on a whaling vessel. It would be the last time she would see him.
Over the next nine years, her political consciousness grew. She tells of being given 50 cents to pay a worker to clean snow from the steps of the household in which she worked. Instead of paying him, she pocketed the money and cleaned the steps herself. She became wracked with guilt over her own greed, and over economic injustice in general.
In 1843, Isabella had a sudden revelation that she must go "into the east" because "the spirit calls me there." Her name would be Sojourner, her mission to travel the land and speak the word of God. Giving the mistress of the household an hour's notice, she set out from 74 Canal St. in lower Manhattan with a few belongings in a pillow case and two New York shillings to her name.
In the spirit of that sojourn, I decide to follow the route she took on the morning of June 1, 1843—the day that changed her name and defined her life.
I take the N train south from Chelsea, where I'm staying, get off at Canal Street and emerge into the heated hustling of Chinatown. The street is lined on both sides with independent vendors and crowded shops, hawking everything from designer knock-offs to plastic trinkets, cheap electronics to fresh lychees. I elbow my way past Mulberry, Mott, Elizabeth, Bowery, and Chrystie Streets, stopping to buy coconut water in the shell from a Chinese vendor.
As I trudge past the looming Gothic structure of the Manhattan Bridge down to Eldridge Street, the throngs of humanity diminish. I discover that 74 Canal St. is now Fong's Trading, an Asian import shop with a wooden display of dusty curios out front. I purchase two embroidered Thai bags, clearance-priced. The sales clerk, who says he isn't Mr. Fong, urges me to buy more.
"Only five dollars," he wheedles. "Very good price."
The sales clerk has never heard of Sojourner Truth, much less imagined she had lived on this very spot, though it is possible that the street boundaries and addresses have changed over the past 160 years.
From here, the newly named Sojourner had walked several miles south to a ferry landing. Being a weak and overheated 21st century woman, I walk to Allen Street and step into the M bus, which careens onto Madison Avenue, narrowly avoiding a collision with a Chinese delivery truck. On Pearl Street, past FDR Drive, Chinatown transitions into a tonier neighborhood of office buildings, boutiques and high-rise condos.
Correcting History
It's bad enough that a 1920 marble statue of American suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott was relegated to a basement of the U.S. Capitol for 77 years. Almost worse, in the opinion of the National Congress of Black Women (NCBW), is that the statue doesn't include a fourth pillar of the suffrage movement, Sojourner Truth.
"Many thousands of tourists visit the Capitol annually, and when they see that statue, as is, without the inclusion of one of the most persistent, committed and eloquent advocates of women's rights, it is a flagrant example of historical incorrectness," says C. DeLores Tucker, chair of NCBW.
Women's rights groups began lobbying in 1995 to put the "Portrait Monument"—presented to Congress by the National Woman's Party to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment—on display in the Capitol Rotunda, where all the other statues depict men. In 1997 they won permission for just a year's exhibit, but the Adelaide Johnson creation remains in the Rotunda to this day. NCBW and other black organizations unsuccessfully fought the Rotunda display, however, because the monument includes only white suffrage leaders.
In addition, since it contains a strangely unfinished area—which looks literally like a blank slate for a fourth figure—NCBW began to lobby for Truth's visage to be carved there.
In February, Major Owens (D-NY) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives, H.R. 601, to direct the Capitol architect to revise the statue to include Truth. The bill is currently in the House Administration Committee.
To sign or circulate a petition on behalf of Truth's inclusion on the "Portrait Monument," call NCBW at (301) 562-8000, or visit www.npcbw.org.
I know that Sojourner took a ferry eastward into Brooklyn, though I'm not sure it was from this landing. South Street Seaport is now a tourist attraction of upscale shops, restaurants and river cruises. The brick streets may be the only reminder of 19th century life. As I wait for the 1:50 p.m. water taxi, I wonder what thoughts passed through Sojourner's mind as she sat with her pillowcase and 50 cents, watching the same waters. In her biography—Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time—she likens her journey to Lot's flight from the burning cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
She'd left behind comfortable lodgings, albeit in servant quarters: a home and a job in Manhattan. As she alighted at Old Fulton Street Landing and saw the fields and farmland of 19th century Brooklyn stretching before her, might she have been tempted to gaze back on her old life, at risk of being turned into a pillar of salt?
Why Brooklyn?
My taxi rolls along Cadman Drive, passing through downtown Brooklyn. It is here, on the plaza of the new federal courthouse, where a statue of "The Striding Sojourner" will one day stand, a torch in one upraised hand and a Bible in the other.
The website of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Project tells how Sojourner became Truth: As she left the ferry landing and walked along a highway where Fulton Street met Bushwick Avenue, she encountered a Quaker woman who asked her last name. Reflecting on slavery, on the new name she had taken each time she was sold to a new master, Isabella thought of how "The Lord was now her master and his name was Truth. She would take His name as her own."
Fulton Street has been barricaded for six blocks for the International Festival of African Arts. I find the table where the Sojourner Truth Memorial Project is run by the Brooklyn chapter of the Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, a group which has taken Truth as a matriarch and role model. The Michigan chapter contributed largely to building the Sojourner Truth Memorial in Battle Creek, but Brooklyn is at a much earlier stage of the same process. Although members have been organizing to build a monument for several years, this is the group's first public event. They are still a long way from raising the $50,000 to begin work on a statue, let alone the $1 million dollars to complete it.
I snap a picture and bid the ladies of the club goodbye, wandering through the lively street fair where vendors ply their goods. I move from the shade to a performing stage when India.Arie enters, cool and elegant in wide-legged pants and pink head tie. She commands the stage with comfortable ease, strumming her acoustic guitar, quipping with the audience and singing songs of "strength, courage and wisdom."
As I behold her burnished brown skin glowing in the sun, I am reminded that Sojourner Truth was also an accomplished singer with a powerful voice. This could be her great-great-granddaughter standing before us. India.Arie has the same strong features, the same intense gaze, the same unflinching honesty. If she had lived in the 19th century, she might have been Sojourner Truth. If Sojourner were still amongst us, she might be India.Arie.
The Northampton Association
"She was in search of a quiet place, where a way-worn traveler might rest…friends she found here thought it best for her to visit Northampton. She wrote to me from thence, that she had found the quiet resting place she had so long desired."
—from Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of
Olden Time
I inched my way through horrendous traffic jams along the New York Thruway. The traffic got lighter once I hit Connecticut, and by the time I'd entered Massachusetts, there was so much free space on the highway, I had to restrain myself from speeding.
After Brooklyn, and after roaming New England by foot for six months, preaching at revivals and camp meetings, Sojourner was directed by friends to an experiment in utopian living called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry. If Sojourner Truth had discovered her mission in Brooklyn, she found her next home in Northampton, in the Pioneer Valley region of western Massachusetts.
It's a homecoming of sorts for me too, driving these streets lined with galleries, independent book shops, health food stores, vegetarian eateries and the sprawling campus of Smith College. I attended college in neighboring Amherst, and the area hasn't changed much over the years.
"Here she is," says Paul Gaffney, proudly presenting Northampton's recently dedicated Sojourner Truth Memorial Park. A professor at Landmark College, Gaffney's my guide for a Sojourner Heritage Tour. In contrast to the towering image of her in Battle Creek, this park features a smaller, younger, friendlier version of Sojourner Truth. "The design was meant to be approachable, one that schoolchildren can come up to and touch," says Gaffney. "Hence, she's not up on a platform. She's a bit larger than life, but not by much."
In the 1850s, the African American population of this small college town climbed to 3 percent. It has never reached that level again. But the area's relative lack of diversity did not stop residents from organizing to honor the memory of the city's most famous citizen.
The Northampton Association was a place of true social equality. Like other members, Sojourner lived for a time in communal boarding quarters upstairs from the company's silk mill. It was a square, squat factory building set on the Mill River in the Florence section, slightly downhill from where a Perstoy's Plastic Corporation now stands. Some 220 people came and went over the years, including black abolitionists Frederick Douglass and David Ruggles.
"They were interested in the intellectual currents of their day," Gaffney explains. "Although morally conservative, this was an anti-sectarian, free-thinking community that included everyone from Quakers to atheists. There was no central creed. Dissent was encouraged. Truth found an accepting community here, and she fit right in."
For years now her son, Peter, had not been heard from, but when her adult daughters joined her in Northampton, Truth was finally able to reconnect the scattered fragments of her family. Even after the Association failed, Sojourner stayed on for 14 years, buying the first home she ever owned, one that remains standing on Park Street to this day.
My Pioneer Valley experience was somewhat different from Sojourner's. I was here for less than two years, bored and stifled by the quaintness and quietness of the place. I finally applied to an exchange program and spent a year in Africa, a life-altering experience for me. But I now can appreciate the low-key vitality of liberal New England, the transformative experience it presented for Sojourner Truth. She came to Northampton with a vision and left with a voice—a full-fledged abolitionist and women's rights advocate.
Back to the beginning
They are forced the crops to culture,
But not for them they yield,
Although both late and early
They labor in the field.
I ride into Kingston, N.Y., late at night, in a driving rainstorm. Turning in early for a good night's sleep, I brace myself for negotiating roads that wind into the hills and mountains of Ulster County.
I'm pleasantly surprised when a youthful 62-year-old man with dreadlocks calls at my hotel the next morning and announces: "I'm to be your guide here in Ulster County."
Delridge Hunter is one-half of Transart and Cultural Services, an agency referred to me by the local tourism office. He commutes between teaching at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and his work in Ulster County. Both a Sojourner Truth admirer and critic, he admits: "She was quite an enigma. She spent her life fighting for black people, but she didn't always get along with them. She reminds me of the old women I had as teachers growing up in Texas. They were very conservative, but at the same time, very race-conscious."
The mid-Hudson Valley is a popular tourist area of vacation homes and resorts, and gateway to the vast Catskills National Park. When Isabella Bomefree was born two centuries ago in the village of Hurley, these were Dutch colonial farmlands. Slavery was a feature of the landscape in 1797, but it was not the plantation life of the South. Farms tended to be small, with a handful of slaves performing varied duties from farming to domestic work.
Isabella was the youngest of 13 children born to Betsey and James Bomefree. All 12 of her siblings were sold into slavery. Narrative of Sojourner Truth relates the painful memory of witnessing her brother Peter being carried off on a sleigh. She would one day honor her missing siblings in the naming of her children.
Isabella herself would be separated from her parents at the age of 9, sold with a flock of sheep to a man who beat her because she didn't understand English. Over the years she would change hands and homes several times over.
And she would fall in love with a young man from a distant farm. The relationship failed when he was brutally punished for visiting her against his master's wishes. Isabella herself would be beaten and overworked by John Dumont and sexually molested by his wife, Sally, the last in a succession of slave owners. She was married off, possibly against her will, to an older slave named Thomas, to whom she bore five children.
By the early 19th century, the American Revolutionary War had ended and the Dutch influence was waning. Slavery in New York was coming to an end. Isabella struck a deal with John Dumont: In repayment for her hard work, she'd be allowed to go free a full year before the official emancipation. When he reneged on the agreement, Isabella walked off with her daughter, Sofia, a babe in arms, eventually winding up at the home of a sympathetic family 11 1/2 miles away. When Dumont came to reclaim her, the Van Wagenens paid him 20 dollars for her freedom, and five dollars for her child. She would live and work with them as a free woman until she left for Manhattan in 1829.
The complicated laws of New York emancipation mandated a period of apprenticeship for children born into slavery. Isabella's four older children had been left at the Dumont farm in the care of their father, and she received news that her 5-year-old son, Peter, had been illegally sold into Alabama. Isabella drummed up support among sympathetic Quakers, hired a lawyer and successfully sued for her son's return. Peter returned much the worse for wear, covered with welts and whip scars and deathly afraid of the mother he hadn't seen in a year. The trauma may have set the stage for his persistent run-ins with the law as he grew into a young man.
The town of Esopus, which now incorporates Sojourner's birthplace, has a self-guided driving tour called the Sojourner Truth Freedom Trail, which I follow in a roundabout way. In Kingston, the major city of Ulster County, I visit the courthouse where Peter's case was tried—and won. A plaque on the lawn commemorates this event. The St. James Methodist Church is at the same site, but it's not the same building where a young Isabella would watch the service through an open window, learning by heart the Methodist hymns she would sing for the rest of her life.
We visit the State University at New Paltz, home of the Sojourner Truth Library. Librarian Corinne Nyquist, a member of the local Truth Institute, provides archival resources to help with this story, and takes me on a tour of the facility, which features several public art projects that memorialize Sojourner Truth.
Nyquist compares New York slavery to apartheid in South Africa, a place where she spent a significant portion of her adult life: "Living under apartheid, you had to create a network of patrons who would stand up for you in case you got into trouble"—a support system Sojourner was able to form among Quakers and other sympathetic whites in upstate New York.
Nyquist also is taken with Sojourner's power of oratory: "The most fascinating thing to me was Sojourner's ability to move an audience. Someone like me, who can think of the right thing to say two or three days later,
can't help but admire that."
We are directed to Sojourner Truth Park, a serene retreat set on the banks of the Wallkill River. It's deserted in the dappled sunlight, and we succumb to the urge to linger. By the time we reach Klyne Esopus Church, it's closed. The Dutch Reform Church where Isabella attended and her son was a member has been converted into a museum with a permanent Sojourner Truth exhibit.
Who owns Truth?
Here in Sojourner's birthplace, the issue of cultural appropriation rears its head.
During my travels in search of Sojourner, I'd encountered organizations where blacks and whites worked harmoniously to commemorate her heritage, as well as those that struggled over who had the right to interpret her life. Jacqueline Sheehan, a white psychologist and author of Truth, a novelized version of Sojourner's life, believes these issues "are motivated by the open wounds, unaddressed fears, and continued discomfort that is part of our North American racial culture of confusion. Did I feel restraints, doubts, or special responsibilities in the way I presented Sojourner's life? Yes. Yes. Yes. [But] are whites taking something away from black heritage if we want to engage either in a scholarly way or simply in appreciation?"
"I think whites have been attracted to Sojourner because of her brilliance," says my guide, Delridge Hunter. "They think of her as an exception to her race, and that is the way her memory is treated."
Greer Smith, Hunter's wife, believes the story is larger than "'Sojourner Truth, born a slave and walked away to freedom.' She was a part of a tradition, of an entire black community."
On the 200th anniversary of Sojourner's birth, in 1997, Baptist minister Mary Savage delivered a paper that put the black view of Sojourner into context: "What is it that made us come to remember a slave girl, born not 20 miles from here? Was she better than the other slave girls that were born at the same time?… [No,] it was because she was willing to tell her story…[and] we must tell the story if our cause is to be won."
And so the journey ends…
There were many other places where Sojourner Truth made her mark, places which there was neither time nor money to explore. Northern Indiana, the site of the famous incident in the late 1850s where she was asked to prove that she was a woman by baring her breasts. The Kansas territory, where she appealed for land to be set aside for the use of freed slaves. Cities and towns in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New England where she preached and lectured.
I recall my last morning in Ulster County. In the bustle of the previous day, we'd neglected to visit the historic marker near Isabella Bomefree's birthplace. The heat wave was lifting. I drove along Old Post Road in a light summer rain. The marker emerged at Sturgeon Pool; we'd driven past it before and not even noticed it. As I pulled to the side to snap a picture, I noticed a plastic bag of garbage nestled against the signpost.
I prefer to let another image linger in my mind. On the way to the spot, I'd been winding through the hills, the overcast sun sketching patterns through the trees. A tawny doe leaped across the road, her fawn darting closely behind her.
A child following in the footsteps of its mother. It seemed somehow a fitting metaphor for my journey to Truth.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku is a Chicago-based poet, novelist and nonfiction writer.


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