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Peer Revising
Peer Revision Sheet
Date________________ Name of Assignment__________________
Peer Editor (you)_________________________
Ask these questions of each paragraph in the essay you are editing. If the answer is "no," give the writer a suggestion for improvement on the essay page. If you are unsure of the answer, raise your hand and I will attend to the question with you. Use your paragraph development sheet to help you identify the criteria.
Give the students feedback per paragraph for each of the following criteria:
- Is the first sentence in each paragraph a topic sentence? Does it mention the frame (research), and case (topic) AND the purpose of the paragraph?
- Is there a frame (research), and is it introduced and explained?
- Is the case (topic) quoted, introduced and explained?
- Are the quotes connected back to the topic?
- Is the case developed BECAUSE there is a frame? Is there a connection?
- Is there an analysis statement?
- Is the MLA perfect in each paragraph?
- What are the spelling and grammar errors in each paragraph?


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By Andy Kirkaldy
To the great amusement of my family and me, I was recently dubbed a "know-it-all" elsewhere in print.
So why argue?
In fact, to prove the truth of that label, I will reveal what I learned by pulling aside the veils that hide the future from most. (But remember, gambling is illegal, and all wagers are made at the bettor's risk.)
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — When Middlebury's Probation and Parole office folded in late January, so did a low-cost work detail through which area offenders performed various community service projects that saved Addison County taxpayers thousands of dollars.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON — Students at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center are tracking a celebrity.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh board of listers saved local taxpayers some cash this spring by appealing to the state Department of Taxes how the town's real estate was valued by the state — and if all works according to estimates, Ferrisburgh's overall tax rate may rise by less than 2 percent.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — At Kenyon Arena on Saturday, the Middlebury College women's hockey team ended its season on Saturday with a dramatic overtime victory in the NCAA Division III Frozen Four.
BRIDPORT — As dairy farmers from around the county sat at tables at the Bridport Grange Monday for an annual lunch with legislators sipping coffee from paper cups emblazoned with "Vermont Milk," the depressed price of milk couldn't have been far from their minds. These days, farmers are selling their milk at prices well below the cost of production.
ADDISON COUNTY — At the Myrick sugarhouse in Bridport, sugaring is a family affair.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andrew Pallito said on Monday he will consider re-establishing a Probation and Parole office in Middlebury, though he stressed such a move will depend on the state finding a low-cost — or preferably no-cost — space in the community.
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USDA extends deadline for CRP grazing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Kansas announced Thursday that emergency grazing of land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program has been extended to Nov. 30 from the original end date of Sept. 30.
The emergency grazing was authorized because of severe and ongoing drought. Participants must leave at least 25 percent of each field ungrazed for wildlife and cannot graze more than 75 percent of the stocking rate set by the Natural Resource Conservation Service. All livestock must be removed by Nov. 30. Producers without livestock may rent or lease the grazing privileges.
CRP participants must still contact their local FSA office to request emergency grazing authorization.
Last modified Sept. 6, 2012


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Cut up your gym membership card, fire your personal trainer and cancel that Jenny Craig food order. If you want to get lean and mean in 2013, perhaps you should start with some high-tech help.
If your New Year's Resolution is to lose weight, a number of fitness-themed games, gadgets and apps could get you more excited than Richard Simmons at a short-shorts sale.
Here's a sampling of what's available.
Designed for Nintendo's new Wii U system, Ubisoft's Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013 ($49.99) includes 125 different workouts and 215 moves to master. Alternatively, you can create a personalized four-week exercise program based on your fitness priorities. If you need a little extra motivation, connect online with friends to compete and collaborate.
A few workouts are included from Men's Health magazine (e.g. "The Ultimate Men's Health Fat-Loss Workout") and Women's Health magazine ("The Perfect Legs and Butt Workout" or "The Skinny Jeans Workout").
If you own an Xbox 360, last year's Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 ($29.99) works with the hands-free Kinect peripheral.
Another game, Nintendo's Wii Fit U ($59.99), works with the Wii Balance Board (resembling a white bathroom scale), Wii U GamePad (with 6.2-inch touchscreen) and the small Fit Meter (included), which tracks your daily activity. Tackle more than 20 different activities, including yoga and strength exercises.
For guys who want something a little more, er, manly, THQ's UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System ($29.99) provides a rigorous program designed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and leading MMA (mixed martial arts) training experts. Build strength and burn calories as you master moves from disciplines such as wrestling, kickboxing and Muay Thai.
A fun way to stay motivated, Striiv Play ($69.99) is a tiny but smart pedometer that not only counts steps, stairs and calories burned, but when paired wirelessly with a free iPhone app, it lets you spend earned gold to use in a fantasy game. To earn gold and points, you'll complete daily missions — walk for a mile or climb 50 stairs, for instance. And you can track your progress on the app or via a personal computer (USB cable included).
Other wearable Bluetooth-enabled devices to help you stay fit include the Nike+ FuelBand(AT) ($149) and Jawbone Up Wristband ($129.99).
When you get home, step onto the Withings WS-30 ($129.95), an Internet-connected body scale. Sure, you can just step on and read your weight and BMI (body mass index) on its bright screen. But additionally, all of this information is immediately uploaded to a password-protected website or free app via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. This scale is ideal for those who want to chart their weight loss, which can be posted to Facebook if you're daring enough, or for those training for an event.
Smartphone and tablet apps can also help you get fit and stay motivated.
iFitness Pro ($0.99 cents; for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch) is a full-featured workout companion that includes hundreds of exercises to master, each with clear text instructions, illustrations, photos and videos. Exercises are divided by body region (arms, abdominals, legs, etc.), primary target areas (e.g. biceps, quadriceps, glutes, and so on) and equipment needed (such as dumbbells, kettlebells, bands, machines or none).
Add your own exercise or create a custom routine in the "My Workouts" area, add photos and notes, and then share your exercise with others.
Another great app to help you in 2013 is Lose It! (free, for iPhone and Android). Set a goal for yourself — lose 10 pounds in two months, perhaps — and then the program will calculate what should be your caloric intake each day. Pull out your smartphone at meals and snacks to type in what you're consuming. You can do that by food, such as "one small salad with light vinaigrette dressing," or even by brand, like two "Butterball turkey dogs." The app will calculate the calories for you. The app can also calculate your fat, sodium and sugar intake.
Exercise is also factored into your daily routine, allowing you to consume more calories if you've been working out. Your info can be also synced to the LoseIt.com website.
Finally, for something a little more visceral, Zombies, Run! ($7.99) is a clever role-playing app that scares you into getting fit. While walking, jogging or running with your smartphone, you'll hear a terrifying tale in your headphones about a zombie-infested future. Available for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone devices, you play as a "runner" who must keep away from the flesh-eating undead and collect ammo and medicine for other human survivors. After you've amassed items throughout your narrated exercise, you can choose what to do with your items, what part of this fictional city to help first and unlock additional content.
Sure, there are many other good running apps (check out mapmyfitness.com), but this creepy one features include more than 30 missions, the ability to run with your own music and optional synchronization with a password-protected website to track your progress on a map.
Contact Saltzman at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @marc_saltzman.
Games, gadgets and apps help you stay fit and motivated
Cut up your gym membership card, fire your personal trainer and cancel that Jenny Craig food order. If you want to get lean and mean in 2013, perhaps you should start with some high-tech help.


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Anees Chagpar, MD, MBA, MPH, FACS, FRCS(C)
Professor of Surgery
Departments & Organizations
Surgery: Surgical Oncology | The Breast Center
Obesity Research Working Group
Yale Cancer Center: Breast Center | Cancer Prevention and Control | SPORE in Lung Cancer
Yale Medicine
Office of Cooperative Research
Anees is a full Professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. Born and raised in Canada, she completed her BSc in Honors Biochemistry and MD with Honors in Research at the University of Alberta, and her general surgery residency training and MSc at the University of Saskatchewan. She went on to complete the Susan G. Komen Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health and an MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Louisville. After fellowship, she joined the University of Louisville as Assistant Professor of Surgery, rising rapidly through the ranks to Associate Professor with tenure and Academic Advisory Dean. She built the first nationally accredited Breast Center in Kentucky at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center prior to being recruited to Yale in September 2010 where she led the effort for Yale to become the first NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Northeast to have a nationally accredited breast center. She is a busy breast surgical oncologist who participates in investigator-initiated and cooperative group clinical trials, as well as translational and clinical research. Her most recent ground-breaking work was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. She enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty, and is the Breast Surgery Section Editor for UpToDate, a commonly used resource. She is passionate about global health and leadership in academic medicine, having most recently completed an MBA for Executives with a focus on Leadership in Healthcare at Yale's School of Management.
Education & Training
|Yale University (2014)
|University of Louisville (2009)
|Harvard School of Public Health (2007)
|University of Saskatchewan (2002)
|University of Alberta (1996)
|University of Alberta, Biochemistry (1992)
|Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship
|University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|General Surgery Residency
|University of Saskatchewan
|Board Certification
|AB of Surgery, Surgery, General (2004, recertified: 2012)
Honors & Recognition
Distinguished Research AwardClinical Research Forum (2016)
Yale Cancer Center Clinical Research AwardYale Cancer Center (2015)
Public Voices Thought Leadership FellowshipWomen Faculty Forum (2015)
Oral Presentation PrizeBreast Surgery International (2015)
Horace W. Goldsmith AwardYale University Teaching and Learning Center (2015)
Class MarshalYale University School of Management (2014)
Claude Organ MD, FACS Travelling FellowshipAmerican College of Surgeons (2013)
Award for Excellence in Ethics and LeadershipYale University School of Management (2013)


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Jay passed away in his beloved Italy after a battle with cancer, on April 9. He was born July 27, 1953.
He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Hoch; his three children, Michael, Matteo and Valentina and two grandsons, Christian and Federico. Also surviving is Rita Riva Hoch, the mother of his children; his sisters, Judith Hoch (Donna Prince) Wray, Indianapolis, and Anita (Rudy) Ketchem, Wabash; two uncles, Loren Hoch, Akron, Ohio and Meredith Speicher, Wabash; three nieces, Jessica (David) Wray-Nieves, New York City, Valarie VanCamp Omlor, Fort Wayne, and Kelley (Matt) VanCamp Sarll, Wabash; one nephew, Daniel Wray, Boston, Mass.; six cousins also survive, Karen (Jim) Thompson, and Colleen (Gregg) Gatzimos-Reed, Wabash, and Coral Kirby, Indianapolis, Jeff (Ellie) Hoch, Boston, Mass., Tom (Karen) Hoch, Akron , Ohio, and Stan (Skip Camp) Hoch, Miami, Fla. Jay was preceded in death by his parents, Delbert and Carol Hoch and an infant brother, Wayne Ray Hoch.
Jay moved to Italy in 1974 to get married and lived there until his death. He is still fondly remembered by many in Wabash County, including friends and classmates from Southwood High School class of 1971.
A memorial service will be held to celebrate Jay's life on Saturday, May 3 at 2 p.m. at the LaFontaine United Methodist Church, 4 East Kendall Street, LaFontaine.
Memorials may be sent to the LaFontaine Methodist Church or to the American Cancer Society, in Jay's name.


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When In Doubt, Assume Dick Morris Is Being Paid By The People He Is Talking About
Blog ››› ››› BEN DIMIERO
On the same day Fox News analyst/hype man-for-hire Dick Morris released a DickMorris.com video and column in The Hill promoting the electability of Newt Gingrich, Gingrich's campaign rented Morris' email list to send out a fundraising appeal.
Gingrich is now the third GOP presidential candidate paying Morris during the primary, following Herman Cain, whose campaign has sponsored at least nine emails to Morris' list, and Michele Bachmann, whose campaign has sponsored at least three. Several of the Cain and Bachmann emails were promoting softball interviews Morris had conducted with the candidates, with the emails indicating that they were "paid for" by the campaigns.
Monday night on Fox, Morris may have set the new land-speed record for violating disclosure ethics.
Morris joined Sean Hannity to discuss the state of the GOP primary and what Morris described as the "incredible field we have." Morris praised Cain (who is paying him) as "one of the most charismatic politicians" since Obama and declared that he is "now immune from the charges of sexual harassment." He said that Gingrich (who is paying him) "knows it all" and is "the smartest person in the room." After declaring that it was likely a three-way race between Cain, Gingrich and Romney at this point, Morris hastened to add that "I don't think you can count out Bachmann" (who is paying him).
Back in June, Morris conceded to radio host Mike Gallagher that though he had previously been hard on Mitt Romney -- going so far as to say "there is no way this guy is going to get nominated" -- he was going to pull his punches going forward, because he didn't "want to make my own task [of defeating Obama] harder."
Morris had previously told the crew at Fox & Friends that he was going to withhold an endorsement during this election cycle because he wanted "to be impartial" in his commentary. As has become increasingly clear, Morris' motivation in not endorsing a specific candidate and withholding harsh criticism seems more geared towards trying to collect money from as many candidates as possible.
And it's working.
Yesterday morning, DickMorris.com sent out a "special message" from a new "paid sponsor," the Gingrich campaign. The email is an appeal from Gingrich's campaign manager, Michael Krull, asking people on Morris' list to make a "generous financial contribution."
In a separate email, Morris -- who, in his defense, has been praising candidate Newt's brilliance for months -- promotes a video where he discusses Gingrich's electability. The video starts with Morris saying, "Is Newt electable? You bet he is!" Later in the video, he labels Gingrich "one of the most brilliant people in the country" and says that his rise in the polls "couldn't happen to a better guy."
Morris also wrote a November 15 column in The Hill headlined, "Is Newt electable? Hell, yes!" Morris began by writing, "As the debates accumulate, it becomes more and more evident that Newt Gingrich's intellect, experience, articulateness and depth of knowledge elevate him to the top of the GOP field. Anyone should be happy to pay admission to watch him duel with President Obama in debate! He's not as charismatic as Herman Cain or as smooth as Mitt Romney, but boy, does he have a brain!"
A screenshot of the Gingrich fundraising appeal:
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This workflow is designed to be as close as possible to the KDE SVN Workflow. It is only recommended to be used for the first week or two of using Git with KDE while you become familiar with the basic Git commands. Once comfortable with the basic commands you should then move onto the Simple Feature Branch Workflow.
The worked examples given will be for an imaginary app called KFoo in a git.kde.org repository called 'kfoo'.
More detailed information can be found on the main KDE Git page.
This section documents how to set up Git and your code repository for development.
Follow the KDE Git Configuration page.
You need to copy your repository from git.kde.org into your local KDE source directory. In Git this process is called cloning.
To clone your project repository:
cd your/source/dir git clone kde:<project>
In our KFoo example:
git clone kde:kfoo
See the KDE Build Environment page for advice on structuring your source directory.
If you have a slow internet connection then you may prefer to download a snapshot tarball to bootstrap your clone. You can copy the required command from the projects.kde.org Repository page for your project, but it will be of the form:
wget -c http://anongit.kde.org/<project>/<project>-latest.tar.gz
This section documents basic actions that are performed within your workflow.
See also the KDE Git Recipes page.
By default when you first create a repository clone there is only a single local branch called 'master'. It is not good practice to do development in master, it is better kept clean for reference. Instead all work should be performed in a new local branch, even bug fixes.
To see what local branches you have:
git branch
To see all local and remote branches:
git branch -a
To create a new local branch:
git branch <new-branch> git checkout <new-branch>
This will create a new branch based on whatever local branch you were already in, i.e. that includes all the history of the original branch, which can be useful in building a hierarchy of dependent changes.
You may prefer to base your new branch on a remote branch such as the master branch of the central repository so you can integrate any new development. This is called 'tracking' and is recommended for most branches:
git branch --track <local-branch> <remote-branch>
For our KFoo example:
git branch --track new-bar-feature origin/master
This example workflow is for locally working on new features in unstable branch and pushing them to the central repository.
This workflow is only recommended for small features or where you are the only developer on a project.
This example workflow is for working on new features in a feature branch hosted on the central repository.
This workflow is recommended for larger features or where there are many developers on a project.
This example workflow is for locally fixing bugs in both the stable and unstable branches and pushing them to the central repository.
In Git, stable branches are just regular branches that have special meaning to a project and a possibly a special naming scheme to distinguish them. For example, the KFoo app may have the following branches on the central repository:
origin/master origin/feature/hot-new-stuff origin/feature/cool-newer-stuff origin/release/1.0 origin/release/1.1 origin/release/2.0
Making bug fixes to stable branches is thus fundamentally the same as working on a feature branch, but with the added step of needing to push the bug fix to both the stable and unstable branch in the central repository.
Two workflow's are described here, a basic workflow for small apps or where bug-fixes are infrequent, and an advanced workflow for larger apps or more frequent bug-fixes.
To make bug fixes on the 2.0 release you could simply checkout a local copy of the origin/release/2.0 branch and make you bug fixes there:
git branch --track bug-fix-2.0 origin/release/2.0 git checkout bug-fix-2.0 <make changes, build, test> git commit -a git push origin bug-fix-2.0:release/2.0 git branch --track bug-fix-master origin/master git checkout bug-fix-master git cherry-pick -x -e <sha5 of stable commit> <build, test> git push origin bug-fix-master:master
the basic workflow works fine except switching between unstable and stable branches inside a single Git repository can lead to large rebuilds if the unstable branch has diverged too much from the stable branch. On a small app this overhead may be small enough to not be a problem, but in most cases this constant rebuilding will be a waste of time.
This workflow uses the [script] to create separate work directories and builds for stable and unstable branches. This depends on you setting different up KDE Environments for the separate builds.


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Fred Bodin Submits-
When these photos were taken on August 15th, 1939, the Village of Annisquam was having it's 93rd annual Sea Fair. Established in 1846, this fair was held during the Civil War at a youthful 15 years old, over the brief Spanish American War in 1898 it was approaching age 50, during the "War to End All Wars" (WW I) it had existed for 70 years, and the Sea Fair was nearly 100 years old for WW II. This Saturday, July 28th, Gloucester's Annisquam Village will host it's 166th Sea Fair. Go there if you can.
You can read about the Fair on Good Morning Gloucester, and I can tell you that it's a down home, grass roots, pure New England Yankee event. It's all about family, community, church, neighborhood, and especially tradition.
The Annisquam Sea Fair runs from 10am until 3pm. Dinner on the Annisquam Bridge (shown above in 1890) is served from 5pm to 7pm. Do make a reservation.
This charming woman is selling post card prints for Gloucester photographer Alice M. Curtis (1871 – 1971), whose life's work I bought in the form of her negatives. Some people seeing this GMG post will recognize their great grandparents, grandparents, parents, and perhaps even themselves as children. I'm hoping to see some interesting comments and recollections.


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Interview Date: 08/06/2010
Run Date: 12/01/2010
Interviews Home / TV Home / Bullz-Eye Home
If you know Brad Meltzer's name, then you know that he's a writer. What varies, however, is the manner of his writing with which you're familiar. Granted, the majority of Meltzer's readership has come to him through the various thrillers he's written: "The Tenth Justice," "Dead Even," "The First Counsel," "The Millionaires," "The Zero Game," "The Book of Fate," and "The Book of Lies." Earlier this year, however, he entered the realm of non-fiction with "Heroes for My Son," in which he submitted a collection of individuals to whom his son, Jonas, should someday offer his respect and admiration, including everyone from Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks to Jim Henson and Muhammad Ali. Meltzer's not just about books, either: he's also written quite a few comics in his time, including "Green Arrow," "Justice League of America," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight," and he was the co-creator of the one-season wonder that was The WB's "Jack and Bobby." Now, more than half a decade later, Meltzer's finally returning to television as the host of a new History Channel series entitled "Brad Meltzer's Decoded," and I had a chance to chat with him during the summer TCA tour – yep, that's how far in advance the promotional wheels begin to turn with these shows – about the various facets of his career.
Bullz-Eye: Well, given that you and I have traded E-mails in the past, you already know that I'm a big fan of your work…
Brad Meltzer: …and I appreciate that! (Laughs)
BE: …and therefore I also know that this is certainly not your first foray into the world of television.
BM: So you were one of the viewers that we had for "Jack and Bobby," then, eh?
BE: (Laughs) You had at least four or five, didn't you?
BM: No, we actually had three. Two of them I was related to, and then you're the other one.
BE: There must have been four, then, unless you're related to the writer of the piece about the show that Entertainment Weekly did.
BM: You saw that, huh? Yeah, actually, you're right: that woman was our fourth. But, technically, it's still three, because if you remember, she didn't watch it then. She only just discovered the show. Basically, I blame every person personally who didn't watch "Jack and Bobby," and I think I hold a bitter animosity to each and every one of them. But thank you for watching…and thank you for mentioning my greatest failure. (Laughs)
BE: Well, you know, I like to start each of my interviews by putting my worst foot forward. (Laughs) So how did "Brad Meltzer's Decoded" come about?
BM: This show came about…and TV works in magic ways…but David McKillop, one of the heads of The History Channel, read "Book of Fate." They were kind of working on some level of this show, not knowing what it was, and he at the same exact time read that book. And when I met him, he said, "I love what you do with these books. I love how you take these real events and show us not just the fictional side of it but the real side of it." I mean, I could take the Freemasons and turn them into the silly, overused bad guys that they are in every other book out there, but what he appreciated was…he said, "You show us the reality. You don't just say that they're out taking over the world and stealing your bicycle and killing your children. You actually say, 'Here's what true, here's what's not, here's what's fascinating about them in history, and here's what's just total exaggeration.'" And I think in today's world, where we have access to more information than any society in history, it is really hard to find the truth anymore. It's just hard to…I mean, go put the word "freemason" or "illuminati" in Google, and good luck in trying to find out what's true, right? They are killing your dog right now, according to Google.
BE: Well, sure. That's what Freemasons do…or so I've been led to understand, anyway.
BM: So he started talking about, "How do we make a show where we get to take the best parts of the novels, taking the real side and forgetting the fictional side?" And I mentioned that since the day that I started writing...well, when my first book was bought, my editor gave me a leather book as a present and said, "Write all your ideas in here." And I filled up that book. And when I filled it up, my mother gave me another one, saying, "Here's another one, because I know you liked writing things down in the other one." And, basically, what we figured out was, why don't we take the best ideas from the books, the real ones that we haven't been able to do in a novel, and explore those? And they're ones that I think are fun, terrific ideas, but I just never been able to work them into a novel. That's really what this show is. And now, thanks to The History Channel, we're getting the resources to solve those secrets and great historical mysteries that I think are so fascinating.
BE: So, now, do you actually host the show? Because I haven't actually seen it yet.
BM: Join the club! (Laughs) Yeah, I'm the…I don't even know what I am. They keep calling me a host, but…
BE: Moderator, maybe?
BM: (Uncertainly) Yeah, uh, my wife…okay, well, first of all, let's get one thing out of the way: the fact that it's called "Brad Meltzer's Decoded" is ridiculous. I say to my wife, "Honey, what are we have for Brad Meltzer's Dinner tonight? Because yesterday we had Brad Meltzer's Chicken, and tonight I'd like to have Brad Meltzer's Pasta." So anything that involves calling me the host…? It just amuses me to no end, because I'm just so convinced that someone's going to come in and say, "Why is that pasty white bald guy on TV?" Basically, I'm the set-up guy. We have three researchers who are amazing…and we should talk about them, because I think they're going to bring a lot to the show. They're the meat of the show. But I come on and set up the show, explain the mystery, explain what we're looking for. In one of the episodes…one of the things I've found that I've been saving for years, trying to figure out how to use it, is the White House Cornerstone. When the White House was built, the cornerstone was the first piece of the White House, and it was laid down in this great ceremony in the middle of the night, and 24 hours later, the cornerstone was missing. And for 200 years now, it's been gone. Nobody knows what happened to it, nobody knows where it went. Harry Truman went looking for it when they redid the Truman Balcony and did all the renovation of the White House and couldn't find it. Barbara Bush went looking for it when they had the anniversary of the White House and couldn't find it. And the question is, where is it? So I go to the team and say, "Here's the mystery, here's the secret, now what's inside it? Is it a real stone? Is it a foundation stone? Is George Washington's frozen head inside it?" And that's basically the show. And we have these three researchers – (Christine) McKinley, Scott (Rolle), and Buddy (Levy) – who go out and call on my contacts. All of the people you see in the show are people that I use for the books, and they're resources and amazing connections that I've developed over the years and have been lucky enough to be involved with. So they go out and try to find it.
BE: So what can we expect from the show beyond that episode?
BM: Let's see…we do the White House cornerstone, which I love, because it's still just one of those great things that shocks me. I mean, how is something that's so important, so vital, and part of one of the greatest institutions in the United States still missing? How is it still gone, and how is it that, in 200 years, no one has been able to find it? And we do a search for the missing Confederate Treasury, which…I don't know if you know the story, but…
BE: (Laughs) Yeah, actually, I went to school in Danville, Virginia, so…
BM: There you go! Well, then, you probably know personally that there are still people right now digging every day for it. (Laughs) But the question is, when The History Channel gives you three people, a entire research team, and all the resources they have, can you come out with a different result? So we go out looking for it, and we found a really amazing new take on where it might be, and something that I'm absolutely going to rob from this show and put it in my one of my next novels, because it's so amazing what they uncovered.
BE: Did you actually go to Danville yourself?
BM: I actually didn't. The best part of this whole thing, if I could just explain it to you for one second, is that they report in. I've always done my own research. I've never once had anyone do my research for me. And I just thought, "Okay, this'll be fun, and it'll be a great exercise, and they can go out." But suddenly I was getting reports back, going, "This is what we found," and I was, like, "This is great!" My wife is, like, "It's like 'Charlie's Angels,' and you get to be Charlie!" (Laughs) I always liked Charlie. But my obsession with "Charlie's Angels" is that I always wanted to know Charlie's motivation. Forget about the girls. I wanted to know who Charlie was. (Hesitates) Well, actually, Farrah Fawcett's hair kind of obsessed me, too. There's also a show on the Statue of Liberty. What happens is that, over the years, people E-mail me or go on Facebook – and you can see it all the time if you follow me on there – and offer the craziest stories. When you start writing about these things, people tell you stories. I was contacted by one of John Wilkes Booth's relatives. Now, when someone E-mails you and says, "I'm John Wilkes Booth's great, great grandson," you pay attention.
BE: "You have my attention."
BM: And then a guy contacts me and says he's the lawyer who's trying to get John Wilkes Booth dug up. Then someone E-mails me and tells me that there's actually a hidden message in the Statue of Liberty that no one's ever seen. So I've been collecting these stories. We're doing the Statue of Liberty. We're doing John Wilkes Booth. We're going after these amazing stories that I've never had the resources to answer. It's fun. It really gets me at my geekiest. It's really fun to get the answer.
BE: You say it gets you at your geekiest, but, of course, there's absolutely no precedent for you having been a geek in the past.
BM: No, no, not at all. (Laughs) You're a comic reader also, right?
BE: Absolutely. I'm the go-to comic guy on the site.
BM: What are you reading now that you like?
BE: (Hesitates) Honestly, my budget for the past few years hasn't allowed me to buy much more than trade paperbacks.
BM: They ought to put you on the comp list.
BE: They really should. (Laughs) I'm kidding. Well, mostly. I mean, I used to make a regular Wednesday afternoon comic-shop stop, but I've got a 5-year-old, and, you know, the funds go where the funds must.
BM: E-mail me. I'll see if I can get you on DC Comics' comp list. If I can do nothing else, let me try to get you free comics. I love getting to feel like I'm an ambassador for comics.
(Writer's note: Not only did Brad prove to be as good as his word, but his actions served as the impetus for Bullz-Eye to launch its own comics blog. It's still in the early stages, but keep your eyes on Real Men Read Comics!)
BE: I was a huge fan of the stuff you did for "Identity Crisis," but I really loved your "Green Arrow" arc.
BM: Oh, I loved that book. It was such a great back-and-forth with Phil Hester, the artist for that book. He's amazing.
BE: Well, now that we're on the subject, let's keep it going: what was your original introduction into writing comics?
BM: You know, it was much like "Decoded." I feel like my entire career has kind of been…I don't know if it's been blessed or cursed, but I stupidly never plan and then just hope and try and, when the opportunities come to me, reach out. Sometimes I jump right, sometimes I jump wrong. And that one was… (Hesitates) Well, look, I read comics more than I do most anything else. More than I read novels, more than I watch TV shows, more than I watch movies. I just know that world, and I've known it since I was eight years old. Since I could read, really. As far as back as I can go. I've always been hiding comic book references. I just love codes, as you can tell, and I love hiding things. I love hidden secrets. That's what "Decoded" is all about. So in the same way that I think there are hidden things out there that we don't see every day, I would put hidden clues in all of my novels. There are actually some things that people have never found, but I've put superhero names into the books.
BE: Well, I spotted the last names of JSA members as the last names of some of your characters.
BM: Oh, you caught the JSA, huh? Good for you! And there are harder ones than that, but that's a hard one. A lot of people did not get that. Finding the Watchmen were easier (Meltzer uses their last names for the Supreme Court Justices in "The Tenth Justice"), but I did the Watchmen before…I did it in 1997, and one guy came to a signing and said, "You've got the Watchmen in here." And I was, like, "Thank you!" So, anyway, one of DC's editors, Bob Schreck, noticed it, and when Kevin Smith was leaving "Green Arrow," it was the number-one-selling superhero book. He said, "If we bring in another comic writer, everyone's going to go, 'Where's Kevin Smith?' But if we bring you in, you may sell some novels, but nobody knows you in comics." Nobody back then was coming from different places. I know it sounds crazy now, but no one was coming from different mediums and going into comic books except for Kevin, God bless him. And they said, "Would you be interested in coming in? You'll either fail on a big stage or you'll succeed on a big stage, but you'll be the guinea pig." And I said, "I'll take the shot." So the opportunity was kind of the same as "Decoded." David knew my love of this world, and he came to me and said, "Do you want to take a shot?" We should be so lucky as to be as successful this time around…which I guess is the guarantee that lightning will never strike twice, but there you go.
BE: Had you been a Green Arrow fan from way back?
BM: Oh, yeah. I like the heroes that I can be. I mean, that's why I love…I mean, it's why I love George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. They're us. Their best attributes are my ideals and aspirations. And it's no different with Green Arrow, and it's no different with Batman. I like the characters that I can relate to. I'll probably never be a great marksman…but I could be. And I can be stubborn. And that to me is the best part of what those characters are. I can't lift a car over my head, I don't have heat vision, but I can definitely be a guy who puts underwear on the outside of my pants. On any given night, you can look for it. (Laughs)
BE: Is there any hero you haven't yet tackled that you'd like a shot at? I mean, you had the helm of "Justice League of America," so I'd guess that gave you a lot of your favorites to work with.
BM: Yeah, "Justice League" let me have just about everybody.
BE: Plus, you had "Identity Crisis," too.
BM: Yeah. I don't think there's anyone left. The only thing that I really tried to do, and I said this when the book came out, was that I really wanted to get Cyborg into the Justice League. That was the one thing. But the truth was…if I would've stayed on for another year, I would've done it, but I felt like with Roy (Harper, a.k.a. Arsenal, Green Arrow's former partner), I didn't want to turn it into Teen Titans all at once. But I think…I'd still love to do a Titans book. I'd love to do "Justice League" again. I'd still love to do "Legion," too. I love those team books. I love "Avengers," I love "X-Men." I love teams. Again, "Decoded" is all about the team. I love the team dynamic. Every book I write is a team. Every comic I write is a team. Even when I did "Green Arrow," I immediately turned it into a team, because Roy was there. And "Decoded" is the same exact way. We have this team. We have Scott, we have this guy who's a military prosecutor and brings this great… (Starts to laugh) Not to turn this into the Justice League of History, but it really is! We really went out and looked for people that would bring different things, the same way any team dynamic in a comic is. So Scott brings this great investigator side and a prosecutorial mind, and McKinley is just this great…she's got that engineer's kind of brain, that math brain that makes you really look at facts as opposed to the dreamy nature of things. She gets to play Scully. And Buddy is a historian, so he grounds us in that world, asking, "What does history really say about this?" And to me, if you don't get the team dynamic right…I don't care how good the story is, the characters have to be good, so when we put the show together, it was vital to have those characters be someone we'd really want to follow and be able to understand.
BE: So how many episodes have you done so far?
BM: We have 10 episodes, and we're filming Episode Three right now. We've filmed two of them already, and we're working on the third right now, so hopefully by the fourth quarter we're going to have a bunch more than we have right now.
BE: To jump back to "Jack and Bobby" again, you obviously would've liked for it to have gone longer, but were you happy with the show creatively insofar as what you got out of it?
BM: Hey, listen, like you mentioned, a writer with Entertainment Weekly just blogged about how it was a great show that they wished they could've saved…and it's how many years later? More than five years, and I still get at least an E-mail a week saying, "I loved 'Jack and Bobby.'" And now that it's available via OnDemand, we have this whole other audience…and I couldn't be more happy. And you know what? There's some great irony in being canceled after one season, because what happens is that you can call yourself a cult classic, even if you weren't one. (Laughs) Because when you get canceled, you get that "cult classic" love…and we bathe in that pure love every night.
BE: Plus, people are realizing that you had a couple of "Mad Men" in the cast.
BM: Yeah, we've got John Slattery and now Matt Long doing "Mad Men." And, actually, you've got Jessica Pare now, too! Plus, we've got Christine (Lahti), who's amazing, we've got Logan (Lerman), who's doing "Percy Jackson." We've even got the Faceman himself: Bradley Cooper! Bradley was on the show, too. I mean, awesome, right? It's, like, "My gosh, how did nobody watch this show? We had everybody on it!" (Laughs)
BE: Just keep telling yourself, "It was a great training ground."
BM: I wish we could take credit for them, but they were all amazing then, and anyone who sees the show understands that. But, yeah, it feels like Second City when you watch it. Of course, my wife is, like, "You schmuck, how did you not introduce me to Bradley Cooper when we were on the set with him?" And I was just, like, "I don't know. We were too busy working…?"
BE: She probably wouldn't have known who he was then, anyway.
BM: Oh, no, she was well aware of who he was. (Laughs) Mark my words. And she was well aware of John Slattery, too!
BE: Jumping topics, how did you get all of those guys to appear in the trailer for "The Book of Lies"?
(Writer's note: If you can't be bothered to click on the link, Joss Whedon, Damon Lindelof, Christopher Hitchens, and A.J. Jacobs all turn up in the brief video presentation.)
BM: I was friends with all of them. Joss Whedon I knew from…I guess we were just E-mail pals. No, wait, I think we were actually talking. Yeah, in fact, we were already planning "Buffy" at that point, so he'd already contacted me about "Buffy," and we met somewhere along the way. Damon Lindelof I also know because we're E-mail buds. A.J. Jacobs is an old friend that I know from the publishing side, from the books. Who else was there? Oh, Christopher Hitchens. You know what? I met him because we have the same publisher, and I happened to be in the building one day when he was in the building, so we met, and…I just kind of reached out, and he was kind enough to do it.
BE: That was a really fun trailer.
BM: Hey, listen, we'll never be able to top that. Even "Jack and Bobby" didn't have that many good people in it.
BE: Were you pleased with the reception for "Heroes for my Son"?
BM: Absolutely. I mean, I was just blown away by the response to that. We launched that book with an advertising budget of zero dollars. Zero. We had incredible press, we had incredible media coverage of it, and we had the usual invisible army that kind of helps with the books and has just been amazing to my entire career. I credit it to these amazing people who have been so supportive over the years and helped and supported me on these different projects. But what we had more than anything were the heroes themselves. I mean, that book had nothing to do with me. People loved Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Mr. Rogers, and Jim Henson, and those stories are incredible. People said, "I want to share this with my son," "I want to share this with my father," "I want to share this with my mother-in-law." I'm still getting…just yesterday, somebody said, "I want to send you a box of these books, so you can sign them and I can give them out as baby gifts." People don't do that with my novels! (Laughs) The response is just humbling. But, again, it's the heroes who are incredible.
BE: Were there any heroes that you thought of after the fact that you wished you could've included?
BM: Well, I ran out of room for some, but I'm also doing "Heroes for My Daughter."
BE: Excellent. Lastly, what's the word on "Inner Circle"? Or is it "The Inner Circle"? I know you asked your fans for their opinion on which they preferred.
BM: You know what? Look, I actually think "The" is killing the non-"The."
BE: Good. (Laughs) I can't really explain why, but it just seems like there's something more intriguing about "The Inner Circle."
BM: I agree. My wife is, like, "I like it without the 'the.' You've done all these books with a 'the' at the beginning. I like it without." But I still like the 'the.' So we'll see…(Post-script: "The Inner Circle" is set for release on January 11, 2011. Brad wins!)
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The man who opened my eyes to the claims of the great tradition is Dartmouth English Professor Jeffrey Hart. Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his undergraduate student. He was an incredibly generous teacher. Like so many of his Dartmouth students, I remain profoundly grateful and deeply indebted to him.
Having written an admiring book about National Review in 1966 — The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern Conservatism — Professor Hart joined the editorial board of National Review in 1969. Every two weeks for 35 years he traveled to New York for the magazine's editorial meetings in addition to his teaching duties. In 1980 Professor Hart commenced his long service as godfather to the Dartmouth Review. Through his work with the Review he became mentor and guide to another generation of Dartmouth students, some of whom never even took a course from him. Last year Professor Hart returned to the subject of National Review in The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times.
Somewhat surprisingly to many of his former students, Professor Hart now condemns George W. Bush as the worst president in American history. He condemns the Iraq war. He condemns Bush administration foreign policy in vituperative terms usually associated with the left and the far left. He condemns evangelical Christianity. He is friendly to abortion rights and government-funded embroyonic stem cell research. Invoking Edmund Burke and sounding a bit like H.L. Mencken, he renders harsh judgment on the mainstream positions of the contemporary Republican Party.
James Panero is the Managing Editor of the New Criterion, which has published some of Professor Hart's finest essays. James considers Hart the closest of mentors. In a message to me this fall James wrote:
He's followed me wherever I go: through the Dartmouth Review, to NR, to grad school in art history, to The New Criterion. As the chairman of the Dartmouth Review, and an editor here at the New Criterion, I now have the great pleasure of interacting with Hart in both a professional and personal way.
Sensing that the story behind Professor Hart's current views would be of interest to a wider audience, and that he was in a position to tell it, James has written a profile of Professor Hart for the current issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: "How the Right Went Wrong." The article — posted at James's site Supreme Fiction — includes Professor Hart's message responding to the article. James's related post at Armavirumque has more of interest.
I was Professor Hart's student from 1969 to 1973. It's hard for me to reconcile the views of the Jeffrey Hart I observed with the one James Panero profiles. Early on, to take just one small example, I sought Professor Hart out in his Sanborn House office to ask him his opinion of Jules Witcover's 1970 book The Resurrection of Richard Nixon that I was reviewing for the Daily Dartmouth. Professor Hart reached over to his shelf and handed me his manuscript Comeback, a book Reader's Digest had commissioned him to write on the same subject. (Unfortunately, the manuscript was never published.)
In the introduction or first chapter of Comeback he wrote, as I recall, that in the spring of 1968 he threw his typewriter into the back of his "antique Volvo" and left his Vermont farmhouse for California to write speeches for Ronald Reagan's nascent presidential campaign. After the 1968 Republican convention, Professor Hart went on to write speeches for Nixon. I recall him writing in Comeback quite dismissively of the Eastern Republicans, observing the shift in the center of gravity of the Republican Party from East to West. Whereas Nixon had found it prudent to give obeisance to Nelson Rockefeller and the Eastern Establishment Republicans by entering into the Pact of Fifth Avenue in the 1960 campaign, by 1968 no such ritual was necessary.
Professor Hart was clearly sympathetic to the power shift in the Republican Party from the Establishment East to the Wild West, or so it seemed to me. In James's profile of Professor Hart, Professor Hart sounds to me like a Rockefeller Republican discoursing on the uncouthness of Barry Goldwater or, for that matter, Richard Nixon. (Coincidentally, I interviewed Barry Goldwater in the summer of 1969 while I was working as an intern for Walter Mondale and Senator Goldwater frankly expressed his view of God's plan for the United States in terms akin to those Professor Hart attributes to President Bush.)
In any event, I found James's profile of Professor Hart to be well done, interesting and informative. I thought that some of our readers would as well.
PAUL adds: I didn't know Professor Hart at Dartmouth, but I once attended a lecture in which he quoted with derision and amazement a statement by Robert Kennedy which was a variation of JFK's "bear any burden" comment, only stronger. I think Professor Hart is coming from the same place when he criticizes President Bush on the war and on his larger vision for the Middle East.
Personally, I don't think Bush is in the "bear any burden" camp. He is bearing one burden based on a military action that most people thought was justified at the time in light of the intelligence about Iraq's WMD program. The fact that, once in Iraq, we attempted to build the nation in a manner generally consistent with our values does not mean that Bush has opted for "nation-building" and "burden bearing" as a general matter. Neither does the fact that Bush does not want to be defeated in Iraq. However, I think I understand to some extent where Professor Hart is coming from.


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In 1786 the Reverend Archibald Scott, a native of Scotland and minister of two churches in Rockbridge, Virginia, came down the great war trail on a missionary journey. He came also as a the minister of the former members of his churches who had joined the migration from Pennsylvania and were now forced to live in forts because of Indian warfare. He found his former parishioners weary and impoverished, but recognized immediately their strong faith and courage. With the hearty cooperation with all in the fort, Reverend Scott founded a new church - New Providence. Twelve miles "out in the country," near Fort McTeer, another - Eusebia Presbyterian. Charter members of New Providence helped to organize the church three years before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church was organized, three years before the Constitution of the United States was adopted, nine years before the county of Blount and the town of Maryville were established, and ten years before Tennessee was admitted to statehood.
Reverend Gideon Blackburn:
In 1794, he accepted the call New Providence and Eusebia offered to be joint minister of both churches.
Dr. Isaac Anderson:
In 1812, Dr. Isaac Anderson, known as a theological genius and ardent opponent of slavery, was called to New Providence as minister
Southern and Western Theological Seminary:
Established in 1819 by Dr. Anderson. The name was changed to Maryville College in 1842. The college has been open continually since then except for a 5 1/2 year period during the Civil War
The Monument to Dr. Isaac Anderson:
The monument is located in the center of the Maryville College cemetery. He and four family members were first interred in the New Providence cemetery and moved to the Maryville College cemetery in 1933.
Brick Church:
Constructed in 1852 (though never completed because of the Civil War) and used until 1893 for services and until 1911 as a community building called Colombian Hall.
Brick Church painting:
The artist John Collins, who was also a Quaker leader, painted this picture of the brick church and beside it the East Tennessee Masonic Female Institute. The Institute stood on the present site of the McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home.
Professor Thomas Jefferson Lamar:
In 1865, the Synod of Tennessee appointed Professor Lamar an agent to raise funds to re-open Maryville College. In 1867, he received a gift of $1000 form William Thaw of Pittsburgh. Mr. & Mrs. Thaw were to become leading benefactors of the college in that century. "The cornerstone of our giving" was the fact the little college and New Providence Church, though located in a Confederate state, had black members. By the end of his life, he had raised $100,000 for an endowment that assured the future of the college
Martha Tedford Lamar:
Professor Lamar's second wife and a member of a group of women organized as the Women's Home and Missionary Society of Maryville. The minutes of this groups meetings reveal stories of caring for war orphans, sending money to missions, and meeting regularly for prayer and Bible study.
Anderson Hall:
By September 1866, a circular announced the college would reopen amid the old ruins. By 1868, 65 acres had been purchased, and by 1869, the foundation of Anderson Hall had been laid with gifts from the Thaws and John Center Baldwin.
Lamar Memorial Library:
Constructed in 1888 in honor and memory of Reverend Thomas J. Lamar, re-founder of the college. Renovated and dedicated on April 29, 2000, the building is now the Center for Campus Ministries.
William Bennett Scott, Sr.:
Buried in New Providence cemetery is William Scott, a free black who, in 1869, served as Maryville's first and only black mayor.
Fourth Church:
New Providence's fourth church was finished in 1892.
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George McCulloch, D.D.
William K. Weaver
Joseph P. Calhoun
4th Minister
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The Sabbath School Annex
The large Sabbath School annex was completed in 1916. This building served the congregation until 1952.
Hubert S. Lyle, D.D.
William E. Graham, D.D.
William H. Crothers, D.D.
John A. McAfee, D.D.
Thomas A. Graham
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Black Congregations:
Black slaves had been members of New Providence when Isaac Anderson was minister, but after that it was to be many years before our church became racially diverse. In 1938, two black congregations were formed in the area, Mary Louise Essler Presbyterian Church in Louisville, and Second Presbyterian Church in Maryville. The picture to the left is of Bible School students at the Louisville church.
In 1943, the Louisville church was forced to leave their building due to the filling of the Fort Loudon Lake The combined with Second Presbyterian. In 1964, New Providence and Second Presbyterian united their congregations.
From 1917 to 1957, a Sunday School program was held at Sunnybrook, near the southeasterly corner of the present Greenbelt Park. The program was staffed by New Providence members and college students.
Home Avenue Chapel:
Around 1937, this chapel in the Home Avenue neighborhood was built. Jerry Cooper, college students, members of New Providence and Highland Presbyterian taught and preached to about one hundred who attended from the neighborhood. A free medical clinic for children was held once a week along with a daily kindergarten. Both this chapel and Sunnybrook were demolished in 1979 as part of a federally funded redevelopment program.
Historical Plaque:
A plaque with dates of Southern and Western Theological Seminary and New Providence Presbyterian Church is located on the side of the Home Bank at the corner of College and Broadway.
Fifth (& current) Church:
The fifth New Providence building was to be of Gothic design and located on West Broadway across the street from Maryville High School. The cornerstone was laid September 23, 1951. Mr. Charles Bolton of Philadelphia was chosen as architect with A. R. McMurray Construction Company of Knoxville as contractors. The stained glass windows, envisioned and personally planned by Dr. Thomas Graham, were to be executed by P. J. Reeves Studio of Philadelphia. 400 loads of native stone were trucked from Walland, TN.
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Casavant Organ:
The New Providence Organ was built in 1955 at the Casavant Freres facility in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.
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John Gloucester:
The first missionary sent out from New Providence was John Gloucester, an emancipated slave educated by Gideon Blackburn, ordained as a minister in the Presbytery of Union in 1810. He was sent to Philadelphia were he organized and became pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church.
In 1830, a black member of New Providence, George "Erskine, went to the new Republic of Liberia as a missionary.
Following the Civil War, fields of service included China, India, Japan, and Persia. By 1920, mission workers had gone to Costa Rica, Egypt, and the Philippines.
Post WW II Missionaries:
Fred Hope, who attended Maryville College and New Providence, spent his adult life as a lay missionary in Africa.
Miss Lois. C. Wilson followed her grandparents to the mission field to become director of the Community Center and principal of the Girls School at Nabatiyeh, Lebanon.
The Reverend Robert Barker served the church in Japan.
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Retired Missionaries:
In 2000, world missions are represented by retired missionaries actively participating in the life of New Providence.
Drs Henry and Katie Nelson served as medical missionaries in China and the Congo (Zaire).
Clarence and Ruth Durham served in Korea from 1961 to 1985, primarily at the Wilson Leprosy Center and Rehabilitation Hospital.
National Office Holders
Gray Webb Proffitt (Mrs. D.W.)
She was a member of the first National Council of Presbyterian Women's Organizations. She also served on the National Board of Christian Education and the National Commission for Evangelism. Mrs. Proffitt traveled widely for the church, including an entire year of visitation when her husband was Moderator of the General Assembly.
David W. Proffitt (Mr. D.W.)
He was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the USA - PC(USA) - in 1956. Fonder of Proffitt's Department Store in 1919, he was active in New Providence his entire life. He was one of the leaders of the National Council of Presbyterian Men after it was organized in 1948, and served at its president in 1951.
Dr. Waldo Lloyd
He was president of Maryville College from 1930-61, was a member of Union Presbytery, but a regular communicant and occasional guest preacher at New Providence. Dr. Lloyd was Moderator of the General Assembly of the PC(USA) in 1955. Four years later he was elected President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
"Archie" Pieper
He became Associate Secretary of the National Council of Presbyterian Men in 1954. These gatherings urged men to follow Christ in the vocations of common life and to assume responsibility, as a group, to the church and the wider community. "Archie" became Executive Secretary in 1971 and retired in 1980.
New Providence Men
New Providence Men active on the national level include Kenneth Paxton, Sr., Vice President for Membership on the National Council of Presbyterian Men from 1994-5, Troy Glidewell, Presbytery Representative and Synod Representative to the National Council, and Judson Murphy who received national recognition as New Providence Presbyterian Church's Man of the Year.
Historical pictures
from the personal collection of Grace P. McArthur and are used with her permission.
New Providence Tartan
, designed by Alden Dalzell, Carrie Eaton and Marilew Rudisill, woven and constructed by Motherwell Crafters (Alden and Fran Dalzell) is based on the Graham palid and was dedicated on Heritage Sunday, October 15, 2000. Photo by Greg Brakebill.
Text is abridged
by Doug Dodd from "
A pictorial History of New Providence Presbyterian Church
" by Grace P. McArthur. That article was published as part of "
The New Providence Heritage, 1786-2000
", published in 2000.
Download a Powerpoint presentation of the history of the church
Contact NPPC
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The Administration is completing a stunning reversal of decades-old policy on the Middle East. In an under-reported speech on Friday, UN Ambassador Negroponte set out the conditions that must be met for the US to approve any UN resolution on the Mideast conflict. Among other things, the requirements include an explicit condemnation of terrorism; condemnation by name of Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and Hamas; and improvement in Israel's secrity situation as a prerequisite to withdrawal to pre-Infantada positions. The era of moral equivalence is finished. The President has brushed aside the State Department, the Europeans and the Arabs, and now they (with the possible exception of the State Department) are falling in line behind him. The Jerusalem Post quotes the outgoing chief of the Israeli General Staff: "Bush's speech [demanding reform of the Palestinian Authority and freedom for Palestinians] had a long-term strategic effect since it actually created a delegitimation of the Palestinian Authority and encourages the changing of its leadership….The speech created an earthquake among the Palestinian leadership."
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Rand Paul's early state mojo
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – For a night, Eastern Iowa was Rand Paul country.
The Kentucky senator won a raucous welcome at the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner Friday, drawing an energetic reception that most declared presidential candidates would envy – let alone a first-term senator on an early 2016 scouting mission.
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Paul observed as much when he wound up to tell a joke about the Federal Reserve – and the very mention of the institution drew jeers from the audience.
"This is an easy crowd," Paul deadpanned.
Striking a relaxed pose at the side of the podium, gesturing casually in the air, Paul hopped from one breezy ideological riff to the next, more often than not earning a round of cheers.
A notable exception was immigration, when Paul told a nearly silent room that he might end up supporting immigration reform, unlike two prominent Iowa Republicans who denounced "amnesty" in remarks from the same stage.
"While I respect Sen. Grassley and Congressman King, we may not be on the same page," Paul said, adding: "We may be."
Still, years before the next round of presidential primaries, Paul's confident performance here underscored why national Republicans tend to view him as a real contender for the next GOP nomination.
Put simply, if you designed a candidate in a lab to match up with the early GOP primary states, it would probably look a lot like Rand Paul.
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Strategists in both parties are deeply skeptical of Paul as a general election candidate, given his relative political inexperience and unconventional stances on issues from national security to drug control.
But in the momentum-driven early-state race, Paul begins a couple steps ahead of the starting line: He has an unusual national following and a reputation as a conservative warrior, a down-to-earth demeanor and – perhaps most important – an activist base left over from the campaigns of his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
He already appeals to his dad's fervent followers — who clearly helped fill the Lincoln Dinner crowd — but Rand also has a level of credibility with evangelical voters and fed-up mainstream conservatives that Ron never had.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul takes anti-Clinton Benghazi battle to Iowa)
And as the GOP as a whole has inched in a libertarian direction, abandoning George W. Bush-style "compassionate conservatism" for a purer focus on small government, Rand Paul is among his party's most fluent ideological advocates. Voters who know relatively little about him are at least curious to know the man who delivered that 13-hour filibuster on drones.
If Paul can weld together those constituencies, then veterans of past Iowa and New Hampshire campaigns say that puts him in something like a political sweet spot.


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Friday, 23 January 2009
More cycle parking at Assen Railway Station
The total is now to be over 2300 places. Assen's population is 65000, so that's one place for every 28 residents in this one location (naturally there are also thousands of other places to park your bike spread around the city, including another large guarded cycle park in the shopping centre). By comparison, London has only around 2800 spaces for eight million people.
The additional space for bikes in Assen is to come in part by removing fifteen car parking spaces.
The article goes on to say that the local government is committed to stimulating more use of bicycles and public transport. However, they are also going to be more active in making sure that bicycles are parked correctly. It is a problem at present that because there are more bikes parked at the station than there is space for them, there are many incorrectly parked bikes which can get in the way and look rather untidy. Badly parked bikes really can cause a problem here because there are so many of them.
The local paper also is running an online poll about the cycle parking. Three responses are possible. a) Good Idea, b) Not necessary, c) Why don't they do it straight away ?
Currently the poll results stand as 45% wanting immediate action, 32% saying it is a good idea and just 23% saying it's not necessary.
For an example of somewhere with a higher proportion of spaces per person, and a discussion of the amount of cycle parking provided at British railway stations, see this earlier post.
Update 29/1/2009. Here's the outcome of the poll in the paper, published a week later.
47% say it's a good idea, 41% say the local government is dragging its feet and that this should be done immediately and just 12% say it's not needed.
The number of cycle parking spaces at the station will soon have more than doubled from the situation last september when I last wrote about it. There are other posts about cycle parking and integrated transport.
5 comments:
- Nick said...
...and I see that they're getting rid of parking space for 15 cars in order to provide the extra bike parking. I wonder what the citizens will think of that.
- 23 January 2009 at 10:32
- Anneke said...
Nothing, really I think. :D
Besides, I don't think people would use their cars to get to the station. It sort of defies the purpose of the train.
- 23 January 2009 at 13:20
- jayjay said...
Thanks for leaving a comment on our site, David (Handlebra Easy Rider) - now that we have one 'adherent' we feel the boost to keep the blog journal going. Another couple of movies going up again shortly. We actually made it all the way in to Auckland city today and a beach on Tamaki Drive . . .
- 25 January 2009 at 09:38
- townmouse said...
hehe - the poll is actually slightly biased (but in a good way - two 'yes' options and only one 'no'). I'm sure a local UK paper would have the poll questions be a) good idea b) not necessary or c) let's remove the cycle parking there is to make room for more cars...
- 26 January 2009 at 11:23
- David Hembrow said...
A few weeks later, I covered this from a different angle.
- 13 May 2009 at 20:41


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