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Better Than Good Hair (BOOK REVIEW)
Better Than Good Hair
The Curly Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair
by Nikki Walton
with Ernessa T. Carter
Amistad Books
Paperback, $14.99
224 pages
Review by Kam Williams
often get stopped on the street by other black women. They tell me they love my
hair and want to know who 'does' it. It always gives me great pleasure to tell
them that I do it myself.
it gives me even more pleasure to refer them to CurlyNikki.com to find out how
they, too, can achieve fabulous, healthy, natural hair on their own… CurlyNikki.com
is the most popular natural hair care blog in the world.
book is not a political manifesto intent on shaming you into giving up your
relaxer... If you haven't decided whether to give up your relaxer, we're here
for you…
Inside, you'll find product guidance,
lifestyle advice, hairstyle tips, and frank discussion—just as you would in any
hair salon across America…
We only want to provide you with the information that you need to take the next
step in your hair care journey."
Excerpted from the Prologue (pgs. 4-5)
I can still
vaguely recall the day I overheard someone telling my mother at a barbecue that
I should have been born a girl because I had "Good Hair." I was too young at
the time for the remark to register, so I simply shrugged it off and ate s'more
But I
belatedly came to appreciate the meaning of the phrase a few years ago while
watching the Chris Rock movie of the same name. For, Good Hair was an
eye-opening documentary which offered an inside look at the great lengths to
which African-American females go to straighten their hair. Yes, I had been
aware that my mother and friends spent a lot of time at the beauty salon on
Saturdays, but I really had no idea what went on there.
The informative
film generated discussion and reflection because it not only blew the covers
off the dangerous chemicals ("creamy crack") involved in the relaxing process,
but it also questioned whether the considerable expense and effort involved in maintenance
were even worth the effort. Why not go natural?
Today, ostensibly
in response to the controversy stirred up by that shocking expose, a hair
revolution is afoot. Suddenly "Relaxers
are out!" and "Weaves are so yesterday!" have become the rallying cry in black communities
all over the country.
At least
that's the case made by Nikki Walton in Better Than Good Hair, a handy how-to
guide to rocking a retro-style natural. The opus is amazingly encyclopedic in
terms of its scope, as it covers everything from transitioning to TWAs (Teeny
Weeny Afros) to tips for white mothers of biracial toddlers.
"The Big Chop" can be pretty traumatic. That's the day you cut off all your
chemically-treated locks. For, if you've looked one way in the mirror for as
long as you can remember, you might need a "curl"-friend's shoulder to lean on
after making the decision to let your hair grow the way God intended.
Should you be
so inclined, take note of the five mandatory hair care products: Shea Butter
(for moisture), Aloe Vera (for shine), Jojoba Extract (for softness), Olive Oil
(for sealing and shampooing) and Honey (as an antibacterial rinse). Who knew?
Chock full
of fascinating factoids like that, Better Than Good Hair is a veritable,
natural hair bible, a very "Good Book" for anyone seriously considering that


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Why companies are turning to modular office furniture
More enterprises look to increase office adaptability for hybrid work
As people's workdays become more flexible, their office spaces are following suit.
More companies are seeking and implementing clever ways to make offices fit the modern worker's needs with modular design – think acoustic panels, storage units and room dividers – which allow employees to use the same space for different needs.
For instance, easily stored seating cubes can create a small auditorium-style area that enables town halls without designating permanent space capable of hosting the entire staff. Movable shelves are doing double duty as storage and flexible partitioning for ad-hoc meeting space.
"Multi-functional spaces, and furniture that enables open-plan areas to be temporarily repurposed for meetings, gives organizations the flexibility to scale up or down according to changing occupancy and needs," explains Guzman de Yarza Blache, JLL Head of Workplace Strategy, EMEA.
Take the Johannesburg office of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, who after reducing their footprint by half, used efficient design tactics such as sliding, stacking doors that enable intimate rooms to expand for larger functions. Or EY's new headquarters in Milan, which incorporates plenty of space-optimizing furniture that allows for quick shifts from conference to teamwork mode, as well as easily stacked chairs on wheels and flip-top folding tables for customizable training areas.
A desire among companies for futureproof real estate is nothing new, but the pandemic has accelerated discussions on how to rethink office spaces.
"With permanent shifts in working patterns now widely acknowledged, it's not just location or square footage that needs careful consideration. Versatile furniture can play a starring role in reshaping the office for agility, as organizations look to transform their spaces and respond to changes in workplace culture," says Yarza Blache.
A tall, draughtsman style table, for example, gives the option for seated or standing work, can be used for group collaboration and team huddles, or as an individual workstation for focused tasks. And if floorplans are reconfigured, or an organization moves location, multipurpose furniture is more likely to adapt to an entirely new space.
Putting people first
Companies are also being drawn to modular furniture amid increased demand from employees to raise health and wellbeing standards. These quality-of-life issues have become top priorities for office workers, even above their salary, according to JLL's 2022 Workforce Preferences Barometer.
"With office fit-out now evolving to support both high performance work and employee wellbeing, we have seen the emergence of homely 'resimercial' furniture and design layouts," says Betty Surgis, Tétris Head of Furniture Solutions EMEA.
"This puts people first by mixing domestic interiors with traditional workplace aspects, making the office a comfortable 'home from home' and producing collaborative and agile spaces that people want to spend time in."
It's a concept that can be seen in abundance in the UK office of global tech firm, Campaign Monitor, where flexibility and comfort is key. Multi-use areas feature tables in interesting shapes which can be reconfigured through linking elements and moved on castors.
Once again, modular seating comes into its own, offering employees choice by dividing spaces into zones for different types of work, or intimate private areas for informal chats or focused reading. What's more, these spaces can easily accommodate later changes in office culture and are endlessly configurable as teams shrink, expand or move.
Sustainable in more ways than one
Modular or multi-purpose furniture doesn't just make good financial sense.
In the UK, an estimated 1.2 million office desks and 1.8 million office chairs end up in landfill each year, while U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) figures puts overall annual furniture waste at almost 10 million tonnes.
"A more sustainable approach to office design is long overdue and flexible furniture solutions not designated for just one task, can avoid these issues, easily fulfilling multiple purposes over their lifetime - or even during a single working day," says Surgis.
The highly adaptable office space of Fintech company Wise took this one step further, not only upcycling and re-upholstering existing furniture, but implementing forward thinking materials, like ROOM booths which are made of 1,088 recycled plastic bottles.
"As a win-win situation for the environment, the employee and budget conscious enterprises with ambitious decarbonization targets, modular furniture is something that more organizations will be looking at closely as long-term hybrid work strategies are put in place," Surgis concludes.


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How to add inline buttons to a webpage created with PHP Generator?
Last modified: May 3, 2018
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The article shows how to implement an AJAX-based one-click editor for a logical column in PHP Generator. Live example.
PHP Generator creates applications that allow to edit data in a separate page, in a modal dialog, and in inline mode. There is also the Quick Edit feature. To edit a record in any of these ways, you need to make at least three operations: click the 'Edit' icon, change data, and push 'Save'.
However, if the most usual action on working with a webpage is editing of a single column that stored logical values, such manipulations do not seem to be efficient. Our goal is to reduce the number of operations with the help of inline buttons embedded into this column. Such solution allows you to easily switch a column value with a single mouse click as displayed below.
Of course we would like to update the value without reloading the whole page, so we need to use the AJAX technology. To add an AJAX inline button, process as follows:
- Provide the OnCustomRenderColumn event handler to append a button to the column.
- Specify the OnAfterPageLoad event handler to handle the button click and issue an Ajax call.
- Handle passed parameters and execute the query within the OnPreparePage event handler.
To show the implementation of the AJAX button on a webpage created with PHP Generator, we use a sample table containing a list of products with a True/False column storing the product activity. The button is added to this column and used to change the activity.
CREATE TABLE product ( id int AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL, product_name varchar(50), product_number varchar(255), active int NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) );
Step 1
To append a button to the column data, provide the OnCustomRenderColumn event handler. This event allows you to customize the cell content according to your needs. Here is the code:
if ($fieldName == 'active') { $dataAttributes = sprintf('data-id="%s" data-active="%s"', $rowData['id'], $fieldData); $customText = '' . $customText; $customText .= '<button class="btn btn-default inline-button" style="margin-left: 25px;">Change</button>'; $handled = true; }
Please note we don't display the id column in the grid, so we need to store its value in the cell in order to be able to determine the record that was edited. Also we need to store the current activity of the product. For this purpose we use an invisible
 tag with two data- attributes.
The screenshot below displays how the event handler looks in PHP Generator.
Step 2
At this step we need to handle the button click and issue an AJAX call. This can be accomplished in OnAfterPageLoad event handler.
function prepareInlineButtons() { $('button.inline-button').click(function() { var self = $(this); var checkboxControl = self.siblings('.pg-row-checkbox'); var productId = self.siblings('.product-info').data('id'); var activity = self.siblings('.product-info').data('active'); $.getJSON(location.href, {id: productId, active: activity == 1 ? 0 : 1}, function (data) { self.siblings('.product-info').data('active', data.active); if (data.active == 1) { checkboxControl.addClass('checked') } else { checkboxControl.removeClass('checked') } }) }) } prepareInlineButtons();
Here we use the getJSON function from the jQuery framework as we encode data in this format in the OnPreparePage event (see step 3). The id of the product and its current activity is retrieved from data- attributes created at step 1.
Step 3
At this step we use the OnPreparePage event to update the value in the database and send the output back to the client.
if (GetApplication()->IsGETValueSet('id') && GetApplication()->IsGETValueSet('active')) { $id = GetApplication()->GetGETValue('id'); $active = GetApplication()->GetGETValue('active'); $sql = "UPDATE product SET active=$active WHERE id=$id"; $this->GetConnection()->ExecSQL($sql); echo json_encode(array("active" => $active)); exit; }
In this snippet we use some functions from PHP Generator's server side API. The result is sent to the output with the help of the json_encode function. To simplify the example code, we omitted the problem of SQL injections. The issue is covered in details, for example, in the corresponding article on php.net.
The solution above allows you to optimize the editing of logical columns. You might also want to protect your data from accidental changes with the built-in Javascript confirm function.
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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — This rookie got caught looking.
Eager to do well, Braeden Ward reported to the Detroit Tigers on Monday to work his first day as a bat boy. It didn't take long for the college freshman to fall prey to a clubhouse prank that's been around forever.
"They asked me to get the key to the batter's box," he said.
Despite his best efforts — oh, and plenty of help from the Tigers, New York Mets manager Terry Collins and the umpires — the 18-year-old nicknamed "Bugsy" never got it locked down.
"The oldest trick in baseball," Ward said, laughing. "Yes, sir. They got me good."
He won't be the last one, for sure. Every year, stories grow about teams sending earnest, young employees on searches for nonexistent ballpark items. It's a playful rite of passage throughout the majors and minors.
Mets assistant general manager John Ricco recalled an intern at Citi Field last season who was dispatched to retrieve the left-handed fungo bats.
"They went to 15 different departments and never did find them," Ricco said. "It's a tradition in the game, it's fun. But the key to batter's box — that's the gold standard."
This gag played out at the Tigers' spring training park, fittingly named Joker Marchant Stadium in honor of a former local official.
Ward's quest began when Detroit third base coach Dave Clark said he needed the key and suggested the umpires might have it. Wearing his Tigers uniform and a batting helmet, Ward knocked on the door at the umps' locker room and politely asked.
Veteran umpire Bob Davidson quickly sensed what was going on.
"First day?" he inquired.
Having seen this routine before, Davidson pointed the Florida Southern College student toward Collins. When Ward left, the ump deadpanned: "He might be back for the box of curveballs, too."
Ward then went over to the Mets' locker room and told a clubhouse worker why he needed to see Collins. The skipper is no stranger to these sort of shenanigans, either.
"He tapped me on the chest and said, 'Don't worry, son, you'll find it,'" Ward said.
Eventually, a staff member in the Tigers' clubhouse clued in Ward.
"I can't believe I fell for it," a smiling Ward said after Detroit's 9-2 win. "I've played baseball my whole life. I've lived in the batter's box. I played tricks like that on the freshmen in high school."
"But this time, yup, they got me," he said.


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Book Title: Mastered By My Guardian
Author: Opal Carew
Release Date: Sep 22, 2015
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
When she refuses to obey his summons for a weekend meeting, he cuts off her money, leaving her in a strange city with no way to pay her hotel bill. Forced to accept his help and join him at his country house, she soon discovers his intention is not strictly business. When she experiences his potent masculine domination she finds the reality of being with Zane far exceeds her fantasies… leaving her wanting more.
But can she surrender to this forbidden love and be mastered by her guardian?
God, how had she wound up in Zane's bed?
Staving off the panic, she decided to slowly pull away without waking him, then she'd slink out before he knew—
The arm she was lying on tightened around her shoulders.
"Are you awake?" she whispered.
"As a matter of fact, I am."
Damn. She'd hoped his arm tightening around her was just a reflex and she could still escape.
She tried to roll away but his arm was like a steel band holding her in place. Then he rolled toward her, causing all kinds of wild sensations to flicker through her.
Now they were facing each other on the pillow and her heart stuttered.
Oh, God, so many times she'd dreamed of this, but now faced with the reality… Knowing the tensions between them…
Then the memory of last night, when he'd mentioned something about their roles changing…
"I don't understand," she stammered. "I don't know how I wound up… here."
God, she was in his bed. And it was his bed, not hers, with the forest green sheets and the navy and green patterned duvet. It was a huge, king-sized bed. Big enough for his huge, king-sized body. A tall, masculine muscle-bound body.
"You climbed in here in the middle of the night." The light dancing in his eyes made her wonder what else she'd done in the middle of the night.
"We didn't…" Her throat closed up and she sucked in a breath. "I mean… nothing happened did it?"
He arched an eyebrow. "You mean you don't remember?"
Blood rushed to her cheeks and her eyes grew wide.
"Oh, God. No. We didn't." Her heart pounded in her chest.
His clear blue eyes grew serious.
"Don't worry. Nothing happened. But…"—he stroked a finger lightly across her cheek, sending her insides fluttering—"would it really be so bad if it had?"
Relief rushed through her, but his blue eyes held her mesmerized.
"I… uh… It's just that…" Oh, God, she didn't know where to go with this.
Then suddenly his mouth was on hers. His firm, full lips coaxing. He drew her closer and the feel of his body the length of hers, his tongue nudging at her lips, sent her pulse skyrocketing. She opened and he glided inside. She melted against his solid body as their tongues entwined, his mouth moving on hers in a passionate play of power where he was totally in control.
And she was loving it.
As a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of erotic contemporary romance, Opal Carew writes about passion, love, and taking risks. Her heroines follow their hearts and push past the fear that stops them from realizing their dreams… to the excitement and love of happily-ever-after.
Opal loves crystals, dragons, feathers, cats, pink hair, the occult, Manga artwork, Zentangle, and all that glitters. She earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and spent 15 years as a software analyst before turning to her passion as a writer. She grew up in Toronto, and now lives in Ottawa with her husband and three cats. One of her sons just finished a Masters degree at Sussex University in the UK and is now pursuing a second Masters at Carleton University in Ottawa. The other son just finished his undergraduate degree at Carleton University. Yes, mom is proud!


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[awasMIFEE note: as the indigenous people of Sorong, Nabire, Merauke and elsewhere around Papua continue to resist oil palm expansion, there now appears to be some hope that the government is responding. It appears that President Joko Widodo's comments last April that he was preparing a moratorium on all new oil palm permits are being followed up. Professor San Afri Awang, the Director-General of Forestry Planology and Environmental Governance, has stated that "We have rejected and terminated the licensing process for all new palm oil plantations submitted by 61 companies for an area of more than 851 thousand hectares." All 61 applications were from Papua, West Papua and Central Kalimantan provinces. The President is reportedly preparing a Presidential Instruction to give a legal framework for the moratorium. Of course, until this is published and we see how it is being implemented, it is not possible to know how much meaningful change this policy might bring]
Hundreds of indigenous people and activists from a range of backgrounds, demonstrated at the Sorong Regency District Legislative Council to demand a stop to the expansion of oil palm which has already destroyed thousands of hectares of forest in the area.
This action is also to show their support for the central government which last month started talking about a moratorium on new land for oil palm in Indonesia.
"All work on oil palm plantations across Sorong Regency must be stopped, because thousands of hectares of the people's forest has already been destroyed", participants shouted out during speeches outside the council building.
The indigenous people and activists which have joined the movement to oppose land clearing for oil palm are comprised of young Moi intellectuals, the Malamoi Indigenous People's Association and Moi people who care for the Malamoi forest, youth and student movements (GMNI, GAMKI, GMKI, the Association of Moi students in Sorong Muhammadiyah University (Himamus) and the Moi Students' Association in Indonesia (Himamsi)). The action started on foot from the public ground in Aimas, the Sorong Regency capital.
The chair of the Sorong Branch of the Indonesian National Student Movement, Manu Mobalan stated that they were also opposing new land for oil palm as a protest against the behaviour of existing oil palm plantations in Sorong, which have destroyed the forest in the area.
"The oppression of ordinary people is increasing, which means we need a opposition movement to save the Malamoi forest. Investors do not look after the interest of oppressed people", said Manu.
Wilson Mobalen, a demonstrator, stressed that all people should have the right to self determination in their home country, which means they can do withoutd oil palm.
"Our fate is not determined by oil palm but by God. Forest and Nature have taught and raised us. Oil palm is not the right recipe for Papuan people, especially the Moi people. God is the one who decides our fate", he said.
The demonstration took place under the surveillance of hundreds of officers from the Sorong Regency police station. Once they had communicated their demands, the crowds dispersed in an orderly way.
Separately, Greenpeace forest campaigner, Richard Charles Tawaru said that essentially, the indigenous people's demonstration had underlined that the community did not want any more oil palm expansion in Sorong Regency.
"The people have had bad experiences with oil palm, which has brought no benefits, but has caused the forest to disappear along with animals for hunting, and water sources are reduced," Charles said when called from Manokwari last night.
The demonstrators used the example of two oil palm companies that are already operating in the area, PT Henrison Inti Persada, which started its plantation in Klamono in 2006 and PT Inti Kebun Sejahtera, which has been in the Salawati area since 2008.
The demo was also to show community opposition to plans to clear another 24000 hectares of land for oil palm in the area, which had already been granted an in-principle permit by the government.
The planned expansion would take place in Klaili, Klasow and Moraid sub-districts, by two companies from the same group: PT Mega Mustika Plantation has permits for over 9300 hectares and PT Cipta Papua Plantation has permits for over 15000 hectares.
According to Charles, these permits originated in the Sorong Regency Forest Management Unit(KPH) scheme which was suggested by the Sorong local government and agreed to by the forestry ministry. Chalres said that even the forestry ministry had granted permits for this vast new oil palm project.
Source: Cahaya Papua http://www.cahayapapua.com/tolak-ekspansi-sawit-masyarakat-adat-dan-aktivis-geruduk-dprd-sorong/


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The Tesla Roadster is a rocket. And all-electric, too
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How the ranch came into existence and continues to operate today after all these years is a fascinating story of determination and survival. Historian Glenn Justice used many primary sources and oral interviews to tell the story of this now famous Texas ranch.
Cattle and Dudes: A Family History of the Prude Ranch 1897-1997 is now available on Amazon as an E-book. For more information or to order go to: http://www.amazon.com/Cattle-Dudes-Fami ... le%26dudes
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David Dorward arrived in Borden County in 1892. He was born December 15, 1872 in Burleson County Texas to David and Anna Dorward. In 1893 David began working as a wagon cook for the Square and Compass Ranch. A year later he went to work for the Magnolia Land and Cattle Company. In 1901 David became a businessman when he opened the Dorward Drug on the courthouse square in Gail, Texas.
Gail was a thriving community in the early 1900's. A week after opening his drug store, he married Minnie Russell who taught school in Gail. To this union came three sons, Russell, Maurice and Kelvin. David did home study for his pharmacist license and had it issued by the Texas Board of Pharmacy on September 17, 1907.
Doward supplied prescriptions for two local physicians, Dr. James Prince and Dr. John H. Hannabass. As the little town began to dwindle in population Doward"s Drug became the meeting place of the community by providing over the counter medicines, refreshments, and even ice for the old time iceboxes of the day. When the local telephone switchboard closed in 1918, Doward's Drug had the only telephone serving Gail and the surrounding farms and ranches until the 1950's. Telephone messages received by Mr. Dorward at the store would be delivered to local residents or to outlying farms and ranches. David Dorward also served by holding the offices of county treasurer and later served as Borden County Judge.
David and Minnie became strong proponents of the Christian faith. David taught adult Sunday school classes for thirty years and Minnie taught classes for over fifty years. Their dedication left a legacy to the residents of Borden County. After their passing, the Doward Drug building went through many years of neglect until 2012 when R. D. "Buster" and Jean Creighton Taylor acquired the property. Much back breaking work ensued hauling away junk that had accumulated around the property. Jean and Buster were able to salvage the original walls, ceiling, shelving, soda machine and safe from eventual destruction. The pharmacy counter and samples of medicines and many other Dorward treasures may be viewed at the Borden County Museum.
The dedication of the Dorward Drug historical marker will take place on Saturday, June 21 at 2 p.m. in Gail A reception will follow at the Borden County Event Center. For more information contact Lisa Mahler at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lisa Mahler
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I am most pleased to announce my book "Little Known History Of The Texas Big Bend: Documented Chronicles From Cabeza De Vaca To The Era Of Pancho Villa" is now available in an E-Book edition at Amazon.
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Additional Amazon E-Book titles from Rimrock Press are coming soon!
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Some ten years ago when I first got the idea to do an online blog about Texas history I had no idea how many folks might be interested in such a focus. Last month Glenn's Texas History Blog set a new record for readership. According to my latest site analytics in August, 38,764 readers worldwide searched out and read at least one page of the blog. This is an average of 1,250 readers per day. Some 18,871 of these readers are located in the United States followed by 4,275 in the United Kingdom, 3,302 in China, 1,013 in Canada, 567 in the Ukrain, 242 in France, 173 in Germany, 138 in Russia, 109 in Australia, with numerous other readers in Japan, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain and Singapore. A number of these overseas readers are U. S. service men and women stationed around the world.
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On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 08:48 PM, Sanjay Nasta wrote:
I thought your readers might be interested in the Texas Historical Marker App for the iPhone. The Texas Historical Landmarks app gives you access to detailed historical information to over 14,000 historical markers designated by the Texas Historical Commission.
We built this app because when driving through Texas, I always wondered what a historical marker on the side of the road said, I didn't always have time to stop and look at each marker. We decided to build this app to answer that question and to help educate people about our state's rich history.
The app provides an easy to use map interface that allows you to pinpoint what historical markers are close to you, retrieve driving directions to each marker, keep a tally of the markers you have visited, and even record photos at each visited marker. While traveling, you even have the ability to receive notifications anytime you are closing in on a landmark.
Texas Historical Landmarks is currently available in the app store at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/texas-historical-landmarks/id598634992?mt=8
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Dear Friends and Members of the West Texas Historical Association (WTHA)
It is not often that we have news that needs to be sent forward by itself owing to its importance. Many of us who love history and are involved in this association and others like it occasionally rue the seemingly diminished awareness of history. However, there is a center of history excellence alive and well in the heartland of West Texas that is incubating and nurturing the love of history in the next generation. Mr. Richard LaMascus a Social Science Teacher at Hereford High School has guided an award winning Special Projects social science program that has exhibited state and national excellence. The WTHA encountered him with his students at a recent Quanah Parker Trail installation where one of them, Matthew Wilhelm, helped organize and raise money for the arrow installation. He is a member of a much larger program that built on the good work of long-time educator and school board member Carolyn Waters.
The current Special Projects program has expanded the horizon of social studies among the high school students in Hereford, Texas. The list of accomplishments are extensive and they include Hereford winning the Texas UIL Team Social Science Championship two of the last four years and one student, Andrew White, took first place this year at State with his Interpretive Web Site--Devils Rope [barbed wire]-- and advanced to the National History Day Competition in College Park Maryland. Mr. LaMascus said that West Texas is a hot-bed for educational excellence, ". . . our region encompassing El Paso to Fort Worth including the entire Texas Panhandle has been the most competitive in the State of Texas."
Congratulations to the students and teachers at Hereford ISD. All of West Texas applauds you. For LaMascus' comments about the Hereford High School Special Projects Social Science program please see the note below.
Best wishes, Tai
Tai Kreidler
Executive Director
West Texas Historical Assn
E. Richard LaMascus
Hereford high School
Social Studies Department Head
UIL Academic Coach
Thank you for your interest in the History program here at Hereford High School. My name is Richard LaMascus and I am starting my 14th year as a Social Studies Teacher at Hereford High School and my second year as the High School's Social Studies Department Head. One of the first people I met upon moving to Hereford is Carolyn Waters. She has been and continues to be a wonderful teacher/mentor, school board member, and supporter of the History programs in and around Deaf Smith County.Reflecting on the photos taken of last year's Special Topic's History group, I truly did not realize how much we participated in and/or accomplished this past school year. Among the places visited and programs participated in include:
•Museum of the Plains – Perryton TX, Lecture and question and answer session with S.C. Gwynne, Author of "Empire of the Summer Moon".
•Presentations to Hereford's Lion's Club twice, and the Quanah Parker Trail committee.
•Touring the Crosby County Museum, Deaf Smith County Museum, Panhandle Plains Museum, Palo Duro Canyon and Blanco Canyon.
•We visited and toured several Texas Forts including: Fort Phantom Canyon in Abilene, Fort Concho in San Angelo, Fort McKavett outside of Menard TX, and the still being excavated Spanish Presidio along the San Saba River.
•We competed in several different area, state, and national contests including: The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Columbus essay writing contest, and in History Day and UIL Academic competitions in Canyon, Lubbock, Abilene, Austin, and College Park Maryland. Andrew White and I also spent three days touring Washington D.C., Gettysburg PA, and Harpers Ferry WV.
•Eagle Scout Matthew Wilhelm helped organize and raise money for the Quanah Parker Trail Arrows placed in Hereford.
Two years ago, Hereford High School began a Special Topics/Research class aimed at providing an option for but not exclusive to GT students' grades 10 thru 12. The TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) for this class encourage students to research, analyze, and create projects under the Social Studies theme. Simply put, we research analyze and write at a much deeper level than our normal survey classes. We began creating projects for the Texas History Day competition where the requirements for research, annotated bibliographies, and in-depth study fit perfectly with the requirements for this class. The students also study and work towards our UIL Competitions specifically, Current Issues and Events, and Social Studies.
Each of the past two years, Hereford High School has qualified seven to eight students to the Texas History Day competition in Austin Texas. This past May one student, Andrew White, took first place at State with his Interpretive Web Site entitled "The Devil's Rope" advancing to the National History Day Competition in College Park Maryland. His success has inspired many of my Special Topics students to give it their all this upcoming year wanting to equal or surpass what this fine young man accomplished in 2013.
I also have the privilege of coaching our State winning UIL Social Studies Team. We have won almost every competition entered the past seven years. Our accomplishments include:
•Seven straight District Championships and numerous invitational tournament championships.
•Three Regionals Championships where for the past decade, our region encompassing El Paso to Fort Worth including the entire Texas Panhandle has been the most competitive in the State of Texas
•Five straight years qualifying for the UIL State Academic Tournament winning two State Championships in 2010 and 2013.
Our assigned topics varied greatly including the American Revolution, The Supreme Court, Sub-Saharan Africa, American Civil War, US Space Exploration, Latin America, and last year's Native American History. This year's topic may be the most challenging yet, Australia and Oceania; with the assigned book, "Commonwealth of Thieves" the Birth of Australia, by Thomas Keneally. Many top students in Hereford High School will once again compete for one of the final four spots on this great Academic team.
Just a note, over the past decade, Hereford's UIL Social Studies team has included many of our Valedictorians and Salutatorians and numerous others who have gone on to prestigious universities including the Air Force Academy, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, and of course Texas Tech. Five or more students from past teams have entered Texas Tech's Honor's program majoring in Engineering. Student scholarships are far too numerous to count.
http://www.notevenpast.org/websites/devils-rope Andrew White's Website as discussed in Not Even Past
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The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC/SCL) at Texas Tech University announces the availability of the Big Spring Herald online at http://collections.swco.ttu.edu/. In a cooperative project between the Howard County Library and the SWC/SCL, the newspaper is available to anyone who has access to the worldwide web. In addition, to the Big Spring Herald, the Big Spring Enterprise from 1908 to 1911 is also available.
Many thanks go to Ms. Hollis McCright, Director of the Howard County Library, Ms. Jennifer Spurrier, Assoc Dean of the SWC/SCL, Ms. Freedonia Paschall, Coordinator of Newspaper Digitization, and Matt McKinney, Director of SWC/SCL IT.For more information on the newspaper digitization project at the Southwest Collection please phone or email the Newspaper Digitization Group at 806-742-3749 and ask for Ms. Freedonia Paschall(email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>), Tai Kreidler(email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>) or Jennifer Spurrier (email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>).
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Dear Friends and Members of the Association:
Please find a message below from one of our members asking for assistance in lobbying to have sufficient budget for the Texas State Archives and Records Commission to properly preserve official digital documents. Apparently, the welfare of digital records are at risk and the matter has been languishing for a number of years until the recent vote that is looming.
As one of the supporters of the states I made the analogy that if Travis had written his letter 10 years ago in a digital format it's likely it would no longer exist in Texas.
Please review the note below and help if you are able.
Best wishes, Tai
Tai Kreidler
West Texas Historical Assn
Dear Historical Association members and leaders,
Now is the time for all concerned with Texas future and immediate past to come to the aid of the Texas State Archives and Records Commission (TSLAC). I received an urgent recommendation from a well-versed legislative source that we should QUICKLY muster all supporters to call the offices of Texas Senator Tommy Williams and Representative Jim Pitts and recommend passage of the special budget item pertaining to the need for developing an electronic archive.
1. As of now, the Texas State Legislature is not providing funds in the appropriations bill that the TSLAC needs for the preservation of electronic records designated as permanent by law or by regulation.
2. This is at least the seventh session that this budgetary request has been deferred, i.e. kicked down the road.
3. We have been losing electronic records since the 1980s with the situation being so bad that we do not know the totality of what is irretrievably lost or what is at risk. But, we know that the records include databases, e-mails, and reports submitted digitally. And, we know that all oil and gas reports are all now electronic. The situation is so bad, that the State Archives cannot receive the legislative archives electronically.
4. Edmund Burke taught us that it is governments duty to preserve national monuments. Texas PERMANENT electronic records are monuments to our State and to our era and the State Legislature should ensure their preservation.
Please call the following numbers: Mr. Rob Orr, at 512-463-0370, who is the liaison for Texas Senator and Finance Committee Chair Tommy Williams, and
Ms. Brady Vaughn, at 512-463-1096, who is the liaison for Texas Representative and Appropriations Chair, Jim Pitt on the House side.
Follow the protocol below:
1. State your name, residence, and the organization that you represent.
2. Ask to speak with the given representative or their legislative and budgetary liaison.
3. Then tell that individual that: State agencies are creating records in electronic formats that must be retained permanently for legal, administrative and historical reasons. Right now, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission has no means of transferring and preserving these records. TSLAC needs the exceptional item funding of $450,000 for the biennium to begin developing a digital archive in order to transfer, manage, preserve and provide access to those records in accordance with state law.
4. Thank them for their time and kindly ask that your comments be passed along the representatives on the budget conference committee for their consideration.
Thank you for your assistance and for your prompt action in regard to these important matters.
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A Brief Chronicle of Presidio del Norte: Homeland of the Jumano is a book about the La Junta de los Rios region that became known as, Presidio del Norte which includes a large portion of West Texas as well as Northeastern Chihuahua and Northwestern Coahuila, Mexico. The book includes notations of an archaic Spanish document that was translated in 1936. It provides insight into the events and lives of people who lived in the region. The translated chronicle includes information from between 1775 and 1859 during the years surrounding Mexico's independence from Spain and when West Texas officially became a part of the rest of Texas and the United States. Very little is known about West Texas during these times, which alone makes this book historically significant.
This preface, introduction and conclusion provide an additional history of the West Texas region that corresponds with the chronicle from the standpoint of its native populations. As such the book takes into account the native Jumano, Apache, Comanche and Mexican-American view of local and regional events as well as genealogical content.
With the addition of local traditional knowledge an opportunity is presented to reevaluate existing facts and issues, to promote peace and understanding, as well as establish mutual respect and acknowledgment of all people.
Israel Mendoza de Levario is a native of the La Junta region. His first publication was in 1996: Old Texas's Chile Cuisine. He was born in Pecos and, after the age of six, raised in Odessa, Texas. He is part of the last generation who grew-up with people born in the 1800's and early 1900's. As such, he learned about his past while literally and figuratively sitting on his grandmother's knee. Israel began investigating his family tree and ancestry in 1987, which expanded to include the history of the La Junta region (West Texas). An important part of his research involved interviewing elderly natives. In this regard, Israel is a person who was touched by the last generation of people who lived very much in the old ways and he has searched for answers that allow him to understand himself, his family, and the heritage of people in the La Junta region.
For about 10 years he assisted Professor Estella Diaz, Director of the Pancho Villa Museum in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico preserving regional and local history. Israel also played an important
role in and provided valued resources for the establishment of a new museum in Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Sources relevant to the rich and ancient history of the La Junta region are scattered and the history of the native people has generally been neglected, making it difficult for one person alone to gather all the information. Consequently, in 1989 Israel focused on establishing a museum with a research center in Presidio, Texas, but although deserving, the community at that time could not support such a project.
From 1999-2001 Israel directed a second project to establish a museum/research center in Odessa, Texas. With exception of the mayor of Odessa and a few others, community leaders were
not ready to support such a project, although Israel has not given up the vision of its establishment. During that period, Israel also played a role in developing relations, cultural exchange, economic and tourism expansion between Ojinaga and Chihuahua City government officials in Mexico with Olivia Wilson, Curator of the White Pool House Museum, businesses, and the former mayor Bill Hext of Odessa, Texas.
Author: Israel Mendoza de Levario
Bilingual: English / Spanish
Cover, Reproduction of Watercolor Painting by Feather Radha
1-Map, 4 Map Illustrations, 2 Line Drawings, 8.5 x 11, 148 pages
Publisher: La Junta Press, P.O. Box 18001, Austin, Texas 78760
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I just finished reading a new book; "Coyame A History Of The American Settler" by Dr. Francisco Javier Morales Natera. Although this is a first book for Dr. Morales who is an optometrist presently living in Andrews, it is a most interesting regional history and one that very much needed to be done.
Morales was born in Chihuahua City and raised in Odessa. He traces family roots beginning in the tiny community of Coyame located a short distance west of the Texas-Mexican border in northern Chihuahua. The author spent more than a decade researching the history of the Coyame area and the fascinating past lived there by his ancestors. Morales offers his readers a refreshing view of history offered from the Mexican perspective.
According to Morales, Coyame had human presence for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish. People were attracted to the place by fertile soil and a plentiful supply of water. The Mexican Conchos River flows just outside Coyame and pre-European natives used the river as a route to find their way through the rugged Chihuahuan Desert. In later times the Spanish also made use of this important Concho River route to the Rio Grande. Coyame has a rich and remarkable past and Dr. Morales has done a fine job of chronicling its story. Having said that I should also point out that the author's research efforts are somewhat diminished by his use of most unconventional references. Also, the book could have been much better had the author chosen to include an index. The book, ISBN 978-1-4797-3453-5, is available in hard and soft cover editions as well as a Kendel e-book.
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DHAKA/YANGON — Hamid Hussain, a 71-year-old Rohingya Muslim farmer, first fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in 1992. He went home the next year under a repatriation deal between the two neighbors, only to repeat the journey last September when violence flared once more.
Officials from Myanmar and Bangladesh meet on Monday to discuss how to implement another deal, signed on Nov. 23, on the return of more than 650,000 Rohingya who have escaped an army crackdown since late August.
Hussain is one of many who say they fear this settlement may be no more permanent than the last.
"Bangladesh authorities had assured us that Myanmar would give us back our rights, that we would be able to live peacefully," said Hussain, who now lives in a makeshift refugee camp in southeast Bangladesh.
"We went back but nothing changed. I will go back again only if our rights and safety are guaranteed — forever."
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has for years denied Rohingya citizenship, freedom of movement and access to many basic services such as healthcare and education. They are considered illegal immigrants from mainly Muslim Bangladesh.
The authorities have said returnees could apply for citizenship if they can show their forebears have lived in Myanmar. But the latest deal — like the one in 1992 — does not guarantee citizenship and it is unclear how many would qualify.
Monday's meeting in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw will be the first for a joint working group set up to hammer out the details of the November repatriation agreement. The group is made up of civil servants from both countries.
Two senior Bangladesh officials who are involved in the talks acknowledged that much was left to be resolved and it was unclear when the first refugees could actually return. One of the key issues to be worked out was how the process for jointly verifying the identities of returnees would work, they said.
"Any return is chaotic and complex," said Shahidul Haque, Bangladesh's top foreign ministry official who will lead Dhaka's 14-member team in the talks. "The challenge is to create an environment conducive for their return."
Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay said returnees would be able to apply for citizenship "after they pass the verification process."
Zaw Htay added that Myanmar had proposed that a group of 500 Hindus who fled to Bangladesh and have already agreed to be repatriated, alongside 500 Muslims, could form the first batch of returnees.
"The first repatriation is important — we can learn from the experiences, good or bad," he said.
Myanmar Sets Up Camps
Bangladesh officials said they would begin the process this month by sharing with Myanmar authorities a list of 100,000 Rohingya, picked at random from among registered refugees.
Haque said Myanmar officials would vet the names against their records of residents before the August exodus, and those approved would then be asked if they wanted to go back.
Refugees without documents would be asked to identify streets, villages and other landmarks near their former homes as proof of their right to return, said Haque.
A Myanmar agency set up to oversee repatriation said in a statement on Thursday that two temporary "repatriation and assessment camps" and one other site to accommodate returnees had been set up. Myint Kyaing, permanent secretary at Myanmar's Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population, told Reuters earlier this month Myanmar would be ready to begin processing at least 150 people a day through each of the two camps by Jan. 23.
As well as checking their credentials as residents of Myanmar, he said, authorities would check returnees against lists of suspected "terrorists."
Myint Kyaing declined to comment on how long the repatriation would take but conceded the process after the 1992 agreement had taken more than 10 years.
United Nations agencies working in the camps clustered around Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, have voiced skepticism about the resettlement plans.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration said their offers to help with the process have not been taken up by the two countries.
"Further measures are needed to ensure safe, voluntary and sustainable repatriation of refugees to their places of origin and to address the underlying root causes of the crisis," said Caroline Gluck, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR in Cox's Bazar.
The UNHCR says refugees it has surveyed want guarantees that international agencies will be involved in overseeing the process and more information about the security situation in their home areas.
Who Will Go? Who Will Pay?
While many Rohingya say they want to go back to Myanmar, most of the more than a dozen who spoke to Reuters said they were scared to do so now.
"I am not going back. No one's going back," said Hafizulla, a 37-year-old Rohingya man. "We are scared to go back without any UN intervention. They can accuse us later, they can arrest us. They may accuse us of helping the militants."
The military offensive the refugees fled, which was prompted by Rohingya insurgent attacks on police and army posts, has been described by the United States and UN as ethnic cleansing. Myanmar rejects that, saying troops did not target civilians.
"You can have all the agreements in the world, and set up all the reception centers and everything, but it won't make a difference unless the conditions in Myanmar are such that people feel confident that they can go back and live in peace, and have equal rights," said a Western diplomat in Dhaka.
The second Bangladesh official, Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Mohammed Abul Kalam, said the "Rohingyas' reluctance to go back" was an issue that needed to be addressed.
He said the repatriation process would cost "millions of dollars" but funding details had not yet been agreed and were not expected to be discussed at Monday's meeting.
Japan, one of Myanmar's biggest aid donors, said on Friday it was giving an emergency grant of around $3 million to help with the return of the Rohingya.


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We often hear the nation's infrastructure is crumbling, but state highway conditions are the best they've been in 19 years, according to Reason Foundation's 19th Annual Highway Report. Unfortunately, the recession is partly responsible for the improvement in road conditions: people are driving less which has helped slow pavement deterioration and reduced traffic congestion and fatalities.
The annual Reason Foundation study measures the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-owned roads in 11 categories, including deficient bridges, urban traffic congestion, fatality rates, pavement condition on urban and rural Interstates and on major rural roads, and the number of unsafe narrow rural lanes. National performance in all of those key areas improved in 2008, the most recent year with complete data available.
Drivers in California, Minnesota, Maryland, Michigan and Connecticut are stuck in the worst traffic. Over 65 percent of all urban Interstates are congested in each of those five states. But nationally, the percentage of urban Interstates that are congested fell below 50 percent for the first time since 2000, when congestion standards were revised.
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Rhode Island has the most troubled bridges in the country, with over 53 percent of bridges deficient. For comparison, just 10 percent of top-ranked Nevada's bridges are rated deficient. Across the country, over 141,000 (23.7 percent) of America's bridges were structurally deficient or functionally obsolete in 2008, the lowest percentage since 1984.
With the recession reducing driving, and engineering improving road design and car safety features, traffic fatalities have steadily fallen to the lowest levels since the 1960s. Massachusetts has the safest roads with just 0.67 fatalities per 100 million miles driven. Montana and Louisiana have the highest fatality rates, at 2.12 and 2.02 fatalities per million miles driven.
Overall, North Dakota, Montana and Kansas have the most cost-effective state highway systems. Rhode Island, Alaska, California, Hawaii and New York have the least cost-effective roads. The full Annual Highway Report rankings are:
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California also squanders a massive amount of transportation money that never makes it onto roads, spending $93,464 in administrative costs for every mile of state road. New York ($89,194 per mile), Massachusetts ($71,982), and New Jersey ($62,748) also compare poorly to states like Texas ($6,529) and Virginia ($6,370) that spend dramatically less on administrative costs.
"We're seeing several factors combine to produce significant improvement in highway conditions," said David T. Hartgen, author of the report and emeritus professor of transportation studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. "Over the last several years, states invested a lot more money to improve pavement and bridges. Spending increased 8 percent from 2007 to 2008, and per-mile spending on state roads has almost tripled since 1984, so you'd hope and expect to see improved performance. As pavement gets better, roads are widened and bridges get repaired, you'd also expect safety to improve. And the significant reduction in vehicle miles traveled during the recession has also played a role in slowing system decay. But as the states run short of money and deal with large budget deficits, we'll see if this progress can be continued."
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China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.
The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometre journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven and a half hours, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Work on the project began in 2005 as part of plans to expand a high-speed network aimed at eventually linking Guangzhou, a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, with the capital Beijing, Xinhua added.
"The train can go 394.2 kilometres per hour, it's the fastest train in operation in the world," Zhang Shuguang, head of the transport bureau at the railways ministry, told Xinhua.
Test runs for the service began earlier in December and the link officially went into service when the first scheduled train left the eastern metropolis of Wuhan on Saturday.
By comparison, the average for high-speed trains in Japan was 243 kilometres per hour while in France it was 277 kilometres per hour, said Xu Fangliang, general engineer in charge of designing the link, according to Xinhua.
Beijing has an ambitious rail development programme aimed at increasing the national network from the current 86,000 kilometres to 120,000 kilometres, making it the most extensive rail system outside the United States.
China unveiled its first high-speed line at the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 -- a service linking the capital with the port city of Tianjin.
In September, officials said they planned to build 42 high-speed lines by 2012 in a massive system overhaul as part of efforts to spur economic growth amid the global downturn.
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