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"What's Your Preferred Gender Pronoun?"
Here's something that happened to me last month: I got asked my preferred gender pronoun.
For those who aren't familiar, this is a thing that tends to happen a lot at queer-positive conferences and gatherings these days. When you go around the room at the beginning of a session, you'll say your name, something about yourself, maybe answer an ice-breaker question, and state your preferred gender pronoun.
It can be he/him, she/her, they/their, or one of the newer invented substitutes like ze or hir. Or, you can say you'd prefer to be referred to by your name.
I first encountered this tradition in 2011, I think. Maybe 2010. Most likely it was at a United States Student Association conference. The not-so-radical-anymore idea behind it is that respecting people's gender identity is important, and volunteering your identity can be awkward, and misgendering someone is hurtful. So rather than guessing, or asking individual people to speak up if their preferences are non-standard or non-obvious, you just go around the room.
So I've been asked my preferred gender pronoun before.
But this was different. This was at a party. In a one-on-one conversation.
It was the middle of the evening, and I'd been chatting with someone — a college student — for ten or fifteen minutes, over by the snacks. And at some point, as an aside, like asking me what borough I lived in, they asked what my preferred gender pronoun was.
I'm six foot three. I have short hair. That night I was wearing jeans and a button-down, and I don't think I'd shaved. The question wasn't about my self-presentation, is what I'm saying. It wasn't specifically about me at all. It was about a new way of interacting, a new way of thinking that is on its way to becoming ubiquitous among young people — and far quicker than I could ever have imagined.
Every few months, doing the kind of work I do, I encounter another artifact of this sort of change. It can be a little discombobulating. But when I told this story to a friend a few days ago, and he rolled his eyes, I surprised myself a little with the vehemence of my response.
Because it was actually a great question that I was asked that night. It was an exciting question.
I'm a "he." I've always thought of myself as a he, and I expect I always will. I'm a man, I'm a guy, I'm a dad, I'm a son, I'm a brother.
But in that moment, I got to choose.
I was asked to choose, asked to pick whether for the duration of that conversation I wanted to be approached as a he or as something else. And I knew that whatever answer I gave, it would be honored, respected, taken seriously. And that recognition, far more than any of the rote rounds of he/she/they/ze responses I've seen given at the start of workshops, opened something up in me.
It wasn't a door — at least not a door I was tempted to walk through — but it was a window.
And I liked the view.
This post was previously published at studentactivism.net


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FREE Apple Themed Back to School Party Printables
FREE Apple & Classroom Themed Back to School Party PrintablesWe'll be away at the end of this week and when we come back it's straight back into the School routine, so I thought I'd get organised and designed the Back To School party printables and some other goodies before we leave...
Did you lie this post and the freebies? Feel free to PIN it! ;)
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Que lindos, Cris! Obrigada por compartilhar.ReplyDelete
Realmente, nossos pintinhos crescem rápido! E o ninho vai ficando vazio... É a vida.
Um beijão pra vc.
Wow these are adorable! I love the book name tags!ReplyDelete
You makes the cutest printables!ReplyDelete
These are way way CUTE!ReplyDelete
My youngest is fixing to turn 13 and she'd kill me if I used them..lol.
Hoever, noww that I think about it...I do have some great neices and nephews I could use these for.
Thanks for sharing!
I guess they are more fun for the younger kids! ;DReplyDelete
If you guys use it, come back and show them?!
These are way cute!! I love the Teachers Pet labels! :D I am your newest follower of your delightful blog and I hope you stop by Frou Frou Decor..I love new friends! I would also love to invite you to link up to my Fabulous Friday Finds party, every Friday! Hope to see you there!!ReplyDelete
~Terrell @ FFD~
By the far the cutest "Back to school" printables I've seen! Printables have become my favorite in party planning!!ReplyDelete
Cheers Kim! :)ReplyDelete
Terrell, sure will! Thanks for following and for the sweet words!
J. thank you! Glad you like them!
More printables in my Etsy shop ;)
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Love them :)ReplyDelete
Cris, amei a latinha com material escolar!!!!! Que coisa mais fofa! Aliás, todas as peças são liiindas demais! Parabéns pelo enorme talento! Beijão!ReplyDelete
Such a cute stuff! I wish my boys were younger so I could use some of these. :-)ReplyDelete
I'd love for you to add your ideas to my other blog, It's A Blog Party. I host a different linky everyday, Mondays are all about crafts and DIY projects!
So cute! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM
thanks!! i've been looking for more apple stuff for my son's birthday party :) he's going to be 1!! eek!!ReplyDelete
Aww, these are so, so cute! Thanks so much for the freebies. I'll be spreading the word.ReplyDelete
Hi there! I came over from Creative Therapy. These are soooo cute! I think you have inspired me to have a Back to Tot School Party for my boys! I have you bookmarked and I will definitely be back to look around some more. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Vibranttranquil, that's a Great age! :)ReplyDelete
Rachel, my love thank you so much! You're a star!
Jacques and everyone: if you throw a Back to School Party, I'd love to see!! :)
just printed me off some..to die for cute!ReplyDelete
A minha caçulinha tb esta començando o kindergarten amanha.....aff...meu coração está na mao....tão pequenina :(ReplyDelete
Adorei os printables...sooooo cute!!!
Love you,
How cool...you always make such a beautiful things! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Your printables for back to school are awesome! Wish I'd seen this when I posted my recent blog on Teacher Gifts. I'd added a feature on yours!! - KarenReplyDelete
Oi, Cris,ReplyDelete
Tudo lindoo! Como sempre!
Ah...é verdade, eles crescem muito rápido! Já estou preparando a festa de 20 anos da minha filha mais velha...passou tão rápido, que eu nem senti,rsrs!
Ah, quando tiver um tempinho vai lá no blog ver as minhas pinturas indianas,rsrs!
Adorable! Love all your stuff! I would love to share my cakes!ReplyDelete
Thanks ladies! :)ReplyDelete
I love these! So cute!ReplyDelete
thank you for these! sooo adorable!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM
You are a favorite at last week's It's Party Time Thursday at PonyTails&FishScales! Bling up your blog with an I ROCK! button! Thanks for sharing your awesomeness!ReplyDelete
So cute! Thanks for sharing your wonderful creations. Hope the first day of school goes well for your little one. :) LanaReplyDelete
You're so creative! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
TY so much .... these are stunning!ReplyDelete
Rachel :)
Thanks so much for this awesome freebie. I've featured it in my latest round up of back to school ideas: http://www.mydeliciousambiguity.com/2010/08/free-back-to-school-printables.htmlReplyDelete
If I haven't said it enough, you are a party rock star!ReplyDelete
I'm making *fingers crossed* apple cake pops for the first day of school for our front-desk ladies and I'll be using your printables, of course I will link back with pix!
Jenn, thank you sweetie!ReplyDelete
Apple cake pop?!! YUM!! Come back and share? :)
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 8:16 PM
I cant download to my computer :(ReplyDelete
No, but you can print it still! We had to do this because some of our designs were being "tampered" with! Hope you can understand... :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this post.ReplyDelete
These are SO adorable I want to print them but they are not printing for me and there is no option to actually download them. Just brings me to a page that shows them and gives me the option to print. Do you have these in a pdf format that I can actually save to print from and use again at another time?ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing such a lovely set!
HI Rachel, did you click on the "print" button? I have just printed a copy without any problem...Please email me and I see what I can do ok?ReplyDelete
Love, love love! Thanks so much! It's gong to make back to school that more fun!ReplyDelete
I love these printables, but when I print the scrapbook background sheet, it is not the proper scale. Is there a way to adjust the scale or can I download it to my computer. Your printables are by far the best I have seen. Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Melissa, thanks for the sweet word! :)Delete
You have to ensure the print scaling on your printer reads "none" otherwise it will automatically re-size the page.
let me know if this helps?


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Contrary to what the title of this post may have led you to believe, this post is about bread. Specifically, a bread I baked for making toast. And sandwiches, but that is not the point.
When I was a kid, my father made me a sandwich every day to take to school in my lunch bag. He bought a loaf of bread over the weekend and I got the same bread for the whole week. Sometimes it was buttermilk, sometimes multi-grain or hawaiian. But I was always intrigued when he brought home potato bread. It certainly didn't taste like potatoes. It seemed to bear no resemblance to them. Puzzling though it was, it was good bread – quite soft, though it never got mushy, and with a mildly sweet flavor. When we had this bread around I always had toast for breakfast. Crispy on the outside and slightly soft on the inside, potato bread seemed to be the perfect toasting bread. I liked it with butter and cinnamon-sugar.
Wanting to reminisce, I looked up potato breads and was slightly surprised to discover that they involved nothing more than adding potato flour, instant potato flakes or a mashed up baking potato to my dough. It seems that potatoes keep the bread moist and tender. So. I baked up a loaf of toasting bread.
It lived up to my expectations with a fairly open but very even crumb and a moist interior. I baked a bit of the dough off as dinner rolls, which were excellent, and saved the loaf for recreating my childhood.
Here's the recipe. Use it for toast:
Potato Bread
1/4 cup warm water (110F)
1 packet active dry yeast
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
2 1/2 cups ap flour
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp oil or butter (optional)
Extra milk for brushing top of loaf (optional)
Combine yeast with 1/4 cup warm water until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Add yeast mixture to milk, water, potato, 1 cup flour, oil and salt in an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mixing on a low speed, add remaining flour until dough comes away from the sides of the bowl. Add a bit more flour, if necessary.
Knead by hand on a floured surface until elastic and smooth, about 5 minutes.
Place dough in a lightly greased bowl to rise until doubled, 1 – 1 1/2 hours.
Gently deflate dough and shape into a rectangle. Place dough into a greased loaf pan (9X5) and let rise, covered with a dish towel, for 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375F.
Brush loaf with a bit of milk, if using. Bake loaf for 30 minutes. Remove from loaf pan and cover top of loaf with foil to prevent over-browning. Place directly on oven rack for 15 more minutes, or until bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.
Let cool before slicing. Store well wrapped.


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U Thant
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U Thant, (born Jan. 22, 1909, Pantanaw, Burma [now Myanmar]—died Nov. 25, 1974, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Myanmar educator, civil servant, and third secretary general of the United Nations (1962–71). Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and attitudes that he considered threatening to world peace.
Thant was educated at the University of Yangon (Rangoon), later the Arts and Science University, where he met Thakin Nu (afterward U Nu, who became prime minister of Myanmar in 1948). The death of Thant's father (1928) forced him to leave the university before graduation, and he returned to his hometown as a teacher at the National High School and later (from 1931) as headmaster. In 1942 he was secretary to the educational reorganization committee of the government of Japanese-occupied Burma. From 1943 to 1947 he once more was headmaster at Pantanaw.
After World War II Thant was recruited for government service by U Nu and General U Aung San, leader of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. He was appointed press director (1947), director of broadcasting (1948), and secretary of the Ministry of Information (1949). In 1952–53 he was a Myanmar (Burmese) delegate to the UN, becoming his country's permanent UN representative in 1957. He was vice president of the UN General Assembly in 1959.
After the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, the United States and the Soviet Union, failing to agree on a permanent successor, accepted U Thant as a compromise candidate for the acting secretaryship, to which he was elected on Nov. 3, 1961. On Nov. 30, 1962, he was elected permanent secretary general, and he was re-elected for five years on Dec. 2, 1966; he retired at the end of 1971. A devout Buddhist, he sought to apply the principles of detachment and concentration to the solving of international problems.
U Thant died in New York City of cancer, and his body was returned to Yangon for burial. There it became involved in a bizarre tug of war between university students, who seized it on Dec. 5, 1974, and buried it in a hastily built mausoleum in the grounds of the Arts and Science University, and police, who retrieved it by force on December 11, buried it privately, and sealed the tomb in concrete. Subsequent rioting led to the military regime's declaration of martial law in the city and to several deaths.
Thant wrote (in Burmese) books on the history of cities, the League of Nations, and Myanmar education, as well as a three-volume history of post-World War II Myanmar (1961). A collection of his public addresses and essays from 1957 to 1963 was published as Toward World Peace (1964), and View from the UN (1978), an account of his years as secretary general, was published posthumously.


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Avocado soup with orange marmalade chutney
Makes 4 cups — 4 to 6 servings
This blend of ingredients is an example of combining many flavor elements, including sweet, salty, acidic, and hot. The soup is delicious on its own, but with the topping it's decidedly memorable. Serve in small portions as a first course rather than as a main course.
For the soup
2 ripe avocados
1 cup vegetable stock, or more as needed
1 cup fresh orange juice
½ cup plain yogurt
¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves
¼ cup finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
Pinch of red pepper flakes, or to taste
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
For the chutney
3 tablespoons orange marmalade
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon minced red onion
1 clove garlic, minced
? teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
? teaspoon salt, or to taste
Puree all the soup ingredients in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate in a covered container until chilled, at least 3 hours, before serving. Thin with more vegetable stock as desired. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Meanwhile, stir together all the chutney ingredients in a small bowl; taste and adjust the seasoning. Cover and refrigerate.
Drizzle each serving with about 1 tablespoon of the chutney mixture.
Advance preparation
Refrigerate this soup and the chutney in separate covered containers for up to 2 days. Before serving, stir in vegetable stock or water to thin as desired.


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Researchers with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will next month detail a new program they hope will ratchet-up the way the military, public and private enterprise protect their networks from distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks.
+More on network World: DARPA wants to toughen-up WAN edge networking, security+
The need for such new defenses is obvious: The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in first quarter of 2015 more than doubled the number of attacks in Q1 of 2014 and attack sites are growing more dangerous, and more capable of launching attacks in excess of 100 Gbps, according to a recent Akamai Technologies State of the Internet Security report.
A clear need therefore exists for fundamentally new DDoS defenses that afford far greater resilience to these attacks, across a broader range of contexts, than existing approaches or evolutionary extensions, DARPA stated.
The DARPA program, called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) looks to :
- thwart DDoS attacks by dispersing cyber assets (physically and/or logically) to complicate adversarial targeting
- disguise the characteristics and behaviors of those assets to confuse or deceive the adversary
- blunt the effects of attacks that succeed in penetrating other defensive measures by using adaptive mitigation techniques on endpoints such as mission‐critical servers.
- Responses to DDoS attacks are too slow and manually driven, with diagnosis and formulation of filtering rules often taking hours to formulate and instantiate. In contrast, military communication often demands that disruptions be limited to minutes or less.
- Low‐volume DDoS attacks remain exceedingly difficult to identify and block with in‐line detection techniques. Even for volumetric DDoS attacks, in‐line filtering can present daunting tradeoffs between the desire for complete blockage of malicious traffic and the need to "do no harm" to legitimate communication (i.e., maximizing true positives while minimizing false positives).
- Mechanisms that rely on in‐line inspection of data flows may be problematic for handling encrypted tunnels, and pose scalability challenges as network bandwidths continue to increase.
- Defensive methods must be applicable to real‐time, transactional services as well as to cloud computing. Techniques that are only useful for protecting the storage and dissemination of quasi‐static data are insufficient.
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To: President of the United States and the United Nations
We the undersigned ask President Obama to sign an Executive Order
recognizing people displaced by Climate Change as Environmental
Refugees and grant these Environmental Refugees asylum in the United
States as permitted by Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America.
We also ask United Nations Secretary General to call a special
session of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees to change
the legal status of people displaced by Climate Change from 'Migrants'
to 'Refugees' so that these displaced Refugees may seek asylum in other
countries around the world.
(President Nasheed of the Maldives convenes a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the need for meaningful Climate Change Legislation.)


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Europe Express, a division of Europe Express Inc., was established in 1990 and has become one of the largest and most respected wholesale tour operators in the USA. As a leading wholesale travel provider to Europe for 15 years, Europe Express provides high-quality, affordable travel to not only Europe but to destinations world wide.See vacation specials on Eei Travel
Europe Express offers a wide selection of pre-packaged trips along with an extensive range of a la carte travel services for both individual and group travel. Following are some of the types of vacations available:
Europe Express's goal is to provide competitive pricing, fast and efficient service, and a profitable return for travel agents. By streamlining all facets of an international vacation, agencies working with Europe Express can complete booking quickly and easily. Booking international destinations is easy. Each member of Europe Express's staff has extensive travel expertise and trains continually to keep current with the new and changing array of products and services. To better advise agents, reservation personnel make annual trips to visit first-hand the hotels, coaches, and guides for all of Europe Express's international destinations.


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A Swedish ISP has deleted all retained customer data after European Union laws that require communications providers to retain metadata were invalidated by the EU's supreme court earlier this week. The ISP on Thursday called on other providers to do the same.
Under EU rules, telecommunications and Internet providers are required to retain data necessary to identify the subscriber, as well as traffic and location data, in order to help investigations of serious crimes and terrorism. However, the EU's Data Retention Directive was invalidated on Tuesday by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), which ruled that the directive seriously interferes with fundamental privacy rights.
The Swedish law implementing the directive is still in place, but despite that Jon Karlung, CEO of Swedish ISP Bahnhof, said he deleted all retained records and stopped collecting customer information on Wednesday after consulting his lawyers.
The verdict is clear, and means that since the directive came into force in 2006, data was wrongly collected and should be deleted, Karlung said.
"We have followed this verdict and from our point of view it is more important to protect the privacy and integrity of our customers," Karlung said. "I strongly suggest that other ISPs and service providers would follow our example," he said, adding that he thought the verdict was clear enough to do this.
The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) that monitors the electronic communications and postal sectors in Sweden has no plans to act against Bahnhof, a spokesman said. The authority is analyzing the ruling to see if national legislation is still applicable, he said.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority also has no plans yet to start an investigation, although it has the power to do so even in the absence of a police report, a spokeswoman said.
Karlung is confident that he would ultimately win any legal dispute with the authorities because the case would eventually end up at the Court of Justice of the EU, he said, adding that European law is above Swedish law.
"For the first time in a very long time there is some common sense in the European Union regarding these matters," Karlung said. "There is finally hope again."
Sweden was one of the last EU member states to transpose the Data Retention Directive into national law. In May 2013, the CJEU fined Sweden €3 million (around US$4 million) for the delay.
Asked Tuesday whether the Commission would consider paying back that fine, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said that was a possibility she would look into.


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Mariah Carey Employs Her Own Personal Umbrella-Carrier
Hey kids, make sure you get good grades in school, work hard, and one day you just may grow up to be...Mariah Carey's personal umbrella holder!
Yup, that apparently is a real job title--or, at least, a real job anyway--based on this snap of Carey in full diva mode at a Baton Rouge American Idol photo shoot Thursday. The superstar AI judge was flanked by security, including one guy whose sole chore appeared to be blocking the 85-degree afternoon sun from damaging his boss's flawless complexion.
Well, hey, if anything, we're sure this gentleman is well-paid for his work--if probably not challenged too much by it.
Carey reportedly beefed up her security after a blowout catfight with fellow AI judge Nicki Minaj earlier in the week. Her Minajesty allegedly threatened violence against Carey--however, all seemed to have gone peacefully yesterday at the shoot. At any rate, if another fight had emerged between the two alpha-female judges, at least they'd be able to duke it out in a nice shady place.
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Lee County Chambers of Commerce promote economic development and business activity. The members are local Lee County businesses. Chambers of Commerce maintain a number of different business records, including lists of their members, meeting minutes, business development policies and agendas, and membership fee documents. Chambers of Commerce operate at the federal, South Carolina State, and local Lee County level, and they may provide online access to Lee County business records.
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DSI4EU is being supported by an Advisory Board of experts from across Europe, who are providing us with feedback, support, expertise and access to networks all over the continent. Read on to find out more about the members of the Advisory Board, listed here in alphabetical order.
Elena Calistru is the chair and founder of Funky Citizens, a Romanian-based NGO. Funky Citizens builds research-based, data-driven advocacy tools. Funky Citizens' tools aim to be educational and actionable, encouraging citizens to engage in accountability and government responsibility initiatives in which they can see an impact. Elena has more than 10 years of experience in civil society projects, both at national and international level. Her expertise is mainly in the area of good governance, transparency, public finance and advocacy. She strongly believes that data and online tools can empower citizens to influence public sector reform.
Julia Kloiber is the co-founder of the Prototype Fund and Code for Germany. She develops strategies and concepts to innovate programs for the digital world. She has been running multiple projects that foster the reuse of open data and promote transparency and open source. She has put her expertise in technology, design and media studies to use for the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and as Consultant for The Engine Room. Since April 2018 she has been a Senior Fellow at Mozilla where she will be investigating emerging technologies and their influence on society.
Sandor Lederer is the Co-Founder and CEO of K-Monitor, a non-profit public funds watchdog based in Budapest. The NGO was founded to improve the levels of transparency and the rule of law in Hungary. Civic participation and technology driven solutions are among the organizations key instruments. Beside K-Monitor's tech focus, the organization is also active in anti-corruption advocacy and research. One of the recent projects K-Monitor has been working on is redflags.eu, a program that uses algorithmic indicators to analyse risky public procurements.
Clémence serves as Head of Digital and Citizen Engagement for C40. She leads on C40's digital communications strategy based on innovative campaigns, governance tools and citizen engagement to grow and strengthen C40's online community. In this capacity, Clemence builds and maintains strong relationships with C40 Mayors, digital advocates, civic and tech startups, and other key influencers. Prior to joining C40, Clémence was the Digital Director during Anne Hidalgo's Campaign in Paris and served as the Digital Strategy and Open Governance Advisor to Mayor Hidalgo where she oversaw the participatory budget innovation from its inception to its current status as the most ambitious and efficient in the world.
Rebecca is Head of Research for international digital development NGO mySociety. Rebecca holds a PhD in politics and governance, and has worked actively as a researcher for many years. Previously managing the work of the Wales Governance Centre and lecturing in Politics at Cardiff University, Rebecca was responsible for the development and establishment of mySociety's research agenda, and has spoken widely on the impacts of civic technology both at practitioner and academic conferences. Rebecca has written several respected research reports on civic technology, and has articles on politics, governance and civic tech published in a number of peer-reviewed journals. In 2016, Rebecca won the 'Best Paper Award' at the Conference for eDemocracy and Open Government, and currently serves as Co-Chair of the OGRX Editorial Board.
Anna Seravalli is a senior lecturer and design researcher at The School of Arts and Communication Malmö University. She has a background as product and service designer and holds a PhD in Design and Social Innovation. In her research, she closely collaborates with citizens, NGOs, civil servants and small entrepreneurs in the city of Malmö to explore questions of participation, collaboration, decision-making in initiatives aiming at improving environmental and social sustainability in the urban context. She is particularly interested in initiatives related to making, upcycling and alternative production practices. She is the coordinator of Malmö University DESIS Lab.
Anna is responsible for the strategic direction of the TechSoup Europe Network that consists of 24 capacity-building organizations, and serves over 400,000 registered NGOs, with over a billion-euro delivered in technology tools and philanthropic services. Her background includes employability, social enterprises, social and digital inclusion, civic technology, as well as development of friendly policies and legal environment for civil society. Anna holds master degrees in both Law and Economy and Society from Warsaw and Lancaster Universities respectively. She was a member on the Minister of Labour's Public Benefit Work Council and the Polish Prime Minister's Social Economy Task Force in Poland (under D. Tusk's administration).
Mieke van Heesewijk is program manager at SIDN Fund, an independent foundation that provides financial support for projects aimed at innovation for the Internet. Since her time at XS4ALL, Mieke has been active as policy adviser for Internet Participation at the Ministry of the Interior, program developer at Waag Society, and co-director of the Network Democracy Foundation. Mieke is a committee member at the Internet Society Netherlands and founder and board member of the whistleblowing platform Publeaks.nl and a member of the supervisory board of WPG publishers.
Christian Villum's work as Programme Director at the Danish Design Centre examining new ideas related to technology and design thinking. With a background in maker technology, new business models, sharing cultures, open data and open design, internet culture and hacktivism, he enjoys developing communities and bringing people together to share new ideas and generate change. His work explores future currents in technology from a design perspective, and includes, among other things, programs for new open source business models for manufacturing, establishment of global Fab Cities and human-centric approaches to technology. Christian's previous work includes co-founding and heading the experimental Platform4 Art & Technology hub, being a frontrunner in the use of Creative Commons content licenses, building global communities for the UK-based non-profit organisation Open Knowledge Foundation and initiating a wide range of companies and projects.
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30 November 2007
161 Meme (What Is It?)
I've been tagged? By the "161 meme" book doojiggy. My colleague Steve (www.stephendanko.com) did it. The idea is to get friends and colleagues to respond with the 6th sentence on page 161 of the current book they are reading. A little explanation usually helps! By the time I caught up to Steve's message, it fit nicely with my toying around for a blog article on the kinds of non-trade literature genealogists like to read, especially novels. While I also have two or three books on the go at once, I chose A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya.
Page 161, sentence 6: "They say it is a small victory for us." This is a quote from government apologist Ella Pamfilova in September 2004, Chairperson of Putin's (then) newly created Presidential Commission on Human Rights. Ella sees it as a another victory for "the benign nature and democratic credentials" of Vladimir Putin. She reports support from all regions for this move. Cynical journalist Anna sees the commission as an action to control the human rights movement in Russia, which Putin considers his real opposition. Putin had already marginalized political opposition in elections by restricting the registration of other parties and removing the people's right to vote for individual candidates. An outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights, Anna was murdered in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment building in 2006. Her friend Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB agent in exile in London who had urged her to flee death threats in Russia, accused the FSB of assassination. Anna was one of several free-speaking Russian journalists who have been mysteriously killed. Not long after, Litvinenko himself died from radiation poisoning placed in his teacup.
Now I wonder what these people are reading: AWCH, CDM, John Reid, Mary Anne, and Elayne. You know who you are. Just send your comment here.
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26 November 2007
St. Petersburg before the turn of the twentieth century was one of the greatest cities (THE greatest in some opinions) of Europe. It was a magnet for European intellectuals and artists and bons vivants. That's where grandma Marija Jurikas headed to find gainful employment and perhaps adventure. She might demur if I described her as a small, stubborn woman. But when middle class women were supposed to stay at home, marry well, and demonstrate domestic virtues, Marija left the family home in rural Latvia with her skills and a longing to see and be part of something new.
In 2006 I saw where Marija lived in St. Petersburg. She was employed by Baron Kusov as the family seamstress and dressmaker.A 1910 city directory described Vladimir Alexeyevich Kusov as a state councillor, a technical director of the Mariinsky Theatre, treasurer of the Emperor's Russian theatre society, and a sponsor of St. Alexander Nevsky church. His mansion is on the boulevard embankment of the Neva River on Vasilievsky Island. Marija designed and made the fashionable dresses for Kusov's wife and daughters. With a seat at the head butler's table for meals, she had high ranking in the domestic pecking order.
A short carriage ride would take Marija to the Mariinsky for some of the continent's most exciting operas and ballets. All of Kusov's household were able to take advantage of regular seating in the famed, fairytale theatre because of his position there. The Mariinsky was built in 1860
Marija was born in 1872 in Lade parish near the town of Limbazi. Limbazi is just east of Latvia's northern Gulf of Riga coast. We don't know how or where she was trained, but her workmanship was exquisite. It included not only dressmaking and designing, but related details like embroidery, smocking, crochet, tatting, knitting, and other hand crafts. She was probably in Petersburg in the 1890s and early 1900s. However, she migrated to Switzerland at some point, before embarking to visit her brothers in Canada in 1908, at the age of 36. The ship's manifest said she was 32. It's a bit of a mystery why she hadn't married by that time, but brothers Janis and Paul remedied that. They knew a handsome young Latvian man in Port Arthur, Ontario, an excellent candidate. They decided to marry in 1912. Now I know why my mother was an only child. Even though Marija's age kept slipping downwards in various documents, typically for a woman of her time, she was 41 when she gave birth.
Marija's handiwork and sense of fashion never ended, even in a Canadian "outpost." She always wore the garnet earrings which were a gift from the Kusov family. Oh how I longed for the European sophistication of pierced ears, as a child! To her daughter's dismay, she crafted her clothing by the latest Parisian styles, to the general ridicule of her conventional small-town classmates. Exquisite details were worked into the tiny dresses for grandchildren. Many of them survive, including a christening gown. She made me several dolls, the like of which I've never seen since. You turned the beautifully dressed doll upside down and a second doll appeared in a completely different outfit. The voluminous skirts hid the surprise.
Surely the next time I'm in St. Petersburg the ballet season will be on. White Nights!
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07 November 2007
All Hallows' Evening
Dia de los Muertos came and went without much ado in this corner of downtown Toronto. Little Halloween ghosties demanding trick or treat are scarce in urban high rise buildings. Is this the best we can do to remember an ancient holiday (holy day)?
In Mexico, the first two days of November (a.k.a. All Saints Day and All Souls Day in similar religious calendars) are marked with many traditions to honour the deceased. Foremost among them is the customary trek to the local cemetery to tend family monuments which may need weeding and paint and colourful paper decorations, but especially new flowers be they fresh or artificial. The exercise is in the nature of a family (and community) picnic. Depending on the locale, celebratory masses are not unusual. Nor are candlelight vigils, processions, a love for song, and perhaps fireworks displays.
How slightly dull and ancestrally-disinterested we North Americans seem in comparison.
In Mexico, the first two days of November (a.k.a. All Saints Day and All Souls Day in similar religious calendars) are marked with many traditions to honour the deceased. Foremost among them is the customary trek to the local cemetery to tend family monuments which may need weeding and paint and colourful paper decorations, but especially new flowers be they fresh or artificial. The exercise is in the nature of a family (and community) picnic. Depending on the locale, celebratory masses are not unusual. Nor are candlelight vigils, processions, a love for song, and perhaps fireworks displays.
How slightly dull and ancestrally-disinterested we North Americans seem in comparison.
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Love Card
Outside Text: You & Me
Inside Text: ...2 pervs in a pod.
Textured paper stock enhanced with gold foil
Card Size: Approx. 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" (folded)
Paper Stock: Printed on a mix of supreme quality heavyweight watercolor texture and smooth coated paper stock.
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Not Yet a 'Silent Spring,' But a Subdued One
Fewer flocks and feathers grace our skies, forests, coasts, grasslands, and deserts these days. That's not just a coincidence. As human population increases and millions of acres of natural lands and habitats are permanently altered or lost to development, the survival of our avian neighbors is threatened.


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June has been exactly like a summer storm. A bit scary, very unpredictable, fast-moving, and at times refreshing and beautiful. It has been an exhausting but inspiring month…
Norah and I spent the first half of the month consumed by TNNA! If you weren't following our updates on Twitter you can see a wonderful recap thanks to the Hello TNNA wonder team (aka Team Rav!). This was a really cool addition to the show, and an excellent way for knitters at home to get a sense of what will be hot in the upcoming year. This was definitely the most busy, exciting TNNA I've attended, and I think it is thanks to all the NEW! We were of course very happy to unveil our Fall/Winter 2010 collection but it was also really fun to participate in new programs like the TIPS [Trends, Ideas and Products] info sessions and to see some first time exhibitors, especially Ysolda who set up a booth that made it feel like you had fallen into her Flickr stream! So fun! Norah and I visited often (see if you can find us…).
The minute we got back we had a photo shoot to think about! It was pure madness for a couple of days there. Deliriously tired, we knit the last few items frantically. This is me, on "vacation" (NOTE SUN PRECAUTIONS! WEAR SPF, EVERYBODY!!):
Even after several crippling beach knitting marathons, I still didn't manage to finish before the day of the shoot! You can read the whole story here, I participated in the 2 Week Sweater Challenge that Kate at Twist Collective, who was also on deadline, dreamt up. For all the crazy stress, we ending up having a fantastic and easy photo shoot at one of our favorite Providence boutiques, Heir Antiques, which shares a space with Calico. We simply love owner/curator/raconteur Tyler's aesthetic and he couldn't be sweeter, which helps to make it a fun day rather than a draining one. Here is a sneak peek at Aidez, the sweater that was nearly in peril!
Have you made it this far?! This long post should give you some sense of how insane this month has been, and if you're still reading, it is probably safe to say you're genuinely curious about the goings-on of a design team! If SO, I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of Shannon Okey's amazing new book The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design. It includes all the stuff I have learned along the way, a lot of new things I want to work on. Honestly, just reading it reminded me how very complex this (admittedly super fun) job can be! Inspiring in so many ways.
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Shelter Island Town Justice Court, Suffolk County, New York
Handling a wide array of traffic violation cases
Paul G. Tuths handles a wide variety of traffic violation cases in the East Hampton Town Justice Court such as the following matters:
Our process
Paul Tuths takes a personal, hands-on approach to the defense of your traffic violation case. He will interview you over the telephone and through emails and review your documentation to obtain as much information as possible regarding the circumstances surrounding your moving violation. He will provide you with detailed information on how to respond to the traffic ticket and enter a plea of NOT GUILTY. After the ticket is returned to the court with a plea of not guilty, the court sets a conference date at which time Paul Tuths will appear on your behalf and discuss a proposed reduction or dismissal with the prosecutor. On most traffic violations, we are able to proceed in court without your personal appearance based upon your written authorization in order to obtain a final disposition to your traffic ticket or summons. We will prepare the authorization letter for you to sign. From start to finish, Paul Tuths will be the attorney personally handling your case. We DO NOT farm out cases to other attorneys to make our court appearances on traffic tickets. We use our years of experience in the local courts of eastern Long Island to get the best possible result for you. At the conclusion of the court case, if we have been able to proceed without your personal appearance (as is the case in most matters), Paul Tuths will contact you to advise you of the final disposition, the fine imposed by the court (unless the ticket has been dismissed) and the date by which payment of the fine is due.
We charge on a flat rate basis for our legal services on most traffic law matters. The amount of the charge depends on the number and nature of the traffic violations which the driver has received. Our flat rate charge covers all services including review of the traffic charges and driving record, consultations and correspondence with the driver, court appeareances and final wrap-up with the driver. There is no charge for an initial consultation on traffic violations. Our fee does not include any fines and surcharges which may be imposed by a court. All fines and surcharges are the sole responsibility of the driver. Payment of fines must be received at the court by the due date. If payment is not received by the due date, driving privileges will be subject to suspension by the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles.
We do accept credit cards but clients usually pay our fee with a personal check.
Contact qualified traffic violations lawyers today
Paul G. Tuths has 20 years experience representing clients in courts on traffic violations, speeding tickets and other driving related charges. Contact our Southampton office online or at 631-287-0018 to speak to Paul G. Tuths about your traffic ticket. We stand prepared to do all we can to minimize the negative repercussions of a traffic violation.


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Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources Age of Exploration
"As soon as [Vikings and Indians] met they began trading together. Most of all, these people [the Indians] wanted to buy red cloth, in return for which they had furs to offer and gray [seal] skins."
From the Saga of Eric the Red.
"Behind the king stood ten pages holding shields and swords decorated with gold and on his right are the sons of the vassal kings of his country wearing splendid garments and their hair plaited with gold."
Al Bakri, description of the court of King Tenkaminen, emperor of Ghana
"This new city [Beijing, China] is a perfect square, with each side six miles long. The wall of the city has 12 gates, 3 on each side of the square. The whole city was laid out by line. The streets are so straight that if you stand above one of the gates, you can see the gate on the opposite side of the city.... Everything that is most rare and valuable finds its way here. This is especially true of India, which supplies precious gems, pearls, and spices....
"The country [now called Indonesia] abounds with rich commodities. Pepper, nutmegs,... cloves, all other valuable spices and drugs.... The quantity of gold collected there exceeds all calculation and belief....
"Inside, the walls and halls are all covered with gold and silver and decorated with pictures of dragons and horsemen and various beasts of beasts and scenes of battle.... The hall is so vast that a meal might be served there for more than 6,000 men."
Marco Polo, whose description of the Spice Islands and the court of the Chinese emperor in his Description of the World raised European interest in the riches of East Asia.
"So abundant is the gold in his country that this lord [Mansa Musa of Mali in West Africa] is the richest and most noble king in all the land."
Spanish book of maps, which would later encourage Portugal to explore West Africa in order to open trade.
The people of Mali "are seldom unjust and have a greater abhorrence of injustice than any other people. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveler nor inhabitant... has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. They do not confiscate the property of any white man [Arab merchant] who dies in their country..... [O]n the contrary, they give into the charge of some trustworthy person among the whites, until the rightful heir takes possession of it."
Arab traveler and geographer Ibn Battuta on Timbuktu, the capital of the empire of Mali.
"As the caravel Pinta was a better sailer, and went ahead of the Admiral [Columbus], she found the land, and made the signals ordered by the Admiral. The land was first seen by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana. But the Admiral, at ten the previous night... saw a light, though it was so uncertain that he could not affirm it was land.... [T]he Admiral... admonished the men... to watch well for land; and to him who should first cry out that he saw land, he would give a silk doublet, besides other rewards promised by the sovereigns [King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain]. At two hours after midnight the land was sighted at a distance of two leagues [12 miles].
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Native Plants
Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. If you are not sure what you are looking for, try the Combination Search or our Recommended Species lists.
Clematis pitcheri
Clematis pitcheri Torr. & A. Gray
Purple Leatherflower, Purple Clematis, Leatherflower, Bluebill, Bellflower Clematis, Pitcher's Clematis
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family)
USDA Symbol: clpi
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Bluebill or leather-flower is an herbaceous, perennial vine climbing to 10 ft., or more, by means of twining petioles. Leaves are opposite, divided into 3-5 pairs of leaflets that are marked on the underside by a prominent, raised network of veins. Flowers are nodding, on long, slender stems from the leaf axil. They are dull-purple to brick-red on the outside; dark purple, red, or greenish white on the inside. The 4 sepals are petal-like, thick, and united at the base; they are recurved or only lightly spreading near the tip; petals are absent; stamens many; pistils many
The interesting flowers of Clematis pitcheri are long lasting. The plant is fairly heat and drought-tolerant. It dies to the ground in fall.
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Plant CharacteristicsDuration: Perennial
Habit: Vine
Leaf Retention: Deciduous
Leaf Arrangement: Opposite
Leaf Complexity: Pinnate
Leaf Shape: Lanceolate , Ovate
Leaf Margin: Entire
Fruit Type: Achene
Size Notes: Stems up to about 12 feet long.
Leaf: Dark dull green and nearly glabrous adaxially, shiny light green. Terminal most leaflets often twisted and acting as tendrils.
Bloom InformationBloom Color: Purple
Bloom Time: Mar , Apr , May , Jun , Jul , Aug , Sep , Oct
Bloom Notes: Petals absent. Sepals petaloid.
DistributionUSA: AR , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , MO , NE , NM , OK , TN , TX
Native Distribution: S.w. IN to e. NE, s. to TX
Native Habitat: Woodlands' edge, thickets, bluff ledges, slopes.
Growing ConditionsWater Use: Medium
Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist
Soil Description: Moist, well-drained soils. Limestone-based, Sandy, Sandy Loam, Medium Loam, Clay Loam, Clay
Conditions Comments: Thick, succulent, urn-shaped petals (which are really sepals) give purple leatherflower its name. The seeds have fluffy tails radiating out like a starburst. Stems of purple leatherflower are brittle and should be supported or tied to a trellis. The interesting flowers of Clematis pitcheri are long lasting. The plant is fairly heat and drought-tolerant. It dies to the ground in fall.
BenefitUse Ornamental: Showy, Attractive, Blooms ornamental, Twines on fences & other plants
Use Wildlife: Cover, Seeds-granivorous birds
Conspicuous Flowers: yes
Interesting Foliage: yes
PropagationDescription: Plant seed outdoors in the fall or store and stratify before planting. Single, internodal, softwood cuttings taken in summer can be rooted. Clematis spp. are also propagated by late summer layerings.
Seed Collection: Gather seeds when they are no longer green but before the cluster of achenes completely dries and drops the seeds to the ground. Remain viable up to two years without refrigeration.
Seed Treatment: Moist stratify at 41 degrees for 60-90 days. Can take a long time to germinate.
Commercially Avail: yes
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Order seed of this species from Native American Seed and help support the Wildflower Center.
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National Wetland Indicator Status
From the National Organizations DirectoryAccording to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, TX
Texas Discovery Gardens - Dallas, TX
Nueces River Authority - Uvalde, TX
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Austin, TX
NPSOT - Austin Chapter - Austin, TX
NPSOT - Williamson County Chapter - Georgetown, TX
Wildflower Center Seed BankLBJWC-803 Collected 2006-12-07 in Hays County by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
BibliographyBibref 354 - Native & Naturalized Woody Plants of Austin & the Hill Country (1981) Lynch, D.
Bibref 841 - Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants (2006) Burrell, C. C.
Bibref 318 - Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (2002) Wasowski, S. & A. Wasowski
Bibref 281 - Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas (1999) Diggs, G. M.; B. L. Lipscomb; B. O'Kennon; W. F...
Bibref 248 - Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (1984) Loughmiller, C. & L. Loughmiller
Bibref 291 - Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (1999) Damude, N. & K.C. Bender
Bibref 286 - Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country (1989) Enquist, M.
Search More Titles in Bibliography
Web ReferenceWebref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Additional resourcesUSDA: Find Clematis pitcheri in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Clematis pitcheri in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Clematis pitcheri
MetadataRecord Modified: 2022-10-17
Research By: TWC Staff, GDB


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There is no screening test recommended for the general population and the disease is notoriously resistant to chemotherapy. Pancreatic cancer is often found at an advanced stage and may not cause symptoms until it has already spread to other organs, which can mean less chance for cure.
However, in recent years there have been several new drugs for pancreatic cancer and many more are being evaluated. Researchers are collaborating to better understand the biology of pancreatic cancer and learn why it is so difficult to treat successfully. Here's what they're finding out:
- Tumors have strong fortresses: Pancreatic cancers have stroma: a tough, fibrous tissue that surrounds and permeates the tumor, making it hard for anticancer drugs to penetrate. Research studies are developing targeted drugs that can disrupt the stroma, making it easier for chemotherapy drugs to gain entry and do their work.
- There's a genetic link: Mutations in the BRCA genes (the same genes that raise breast cancer risk) can raise pancreatic cancer risk in some families. Genetic counseling is important for these individuals.
- Some people have pancreatic precancers: People with a family history of pancreatic cancer or BRCA mutations have an increased risk for the disease and may develop a precancer called pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN). Scientists are exploring new blood tests, diagnostic imaging tools and other approaches to find PIN, with the hope of developing a screening test that could be used in people at high risk for pancreatic cancer.
- Immunotherapies show promise: Immunotherapy drugs such as nivolumab, which is used to treat melanoma and other cancers, are being evaluated in clinical trials for people with pancreatic cancer. They work by taking the brakes off the immune response, allowing immune cells to find and destroy cancer cells.
Pancreatic cancer is a complex disease to treat. People diagnosed with this cancer are best treated by a multidisciplinary team of pancreatic cancer experts at an academic medical center such as NewYork-Presbyterian, where they have access to all the specialists they need, the latest clinical trials of innovative therapies and supportive care.
NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) Cancer Centers provide high-quality, comprehensive cancer care at convenient locations throughout the New York metropolitan area, Westchester and the Lower Hudson Valley. NYP Cancer Centers provide a comprehensive program of cancer services in a state-of-the-art, comfortable environment. Board certified, disease-focused medical oncologists are part of the multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists available to provide each patient with an individualized plan of care. To find a location, visit nyp.org/cancerlocations.
NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the largest and most comprehensive hospitals in the nation, ranked New York's No. 1 hospital for the 16th consecutive year, and No. 6 in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report. Affiliated with two academic medical colleges – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian brings together internationally recognized researchers and clinicians to develop and implement the latest approaches for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center is one of only three NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers in New York State. NewYork-Presbyterian provides comprehensive cancer care at all of our locations across the New York Metro area, including Westchester County and the Hudson Valley. Learn more at nyp.org/cancer.


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Ross welcomes longer Spring Training
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Don't tell Tyson Ross that Spring Training is too long.
Six weeks in Arizona and a franchise-record 38 exhibition games? The Padres pitcher doesn't mind at all.
"The beauty of a longer Spring Training is I get more work with the coaches, more side work," Ross said on Saturday.
And, of course, more innings in Cactus League games.
Ross made his first start Saturday against the Mariners, allowing two runs in two innings. He allowed a walk to leadoff hitter Franklin Gutierrez after falling behind 3-0. Two batters later, Jason Bay jumped on a 1-0 fastball, sending it over the fence in left field.
"I thought he threw the ball fine, I thought his arm strength and velocity looked good and he threw a couple of good changeups, which he needs to do," said Padres manager Bud Black.
All told, Ross allowed three hits, one walk and had two strikeouts.
"It was nice to be back out there," Ross said. "I'm just trying to knock the rust off."
Ross, obtained in November from the A's, is one of several candidates in camp trying to win a job in the starting rotation. He's spent the last 10 days working with pitching coach Darren Balsley and feels like he's already starting to see some results.
"Like Balsley said, it's just a matter of not trying to overpower people, it's about dissecting hitters," Ross said.


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[This document comes from Helena Wojtczak's English Social History: Women of Nineteenth-Century Hastings and St.Leonards. An Illustrated Historical Miscellany, which the author has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web. Click on the title to obtain the original site, which has additional information.]
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-91) was one of the foremost founders of the women's rights movement in Britain. She was born in Whatlington, near Battle, Sussex, died at nearby Robertsbridge, and was connected to the Hastings area throughout her life.
Family Background
Barbara's father, Benjamin Leigh Smith, was an MP's only son. He had four sisters. One married into the Nightingale family and produced a daughter, Florence; another married into the Bonham-Carter family. Smith's home was 5 Blandford Square, Marylebone, London, but from 1816 he inherited and purchased property near Hastings: Brown's Farm near Robertsbridge, with a house built around 1700 (extant), and Crowham Manor, Westfield, which included 200 acres. although a member of the landed gentry, Smith held radical views. He was a Dissenter, a Unitarian, a supporter of Free Trade, and a benefactor to the poor. In 1826 he bore the cost of building a school for the inner city poor at Vincent Square, Westminster, and paid a penny a week towards the fees for each child, the same amount as paid by their parents.
Ben's father wanted him to marry Mary Shore, the sister of William Nightingale, an in law by marriage; however, on a visit to his sister in Derbyshire in 1826 Smith met Anne Longden, a 25-year-old milliner from Alfreton. She became pregnant and Smith took her to a rented lodge at Whatlington, a small village in Sussex. There she lived as 'Mrs Leigh', the surname of Ben Smith's relations on the Isle of Wight. The child, Barbara, was born on 8 April 1827. Smith rode on horseback from Brown's Farm to visit them daily, and within eight weeks Anne was pregnant again.
When little Ben was born the four of them went to America for two years, during which time another child was conceived. On their return to Sussex they lived openly together at Brown's (left), and had two more children. After their last child was born, in 1833, Anne became ill and Smith leased 9 Pelham Crescent, which faced the sea at Hastings; the healthy properties of sea air were highly regarded at the time. A local woman, Hannah Walker, was employed to look after the children. Anne did not recover so Smith took her to Ryde, Isle of Wight, where she died in 1834.
It is something of a mystery that the couple never wed. The scandal of marrying a woman from a lower social class was nothing compared with raising five children out of wedlock. Biographer Pam Hirsch feels that perhaps Smith did not want Anne and the children to become his chattels, as the law would have deemed them had the pair married. This would certainly have fitted in with Smith's radical beliefs and later actions.
In 1836, when Barbara was nine, Smith and the five children settled permanently into 9 Pelham Crescent (right). Smith was elected MP for Norwich and while at the House of Commons, he asked Aunt Dolly Longden or Aunt Julia Smith to look after the children. Local people were employed to help: Catherine Spooner, governess; Harry Porter, Latin and history tutor; and Mr Willetts, the foremost local riding master. In 1842 Smith spent £215 on a beautifully ornate, eight-seater omnibus from the best coachbuilders in Hastings, Rock and Baxter of 6 Stratford Place, West Parade. With coachman Stephen Elliott at the reins, four horses drew the magnificent vehicle carrying the Leigh Smith children and their staff around Sussex and the home counties.
During the 1840s Benjamin Smith bought more land to the south and west of Robertsbridge, including Scalands Farm (extant), Mountfield Park Farm (extant) and Glottenham Manor (rebuilt and now a nursing home). The latter included the ruins of a 14th-century fortified and moated house. When each of his children reached 21, Smith broke with tradition and custom by treating his daughters the same as his sons, giving them investments which brought each an annual income of £300. He also gave to Barbara the deeds of the Westminster school.
Bodichon's Unconventional Upbringing
The combination of an unconventional upbringing and a private income placed Barbara in an extraordinary position for a mid-Victorian woman. Whereas most women were raised to be obedient and expected only to marry, bear children and live in subordination to a husband, Barbara was free to live her life almost as she pleased. Money could not buy everything, however; for example her brother Ben went to Jesus College Cambridge in 1848, but Barbara was denied such academic opportunities, since no university would admit women. But she did not succomb to housewifery; she became a painter and social reformer. Despite her wealth Barbara eschewed high society and allied herself with the bohemian, the artistic, and the downtrodden.
Despite having illegitimate children, Benjamin Smith was highly regarded and he became a magistrate in Hastings in 1845 after retiring from Parliament. His children were accepted by Hastings society and during her seventeen years at Pelham Crescent Barbara became acquainted with many notable people. In 1846 she met her best friend Bessie Rayner Parkes (left), when Bessie's father hired rooms from Smith at 6 Pelham Crescent. In Hastings Barbara also met Anna Howitt and her children; Eliza Fox Bridell; Gertrude Jekyll; Marianne North, whose father was one of the two Hastings' MPs; Miss Bayley of 2 Holloway Place; and Ann Samworth and her children, who lived at Brooklands Cottage, Holloway place, Old London road.
Life in the Art World
The three Samworth girls and the three Leigh Smith girls enjoyed painting expeditions around Hastings. Barbara studied art at Bedford Square Ladies College (London) during 1849 and gained some reknown as a painter. Some of her work is held at Hastings Museum; other paintings are at Girton College, Cambridge. The Hastings & St Leonards Observer wrote (in 1891) of her paintings:
Among the canvasses the scenes of Algerian landscapes are such that only a born artist would dare to paint. The most vivid colours are dashed about in wonderful profusion, and such a critic as Ruskin has spoken in terms of high praise of her clever work.
In the art world Barbara met the painter William Hunt, who lived during the winter in a small house at the foot of the East Cliff, Hastings. Barbara's painting tutors included W. Collingwood Smith, who took her to meet John Hornby Maw in West Hill House. Through Miss Bayley she met George Scharf, later director of the National Portrait Gallery. Through the Howitts she met Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anna Jameson, Adelaide Procter and William Johnson Fox, the Unitarian minister. In 1852 she met George Eliot, who was to remain a lifelong friend.
As well as art, Barbara studied political economy and law at Bedford Square. Another lifelong friend was William Ransom (b.1822), a printer and stationer based at 42 George Street, Hastings. He gave her the opportunity to get her radical ideas into print by allowing her to write women's emancipation articles for his newspaper, the Hastings & St Leonards News. From June to August 1848 Barbara wrote, under the pen-name "Esculapius," An Appeal to the Inhabitants of Hastings, Conformity to Custom and The Education of Women.
In 1850 Bessie Parkes introduced Barbara to her cousin, the first woman physician, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. However, Barbara's cousin Florence Nightingale snubbed her Uncle Ben's illegitimate offspring.
As young women of 21 and 23, Bessie and Barbara were, most unusually, allowed to go unchaperoned on a walking tour of Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, visiting Mary Howitt in Munich. The three discussed women's inferior status and wanted to change it. But men held all political power and would fight to preserve the system which served their interests so well. The two did, however, indulge in a little personal liberation. Female costume at the time was uncomfortable, impractical and restrictive. They abandoned their corsets and shortened their skirts, prompting Barbara to pen the lines:
Oh! Isn't it jolly
To cast away folly
And cut all one's clothes a peg shorter
(A good many pegs)
And rejoice in one's legs
Like a free-minded Albion's daughter.
They were also, rather audaciously, swanning around in heavy boots and wearing blue tinted spectacles!
From the early 1850s Barbara divided her life between Hastings and London. The opening of the railway line to London in 1851 shortened her journeys to just 2 1/2 hours. Prior to this, the journey took 8 hours, either by road, or by road and rail via Staplehurst Station.
Willie Leigh Smith became estates manager at Glottenham and Ben was training to be a barrister so in 1853 their father gave up Pelham Crescent. Smith and Barbara lived at Blandford Square or in Sussex, staying often at Scalands Farm. While in the Hastings area Barbara continued to spend time among artists and bohemians. Among her friends were members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood including Rossetti and Siddal. It was she who arranged convalescent accommodation for Lizzie Siddal at 5 High Street in 1854.
The Battle for Women's Suffrage
In London Barbara met the Americans, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and Harriet Martineau and Mary Somerville, all now famous for their feminist activism. In 1854 Barbara wrote her first nation-wide publication, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws concerning Women. This remarkable document listed for the first time the legal disabilities and restrictions under which women lived. Barbara proved herself a researcher and scholar by sifting through all the laws of Britain to create 'a pamphlet very thin and insignificant looking, but destined to be the small end of the wedge which was to change the whole fabric of the law' [Englishwoman's Review, 1891, p. 149.] It was widely read and discussed and provided an agenda for action. Barbara's friends and fellow feminists Florence and Rosamund Davenport Hill discussed the pamphlet with their solicitor brother Alfred, who took it to the Law Amendment Society, of which he was a member, which appointed a committee to investigate the laws listed.
As Barbara may have been aware, women's suffrage had already been taken up in a very small way by Anne Knight (1786-1862), who had founded a Female Political Association in 1847 to demand votes for women, and petitioned parliament; and also by Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858), who in 1851 argued for women's suffrage in the Westminster Review, a paper edited by her husband, John Stuart Mill. Barbara's priority however was to tackle women's non-existence within marriage. When a woman married, everything she owned, inherited or earned belonged solely to her husband to dispose of as he wished (see my brief overview of women's status). This arrangement was long standing and was rarely questioned. At the time, to even contemplate changing it seemed outlandish; yet Barbara formed a committee whose intention was to reform the law and give married women rights to their own property. Many men said it would cause arguments between married couples; others said that the move would upset the "natural" balance of power between husbands and wives; some feared that women would become self-assertive, a fearful prospect for men.
Within a year Barbara's little committee had become a nation-wide campaign group, and she drafted a petition, the text of which was published in the Hastings and St Leonards News on 15th February 1856. A footnote informed the reader that one of the 70 copies of the petition was lying at Mr Winter's shop at 59 George Street, Hastings (pictured).
The paper had "no doubt that many ladies will find their way thither to attach their names." The committee also compiled case studies of how individual women were suffering because of the law. There were hundreds of instances of women losing everything on marrying a man who absconded after the wedding, leaving them destitute. If such a woman was subsequently to earn or inherit any money, the errant husband could return at any time, seize all she had and leave once more. The petition was intended to support the suggestions of the Law Amendment Society.
The 70 parts were pasted together and presented to the House of Lords in March 1856 with 26,000 signatures. This was the first organised feminist action in the UK.Its rejection comes as no surprise given that Parliament consisted of men, most of whom were married and therefore benefited directly from the status quo. However, the ladies did not give up and, after much discussion, in 1857 the Married Women's Property Bill passed its first and second readings in the House of Commons.
Barbara's personal qualities were lauded in her day and after. Bessie described Barbara as "the most powerful woman I have ever known." Dale Spender points out that Barbara is "almost invariably portrayed... as a woman of glowing strength, active intelligence, warmth, understanding, and energy". Barbara's friend Jessie Boucherett described her as "beautifully dressed, of radiant beauty, and with masses of golden hair", and historian Ray Strachey remarked:
There seems to have been something particularly vigorous about Barbara Leigh Smith, who was taken by George Eliot as the model for Romola [the eponymous heroine of a novel]. Tall, handsome, generous and quite unselfconscious, she swept along, distracted only by the too great abundance of her interests and talents, and the too great outflowing of her sympathies... Life was a stirring affair for Barbara. Everything was before her -- Art (for her painting was taken seriously by many eminent painters), philanthropy, education, politics -- everything lay at her feet. The only trouble was to pick and choose.
Another of her interests was spiritualism: she attended a series of séances in London during 1853 with Rossetti, Bessie, and the Howitts. Stress and overexhaustion led to a serious nervous collapse in 1856 on returning from a trip to Rome.
Just prior to this breakdown, Barbara had a love afair with her publisher John Chapman, who was married. He was by all accounts a philanderer and rogue who Barbara's father wanted her to shun. Ben Smith arranged trip to Algeria with her brother Ben and their sisters. There she met Eugène Bodichon, a French physician, who she married on 2 July 1857. Most unusually for a woman at that time, she wrote her profession on her marriage certificate ("artist"). Eugène was as unconventional and free-thinking as Barbara: for much of their marriage she spent half the year with him in Algeria and the remainder without him in England, where she continued her profession and her feminist campaigning. During their seven-month honeymoon they visited Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell in the USA and Barbara entreated her to return to England. The following year Dr. Blackwell was a guest at Barbara's London home. Barbara introduced her to Elizabeth Garrett, an aspiring physician. This meeting was to prove a momentous one, for the two later opened the first women's medical practices in London. (Garrett later became famous and London's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital was named for her.) Under Barbara's influence, in 1879, Blackwell moved to Hastings, where she remained until her death 30 years later.
In 1857 Barbara published a very radical pamphlet called Women and Work in which she asserted: "No human being has the right to be idle... Women must, as children of God, be trained to do some work in the world." She called for equality of education and work opportunities and advocated that all married women should work, citing nature as support: "Birds, both cock and hen, help one another to build their nest" Again, this was an outrageous demand, and thought by some to be subversive. Barbara did not hold back; she said plainly that letting men hold all the financial resources of the world and then refusing to admit women to any decently-paid work or professional career forced them to marry for financial support, which amounted to legal prostitution; and the 43 percent of women with no man to support them lived in poverty which led many to succumb to casual prostitution. Barbara made plain that she meant interesting, challenging occupations and not menial or domestic chores by emphasising that women needed: "WORK - not drudgery, but WORK". In 1858 Barbara purchased The Englishwoman's Journal and was able to disseminate her ideas more widely. It was published nation-wide and informed women about the rights movement. From this sprung the Association for Promoting the Employment of Women.
Between 1853 and 1863, Barbara was a frequent visitor to the Hastings area, staying on the family estates, or back at No. 9 Pelham Crescent, where her sister's family now leased rooms, or with the Samworths at Hastings. She painted Mrs Samworth's corn field in 1855, near the spot where another of the Samworth's house-guests, Holman Hunt, had painted Our English Coasts three years earlier.
When Smith died in 1860 Barbara inherited 5 Blandford Square, Ben inherited the Glottenham estates and Willie inherited Crowham Manor. In 1863 Barbara leased three acres from Ben and built Scalands Cottage in a pinewood clearing in Harding's Wood. It was near Scaland's Farm but closer to the road, and thus she called it Scalands Gate (extant, now Scaland's Folly). The house was built to Barbara's own design and specification. The internal walls were covered from floor to ceiling with Barbara's own paintings. Gertrude Jekyll created the garden. The house was visited by Barbara's interesting circle of friends. In the 1860s these included Mary Howitt, Rossetti and Siddal, Frederick and Marianne North, Dean and Lady Stanley, and Herbert Gladstone (who became Prime Minister). Later guests included the Brownings, Gertrude Martineau, Lord Brassey, Henry Fawett, George Eliot and John Ruskin.
Miss Davies and Miss Garrett present the petition to John Stuart Mill.
In 1865 Barbara, as a member of the Kensington Society, co-drafted another petition, this time for women's suffrage. Two women took it to Westminster Hall: Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Davies, (with whom Barbara founded Girton College). Feeling self-conscious, they asked the apple-seller to hide the huge petition under her stall while they waited for John Stuart Mill MP. She agreed, but bid the ladies unroll it a little so that she could apppend her own signature. Mill accepted the petition (pictured) and presented it to the House of Commons in 1866 to support an amendment to the Reform Act that would give women the vote. It was defeated by 196 votes to 73. In 1869 Barbara contributed to the debate once again by publishing Reasons for and against the Enfranchisement of Women and J.S. Mill published The Subjection of Women.
Barbara's life in the world away from Hastings was extraordinarily varied, busy and productive. Her story has been admirably documented by her biographers and will not, therefore, be repeated here. Pam Hirsch's 1998 work is highly reccommended. There is also a 1949 biography by Hester Burton.
Later Years
Instead we jump forward to 1882 and find Barbara bestowing her philanthropy increasingly on her local area, in particular she funded Scalands Night School for the poor.
Barbara had hoped to have children, but this was not to be. After 28 years of marriage Eugène died in 1885 and shortly afterwards Barbara suffered a stroke at her cottage at Zennor, Cornwall, after which she was an invalid. In her declining years, Barbara specified that Mr E. Taught of Castle Road, Hastings was to undertake her funeral and chose a quiet spot in a country churchyward in which she wished to be buried.
When she died, in June 1891, the Hastings & St Leonards Observer wrote that
a movement started by her culminated in the Married Women's Property Act, and with a little help from Miss Davies she founded Girton College. There is one other act that the deceased lady did, for which the world is indebted to her, and that was to bring before the world the writings of "George Eliot".
Strangely, since then, Barbara's achievements have been submerged and, until recently, almost forgotten. She is not nearly as famous as some of her contemporaries who achieved less.
The funeral procession route was lined with hundreds of people whom she had helped to educate at the night school. The Hastings & St Leonards Observer wrote:
Those who were present will never forget the sight so long as they live... From the house to the grave side sad faces and tear-rimmed eyes filled the roads... [Inside the church were heard] sobs that would not be stifled... She gave with a free hand, and left before the recipient had time to thank her... She was a true Englishwoman, of noble character, strong in purpose, and quick to act on any sensible suggestion, if someone would be blessed by it.
In another article the newspaper remarked that:
The deceased lady was a militant Radical, but she lived only to do good. The poor of Scalands Gate have sustained the loss of a warm sympathiser... she housed and educated her labourers and their families... Madame was accustomed to receive the visits of politicians, authors, artists, and others of name and fame in the great world... But upon none can have grief for her departure come more acutely than upon Mr William Ransom and Miss Sanderson, both old, admiring and attached friends... Her whole life was wrapped up in trying to elevate the poor, and alleviate the sufferings of all that were downtrodden.
Barbara was buried at St Thomas à Becket Church, Brightling. The inscription on her gravestone is now almost indecipherable. Her name is absent from the church guidebook's list of the notable people buried there.
Her brother Ben is thought worthy of inclusion, as he was an Arctic explorer. Readers may ponder why this is considered worthy of note while founding the British women's rights movement in Britain is not. There was not even a Blue Plaque on No. 9 Pelham Cresent. This was rectified in April 2000, at my request, by Hastings Borough Council -- 109 years after Barbara's death. Scalands was partly destroyed by fire in the 1950s. It was rebuilt on the same site and still stands, as Scaland's Folly.
Related Material
Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas. Pandora, 1982.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause Bell & Son, 1928.
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