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What did the American Revolution look like? Nathaniel Hawthorne imagined it as an angry face, painted so as to appear divided in two. "One side of the face blazed of an intense red, while the other was black as midnight," he wrote. This uncanny visage appears in Hawthorne's tale "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," of 1831; its owner rides on horseback through moonlit Boston streets, carrying a drawn sword and leading a mob of people who laugh and shout as they wheel along a rich elderly man whom they have tarred and feathered.
Hawthorne's "double-faced fellow" was modelled on a historical figure who went by the pseudonym Joyce Jr. and, in the seventeen-seventies, claimed to lead Boston's Committee for Tarring and Feathering. In 1777, Abigail Adams recorded the charges against five merchants who were his victims: "It seems they have refused to take paper money, and offered their goods lower for silver than for paper." During wartime, anxieties about hoarding and profiteering no doubt shortened tempers, and, in the Boston Gazette, Joyce Jr. threatened "Judgment without Mercy" to anyone else guilty of "such nefarious Practices." Joyce Jr. had little of the dignity that we associate with the Founding Fathers; his tone was bitter, and, more important, his grievance was mercenary rather than ideological.
His method of punishment, however, became iconic. Tarring and feathering was so popular in New England in the seventeen-sixties and seventies that at least one observer thought Americans had invented it, though in fact it has been around since at least the twelfth century. What was it like? Pine tar, used to waterproof ships, is liquid at room temperature and, in most cases, was probably applied unheated. Feathers were obtained either from fowl (the smellier the better) or from cushions. The third and most essential ingredient was exposure. One customs agent was kept outdoors in his "modern jacket" until he was frostbitten. "They say his flesh comes off his back in Steaks," a woman reported afterward. Victims felt a lingering shame, though the frostbitten customs agent, a resilient personality, petitioned King George III to dub him a "Knight of the Tarr."
Few victims held the high social status of the elderly gentleman in Hawthorne's tale, but he, too, seems to have had a historical model. Hawthorne was probably thinking of Thomas Hutchinson, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, whose Boston town house was destroyed, in 1765, by a mob upset by Parliament's new stamp tax on the colonies' newspapers, legal documents, and pamphlets. Hutchinson and his family fled their supper table just minutes before a crowd screaming "Liberty and property!" axed open the doors of their home. As Richard Archer notes, in "As If an Enemy's Country" (Oxford; $24.95), a lively and sympathetic history of pre-Revolutionary Boston under British occupation, the rioters scattered or stole nearly everything inside, including jewelry, dishes, furniture, paintings, about nine hundred pounds in cash, and an archive of New England history that Hutchinson had spent thirty years collecting. "I see they threatened to pitch and feather you," George III later observed, during a debriefing with Hutchinson, who by then had served as Massachusetts's second-to-last royal governor. Hutchinson, a slender, fastidious man who liked to debate political philosophy, corrected him: "Tarr & feather, may it please your Majesty."
"Insurgencies are not movements for the faint of heart," T. H. Breen writes, in "American Insurgents, American Patriots" (Hill & Wang; $27), a scholarly, unnerving account of the American Revolution's darker side—the violence, death threats, false rumors, and extremist rhetoric that introduced a new political order. Breen suggests that Americans today "have come to regard insurgency as a foreign and unpleasant phenomenon" and are now so imperial in outlook that we'd rather not remember that American revolutionaries, too, were irrational and cruel. The implied comparison with the contemporary insurgencies of Iraq and Afghanistan is interesting, but over the past two years the history of America's first insurgency has taken on a new pertinence, as the Tea Party movement has laid claim to its anti-tax and pro-liberty principles—and has inadvertently reproduced its penchant for conspiracy theory, misinformation, demagoguery, and even threats of violence. Furthermore, in much the way that journalists have begun to ask whether shadowy corporate interests may be sponsoring today's Tea Party, historians have long speculated that merchants may have instigated early unrest to protect smuggling profits from British regulators—that the start of the Revolution may have been Astroturfed. Archer's history focusses on the years 1768 to 1770, and Breen's on 1774-75; Benjamin L. Carp's assiduously researched "Defiance of the Patriots" (Yale; $30) tackles the 1773 Tea Party itself. Breen is not concerned with the revolutionaries' financial motives, and Carp sometimes takes the rebels' rhetoric at face value. Nonetheless, the three books together offer a chance to ask new questions about the American Revolution, including one that the conventions of political sentimentality usually render unspeakable: Was the Tea Party even such a good idea the first time around?
In pre-Revolutionary Boston, merchants and government officials were often at odds, because economics more or less required some merchants to break the law. Americans spent about a tenth of their income on manufactured goods from Britain, but Britain wanted little that New England was selling. To keep the cash flowing, Boston merchants therefore sold to planters in the French West Indies, who fed New England's low-quality dried fish to their slaves and made barrels for their molasses from New England timber. Inconveniently, Britain taxed molasses from foreign countries a burdensome sixpence a gallon and, from 1756 to 1763, during a war with France, outlawed molasses from the French West Indies entirely. So merchants smuggled. For a bribe of between half a penny and one and a half pence per gallon, a typical British customs official was willing to shrink the reported amount of non-British molasses on board a ship by a factor of ten. The scale of the deception can be estimated by comparing customs records with insurance records: though smugglers lied to the government, they told the truth to their insurers. The historian John W. Tyler, in his book "Smugglers and Patriots" (1986), identified twenty-three Boston smugglers from insurance records and suggested that there were many more. He also discovered that these illicit traders were highly influential among political radicals.
It seems to have been bad feeling between merchants and magistrates that led to the sacking of Hutchinson's town house. The seventeen-sixties saw the introduction of two new laws, the universally unpopular Stamp Act and, more damaging for merchants, the Sugar Act, which altered tariffs to discourage smuggling and altered the judicial system to make it easier to win convictions. To fight both measures, radicals like Samuel Adams hit on the idea that Parliament's laws were invalid if they were "unconstitutional," then a relatively new word. Adams argued that the traditional British balance of powers and liberties was violated if Parliament taxed Americans, who weren't represented in it.
In addition to rhetoric, a follow-the-money investigation indicates that Adams took coarser measures. As one of Boston's tax collectors, he stayed popular by collecting very little, but on August 12, 1765, he uncharacteristically took out a warrant to seize back taxes from a shoemaker named Ebenezer Mackintosh, a rabble-rouser who led an annual parade at which effigies of Satan and the Pope were burned. Around the same time, a club of small businessmen known as the Loyal Nine, with whom both Adams and the city's merchant élite were friendly, recruited Mackintosh to incite public disturbances against the new laws. On August 14th, Mackintosh's rioters pulled down an office built by the colony's appointed stamp distributor, beheaded an effigy of him, and broke into his house. The stamp distributor resigned twice—first by letter, and then, when another riot threatened, a few months later, in person, under an elm that became known as the Liberty Tree. "We do every thing in order to keep this and the first Affair Private," a merchant in the Loyal Nine wrote to a friend after the second resignation, "and are not a little pleas'd to hear that Mackintosh has the Credit of the whole Affair." Though Mackintosh never paid his delinquent taxes, Adams returned the warrant against him to the court unused. The Loyal Nine rewarded Mackintosh with a gilt uniform and a speaking trumpet, with money provided by John Hancock—one of the city's richest merchants and a probable smuggler, and thought by one loyalist detractor to be "as closely attached to the hindermost Part of Mr. Adams as the Rattles are affixed to the Tail of the Rattle Snake." Mackintosh led the crowd that, two weeks later, destroyed Hutchinson's home, though perhaps not at the bidding of Adams, who in a letter deprecated the "truly mobbish Nature" of the attack. Mackintosh was briefly detained, but, after a gentlemen's militia threatened not to defend the customhouse from future mobs, the sheriff let him go.
In the spring of 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and revised its trade laws, replacing a threepence duty on foreign molasses with a one-penny duty on all molasses—about what a bribe had cost. Now that legally imported molasses was cheap, Boston's smugglers turned to wine from Madeira and the Azores, which was heavily taxed, and to Dutch goods, which it was against British rules to import directly to the colonies. Although the colonists were still being taxed and still had no representation in Parliament, protest faded. "Were the people of Boston therefore hypocrites?" Archer asks. "There is no simple answer to that question."
The stamp-tax riots set a pattern, and when, in 1767, Britain further strengthened the customs service and levied new taxes, Boston merchants—smugglers in the lead—again organized the resistance, this time through an agreement not to import British merchandise. The agreement, though ostensibly a matter of principle, was financially very convenient. Easy credit from Britain had glutted Boston with manufactured goods and had tripled the number of the city's shopkeepers who moonlighted as importers. Non-importation gave more established merchants a chance to restrict supply, sell off inventory, and thin out the ranks of their rivals.
Legally, the merchants couldn't enforce compliance, so they set about turning public opinion against those who resisted. The non-importers published the names of holdouts and called on Bostonians to boycott them. (Embarrassingly, a loyalist newspaper retaliated by printing the ship manifests of the non-importers, some of whom turned out to be importing after all; Hancock, for example, had brought five bales of fine linen into Boston four months after the agreement went into effect.) A series of street actions was also arranged. This time, the merchants' populist intermediary was William Molineux, a smuggler, embezzler, and sometime hardware merchant who became known as "the first leader of dirty matters." Windows were smashed, homes were smeared with feces and urine, and one holdout merchant was carted through town with a supply of tar and feathers until he requested permission to leave Boston forever. Customs agents were manhandled and hanged in effigy—those who seized a sloop of John Hancock's were stoned—and in October, 1768, British troops moved into the city and occupied it for a year and a half.
All in all, the campaign worked so well that the merchants found it difficult to extricate themselves when Parliament, in April of 1770, repealed all the duties except one, on tea, which George III thought Parliament should retain so as to "keep up the right." The tea tax had become a symbol, and it infuriated the populace. But the businessmen thought they could live with it; by 1770, supplies were beginning to run low and prices of most goods were pleasantly high. The merchants began to hold private meetings; one complained that it wasn't fair for non-merchants to prevent merchants from dissolving an agreement made among themselves. In October, the merchants scrapped non-importation, and some non-merchants felt betrayed. "Great Patriots," a Worcester man sneered to John Adams, Samuel Adams's then less famous cousin, "were for Non Importation, while their old Rags lasted, and as soon as they were sold at Enormous Prices, they were for importing."
For the next three years, Americans ostensibly boycotted the tea of the East India Company, Britain's licensed monopoly provider, though in practice they drank what they liked. Indeed, for consumers, anger over the tea tax had never made much economic sense. For one thing, many drank Dutch-supplied tea, which was smuggled and therefore tax-free. Benjamin Woods Labaree, the most attentive scholar of the Colonial tea trade, estimates that three-quarters of the 1.2 million pounds of tea that Americans consumed each year was smuggled. Meanwhile, the tax on legal tea was largely offset by a tea-tax refund passed the same year. But in 1772 that tax refund shrank, making British tea more expensive and enhancing smugglers' price advantage. Tea piled up in the British warehouses of the East India Company, which owed money to the British government and also needed to ask it for a loan. Someone had an idea: why not raise cash by dumping the company's surplus tea on the American market? Parliament agreed to help by restoring the old refund in full and by allowing the company to export tea directly rather than through merchant middlemen. With the new measures, the price of legal tea was expected to halve. Consumers would save, Parliament needn't lose quite so much on its bailout of the East India Company, and smugglers would be driven out of business.
Boston's big businessmen felt threatened. Not only might smuggling cease to be profitable but, if the experiment of direct importation were to succeed, it might cut them out of the supply chains for other commodities as well. Clearly, it was time for Sam Adams and William Molineux to rile up the public again. At the start of November, 1773, a public letter summoned merchants expecting tea consignments from the East India Company to the Liberty Tree. When they failed to appear, Molineux led five hundred people to the store where the merchants were huddled, and its doors were torn from their hinges. A second letter warned the consignees not to take it for granted that the colonists would remain "irreconcilable to the idea of spilling human blood." Amid the populist fervor, only a few noticed that the working-class Bostonian stood to gain little from the protest. Joke in a Boston newspaper, November 4, 1773: Colonist No. 1, hurrying to the Liberty Tree, says he hopes that a mob will force merchants to lower the price of tea, which has risen to a dollar a pound. Not exactly, Colonist No. 2 says. The mob is going "to make those who expect to sell at half that price send it back again."
On November 28th, the first of three ships carrying East India Company tea arrived in Boston Harbor. If the tax on the tea was not paid within twenty days, customs had the right to seize it, and, because tea had grown scarce in Boston, it was sure to find its way into teapots once ashore. The next day, Boston's radicals invited anyone with a stake in the city's commerce to a meeting. Five thousand people showed up, and the group resolved that the tea should be sent back to Britain with the tax unpaid. The day after that, when Governor Hutchinson ordered the group to disperse, one of its leaders declared that they needn't obey, because they had reverted to "a state of nature." On December 16th, the last day of the first ship's grace period, the group ordered the shipowner to trek to Governor Hutchinson's country home, seven miles away, and ask, once and for all, for permission to leave the harbor with the tax unpaid. It was nearly six in the evening before the man returned with Hutchinson's refusal. On hearing it, Sam Adams declared, "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country," and someone yelled, "Boston harbor a tea-pot tonight!" By six-thirty, three teams of men, some in Indian disguise, were hoisting tea chests onto the decks of all three ships, hatcheting them open, and dumping the tea in the harbor. Between thirty and a hundred and fifty men took part, possibly, according to the historian Dirk Hoerder, under the supervision of Molineux, and in less than two hours they destroyed nine thousand six hundred and fifty-nine pounds' worth of tea—some ninety thousand pounds by weight. The Massachusetts Gazette noted with approval that "such attention to private property was observed, that a small padlock belonging to the captain of one of the ships being broke, another was procured and sent to him." Such an efficient and disciplined mob was unlikely to have been a spontaneous one. Indeed, Carp, who has identified a hundred participants, reports that eight of them were employed by a single radical merchant.
George Washington disapproved of the Tea Party, and Benjamin Franklin called it "an Act of violent Injustice on our part." But the Revolution was not yet in the hands of the Founders, although it had left those of the merchants, who now dodged and stalled as the people—passionate and heedless of economic niceties—called for a ban on all tea, even what was smuggled from the Dutch. The merchants were also losing their ability to control crowd violence. Breen reports that, in early 1774, a New Hampshire supporter of Parliament bled to death after a mob forced him to ride a sharp fence rail, which left a four-by-six-inch hole in his groin.
Britain overreacted, closing the port of Boston, restricting town meetings in Massachusetts, and giving the King the power to appoint the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature. British troops arrived in Boston in May. A Salem newspaper called Britain "more cruel than Sea-Monsters towards their young ones," and a meeting in Wrentham declared that Britain seemed to want to reduce colonists "to nothing short of the miserable and deplorable State of Conquered Slaves." A few merchants still hoped that Boston might pay for the tea and reconcile with Britain, but they were too intimidated by the outbursts of popular anger to give voice to their proposal at a Boston town meeting.
Sympathy for Massachusetts broke out in other colonies, and radicalized colonists across the region threw off the guidance of the merchant class. "These sheep, simple as they are, cannot be gulled as heretofore," the wealthy New York City lawyer Gouverneur Morris wrote to a friend. "The mob begin to think and to reason."
In Philadelphia in September, 1774, as representatives from twelve colonies met for a Continental Congress, bells tolled throughout the city for Americans killed during a British assault on Boston. In fact, the British hadn't assaulted Boston or killed anyone; the bells tolled for a false rumor. Nonetheless, tens of thousands—about a third of New England's able-bodied men, according to one contemporary estimate—mustered to reclaim Boston. Breen observes that "no one seems to have expressed the slightest skepticism" about the truth of the rumors of British atrocity. A loyalist of the time put it more bitterly: "If the Faction had told their deluded Followers, that an Army of 30,000 Men were crossing the Atlantick in Egg Shells, with a Design to roast the Inhabitants alive & eat them afterwards, the People would have first stared, & swallowed down the Tale, whole."
Breen argues that the emotions roused by the false rumor emboldened the delegates, who soon passed the Continental Association, an agreement not to import or consume British goods. They voted not to let colonists export to Britain, either—though only after an interval that allowed Virginia to sell off its latest tobacco harvest. In addition, Americans were not to drink any taxed tea after March 1, 1775; sheep were to be preserved from slaughter, for the sake of a native wool industry; and no one was to indulge in cockfights, horse racing, theatre, or fancy dress at funerals. Soon the local committees charged with enforcing the Continental Association patrolled for thought crimes, too. They read private mail. They ordered loyalist pamphlets burned or tarred and feathered.
Tea abstention and consumer sacrifice, Breen writes, "created a climate that encouraged other people to adopt more coercive ways to preserve liberty"—a phrase of Orwellian depths. Since the local committees lacked legal authority, their chief tools were intimidation and ostracism. As for violence, the committees forswore it "except so much as is necessary," as a Worcester group nicely explained. In Wilmington, North Carolina, a committee went door to door for signatures to a new loyalty oath. According to its own minutes, the committee gave holdouts six days to reconsider before it published their names and ordered fellow-citizens to shun and boycott them—a stern but legal measure. In the journal of a visiting Englishwoman, however, Breen found another version. In downtown Wilmington one day, the woman saw a number of her American friends on the street: "I stopped to speak to them, but they with one voice begged me for heaven's sake to get off the street, making me observe they were prisoners . . . and that in all human probability some scene would be acted very unfit for me to witness." Probably, they expected a punishment like tarring and feathering, which would be more humiliating if a woman they knew was watching. Militiamen said the Englishwoman's friends were free to go if they signed the loyalty oath. She waited in a house nearby while her friends held out, and sometime after two in the morning they were released.
Violence unlicensed by committee was wilder. In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, a drover who bought an ox from a royally appointed legislator was carted for miles inside the belly of its partially dressed carcass. In East Haddam, Connecticut, a loyalist doctor was tarred with hot pitch, feathered, and rubbed with pig dung. Deaths at the hands of American insurgents were rare, though. For their part, British troops did kill a few of Americans over the years, but even the so-called Boston Massacre, Archer shows, seems to have been a case not of malice but of soldiers panicking in the midst of a crowd throwing snowballs and sticks. Tempers were high, but it wasn't yet clear to most people that the stakes were high, too. It had all happened so many times before: a British tax, an American fuss, British repeal, American calm. Until the Battles of Lexington and Concord, in April, 1775, neither side imagined that the other might not back down.
Breen thinks that most Americans didn't feel licensed to kill British soldiers until they learned of American deaths at Lexington and Concord, and began to read reprints of "The Crisis," a series of vitriolic anonymous essays thought to be the work of a radical essayist named William Moore. "The Crisis" (not to be confused with Thomas Paine's work of the same name) is spiteful and unhinged, and it's dismaying that it spoke to the American spirit at the moment of independence. The author described the British Prime Minister, Lord North, as being "engendered in the womb of hell"; imagined George III eagerly plotting "the people's ruin"; and claimed that the King's friends in Parliament were planning "to plunder, butcher, starve, or enslave" first the colonists and then the British themselves. The author flirted with calling for the assassination of George III and wished death on both houses of Parliament. He could write as violently as he liked, he taunted, because under British law conspiracy to make war on the king didn't qualify as treason unless accompanied by an overt act. As Breen notes, the author "did not worry a lot about evidence."
In 1974, the historian David Ammerman wrote that it is obvious in retrospect that America wasn't going to play second fiddle in the British Empire indefinitely. "What is not so clear," Ammerman continued, "is that the pursuit of equality need have included violence or that the equality sought necessitated independence." Spend a little time with the venality, misinformation, hysteria, and violence that led up to the Revolution, and the picture becomes murkier. As Breen notes, "No evidence survives showing that the king or his ministers contemplated a complex plan to destroy American rights," yet a significant proportion of the American populace became convinced that this was the case. The confusion might have been deliberately induced, if merchants were pulling strings. But then why did the puppets keep waving their hands even after the merchants tried to yank the strings in the opposite direction?
In the mid-twentieth century, historians trying to make sense of the paranoid style in American Revolutionary politics suggested that it derived from essayists on the fringe of the Whig Party in England who saw themselves as heirs of the men who had launched the English Civil War. Though marginal in England, these conspiracy theories seemed cogent in America, where colonists lived under governors with strong executive powers but no local constituency. Still, historically informed descriptions of what people believed don't explain why colonists stood up for their principles only some of the time, and why they disagreed so acrimoniously that they were willing to dip one another in tar barrels. In a 1972 article, "An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution," Marc Egnal and Joseph A. Ernst suggested that the Revolution may have been triggered by the growth of British capitalism, which for decades flooded the colonies with easy credit and with manufactured goods that were better and cheaper than Americans could make themselves. The British were doing to us in the seventeen-sixties more or less what China is doing to us today. Merchants were the first to make their discontent political, because they were the first to see that the economic predicament could be eased if the colonies had the autonomy to, say, print paper money or trade with other nations. The people, for their part, may have hoped that boycotts of imported luxuries would limit their personal spending and encourage American manufacturing, which might, in time, employ them. But the people's enthusiasm for the boycotts far outran the merchants'. In banning such items as funeral scarves and elaborate mourning dress, the colonists seem to have been admitting to powerlessness, as if their desire for British goods were itself the instrument of their subjugation.
Maybe that's where the paranoia and the rage came in. The British never forced John Hancock to ship fine linen to Boston, after all. He just suspected that Americans wanted it in spite of themselves, however loudly they said they preferred independence. Even today, Americans don't want a revolution against their own consumerism—not for all the tea in China. ♦


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I want to put a up a social buttons on individual posts on my blogger blog. I found a code I like but on the homepage (where there are more than one post and the button is repeated a few times) the Digg and Facebook buttons use the home page as a sharing reference instead of the actual post.
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|A strand of Dispersant, casting night shadows on the studio wall
In preparation for installing Dispersant in the Outeredge Project window in just a couple of weeks I am attaching my 400 crocheted, dyed and starched globules to fishing lines. I keep coming up short whenever I run out of the strips of old sheet and duvet cover that I use to carefully wrap each strand so they don't tangle in their boxes (five big boxes full so far). So sometimes a strand of globules is left hanging in my studio for a day or two. At night my bedside lamp is well positioned to cast lovely shadows through the globs. It is incredibly beautiful and I'm afraid I am the only person who will ever see them looking like this.
I feel sorry for (most) people who only get to see my finished art works in galleries because there are so very many moments of loveliness in the making and you will never know them as I do. I try and share as many work in progress (wip) photos here as I can, and often I continue to use wip photos after the piece is complete, because they remain my favourite images. But if I stopped and took a picture every time I noticed the transient loveliness under my hands I fear I would be even slower than the outrageously slow artist that I am anyway. So most of my delight unfolds hour after hour in exclusive solitude.
Much of the loveliness can't be captured in photos, and I'm sorry, not matter how I try, my words are inadequate. How can I share with you the feeling of pulling floss through plump felted layers of blanket? The shushing of cotton and wool fibres stroking past each other until I sense just the right tension has been reached, the stitch is complete and the smooth point of the needle probes into the dense softness to begin the next stitch. Over and over and over again, in a rhythm governed by the ever shortening length of thread, which begins as long as my arm can stretch from my lap and ends as short as the needle. The trance is broken, I stitch the knot, snip the ends, pull another three strands of DMC off the card and thread the needle.
That's the pause when I am most likely to look beyond the row I am stitching to see the whole of what I've made so far. Sometimes, especially in the long middle of a big project it's not lovely at all. There's an awkward adolescence in which the charms of beginning are exhausted and the satisfaction of maturity seems a long way off. But I love the first stages of all my pieces as fiercely as a mother loves her newborn baby. And coming to the end, seeing my vision made manifest the pieces look as intensely gorgeous to me as they ever will. More than the finished piece will, because once its finished I am stuck with all the little flaws and disappointments I have settled for. No more potential, and to me, potential where the real beauty lies.


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LA (also known as Larry Andersen) had an interesting observation of Cliff Lee during last night's broadcast: "He didn't come here as advertised. He's better."
Don't know if a person can pitch any better than Lee has since he put on a Phillies uniform. His key is simple, run to and from the mound, get the ball, throw the ball and throw strikes. Reminds me of two other Phillies lefties, Steve Carlton and Jim Kaat. They both worked fast.
Normally, a pitcher should throw twice as many strikes as balls. Last night Lee threw 81 strikes and 25 balls.
The ninth-inning last night had the same atmosphere as the World Series games last fall. The sellout crowd was on its feet cheering every Lee pitch. Wonder what it is like to be standing on the mound in the middle of a baseball field and here such fan passion. I'll never know.
At times the offense is frustrating, stranding runners in scoring position. Last night, the strength of the offense stepped forward with four homers. Two pitches and the Phillies had four runs in the fifth inning. Wonder what it is like to stand on the mound and see your pitch land in the seats 400 feet away. I'll never know.
Joe Blanton goes for his first win this month in the series finale tonight. Phillies are 9-7 this month and Joe is 0-2 for three starts. He's given up six earned runs in 20.2 innings but winless.
After the game, the Phillies will board two buses for a trip up the New Jersey Turnpike and a four-game series with the Mets that starts tomorrow night and ends Monday afternoon.
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Reading Phillies pounded out 20 hits and won, 18-1, last night in Portland . . . Clearwater Threshers pounded out 17 hits and lost, 10-7, at Lakeland . . . Lakewood is "freshening up the crab (logo)" . . . Three minor leaguers won MiLB.com weekly awards last week.
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That was a lot of fun at the ballpark last night :O) Lee has gone above and beyond expectations. And Sunday should be interesting with Pedro pitching against his old team.


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"I could set up the tent." Gabe said, and that is how it began. Suddenly a day that looked like every other was instantly transformed into one that was marked with excitement. A simple sunny day was now one that included a "fort tent" – the perfect setting for adventures that include sword fights, battles with dragons and wrestling matches that put the pros to shame.
Gabe and I fought with the awkwardly long poles as we realized we bought the tent as a newly married couple and this was our first time setting it up. A joyous tent initiation I'd say. The boys flailed their nerf swords around the not yet erect tent, passing the time as best they could.
It took longer than we expected, as these things do, but we managed to elevate it to it's proper towering state. Baron and Roman moved their wrestling from the grass to the tent and Ivy and I laid under the mesh roof watching the perfectly puffed clouds stumble across the ice blue sky. Gabe took it all in from his Adirondack chair with slightly warmed-by-the-sun I.P.A.
Eventually the wrestling ceased and in its place there were games and movies on the iPad, still inside the tent. We spent that afternoon in the tent and the next morning when the gray skies moved in and the first spat of rain hit the brightly green grass we couldn't bare to put the tent away. Instead, the rain roof was placed on top.
As it turns out a tent is good for both protecting from the harsh rays of the sun as well as sheltering you from the cool rains of Summer. Another day in the tent, this time there were muffins. The perfect portable breakfast that easily transferred to our recently found second home. With muffins there was coffee for Gabe and I and the comfort of sleeping bags and family close by.
Tart dried cherries tasting of Summer sun and the warmth of toasted nuts and Cardamom as comforting as the soft rain that gently tapped on the roof like a guest requesting permission to join us in our tent.
It was a tent. A simple task of setting up that took us all of 20 minutes to complete was all that it took to transform what could have been a day like any other into something magical and one that will be present with us again.
"Remember the time we set up the tent in the yard?" We'll recount in some chance moment in the far off future when perhaps our children will have children. With longing in our voices we'll recall the way Roman snuggled into daddy's lap cozied under the vivid green sleeping bag. And the way Baron ate his muffin by first plucking off the streusel topping then devouring the rest, using his teeth to release the defiant bits that clung to the muffin paper.
Days easily roll into the next and after awhile they all start to look the same. The monotony can become deafening making the thought of breaking out of the routine seem almost impossible. And then someone suggests building a tent and the day is new, different, and exciting. The routine is put on hold until further notice and we fail to fall into our rhythm as this disruption has shaken us in the best way possible.
In the midst routine it is easily to switch into cruise control, setting you on your path so that you don't have much to think about except what is right in front of you. The problem I come up against is that everything that surrounds me starts to lose focus. My depth of field narrows and all I see is what is mere moments away. With a subtle agitation every thing is knocked out of balance causing things that were there all along to speak up and become noticeable.
In our breach of routine that was the tent, I stopped to appreciate how young and innocent Roman's voice still sounds – this won't be for very much longer. The way he fumbles over his words and his eyes tell of his excitement before a word escapes from his mouth as he tells a story. How Baron is eager to learn continually asking for further explanation of words like anticipate and then setting up the remaining muffins as a math problem taking away one from the three that are now two. He happily eats his subtraction. And Ivy who in a matter of a few days transformed from baby into a full fledged member of the family that interacts and responds to us all. Never ceasing to move, she crawls over us all taking in each snuggle and kiss that comes her way.
The muffin pans get cleaned and the tent gets taken down and puts up a fight in submitting to fit in its convenient black tote. Routine sets in once again. It's not all bad, in fact some sort of schedule is necessary in order to effectively run a family of five smoothly. But the reminder to occasionally through the routine off balance is one that I won't soon forget.
Cherry Muffins with Walnut, Sesame Seed, and Cardamom Streusel
These muffins are sweet enough to be deemed a weekend breakfast treat but contain the hearty and nutritious crunch from walnuts and sesame seeds. My favorite dried cherries are Montmorency Cherries that can be found at Trader Joe's. They are pleasant tart and plump of beautifully when warmed with vanilla, lemon zest, cinnamon, and water. The extra step of plumping the dried fruit prevents them from stealing any of the moisture out of the muffin, leaving you with a perfectly moist cake.
5 tablespoons butter, softened
½ cup (3 ½ ounces) dark brown sugar
1 large egg
¾ cup whole milk yogurt
1 ½ cups (6 ¾ ounces) all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¾ cup dried cherries
¼ cup water
½ vanilla bean or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon lemon zest
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
¾ cup all purpose flour
½ cup walnuts, chopped
1 stick (4 ounces) butter, melted
pinch cardamom (or the seeds from 4 pods, ground)
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ cup turbinado sugar (you may substitute brown sugar)
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Pre-heat oven to 350*
Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin papers.
In a small saucepan combine the dried cherries, water, lemon zest, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Over low heat bring to a gentle simmer then remove from the stove and let stand while you prepare the muffin batter. Alternately you can place this all in a small bowl, cover with plastic wrap and microwave for one minute and then let stand. The cherries will soak up the liquid until very little remains.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and use a whisk to combine.
In a medium bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment cream the butter and sugar until light, about three minutes on medium speed. Scrape down the side of the bowl, then with the machine running on medium low, add the egg. Stop the machine and scrape down the side of the bowl again. Once the egg is combined add ⅓ of the flour mixture on low speed. With flour streaks still present, add half of the yogurt then repeat until all the flour and yogurt has been added. Stop the machine and stir in the cherry mixture using a rubber spatula, taking care not to over mix.
To prepare the streusel mix all the ingredients until combined and break into small and medium clumps.
Using a large spoon fill the muffin tin with batter ¾ full. Scatter the streusel evenly over each muffin. Bake in the middle rack for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out with a few crumbs. Let cool in the pan for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool until warm enough to bite into. Serve with coffee and enjoy inside the warmth of a tent.


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With registration for the spring 2012 semester fast approaching, some students are faced with that all-important (but hair-pullingly stressful) task of declaring a major. With so many choices, how can one possibly choose? Human Biology, Political Science, Communications, Education, and Accounting: the list goes on forever! But don't worry, because Career Services is here to help guide you on your way to making the decision that is right for you.
The best place to start your possible major search would be the "Choosing a Major" guide on the Career Services website. There you can look at the list of majors and minors UWGB has to offer and even print a complete copy of the guide. This information will help you consider your interests, values and abilities and transform them into a major that fits you. If you're not quite sure what a major is or are interested to know what kind of career options are available within that major, you can visit Majortopia, also on the Career Services website. This page will provide you with in depth information about the major, including necessary skills, possible career paths, and links for even more extensive information.
Choosing your major could be one of the biggest and most personal decisions you make during your college career. It is important that you choose something that helps you get where you want to go, and most importantly, something that you enjoy! If you aren't sure where to begin or want to know if you're on the right track, you can make an appointment with Career Services by calling (920) 465-2163 or stopping by SS 1600. The Career Services staff members would be happy to talk to you and help you figure out what you want to do with your major and what you intend to get out of it. They can also tell you more about the Human Development 225 class offered at UWGB. This is a one-credit course that teaches and prepares you for career planning.
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The vascular plant collection of the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) is located at 379 Dickinson Hall in the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. Room 379 is in the west wing of the street level of Dickinson Hall on Museum Road, just west of Newell Drive. The on line UF campus map may help you locate Dickinson Hall on the University of Florida campus.
Monday - Friday 9am - 12 noon; 1 pm to 5 pm, except for holidays and subject to staff availability.
Please contact the Collection Manager or Keeper to arrange for consultation of specimens prior to your visit.
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For inquiries and official correspondence, contact: Kent D. Perkins, Manager of the Collection, -or- Norris H. Williams, Keeper, at: University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) Florida Museum of Natural History 379 Dickinson Hall PO Box 110575 Gainesville, FL 32611-0575 USA Telephone: (352) 273-1990 EMail: herb@[no spam]flmnh.ufl.edu
(See below for individual staff telephone numbers and refer to our complete Staff, Student and Associate Directory for other personal contact information.)
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Left to right: Robert Dressler, Norris Williams, Mark Whitten
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The history of the collection may be traced to 1891 when Peter H. Rolfs established the Herbarium of Florida Agricultural College. There are currently approximately 250,000 accessioned sheets of vascular plants with an excellent representation of the vascular flora of Florida,the southeastern United States coastal plain, and Haiti. The collection is rich in historical material dating back into the mid-19th century.
Important collections include:
- J. Richard Abbott (New World, esp. Florida, 1990's to present)
- A.W. Chapman (Florida, 1840's-1860's)
- A.H. Curtiss (Florida, 1890's)
- A. Cuthbert (Georgia and Florida, 1890's-1910's)
- R.L. Dressler (Neotropical Orchidaceae, 1970's to present)
- A.P. Garber (Florida, 1870's)
- A.K. Gholson (Florida and Georgia, 1970's to present)
- R.K. Godfrey (Southeastern U.S., esp. Florida, 1950's to present)
- S.C. Hood (Florida, 1900's-1910's; United States, 1940's-1950's)
- H.H. Hume (Florida, 1930's-1950's)
- W.S. Judd (Florida, 1970's to present; West Indies (esp. the Dominican Republic and Haiti), 1980's to present)
- W.A. Murrill (Florida, 1930's-1950's)
- P.H. Rolfs (Florida, 1890's)
- F. Rugel (Florida, 1840's)
- E.P. & R.P. St. John (Florida ferns, 1930's-1940's)
- J.K. Small (Florida, 1910's-1930's)
- D.B. Ward (Florida, 1950's-1970's)
- E. West (Florida, 1930's-1950's)
The University of Florida Herbarium Collections Catalog contains information on 98,125 specimen accessions (of ca. 450,000); last update: 28 October 2019. Researchers should be aware that the collection catalog includes data for only about 25% of our holdings. For an overview of our complete holdings, please consult our cabinet door lists document, a lengthy PDF. This print-out is the basis for the lists posted on each cabinet with the contents to genus and/or species level.
The vascular plant collection is arranged "phylogenetically" by a modified Dalla Torre and Harms numbering system which is based on the Engler and Prantl classification system. This system is outlined in Dalla Torre and Harms (1908). The family numbering codes we use are in our own family list PDFS (alphabetical, numerical). We are in the process of converting the family delineation to a modern classification based on the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification. Documents explaining the details of the arrangement are provided to users during the collection orientiation.
- Dalla Torre, C. G. de et H. Harms. Register zu de Dalla Torre et Harms: Genera Siphonogamarum ad Systema Englerianum Conscripta. W. Engelmann, Leipzig [Germany]. 1908. Facsimile reprint by Verlag von H. R. Engelmann (J. Cramer), Weinheim [Germany]. 1958. 568 pp. 28 cm.


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LU to host Alumni Night at Cards-Cowboys games Saturday
Lamar University alumni will be featured guests when the Lamar basketball teams take on McNeese Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Montagne Center. Tipoffs will be at 4 p.m. for the women's game and 6:30 p.m. for the men's contest.
All Lamar University alumni will receive half-price admission based on the men's game-ticket price, which covers admission to both games on Alumni Night, said Linda LeBlanc, director of alumni affairs. They should use the discount code "lualumni" (case-sensitive) to order tickets online at LamarCardinals.com or identify themselves as Lamar graduates when calling or visiting the ticket office, LeBlanc said. Discount tickets will be available only through 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15.
LeBlanc urged alumni to arrive early for the pre-game ceremonies, which include the presentation of the game ball before the men's game by Ellen Rienstra, president of the LU Alumni Advisory Board. The 2012 Southland Conference Tournament championship banner and a 2012 NCAA Tournament banner will also be dropped at the game.
"Be sure and get your free LU Alumni foam finger when you enter the Montagne Center on Alumni Night," LeBlanc said. "Join your fellow alumni to cheer on the LU basketball teams."
For additional information, contact the office of alumni affairs at (409) 880-8921 or email Alumni [at] lamar [dot] edu.


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Mullins hanging fire on Anonis
Mags Mullins says she will play it by ear as to whether Anonis takes up any of his Cheltenham Festival engagements.
Entered in all three of the big novice hurdles, the Barry Connell-owned gelding has already clocked up one visit to the Gloucestershire course when winning a bumper in good style at the Open meeting.
Off the mark over hurdles at Leopardstown over Christmas, Anonis returned to the same venue for a Grade Two at the end of last month. He was moving well enough behind eventual winner Pont Alexandre until he fell at the third-last flight.
Mullins said: "He'll tell us whether he goes for Cheltenham. He had an easy week because he got a fair bang last time, but he has been back out on the gallops.
"It's getting a bit tight for another run - he'd almost want to be out next week. I'm not sure what we'll do, we'll see how he is."
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Edwards: Won't go back to Breck
Can someone tell me why there are no daily discounts for lift tickets to Breckenridge? Last week I spent a week staying at a lodge in Breckenridge, but I couldn't afford to ski there … instead I stopped and purchased 10 gallons of gas at the local Shell station and went to Copper Mountain to ski on a buy-one-get-one-free lift ticket. While in Copper we ate lunch and purchased hats and T-shirts, we also stopped at the local Cooper convenience store to buy drinks for the ride back to Breckenridge. Why does Breckenridge choose to force families to ski other places due to lift ticket costs? My only option next year is to stay at Copper Mountain where costs are more reasonable and family friendly.
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Economy wrecks car dealers, but car-repair shops cruise
WASHINGTON — What's bad news for new car dealers is good news for repair shops.
"If people are cutting back, they're spending it here," said Josh Rosson of Big O Tires in Merced, Calif.
During the ongoing "Great Recession," consumers are patronizing local garages to keep their wheels running longer rather heading to showrooms to replace them. The shift is most dramatic in hard-hit communities in Florida and California, but it also varies by type of repair. Shops that specialize in must-do work, such as brake jobs, are doing better than body shops.
Tighter money is also changing how owners regard their vehicles. In the days of short-term leases and regular trade-ins, cars were "damn near throw-away vehicles," said Stan Rodman, executive director of the Automotive Body Parts Association, a Houston-based alliance of 140 independent part-makers.
Now, Rodman said, owners are recognizing the value of long-term ownership and are ponying up for repair costs, at least required ones. The change isn't so clear on maintenance, but prudent owners are doing more of that, too, he said.
"We feel fortunate to be in this line of work," said Kay Wynter of Terry Wynter Auto in Fort Myers, Fla., hardest hit city in a state of cratering real estate values.
Car owners' new frugality doesn't help body shops, however, said Sal Chavez, owner of Sal's Auto Parts in Hayward, Calif. That's because more owners are cashing insurance company checks for body work and living with the dents, he said.
Other car owners aren't filing claims. Allstate, the nation's second-largest provider of auto insurance after State Farm, reported a 7.2 percent decrease in auto property damage claims in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with the year-earlier period.
At the same time, sales of used vehicle parts are up, said Igor Zhurya of Carolina Auto Salvage in Rock Hill, S.C. Big-ticket items such as engines and transmissions, Zhurya said, are a big reason his January sales topped last year's by 16 percent.
Generally, car owners are spending only what they must, said George Navarro of GoodGuys Tires in Fresno, Calif. They're buying two tires instead of four, or replacing only front brake pads, Navarro said.
Car dealers are trying to offset sales declines with more service work, said Paul Taylor, the chief economist at the National Automobile Dealer's Association, a group that represents nearly 20,000 new car and truck dealers.
Repairs and service at dealerships rose only 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter, however, weighed down by slumps in routine maintenance. That can't continue forever, said Brad Lawson, a consultant to NADA, which is based in McLean, Va. "Cars and trucks are going to start to come unglued," he said.
Terry, Josh Rosson's father, of Big O Tires in Merced, often sees that happening among strapped owners who delay repairs until they can't.
"I have brake rotors on my wall of shame that literally fell apart in the parking lot," he said.
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It seems as though there's a drug for everything. And the prevalence of certain drugs offers valuable insight into the state of our country's health.
Based on a study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, these are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States. Albany Medical Center pharmacy director Dr. Timothy Lesar says this list from 2011 still holds true in 2013, and is largely representative of the most common drugs in the Capital Region.
While all 10 drugs listed are similar in their affordably low prices, averaging $10 per month, costs do vary slightly. "They're all fairly cheap drugs, contributing to their popularity," says Lesar.
Most of the drugs are largely well-tolerated with few drug interactions, while others can't be mixed with anything containing acetaminophen or alcohol. Dr. Lesar offers some more specific things to know concerning each of the 10 most prescribed drugs.
1. Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen: This drug, which acts as an opiate narcotic, is the top prescribed drug. According to Dr. Lesar, "This analgesic can have issues related to overuse and misuse." He says side effects can range from sedation, constipation, nausea and upset stomach, all as a result of taking too much, to death in high doses. He warns not to take more than 4 grams a day, and not to mix with anything containing alcohol or acetaminophen, as this could lead to liver toxicity.
2. Generic Zocor (simvastatin): "This is a statin for cholesterol with a long list of nonmixers," Dr. Lesar says. These include alcohol and even grapefruit juice, which allows too much of the drug's active ingredient to enter the bloodstream. Side effects can include muscle aches and pains, and high doses can result in muscular/skeletal problems.
3. Lisinopril (Prinivil/Zestril): This drug is primarily designed to control blood pressure. "It's typically well-tolerated, except when taken with Motrin or Advil, which increases renal toxicity," According to Dr. Lesar. Side effects could also include increased potassium in the blood or too much of a drop in blood pressure.
4. Synthroid (levothyroxine sodium): This is a thyroid hormone that has "very few side effects, unless overdosed." He warned only against taking it with iron or calcium, as these could block absorption. Dr. Lesar also stressed that it be taken on a consistent morning or night basis.
5. Norvasc (amlodipine besylate): This angina/blood pressure drug contains calcium-channel blockers and interacts negatively with Simvastatin, so Dr. Lesar recommends limiting the dose. Other side effects could include constipation and fluid accumulation in legs leading to swollen ankles.
6. Prilosec (omeprazole): This is an over-the-counter proton-pump inhibitor designed to decrease acid in the stomach. "It helps with acid reflux, so don't mix with drugs that need acid." He also advises those on antibiotics to use caution, and that the most common side effect is the increased risk of c-deficio diarrhea due to an infection in the intestines.
7. Azithromycin (Z-Pak/Zithromax): ''This is an antibiotic with modest drug interactions." says Dr. Lesar, advising only against taking antacids that contain aluminum or magnesium within two hours of taking azithromycin. Used for treating bacterial infections, such as infection of the lungs, nasal passages or pneumonia, it can often cause nausea. More unusual side effects include an abnormal heart rhythm or severe skin rash.
8. Amoxicillin: This is a widely well-tolerated antibiotic, except for those who may have an amoxicillin allergy. It's used to treat a plethora of infections caused by bacteria, such as ear infections or pneumonia. While there are no major drug interactions, side effects can include nausea and diarrhea, and in some cases, it may make birth control pills less effective.
9. Generic Glucophage (metformin): This drug is used to treat type 2 diabetes and should be avoided by anyone with poor renal function, as it could result in gastrointestinal upset. It should be started at a low dose to avoid serious side effects such as shortness of breath, swelling or rapid weight gain or fever and other flu symptoms.
10. Hydrochlorothiazide: This is a diuretic (water pill) that is used to lower blood pressure and prevent the body from absorbing too much salt. "Make sure to eat enough foods containing potassium, or consider taking a supplement, as hydrochlorothiazide eliminates more potassium from the body," says Dr. Lesar. While there are few drug interactions, it does increase urination when starting the drug.


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David Guetta, Diplo, Avicii and Calvin Harris are holding fast as the kings of the clubs, with women still a rarity among popular electronic dance DJ-producers.
This weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival in New York City — the annual ultra-popular electronic dance music extravaganza — features six women among the 80-plus performers.
And lest you think that number seems low: "I think that sounds like a higher than normal number," said Miriam Nervo, one-half of the Australian EDM duo NERVO, which includes her sister Olivia.
Other festivals have featured one or two women, while some don't have any at all.
But outside of DJ'ing, women make up other parts of the dance music world. They appear as vocalists on most of the thumping tracks that have been spun over and over for decades and they also work as songwriters as well as managers of top talent, such as Caroline Prothero (Guetta), Amy Thomson (Swedish House Mafia) or Stephanie LaFera (Kaskade).
Nervo, who also has had success as a songwriter with her sister for acts like Kesha, Kylie Minogue and even co-penned Guetta's breakout pop anthem, 2009's "When Love Takes Over," said though on paper the EDM world looks like a boys' club, that's not the case.
"Our experience has really been so positive from the boys," Nervo said.
Other women have echoed her statement, including Nicole Moudaber, who is performing and hosting her own stage dubbed "MoodZONE" at Citi Field for EDC New York.
"I never even thought about it; it never really crossed my mind. I do what I do and I live in my own club in my own world, and I never had obstacles as such -never," said the performer, who was born in Nigeria to Lebanese parents. "It's really something that I haven't experienced to be honest. At the end of the day the music that you make has no gender, no color."
Nervo and Moudaber said they haven't faced uphill battles in EDM because they are women, unlike in other fields.
But the lack of women DJs has been a part of the EDM conversation for the last year. It reached a new height when DJ Magazine — the definitive source for news and info on DJs, dance music and its culture — released its 25th anniversary issue last month, featuring 25 male DJs on its cover and zero women. The British-based magazine's 2015 Top 100 list of DJs only included three female acts, with NERVO in the highest position at No. 24 (the female duo Krewella was at 81 and Miss K8 at 94).
"My guess is maybe there's the thought that it's more challenging for women so less women go for it because maybe they're intimidated by it," said Pasquale Rotella, the CEO of Insomniac, which produces EDC festivals around the world. "And I would hate for that to be the case. If that is, I'd love to help change that."
In 2007, Tatiana Alvarez was so over being ignored that she transformed and became DJ Musikillz, a male performer. She wore facial hair and loose clothing, hid her breasts and booked more gigs as a man. Warner Bros. is turning her story into a movie.
"There were prejudices toward women, definitely back then. It was a different industry, it was a different time," said the Los Angeles-performer, who disguised herself as a man for a year. "It was definitely 'cause I was a girl, 'cause I was a sexy girl."
Writer and former Beatport editor Katie Bain said there may be a lack of female DJs because "women historically have not been as involved in STEM and computer engineering and all of that stuff that one needs to know how to do in order to make electronic music. Women haven't been as prevalent in those areas."
Bain, who will moderate a panel at the EDMbiz Conference & Expo next month called "Beyond the Boys' Club: What's Next for Women in Dance Music," said that as the topic of female DJs "has gotten more attention, I feel that women are getting booked more."
Moudaber encourages other women to grab the bulls by the horns — like she's done in her six-year career as a DJ and producer.
"If women want to take to that path, it's out there and it's available. It's down to the women to choose if they want to or not. It's not easy job and it's not cut out for everybody," she said.


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The following activities will help students connect what they have learned about Abraham Lincoln, the Soldiers' Home, emancipation, and the importance that retreats can play in people's lives.
Activity 1: Journal Entry
Historians depend primarily on written records. Much of what we now know about President Lincoln's journey to the cottage at the Soldiers' Home is based upon first-hand accounts. Ask your students to keep a journal for two weeks of what they see, experience, and feel on their way to and from school. Tell them to include cars, people, houses, trees, etc. and whether they sang songs, sat in traffic jams, etc. Emphasize that they should both record repeated sights and experiences and also try to record something new each day. They also may draw pictures as part of the record.
After two weeks, have students review their journal and write a summary about what they saw and felt. Did they feel differently each day when they got to school or returned home based on things they had observed or experienced during their trips? Why or why not? Ask if any students would like to share their conclusions with the class. Hold a general class discussion about what remained similar or formed a pattern during that two weeks and what, if anything, changed. What do students think might change on that route over the course of the next 100 years?
Activity 2: Retreats in your Local Community
Perhaps no American president endured more than Abraham Lincoln during his Civil War era presidency. During this time the cottage truly was a retreat for the Lincoln family. Although the cottage was just three miles north of the White House, the rural setting was much more relaxing. Presidents are not the only people who need beautiful places to relax and get away from the pressures of their work. What places in your own community provide peace and quiet for everybody? Are there parks and nature preserves nearby? Buildings where people go for rest, relaxation, and a change from the demands of day-to-day life?
Have any of these places in your community been used historically as a retreat? Talk with adults and research an area retreat. Students should draw the surroundings of the retreat and the route they would take to get there. Then have the students write a report in which they describe the retreat and answer the following questions. What does the word "retreat" mean to them? How did that influence their selection? Who has used this retreat in the past? How is it used today? What do you see along the way to this place? Would you use it as a retreat today? Find our who owns the retreat and how it is maintained. If upkeep relies on volunteer help, have students sign up to volunteer.
Divide students into groups and ask them to come up with a list of qualities that characterize a retreat. Once they have done this, if they were able to find a retreat in their community, have them compare that retreat with their list. Hold a class discussion about whether the local retreat has the characteristics they listed. Ask students, in groups, to design a retreat for their own community, which might be a building or a site. Students should select a suitable location and create a design for their retreat. Have the class vote on the design they like best and that they believe best incorporates the qualities important to them. Ask students if they would like to submit the design to their local government representative for consideration with arguments for the benefits it would bring to the community.
Activity 3: Emancipation Proclamation and Reparations
Abraham Lincoln struggled with the decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Even in its realized form, it was a monumental statement for the future of America, but complex social, political, and racial issues of the 1860s and the prolonged war restrained the document. From today's perspective it is very easy to see the limitations of the Emancipation Proclamation. Since the Civil War, the issue of reparations (compensation given to the descendants of slaves for the centuries their relatives spent in bondage) has come up again and again. Various forms of reparations have been suggested, from monetary compensation to community improvement projects to free healthcare and education. At the end of the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order no. 15, which has come to be known as the "40 acres and a mule" plan. Basically, Sherman's plan set aside land in parts of Georgia and South Carolina to help the formerly enslaved build a better future. However, after Lincoln's death, President Johnson struck down Sherman's orders. Many proponents of reparations point to the termination of this program as proof of the government's failure to take responsibility for slavery, and the debate over reparations continues today.
Have students research the reparations debate of 1865. Using what they have learned through their research and referring back to the Emancipation Proclamation, ask the students to add an amendment to the Emancipation Proclamation. The amendment should answer the question of what will become of the freed slaves. Would they give reparations to those formerly enslaved? If so, what is their plan? Would the freed slaves stay in the south? Would they move to the north or west? Would students give the freed slaves land, money, livestock, and/or supplies? Where would they get the land and/or money for this? If they displaced southern whites, what would students do with those they displaced? Or would students not intervene and leave those formerly enslaved to work out their own economic situation? Finally, how might students use this newly created section of the Emancipation Proclamation to build an integrated society based on equal opportunity? Encourage your students to be creative. Students should write out their reasoning.
Activity 4: Current Issues
The debate over slavery challenged the United States since its beginning. For decades prior to the Civil War, the debate raged. Many wanted to expand slavery west into the new territories while others called for the end of slavery. Even those advocating the abolition of slavery couldn't agree. Some thought freed blacks should enter American society; others promoted re-colonization to Africa. After two devastating years of civil war, President Lincoln felt he had to take decisive action against slavery.
Today, there also are issues that spark heated debates within communities, states, and the nation. Ask students to research a current event in which there is an obvious dispute over the best resolution. The issue can be national, state, or local. Students should research both sides of the issue. They should list the main points of contention, the major arguments, and the resolutions offered by each side. They should also state how the issue originated and give a little background as to whether it is new or ongoing. After outlining the different positions, ask students to formulate and write out their own solution to the issue, as if they held elected office. How would they resolve this issue? Would they take one side over the other? Would they come to a middle ground? Or would they do something unique, coming to a totally different conclusion? What factors influenced their decision? Did they have a difficult time making a decision? Stage a debate between two or more students holding different opinions.


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I have a finite and discrete 1D chain (edit: linear chain, i.e. a straight line) of atoms, with unit separation, with a set number of impurities randomly distributed in the place of these atoms in the system. What I would like to do is describe the separation between neighbouring impurities (call it "D" which will always be an integer) statistically, and also to work out the average separation .
For example, the plot below was calculated from several thousand simulations of a chain of length 200 atoms and 10 impurities where the y-axis is the probability $P(D)$ of finding an impurity at distance D, and the x-axis is nearest impurity distance $D$. It kind of looks like a Poisson distributon, which one would expect since the system is discrete and random and a kind of counting exercise, but it doesn't work to well as a fit to the data points. It has been a long time since I did any statistics so I'm not sure how to start expressing what I found mathematically. Since I know the system length ($L = 200$) and the number of impurities ($N_i$) is a fair starting point the impurity density $\rho = N_i/L$ ?
EDIT: The chain isn't allowed to self-intersect, it's a straight line in each case. The system I'm using above is a straight line of 200 evenly spaced atoms, and I'm distributing 10 impurities in the place of random atoms (e.g. at sites 4, 11, 54,...so there are still discrete steps between sites). The graph above is the result of finding the spacings between these impurity sites.
EDIT 2: Attached a picture at the top
EDIT 3: Okay so it seems it could be my PRNG code causing problems. I'm using Fortran 95, here is the code:
`CALL RANDOM_SEED(size = n)
CALL SYSTEM_CLOCK(COUNT=clock) !!! intentionally slows it down to prevent succesive calls from returning the same number
do i = 1 , 1000000
end do
seed = clock + 37 * (/ (i - 1, i = 1, n) /)
CALL RANDOM_SEED(PUT = seed)
call random_number(x)`
EDIT 4!: Repeated this for a system size of 50 with 3 impurities (10,000 iterations), fitted a geometric distribution to it, as one can see immediately there is a huge variation. Is this explained by the fact for small n and L when we go from our first impurity (at site j) the probabilities to find the next impurity change drastically since effectively we are now looking for a system with n=2 and L= 50-j, which would be really sensitive to the location of the first impurity hence the huge variation. When we go to a huge system we can essentially treat the remainder of the chain as still being really long, and n and L are pretty much unchanged so this effect is masked and we see a geometric distribution arise? EDIT 5: Just did a bit of reading around Bernoulli Trials, is what I'm seeing and describing a binomial distribution hence the peak I see with smaller systems? Still that wouldn't explain why my 200 system is different from Ilmari's below...


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For misappropriation and misuse of customer funds and securities; Westor president named as well
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has filed for a Temporary Cease-and-Desist Order (TCDO) against Herkimer, NY-based Westor Capital Group, Inc. and its President, Chief Compliance Officer and Financial and Operations Principal, Richard Hans Bach, to immediately stop the further misappropriation and misuse of customer funds and securities. FINRA is seeking the TCDO to prevent further customer harm that would likely continue before a formal disciplinary proceeding against Westor and Bach could be completed.
In addition, FINRA issued a complaint against Westor and Bach, charging them with failing to allow customers to withdraw account balances and deliver securities, misusing customer securities, failing to maintain physical possession or control of securities, and for operating an unapproved self-clearing business.
In one instance, when a customer sought to withdraw $97,000 from his account, Westor refused. FINRA further charges that Westor, acting through Bach, misused 65,000 shares of customers' fully paid common stock to effect and cover short sales by another customer, without the authority to do so. As a result, Westor and Bach failed to maintain physical possession or control of securities as required by the federal securities laws and rules.
Westor's primary business is trading in microcap securities through its own accounts held at several different brokerage firms and has ineffective measures to track and reconcile its customers' stock positions. This makes it possible for Westor and Bach to conceal the improper use of securities, the complaint alleges.
Under FINRA rules, the individuals and firms named in a complaint can file a response and request a hearing before a FINRA disciplinary panel. Possible sanctions include a fine, an order to pay restitution, censure, suspension or bar from the securities industry. The issuance of a disciplinary complaint represents the initiation of a formal proceeding by FINRA, in which findings as to the allegations in the complaint have not been made, and does not represent a decision as to any of the allegations contained in the complaint.
Investors can obtain more information about, and the disciplinary record of, any FINRA-registered broker or brokerage firm by using FINRA's BrokerCheck. FINRA makes BrokerCheck available at no charge. In 2012, members of the public used this service to conduct 14.6 million reviews of broker or firm records. Investors can access BrokerCheck atwww.finra.org/brokercheck or by calling (800) 289-9999. Investors may find copies of this disciplinary action as well as other disciplinary documents in FINRA's Disciplinary Actions Online database.
FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. FINRA touches virtually every aspect of the securities business – from registering and educating all industry participants to examining securities firms, writing rules, enforcing those rules and the federal securities laws, informing and educating the investing public, providing trade reporting and other industry utilities, and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and firms. For more information, please visit www.finra.org.


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Found - Snap #329
From NPR and PRX, Snap proudly presents "Found." Amazing stories of finding exactly what you're not looking for.
Sudden Savant
Although most musicians spend decades honing their craft, musical genius Derek Amato never had to practice a day in his life. One day, he just sat down at the piano and his fingers began to fly across the keys with ease. As an immediate musical genius, Derek is one of the few people on Earth diagnosed with Acquired Musical Savant Syndrome. Derek takes us into the inner workings of his amazing gift.
Producers: Anna Sussman and Pat Mesiti-Miller
The Things I Would Save
Writer April Wolfe finds an odd job cleaning out hoarder houses. On her first assignment, she finds trash, pants, scrapbooking supplies, and a sad and beautiful history of the woman who lives there.
Check out April's incredible writing on her blog.
Producer: Stephanie Foo
Notes from a Six-Year-Old
First they found out the worst news imaginable. Then they found a light in the darkness.
To learn more about Elena and how you can help other kids like her, visit the Desserich's website.
Producers: Anna Sussman and Glynn Washington
Rosebush Inside
Singer/songwriter Sean Hayes is constantly looking for inspiration for his music. He found it in the story of a man named Moreese Bickham who served more than 40 years in Angola Prison. Little did he know that by writing the song, he was about to change Moreese's story...
All the music in this piece was by Sean Hayes. Go buy his awesome new album here.
Thank you to David Isay, StoryCorps founder and the producer of Tossing Away the Keys. It is a magnificent piece of radio. Thanks to the Outside Lands festival for helping to hook up the interview. And last but not least, many thanks to the inimitable Moreese Bickham, who now lives in Oakland, California.
Producer: Stephanie Foo
Mystery Package
Corbett Redford is a starving artist who hits his absolute bottom on a spree of bad luck. But all that comes to an end one day when a mysterious package arrives at his warehouse.
Corbett continues to tour the U.S with his band Bobby Joe Ebola and is still putting out records. Hear their music on their website.
Producers: Mark Ristich and Jamie DeWolf


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SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Port of Los Angeles has won 10 communications awards in an annual competition hosted by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), an alliance of more than 140 ports in the Western Hemisphere. The Port's 2011 Waterfront Summer Concert Series won top honors in the "excellence" category, and nine other programs – including the Port's LAtitude video e-news magazine, LA Waterfront Public Outreach Program as well as its School Boat Tour Program – were also recognized in other categories.
The AAPA Award entries are judged each year by transportation industry PR practitioners who are members of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) National Chapter in Washington D.C.
"The Port of Los Angeles has long been committed to keeping community and business stakeholders informed and engaged," said Cynthia Ruiz, Deputy Executive Director of External Relations at the Port. "We're thrilled to be recognized by industry peers for the breadth, depth and quality of our work."
The Waterfront Concert Series has become one the Port's signature community events, providing residents and visitors the opportunity to gather and enjoy music in new parks and public areas along an LA Waterfront that's becoming a popular place to visit and enjoy a variety of attractions. The concerts, held weekly during the summer months, are free to the public and produced entirely by the Port's in-house public relations team.
The Port earned awards and recognition for a number of communications platforms that include:
- LAtitude – A high-quality, multi-media e-news magazine that shares informative stories and business trends about shipping advantages offered through the Los Angeles trade gateway.
- TradeConnect – Spearheaded by the Port's Trade Services team, this successful business and legislative outreach program was created to educate and assist small and medium-sized businesses in the area of establishing or increasing their importing and exporting potential. The nationally acclaimed program has also helped create business development opportunities for Southern California businesses.
- Port of Los Angeles 2011 Sustainability Report – To help inform the industry, the environmental community and the public about its environmental leadership, philosophies, initiatives and progress, in 2011 the Port's Environmental Management Division created its first-ever, comprehensive Port of Los Angeles Sustainability Report.
- 2011 School Boat Tour Program – A free, educational boat tour program for 5th and 6th graders through a longstanding partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District is enjoyed by thousands of students annually. The program provides students with a visual perspective and in-depth look at the daily operations at the nation's largest trade gateway. This year, the Port has begun offering special marine science-focused tours through a partnership with Think Watershed.
- LA Waterfront Public Outreach Program – When the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved and entitled more than a billion dollars in public waterfront projects in 2009, Port staff established public outreach protocols and a program with key elements that include public outreach campaigns, community workshops, public meetings, a website with extensive project documentation and community newsletters.
- Mariner's Guide – A popular, pocket-sized handbook that assures a safer navigational experience, this easy-to-use guide provides vital tidal information for persons who pilot or operate ships and small boats in and around the Port.
- Portfolio TV Show – Taking viewers behind the scenes at the Port, this quarterly half-hour television program airs on L.A. City View Channel 35 and other regional cable TV networks. It focuses on informing local audiences about Port operations, community events, environmental developments and infrastructure projects, among other issues.