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Investigation Reveals A Military Payroll Rife With Glitches
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Despite the nearly universal respect Americans hold for those who served in our armed forces, we've seen disturbing reports of long delays that await wounded veterans seeking help from the Veterans Administration. Now an investigation by Reuters exposes another case of government dysfunction that affects many active duty servicemen and women.
Our guest, Reuters special enterprise correspondent Scot Paltrow, reports that the payroll system for the U.S. military is ancient and error-ridden, at times erroneously cutting the soldiers' paychecks and causing terrible hardship. Paltrow and Reuters colleague Kelly Carr report on what soldiers are up against when they try to correct the errors in their pay. In some cases, they report, the military hires collection agencies to try and recover mistakenly charged overpayments from servicemen and women.
The Reuters report called "Wounded in Battle, Stiffed by the Pentagon" is the first in a series on financial problems in the Defense Department. Scot Paltrow spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies.
Well, Scot Paltrow, welcome to FRESH AIR. I want to start with this Army medic, Shawn Aiken, who you write about in the story. First of all, just tell us about his service and his experience.
SCOT PALTROW: Well, he joined the Army very shortly after he graduated from high school. He had taken care of his mother, who died of stomach cancer. She was a nurse. And when he joined the Army he was sort of inclined to pursue medical specialty, and trained as a combat medic.
And he served as a combat medic in Iraq, and then he reenlisted and served also in Afghanistan, and was in some very hairy situations where he was all by himself to treat large numbers of severely injured soldiers and civilians. And then he ended up getting blown up himself by a rocket-propelled grenade.
And even though he was badly injured, he was so - he was a sergeant. He was so loyal to his men that he didn't want to be medevaced. His commanders wanted him to be medevaced out of there to the hospital in Landstuhl, Germany that takes care of, you know, seriously injured from Afghanistan and Iraq.
So he stayed with his unit, which was due to be rotated out in a few weeks, anyway. He went with his unit back to Germany. The doctors at his unit in Germany took one look at him and saw that, you know, he was severely injured and had severe problems and sent him to Landstuhl hospital, where he arrived by bus.
Well, the way things are set up, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service - which, at Landstuhl, is supposed to designate people officially as wounded warriors, and who are therefore entitled to all sorts of financial benefits. They only do it for soldiers who are medevaced by air and arrive by air at Landstuhl. Well, Shawn Aiken didn't arrive by air. He arrived by bus from his unit, and so he was never designated as a wounded warrior...
DAVIES: Right.
PALTROW: ...until much later, and after we had made inquiries about it.
DAVIES: So this guy, who served with distinction, because he came in on a bus, there's something that's missed, a technicality in his pay record. He gets to Fort Bliss, where he is recovering and being treated for traumatic brain injury and, you know, PTSD and other things. And then what happens to his pay?
PALTROW: Well, as soon as he arrived there, the officials at the base, actually from the - this Defense Finance and Accounting Service, audited his pay record. They, for some reason, never noticed that he had not been designated a wounded warrior, even though he was being assigned to a wounded warrior battalion at Fort Bliss.
They did, however, notice that it appeared he owed the military money for a variety of reasons, for things - like they claimed, and this is in dispute, that he had reported his divorce late, which resulted, they said, in him continuing to receive family and spouse benefits that he wasn't entitled to for a period of time.
And there were also reimbursements for meals that he had received and deserved, but they claimed that he hadn't deserved them, and so they determined that owed a big debt back to the military. And almost immediately, money started disappearing from his bi-weekly paychecks, and not just a little bit, but for several months, he received almost nothing.
In the month of December 2011, his total pay for the entire month was $117. And the result of this was that rather than getting help, being able to get help from the Wounded Warrior Battalion and the Army, he had to go to - so that his family could eat, they had to go to church food pantries. He ended up pawning his possessions, including the medic bag that he had used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And when Christmas rolled around, he had to rely on a charity to provide one Christmas present to each of his children. So the effect was quite severe on him, and he had to try to deal with this and get answers and get it straightened out while he simultaneously was suffering from traumatic brain injury and PTSD. And he was in significant pain from various injuries and had, you know, occasional outbursts. And it just proved impossible for him to get this straightened out.
DAVIES: So these errors occur that he wasn't even aware of. I mean, like, somebody in Germany - because he comes in on a bus and not a plane - doesn't give him credit for being a wounded warrior. And these clerical errors, in effect, are set in motion. But when his pay gets reduced, it's not as if there's any explanation, right? He just sees his paycheck shrinking, and there are all these mysterious accounting codes on his paystub.
PALTROW: Exactly. I mean, the military paystubs are large and very difficult to read and understand, filled with abbreviations. They gave him no explanation whatsoever. It's just, all of a sudden, he noticed that the money being deposited automatically into his bank account had dwindled to practically nothing, and he had no idea why.
DAVIES: Had he been properly designated as a wounded warrior in Germany, what difference would that have made?
PALTROW: Well, he instantly would have been entitled to special financial benefits paid to wounded warriors. And in addition to that, he would have been eligible to have virtually any debt owed to the military canceled. But because he did not receive that designation, he fell through the cracks. They went after him for all of these supposed debts, a number of which clearly were erroneous.
DAVIES: Now he was - he had the help of a reporter. You got involved in his case. Were things straightened out? How long did it take?
PALTROW: Well, when we learned about his case and began piecing together the details, we went to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service and asked for an explanation. And for the first time, they assigned a group of auditors to sit down and look through his entire pay record. And they found, lo and behold, that number one, he should have been designated as a wounded warrior, and secondly, that, in all, there are about 14 mistakes that had been made in his pay and in collection of debt.
DAVIES: And was it eventually squared up? Did they really pay him everything they owed?
PALTROW: Basically, they did, ultimately. It took - after we inquired, it took two to three months for that to all be worked out. But yes, ultimately, they did.
DAVIES: OK, so your story is, in part, about the fact that this is not so uncommon, and that there are serious problems in military pay and other aspects of military finances. Let's kind of talk about this. What's the agency that's responsible for getting all these paychecks out? And why are there so many mistakes?
PALTROW: It's called the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. No one outside has heard of it, but everyone inside the military knows about it, because that's where their pay comes from. It's known as DFAS by its abbreviation, and it was created in 1991, actually, by then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. And the idea was to save money by consolidating pay functions from all of the different military services.
But it has a number of severe problems. One of the biggest ones is that it has to rely on an ancient computer system that's more than 40 years old, dates basically from the dawn of the computer age. It runs on COBOL, which is one of the first computer languages, and it's so old that it can't be updated. And consequently, there are a tremendous number of mistakes. And...
DAVIES: Millions of lines of computer code that, basically, most people can't write anymore, right?
PALTROW: Right. And filled with corrupted data, also.
DAVIES: And then there's also the fundamental problem that it is - it's creating paychecks for every branch, right? I mean, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, right? But...
PALTROW: Yeah.
DAVIES: ...it - but they all have separate personnel systems.
PALTROW: Exactly. Well, that's the other main problem. When they created DFAS, they gave it responsibility for payroll - in other words, issuing the paychecks and determining the specific amounts. But it left all of the personnel functions in the hands of the individual military services, personnel functions being things like promotions in rank, special duty, combat duty, all things that require additional pay, changes in pay.
And so what happens is these changes have to be communicated from each of the services to DFAS for the pay to be updated and corrected. And the information goes through sort of ancient computer pipelines. Each of the services has about 14 or 15 different ones, none of which work exactly the same. And so you have this bifurcation of two roles that should be put together, but instead are a great source of mistakes.
And when soldiers call up, or airmen call up DFAS and say, look. There's a mistake. You know, I'm owed so much money. Can you get it corrected? They're often told - referred back to their commanders to get the problem solved.
DAVIES: Right. You also write that there are some parts of the system where people literally are copying data from one system, and then other people have to enter it into another part of the system - finger-gapping, they call it.
PALTROW: Yeah. Right. That goes on quite a bit. There are - is a tremendous number of what they call manual workarounds, because these systems are so antique. And, for example, at a particular base, if someone is promoted, rather than that being passed along automatically, in many cases, the office that does the promotion will have to print out a piece of paper, walk it down the hallway to the office where the payroll people are, from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, hand it to them and count on them to manually enter the data correctly into their own computers.
DAVIES: We're speaking with Scot Paltrow. He is a special enterprise correspondent for Reuters. We'll talk more after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and our guest is Scot Paltrow. He's a special enterprise correspondent for Reuters. He has a new piece with Kelly Carr called "Wounded in Battle, Stiffed by the Pentagon," about problems with the payroll services in the America military.
It's not just enlisted men or officers and women who have these problems. There's this remarkable story of the Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker. Tell us that.
PALTROW: Well, he was a four-star general who actually retired. And when the Iraq War started, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld persuaded him to come back to active duty to be the Army chief of staff, which is the highest military rank in the Army. And so he duly signed on and came back to serve his country, and discovered very quickly that he wasn't getting paid.
And it turned out that he had been on the retirement payroll, and he was correctly removed from the retirement payroll. However, the retirement payroll computers were set automatically to believe that when someone was removed from them, the reason was that they had died. And so the computer sent out a, you know, computer-generated condolence letter to his wife on his death. But, of course, he was very much alive.
And meanwhile, it took months for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to straighten things out so that he could be put back onto the active-duty payroll, and then additional months before he was paid the money that he hadn't been paid when he first started.
DAVIES: So you have a general here, the Army chief of staff, not getting paid. I presume this is a guy that can make phone calls to powerful people, and he couldn't get his pay started.
PALTROW: That's correct. And as he said, you know, if that can happen to me, imagine what happens to an ordinary private.
DAVIES: You say in this piece that pay errors are widespread. Do you know how widespread?
PALTROW: Well, they seem to be quite widespread, based on the multiple interviews that we've had with soldiers, airmen, sailors and so on who have experienced problems, also individuals who have recently been discharged and dunned erroneously for debts, also from former officials who actually worked in the area and know what went on inside.
A big problem is that there is no way, actually, to quantify it because the payroll has never been audited. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service claims that it has an extremely high accuracy rate, but when you look more closely, you discover that no outside organization has ever conducted an audit - not the Government Accountability Office, not the Defense department's own inspector general.
So, you know, there have been small audits of small pieces by the GAO which have shown significant errors, such as in Army pay and debts, but no one really knows.
DAVIES: You write that there's a law that's been in effect since 1992 which requires, you know, annual audits of these agencies. This doesn't happen here.
PALTROW: That's right, and there Chief Financial Officers Act required that every federal agency be audited annually by its inspector general. And for years, every other federal agency has been, and with very rare exceptions, has passed their audits. The Defense Department has never been audited, and the reason is - I mean, it's not only that it can't pass an audit, but its books are in such disarray and the records so screwed up, that it simply can't be audited.
And the Defense Department simply reports to Congress every year that our books and records have so many problems, that we can't pass an audit. Now, Secretary Panetta, when he was there, and also Congress, set deadlines for the Defense Department to become audit-ready, and supposedly there's a lot of work going on towards that, but there are reasons to be skeptical about whether that's really going to happen.
DAVIES: Now, you cite a lot of cases in which this, you know, central payroll processing agency, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, inaccurately made deductions from soldiers' pay or dunned them for debts that they shouldn't have owed. What about the other side? Does it ever pay people money they aren't entitled to?
PALTROW: Well, see, that's the problem. They often do pay money - people money they're not entitled to. Because it comes in small amounts on each paycheck, soldiers often don't notice it, and then, you know, all of a sudden months later, they're hit with an enormous debt to pay back the money that the Defense Department had erroneously overpaid them.
But what's interesting is that there are also apparently many cases where the soldiers are accidentally underpaid, and they don't notice that. And the Defense Finance and Accounting Service confirmed to us that they do not conduct any regular checks or audits to determine if soldiers were underpaid. They only check for overpayments.
So, in other words, if the Defense Department owes military personnel money, unless the individual soldiers discovers it, they'll probably never get paid.
DAVIES: There seem to be so many mistakes in the system, and yet it does seem, from your description, as if the military is pretty vigilant about finding if a soldier might have been overpaid, given an extra meal allowance, and then going after them when they think there's a debt owed.
PALTROW: Right. Well, it takes them a long time to catch up with what they think, at least, are mistakes. And then once they do, they go after them very aggressively. However, interestingly enough, as they confirmed, they don't take steps to find out if a soldier had been underpaid. They simply leave that up to the soldier him or herself to discover that they had - that they were missing pay, and then come and try to collect it.
There's a lot of pressure, of course, for the Defense Department to collect debts that it's owed, and so they do have quite an aggressive program to recoup money. For soldiers who have been recently discharged, they typically garnish salaries, withhold money from their tax refunds, turn the debts over to private collection agencies and notify credit agencies of these debts.
DAVIES: Now, you write that kind of the heart of the problem is this central payroll system, this thing the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which a lot of people in the military call DFAS. Just tell us a little bit about it. Is it in a - is it in one big, huge building in the middle of the country?
PALTROW: Well, it's based in Indianapolis, in an enormous building. It's actually the second-largest Defense Department building, after the Pentagon. And overall, it has about 12,000 employees, and there are also satellite offices in Cleveland, in Columbus, in Rome, New York.
DAVIES: And do they respond when people have problems? Do they have an operation that's set up when GIs, you know, when military people don't think they're getting the right pay? Are they set up to answer questions and deal with it?
PALTROW: Well, they have what they call customer care centers, which are really call centers. And the problem is that the people who are handling those calls often don't have access to the information or the capability right there fixing the problems. And, in addition, DFAS itself is not able to fix the problems because the problems may have originated in the particular military service.
So people will call up, they're told to - you know, when they receive a debt notice, for example, they're told to call the call center for information, but typically, or very often, they don't get help. They're simply referred back to their own military commanders to try to get the problem straightened out.
GROSS: FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies will continue his interview with Reuters special enterprise correspondent Scot Paltrow in the second half of the show. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies recorded with Reuters special enterprise correspondent Scot Paltrow about his investigation into problems in the Pentagon's payroll system that are resulting in many active-duty service men and women getting shortchanged in their paychecks. The soldiers affected are finding it very difficult to correct the errors in their pay.
DAVIES: You tell the story of an Air Force veteran named George Koffler. Tell us what happened with his pay and how he tried to fix it.
PALTROW: Well, he was in the Air Force for 25 years. He retired at the end of the 25 years. During the last five years, he was - well, he had the rank of master sergeant and he volunteered for extra duty as what they call a first sergeant - which involves advising the commander and sort of overseeing the welfare and well-being of the airmen, and it's a job that entitled him to special duty pay of $150 a month. And so during his last five years of service, while he was serving as a first sergeant, he got this pay and then a few months after he retired he got a bill from Defense Finance and Accounting Service for almost the entire amount back and the only explanation they gave was that he didn't - that he had earned the pay and there was never any further explanation. His efforts to find out from DFAS, from the Air Force, met with no success. And the Defense Finance and Accounting Service ended up actually garnishing his wages at his new civilian job and turned the debt over to a private collection agency. And we ended up finding his commanders who all said that yes, he had served as a first sergeant and that yes, he absolutely was entitled to that money. But when we called the Air Force secretary's office, we were told that well, it's his problem to solve it and that he should go back and follow the proper procedures and we're not going to do anything on our own to investigate or correct the problem.
DAVIES: Wow. This, of course, ruined his credit too, because he was, he had a private collection agency after him to collect military debts.
PALTROW: Right. They went - he and his wife went to buy some furniture and they had arranged for financing and then the salesman went and checked their credit rating and, lo and behold, it had been dropped - it had dropped considerably because the Defense Finance and Accounting Service itself, through a special program, had actually reported the debt to the credit agencies.
DAVIES: So the Air Force didn't help when you contacted them. What happens when you contact the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the central payroll organization yourself? Are they responsive?
PALTROW: Well, what we wanted to do from the very beginning was to be able to talk directly with the director, Teresa McKay, and with the key employees because obviously, it was a very complicated subject and we wanted to be sure that we could understand it and have the back-and-forth to clear up any possible misunderstandings, and they completely refused. They insisted that we send written questions, which we did in fairly large numbers and which they did answer although often it would take weeks or sometimes a few months before they would get back to us.
DAVIES: And did they end up answering the questions - explaining what happened, for example, to - for Sergeant Koffler?
PALTROW: They said they didn't know what happened to him and they suggested we call the Air Force. And we called the Air Force and they suggested that we call DFAS.
PALTROW: So we were sort of stuck in the same position that Koffler was.
DAVIES: And was his ever straightened out? Was the debt reduced?
PALTROW: No, it has not been straightened out. The two other individuals after we inquired who, the two other individuals in the series that we wrote about, their problems were straightened out after we made inquiries, but the Air Force did not seem inclined to help Mr. Koffler, and I guess that left DFAS in a position where it could do anything either.
DAVIES: You've written about the nature of the problem here - the fact that this central payroll agency, DFAS, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, handles the payroll for all these different branches who have separate personnel departments and distinct ways of calculating pay, the computer systems are old and outdated. This obviously became known to a lot of people in the military over time.
In the 1990s, there was an effort to fix it. What happened?
PALTROW: Well, the effort to fix it stemmed from the First Gulf War where large numbers of Reserve and the National Guard troops were mobilized and there were just huge numbers of mistakes in getting the mobilized troops onto the active duty payroll and then when they returned home to get them off the active duty payroll and back onto the Reserves. And so they were a huge amount of money lost, huge number of people suffered significant errors that took forever to get straightened out. And so the decision was made to do something about this and to try to rationalize pay and personnel throughout the entire Defense Department and to move to a modern off-the-shelf computer system that like at any major corporation would handle both functions seamlessly and use modern computer equipment. And so they made plans to build a system which was known by the acronym DIMERS - everything in the military, of course, is known by an acronym - and they worked on it for roughly 10 years and ended up spending $1 billion on it. And then in 2010, they decided that it had been a failure, that it just wasn't going to work, they pulled the plug on it and so the billion dollars spent on the program went down the tubes and the military was left with this antiquated system that hadn't been updated at all in more than a decade because everyone was anticipating this new now cancelled system to come online.
DAVIES: That's staggering. A 10-year effort costing $1 billion and nothing to show for it. Do you understand why?
PALTROW: Well, yeah. One of the main reasons actually, was a tremendous amount of resistance from the individual military services because they did not want to give up their own authority and they did not want to give up their own old systems. So what happened was something that was supposed to be a modern, off-the-shelf system that wouldn't be modified ended up having thousands - literally thousands - of changes or ordered for to meet the requests of the individual military services and the thing became so unwieldy that it just wasn't working. And, of course, the problem was over 10 years the people in charge of it kept changing. Many military personnel were involved and, of course, they get rotated frequently from one place to another. So there was very little continuity in who was working on the project. And then an even bigger problem was that there was not very much interest from the top, from the top generals, from the Defense Department. They're much more concerned with issues of war fighting and modern weapons and issues of accounting and payroll have always taken a backseat. And so no one was there cracking the whip and making sure that it was done in a rational and efficient way.
DAVIES: Wow. You know, if an unknown number of service men and women have been experiencing these problems - but it's not just a few from the basis of your reporting - I assume a lot of them must've gone to their members of Congress or U.S. senators. Has Congress been concerned about this? Have they raised the issue?
PALTROW: Congress raised the issue back in 2006 following, you know, problems with people returning from the Middle East. And there were promises made - all sorts of promises made - that wounded warriors would get the correct benefits and the system would be fixed and then very little actually happened. I mean there were some modifications made, but basically, the answer back then was that well, we're going to have this whole brand-new system in a few years and it will solve all these problems so we have nothing to worry about. And so now here we are without the new system. Interestingly enough, at the time that Secretary of Defense Gates announced the abandonment of the new system at a congressional hearing, no one spoke up and raised any fuss about billion dollars going down the drain.
There are certain senators now - Senator Carper, Senator Coburn and several others are beginning to take a strong interest in this now. But as several congressmen explained to me, I talked to several who until recently had been committee chairmen of various armed services committees and appropriations committees and they said well, you know, there's not a whole lot of interest in it because if I go home to my constituents and say hey, look what I've done for payroll and accounting in the military, their eyes will glaze over and they won't care, so the sense was why should we bother?
DAVIES: There have been a lot of stories about the way veterans have been treated, you know, horrific waiting lists for at the Veterans Administration for people to get benefits and other issues. And it's puzzling because I don't know if there is any class of citizens more respected than military and veterans of our wars. Do you understand how this happens? Does it make any sense to you?
PALTROW: Well, first of all, what we wrote about is entirely separate from the very severe Veterans Administration problem.
DAVIES: Right.
PALTROW: But we're talking, as you say, about people who gave enormous sacrifices, they were grievously wounded in the service of their country. They're going to have to live the rest of their lives with the severe consequences of this, and instead of the military taking care of them, the military has created problems for them and they have to be essentially beg to get what's just their basic due. Why this happens? You know, a combination of bureaucracy, outdated equipment that hasn't been replaced, people with good intentions but not being able to do the right thing, manual errors that creep in and a lack, I think basically overall, a lack of concern from the very top - from the secretary of Defense's office, from the individual service secretaries - the secretary of the Army, for example - to get these problems straightened out.
DAVIES: And do you think that the military gets, I don't know, less scrutiny than other parts of the government on areas like this because they have a special status?
PALTROW: Oh absolutely. You know, the simple fact that the Defense Department has gotten away with not being audited for more than 20 years since the law went into effect just shows that they do tend to get a free ride. And I doubt very much that Congress would've let any other agency get away with that. And it's, of course, very significant because the Defense Department gets by far a larger part of the federal budget than any other federal agency.
DAVIES: Scot Paltrow, thanks so much for spending some time with us.
PALTROW: Thank you very much.
GROSS: FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies spoke with Reuters special enterprise correspondent Scot Paltrow, co-author of the article "Wounded in Battle: Stiffed by the Pentagon."
A spokesperson from the Defense Department press office emailed us saying quote, "When there are errors we try to fix them quickly. Since 2007, we've made significant improvements in support of our wounded warriors. We now have pay specialists at Landstuhl and other warrior transition units. There's a tremendous effort to ensure our heroes are taking care of. If those paid by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service believes there's an error regarding their pay, they can find a number to call on the DFAS website," unquote. You'll find a link to that website on our website, FRESH AIR.npr.org.
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Expedition Continues - October 1, 1804 through August 9, 1805
October 1, 1804. Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory, is also named administrator of the District of Louisiana (Clanin, Reel 1, p. lxxxvii).
October 2, 1804. Harrison leaves Vincennes for St. Louis to set up a new government in the District of Louisiana (Clanin, Reel 1, p. lxxxvii).
April 7, 1805. (Fort Mandan). Small party is sent back to St. Louis with specimens for Jefferson, letters and gifts, and Indian chiefs to visit Washington; Clark included letters to his brother and Harrison (Moulton, 3: 327-32). See other items this page.
April 2, 1805. William Clark to William Henry Harrison
"By the return of a party which we send from this place with dispatches, I do myself the pleasure of giving you a summary view of the Missouri, &c.
. . . The country on both sides of the Missouri . . . has . . . extensive fertile plains, with but very little timber, and that little principally confined to the river bottoms and streams. . . . this country abounds in a great variety of wild animals but a few of which the Indians take, many of those animals are uncommon in the U. States, such as white, red and grey bears, long ear'd male or black tailed deer (black at the end of the tail only) large hare, antelope or goat, the red fox, the ground prairie dog, (burrows in the ground) the braroca, which has a head like a dog, and the size of a small dog, the white brant, magpye, calumet eagle, &c and many other are said to inhabit the rocky mountains" (Jackson, 1: 227-30).
April 1805. William Clark to Jonathan Clark.
"I send to you three Boxes containing the following articles viz: 1 Shirt worn by the mandan Indian women . . . made of the Skins of the Antilope or goat, 1 pr. Chiefs mockersons with white Buffalow Skin tops (a white buffalow Skin Sels in this Countrey for about fifteen horses) 2 pr. of Summer & 1 pr. of winter mockersons Com all of Buffalow Skin, The Skin & horns of an Antilope or goat . . . 1 pr. of Mandan legins of the Antilope Skins,_The Skins of 2 Burrowing Dogs or barking Squirels . . . . The Skin of a Brarow, which burrows in the grown 2 white hare Skins . . . . Some Specimons of the Corn of this Countrey . . . . Ricara Tobacco Seed, the flowr, leaves & Stems of which they Smoke. . . .
3 horns of the mountain Ram all Small one a faun . . . much prized by the Indians (one for Govr. Harrison) a parchment Case Dressed and used by the mandans to carry their valueable articles in. . . . 1 Skin of a Red fox . . . . a Specimon of Indian artachokes common in the plains . . . . 1 Small pot in the Mandan fashion. 1 Spoon of the horn of the mountain Ram" (Holmberg, Brother, 84-86).
One of the party sent back from Fort Mandan on April 7 by Lewis and Clark traveled through Vincennes, probably delivering Clark's letter to Harrison, and then to Louisville with a letter for Jonathan Clark.
Cincinnati (Ohio) Western Spy, June 26, 1805.
May 22, 1805. (St. Louis). Pierre Chouteau writes to Harrison requesting instructions for conducting the Indian chiefs from Fort Mandan on to Washington (Jackson, 1: 242-44).
May 27, 1805. (Vincennes). Harrison writes back to Chouteau agreeing that the Indians' trip to Washington should be postponed, if the Indian chiefs agree, until cooler weather arrives (Jackson, 1: 247-48).
May 27, 1805. Harrison writes Secretary of War Dearborn to inform him of the possible travel of Indian chiefs to Washington. Harrison also relays that Clark has sent him a letter saying that all is well (Jackson, 1: 246-47).
July 4, 1805. District of Louisiana made a separate territory; General James Wilkinson is named governor (Clanin, Reel 2, p. xliii).
August 9, 1805. Zebulon Pike, commissioned by Wilkinson, begins expedition to explore the source of the Mississippi River, which was another of Jefferson's priorities.


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"An Associated Press review of records in Minnesota found that a doctor and a pharmacist on the eight-member state panel simultaneously got big checks - more than $350,000 to one - from pharmaceutical companies for speaking about their products. The two members said the money did not influence their work on the panel, and the lack of recorded votes in meeting minutes makes it difficult to track any link between the payments and policy. But ethical experts said the Minnesota data raise questions about the possibility of similar financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and advisers in other states."In the absence of disclosure laws, there's certainly no way to know," said Jack Hoadley, a research professor specializing in Medicaid at Georgetown University in Washington. "There are a lot of physicians in general who have at least some contract or grant funding out of pharmaceutical companies, and additional (who) do speaking engagements." - Martiga Lohn, Associated Press (August 21, 2007)
"Direct-to-parent marketing of ADHD drugs - - most of which are stimulants -- has grown pervasive over the last few years, despite a United Nations treaty banning most of it. Use of such medications increased by more than 60% from 2001 to 2005, according to the International Narcotics Control Board. This month's homemaker-targeted magazines, such as Family Circle, Woman's Day and Redbook, feature advertising spreads for Vyvanse, Shire US Inc.'s new entry in the growing stable of ADHD medications...... Children in the U.S. are 10 times more likely to take a stimulant medication for ADHD than are kids in Europe. In fairness, children in Europe are also somewhat less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD because of a stricter set of criteria. But that doesn't nearly account for the difference in prescription rates. The U.S., the only nation to violate the U.N. treaty, consumes about 85% of the stimulants manufactured for ADHD...." - Karin Klein, Los Angeles Times (August 20, 2007)
"State laws requiring proof of vaccination at early school entry are key to the U.S. vaccination program and help ensure that no child is unvaccinated," the [MMWR] editorial concludes. "Higher percentages of children are up to date at kindergarten entry than at younger ages, suggesting that early school-entry laws help maintain high coverage and ensure completion of the vaccine doses recommended for children by ages 4-6 years." - Laurie Barclay, M.D., Medscape, August 17, 2007
Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary:
"There is no cure for autism" says pediatric psychologist James Mulick at a recent American Psychological Association (APA) conference where his Ohio State University grad students criticized parents of autistic children, who maintain their children's autism involves neuroimmune dysfunction that is treatable with nutrition and immune modulating therapies. It appears that some psychologists are afraid they will lose a good chunk of their business if they can't keep autistic children in chemical and behavior modification chains and out of the offices of enlightened health care professionals successfully treating autism another way.
Mulick is a proponent of the old and very expensive, long term Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) therapy performed by child psychologists on mentally retarded and autistic individuals, many times with simultaneous use of prescription drugs. Although this kind of intervention may work for some autistic children and parents, it is by no means the be-all and end-all of treatment for children who have experienced regressive autism.
How sad that doctors in teaching positions at major universities, such as Ohio State University, are instructing their young students to belittle parents, who search for non-toxic nutrition and supplement therapies to lessen their children's brain and immune system dysfunction. These Bettleheim wanna-bes cannot resist setting themselves up as high priests in the new Church of Scientism, where they preach a dogma that requires the promotion of pharmaceutical products and medical interventions sanctioned by the church they have created.
The high priests of Scientism feel threatened when they cannot convert those who refuse to believe and obey. Thus, the demonization of the unbelievers and a search for appropriate punishment begins. In this case, perhaps the idea that parents, who provide their autistic children with gluten and casein free food, should be legally prosecuted for "child medical abuse." This would allow the children to be made wards of the State so that doctors employed by the State could force them to drink cow's milk instead of soy milk, eat white bread instead of rice, take Ritalin instead of vitamin B and be subjected to extreme "behavior modification" techniques that would make a Marine beg for mercy. Our grandmothers may have given us an apple and a spoonful of cod liver oil every day to keep the doctor away, but the high priests of Scientism are going to make sure that vitamin and omega 3 supplements are branded "dangerous" so they can keep conning politicians into legally requiring babies to be injected with mercury and aluminum while convincing themselves that a little Prozac never hurt a toddler.
What really makes the Scientism devotees angry is that autism is not about bad mothering, as the late, great Bernie Rimland, Ph.D. demonstrated. It is not about "bad genes" as the parent bashing pediatric psychologists tell their students at Ohio State University. No, autism is mostly about loving parents allowing their perfectly normal, healthy babies to be subjected to 48 doses of 14 viral and bacterial vaccines at the hands of clueless pediatricians and then watching in horror as their babies regress into a spectrum of chronic brain and immune system dysfunction that finally ends with a diagnosis of "autism." And when enlightened health care professionals, who refuse to subscribe to the "incurable autism" myth, work with parents to provide healing nutritional and other natural therapies that lessen or sometimes totally eliminate the children's vaccine-induced brain and immune system dysfunction, the apostles of Scientism are both jealous and worried they will lose paying customers.
Too many doctors of medicine have made a Faustian bargain with the pharmaceutical industry. And slowly, the people are figuring out that medical science has been hijacked by ideologues, who pretend to love "scientific truth" but love power and money more.
Abraham Lincoln said "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." It is time to take back our lives from drug and vaccine pushing doctors who worship at the alter of Scientism and exploit the people for power and profit.
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- Dr. Catrin Hasson said...
9-5-07 - BBC reports
MMR overdose given to 93 pupils
Pupils at three Birmingham schools have been given an overdose of the MMR vaccine, health chiefs have confirmed.
Ninety-three children at the Holyhead School in Handsworth, Aston Manor School and King Edward III School, both in Aston, were affected.
They were given the vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella after receiving the recommended two doses.
The Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust said it had written to parents and the dosage would not be harmful.
Third dosage
During April and May the PCT offered doses pupils who had missed the second dose of the vaccine.
It has since emerged that some 14 and 15-year-olds signed up for a third dosage by accident.
A spokesman for the PCT said: "On checking our records, it appeared that 93 of those whose parents took up the invitation had already received their second vaccine.
"We have written to the parents of those children as it is right that they should be made aware of this - and we can assure them that the additional immunisation does not pose any risk to their child."
- Jenny W said...
I am THRILLED to have found this blog! I am the mother of a 10 year old autistic daughter and have chosen a holistic approach to treating her; she's amazingly high functioning, attends a public school and continues to develop almost "normally". She had seizures as a baby and for this reason we were skeptical about vaccinating our younger daughter; when we adressed the nurse with this concern her response was "well I don't know what to tell you. We're just supposed to make sure everyone does it." THAT WAS A TURNING POINT FOR OUR FAMILY! We have chosen to cease vaccinations altogether, and while I realized that choice may not be for every family, EDUCATED CONSUMERISM should be! I"m appalled at moms who put things into their childrens bodies just because they're "supposed to." I wouldn't let someone feed my baby something I didn't know the recipe for...why would I let someone feed something unknown to her veins? THANK YOU TO THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER. THIS INFORMATION IS VITAL TO 21ST CENTURY FAMILIES..........
- Angela said...
Amen! And thank you, thank you, thank you for your work. Well said, well done. Keep it up.
I am a mother of 3, all preschool ages, and we have been literally turned away from pediatricians offices because of our decision (perfectly legal in TX) NOT to vaccinate.
Apparently pediatricians would prefer to deny health care altogether than to treat an actual illness in an unvaccinated child. Do you supposed any other segment of the population is so summarily discriminated against? Women who don't breastfeed? Children who eat too much fast food or watch too much TV? Children in homes with smokers?
We also had an ER nurse LIE to us when she told us that the shots were state mandated (without ever revealing that there are exemptions, which we knew already).
We are standing our ground, thanks to work like yours that affirms our decision. There is just too much at stake to take the risk.
Thanks again,
- Anonymous said...
Did you see the Oprah show with Jenny McCarthy? I have been wrestling with the decision to vaccinate my child since before he was born. I stopped vaccinating my dogs long ago because of a bad reaction to a vaccine and have been researching the subject ever since. I am pleased to see a challenge to routine vaccinations come up in such a mainstream format. My son's two month pediatric appointment is coming up on friday and I am so scared about what will happen when I refuse the shots. Will my pediatrician bully me? Belittle me? Try to scare me?? I don't know.
- Deana Smith said...
I'm so glad there are people out there that are NOT vaccinating! I have 2 autistic kids 3&5 and have the testing to show which vaccines harmed them, unfortunately the CDC says our "time limit" to file a court case is up. Luckily since I've started my own autism company, my children are very high functioning now and I'm on the path to help MANY. God has given me the strength and wisdom to understand this whole epidemic. THINK people! If the CDC says mercury is not the cause.....why are they so eagerly removing it????
- Anonymous said...
yes, you will be belittled and disrespected when you refuse the vaccines. I have had to sign a waver at each visit that says I put my child and others in danger because I am not vaccinating. Where is the waver they should sign about the possibility of vaccines harming my daughter!!?? My pediatritions will not have an open dialogue about it. I have been told "that doesn't make sense" and "I risk my child for yours". Well guess what..I didn't ask you to put your child at risk by vaccinating is what I wanted to say to the Dr. Needless to say, I am looking for a new Dr. Not to necessarily agree with me, but at least listen to my concerns and have a discussion with me.
- Anonymous said...
We are another vaccine injury family. Our 11 year old got the MMR shot, second dose, in 1995. 8 days later, she had meningoencephalitis which led to complications resulting in Syringomyelia, a neurodegenerative disorder. She has chronic pain, and is losing muscle function. She was one of the unlucky kids in the 10-12 age group who got dose 2 of the MMR. There were so many reactions, they changing the second dose to pre-kindergarten age. I was told by a doctor that it's the Measles vaccine component that is required a second time, not the MMR. At the time, I didn't understand the implications. Now I get it.
- Anonymous said...
When we were in a VICP case, the attorney from the Dept. of Justice was David Terzian, a vicious, cold hearted man who attacked sick children. He actually told our lawyer that if we didn't take $100,000 and settle, that he would dispute the decision, and cause us to lose entirely, 8 years in to the case. Now he's a vaccine injury attorney for sick kids!! Anyone else see a huge conflict of interest? HELP ME GET THIS INFORMATION OUT TO VACCINE INJURED FAMILIES.
- Anonymous said...
I just gave a mother in the ER room the NVIC card and a note saying that your 2 year old most likely has vaccine induced illness (asthma, ear infection, stomach ache) and told her it would be wise to look at this. And I left.
It is important for people to find out, no matter what situation you are in. It might be the only time for them to find out. Remember, with knowledge comes responsibility.
- Anonymous said...
Remember, you are the parent, if you are so scared of your MD, you shouldn't go to him. What type of a relationship is that? If you feel uncomfortable about vaccinations, that should tell you something. There is a lot to vaccines that your MD isn't telling you, and there is a reason. The fact is I stopped going to the pediatrician when my daughter was 6 months old, because the doctor would not read or listen to me regarding vaccinations and this person is suppose to be an expert in this subject when I know more and read more than he does?
No, I can save my $135 for the office visit and spend it on increasing my child's health naturally.
Remember, if something happens to your child, the parent is always the one who has to take responsibility for it, not the doctor. Therefore, you have every right to refuse any procedure or service from any doctor. Don't be scared, be empowered and show your doctor the information you have. If he blows it off, then he is disrespecting you and your concerns. Why keep such a doctor? If he says he understands, then that is another story. Please post what happens on your appointment here.
- Anonymous said...
Great article, people in America regardless on what the Gov. and health agencies say about the propaganda on "safe vaccination", they are not buying it anymore. Unfortunately all at a devastating price.
- Anonymous said...
Yes, they may try and belittle you, and they may try and suggest that you are less of a caring parent. I had one nurse say that I must not really want to keep my kid healthy!
If you want an out, you can say, I'll call and make an appointment next week or I'll wait another month - just act as if today is not the day, but the day will be soon and they'll leave you alone somewhat. Then, look into the correct forms to fill out for exemptions if you need for child-care. It's been relatively simple for me in Washington state and has been little more than a checked box and signature. I haven't run into public school yet since my girl's only three - we'll see how that goes.
I would really like someone to look into the detrimental effects of vaccines without getting into the obvious toxicity of thimerosal. I fully accept that it's nasty stuff, but I believe there's more to it. Now that the thimerosal is being more actively eliminated from the vaccines, one would expect to see autism rates drop, but I don't think that they have.
I'd like to see more studies attempting to understand WHY does a kid get high-pitched crying, convulsions, and other brain-related side effects, even if for a short time. Is it the blood-brain barrier being immature? If so, it's darn scary to inject something so inflammatory into someone - it seems a crap shoot if it'll happen cause the inflammation there.
They just write it off as only being a small percentage of people - as if it's random outliers. It's NOT random (especially if it's your kid) and we need to understand the black box of a vaccine.
- Dr. W said...
Anonymous, as a pediatrician I urge you to talk to your pediatrician and let him or her know your fears. There is a lot of good and "mis" information out there. I get more out of educating families when they have questions. Remember, Thimerosal was taken out of vaccines in 1999 with the exception of the adult flu shot--we stay away from that one in my clinic. Despite a hard rap, vaccines still prevent a lot of diseases that we used to see children die from even in recent years. Hope this helps, and keep questioning.
Dr. W
- Anonymous said...
I prey that this system of medical abuse falls soon, i have an autistic daughter whom was well on the path of recovery when the courts made it illegal for me to give my child any medical care unless an emergency occours, they banned me from clay baths, epsom salts, vitamin and mineral supplements and all other health measures dispite the mother stating she does this, the doctor stating if its working keep doing so, despite the child having eating disorders that require supplementation and despite no one ever laying a single complaint about these treatments. essentially they made it illegal for me to regain my childs health. This mindset is clearly deeply engrained through all areas of politically correct control It will be a massive task to defeat though i prey we all rise up soon and make this entire medico-capitalism system fall. I prey that someone out there takes on these corporations and governments for what they are doing and that being CRIMES TO HUMANITY.
- Anonymous said...
Amber Wagner keep that name in the back of your head that is the name of the child who by the end of this school year will be diagnosed as no longer having autism a thing that so many ppl say there is no cure so screw all those ppl and wait for the name thats my kid you'll see I have paper work documenting everything and I beleave all signs of autism are gone she was diagnosed with autsim at 4 she was seen by 7 different doc and the school district that how she was diagnosed and now she will be undiagnosed with not having it at all so keep the name in your heqad and watch for it coming out of minnesota thanx channel 9 news soon
- Angela said...
Dr. W:
If vaccines really work, then how is it that every US outbreak of supposedly vaccine-preventable disease occurs in populations where the vast majority of the victims were vaccinated?
Diseases have a natural life cycle, and many of them were in sharp decline before their corresponding vaccines were available due to improved nutrition, hygiene, etc.
Vaccines are an unnecessary and dangerous assault on a child's immune system. Don't believe the lies that you've been told about their efficacy. Chances are, the studies that 'prove' their efficacy are done by the very people who stand to profit from their use.
It's about the money. Luckily for them, they will also be working feverishly to make the drugs necessary to manage the illnesses the vaccines caused, ensuring a market for themselves indefinitely.
Incidentally, if vaccines work so well, then my unvaccinated child would pose no threat to the vaccinated masses.
- Anonymous said...
i used to be autistic at one time but now i'm cured


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The cast for Ryan Gosling's upcoming film "Drive" just keeps getting better and better.
Christina Hendricks, everyone's favorite office manager on "Mad Men," has joined the cast of "Drive," a crime thriller starring Gosling as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
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- Anne U said...
Yeah, sweat pants are pretty awesome.
- March 3, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- melissa rohr said...
wow you have really popped! and i love the shelves!! can't way to see the finished product! i need help decorating my ledges ;)
- March 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM
- ashley said...
how sweet are you?! love that belly! and i'm telling you, i have to have at least one scrubby saturday a month to maintain sanity.
- March 3, 2012 at 8:44 PM
- Tory @ Life As We Know It said...
You look great pregnant, even in sweatpants!! Looks like Bennett liked helping his dad!!
- March 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM
- Tara said...
you are so cute! :) Love the shelves! And i love the picture with Bennett helping his dad with the shelves! :)
- March 3, 2012 at 10:22 PM
- Mary@It's a Sun Kissed Life said...
the shelves look great. i can't wait to see what they'll look like after you decorate. i love the pictures of bennett getting locked outside.
- March 3, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Jenna said...
I love my scrubby clothes. They are definitely well lived in these days! The shelves look great, excited to see them all fancied up! I love weekends.
- March 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Summer Crosbie said...
You look cozy to me! That's the only way to be when you'e in your third trimester.
- March 4, 2012 at 12:39 PM
- Kiara Buechler said...
Ooooh, this post made me hungry, all those tasty treats you had!
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- Mrs. Savage said...
Americans make the BEST bacon on the planet x
- March 4, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- Lindsey said...
you look adorable! and that bacon looks amazing! i'm due on the 14th with baby #2 and for reals, your outfit is pretty much the most killer thing i can imagine. these pregnant in heels weirdos aren't human. sweat pants = life. congrats on your coming bundle!
- March 4, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- caitlin keener said...
that salad looks delish!
- March 5, 2012 at 5:40 AM
- jenni from the blog said...
You look HAWT. Love the shelves, chica!
PS- mmmmm, bacon.
- March 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM
- patience said...
it just occured to be that all those shirts from 5/6 years ago (the fad where shirts were really long?) would be perfect as maternity shirts!
crap...now all i want is bacom
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Cars, Sex, Drugs? Must Be Grand Theft Auto V
If Grand Theft Auto V, which is released Tuesday, does as well as the previous version then it will be on course to make at least $1 billion in revenue. Ben Rooney looks at how it has become one of the world's most successful computer game franchises.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Young pilgrims have filled a massive meadow near Krakow in southern Poland for a Mass with Pope Francis, the last major event the pope will lead as he wraps up a five-day visit to Poland.
Some of the young people even camped out overnight in the field after an evening with the pope there that drew a massive crowd, estimated at 1.6 million by the World Youth Day organizers.
The Mass is taking place in the Campus Misericordiae in Brzegi, a village near Krakow.
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The pope has had a busy schedule since he arrived in Poland on Wednesday on his first trip ever to Eastern Europe, visiting Auschwitz, leading Masses and holding many meetings with the eager young people who have traveled from around the world to be with him.
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"Hey Troed. You know that Mega ST of yours with Alan H's MonSTer? Without external switches for TOSSEL and FLASHSW you're not really making much use of its flash rom functionality"
"Oh, and don't cut any holes in the original casing. But make it look nice."
Lessons learned:
FS 36307 does seem to be a perfect match for original Atari ST gray (I picked up this knowledge from a thread at Atari Age and hunted down a source for the color locally). However, most cases are quite yellowed - so compare with the tiny non-yellowed patch of the original part, or the top housing which is almost not yellowed at all. Also, I should probably invest in an airbrush to get an even paint layer.
Oh, and yes, a 3D printer does make it possible to keep the original housings intact in some cases


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Leg veins carry blood from your feet and legs back to your heart. If a vein is damaged, it may cause problems in your legs.
If heredity, an injury, or a blood clot weakens a vein, the wall near the valve begins to sag. A valve keeps blood moving through the vein towards the heart. The valve may no longer close fully, allowing blood to move backward.
Once a vein is damaged, blood pressing against the sagging wall may cause the vein to look like a twisted rope. Eventually, the valve can't close. Blood may begin to pool or clot in the vein.
A valve that doesn't close allows blood to move backwards and sit (pool) in the vein.
Blood that is not moving may form clots. Over time, the clot may grow big enough to close off the vein.
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Varicose veins. This a swollen, twisted vein located close to the skin.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT). This is a blood clot in one of the deep veins, usually of the legs. The clot can separate from the vein and travel to the lungs (pulmonary embolism or PE). In the lungs, the clot can cut off the flow of blood. These two conditions together are called venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Chronic venous insufficiency. This is a long-term problem with the veins not working well.
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These are the symptoms of a blood clot that has traveled to the lungs. This is a medical emergency and may cause death.
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In years, this is just my first time buying chicken wings from the wet market. This is also my first time using chicken wing since I'm into home-cooking for the past 3 years. My main goal is to test the flavor of Cajun through the roasting. And the verdict? Yes. But, I felt sinful after 2 chicken wings. :(
Cajun Roast Chicken Wing
8 chicken wings
1 tbsp of olive oil
1 tbsp Cajun
Pinch of salt
Dashes of black pepper powder
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tbsp of honey
3 cloves of garlic, peeled and minced
1. Marinate the chicken wing overnight in the fridge.
2. Preheat oven at 180 deg C.
3. Brush a baking pan with olive oil.
4. Arrange the chicken wings in the baking pan.
5. Roast the chicken wings for 30 minutes under 180 deg C.
6. Sprinkle dashes of Cajun on the chicken wings, and pour olive oil onto each of the wings.
7. Get it roasted until brown.


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Thomas Henderson was a co-founder of the Henderson Motorcycle Co. along with his younger brother, William. The modest Thomas was quick to give credit to his younger brother as the driving force behind the development of the Henderson, but it was Thomas who brought years of sales experience from the automotive industry to the company and helped quide it to prosperity in the mid-1910s. The Henderson motorcycle was revolutionary, being the first popular bike of a four-cylinder design. The Henderson was the luxury motorcycle of the 1910s and early '20s, renowned for its smoothness, power and quality of construction.
The oldest of ten children, Thomas Winton Henderson was born on July 6, 1872, in Glasgow, Scotland. The Henderson family emigrated to America, first living in New York in 1879 before moving to Cleveland in 1881. Henderson's father became the vice president of the then-popular Winton Motor Car Comapany of Cleveland.
All of the Henderson boys served as apprentices in the mechanical trade, with Thomas learning the trade of pattern maker at the age of 14. After learning a trade, Henderson attended busines college. Like many young men of that time from affluent families, Henderson went to Europe to complete his education. While in Europe, Henderson studied singing under great masters and seriously considered a career in grand opera for a time.
While undoubtedly one of the best educated men in the motorcycling industry, Henderson always downplayed his academic background. When questioned about his education in an interview, Henderson jokingly replied, "I speak French, Italian, German, English and profanity with equal fluency."
Back in America, Henderson became the sales manager of the Winton Motor Car Co. for the state of Michigan. In the meantime, his brother, William, was experimenting with motorcycles. In 1911, William built a prototype that so impressed Thomas, that he decided to leave his secure position with Winton and in 1912 established Henderson Motorcycle Co. in Detroit.
Henderson put his sales experience to good use and was responsible for setting up a dealership network for the company. It did not hurt that the Henderson, with it's unique four-cylinder motor, was praised for its quality and reliability. The reputation of the company was further strengthened when Carl Glancy rode a Henderson around the world late in 1913. It was the first time that feat had been accomplished on a motorcycle. Later, long-distance and cross-country racers such as Roy Artley, "Cannonball" Baker, Alan Bedell and Wells Bennett set numerous records on Hendersons, even though the bike was never designed with racing in mind.
In 1913, Henderson's leadership ability was recognized by the motorcycling industry when it elected him president of the Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association (later to be called the Motorcycle & Allied Trades Association, M&ATA, a predessesor to the AMA).
By 1916, Henderson was so succesful that the company was unable to produce enough motorcycles to keep pace with orders. America's entry into World War I in 1917 brought an end to the prosperity, however. Like many of the motorcycle manufacturers during that time, Henderson was severely weakened by the war. In 1917, Henderson was purchased by Ignaz Schwinn of Excelsior (at that time one of the big three American motorcycle makers, along with Indian and Harley-Davidson). The new company was called Excelsior-Henderson and the Henderson brothers moved to Excelsior's home of Chicago. Thomas became sales manager of Excelsior-Henderson.
During the war, Henderson served in the Council of National Defense as a member of the Automotive Committee. After the war, Henderson moved to Europe to represent Excelsior-Henderson.
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RIEDEL Tumbler Collection Optical O Yellow
This handy machine-made softdrink glass spreads a good mood with its stemless design and the colourful yellow base. "Optical O" is based on the popular "O" series of stemless wine glasses and was designed by Maximilian J. Riedel. The design of the glasses makes them less susceptible to glass breakage and easy to put into the dishwasher. These glasses are ideal for everyday use and for every occasion. They are fun, feel good to hold and look trendy! All RIEDEL glasses are dishwasher safe.
Year of design 2019
Volume 344.0 ccm
Height 96.0 mm
Box quantity 1.0
Type of Manufacturing machine production
Material Crystal
Caring for your RIEDEL Crystal
- RIEDEL glasses are dishwasher safe. RIEDEL exclusively recommends MIELE
- To avoid stains: use soft water (low mineral content)
- To avoid scratches: Avoid glass contact with other glass or metal
- To remove stains: use white vinegar
- If available use a stemware rack
- Wash the glass under warm water (use detergent and rinse the glass carefully)
- Glass polishing: Use two polishing cloths, never hold the glass by the base to polish the bowl
- Stem snap: Occurs through mishandling = torque or bend pressure at the stem
- Storage: Avoid glass storage in kitchen cabinets which have strong aromas that translates into glass
- Wash at boiling temperature (to kill bacteria) with odorless soap
- Should be machine washed at min. 170° F/75° C
- Never use fabric softener when rinsing your microfiber polishing cloth (avoids grease film on surface)