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African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens
Gracia Clark
In the open marketplaces found in cities and villages throughout Africa, women traders usually predominate. This gives women considerable weight as economic actors, because these marketplace systems are the primary distributive networks in most parts of Africa. A large proportion of Africa's consumer goods and foodstuffs move through their intricate chains of intermediaries, which can include market retailers, neighborhood shops, street vendors, wholesalers, and travelers who collect goods from farms, factories, and ports. Although the vast majority of women traders live at or below the poverty line, some have risen to powerful positions that earn them the sobriquet of queen.
Different regions of Africa show distinctive patterns of trading practices and of men and women's participation in specific trading roles, reflecting specific gendered histories of precolonial trade, colonial interventions, and waves of national policy. These variations arise not from some primordial isolation, but from traders' varied positioning within longstanding trade relations that have linked Africans since ancient times between regions, across the Sahara Desert and over adjoining oceans. Women's trading roles are more highly developed in western Africa than in eastern, northern, and southern Africa, where precolonial trading patterns were more radically disrupted by conquest, land appropriation, and apartheid.
Ideologies and arenas of practice such as Islam, Christianity, modernization, socialism, structural adjustment, and globalization likewise shape the constraints and opportunities facing women traders in any given situation. Because these influences operate around the globe, though not uniformly, they to some extent create parallel or convergent trends in widely separated nations. Deepening economic pressures today push even more women and men into trading to support their families and sustain the hope of prosperity. Market women struggle individually and collectively to keep their communities going under difficult circumstances that make formal economic channels function poorly. Their determined efforts give African economies more resilience as they respond to the challenges of war, political instability, and climate change.
Ancient Developments in the Middle Senegal Valley and the Inland Niger Delta
Alioune Dème
The study of West Africa has contributed to the expansion of comparative arid-lands floodplain prehistory, from both the data collection (cultural and historical) and the theoretical aspects. The neoevolutionary approach that often pictures Africa as a backward continent has been successfully challenged. In the Middle Senegal Valley and in the Inland Niger Delta, research on their societies' complexity done along these two subcontinent's floodplains has described new processes (including urbanization) that were not previously featured in the archaeological literature. The two floodplains, because of their ecological diversity, with the richness of their ecological diversity, attracted Saharan populations affected by drought at the end of the second millennium and the first millennium BC. However, after their initiation occupation the two areas took different trajectories in complexity and settlement organization. Large complex settlements have been found at Jenne-jeno and in the Ile a Morphil that illustrate whole new trajectories of civilization. These forms of complexity, found in areas with historically known polities, were not included in the range of possibilities predicted by standard complexity theories regarding civilizational development. Ethnographic and historical data, reveal the existence of societies with a central authority embedded within and balanced by a diffuse, segmented and heterarchical power structure; often as a strategy to resist the individual consolidation of power. These societies exhibit evidence of horizontal differentiation and consensus-based decision making. All these types of organization are characterized by the presence of several sources of power vested in corporate entities, such as lineages, age groups, cults and secret societies.
The Anlu Rebellion
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
From 1958 to 1961, Kom women in western Cameroon cast aside their regular domestic and agricultural duties to engage in a revolt against British administrative interference in agriculture—normally their domain—and the alleged plan by the ruling political party, the Kamerun National Congress (KNC), to sell Kom land to Nigerian Igbos. In keeping with the practices of anlu, a centuries-old women's organization generally deployed against people who violated the Kom moral code, women interfered with burial rituals; hurled insults at men in public; demanded the closing of schools, courts, and markets; set up roadblocks; destroyed and burned property; and defied both traditional and British authorities in the Bamenda Grassfields of western Cameroon. Their tactics included stripping naked in front of men. While local men considered the sight of the vagina in public to be a bad portent and thus understood the seriousness of the revolt, flabbergasted British officials had no idea what was to come. By seizing control of resources and demonstrating in public, Kom women disturbed local political power, and protested against British rule in the Southern Cameroons. They were a crucial force in the victory of the Kamerun National Democratic Party (KNDP) in 1961, which brought a restoration of political order at the time of independence.
Boko Haram: History and Context
Hilary Matfess
Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, better known as "Boko Haram," is the most violent phenomenon of the Nigerian Fourth Republic. It is responsible not only for a regional food crisis that has devolved into famine in some areas, but also the displacement of millions and the deaths of tens of thousands of people. The insurgency in Nigeria began as a dissident religious sect's venting of local grievances in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern Borno State. The movement was founded at the turn of the century by Mohammed Yusuf, a Salafist preacher notorious for his rejection of Western education and government employment.
Boko Haram only gained significant international attention in the aftermath of the 2014 abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from their dormitory in the remote town of Chibok, but the group did not always employ such deplorable tactics. Although policymakers in capitals the world over have been eager to emphasize the group's connections to international terrorist groups, the movement is localized and often more akin to an African insurgency than to a prototypical terrorist organization. The group's initial years were characterized by relatively benign activities like the provision of social services, punctuated by occasional bouts of criminality that, over time, escalated into a series of targeted assassinations that provoked federal government response. A series of violent actions ultimately transformed Boko Haram from a largely nonviolent fundamentalist religious movement into the lethal and resilient force it is today, known internationally for its brutality: notably, the group's interactions with the Nigerian security sector, categorized by indiscriminate state violence; leadership changes within the insurgency's ranks that elevated Abubakar Shekau following Mohammed Yusuf's execution; and regional trends in weapons flows and ideological currents.
The Dakar School of African History
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
The Dakar School, as the historians of Cheikh Anta Diop University (the University of Dakar) were called, had a brief French antecedent in Yves Person, whose teachings communicated to students the importance of African oral sources. He himself worked primarily on such sources from the 19th century. The Dakar School was then taken over and given its name by the young Guinean historian Boubacar Barry, who had been based in Senegal since the 1960s. Research collaborations between Cheikh Anta Diop University and the University of Paris 7 (today known as Paris-Diderot) then became active through exchanges involving both instructors and doctoral students. The Senegalese department strengthened over time, thanks to well-established historians, a number of them being non Senegalese scholars expelled from their own country by dictatorial regimes such as Boubacar himself or others who taught several years in Dakar such as Sekene Mody Cissoko, a well known Malian historian, or Thierno Moctar Bah from Guinea. After Boubacar Barry, the department was headed successively between the years 1975 and 2000 by Mbaye Gueye, Mamadou Diouf, Mohamed Mbodj, Penda Mbow, Ibrahima Thioub, and Adrien Benga, among others. They and their colleagues understood how to maintain and reinforce the quality and cohesion of an original and diverse research department over the course of many years, one that was simultaneously independent of any political power and rather opponent to any authoritarian State and tolerant toward its colleagues. Among them, several scholars are currently enjoying late careers in the United States, while Ibrahima Thioub has become vice chancellor of Cheikh Anta Diop University. However, their succession has been consistently assured by their own doctoral students. Nowadays, does the "Dakar school" still exist? Yes because historians remain proud of and faithful to this innovative past, no because Senegalese historians are now part of the world wide international community of historians.
Decolonization in French West Africa
Tony Chafer
Studies of French decolonization in West Africa have traditionally treated it as a planned and reasonably smooth process. It has therefore been portrayed as a successful decolonization that stands in stark contrast to the much more conflictual decolonization processes in Indochina (1947–1954) and Algeria (1954–1962), which were marked by prolonged wars. This approach has tended to give pride of place to the role of individuals—members of France's governing elites and African political leaders—who are portrayed as having successfully managed the transition to independence. While the importance of such individuals cannot be denied, it is important to recognize that French decolonization in West Africa was a contingent process. Shaped by the particular nature of French colonial rule in the region, the new international context after 1945, events on the ground, and—on the French side—the perceived need to maintain empire at all costs in order to restore French grandeur after the humiliation of defeat and occupation in the Second World War, it was a process that involved a multiplicity of French and African actors who were not in control of the policy agenda but who were, on the contrary, operating in a highly constrained context and constantly being forced to react to rapidly unfolding events. De Gaulle finally decided to grant independence in 1959, and within a year all the territories of former French West Africa had gained their political independence. However, political independence did not mean French withdrawal and the end of French dominance. There were many continuities between the colonial and postcolonial periods, which have been analyzed in a burgeoning literature on French neocolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa. Decolonization should therefore be seen as a process that started well before French rule formally ended in 1960 and that is—arguably—still ongoing.
Development of Plant Food Production in the West African Savannas: Archaeobotanical Perspectives
Katharina Neumann
The West African savannas are a major area of independent plant domestication, with pearl millet, African rice, fonio, several legumes, and vegetable crops originating there. For understanding the origins of West African plant-food-producing traditions, it is useful to have a look at their precursors in the Sahara during the "African humid period" between 10,500 and 4,500 years ago. The Early and Middle Holocene Saharan foragers and pastoralists intensively used wild grasses for food but did not intentionally cultivate. Due to increasing aridity in the late 3rd millennium
Food Production in the Forest Zone of West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
Richard T. Chia and A. Catherine D'Andrea
Recent narratives on the origin of food production in the West African forest zone have replaced earlier diffusion-based models with viewpoints that emphasize the diversity of sources for plants and animals exploited and domesticated in the region. Management of indigenous tree species, including oil palm and incense tree, managed first by indigenous foragers, have the longest history in the area, dating back to over 8,400 before present (
Islamic Historical Sources: Manuscripts and Online
Amidu Olalekan Sanni
Of central interest here are the historical sources on Islam and Africa, the role and contributions of manuscripts to the narrative, and how the new cyber world has become a domain for those sources as instruments for the generation and utilization of knowledge. Africa came in contact with Islam right from the birth of the faith in the 7th century. Although Judeo-Christian, Late-Antique, and pre-Islamic materials provided the earliest historical sources on Islam and its people, the Qur'an, hadith (statements of the Prophet Muhammad), and the sira/maghāzī (biography/expeditions) were the first original sources on Islamic history on which later writings, including those from Africa, drew.
The manuscript tradition in Islam is as old as the faith itself; it was one of the earliest material sources on Islamic sciences, and in the case of Africa, it provided a treasure trove of materials. At the beginning of the 21st century, the approach to scholarship and utilization of manuscripts changed radically, as digitization, creation of online databases, interconnected portals and links to universal portals, catalogs of manuscripts and published materials, among other innovations, redefined the ways knowledge of Islamic history is generated, accessed, and utilized.
The Politics of Decolonization in French and British West Africa
Frederick Cooper
At the end of World War II, Britain and France tried to find new bases for the legitimacy of empire. Their hesitant moves created openings that African political movements exploited. Scholars have tried to capture the excitement of this process, first focusing on the drive to create nation-states, then exploring other possibilities, both regions within territorial states and federations among them. Historians have drawn on archives and interviews as well as a wide variety of texts produced by political movements.
Although Africans had long conducted politics through both local idioms and pan-African connections, the postwar openings led political movements to focus on arenas where they could achieve results. In French Africa, this entailed a partially successful struggle for French citizenship, representation in both the French and territorial legislatures, and social and economic equality with other French citizens. Eventually the French government tried to diffuse claim-making by devolving internal autonomy to territorial governments. When Guinea obtained independence in 1958 and other African leaders differed over whether they should create a francophone African federation within a Franco-African confederation or participate as equals in a French federation, the movements shifted to seeking independence and a new relationship with France.
Britain failed to get African politicians to focus on local governance. Instead, politicians demanded power in each colony. Meanwhile, Britain tried to appease African social movements with a program of economic development only to face escalating demands and heightened conflict. Although fearful of disorder and corruption, the government decided that the best it could hope for was to have attracted Africans to a British way of life and to achieve friendly relations with African governments that, led by Ghana, came into power.
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General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt on Wednesday warned Washington against diving over the "fiscal cliff," telling CNBC that the issue was a needless "distraction" at the wrong time.
Immelt insisted that Congress and the president — whether it's Barack Obama or Mitt Romney — needed to collaborate to resolve the problem to avoid a potentially debilitating mix of tax hikes and spending cuts could hit the U.S. economy early next year.
"There's no reason why this can't get resolved," Immelt said, adding that the economy's trend was positive, albeit with some volatility.
However, the fiscal cliff (learn more) could alter that dramatically. Immelt said businesses need to be prepared, but added that "I don't get why we can't do something this important."
The GE CEO spoke highly about the Simpson-Bowles blueprint for reforming the federal budget, insisting that an eventual solution should closely resemble the plan.
"If [the fiscal cliff] does happen, that's a failure of governance, and that's something we shouldn't expect," Immelt said.
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Director: Fred F. Sears
Cast: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum
Introduction Plot Summary UFO Lore Impressions Wrap-up
My rating: Class A (3/7, rather hot white star). In some ways a cinematic time capsule of the fifties, this movie also embodies the more recognizable aspects of UFO lore. Though its pacing is rather slow, and the characterization is somewhat weak, it's still an amazing ride with special effects that hold up quite well even now.
The concept behind this movie is hardly a new one; Wells' The War of the Worlds certainly did it first, both as a novel (1898) and as a movie (1953) (previously reviewed at #40). There can be little doubt that that movie paved the way for this one, but Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers is unique in two respects: it encapsulates many of the most recognizable aspects of the already existing flying saucer lore, and it incorporates some impressive special effects by stop motion master Ray Harryhausen. It is also the forerunner of the more modern Mars Attacks and Independence Day.
The movie credits its inspiration with the non-fiction Flying Saucers From Outer Space by Donald Keyhoe, a writer of science fiction and weird fantasy for pulp magazines. Ray Harryhausen, the effects designer who did the saucers and some of the falling buildings, as well as the colorization process, worked closely with George Adamski, who is probably one of the first "contactees" in UFOology (at least until Adamski grew so paranoid that Harryhausen could no longer work with him), in designing the look and feel of the flying saucers. Since these two men were instrumental in the growing field of UFOology, it makes sense that the movie strikes such a familiar tone with modern viewers.
The movie comes in two versions, the original black and white and a colorized version—the colorization process was supervised by Ray Harryhausen himself. We watched the colorized version.
Setup: Our hero, Dr. Russell Marvin, and his new wife Carol, are deeply involved in Project Skyhook, a satellite program which has put ten satellites of the proposed twelve into orbit. And yet something is happening—none of the satellites are operating properly. And all over the globe, people sight mysterious flying saucers. One follows Dr. and Mrs. Marvin in their car on the way to Project Skyhook. The next day, at the launch of the eleventh satellite, the aliens arrive in one of their flying saucers and land. The guards open fire, and the aliens respond with deadly force, killing almost everyone on site and burying the Marvins in the rubble….
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Short summary: Boy and girl elope. Boy and Girl return to work. Aliens attack. Boy and Girl escape. Boy and Girl meet with the authorities. Boy meets Aliens. Aliens deliver an ultimatum and say they will take over in 56 days. Boy develops a weapon against the flying saucers. Boy uses the weapon on one, and it works. The aliens attack. Boy's weapon, now in mass production, continues to work. Though battered and damaged, the Earth is saved!
The look and feel of this movie is so iconic, and so well-matched to the body of UFO lore which inspired it, that it bears discussion.* In June 1947, an American pilot, Kenneth Arnold, saw (or claimed to have seen) nine disc-like shapes flying at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier in Washington state. The incident garnered nation-wide news coverage, and was quickly followed by numerous additional sightings and the use of the term "flying saucer." In July of that same year, the United States Air Force announced that a "flying disk" had crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, though a day later, the Air Force stated that it was a weather balloon, and not a UFO. The two incidents sparked a widespread interest in UFOs and flying saucers.
Public interest was so great that the United States government was forced to investigate the issue. In 1948, the United States initiated Project Sign, which investigated the unidentified flying object phenomenon. Most of the project's investigators favored the extraterrestrial origin theory, and the project was terminated by a report which the Pentagon did not like. Next up was Project Grudge, a 1949 investigation which was intended to follow standard intelligence procedures—the implication being, of course, that Project Sign had been hopelessly contaminated by faulty work. The Grudge Report concluded that UFOs were the result of misidentification. From 1952 to 1970, the United States investigated UFO sightings under the auspices of Project Bluebook. Bluebook was to conclude that there was no military threat to the United States and that the sightings were not of extraterrestrial craft.
Donald Keyhoe, the writer of the book which inspired the movie, was a former Marine pilot and successful writer who became a major figure in the emerging UFO phenomenon. He investigated the Arnold sighting and after some initial skepticism concluded that they were real. He wrote "Flying Saucers Are Real" for the magazine True (published in 1950), and it may have been the most widely read and discussed magazine article in United States history. He followed it up with two books, The Flying Saucers Are Real in 1950 and Flying Saucers From Outer Space in 1953.
George Adamski, the other major UFO figure behind the scenes of this film, emerged in about 1953 as one of the more influential "contactees." He popularized his story in Flying Saucers Have Landed, in which he claimed to have seen UFOs in 1946 and 1950, and then to have met a man from Venus when his scoutship landed. Adamski had a national following, and as recently as 2003, was still the subject of news articles even though he had been dead since 1965. Adamski's descriptions became the base for much of Harryhausen's work on the flying saucers in this film.
In many ways, the presence of this film in the Top 50 Films list is a surprise, since it's definitely a B movie. That shows up in the script, the acting, the music—everything but the effects and the look and feel of the movie, in fact. Sears directed an astonishing 29 films, including this one, in the period from 1953 to 1957, and most of them on six day shooting schedules. So the movie is not high art by any stretch of the imagination.
Hugh Marlowe, who played Dr. Russell Marvin, usually played supporting actors or secondary leading men (though he was in a number of classic films, including Meet Me in St. Louis, All About Eve and The Day the Earth Stood Still). He does a workman-like job, successfully though not brilliantly portraying a man who feels driven to act in spite of bureaucratic inertia as well as a recently married man deeply in love with his new wife. Marlowe does shine in a few places, particularly when he's given the idea for a sort of gun based first on sonic and then on magnetic principles designed to bring down the alien flying saucers; his excitement over scientific principles and the possibility of a weapon seems genuine.
Joan Taylor, in the role of Carol Marvin, also does a solid but not spectacular job. Best remembered as Milly Scott in television's The Rifleman and for her role in 20 Million Miles to Earth (another Harryhausen movie), Taylor raised three children and had a full career as an actress. She also wrote the script for 1997's Fools Rush In. At any rate, Taylor does an adequate job with a role without a great deal of meat to it—she's mainly the attractive woman, a secretary, who ties her husband to her father, General Hanley, who is largely a source of exposition rather than a full-fledged character. Her horror and disgust, at least, seem real, as does her love for her husband, and the woman is no shrinking violet but rather a brave woman who won't be separated from her husband even in the face of danger.
You might get the idea from the foregoing that characterization is not the forte of this movie, and you'd be right. Earth vs. The Flying Saucers is a 1950s action movie, where the action is the thing and everything else in the movie is subordinate to it. The characters are not particularly well-drawn, being ideas and plot devices more than people, and the focus of the movie is always on the mystery of the alien flying saucers and their mysterious goals. In other words, it's all about the alien invasion, and the people are secondary to that. The plot is meticulously constructed, mind you, with all the right ingredients in place, but they're all there to get us to the aliens attacking.
General Hanley (played by Morris Ankrum), Carol's father, is a perfect example of that meticulous plot construction. Less a character and more a plot device, he serves to move the plot along by explaining to Dr. Marvin what's happened to his satellites. The hapless general is captured by the evil aliens, and his mind is drained dry in their infinite indexing computer so they can use his knowledge, becoming a mindless zombie in the process. Later still, he's unceremoniously dumped out of a flying saucer to drive home the idea that the aliens are evil and up to no good. So he's not really a character—he's General Exposition at first, and then General Example second.
So what are the aliens up to? Well, they're the survivors of a "disintegrated" solar system (no word on how or why that might have happened), and they need a place to live. They've picked Earth, since it can support them, and they intend to enslave the technologically inferior humans. They're a wizened and ancient race with atrophied senses and strength who rely on their technology and their suits for everything. The entire setup, of course, is an excuse for some striking imagery of a world—especially the immediately recognizable Washington, D.C.—under siege by aliens with superior technology.
That technology, however, is marvelous. They can translate human languages, travel to the stars in the blink of an eye, disintegrate matter, take over the radio broadcasts of Earth, steal knowledge from a man's brain…the movie even takes the idea of Einstein's relativity and presents a bastardized explanation of time contraction. The science is all plausible and the only real hole anywhere in the film is the aliens' failure to realize that their message to Dr. Marvin would be so fast he wouldn't realize it was a message.
The saucers, their weapons, and the aliens—along with their attacks—are the real stars of the film. And the effects hold up surprisingly well. They're stop motion, state of the art at the time and dated now, so the effects appear rather fake to the modern eye. And at the same time, they're undeniably eye-catching and fun to watch. The colorization process was also extremely well done; there were points where I simply forgot I was watching a colorized film, though it's impossible to lose sight of the fact that it's a 1950s film.
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers is not high art, and it's not particularly well-paced or dramatic. The aliens don't have a deep and disturbing goal, they just want a place to live with some ready slaves. But it is a lot of fun, and it offers an intriguing glimpse into '50s attitudes toward science, the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and war. All in all, it is a fun and culturally relevant movie which captures the essence of the UFO movement at a time near its birth. If you love classic movies, science fiction or the '50s, then this is one to watch.
* I address only the third, and most modern, of the roots of UFO lore, since it began less than ten years before this movie saw print. The other two roots are the end of the 19th century's "mystery airships" and the "foo fighters" of World War II. Of course, there are many other historical references to mystery lights and things in the sky, and depending on how you interpret things—I'm looking at you, Erich Von Daniken—there is substantial evidence for alien astronauts visiting the Earth throughout and perhaps before recorded history. Jump back to starting point.
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Monday, 29 March 2010
The Underground Farmers & Craft market in pictures
34 comments:
- Anonymous29 March 2010 at 22:37
Brilliant, wish I could have been there. Who's the cute mixologist? ;)ReplyDelete
Everything looked so amazing!ReplyDelete
Would you mind if I post a few of these pics on my facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/littlemissdelicious)?
Obviously I'll credit you in each of them :) x
Yeah everybody was asking that ...ReplyDelete
lmd: sure...credit and copyright msmarmite
Wow. Wow. WOW! xxReplyDelete
Looks like a brilliant success, I was kicking myself when I realised I was away on this weekend as I definitely would have come over. Can't wait to see it on tv. When's the next one?!ReplyDelete
Did you happen to get any of me at my stall? No worries if not... TaReplyDelete
This was well worth my trip down from Leeds. I met some lovely people, ate some delicious food,took home some delicious food.I enjoyed the demonstrations and made some new friends. A truly enjoyable day.ReplyDelete
Looks like a fantastic day. When will it be on TV?ReplyDelete
Kavey: the one I took of you is one of the ones that didn't come out, must have pressed a button wrongly when running about....ReplyDelete
It sounds like it was an absolute hit! So sorry to have missed it! I broke my foot recently so housebound somewhat! Sorely upset that I missed out! Hope you all did well from it! xxxReplyDelete
No worries!ReplyDelete
congratu-effin-lations! this is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. it looked like a gorgeous day- what a success. x shaymaReplyDelete
It was a brilliant day - Thoroughly enjoyed the seeing the goods we spent so long preparing appreciated, meeting new people, discussing food stuffs, etc. etc.ReplyDelete
And WHAT an organiser!
Once again, Ms Marmite Lover leaves us amazed with one of her events :)
Wow. It looks like it was a Fantastic day. Very innovative. I love the whole idea, the atmosphere must have been wonderful.ReplyDelete
PS You should have delegated and got someone to play Photographer. nevertheless I'm impressed.ReplyDelete
Loved it! What a great day for all of us. I think I had the best spot in the house with constant sunshine for most of the afternoon.ReplyDelete
Thanks for being brilliant.
Congrats - this looks absolutely incredible. Can't wait to see on TV!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 March 2010 at 12:52
but they are not your pictures for you to take credit for, surely little miss delicious should be crediting Gavin, at least for the pictures.ReplyDelete
Always a nasty one isn't there? I took the picture of little miss delicious...ReplyDelete
All looks fab- well done you! And also when's it going to be on the telly then??ReplyDelete
I was there and it was FAB! I really hope you do it again sometimeReplyDelete
What a fantastic idea! But I need to ask you - weren't you worried about stuff being nicked from your home?ReplyDelete
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Looks like everyone had a brilliant day!ReplyDelete
Did the stallholders make money? There's so many barriers stopping people doing stuff like this, so it's good to see a bit of community spirit taking over rather than rules and regulations.
Alison: I think I'm immune to the whole concept of strangers being in my home. It's become a live museum, a site specific theatre. No I don't worry about it. I don't count the dvd's after the guests have gone. There's nothing to nick really. Unless you are a bit horrible and actually, you know what, most people are nice.ReplyDelete
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Congratulations - looks like a fabulous time was had by everyone, what fun. I look forward to hearing more about the Haloumi.ReplyDelete
Fab day to be part of. I've written about it on my blogReplyDelete
I just came over from "a fork full of spaghetti" this looks so amazing - and it must have been such hard work... but I am inspired to do something in my own locality all the same!ReplyDelete
Brilliant day, Kerstin - such fun, and great to meet so many people. Thank you!ReplyDelete
More pics up on my blog: http://aforkfulofspaghetti.blogspot.com/2010/03/uks-first-underground-market.html
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wow it looks like it was a bad miss for me. Will be looking out for next one to sell my crafties.ReplyDelete
I have also blogged the day (www.moelfabansecretsupperclub.wordpress.com) which was a fantastic experience....and so will my teen (when she emerges from her bed!)xxReplyDelete
thanks for a peek into your world - lovely to see so many crafty people joining upReplyDelete
p.s love the fabric bunting - been eyeing some up myself recently.ReplyDelete
This is absolutely amazing. What a brilliant thing you all did. I wish I had been there. Bloody well done.ReplyDelete
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Revolutionary! Keep on keepin' on an' on an' on!ReplyDelete
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I have no children and am not in any kind of relationship and I have no prospects. That said, I would like to find a woman. The thing is, in the unlikely event I ever have a son, I do not want him to be circumcised at all. Furthermore, I would have to go to every doctor appointment he has to go to so I could closely supervise the nurese and doctors to make sure nobody ever touches his sex organs.
For me, not giving any future son I would have a bris is an immediate no-brainer. In fact when I see videos of brises or circumcisions on YouTube I wish I could bash the moyl or circumcisor's head through the wall.
I'm more strongly against sex-organ mutilation than most circumcision activists: we don't just let a concenting adult choose to get his legs cut off, and for the same reasons we should not just let a fully concenting adult get his sex-organ(s) mutilated! Every body part is equally important!
My question is, do you agree that nobody should ever be circumcised? Because to do something just because its a tradition and you think you have to do it because you just have to be an unbroken link in a chain that has been going on for a few thousand years is the most asanine excuse to hurt your son possible.
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I appreciate your response, and understand the humor. The thing is: a few years ago, I would have probably been almost as strident as you. (me being female probably matters, eh?)
The point is that sometimes things happen. Life doesn't work the way we want it to. My grandfather starved in the depression until he finally relented and ate pork.
Trust me, the docs and I explored the other options. I did not rush to surgery. It occurs to me that circum. probably started off innocently enough epochs ago when some poor kid actually needed it, or would have had gangrene.
Feel welcome to reply. We are both (almost) agreeing.
FYI: circumcision started in order to prevent masturbation, and/or to sexually reduce males. After all masturbation causes blindness, epilepsy, and any other illness people want it to cause. Religion hates sexuality, circumcision is one of the symptoms of this meshugas. Other symptoms are the family purity laws, shomer negia, single gender schools, inability of religious people to admit that sex exists, and so on. I just can't believe someone could get gangreen just precicely so that it is only exactly on the tissue that gets cut off Jews and mutilated no-Jewish males and on not at all on the shaft or scrotum or any other body part. I think its probably true that your son could have been spared, although I realize its massively impolite to actually point this out, you know, its like accusing you of being wrong for doing what you thought you had to do before I came along and gave better options.
I have no clue why I should think you being female matters. Males and females are equally responsible for butchering me.
Wow. I am sorry for what happened to you, and how you were treated by the adults in your life who should have protected and honored the child in their care.
I'd like to clarify a few things. My use of the word gangrene was just a guess off the top of my head...like MAYBE somebody somewhere thousands of years ago had some horrible infection, got the barbaric surgery, and then the religious muckety-mucks observed that the poor kid spent less time in his hut spending quality time with himself. Agreed, things like that somehow become a "revelation" from their god.
May I ask you to put yourself in my son's place, say 15 years from now; he could be writing in some futuristic forum about how he always had these peculiar infections. Mom was always buying a special cream that stings. He went to more docs than his buddies, and he wasn't toilet trained until after kindergarten... Imagine how this alternative reality kid who got a bad deal would see the world (and me) once he found out how differntly life could have gone.
Thank you for talking about this. I've felt guilty about this over time, but I am able now to resolve this ongoing issue. Sometimes it isn't only about me as a parent or a thinker in an abstract setting, but someone who saw the reality which made me realize how nothing is truly black or white.
Nothing personal, its not you personally I'm angry at, its my situation and maybe how people think the problem is imaginary, and how my family thinks there is something so special abou tbeing an unbroken link in a chain that has been going on for 1000's of years and in order to have this womderful feeling you have to pay hundreds of dollars so a moyl can hurt your son... anyway, sometimes I make the mistake of insisting that a person is wrong for thinking that sometimes, circumcision is necessary... of course, they are wrong, but actually pointing this out does no good and nobody likes to be made to have such guilt over what they did when there is nothing to do about it now...but I learned this all while telling my family and my moyl how violated and wronged I was... Anyway, I see circumcision in the field of purposful body marking or injury, like patterns of scars or slicing the foreskin or female mutilation or tattoos or piercings, and so on... and I think Judaism implicitly wants to sexually reduce males, and then we are supposed to take all this frustration and put it toward studying the Torah and the Talmud and Jewish holy texts... But I found evidence that some Jews don't get their son circumcised and they overcome their guilt and scrupulosity, they don't let people kvetch at them for not hurting their son, and there is no evidence there is a God who is punishing these parents.
When it comes right down to it, so many of the traditions are so peculiar. Decades ago my cousin got a tattoo, my aunt was so upset because then he would never be able to be buried in a Jewish cemetry as he had "marked" himself. But this (male) cousin who is reform pointed out that he was marked when he was 8 days old...this modification was something HE chose.
Recently this same aunt had her ears pierced, not just once but 3 times in each ear! And her sister (my mom---the same one who was threatening to sit shiva for me because of not doing the traditional bris) had her eyebrows tattooed on. Both old ladies claim that they follow the important rules. Huh?? A rule is a rule/tradition. Nope.
I think everyone just does what makes him/her happy and if they can point to a god to back them they do; if they can't then they tell us that WE are too literal. Messed up.
Hi Michael. I feel like you are throwing down a gauntlet and attempting to engage me in an argument. But it would be a poor one because I am someone who agrees very much with you, albeit not as stridently and allows for exception and reasonings to be used for cause. Plus, as you'll recall, my child was a toddler, the discussion we had earlier was not only about Adult circumcision.
I don't see how people can take an 8 day infant and mutilate him for reasons best known to their primitive ideas and ignorant logic. BUT for the same reason, just because thousands and thousands of people have non-thinkingly followed this bizarro logic doesn't mean I should steadfastly refuse to have my son medically circucised by a doctor with proper medical care for legit reasons.
Technically, telling people sex-organ mutilation is wrong won't do me any good. Talking to people about the problem won't give me back what I could have had, and technically, its safer and easier for me to just quit caring. And technically, your son should not have been circumcised. But there is nothing you can do about it. There is no such thing as a legit reason. Circumcision is a euphemism for sex-organ mutilation. Do not say circumcision. You must call it be an appropriate non-Euphemism, like male sex-organ mutilation, (often done for bogus medical reasons), or religiously sanctioned violence against males. I can be objective because I do not have children and in case any son I do have has a foreskin "problem" there will be no sex-organ mutilation and I kind of would like to take anybody who tries to touch his organs and put their head through the wall. Its less selfish and more moral for me to assume that lets not worry about what harm was already done; this should not happen to anybody else. All foreskin problems are as imaginary as HaShem. Its not your fault your son got harmed. Its the governments fault for not making curcumcision illegal. After all, female mutilation became illegal in 1996, and until the 1960's they sometimes did female mutilation on middle and upper class white girls right here in the USA, and at the University of Chicago Hospital. Blue cross-Blue shields would pay for a female mutilation until 1977. Don't be culturally biased. Some cultures have to hurt their daughters for a similar reason my parents had to pay hundreds of $$ to get me nearly killed in their home while I screamed my heart out and my mother was in another room. Blood loss causes brain damage, and infants only have 12 oz of blood. Female children get vulva infections sometimes but they get treated better than males.
In my experience there is no way to have a rational, effective discussion about ritual male-infant sex-organ mutilation with someone who believes in it. It is part of their religion and my family and a lot of religious people get defensive and angry when you say any part of their religion is wrong. Anyone who has a son and believes in this mutilation, will make sure it is done no matter what we say. But usually, god viruses evolve to be compatible with the culture they live in – for example Christianity and Judaism supported slavery but not anymore in most countries – and I read somewhere that many Jewish boys born in Sweden are not circumcised. So, male sex-organ mutilation will continue in the U.S. until normative, generic non-Jewish American culture quits circumcising, or recognizes how traumatic this mutilation is or until the non-Jewish medical establishment refuses to do non-Jewish male mutilation and/or until this mutilation becomes illegal. Judaism is a sex-negative culture, and this mutilation is just a symptom of how much Judaism hates sex. America is also a sex-negative culture but (at least non-evangelical/ non-fundamentalist) Judaism evolves to be compatible with whatever culture it is surrounded by.
Stanley Milgroym did experiments in the 1960's, demonstrating how about 60% of otherwise decent people can be somewhat easily brainwashed into hurting other people even when the people being tormented are yelling their hearts out in protest. The first thing my mother and aunt did when they found out I was a boy was to find an ad for a moyl in the local Jewish news and call him. My parents paid several hundred dollars and my mother was in another room when I was crying my heart out and getting almost killed. 30 people came for the celebration, and there was a spread of food and alcohol. My aunt tried to tell me how gentle it was, when I asked her about it when I was 27. My brother and his wife might have a kid, and I will never go to any bris. I gave them a him a copy of "Questioning Circumcision, a Jewish Perspective", by Ronald Goldman,. Weeks later when I asked, my brother said he didn't read it and told me if he they have a son they will have a bris.
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With the win ETSU (5-6 overall, 2-2 A-Sun) improved its current win streak to four games and also snapped a nearly year-long, 10-game road losing streak that dated back to a win over Western Carolina back on Jan. 10, 2005. Meanwhile,
"I'm glad that's over," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, who watched his team's 27-point halftime lead dwindle to as little as seven points in the second half before pulling away. "We needed to just get a win on the road. Robbie (Laing,
"I think that first half may have been the best we've played since I've been at ETSU. Tim (Smith) was vintage Timmy, (Brad) Nuckles had an unbelievable game, and having five players in double figures is great. It just feels good to win on the road again."
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The first half was impressive for the Bucs. After falling behind 3-0, ETSU went on an 11-0 run to take an eight-point advantage. From there, the Bucs led by as many as 19, but after a Campbell 3-pointer with 6:21 left made it 42-26, the Bucs went on another 17-3 spurt to make it a 30-point lead at 59-29. At the break, the Bucs had enjoyed their best offensive half of the season and the most points scored in a half by an opponent in
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CONIFER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday suspended the use of state prescribed burns like the one that may have caused a deadly wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes near Denver.
The Colorado State Forest Service says the 6-square-mile fire started after a controlled burn last week that was meant to reduce vegetation. Instead, high wind gusts Monday blew embers across a containment line and into unburned forest, sparking the blaze.
"This is heartbreaking, and we are sorry," Deputy State Forester Joe Duda said in a written statement.
Hickenlooper said the ban on prescribed fires on state lands, including state parks, would be in effect until a review of the wildfire is complete.
The ban doesn't affect land controlled by the federal government — which accounts for more than one-third of Colorado. However, Hickenlooper urged counties and federal agencies to also consider suspending such burns for now.
Meanwhile, some 400 firefighters from several states were focusing on building containment lines around the wildfire. Until now, the fire's erratic pattern has forced firefighters to focus on protecting homes, not stopping the burn. The fire was 15 percent contained Wednesday afternoon, Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said.
Air tankers dropped retardant and two National Guard helicopters dropped water to assist firefighters on the ground. Smoke from the fire created haze around Denver, obscuring views of the Rocky Mountains.
As crews dug lines around the fire's perimeter, a search team was using dogs to look for a woman missing in the fire zone. Her home was among 27 destroyed or damaged in the blaze.
The bodies of Sam Lamar Lucas, 77, and Linda M. Lucas, 76, were found earlier this week at their destroyed home. Their cause of death was pending.
Neighbor Eddie Schneider said he's not sure the couple ever received an automated phone call telling them to leave. Schneider left his home after a firefighter knocked on his door.
Hickenlooper said he doesn't blame some of the 900 evacuated homeowners in the mountains southwest of Denver for being angry.
"Their houses have been destroyed. Their lives have been changed forever. It's not their fault," he told KOA radio.
Later Wednesday, some local sheriff's deputies started taking owners of destroyed homes into the burn area to see what was left. On a tour for reporters, thin white smoke rose from valleys. Charred appliances were all that remained of some homes.
A Forest Service manager who helps plan for prescribed burns, Jane Lopez, said the state usually performs them only in spring and fall. Prescribed burns are planned as far as three years in advance, she said, but they don't go forward unless weather conditions meet requirements. She said everything was done properly.
"You don't burn unless all the parameters are met," Lopez said. She didn't comment on the governor's planned burn order but said, "We're at the end of the prescribed burn season anyway."
Conifer resident Don Heiden, who was displaced by the fire, said he wasn't ready to blame the government.
"Accidents happen. If there was negligence, they'll figure it out," said Heiden, who was watching televised aerial shots to see if his home was still standing. "To me, it's more of an act of God."
For years, fire agencies have used controlled burns to pre-empt devastating wildfires by consuming fuel. Officials credited such an operation with helping save hundreds of homes during a 2002 Colorado wildfire that did destroy 133 homes.
A few controlled burns have escaped firefighters' control.
One of the worst cases was in New Mexico in 2000. A prescribed burn set by the National Park Service in Bandelier National Monument, west of Los Alamos, blew out of control, and all of Los Alamos was evacuated. More than 400 families lost their homes and more than 115 Los Alamos National Laboratory buildings were destroyed or damaged. The federal government paid $455 million in compensation.
The Park Service resumed prescribed burns a year later with new rules, including having outside experts check burn plans.
The fire threat in much of Colorado has grown during an unusually dry and warm March. Several counties, including Jefferson, have implemented fire restrictions affecting campfires, fireworks and smoking in fire-prone areas.
Associated Press writers Rema Rahman, Steven K. Paulson and Kristen Wyatt in Denver contributed to this report.
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CONIFER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday suspended the use of state prescribed burns like the one that may have caused a deadly wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes near Denver.


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How to get over the person you love, and how to find some one new?
stay depress for like a week or two. remembering everything you two did together, and then acknowledge that those days will not come again. accept reality and then move on from there.
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You are weak. I have complete control over my mind. I can drop someone out the moment I want to. I could love them for 10 years and the next day be like "Yeah... I know this is sudden but we're done."
Only losers dwell on love lost. And she hurts you everytime she gets yet you love her, you are just a weak and masochistic punk. Grow a pair you weak punk.
What you are talking about isn't strength. Not that love is so easily defined, but I definitely know that love is not a switch you turn on and off. You are incapable of trusting anyone enough to attach yourself to them, and that will likely make it impossible for you to love or be loved. I don't admonish you, because it is obvious that you have been traumatized so much to be put in such a desperate state, but it is difficult to pity someone who so brazenly assaults a person who has risked their feelings in an attempt at being happy.
If it pleases you, risk nothing on others and you will never be hurt. However, without such a gamble you will never find anything rewarding. The bitter enables you to appreciate the sweet, for without both you never truly experience either.
What are you, a wannabe psychologist? A valiant attempt at dissecting me with presumptuous pity.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but love is nothing more than an emotion like any other which is brought about by a chemical reaction in the brain. So yes, it is as simple as a switch you turn on and off. If you have control over your emotions, love is included in there. So unless you are just weak, it is as simple as turning it off.
Nothing I do is ever a risk, as nothing can hurt me. I simply push aside those emotions that would allow it to 'hurt' me. It is something called self control, not being some weak panzy that cries over some bitch that keeps hurting him. That isn't love, that's just stupidity and being irrational. They say love is irrational and love is blind though... not really an emotion worth having to begin with from the sound of that now is it? Find something that's actually worth the pain and effort. Like getting rich, or conquering the world.
You've already been hurt is what is ironic about that statement. No healthy, well-adjusted person is so uncomfortable with their emotional state that they seek to repress it in all forms. I am no psychologist, only an observer who believes in causality. If you really believe the fantasy that you are some gifted, superhuman anomaly who is emotionless, I find that fiction disturbing. Your overtly controlling tendency is certainly a reactive event and it doesn't take a phd to see that. Attachment is not a fundamental weakness. It is the same emotion that kept your mother from smothering you with a pillow when you cried as a baby. If your relationships with others aren't worth the stress, that's a shame. Good luck to you.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 11, 2012) – Looking for its third first-round victory over the past six years, the ETSU men's tennis team will attempt to upset No. 5 seed Ohio State on Saturday in the NCAA Tournament.
First serve between ETSU (14-8, 9-0 A-Sun) and Ohio State (31-3, 11-0 Big Ten) is scheduled for 1 p.m. at OSU's Varsity Tennis Courts. The first match of the Columbus, Ohio regional kicks off at 10 a.m. between Notre Dame (20-8) and Vanderbilt (8-15).
ETSU enters the 2012 NCAA Tournament on a 14-match winning streak. The nationally ranked No. 69 Buccaneers began the year at 0-8, but have won every match since defeating Appalachian State on Feb. 25 at the Bristol Racquet Club. The Bucs' run to their sixth-consecutive Atlantic Sun Championship title was also completed in Bristol, Tenn., with a 4-1 victory against then-No. 62 North Florida in the final.
When the Bucs take to the courts in Columbus next weekend, they will be looking for their first NCAA win since defeating Alabama 4-2 in 2010. ETSU is 2-3 overall through its past five NCAA Tournament first-round appearances, with its other win coming in 2008 against Notre Dame. In last year's tournament, the Buccaneers were dealt a heartbreaking 4-3 loss at the hands of the Fighting Irish. ETSU led the match 3-2, but dropped the two remaining points at No. 3 and No. 4 singles.
Senior Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) and freshman Rogerio Ribeiro (Sao Paulo, Brazil) are ETSU's two 20-match winners this year. Gille went 20-9 overall, and led the team in dual victories with a 14-6 mark. The First Team All-Atlantic Sun member also held a perfect 8-0 record at No. 2 singles. Ribeiro enters the NCAA Tournament with the team's longest active winning streak, having won his last 12 singles matches. The Second Team All-Conference and All-Freshman selection posted a 21-8 overall record through the fall and spring, going 12-1 in dual action.
Ohio State will be looking to bounce back from its loss in the Big Ten Championship final to Illinois. The defeat ended the Buckeyes' 12-match winning streak, and also snapped OSU's run of six-consecutive Big Ten Tournament titles.
Blaz Rola leads the Buckeyes with a 30-6 overall singles record through the 2011-12 campaign. OSU's typical No. 1 or No. 2 starter went 22-4 in dual action, and holds a 13-5 record against ITA-ranked singles opponents. Connor Smith was second in wins, boasting a 28-7 overall mark with a 24-5 dual record. Chase Buchanan – the Buckeyes' other No. 1 starter – went 27-6 overall with a 20-3 dual record including a 12-2 mark at the No. 1.
The Buccaneers and Buckeyes have played on four other occasions in the all-time series, with Ohio State coming out victorious in each meeting. The last contest between the two sides came in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and resulted in a 4-0 OSU victory.
Live stats will be provided courtesy of OhioStateBuckeyes.com. If the match is moved indoors because of weather, live video will be available via StreamingTennis.com. Tickets for each day are $6 for adults and $4 for children. All children under two years of age enter for free.
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ADRC center wants to help seniors and people with disabilities plan for the future
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- The center, also known as ADRC of the Northwoods, helps people with housing, transportation and benefits. The ADRC started in 2012. It helps people plan for the future. Dianne Jacobson is the Oneida County Department on Aging Director. "There's something about planning for later years that people are adverse to. But we now have professionals that are here to give you the options. It's always the people's options of what they need," said Jacobson. But the service isn't just for seniors. The ADRC also helps people 18 and older with disabilities. Workers say that group didn't have a lot of resources before ADRC. "Whether you're 28 and have a disability, or whether you're 65, the ADRC is here to help you maintain your independence and give you the options for living the life you want," said Jacobson. The Rhinelander office for the ADRC is located in the Oneida County senior center. Going to the ADRC for help is free.
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March 30th, 2016
Statement on the termination of Accord signatory companies' business relations with Silver Style & designe Ltd., Pukurpar, Zirabo, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh due to the supplier's failure to implement workplace safety measures.
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is conducting independent, engineering inspections for fire, electrical, and building structural safety at all factories in Bangladesh producing for Accord signatory companies. The Accord oversees the development of Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) by factories and Accord signatories and monitors remediation through follow-up verification visits. The Accord supports factories in the remediation by providing technical advice and developing resources and guidance. The Accord signatory companies also support factories in the remediation as per their obligations under the Accord agreement.
Where corrective actions to eliminate safety hazards are identified, the factory is required to implement these corrective actions according to a schedule that is mandatory and time-bound. If a supplier fails to implement the Accord's corrective actions and cooperate fully in the Accord's inspection and related programs, the supplier will receive notice and warning that its business with Accord signatory companies will be terminated if non-compliance persists. If the notice and warning process does not lead to sufficient progress, business with the supplier will be terminated by the Accord signatory companies.
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Important Note To Ignore Viruses :– Something You Should Know After Removing SYSTEM WARNING Pop-up
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- Uncheck hidden options which attempt to install additional programs you never need;
- Scan all your downloaded files and applications or attachments of email before you open them;
- you should Never open any attachments of unknown or spam emails;
- never try to update any app from nonofficial websites.


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Arabella Copley of Fort Gay, Route 2, has been a teacher in the Wayne County schools for half a century. And despite the fact that she is now 71 years of age, Miss Copley is still an enthusiastic worker. She taught a successful term last year. In view of these unusual facts, the editor of this paper wrote Miss Copley last week requesting her to write an article for the Wayne County News. She very graciously agreed and below we are glad to publish her unsually interesting contribution. Editor's Note.
I am seventy-one years old and have taught school 50 years. I never went to school but very little after I was ten years old. I went one term to Mr. Frank Chapman and part of a term to Prof. McClure. They were both splendid teachers. My parents were anxious to give their children an education, but the Civil War came up and interfered with the schools; then my mother died and I had the care of the family. Most of my studying has been done at home. The greatest desire of my life was to get a good education, but I I failed but through no fault of my own. All these years I have felt the need of better training. I often think how much more good I could have done had I been better prepared.
I was sixteen years old when I taught my first school at the mouth of Dragg, fifty-five years ago in a large, old log Methodist church. Instead of comfortable seats and desks that the pupils have now, we had rough hewn logs resting on rocks against the walls to sit on. We had no black boards, pencils or tablets and very few books. A few children had slates, and among the older teachers, woe be upon the child caught making pictures on the slates!
I called the pupils in by rapping on the outside of the door with a switch. I had no certificate and only a verbal contract with the trustees. In a few weeks, the County Superintendent visited my school, walked up in the pulpit and sat down by me, picked up an old elementary spelling book, asked me a few questions, gave me some good advice, then wrote out a second grade certificate and gave it to me. We only had a term of four months and would probably not get all of our meager salary in a year. All of the schools I think in those days were taught in churches.
One cold, rainy day, old Bobby Hagar, a Methodist preacher, came in to fill his appointment. He preached to us, and when he knelt down to pray, a wet hungry hound sat in the door and howled dolefully.
He gave us a scolding because there were not more of us there and went on to the next appointment.
John Marcum taught the first school in Cassville. I'm talking of old times now, and he was simply John Marcum then, not Judge. If I remember right, he taught in a back room of an old store house, and his pupils sat on benches without any desks of any kind. Now they are planning to build a brick of some seven or eight rooms with all the modern conveniences at Fort Gay. They will have a splendid corps of teachers and a principal that all will be proud of. You will wonder when you pass by at play time where all of the children came from.
Some of the note-worthy developments since I first began teaching are the uniform examinations, which gives each teacher equal justice; free text books, which gives the poor child an opportunity to get an education; the graded schools that do so much to encourage the pupils to climb higher educationally; and the well equipped, comfortable houses; but the best of all advancements are our efficient, enthusiastic, well-trained teachers. I hope the young teachers as well as the old will always remember they are going out to train the rising generation for good citizens and that they will always set an example of truth, honesty, and industry before their pupils, for it is only by example we can really teach those virtues.
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By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
INDIANAPOLIS – The latest Andrew Bynum experiment is over for the Indiana Pacers, its results meager, its costs still being calculated.
Bynum, the 7-foot, 285-pound center signed by the Pacers Feb. 1, officially was cut loose Wednesday morning. Hampered by chronic knee problems, the one-time (2012) L.A. Lakers All-Star, 26, played just twice for Indiana. He had an eight-point, 10-rebound game against Boston on March 11, then scored 15 points with nine rebounds four nights later against Detroit before heading back to the trainers room with soreness and fluid in his right knee.
"We want to thank Andrew and our medical staff for trying to get the issues with his knee resolved," Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird said in a statement. "We wish him the best in the future."
Acquiring Bynum – at a reported $1 million guaranteed for the balance of 2013-14 – was a gamble by Bird that didn't pay off. But it might have cost the Pacers more than money. Center Roy Hibbert's ongoing tailspin coincides with Bynum's arrival, so much that some team insiders have wondered if the move rattled Hibbert's confidence and trust.
Through Jan. 31, Hibbert was posting his customary numbers – 12.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, 2.5 blocks per game – for a team that was 35-10. After Bynum was signed, Hibbert averaged 9.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks. He's been worse in Indiana's eight playoff games so far: 4.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.4 blocks. And the Pacers have gone 25-20.
Bringing Bynum aboard rankled Hibbert, a source told NBA.com, when coach Frank Vogel ran plays to get Bynum involved offensively that he rarely calls for Hibbert.
After a disastrous season in Philadelphia in 2012-13, a disappointing stay in Cleveland earlier this season and a one-night stint with Chicago to fulfill trade obligations in January, his two-appearance stop in Indiana leaves Bynum's basketball future in doubt. Brief as it was, it might have played a role in doing the same for Hibbert and the Pacers.