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Apple defends $100B offshore stash
Apple is under so much pressure in Washington over its offshore cash that it's doing things it almost never does.
CEO Tim Cook is coming to Washington to testify in front of a panel of senators about stashing more than $100 billion overseas, rather than sending a lower-level executive.
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He will offer Congress Apple's ideas for comprehensive tax reform — an unusual move for the company into the world of policy.
( Also on POLITICO: Tech boosts spending on lobbying)
And Cook is even talking with D.C. reporters ahead of his visit, including POLITICO in a rare interview.
The Apple offensive is a reminder of how powerful even an unpopular Washington remains, when it can still make even a mega-brand nervous.
"We don't have a large presence in Washington, as you probably know, but we care deeply about public policy and believe creative policy can be a huge catalyst for a better society and a stronger economy," Cook said in the interview.
He also defended his company's conduct. "I can tell you unequivocally Apple does not funnel its domestic profits overseas. We don't do that. We pay taxes on all the products we sell in the U.S., and we pay every dollar that we owe. And so I'd like to be really clear on that," Cook said.
( PHOTOS: Politicians and their iToys)
Tuesday's hearing will be political theater at its finest — senior senators on their home turf looking to crucify a high-profile executive for the cameras, with little legislative action ever to result from it.
For Cook, it'll be the same hot seat before the same Senate committee that summoned Microsoft and HP last year for a verbal bludgeoning — a showdown that hardly stopped businesses from trying to lower their tax bills through controversial means.
Like many other tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, Apple has legally kept money overseas, allegedly to avoid paying steep U.S. taxes. The iPhone maker held $102.3 billion in cash offshore as of March 30, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. That's a 24 percent increase from Sept. 30.
Veteran tech lobbyist Bruce Mehlman said the entire system needs to be overhauled.
"The tax system is broken; it's not competitive," Mehlman said, noting that Apple faces far greater taxes than its tech competitors, like Korea-based Samsung. "The policymakers made the code, and it's not nearly as flat, simple and logical as it should be, so companies across all sectors do what they can to minimize [their] tax burden and maximize research and product development. Tech is no different."
Apple only invited new controversy, however, when the company announced last month it had borrowed $17 billion to buy back some of its stock. Rather than tap its overseas cash hoard — a move that would have inflated its tax bill — Apple instead had decided to take advantage of low interest rates and essentially borrow the money.
It's precisely the sort of move that long has infuriated lawmakers of both parties, who for years have hammered businesses across industries — but especially technology — for their creative tax-avoidance strategies
At last year's hearing, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) blasted the entire industry as "probably the No. 1 user of these offshore entities" that allow tech companies to dodge U.S. liabilities.
Levin will again chair the hearing at which Cook, along with other federal officials, are slated to testify. And the top Apple executive isn't going to find its familiar fanboys on the dais: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), for one, infamously said last year he was "livid" at reports of Apple's tax tactics. Both Levin and Coburn did not comment for this story.
Still, Cook's new charm offensive doubles as a new strategy for a company that for years relied on its status as a darling of the tech industry, its intense customer brand loyalty and its superstar former CEO, Steve Jobs, to keep it above the political fray.


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Sunday is Father's Day and with it comes the opportunity to enjoy quality water time with dear old Dad. If it's a backyard pool party, there are a number of ways to enhance your aquatic experience this Father's Day. A backyard pool party for the family and friends will take on another dimension with the inclusion of toys and pool games for the festivities. Grab a snorkel and mask set and set up a scavenger hunt using dive rings and pool toys. For a combination of games, look to the Across Pool Volleyball/Badminton Set from Water Gear. This set includes the standards, net, ball, rackets and birdies for guaranteed hours of pool fun. If basketball is your game, add another dimension and play a championship series of your own with the Heavy Duty Water Basketball Game, also from Water Gear. Team or one-on-one competitions will keep everyone involved, and it may give Dad a reason, or the perfect excuse, to officiate the action.
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The time of second harvest, Mabon's another time to gather the fruits of one labor and to cut away what is no longer necessary. It's a time to reflect on what fell out of balance to move into the dark portion of the year. A ritual preformed with a small scale-where you write what's gotten out of balance and place it on the other-will guide you. http://www.witchskel.com/mabon.html
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Scientific Methods to Reduce Breast and Prostate Cancer RiskNovember 2007
By William Faloon
Failure to understand the basic cause of a disease can negate the effects of well-meaning prevention strategies. At any given time, popular myths surround the real causes of human disorders.
While you may have heard all kinds of reasons why increasing numbers of people are contracting cancer, the underlying cause (that few doctors address) is the aging process itself.1
One reason this fundamental cause has been neglected is that up until recently, there was little one could do to protect against this proven risk factor.
In this article, we are going to explain how aging increases cancer risk and what you can do to protect against this pathological phenomenon.
To enable you to fully understand the carcinogenic effects of aging, we have reprinted on this page a chart showing women's breast cancer risk by age. A quick look at this chart clearly documents that aging is the underlying cause of breast cancer. Next we are going to tell you why and what you can do to protect yourself.
Why Aging Cells Are So Vulnerable
An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Roads Leading to Breast Cancer" provides a great one sentence explanation of why aging cells are vulnerable to cancer. Here is that sentence:
"Cancer results from the accumulation of mutations in genes that regulate cellular proliferation."3
In this one sentence, you have just learned why people contract more cancer as they grow older. To clarify this further, please understand that every time a cell divides, slight mutations occur to the genes that regulate cellular proliferation. Furthermore, mutations to genes happen in response to direct insult from ionizing radiation. The longer you live, the more gene mutations you encounter. Once too many regulatory genes become mutated, cells lose normal regulatory control and can turn into cancer cells.
So a basic prevention strategy is to do something about the gene mutations in your cells that make you more vulnerable to contracting cancer with each passing day. The encouraging news is that this is now possible with a very simple approach.
Restoring Healthy Gene Function
In recent years, a multitude of studies have shown cancer risk reductions of 50% and greater based on higher vitamin D status.4-9 People with higher vitamin D levels have sharply lower risks of cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, esophagus, pancreas, ovary, rectum, bladder, kidney, lung and uterus, along with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma.4,10-22
What has fascinated us most, however, is that vitamin D protects against cancer by enabling people to regain control over the genes that regulate cell proliferation.
Vitamin D has an effect on at least 200 human genes.22 Many of these genes are responsible for regulating not only cell proliferation, but differentiation and apoptosis as well. Here are simple definitions of these cellular processes:
Proliferation: Uncontrolled cell division (cancer cells are characterized by rapid and uncontrolled division).
Differentiation: Process that cells undergo to mature into normal cells (uncontrolled reproduction of immature cells is a defining feature of cancer).
Apoptosis: Natural termination of defective cells (cancer cells are resistant to natural destruction, making them difficult to eradicate).
With less than optimal vitamin D status, the expression of the genes that regulate the three critical processes above becomes defective. This means these regulatory genes can no longer maintain healthy cellular function (including programmed termination). The result is sharply higher cancer risks, as the lack of vitamin D negatively impacts gene expression that controls proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis of our cells.
So for only pennies a day, we can all achieve optimal vitamin D status and help our cells regain control over genes that protect us against cancer. For the first time, humans can exert a significant degree of control over a lethal aging process, i.e. gene mutations that are the underlying cause of cancer itself!
Breakthrough Study Documents Effectiveness of Vitamin D
While numerous studies show people with higher blood levels of vitamin D have lowered cancer risk, what had been lacking was a doubleblind, placebo-controlled study that specifically measured the effects of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation (with calcium) on cancer incidence in humans. This is the kind of study that conventional medical doctors insist on seeing if they are to believe a nutrient (or drug) really provides a health benefit.
In a breakthrough report, the effects of administering 1,000 IU a day of vitamin D (with calcium) was evaluated in 1,180 postmenopausal women living in the Midwest.10
After four years, the risk of contracting any cancer was 60% lower in the vitamin D (and calcium) group, compared with the placebo arm of the study.
The scientists then performed an even more detailed analysis of the data. When excluding cancers diagnosed in the first year of the study, which would have included preexisting cancers present at the time participants began taking vitamin D, they found an astounding 77% reduction in cancer incidence in the group receiving vitamin D, compared with placebo. (Interestingly, in a third arm of this study in which the participants received calcium but no vitamin D, the cancer risk reductions were not as significant.)
What this means is that if all Americans began taking just 1,000 IU of vitamin D each day (with calcium), as many as three-quarters of all cancers could be prevented in just four years.
Not Good Enough!
While a 60% to 77% reduction in cancer incidence in response to taking a moderate dose of vitamin D is impressive, it's not good enough for us! It would be absurd to ignore the "other" documented factors that increase the incidence of cancer in aging people.
We are going to talk a lot about specific breast cancer-prevention strategies in this article. Please keep in mind, however, that the same approaches that reduce breast cancer risk also lower rates of other common cancers, including cancer of the prostate gland.
Studies that look at human populations (epidemiological studies) have consistently shown that what we eat affects our cancer risk. Women who eat red meat suffer higher breast cancer rates, whereas men who eat red meat have greater prostate cancer rates.23,24 It's not a coincidence. The same carcinogenic effects that red meat inflicts in breast cells occur in prostate and other cells in the body.
In one of the better documented studies overseen by researchers at prestigious American universities, postmenopausal women in China who ate a Western-style diet (which included beef, pork, and desserts) were 60% more likely to develop breast cancer than those eating a diet based on vegetables and soy. Even more startling was the finding that in women who contracted estrogen receptor-positive breast tumors, those who ate the Western-style diet experienced a 90% increased risk!25
So what does this tell us when someone says that women should not take natural estrogen and progesterone because of fears of breast and other cancers? It tells us that we should not worry so much about natural hormone balancing, and should focus on the thousands of dangerous calories we are putting into our bodies each day.26
Don't expect the government to warn you about the carcinogenic effects of common foods. Intense lobbying efforts by the food industry have resulted in the government perpetuating the myth that a "balanced diet" is healthy. The hard facts pulled from hundreds of published studies are that government-sanctioned Western diets are killing us in many ways, including sharply increasing incidences of breast, prostate, and other cancers.
Consuming more plant-derived protein, phytonutrients, and omega-3 fatty acids in place of meat, high-fat dairy, and sugary foods is a good way to cut back on the foods that have been shown to increase breast cancer risk.25,27-29
(For specific information on why these bad foods are so dangerous, refer to the article titled "Eating Your Way to Prostate Cancer" in the February 2007 issue of Life Extension.)
How Cruciferous Vegetables Protect Against Breast Cancer
There are certain fruits, vegetables and plant extracts that have been shown to protect against breast, prostate, and other cancers. Scientists have identified compounds in cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale) that specifically neutralize dangerous breakdown products of estrogen that promote cancer growth.30-35 Cruciferous vegetable compounds also help neutralize the many carcinogens we are inevitably exposed to each day.36,37
One of best studied cruciferous vegetable compounds is called indole-3-carbinol, or I3C for short.
Women seeking to restore youthful hormone balance should make sure to obtain enough I3C from their diet or by taking standardized supplements. The reason for this is that I3C increases levels of a cancer- protective estrogen metabolite (2-hydroxyestrone, or 2-OHE1), while suppressing a dangerous estrogen metabolite (16 alpha-hydroxyestrone, or 16-OHE1) that promotes breast and other cancers.38,39
To emphasize the critical importance of I3C (and its related compounds), please understand that aging women still produce estrogen, and that the estrogen they supplement with can follow two primary metabolic pathways in the body. If we convert estrogen to 16 alphahydroxyestrone, then we increase the risk of breast and other cancers. If on the other hand, we convert estrogen to 2-hydroxyestrone, then we decrease our risk for breast and other cancers.40-42 I3C can readily be obtained by eating lots of cruciferous vegetables and/or taking the proper amount in supplement form.
To confirm the theory that certain estrogen metabolites can contribute to cancer, researchers analyzed data gathered from over 10,000 Italian women over more than five years. The objective was to determine how dietary and hormonal factors influence breast cancer risk. They found that women were much less likely to develop breast cancer when they had higher levels of 2-hydroxyestrone.40 This same finding has been shown in additional studies of different populations.43,44
The toxic estrogen metabolite 16 alpha-hydroxyestrone acts as a breast tumor promoter.45 By contrast, estrogen metabolized via the 2-hydroxyestrone pathway does not exhibit estrogenic activity in breast tissue. 45 Additionally, a form of this less active estrogen metabolite is believed to prevent the formation of blood vessels necessary to feed growing cancers, thus helping to arrest tumor growth.46
This delicate balance of estrogens is crucially important for men's health as well. In a study that examined the ratio of estrogen metabolites relative to prostate cancer risk, elevated levels of 16 alpha-hydroxyestrone were linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer.41
Fortunately, the cruciferous vegetable compounds (such as I3C) are effective in shifting estrogen metabolism to the more beneficial pathway, thus reducing levels of toxic 16 alphahydroxyestrone and increasing levels of protective 2-hydroxyestrone.42,45,47,48 This beneficial modulation of estrogen with reduced risk of breast and other cancers, including cervical, prostate, and even head and neck cancers.33,40-42 Cruciferous vegetable compounds thus play an important role in fighting cancer.


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Panasonic knows women hate the way they look and they'd love to help them clean up a bit by shaving off parts of their face and adding some flattering make-up!
The just-released Lumix FX77 comes with a re-touching function that whitens teeth, removes dark circles around the eye, makes your face look smaller, your eyes larger — and can even add blush and eye shadow. Which is great because that fixes almost every problem with women's faces in general! Tiny eyes, yellow teeth, dark circles — frankly, I'm surprised we let ourselves leave the house like this, let alone step in front of a camera.
"According to data we've acquired, around 50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph. So we came up with the idea so our clients can fix parts they don't like about their faces after they've taken the picture, " said Akiko Enoki, a female Panasonic project manager who, even as she was giving this interview, was presumably in need of some lipstick.
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Bereft as I am in many other ways, I have fortunately never missed the company of the creatively inclined. They have a spark in them that could make them agents of change, they are thinkers who could possibly innovate something of marvelous value. I recognize that potential: these people are both valuable and priceless. They inspire my shying creative side to break a shell and speak a little louder. They're interesting creatures who toil in company of constant criticism, a little bit of encouragement and mostly, a sense of passion and purpose.
Kiran Ravikumar, Aditi Dinaker and Ashwin Dange are little more than photographers. I heard about 'Calendars for a Cause' when it was just an idea in its initial stages. The thought was to design a calendar for 2012 and sell it. Nothing extraordinary in that, except for the fact that all the money collected by selling calendars goes to charity. I found it selfless and beautiful, how talent can be transformed into something that can give back to the society.
The money collected is channelized for the financial needs of the poor. It not only goes to a school in Ramabai Nagar, Mysore, where 300 kids from underprivileged families study but also to towards building a library in KS Garden Slum for underprovided kids. These are highly inspired twenty- somethings trying to make a change, and they only ask for a little help.
The photographers have worked really hard to make this calendar happen. The pictures chosen are captivating. They'll surely light up your room or your work space. It is indeed remarkable to see these people come up with such a splendid calendar in a matter of less than a month.
It takes much dedication and commitment to make something of this proportion manifest itself in such a short period of time. And I personally think they've worked very hard, and all for a good cause, in true spirit of selflessness and intelligent thought.
It takes much dedication and commitment to make something of this proportion manifest itself in such a short period of time. And I personally think they've worked very hard, and all for a good cause, in true spirit of selflessness and intelligent thought.
"I tried encouraging people to buy a calendar," a photographer friend said, "Nobody came forward. I guess people just appreciate art, when we talk financially, they don't value it that much."
Well, we should change that, shouldn't we?
Participate in the change. It takes a simple act of buying a calendar.
So this new year, choose to be kind. Buy a calendar and pass the word.
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And Who Are YOU Supposed To Be?
Last night those of us who celebrate Halloween had the pleasure of being mugged repeatedly by little hellions armed with the threat of trickery and plastic candy buckets.
I kid, of course. At least two of the kids who came to our door had full-size trash bags instead of candy buckets. They literally could have thrown themselves away. They also weren't with any adults and didn't appear to be wearing costumes, but I'm sure that just meant they were dressed as the always popular "ungrateful child with entitlement complex."
I kid, of course. I love children. To be far away from me. And quiet. Quiet children who are far away from me are awesome. However, I'll also settle for kids wearing charming homemade costumes which make me feel all nostalgic and superior, because I can TOTALLY paint my face better than that. Just sayin', Spider-Man.
Halloween costumes are a lot like these wrecks: you may not always know what they're supposed to be, but you can still appreciate the effort that went into them.
Actually, that cake is exactly like the store-bought costumes we grew up wearing in the 80s: SOLID PLASTIC. All it's missing is a giant "BUGS BUNNY" plastered across the chest.
But with today's costumes - as with these wrecks - sometimes a little educated guessing is in order:
Is it mostly blue?
Then you've got three choices: Smurf, Cookie Monster, or someone from Avatar.
Or possibly the ghost of Cookie Monster (note the translucent hand) wearing a Smurf's hat and wailing about a tree.
(Please note: I've never seen Avatar, but I know there's something about a tree in it. John HAS seen Avatar, and now thinks I'm a horrible, horrible person.)
If excessive sideburns are involved, then it's probably Wolverine:
Unless there's no cigar. Then it's Dora the Explorer.
If it looks like a cross between Heathcliff the cat and a pile of crap, then, uh...
I'm sorry, I was distracted by the sheer towering pile of crappiness here. I think I can almost see it wobbling - but maybe that's the post-Halloween sugar high talking. (FACT: you can never have too many "fun-sized" Almond Joys. THEY JUST GET MORE "FUN.")
And finally, if it's wearing the stricken expression of someone who will give you all the candy you want if you please just don't hurt him...
...then you're probably looking in a mirror. So go have some fun-size Snickers and put your feet up, my friend, because you've earned it.
Thanks to James W., Rachel T., Nadine A., Alison T., Kathryn S., Becky C., for sending me all their fun-sized Almond Joys. And Twix. And Reese's Cups. Aw, you guys are the best.


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The New Jersey governor is on the offensive and sent a stinging memo to supporters attacking his accuser.
A member of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration who has been subpoenaed in the investigation of the September bridge lane closures has resigned.
Christina Genovese Renna — one of 17 people with ties to Christie subpoenaed by a legislative panel — exited the governor's office Friday, according to a statement provided to NBC News on Sunday by her lawyer, Henry Klingeman.
In the statement, Renna said her resignation "reflects a decision I have been considering since shortly after the election." Christie won a second term in office in November.
Renna, the state director of departmental relations, reported to Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's since-fired deputy chief of staff, who apparently set the traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge in motion with an email to David Wildstien, a Christie appointee and ally at the Port Authority.
Wildstein, who has since resigned, was the recipient of Kelly's "Time for some traffic problems" email on Aug. 13. The lane closures began Sept. 9.
On Friday, Wildstein claimed to have evidence contradicting the government's account of an alleged scheme to snarl traffic on lanes that funnel traffic from Fort Lee, N.J., to the George Washington Bridge as an apparent act of political retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, who had declined to endorse Christie in the governor's re-election bid.
In a letter to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a lawyer for Wildstein said "evidence exists tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the Governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Bernanke Defends Fed's Stimulus Measures
(NEW YORK) -- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the bank's stimulus measures have helped the global economy, in spite of criticism from abroad, the BBC reports.
Brazil has criticized the United States for keeping interest rates low and weakening the dollar, saying that such measures has hurt emerging economies. Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund, also warned Sunday of asset bubbles consequently developing in emerging nations. But Bernanke defended the Fed's actions by saying the moves have boosted the global economy, the BBC says.
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This kit gives you everything you need to equip 2 GIVI E41 side cases with brake, tail light and turn signal functions.The GIVI E41 luggage cases are beautiful, aerodynamic and functional side cases. They do have one shortcoming: There is no integrated light kit available. Until Now!
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I have a shapefile containing approximately 600 000 point-objects.
Unfortunately, for a couple of reasons I need to split this file into a larger number of shapefiles each containing approximately 200 objects.
Is anyone aware of any tools/scripts that allow me to automate this process?
I have tried to automate the process using e.g. the Split-tool in ArcGIS, however since I am more of an archaeologist than a programmer (and know next to no Python), I haven't been able to produce a script that does this.
I am guessing that the best way to do this would be to use a counter which increments with +1 for each object passed into a new shapefile, and when that counter reaches 200 it resets and a new shapefile is created into which the subsequent 200 objects are copied.
However, I haven't been able to write a script/create a workspace that does this.
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|Mark Auslander, The white section of the Oxford City Cemetery, Oxford, Georgia, 2000.
My title, "the other side of paradise," is taken from a commentary by Ms. Emogene Williams, one of the matriarchs of the African American community of Newton County, Georgia, as she led me and my students in 2000 across the Oxford Historic Cemetery. She pointed out the gleaming marble headstones marking the final resting places of the Methodist leaders associated with the early years of nearby Emory College. She called our attention to the beautifully maintained lawns on the "white" side of the cemetery, in striking contrast to the long-neglected grave sites in the historically African-American family plots, overgrown with weeds and privet:
So you see, for the white founders the College was a kind of paradise, their vision of what Heaven was supposed to look like. But never forget, there were many others living and toiling in this county, who lived on the other side of paradise. They built this town and this college, going all the way back to slavery times. . . They are just as much as part of this place as anybody else. You just have to learn how to look, learn to see what they left behind, learn to hear what they are still telling you, after all these years.1
This essay is a meditation on Ms. Williams' admonition: how do we learn how to see the traces of the peculiar institution on college and university campuses many generations after Emancipation? How do we learn to hear the echoes of those who labored without acknowledgement or recompense to erect and maintain these academies in their early years?
In pondering these questions, I have been especially concerned with the town of Oxford, Georgia, the site of Emory College's original campus from the late 1830s onwards. Yet it is worth noting at the outset that the broader trope to which Ms. Williams alluded has a long and rich history in North America: for centuries, many have wryly juxtaposed the utopian promise embodied by the academy with the hidden underside of coerced, exploited labor upon which such institutions of higher learning frequently rest. Such observations are hardly confined to the South. In her famous poem, "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England" Phillis Wheatley addressed herself, from the position of the enslaved, to those who study the great mysteries of the universe at Harvard College: "Students, to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights / Above, to traverse the ethereal space / And mark the systems of revolving worlds."2 Yet, while these privileged students occupy an exalted space that approaches the heavens, it is given to the ostensibly subordinate slave to remind them of the temptations of sin that threaten to return them to earthly bounds: "An Ethiop tells you 'tis your greatest foe / Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain/And in immense perdition sinks the soul."3
Oxford, Georgia: The College Campus
|Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor), Plan of the Town of Oxford, Georgia, 1837. Courtesy of Emory University Archives.
Six decades after the publication of Wheatley's poem, the white Methodist founders of Emory College in 1836 laid out their terrestrial evocation of the Celestial Kingdom. They designed the newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young men for the clergy, the new college aimed to provide its students with disciplined routines and surroundings that would incline its pupils towards thought of Higher Spheres.
From the outset, of course, Emory College was deeply embedded in the structures and contradictions of a slavery-based society. Most of its antebellum officials and many of its faculty owned slaves. Slave labor was essential to the building and functioning of the institution. In contrast to many southern colleges, Emory College did not own slaves, but the administration did rent slaves from time to time.4 The Minutes of the Emory College Board of Trustees for February 9, 1837 record:
Resolved that the Treasurer be instructed to pay the sum of Fifty Dollars for the hire of a negro woman by the name of Sib for 1836 and to give notes for the hire of the negroes ordered to be hired for the present year and the following rates, for Sim: $150, for Charles: $150, for Sib and her children: $75.5
College faculty and officials were active in the theological, legal and ideological legitimation of slavery throughout the antebellum period.6 The College's first president of the board of trustees, Methodist Episcopal Bishop James Osgood Andrew, is to this day remembered in white southern Methodist circles as "our blessed martyred bishop," for suffering "assaults" in 1844 by northern abolitionist bishops for his continuing ownership of slaves in Oxford.7 Bishop Andrew's closest friend, College President Augustus Longstreet, played a central role in the national schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1844-45 over the issue of Andrew's slave-owning. In April 1844 Longstreet executed a complex legal deed with Andrew, formally transferring ownership of most of Andrew's slaves to him, so that Andrew could claim to his northern counterparts that he was not legally their owner. (The strategy failed to sway northern episcopal opinion.) Longstreet then published several impassioned defenses of involuntary servitude, including his 1845 commentary on the scriptural foundations of slavery, Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon and his 1848 Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, in which he denounced the hypocrisy of northern abolitionists for not attending to the plight of exploited New England mill girls.8
The thirteen major African-American extended families in present day Oxford are able to trace their descendants back to the early enslaved families of Oxford, who labored on or near the college. Mr. J.P. Godfrey, Jr., an African American man in his seventies who served on the Oxford City Council, has often pointed out to college students the campus buildings, including Few Memorial Hall, that his elderly relatives recalled were built by enslaved men. Mr. Godfrey's own grandfather, Israel Godfrey, who was enslaved in Newton County, served in the 1870s as the lead stone mason in the construction of the college chapel.
Without access to the archives or to oral historical records, a casual visitor to the bucolic campus of "Oxford College of Emory University" (as the original Emory College campus is now known) would remain oblivious to the long history of slavery on and around the institution. The only visible memorial to African Americans on the College grounds is a tree on the central quadrangle in front of Pierce Hall. Planted in 1966 by representatives of the class of 1913 in honor of two of Emory's most celebrated African American employees, the tree is marked at its base by a small plaque:
The member of the class of 1913
in loving appreciation
Dedicate this tree to the memory of
Bob Hammond
1858 to 1923
Billy Mitchell
1886 to 1958
Who together contributed 95 years
Of faithful and efficient service to "Old Emory"
Dedicated June 12, 1966
At his funeral eight years before the tree planting, white eulogists of Henry "Billy" Mitchell (1883-1958), one of the Emory's most important African American employees during the first half of the twentieth century, referred to his family's "long service" to Emory.9
Yet, as had long been openly discussed among Oxford's African American families, this service stretched far back into "slavery times." Mitchell's paternal grandfather was enslaved by Bishop Andrew. His maternal grandparents were enslaved, respectively as valet and maid, by Emory Professor Alexander Means, who briefly served as the college's president. The last time I looked at the tree with Ms. Williams, she sighed and quietly remarked, "How they loved Billy, their best friend they called him. But 1966, you know, that was two years before they even admitted the first black student to study on this campus. They'd happily plant a tree dedicated to us. They just wouldn't let us in the front door."10
The Oxford Historic Cemetery
The ironic status of the academic earthly paradise is especially pronounced one mile from campus in the Oxford Historic Cemetery. Here are buried hundreds of persons, slave and free, closely connected with Emory College from its founding onwards. Over the course of the nineteenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic, the dead were increasingly re-settled in pastoral, garden-like settings, often in suburban locales. These carefully sculpted landscapes, replete with foliage, running and still bodies of water, and neo-classical architecture reflected and helped to solidify visual conceptions of Heaven. There is an affinity between the pastoral cemeteries and college campuses of the Victorian era, which similarly offered earthly visions of utopian tranquility as they honored the lives and wisdom of idealized progenitors.
Like many southern graveyards, the Oxford cemetery has long been a political flashpoint. From 1965 until 2000, a wealthy all-white foundation cared for the white half of the graveyard, drawing on public funds covertly funneled to it by the white-majority city council. The city government tended to ignore the historically African American two acres of the cemetery, containing many graves dating back to the 1840s and 1850s. For decades, the white cemetery's lawns were neatly mowed, its marble headstones carefully mapped and lovingly restored. For most local whites the older markers evoke a nostalgic era of antebellum amity among the races. White-led tours of the cemetery often point approvingly to the following marker, one of the few direct allusions to slavery in the cemetery:
In memory of Mary wife of Rev Osborne Embraced Religion August 12, 1812 Died 15 Feb 1856. The morning before her death she called her family, white and black, around her and bade them farewell. From that time as long as she could be understood she continued to praise God.11
After 1965, in contrast to the well-kept white cemetery, the unfunded adjacent African American sections became densely overgrown, many plots inaccessible to living family members. In 1990, in a scandal that still reverberates in the local black community, a clear-cut by a pulpwood merchant destroyed scores of historic African American gravesites and removed venerable trees by which elderly African-Americans had navigated the cemetery.12
A number of white Oxford residents spoke of the carefully tended white cemetery as affording visions of the celestial kingdom. During struggles in the late 1990s to desegregate the cemetery, a local white man confided in me, "I truly don't understand why they are making such a ruckus. Don't they understand all the love and care that has gone into this cemetery? This is where we honor the story of Emory and southern Methodism. It is our Westminster Abbey. It is just our little plot of Heaven."
Significantly, the white cemetery was for over a century bounded off from the historically black cemetery by two great water oaks known as the "gateway oaks." (Some whites half jokingly referred to these as the "Pearly Gates.") At the base of the right oak was located a memorial to the only person of color publicly acknowledged to be buried within the white cemetery. The enslaved woman known as Miss Kitty, (c. 1822–1851) is famous in local white lore for supposedly having declined manumission in 1841 out of loyalty to her white master, Methodist Episcopal Bishop James Osgood Andrew, first president of the Emory College Board of Trustees. The Bishop's ownership of Kitty and approximately twenty-five other slaves was the proximate cause of the national schism in the Methodist church, which lasted from 1844 until 1938.13
At the time of the church's reunification in 1938, Mr. H.W. McCord, a prominent white businessman, arch-segregationist, and bitter opponent of national church re-unification, commissioned an elaborate stone memorial, on which is inscribed the official white version of Kitty's story. Kitty, the text insists, was offered colonization to Liberia but refused. The Bishop then allowed her to live as "free as the laws of Georgia would permit," and built her her own house, in which she resided with her husband, a free black man, with whom she had several children. (This version of events, I should note, is strenuously denied by local African Americans, many of whom assert that Kitty was probably the coerced mistress of Bishop Andrew and that he was the father of her children.) The position of the Kitty memorial at the base of the great gateway oak is suggestive. Not only has Kitty been grafted into the white family tree of Oxford, she is situated, albeit in a transitional and subordinate position, within the heavenly landscape of the white cemetery. Incorporated into the Eternal as a loyal retainer, she shows fidelity beyond death itself.
|Ellen Schattschneider, The Kitty Tablet at the base of the Gateway Oak, Oxford, Georgia, 2005.
The white spatial positioning of Kitty is consistent with the most famous white stories about her. She is said to have nursed Bishop Andrew's first wife Amelia on her deathbed and to have kissed Amelia on the lips as she passed away. Several years later, it is said in numerous white authored accounts, Kitty herself died in a pious Christian manner, declaring on her deathbed, "I will soon see Miss Amelia in the Better Land." In the Oxford cemetery, the Kitty marker serves a comparable function, mediating white transitions between the realms of life and the afterlife.
Significantly, McCord in 1939 also moved Kitty's Cottage from Oxford to an all-white segregated Methodist religious campground. There the building became known as the "Kitty Cottage Museum," dedicated to the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. The building was located at the entrance to the campground, a space that local whites have long spoken of as a vision of Heaven.14
In physical and ideological senses, these Kitty substitutes served to greet whites entering into sacred spaces that evoke the Celestial Kingdom. Just as a relatively privileged house slave once stood as a welcoming presence at the door of the Big House she serves (through the medium of the memorial) to welcome whites back to their Eternal Home. In turn, just as field slaves were located in outlying cabins, so other people of color are buried in the peripheral fields well outside of the Gateway Oaks of the cemetery. In these respects, the entire cemetery — and the celestial topography it evokes—may be regarded as an enduring projection of the idealized white vision of the social structure of the Antebellum plantation.
Counter-Narratives in the Oxford Cemetery
Thus far our discussion has been consistent with the model sketched out by Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss in their classic anthropological study, Primitive Classification (1963): the basic principles of social organization structure visions of the cosmos as well as how those cosmological schemes are realized in lived social space. Yet, in practice the picture is more complex. The objectification of these schemes in tangible concrete form also puts these ideological systems potentially at risk, or at least subject to critical interrogation.
Some of these long-term "hidden transcripts" have come into visibility over the past decade. In 2000, largely inspired by conversations with Ms. Williams and Mr. Godfrey, my students at Oxford College partnered with local African American and white residents to restore the historically black sections of the cemetery. On our first day of work, we uncovered grave markers in the oldest section of the African American area of the cemetery, just across from the Kitty monument. The first headstone marked the grave of Louisa Means, a former slave, who had been purchased by G.W.W. Stone, Sr., on the occasion of his daughter Tudie's birth in 1841. An unpublished white memoir records that Mrs. Means worked her entire adult life for the white Stones as their "head nurse, washwoman and mammy." Before emancipation she married local blacksmith Samuel Means (who was enslaved by Emory Professor and College President Alexander Means), a union that her former owners, the white Stone family, came to strongly disapprove of. Her 1882 headstone, erected by the adult children of G.W.W. Stone, Sr., is inscribed on its east side, "Louisa. Faithful servant of G.W.W. Stone, Professor of Mathematics. Oxford College." No mention, significantly, is made of her married name; instead she is referred to solely by the name she had in slavery and by which she was known by the white family for the remainder of her life.
Yet, as some African American residents wryly note, the white Stones did not have the final word in this story. On the west side of the headstone is inscribed in a different, less professional hand the words, "Louisa Means." According to oral tradition, her full name was surreptitiously inscribed by her own kin sometime after the white family had erected the headstone. Two sides of her identity, slave and free, unmarried and married, remain juxtaposed on the stone.15
As we cleared privet the following weekend we uncovered the elaborate carved grave marker of one of the black community's founding figures, Israel Godfrey, who had lived as a slave the first seventeen years of his life, and who had, post-emancipation, worked as the head stone mason in the construction of the Emory College Chapel. The Godfrey monument is carved in the form of an open Bible. Israel's grandson, J. P Godfrey, Jr., remarked,
|Mark Auslander, Israel Godfrey Marker in form of an open Bible, Oxford City Cemetery, Oxford, Georgia, 2000.
Just look at this marker. And look over there at that [pointing over to the Kitty marker] . . . I have lost count trying to reckon all the lies inscribed on that Kitty tablet. And the way some of our neighbors go on and on about it, quoting it at every possible occasion, you'd think it was one of the tablets Moses himself brought down from Mount Sinai.
He ran his fingers along the weathered top of his grandfather's memorial, on the pages of the open stone Bible:
My grandfather was born a slave and kept his Christian faith all his life. If some people are looking for the Rock of Ages, it wouldn't hurt them to come on over here to this side of the cemetery and look at this particular Good Book right now. That book is still open for all to see, after all those years in the wilderness.
He smiled ruefully, "But somehow, I don't think they'll be taking that walk anytime soon!"
As interracial groups of students and Oxford residents labored in the cemetery, more white families came to support efforts to excavate the history of slavery at the College. The descendants of Professor Stone, for example, generously shared a manuscript that revealed, among other things, that the core area of the "historically white" cemetery was in fact built upon land occupied up until the Civil War by an African American church in which enslaved African Americans worshipped for two decades. The church building was gifted to the black community in the late 1840s by the Emory College Board of Trustees. At the Civil War's end, the white leaders of the town took the building down so that the white cemetery could expand.
The news of this historical discovery had an electrifying effect among local families of color. As one respected Baptist Deacon remarked,
All these years they told us this was the 'Historic Cemetery,' which meant the White Cemetery. But now we find out this was black land. More than that, consecrated land, which they just took from us when it suited them. I don't know what to think, but one thing I do think, some things have got to change in this town, and change now.
In the months that followed the enduring segregation of the cemetery, as well as continued white efforts to memorialize Kitty in architectural form, became increasingly bitter flashpoints in the town. Struggles to integrate the cemetery, to restore its historically African American sections and to prevent schoolchildren's tours of the slave quarters known as "Kitty's Cottage," helped catalyze a series of far reaching political struggles, leading to voter registration drives, the breaking of the color bar in the town's police force and campaigns against environmental racism. A space that had once been held up as an earthly instantiation of Heaven on earth came to function as an important medium of social remapping that proved "good to think" with about a wide range of social and cultural contradictions. In W.E.B. DuBois' terms, the cemetery and the college campus to which it was so intimately connected had long functioned as evocative sites of double consciousness, foregrounding the ways in which persons of color were simultaneously included in and excluded from the promise of redemption. Yet, in time, this charged space also made possible the progressive articulation of double consciousness as an explicit predicament, helping to trigger transformative social action.
Slavery in Heaven: Summerfield, Alabama
|Ellen Schattschneider, Bishop Andrew memorial obelisk in the Andrew family plot (foreground) and the Kitty Tablet at the base of the Gateway Oak (background), Oxford, Georgia, 2005.
The catalyzing power of concretized double consciousness is illustrated even more potently by another segregated cemetery, in another southern Methodist college town. 250 miles west of Oxford lies Summerfield, Alabama, a little north of Selma. In 1854 Bishop James Osgood Andrew moved to this beautiful small community with his slaves, including the enslaved children of Miss Kitty, who had died in 1851. In Summerfield, Bishop Andrew served on the board of the town's Methodist college, the Centenary Institute, just as he had served on the Emory College board in Oxford. He worshipped regularly at Summerfield Methodist Church, an institution that like the Old Oxford Methodist Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons.
No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just glimpsed along the curving road that meanders through the town. When I visited Summerfield in 2008 in search of evidence of what became of Kitty's children and the other persons enslaved by Bishop Andrew, I was directed by white residents to the venerable Childers Chapel Cemetery, in which are buried many of the white citizens who played a leading role in the College and the town over the course of the nineteenth century. As in Oxford, the carefully maintained white cemetery is adjacent to a historically African-American cemetery, a burial ground that is structurally "invisible" to most of its white neighbors.
Like the Oxford City Cemetery, Childers Chapel Cemetery to this day subtly evokes enduring, albeit subtle, racial divisions in how the past is recalled, affording starkly opposing visions of the afterlife. Consider, for example, the variable reactions to the large stone monument that visually dominates the center of the cemetery. Dedicated to Mrs. Carrie M. Cleveland, the memorial consists of a large pillar on which are inscribed the words, "Carrie Maude Pinson, Wife of Morgan S. Cleveland, was born Sept, 5, 1834 and died May 10, 1860. " Atop the base is carved a statue of a beautiful young woman dressed in a long robe, her flowing hair coursing down to the shrouded urn on which her head rests.
Mark Auslander, Memorial statue to Carrie Maude Pinson Cleveland (1834-1860) in Childers Chapel Cemetery, Summerfield, Alabama, 2008.
In 1860, the year Carrie died, her husband Morgan, age twenty-five, owned forty-three slaves; she left behind a two-year-old daughter, and, local whites recall, a deeply distraught husband. In classic mid-Victorian style, recalling the influences of the Greek Revival, Mrs. Cleveland slumbers for eternity upon a shrouded urn, a standard Victorian signifier of mourning. Several white residents of Summerfield note that the statue exemplifies the genteel romanticism of the old South. It serves, they explain, as a touching celebration of a husband's deep love for his beautiful young wife and typifies the abiding Christian faith of the era. "You can see how much he loved her," Lucy Jameson, an older white woman told me, adding, "In those days, you know, death wasn't really something to be feared. It was a long slumber, a just reward for the virtuous; that's how they saw it, back then." She added (a little mischievously for the benefit of the professor conversing with her), "You know, that's what they taught at the College in those days. Not like what they teach in, ah, some schools nowadays."
Rebecca Anders, another white woman in her seventies, remarked, "She is just the most beautiful angel, isn't she? She looks out over all of us, we're all her family here in Summerfield, really. They do say that angels watch over us, don't they?" Another white woman added, "It is not given to us to know everything that awaits us, but when I look at that statue, resting in this beautiful place, I do feel, well, that we are given a glimpse of our just reward. That's what a college town was, after all, a little glimpse of Heaven."
Yet, as several elderly African Americans have told me, the Springfield black community has long interpreted the statue in a rather different way. They insist that the sculptor depicted Mrs. Cleveland with a long bull whip draped over her, its handle near her hand, the better to beat her slaves with. Alicia Fenton, an elderly African American woman about ten years old than Lucy and Rebecca, noted that from her pedestal "the old mistress" looks over the iron wrought fence into the old slave cemetery behind the white cemetery. "Even in death, white people still wanted to intimidate black folks, " she sighed. The humiliation inflicted by the statue, she recalls, deepened each time a black funeral was held; mourners would have to carry the casket directly through the white cemetery under the old mistress' ever-ready whip. Mrs. Smithson specifically notes that "the way I see it, that old mistress is still looking over the slave's burying ground, keeping an eye over them." Mrs. Fenton sighed in agreement. "They really believed, still do I think, that they could bring all their slaves to heaven with them. Just like Pharaoh in the days of old! " Mrs. Smithson nodded emphatically, "Now I ask you, is that Christian?"
Having spent a good deal of time perusing the statue up close, it seems to me that the whip is a creative "(re)reading" of the carved cloth that adorns the statue. The cord dropping down from the urn's shroud is read as the handle of the whip; the folds in the figure's robes are seen as a whip cord that encircles the figure. This reading is presumably aided by the fact that few African-Americans spent much time contemplating the statue in close proximity; so far as I can tell, it was only glanced at during funerals. Black pallbearers passed directly by it going to the burial site, as they prepared to lift a casket over the rear iron fence for easier access to the black burial ground. Most black mourners did not enter into the white cemetery, but only saw the statue from afar, outside of the iron fence. Since the statue faces away from the road, and since the woods behind the cemetery are thickly overgrown, the only way nowadays to see the front of the statue would be to enter into the actual confines of the white cemetery. To this day this is not a space which many local African-Americans feel comfortable entering. The older reading of the statue in the local black community endures.
Mrs. Fenton describes with pride the more recent all-black Summerfield cemetery (established around 1890), located on the slope of a beautiful hill three miles north of the white cemetery:
You can understand why as soon as we got the land up the hill we started burying our people up there. That's our land, given to the community by a strong black woman. No white mistress with a whip carved in stone looking over them up there! Every one of those headstones is resting on our land.
She and her sisters note proudly that soon after the Civil War, Springfield blacks broke from the white dominated Summerfield Methodist church and established an African Methodist Episcopal congregation. "We might not have been welcome at Centenary," her sister Violet remarks with a laugh, "but we've been sending our children to AME colleges ever since!" Once again, a college town's segregated cemetery has made painfully apparent the incomplete promise of education under Jim Crow. Once again a scarred final resting place has inspired an independent course of action.
Conclusion: Double Consciousness and the College Campus
In recent years more and more institutions of higher learning east of the Mississippi, North and South, have been exploring their historical entanglements with the Atlantic slave trade and the operations of slavery. Important work has been done on the pro and anti-slavery ideological functions of antebellum colleges, on the sources of early college bequests, on slave ownership by colleges, on the labor by enslaved persons in building and maintaining campus structures, and the educational and labor trajectories of new freedpeople at institutions where they and their fore-parents had worked in involuntary servitude.16
University files, probate records, deeds, bills of sale, correspondence, and antebellum textbooks are being read in original and insightful ways. As we pursue this vital research in the archives, we must remain sensitive to Ms. Williams' admonition to observe the traces of hidden histories, of slavery and anti-slavery struggles, embedded in the material architecture and landscapes of present-day colleges and their environs. We must learn to see anew in the face of ideological repression that for generations has rendered nearly invisible the legacies of enslavement and that has cast the campus as an earthly anticipation of Heaven. In this work we need to remain especially sensitive to charged sites on the land where the living and the dead intersect, at times uneasily, to memorial trees and monuments, to headstone and plaques, to the places that call forth quiet stories of those who have passed on.
In these acts of witnessing, let us honor the fact that in slavery and freedom many African-Americans who were long excluded from these virtual enactments of the Afterlife did not necessarily reject the promise that these spaces embodied. Like Phillis Wheatley they have rejoiced in the calling to "scan the heights above" and "to traverse the ethereal space," even as they have denounced efforts to limit these aspiration to a single race or gender. It is worth noting that Ms. Williams, who pointedly reminded us that so many persons of color were relegated to "the other side of paradise," is a retired educator and a passionate advocate of higher education. She is devoted to Oxford College, even as she remains a pointed critic of much of its history during slavery times and Jim Crow. Her daughter, one of the first African-Americans to matriculate at Oxford, holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Emory University. Ms. Williams has herself lectured to Emory students and faculty on numerous occasions.
Let us honor as well the strategies through which persons of color, while formally excluded from matriculating on segregated "white" campuses, often managed to educate themselves in the face of extraordinary odds, even while working at these institutions under conditions not entirely of their own choosing. Significantly, Mr. Godfrey recalls that during 1955–56, when forced to leave Clark University for a year due to his father's illness, he was tacitly allowed by the Oxford College Dean to audit classes on the still-segregated Oxford campus—while technically employed as a "janitor"—so as not to fall behind in his studies.
Let us remain attentive to the coercive underside of universities' utopian claims, even as we honor the promise immanent in the extraordinary ritual space of every campus—the promise long ago penned by Phillis Wheatley, that all may someday, in this lifetime and on this terrestrial plane, look Heavenwards to "mark the systems of revolving worlds."
About the Author
Mark Auslander is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis University, where he directs the interdisciplinary MA program in cultural production. His research interests include ritual, art, memory, cultural heritage, kinship and the family in southern Africa and in the US South.
Ethnographic and archival research on slavery and memory in Newton County, Georgia was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program on Working Families, through the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) at Emory University; subsequent research in Georgia and Alabama has been supported by the Norman Research Fund at Brandeis University. In crafting this essay I have benefited from the thoughtful insights of many friends and colleagues, including Susan Ashmore, Randall Burkett, Ginger Cain, Allan Cattier, J.P. Godfrey Jr., Leslie Harris, Carole Meyers, Ellen Schattschneider, Bradd Shore, Thee Smith, Allen Tullos, Avis Williams and Emogene Williams. With the exception of J.P. Godfrey Jr. and Emogene Williams, who have consented to being identified, all other quoted persons are identified through pseudonyms.
- 1. Emogene Williams, interview with Mark Auslander, Oxford, Georgia, 4 February 2000.
- 2. Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London, 1773.
- 3. Ibid, 15.
- 4. On slave ownership by antebellum Virginia colleges see Jennifer Oast, "Forgotten Masters: Institutional Slavery in Virginia, 1680–1860." Unpublished PhD Dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2009.
- 5. Emory College Board of Trustees for February 9, 1837. Emory University Archives.
- 6. On the early history of slavery at Emory College see Mark Auslander, The Myth of Kitty: Paradoxes of Blood, Law and Slavery in a Georgia Community, Working Paper #2, Sloan Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life, Emory University, 2001 and Mark Auslander, "Dreams Deferred: African-Americans in the History of 'Old Emory.'" Where Courageous Inquiry Leads: Studies in the Emerging Life of Emory University (co-edited by Gary Hauk and Sally Wolff King) University of Georgia Press, 2011 (in press).
- 7. The standard source on Bishop Andrew's ownership of slaves is usually taken to be George Smith, Life and Letters of James Osgood Andrew. Nashville, Tenn. 1882. I explore alternate accounts of Andrew's relationship with slavery in Auslander 2001.
- 8. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon: Or, the Connection of Apostolical Christianity with Slavery. Charleston, South Carolina: B. Jenkins, 1845; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, A Voice from the South: Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States: With an Appendix Containing an Article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot Proviso. Baltimore: Western Continent Press, 1847.
- 9. The 1943 Emory-at-Oxford College yearbook was dedicated to Henry "Billy" Mitchell. At his 1958 funeral, he was eulogized by College Dean Virgil Eady, who stated, "Billy Mitchell's friends included people in many stations of life—Congressmen, US Senators, Methodist Bishops, great and influential business and professional men and women." Mitchell family lore, supported by US census records, asserts that Henry Mitchell was in fact born in 1883, not 1886.
- 10. Emogene Williams, Interview with Mark Auslander, Oxford, Georgia 13 June 2003.
- 11. Local African Americans are less inclined to read this headstone as signifying antebellum amity. As Ms. Williams remarks, "Well, that just tells you what 'family' meant in those days; anybody working together in the same household counted as family, even if half the 'family' owned the other half!" (Emogene Williams, Interview with Mark Auslander, Oxford, Georgia, 13 June 2003.)
- 12. On the consequences of this clear cut see Mark Auslander, "Going by the Trees: Death and Regeneration in Georgia's Haunted Landscapes." "Ancient Mysteries, Modern Secrets," 2009. (Electronic Antiquity)
- 13. On the history of the Kitty narrative see Auslander 2001.
- 14. Kitty's Cottage was returned to the city of Oxford in 1994. It was lovingly restored by the nearly all white local historical society. To this day, however, very few Oxford African Americans have been willing to enter the structure, which they associated with a "white-washed" version of history. See Auslander 2001.
- 15. In an unpublished account, Professor Stone's son G.W.W. Stone Jr. recalls that Louisa was purchased as a "young colored woman" by G.W.W. Stone Sr., when his daughter Tudie was born in April 1841. "She became our head nurse-washwoman and mammy. We all thought she was one of the best niggers [sic] ever born. And we think so yet. She couldn't have loved her own children any more than she did us. And we loved her just like she was kin to us. She married a man named Sam Means. He was a blacksmith and behaved himself until after the surrender. Then he was unkind to Louise. He became too free. When she died in 1882 Father's children put a tombstone over her grave." (G.W.W. Stone, Jr. [1939])
- 16. On Brown University and the Atlantic slave trade see the report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006). Recent work on slavery at William and Mary includes Brophy 2008, Myers 2008, Oast 2009.


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View from the Borderland: Thoughts on marking holidays at school
Note from the Online Editor: The Web team here at the Addison Independent is very excited to introduce our first community blogger — Rebecca Reimers, a Brandon resident, parent, and educational consultant. Rebecca will be sharing her thoughts about southern Addison County and the town of Brandon in "View from the Borderland," a series of blog posts on our Web site. In the months ahead, she'll profile local residents and businesses, tackle issues of local history, roam Brandon's cemeteries, write about her home and her family, and more. Check back often for more from the "View from the Borderland," and if you're interested in becoming a community blogger, get in touch with Online Editor Kathryn Flagg.My seven-year-old son was recently looking through the December school lunch menu at the beginning of the month — no doubt searching out the days when chicken nuggets or pizza were going to be served. He noticed that the week before December break, the school would be offering a "holiday dinner," featuring ham. "How come," he asked me, "the holiday dinner serves food that isn't kosher?" We as a family keep strictly kosher, but we don't eat pork or shellfish in the house, and my son knows enough about the rules of kashrut to know that this holiday dinner wasn't for his December holiday, Hanukah, or it would feature latkes — crispy fried potato pancakes.Time for another trip to the principal's office, I thought. Having grown up in an unusually ethnically and religiously diverse New Jersey suburb five miles outside of New York City in the 1970s, there were many things I was unprepared for when my children entered Vermont's public school system as three-year-olds. I knew enough to plan parent-teacher conferences at the beginning of each school year to explain all the ways in which my kids might pose unique or "first" teaching experiences: They are adopted, multiracial, and Jewish. What I wasn't prepared for was the need for ongoing follow-up on the everyday curriculum choices that teachers were making. Many of my children's teachers, despite efforts to incorporate "diversity" into their classrooms and curriculum, continued to follow the old scripts without accounting for the fact that by doing so, they rendered my children — and others who didn't fit into the "majority" stereotype — as invisible and not valued. As a former high school teacher myself, I knew that it was unreasonable to ask teachers to change everything that was exclusionary of some kids in their classes all in one year, but I was not prepared for some of the bruising conversations and pitched battles that seemed to emerge over what I perceived to be fairly minor requests, easily accommodated.And so I had become a frequent visitor to the principal's office by the end of my oldest son's kindergarten year. As an educator, he told me, he agreed with almost everything I believed; but as a school leader, he knew — as did I, from my own experience teaching and facilitating professional development for teachers — that change can be slow. In every profession, including education, there are "early adopters" — the people who see the future and embrace it, willing to put in the hard work of re-evaluating almost every aspect of their practice and changing what is needed. But there are also the resisters, who cling to tradition and past practice. Sometimes their commitment is ideological; more often, they simply haven't had the time to reflect on which aspects of their curriculum are may feel exclusionary to a child and why. Often, no one has taken the time to listen to their reasons for why they want to keep things they way they have "always been." Usually, they continue past practice even after it is demonstrably not in the best interest of all their students simply because teachers in general are rarely given the professional development time and resources to reflect, to learn, and to collaborate in changing their practice. Fortunately for me, when the elementary school principal retired last year, his assistant principal took over the job. She already knew me and my children, knew my concerns, and knew my past history of stirring up sensitive issues and getting strong and unexpected backlash when my kids first entered the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union public school system. She was an excellent listener, empathic and focused despite the many pressing demands on her time, but like her predecessor, she was also good at gently reminding me that change would not happen overnight. Meanwhile, I had learned that instead of being an outraged defender of my children (and the nightmare parent every teacher fears), I would get much further by actually proposing solutions that I thought might be amenable to all parties concerned. Given the monumental problems affecting so many of the kids in our elementary school, it is a real testament to our principal that she would take the time whenever possible to read my many notes or, if she had a few minutes, invite me into her office to share my concerns. I knew that deep into the second year of the recession, in a school that had already had a 60 percent enrollment in free and reduced lunch programs and failing test scores, she had much larger issues on her plate. The psychological stress that she was seeing among her students — and she very much views our all the kids in the elementary school as hers — was enormous; the budget cuts being proposed by the state for education and mental health services are nothing short of catastrophic. Yet here we were, discussing whether it might be possible to rename the "holiday dinner" as a "winter celebration dinner" for the following year.The problem with calling a ham supper in December a "holiday dinner" is that the only major religion in the world that has a significant holiday in December is Christianity. Moreover, ham is verboten for both observant Jews and Muslims, as well as religions that practice vegetarianism: Mahayana Buddhism, for example, some Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventists. Granted, there are no Muslims attending my son's elementary school, but there have been Jehovah's Witnesses in Vermont in greater numbers and for a longer time than Jews, and like Jewish kids, they don't celebrate Christmas either. But every kid celebrates winter, with the arrival of sledding, snowball fights, snowmen, and hot cocoa. And despite the fact that in Vermont we get the cold weather of winter long before the actual solstice, it still seems appropriate to celebrate the formal arrival of the season (not to mention the coming school vacation) with a celebratory meal — even one that serves ham. If schools are going to continue their efforts to become more inclusive of the students in their population, and to educate all their students about other cultures and religions in preparation for their own possible forays into the wider world once they graduate high school in Vermont, we need to make sure that the schools are one place, at least, where both diversity and inclusivity are not only taught, but directly experienced by the students. My Jewish son can partake in a traditional Christmas ham dinner at school if he wants to, and all of the Christian children whose families cannot afford a fancy holiday dinner will be able to celebrate their own holiday traditions as well. In the end, poverty, more than any other factor, can make a child feel invisible, valueless, and excluded almost everywhere in our society, including school. For this reason, I would never advocate removing a "holiday dinner" from the school lunch program; but I do think we need to rename it so that every child, regardless of their background, is recognized and valued.Rebecca Reimers is a native of the New York City suburb of Teaneck, N.J., and a refugee of Westchester, N.Y. She has been living in Vermont for more than 13 years, in New Haven, Burlington, Middlebury and now in Brandon. She is a retired high school social studies teacher raising her three young sons with her husband, a native of the Boston area. Her thoughts on her community, and the surrounding towns of Leicester, Goshen and Forestdale, appear in "View from the Borderland," an online feature at the Addison Independent Web site.


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What inspired Michael Ian Black to write I'M BORED (plus info about YOU'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT, which launches next week)
I asked Michael Ian Black what inspired him to write I'M BORED and the process, and here's what he replied:
I wrote I'm Bored as a reaction to my children constantly telling me how bored they are. How boooooored! They are eight and ten, and it seems as if there are not enough activities in the world to keep them occupied. Not going outside or staying inside. Not playing games or reading books. Nothing. So I thought it would be funny to imagine something even more boring than being a kid: being a potato!
Once I had the idea, the book was actually pretty easy to write. I'd written three previous children's books, but this was the first one I conceived with some visuals in mind. Unfortunately, I am not an artist, but thankfully my editor Justin put me in touch with the amazing Debbie Ridpath Ohi, who really made the text come alive. Children's books are a collaborative medium, similar in a way to film and television. Because I do not have the ability to actually create the art I see in my head, it's so important to have people like Debbie who can not only translate my words to the page, but also make them so much better through their artwork.
Thanks, Michael!
Incidentally, MIB's newest book, YOU'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT: Tales Of Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations launches next week. It's received some great pre-release reviews, and I'm looking forward to reading it. Some related articles about the book:
Michael Ian Black On Middle Age | Chicago Sun-Times
Five Questions For Michael Ian Black | USA Today
Huffington Post piece on MIB and his new book
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Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."
The announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D'Acosta.
It is currently about 7:00 p.m. in Rome and no ark.
I've been trying to track down whether and to what extent this is a hoax. The World Net Daily article is based on a report from from a news agency in Italy, Adnkronos. The first problem with the WND report is that what they report as the Patriarch's words is actually only the original Italian article's lede:
Roma, 17 giu. (Adnkronos) - Presto il mondo potrà ammirare l'Arca dell'Alleanza descritta nella Bibbia come il contenitore delle Tavole della Legge che Dio consegnò a Mosè e al centro, nei secoli, di ricerche e studi.
Secondly, the Italian article is dated June 17, so the forthcoming Friday was June 19, not today.
Patriarch Pauolos actually did have a press conference June 19 where according to Adnkronos, he backed off saying:
Non sono qui per dare delle prove che l'Arca sia in Etiopia, ma sono qui per dire quello che ho visto, quello che so e che posso testimoniare. Non ho detto che l'Arca sarà mostrata al mondo. E' un mistero, un oggetto di culto.
Or roughly:
I am not here to give evidence that the Ark is in Ethiopia, but I am here to say what I saw, what I know and I can testify. I did not say that the Ark will be shown to the world. It is a mystery, an object of worship.
Hat tip to blogger Richard Bartholomew for finding the second report from Adnkronos.
The original World Net Daily story was a matter of bad translation and not even looking at datelines. The story got legs, Bartholomew reported in previous posts, because of Christian Zionists eager to hasten the Second Coming. I would also note that WND was hawking a two DVD set on the ark along with the story.


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So I have a machine with AMD E-300 ( http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bobcat/AMD-E%20Series%20E-300.html ), and 4096 MegaBytes of RAM memory, 3712 MB usable, because the integrated GPU takes 384 MB. What should I use, considering that it is an x64 CPU? Should I go with the x64 version of Xubuntu/Lubuntu, or with the 32bit/x86 one? Would my machine perform better with the x64?


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Ducks' Selanne set for one last visit to Winnipegby John Kreiser
Few NHL teams get the kind of fan support enjoyed by the Winnipeg Jets. On Sunday, however, the 15,004 fans who will pack the MTS Centre will be there not only to root on their own team to say goodbye to perhaps the most popular athlete in the city's history, but one who hasn't worn a Jets uniform in 17 years.
Anaheim Ducks forward Teemu Selanne, who set NHL rookie scoring records as a Jet during the 1992-93 season, will make his final visit to Winnipeg on Sunday when his current team makes its only visit of the season to Manitoba. Selanne, now 43, has said he plans to retire after the season; perhaps as a way of making sure he'd be ready for his last appearance in his first NHL home, the Ducks made him a healthy scratch for their game against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.
Jets coach Claude Noel is acutely aware of the story that dominates what would ordinarily be an early-season game between two teams that don't have a lot of history -- the franchises have met 14 times, with each winning seven.
"I just hope we win the game while we marvel," Noel said after Saturday's practice.
"He's been such a dominant player and had such an impact here in Winnipeg ... he's a guy that has made a big contribution to not only the NHL, but the NHL here in Winnipeg," Noel said "His numbers both internationally and in the National Hockey League speak volumes for the player. This is a guy that performs. You watch him play at his age ... it's just a marvel. For me it's always been a pleasure to watch him play, but even to continue to play at this level like he does is something else.
Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau is trying to manage Selanne's workload to keep him fresh for the 82-game regular-season grind. But there was no question that the former Jet would be in the lineup Sunday, just as he was when the Ducks came to town on October 2011 for his first visit to his old city since the original Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996. The franchise moved a few months after Selanne was traded to the then-Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He later played with the San Jose Sharks and Colorado Avalanche before returning to the Ducks in 2005.
The current Jets want a win to remaining unbeaten, but they're eager to bask in some of the atmosphere surrounding Selanne's last visit as well.
"It's kind of cool. He's one of those guys that I watched when I was really young and he's still in the League and still a pretty good player," center Bryan Little told the Winnipeg Free Press. "It's always fun playing against guys you looked up to and you watched as a kid. It should be fun and I'm sure the fans are going to make him feel at home out there, too."
Fellow Finn Olli Jokinen says he won't believe Selanne will retire until he sees it.
"This could be the last regular-season game [in Winnipeg], but there's a possibility we'll see him in the playoffs," Jokinen said. "And," he added, kiddingly, "there's a possibility he could still play five more years.
"He's been saying this for seven [or] eight years now that it's going to be his last season. He's the type of guy that loves the game and is still able to play at a high level, so why not keep playing?"
If this really is Selanne's last visit, Jokinen knows it's going to be something special.
"He's the player that any player can learn from every day," Jokinen said, according to the Winnipeg Sun. "He never has bad days. He truly loves the game. Being 43 years old and playing this level is pretty amazing. I think the one thing that he has is a passion for the game. Whatever happens the night before he comes with a big smile on his face to the rink the next day. His attitude is, whatever happened in the past, it doesn't really matter anymore."


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