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Researching Business, Institution, and Organization Records
This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
As genealogists and family historians, we seek the basic facts about our ancestors'when and where they were born, married, and died. Another part of our search is to determine the story of their everyday lives. While we begin with the basic census, land, probate, and vital records, we must remember to use every possible source, even those that are more challenging to locate and use. These often-neglected sources'such as business, institutional, and organization records'can help us determine facts and at the same time supply rich contextual information about our ancestors.
With few exceptions, most of our ancestors had some kind of business connection. The ancestor who was a businessman had to keep a record of his transactions, income, and expenses. In later years, corporations maintained the records of all their employees, providing another source of information for researchers. Even the ancestors who followed agricultural occupations may well have purchased their tools from a local merchant or had their wheat processed into flour at the local mill. We may be able to learn the cost of tools or the amount of flour from records kept by that merchant or miller. And because businessmen may have had only one place to record information, we may also find personal and family details in a business record.
Almost from the beginning of American history, individuals have had contact with a wide variety of institutions. They were educated at schools, colleges, and universities. They sought treatment at hospitals and homes for the ill and disabled. When they could not care for themselves, they were housed and fed by orphan asylums and poorhouses. Each institution generated records of its own that can add valuable information to our genealogy.
As the country's population grew, our ancestors found it useful to belong to an organization of other individuals who shared occupations, interests, religions, or ethnic backgrounds. Each of these organizations created its own records, which should be considered as a source of genealogical information.
There are three major considerations that apply to accessing these kinds of records. First, since these are generally private records belonging to the individual or group that created them, there is no requirement that these sources be open for research. The record owner makes that choice. That decision may be influenced by the recent increase in privacy concerns. Secondly, many of the records exist in manuscript collections in a wide range of repositories, so locating them might be a challenge. Finally, since these records are rarely indexed, research in them will likely require a substantial time commitment.
Researchers who are interested in pursuing business, institutional, and organizational records for their ancestors should first review all known information about that ancestor. Clues about an employer or occupation may appear in an obituary, city directory, or census report. Other clues might come from family mementos and heirlooms. Perhaps a treasured watch was a retirement gift and is engraved with a corporate or organization name. Report cards usually give the name of the school. Diplomas, or even an old football program, will identify the name of an educational facility attended by an ancestor. Using this information, the next step is to pursue the records of those newly identified sources.
While research in this type of record may be challenging and time-consuming, the rewards can be great. Consider these examples:
- A mid-1850s business journal includes the full names and birth dates of three sons born prior to registration of birth records.
- A military hospital entry supplies an exact date of death, leading to a death certificate, funeral home record, obituary, and cemetery record.
- A photograph indicating involvement in the Civilian Conservation Corps leads to a description of an ancestor's corps activity.
- A membership register from a Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) post points to a place and date of death and then to the related information.
- A funeral home record includes the place of burial, leading to information about the previous residence of the deceased and eventually to the identification of an ancestral family.
- A list of schoolchildren links a child to her grandfather who paid for her education.
See Also
For more information on business, institution, and organization records from The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, consult the following series (note that the Institution and Organization Records series begins with the article on Almshouse Records):

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Jennifer Hudson is joining the celebrity-endorsed weight loss fray.
The Oscar and Grammy winner was announced on Thursday as the new spokesperson for Weight Watchers and she explained to Access Hollywoodwhat motivated her to get fit.
"I was never really uncomfortable in the place that I was in, but it was more so like after having my baby and getting my body back, you want new visions for yourself," she said. "You want to try new things and feel like you again. So I'm like, 'OK, I really wanna… feel like myself again.'"
Jennifer's son, David, who was born in August 2009, was one of the main inspirations for why she decided to make the healthy change.
"Also, with the baby I want him to learn good habits and things like that, so that kind of got me motivated into it," she said. "And then, I want to find good new habits and sources of that, which is Weight Watchers."
Jennifer confirmed she has already lost some weight and her slimmer figure has allowed her to be a bit of a shopaholic.
"I shop like crazy and now it's like a race to wear what I bought the previous week – 'OK, I'm not gonna be able to fit into that next week, so let me wear this now!'" she laughed.
As a result of her new campaign, Jennifer, who is engaged to former VH1 reality star David Otunga, may even have to tweak her walking down the aisle attire.
"The wedding dress and any other dress is a whole 'nother story," she continued. "I'll probably be another… Lord knows how many pounds or inches or dress sizes [I'll change]. It's crazy."
Although the star may be slimming down, she doesn't plan on pulling a Kirstie Alley (who was previously a paid spokesperson for Jenny Craig) and donning a bikini on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"Oh no honey, you 'bout to make me say something that Weight Watchers don't want me to say," Jennifer laughed when Access asked about the potential of suiting up in a two-piece.
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I'd forgotten all about this story — but I was searching for something and found this on Badminton Central.
Former prodigy watches old friend from the sidelines
Dev S Sukumar
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 21, 2007: It's always a strange moment when a former prodigy returns to court. Six years after Abhishek Bakshi gave up badminton — on the cusp of becoming P Gopichand's successor and the game's most charismatic figure in India since Prakash Padukone — he returned to watch childhood friend Anup Sridhar reach the quarterfinals of the world championships.
Bakshi's decision to quit in his teens, just when he was beginning to show glimpses of extraordinary talent, has never been understood.
Here was a player who at 19 had the sort of European build and game no Indian ever had. Bakshi cut a formidable figure. At 6 feet 2 inches, he was the tallest player in India, long-limbed, broad-shouldered and well-balanced, with one of the hardest smashes in the game, and he was giving the country's best players a torrid time.
In 1999 and 2000 he was part of the Indian junior and senior teams that participated in open events in Asia and Europe. He was called to train with the Indian Thomas Cup team in 2000 during their camp at Bangalore.
Such was his potential that he was selected by the International Badminton Federation (IBF) to join their world junior academy in Cape Town the same year.
And then, just when it seemed he was ready to take over the mantle of national champion from Gopi, he told his coaches he was quitting the game to concentrate on his studies – after long, intense preparation, he gained admission to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004.
He is doing well now as an investment banker with ABN-Amro, dealing with capital markets and looking very much the studious management whiz. He wears glasses and keeps his hair short — during his playing days he needed a headband to keep his long, flowing hair in place.
"In hindsight it was a good decision," he says. "I have a good job and am doing well, so I'm happy."
But he could've had it all in badminton. He was top-ten material; he could've been doing what the guys on court are doing now — playing for the country and soaking in the atmosphere and adulation.
There is a long pause before he speaks: "In Indian sports it's fairly simple, right? You get to a stage when you have to make a decision. For me that decision was when I finished my undergrad studies. You know I was ranked pretty high and performing well, so that decision became hard. But at that point I had a few things to decide on — whether the injuries would play a part, the long term… All of a sudden I started thinking long term as opposed to going with the adrenaline and how I was playing and all that.
"And I also realised that in terms of my family, there were lots of people in banking… an MBA was what I eventually wanted to do. I thought why not do it now.
"If I had… it might seem a silly thing to say…. but if I had definitely seen myself as the best player in the world, then may be it would've been a hard decision. But I was sixth in India. I hadn't even won the nationals… So based on what was I going to continue? Just on potential?
"At some point you've got to get real. As in tangible results. What was there backing me at that point? I was not that young — I was 19. And all the guys that have done well, the Lin Dans and Taufiks, they were way ahead by the time they turned 19."
When he looks back now, there were a few moments that helped him clinch the issue.
One of these was a quarterfinal with Gopichand in 2001 in Jaipur when he lost in quick time. Gopi would go on to win the All England the same year.
("If I had been in the other half of the draw…")
Then there were those matches in the Dutch and German junior opens when he ran into an Indonesian who was the best in the world.
"Even there, you know, it's one of those things when I felt… I got the best guy in both tournaments, and if I had played someone else…
"Little things added up. My right Achilles' heel always hurt. For over a year I was always playing with my leg strapped and … it was a lot of these little things. You look at Indian sport and the support they get once they're down. One rupture to my heel and it would've been over."
Many of the peers are now among the world's best. He'd played with some of the current Malaysian internationals at a camp in 1998 and he'd seen China's Bao Chunlai and Indonesia's Sony Dwi Kuncoro – both semi-finalists at the world championships here — in the European junior tournaments.
It's interesting to think of what might have happened if he had taken the road that Anup Sridhar did… for he has grown up with Anup. They were among the earliest trainees at Prakash Padukone's academy in 1994. They were in the same college and had shared rooms during tournaments away from home. At the junior level Abhishek, a year and a half older than Anup, was the better player — he had won all the three tournament matches they played.
They've remained close even after Abhishek moved to Hong Kong and he keeps in touch through email and phone. Anup has been lately creating waves in the badminton world, and it's tempting to ask Abhishek where he might have gone if he had taken the road that Anup did.
But Abhishek reconciled himself early to his decision and has never dwelt on what might have been if he had taken the other fork in the road. Indeed, he is reluctant even to talk about it. His decision was well thought out and he has no regrets.
He can't avoid the nostalgia, though, that comes with visiting a badminton hall and looking in wonder at 10,000 Malaysian fans rooting for their players.
He also cannot bring himself to play badminton any more, not even for recreation. "No … I can't. It's too painful to play badminton, you know." (IANS)


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U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago.
Many of those infected were encouraged to pass the infection onto others as part of the study.
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment.
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are expected to offer extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service.
The apology will be to Guatemala and Hispanic residents of the United States, according to officials.
The first public discussion will be a telebriefing with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health and Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Affairs around 11 a.m. ET.
The episode raises inevitable comparisons to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, the Alabama study where hundreds of African-American men were told they were being treated for syphilis, but in fact were denied treatment. That U.S. government study lasted from 1932 until press reports revealed it in 1972.
The Guatemala experiment, which apparently ended in 1948, never provided any useful information. Records were hidden.
They were discovered by Susan Reverby, a professor of women's studies at Wellesley College and will be posted on her website Friday.
Reverby, who has written extensive about the Tuskegee experiments, found the evidence while conducting further research on Tuskegee.


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June 15, 2011 Packing my life into boxes
How lucky am I? The school is paying for my personal items to be shipped abroad! Seriously, if you've ever lived in another country you'd know what a big deal this is!
Yaoundé, from what I've learned, does not have any art stores or clothing stores. They have seamstresses that make clothing, and their local art scene is all woodcarving.. I am told taxing is 100% on imported items; this includes things like sneakers, certain foods, and cars. It is hard to get items through customs on a timely basis. I read in a 3-year-old teacher's handbook to bring things you felt needed to be a specific brand. So if a Walmart was built there in the last 3 years, I will feel a little silly. Either way, I am taking advantage of this wonderful offer.
If you were trapped on an island and had 5 boxes you could fill with things to take with you, what would you bring? What couldn't you live with out? I repeated this to myself, staring at the art supplies and peanut butter I'd artistically wedged between my shampoo, soap, and contact lens solution.
Ha-ha…5 boxes. I think not!
6 personal boxes and 5 boxes (filled only with art supplies) later, my life is packed securely and on its way to Kingwood Texas where it will be placed in a big container and shipped to Yaoundé. Clearly my top priorities are my everyday items, and art supplies. I am hopeful that during this experience, I will be painting every chance I get.
Beyond the things I absolutely can't live with out, I got to pack stuff that will help me get settled and feel happy. The top items in that mix are:
Art Books: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings, Lucian Freud, Picasso and Matisse, Tim Burton, Frida Kahlo.
Novels: The Fountainhead, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Human Stain. My NEW Kindle is joining me so I really have no need to bring too many.
Food: Peanut butter, ketchup (it's very different once you leave the US, probably made more naturally, but I like the stuff with the corn syrup) and Oatmeal. Brownie mix (if anything this will help me make friends), Wheat thins, black liquorice, and ginger snaps. During my stay in Italy, not having certain American food products, (and spending 12 euros on peanut butter) helped bring on a bit of homesickness.
I know when I get there, there will be more things I wish I had, but adapting to my surroundings is part of the experience. I'll probably find even better substitutes. Who knows? But it will be OK, and I'll have my ketchup and art supplies to keep me happy!
Lesson of the month: If you forgot to pack something, it probably wasn't that important.
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Why knowing the facts about your skin care can make all the difference
By: The Beauty Experts at L'Oréal Paris
We can't stress this enough – and we hate stressing, it causes wrinkles – protecting your skin needs to be at the top of your to-do list this summer. Melanoma is one of the most common cancers in women under 40 and is responsible for 80% of skin cancer deaths. Paying attention now? We thought so. We've asked L'Oréal Paris skin care expert, dermatologist Dr. Gervaise Gerstner, and studied the research commissioned by L'Oréal Paris and the Melanoma Research Alliance, to give you a cheat sheet on summer sun care. Here are the numbers you need to know:
The SPF value you should be wearing everyday and everywhere this summer.
"SPF 50+ is the gold standard when in the sun for prolonged time," says Dr. Gerstner. What it really comes down to is the label, in addition to 50+, you want to see claims like "broad-spectrum sunscreen offering protection against both UVA and UVB rays." UVB rays, the ones SPF addresses, are responsible for burning skin, but UVA rays penetrate deeper into the skin and cause aging. Dr. Gerstner's go-to: Advanced Suncare Silky Sheer BB Lotion 50+.
The number of minutes you can spend in the sun before reapplying sunscreen.
The reasoning here is simple. "Melanoma often arises in areas which have had sunburns," warns Dr. Gerstner, "and among people who have had numerous sunburns." Applying your sun care more frequently dramatically reduces your burn risk.
The spots you need to double-check on your next self-skin exam.
For girls, it's your calves. For guys, it's your back. But Dr. Gerstner says "check everywhere, even areas that have never been exposed to the sun like the bottoms of your feet." She suggests using the ABCDE method to look for spots with: Asymmetry, Border change, Color change, Diameter change and "Evolving" changes, because Melanoma is highly curable by surgery when detected early.
The percentage that Melanoma has increased in young women over 40 yrs.
We're calling it now -- natural skin is the new tan. So whether you're hitting the beach, lounging pool side, or simply spending the day outside, remember to layer on the lotion. And for those of you still trying to catch rays indoors, stop! People who use indoor tanning devices have up to a 75% increased risk of melanoma.
The amount of money you've helped donate to Melanoma research this summer.
Congrats to everyone that visitedItsThatWorthIt.org and joined the global Thunderclap (a crowd-sourcing tool, which encourages people all over the world to prevent melanoma by wearing sunscreen). L'Oréal Paris has donated $1 for each Advanced Suncare product purchased and another $1 every time someone supported the cause via Twitter, Facebook, and/or Tumblr!Thanks for proving, It's THAT Worth It.


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Braves agree to terms with RHP Freddy Garcia
ATLANTA (AP) The Braves have agreed to a minor league contract with right-hander Freddy Garcia and invited him to their big league spring training camp.
A 37-year-old right-hander, Garcia went 1-2 with a 1.65 in six games for the Braves, including three starts, after he was acquired from Baltimore last year. He also pitched six solid innings in Game 4 of the division series against the Dodgers, though after he left the Braves lost the game and the series.
Atlanta wanted a veteran to bolster a talented but young group of starters, especially after Tim Hudson signed with San Francisco. Garcia will contend for a spot in a projected rotation led by 28-year-old Kris Medlen that includes four other potential starters in their 20s.
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Motorola outs Jelly Bean friendly phones
Razr gang
While Nokia was showing off its new Windows Phone 8-based Lumias, the Google-owned Motorola Mobility was unwrapping three Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones from its Razr line.
The Razr M, which is destined for a worldwide release, follows the trend toward bigger screens. It has a 4.3in panel, though the handset is narrower than rival offerings, Motorola claimed, because the display goes (almost) edge to edge. It's a qHD panel - so 960 x 540 pixels.
Razrs M (left) and HD
The Razr HD has a 4.7in, 1280 x 720 screen, as does the Razr MAXX HD, which is a Razr HD with a bigger battery - enough for 32 hours' operation, the vendor claimed. That said, the HD gives you a full day's operation, so it's no slouch in this department. Both have an 8Mp rear camera and a 1.3Mp front-facer. The M has an 8Mp camera too, but only a 0.3Mp job for video calls.
All three are backed with a kevlar battery hatch cover and fronted by Corning Gorilla Glass.
As we say, they will all run ICS initially, but Motorola has promised Jelly Bean upgrades "soon".
The LTE-enabled Maxx HD will be US-only releases initially, but the M will be available globally in HSPA form. Ditto the HD, which will also be available with LTE. Special developer-centric versions of the M and HD will also be made available with unlockable bootloaders and, if so opened, no warranty. The developer M will cost $550 (£346) and ships next week. ®
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This latest Ancestor Anniversary is to mark the Baptism on this day in 1737 of Edward Read. Edward is the nephew of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read and is the son of William Read and Mary Turner, their first child. Sadly there isn't much to tell about Edward as the poor little chap died when only about 6 weeks old. He was Baptised in Stoke Talmage, Oxfordshire and within those six weeks he was buried in Wheatfield, Oxfordshire. His parents had only been married about a month when he was born.
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13 May 2012
GMO Action Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
GMO Action Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Recently members of the Mayan people living on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico joined Greenpeace activists and said no to genetically engineered crops. Using their own bodies to form the message 'MA OGM' or 'No to GE', 2000 activists gathered at eight different Mayan archaeological sites to draw attention to the risks of contamination of honey production by Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) soy.
It is important to remember that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has already ruled that honey contaminated with pollen from GE maize, also produced by Monsanto cannot be sold on the EU market. 40% of the Mexican honey is produced on the Yucatan and it exports 90% of its production to Europe. Monsanto's GE soy is therefore threatening the livelihood of the forty thousand beekeepers and their families who rely on honey production.
Monsanto has requested authorization to plant commercial GE soy in Mexico despite a previous court order that invalidated a permit to plant 30 000 hectares with 'pilot sowing' of GE soy in the States of Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo. Out of the 253 000 hectares that have been applied for, 60 000 are planned in Yucatan and if approved it could be only a matter of time before the Mexican honey is contaminated by Monsanto's GE soybean pollen.
The Governor of Yucatan, Ivonne Ortega Pacheco has already said she is in favour of declaring Yucatan GE-free and she made a request to this effect to the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture. The action also aimed to encourage municipalities and other States to declare themselves GE-free and to get the Mexican federal government to ratify these decisions and give them legal standing. Earlier this year, Greenpeace protested to the Mexican authorities as they ignored the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – Olivier de Schutter to restore the moratorium on GE maize in the country.
The bee population in general is suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon where worker bees abruptly disappear and cause a collapse of the bee colony, due to multiple factors linked to agrochemicals. The economic effect is significant as over 90% of the world's food crops need bees.
Aleira Lara
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Your job is amazing and so important. I think it is great to see how you can work with the communities and local NGOs. I believe the Maya, as all othe...
Your job is amazing and so important. I think it is great to see how you can work with the communities and local NGOs. I believe the Maya, as all other cultures, deserve respect as they have always respected and protected Mother Earth. Monsanto is not only destroying our food and affecting human life itself, but also Nature and the culture of different peoples all over the world.
This work is inspiring and strong,
Best Wishes,
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I like it is the people who write the message with their bodies, and not your clasic bannners. So sad to know how the bees' interaction is being d...
I like it is the people who write the message with their bodies, and not your clasic bannners. So sad to know how the bees' interaction is being disturbed by the way big corporations grow food now. GMOs should be banned all over the world.
Me gusta que sean las personas las que formen el mensaje, y no sus clasicas mantas. Es muy triste que incluso la interaccion de las abejas se vea afectada por la forma en que las corporaciones producen los alimentos. Los OGM deberian prohibirse en todo el mundo.
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Not about to be outdone by the theatrical release of Marvel's The Avengers (read our review) – with Warner Bros.' third Dark Knight Rises trailer tagging along – Sony has gone ahead and unveiled a third (and final?) trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, a controversial revamping of the webslinger movie franchise.
The latest theatrical promo for Andrew Garfield's debut as Peter Parker will also be attached to Avengers prints. But even armed with some fantastic 3D effects, plus a potpourri of classic and modernized elements from the comics, can this Spider-Man reboot really go toe-to-toe with this summer's superhero movie juggernauts?
Judging by this latest trailer: Amazing Spider-Man should at least put up a pretty dang good fight, as far as justifying Sony's decision to reboot the franchise goes.
The darker color palette and 3D visuals shown here look overall quite crisp, even without the benefit of the big screen – though, much like the latest Dark Knight Rises trailer, this Amazing Spider-Man footage will clearly benefit from being viewed in a theater (especially in 3D). Much of that also holds true for the film's version of The Lizard, who comes off as a pretty solid CGI/motion-capture creation.
Similarly, it's fun to see Garfield playing a version of Peter Parker that feels truer to the character so many comic book readers have fallen in love with over the years – be it his mad science skills, trash-talking his foes when he dons the Spidey costume, or seeming more like a genuine modern-day teenager when spending time with his girl Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and her family.
What new hints are provided of the film's "untold story" (re: the disappearance of Pete's biological parents and their connection to Oscorp) are not only intriguing, but also allude to a greater mythology than can be covered in one movie.
Considering that Sony already has an Amazing Spider-Man sequel in the works, that could be read as a sign of confidence in the final product – though, admittedly, previous superhero movies have suffered by getting ahead of themselves like that (Green Lantern, looking at you).
Overall, this new footage continues to give us reason to think that Amazing Spider-Man could actually be a pretty great addition to the superhero movie pantheon, on its own. Whether or not it will suffer from being sandwiched between two comic book movie "events" this summer, that's another matter…
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.


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Estonian chart-toppers Trad.Attack! deliver with considerable ardour and admirable integrity the kind of music their moniker indicates. For a three-piece playing acoustic instruments, they create an almighty sound. The velocity and volume of the more souped-up numbers on Trad.Attack!'s second album would do justice to a heavy metal band. In Metsa Kuldsed Kuningad, Sandra Vabarna's amplified Estonian bagpipe and husband Jalmar's effects-powered 12-string guitar howl like a pack of hungry wolves above Tõnu Tubli's demonic drumming and alongside rapid-fire incantations said to ward off lupine attacks. A song about bears (Mõmm) featuring ursine-strength male scatting ends with a Led Zep-proof rock riff. In a wild opening salvo (Talgo), based on a traditional runo song, twangy Jew's harp combines with whistles and vocals to set the album's high-octane tone. Even a spellbinding lullaby, Unelaul, switches hits overdrive midway. A power-packed polka (Nüüdispolka) and an Express-paced relationships song (Kabala) echo Celtic punk bands Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. Säde stands in stark contrast: an exquisite dreamscape that floats like an Irish air.
Trad.Attack! has performed its edgy, utterly engrossing music in 30 countries in just three years, from Chile to South Korea. Australia is reportedly on its agenda.


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Detroit's bigwigs may make their next trip to Washington by car, after lawmakers lambasted them for crying poverty while traveling by private jet.
Auto industry insiders, whose livelihood depends on the health of Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., reportedly spent the weekend e-mailing and discussing how to set up a giant car caravan to seek help from Congress.
"The proper people are talking to the proper people, and things are getting put together," said Tim Leuliette, the CEO of Dura Automotive Systems Inc., a Michigan auto parts maker. "This really picked up momentum over the weekend."
During the weekend carpool proponents contacted the automakers, suppliers, dealership groups and the United Auto Workers and the movement began building, Leuliette said.
Not all the CEOs have confirmed they would carpool to future appearances before Congress. GM CEO Rick Wagoner won't be going to Washington by corporate jet, although the company's policy is not to comment on executive travel plans for security reasons, said spokesman Tony Cervone. A Chrysler spokeswoman wouldn't comment on executive travel plans, and a Ford spokesman had not responded to a message seeking comment.
Traveling by car might help appease committee members who were rankled after the CEOs begged for public cash but offered no business plan and no indication they could tone down lavish spending. Some Congressmen were incensed that the three flew in separate private jets.
"There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses," Representative Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, said according to a report in the New York Times. "It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in a high hat and tuxedo."
The automakers contend the proposed $25 billion bailout is necessary to keep their ailing firms afloat.


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'Game of Thrones' fans: BEWARE OF SPOILERS.
In this video — which fuses some scenes from the hit HBO fantasy series with the fluff-filled 'Friends' opening of our yesteryear — we're pleasantly reminded of how glad we are that 'Game of Thrones' didn't come out during the '90s. And while this isn't the first 'GoT' opening theme mash-up we've seen, it might be the most well-timed, considering the moment of Ned Stark's death occurs during the lyric "When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year."
It's not exactly the medieval score we've grown to love over the past three seasons but it's not a bad way to spend 48 seconds of your life. And we'd have to agree with one YouTuber when they say that no on will ever be there for Joffrey.


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Flag: Croatian
Nationality of Officers:Croatian
Number of Crew: 12
Passenger Capacity: 36
Speed: 10 NM
Length:62,00 m
Beam:10,00 m
From Dubrovnik to Venice aboard M/Y Klara
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Dubrovnik - Kotor- Korcula - Split -Sibenik - Zadar - Pula -Brijuni - Venice aboard Klara
A Three-Mast Schooner, which will be one of the first ships in this category sailing through 3 countries in 8 days!
The whole coastline of the Adriatic offers a wealth of historic and natural world wonders.
Day 1 - DUBROVNIK
Check in starts from 1:00 pm. In case your flight arrives earlier, let us take care of your luggage so you can enjoy the "Pearl of Adriatic". Around 4:00 pm we will start our amazing day with a sightseeing tour the Old Town. After the tour of this marvellous and stunningly intact walled city on the Adriatic Sea coast, you will have the opportunity to experience the best things this town has to offer at your own pace. Get settled and join the welcome reception onboard at 07:30 pm. The captain will be waiting to receive all passengers arriving late at night and these guests will be provided with cold dinner. Overnight in Dubrovnik.
Welcome drinks and dinner.
Day 2 - DUBROVNIK - KOTOR
In the morning we depart Dubrovnik and set sail for the fabled bay of Kotor in Montenegro. Truly one of the jewels of the Adriatic and you will have the privilege of seeing it from the best possible vantage point, the deck of a sailing ship. Upon arrival to Kotor we will be transfer to small tour boats waiting to take us on a scenic tour of the bay of Kotor and to visit the ancient and UNESCO Heritage protected town of Perast with its Church of the Lady of the Rocks, situated on a tiny islet just in front of Perast. You will then have the evening free to enjoy all that Kotor has to offer. Overnight in Kotor.
Meals on board: breakfast and lunch
Day 3 - KOTOR - KORCULA
Early in the morning we set sail for the island of Korcula, rich in vineyards, olive groves and small villages with numerous bays and coves. Swim stop in one of the peaceful bays, perfect to enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of the unspoiled nature, lush vegetation and crystal-clear sea. Lunch on board. Afternoon arrival to Korcula. This medieval ''little Dubrovnik'', said to be the birthplace of Marco Polo, has an ancient atmosphere which we will enjoy getting to know on an interesting tour along its winding streets. After the tour, make the best of some free time and sip a glass of local wine or coffee at an outdoor cafe, take a dip in the sea or just continue walking the streets. Overnight in Korcula.
Meals on board: breakfast and lunch
Day 4 - KORCULA - SPLIT
From Korcula we set sail for Split. Upon arrival, join the walking tour through Split with an expert guide who will bring the past to life and also tell you a lot about Split today. Stroll the streets of Split and learn many interesting facts that make this unique town's history so full of intrigue. Take part of a story of this more than 1700 years old town, founded by a Roman emperor Diocletian who chose this beautiful place as his retirement residence. Let the story of who he was and why he loved Dalmatia so much amaze you! Overnight in Split.
Meals on board: breakfast and lunch
Day 5 - SPLIT - SIBENIK - ZADAR
From Split we set sail towards Sibenik and the Krka National Park, one of the fabled jewels of Croatia's natural beauty. In Sibenik you will enjoy a sightseeing tour of its beautiful ancient streets with the exquisite St. James Cathedral, one of the most important architectural monuments of the Renaissance in Croatia. After the tour you will be taken by bus on a short hop to the Krka National Park to cool off by the crystal-clear waterfalls of the Krka river. After the visit to the Krka National park there will be a short bus ride to Zadar where we reunite with our ship and are free to enjoy the evening in Zadar. Overnight in Zadar.
Meals on board: breakfast and lunch
Day 6 - ZADAR - PULA
After breakfast, enjoy the experience of a walking tour with your local guide who will introduce you to Zadar's rich history and the plethora of monuments and hidden corners it has to offer. From Zadar we set sail for the largest town on the Istrian peninsula known for its multitude of ancient Roman buildings, the most famous of which is the Pula Arena, one of the best preserved Roman amphitheaters in the world. In the evening, enjoy the Captain's dinner on board. Overnight in Pula.
Meals on board: breakfast, lunch and Captain`s dinner
Day 7 - PULA - BRIJUNI -VENICE
In the morning we set sail north and back to Croatia towards our final destination, the jewel that is Dubrovnik, with plenty of time for swimming along the way. Upon arrival in Dubrovnik we join a guided tour of the Old Town. After the tour of this marvelous and stunningly intact walled city on the Adriatic Coast, you will have the opportunity to experience the best things this town has to offer at your own pace. Overnight in Dubrovnik.
Meals on board: breakfast and lunch
Day 8 - VENICE, ITALY
Disembark after breakfast and transfer to the airport.
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• Halfboard : breakfast and lunch or dinner (4 course)
• Fresh fruit, coffee and snacks available daily
• Unlimited water
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• Captain´s dinner with entertainment onboard
• Professional cruise manager (English speaking)
• English speaking guides for tours of Venice, National Park Brijuni, Zadar, Sibenik, NP Krka, Split, Korcula, Perast, Kotor, Dubrovnik
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• Daily cabin service (once a week linen change)
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X.Org 7.4 was delayed from its planned September 10 release date. It did, however, make it out the door two weeks later on September 23. The article covering the X.Org 7.4 release can be read here.
Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.


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(CBS News) The delay of a key provision in President Obama's health-care law is being called a major setback for the president's signature issue.
The controversial provision that requires companies with more than 50 employees to provide coverage or face fines is being delayed by a year. The rule is now on hold until 2015 - after the 2014 midterm elections.
Obamacare "employer mandate" delayed a year
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The news came while the president was flying back from Africa to Washington. It's a major concession in what is considered the president's signature achievement.
Posted with no fanfare on the White House website, the administration pushed back by one year the requirement that businesses with more than 50 workers provide health-care coverage or pay fines of $2,000 per employee.
The website announcement said, "We have listened to your feedback. And we are taking action."
The decision marks a shift in the official line on health care, which the president himself stated recently. He said in San Jose, Calif., on June 7, "I think it's important to acknowledge this is working the way it's supposed to."
The concerns that the health-care law was going to hurt workers and the economy were widespread. Some small business owners said they would lay off workers so they had less than the 50 employees that brought them under the new law.
Even business owners who support health-care reform were sounding the alarm.
Earlier this year, CBS News talked to one of those small business owners, Hans Rockenwagner, who runs a bakery in California. Rockenwagner said then, "We want to do the right thing. It just seems that the whole plan was maybe a little hastily put together."
With next year's midterm elections looming, that kind of feedback troubled leading Democrats like Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, who staked a lot of political capital on the law. He said, "I just see a huge train wreck coming down."
On Tuesday night, Republicans who remain staunchly opposed to the law, which passed without a single GOP vote, said the announcement was vindication. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, "Even the Obama administration knows the 'train wreck' will only get worse."
CBS News' Jan Crawford added on "CBS This Morning," "And in another sign of trouble the White House is trying to get the NFL on board to educate people in the upcoming fall about health-care exchanges, which they are hoping to encourage participation in if this whole thing is going to work. But the NFL said over the weekend that it wants nothing to do with this political football."
For more analysis on the provision postponement, "CTM" turned to CBS News political director John Dickerson. He said, "As a practical matter, more than 90 percent of the companies affected provide insurance to their employees anyway, and also as part of the president's plan the Medicaid provision and the other parts of the plan go forward, so as a practical matter that's the situation.
For more on the political ramifications of the move, watch his full analysis in the video below."As a political matter, this is not good," he said. "It sort of contributes to the feeling that the Affordable Care Act is a jalopy they're trying to roll out of the driveway here at barely operational for the president. That's not good. The White House made the decision, though, take the pain now, before the July Fourth weekend, rather than have all of these stories over the next year of companies who were laying off workers or having such a hard time implementing this."
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For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries
~ Hebrew 10:26-27
Just what is knowledge of your sin? Is it being told / someone agreeing with you? Only when the bible says is sin? What if you feel uneasy about what your doing? If feeling uneasy and know your doing wrong is a sin, what about doing something to protect those you love (fighting, not out of rage) or displaying tough love. Or rather, how does the bible separate knowledge of sin, the feeling you've done something wrong, and actual sin?


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Thanks to all of you who participated in GAPS Friendly Fridayslast week!
I decided to create GAPS Friendly Fridays because, well, no one else is doing it and there are a lot of great GAPS, SCD, Paleo, and Real Food bloggers out there with GAPS legal recipes! You don't have to be on the GAPS diet to participate, but recipes that you post should be GAPS Legal.
If you have an SCD or Paleo recipe, it very well may be GAPS Legal! The short version is that GAPS legal recipes are:
- All real food – no pre-processed ingredients
- Grain-Free (even alternate grains like quinoa and amaranth are excluded)
- Starchy veg free (no potatoes of any kind)
- The only sweeteners used are honey and fruit
- Only use aged cheeses such as parmesan, gouda, or cheddar, not fresh cheeses such as mozzarella
GAPS Recipes often include:
- Fermented foods
- Cultured raw dairy
- Naturally raised meat
Some post ideas are:
- GAPS legal recipes – please indicate the stages of the diet it works for if you know (Intro 1,2,3,4,5,6,Full)
- related book reviews
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- your family's experience of the GAPS protocol
- what has and hasn't worked for you
- coming off the GAPS diet
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The iPhone might be nibbling away at Nintendo's market share, but there are still plenty of games that are damn near unplayable with a touchscreen. Physical buttons are the way to go, and if Levelup's Bluetooth ROAM controller is legit, they won't be able to take our money fast enough.
The ROAM might look like the awkward, boxy NES controllers many of us were weened on, but it has a lovely rounded finish and includes modern gaming necessities like dual analogue joysticks and shoulder buttons. Levelup claims the ROAM works with iOS and Android with varying levels of functionality for each operating system, as well as any device with a Bluetooth connection like a laptop or a console. And with ten hours of battery life there's nothing we see here that isn't worth the £25-odd they're asking. Now if only we could actually buy it somewhere. [Levelup via Ubergizmo]


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Here is an interesting article about the harmful effects of spot, cell phones and gps in wilderness.
In a nut shell, these devices appear to be encouraging risky behavior, as has been observed in other discussion threads here.
In a recent discussion with an acquaintance, I mentioned that I enjoy being lost in wilderness. He asked how I could possibly get lost if I am using a gps. I guess the answer is partly carelessness or error and partly dealing with confusing and difficult terrain, such as one finds in Joshua Tree. (I am also convined that sometimes it is the inherent inaccuracy of gps in some cases.)
I don't have spot, and I don't use a cell phone in wilderness. I do use a gps in some cases, but less than in the past. It really is better to study a map, and then pay attention to one's bearing and the land. And getting lost, and then finding one's way again, really is one of the great pleasures of wilderness and life. It comes with risk. We must manage the risk by developing skill and judgment. Using Spot and calling 911 are poor substitutes for that, and, in ways the article explains, they increase recklessness and harm wilderness.


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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Silly as it may seem to the public, there's an intense disagreement among scholars about the impact urban trees have on a city's crime rate. Some are convinced urban greenery increases crime — arguing that low trees and shrubs, in particular, create a natural hiding place for criminals. A 2001 case study of auto thieves in Washington, D.C., found that offenders often target areas near dense vegetation because it can "reduce effort and risk by offering concealment."
Others are convinced that urban trees have exactly the opposite effect. This crowd argues that trees actually decrease crime either by attracting more people to public places (Jane Jacobs' "eyes on the street" theory) or by signifying to criminals that people care about their neighborhood (James Q. Wilson's "broken windows" theory). Another 2001 study, this one of public housing in Chicago, found that "the greener a building's surroundings were, the fewer crimes reported."
Where better to settle the score once and for all than Baltimore? If trees can have a positive impact on crime in the land of The Wire, then it seems safe to assume they can have an impact anywhere.
Well somebody tell Omar the game just changed. In the June issue of Landscape and Urban Planning, a team of environmental researchers led by Austin Troy of the University of Vermont report an inverse relationship between tree canopy and a variety of crimes in the Baltimore city and county regions. All told, Troy and colleagues conclude that "a 10% increase in tree canopy was associated with a roughly 12% decrease in crime."
For the study, the researchers examined crime and canopy rates over a long stretch of area from inner city Baltimore to the exurbs of Baltimore County. The crime rates varied greatly across the region: those in the city were 3.5 times the national average per block, while those in the outskirts were "nearly non-existent." (They limited their study to robberies, burglaries, thefts, and shootings, since assaults typically take place indoors.) So too did the canopy rates: some parts of the city have no greenery; some parts of the county achieve 87 percent coverage.
Troy and his colleagues ran all types of models to analyze the relationship between crime and canopy. Even after controlling for factors known to influence crime statistics — income, race, population density, and the like — they found the aforementioned link between more trees and less crime. While they doubt the connection is "purely causal," the strength of their figures suggest "some genuine relationship between trees and crime."
The results were not entirely straightforward. In some pockets of Baltimore city, for instance, the presence of trees indeed seemed to increase crime rates, just as some of the previous literature suggests. That was especially true in the outer harbor areas of Brooklyn Park, Wagners Point, and Dundalk — places with poorly groomed vegetation where "the concealment value of the vegetation outweighs its deterrent effect":
This last result clarifies much of the confused relationship between urban greenery and urban crime: While low dense brush seems to increase it, tall broad canopies seem to decrease it. That nuanced conclusion harmonizes with another study published earlier this year, in which U.S.D.A. Forest Service researcher Geoffrey Donovan (who has also linked urban tree coverage to home prices) reports the same mixed tree-crime associations in Portland, Oregon. If the evidence tells us anything certain, it's to keep your shrubbery close, but your canopies closer.
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The lordship of Gower has existed for a thousand years; and for centuries before that it was the Welsh district of Gŵyr. It includes majestic uplands to the north, Wales' second city at its centre and – to the west – the superb Gower peninsula which encompasses the UK's first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Veldthaler, Michael (d. 1587)
Michael Veldthaler (d. 1587), a Hutterite Anabaptist, perhaps the only brother coming from the ranks of the South German nobility. He descended from an old Bavarian baronial family, had formerly been a Pfleger (i.e., administrator of a county), and was converted to Anabaptism on a visit at Falkenstein, castle or village, in Austria near the Moravian border, in 1547. Now he cut all his former ties, joined the brotherhood in Moravia, and learned the trade of joinery at Neumühl Bruderhof. Twice thereafter, in 1555 and 1557, he faced grave dangers in work for the brotherhood in South Germany. In 1560 he was made Diener des Wortes (minister), and in 1587 he died at an advanced age in the Bruderhof of Tracht in Moravia.
Veldthaler's first encounter with hostile forces in Bavaria (1555) is related in detail in the Chronicle. A nobleman by the name of Taufkircher of Schloss Gutenberg (Upper Bavaria), who knew Veldthaler from earlier times and apparently wanted to win him back to the Lutheran faith, asked the Brethren to dispatch this brother to him for conversation and counsel. After much hesitation a meeting was arranged in a peasant's house in Bavaria at night. The situation was most unpleasant and aggressive, with the consequence that the authorities were out to catch Veldthaler and his co-workers. It was winter-time and bitter cold; Veldthaler suffered much from lack of shelter, since no one was willing to let him in. Yet he worked on with some success, even though one of his recently won converts had to give his life for this faith. Eventually he returned to the brotherhood.
Two years later, in 1557, he was sent abroad again to visit Brethren in the Rhenish Palatinate. In Swabia, while walking along the road, he met Count Wolf von Oettingen, an old acquaintance, who had learned about the affair with Baron Taufkircher, and who had both Veldthaler and his companion brother arrested (as a nobleman he could not allow another nobleman to fall so far away from the accepted standards of this rank.) The two men were now put into a dungeon so deep that they could be reached only by a long rope (with knots to hold on) and lighted by a small hole high up. The Brethren suffered much but remained loyal to their faith, not yielding to overtures by former friends. Eventually, out of regard for Veldthaler's father, the two were released and after finishing their assignment returned safely. The story of this Swabian experience is told in an old hymn of 33 stanzas of unknown authorship; the Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, pp. 545-51, prints it after a late copy of 1791, and the Chronicle used it apparently as its only source. The story was not known to Beck.
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 216.
Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder: Gesangbuch darinnen viel und mancherlei schöne Betrachtungen, Lehren, Vermahnungen, Lobgesänge und Glaubensbekenntnisse, von vielen Liebhabern Gottes gedichtet und aus vielen Geschichten und Historien der heiligen Schrift zusammengetragen, allen frommen Liebhabern Gottes sehr nützlich zu singen und zu lessen. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonitisches Verlagshaus, 1914; reprinted Cayley, AB: Hutterischen Brüdern in Kanada, 1962, etc.: 545-51.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943: 378.
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When I was a child, my greatest dream was to find a box full of puppies. And every shoebox, every discarded Manhattan Mini Storage vessel had the potential to change my life. I knew just what I'd do with the puppies I found: take them home, place them in a corner of my loft bed, give them names like Anastasia and Kristy, and feed them the parts of my dinner I didn't want. I'd throw them in with my stuffed animals, so you couldn't tell the plush from the living. I'd keep them in my backpack at school and in my skirts at home. By the time they were fully grown, they would follow me down the streets of SoHo, off-leash. They'd bark at shady characters, and even at my parents when they asked me to do something I didn't like.
In reality, I was deeply dog-less. Until I was six, I had no pets at all, despite trying to catch rabbits in a net at the park and lure turtles with Sun Chips at other people's country houses. My first (and worst) pet was a newt that choked to death on a bad worm. Next came a hairless cat my mother bought on Greene Street. Both were poor substitutes for the dog I wanted but couldn't have. We didn't have a proper home. We lived in what was essentially one big room, on Broadway. And all my promises to care for the dog were futile: I wasn't even allowed to go outside alone.
My parents' childhood dogs loomed large in our family mythology. My mother had been the proud owner of Cindy, a shepherd-collie mix with serious aggression issues and a pathological obsession with Ritz crackers. She was tied to a tree all day on the lawn outside my mother's neo-Tudor house. At the age of six, my mother was both her captor and her protector. One of the first sentences I learned was "Cindy was a bad dog."
A few states away, my father had General George Armstrong Custer (General for short), a runt dachshund whose claim to fame was that he'd once eaten an entire eighteen-pound ham. For days thereafter, General's gut dragged along the ground. When it was really hot, he liked to run to the riverbank and roll in dead eels. He survived a German-shepherd attack in which he lost part of an ear. He died at eighteen, curled beneath my grandfather's desk.
Both these dogs seemed to me like outcasts, kooks, pains in the ass who the adults secretly wished would just succumb to their own vices already. And so I concluded that dogs were not man's best friend but, rather, the mischievous sidekicks of misunderstood children.
When I was fifteen, I took the box-of-puppies fantasy into my own hands. Walking down the main drag of Brooklyn Heights, where we now lived, I stopped to pet a tan mutt, the mascot of an animal-rescue group that had set up a booth at the corner of Montague and Hicks. As I scratched the scarred head of a sleepy "chow mix," the group explained its mission: to end animal homelessness in our borough.
"My parents won't let me have a dog," I said.
"Well, maybe you can foster."
I don't remember exactly who the person in charge of the booth was. There were several girls and a man. The situation was so oddly traumatic that in my mind the man is played by the character actor Elias Koteas, of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fame. I do remember, though, that what came next was a very bad afternoon. It involved my dreams coming true and the empty dread that often follows that experience. I climbed into a van with Elias Koteas, who told me that there was a pit-bull mother dead (in a box!) in a parking lot near the Gowanus Canal and three puppies that desperately needed a foster home. As he drove me out of my neighborhood, away from the bagel shops and the squash players, and into industrial Brooklyn, I suddenly recalled my mother's countless warnings about "climbing into vans with strangers." Somehow, this situation seemed outside the bounds of her edict. Just think of the puppies—three of them, he had said, their bodies cold, starving. In the van, one of his colleagues, a silent frizzy-haired woman, filled dog bowls with dirty water. I could hear it sloshing as we rumbled down Atlantic Avenue.
It was dusk by the time we reached the parking lot. It had started to drizzle. Elias Koteas told me to follow him, and I did, to a shipping crate in the corner of the lot. I peered in. The mother wasn't dead. She lifted her head with tremendous effort, sad-eyed and gaunt, like Fantine, in "Les Misérables." A mother in a desperate situation. Maybe that's why she didn't even growl when I reached in and took her babies, one by one.
They were barely puppies. More like kidney beans, slick and cool, eyes still sealed shut. They whimpered, but quietly, no louder than baby birds. Elias Koteas urged me back to the van. He told me to buy bottles and a heating pad and "make sure they're warm all night." I was dropped off near a subway stop.
But I didn't take the train. I wandered for blocks, the puppies hidden in my orange parka. I saw a laundromat and went inside to get warm. Someone noticed the puppies and suggested that I stuff them into the socks without mates sitting atop a dryer, which I did. (It was cute in the vein of an Anne Geddes calendar, but didn't seem totally safe.) Back out on the street, I spotted a veterinarian's office in the distance; it was like one of those cartoons in which someone starving in the wilderness hallucinates a hot-dog stand. The office was just closing, but I opened my coat and flashed the receptionist my puppies, like a freelance salesman on Canal Street, and she quickly ushered me in. The vet was a young, sweet man. Definitely Jewish, which is something I care about only in times of crisis. He checked each dog for a cleft palate and explained that I had to feed them every two hours, and that I should rub their anuses with a hot cloth to express their bowels. It never occurred to me to ask whether the vet might keep them there, at the office, where the staff was better equipped for transient pit-bull infants than a fifteen-year-old girl might be. After all, my parents were on a trip to California and my sister, Grace, was only nine.
On the walk home, I named them—Uno, Bruno, and Devo. Imagine how lively our house would be when we had three grown pit bulls! I presented them to the babysitter, who reacted with the only appropriate emotion: horror. I didn't care, since technically she wasn't in charge of me. (I was too old for a babysitter but still too young to be trusted alone with Grace.)
The first night, I woke up every hour on the hour, heated the bottles, rubbed the anuses. Every so often, the puppies cried and I'd reach down into their box, letting whoever got there first suckle my index finger. It was the weekend, so I had all the time in the world to spend with them. But by the end of the second afternoon I was an Octomom-style mess. They weren't eating enough. They weren't pooping enough. Once, I left the room for too long and when I came back they were sucking each other's tiny dicks, in a circle, like crazed swingers, blind to the fact that those things weren't nipples.
Over the phone, my father reacted to the news of my triple adoption with the warning that he was, officially, "livid." He said that if the puppies were not gone by the time he and my mother got back from California he would get rid of them himself. My mother was more sympathetic ("Are they eating?"), but she also appealed to my good sense: "You know we can't keep them."
I did recognize that the joy/work ratio was out of whack. This wasn't "Charlotte's Web"; it was "The Panic in Needle Park." I called the rescue group's number, which they had given me, "for updates," and reached the director. She lived in Bay Ridge and was agoraphobic, she explained, so there was no way she could meet me to collect the puppies. Besides, she said, she had no room at all. I had never heard the word "agoraphobic" before, and the accompanying visual I generated was of someone throwing a tantrum as she walked across the Brooklyn Bridge amid a throng of tourists. Apparently, I displayed a level of confrontational tenacity (or desperation) that I haven't shown since, because she finally agreed to take them off my hands if I could get them to her house. I waited until my father got home, then made him do it, but I refused to join my family in the car, claiming that it was too painful a goodbye. "I've raised them since birth!" I cried.
While they were gone, I holed up with a boy I vaguely liked who had a very chapped lower lip. I sat on his lap while he used my father's cardio-rowing machine, but we never kissed. In the car, I'm told, adorable little Bruno released a torrent of diarrhea down my sister's chest.
We did, eventually, get a family dog. It was only a year later, and he wasn't a rescue but an old-fashioned terrier with a sheaf of official papers that came with him on a plane from Indiana. I was very invested in him for a short while, until I started watching Criterion Collection movies and eating meat and getting generally more excited about human company. The misfit child no longer needed a companion, and the terrier was ignored, like the Velveteen Rabbit. (He eventually became my mother's confidant. Although he now has a condition called degenerative myelopathy that causes him to drag his back legs around, like a mermaid, I once overheard my father sing "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" to him, and he seems very happy.)
Nothing about my life these days makes me an especially good candidate for having a dog. For starters, I'm never home. I work all the time, and when I'm not working I'm asleep in a pile on my couch.
I have issues waking up. I understand the title of President Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope," because it perfectly describes my relationship to setting my alarm clock for 7 A.M.
I haven't been grocery shopping in more than a year. Currently, my refrigerator contains old yogurt, old vinegar, and whatever kind of medicines you're told to keep cold (usually prescribed for your vagina). I am one step away from doing that awful rom-com thing where a New York City working woman with limited space but unlimited pluck fills her oven with sweaters and shoes.
I also realize that writing about dogs is a very tricky business. It's nearly impossible to do without some simpering sentimentality. In a dream world, you write about your dog and you're J. R. Ackerley. Or perhaps your words will have the droopy intelligence of a Thurber dog. Jo Ann Beard's essay "The Fourth State of Matter," a stunning account of a mass shooting in an academic community and its surreal aftermath, describes a dying dog with such eloquent precision that you can see every heartbreaking curve of his body, feel every labored breath, and you reflect on how we all fit together as a mesh of messy creation. But, more often, you're writing "Beethoven." "Marley and Me" if you're lucky.
The same caveats apply to conversation about dogs. Just discussing your dog can be as tiresome and offensive as talking about the weather, your own dreams, or the newest wrinkle in your married sex life. At least when people talk about their children, there is a chance that the kid will grow up to be President.
But the main reason I shouldn't even have been thinking about dogs is that I finally have a boyfriend. After what feels like decades of making ill-advised forays into Spartan Chinatown living rooms and pretending to enjoy wine, I have met someone I love and respect, and I want to make decisions that honor and consider him. It would be a mistake to create a situation that compromised his comfort or made him less likely to squeeze me all night long.
My boyfriend is allergic to dogs.
Nevertheless, the itch returned last year, when, during an extended existentialist spin-out, the same family dog I had abandoned so many years ago dragged himself to my side and refused to leave. Suddenly, I find myself Googling dogs, looking into their dumb dog faces, reading about which foods will poison them (grapes, chocolate, some sugarless gums) and which celebrities love them (Glenn Close).
I imagine how much better everything would be with a dog. Walks to get the paper or a bagel. Long car trips, a wild head of Einstein-y fur in my lap. Sitting on the couch, reading a book, and occasionally flicking his ear with my toe. I'd be permanently rid of the whiff of self-involvement. ("She can't be that much of a narcissist—she adopted a dog!")
I promise everyone I won't do it. I tell my boyfriend, "We have our whole lives for dogs." Then, one morning, I sneak off to another rescue group in industrial Brooklyn and I take him home.
He's gorgeous. He's a mutt, it's true, but if you told me he was Marie Antoinette's breed of choice I'd believe you: a golden sausage with the most human eyes I've ever seen on a non-human. Lamby will be his name, like some French kid's favorite soft toy. He's had three other homes, three other names, but now he's mine mine mine. First, I make sure my boyfriend doesn't break out in hives, ask whether he's "a good dog," then sign on the dotted line. He's a hundred and fifty dollars, and I use my credit card. The rescue people dump his tags and toys into a plastic evidence bag, as if he were leaving prison. It should be noted that this place is an entirely professional operation. Seasoned, systematic, these people don't seem as if they'd ever kidnap a minor and place three canine infants in her care.
The first few nights I have him, it's just us two, and he's perfect. Quiet, limp as a sack of laundry, he kisses me softly whenever he has the chance. I bring him to a bookstore, and he's passed around among my friends like the town bicycle. Everyone tells me how lucky I am.
Friday, I drop him at day care. My boyfriend is coming home that day, and I'm excited about our first night as a family. My boyfriend, on the other hand, doesn't seem particularly excited when I offer to give Lamby a hyphenated last name.
That afternoon, my sister breaks up with her girlfriend. I tell her she should sleep over, and she agrees. We all go to dinner and then pick up Lamby, who bounds out of day care and into the sub-zero night to greet us. I am lucky.
But the minute we arrive home it gets weird: Lamby picks up a stuffed toy in his mouth and shakes it hard, as if to break its neck. He's growling. My boyfriend reaches his hand out to calm him and Lamby lunges, biting him. Whether it's aggression or play is unclear, but we back out of the room all the same.
In the bathroom a little while later, we are brushing our teeth when Lamby saunters in, calm, like your college roommate the day after an acid trip, acting like everything is normal. My boyfriend tenses and, ever the Lady Macbeth, I encourage him to reëngage:
"Pick Lamby up! He'll be sweet now. I promise."
He picks the dog up awkwardly, so that his feet flail. I know this wouldn't feel good if it were me, but I keep quiet. Lamby tries, desperately, to bite at any part of my boyfriend's body he can reach, then hurls himself onto the tile floor. He bounces slightly, shocked, then curls his tail around one crooked leg and heads for the front door, where he barks loudly at no one.
My boyfriend looks pained; Lamby seems utterly alone; and I feel torn—after all, what's it feel like when you are one foot tall and a guy in a Green Day shirt hoists you up as if it's nothing and waggles one of your paws and calls you "bro"?
At bedtime, I shut Lamby in the living room with my sister, who needs the comfort, but, a moment later, it starts: the sound. Something between a sob and a siren, it is how Lamby expresses a doleful emotion that he experiences roughly twice a day.
"I think he needs to sleep in here," I say.
My boyfriend nods, a good sport with a long red scratch on his forearm.
Lamby trots in, does several laps around the room, then stretches across the foot of the bed.
"Are you O.K.?" I ask my boyfriend.
"Sure," he says, a little too quickly. "You?"
"Definitely," I assure him. "Definitely."
He pauses. "I mean, I have to get used to having someone else in the bed with us. . . . You know, a creature. That might bite my feet." Tears stream down my face. What have I done? We had such a nice life. The first real comfort I've known in so long. Nights were quiet and sweet, and we slept until whatever o'clock we wanted, then sat on the couch in our underwear and planned the day. I cling to my boyfriend and pull my feet up close the way I did when I was a little girl and thought alligators lived at the bottom of the bed, waiting to snap.
Finally, everything settles. We're breathing in tandem and Lamby is passed out down there. It seems as though we could sleep this way every night and even come to love it. What was I so anxious about?
A siren wakes me at 3 A.M. Lamby stands, ready to fight. My first thought is how much my boyfriend values his sleep, and my second thought is a reprise of "What have I done?" I get up and open the door to the living room, where my sister is sobbing. I kneel over her and she shows me the offending text message. Lamby makes himself busy, circling her, placing a spitty chew toy on any exposed skin he can find. Once she calms down, he does, too. On the arm of the couch. This is where we will stay.
Lamby's fine if it's just him and me, working or eating or listening to music. But any attempt on my part to be alone—meditating, showering, walking out into the hallway to dump trash down the chute—results in that same siren sound. Sometimes he takes a break to flash his erection at me, red as a sunburn and made even more vulgar by the jaunty bandanna the groomer has tied around his neck.
At night, he conks out around ten. He's at his best when he's sleeping, snoring softly, one ear flopped over his eyes like a sleep mask. But, once the light goes out, he's on edge, using the siren to fend off imagined intruders.
My building skews old. Let's just say that four neighbors passed away last year, and none of the deaths were tragedies. So when an ambulance pulls up to our door I never panic.
Lamby does. One night, an ambulance is parked outside from 3 A.M. to 5 A.M., and for those two hours he sounds a rival siren. I try shutting the blinds. Covering his ears. Pushing him out of my bedroom. But he's despondent.
The classic reasons that people have dogs—to feel loved unconditionally, and not for our appearance or net worth; to escape the knowledge of death for a moment with a creature who doesn't know about its existence; to have access to utterly present joy—are only intellectual concepts in the face of this squealing lunatic. The ambulance leaves, but Lamby starts again when the woman below me coughs, a deep weak rumble that I often mistake for male sounds of sexual pleasure or the evening news.
At 5:07 A.M., I crawl to the end of the bed to meet him. I ruffle his ears, whisper, "It's O.K., I'm here. I've been waiting for you for so long. Before I even knew about you, I was waiting for you. When you were born, I was only twenty-five years old. I had a boyfriend I didn't love, but I told him that I did and he made me a pencil case, so I didn't even know I needed you. But I needed you." Lamby is growling, but more softly now. He still doesn't like the scene downstairs, the coughing and the woman's frustrated, tired caretaker rising to check on her.
"And the rest of the months I waited for you, and now here you are."
Once, in a friend's office, I saw a childhood picture of her husband on which he'd drawn a thought bubble saying, "I can't wait to meet you, it's going to take a long time, and there will be a lot of trouble along the way, but this is how it must be." It struck me as impossibly romantic, the nicest thing you could say to someone, really. "I'm not going anywhere," I tell Lamby.
He wakes up only one more time in the night, with a single bark that trails into silence.
I kiss his little mouth, his ears that smell like corn chips and old water. "Sh-h-h . . . I love you. I love you. I love you so much." There is no one to call for help. We don't need any help. He is mine, and I am old enough to have him. We are all adults here. ♦


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Before the start of the Sochi Olympics, U.S. speedskaters were given the "fastest speedskating suit in the world" by Under Armour. Now, a report by the Wall Street Journal suggests that American Olympians are quietly wondering if the suits are slowing them down.
According to three people familiar with the U.S. team, these suits … have a design flaw that may be slowing the skaters down. These people said that vents on back of the suit, designed to allow heat to escape, are allowing air to enter the suit and create drag that keeps the skaters from staying in the "low" position they need to achieve maximum speed. One skater said team members felt they were fighting the suit to maintain correct form.
As of Thursday, no American skater has finished better than seventh.
The suits were delivered to the American squad in January and had never before been used in live competition. U.S. long-track team coach Ryan Shimabukuro and speedskating stars like Shani Davis wisely refused to criticize sponsor Under Armour's design, but Danish designer Bert van der Tuuk admitted to trying the vents on a Danish team design three years ago. He said the vents appeared to be creating drag, "blowing itself up."
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