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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Trisha O'Brien has been tabbed to lead MIT's women's basketball program it was announced today by DAPER Department Head/Director of Athletics, Candace Royer. O'Brien joins MIT after spending 10 years at the helm of Colby College's women's basketball program.
During her tenure with the Mules, she compiled a career record of 140-115. In O'Brien's second season, she directed Colby to an 11-game turnaround and an appearance in the ECAC New England Championship tournament. At the conclusion of the 1996-97 season, she was named the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) District 1 Coach of the Year and collected additional Coach of the Year plaudits from the New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) and the Maine Women's Basketball Coaches Association (MWBCA). Four years later, the Mules captured the ECAC crown and finished the season with a 22-7 overall record.
Prior to her time at Colby, O'Brien was the head coach of the women's basketball team as well as the men's and women's cross country squads at Rivier College from 1992-95. In 1993-94, the Raiders posted their first winning season in a decade. The following year, Rivier notched its best record in the program's history, finishing with an overall ledger of 17-8.
Outside of her coaching duties, O'Brien is currently a member of the WBCA and its All-America Committee. She is an active member of the NEWBA, where she served as vice-president from 1998-00 and then president the following two years. O'Brien also participates on the NCAA Division III Regional Selection Committee.
O'Brien graduated from Salem State College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport and Fitness Studies. She continued her studies at Salem State, receiving a Master's Degree in Education with a concentration in counseling in 1992. O'Brien was a four-year member of the Lady Vikings basketball squad, which captured the NCAA Division III National Championship in 1986. She earned Kodak All-America District 1 and All-New England honors. She was a two-time ECAC All-Star and All-Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC) selection. In 1994, O'Brien was inducted into the Salem State College Hall of Fame. Two years later, the National Championship Team earned the same recognition.


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US Secret Service chief seeks to reassure senators
WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest embarrassing episode involving a drunken U.S. Secret Service agent overseas for a presidential trip was an isolated incident, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson said Tuesday.
Pierson and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met with senators from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to talk about the incident involving an agent found drunk in a hotel in the Netherlands last month.
Johnson spent about 15 minutes with the lawmakers while Pierson answered questions in the closed-door meeting for about an hour. Homeland Security said Johnson went to the meeting to show his support for Pierson.
In her written statement, Pierson told lawmakers she has "made clear to the entire workforce that I will not tolerate unprofessional behavior or misconduct at any level — both on and off duty."
"I remain committed to swiftly and vigorously addressing any instances of misconduct that are brought to my attention and have instructed my senior staff to do the same," Pierson said. "In addition to instituting and clearly communicating a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to misconduct, I recognize the need to put equal weight on continuously improving our human capital policies and practices."
Pierson was appointed director last year after then-Director Mark Sullivan retired almost a year after a South American prostitution scandal made world-wide headlines.
Thirteen agents and officers were accused of partying with female foreign citizens at a hotel in the seaside resort of Cartagena, Colombia, where they were staying before President Barack Obama's arrival for a Latin American summit. Some of the women were prostitutes and incident came to light after an agent had a fight with one prostitute over payment in the hallway of a hotel where the agents were staying in advance of Obama's arrival.
Since then, there have been a handful of other incidents and details of previous misconduct allegations have come to light.
Weeks before the incident in the Netherlands two agents in Florida were involved in a traffic accident that The Washington Post reported involved alcohol. Neither of the agents in that case was charged by local police.
Pierson said that incident and the events in the Netherlands don't represent the entire agency. "This is isolated incidents of misconduct and we are working to correct that every day," Pierson told reporters after the meeting.
After the Colombia scandal, Sullivan issued a series of new conduct rules, including ordering agents and officers to stop drinking 10 hours before reporting to duty. Agents and officers have also been ordered to drink alcohol only "in moderate amounts while off duty" or on temporary assignment, according to an updated Secret Service professional conduct manual obtained by The Associated Press.
Committee Chairman Tom Carper, who has previously said he was "troubled" by the recent reports of misconduct, said Tuesday "there are a handful of members of the Secret Service who are shaming, and smearing" the agency's reputation.
The Delaware Democrat said Pierson is continuing to implement new disciplinary policies and has his support.
Follow Alicia A. Caldwell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/acaldwellap

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When Katy Mobley was 3 days old, her parents sent out adoption announcements to their family and friends. Early on, they also made a point of regularly telling their daughter how wonderful it was to have adopted her. "From the moment we brought Katy home, we wanted her to feel that her adoption was a positive event," says her mother, Marilynn, of Marietta, GA.
Katy, now 14, feels comfortable asking her mom and dad questions about her biological parents. The Mobleys are convinced that they can communicate so freely because they were open about their daughter's adoption from the get-go.
Most experts agree with the Mobleys' approach and suggest that parents talk openly about their child's adoption, even during infancy, to set a good tone for later on, when children will want to explore their feelings on the issue. Ultimately, an open atmosphere helps them to grow into self-assured adults, says Lois Ruskai Melina, author of Raising Adopted Children.
Of course, a child's understanding of adoption changes as she matures. Most kids don't start to grasp the concept until age 5 or 6, but if they've been prepared, they won't be shocked when the story does click.
Here are five ways to keep the lines of communication open:
-Use the word "adoption" regularly. The word shouldn't become your primary focus, but say it when it feels natural. This way "adoption" never becomes taboo.
-Share stories. Read books about adoption, such as The Day We Met You, by Phoebe Koehler, and Let's Talk About It: Adoption, by Fred Rogers. Or weave your own tale: Richard Gellerman, of Tucson, AZ, told his 1-year-old daughter, Kayla, about a little squirrel whose parents didn't have enough nuts to give her, but were able to find another mother and father who did. "Kayla didn't yet grasp the fact that she was adopted," Gellerman says, "but the story helped to introduce her to the concept."
-Create a memory book. Little kids love seeing what they looked like as babies and learning about their own history, even if they don't understand every aspect. When Katy Mobley was 1, her mother showed her photos of the day they brought her home. There was even a snapshot of the adoption agency.
-Take cues from your child. If she asks, "Did I grow in your tummy?" explain pregnancy and birth in the context of her own experience. Say, "You grew inside your birth mother, another woman, and then you came to live with us." If your child doesn't express much interest in her adoption, don't dwell on it. You can be sure at some point she'll need to learn more. Once a 5-year-old becomes fascinated with the human life cycle, she'll want to know everything—from where she came from to how she relates to her immediate and extended family.
-Be patient. While your child might acknowledge that she's adopted, she won't really know what that means until she understands conception and pregnancy, says Sharon Kaplan Roszia, an adoptive mother, and a program manager for the Kinship Center adoption agency, in Santa Ana, CA. So don't become frustrated if your child doesn't seem to "get it," Roszia notes. It's perfectly natural for her to ask questions—sometimes even the same ones over and over again.
Who Else Should Know?
Doctors: Supply your pediatrician with the birth parents' medical records, if you have them. Also let him know about the quality of prenatal care received by the birth mother. Both could have an influence on your child's health.
Teachers: Tell them on a need-to-know basis. For instance, if your child has a genetic tendency toward learning difficulties, informing teachers might help to make sure his educational needs are met.
Friends and Family: Share the full story with them only after your child knows it.
Saying the Right Thing
When your child asks about his adoption, be honest, but don't think that you have to explain everything at once. It's fine to wait until he's older to tell him more, especially if you think the truth might confuse or hurt him (which could be the case if he was abandoned). Just don't say anything untrue, because you may have to contradict it later.
Emphasize that there's nothing wrong with him. Explain that he was given up for adoption because his biological parents were unable to care for a baby at that time.
Stress that adoption is permanent, so your child won't worry that you'll give him up someday, too.
Talk about your child's birth mother and father. Otherwise, he might conclude that his adoptive father is his birth father.
Encourage your child to discuss his emotions.
Tell a child that she was given up "out of love." She may worry that if you love her, you'll give her up, too.
Say that you "chose" her. In order to be chosen by you, she might conclude that she was unwanted by someone else.
Denigrate the birth mother or father. They have a real connection with your child.
Expect her to come to terms with her adoption immediately. Many kids surprise parents with emotional reactions at age 7 or 8.


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Employee Records
| Business Records
This article is part of a series.
|Overview of Business Records
|Business Owner Records
|Practitioner Records
|Employee Records
|Customer Records
|Locating Business 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
Among our ancestors may exist an old family story telling of an ancestor who was killed 'working on the railroads' or who was killed 'in a mine accident.' Depending on the date of the injury or death, records relating to such accidents may be available. For example, the state of Colorado required mining companies to report accidents (see the following example). The resulting information is now available online and contains a wealth of personal information:
- Buzz, Herman. Death Date: 1919 JAN 4
- Nationality: Austrian. Occupation: Machineman. Yrs Mine Exp:
- Age at death: 30. Marital Status: M. Surviving children: 3. County: ELP
- Company name: D. W. Corley. Name of Mine: Klondyke.
- Cause of death/comments: fall of rock.
In many cases, one record may refer indirectly to other potential records. For example, an obituary might mention a union affiliation or church attended. Any tidbit such as these can lead to records created about our ancestors as employees.
Apprentice and Indenture Records
To indenture is to bind one person to another for a given period of time in payment for some service. To apprentice is to indenture for a certain time for the express purpose of learning an art or trade. The most common type of indenture was probably that used to pay for passage to America. A number of convicts from England indentured themselves as servants for a number of years to pay for their transportation to the southern states where they settled. The Old World system of indenturing apprentices to learn a trade was one of the first imports to America. In colonial days, most apprentices were boys in their teens, often younger than fourteen. The agreement, called an indenture, was signed by the master as well as the parent or guardian of the child.<ref> U.S. Department of Labor, Apprenticeship Past and Present, rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1964).</ref> The trades were often family businesses, and many fathers formally took their sons as apprentices. Two examples are Paul Revere, who learned the silversmith trade from his father, and Benjamin Franklin, who was indentured as a printer to his brother James.
Apprentices were usually bound until they were twenty-one, so the length of the indenture specified in the document gives an excellent indication of a child's age. If a boy was bound to his master for twelve years and five months, for example, he was probably about eight and a half years old when the indenture was signed.
In New England, it was not uncommon, especially among poorer families, for children under the age of ten to be bound out. The following 1676 indenture illustrates the kinds of genealogical and historical information available in such records:
- This Indenture witnesseth that I, Nathan Knight, sometime of Black Point, with the consent of my father-in-law [more likely stepfather], Harry Brooken and Elend, his wife, have put myself apprentice to Samuel Whidden, of Portsmouth, in the county of Portsmouth, mason, and bound after the manner of an apprentice with him, to serve and abide the full space and term of twelve years and five months, thence next following, to be full, complete and ended; during which time the said apprentice his said master faithfully shall serve, his lawful secrets shall keep, and commands shall gladly do, damage unto his said master he shall not do, nor see to done of others, but to the best of his power shall give timely notice thereof to his said master. Fornication he shall not commit, nor contract matrimony within the said time. The goods of his said master, he shall not spend or lend. He shall not play cards, or dice, or any other unlawful game, whereby his said master may have damage in his own goods, or others, taverns, he shall not haunt, nor from his master's business absent himself by day or night, but in all things shall behave himself as a faithful apprentice ought to do. And the said master his said apprentice shall teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the art and mystery as mason; finding unto his said apprentice during the said time meat, drink, washing, lodging, and apparel, fitting an apprentice, teaching him to read, and allowing him three months towards the latter end of his time to go to school to write, and also double the apparel at the end of said time. As witness our hands and seals, interchangeably put to two instruments of the same purpose, November the twenty-fifth, one thousand six hundred and seventy-six.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
From the mid-1700s onward, it was not unusual to find both girls and boys apprenticed when their family circumstances took a downward turn. Children were 'bound out' to help earn money for a family, or simply so the family would not have to support them. Sometimes one parent was deceased. Since the trades were not opened to girls, they were most often apprenticed to learn 'housewifry.'
An example from the Philadelphia Mayor's Office, Records of Indentures, shows several different types of indentures and the kinds of information included in each:
- Mary Stamper was to learn 'Housewifry.' Her mother's full name is given. Since the term of service was seven years, she was probably almost fourteen years old.
- Mary Barrett was apparently indentured to pay for passage to America, as her service lasted only one year, beginning with her arrival in America. The reference to the mayor of Cork in her indenture is a strong clue about her former residence in Ireland, a necessary fact to know before seeking Mary among Irish records.
- Jacob Grubb was apparently transferred from the apprenticeship of one cordwainer (shoemaker) to another.
- Mary Barbara Leichtin was bound for five years to pay a debt of twenty-one pounds, nine shillings, the cost of her passage from Rotterdam.
If your ancestor was a tradesman, locating information about his apprentices could provide a wealth of information. Some apprenticeship records are available. For example, Kathy Ritter's Apprentices of Connecticut, 1637'1900, and Harold B. Gill, Jr.'s Apprentices of Virginia, 1623'1800, contain extracts of records long lost in archives and historical collections that identify apprentices and masters.<ref>Kathy Ritter, Apprentices of Connecticut, 1637'1900 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986); Harold B. Gill Jr., Apprentices of Virginia, 1623'1800 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1989).</ref> Indentures can also provide clues about the home or business where the person was to serve. Sometimes the original certificates of indenture still exist as well.
Not all indentures were formal government documents. Some were private arrangements between two families in a neighborhood. While an indenture may have been written, it was never filed with a government agency. Others were arrangements made by a church for one of its members. The Society of Friends oversaw the welfare of its members and made arrangements for their care when needed. The Bradford Monthly Meeting records from 1762 indicate that the children of John Freeman are now under indenture to Robert Thorton and that Freeman himself ought to have some clothing provided for him.<ref>Martha Reamy, Early Church Records of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1: Quaker Records of Bradford Monthly Meeting (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1995), 152.</ref>
Research on William Plaskett of Trenton, New Jersey, led to the New Jersey Archives, which has extracts of newspaper articles published between 1704 and 1780 relative to New Jersey citizens regardless of where the paper was printed. As an example, an item extracted from the 17 September 1747 Pennsylvania Gazette (printed in Philadelphia) indicated that Plaskett had a bound servant named 'Sarah Davis, about 27 years of age, middle stature, somewhat freckled, [who] has a small scar in her forehead, and is slow of speech.' A Welshwoman, she had run away on 11 September wearing 'a calico gown, a black fur hat, shagged on the upper side, with a patch on the crown, and an ozenbrigs apron.'<ref>William Nelson, ed., Documents Relating to Colonial History of New Jersey, 1st series, vol. 12 (Patterson, N.J.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1895), 401.</ref> This clue turned research to indenture records, which revealed that Plaskett also had another indentured servant: 'Abigail Edwards (a servant from Ireland in the ship Pomona) . . . four years from Sept. 18th 1746, consideration 13L: customary dues.'<ref>George W. Neible, 'Account of Servants Bound and Assigned Before James Hamilton, Mayor of Philadelphia,' Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32 (October 1908): 369.</ref> The fact that William Plaskett had at least two servants during the same year, 1746'47, indicates his financial and social standing, important biographical information collected from business records.
Labor Unions
As American business grew, so did the desire of employees for better working conditions; thus labor unions were created. Because the purpose of labor unions is the improvement of employment conditions, accurate membership records are vital. Many unions have preserved volumes of records, which may contain information relevant to genealogical research. One person's description of the potential treasures vividly suggests the possibilities: 'The ITU (International Typographical Union) Headquarters Basement is comprised of a labyrinth of corridors. Each corridor is replete with shelves, filing cabinets, boxes, etc. I would imagine an archivist would be delirious with joy to be [loosed] in this musty atmosphere.'<ref>Paul Lewinson and Morris Rieger, 'Labor Union Records in the United States,' American Archivist 25 (January 1962): 39.</ref> This description came from an excellent 1960 survey conducted by the Society of American Archivists' Committee on Labor Records. The survey was sent to 265 organizations, of which 118'forty-five percent'responded, which represents about half of the labor organizations in the country. Unfortunately, some major unions, such as the United Automobile Workers, International Ladies Garment Workers, United Mine Workers, Teamsters, and most railroad and building trade unions, did not reply.
The survey (published as 'Labor Union Records in the United States,' by Paul Lewinson and Morris Rieger in American Archivist) answers several questions about the unions covered and suggests what records the nonresponding unions might have.<ref>Ibid., 46'57.</ref> Although the original survey did not ask about membership records, many of the responses referred to this information.
When researching this source, a knowledge of the union will obviously be helpful, as well as some information about the local (or chapter of the union) to which an ancestor belonged. However, when a family lacks more specific information, the ancestor's union can often be deduced by occupation. An ancestor's residence or employer's name may be sufficient for a helpful union secretary to determine the relevant local for members working in that area, who may even know the history of the union at that company.
If an ancestor was active in one of the twentieth-century trade or labor unions, the Archives of Labor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, may have information about him or her. The Archives of Labor holds the records of many rank-and-file leaders and officers who participated in the two principal collecting areas of that archive: labor history (predominately twentieth century), with special emphasis on industrial unionism, and urban history, especially twentieth-century reform groups. The holdings include records of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Federation of Teachers Newspaper Guild; Union of Farm Workers; Industrial Workers of the World; and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) prior to its merger with the American Federation of Labor (AFL). (See Warner Pflug's A Guide to the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs for details.)<ref>Warner Pflug, A Guide to the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974).</ref> While some records are available at local archives, most will be at union or local headquarters.
Railroad Employees
The special status of railroading in America has been recognized in several ways. Railroad workers of the twentieth century received special Social Security numbers and their own pension plans until 1964. Numbers that began with 700'729 were assigned only to railroad employees. More than two million people worked for the railroad companies at their peak around 1920. Furthermore, many railroad company records are easily located. The types of records, as described in two articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, include employment applications and files, history cards, and surgeon's certificates.<ref>Wendy Elliott, 'Railroad Records for Genealogical Research,' National Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (December 1987): 271'77. Addendum to the article, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 79 (June 1991): 140.</ref>
Magazines and websites supply information about railroad employees and the history of the business. The Erie Railroad Magazine published photos of employees. Those names are indexed and available online. The same website provides a list of engineers, accident reports, depot photos, clerical association officers, and other rosters.
A Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America was issued periodically during the nineteenth century.<ref>Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America (New York: Simmons-Boardman).</ref> The California State Railroad Museum Library has editions published in 1885, 1887, 1896, 1906, 1913, and 1922. It lacks the 1893 and 1901 editions. The title was published from 1885 to 1922. The same library also has some fifty drawers of employment cards for the Southern Pacific Railroad dating back to 1903.
To determine which railroads merged with another major service, consult Moody's Transportation Manual (known as Mergent Transportation Manual since 2001), issued annually by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.<ref>Moody's Transportation Manual (New York: Moody's, 2000), issued annually 1963'2000. Since 2001, known as Mergent Transportation Manual (New York: Mergent, 2001), issued annually. See http://www.mergent.com/publish/product54.asp.</ref> Current and back issues are available at most public and research libraries. Various Internet sites also provide the history of the railroads and their mergers.
An ancestor who received a pension from certain railroad lines should be on record at the Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092. The board is very helpful in answering requests for information if you can provide the employee's name, position, the railroad for which he worked, and place and dates of employment. There is a nonrefundable fee for a search, regardless of the results. The board has posted some background information online.
Accessibility and retention of railroad personnel records varies from company to company. Museums and historical societies often house records of local or regional railroads, as do the following examples.
- California State Railroad Museum Library], 111 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814 maintains employment records for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Employee cards, 1900 to 1930, are available at the Family History Library.
- Chicago Historical Society, North Ave. and Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60614 has records for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- Minnesota State Historical Society, 690 Cedar Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 holds records of the Burlington Northern, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern railroad companies.
- San Diego Historical Society, 1649 El Prado, San Diego, California 92101 has records for the San Diego and Arizona Railroad Company.
U.S. Government Civilian Personnel
The United States government has long employed civilians along with military personnel. The personnel records for former civilian employees are housed at the U.S. Civilian Personnel Records Center:
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- National Personnel Records Center
- Civilian Personnel Records
- 111 Winnebago Street
- St. Louis, Missouri 63118
These records are only accessible by mail to the former employee or next-of-kin. Personnel files retained by the federal government for employees and civil service personnel, from 1860 to 1951, have surpassed sixty million. Some files require invoking the Freedom of Information Act for access. See Claire Prechtel-Kluskens's 'Documenting the Career of Federal Employees' for a concise explanation of the difficult yet potentially fruitful task of searching government personnel records.<ref> Claire Prechtel-Kluskens, 'Documenting the Career of Federal Employees,' Prologue 26 (Fall 1994): 180'85.</ref> The records include the date and place of employment, wages, job description, and retirement information. Additional records pertaining to this employee may also be held at another location. Check with the branch of government that employed the civilian.
The personnel file of one civilian government employee is typical of the information available. The individual began working for the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth. He later transferred to St. Louis, then Wyoming, Atlanta, and finally Philadelphia, where he retired. From 1876 to 1921, he worked as a clerk at various job levels. His wages and responsibilities increased during World War I, then decreased after the war, with the amounts and duties all set forth. With the locality information, his family can be traced at the various places of residence that might otherwise not be known. Some of his children followed him with every move, while others married and stayed in one of his intermediate stops. Without the valuable information found in the personnel record, any family history would be incomplete.
Social Security Records
For the genealogist, one of the largest and most valuable set of employee records are those of the Social Security Administration. When it was passed as a type of national pension fund in 1935, the Social Security Act created one the largest groups of employment records in the world as well as abundant research opportunities for today's genealogists. Some of our ancestors registered for Social Security immediately; others waited until Medicare took effect in 1966. Either way, their application is one of the most useful records available for twentieth-century ancestors.
The Social Security Administration has issued approximately 330 million numbers since 1936. Since 1988, any child older than two years of age had to have a Social Security number to be claimed as a dependent on an income tax form; today numbers for a newborn infant are requested at the time of birth. Most workers who have been employed since the system was implemented have a number. There are, however, a few exceptions. Until recently, individuals who have never worked, self-employed individuals (including farmers), some people with separate retirement plans, and government employees did not need numbers. For example, many wives who did not work outside the home did not need numbers. Nevertheless, the potential findings make a search for an ancestor's Social Security number worthwhile.
The earliest benefits were paid to individuals who were born as early as 1850 and lived until 1936, including naturalized citizens. The information on a person's specific birthplace may not be recorded anywhere else, just as there may not be any other document that proves parentage. This is especially true for people naturalized before 1906, when detailed birth information was not required for naturalization. The Social Security number itself provides a clue to the ancestor's life. The first three digits of the number indicate the state of residence where the application was made.
In order to enroll in the system, the applicant completed an 'Application for Social Security Number' form, also known as an SS-5 form. This form has changed over time, but it usually required the applicant to provide his or her full name (including maiden name), complete birth date and place, parents' complete names, his or her own and employer's address when the application was made, and the date completed. Adult applicants were required to sign the form.
Not all applicants for a Social Security number were young people just beginning their careers. One woman, Mary Haviland, applied for her Social Security number when she was seventy-two years old, the age that other people are retiring (see the attached image). She identified her parents as Paschall Seeds and Ann Agusta Sharpnack and indicated that she was born on 13 December 1878 in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. At the time of the application, she was employed by the library board of Warrenton, Missouri, and was living in that town.
The Social Security Administration has microfilmed the application forms and computerized some of the information on the forms. After review of the microfilm, the forms were destroyed (by agreement with the archivist of the United States) because of the sheer volume of the original records.
Any requests made to the Social Security Administration should include the person's Social Security number. In many instances, the number appears on the death certificate. It may also appear on such family records as insurance policies, identification cards, and employment papers. Some local government records, such as voter lists, tax rolls, and driver's licenses, may also include the Social Security number. Private companies, such as funeral homes and credit reporting agencies, often have the number as well.
The easiest way to locate a Social Security number for individuals who died after 1964 is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). The index includes name, number, date of birth and death, residence at time of application, and location where death benefits were paid. Understanding the locality information is especially important. Until recent laws required numbers for young children, most people did not apply for a Social Security number until they joined the work force or until they were eligible for benefits. Quite often their location at the time of application was not their birthplace. Likewise, the location where benefits were paid is not necessarily the place of death, as is the case when the deceased did not live in the same area as their beneficiary.
The SSDI is available online at several different genealogy sites, including Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Genealogy.com, New England Ancestors, and RootsWeb.com. While each includes the same data, search criteria differ. If the desired record is not found at one site, a researcher should try the others. A search for Mary Haviland on the various sites produced anywhere from twenty-two to thirty-three records. Links to these sites, with background information on Social Security records and SSDI, can be found online at Cyndi's List.
See Also
- Researching Business, Institution, and Organization Records
- List of Useful Business, Institution, and Organization Resources


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" Where Congress won't act, I will."
— 'The First Illegal President' Barack Obama
Flash Back!!!
Obama made sense as a candidate, then turned around and passed ObamaCare, notice the statements about Massachusetts? RomneyCare would be no different!!
ForgeryGate: Congress Knows Obama Is A Fake
The abject failure and refusal of Congress to act in the Obama eligibility crisis continues to harm America and to threaten her citizens as anger,confusion,and doubt build over whether or not our sitting President is even eligible to hold office,let alone be elected to a second term. (Be sure to take the time and read this article. The Kenyan Birth Certificate was the correct one.)
The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what can only be called true "animal genocide" — the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair. It's all part of a shocking new "Invasive Species Order" (ISO) put in place by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources (DNR). (Beyond a doubt more legislation with the implementing regulations of the bill in brackets and omitted. )
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Good news? Yes. There's been a decline in the increase of health care spending that could shrink our budget deficits in the near future. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's smarter brother, has the story in the NY Times today.
Actually, these developments are the first signs of a medical reform revolution that seems to be building, with the increased use of electronic records to determine the best and most efficient practices. As I've written before, there is a path to better and cheaper medical care–it's all about best practices, putting doctors on salaries and squeezing some of the larger teaching hospitals that have been squeezing us. The President should be leading the charge…which is another reason why his State of the Union address was so disappointing.


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Most folks who follow the graphene scene are familiar with the honeycomb structure (hexagonal network) shown in diagram after diagram but I imagine there's more than one of us who didn't realize that defects can occur at the boundaries, from the Jan. 15, 2012 news release on EurekAlert,
When graphene is grown, lattices of the carbon grains are formed randomly, linked together at different angles of orientation in a hexagonal network. However, when those orientations become misaligned during the growth process, defects called grain boundaries (GBs) form. These boundaries scatter the flow of electrons in graphene, a fact that is detrimental to its successful electronic performance.
The Jan. 14, 2013 University of Illinois Beckman Institute news release written by Steve McGoughey, which originated the item on EurekAlert, provides insight into the problem and its solution,
Beckman Institute researchers Joe Lyding and Eric Pop and their research groups have now given new insight into the electronics behavior of graphene with grain boundaries that could guide fabrication methods toward lessening their effect. The researchers grew polycrystalline graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy for analysis, to examine at the atomic scale grain boundaries on a silicon wafer. They reported their results in the journal ACS Nano.
"We obtained information about electron scattering at the boundaries that shows it significantly limits the electronic performance compared to grain boundary free graphene," Lyding said. "Grain boundaries form during graphene growth by CVD, and, while there is much worldwide effort to minimize the occurrence of grain boundaries, they are a fact of life for now.
"For electronics you would want to be able to make it on a wafer scale. Boundary free graphene is a key goal. In the interim we have to live with the grain boundaries, so understanding them is what we're trying to do."
Lyding compared graphene lattices made with the CVD method to pieces of a cyclone fence.
"If you had two pieces of fence, and you laid them on the ground next to each other but they weren't perfectly aligned, then they wouldn't match," he said. "That's a grain boundary, where the lattice doesn't match."
Their analysis showed that when the electrons' itinerary takes them to a grain boundary, it is like, Lyding said, hitting a hill.
"The electrons hit this hill, they bounce off, they interfere with themselves and you actually see a standing wave pattern," he said. "It's a barrier so they have to go up and over that hill. Like anything else, that is going to slow them down. That's what Justin was able to measure with these spectroscopy measurements.
"Basically a grain boundary is a resistor in series with a conductor. That's always bad. It means it's going to take longer for an electron to get from point A to point B with some voltage applied."
In the paper, the researchers were able to report on their analysis of the orientation angles between pieces of graphene as they grew together, and found "no preferential orientation angle between grains, and the GBs are continuous across graphene wrinkles and Si02 topography." They reported that analysis of those patterns "indicates that backscattering and intervalley scattering are the dominant mechanisms responsible for the mobility reduction in the presence of GBs in CVD-grown graphene."
The researchers work is aimed not just at understanding, but also at controlling grain boundaries. One of their findings – that GBs are aperiodic – replicated other work and could have implications for controlling them, as they wrote in the paper: "Combining the spectroscopic and scattering results suggest that GBs that are more periodic and well-ordered lead to reduced scattering from the GBs."
"I think if you have to live with grain boundaries you would like to be able to control exactly what their orientation is and choose an angle that minimizes the scattering," Lyding said.
Here's a citation and link for the article,
Atomic-Scale Evidence for Potential Barriers and Strong Carrier Scattering at Graphene Grain Boundaries: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study by Justin C. Koepke, Joshua D. Wood, David Estrada, Zhun-Yong Ong, Kevin T. He, Eric Pop, and Joseph W. Lyding in ACS Nano, Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/nn302064p Publication Date (Web): December 13, 2012
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At the beginning of last week I wrote how important the Detroit and Minnesota series were to the streaky Mets.
They've been either hot or cold and a solid showing against two strong American League teams would be a positive showing, and going 4-2 has them on the cusp again of first place in the NL East. With a win tonight and Atlanta loss to Washington and rookie sensation Stephen Strasburg, the Mets can move into first place.
They'll attempt to do it behind knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who is vying tonight to become the first Mets pitcher since Steve Trachsel in 2006 to win seven straight decisions.
"It doesn't feel surreal,'' Dickey said. "It feels like something I've been capable of doing.''
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Over 900 entries from twelve regional science fairs competed March 27-30 in San Antonio. Colby received the Stockholm Junior Water Prize and could be selected to represent Texas in Portland, Oregon on June 14-15 at the National Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition. Also, Colby received the first place Texas Tech Natural Resources Award with a $1,500 scholarship. Colby's project, "Missing Link - Effects of Water Quality on Macroinvertebrate and Fish Diversity" - determined how temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, turbidity, and carbon dioxide levels effect crucial primary consumers in the aquatic food chain. Colby's study included field work using seine, D-nets, filter buckets and computerized probes on three sites along the Sabine River. The freshman at Gilmer High school plans to continue his studies on aquatic populations along the Sabine River to determine impact of water quality on the fishing industry in Texas.


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If I had to list my favorite Afflecks in order of awesomeness Casey would for sure be in the top five. Think it over, I'll wait. Good, now that's your back I'd like to tell you about how Casey Affleck has now been cast in the new flick "Paradise Lost", an epic tale of archangels Michael and Lucifer battling it out and how this impacted the downfall of Adam and Eve. Affleck will play Gabriel and I'd appreciate it if someone who knows about bible stuff tells me if that's a good or a bad thing.
AMC has pulled the trigger on a new talk show that will air immediately following episodes of "The Walking Dead" this fall. The show will be called "The Talking Dead" (get it!?) and be hosted by comedian Chris Hardwick. The more projects this guy takes on the less hope I have for a "Love Line" reunion. Didn't you always want him and Jenny McCarthy to get together? But no that home wrecking tramp Carmen Electra had to come in and ruin it all. Curse you Electra!
Oh Tom Six, you sick sick SOB. Today we've got a new poster for his new film "The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)" which looks to be a lot more human centipedey than the first one. Which I don't think is a good thing but it's something for sure. I don't know what to believe anymore.
And because you needed to see something that would make you want to overdose on some sort of cool drug the kids are doing that I don't know about here's the first full cast image from "Dark Shadows". For those of you not familiar with the original show it's some kind of vampire soap opera where none of the vampires twinkle in the sunlight. I think it was British too. That's a lot to take in isn't it? That's what she said.
I knew this kind of crap happens! Here's an optometrist who's being brought up on charges because he put his penis on a girl's mouth while putting in her eye drops. God only knows what the dentist did to me while I was having my wisdom teeth out. I'm pretty sure them telling me they had to remove them rectally was bull crap.
Oh all the portable devices sure are fun aren't they? Why you can take your movies and fun anywhere these days. Like this guy who's going to jail because he lost his iPad and the person who found it decided to take a look around his hard drive and discovered a bunch of kiddie porn. Technology is super awesome.


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Rio de Janeiro, Nov 24 (IANS) Former Real Madrid and Brazil coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo has ended speculation about his future by extending his contract with Brazilian top−flight outfit Gremio for two more seasons.
The 60−year−old was linked with a return to his former club Palmeiras but came to new financial terms with the Porto Alegre club Friday, reports Xinhua.
"Gremio is ready to win big titles and I want to be a part of the success," Luxemburgo said during a press conference announcing his contract renewal.
Luxemburgo, who joined the club in February, has lifted Gremio from 12th last year to second in Brazil's Serie A championship this season with two matches remaining.
Club officials are understood to have promised the coach financial support in his bid to strengthen his squad ahead of next year's Copa Libertadores.
"We have to start preparing for next season and discuss names," Luxemburgo said. "That includes deciding who will go and who will stay. It will all be done with a great deal of consideration and planning."
Luxemburgo coached Brazil from 1998 to 2000 and also led Real Madrid in 2005.


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Teams sighted at Maroondah Dam (possible bungee jump?)
No bungy.
I looked at some pictures of Maroondah Dam and it didn't look like it would work for bungee jumping. I think I said so when I posted the sighting there. The dam is much wider at the bottom than the top, so you'd have to have a platform that stuck out 50 or 100 feet from the top of the dam to avoid hitting the face of the dam on your way down. On top of that, it's not a particularly tall dam, maybe 150 feet or less, so it wouldn't be a long drop or dramatic visually. I don't know what they did at the dam, but I'd be surprised if it was bungee jumping.
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Wait? Macau language is Portuguese?
Quote from: Declive on January 30, 2012, 10:26:27 PMWait? Macau language is Portuguese?Yep, but a lot if not most of the people speak Chinese as their main language. Portuguese is still a really big part of the culture their, though.Also, I think that the girls in the picture are counting the lanterns. It seems like a likely task.
I see a pattern on the lanterns: yellow with pink flowers, orange, and yellow with fish. Don't know if this has anything to do with it?
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Careening through a snowstorm with a run reminiscent of Franz Klammer's death-defying Olympic downhill victory in 1976, Andrew Weibrecht first got the attention of the alpine world in a World Cup downhill at Beaver Creek in November 2007.
Wearing bib No. 53 and racing well after all of the top racers finished their runs, Weibrecht battled through poor visibility and accumulating snow on the track to finish 10th with an audacious performance in his first World Cup downhill. More than six years later, he still has not finished higher in a World Cup race.
Now, however, the 28-year-old from Lake Placid, N.Y., is a double Olympic medalist. He was a surprise bronze medalist in super-G four years ago at Vancouver, and Sunday he claimed silver in the same event at the Sochi Games.
People still talk about his hair-raising performance at Beaver Creek when he was an unknown. Coming off one jump, he got his left leg in the air and landed on the other leg to avoid disaster at more than 60 mph.
"It showed his guts and courage, and that's what you've seen in both of his Olympics," said Sasha Rearick, U.S men's head coach.
At the Vancouver Games, teammate Bode Miller took silver ahead of him. Sunday, they reversed positions. Miller tied for bronze with Jan Hudec of Canada, becoming the oldest Olympic alpine medalist at age 36. It was his sixth Olympic medal, putting him behind only Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt (eight) in alpine. Miller also moved into a second-place tie among American medalists at the Winter Games with speedskater Bonnie Blair. Only short-track skater Apolo Ohno (eight) has more.
"I've never been so stuck on counting them," said Miller, who missed all of last season because of knee surgery. "This was a hard year, and a lot of effort coming back to get fit and get ready, just battle everything that life throws at you. To come out and ski hard, it's almost therapeutic for me to be in these situations where I really have to test myself. I was happy for it to be on the right side of the hundredths. Some days, medals don't matter. Today was one of the ones where it does matter."
Despite Weibrecht's lack of success on the World Cup circuit, he is now the fourth American man to have multiple Olympic medals in alpine racing along with Miller, Phil Mahre and Tommy Moe. Mahre and Moe claimed two each.
Since the Vancouver Games, Weibrecht endured four surgeries on shoulders and ankles, and there were times when he wondered if it was worth it to keep battling.
"This is probably the most emotional day of ski racing I've ever had," Weibrecht said. "All the issues and troubles that I've had, to come and be able to have a really strong result like this, it reminds me that all the work I did to come back from the injuries, dealing through the hard times, that's all worth it. Now it makes sense."
Norway's Kjetil Jansrud won with a time of 1 minute, 18.14 seconds. Weibrecht was 0.30 of a second behind. Miller and Hudec, who took Canada's first alpine medal in 20 years, were 0.53 back.
Miller said Weibrecht was the best man on the mountain with an "incredible" run, because the course was as much as 0.7 of a second slower when he ran with bib No. 29.
"He's so much better than his results show on the World Cup," Miller said. "He's one of the guys who could consistently win in three events. He's just an unbelievable talent. He's usually pretty reserved emotionally, and he doesn't connect skiing with emotion. He just skis with huge intensity normally. Here (at the Olympics), he really connects the emotion to it. That's why he gets such crazy performances out of himself."
Weibrecht joked that as recently as Saturday, he wondered whether it was worth it to continue in the sport.
"There's only so many times you can get kicked before you start to really feel it," Weibrecht said. "I try not to focus on results, but I really needed a result to remind me that, more than anything, I'm capable of this and I belong here."
If Weibrecht had slower course conditions, he benefited from course reports by Ted Ligety and Miller, who ran ninth and 13th respectively. Ligety finished 14th.
"Ted threw down an amazing run, gave up a great course report to Bode," Rearick said. "Bode threw down harder — where Ted had made a mistake, Bode skied that great. Bode made another little mistake that cost him on the bottom, radioed that up to Andrew, and Andrew put it all together by just going for it. Amazing skiing."
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Here at ARKive, we're not just researchers, writers and website designers – we are also passionate about the natural world, and many of us enjoy getting outside and learning more about the wildlife around us.
While not writing and editing species profiles for the ARKive website, I have been busy setting up and helping to run the UK's first national 'Garden Bioblitz' event. It takes place across the country this weekend (1st-2nd June) and everyone can get involved!
What is a BioBlitz?
The idea of a BioBlitz is to bring together scientists and members of the public to identify and record as many species as possible in a particular area over a limited time period, usually 24 hours.
The first BioBlitz was held in Washington, D.C. in 1996, and since then the idea has spread across the world, with more events being added every year.
Most BioBlitzes work together with environmental records centres to ensure that the data collected will have the maximum value for science. As well as collecting scientific records, the events also give the public the opportunity to learn about biodiversity, be inspired by experts, and experience their local wildlife.
Why a Garden Bioblitz?
The idea of a Garden Bioblitz came about last year when a couple of wildlife enthusiasts got together online and decided it would be fun to record the wildlife in our gardens. We had so much interest from others who wanted to join in that we decided to turn it into a national event.
The Garden Bioblitz initially ran as a trial event in 2012 and was a huge success, with more than 2,231 records entered for 966 species by just 24 volunteers. This year, the event is open to everyone, and we hope that as many people as possible will take part.
Gardens cover a large area of the UK and are an important habitat for many native species. The only way for scientists to thoroughly survey the wildlife living in people's gardens is through 'citizen science', with members of the public helping to collect this valuable information. The records collected will be made available to national recording schemes, which help researchers and local governments make conservation and land management decisions.
However, although these records are important, the main aims of the event are to get people outside, engaging with the species on their doorsteps, discovering something new, and hopefully being inspired to encourage more wildlife into their gardens. Above all, it's about having fun!
How to take part
To take part in the Garden Bioblitz, all you need to do is choose a 24-hour period over the weekend of 1st-2nd June, then get outside and rummage through your flowerbeds, watch birds on your feeders, dip nets into ponds or crawl across your lawn to see what you can find.
You don't need to be a wildlife expert or have any special skills, and you don't even need to count for the full 24 hours. The team are interested in all records – just go out, write down what you see, take lots of photos and submit your records online. There is even a downloadable ticksheet of 20 top species to spot, for those who want a bit more help with where to begin. Or you can view some of our handy hints and tips on how to go about your Bioblitz.
Experts will be online over the weekend to help identify finds, and anyone can take part in the event, whether they have a large garden or a tiny patio – it's amazing what you can discover when you take a closer look. And if it seems a little daunting, why not get friends, family or neighbours to join in and help out?
Here are the five simple steps to taking part:
- Go out into your garden and see what you can find! Use the downloadable tick sheet if you're not sure where to start.
- Take lots of photos – these can help with species identification.
- Identify your finds – you can use books, online field guides, or ask the experts on iSpot or Twitter.
- Upload your records to iRecord.
- Have fun!
Although the Garden Bioblitz is currently based in the UK, you are welcome to take part wherever you are, and to submit records to your own local recording schemes.
Let us know how you get on!
To find out more about the Garden Bioblitz and how to take part, visit the Garden Bioblitz website or follow the Garden Bioblitz team on Twitter @GardenBioblitz.
You can also find out about other BioBlitz events on the National BioBlitz website and Encyclopedia of Life – BioBlitz.
Liz Shaw, ARKive Text Author and Garden Bioblitz team member


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Kenneth Pettine Is Helping Develop New Therapies To Eradicate CancerIt seems like it was ages ago that researchers made great promises and projections about the use of stem cells in treating several conditions, but many of those projections have proved fruitless. The research into stem cells is a painfully slow process, but recently researchers in two different studies made great strides in developing stem cells to help treat lung conditions and ailments.
The studies, published by Respiratory Research and Stem Cells Translational Medicine, focused on the treatment of lung diseases which researchers have found little success in so far. In one animal study, the research team performed transbronchial biopsies to obtain lung cells from rats. After the cells were cultured and multiplied, they were injected into rats with a condition like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The rats that received the lung cells showed marked improvement including less inflammation and more healthy cells compared to rats in the study that did not receive the stem cells.
The new research demonstrates that stem cells can be used to reverse chronic lung conditions like cystic fibrosis and emphysema. The research marks the kenneth Pettine first time that stem cells have been gathered and reproduced using a minimally invasive procedure. Traditionally stem cells must be obtained from a piece of lung that must be removed surgically. Now stem cells can be harvested from the patient in a simple outpatient procedure. The researchers borrowed some techniques and developments from stem cell research in the circulatory world. Though research is positive, the teams caution that it's not ready for use in clinics yet.
Other Ways Stems Cell Research is Moving Forward
The new studies are great news for those with chronic lung issues, and other doctors are leading the use of stem cells for other treatments. Kenneth Pettine of Loveland, Colorado recently completed a successful three-year study that demonstrated the efficacy of using stem cells to treat chronic or degenerative musculoskeletal conditions. Pettine is one of the United States leading researchers in the development of stem cell-based therapies for conditions like osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease, and its possible Pettine's research can be used to fuel other types of stem cell therapies.
Teams like Kenneth Pettine's and the team in the stem cell pulmonary study are inching closer to the goal of putting stem cells to use for the greater good of people. With some more time, we could see these types of reputable stem-cell therapies in our local doctors office sooner than later.


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migya wrote:ChurroChou wrote:Looking forward to close out November 10-6.
Last season, the team ended November 12-6 but they didn't play more than two or three top teams. This season, they have won against Jazz, Spurs, Mavs and Pistons! It looks much better this time
i was saying the same thing. it feels good seeing the team come up clutch (even shorthanded) as opposed to the last 2 years where there is a 3rd or 4th quarter collapse. and even andris hits freethrows when they count!


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For some teachers, writing has been a challenging skill to teach our students. For some, writing only occurs when students are able to form letters; put letters together to form words, put words together to make a sentence, and then a paragraph. Some consider copying text materials as writing which can be considered to some point. The writing process is often introduced in middle grades when it should have been introduced earlier on. This past week several teachers attended a writing workshop at CMI. The purpose of this workshop was to help teachers view writing as a process and also view it as a product. Narrative writing, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, and Persuasive Writing are four styles of writing that students need to know and were discussed and practiced in this writing workshop. Teachers applied the teaching and learning strategies they learned throughout the workshop. The outcome of the workshop was for teachers to produce a paper using the four different writing styles.
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Anxiety is in the air as Jonas approaches his 12th birthday. Who wouldnt be nervous when your lifes occupation will be announced at a special ceremony for all children hinging on adulthood?
Thats the opening scene in the adaptation of Lois Lowrys seminal novel for young adults, The Giver. Lowry wrote the book in 1993 and won the Newbery Medal for her utopian vision with its clearly marked shadow. Eric Coble adapted the work for the Oregon Childrens Theatre and now Edward Lapine directs for the Denver Center of the Performing Arts.
The Giver closes out an impressive fall lineup that included a new adaptation of The Three Musketeers, another coming-of-age story of a happier and more robust nature.
The title role of The Giver is played by Denver company stalwart Philip Pleasants. Here he is even older and more frail that his King Lear of a few years ago. Stooped, white-haired and wise, The Giver keeps the memories of his people. By choice, they have abandoned all things disturbing to the emotions above all, color, music and memory.
Set in the future, the norm is now comfort, peace and tranquility. Only The Giver knows pain and sorrow, beauty and ugliness. Only he can transmit the same to young Jonas (Jackson Garske) so that the community can live in the Sameness.
On a gray, stylized set, the Denver production evolves from a chatty but bland family dinner to a formal ceremony assigning adult roles. When Jonas visits his mentor, The Giver transmits memories one by one, first snow, later sunlight. He also introduces the boy to a colorful library of books with unexpected results. The trajectory of the play cleaves closely to the novel and is brilliantly realized with short, concentrated scenes and film projections to suggest the memories and the landscape of escape.
For almost a decade, Lowrys book has been standard reading in middle schools across the country. Its a brilliant evocation of the bridge from childhood to adulthood, or as Lowry calls it in another book: The Beginning of Sadness. The work also has been controversial, primarily because it includes themes of loss and death. In Jonas world, death is referred to with a euphemism: release. The Denver production treats all these themes with sensitivity and clarity.
The Giver provided a stunning contrast to The Three Musketeers, the famous high-spirited fantasy of a young man who makes good in Paris. I was lucky to see the final performance of a new adaptation. It immediately plunges dArtangnan (Ben Rosenbaum) into the action at a time when dueling has been outlawed in France. That doesnt stop him or his colleagues (remember One for all and all for one?) On a colorful and flexible set, the lads careened through regimental barracks, Parisian streets, the royal court, a tavern and Miladys boudoir. Rising to every insult, the Musketeers pull out their swords, not their muskets. Credit combat choreographer Gregory Hoffman for splendid fight scenes, and kudos to Charles Pasternak and John Hutton for unforgettable portrayals of King Louis and Cardinal Richelieu.
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|2007-01-01, 12:13
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|2007-01-01, 21:53
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|2007-01-01, 22:29
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Personally I think they are linked, it's more then just plausible and if they aren't meant to be linked then why would they have so many things that DO link the series together in it if they are not meant to be linked, Miyu's existence and how it relates to 'that person' (Alyssa) is pretty much proof unless you consider that the Alyssa like character shown in one of Miyu's flashbacks a completely different person from the MH Alyssa which is highly unlikely as the area in the flashback looks more like an earth town then a place in 'earl'
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|2007-01-02, 03:00
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While MO being only an AU, who's to say sunrise won't turn around and make some kind of prequel to connect the two together. Like you said, they do have alot of stuff. All they need is the right explination.
|2007-01-09, 08:17
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ok.. this is how i see it. i do believe they are connected, mostly because of the previous comments regarding Miyu. as for the "returning cast", it could be easily explained via anime logic. remember all those animes or games where, at the end, all the people are reborn again though they dont remember anything? i sort of think its like that, like the "circle of life" i guess you could say. people die but their essence lives on and is attracted to other people who they shared their life with. its the same basic premise as actual beliefs regarding reincarnation. all of the characters have the same basic demeanors but act a bit differently as though they grew up differently.
Miyu is just too much of a giant loophole if the two ARENT connected.. she makes no sense whatsoever if someone had seen Otome but not HiME.
|2007-01-10, 10:24
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Well, I'm with Rob. I don't think they are directly connected, Otome just has a lot of references to Hime. Because if they are really connected I need some explanation for the fact that Mikoto is a crystal princess even when it should be Mai since it was her who won the Festival; why Mikoto is the only "genuine materializer" if Mai, Natsuki and the other hime are alive? And even if you say it's some sort of reincarnation then Mikoto shouldn't have the hime mark either; how Fuuka Gakuen is now in a different world and underwater. You also said that some of them act a little different I didn't notice great changes regarding Haruka, Mikoto, Yukino and Mai (though she's a little more clumsy than she used ^_^; ). And yes some there share the same relations they shared like Yukino and Haruka, Midori and Youko, Mai and Mikoto, Natsuki and Shizuru but the relations like Natsuki vs Nao, Shizuru vs Nao don't exist on Otome.
I'm going to continue beleaving that those are only references until Sunrise proves otherwise.
|2007-01-11, 04:48
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i personally think they are connected
perhaps its the future like what everyone ere commented...
also i think the harmonium they found in Windbloom its the core of the fuuka land>>kokuuyugu (watever...dont know how to spell)
|2007-01-11, 19:40
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Edit: Grammar. Actual edit when I get back.
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|2008-12-16, 08:20
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Randomly putting out my opinion here:
Mai Otome & Mai HiME are connected. After watching Mai Otome for the second time I picked up more references than I had the first. The same with Zwei & the first two episodes of 0~Sifr pretty much convinced me Im correct.
Mai Otome is the same world, but in couple of milleniums time.
Allow me to explain. Everything in existence is subject to change. The only thing that will not change is the certainty of change itself. Thousands of years ago earth used to be all one continent & sea, but then earthquakes and such separated it all. Wars and politics lead to countries changing everything, including their names. Who is to say that the same has not happened in the Mai-HiME/Otome world? What was once Japan is now the cat-god Mikoto's mountain (cant for the life of me remember the name) and Fuuka Academy lies at the bottom of the sea beside it.
Also Arika's mother (gah why cant i remember the name???>.<) was a HiME. The the tradition that was the main plot in HiME may have changed, which is why her mark is different. She is a new generation HiME (probably genetically for her connection with Alyssa) but the HiME sacrifice is no longer used so many HiME go on without ever knowing of their power. Lena (aha thats it!) became an Otome, which is the only reason she ever found out.
Also in OtomeZwei they fight with Childs (Mai vs Katsuchi[sp?] so sad) whos purpose has obviously changed also with no HiME to order them.
As for the same characters as Mai HiME, perhaps they are simply reincarnations? (except Miyu who obviously is never going to age or die)
Ok thats my theory, you may agree or disagree if you wish.
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|2010-07-07, 16:04
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Since the whole HiME/Otome connection was a real turnout back in 2005-2008 and everybody was interested on how this would go out but apparently no one haven't figure it out or just seems farfetched in the first place.
I think for us anime fans entirely that a lot of originals shows that have sequels entirely is a result of sometimes pressures by fans and even peer decisions by people who expect a great franchise. To me I think it's just the hype can get this franchise sidetracked and really it has been sidetracked since the last episodes of HiME and possible that PR decision played a role heading on making Otome including "The Big Bang Project" that everyone though this would benefit the franchise but apparently failed big time.
Now I don't want to be negative on this but franchise/saga has great potential indeed. HiME EXA's manga is out and sales have been gone good lately and I hope it will be long manga series including the saga for the anime soon. But I think they should start anew story for original HiME saga and make it more awesome than a interesting storyline without the Otome connection.
In my evaluation in understand HiME/Otome connection, in reality it's not happening but since Otome blu-ray picture drama special, it already seen it.
Spoiler for For all those that did not seen Otome blu-ray speical:
|2010-07-12, 11:01
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the picture drama's pretty interesting, haven't seen these girls for ages. blah no ShizNat!
and most likely the storyline would be intertwining the two worlds though I had considered that they are actually two different Universe. but just maybe this blu ray would answer the fans queries.
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Damn, I miss the goodness of HiME and awesomeness.
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I was thinking how such a thing could be a plot device, for example was the history of otome based on the manga. I don't even remember when it all started a millenia perhaps. and for that I could only link the anime and their respective mangas to be connected though with different plot lines of course anyone knows that.
yeah I missed it too. I could only gasps when I hear Shizuru's kyoto-ben on this vid:
Spoiler for poor Reitou:
LOL missed it heaps! I dunno why it got a lot of impact with me. I think I haven't heard that accent on someone else's seiyuu.
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Kick Off Your Summer with Saison
- July 1, 2011 |
- By Andrew Nagy
here and so we thought it appropriate to explore a historical Belgian
beer style that's gaining a reputation here in the United States as a
quaffable, tasty thirst-quencher: saison. In particular, Grand Teton
Brewing's Grand Saison Farmhouse Ale and Boulevard Brewing's
But what traditionally defines a beer as a saison? Is it color, ingredients or body?
"I don't think anyone really knows," says brewmaster Steven Pauwels, a Belgian from the small town of Eeklo, located to the east of Brugge, who now brews for Kansas City-based Boulevard Brewing.
The first Saisons were low-alcohol ales produced in pre-Industrial Revolution Belgium by farmer-brewers. Because portable water was not widely available, the farmers desired a low-alcohol beer that could keep workers hydrated during the summer harvest season. Refrigeration hadn't been invented yet, so these Saisons were brewed during the winter months using barley, wheat or whatever grain did not sell on the market that year as a base and then stored. Saisons had to be strong to survive the storing period and prevent spoilage, but not so strong that they would inebriate the workers. Therefore, the original saisons were hop-heavy libations.
Clearly, the traditions behind saison are not as binding as perhaps a stout or a pilsner, and the saisons from Grand Teton and Boulevard Brewing reflect the ingenuity brewers often bring to the style today.
Teton Brewing, located in Idaho, opted to brew its Grand Saison
Farmhouse Ale as part of it's Cellar Reserves Series. Four times a year
the brewery "let's their brewers out of their cages," according to sales
and marketing director Chuck Nowicki, to produce a limited run of
special beers.
Nowicki says Teton's Grand Saison uses three hop varieties—Hallertauer Magnum, Styrian Goldings, and Strisselspalt—and a very light base malt accented by just a touch of Wheat and Munich malts. Over 20 different batches were made before the brewery's tasting panel could come to a consensus.
We found the style to be a good partner for mild-bodied smokes. Paired with an Ilusione 888 candela cigar, the smoke played well with the nutty flavors of the Teton Saison, establishing a sharper note of almonds and hazelnut.
With a more medium-body cigar, the pairing brought out the fruity aroma of the brew, with a distinct orange-peel note shining through.
Boulevard Brewing's Saison-Brett represents the ingenuity that U.S. brewers are known for throughout the world. Using the same recipe for it's Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, Pauwels went a bit further by adding the wild yeast strand Brettanomyces. Feared by vintners for its ability to break down esters in alcohol and acids, Brettanomyces, or simply Brett, is often used by today's brewers who wish to purposefully "sour" their concoctions and add a bit of earthiness.
The wild yeast was added after bottling, so the longer the brew rests, the more Brett character will come through. Interestingly enough, Pauwels says that if the brew rests long enough, the hop characteristics return to the beer.
We found the beer brought out earthy, spicy notes of the Illusione 888, however, medium-body cigars overwhelmed the brew.
Grand Saison Farmhouse Ale is available now in 750 ml. bottles in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Boulevard's Saison-Brett is available in 750 ml. bottles throughout the Midwest region, ranging from North Dakota down to Texas and as far east as Tennessee and parts of Alabama.
Grand Teton Grand Saison Farmhouse Ale ($9.99-$10.99, 7.5 percent alcohol by volume)
APPEARANCE: Clear golden liquid with a dense, rocky head and strong, frothy lacing.
AROMA: Fruits, in particular orange peel, lemon and other citrus.
PALATE: Starts with an herbal quality that turns to a sharp nuttiness resembling almonds and hazelnut at mid-palate with a slighty chewy finish.
Boulevard Brewing Saison-Brett ($11.99, 8.5 percent alcohol by volume)
APPEARANCE: Pale, slightly cloudy gold liquid with a greenish hue and a two-finger, retaining head and gorgeous lacing.
AROMA: Earthy scent, reminiscent of mushrooms with a hint of fruit and booze.
PALATE: Orange citrus rolls over the tongue, turning to a slightly sweet tangerine at mid-palate and ending in a pleasant, Champagne-like dryness.


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Melges Now Operating In Spain
22 October 2010
In October 2010, Melges Europe selected Real Club Nautico in Barcelona, Spain as the venue of choice to display the Melges 32 for a distinguished group of owners. The presentation was held in conjunction with a formal announcement of the inclusion of the Melges 32 at the prestigious Copa Del Rey (August 2011) in anticipation of the World Championship to be held in Palma de Mallorca in September.
Victor Marino, a multiple World and European champion, will the the point of contact and official representative for Melges in Spain. Marino is also in the process of establishing the Spanish Melges fleet and also revealed the beginnings of the 2011 Melges 32 racing calendar.
In addition to being included at Copa Del Rey and conducting its World Championship at RCNP in 2011, the Melges 32 will also be included at the Trofeo de Gondomar Grand Prix in Barcelona. Another single event in Valencia, as well as two others in Alicante are planned providing a total circuit for teams to race and sponsors to support.
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What's New This Week: Press Release Round Up
by John Coyle
When you're an editor of anything, you get massive amounts of press releases. It was true when I was writing about rock music, and now that I write about cars, it's even more true. To make anything stand out of this unending torrent of media alerts, you have to work at it. So when I saw this subject line, I about lost it: ROBOTS WITH LASER EYES AND SUCTION CUP HANDS BOOST QUALITY OF LOUISVILLE ASSEMBLY PLANT AND THE ALL-NEW FORD ESCAPE. Seriously? That's awesome. Dear Ford, you had me at "ROBOTS WITH LASER EYES." Whoever wrote that should get a raise. But lots of other stuff happened this week. Here are the highlights.
* It's smart to wear a helmet, but in the great state of Michigan, you don't have to anymore. AAA isn't happy about it. PR Newswire
* Every time I go to a car show, I'm reminded that gearheads actually do a lot of good. I got another reminder of that fact when I saw this release from Edelbrock announcing that they're hosting a camp for kids with learning disabilities. Nice work gents. Edelbrock
* To me, Chevy's Avalanche always looked a little funny, but it turned out to have a pretty good run. It's the end of the line for the transforming pick up though. The General has announced it'll stop production in 2013. Chevrolet
* Morgan & Philips make some pretty awesome gearhead-themed clothing, and they're donating ten dollars from every purchase of this shirt to Drive Away Cancer. I'd buy one even if the money wasn't going to charity. Check it out. Morgan and Philips
* I don't know about you, but I like buying things made in America. HRE makes their awesome wheels right here in the great state of California, which is just another reason they're awesome. Check out how sweet their new P44SC and P47SC wheels look on a Ferrari 458 and a Ford GT. HRE Wheels
* While I was at SEMA's Media Trade Conference a couple months back, Joe Gibbs Driven gave an interesting presentation'seriously, I'm not kidding?on their oil and its origins in giant windmills in Holland. Now they've released a new oil specifically designed for LS motors. It's worth a look. Joe Gibbs Driven


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Miami Heat forward Luol Deng is almost comfortable in his new surroundings.
Just not completely there yet.
With the preseason nearing an end, Deng said Wednesday he is still in adjustment mode.
"I'm not there. I'm close," Deng said. "I'm still trying to figure it out. Other guys are in the same boat. Obviously, it's hard if you haven't been here but I think the cure is just to play hard. It will come. We see the potential. It's going to be special. It's going to be exciting."
Deng has less than a week to get it together. The Heat open the season next Wednesday against the Washington Wizards at AmericanAirlines Arena. He said he's still...