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Gender Rights and American Employment
Katherine Turk
Throughout American history, gender, meaning notions of essential differences between women and men, has shaped how Americans have defined and engaged in productive activity. Work has been a key site where gendered inequalities have been produced, but work has also been a crucible for rights claims that have challenged those inequalities. Federal and state governments long played a central role in generating and upholding gendered policy. Workers and advocates have debated whether to advance laboring women's cause by demanding equality with men or different treatment that accounted for women's distinct responsibilities and disadvantages.
Beginning in the colonial period, constructions of dependence and independence derived from the heterosexual nuclear family underscored a gendered division of labor that assigned distinct tasks to the sexes, albeit varied by race and class. In the 19th century, gendered expectations shaped all workers' experiences of the Industrial Revolution, slavery and its abolition, and the ideology of free labor. Early 20th-century reform movements sought to beat back the excesses of industrial capitalism by defining the sexes against each other, demanding protective labor laws for white women while framing work done by women of color and men as properly unregulated. Policymakers reinforced this framework in the 1930s as they built a welfare state that was rooted in gendered and racialized constructions of citizenship.
In the second half of the 20th century, labor rights claims that reasoned from the sexes' distinctiveness increasingly gave way to assertions of sex equality, even as the meaning of that equality was contested. As the sex equality paradigm triumphed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, seismic economic shifts and a conservative business climate narrowed the potential of sex equality laws to deliver substantive changes to workers.
Politics of Reproductive Rights in 20th-Century America
Rickie Solinger
The reproductive experiences of women and girls in the 20th-century United States followed historical patterns shaped by the politics of race and class. Laws and policies governing reproduction generally regarded white women as legitimate reproducers and potentially fit mothers and defined women of color as unfit for reproduction and motherhood; regulations provided for rewards and punishments accordingly. In addition, public policy and public rhetoric defined "population control" as the solution to a variety of social and political problems in the United States, including poverty, immigration, the "quality" of the population, environmental degradation, and "overpopulation." Throughout the century, nonetheless, women, communities of color, and impoverished persons challenged official efforts, at times reducing or even eliminating barriers to reproductive freedom and community survival.
Between 1900 and 1930, decades marked by increasing urbanization, industrialization, and immigration, eugenic fears of "race suicide" (concerns that white women were not having enough babies) fueled a reproductive control regime that pressured middle-class white women to reproduce robustly. At the same time, the state enacted anti-immigrant laws, undermined the integrity of Native families, and protected various forms of racial segregation and white supremacy, all of which attacked the reproductive dignity of millions of women. Also in these decades, many African American women escaped the brutal and sexually predatory Jim Crow culture of the South, and middle-class white women gained greater sexual freedom and access to reproductive health care, including contraceptive services.
During the Great Depression, the government devised the Aid to Dependent Children program to provide destitute "worthy" white mothers with government aid while often denying such supports to women of color forced to subordinate their motherhood to agricultural and domestic labor. Following World War II, as the Civil Rights movement gathered form, focus, and adherents, and as African American and other women of color claimed their rights to motherhood and social provision, white policymakers railed against "welfare queens" and defined motherhood as a class privilege, suitable only for those who could afford to give their children "advantages." The state, invoking the "population bomb," fought to reduce the birth rates of poor women and women of color through sterilization and mandatory contraception, among other strategies. Between 1960 and 1980, white feminists employed the consumerist language of "choice" as part of the campaign for legalized abortion, even as Native, black, Latina, immigrant, and poor women struggled to secure the right to give birth to and raise their children with dignity and safety. The last decades of the 20th century saw severe cuts in social programs designed to aid low-income mothers and their children, cuts to funding for public education and housing, court decisions that dramatically reduced poor women's access to reproductive health care including abortion, and the emergence of a powerful, often violent, anti-abortion movement. In response, in 1994 a group of women of color activists articulated the theory of reproductive justice, splicing together "social justice" and "reproductive rights." The resulting Reproductive Justice movement, which would become increasingly influential in the 21st century, defined reproductive health, rights, and justice as human rights due to all persons and articulated what each individual requires to achieve these rights: the right not to have children, the right to have children, and the right to the social, economic, and environmental conditions necessary to raise children in healthy, peaceful, and sustainable households and communities.
Roe v. Wade
Mary Ziegler
Decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion across the United States. The 7-2 decision came at the end of a decades-long struggle to reform—and later repeal—abortion laws. Although all of the justices understood that Roe addressed a profoundly important question, none of them imagined that it would later become a flashpoint of American politics or shape those politics for decades to come.
Holding that the right to privacy covered a woman's choice to terminate her pregnancy, Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, struck down many of the abortion regulations on the books. The lead-up to and aftermath of Roe tell a story not only of a single Supreme Court decision but also of the historical shifts that the decision shaped and reflected: the emergence of a movement for women's liberation, the rise of grassroots conservatism, political party realignment, controversy about the welfare state, changes to the family structure, and the politicization of science. It is a messy and complicated story that evolved parallel to different ideas about the decision itself. In later decades, Roe arguably became the best-known opinion issued by the Supreme Court, a symbol of an ever-changing set of beliefs about family, health care, and the role of the judiciary in American democracy.
The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States
Rebecca J. Mead
Woman suffragists in the United States engaged in a sustained, difficult, and multigenerational struggle: seventy-two years elapsed between the Seneca Falls convention (1848) and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920). During these years, activists gained confidence, developed skills, mobilized resources, learned to maneuver through the political process, and built a social movement. This essay describes key turning points and addresses internal tensions as well as external obstacles in the U.S. woman suffrage movement. It identifies important strategic, tactical, and rhetorical approaches that supported women's claims for the vote and influenced public opinion, and shows how the movement was deeply connected to contemporaneous social, economic, and political contexts.
Women, Race, and the Law in Early America
Terri L. Snyder
Everywhere across European and Indigenous settlements in 17th- and 18th-century North America and the Caribbean, the law or legal practices shaped women's status and conditioned their dependency, regardless of race, age, marital status, or place of birth. Historians have focused much of their attention on the legal status, powers, and experiences of women of European origin across the colonies and given great consideration to the law of domestic relations, the legal disabilities of coverture, and women's experiences as plaintiffs and defendants, both civil and criminal, in colonial courts. Early American legalities, however, differed markedly for women of color—whether free, indentured, or enslaved, and whether Native or African in origin or descent—whose relationships to the legal regimes of early America were manifold and complex. In their status under the law, experiences at the bar, and, as a result, positions in household polities, women of color reckoned with a set of legalities that differed from those of their European counterparts. The diversity of women's experiences of the law was shaped not only by race but also by region: Indigenous people had what one historian has labeled jurispractices, while Europeans brought and created a jurisprudence of race and status that shaped treatments of women of color across imperial spaces. A widely comparative analysis of women and the law reflects ways in which race shaped women's status under and experiences of the law as well as the legalities of their marriages in pre-Revolutionary America.


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Poetry: H-I-Me
By Brandon Lacy Campos
October 19, 2010
This article originally appeared in Brandon's blog My Feet Only Walk Forward.
I live with HIV
Not a wager
Lord and Savior
Let me be clear with all ya'll here
So happy we got all that out in the air.
HIV and addiction fly formation in a circular pattern
In the end, I have more than enough to do
Am I being unclear?
That's your asshole in there
I feel much better after having written this poem.
I know that I have a lifetime of work left to do
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Queer, Poz and Colored: The Essentials
Brandon Lacy Campos
Brandon Lacy Campos is a 32-year-old queer, poz, African-American, Afro-Puerto Rican, Ojibwe and Euro (smorgasbord) poet, playwright, blogger, journalist and novelist (that last one is slowly coming along). In 2009, MyLatinoVoice.com named him the #2 queer, Latino blogger to watch. In 2006, the Star Tribune named him a young policy wonk for his political shenanigans. His writing and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies including, most recently, Mariposas, edited by Emanuel Xavier and published by Floricanto Press. This fall, his work will appear in the academic text Queer Twin Cities, published by the University of Minnesota Press. And, one of these days, Summerfolk Press will be publishing his first solo book of poetry: It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt. Brandon is hard at work on his first novel, Eden Lost, and he lives in New York City with his partner, artist David Berube, and his boss, Mimzy Lacy Berube de Campos (their dog).
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Banquo played by Billy Boyd
Macbeth (2013)
Written by: William Shakespeare
Billy makes his Globe debut in the 2013 production of Macbeth as Banquo, a fellow general whom Macbeth sees as a threat to his ambitions.
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"And I find by the scene that starts "Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis"; that scene is the one that's most different every night. And I think that's all coloured by how Joe and myself play the friendship up to that point. Sometimes it's very dark."
In his final interview, Billy discusses performing at the Globe, how Banquo's friendship with Macbeth continuously adapts, and his favourite moment in the play.
"I think through rehearsals and tech and playing it, there's a darkness coming in in his wanting his son to be king and starting to believe the witches. That I think's a good thing. And it's a more human thing."
As previews begin Billy discusses the audience at the Globe, how his suspicions have changed, and the challenges of putting a dark production on in the middle of the day.
"Banqou goes on baiting the Witches, until they say 'You will be the father of many kings.' And then Banquo doesn't speak. Which I hadn't noticed until this morning."
During rehearsals Billy talks about the moment in the play that makes Banquo speechless, working out what Shakespeare really meant, and development of the relationship between Banqou and Lady Macbeth.
"It almost seems like there's not a line in Macbeth that's not pushing the story forward or has a huge philosophical or moral idea".
In his first interview Billy discusses his hobby of reading Shakespeare plays, how performing Macbeth at the Globe can change the way audiences and actors approach the play, and why two individuals following a similar path take such different approaches to the choices they make.


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So Lehman Bros. employees (who are now unemployed or something) could pay $1 to sign a professional painting of their CEO -- I'm checking the comments they left and found this:
(see left side of the giant forehead)
Anyway, the full article is here:
http://theannotatedfuld.blogspot.com/20 ... y-one.html
BTW, my recommendation to buy GLD still stands. Oh, and take your money out of the banks and bury it like a bone. WAMU is next (my bank, I'm lookin for a shovel).


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Boat Show Outing
The Hampton Jitney has put together a package deal for those who would like to see the New York Boat Show at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan on Saturday. A bus will leave from the Jitney stop in East Hampton Village at 8:30 a.m., making stops in Bridgehampton and Southampton. The return trip departs at 5 p.m.
The $55 cost includes admission to the Javits Center. Some of the highlights of this year's show are a heated pool in which anyone 10 and older can try scuba, the Miss Geico offshore racing boat, and a power-docking competition by remote control. There are a range of seminars and fishing how-tos on the schedule. Reservations are with the Jitney office.
For "Scoot" Rail
In a press release issued Monday, Five Towns Rural Transit, a citizens group, expressed its support for a Long Island Rail Road planned investment in small-scale diesel "scoot" trains that could expand local service on the Twin Forks, perhaps as early as 2014.
In the announcement, Kathy Cunningham, the group's president, said that more frequent train trips would lead to a need for additional bus routes to help travelers complete the last legs of travel, especially important for reaching areas not near L.I.R.R. stations.
The organization said that a bus connection is also necessary to link the Greenport train station and North Ferry dock to Cross Sound Ferry's terminal at Orient Point.


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NOTES from the UNDERGROUND No. 195 | August 10, 2009
This seems to be an appropriate follow-up to the last posting on this site (scroll down) …part review, part excerpt from a brilliant book, WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND), that puts us precisely in our place, our predicament, and pushes the wake-up button—NOW!
Though I suspect it's already too late.
I'm continually reminded these days that the Maya calendar stops at the year 2012—the end of history.
And after reading the news report below on the state of the homeless in America …after trying to understand, reconcile the many differences in our country: race, health care, corrupt politicians/political parties, privileged classes, corporate domination/corporate welfare, religious intolerance, hate mongers, loss of work/ workers' representation, the rape of nature, the celebration of violence, the stupidity of celebrity, consumerism run amuck…or hearts of darkness growing darker by the day…('they' now want us to believe it's un-American to publicly insure the ill in our sick society—despite public schools, public highways, public libraries, public mail delivery, public media, Social Security, Medicare, etc.)…I'd say we're ready to be erased.
Still three more years away? Hurry sundown.–Norbert Blei
Attacks on Homeless Are Rising,
Many Simply Motivated by Thrill
Eric Lichtblau
WASHINGTON — With economic troubles pushing more people onto the streets in the last few years, law enforcement officials and researchers are seeing a surge in unprovoked attacks against the homeless, and a number of states are considering legislation to treat such assaults as hate crimes.
This October, Maryland' will become the first state to expand its hate-crime law to add stiffer penalties for attacks on the homeless. The District of Columbia approved a similar measure this week, and another such bill was introduced last week in Congress.
A report due out this weekend from the National Coalition for the Homeless documents a rise in violence over the last decade, with at least 880 unprovoked attacks against the homeless at the hands of nonhomeless people, including 244 fatalities. An advance copy was provided to The New York Times.
Sometimes, researchers say, one homeless person attacks another in turf battles or other disputes. But more often, they say, the assailants are outsiders: men or in most cases teenage boys who punch, kick, shoot or set afire people living on the streets, frequently killing them, simply for the sport of it, their victims all but invisible to society.
…"A lot of people we see are thrill offenders," said Brian Levin, a criminologist who runs the center for the study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Only Thursday, two homeless men in Hollywood were stabbed to death and a third was wounded in a three-hour spree of separate daylight attacks. The police arrested a 54-year-old local man who they said appeared to have made homeless people his random targets.
Researchers say a combustible mix of factors has added fuel to the problem. Rising unemployment and foreclosures continue to push people into the streets, with some estimates now putting the nationwide number of homeless above one million.
And in cities like Las Vegas, public crackdowns on encampments for the homeless and cutbacks in social services have frequently made street people more visible as targets for would-be assailants.
Further, in the last several years the Internet has seen a proliferation of "bum fight" videos, shot by young men and boys who are seen beating the homeless or who pay transients a few dollars to fight each other.
Indeed, the National Coalition for the Homeless, which works to change government policies and bring people off the streets, says in its new report that 58 percent of assailants implicated in attacks against the homeless in the last 10 years were teenagers.
Michael Stoops, the group's executive director, said social prejudices were "dehumanizing" the homeless and condoning hostile treatment. He pointed to a blurb titled "Hunt the Homeless" in the current issue of Maxim, a popular men's magazine. It spotlights a coming "hobo convention" in Iowa and says: "Kill one for fun. We're 87 percent sure it's Legal."
With victims wary of going to the police, statistics on the attacks are often incomplete. But surveys show much higher rates of assault, rape and other crimes of violence against the homeless than almost any other group, said Professor Levin, of California State, who worked on the report.
Recognition of the problem is spurring legislative action.
"More and more, we're hearing about homeless people being attacked for no other reason than that they're homeless, and we've got to do something about it," Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrat of Texas, said in an interview.
Ms. Johnson introduced a measure in the House last week to make attacks on the homeless a federal hate crime and require the F.B.I. to collect data on it. (The Senate voted last month to expand federal hate crimes to include attacks on gay and trans-gender victims, another frequent target.)
And in addition to the measures already approved in Maryland and the District of Columbia, proposals to add penalties for attacks on the homeless are under consideration in California, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas.
The push has lacked any organized support by major civil rights groups. In Florida, which leads the country in assaults on homeless people, groups like the Anti-Defamation League have opposed recognizing those attacks as a hate crime. Opponents argue that homelessness, unlike race or ethnicity, is not a permanent condition and that broadening hate crimes to include it would dilute the law.
"I hear the same rhetoric all the time," Ms. Johnson said. "They ask, "Why is their life more important than anyone else's?"
The coalition's study, which relied on police and news reports but excluded crimes driven by robbery, found 106 documented attacks against the homeless last year.
That was a doubling of levels seen six or seven years ago but a sharp drop from 2007, an apparent improvement that researchers are still trying to explain. The study found 27 fatalities last year, flat relative to the year before. Eight others were shot, nine raped and fifty-four beaten.
In Portland, Oregon, two brothers were charged with five unprovoked attacks against homeless people in a park. One of the victims was a man beaten with his own bike, another a woman pushed down a steep staircase.
In Cleveland, a man leaving a homeless shelter to visit his mother was "savagely beaten by a group of thugs," the police said. In Los Angeles, a homeless man who was a neighborhood fixture was doused in gasoline and set on fire. In Boston, a homeless Army veteran was beaten to death as witnesses near Faneuil Hall reportedly looked on. And in Jacksonville, N.C., a group of young men fatally stabbed a homeless man behind a shopping strip, cutting open his abdomen with a beer bottle.
In Las Vegas, home to a large population of the homeless, there were no reported killings of any of them last year, but many say hostilities have risen as the city moves to get them out of the parks and off the streets.
Some of the Las Vegas homeless resort to living in a maze of underground flood channels beneath the Strip. There they face flash floods, disease, black widows and dank, pitch-dark conditions, but some tunnel dwellers say life there is better than being harassed and threatened by assailants and the police.
"Out there, anything goes," said Manny Lang, who has lived in the tunnel for months, recalling the stones and profanities with which a group of teenagers pelted him last winter when he slept above ground. "But in here, nothing's going to happen to us."
Their plight is a revealing commentary on the violence facing the homeless, said Matt O'Brien, a Las Vegas writer who runs an outreach group for the homeless.
"It's hard to believe that tunnels that can fill a foot per minute with floodwater could be safer than aboveground Vegas," Mr. O'Brien said, "but many homeless people think they are. No outsider is going to attack you down there in the dark."
[From THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 8, 2009]
Eric Lichtblau is an American journalist and Washington bureau reporter for The New York Times. Lichtblau joined The Times in September 2002 as a correspondent covering the Justice Department. Previously, Lichtblau worked at the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, where he also covered the Justice Department in their Washington bureau from 1999 to 2002. Prior to that, Lichtblau did stints on the L.A. Times investigative team in Los Angeles and covered various law enforcement beats. Lichtblau was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University in 1987. With fellow New York Times reporter James Risen, Lichtblau was awarded a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice.


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Bullpen becomes a strength for Yankees
CHICAGO -- Funny how things can turn around.
When the Yankees were leaving Florida almost two months ago, their starting rotation had been one of the most pleasant surprises in the Grapefruit League and their lineup looked solid, thanks in large part to newcomers Jacoby Ellsbury, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann.
CHICAGO -- Funny how things can turn around.
When the Yankees were leaving Florida almost two months ago, their starting rotation had been one of the most pleasant surprises in the Grapefruit League and their lineup looked solid, thanks in large part to newcomers Jacoby Ellsbury, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann.
But the bullpen was beginning life after Mariano Rivera, and with no major off-season acquisitions there the Yankees seemed vulnerable.
With David Robertson filling the Rivera vacancy with quiet consistency and rookie Dellin Betances becoming a major force with his put-away combination of fastball-curve, those questions are being answered.
Joe Girardi couldn't be happier about his relievers.
"They've been huge,'' Girardi said. "For the whole season, they've been huge ... Our bullpen is a big reason we're over .500.''
Girardi understood the questions from others. After all, he had plenty of his own.
"I think people were wondering how our bullpen was going to be because there were a lot of guys being moved back (to later innings), put in new positions,'' he said.
As recently as 2012, the Yankees essentially had two proven closers in Rivera and Rafael Soriano. But Soriano used an opt-out clause in his contract to make a move to the Nationals in 2013 and Rivera went out with another huge season, compiling 44 saves with a 2.11 ERA at age 43 last season.
Some analysts argued that the Yankees should leave Robertson in his wing-man role and sign one of the many proven closers who were available through free agency. But General Manager Brian Cashman entrusted Rivera's job to Robertson, who has gone 9-for-9 in save situations. He did spend time on the disabled list with a groin strain in April but the Yankees found an answer when he was out, with 30-year-old former Mariner Shawn Kelley picking up four saves.
Kelley landed on the disabled list on May 7 with back issues. But pitching coach Larry Rothschild and Girardi have gotten results from a bullpen that has the enormous Betances (6-8, 260) and the less menacing Adam Warren in key roles as set-up men who can face guys from both sides of the plate, allowing veteran Matt Thornton to be used as a true lefty specialist.
Once a top prospect as a starter, Betances converted into a bullpen role last year. He had success in Triple-A last season, cutting his ERA to 2.68 after posting a 6.39 mark as a starter in 2012, and his increased confidence helping him win a job in Spring Training.
Betances' four-seam fastball averaged 96.4 mph in April and has jumped to 97.8 mph in May, according to Brooks Baseball. He throws it about half the time and a knee-buckling curve the other half. Those two pitches have made him once of the most devastating pitchers in the Major Leagues this season.
Like relievers Carlos Marmol and Kenley Jansen in recent years, Betances is piling up strikeouts at a staggering rate. He was sitting on 15.6 strikeouts per nine innings entering Friday night's game against the White Sox.
Like Jansen, Betances rarely hurts his team with walks. He has a 5-1 strikeout-walk ratio, which will build a manager's trust in a hurry.
"I'm not sure anybody knew exactly what we were going to get from Dellin,'' Girardi said. "We'd been high on Dellin for a long time but he's stepped up big.''
Warren, a starter throughout his Minor League career, has also made a smooth transition to the bullpen. He worked 77 innings as a swing man for the 2013 Yankees and has built off that experience to become a key part of Girardi's bullpen.
A fourth-round pick in 2009 from the University of North Carolina, Warren is throwing harder as a reliever than he did as a starter. His four-seam fastball is averaging 95 mph, up a tick from last season, but his calling card is that he still uses all his pitches, mixing sliders and changeups in alongside the mid-90s fastball.
Warren entered Friday's game with a 1.73 ERA. He's actually been much tougher on left-handed batters (.128 opponents' batting average) than right-handed batters (.296). That lets Girardi get by with Thornton as the only lefty in a bullpen that also includes right-handers Preston Claiborne, Alfredo Aceves and Matt Daley.
It's not the most decorated mix but it's been a good one -- and the value of a good bullpen only increases as the season gets longer and longer.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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February 19, 2008
That's Chuck Kraft '68, his wife Rebecca, reunion chairman Jim Millikin '68 and his wife Helen, and class agent Jim Roper '68. They attended the Big Bash in 2007 to get some ideas for their upcoming reunion. They're planning to be here for the 2008 edition, June 6-8, 2008, and they want to see YOU here.
They're looking forward to reminiscing with legendary professor Vic Powell H'55, playing a round of golf with their friends, participating in (and hopefully winning) the Class Chapel Sing Competition, and getting together with classmates throughout the weekend.
Make sure you're here!
For the latest Big Bash information and the full schedule of events, click here.


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Contemporary Publishing vs. Self-publishing
Publication is the act of disseminating information to the public. While the term now extends towards all forms of information including digital and broadcasted content, it traditionally referred to written and printed works such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters, etc. Publication is the final step an author takes in order to complete his/her wok; it is also one of the most critical and sensitive steps to consider as far as written works are concerned.
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by Lou Mancinelli
"Here were collected all the negroes of Alexandria and its vicinity, free or slave … The building was crowded on every floor … The negroes were terribly frightened, old and young, men and women and children, mothers with babies in their arms, were all screaming in terror … This was the first slave pen opened by the war, not through any order or command, but purely by the impulse of our better nature …"
So goes the account of the release of a number of detained individuals, from the Civil War diary of Henry Sawyer, builder of the historic Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, New Jersey, and grandfather of Henry W. Sawyer III, a prominent Chestnut Hill attorney. That and other accounts are published in "The Chalfonte," (Exit Zero Publishing, 2011), a new book by Blue Bell resident and long-time journalist and History Channel and Food Network documentarian, Karen Fox.
The book chronicles the 135-year history of the Chalfonte, a Victorian hotel that resembles a Mississippi riverboat. Wide verandas span the building topped by a cupola. Fox recounts the tales woven by the people of the building, from the stories of the Civil War toils of its builder, to the stories of the people who visited, maintained and operated the hotel through the years to its current status. The book includes more than 300 vintage photos and architectural drawings that illustrate the passing years at the hotel.
Coincidentally, 100 years ago, the Chalfonte was bought by Susie Satterfield, daughter of Confederate general, R. Lindsay Walker. Satterfield eventually settled in Germantown, after she escaped to Philadelphia from Richmond. She sought solace after the drowning death of her young daughter, who had recently graduated college. Through the Walker family, Satterfield's American roots stem back to Virginia, where her forefathers were neighbors and friends of Thomas Jefferson. It is that old southern luxury that Satterfield felt and tried to share with her guests at the Chalfonte.
Named as one of the Historic Hotels of America, in the National Trust for Historic Prevention in 2010, the Chalfonte is the oldest continuously running hotel in Cape May, a locale lined with doll-house like Victorian structures, at least 600 of which are historical buildings.
More than a decade before Sawyer built the Chalfonte, he was shot in the thigh and in the cheek at the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, a battle where men "fell as the leaves fall in autumn," he wrote. He was eventually picked up by a Union death squad. Sawyer was scheduled to be executed, but was later freed from the notorious Libby Prison, in exchange for Robert E. Lee's captured son, an arrangement said to have been arranged by President Lincoln. Sawyer's grandson, Henry W. Sawyer III, was a civil-rights era Chestnut Hill lawyer who argued cases before the Supreme Court.
After serving in World War II, Sawyer III graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's accelerated law program for veterans. He later worked on the Marshall Plan in Europe. During Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist era, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, Sawyer III represented alleged communists who were called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Committee, or those charged with related violations.
Now, on weekends, weather-permitting, his sons, Henry IV, or Hal, and Jonathan work on the structure their grandfather built and designed. These days, Hal lives in Mt. Airy with his family and works as a carpenter. Jon lives with his family in Fort Washington. The eldest Sawyer got his start as a Lehigh County apprentice builder. When he saw an ad that read carpenters were needed in Cape May, he went to New Jersey to work at age 19, in 1848.
"The thing that sets this hotel apart from almost any hotel anywhere," said Fox, 71, "is the people keep coming back…third, fourth and fifth generations… It's home to them."
"The Old Girl, the Grand Dame, the Leading Lady, the Place that Time Forgot…The Chalfonte," as is written on the book's back cover
Over the years, the Chalfonte has hosted numerous performances for its guests like the Festive Brass ensemble, a group that played for 25 seasons. The Savoy Opera Company performed Gilbert and Sullivan operettas at the hotel. Cabaret performers like Jilline Ringle, the "red-hot mama," also performed.
Today, the hotel is owned by the Mullock Family. Bob Mullock purchased the Chalfonte with the intentions to preserve the traditions and historic quality of the building and its environment. Fox dedicates an entire chapter to the Mullock mission, one that included millions of dollars in investments to modernize technology and appliances, and preserve the building.
"I am not interested in being rich," Mullock is quoted as saying in the book. He refers to the peak of the last real estate bubble, when firms sent drawings of mansions and other dwellings that could be built at the hotel's location.
"I am not interested in that," Mullock said. "Nor I am interested in converting the Chalfonte into 25 condos at half a million each. I didn't choose the Chalfonte; the Chalfonte chose us."
Fox herself began going to the Chalfonte in the mid-1960s. She was raised in a farming village in Colesburg, Iowa, outside of Dubuque. Something about the Chalfonte struck home in her mind. It reminded her of her great-aunts, educators who lived in "wonderful old Victorian houses." It reminded her of her Midwest childhood, when there was music from Victrolas, time for conversation and books.
She began her career as a journalist in that same area in the early 1960s. In 1963, she came east but was unable to find work at a newspaper. She worked at Penn Mutual Life Company until 1968, when she started at KYW as a radio news writer, the day before Robert Kennedy's assassination. Fox went on to work at the Channel 10 news assignment desk from 1979 to 1999. At the turn of the century, she wound up traveling the world and working for Food Network and the History Channel, doing research for and writing television shows. In 2004, she left that position and began to focus more on writing books and short stories. Since then, she was written and worked for a number of publications, including the "Cape May Magazine."
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Former cheer coach Matt Tinkle pleads guilty to one count of receiving child pornography
The U.S. Department of Justice announced last Thursday that former popular cheer coach Matt Tinkle of Heber Springs pleaded guilty on a charge that he received child pornography. Tinkle was the owner of the Tink's Tumblers gymnastics studio in Heber.
Tinkle was arrested in January 2013 for allegedly raping a local 13-year-old girl. Following his arrest, further investigation led a grand jury to indict Tinkle on 2 counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
In exchange for a guilty plea on one count of receiving child pornography, the remaining two counts against Tinkle were dismissed. According to the report, stipulations of the plea agreement included enhancements for use of a computer, for abuse of position of trust, and for engaging in a pattern of activity involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor. Tinkle will also have to be registered as a sex offender.
In February of this year, Tinkle pleaded no contest to the charges of rape against the 13-year-old girl. This was a separate charge from the federal child pornography indictment. On this charge, prosecutors recommended a sentence of 10 years in prison.
On the federal charge, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported that an iPhone confiscated during the investigation revealed images of the minor that met the guidelines for prosecution on federal child porn charges. The report also says the girl stated during the investigation that she had received nude photographs of Tinkle as well.
As of publication the Court has issued no sentence, but Tinkle faces up to 20 years in prison, with a minimum no less than 5 years. He also faces five years to life of supervised release and up to a $250,000 fine.
"This case illustrates the necessity of keeping lines of communication open and active with your children," said Christopher R. Thayer, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. "We place our children in the care of others with the intent that their lives are safe and their innocence protected. The vast majority of the time, that is the case. When it is not, it is often a parent who discovers the violation. Thankfully law enforcement was contacted and the end result is that this child predator will be serving federal time as well as state time."


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I purchased two value containers of skin-on chicken thighs recently and I've cooked off about 15 thighs already in a couple different ways. Long story short, I botched up the majority of said thighs and I'm really looking for a good way to use these thighs, preferably while leaving the skin on. Any suggestions? Any tips for how to effectively roast thighs in an oven with crispy skin?
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Land ownership
Natural resource extraction varies widely from state to state. In Connecticut, extractive industries accounted for <1% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015.
Natural resource ownership in the U.S. is closely tied to land ownership. Land can be owned by citizens, corporations, Indian tribes or individuals, or governments (for instance, federal, state, or local governments). Much of the data on this site is limited to natural resource extraction on federal land, which represents <1% of all land in Connecticut.
Energy production: The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes a profile of energy production and usage in Connecticut.
Nonenergy minerals: The U.S. Geological Survey publishes information about nonenergy mineral extraction in the USGS Minerals Yearbook for Connecticut.
Energy production in the entire state of Connecticut
The Energy Information Administration collects data about all energy-related natural resources produced on federal, state, and privately owned land.
Other biomass
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The Office of Natural Resources Revenue collects detailed data about natural resources produced on federal land. According to that data, there was no natural resource production
Companies pay a wide range of fees, rates, and taxes to extract natural resources in the United States. What companies pay to federal, state, and local governments often depends on who owns the natural resources.
Federal revenue
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Most federal revenue disbursements go into national funds. For detailed data about which expenditures and projects from those national funds are in Connecticut, see nationwide federal disbursements.
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Every morning I wake up and twist my back in bed forcing it to crack. My knees make all sorts of noises during yoga and I crunch my knuckles just about every hour. The stretching sound satisfies me. But it's been starting to make me stir. There's long been whispers of these being arthritis-causing habits. I'm wondering if it's my stiff joints crying out, ageing before their time. So I've been asking around a few different professionals to find out what these noises mean and if they're cause for concern.
The Chiropractor: Dr Hayden Thomas
"A lot of people have this image of bones falling apart and breaking," Dr Thomas tells me. But fear not - that cracking that you hear is just a change in pressure around the joint capsule," he explains. "It's gas releasing around the joint, you know, like when you release a cork from a bottle of bubbly?" (That's Dr Thomas's analogy, not mine).
In his professional chiro circles, it's called an "adjustment," and any joint can do it. This is what's happening when you press you fingers together, forcing your knuckles to crack. Once it's done, you can't get the same noise out of them again for about 30 minutes, until the pressure builds up again.
But there's another kind of crunching you could be hearing and that's called a "tenderness crack". This is when the tendon moves across the bone and "slaps, a bit like an elastic band". Dr Thomas says it's the tendon going back in to place or re-locating. If you rotate a joint and it keeps clicking, this is probably what's happening. Be careful with these ones because they could be hyper-mobile, making them prone to injury.
Dr Thomas says the reason joint cracking feels so good is because you're releasing tension and your body wants to do that.
"There's not been much study in to the damage we can do to ourselves if we force cracking," he says.
"But what has been found is that it does not cause arthritis, despite what a lot of people say. In fact joint manipulation could help prevent the disease.
"If you're just stretching and moving in your normal range of motion that's absolutely fine, those cracks and pops are not doing anything."
The Orthopaedic Surgeon: Ass Prof Gary Hooper
Dr Hooper, back it up - cracking probably doesn't do any real damage. However, the problem he, and a lot of his medical world associates have with chiro theories, is that there's no real evidence to suggest joint adjustment is effective.
"There's no evidence that cracking joints makes them better," Prof Hooper says.
"The problem that surgeons, and great majority of medical practitioners have, is that cracking causes a placebo effect and the patient hears a noise and feels something must be better."
However, Prof Hooper warns this: If you're getting pain or stiffness around a joint then it could be the beginnings of something worse - so get that thing checked out! This is more likely in older folk, but just be aware of your temple.
But - if your cracking isn't causing any discomfort then you're all good to go.
The yoga instructor: Vanessa Greenwood
I met Vanessa for a private yoga lesson. She's a qualified Iyengar yogi and has been practicing her moves since 1993. I've been doing my very best to get to at least one body balance class each week. But I know this isn't enough to compensate for the other forms of phys ed I get in, plus all the desk-bound hours I rack up. I'm embarrassed about the state of my downward dog. Vanessa says I have the hamstrings of an 80-year-old. Oh dear.
"It's such a bizarre concept," she says of all my joints popping like corn.
"From my perspective it's the alignment.
"When you're bringing your muscles in to balance the joints line up, the bones line up and the muscles line up. So in that process you can get that gas release." (You know, the release Dr Thomas told us about.)
So Vanessa reckons it's a good sound - an indicator that your body is getting in to balance. But only if it comes naturally. If she's adjusting your yoga position, or you're holding a stretch then you're all good.
"If you're just after the crack all the time I don't think that's healthy," she says.
Vanessa thinks just about everyone is out of balance because we don't use all the muscles equally. We tend to under-use our belly muscles, forcing our back to do more work, hence more aches in that region.
So how can we make our joints feel joyful?
Vanessa suggests scheduling at least two yoga sessions a week. Make sure you stick around for the stretching after exercise, and then some. When you're at work, sit with a strong spine and make sure your knees are in line with your hips. After hours, take time to lay yourself down flat. I also get a massive kick out of lying on my back, bum pushed up to the wall with my legs straight up - my hammies heart this one. Oh yeah, and treat your bones to a relaxing epsom salt bath once a week. Your skin will soak up the magnesium and your joints will ease up.
Treating your insides kindly will also make your body work better. Ease up on acidic foods in your diet and lean towards an alkaline system (fill your body with stacks of vegies, especially green ones, cut out refined sugar and processed foods).
FYI: I will share more on the acid/alkaline thing soon. And get back to the benefits of a good bath.
Are you a joint cracker? What are your thoughts on yoga?
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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is recovering from knee surgery and talked about his experiences as he rehabilitates.
"My old knee felt like a bowl of burnt rice crispies every step I took and I couldn't go up a flight of stairs. Now I'm learning stairs, I'm learning how to go up a flight of stairs on this new thing," Williams said his latest interview.
Williams thanked his medical team for a successful surgery and praised the physical therapy that he's been getting.
"Without physical therapy, none of this could happen," he said.
He also said he was a "motivated patient."
Williams is seen walking gingerly with a cane in the interview.
He admits that when he loses motivation or when physical therapy gets difficult, he reads an excerpt from a Medal of Honor coffee table book chronicling the stories of the prize's recipients to reinvigorate him.
"These guys are my motivational tool because I believe in them," Williams said. "They're my North stars."


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Supporters of California's Proposition 8 on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the state's ban on same-sex marriage, firing the first legal volley of many to come before the justices hear arguments in the historic case in late March.
In an 83-page brief, Proposition 8's defenders decried a federal appeals court's ruling last year declaring the 2008 gay marriage ban unconstitutional. California voters had a right to define "the vital social institution of marriage" as being between a man and a woman, the Proposition 8 legal team wrote.
"In short, there is no warrant in precedent or precept for invalidating marriage as it has existed in California for virtually all of its history, as it was universally understood throughout this nation (and the world) until just the last decade, and as it continues to be defined in the overwhelming majority of states and nations," they declared.
The Supreme Court agreed late last year to hear the Proposition 8 case, as well as a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal ban on same-sex marriage benefits. The high court will hear arguments March 26 in the Proposition 8 case, and the following day in the DOMA challenge.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Proposition 8, finding it trampled on the rights of same-sex couples because it stripped them of a previous right to marry in California. Former San Francisco U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker previously found the law unconstitutional, but it remains in force while the case continues to unfold.
For the most part, Proposition 8 lawyers presented the Supreme Court with arguments that parallel those raised through the more than four-year legal battle. While the law's defenders focused somewhat more on the Supreme Court's most recent gay rights decisions — seeking to distinguish California's gay marriage ban — they relied heavily on arguments that have been unsuccessful thus far with the 9th Circuit and Walker.
Among other arguments, they point out the historical traditions of heterosexual marriage and say it is designed to foster procreation in society. In the legal brief, Proposition 8's lawyers also stress that the Supreme Court should let the same-sex marriage debate evolve in the political arena and steer clear of interfering now.
Nine states have thus far legalized gay marriage.
The law's defenders clearly tried to emphasize the Proposition 8 case is distinct from two key Supreme Court decisions that struck down state laws restricting gay rights. These were the 1996 ruling in Romer v. Evans invalidating a Colorado law that stripped gays and lesbians of anti-discrimination protections and the court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling striking down anti-sodomy laws.
Proposition 8's lawyers also made a point of saying the Supreme Court's landmark Loving v. Virginia decision in 1967, which found state bans on interracial marriages unconstitutional, does not provide "any support for judicially restructuring the vital social institution of marriage" for gays and lesbians. Gay rights advocates have often equated the current struggle to gain same-sex marriage rights with the battle to allow interracial marriages decades ago.
Meanwhile, Proposition 8's lawyers also argued that they have a legal right to defend the same-sex marriage ban because the governor and attorney general have refused to do so. The Supreme Court asked for legal arguments on that question, which could allow the court to avoid the broader legal issues surrounding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans.
If the court determines Proposition 8 backers do not have legal "standing" to appeal, it would likely leave the lower court decision intact, legalizing same-sex marriage in California. Proposition 8 lawyers rely on a California Supreme Court ruling that ballot initiative sponsors do have standing to press such appeals if the state won't defend a law.
Lawyers for same-sex couples are expected to file their legal arguments Feb. 21. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Tuesday criticized the Proposition 8 arguments, saying they are "defending discrimination against same-sex couples."
Meanwhile, House Republicans on Tuesday also urged the Supreme Court to uphold DOMA, arguing that Congress had good reason in 1996 to create a uniform federal law for marriage benefits and that it doesn't interfere with a state's right to set its own marriage laws.
Like Proposition 8 lawyers, Republican lawmakers trumpet the traditional definition of marriage, reminding the Supreme Court that Democrats such as then-Sen. Joe Biden backed the legislation. And they say the decision to define marriage is "wisely left to Congress and the democratic process."
A federal appeals court found DOMA unconstitutional in a case out of New York. The Supreme Court has put other DOMA challenges on hold while that case is decided, including one legal challenge out of San Francisco.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz.


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By acting quickly, the Mets are addressing their offensive obligations before concentrating on pitching.
Bringing back Delgado should stifle most of the trade rumors and signing Tatis should lessen the need to go after an outfielder this winter (toward that end, Pat Burrell rejected a two-year, $22-million package from the Phillies).
Delgado, who made $16 million last year, turned around his season, and that of the Mets, with a hot second half, and over the final 85 games hit 27 homers with 80 RBI to merit MVP consideration. Tatis, who hit .297 with 11 homers and 47
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Originally titled Cinemagoing the first edition of this report was published in September1989. This is the twenty-seventh edition.
Britain's cinema market is undrgoing radical change. Freed from the cost of 35mm film prints, film distributors are no longer demanding big seating capacities from cinemas, leaving exhibitors free to cater to an increasingly discerning older audience. Taking a cue from more comfortable and luxurious seating - whether electric recliners or boutique cinema sofas for two - refreshment offers are being upgraded to match. Average ticket prices are riising faster than inflation, and concession spends per head nearly twice as fast. The higher profits available, and developers' needs for footfall-generating tenants in a difficult environment for physical shopping, are supporting high levels of investment in new cinemas.
These and other trends are reviewed in this latest edition which, as ever, includes data on film production and distribution, trends in cinema numbers and revenues, and detailed financial data covering the leading cinema chains. Five year forecasts of screen numbers, admissions and box office complete the package.
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Drug Smuggler Sentenced To More Than 10 Years For Hitting Border Patrol Unit
McALLEN, Texas – Alejandro Javier Martinez-Pedraza, 19, and Osvaldo Javier Silva-Hernandez, 19, both Mexican nationals who were illegally present in the United States, have been ordered to prison following convictions for possession with intent to distribute 662 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
On April 27, 2012, both pleaded guilty to transporting 662 kilograms of marijuana north from the Rio Grande River near Abram. Martinez admitted he helped cross the marijuana from Mexico and helped load it into a truck driven by Silva. As Silva drove the marijuana-laden vehicle, he tried to flee from law enforcement and crashed into one Border Patrol Unit, totaling the vehicle. Luckily, the agents in the unit suffered only minor injuries.
Today, U.S. District Judge Hayden Head sentenced Silva, the driver, to a 135-month sentence. He will also be required to serve a term of five years of supervised release following completion of the prison term. After testimony from the Border Patrol agents, Judge Head found Silva intentionally crashed into the Border Patrol Unit and enhanced Silva's sentence because of the violent conduct.
Judge Head sentenced Martinez to an 84-month sentence. He will also be required to serve a term of five years of supervised release following completion of the prison term. Judge Head enhanced his sentence because Martinez crossed into the United States from Mexico with the intent to commit this drug trafficking offense.
Both have been in custody where they will remain pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.
This case was investigated by Border Patrol, FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant United States Attorney Kristen Rees prosecuted the case.


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Big Bend 09
The first and maybe last time I'll see Big Bend. It's a place I've always wanted to see. It is in the middle of nowhere and you have to travel through nowhere to get there. For my friends and family that may not see it. All of the towns down there; Ft. Stockton, Ft. Davis, Alpine, Marfa are all one main street with a few side streets. In all, a very desolate area, and not a place to have car trouble since cell phone service is spotty.Read More
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Portland State University selects Sona Andrews as new provost and vice president for academic affairs
(Portland, Ore.) March 23, 2012 — Following a national search, Portland State University has selected Sona Karentz Andrews as its next provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Andrews brings nearly two decades of higher education experience in senior academic administrative positions. Since 2010, Andrews has served as vice chancellor for academic strategies for the Oregon University System (OUS), which governs the state's seven public universities.
In her new position as provost and vice president, Andrews will oversee an urban research university comprised of seven schools and colleges and more than 1,500 faculty, serving nearly 30,000 students. She will lead the Office of Academic Affairs (oaa.pdx.edu) and will report to PSU President Wim Wiewel.
"Dr. Andrews offers a wealth of leadership experience and accomplishments earned at urban public research universities, which will prove invaluable in her role at Portland State University," said President Wiewel. "I want to thank our search committee for running an effective and successful search, and our faculty, staff and students for providing valuable input into this important decision."
"Dr. Andrews has an excellent reputation as an academic leader who is committed, energetic, upbeat, collaborative—and above all, someone who gets things done," said Jon Fink, vice president for research and strategic partnerships, who chaired the search. "She was our first choice out of a pool of outstanding candidates, and I look forward to working with her."
Sona Andrews will begin on July 1, 2012. She replaces current provost Roy Koch, who announced in September 2011 that he would retire in June 2012, following 30 years at PSU, the last seven as provost. (Link to announcement: http://bit.ly/RoyKochMsg)
"This is an exciting opportunity for me," said Andrews. "I share PSU's aspirations to be among the nation's leading urban public research universities. We can achieve this by striving for excellence, making strategic decisions, creating an institution that values equity and inclusion, being a place where students, faculty and staff thrive, and by developing a unified and strong voice for supporting public higher education in Oregon."
Before joining OUS, Andrews served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Boise State University from 2004-2010. At the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1988–2005), Andrews held several administrative positions, culminating as vice provost. She has held faculty positions as a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Boise State University. Andrews served as an American Council on Education Fellow from 2000 to 2001.
Andrews has published extensively, presented at over 100 academic and professional conferences, and served as principal- or co-investigator for over $5 million in public and private grants. She holds a master's degree and Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, and a B.A. in Geography from Worcester State College in Massachusetts. (Link to curriculum vitae: http://bit.ly/SonaAndrewsCV.)
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY (PSU), a 50-acre campus located in downtown Portland, Ore., is a nationally acclaimed leader in sustainability and community-based learning. The University's position in the heart of Oregon's economic and cultural center enables PSU students and faculty to apply scholarly theory to the real-world problems of business and community organizations. Portland State offers more than 220 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degree options, as well as graduate certificates and continuing education programs. PSU is Oregon's largest and most diverse university, with 30,000 students hailing from all 50 states and from nearly 100 nations around the world.
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Tom Phillips needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 169 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
The Phillips Landcape Group
We are a design build landscape company founded in 1992. We are looking for a new look which takes into account our eco friendly approch to great outdoor living areas. Our current web site is http://WWW.PhillipsLandscapes.com
We are changing the name from Phillips Landscape Contractor to The Phillips Landscape Group. The company has a number of products and service offered please see attachment.
Home owners looking to increase outdoor living areas and function of there property.
The grounds maintantence div. is a new concept using eco friendly products and alt. fuel machines.
Homeowners and property mangers looking for an eco friendly alternative to thier ground maintenance needs.
New logo needs to look good on trucks, shirts, letter head web site etc.
Would like to tie in "The Phillips Landscape Group" With the different Div.
Such as " Deign Build", Sustainable Grounds Maintenance" , Outdoor Lighting Systems, Insect Misting Systems, Sythentic Turf Systems, Pavement M.D., and Snow and Ice Services.
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If you check out travel magazines, you'll find an abundance of offerings for those seeking the ultimate challenge. "An Extreme Adventure reveals exactly who you are, demanding the most of your physical, psychological and perhaps even spiritual selves," reads the copy on Abercrombie & Kent's Extreme Adventures site.
Just as rock climbing and whitewater rapids test our ability to navigate the outside world, travel in Plan B Nation tests our inner resources. No, we don't come away with gorgeous vacation photos or tales of exotic locales, but when the journey is successful, it leaves us with something more: An appreciation for our strengths in the face of real-life adversity. You might say it's the sort of journey for which the others are preparation.
And yet, for all Plan B Nation has to teach us, it hardly has the cachet of a backpacking trip in the High Sierras or a solo ocean voyage. Why is it so hard to see its potential gifts?
For one thing, it's not something we choose. We like to see ourselves as autonomous, masters of our fate. Plan B Nation can be an unwelcome reminder that this isn't always true.
For another, Plan B Nation is all-too-often linked in our minds to failure. Those over-the-top vacations? In case you didn't know, they cost lots of money – simply embarking on one makes clear that you're doing pretty well and your safety net is ample. Plan B Nation, on the other hand, tests that safety net. For observers, as well as us travelers, this can be pretty scary, especially when you have no idea how long the risk will last.
But for all the obvious differences, Plan B Nation continues to be for me its own sort of adventure. It's brought me amazing traveling companions whom I wouldn't have otherwise met, and the opportunity to view vistas I wouldn't have otherwise seen. Like any adventure, it has its highs and lows. It also has its stories, the ones that I'm telling here.


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I am fortunate to be spending a few days in our national capital Canberra. So naturally where does a genealogist spend one day? At the National Library.
I had one main goal yesterday and that was to find out what happened to who I'm sure was Elizabeth Flynn. The reference I had to her was from The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW: 1843 - 1893), Thursday 7 March 1861, p. 4. It quoted the Cooma correspondent from the Alpine Courier.
What didn't I do before I arrived? I didn't check that the NLA actually had microfilmed copies of the Alpine Courier. They had 1860 but not 1861. Although The Manaro Mercury and Cooma and Bombala advertiser began production in 1860 early copies do not survive.
I was advised to check the Perkins papers. According to the Society of Australian Genealogists, the Perkins Papers are a collection of typescript papers illustrating the social history of the electorate of Eden-Monaro and the towns of Tumut and Adelong from 1823 - 1948. Mr Perkins used many sources including The Sydney Morning Herald and local papers of the area including the Golden Age.
Of course although there was mention of her father and grandfather and many other families I am interested in, but there was nothing about her.
So it looks as though, for the moment, that Elizabeth Flynn, daughter of Jeremiah Flynn and his wife Margaret Roche is still one of my brick walls.
The day however was still productive. The Perkins papers provided me with some useful information and I then spent most of the day looking at and recording family details from the Registers of St Patrick's Catholic Church in Cooma.


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Marveaux loaned to Guingamp
The 28-year-old former Rennes man moved to St James' Park in 2011, but has made only 57 appearances for the club since then.
Marveaux made just four starts in all competitions last season, having become a bit-part player under Alan Pardew.
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by Zanwel Fisz (Paris)
Translated by Avi (Abraham) Stavsky
Chaim Wajnreich, born in Zawiercie, came as a youth to Dąbrowa to learn the tailoring profession from his father, Berel Kanarek. Deft with his hands, he learned the trade quickly, but he did not take to this willingly. He would study and learn until late evening by a flickering light, educating himself about sociology and Marxism. He was greatly admired by all his friends and would participate voraciously in all discussions and conversations, and asserted his political views to all who asked. He [therefore] fell under police suspicion. After his military service, he went off to Belgium and set himself to higher education. He took an active part in the political life of that country. In 1933 he was expelled [from Belgium] and began residence in France. Almost as soon as he was established there, he involved himself with those from Zagłębie who were assisting political refugees arrested from Będzin and Piotrków. He remained active in this until the outbreak of the war. When the war reached France, he was among the first who volunteered to defend their second fatherland. He soon joined the defense forces, and because of his military experience, was quickly sent to the front lines against the enemy. With a weapon in his hand, he fell in battle in May, 1940, on one of the battlefields, at age 35.
His body was brought to Paris and he was buried in a local cemetery, in an area reserved for foreign volunteers who fell for France.
May his memory be for an honor.
by Josef Piwniczni (Nitzani)
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
Chanina Rudoler zl was a resident of the suburb of Łabędzka, in which individual Jewish families lived. Of them three are known: The Rechnic family, the Ajzenman family and the Rudoler family.
Reb Chanina was a Jew who was observant and maintained tradition. He was a naive man, honest and simple, without any pretensions. As a loyal member of the Jewish community he donated willingly, whatever he was able, to all the philanthropic societies in the town. During the period that there was no minyan [prayer meeting] there, Reb Chanina zl traipsed to the Dębniki neighborhood, a distance of three kilometers, in order to pray with the minyan in the Bet Midrash [Yeshiva] of Efraim Śiwek zl. For him it was a necessity of life, from which he drew his spiritual strength to withstand life's hardships.
Like most of the Jews of the time, he was the owner of a convenience store,
from which he made an honorable living. During the weekdays then, he struggled
and toiled, in order to supply the goods needed for the store, whilst his wife
looked after the customers and took care of the needs of the home and the
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The Shabbat [Sabbath] was holy for the spiritual food of the over soul. A day that was completely devoted to rest, to the children's problems and a little enjoyment from this world.
He educated his sons and daughters in a traditional manner. He endeavored to instill his sons, Aron zl and Jakob, long may he live, with religious education from the best scholars. And if he wasn't able do this, it was because the conditions at the time. He sought to find educated men, from the best families in the town, for his daughters. It should be noted that his son-in-law was Cwi Rechnic zl, who was a decent, gentle and good spirited Yeshiva student. He was a Hassid of the Rabbi from Kromołów.
All of the Rudoler family, apart from the son Jakob, were killed in the Holocaust together with all the Jews of Dąbrowa, may G-d avenge their blood.
His son Jakob managed, with the help of Aryan papers, to extricate himself from
the claws of the Nazi beast and stay alive. He made aliyah and lives today with
his family in Holon.
by Juda Londner
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
In the street he was called Chaimel, an affectionate name being that he was a man of the people, a man involved in the life of the society and worked for it.
Chaim Lewi zl and his wife Malka zl arrived in Dąbrowa Górnicza in 1920 from the town of Zabrze, from a religious home. His father was a grain merchant, he took care to endow his daughters with childhood education from the best Torah teachers, and when he was older he also studied in a yeshiva. This study provided good provisions for this journey in life, in his struggle with the Poles on the right of a little Jewish man to live and exist. He spoke excellent, fluent Polish, accompanied with the idioms of this language, of the street and also of the higher classes. Since his father was a grain merchant from Zabrze, he knew that it wasn't enough to endow the boy with knowledge in Torah, rather he needed to be equipped with a general education, and hence he sent the boy to a Polish commerce school. This education, in addition to the traditional education, formed his personality.
Dąbrowa in the year 1920 was beginning to be organized as a kehila [community]. Political parties and organizations fought for their right to be represented in it. Chaim Lewi was just beginning to be financially stable. During a later term he was elected as representative of the tradesmen and minor traders, and in this position he came in contact with the town administration, and was known as a very active man in this field. More than once these connections determined the fate of many Jewish families, whether they were poor or rich. In particular he helped minor tradesmen in distress who didn't have a permit be self-employed workers, or minor traders who were occasionally fined for the misdemeanor of trading at forbidden times. He prevented the detention in jail of Jews by the authorities for not paying civic taxes or failure to carry out civic laws because of a lack of money.
Being that he spoke fluent Polish, and was a good lecturer, he represented the
Jewish community at mass Polish rallies as their spokesman. As a representative
of the little man in his hardships he always had to remove
obstacles that the authorities placed in front of him, and often anti-Semitic
anger was directed at him because of his proud defense of the Jews, and he was
called Hartosh's righteous man (the rabbi in the monastery).
|Chaim Lewi (Chaimel)
a public figure
He took care of stabilizing the cooperative Jewish Bank, which was mainly a
bank for tradesmen and minor traders, who were assisted with loans at a low
interest rate.
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When they couldn't pay he deferred the payment to a later date. He served as the deputy bank manager.
In 1937 he was elected as a representative in the town council, however he didn't serve in this position for long, because of the invasion of the Germans.
On Sabbaths and festivals he went in front of the Holy Ark. His pleasant voice and his childhood education assisted him and presented him a place of honor amongst the worshippers.
In spite of his public activities he did not neglect his family. His main concern was for the education of his children, all of whom were born in Dąbrowa. He gave them a traditional as well as a general education. His family consisted of four sons and one daughter, the eldest. She was a talented and pretty girl, and a number of times it was said of her in Christian circles, who didn't acknowledge the beauty of Jewish girls, that she was too beautiful to be Jewish.
She was sent to Auschwitz and following a bout of typhoid fever she passed away in the camp. Her fate was similar to that of her brother Szlomo: two days before the end of the war he was murdered by the Germans on the death march in the Blechman [?] camp. Her brother Mosze aged seven was turned in by Poles, who informed on the Polish family that hid him in the cellar of their home.
Juda (Levach) survived and lives in Israel, and the two brothers Lajzer and
Heniek live in the USA. Chaim Lewi zl and his wife Malka were taken to
Auschwitz where they were killed.
by Juda Londner
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
She came to the Hashomer Hatzair center during the interim period, when the
founding generation didn't accept the premises of hagshasma atzmit [self
realization]. A young group had yet to form in order to be an influencing and
appealing factor for the Dąbrowa youth.
|Chana Szwajcer
in her youth and longing for Eretz Yisrael,
killed by the Nazi murderers
Youths from all levels were attracted to the center, coming without knowing exactly what was expected of them. One thing they knew: that the center fulfilled the desires and aspirations of youth. For this reason Chana was also attracted to the center.
Her father was considered in the town as a religious Zionist, and popular in his surrounds. He gave his daughters a typical Polish education: they studied in the Polish gymnasia and their day to day language was Polish. It seems that the religious Zionist home of her father had a greater influence on Chana than the rest of her brothers and aroused a spark in her of belonging to the Zionist organization.
She didn't go by herself to the center: A group of girls came together with her who studied with her in the Polish gymnasia, and their lifestyles were different; they spoke only Polish and thought in terms of the Polish society. And a miracle occurred: After a short time in the center, we are revealed a Chana, who is pretty and friendly, full of her Jewish stature, taking interest in Jewish problems, in poverty and the reasons for it, in particular she was fascinated by the stories of Eretz Yisrael, the heroism of Hashomer and personal sacrifice, and identified with them.
She became close to me because I was preparing myself for aliyah. It was from
me that she heard the basic concepts of a working life and belonging to the
family of workers. She didn't quickly digest these concepts: Whole evenings of
discussions in the shadow of the Huta Bankowa chimneys, proved to her that
there is something in these values.
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I made aliyah in 1932, leaving her with a spark of belief that she would some time also make aliyah, however she didn't know that during this period the aliyah was illegal, and considered by the British as trespassing.
When immigrants came later from our town, they told me that Chana is still waiting for a sign, and that she yearns to make aliyah.
Years followed years. Chana became tired of waiting and raised a family. The Holocaust that came upon Polish Jewry hurt her as well, and she so wanted to live; she did everything to avoid the bitter fate, however this chased after her incessantly. In one of the selections she ran away, with her daughter in her arms, and was shot to death.
She couldn't realize the aspirations of youth, you pretty and likeable Chana,
you added so much beauty and appeal to your surroundings. May this article be
witness that your name will be entwined with life in the land of Israel that
you weren't able to see.
by Shayke (Kibbutz Ein Hashofet)
[not translated]
by Szlomo Bornsztajn (Kibbutz Ein Hashofet)
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
Born 16th of Tamuz 5671 11th July 1911
Died 28th of Iyar 5722 1st June 1962
The neighborhood lived in a traditional lifestyle like most of the towns in Poland. A young generation began to sprout up within it, striving more and more to escape the usual stereotyped lifestyle. It was one that no longer saw a future in the traditional and narrow lifestyle of the neighborhood, and searched for ways and new ideas for the problem of the Jewish youth. The ears paid attention, and the heart was open to all that was happening in the world and in the area, and no power could stop it from heading in the direction of its goal.
In the 1930's it was not easy or simple to introduce their logic into the hearts of the parents, since indeed there was no getting round the traditional ways of the Jewish way of life, and the boys had to take a new direction. With all the sentiments and the connection of the Jewish home to Eretz Yisrael, the idea of pioneering and making aliyah was considered, more than once, as a family tragedy. Amongst the youth groups competing in our town, at the forefront stood the pioneering movements and the proportion of Hashomer Hatzair was considerably large. Amongst the youths who strove for a new world, to make aliyah, Pinchas Rozenblum was found, from a traditional and distinguished family in Dąbrowa.
From his earliest childhood we were connected one to the other and knew each other well. My thoughts returned to one scene that remains engraved in my heart, how this friendly and neighborly relationship became a movement connection for the next few decades.
I recall a group of young girls and boys, aged 14 to 15, holding their first
meeting as a group in the center. We were in a blossoming forest and the group
leader told us about the book of a famous Polish author, Zaromsky, and through
the eyes of the author he opened up for us the character of the new society
based on honesty and justice.
|Pinchas Rozenblum (Puti)
He was amongst the first to make aliyah from Kibbutz Banir and his first steps he executed as a hired building laborer in Hadera. He learnt the building profession, built and founded houses for others in the hope that in the not too distant future, with the practical knowledge that he acquired, he would dedicate himself to the building of houses on the land when the kibbutz was settled.
He was amongst the first to settle in Juara and over the years dealt with others in the marking out of the plans for the settlement. With his own hands he built and founded the first houses in Ein Hashofet, and there, in spite of the wide experience he had accumulated in his profession, he was forced for various reasons to abandon the profession and change over to other work. Nevertheless over all the years he assisted and supported those who followed after him.
In spite of this, during these years, in his new profession, it was if he had sprouted wings: There was not a project within the field of his trade that he wasn't willing to contend with. Over the last years he initiated a number of large projects whose influence was dominant in many branches of the farm. Many of the members who didn't know him well, since he was introverted and modest in his ways, suddenly saw him in a new light.
The metal workshop, which served as a major artery in service to the branches, and the workers amongst them, brought him in contact with him with most of the members of the kibbutz. It seemed that there wasn't a member that know how to appreciate his pleasant manner, his patience to listen, his willingness to carry out any request, small or large. For this over the years he gained many friends and acquaintances, who knew how to respect and value his talents and good manners.
I cannot not talk about one event, which testifies like one hundred witnesses to his personality and personal traits: More than once I was present when Pinchas would leave any important work he was involved in and make himself available to listen to the request of a member who had come into the metal workshop at the time, and for the most part he would immediately carry out their request, or give the order to others to fulfill it. I asked him once how can he avail himself in this way to every supplicant and he replied in this way: You know, there are members of the kibbutz that when they come into the workshop and request something from me, I carry it out immediately. They are very sensitive and any anxiety could harm their health. These words were said in seriousness and in honesty.
The trait, of patiently listening and being considerate of one's fellowman, is a precious trait and of great value in our everyday life, and not many of us are blessed with this, and this was a guiding principle in all his deeds and activities. I will recollect Pinchas as a proud Jew, as a loyal friend steadfast to the kibbutz principles, maintaining his basic values and committed with all his heart to his home, to his family and the members in general.
When the time comes and the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren
will recreate the history of Ein Hashofet, and when once again the legend of
the first days of the kibbutz will be spun, it will be Puti amongst
the personalities that will be talked about in respect and admiration. A friend
and a human being, who for all the years of the life till his last days,
contributed a considerable and important part in the establishment of our
kibbutz home on these green hills.
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