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Aaah Wales – land of Portmeirion, some of the World's best castles, and that amazing street in Cardiff that is all chip shops.
Even as a die-hard Englishman with hardly any Celtic blood in my veins I can say for now I love the Wales and the Welsh – though I must admit I am still traumatised by the sight of this Welsh man's bare chest.
And if there's a national music of Wales, beyond those stirring choral hymns, I would suggest it is probably wonky pop music. For oddly enough over the years the Welsh have been responsible for some of the best psychedelic pop music that these islands have ever produced. I won't venture an opinion as to why, but there's more here.
So to celebrate St David's Day here are ten killer Welsh psych pop songs (and The Manic Street Preachers because it is impossible to produce a list of Welsh music without them).
Badfinger – Come And Get It
Although it wasn't written by a Welshman (Beatle Paul actually) but the late 60s early 70s power poppers made many great records.
John Cale – Gideon's Bible
The Greatest Living Welshman – probably. This is from his first solo album Vintage Violence, but Paris 1919 is his masterpiece.
The Apple – Buffalo Billycan
Genius psych pop from a largely unknown Cardiff band.
The Super Furry Animals – It's Not The End Of The World
Still the best antidote to a bad day ever.
Shirley Bassey – The Spinning Wheel
Shirley's finest moment – easy listening funk with a psych twist
Colorama – Candy Street
The best of the new breed of Welsh psych bands. All of their albums are worth listening to especially the new one Good Music.
Melys – Chinese Whispers
Little known, but genius North Wales band.
The Keys – Fire Inside
Brilliant bit of psych from the very good See Monkey Records band.
The Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
They never got any better than this
The School – I Don't Believe in Love
Like Nancy and Lee soundtracked by the Wilson Brothers, a perfect pop song from the great Elefant Records band

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The Walrus Says
But wait – first, someone has to construct their beds. And, that's where A.O. (Tony) Gutierrez, set designer, comes in. Tony explained to us the intricacies and special effort that is involved in this production.
"'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' presents a number of technical challenges: Rivers of chocolate, a pink candy boat, a boy getting sucked up a tube, little girls turning into blueberries and falling down chutes. All against a background that appears to be built entirely of candy, which arises out of a rundown street in a factory town. And that's the easy stuff.
"Most of the structural background will be mounted on a series of rolling or rotating platforms and dressed to resemble the various machines of the chocolate factory. Lighting will be crucial to drawing focus and setting the tone of each scene while helping to provide a sense of movement through the factory. We have been very fortunate to have acquired some 1970s-style psychedelic lighting effects originally produced for the Fillmore East concert hall in Long Island to enhance some of the more mystical and bizarre transitions.
"The construction and props crews are working diligently to get the show up, but, as always, could benefit from a little assistance. We are currently looking for people to help out as lightboard and follow spot operators. These jobs require a commitment to be available for the last two weeks of rehearsal and all performances. Anyone who would like to get involved and doesn't mind getting a little dirty or gooey (we'll be using a lot of foam and glue) or can help run the show, please contact me at 423-0851 or at firstname.lastname@example.com."
Lenore MacLeish of Philadelphia says she remembers Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko. Our neighbor, Jim Anderson, sent along an old yellowed newspaper clipping of a recipe for Frosty Mandarin Dessert. While trying to figure out why he would do that, I turned over the recipe and there was a picture of Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko. Jim wrote, "As I do not believe in coincidences, I'm sending this little clip. After reading the Jamestown Press, I began culling a box of books to make some space. While going through some cookbooks (which had not been opened in many years 'inherited') this recipe, one of dozens tucked into the books, fell out.
"Enjoyed the show very much as a kid. Remember Col. Hall, Doberman and Bilko's right hand man 'Ricco'? Think Phil Silvers' character was the inspiration for Jackie Gleason's (with Steve McQueen) in 'Soldier In the Rain.' Early 1960s."
Bob Kinder says that "Seems like old times, dinner dates and flowers, seems like old times, staying up for hours," was Rosemary Clooney's theme song. We thought it was Arthur Godfrey's. Maybe both?
Peter C. Pemantell writes, "The Spa, better known as the Theatre Spa, was where else but right next door to the Bomes Theatre. It was a very popular hangout in the 1950s and someone was always playing the pinball machine. As I remember it, Virginia Stillman worked behind the counter and there were always a lot of kids around."
And, from Nancy Richardson McDermott, "The Spa was across the street from my father's garage – Central Garage. It was a small soda fountain to the right of the movie theater. It had a few stools that swiveled at the counter and a few booths. I remember ice cream cones for 15 cents! But the big kids [teenagers] hung out there and sipped vanilla cokes!
Nine-year-old Lila Chace will shake her fourth-grade image and become a vampire on Halloween.
The Jamestown Community Chorus will sing these lyrics during its 60th anniversary concert in December "We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man." What is the song?
The Potter League for Animals is holding a yard sale full of treasures at its Potter League Animal Care & Education Center at 87 Oliphant Lane in Middletown on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. You can get in early Saturday from 8 to 9 a.m. for a $10 donation. Questions about item donations or other information, call 841-8777 or e-mail Bootsiep@potterleague. org.
A Snapple cap moment: Butterfl ies taste with their hind feet.
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Benefits planned for Fern Ornelas
October 30. 2013 10:58PM
MANCHESTER — Friends of Fern Ornelas will host two fundraisers to benefit Ornelas and his family.
Ornelas, 54 of Manchester remains hospitalized in Boston with what friends say is a broken neck that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
He was injured sometime between Oct. 15 when he went to Elliot Hospital for a mental health episode and the morning of Oct. 17 when the county jail sent him back to the hospital in serious condition, friends and family say.
A fundraiser will be held at the Derryfield Country Club from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 17. Local merchants are donating items to be raffled off. There also will be a 50/50 raffle. All proceeds will be donated to the Ornelas family, said Ornelas' friend and fellow golfer Marc Morin.
Another fundraiser will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Dec. 5 at P.J. O'Sullivans. It will include a silent auction of prizes donated by local merchants. Tickets are $15 each; two for $25.
An account has been set up at TD Bank to accept donations on behalf of the Ornelas family. Anyone may make a donation at any TD Bank branch. Checks should be written out to "The Fern Ornelas Fund."
Already several thousand dollars in proceeds from the Annual Point Invitational Golf Tournament held Saturday at the Derryfield Country Club were donated to the fund, Morin said.
— Kathryn Marchocki, New Hampshire Union Leader


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Dawn, Portland Headlight
Gord MacEachern 2/2/2012 3:10:27 AMA real jaw dropper Alan, this should be hanging on your wall, or better yet, gracing a magazine cover!! #1440689
Tammy M. Anderson 2/2/2012 3:12:36 AMI agree with Gord. Gorgeous comp. and colors, Alan. #9960237
Jeff Robinson 2/2/2012 3:39:36 AMBeautifully composed and captured Alan! I wish I was there! #9960296
Tiia Vissak 2/2/2012 3:47:58 AMgreat tones, light & pov! #9960318
Debbie Bray 2/2/2012 3:56:43 AMI'm with Gord on this one, Alan! A real winner in my books! Beautiful job! #9960346
Jack Gaskin 2/2/2012 4:04:41 AMThis ones FANTASTIC Just a GLORIOUS CAPTURE.
Jack #9960372
Michelle Alton 2/2/2012 4:13:50 AMStunning, Gorgeous, and I agree completely with Jack! #9960390
Marilyn Cornwell 2/2/2012 4:23:15 AMOne of the great lighthouses of America, and at such a perfect moment! Congratulations on this spectacular image, Alan! #9960418
Linda D. Lester 2/2/2012 4:25:10 AMThis is a beauty!!!! Winner to me tooo! #9960425
Carolyn M. Fletcher 2/2/2012 4:35:48 AMIt's a beauty and a fave! #9960465
R. J. Laudenbacher 2/2/2012 6:45:04 AMYou REALLY hit this one out of the park, Alan. A winner for sure and a fave for me too! #9960676
Joy Rector 2/2/2012 8:21:42 AMawesome #9960804
Rony Sagy 2/2/2012 9:53:28 AMSpectacular capture, Alan. #9960953
Mike Clime 2/2/2012 11:00:30 AMBeautiful capture and comp, Alan! Doesn't get any better than this! #9961073
David M. Montero 2/2/2012 1:09:31 PMDawn right spectacular Alan! #9961423
Claudia Kuhn 2/2/2012 4:23:47 PMGorgeous early morning color Alan, beautiful! #9961791
Barbara Waldoch 2/3/2012 1:18:01 AMSo beautiful, Alan! #9962420
Mark Seiter 2/3/2012 12:08:36 PMbeautiful shot Alan. Great composition, color, lighting and detail #9963253
This lighthouse is in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
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American Idol Finalist Jason Castro Plays Oscar Schmidt
Many people knew at the start of Fox TV's hit series American Idol on April 9th, 2008, that Jason Castro could play guitar & drums. Imagine their surprise when Jason appeared playing a ukulele on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"!
That ukulele was an Oscar Schmidt OU5. The OU5 features a Hawaiian Koa top, back & sides, Abalone top inlay, a Rosewood fingerboard and bridge and Grover tuners


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Worcester public schools will be closed Monday because of road conditions and the weather forecast, which is for a wintry mix of precipitation, the School Department announced at 5 p.m. today.
Before-school and after-school activities and programs are canceled as well.
The Durkin Adminsitration Building will be open.
School also has been called off Monday in Blackstone-Millville, Douglas, Grafton, Leicester, Mendon-Upton, Milford, Northbridge, Uxbridge, Webster and Thompson, as well as Abby Kelley Foster Charter School, Alhuda Academy, Seven Hills Charter School, the Bancroft School, Notre Dame Academy and Worcester Academy, all in Worcester, and Whitinsville Christian School in Northbridge. Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical School in Upton also will be closed.
Worcester State University will be closed Monday.
The Dudley-Charlton Regional School District announced a two-hour delay in school starting times for Monday, with no morning kindergarten. The Quabbin Regional district also will have a two-hour delay.
Click here for a complete list of school closings.


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The Great American Water Shows
The Great American Water Circus
compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber Oct. 2012
The circus is always full of spectacles that leave us wide eyed and breathless. But one of the most amazing shows winter quartered, for a few years, just across the river in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio from 1902 until about 1905.
The Great American Water Circus was a floating show. The show travelled along the Ohio River going up the Alleghany River [at least one trip] and along the Mississippi. Sometime between the 1903 and 1904 season it changed the name from the Great American Water Circus to the Great American Water Shows.[i]
The show was described as two or three barges bound together with a large tent that covered the entire length, depending on what news articles are read. Several advance ads stated that the tent was 60x175 feet. Still a lot of canvas over barges tied together in any formation. The tent was touted to seat 2000 people. At least one article I read said that it seated about 1000. The show cost adults 25 cents and children under eight 15 cents.
Most newspaper articles reference it as a two ring circus. According to descriptions the show had 14 parade wagons and 40 horses[ii] as well as a dog show at one point. The show had approximately forty-two people.[iii]
I found a grainy photograph of the show docked at Marietta, Ohio in the December 1958 issue of Bandwagon. The photograph is the property of the Circus Historical Society. The best quality photograph is the property of the Public Library of Cincinnati with their wonderful river collection. But I truly got excited when I found that they have a picture of the inside of the tent showing seating, horses and pony. I am left wondering if perhaps that is the owner in the foreground with a smoke in his mouth. The library notes that it is from the {Frederick} Way Collection.
William P. Newman was the mastermind and owner of this floating circus. He was born in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio 27 March 1872[iv], the son of Valentine [born Germany] and Mary [born Massachusetts]. He was one of at least seven children. Valentine Newman was a lumber merchant and by the time William was fourteen he left home and tried his hand at several jobs. He married 25 November 1896 Carrie Haller and the family can be found renting in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio in the 1900 census. His occupation at this time is listed as superintendent. But, it does not clarify what he is supervising.
There were many show boats plying the waters of the Ohio that stopped in Portsmouth, Ironton and Ashland. They had theatrical stage shows and music. How Newman visualized and created this unique circus and convinced performers to bring their animals onboard is a wonder.
The overhead for a show of this type must have been high. Besides barges, a steamboat was required to push all of the trappings up and down the waterways. In 1903 the Cricket was one of the boats utilized. The first towboat that this writer found mention of being utilized for the show was the J.C. Reynolds in July 1902 where it began its journey from Liverpool, Ohio.[v] In 1904 the Katie Mc brought the show into Indiana. River news was reported in detail by newspaper produced in Brookville, Indiana called The Sun. There is no doubt that the show struggled. In 1904 "Col. Newman" talked with the owner of the Floating Palace while in Evansville. Rumors were circulating that the show was then out of business but the news corrected the rumor stating the show was reorganizing and had even bought a calliope.[vi]
Newman's wife was the cashier for the show. R. E. Stroup resigned his position, as advertising manager, with the Portsmouth Times in April 1903[vii] to become Great American Water Circus advance man. Stroup had only held the position with the paper for a month. The Portsmouth Times had announced his taking a position with them after leaving the "Ironton newspapers."[viii]
The show left winter quarters and usually made the next appearance at Ashland then Catlettsburg if heading up river.
Newman's father Valentine died 5 November 1909 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery in Ironton.[ix] By 1910 the Newman's had moved back to Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. They resided with Carrie's parents Jacob and Mary [nee Schaffer] Haller on Walnut Street. William P. gave his occupation as "none." Jacob Haller was an engineer at the county courthouse at this time. Jacob Haller was originally a tanner, born in Lycoming County, PA.[x]
By 1920 The Newman's had their own place and W. P. gave his occupation as manager of a bakery. In 1913 they had a daughter named Mary. By 1940, still living in Bucyrus, William gives his occupation as a salesman of step ladders.
Census records can be a bit deceiving, leaving huge gaps in a person's life. The Cleveland Plain Dealer gave more information about his life in entertainment in his obituary 12 June 1950. The article stated that he was one of Bucyrus first motion picture theater owners. It went on to describe a partnership in billboard advertising for many years. Besides his wife, and only daughter [Mrs. Robert W. Ferguson], a brother, Louis also resided in Crawford County.
Carrie, widowed, lived until her death, 29 January 1967, in a care facility in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.
[i] Breckenridge News, Cloverport, KY, 29 June 1904
[ii] Rain, D.A. The Water Book. A Compendium of Facts and Fables 1993
[iii] Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley, Vol. 1, page 135
[iv] Ohio, Lawrence County Birth Records
[v] Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Ohio July 18 1902
[vi] Breckenridge News, Cloverport, KY 13 July 1904
[vii] Ironton Register, Ironton, Ohio 3 April 1903
[viii] Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, OH 7 Mar 1903
[ix] Episcopal Church Burial Records, Ironton, Ohio http://www.lawrencecountyohio.com/churches/records/episcopal/Burials_1902_1911.htm
[x] History of Crawford County, Ohio. Baskin and Battey, 1881. PP 749.


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Miss Lenhart
|Miss Lenhart
Miss Lenhart in comic 499, Scantron.
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Miss Lenhart is the go-to character when Randall needs a teacher. She has white hair of shoulder length.
Miss Lenhart is usually named when she appears; however Randall uses her visual appearence from time to time, making it open for interpretation whether it's Miss Lenhart or not. The aimless student in 59: Graduation could for example be a young Miss Lenhart.


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Aussie Gift Shop's first online sale was a set of Aboriginal art drink coasters in August, 2000. Australia Gift Shop is a mobile-ready online gift store with a totally responsive design that changes webpage layout according to the size of screen and the device being used to browse the site.
Aboriginal art designs and Aussie icons are featured on our extensive range of Australian-made Australian gift products, corporate gifts, Aboriginal artifacts and Australiana and Aboriginal art souvenirs.
Our Aboriginal art designs are painted by Australian Aboriginal artists. The most popular corporate gift products include beautiful double-lacquered boxed boomerangs with timber display stands, Aboriginal art framed canvas paintings, Australis opal watches, Aboriginal art watches and Don Sheil metal art tableware consisting of Aboriginal Art or Australiana Design on Hand-Crafted Metal and Aboriginal clap sticks ( music sticks ) with stands.
Even though we are an Australian gift shop, Australia Gift Shop has an international department offering Gifts from Around the World. These are global gifts and artisan gift items that are exotic, hand-made, traditional and Third World. They are made in countries and cultures that are friends of Australia. At this early developmental stage, Buddhist culture, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Nepal and Tibet are represented by products / artefacts / art objects we have displayed and for sale in our online store.
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Modern Aboriginal art media is today's platform for preserving long-past spiritual life and tribal culture, analogous to glowing, transparent amber preserving and displaying life forms we would otherwise never have known existed in the distant past.
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Noticed there are some pure Bunny Lee productions (aka Tubby sounding tunes) on this label - but at the same time, there are plenty of 'one-off' recordings thru Total Sounds...
So was Total Sounds one of those 'generic' labels that artists/producers used just as a label, or was it more connected to a single studio/producer?
The '14 Retirement Road' address is on several Total Sounds and Micron records - was this just a distribution address?
Last - any chance of Total Sounds being some kind of sub-Channel 1 label?


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The Dollar Index fell for a fourth day as a report showed hiring in the U.S. increased in January after accelerating more than previously estimated at the end of 2012, encouraging investors to seek higher-yielding assets.
The decline came two days after the Federal Reserve said it will keep buying bonds to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment, increasing concern the dollar is being debased. The greenback weakened earlier as risk appetite rose after data showed manufacturing in the 17-nation region shrank less in January than earlier estimated.
"It's really a better-than-expected number," Doug Borthwick, a managing director and head of foreign exchange at Chapdelaine FX in New York, said of the payrolls report in a telephone interview. "You have to look at the revision. This will be spun positively by the market."
The Dollar Index, which Intercontinental Exchange Inc. uses to track the greenback against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners, declined 0.2% to 79.054 at 9:13 a.m. in New York.
The yen reached a 2 1/2 year low amid bets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will select a new Bank of Japan governor who will boost monetary stimulus, and the euro topped $1.36 for the first time since Nov. 18, 2011.
Hiring in the U.S. increased in January after accelerating more than previously estimated at the end of 2012, data showed. Payrolls rose by 157,000 jobs following a revised 196,000 advance in the prior month and a 247,000 surge in November, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The revisions added a total of 127,000 jobs to the employment count in November and December.
Dollar Strength
"This number suggests that the trend for stronger employment growth in the States is intact," Jack Spitz, Toronto-based managing director of foreign-exchange trading at National Bank of Canada, said in a telephone interview "It will likely lead to better U.S. dollar strength going forward" by encouraging the Fed to end monetary stimulus, he said.
The jobless rate rose to 7.9% , from 7.8%.
The dollar gauge dropped 1.2% on Aug. 3, when data showed employers added 163,000 jobs in July, exceeding a forecast of 100,000. It gained 0.2% Jan. 4, when a 155,000-position gain in the previous month narrowly beat a projection of 152,000.
The index climbed 0.6% on June 1 to touch a 21-month high of 83.542 as investors sought safety after the 69,000 positions that employers added in May failed to approach a Bloomberg survey forecast for 150,000.
Fed Purchases
The Fed said Jan. 30 it will keep purchasing $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage securities each month.
Central-bank Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues are deploying record stimulus through an open-ended expansion of the central bank's balance sheet after determining that the benefits from stoking a flagging economy outweigh any risk of financial instability or higher inflation.
The Fed repeated that its purchases will continue "if the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially." The central bank also left unchanged its statement that it planned to hold its target interest rate near zero as long as unemployment remains above 6.5% and projected inflation stays below 2.5%.
The euro strengthened yesterday as optimism increased that the worst is over in the 17-nation bloc's sovereign-debt crisis.


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Manchester Mayor Gatsas: Hooksett kids likely to stay in city schoolsBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 31. 2013 10:57PM
MANCHESTER — Mayor Ted Gatsas said Wednesday that he expects that most Hooksett students will remain in Manchester high schools, while his main election opponent said the deal worked out between the two communities does not address underlying problems in the district.
Manchester and Hooksett school boards have OK'd a five-year deal that ends legal actions from both school districts about where Hooksett high school students will attend school. (See related story, Page B1.)It allows 74 Hooksett students who have signed up for schools outside Manchester to remain there. And it requires Manchester to take Hooksett students while scuttling a requirement that Hooksett send its students to the city schools.
"I think the opportunity for us to continue the educational relationship with Hooksett that we've had for 120 years is the foundation of this agreement," Gatsas said Wednesday.He said only six Hooksett students who were enrolled in Manchester schools last year opted out for the upcoming school year.
"I don't think a majority of Hooksett kids are going to want to leave," Gatsas said.
But Gatsas' main election opponent, Ward 12 alderman Patrick Arnold, said the agreement does nothing to address the teacher layoffs and overcrowded classrooms that prompted Hooksett to exit its long-standing agreement with Manchester.
"This agreement doesn't address any of these underlying concerns that caused them to exit," he said. Arnold said he will be addressing the concerns about Manchester education highlighted in the curriculum audit of Manchester schools, which was released in June.
Gatsas responded that the Manchester school board unanimously approved the deal with Hooksett, which means it must be a step in the right direction.
The deal does mean money for Manchester:
• It keeps this year's tuition rate at $8,500 per student but raises tuition rates by nearly $2,000 for the 2014-15 school year — to $10,200.
• Tuition rates would increase roughly $200 a year in subsequent years.
• It guarantees $781,000 a year for the next five years, representing brick and mortar improvements Manchester made to Central and West high schools with the anticipation of Hooksett enrollments.
• It adds a $100,000 payment from Hooksett to Manchester for the next two years.
Last year, about 549 Hooksett students attended Manchester high schools, most of them at Central and West."It's one more step out the door for Hooksett," said Jim O'Connell, leader of Citizens for Manchester Schools. But he noted the Manchester school board has adopted a policy of no more than 30 students to a class, and political and business leaders now realize city schools need additional attention."We've got a year to prove to the people of Hooksett that Manchester's the best option," O'Connell said.
In an interview, Gatsas dismissed any notion of a mass exodus of Hooksett students starting in 2014-15.
One provision calls for Manchester and Hooksett to make a good-faith effort to negotiate an agreement that would allow Hooksett students to continue attending Manchester schools after 2018.
Gatsas said the provision does not prevent Hooksett from signing deals with other school districts.
"It leaves an opening for the two school districts to continue a relationship, with an opt-in decision for parents in Hooksett," said John Avard, who represents Ward 10 on the school board.
Ben Dick, the president of the Manchester teachers' union, said he wants to see Hooksett students at least given the opportunity to remain in Manchester. He called them valuable.
"Anything we can do to keep them with us in any way, shape or form benefits the district," Dick said.
But he cautioned against an open-market approach that would allow Hooksett parents to switch students from one school to another. Such upheaval would not be good for a student, he said.


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== '''Family History Library and Family History Centers''' ==
== '''Family History Library and Family History Centers''' ==
The [[Family_History_Library|Family History Library]] has the world's largest collection of genealogical information, including an extensive collection of books and microfilms about Church members. To find a
The [[Family_History_Library|Family History Library]] has the world's largest collection of genealogical information, including an extensive collection of books and microfilms about Church members. To find a (branch of the Family History Library) near you [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp click here].<br><!--{12044074286910} --><!--{12044074286911} -->
== '''Church History Department''' ==
== '''Church History Department''' ==
Revision as of 19:05, 17 November 2009
When one of these institutions is referred to elsewhere in this outline, return to this section to obtain the address.
The Family History Library has copies of many of the records from the archives and libraries listed below, but most of these repositories will have additional sources.
Family History Library and Family History Centers
The Family History Library has the world's largest collection of genealogical information, including an extensive collection of books and microfilms about Church members. To find a family history center (branch of the Family History Library) near you click here.
Church History Department
The Church History Department preserves records, artifacts, and other materials relating to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church History Department does not loan materials to family history centers. Their staff can respond to queries by telephone at 801-240-2804 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also visit www.churchhistorylibrary.org or the Church History Library, which is located at:
15 East North Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3800
Church Library and Archives — The Church History Library has manuscript material that may contain helpful genealogical information. This includes the following types of manuscripts: membership records, meeting minutes, and histories of ward, branches, stakes, and missions. They also have diaries, journals, and other histories of Church leaders.
The Church History Library has published works by and about the LDS Church and its members. This includes biographies, directories, emigration books, Church history, local ward, branch and stake histories, Mormon Battalion histories, newspapers and obituaries, periodicals and indexes, and the Journal History of the Church.
Other Major Repositories
The following list shows other organizations that have genealogical and historical records about the Church and its members. Their catalogs are often available on the Internet.
| David O. McKay Library
Brigham Young University Idaho
Rexburg, ID 83440 USA
Telephone: 208-356-2355
Fax: 208-356-2385
| Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
300 North Main
Salt Lake City, UT 84103 USA
Telephone: 801-538-1050
| Delyte W. Morris Library
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
Telephone: 618-453-2522
Fax: 618-453-3440
| Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602 USA
Telephone: 801-378-6200
Fax: 801-378-6347
Huntington Library
| Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University Hawaii
55-220 Kulanui Street
Laie, HA 96762 USA
Telephone: 808-293-3876
Fax: 808-293-3877
Internet: http://library.byuh.edu/
J. Willard Marriott Library
| Merrill Library
Special Collections and Archives
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-3000 USA
Telephone: 801-797-2663
Fax: 801-797-2880
Nauvoo Restoration Incorporated
| Community of Christ Library
(Formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)
The Temple
201 S. River
Independence, Missouri 64051 USA
Telephone: 816-833-1000, extension 2400
Fax: 816-521-3089
See the Membership Records wiki article for this library's Index to Archival Holdings, 1830–1994.
| Stewart Library
Weber State University
2901 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408 USA
Telephone: 801-626-6403
Fax: 801-626-7045
Internet: http://library.weber.edu/
Repository Inventories
Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in Selected Utah Repositories. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1990. (Family History Library floppy disk no. 4 parts1–4). This is widely available in the LDS Family History Suite 2. This inventory lists the author, title, number of volumes, location, and subject headings for each record cited. This emphasizes the Utah State Historical Society more than other repositories. It describes records at the following Utah repositories:
- American Fork Public Library(American Fork, Utah)
- Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah)
- Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Southern Utah University (Cedar City, Utah)
- Springville Public Library (Springville, Utah)
- University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
- Utah State Archives (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Utah State Historical Society (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Utah State University (Logan, Utah)
- Weber State University (Ogden, Utah)
Whittaker, David J. Mormon Americana: A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States. BYU Studies Monograph. Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 1995. (Family History Library book 289.30160973 M828m). This covers more repositories but in less detail than the previous inventory. It includes references to the Family History Library and Historical Department.
Howells, Cyndi. LDS and Family History Centers. In Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet [Internet site]. Puyallup, Washington: Cyndi Howells, 8 February 1998 [cited 10 September 1999]. Available at www.cyndislist.com/lds.htm. This site has numerous links for Internet resources for LDS research and websites pertaining to some of the family history centers throughout the world.
Roots-L. In RootsWeb [Internet site]. N.p., 25 May 1999 [cited 10 September 1999]. Available at www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/. This list of sites and resources includes a large, regularly-updated research coordination list.
Ancestry.com [Internet site]. Orem, Utah: Ancestry, 1998, 1999 [cited 20 October 1999]. Available at www.ancestry.com/. For a subscription fee you can search several databases on this Internet site for early Church members. These databases are also available in the LDS Family History Suite 2 described in the LDS Biography wiki article.
Many public libraries, college libraries, and private locations have computer on-line services, networks and bulletin boards, and news groups for family history research. For further details about using these services see the United States Research Outline (30972), Second Edition, "Archives and Libraries" section.


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American Film since 1945
Joshua Gleich
Over the past seventy years, the American film industry has transformed from mass-producing movies to producing a limited number of massive blockbuster movies on a global scale. Hollywood film studios have moved from independent companies to divisions of media conglomerates. Theatrical attendance for American audiences has plummeted since the mid-1940s; nonetheless, American films have never been more profitable. In 1945, American films could only be viewed in theaters; now they are available in myriad forms of home viewing. Throughout, Hollywood has continued to dominate global cinema, although film and now video production reaches Americans in many other forms, from home videos to educational films.
Amid declining attendance, the Supreme Court in 1948 forced the major studios to sell off their theaters. Hollywood studios instead focused their power on distribution, limiting the supply of films and focusing on expensive productions to sell on an individual basis to theaters. Growing production costs and changing audiences caused wild fluctuations in profits, leading to an industry-wide recession in the late 1960s. The studios emerged under new corporate ownership and honed their blockbuster strategy, releasing "high concept" films widely on the heels of television marketing campaigns. New technologies such as cable and VCRs offered new windows for Hollywood movies beyond theatrical release, reducing the risks of blockbuster production. Deregulation through the 1980s and 1990s allowed for the "Big Six" media conglomerates to join film, theaters, networks, publishing, and other related media outlets under one corporate umbrella. This has expanded the scale and stability of Hollywood revenue while reducing the number and diversity of Hollywood films, as conglomerates focus on film franchises that can thrive on various digital media. Technological change has also lowered the cost of non-Hollywood films and thus encouraged a range of alternative forms of filmmaking, distribution, and exhibition.
American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945
Jeffrey Helgeson
Early 20th century American labor and working-class history is a subfield of American social history that focuses attention on the complex lives of working people in a rapidly changing global political and economic system. Once focused closely on institutional dynamics in the workplace and electoral politics, labor history has expanded and refined its approach to include questions about the families, communities, identities, and cultures workers have developed over time. With a critical eye on the limits of liberal capitalism and democracy for workers' welfare, labor historians explore individual and collective struggles against exclusion from opportunity, as well as accommodation to political and economic contexts defined by rapid and volatile growth and deep inequality.
Particularly important are the ways that workers both defined and were defined by differences of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and place. Individual workers and organized groups of working Americans both transformed and were transformed by the main struggles of the industrial era, including conflicts over the place of former slaves and their descendants in the United States, mass immigration and migrations, technological change, new management and business models, the development of a consumer economy, the rise of a more active federal government, and the evolution of popular culture.
The period between 1896 and 1945 saw a crucial transition in the labor and working-class history of the United States. At its outset, Americans were working many more hours a day than the eight for which they had fought hard in the late 19th century. On average, Americans labored fifty-four to sixty-three hours per week in dangerous working conditions (approximately 35,000 workers died in accidents annually at the turn of the century). By 1920, half of all Americans lived in growing urban neighborhoods, and for many of them chronic unemployment, poverty, and deep social divides had become a regular part of life. Workers had little power in either the Democratic or Republican party. They faced a legal system that gave them no rights at work but the right to quit, judges who took the side of employers in the labor market by issuing thousands of injunctions against even nonviolent workers' organizing, and vigilantes and police forces that did not hesitate to repress dissent violently. The ranks of organized labor were shrinking in the years before the economy began to recover in 1897. Dreams of a more democratic alternative to wage labor and corporate-dominated capitalism had been all but destroyed. Workers struggled to find their place in an emerging consumer-oriented culture that assumed everyone ought to strive for the often unattainable, and not necessarily desirable, marks of middle-class respectability.
Yet American labor emerged from World War II with the main sectors of the industrial economy organized, with greater earning potential than any previous generation of American workers, and with unprecedented power as an organized interest group that could appeal to the federal government to promote its welfare. Though American workers as a whole had made no grand challenge to the nation's basic corporate-centered political economy in the preceding four and one-half decades, they entered the postwar world with a greater level of power, and a bigger share in the proceeds of a booming economy, than anyone could have imagined in 1896. The labor and working-class history of the United States between 1900 and 1945, then, is the story of how working-class individuals, families, and communities—members of an extremely diverse American working class—managed to carve out positions of political, economic, and cultural influence, even as they remained divided among themselves, dependent upon corporate power, and increasingly invested in a individualistic, competitive, acquisitive culture.
America's Wars on Poverty and the Building of the Welfare State
David Torstensson
On January 5, 2014—the fiftieth anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's launch of the War on Poverty—the New York Times asked a panel of opinion leaders a simple question: "Does the U.S. Need Another War on Poverty?" While the answers varied, all the invited debaters accepted the martial premise of the question—that a war on poverty had been fought and that eliminating poverty was, without a doubt, a "fight," or a "battle."
Yet the debate over the manner—martial or not—by which the federal government and public policy has dealt with the issue of poverty in the United States is still very much an open-ended one.
The evolution and development of the postwar American welfare state is a story not only of a number of "wars," or individual political initiatives, against poverty, but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government that seek to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and its concomitant social ills. It is a complex and at times messy story, interwoven with the wider historical trajectory of this period: civil rights, the rise and fall of a "Cold War consensus," the emergence of a counterculture, the Vietnam War, the credibility gap, the rise of conservatism, the end of "welfare," and the emergence of compassionate conservatism. Mirroring the broader organization of the American political system, with a relatively weak center of power and delegated authority and decision-making in fifty states, the welfare model has developed and grown over decades. Policies viewed in one era as unmitigated failures have instead over time evolved and become part of the fabric of the welfare state.
Antebellum U.S. Labor Markets
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The United States economy underwent major transformations between American independence and the Civil War through rapid population growth, the development of manufacturing, the onset of modern economic growth, increasing urbanization, the rapid spread of settlement into the trans-Appalachian west, and the rise of European immigration. These decades were also characterized by an increasing sectional conflict between free and slave states that culminated in 1861 in Southern secession from the Union and a bloody and destructive Civil War. Labor markets were central to each of these developments, directing the reallocation of labor between sectors and regions, channeling a growing population into productive employment, and shaping the growing North–South division within the country. Put differently, labor markets influenced the pace and character of economic development in the antebellum United States. On the one hand, the responsiveness of labor markets to economic shocks helped promote economic growth; on the other, imperfections in labor market responses to these shocks significantly affected the character and development of the national economy.
Bracero Guest Worker Program
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
On August 4, 1942, the Mexican and U.S. governments launched the bi-national guest worker program, most commonly known as the Bracero Program. An estimated five million Mexican men between the ages of 19 and 45 separated from their families for three-to-nine-month contract cycles at a time, in anticipation of earning the prevailing U.S. wage this program had promised them. They labored in U.S. agriculture, railroad construction, and forestry, with hardly any employment protections or rights in place to support themselves and the families they had left behind in Mexico. The inhumane configuration and implementation of this program prevented most of these men and their families from meeting such goals. Instead, the labor exploitation and alienation that characterized this guest worker program and their program participation paved the way for, at best, fragile family relationships. This program lasted twenty-two years and grew in its expanse, despite its negative consequences, Mexican men and their families could not afford to settle for being unemployed in Mexico, nor could they pass up U.S. employment opportunities of any sort. The Mexican and U.S. governments' persistently negligent management of the Bracero Program, coupled with their conveniently selective acknowledgement of the severity of the plight of Mexican women and men, consistently cornered Mexican men and their families to shoulder the full extent of the Bracero Program's exploitative conditions and terms.
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
Matt Garcia
In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) held its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a multiracial movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers (UFW) and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the United States. Chavez welcomed contributions from numerous ethnic and racial groups, men and women, young and old. For a time, the UFW was the realization of Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community—people from different backgrounds coming together to create a socially just world. During the 1970s, Chavez struggled to maintain the momentum created by the boycott as the state of California became more involved in adjudicating labor disputes under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). Although Chavez and the UFW ultimately failed to establish a permanent, national union, their successes and strategies continue to influence movements for farm worker justice today.
Communist Party USA, 1919 to 1957
James R. Barrett
The largest and most important revolutionary socialist organization in US history, the Communist Party USA was always a minority influence. It reached considerable size and influence, however, during the Great Depression and World War II years when it followed the more open line associated with the term "Popular Front." In these years communists were much more flexible in their strategies and relations with other groups, though the party remained a hierarchical vanguard organization. It grew from a largely isolated sect dominated by unskilled and unemployed immigrant men in the 1920s to a socially diverse movement of nearly 100,000 based heavily on American born men and women from the working and professional classes by the late 1930s and during World War II, exerting considerable influence in the labor movement and American cultural life. In these years, the Communist Party helped to build the industrial union movement, advanced the cause of African American civil rights, and laid the foundation for the postwar feminist movement. But the party was always prone to abrupt changes in line and vulnerable to attack as a sinister outside force because of its close adherence to Soviet policies and goals. Several factors contributed to its catastrophic decline in the 1950s: the increasingly antagonistic Cold War struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States; an unprecedented attack from employers and government at various levels—criminal cases and imprisonment, deportation, and blacklisting; and within the party itself, a turn back toward a more dogmatic version of Marxism-Leninism and a heightened atmosphere of factional conflict and purges.
Dockworkers in America
Peter Cole
The history of dockworkers in America is as fascinating and important as it is unfamiliar. Those who worked along the shore loading and unloading ships played an invaluable role in an industry central to both the U.S. and global economies as well as the making of the nation. For centuries, their work remained largely the same, involving brute manual labor in gangs; starting in the 1960s, however, their work was entirely remade due to technological transformation. Dockworkers possess a long history of militancy, resulting in dramatic improvements in their economic and workplace conditions. Today, nearly all are unionists, but dockworkers in ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts belong to the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), while the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) represents them in Pacific Coast ports as well as in Hawaii and Alaska (along with British Columbia and Panama). In the mid-1930s, the ILA and ILWU became bitter rivals and remain so. This feud, which has cooled slightly since its outset, can be explained by differences in leadership, ideology, and tactics, with the ILA more craft-based, "patriotic," and mainstream and the ILWU quite left wing, especially during its first few decades, and committed to fighting for racial equality. The existence of two unions complicates this story; in most countries, dockworkers belong to a single union. Similarly, America's massive economy and physical size means that there are literally dozens of ports (again, unlike many other countries), making generalizations harder. Unfortunately, popular culture depictions of dockworkers inculcate unfair and incorrect notions that all dockworkers are involved with organized crime. Nevertheless, due to decades of militancy, strikes, and unionism, dockworkers in 21st-century America are—while far fewer in number—very well paid and still do important work, literally making world trade possible in an era when 90 percent of goods move by ship for at least part of their journey to market.
Domestic Workers in U.S. History
Vanessa May
Domestic work was, until 1940, the largest category of women's paid labor. Despite the number of women who performed domestic labor for pay, the wages and working conditions were often poor. Workers labored long hours for low pay and were largely left out of state labor regulations. The association of domestic work with women's traditional household labor, defined as a "labor of love" rather than as real work, and its centrality to southern slavery, have contributed to its low status. As a result, domestic work has long been structured by class, racial, and gendered hierarchies. Nevertheless, domestic workers have time and again done their best to resist these conditions. Although traditional collective bargaining techniques did not always translate to the domestic labor market, workers found various collective and individual methods to insist on higher wages and demand occupational respect, ranging from quitting to "pan-toting" to forming unions.
Employers' Associations and Open Shops in the United States
Chad Pearson
Employers began organizing with one another to reduce the power of organized labor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Irritated by strikes, boycotts, and unions' desire to achieve exclusive bargaining rights, employers demanded the right to establish open shops, workplaces that promoted individualism over collectivism. Rather than recognize closed or union shops, employers demanded the right to hire and fire whomever they wanted, irrespective of union status. They established an open-shop movement, which was led by local, national, and trade-based employers. Some formed more inclusive "citizens' associations," which included clergymen, lawyers, judges, academics, and employers. Throughout the 20th century's first three decades, this movement succeeded in busting unions, breaking strikes, and blacklisting labor activists. It united large numbers of employers and was mostly successful. The movement faced its biggest challenges in the 1930s, when a liberal political climate legitimized unions and collective bargaining. But employers never stopped organizing and fighting, and they continued to undermine the labor movement in the following decades by invoking the phrase "right-to-work," insisting that individual laborers must enjoy freedom from so-called union bosses and compulsory unionism. Numerous states, responding to pressure from organized employers, begin passing "right-to-work" laws, which made union organizing more difficult because workers were not obligated to join unions or pay their "fair share" of dues to them. The multi-decade employer-led anti-union movement succeeded in fighting organized labor at the point of production, in politics, and in public relations.
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Earlier this week, NFL Network aired snippets of a one-on-one interview with Michael Irvin and DeSean Jackson.
And Sunday morning, we heard the rest of it.
Most notably, we heard where Jackson thinks he ranks among NFL wide receivers, and his answer probably reveals part of the reason why he doesn't have a new contract.
Irvin prefaced the question by referencing salary numbers for Larry Fitzgerald and Calvin Johnson, and then asked Jackson where he thinks he fits in.
"I think, right in that range, maybe top five in the NFL as far as my playmaking skills ability, punt return, dynamic duo of being able to get the ball and score at any point on the field," Jackson said. "I mean, Fitzgerald, he's a great receiver, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't play special teams so I think that's the extra edge to it."
If you're a regular MTC reader, you know I think Jackson is a dynamic playmaker, and the Eagles should do their best to bring him back because he's an excellent fit in this offense and will only be 25 years old when this season is over.
But he is not Fitzgerald, and he is not Johnson. There is not a GM in the NFL who would even think about taking Jackson over either of those guys. Furthermore, the Fitzgerald reference is ill-timed, considering the Cardinals receiver just torched the Eagles for seven catches, 146 yards and two touchdowns a week ago, while Jackson watched from home because he missed a special teams meeting.
Earlier in the interview, Irvin baited Jackson with a question that seemed, at least to me, to be based on non-factual information. Here's what Irvin said: "Now, people are saying 'he doesn't want to go across the middle' cause it was reported someone on your team said that you're not going across the middle..."
It's possible I missed it (and if so, please pass along a link), but I don't remember seeing the report Irvin speaks of. Reporters have criticized Jackson about shying away from contact; fans too. But to my knowledge, no teammate has mentioned anything of the sort. Clearly, Jackson was bothered by what Irvin said though.
Update: Apparently, this could have been the report Irvin was referencing, but it is from nearly two months ago. An unnamed Eagles player told Michael Silver of Yahoo Sports: "I can't lie – it is something I've thought about. There was a play toward the very end of the game where it looked like he might have short-armed it. And I don't blame him."
"That ain't good business right there 'cause I wouldn't throw anyone on my team under the bus," Jackson told Irvin. "I would hope it wouldn't be coming from a player that's saying that... that wish he was in my position or wish he was starting, just to say something to make me give him a opportunity, I don't believe in that type of stuff. The film don't show that though. The film show I'm protecting myself. I'm not dodging any hits. I know the type of player I am so I don't feel there's too many people in the NFL that could really do what I'm capable of doing when the ball's in my hands."
Jackson was also asked what was going through his head when the Eagles handed out contracts to a bunch of free agents this offseason, but didn't take care of him.
"It was a situation where it hurt, honestly, deep inside," Jackson said. "But I still to this day just try to go out there and not think about it."
Irvin's last question could have led to a combustible answer. He asked Jackson if he could see himself playing for another team, but the Eagles receiver reiterated that he wants to be here.
"Nah, not right now," Jackson said. "I can't see it. I'm just keeping good hope that the man above's got a spot for me here in Philadelphia. If I could paint the picture and have everything the way I want it to be, I would say I'll stay here."
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Bishop Guertin's Mark Phillips named new Alvirne of Hudson football coachBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 05. 2013 10:14PM
Mark Phillips, a longtime assistant football coach at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, has been hired as the head football coach at Alvirne High School in Hudson.
Phillips, 50, was an assistant coach on Tony Johnson's staff at BG from 1994 to 2010. The Cardinals won six Division II championships under Johnson, who was forced to resign after the 2010 season.
Phillips, who is a teacher at BG, will take over an Alvirne program that finished 3-7 overall and 3-5 in Division III last season. The Broncos dropped from Division II to Division III after the 2011 season. Alvirne will move to Division I this year, and will compete in a conference with Nashua North, Nashua South, BG and Keene.
"It's fresh start for Alvirne and a fresh start for me," Phillips said. "I'll have a lot of the assistants that were at BG, so we'll see if we can work some magic."
Phillips replaces Bob Nimblett, who resigned in November after serving as the program's head coach for nine season. The Broncos made one playoff appearance in those nine years (2009).


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More than 200,000 people lined Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on what felt like a summer day for the 28th annual Kingdom Day Parade to honor the revered civil rights leader.
Honoring King with the parade "started out as being focused on black liberation, but it's grown to involve everybody because until everybody is free, nobody is free," said Adrian Dove, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, the third oldest civil rights group in the United States and organizer of the annual parade through South Los Angeles.
"This is what Dr. King preached," Dove said, "so we're trying to keep doing whatever it is we think he'd do if he was still here to ensure his dream comes to fruition."
The event, which included a festival at Leimert Park, also recognized parade founder Larry E. Grant who died in August, Dove said.
The parade is traditionally held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but was hosted early to avoid conflict with Monday's inauguration of President Barack Obama for a second term.
National Newspaper Publishers Association president Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., executive publisher for the Los Angeles Sentinel and L.A. Watts Times Weekender Newspaper, served as the parade's grand marshal along with Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who got the crowd roaring.
Kemp, who wore No. 42 in honor of former Dodger Jackie Robinson, said before the parade that representing his team and learning about its ties with the civil rights movement was humbling.
Kemp said he enjoys hearing stories about Robinson and King from former Dodger Don Newcombe, one of the first black pitchers in MLB who played alongside Robinson in the 1950s and remains affiliated with the team in a community relations role. Newcombe has said in media interviews that he met King about a month before his assassination in 1968. King told him that his and Jackie Robinson's efforts to integrate baseball helped make his own civil rights battle easier.
"Every time I sit down and talk to Mr. Newcombe, he's always talking about how Dr. Martin Luther King made it easier for him," Kemp said. "Just knowing somebody that's part of that history, somebody who got to meet Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson is just a plus for me."
The Dodgers, including retired shortstop Maury Wills, joined nearly 200 groups, from local high school marching bands and drill teams to community organizations, who all rolled down the streets for the three-mile long parade.
Among one of the inspiring mobile displays included a double-decker bus that read: "Life's most urgent and persistent question is: What are you doing for others?"
The quote by King is what Donate Life California and OneLegacy hopes will spur more minorities to sign up as donors. The "Get On Board Donate Life" bus – carrying transplant recipients, donor family members, living donors, wait-list candidates and healthcare providers – is a collaboration between the nonprofit organ and tissue registry and nonprofit organ and tissue recovery agency.
"I feel that I am answering that question with my mission to save lives," said Granada Hills resident Elsa Arana through a Spanish translator.
Arana is the mother of Marco Arana, Jr. who died in a 2006 car crash at age 28. Her son's kidney was donated to save the life of Pomona resident David Jones, who she sat next to aboard the parade bus on Saturday.
"I am so happy," said an emotional Arana. "When (David) says, `Hello,' I feel it is my son who says hello and is hugging me. When I met him and his mom, they were so grateful – I understood what a difference my son made."
Of the more than 7,800 Los Angeles-area residents are candidates on the national organ transplant waiting list two-thirds are Latino, African-American or Asian, according to OneLegacy.
For 22-year-old Daneisha Kurney of Northridge, attending the parade was as much about reliving her childhood memories as it was creating new ones for her 4-year-old daughter, Milynn.
With Milynn on her hip attentively watching the ornate floats roll by, Kurney said her daughter really got excited when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Mounted Enforcement Detail sauntered down the boulevard.
The 4-year-old's eyes also lit up – and her shoulder slightly jumped to the beat – when Los Angeles City Council President Herb J. Wesson, Jr.'s float rode by blasting Psy's "Gangnam Style" and "Jam On It" by Newcleus.
"It's important for her to learn about Martin Luther King," Kurney said, "and realize that without him we wouldn't be standing here like this today."


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When you pack a really good lunch, it's easy to get excited over it. Some might even take a picture!
From bento boxes to bagged, this gallery is full of packed lunches that inspire us to pack a better lunch for work or school.
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Colorado Rapids Head Coach Oscar Pareja following the 2-2 home draw with FC Dallas:
On if he'd seen four goals in 10 minutes before:
"I think I have, but I didn't want to see it today. Especially after leading the game the way we were. I thought we were the best team on the field, no doubt. When you're leading at home, you want to put the game away. So it was a good reaction from them, and a couple mistakes from us."
On his team's aggressiveness:
"Today was a game where, especially in the second half, we showed a lot of determination to go forward, courage to go and battle, I thought the boys did great in the second half. I would like to see that more often at home, especially in the first half. But the boys did a great job today in that part. They matched well against a good team – this is the team that people are saying is the team – and we got the lead twice. You know what, I thought we were close today for the three points."
On the difference between the first and second halves:
"The game sometimes changes colors, sometimes you don't find that aggressiveness for many reasons, but then second half everything just came together. I thought the boys were pushing and going forward, and aggressive – that was great. I was glad to see our team today in the second half."
On Atiba Harris' performance:
"Very happy for him. I thought Atiba brings us that energy. Such a professional player who is always working. He knew that he didn't have a good year last year, and the opportunity that the club is providing to him, he is embracing it and doing a great job. I am very happy for him, he is bringing the goals that we need, but we need that. He's a forward. We were happy for him, and the team."
On giving up goals immediately after scoring:
"Especially on the second one… we were leading the game again and we wanted to keep pressuring. The message from the bench was, let's calm, let's control the game first, they're going to react, but let's control. But the boys didn't want it, they want to keep going and then we pressure high, and then force a long ball, and they get that space. I can't blame these guys to want to be aggressive at home, and I think the atmosphere that the fans put into the game as well, encouraged them. Unfortunately we gave up that goal in the moment that we needed to have control of the game first."


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text: FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" byThe New York Post will continue its Spring 2012 season with the debut of British West End TV and singing star,MELANIE STACE on June 3-4 and September 16-17."Sirens of the Silver Screen," her new show which marks he debut at the club, is a personal love letter to the talented and beautiful singing ladies of Hollywood featuring songs from Doris Day, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler and Michelle Pfeiffer. Ms. Stace is backed by her New York based quartet under the direction of Musical Director and accompanist,Doug Oberhamer,Greg Chudzik on bass,David Anthony on drums and Tony Romano on guitar. The show will run June 3-4 and September 16-17 at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).


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Centrally Located Hotel with Chula Vista Water-Park Passes
It's likely that Wisconsin Dells has more water slides per capita than any other spot on the planet. The area's multitude of water parks includes more than 20 indoor spots that stay open year-round. Just a few miles south of town, you can splash around in one such park at the Atlantis Waterpark Hotel. The onsite Aqua Kingdom is equipped with two 40-foot-long tunnel slides as well as gentle spray features that are perfect for younger kids. You can also soak in the whirlpool or perfect your backstroke in the lap pool.
Your stay includes free passes to the massive Chula Vista water park, located 5 miles away. Here you'll enjoy 80,000 square feet of indoor attractions, including a high-speed water coaster, a languid tropical river, and a Mayan temple with an enormous tipping bucket.
After a day spent water-park hopping, towel off and retire to your room. Mermaid suites continue the hotel's aquatic theme with en suite whirlpools, shell-shaped headboards, and mermaid-themed artwork. The two-bedroom Neptune suites also have whirlpools, as well as balconies and fireplaces.
Wisconsin Dells: Picturesque Scenery and Family Entertainment
Before the Dells became synonymous with water parks and amusement rides, the Midwestern destination's claim to fame was its scenery. Visitors in the mid-1940s came to see the craggy rock formations that frame both sides of the Wisconsin River. These bluffs—or dells—are still visible today from the downtown area, which is rife with kitschy attractions, from mini-golf courses to go-kart tracks.
But it's safe to say that most visitors nowadays come for the water parks. In fact, the Dells area likely has more water slides per capita than any other spot on the planet. The fun doesn't stop in the cooler months, either, thanks to a slew of indoor aquatic centers, many of which are nearly as elaborate as their outdoor rivals.
For a break from all the chlorinated excitement, take a stroll along the river, where you'll find antique stores, candy shops, and a Bavarian-themed village. At a handful of German restaurants, you can wash down plates of schnitzel with pints of lager to the sounds of glockenspiels. The H.H. Bennett Studio museum makes for an interesting side trip. Exhibits recount the early history of the Dells through the life of the 19th-century landscape photographer whose work originally attracted tourists to the area. Just down the road, in the town of Baraboo, Victorian buildings and quaint shops lie on the outskirts of Devil's Lake State Park, where 500-foot bluffs present a challenge for intrepid rock climbers.


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The Society of Friends of the National Gallery in Prague (SPNG) was established on 24 August 1992 as an independent organisation registered with the Ministry of the Interior (Identification number: 47607068). The society was founded without government subsidy, and is the successor of one of the first such societies of its kind: the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art, which was established in 1796. This earlier society established Prague's first public picture gallery, which later gave birth to the National Gallery in Prague. In its somewhat short lifetime, the SPNG has acquired a numerous membership base, which has continued to grow in the past few years. It also has approximately 200 active foreign "friends". The SPNG joined the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) in 1998, becoming the first and thus far the only WFFM member from a post-communist country, and was chosen to organise the organisation's international committee meeting in Prague in 2000.
Benefits for members of the SPNG primarily include free of charge admission to all permanent and temporary NG exhibitions and the opportunity to attend lectures, professional guided tours of selected exhibitions and to participate in other activities, about which members are informed twice a year in an informational newsletter. Members in good standing are invited to an annual meeting of members, where they can learn about the economic position, budget and planned future activities.
Annual contributions according to type of membership: USD 50 - Friend, USD 100 - Special Friend, and USD 500 and more - VIP Friend. Membership is valid for one calendar year and applications are available at information desks and ticket offices of all the permanent exhibitions of the NG in Prague or by writing to: SPNG, Hradčanské nám. 15, 118 00 Prague 1.


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They're from out of this world.
But space related memorabilia comes up for auction pretty frequently, say experts.
One auction house, RR Auction, is auctioning off hundreds of space memorabilia online beginning January 12, 2011.
So what are space collectors after? Items from or associated with Apollo 11, the 1969 mission that first brought man on the moon, are always more valuable than others, says Larry McGlynn, an avid collector who helped RR Auction value the auction items. Anything that has been on the moon's surface is sure to bring in a bigger price. "Twelve humans out of the 100s of millions of people who have passed through earth since the beginning of time have been on the moon," says McGlynnn. "That's rare."
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How many Bostonians are telling Arkansas state senator Nate Bell he's an idiot?
Oh, well, that's simple: lots. Why? Well, remember last Thursday night? You know, when we were all watching our police force battle block-to-block in our neighborhoods with homicidal, cop-killing terrorists armed with explosives? Arkansas state senator Nate Bell thought that would be a good time to send this tweet:
I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine? #2A— Nate Bell (@NateBell4AR) April 19, 2013
Yup. He went there. (You can't find the remark anymore on Twitter, but you can read his apology ... and comments ... on Facebook)
So now Boston is going there, too.
From our social-media experts . . .
.@natebell4ar You are a horrible human without a heart or soul. I hope your constituants are ashamed of your hateful words.— C.C. Chapman (@cc_chapman) April 19, 2013
. . . to our politicians . . .
.@natebell4ar You are a moron.— Matt O'Malley (@MattOMalley) April 19, 2013
. . . even the guy from MIT's Civic Media Lab found himself in a not-so-civil mood . . .
. . . our cat-mystery novelists think he's not a nice person . . .
@natebell4ar Screw you, Nate Bell. I'm a proud Boston liberal and I am glad that the professionals who my taxes support are on the case.— Clea Simon (@Clea_Simon) April 19, 2013
. . . I repeat, OUR CAT MYSTERY NOVELISTS!!!
. . . Boston-based politics blogger Charlie Pierce put it succinctly . . .
Calling Bostonians "cowering" liberals was not the most tactful way to spend the morning, @natebell4ar esqm.ag/6016XOVk— Esquire Magazine (@Esquiremag) April 19, 2013
. . . and a community organizer from a neighborhood that was hit the hardest . . .
RT @tpmcnaught @natebell4ar I slept like a baby knowing I didn't have a moron like you representing me.— Joyce Linehan (@ashmont) April 19, 2013
. . . and I really don't think you wanted to get on this person's wrong side . . .
Hey, @natebell4ar, I was a sgt in the USArmy, Hawkeye, and Boston liberal. Go to hell, you ignorant douche.— ElizabethPowell (@sargep) April 19, 2013
. . . and some people thought Nate might be compensating . . .
@natebell4ar only Small Men need weapons of mass destruction to protect themselves no cowering in Boston last night Coward #bostonstrong— Don Frattaroli (@Don_2instinct) April 19, 2013
@natebell4ar Come here and say it to us you SOB. What does needing a big gun to feel like a man indicate about you? #bostonstrong— Glenn Clabo (@GClabo) April 19, 2013
@natebell4ar And if you think having an AR-15 makes you a man.You aren't one and never will be one.— Chip Crawford (@slobis) April 19, 2013
. . . oh and by the way . . .
@natebell4ar First things first: Bostonians don't cower. This isn't Arkansas.— SQLRockstar (@SQLRockstar) April 19, 2013
. . . you should have remembered what the internet said about us . . .
That makes 2 (million) of us. RT @smallbeerpress: @natebell4ar I look forward to donating to your opponent in the next election— Kelly Rogers (@interiors4fam) April 19, 2013
@natebell4ar Over here we don't need guns to grow a pair of balls.— David Haffner (@DavidHaffner) April 19, 2013
. @natebell4ar I invite you to Boston. So you can witness true toughness, compassion and humanity. Toughest city on earth. No guns required.— Ed Bogle (@MarlboroDad) April 19, 2013
That was just the beginning. It wasn't just Boston . . .
This guy's never cowered from a buffet MT @natebell4ar: wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering wishing they had an AR-15?— Brandon Stosuy (@brandonstosuy) April 19, 2013
. . . or California . . .
. . . or wherever . . .
You're an absolute clown RT @natebell4ar Wonder how many Boston libs spent night cowering in homes wishing they had AR-15 w/hi-capacity mag?— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) April 19, 2013
. . . or Chris Bosch (not that Chris Bosh) . . .
Dear @natebell4ar how can you say things like that? As an Arkansan and an American I'm appalled. Please think before you tweet.— Chris Bosch (@chrisleebosch) April 19, 2013
. . . but we'll let a former Bostonian have the last word, since he put it so poetically . . .
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Millions spent on Missouri road, farm proposals
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters of a pair of Missouri ballot proposals have spent millions promoting the measures that would raises taxes for transportation and create a state constitutional right to farm, far outspending opponents, according to state finance reports.
The reports filed Monday show that a group backing the transportation sales tax has spent more than $100 for every dollar spent by the main opposition group. Supporters of the farming amendment, meanwhile, have spent twice as much as opponents.
The Missouri Ethics Commission reports detail fundraising spending through Thursday and provide the final public accounting before the Aug. 5 elections, though campaigns can continue to accept and spend money that will be tallied after the fact.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment 7 would impose a three-quarters cent sales tax for 10 years to benefit state and local roads and other types of transportation.
Missourians for Safe Transportation and New Jobs reported spending about $2.5 million in support of the measure, with nearly $1.7 million remaining in its campaign account for a final advertising push. Its funding has been fueled heavily by construction contractors, labor unions and others who could directly benefit from the work spawned by the projected $5.4 billion to $6.1 billion in new tax revenues over a decade.
By contrast, the opposition group Missourians for Better Transportation Solutions reported spending a little over $22,000, with less than $3,000 remaining in its campaign account. The group, which has focused its opposition on the type of the proposed tax, got a little less than half of its money from the St. Louis County Municipal League.
The financial edge means supporters of the transportation sales tax will be able to continue running widespread TV and newspaper ads through the election while opponents will have to pick and choose who they target with fliers and signs.
The financial advantage is not nearly as large for supporters of proposed Constitutional Amendment 1, which would create a state right to farming and ranching on par with existing constitutional guarantees such as the freedom of speech and religion.
Missouri Farmers Care has spent nearly $800,000 in support of the ballot proposal while Missouri's Food for America has spent more than $400,000 opposing it.
Supporters have drawn significant contributions from groups such as the state soybean, pork and corn associations.
Most of the opposition money has come from the Humane Society of the United States, which has supported past efforts in Missouri to impose stricter limits on dog breeders.
Other proposed constitutional amendments on Missouri's ballot have not attracted much money.
A committee created to support proposed Constitutional Amendment 9, establishing privacy protections against police searches of cellphones and electronic data, reported spending less than $1,000 on printing signs. There is no opposition group.
A committee created to support proposed Constitutional Amendment 5, which would enhance the state's right to keep and bear arms, said it had spent none of the $5,000 it received from a pair of Republican state senators. A committee opposing the measure also reported no expenditures.
No campaign committees have been formed related to proposed Constitutional Amendment 8, which would authorize a Lottery game to benefit nursing homes for military veterans.
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This is a set of detailed vector Classic Christmas illustrations : 4 different Snowmen, a Snow Christmas Tree, a Snow House, Santa's Sleigh silhouette with moon and star trail and a Background snow scene. It includes a file for each object, separated with its own shadow, and a file with the Christmas scene as you see above.
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