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American sex. Desire rises in the Lone Star State but goes limp in the cold surf of Maine, at least according to a survey of 100 U.S. cities in the October issue of Men's Health magazine.
Austin came in at No. 1, and Dallas at No. 2, but five other Texas cities -- Arlington, Houston, Lubbock, Fort Worth and San Antonio -- made the top 15. El Paso was No. 27.
"Wow. I mean, 'Wow,' said 23-year-old Tessa Thibodeau, an employee at the University of Texas in Austin, amazed. "Maybe [Texans] aren't in the Bible Belt after all."
The survey determined the bedroom barometers by using census birth rates, sales of sex toys and condoms, and rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Other sexy cities that made the top 10 were Columbus, Ohio; Durham, N.C.; Denver; Indianapolis; Oklahoma City and Bakersfield, Calif.
Portland, Me., and Burlington, Vt., on the other hand, came in last, at Nos. 100 and 99, respectively.
Other unsexy cities were Manchester, N.H. (96); Charleston, W.Va. (97); Yonkers, N.Y. (98); Manchester, N.H. (97); and St. Petersburg, Fla. (95).
But in Texas, where the summer heat tops 100 degrees, the bedroom exudes its fair share of sweat.
When Men's Health announced the survey results this week, the Austin American-Statesmen called its hometown the "Capital of Copulation."
"As Texans know, size does matter," the newspaper bragged. "We do note that a lot of the cities on the list are college towns. Maybe there's a correlation? Go figure. Either way, the heat is on in Texas, but you already knew that."
Austin, which takes top honors, or dishonors, depending on how you look at it, is the Live Music Capital and houses the University of Texas, one of the largest universities in the country.
"If you have a college this size, you're bound to get a bunch of hot girls," said Kyle Goldstein, a 23-year-old film major. "I mean, it's Texas. You're bound to have all those cute little Southern blond girls running around."
The ranking "could mean we are just the sleaziest city in the country," said Mark Teschauer, a first-year graduate student. "But it could also be a reflection on the city's progressive culture. People are more open-minded here."
Each year, hundreds of thousands of scantily clad men and women flock to Barton Springs to lie on the banks and soak in the cool waters, and the night life on Austin's popular Sixth Street may be the reason the city gets dubbed the "King of Promiscuity."
Being the "king of sex" means high condom sales, but also high rates of STDs.
"Sure, it's a positive to see that we are being smart about sex," said Andrew Schnitker, a senior broadcast major. "But nobody wants to be the city with the most STDs. That's not exactly something to be proud of. It probably shouldn't go in our tourism brochures."
Men's Health: Survey Is 'Serious'
Matt Marion, deputy editor of Men's Health, said he had confidence in the accuracy of the survey's results. He would not disclose which statistics from each city weighed more heavily.
"If you knew the amount of work that went into it, and the number crunching, you would take it seriously," he said. "It's great to get people talking about sex. Communication and sex go together and everyone wins."
But why did two cities known for promiscuous excess, Sin City Las Vegas and Gotham City New York, rank 70th and 73rd?
"People have been asking that," said Marion. "This doesn't mean that New York and Las Vegas aren't having plenty of sex. It just means other cities are having a heck of a lot more."
The same likely applies to New England, too, where four of the six northeastern states brought up the rear.
At rock bottom was Portland, Maine, where amid lighthouses and lobster rolls, winter temperatures stay below freezing for seven months of the year, and the water rarely rises above 54 degrees.
"It doesn't surprise me that Portland ranks dead last on the sexiest cities survey," said Scott Wasser, 57, and vice president and executive editor of the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. "This, after all, is a place where people wear ski coats on the beach."
He had hoped the city would do better when a local group announced it was going to stage a topless parade downtown.
"There wasn't a single wolf-whistle or proposition from the crowd for any of the guys in the parade," he said.
New England's puritan past may have something to do with its lowest ranking.
"Maybe we are good at keeping secrets," said Candace Karu, 57, a lifestyle commentator for the Cabot Creamery, famous for its cheese. "We do keep things very close to the vest."
She said Mainers tend to be older and less active than Americans in warmer climates like Texas'.
"When you are healthy and happy with your body, it's easier to feel sexy," said Karu. "Because of the severe weather and traditions, we tend not to be as healthy."
Foods like mashed potatoes, baked beans and a fatty Yankee pot roast with gravy "make us feel warm and comforted, while the nor'easter is blowing, and there is 3 feet of snow," said Karu. "It's easy to sit down by the fire, watch TV and not work out."
And apparently not hitting the hay.
Even though Portland is birthplace to horror writer Stephen King, and bratpacker Judd Nelson, and our jaw-clenched former president George H.W. Bush summers just south in Kennebunkport, some of the city's native sons are lookers.
"Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey, one-time named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," was born just north of Lewiston. And what about all those strapping lobster men?
Courtney McMennamin, who works at the Greater Portland Convention Center and Visitor's Bureau, said she is "shocked" her hometown hit rock bottom.
"There's a lot that's sexy about Portland," said McMennamin, who is organizing a romantic Harvest on the Harbor event with premier food and wine in October. "It's very vibrant, has a great dining scene and wonderful shopping. There's lots to do and it's a scenic place to visit."
And when it gets cold, "You have to cuddle closer," she said.
With those lobster men? "If that's what you like," she said with a laugh.
ABCNews' On Campus reporter Melanie Torre contributed to this report.


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Even in the 147th year, there is room for firsts.
It was 30 minutes before Hope College's Commencement on Sunday, May 6, was scheduled to begin at Holland Municipal Stadium. Family and friends were in the stands, the graduates were lining up and making ready to process to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," and… the skies rumbled.
Change of plan. Hope postponed the 3 p.m. ceremony to 4 p.m., and moved the event a few blocks north to the DeVos Fieldhouse, the previously arranged rain location. Graduates, audience, diplomas, all were in place and ready to go in the new site just one hour later than originally scheduled, a tribute, President James Bultman noted as the ceremony began, to all involved.
"I would first of all like to thank all of you—parents and friends, graduates, faculty and staff—for your cooperation and your patience," Bultman said to the approximately 4,000 in attendance. "I would also like to thank our facilities team for this contingency and also for implementing it so speedily."
College records don't indicate whether or not the ceremony has ever before been moved on the very cusp of beginning, but certainly it's never happened that way in living memory. Most years, whether or not to move inside is obvious early in the day, and the announcement is made during the morning's Baccalaureate services.
If at all possible, Hope holds the ceremony outside because the stadium can accommodate a larger audience than the fieldhouse, and so the college had taken a chance that the morning's cloudy skies wouldn't lead to an afternoon storm. As it happened, the thunder and rainfall that prompted the change in venue didn't last long—by 5 p.m. it was succeeded even by a bit of sun.
This year was only the fourth time that Hope has held Commencement inside since the college started holding the event at the stadium in 1983
The last time that the ceremony was held inside was in 2004, at Zeeland East High School in the pre-fieldhouse era.
Approximately 690 graduating seniors participated in this year's ceremony, the college's 147th. The class consisted of students from throughout the United States as well as from overseas, including from Armenia, Brazil, China, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Palestine, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.
In addition to celebrating the Class of 2012, the college presented honorary degrees during the ceremony to Joel Bouwens and Martie Bultman. Bouwens, of Holland, chaired the college's Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2011. Bultman, who didn't know in advance that she was receiving the recognition, has been an active member of the campus community as the wife of President James Bultman.
Also, the graduating class presented the 48th "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award to Dr. Sonja Trent-Brown, associate professor of psychology. The award, first given in 1965, is presented to the professor the class feels epitomizes the best qualities of the Hope College educator.
The commencement address was delivered by Dr. Heather Sellers, professor of English, who presented "And your homework is…" She asked the graduates as they commenced their post-Hope lives to complete the same assignment with which she noted that she ends every class: "Stay up late. Keep the music loud. Make interesting choices."
Each step offered a way to approach life with deeper meaning.
"Stay up late tonight, and every night; let your light shine," Sellers said. "Turn up the volume of your music, the music only you hear, so we can hear and be transformed. Make interesting choices. I hope your interesting choices are: heartfelt, affectionate, spirit-driven and ignited by hope. Hope is the ultimate interesting choice."
Sellers reflected, in offering her advice, on her experience with face blindness, the rare neurological condition she discussed in her award-winning 2010 memoir "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness."
"Face blindness enforces humility," she said. "It's like graduate school for getting over yourself. However, even a mild case is socially devastating, and I've got it bad: I can't recognize my best friend on the street; I've walked past my own mother. Television and movies are overwhelmingly confusing. Dating? Yikes."
Since being diagnosed in 2005 and subsequently revealing the condition, though, she has found others understanding and helpful. She also noted that she has learned from her students how to live with the condition by observing how they handle challenges of their own.
"Students, you've helped me shape and know my own story more clearly by bravely sharing your stories," she said. "What I've learned by working with you closely in the intimacy of writing workshops, is no matter how it looks from the outside, we all have something broken in us. This brokenness can separate us, or it can be the vehicle by which we connect with grace and authenticity."
She outlined ways that each of the three homework steps can support such authenticity.
Staying up late, she noted, supports Paul's exhortation to the Corinthians to be watchful in their faith. Correspondingly, she asked the graduates "to be radically awake. Present. The Kingdom of God doesn't have a bedtime; why would you?"
"Stay up late, or, the way I do it, get up really early, but design a life that requires your presence mightily, all day, all night," Sellers said. "Keep your eyes open, and your heart opens. Your chance to transform yourself and those around you knows no bounds."
In keeping the music loud, she said, the graduates should "Harness the loud, boisterous, honest, possibly annoying part of you and use it for the power of goodness and transformation."
"Often we aren't scared of being loud when we are young, but as we get older we quiet," Sellers said. "Keeping audible the music of our soul takes a lot of energy, and a particular kind of close listening."
The key to making interesting choices with value, she said, is to make "choices based on creativity and integrity, not just cleverness."
"Interesting choices are genuine. They rely on trust," she said. "I'm calling for us to make choices that are way more than good choices. And I call for an interesting-ness that is motivated by depth, lit by grace, and bound by purity of action."
During the college's Baccalaureate services in Dimnent Memorial Chapel earlier in the day, the Rev. Dr. Trygve Johnson, who is the Hinga-Boersma Dean of the Chapel at Hope, delivered the sermon "So… now what?" It was a natural question, he noted, at a time of transition such as graduation.
He framed his discussion as a response to a "letter" to him from a dean of the chapel at the fictional "Despondent University" in the Pacific Northwest that asked him, if given the chance to speak during graduation, to ask the students to live for more than themselves.
Johnson grounded his answer in Matthew 6:24-33, from the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus instructs not to be anxious about worldly concerns but instead to seek God's kingdom and righteousness and to trust God to attend to the rest.
"Bend your will not just to your own perspective, but towards a will whose perspective is larger and more consequential than your own," Johnson said. "Pursue a vision that will give your life a steady direction and sustaining purpose. Strive to participate in a reality that will electrify your life with a significance charged by God's vision of reality."
"'Seek first the Kingdom of God' is Jesus' answer whispered into the ear of all who are ready to commence into an undefined future," he said. "Its truth is so fundamental that to ignore it, is to put our soul into peril. The truth is not about money. Nor is it about clothes. Nor is it about food. It's not about what you will do with your degree. It's not about us at all. It's more elemental. It is a truth about God. A truth about what God has done, is doing, and is still yet to do. A truth that invites all who hear Jesus not to do more, but to be more."

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Symbolism, as we know, is often weighty. But the giant bird of prey that greets students entering Payson Library makes an especially hefty statement on the subject of freedom, weighing in at 800 pounds. Officially known as "American Eagle," the wooden sculpture depicts the beast alighting atop a snarling mass of branches, mid-screech as it spreads its seven-foot wingspan above. No matter your personal opinion regarding the aesthetic virtues of the piece, its origin story is fascinating and worth sharing.
The eagle landed in Payson Library in 1972 as a gift from Fritz Huntsinger, Sr., a businessman whose quiet philanthropy belied a surprisingly "cinematic" personal history. Born in Switzerland at the turn of the century, Huntsinger fought for the Germans in World War I, a disillusioning experience that led him to immigrate to the United States in 1923 at the age of 24. Settling in Ventura, California, he worked his way from floor-sweeper to Chairman of the Board with the Vetco manufacturing company, taking a break along the way to fight for the Allies in World War II.
If his name sounds familiar, it's because he leant it (along with a lot of cash) to the Huntsinger Academic Center, which includes Payson Library. The eagle was his personal touch. Huntsinger commissioned the carving from two sculptors in Taiwan, who carved the figure from a single piece of teakwood based on his specifications. For Huntsinger, the eagle embodied "total and complete freedom," including "academic freedom," and served as a gesture of gratitude to the nation that enabled the transformative gains of his life.
In this photo, from the University Archives Photograph Collection, we see the eagle in its original location at the heart of Payson Library. Following massive renovations to the library in the mid-1980s, the eagle moved to the new entrance, where it resides today.


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Honolulu Museum of Art
In 1923, Anna Rice Cooke and her family hired New York architect Bertram Goodhue to design a building that represented the story of the Hawaiian Islands in stone. Goodhue drew up the plans for a series of galleries that surround courtyards, taking advantage of natural light and Hawai'i's climate. He used elements of Chinese and Mediterranean architecture, along with the pitched roof popular in Hawai'i, to create a new Hawaiian architectural style. The Joanna Lau Sullivan Chinese Courtyard, surrounded by the Asian art galleries, is placed to the west of the Central Courtyard, while the Mediterranean Courtyard, the center of the collection of European and American art, is placed to the east, echoing Hawai'i's location in the middle of the Pacific. The architect used paving stones made from Chinese granite slabs (which in the early 1800s served as ballast in ships transporting Hawaiian sandalwood); Chinese green glazed tiles; Hawaiian lava rock from Kaimuki; and flagstones cut from aggregate stone from Molokai.
Mrs. Cooke love the floor plan, but did not approve the design of the exterior, which she thought was too ornate and included an "Oriental" tower. So in 1924, Mrs. Cooke traveled to New York with her daughter, son in law and niece to meet with Goodhue. They arrived in the city to learn he had died while they were en route. Goodhue's associate Hardie Phillip took over the project and ground was broken in 1925. The building was completed in December 1926, and it opened its doors to the public the following year.
In 2001, the museum expanded with the opening of the Henry R. Luce Pavilion Complex, designed by influential Honolulu architect John Hara.
Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House
Architect Hart Wood, who participated in the design of the Honolulu Museum of Art, designed Spalding House as a home for Anna Rice Cooke in 1925. He integrated Asian and western influences that later became a model for many homes in Hawai'i. Known as Nu'umealani (heavenly terrace), the home was featured in publications such as House and Garden, Pacific Coast Architecture, and Architect and Engineer. Hart Wood later participated in the design of many prominent buildings in Honolulu, including additions to the Hawai'i State Library, Honolulu Hale (City Hall), Alexander & Baldwin Building, and the Board of Water Supply.
The gardens were landscaped between 1928 and 1941 by the Rev. K. H. Inagaki. Injured in a car accident, Inagaki orchestrated every facet of the landscaping from his wheelchair. He incorporated the Japanese doctrine of interpreting shizen (nature) in the garden, using rocks as pathways, edge stones and landscape boulders. Inagaki selected the rocks and their placement in subtle ways to emphasize the property's natural terrain, transforming a barren ravine into a classic Japanese stroll garden.
From 1979 to 1980, the gardens were revived by landscape architect James Hubbard. In the late 1990s, landscape architect Leland Miyano added his touch. Miyano's efforts brought world acclaim to the site—the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) designated the gardens as a national landmark for outstanding landscape architecture. The museum also received the the prestigious ASLA Millennium Medallion for its garden preservation efforts.


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Pineapple chutney
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 1 hr, 5 mins
Give this tangy fruit pickle away as a gift or keep in your cupboard for a colourful household condiment
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal52
- fat1g
- saturates0g
- carbs12g
- sugars11g
- fibre1g
- protein0g
- salt0.01g
Save to My Good Food
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
A variety of oils can be used for baking. Sunflower is the one we use most often at Good Food as…
- 3 red onions, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard seeds
- 1 tbsp black onion seeds (kalonji or nigella)
- 1 tsp turmeric
Turmeric is a fragrant, bright golden-yellow root that is most commonly seen and used dried and…
- 2 pineapples peeled, cored and chopped into small chunks
With its tuft of spiky, dusty green leaves and cross-hatched, golden orange skin, the pineapple…
- 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- thumb-sized piece ginger, finely chopped
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- 250g soft light brown sugar
- 175ml cider vinegar
Heat the oil in a large heavy-based pan. Tip in the onions and spices and cook for 5 mins until fragrant. add the rest of the ingredients plus 1 tsp salt and simmer for 1 hr until dark golden and thick. Pour into sterilised jars and allow to cool before covering.
Recipe Tip
Make aheadTo sterilise jars, wash in hot soapy water, rinse well and dry in the oven at 180C/160 fan/ gas 4 for 10 mins just before filling. Once stored in sterilised jars, this chutney will keep for up to 1 year.
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Comments, questions and tips
23rd Aug, 2015
All,chutney keeps for years if kept somewhere out of direct sunlight or heat. I keep mine under the stairs on a shelf. I have eaten some that are a couple of years old and they have tasted amazing. But remember this doesn't apply where it says keep in the fridge (though I see from comments that some does keep).
17th Aug, 2013
Wow!! This recipe is so forgiving, but found it tastiest using really ripe pineapples. Added extra fresh and dried chillies for heat and its lovely in sandwiches, with cold meat and cheese, but especially good with curry, rice and poppadoms. Made a huge mistake!! Took a jar to work, and everyone loved it. Can't keep up with requests for more. This chutney is going to be a permanent fixture in my fridge!!


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What does it take to design an Olympic Stadium?
Lots of time and drawings. The urban planning work for the London Olympics started back in 2003 and architects started design work on Olympic Stadium in 2007. They created more than 20,000 drawings.
There are more than 500,000 spectator seats across the 35 event venues. An estimated 28 million ticketed spectators are expected. The general design idea was to create "a postcard of London" in the background of the venues. So the bike races will pass landmarks like Big Bend and the Tower of London. Greenwich Park, where royalty once hunted, will be home to equestrian events. Beach volleyball will be at the Horse Guards Parade, the longtime parade ground for the soldiers who protect the monarch. Henry VIII held jousting events there.
"It is a great volume of work with a great deal of complexity to it," said Bob White, director of international marketing for Populous, the Kansas City, Mo.-based firm that designed Olympic Stadium and did the urban planning work for the games. "It's a major regeneration of East London."
After the games, the stadium and park will remain behind. The stadium seats 80,000 for the Olympics but can be modified after to a more flexible 25,000-seat arena that can be used as a soccer pitch. And many of the venues will be gone entirely. They'll be recycled so that a ghost town of big sports venues isn't left behind. Things such as concession "pods" could be reused in other locations – maybe even in Rio in 2016.
"Time will tell," White said. "It was conceived as something that won't be a white elephant."
As for traffic in and out of Olympic venues? "There will be some complexities," he said.
San Antonio connection?
Populous is part of a team that's going after the redo of the Convention Center in San Antonio. (Other team members include Zachry and Marmon Mok, and there are nine finalists for the design/build Convention Center work). They just worked on a facilities study of the Convention Center and were involved years ago with the Alamodome.


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I receive many requests to make items from my sewing* patterns to sell (thanks so much for your enthusiasm!). If you are a home sewer and have a cottage industry personally making things with your own little hands and selling them to your friends, in a craft booth or personal online shop (read: no mass production), you can purchase my patterns for that purpose, with my blessing.
Go forth and make it a success! Make as many as you are personally capable of. Sew for your friends. Sew for your shop. Sew for craft fairs and bazaars. Sew up a storm! Of course there are terms. But not that many:
- A reminder that the copyright on my patterns still stands: That is, you may not copy, resell, share, distribute or publish (online or otherwise) any portion of any of my patterns without prior permission from me. Period. Basically anything that involves sharing any part of my patterns with anyone else is a no-no.
- Each sewer must purchase a pattern for themselves. If you have a friend who is interested in partnering up with you, or you are hosting a craft party, please refer each of them to my blog or shop to purchase their own pattern. Thank you! (Exceptions may be made in the case of charitable sewing, just be sure to check with me first!)
- Production is limited. To honor the 'no mass production' spirit, please limit your listings (or display in your booth) no more than twenty MmmCrafts items at a time. This means a total of twenty of any pattern combination, for instance:
8 Mikey Monkeys + 12 Christmas Ornaments = limit of 20.
If you are selling something as a set under one listing (like ornaments) that would count as one item.
- Include credit where it's due. Please list a credit for the pattern on each listing or on each hang tag for the item: Pattern by Larissa Holland, mmmcrafts.blogspot.com or something like that.
- Minor derivatives are OK, but even if you make changes in the way a pattern is made, please still give a credit to me for the pattern, along with a note that it is a variation.
- PLEASE NOTE that it is really really really NOT OK to use any of my photos, images, logos, badges, or graphics to promote your site or booth on signs, flyers, tags, headers, etc... Don't do it! Those images are copyrighted.
"Hey, I don't want to sell it, man, I just want to make it!" Of course, if you are interested in making stuff and not selling it, all my patterns are still unlimited for personal uses like gifts and charity drives. Just like always!
"I already bought the pattern a while ago. Can I still sell stuff made from it?" Yep, according to the terms above, and as long as I have a record of your purchasing the pattern, you are good.
"What about the free sewing patterns like Molly Monkey and the tooth pillow?" You can make and sell from those patterns also under the conditions above. I have plans to offer a much improved tooth pillow pattern for purchase in my shop that will have no glue required and some great accessories. That will come eventually. (It's still on the list. The list is really long.)
"Is there a way I can let MmmCrafts fans know about my shop?" Judging from the number of requests I get, there are a lot of readers out there who don't have the time or inclination to sew for themselves and they would appreciate knowing where to find your MmmCrafts handmade items. Let's get you two together! Send me a link to your shop so I can place it on the Mmmakers page that is listed on the nav bar so folks will know where to find you and buy your MmmCrafts stuff.
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The New England Patriots' front office has shown no desire to add any veteran wide receivers to the mix despite the struggles of rookie pass catchers Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins. Their starting quarterback, however, is keeping up with old friends.
NFL Media columnist Mike Silver and NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Sunday that Tom Brady has been calling and texting former Patriots receivers Deion Branch and Brandon Lloyd, per sources directly involved in the situation.
Branch is ready to play if the Patriots call. Lloyd has said he's not quite ready to play. (Although he was ready to act in a straight-to-DVD zombie movie.)
Brady often has pointed out he doesn't make the personnel decisions in New England. If the Patriots wanted Branch back, he'd be on the team by now. We fully expect Bill Belichick to roll with the guys they have, and hope that Rob Gronkowski and Danny Amendola get healthy soon. (No matter who Brady has on his speed dial.)
UPDATE: Following the Patriots 23-3 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Brady said that he hasn't "talked to those guys in a while," going on to call them "good friends and great teammates."
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Written by Christina Abernathy
Peel: A very concise and straightforward piece on training or being a slave.
This is a rather quick read focusing on consensual slave and master relationships. This is not a Story of O, this is more of a how to have a m/s relationship in real life. There are details on service, punishment and reward, preparation, ownership, address, contracts, and the like. She also includes a further readings list at the end, and other resources that are a shade dated now. Abernathy emphasizes how much the slave reflects on the owner, and how much work a slave still is for the dominant. Abernathy tends to switch genders around for different roles, unless the role specifies one. The writing is on the warm and witty side, and the attitude leans towards Victorian.
Nibble: "Courtly love, although it is the source of many of our modern notions of romantic love, diverges sharply from its contemporary counterpart in that love is explicitly defined in terms of the lover's service to his lady."
I would recommend this as a practical book to anyone interested in m/s relationships.
My Rating: 7 out of 10 red apple scenes
I borrowed a paper copy from the CSPH library.


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LMVphoto necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
"LMV Photo" http://www.lmvphoto.com
I'm a 40 yr old male, portrait photographer starting a new photography company.
I take a lot of care and pride in my work. I also put a lot of effort and passion into my photographs. I would like to convey that in a brand.
I like taking pretty pictures of people, putting everyone in there best light so to speak.
I really enjoy working with people, photographing children has become a love of mine having raised two kids.
I'm very excited to start a brand and I'm looking forward to this project!
Couples and young families that value photographs.
My ideal audience is young couples looking for a wedding/engagement photographer; families with new borns and small children. Also High school seniors looking for unique portraits.
Although I'm starting out I don't want to under value myself. That's why I'm targeting individuals who appreciate photos as memories and care about the quality of the photographs that are produced.
I would very much like the logo to include in some way the website address http://www.lmvphoto.com and of course the name LMV Photo.
I'm looking for an icon type of logo. I plan on using it on business cards and websites.
I would like it to be happy and welcoming and friendly (if that makes sense)
Currently I have a sunflower on my website and was thinking of incorporating a sunflower or part of one in the design. Although this is not a requirement.
Here are some links to logos I like,
I like how this one has the name wrapped around a flower design, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lanca…558?ref=nf I'm friends with this person and don't want it too look exactly like this.
I don't necessarily like the dragonfly but I like the icon concept on this http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/4308
I like patterns like this, but looking for something unique
Kinda ugly colors here but again I like the way the name is part of the logo on this
http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/5959 I also like they way this kinda looks like a smiley face (friendly)
I know really don't like film strips and cameras in the design
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One of the links on the Electricity merit badge page points to an encarta article with bad advice for reducing the risk from a lightning strike.
The article advises correctly to:
- Avoid trees
- Take shelter in a car
and incorrectly to:
- Lie flat on the ground
This bad advice is based on the idea that you are less of a target for a direct lightning strike by staying low to the ground. While this is true, there is little to be gained between lying flat and squatting. However, by lying flat you insert your body as a parallel conductor in the any ground surface currents from a nearby lightning strike. Being near a lightning strike is much more likely than being directly hit with lightning.
Because the energy in lightning is so high, typically currents in the ten's of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Amperes are developed. This current largely dissipates across the surface of the earth. Because the currents are so high the potential difference across the dimension of a human body is more than sufficient to develop a lethal current and induce heart failure.
The better advice is to squat on the balls of your feet on an insulated surface such as a life jacket or doubled up sleeping pad. Keep your feet close together and avoid touching the ground with your hands. By squatting, you also reduce the possibility of a direct strike without increasing your risk from a nearby strike.
If you are in a group, spread out so that risks from a very near strike are minimized, and the possibility of survivors being able to assist any injured is maximized. Avoid trees as they are a likely target for a strike and bring the lightning current into close proximity to all nearby. --Wagionvigil
- Resovled. (Special thanks to Sysop Milominderbinder2 for the new links.) —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:31, February 25, 2009 (EST)
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By the way, I contacted Micorsoft Encarta about the bad info and provided Wagionvigil's correct info shown above. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:34, February 25, 2009 (EST)


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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"GERONIMO", High Flying War Dog of the 507th
Down from the heavens he gracefully soared, all fours extended for a soft landing. Sergeant Geronimo the parachuting war dog of WW II was master of his trade. Named for the famous "jump shout" of the paratroopers, he did his job as well as any proud soldier of the 507th.
During the month of June 1942, Alliance, Nebraska was authorized as a new site for establishment of an Army Air Base. The unique Sandhills area just east of Alliance were considered ideal for softer landings and as a good training area for paratrooper's jump training. The base was ultimately used to train paratroopers, glider and C-47 pilots. Within a few short months an entire military community sprang up about 3 miles east of town, eventually raising the combined total population of the once small community to close to 20,000. Helping to build the base was a great undertaking by the small agricultural community. The entire base was built from the ground up wth over 775 buildings being erected. The base became a functioning city of its own and became the largest air field in the state of Nebraska. The landing strips still serve this community and are to this day some of the longest of their kind in the United States. At its height in 1943 more than 14,000 paratroop infantry men were training here. One of the best known of these soldiers was "Geronimo", the Sergeant canine who was a member of the 507th Paratroop Infantry Regiment. He was the mascot of the 507th and their jumping partner.
Geronimo was believed to have been part coyote, part German Shepard, and he had been picked up as a stray by Kenneth Williams who was a soldier with the 507th. The men trained the dog to jump from the airplanes and he had his own special parachute and beautiful canine "coat" which sported his Sergeant stripes. It has been said that he came to love jumping and often had to be restrained from leaping out of the airplanes too soon!
The canine was actually trained and used in demolition work during the war. Starting early in 1943 when the 507th began training here at the Alliance Base, Geronimo made several appearances as a paratrooper. He made jumps from Omaha throughout Nebraska and even over Denver, Colorado. His exhibition jumps thrilled audiences when ever he performed. During a large ceremony in Alliance in 1943 he performed for what was thought to be nearly 60,000 people who had gathered for a parade and to watch the paratroopers. At Denver he performed for well over 100,000 spectators. Sergeant Geronimo was featured in many magazine and newspaper articles of the day, including a great layout in "Life" magazine which I am lucky enough to own along with some other nice momentos of his life. Over his great but short lived career, the Army figured that the public popularity of the war dog had helped to raise millions of additional dollars in war bonds.
My uncle was Brigadier General Maurice M. Beach and he was, in 1943, the Colonel and Commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing which was stationed in Alliance at the Air Base. His men trained with the paratroopers and gliders in preparation for what was to become the invasion at Normandy, France. He had many photos which were taken at the base and had told us stories about Geronimo. You can read more about General Beach and the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing on one of my earlier posts. The 507th Paratroop Infantry Regiment deployed to Europe shortly after leaving Alliance and became an integral part of the Normandy invasion forces.
The war dog Geronimo, was considered a hero by all of his fellow soldiers when he helped to save the life of his friend Kenneth Williams when Kenneth was injured badly on maneuvers to destroy a bridge. He alerted his fellow paratroopers who came to the aid of soldier Williams. After nearly a year, Kenneth Williams recovered from his injuries and both he and Geronimo were given honorable discharges. They retired to the Denver Colorado area together.
Geronimo was tragically killed by a hit and run driver in 1947 when he got out of the yard of his home. He is buried in the Denver Pet Cemetery in Commerce City, Colorado. Over the years since then, two markers have been erected as memorials to the brave canine by subsequent members of the 507th Paratroop Infantry Regiment. His grave site may be visited by the public. I am proud that Geronimo was part of the history of my home town- Alliance, Nebraska.
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I dedicate this article about Geronimo who was a special character in my local history to our precious "Macey Girl" who we lost recently. Most families have been touched by a special canine at one time or another. Some were WAR HEROES like Geronimo, some were awesome service dogs, and some were just beloved family pets like our Macey, but "family members" in any shape or form can be included in a genealogists prized collection of treasures.
Friday, April 24, 2009
RESEARCHING MY SWEDISH GENEALOGY - PART 1 - "Using Maps To Lay A Foundation"
When I started down the road to find my husbands Swedish ancestors, I never dreamed that I would become obsessed with finding these people that we had very little knowledge of and had never known. As I began this journey, I discovered that maps could play a major role in solving some pieces of this mystery and thus using them has become a big part of my quest towards the discovery of these ancestors. One can easily get so engrossed in antique map study that consequently sometimes I must remind myself of the original goal of finding the elusive LARSON and ANDERSON ancestors!
For nearly 50 years now there has been genealogists in my husband's family who have searched for our Swedish relatives. First was Aunt Hazel. She began the research on this family including those who were her Great Grandparents. Nearly all research at that time and for many years forward was strictly hands on and involved a lot of legwork. Aunt Hazel's work has given us some wonderful records to work with. Her sister, Kathleen, who is also my Mother-in-law, picked up the cause and worked hand-in-hand with Hazel through the years. Kathleen worked tirelessly for several years, pouring over records in the Mesa, Arizona Library while she lived there and she now works almost every day at her computer, still doing her research. Over time, many little bits and pieces have been added to our Swedish records but they have come painstakingly slow for a variety of reasons.
Finding good records and especially MAPS was difficult at best. Kathleen was able to copy a few early maps while in Mesa and this helped us to begin to find our way. Two pictures with scant information and a couple of birth records are about all we started out with. Great Grandpa Larson and his wife "Minnie" did not seem to talk a whole lot about their life back in Sweden and as most people, brought only a few personal things with them as they immigrated to the United States. We had places of birth for them so that has been the starting point on my map quest and studies. Floby and Falkoping, Skaraborgs Lan, Sweden.
Our Great Grandfather , Frederick Albert (Gustafson) Larson,was born May 24, 1867 Falkoping, Sweden and emmigrated from Goteborg, Sweden to the United States in 1888. He first arrived and went to the Illinois area where his brother, John(Johann) had come before him. Last names of Gustafson and Larson had been used and to complicate matters, John changed his last name to Hellgren. Already we had confusing usage of different Patronymic names and then Hellgren was added to the mix. Both brothers married Anderson sisters who also had come from Sweden. Frederick Larson married Wilhelmina "Minnie" Anderson who was born July 25, 1869 in Falkoping, Sweden. They married on Dec 2, 1891 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. John had been born in Floby, Sweden and married Christina Anderson abt. 1886- we believe prior to coming to America. We are lucky enough to have a photo of Gustaf Larson and Clara Edlund who were the parents of Frederick Larson and John (Gustafson) Hellgren. We also have a photo thought to be another sister(with her family) to "Minnie" and Christina Anderson. We believe they probably stayed in Sweden so this quest may eventually lead to many cousins!
As I have now begun the next phase of the search for our elusive Swedish ancestors, I have made an effort to learn all that I can about my ancestors where they came from, language, how they might have lived, why they left their homeland. This ultimately is a quest to find their parents and extended families. Using maps as a starting point has already rewarded me with great new clues and has had the added bonus of imparting more education and exercising the brain cells!
Early Swedish maps are hard to find especially involving specific time periods or dates. A few days ago, a great new website came online. WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY is free, quite different and offers some great digital maps, photos, and documents from around the world. In looking under the Europe>Sweden section, I found a wonderful old map "The Kingdom of Sweden" dating from 1797. This is just the right time frame for covering the approximate dates that I will be primarily researching within. I was able to pinpoint the locations of both of our town sites. This great map also has illustrations of topographical features and shows the locations of established church parishes.You can read more about this great new site at the Genealogy Insider blog for Family Tree Magazine. The study of topography of an area can often help to determine how people moved around or may have interacted. Marriages often involved people from other neighboring communities within a small geographic area and land barriers played important roles that affected the interaction of those communities. Using the topographical features of a map, often helps to solve mysteries of where and why ancestors moved.
Google Earth and Google Maps are both very useful for showing the beautiful topographic features of the land. You can see the awesome land features with great clarity. Rivers and streams usually change course over time so I have been using both old maps and the new technology together to get a better overall perspective.
As I am part of the You Go Genealogy Girls Team and will soon be heading to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I have studied their catalog for listings of maps on Sweden. In preparation I have printed off papers listing all the call numbers and locations of the maps that I want to study while there. Some are in book form and many are on microfilm. This will save several hours of "catalog" time while there, allowing me more time in other search areas.
Knowing much more about the land and the neighboring communities should help me to be more successful in locating hard to find records. If I should be unsuccessful finding records in the locations that I believe are the most likely- I can then easily branch out into the nearest village or parish area. Knowing the geography and topography beforehand may save several hours or even days of precious time trying to figure out where to look next.
As I progress forward with my Swedish family research I will share with you what I hope will be a successful journey to find my husband's GG Grandparents and other ancestors.
Watch for PART 2 of this post: RESEARCHING MY SWEDISH GENEALOGY - "Strategic Plans and Finding the Records".
In PART 2, I will use the knowledge I have gained through the awesome help provided by You Go Genealogy Girl #1 - to show the organized plans that I have for finding my records once I get to the Family History Center.
Labels: ANDERSON, google earth, GUSTAFSON, LARSON, maps
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
|Maurice M. Beach
|Maury on his 80th birthday
Maurice Milton Beach was born on April 1, 1903 in Caro, Michigan. He married my aunt, Stella Moore O'Brien on Nov 15, 1947 in Macon, Georgia. Uncle Maurice spent nearly all of his adult life in the service of his country. He never went further than the 10th grade in school, dropping out to pursue his own interests. He was a self taught master mechanic in addition to aspiring to grand heights as an Air Force Commanding officer. If any appliance, vehicle or motor needed an overhaul, he was the one who could do it, and do it right. Before and after his distinguished military career, he was a mechanic and owned/operated successful car garages. This knowledge also helped him several times as he moved up through the military ranks.
Ft. Wayne at Detroit, Michigan was where he began his military career in 1923. Over the course of the next 20 years he worked his way up through the ranks starting out by hauling gravel to build hangar floors. His sole early goal was to enter Flight Training which he was able to do in 1924. During his early years he was part of a light Bombardment Attack Unit in Texas and then the 19th Pursuit Fighter Squadron, stationed in Hawaii. By 1935 he was involved in Reconnaissance operations training back on the mainland of the United States. Next stop was the Air Corps Supply Depots, moving passengers and supplies throughout the country flying mostly DC-3 aircraft. In 1938 as First Lieutenant, "Maury" took over the Air Transport System that operated between Panama and Alaska. Shortly before December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked, some of his transports were released to start training with paratroops and gliders. By late 1941 he had been promoted to Major and was Commander of the 10th Transport Group with C-47s (DC-3s) and was continuing to train with the paratroopers and gliders in different areas of the country. Reserve officers who were commercial pilots were assigned and as the war was going in earnest by then, the men were "busy as hell" as Maurice later wrote. He was by then a Colonel. Soon after he was promoted to Colonel he became the Wing Commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing. This was part of the 9th Troop Carrier Command. At that time he was rated as Command Pilot which was the top rating of the Army Air Corp.
The next several moves of the command included one to my hometown of Alliance, Nebraska. Here again his command was training with the gliders and paratroops. It was in Alliance that Maurice first met my aunt, Stella Moore O"Brien, who was the secretary to the base commander. Soon after their training ended in Alliance the troops of the 53rd were sent across to England and North Africa for final training before the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France.
Maurice Beach's Headquarters for the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing were set up at Greenham Common, England which was near London. It was from there that he commanded his troops in training for the upcoming invasion of Normandy, France on D-Day-June 6, 1944. One of his groups, the 438th under the command of Col. Donaldson, led the paratroop aircrafts. Approximately 350 loads of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions headed for France starting at 12:20 am. Maurice Beach left England at 4:00 am in the lead glider "tug" plane. He took the first group of gliders into France. General Eisenhower was at their headquarters in England to see them off.
During the invasion of Normandy and for many months after, the troops of the 53rd took part in many actions. These included Rome-Arno, Normandy, Northern France, Southern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe. The 53rd Wing under the command of Lt. Col. Beach carried over 206 million pounds of supplies, moved over 149 thousand airborne troops and evacuated 114 thousand casualties during WWII. Maurice and his boys delivered over 3 million pounds of gasoline to General Patton while he was stranded near Chartres, France. Maurice was promoted to Brig. General in early 1945.
While stationed at the Air Base in Alliance, Nebraska during 1943, Maurice had proven the ability to tow 2 gliders at once by towing them from Alliance on a flight to Fayetteville, N.C. and this tactic was used during the final operation of the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing when they flew across the Rhine River to Vessel, Germany.
After V-E Day in 1945, Maurice continued with the mission of occupation in Europe until his return to the states later that same year. He retired from active service in late 1945 but he continued to attend military meetings for many years. During his distinguished career he was awarded the following medals: American Defense, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Bronze Star, French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, and the WWII Victory Medal. His great speaking voice and love for the military led him to spend most of his retirement years giving speeches and showing military movies to various groups, in particular at International Rotary Clubs. He loved to teach others about those important years from our history. Maurice passed away Jan 17, 1987 and was interred at Sun City, Arizona with full military honors.
Aunt Stella and Uncle Maurice had no children of their own but he loved all of his nieces and nephews as if we were his own. To me and the rest of the family he was our Uncle "Maury". Brig. General Maurice M. Beach was a great veteran but more importantly he was a loving and awesome Uncle. He loved people and treated everybody with respect. He really was one of the few who could truly be called an "OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN".
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Links to other great articles featured in this edition, titled ("Uncle, Uncle"), can be found within the 70th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy at Creative Gene. Uncles from all walks of life are spotlighted in this edition of the carnival. Pour a cup of coffee and settle in to read some great postings!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
This unusual story came together for me over a period of forty years. Little bits of information began to fall in place over time to form this Wyoming historical tale.
I spent most of my high school and college years working for one or both of my Grandfathers after school and on weekends. My Grandpa, Dueward "Wick" Hopkins, owned a road construction company which worked out of Wheatland, Wyoming and built roads throughout the entire state. As we drove around on the job site, we often talked about Wyoming and times past. In the 1960s, we were working south of Wheatland near Slater, Wyoming on I-25 construction and passed over a creek named "RICHEAU". I mis-pronounced the name and Grandpa told me it was pronounced "Reshaw" and was named after John Richeau, a Frenchman who had built the first bridge across the North Platte River in central Wyoming on the old Oregon Trail.
My other Grandpa was Earl Harvey. His farm was located near Slater, Wyoming and in the general vicinity of this historical event. As mentioned, I sometimes worked for my Grandpa or his neighbor doing farming and haying. Grandpa would often stop by to check on my work and we would often take a break and visit. Grandpa Harvey was an avid arrowhead hunter when he was not farming during the off season of the year. On one visit he told me that years before while hunting arrowheads, he had come across a pile of very old spent cartridges near the field where I was working that day. He noted that the cartridges were odd as compared to any others he had ever seen. They had no primers in their bases like modern ammunition does and were very large in size. Only a tiny dent was visible in the center of the base of the shell casing. Grandpa looked them over but did not pick them up to bring along as he was hunting for arrowheads that day. Little did he or I know at the time he was telling me the story, but he had probably stood on the site of an early historical event in Wyoming history.
Years later in the early 1990's, I found an old rifle cartridge near Fort Robinson, Crawford, Nebraska. This had been the site of a cavalry fort and an early Indian Agency. The shell looked like the same type that Grandpa Harvey had talked about years earlier. My friend, Don Sheldon, is an avid cartridge collector and he identified the casing as a benet', inside primed cartridge which dated from about 1860 and was used up until about 1880. The common caliber was 45-70 and happened to be the same ammunition as had been used by General George Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Late in the 1990's, I purchased a rare book entitled "FOOTPRINTS ON THE FRONTIER", written by Virginia Cole Trenholm. There were only 1,000 of these books printed and it is a factual history of south east Wyoming. It just happened that the author's brother was good friend to my Grandfather, "Wick" Hopkins, and this book had been a favorite read for my other Grandpa, Earl Harvey. As I read the book, there was an account of an Indian skirmish that took place along the "Richeau" Creek in Wyoming.
The book tells a story of the 1870's about three men who resided on the M Bar Ranch in what is now known as the Slater Flats area and how they were attacked by Indians. The men had gone out to collect their livestock. The horses were herded into the corral and they had gone back out after the cattle which were further out on the range. As they were riding along the breaks of Richeau Creek, they were attacked by Indians who wanted their horses. Both groups fired repeated volleys of bullets at one another. The horses were killed and both men were wounded. The men did manage to get back to the ranch figuring the Indians were headed there for the livestock. There were three women and a boy at the ranch that evening along with a soldier. As they all sat at the dinner table that evening, the boy looked out the window and saw the Indians driving off the last of the horses. They figured the Indians got what they had wanted and probably would not lay siege to the cabin with one soldier there and more likely to come.
I came to realize that the pile of old cartridges that Grandpa Earl had found many years before along the creek were very likely laying in the exact spot where the skirmish with the Indians had occurred. The time frame, cartridge type, and location were all good clues. After over 40 years, the odd pieces of this story were all coming together. My Grandpa, Earl Harvey, passed away in 1974 but I have since wondered if he had realized, while reading his favorite Trenholm book, that he had probably stumbled across the scene of the skirmish years prior while hunting arrowheads along "Richeau Creek"? It was simply a compilation of people, timing, bits of history, and Grandpa's story that brought all these facts forward and led me to believe he had stood on historical ground.
As for me, I never cared for history when I was young and in school but Grandpa's little mysterious find set me on a path toward a great appreciation for my history. It was a start down the road to discover my past and learn more about the history of where I was born and grew up. Studying Wyoming and Nebraska early settlement, old firearms, family genealogy, and WWII history have all become of great interest to me over a lifetime, mostly because both of my Grandfathers' cared enough to include me in the telling of Wyoming Tales!
note: this blog post written by Geoffrey Hopkins, husband of the owner of "THOSE OLD MEMORIES" and the story of the Indian skirmish was abridged from a written account in the book "FOOTPRINTS ON THE FRONTIER" by Virginia Cole Trenholm.
Labels: cartridges, Dueward Hopkins, Earl Harvey, history, Nebraska, Wyoming
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Having ones eyesight does not guarantee that we see the world around us. While most of us are lucky enough to have reasonably good eyesight, one special person in my life did not, but he excelled at living his life in spite of losing the use of his eyes.
Thomas Moore Beagle, "Tom" was born to Harry Frank Beagle and LaVaughn Elizabeth Moore on November 3, 1936 in Alliance, Box Butte Co., Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were Oswin Chester Moore and Pearl May (Zehrung). Grandparents on his father's side were Perce Beagle and Nelle(Telander). Tom was the oldest of four children, with two brothers and a sister. He grew up in the house that had been his great grandfathers from the early 1900's and was raised in a loving home with many cousins and other relatives living near by. He was a typical boy, delivering newspapers in his hometown of Alliance and he loved spending time with his brother, cousins and friends playing baseball. He participated in the Legion baseball games in Alliance throughout his adolescence.
Hunting, fishing and camping were some of the things that he loved the most. He spent many enjoyable times with his Uncle Freddie, Aunt Irene and cousins; Bill and Dick while growing up. His uncle Freddie was an avid fisherman and Tom accompanied him and his family on nearly every camping and fishing trip as he grew into his early teen years. It was during these young years while Tom was in about the 7th grade that he developed juvenile diabetes--the disease that would soon rob him of his eyesight and health. My mother told me of Tom's struggle with his disease as a child but also of his bravery and perseverance in dealing with his illness. Learning to give his own insulin shots, he strove to keep up with life and the other boys in a normal manner.
Hunting and being outdoors was something he loved and he took every after school or weekend occasion to get out in the fields with cousins and friends to hunt game. Cars and hot rods also held great interest for Tom, his brother-Jerry, and their cousins. If they weren't driving one, they were working on a car in their free time. Tom had great pride in his candy apple red and fully customized 1946 Chevy 2 door sedan. That was the day of the "real" classics!
After graduation Tom was employed in Alliance as an auto mechanic and in 1959 he moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska to work for a dealership there. Tom met his future wife there and he was married in Scottsbluff on July 10, 1960. His wife already had a daughter and Tom soon adopted her. Their new little family soon had to deal with the onset of his sight loss.
The issue of diabetes combined with glaucoma came to the forefront in the early 1960's and Tom became totally blind by 1962 due to the effects of his diseases. The whole family, of course, was devastated but Tom did not give in and he looked for a way to move forward with his life and provide for his family.
The Lions Club in Alliance, Nebraska worked with them and offered great support for Tom and his family. They arranged for him to move to Omaha, Nebraska and begin training for a job opportunity. Tom became a sales representative for the Caravan Sales Program which was sponsored by the Services For The Visually Impaired-State of Nebraska. He and his family traveled throughout the state selling products that were made by the blind. These included brooms, mops, dishtowels and many other helpful household products.They would travel to a town and usually set up their display in the downtown area. He was an inspiration to
others and communities looked forward to his arrival. Speaking engagements, including at Lions Clubs throughout the state, also kept him busy.
Cars never lost their appeal for Tom even after his loss of sight. In about 1963, other family members and I (age11) accompanied him to the Nebraska State Fair to go to the "sprint" car races. He knew every car by the sound of the motor as it rounded the track and he kept perfect track of them as they raced. On another occasion his family joined ours on a camping trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota. We always fished at night for trout at our favorite lake there. "Coleman" camp lanterns were hung out over the boat edge to attract fish at night (yes, it was legal in SD). Fish could be caught hand-over-fist in this manner most of the time. Tom was baiting hooks and catching more fish than any of us that night as the fish were biting very lightly. He was pulling them in one after another and fish were "flying" all over the boat. The lantern glare was detrimental to the rest of us and he just laughed and laughed, saying that not being able to "see" the line move was his secret to success! His natural instincts were quite keen. As we sat around the campfire, revisiting times past, I never once ever heard him lament to the loss of his eyesight and we all had a wonderful time. Tom once was once quoted in a local newspaper as saying "A person that loses his sight has to have a positive attitude and continue to do the things he did before he became blind". He did just that and more.
Thomas and his family continued with his Caravan Sales Program until his health declined due to the ravages of diabetes. He passed away on February 2, 1966 in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was a very sad day for us all and a very special person had been taken home. He is buried in the Alliance Cemetery in Alliance, Nebraska beside his grandparents and a younger brother. Tom Beagle was only 29 years of age.
It did not matter how we were related to him, close or distant, he loved everybody and every one of us loved him- most importantly because of the "man" that he was. His nephew, who is named after him, has had very big shoes to fill!
A wonderful deep laugh would fill the room and his big smile showed his true soul. Self pity was never part of his vocabulary.
Thomas Moore Beagle was a son, husband, father, brother and nephew. He was my cousin....and my HERO because "vision" is not the measure of a man.
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Britain's recession: Harsh but fair?
Britain's latest labour market statistics have again provided happy news - in an environment that would otherwise be rather grim.
Economists have spent a lot of time pondering the jobs puzzle. So have I (sigh). But one consequence of the surprising strength of employment is both welcome and hard to dispute. It may have been an unusually difficult period for our economy but it has also been a surprisingly equitable one.
You might think that sounds mad. How can it be fair that so many people have had their incomes squeezed in real terms - and often nominal terms as well? Or that so many people - young people especially - have been left out of work?
But I didn't say it was less painful than past recessions. In fact, by some measures this has been the worst four-year period for the economy since at least the 1920s. Real household incomes may not be much higher in 2015 than they were in 2001 - that would be unprecedented.
There has been no shortage of economic pain since 2007. What is striking is that the pain has been much more evenly distributed than when we have lurched from boom to bust in the past. For that we can thank the curious strength of UK employment - and the weakness of UK earnings. Put simply: pay packets have been squeezed instead of jobs.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies pulled together the key figures in a report published in the summer.
There's been so much talk of city fat cats and the soaring incomes of the top 1%, you might be surprised to hear that the latest figures show the largest one-year fall in income inequality in nearly 50 years.
The most widely used measure of income inequality - the Gini coefficient - fell from 0.36 to 0.34 in 2010-11. (The coefficient ranges from 0 to 1. Roughly speaking, a coefficient of zero would mean everyone was getting the same income. A coefficient of one would mean everything was going to one person.)
That fall to 0.34 may not sound like much, but it takes the level of inequality back to where it was in the late 1990s - and it occurred in a year in which average household incomes went back to where they had been in 2004-05.
Average incomes have fallen in large part because earnings across the economy have fallen. No surprise there: that's what usually happens in a recession. What is not so usual is that the fall in earnings has mainly come through everyone in work being paid less - not from a relatively small fraction losing their jobs.
Incomes in 2010-11 fell in every part of the income distribution - and inequality fell across the board as well. Whether it's the gap between the top tenth and the bottom tenth, or between the middle and the bottom - they all got smaller in 2010-11.
Of course, there have been job losses. There are now around 55,000 more people unemployed than there were in May 2010.
But if the economy had behaved as it did in the early 1980s or 1990s, there could easily be a million more people out of work today. And employment would certainly not be 750,000 higher than it was at the start of the parliament. In fact, we might well not have seen any rise in employment at all.
It's worth mentioning that the fall in inequality also owes something to the government's decision to continue uprating benefits in line with consumer prices - at a time when inflation was well ahead of target, and most working people's incomes have been failing to keep up. Famously, that led to a 5.2% increase in the level of most benefits this April, at a time when average earnings have been rising by around 2%.
The fall in inequality may well be a short-term phenomenon. Earnings at the very top were affected by the introduction of the 50p rate, because a lot of people had tried to shift income into the previous year to avoid paying the higher rate.
As the IFS also point out, there are welfare cuts now under way worth £18bn a year by 2014-15 which cut incomes relatively more toward the lower end of the income scale. And after this year's large increase in benefits, George Osborne might push for a below-inflation increase in benefits in 2013.
People will continue to debate the fairness of these and other government efforts to cut borrowing. They will also continue to debate what a "fair" distribution of economic pain might be. There will, rightly, also be discussion of the long-term implications of employing 750,000 more people to make the same amount of national output.
What we can say for sure is that the past few years have been different. Instead of the costs of recession being concentrated among the people unlucky enough to lose their jobs, the pain has been shared by nearly every household in the land. That sounds like a good thing. Even if there is, unfortunately, more than enough pain to go around.


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Ashes 2013-14: Where next for England after 5-0 whitewash?
- From the section Cricket
The trite answer to that headline would be anywhere but Australia.
After an Ashes humiliation that seems scarcely believable even to those of us who witnessed every ball, England's Test team are at their lowest ebb in 15 years - when defeat at home to New Zealand left them bottom of the world rankings, below even Zimbabwe.
But even in miserable defeat there is optimism.
Just six months ago, the Australia team that have just thrashed them five times in five matches were in arguably an even worse position: beaten 4-0 in India, finishing bottom of their Champions Trophy group, their opening batsman suspended for punching an opponent in a Birmingham bar, and the coach sacked just 16 days before the start of an Ashes series in which they would fail to win a game.
England can recover from here. But, just as Australia have done since hitting rock bottom in June last year, they must solve several critical problems.
The coach
After defeats this overwhelming, the temptation is to not only throw the baby out with the bathwater but also the taps, the loofa and the bloke who installed the boiler.
No-one should be surprised by the calls for Andy Flower to resign, just as no-one should be surprised that such a proud and determined man should want the opportunity to turn it around.
Flower has the perfect experience of dragging a team from the depths to the peak; when he took over as England coach, they had just been beaten by West Indies after a batting display as bad as anything seen in these Ashes.
"I hope Andy is with us," says his captain, Alastair Cook. "His record suggests he is a fantastic coach, he is a great man and his heart is in it to turn it round. I hope it is me and him that do it."
The key question is whether Flower's method and message are still making an impact with the current group of players.
Old pros talk about the point at which "new voices" need to be heard. That may mean a shake-up of the large support staff that Flower has, rather than the man at very top, but it seems certain that some change is inevitable.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Sport: "What really disappointed me was when England won at The Oval, everyone was out there - the players, the backroom team.
"Not one of the back-room team was out there at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. When you lose, you lose as one.
"Andy Flower has not evolved this team as he should have done. This is the perfect time. Things have to change in personnel."
The captain
Alastair Cook's own form was a significant factor in England's struggles down under. Three years ago the opening batsman compiled a monstrous total of 766 runs; his aggregate for the series this time was a mere 246, 56 less than he managed in a single Test at the Gabba last time around.
Neither has his captaincy been spared criticism. He has been accused of being too conservative, too reactive and too tactically dogmatic.
That he is likely to remain in charge is down to two factors: the relatively short time he has held the permanent position (just over a year) and the lack of credible alternatives.
His vice-captain at the start of the series, Matt Prior, has been dropped. The stand-in deputy, Ian Bell, is not considered leadership material. Stuart Broad is the other option, but England have not been led in Tests by a bowler for more than a quarter of a century.
"I'm desperate to try to turn it round," said Cook after the 281-run defeat in Sydney. "I feel I'm the right man for the job.
"If I'm not, and people higher up want a change because they think that's the best way, then I'll have to take it on the chin. But in the dressing room I feel as if I'm the right man to do it."
The kingpin
Kevin Pietersen is England's most capped current player. He has the highest Test average of the current crop and was their leading run-scorer in the Ashes this winter.
Unfortunately, that only equated to 294 runs at an average of 29. For much of the time, Pietersen appeared a man apart - fielding at third man, or mid off, anywhere but in the heart of the team.
Vaughan believes Pietersen should be made vice-captain, the cricketing equivalent of the old maxim about being inside the tent with a bursting bladder rather than outside facing in.
"He is England's best player," said Vaughan. "He can make the biggest impact on the game but he is not involved in this team. If there's an issue there, get rid of him. If not, then involve him."
If promoting Pietersen is unlikely, England must still decide how best to use their most destructive batsman. If he is in the team, make full use of him. If you do not wish to do that, then should he really be part of the team at all?
The wicketkeeper
After a series in which Brad Haddin took 21 catches and scored 493 runs at an average of 61 - making at least a half-century in the first innings of every single Test - the contrast with England's underperforming stumpers is not a flattering one.
Prior was rested after making just 101 runs at 17 in the first three Tests, his glovework also suffering as his batting fell apart. But his replacement, Jonny Bairstow, fared even worse, scoring a paltry 49 runs at 12 and failing to impress behind the timbers.
With Sri Lanka arriving in England for a two-Test series in May followed by India for five Tests, who should wear the gloves this summer? A refreshed Prior, a still relatively untried Bairstow or the bright young thing Jos Buttler, who has impressed so much in the shorter forms of the game?
"It has to be Prior," says Test Match Special analyst and former Middlesex seamer Simon Hughes.
"I don't think Buttler is ready, although he may be in a year - he is technically inadequate both with the gloves and the bat.
"Prior is a fantastic cricketer. I love his commitment to the team, the way he helped others after he was dropped in Australia. He will come back, because he is too good not to."
The spinner
After an Ashes series in England in which Graeme Swann took more wickets than any other bowler, this has been an Ashes where Australia's twirlers have made the tourists' look benign at best.
The five spinners tried by England, part-time or otherwise, took 14 wickets at 72.42 in the series. Australia's spinners (Lyon and Smith) took 20 wickets at 30.80.
Swann retired after Perth. Monty Panesar struggled in Adelaide and Melbourne. Simon Kerrigan went wicketless for 53 from the eight overs he was given in his only Test at the Oval last August; Scott Borthwick went at seven an over in the first innings in Sydney before picking up three wickets as Australia slogged in the second.
"That's a big issue," says Hughes. "Shane Warne told me that he thinks Panesar would have bowled well at the SCG, and also thinks that Borthwick has something about him.
"I'm not convinced about Panesar any more. He's becoming more and more apprehensive about his bowling. In Adelaide and Melbourne he did not have the rhythm he used to have.
"He's not as good a bowler as he was two years ago, and he doesn't offer you much else - he's a bit of a handicap with his batting and fielding.
"Borthwick didn't bowl well in the fifth Test, but it was his debut, and I'd like to see a bit more of him.
"I certainly wouldn't pick him for England in the summer. He needs to bowl more for Durham; he needs to bowl in more situations, and learn about his bowling and different conditions.
"Joe Root and Pietersen together could do a good job as spinners. That combination with Ben Stokes as your fourth seamer is a useful attack.
"They don't have anyone to spin the ball away, but if they work with Borthwick, I think he's promising, even if he is a bit too raw at the moment."
The pacemen
This was the season of the Mitch.
Johnson's 37 wickets in the series are the most for Australia in a five-match Ashes series in Australia, beating Arthur Mailey's 36 in 1920-21; Ryan Harris's 22 wickets at 19 would have been enough for his strike partner's man of the series award in many other years.
England, by contrast, brought three tall pace bowlers, saw Chris Tremlett bowl harmless medium pace in Brisbane, had poor Boyd Rankin return match figures of 1-81 in Sydney (his solitary wicket came with what might have been his last ball in Test cricket) and failed to use Steven Finn even once.
Only Stuart Broad, with 21 wickets at 27, performed to his reputation. Finn, from all accounts, is falling apart, his action gone, his accuracy destroyed, his morale at barrel-bottom.
"I would give Finn two months off," says Simon Hughes. "Stop thinking about cricket. Go and hang out with your mates and support Watford for a bit, although that might actually make him gloomier at the moment.
"Go away and forget about the game. Forget about action, about foot positions, and then when he comes to bowl again - just try to pitch the ball up and hit the stumps.
"The main reason bowlers struggle, assuming they have ability, is because they lack confidence. Batsmen get out when they're tentative, and it's the same for bowlers.
"He has all the attributes he needs: he is fit, tall, lithe, has pace and is accurate. It just needs rediscovering."
The tactics
This England team got to the top of the world rankings by playing tough, defensive cricket: dry up the runs in the field, wear down the opposition when batting.
That strategy was made to look one-dimensional by an Australia side that rediscovered the aggression and relentless competitiveness that has defined so many of their best teams. England could neither score the runs (five times they failed to total 200 in an innings) nor take the wickets they needed to dictate as of old.
"England play too much by numbers and not enough by instinct out in the middle," says Vaughan.
"I'm not sure England's gameplan has been about beating the best team of the current era, which is South Africa. They have not been at the races."
Those in charge
Even before the brutal whitewash of the last six weeks, change was already in the air for the England senior set-up. James Whittaker is replacing Geoff Miller as chairman of selectors; Paul Downton officially takes over from the departed Hugh Morris as managing director on 1 February.
Suddenly there is great weight upon their shoulders.
Whittaker (a one-cap wonder himself as a Test batsman) has been a selector since 2008, although seldom in that time did he face the number of problems and paucity of resources he has now.
On his to-find list (and this is not exhaustive) is the following: a long-term opening partner for Cook; a new number three to replace the indefinitely on leave Jonathan Trott; the wicket-keeping dilemma; the spinner issue; the problem with Finn.
For Downton, there is irony that his post was only created as a result of the preceding Ashes Pomwash of 2006-7.
The former England wicketkeeper even has first-hand experience of being on the wrong side of whitewashes himself, his 30 Test caps including both 5-0 hammerings from West Indies in the mid-1980s.
Those who played with him at Middlesex and in the national side, or worked with him in his subsequent career as a stockbroker, describe him as a laid-back people-person who can also get things done.
Not naturally confrontational, he nevertheless forced through several key changes during a long stint on the Middlesex committee.
But his task ahead is of an entirely different magnitude, and his decisions, as much of those of Cook on the pitch, will decide whether this Ashes series is the start of a stirring fightback, as was Australia's last summer, or the beginning of a chastening new pattern.


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