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Rome Burned, Will We?
Posted by Cryptocurrency on September 27, 2018 at 8:19am
Ruling class accelerates planned economic implosion
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors.
A recent Reuters report highlighting how the Federal Reserve has been telling major banks in the U.S. to prepare for a “worst case scenario” financial collapse and that these banks would not be able to rely on government support underscores once again how the elite are positioning themselves to exploit the next leg of the orchestrated financial meltdown.
Just as happened in the aftermath of 2008, the ruling class is getting ready to offer the solution of more centralized control and more financial serfdom as the solution to the problem they created in the first place.
By making the public and industry beg for QE3, the Federal Reserve will once again try to manipulate the crisis to portray itself as the guardian of a fragile system and accumulate yet more power.
America is now ruled by a gaggle of completely corrupt financial terrorists who will stop at nothing to hollow out the country in pursuit of their own maniacal and selfish gain.
This precisely parallels Rome’s rapacious ruling Emperors and Senators of the fifth century who were so obsessed with seizing wealth and control that they ended up destroying their own culture, their own country and its empire in the process.
Just as in Rome, while the ruling elite got filthy rich, the people struggled and starved.
More than 100 million Americans are now on government welfare, a third of the entire country, and that figure doesn’t even include Social Security or Medicare.
22.3 million households and 46.5 million Americans have now entered technical poverty and live off food stamps.
Just as in Rome, where the need to constantly generate revenue to satisfy the cost of defense and a sprawling bureaucracy ultimately led to the country becoming bankrupt as Nero and subsequently emperors hiked up taxes and debased the currency, America is hurtling towards a similar fate.
Entitlement spending, military defense and a bloated federal bureaucracy has left the United States almost $16 trillion dollars in debt, and the prospect of QE3 threatens to sink the dollar as the world reserve currency for good.
Just as Romans found their currency becoming increasingly worthless, the U.S. dollar has lost almost 100 per cent of its value since 1900.
Just like Rome, America was once a Republic that has been hijacked and turned into an empire. Just as the Roman Empire crumbled under its rulers’ inability to afford its maintenance, America’s overseas presence (the U.S. has troops in a staggering 130 countries), is bankrupting the country.
Like America, Rome once had an influential middle class whose wealth allowed them to have a political stake in their country. Merchants and traders were able to prosper because taxes were modest and economic regulation was relaxed. However, beginning in the third century B.C., the Roman economy became more regimented and taxes were raised. This eviscerated and disenfranchised the middle class, just as has unfolded in America, where middle class neighborhoods are disappearing and income is polarized between a struggling downtrodden mass of people and a tiny rich elite.
When the economic collapse arrives, it could be more brutal than anything America has experienced in its history as a nation.
Consider the fact that during the ten years of the 1929 Great Depression, some 8 million Americans starved to death. And this at a time when 90 per cent of the population lived in rural areas and were at least somewhat self-sufficient. That number is now 50 per cent and many people who live outside major cities are not self-sufficient in any way.
Aside from economic factors, cultural and societal parallels can also be drawn between Rome and 21st century America.
Rome’s increasing use of illegal immigrants to do agricultural work its host population refused to undertake mirrors America in 2012. As Peter Heather writes in The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians, “The Roman government allowed uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric of their civilization. Illegal and legal Immigrants grew more powerful while exercising their own character of their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second, vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held and even the Roman population, once outnumbered, was no match for hostile immigrants.”
“Factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of illegal immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot and do not speak English. Millions work under the table without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals without paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans. They fracture our country,” writes Frosty Wooldridge.
Just as Roman rulers created bread and circuses to distract their population from the fact that the country was collapsing, Americans are also enraptured by entertainment and sports, which in turn encourages them to lead superficial, meaningless lives.
As Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.) wrote, “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions–everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”
This loss of interest in civic duty and its replacement with an obsession for entertainment and folly is routinely cited by scholars as one of the primary reasons behind the collapse of Rome.
As Kyle Trottier writes, “In many modern books written about Ancient Rome and her people, the ancient Romans are often portrayed as people who enjoyed violence and thought it amusing to see people being injured and killed to the point of obsession. It is now common knowledge that, in Ancient Rome, people often attended (and enjoyed) gladiatorial fights to the death, wild beast hunts, naval battles and chariot racing. Some public thinkers today have suggested that “entertainment” today, as it was in ancient times of Rome, reflects the decline of culture, into a plethora of lust, greed, violence, selfish individualism and bad behavior. Some Scholars suggest that history is repeating itself and we are now in a reoccurring cycle of moral decay and social breakdown. From the excessive amount of glorified violence in Hollywood movies, video games, music and on the internet, one can easily see the downward spiral of decency.”
The moral decay of the Roman culture is also being aped almost precisely in America. While fertility and birth rates of the host population continue to plummet, sexual promiscuity and infidelity is lauded. As Dr. Carle Zimmerman’s 1947 book Family and Civilization documented, America shares the pattern of its moral decline with Rome. Zimmerman identified a number of behavior traits that signaled the decline of a civilization. These included “the breakdown of marriage and rise of divorce,” “acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion,” “refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept their family responsibilities,” “a growing desire for and acceptance of adultery” and “increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions and sex-related crimes.”
All of these traits have come to shape American society in the 21st century.
It does not take a crystal ball to see where all this is heading, and the planned economic implosion is going to be the trigger. Europe has already been rocked by riots over the past two years and federal authorities are already preparing for similar scenes in America only on a far bigger scale.
As Ron Paul has warned, the coming engineered financial breakdown is leading directly to domestic unrest which will inevitably lead to a state of martial law.
Riots prompted by food shortages, inflation, inequality and political corruption are inevitable should the ruling class continue to deliberately implode the economy – as is the brutal police state response that will come as a result.
Just as Rome burned when it was sacked in 455AD, the historical point which marked the formal end of the Roman Empire, America faces the same fate.
The only way to prevent or try to lessen the kind of collapse that could make the dissolution of Rome look like a cakewalk is to use the tools that ordinary Romans never had – the power of the modern alternative media.
Only by relentlessly emphasizing that the collapse is being deliberately engineered by those who seek to exploit it for their own gain can we hope to deflate the myth that the ruling class are our only saviors in the coming time of peril.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Status: AHSQ
Date of birth: 30-10-1982 Age: 37 Country: USA
Height: 5' 11" Weight: 190 lbs Star Power: 0
Repêché : N/A Average Cap Hit: $5,000,000 over 1 Year(s)
Condition:100% Suspension: 0
53 32 98 84 57 99 99 82 25 13 21 92 25 82 85 50 99 0
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Summary
SHT%
2008-09 Portland Pirates 16 4 13 17 2 12 3 0 1 0 42 9.5
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 1 6 7 -3 18 0 0 0 1 22 4.5
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 65 5 35 40 27 13 4 0 0 0 145 3.4
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.0
2010-11 Worcester Sharks 80 8 42 50 -14 6 5 0 1 0 193 4.1
2010-11 San Jose Sharks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 2 9 11 -4 10 2 0 0 0 56 3.6
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 0 12 12 11 30 0 0 0 0 30 0.0
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 3 16 19 6 39 0 0 1 0 53 5.7
2017-18 San Jose Sharks 82 11 28 39 31 12 6 0 3 0 102 10.8
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 4 8 12 4 8 1 1 1 0 52 7.7
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 5 13 18 -1 8 2 0 0 1 64 7.8
FARM TOTALS 161 17 90 107 15 31 12 0 2 0 380 4.5
PRO TOTALS 752 41 168 209 105 291 14 2 7 3 634 6.5
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Summary
2008-09 Portland Pirates 5 2 2 4 1 0 1 0 0 13 15.4
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 13 2 8 10 3 2 2 0 0 25 8.0
2011-12 Worcester Sharks 17 0 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 22 0.0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.0
2013-14 San Jose SharksSan Jose Sharks 7 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 1 9 10 14 8 0 0 0 0 12 8.3
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 21 3 6 9 16 18 2 0 0 1 23 13.0
2017-18 12 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 16.7
2018-19 7 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 33.3
FARM TOTALS 35 4 14 18 0 2 3 0 0 0 60 6.7
PRO TOTALS 98 6 23 29 39 28 2 0 0 1 61 9.8
Ext. Summary
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - EXTENDED SUMMARY
OSMG
2008-09 Portland Pirates 16 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008-09 62 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 65 0 85 0 0 38 37 0 0 0
2009-10 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
2010-11 Worcester Sharks 80 0 129 68 80 44 84 0 0 0
2011-12 82 0 40 18 0 18 35 0 0 0
2013-14 82 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018-19 82 0 61 28 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 0 129 68 80 82 121 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 752 0 802 92 0 18 37 0 1 0.0
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - EXTENDED SUMMARY
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 0 17 23 11 10 10 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Barracuda 17 0 23 5 16 7 13 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 7 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 5 0 23 28 27 17 23 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 0 127 1 1 0 3 0 0 0
Time On Ice
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Time On Ice
ES TOI
ES TOI/G
SH TOI
SH TOI/G
PP TOI
PP TOI/G
TOI/G
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 04:08 00:15 00:00 0 00:00 0 04:08 00:15 00:00
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 07:27 00:07 00:00 0 00:00 0 07:27 00:07 00:00
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 1242:19 19:06 139:09 02:08 138:55 02:08 1520:23 23:23 174:31
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 40:12 20:06 00:00 0 00:00 0 40:12 20:06 00:03
2010-11 San Jose Sharks 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 619:54 07:33 179:40 02:11 266:21 03:14 1065:55 12:59 00:33
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 780:24 10:24 125:30 01:40 00:32 00:00 906:26 12:05 00:19
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 1055:32 12:52 224:02 02:43 45:44 00:33 1325:18 16:09 00:22
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 82 1747:55 21:18 177:05 02:09 182:36 02:13 2107:36 25:42 00:19
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 896:44 10:56 69:32 00:50 46:46 00:34 1013:02 12:21 00:07
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 1051:56 21:02 82:40 01:39 123:31 02:28 1258:07 25:09 00:08
FARM TOTALS 161 3020:36 18:45 406:51 02:31 376:56 02:20 3804:23 23:37 02:41
PRO TOTALS 752 10795:50 14:21 1332:19 01:46 953:58 01:16 13082:07 17:23 01:28
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Time On Ice
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 01:33 00:18 00:00 0 00:00 0 01:33 00:18 00:00
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 242:07 18:37 65:38 05:02 64:04 04:55 371:49 28:36 39:06
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 28:18 05:39 10:59 02:11 33:37 06:43 72:54 14:34 01:06
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 122:53 06:28 00:00 0 00:00 0 122:53 06:28 00:20
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 7 85:44 12:14 14:01 02:00 00:00 0 99:45 14:15 00:15
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 272:00 22:40 31:54 02:39 02:39 00:13 306:33 25:32 00:38
2015-16 San Jose Sharks 15 254:15 16:57 34:45 02:19 00:00 0 289:00 19:16 00:23
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 7 140:41 20:05 16:05 02:17 02:08 00:18 158:54 22:42 00:08
FARM TOTALS 35 491:16 14:02 134:01 03:49 93:42 02:40 718:59 20:32 02:04
PRO TOTALS 98 1603:05 16:21 173:37 01:46 111:12 01:08 1887:54 19:15 01:32
Hits & Fights
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Hits & Fights
HTT
5 PIM
Fight W
Fight L
Fight T
1st Star
2nd Star
3rd Star
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 10 16 12 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 16 15 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 56 156 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010-11 San Jose Barracuda 80 69 201 6 0 0 1 0 2 1 3
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 32 63 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 40 44 30 10 1 0 1 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 71 153 84 94 40 2 2 4 1 0 2
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 82 115 88 50 0 0 0 0 3 3 1
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 46 39 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 135 373 31 5 0 1 0 3 2 6
PRO TOTALS 752 679 569 291 85 3 4 10 10 6 10
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Hits & Fights
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 24 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Barracuda 17 6 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2015-16 San Jose Sharks 15 2 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 32 62 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 103 85 28 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Special Teams
Even : G
Power Play : G
Shorthanded : G
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 1 13 14 42 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 1 6 7 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 1 25 26 126 4 9 13 16 0 1 1 3
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 0 3 3 33 2 6 8 20 0 0 0 3
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 0 11 11 30 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 3 15 18 41 0 1 1 12 0 0 0 0
2017-18 San Jose Sharks 82 5 24 29 55 6 4 10 47 0 0 0 0
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 2 6 8 42 1 2 3 9 1 0 1 1
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 3 8 11 37 2 5 7 27 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 5 75 40 327 12 14 26 44 0 1 1 9
PRO TOTALS 752 25 143 168 466 41 168 39 161 41 168 2 7
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Special Teams
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 1 2 3 13 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 0 5 5 17 2 1 3 4 0 2 2 4
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 1 9 10 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 1 9 2 48 3 1 4 8 0 4 4 4
PRO TOTALS 98 1 0 24 3 6 23 4 12 6 23 1 1
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Shootouts
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 0 0 0
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 752 0 1 0
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Shootouts
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 0 1 0
Salary Hit by Season
* = No Trade Clause
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No Trade Clause
1 Year(s) One Way Contract (PRO) NO NO NO
[08-11-2018 12:31:05] - Andy Greene ratings were not updated!
[11-05-2018 21:51:46] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Abdomen/Ribs Injury.
[03-05-2018 16:55:54] - Game 69 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Abdomen/Ribs) and is out for 2 weeks.
[30-05-2017 18:51:11] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured from Exhaustion.
[30-05-2017 18:53:19] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Exhaustion.
[03-05-2016 18:45:15] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Sprained Left Knee Injury.
[17-04-2016 09:31:29] - Game 22 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Sprained Left Knee) and is out for 3 weeks.
[05-05-2015 18:31:14] - Last 7 Days Pro Star : 1 - Kari Lehtonen of San Jose Sharks (0-936) / 2 - Matt Read of San Jose Sharks (2-2-4) / 3 - Andy Greene of San Jose Sharks (1-3-4)
[11-12-2014 18:19:11] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Fractured Bone in Left Hand Injury.
[10-25-2014 18:32:06] - Game 107 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Fractured Bone in Left Hand) and is out for 3 weeks.
[03-02-2013 22:39:13] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Strained Groin Injury.
[02-16-2013 20:29:48] - Game 824 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Strained Groin) and is out for 2 weeks.
Before joining the Devils, he attended and played hockey for Miami University. He was signed out of Miami University, and was assigned to the Devil's AHL affiliate, the Lowell Devils, after training camp. He succeeded at the AHL level, making the PlanetUSA all-star team. He was called up for a short stint to replace the injured Johnny Oduya. Though Greene played well and showed considerable promise, he was reassigned to Lowell upon Oduya's return. Later in the season, he was again recalled when Colin White was injured. When the 2007 playoffs began, the NHL salary cap no longer applied, allowing the Devils to add Greene to their permanent roster. With the return of injured defenseman Richard Matvichuk, it appeared as though Greene would sit. However, an injury to Colin White allowed Greene to remain on the roster. During this period, Greene played so well that, upon White's return, Oduya was scratched in Greene's stead.
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Marias River Massacre 23 January 1870
22 February 2018 / tjlinzy / 0 Comments
At the confluence of the Two Medicine and Cut Bank Rivers is where the Marias River begins and flows east for approximately 60 miles to Lake Elwell, then on for another 80 miles where it meets the Missouri River near Loma, Montana. Somewhere along this stretch of river (possibly here), there lies an ancient American Indian site where Major Eugene Baker of the U.S. Army took his mixed detachment from the 2nd US Cavalry and the 13th Infantry to surround an encampment of Piegan Indians on 22 January 1870. What happened next is clear, but why is not so clear.
A Tragic, Familiar Story
The area had seen an altercation between two hotheads, one white, Malcolm Clarke, and one Indian, Owl Child. Clarke beat Owl Child, who he claimed had stolen his horses. Owl Child retaliated by killing Clarke. As so happened in those days, this caused cries for the army to make sure another white was not killed by another Indian, so Major Baker was sent to teach the Indians a lesson. Baker’s detachment left Fort Shaw on 15 January 1870 and rode north to find a group of Indians known as the Piegans. Baker found an encampment at a big bend on the Marias River and surrounded it in the winter’s night of 22/23 January 1870. There is some debate as to whether Baker knew it was the camp he was looking for or another one.
The Marias River Massacre
On the morning of the incident, also known as the Baker Massacre and the Piegan Massacre, Chief Heavy Runner tried to stop the attack by showing papers that he claimed gave him and his people clear passage in the area. Regardless, Baker issued the order to fire on the camp and many women, children and elderly were killed, the camp was burned and the survivors set afoot in the Montana winter without provisions.
Some said Baker knew that it as the wrong encampment. Some said he didn’t care. Some said he was a drunken commander and didn’t know what was happening. None of the PR options were good and the Army made it worse by ignoring, at the least, but probably covering up the massacre. As so often happened in these cases in the U.S. Army, a young soldier steps up where his superiors have fallen down and tells the truth. Lieutenant William Pease, acting as a Blackfoot agent, reported the massacre to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Ely Samuel Parker. Parker, a Civil War veteran, confidante to U.S. Grant and an Iroquois Indian whose Indian name was Donehogawa, demanded a investigation, but the outcome was prevarication as the U.S. Army closed ranks with General William Tecumseh Sherman saying he would prefer to believe his soldiers.
In the end, no official recognition of the Marias River Massacre was forthcoming and only time has brought a gradual acceptance of the fact of this massacre. Author Dee Brown, in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, puts the casualties at 33 men, 90 women and 50 children. Stan Gibson has investigated the topic deeply. He and Jack Hayne are working on a book on the topic.
If you are teaching this topic to 7-12th grade students, there is a good looking lesson plan that uses the Montana: Stories of the Land textbook by Holmes, Krys, Susan C. Dailey, and David Walter. Helena, Mont: Montana Historical Society Press, 2008. You can find the relevant chapter 7 online.
Marias River Massacre Motorcycle Ride
This is a long ride starting and ending at Browning, Montana at the Museum of the Plains Indians. The ride passes through the origin of the Marias River and also runs about 5 miles north and parallel to the Marias for a good while on the beautiful U.S. Highway 2. This is a good description of the things to see along this route, including a Cold War missile Silo. As always, good Battlefield Biking requires the courtesy to ask for permission to travel on private roads. Be polite and ensure the rest of us can enjoy the ride too.
Map courtesy of Hal Jespersen
Ulysses S. Grant Begins Western Campaign 2 February 1862
Map by Hal Jespersen, www.cwmaps.com [CC BY 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
On 2 February 1862, the Commander of the Union’s Army of the Tennessee, U.S. Grant, began the action that would lead to his being recognized by President Abraham Lincoln as a General with a bias for action. Grant launched his forces from Cairo, Illinois, through far western Kentucky towards Forts Heiman, Henry (on the Tennessee River) and Donelson (on the Cumberland River).
Grant Begins Western Campaign
Grant had a sizable force consisting of three infantry divisions, led by John A. McClernand, Charles F. Smith and Lew Wallace. There were also two regiments of cavalry and eight batteries of artillery. Grant also had Captain Andrew Foote’s squadron of seven gunboats. (troop numbers are from the excellent military history of the USA Civil War, The Longest Night by David J. Eicher)
The force, although reasonable, was not huge, so Grant had to make a decision to attack or wait for the initiative to be sent to him from his superiors. However, the western theatre (generally in Kentucky and south of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains, but also in Kansas and Missouri) was split into three commands. Those commands were frozen by indecision on how to attack the south, so Grant might have waited forever to get his chance to attack. The known forces were unclear to both sides, as proven by the still debatable troop numbers present at Fort Donelson to weeks later. Grant chose the warrior’s path of seizing the initiative whilst others debated strategy. He proposed to his Commander, General Henry Halleck, that he proceed to take Fort Henry and open up Tennessee via the Tennessee River. The rest as they say is history. Grant’s star was on the rise.
Grant Begins Western Campaign Motorcycle Ride Recommendation
Leaving Cairo, Illinois, cross the Ohio River near its confluence with the Mississippi River on U.S. Highway 51 towards Paducah, Kentucky. Take US-62 out of Paducah and US-68 down to KenLake State Resort Park on the Cumberland River (now Kentucky Lake) pretty much following the path that Grant followed to get to the Fort Henry area. Continue on KY-SR-94 down to Paris Landing State Park in Tennessee and then into the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. In the southwest corner of LBL, near the Piney Bay Campground, you can find the remains of Fort Henry. A map of the ride is here.
Appomattox Courthouse
Combat Veteran’s Motorcycle Association Conducts Civil War Ride
23 August 2016 / tjlinzy / 0 Comments
Combat Veteran’s Motorcycle Association Chapter 27-3 conducted a ride around the Petersburg, Virginia area on 19-20 August 2016. It was organized by a member who works as National Park Service Ranger, Chris Castle, who is a also a combat veteran. Castle conducted historical briefs at several stops. From the article,
The stop locations included, the Battle of the Crater, and Fort Fisher. The ride ended with lunch at a local restaurant. Everyone left with an understanding of the events that occurred during the 292 day campaign, that led to the retreat and eventual surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox.
However, the article erroneously states,
This weekend also marked the 150th anniversary to the end of the civil war.
The USA Civil War concluded in the spring of 1865… 151 years ago from 2016. General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia on 9 April 1865. President Andrew Johnson issued a Proclamation of the end of the war on 9 May 1865 and the last major Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River surrendered on 2 June 1865.
I bet this was a great ride. Good people gathering to learn their nation’s history and a good ride to boot. If you attended, please let me know how it went.
Image Credit: Timothy H. O’Sullivan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Carl Grupp Legacy Collection: A Gift of Art to AU
Included within the Collection are (left to right): Carl Grupp, Self Portrait, watercolor, ca. 1984. 19” x 13”; Carl Grupp, Untitled (Mountain landscape), watercolor on board, 30” x 40”; Carl Grupp, Iris, watercolor on board, 20” x 16”
Remarkable works by artist and AU professor emeritus Carl Grupp are entrusted to Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, forming the Carl Grupp Legacy Collection.
SIOUX FALLS — The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University announces the recent gift of 351 paintings, original prints, and drawings from artist Carl Grupp to form the Carl Grupp Legacy Collection.
'The Extraordinary Life of Carl Grupp'
(The Augustana Magazine, January 2014)
Grupp (b. 1939, Moorhead, MN) has long been recognized as one of South Dakota’s and the region’s most preeminent artists. He earned a B.F.A. in painting, with a minor in printmaking, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1964. In 1965 he traveled through Europe and studied at the Art Student Vrije Academie in The Hague, Netherlands. He went on to earn a M.F.A. with honors in printmaking and a minor in drawing from Indiana University in 1969. Grupp has participated in over 100 regional, national, and international art exhibitions since 1961, with dozens of one-man shows. His work is represented in significant corporate and private collections.
Grupp was also a dedicated arts educator. From 1969 until 2004, Grupp was a professor at Augustana, and also chaired the art department from 1986-2002. He helped to inspire, develop and guide the careers of several generations of artists.
Carl Grupp founded the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana, with an ambitious exhibitions program and permanent art collection, which is now named for him. Over the years, he helped build the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection that now numbers nearly 4,000 objects and includes significant examples of works on paper from a range of important historical and contemporary artists, including: Marc Chagall, Degas, Homer, Matisse, Picasso and Warhol.
With this donation, the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection will now also be the signal repository of Carl Grupp’s works, from across the wide span of his prolific career in his most important media. From works from his earliest student days, to his first experiments in lithography, to the vast mountain watercolor paintings that he became known for in his later years. The collection will also feature his allegorical works created in series of intaglio and lithography that are based on themes of parables, mythology, and the Book of Revelations.
The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery is located on Commons Circle (30th Street and Grange Avenue), in the Center for Visual Arts at Augustana University. The gallery is open to the public and free of charge. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday 1-4 p.m.
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AU to Recognize Alumni for Achievement in the Arts
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Algorithmic Music
Surrealism Test Center. 2000. "Algorithmic Music."
Available online.
Surrealism Test Center
Copyright 1996-2013 Christopher Ariza.
“The computing machine is a marvelous invention and seems almost superhuman. But in reality it is as limited as the mind of the individual who feeds it material. Like the computer, the machines we use for making music can only give back what we put into them.”
(Full citation)
“With the development of electronic and computer music, multidemnsionality of sound representation turned out to be both natural and useful. But music goes beyond multidimensionality -- it is even more complex.”
“... and the hope of an extraordinary aesthetic success based on extraordinary technology is a cruel deceit.”
“... the individual and the society are deprived of the formidable power of free imagination that musical composition offers them. We are able to tear down this iron curtain, thanks to the technology of computers...”
“... but beware, technique can submerge the user: We must defend ourselves; it is good to use techniques, but we have to dominate them, to stay alert.”
“The characteristics of every sound depend on the way in which the sound was produced. Each art-form exploits its special production methods in order to endow the phenomena with unmistakable characteristics. Artistic economy demands that the means be appropriate to the end, and that the exploitation of the means be an end in itself.”
“The danger is great of letting oneself be trapped by the tools and of becoming stuck in the sands of technology that has come like an intruder into the relatively calm waters of the thought in instrumental music.”
“The use of computers is the logical outcome of a historical development. It by no means heralds a new musical epoch; it simply offers a fast, reliable and versatile means of solving problems that already demanded solution. The person who writes the computer programme must bear the development of musical language up to the present in mind, and try to advance a stage further.”
“Music is then no longer primarily conceived as a guide for premeditated emotions, but as the density of the possible relationships which first become actuality during production under the influence of chance, and which during performance are presented to the listener as sounds beyond any environmental associatiations, independent of bodily actions required to produce sounds...”
“... the use of numerical machines no longer stands in need of justification. It is not a mystery. If there is a mystery, it is in the mental structures of music and not in the computers, which are only tools, extensions of the hand and the slide rule.”
“Composers are now able, as never before, to satisfy the dictates of that inner ear of the imagination. They are also lucky so far in not being hampered by esthetic codification -- at least not yet! But I am afraid it will not be long before some musical mortician begins embalming electronic music in rules.”
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2 Chronicles Chapter 21-23: American Standard Version | Search | Next Version| Previous Page | Next Page |
21 2 Chronicles 21
1And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 2And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 3And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born. 4Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel. 5Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. 7Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.
8In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 9Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots. 10So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day: then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray. 12And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than thyself: 14behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance; 15and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
16And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians: 17and they came up against Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. 20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. 4And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. 5He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. 6And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 8And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. 9And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
10Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. 11But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not. 12And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
1And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. 2And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David. 4This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds; 5and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah. 6But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah. 7And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever cometh into the house, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
8So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath; with those that were to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses. 9And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God. 10And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. 11Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, Long live the king.
12And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Jehovah: 13and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! treason! 14And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Jehovah. 15So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.
16And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people. 17And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 19And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in. 20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. 21So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
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James M. Reed Print Collection.
The Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut, announces the major gift of the James M. Reed Print Collection. Assembled over several decades by artist, collector and master printer James Reed, the collection, which will be given in its entirety, consists of over 1,500 prints spanning the 16th through the early 21st centuries. The great strength of the Reed collection is 19th-century French etching and lithography. Géricault, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet, Redon, and Fantin-Latour are among the major artists of the period represented. Over 30 old master prints dating from the 16th-18th centuries are also included.
Léopold Flameng after Eugène Delacroix, St. Sébastien secouru, ca. 1870s. Etching. Fairfield University Art Museum, Gift of James Reed, 2017. (2017.35.668)
The second concentration of the collection is a significant group of over 50 German Expressionist prints, including woodcuts and lithographs by Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, and Max Beckmann among others. James Reed has also collected modern prints by iconic names including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine, as well as lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by established contemporary printmakers, many of whom he has collaborated with as master printer at Milestone Graphics, the fine printmaking studio he owns and directs and which is an important institution for artists working in Connecticut and the Northeast. This part of the collection includes examples of Mr. Reed’s own work as an artist and printmaker, which is represented in more than 20 public collections around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. The modern and contemporary prints in the James M. Reed Print Collection are promised to the museum as a bequest.
Linda Wolk-Simon, Frank and Clara Meditz Director and Chief Curator of the Fairfield University Art Museum, called the gift of the James Reed Print Collection “truly transformative.” Explaining its significance for the museum she noted, “Unlike our peer institutions, whose foundational holdings typically comprise rich collections of prints—long an important resource in the teaching of art history in addition to being artworks to display on the walls—Fairfield has lacked a collection of works on paper. Though we have made small strides to rectify this, acquiring a handful of old master and contemporary British prints since our founding seven years ago, this lacuna seemed hopelessly insurmountable. The situation has changed, literally overnight, with the glorious gift of the James M. Reed Collection, which provides an endlessly rich font of marvelous works on paper for both display in the museum and for teaching across multiple disciplines. We are profoundly indebted to James Reed for this truly historic gift, and for the extraordinary generosity of spirit it represents.”
An exhibition celebrating the gift of the James M. Reed Print Collection and featuring some 50 highlights drawn from the full range of old master, 19th-century, German Expressionist, and modern and contemporary prints will open in the museum’s Walsh Gallery on March 14, 2019 and remain on view through June 8. Several programs will be organized in conjunction with the exhibition, including a conversation and printing demonstration with James Reed, and an exhibition publication will be produced. The exhibition and programs are free and open to the public; dates and other information will be posted on the museum’s website in the coming months (fairfield.edu/museum). As a long-term project, the museum plans to catalogue the entire collection as part of the online collections database.
James Reed has taught printmaking as an adjunct professor of fine arts for over 30 years. He studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; San Francisco State University; Tamarind Institute; and the University of New Mexico, and had a curatorial and conservation internship at the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco. He was a curatorial assistant for the print collection at San Francisco State University and is currently Manager and Curator of the Gabor Peterdi International Print Collection at Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Conn. Mr. Reed has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Rockefeller Research Grant. His art has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute Tecnólogico in Monterey, Mexico, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and Goat Shed Gallery in Brooklyn, and he has participated in more than 150 invitational group exhibitions in the United States, Latin America and France.
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The high-quality articles in the Arthropoda collection are handmade in Finland from beginning to finish: Each item is subtly different – no two pieces are identical.
The jewelry is made to last: even the most delicate structures have been designed and made to withstand wear. Some of the parts, such as wings, may bend during use, but this is just as intended. Over time, each item becomes even more unique, taking after its user.
The products are marked in accordance with the legislation on precious metals, with a registered responsibility mark, a fineness mark, year mark and, if possible, a handicraft mark. This means that silver products include the marks PLOP (the goldsmith’s registered responsibility mark), 925 (fineness mark) and I8 (year mark, changes annually) and possibly the Finnish word for handicraft, ‘käsityö’. The shape of the marks for silver products is a rectangle, apart from the handicraft mark, which does not have to be in a certain format.
For gold products, the marks are PLOP, 585 or 750, I8, and ‘käsityö’. The shape of the marks for gold products is an oval.
For further information about the marks and legislation, visit the following websites:
The Association of Finnish Goldsmiths (http://www.suomenkultaseppienliitto.fi/, only in Finnish)
The Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes) (http://www.tukes.fi/en/Branches/Articles-of-precious-metals/)
Inspecta (http://www.inspecta.fi/palvelut/jalomet.php?m=m4)
What do the material markings mean?
The product pages state the materials used for the articles.
Silver alloy is 925-‰ silver, i.e. 925 thousandth parts silver, mixed with copper (this alloy is also known as sterling silver). The alloy is nickel-free.
Yellow gold alloy is 585-‰ gold (also known as 14K gold), i.e. 585 thousandth parts gold, mixed with copper and silver. The alloy is nickel-free.
White gold alloy is 585-‰ palladium white gold (14K). In addition to fine gold, silver and copper, the alloy contains palladium, which gives it its white color. This alloy is, therefore, also nickel-free.
Darkened silver is 925-‰ silver, which has been chemically darkened. The color is a dark grayish black, and it does not stain skin or clothing. The dark color will gradually wear away (scratches, etc.), revealing silver. Such wear is normal, and it only serves to highlight the three-dimensional nature of the arthropods.
The articles are packed in boxes made for this collection, which can be used to store and display the products.
Why silver darkens and other information about jewelry:
For tips on cleaning and other information on jewelry, visit the websites of The Association of Finnish Goldsmiths (in Finnish only) and the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes).
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Mary Fox Herling Papers
The papers of Mary Fox Herling consist largely of personal correspondence with family and friends and reflect to a lesser extent her professional activities with the League for Industrial Democracy, the War Labor Board and the cooperative housing movement.
The cost of processing the Mary Fox Herling papers was underwritten by a gift from the estate of John Herling.
Important subjects in the collection: American Friends for German Freedom Bannockburn Cooperators, Inc. Housing, Cooperative--United States League for Industrial Democracy Refugees--World War, 1939-1945 Socialist Party U.S.A.
Important correspondents in the collection: Austen Albu Mary Blanshard Anna Caples McAlister Coleman George C. Edwards, Jr. Marie Feiler Ruth Fox Ruth Schechter Gold John Herling Kurt Lachmann Jennie Lee Frank Loeb H. L. Mitchell David Stolberg Norman Thomas
Series Description: Series I, Family Correspondence, 1930s-1970s Series II, General Correspondence, 1930s-1970s Series III, Subject Files, 1914-1980
Herling, Mary Fox (Person)
Refer to Walter P. Reuther Library Rules for Use of Archival Materials.
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The wife of John Herling, Mary Fox Herling was a member of the Socialist Party. She worked for the League for Industrial Democracy, the War Labor Board, the Washington Newspaper Guild, and the Group Housing Cooperative which built the Bannockburn Community in Maryland. Her papers are mostly personal correspondence, but also reflect her professional affiliations.
Mary Fox Herling was born in New York City on December 12, 1893 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. After graduation from Vassar College and a year at Oxford Univeristy, she taught first in a private school in Colorado Springs and later in Chicago's Francis Parker School and the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School.
During the 1930s Mary Fox, a member of the Socialist Party, served as executive secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, recruiting field workers, editing its pictorial magazine, The Unemployed, and establishing a series of national lectures and chautauquas. She also established and managed Bleecker Gardens in Greenwich Village, a major conversion of tenements into housing for artists and writers. In the late 1930s she was active in the movement to aid refugees from Hitler's Europe, helping to organize the American Friends for German Freedom.
She moved to Washington, D. C. in 1941 and during World War II worked as an administrator for the cooperative housing section of the War Labor Board, which later became the Federal Public Housing Authority. After the war she served as administrative secretary for the Washington Newspaper Guild and then as president and driving force of Group Housing Cooperative, whose members bought an old golf course in Bethesda, Maryland and built the Bannockburn community.
In 1925 Mary Fox married labor publicist and author Benjamin Stolberg. They had a son, David, divorcing in 1929, and in 1937 she married labor writer John Herling. Mary Fox Herling died in Bethesda, Maryland on November 4, 1978.
Arrangement of the Records
Arranged in 3 series - Series 1 (Boxes 1-5), Series 2 (Boxes 5-7), and Series 3 (Boxes 7-9). Folders are arranged alphabetically.
John Herling Papers
A few photographs of Mary Fox, John Herling, the David Stolberg family and the Austen Albu family have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Department.
Processed by the Walter P. Reuther Library
League for Industrial Democracy
Guide to the Mary Fox Herling Papers
"Mary Fox Herling Papers, Box [#], Folder [#], Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University" http://as.reuther.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1555 Accessed January 19, 2020.
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It was Commissioner Pim Jansonious who set the tone when he stressed the importance of developing a “socially-minded” and “representative” police force that works in partnership with other agencies to protect all people - no matter which community they belong to.
He was speaking to an audience of more than 25 law enforcement officials, decision makers and civil society activists from Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, exploring how the Dutch police work with marginalised communities, including people who use drugs and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The event was hosted by the Alliance within the Partnership to Inspire, Transform and connect the HIV response (PITCH) programme on the fringes of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July.
Arrested for possession of a large amount of marijuana, which he was safeguarding for a friend, Yogi, 39, got a 14-year prison sentence in Bandung prison, Indonesia. Diagnosed with HIV, he now teaches other inmates how to stay healthy in prison. © Vincent Rumahloine/Alliance
Dealing with vulnerable groups
Despite the push to decriminalise drug use and homosexuality in some countries, police forces elsewhere are facing increasing pressures to abandon a public health-based approach when dealing with marginalised groups. At the same time, funding cuts, new crime classifications and an increasing demand for services are driving the police to take a more punitive approach. Yet, this approach can be hugely detrimental, particularly when it impedes work to prevent new HIV infections.
The Dutch police have decided to take a more positive approach. At the event, officers from the Amsterdam Police Department and the Belgian police took the opportunity to discuss with their counterparts from PITCH countries their more nuanced approach to policing, sharing specific examples and pilot studies with participants.
This included their “Top 600” initiative, a programme designed to track and monitor the people who have the most contact with the police and public health services. Working in partnership with more than 40 different agencies and organisations, the Amsterdam police force has devised a series of tailor-made interventions designed to help tackle the underlying challenges faced by the 'top 600'. This person-centred approach means that, instead of immediately being arrested and detained, people are now referred to community-based mental health, treatment, or housing services.
Diversion programmes, which channel people away from prison and towards other services, are also being piloted by police in central Amsterdam, an area with high levels of illegal drug use, homelessness and public disorder. Through the pilot, when a petty crime is committed, a psychiatrist is called to conduct a rapid assessment. The report is then submitted to a public prosecutor who uses the findings to make a sentencing decision. During the pilot study almost 28% of those arrested were using drugs, while 24% had an existing mental health condition. Following the assessment, these people were then connected to the appropriate health services and their sentences reduced or postponed, depending of the severity of their crime.
Challenges to adopting public-health approaches
Participants were keen to understand if and how these approaches could be adapted in their own countries. Some of the challenges they raised included implementing diversion programmes in a setting with no mental health or community-based treatment services to refer people to (Myanmar); health services and prison services working in siloes, and health services not being free at the point of contact (Nigeria); lack of investment in harm reduction and mental health services (Uganda); and stigmatising attitudes by healthcare workers, making them more likely to call the police instead of dealing with a patient’s drug problem (Zimbabwe).
Implementing a more progressive approach can take time. Assistant Commissioner Peter Muyshondt from Belgium - who is a strong advocate against the war on drugs - was refreshingly honest about the challenges facing police forces, including their over-reliance on stereotypes and profiling. Performance metrics that are explicitly linked to number of arrests are also problematic and further restrict a police officer’s ability to take a more public-health based approach. The code of silence within police forces also prevents officers from speaking out and challenging the status quo.
This is true even in Amsterdam, a city that has long had a reputation of being LGBT-friendly, liberal and culturally diverse. One of the ways the Dutch police have attempted to change their operating culture and make themselves more accepting of marginalised groups, is to create a new task force called “Pink in Blue”. This is a specialist unit – most of whom are LGBT themselves – dedicated to building solidarity with and protecting the gay and transgender community.
In Amsterdam the police recognise that it is their duty is to protect and to promote public safety and wellbeing. Rather than ruling with an iron fist and stamping out ‘undesirable’ behaviour, the police are actively working to protect those who cannot protect themselves. This struck a chord with a Zimbabwean parliamentarian, who reflected: “I’m realising there are a lot of people I have failed. We have to rethink how we approach these social issues.”
Finding space within existing laws
Although decriminalisation is often out of reach, there are actions police officers can take to minimise the harm of certain polices. Often this requires individual officers to push the boundaries and look for space within existing legislation. As the director of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mrs Roli Bode-George pointed out, although policy change takes a long time to achieve, law enforcement officers can certainly start taking a more supportive and humane approach, focusing on protecting the vulnerable, rather than cracking down on so-called ‘social evil’.
However, change also requires the police to take a stronger advocacy role. In many cases, as Marc Krupanski from the Open Society Foundation pointed out, it is actually more powerful if the calls for public-health based approaches come from law enforcement than from civil society. In many countries, law enforcement officials hold a lot of power and influence, and they possess a credibility that comes from front line experience.
As Ms Natasha Los from the Amsterdam Police put it: “Prison never helped anyone”.
PITCH is a five-year strategic partnership between the Alliance, Aidsfonds and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The importance of catalytic investment for harm reduction
This briefing shows evidence of the importance of catalytic investment in harm reduction.
Edging closer to equality
2018 has seen momentous progress in many countries on rights for LGBT people, but there are challenges ahead.
GALLERY: Raising the status of women who use drugs in India
WINGS - Women Initiating New Goals for Safety - aims to reduce violence and HIV among women who use drugs in India.
India’s LGBTQ future - the new generation
What does the abolition of India’s homophobic law mean for people living with HIV?
Cast your vote for ‘A blossom pink world’ in UK Charity Film Awards
Alliance enters transgender rights film, 'A blossom pink world' into UK Charity Film Awards 2019
Women and girls in Uganda speak up for right to HIV and SRHR services
Photos by girls and young women, in their diversity, describing how stigma and discrimination prevent them from accessing services.
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Portraits of Mexico
Essays | Autumn 2013
Adriana Zehbrauskas
A photographer explores Mexico’s hopeful future and heavy past.
A vocalist for Banda Unicornio, Julio Cesar Vasquez Rivera, 19, holds his stage costume. Rivera, who lives in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico that has lost many residents to emigration, was planning his first trip to the United States. (October 2007)
Siblings Rosa Maria, 6, Juan Antonio, 1, Yasmin, 17, and Juan Manuel, 14, in their temporary home. The Romero-Dias family—a household of nine, headed by a single mother—would soon move into a new residence designed by Tierra Savia. Based in Ciudad Juárez, a city of 1.5 million across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, Tierra Savia employs Juarezeños living in extreme poverty to build their own eco-friendly houses from dirt. (April 2012)
Micaela Rivera, of Villa de Vázquez, outside Mexico City, and her mother borrowed $3,550 from Compartamos for their homemade-cheese business. Compartamos (“we share” in Spanish) is a commercial microlender that has become one of Mexico’s most profitable banks. Today, its average customer pays a yearly interest rate of about 80 percent. (February 2008)
Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman and perhaps the world’s richest person, with a net worth of $73 billion, poses in his Mexico City gallery amid his private art collection. (June 2007)
Yaihr Castillo García, 8, plays outside his family’s home in Ciudad Juárez. His sister, Brenda Berenice, went missing while in a downtown neighborhood. She is one of hundreds of women and girls who have disappeared in the area since 1993. Some bodies have been found, many bearing marks of rape and torture. (September 2012)
Fernando Ramírez Rangel, chef and owner of Maria del Alma, a restaurant in the fashionable Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City, specializes in cuisine from rainforest-covered Tabasco, a southeastern state on the Gulf of Mexico. (January 2007)
A model waits backstage at a fashion show organized by Amor por Juárez (Love for Juárez), a group that hopes to revitalize the city through the arts. (April 2012)
In Culiacán, Sinaloa, a city on the Gulf of California notorious for drug-related violence, women dance in a cemetery during a birthday party for a man who died the year before, at age 35. (April 2013)
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS is a freelance photojournalist from Brazil. Based in Mexico City for the past nine years, she contributes regularly to The New York Times, and her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Glamour Magazine, The Guardian, and Paris Match. She is an instructor for Foundry Photojournalism Workshops, which holds photojournalism courses in developing nations.
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Longwood Central School District » Community » Longwood Journey » Time Periods » American Revolution » Isaac Smith
From the book The Refugees of 1766 from Long Island to Connecticut, by Fredric Mather, 1913
SMITH ISAAC 4 (Richard.3,2, Maj. Richard 1-Bull; or Isaac 5, Epenetus 4, Job 3, 2, Maj. Richard 1-Bull)-From Brookhaven to Derby. On Feb. 2, 1780, he petitioned the Conn. Gen. Assembly, stating that he had been captured, but escaped, and asking leave to bring his wife, family and effects from L. I. As he was well recommended, the petition was granted. (E. 26-29) Rivington-Aug. 28, 1779; On Aug. 14 about 20 Rebels, at Coram, made Prisoners of Isaac Smith and five of his sons. Isaac Smith escaped." (Bayles' "Suffolk Co.") He appears in a list of Prisoners. ("N.Y.in theRevolution-Spt.," P- 43)
He signed the Association, in 1775. (H. 20, 26, 27) Another of the name, from Smithtown, signed (H- 32); and still another, in 1776, from Queens Co. (H. 9)
Men of this name served in Col. Smith's Regt. (G, 25); in the 1st and 4th of the Line (G- 43, 48); in Weissenfels' Levies TG. 57 ; in the 2d Westchester (G- 78); and in Conn. (G. 98) There were numerous men of the name, some of them Officers, in the Dutchess, Orange and Westchester Regts.
Census of 1776: Males-above 50 years, j; above 16, 1; under x6, 2. Females-above 16, 2; under 16, 2. (A. 51)
According to tradition Isaac Smith was taken prisoner by the British and escaped by wearing women's clothing earning him the nickname "Petticoat Smith"
Isaac Smith had two sons who also were patriots to the American cause. Joshua joined his father in making whale boat raids from Connecticut to Long Island. While His other son, Isaac, joined Capt. Daniel Grifiing's Company.
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Building an Investment and Financing System for the Belt and Road Initiative - by City of London
This report is jointly produced by the People’s bank of China and the city of London corporation. The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is internationally recognised for its principles of conegotiation, co-building and co-sharing. The BRI drew inspiration from the concept of Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road which is a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013.
Financial support is critical to the implementation of the BRI. The countries along the BRI are mostly developing countries whose key projects, including infrastructure projects, are plagued by issues such as a lack of construction capability and funding. Therefore, these countries have greater demands for mid to long-term financing. The international finance community has previously offered concessional financing, including preferential loans, to these countries, which inevitably required financial subsidies and governmental support. This translated into greater limitations and a lack of sustainability, which would hardly satisfy the demands of the construction projects as part of the BRI, as these projects require substantial funds over a long period of time. It is therefore necessary to mobilise countries along the BRI to build a BRI investment and financing system that is market-oriented, sustainable and mutually beneficial. This paper will explore in detail the rationale for a BRI investment and financing system to comprise the following five features in order to expedite the building of a network of financial institutions and services:
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Ghanaian community gathers to mourn 6 lost in Belmont fire
Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:54 PM EST
Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:05 PM EST
BELMONT -
Community members and dignitaries gathered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Saturday night to mourn the loss of six Ghanaians who lost their lives in the Prospect Avenue fire.
The Ghanaian community said it was shaken by the loss after the Belmont apartment went up in flames, killing 13.
The six immigrants were identified as Gabriel Yaw Sarkookie, a 48-year-old Uber driver trying to provide for his family in Ghana; Solomon Donkor, 49, and his 12- and 17-year-old children, William and Hannah; Justice Opoku, 54, also couldn't make it out of the building; and 28-year-old Army National Guard soldier Emmanuel Mensah, who has been labeled a hero for helping save nearly half a dozen people from the fire before losing his life.
Mensah's father attended Saturday's service and spoke to News 12 about his son.
"He's the kind of guy that always wants to help people out…I think he did what he was supposed to do and I miss him a lot," he said.
Funeral arrangements of Mensah have not yet been finalized. Justice Opoku and Gabriel Sarkodie will have a joint funeral on Jan. 20.
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Overcrowding in County Jail
Federal Government Looks to Toughen DUI Limit
Court System Gets Hacked
Marijuana law jeopardizes all pot prosecutions
Recent DUI's Highlight Problems
Overcrowding in the Kitsap County Jail is forcing officials to change the standards about who stays behind bars and who gets released. Anyone arrested in Kitsap County is still booked into jail, but depending on the suspected crimes, some are being released without bail. The jail can operate with 421 inmates, but the population is currently exceeding that number. On Friday, the jail was 11 percent over maximum capacity. Records have shown that inmates are staying longer. The courts are seeing an increase in persons coming through there facing sentencing, so it's a matter of these two aspects that are causing this. In response, the chief of corrections made some changes to the jail's intake standards. Right now, the jail is booking and holding inmates for felony crimes, felony drug charges and domestic violence. But officials are releasing people suspected of nonviolent crimes, including misdemeanor theft, driving with a suspended license and DUI. The overcrowding also comes as the jail deals with budget issues and limited staff. But officals said the changes at the jail were made with safety in mind. "We recognize that fact that's why we're only being less restrictive with regard to crimes against property or civil violations, we're not talking about crimes against persons," officials stated. Officials are looking at the jail population every day, so the standards will change as the number of inmates decrease. If you or a loved one is charged with a criminal offense in Washington State, it is imperative that you seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal defense attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
Federal accident investigators are weighing a recommendation that states reduce their threshold for drunken driving from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05, a standard that has been shown to substantially reduce highway deaths in other countries. The lower threshold was one of a series of recommendations aimed at reducing drunken driving made by the National Transportation Safety Board's staff in a report presented at a meeting of the board. New approaches are needed to combat drunken driving, which claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed each year on U.S highways - a level of carnage that that has remained stubbornly consistent for the past decade and a half, the board said. Dramatic progress was made in the 1980s through the mid-1990s after the minimum drinking age was raised to 21 and the legally-allowable maximum level of drivers' blood alcohol content was lowered to .08, the report said. Today, drunken driving claims about 10,000 lives a year, down from over 18,000 in 1982. At that time, alcohol-related fatalities accounted for about 40 percent of highway deaths. But progress in cutting the rate further has largely stagnated, and board members have called for a fresh approach. Technology may be part of the solution, and anti-drunken driving forces have talked of turning cars into a part of the solution. In December, the board called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the auto industry to step up their research into technology for use in all vehicles that can detect whether a driver has elevated blood alcohol without the driver breathing into a tube or taking any other action. Drivers with elevated levels would be unable to start their cars, but the technology is still years away. A combination of approaches will be needed to effectively drive down fatalities, researchers told the board at a two-day forum on drunk driving last year. Reducing the blood alcohol limit below .08 could save over 7,000 lives a year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has estimated. Australia saw a 12 percent decline in alcohol-related deaths as a share of overall traffic fatalities when it lowered its legal limit to .05. The limit in most of Europe is also .05, and in some countries it's as low as .02. A woman weighing less than 120 pounds can reach .05 after just one drink. A man weighing up to 160 pounds reaches .05 after two drinks. A recommendation made by researchers last year has been to expand the use of alcohol ignition interlock devices by drivers convicted of driving under the influence. The devices usually require a driver to breathe into a tube, much like the breathalyzers police ask suspected drunken drivers to use. Expanded use of high visibility checkpoints by police has also been recommended Getting a DUI has never been more serious. Now more than ever it is imperative that a person charged with DUI in Washington State retain a qualified Seattle DUI attorney or a qualified Bellevue DUI lawyer in order to best minimize potential legal consequences and protect their rights and interests. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified Seattle DUI lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those charged with DUI in Western Washington. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the DUI allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible.
The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers may have been accessed during the data breach of its public website, officials said Thursday. Court officials said they have only confirmed that 94 Social Security numbers were obtained and they don't believe the larger number was compromised, but they wanted to alert the public to the possibility as a precaution. The breach happened due to vulnerability in an Adobe Systems Inc. software program, ColdFusion, that has since been patched, court officials said. The hack happened sometime after September but wasn't caught until February. Telephone and email messages were left for Adobe representatives seeking comment. When court officials were first alerted to the breach, they believed all of the information accessed was public record, and didn't think confidential information was taken, but following an investigation by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the broader breach was confirmed in April, said courts spokeswoman Wendy Ferrell. Court officials said a law enforcement agency also investigated the case but they declined to say which one. They said the investigation was concluded and there was no information on who might be to blame. Keeling said he didn't believe the courts were a specific target. Ferrell said that once the breach was confirmed, it took additional time to go through the files and increase security to the website, which is why there was a lag in notifying the public. The 94 known names breached are being contacted by letter, she said. The rest of the people who are potentially affected come from a defined group: - Those booked into a city or county jail within the state of Washington between September 2011 and December 2012 may have had their name and Social Security number accessed. - Names and driver's license numbers may have been obtained from people who received a DUI citation in Washington state between 1989 through 2011, had a traffic case in Washington filed or resolved in a district or municipal court between 2011 and 2012, or had a superior court criminal case in Washington state that was filed against them or resolved between 2011 and 2012. Keeling acknowledged that confidential information should have been kept in a different area, "and now they are." "I can say nothing more than it was an oversight on our part," he said. Keeling said officials have added a number of additional security measures, including isolating anything that could be sensitive into more protected areas, implementing code to prevent hackers from getting to other parts of a server, and new encryption rules. Ferrell said no one from the Administrative Office of the Courts or any court in Washington state will be asking for personal information over the phone or via email related to the breach. State officials have set up a website and hotline to answer public questions about the break: www.courts.wa.gov/databreach and 1-800-448-5584. If you or a loved one is charged with a marijuana related criminal offense in Washington State it is imperative that you seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
Prosecutors and crime lab scientists say a little-noticed provision in Washington's new law legalizing recreational marijuana has jeopardized their ability to go after any pot crimes at all, and they're calling for an immediate fix in the Legislature. The group is suggesting a change in the legal definition of marijuana, and they have the support of the Seattle lawyer who drafted the initiative. The problem stems from a part of the law meant to distinguish marijuana from industrial hemp, which is grown for its fiber. The law defines marijuana as having more than 0.3 percent of a certain intoxicating compound, called delta-9 THC. Scientists with the state crime lab say that often, even potent marijuana can have less than 0.3 percent. It's only when heated or burned that another compound, THC acid, turns into delta-9 THC and the pot achieves its full potency. "When you smoke it, it would be very potent, but before that, it would be considered hemp under the law," said Erik Nielson, standards and accountability manager for the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab's Forensic Lab Services Bureau. That means that if people get caught with more than an ounce of marijuana - the amount adults are allowed to have under the law - or if police bust illicit grow operations, prosecutors might not be able to prove the plants or material seized meets the definition of marijuana. Although the lab could analyze the delta-9 THC content by burning it, that would essentially tamper with the evidence seized in any case. Another option would be to buy expensive new equipment that can test for the compound without burning the plant. But money is tight, and the lab would have to spend months developing protocols for using that method. Instead, the prosecutors and crime lab scientists worked to draft legislation to fix the problem by changing the definition of marijuana. The measure, introduced Tuesday, would define marijuana as parts of the cannabis plant containing more than 0.3 percent by dry weight of combined delta-9 THC and THC acid. The bill is due to have a public hearing in a House committee Thursday. Washington voters passed Initiative 502 last fall, joining Colorado as the first states to legalize recreational marijuana for adults over 21, and to allow the sale of taxed pot at state-licensed stores. Under Washington law, voter-approved initiatives cannot be amended within two years after passage unless lawmakers approve it by a two-thirds vote in both houses. The proposed fix for the marijuana definition is not considered controversial. It has the support of Alison Holcomb, who drafted the initiative. If you or a loved one is charged with a crime in Washington State it is imperative that you (1) assert your right to remain silent, and (2) seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyer that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
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As the push continues for tougher DUI laws, two recent cases are drawing attention to repeat offenders. On Tuesday, Puyallup police say they got a repeat DUI offender off the streets when they arrested James Door. Tuesday's DUI arrest was Door's fifth, and investigators say he was so impaired when they pulled him over that he had trouble getting out of his car. After the arrest, Door refused to give a breath sample. "Essentially, the offender had already done time on a prior DUI arrest and felt he had nothing to lose and it didn't mean anything to him so he wasn't going to cooperate," said Capt. Scott Engle with the Puyallup Police Department. Engle then obtained a search warrant for a mandatory blood draw so it could be used later as evidence. "It's taking a serious, serious problem off the road that can impact innocent people in a moment's notice," he said. Door's arrest comes at the same time some lawmakers are proposing to tighten the state's DUI laws. Among other changes, the laws would require an arrest on the first offense and would set mandatory minimum jail time for second and third offenses. "We do think the laws need to be tougher here in Washington," said Dan Schulte, whose parents were killed and his wife and son seriously injured when they were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood five weeks ago . In his first public statement since the crash, Schulte said things need to change. "A tragedy like this, it's really indescribable," he said. "It's something that is preventable and it's hit our family harder than it has most and it can happen to anyone." He now wants to help make sure no other family has to suffer like his. "All of us need to do what we can to make a difference, and we're hoping this horrible event can result in some positive outcomes," he said. Schulte's wife and infant son are both recovering in the hospital, but doctors say their road to recovery will be long. The suspected drunk driver, Mark Mullan, is facing two counts each of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. If you or a loved one is faced with a DUI charge in Western Washington, you deserve the assistance of a reputable and qualified Seattle DUI attorney who will relentlessly defend your case. You deserve a Seattle DUI lawyer who has an intimate understanding of Washington DUI laws and the legal issues that could win your case. You deserve a Seattle DUI attorney who is not afraid to stand up against the prosecution and aggressively fight for your rights and interests. SQ Attorneys is the right Western Washington DUI law firm for the job. Call for a free initial consultation – (206) 441.0900 (Seattle); (425) 998-8384 (Eastside) – it will be the best decision you make all day.
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Fitzgerald Gives Talks and Publishes on Her Recent Book Zimmerman Delivers Yom HaShoah Lecture, Interviewed by NBN
Levine Lectures Across The US
By yunews On May 6, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently delivered a number of lectures to various communities throughout the United States. In March, Levine spoke for the Ma’ayan Institute in Brookline, Mass., at their Yom Iyyun on the Five Megillot. She was the keynote speaker, delivering a lecture on “Poetry, Prophecy and Polemic: Rashi’s Commentary on the Song of Songs,” and also spoke on the topic, “A Guide to Being a Complete Jew: R. Obadiah Sforno’s Commentary on Kohelet.”
In April, Levine served as a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Valley Village, California, where she spoke on the following topics: “The Na’aseh Ve-Nishma Jew: The Italian Renaissance and R. Obadiah Sforno’s Conception of the Ideal Jew”, “The Blessing of Light and the Promise of Redemption” and “Devorah in the Book of Judges: A Woman Ahead of Her Times.” In addition, she gave lecture at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills sponsored by the Orthodox Union’s Women’s Torah Network on the topic “The Road to Redemption: All It Takes are Righteous Women.”
Levine was also hosted as a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Mekor Habracha, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, in addition to her lecture on Devorah, she spoke on “From Darkness to Light, From Slavery to Redemption”, “The Symbolic Ritual of the Paschal Lamb: Israel’s Ticket to Freedom” and “The Ten Plagues: Miracle vs. Nature?” In her own community of Kew Gardens Hills, New York, Levine gave a pre-Pesach shiur on Shabbat Hagadol at Congregation Ohel Yizhak about “The Road to Redemption: All It Takes are Righteous Women.”
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Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project: Interview with Kerry Woodward
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Kerry Woodward spent her youth moving about the United States with her family. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a homemaker. She went to elementary school in Ohio and junior and senior high schools in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Following graduation from Oberlin College, Woodward spent a year living in New York and then moved to Atlanta where she received her Montessori training. She lived in Minneapolis during the 1970s and was living in California at the time of the interview. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Woodward discusses her realization of being a lesbian and her process of coming to that realization. She speaks of her involvement with the DFL and friendship with Steve Endean. She also tells of her involvement with the Lesbian Feminist Organizing Committee, and against the repeal of the St. Paul Human Rights amendment. In the interview, Woodward compares the 1970s gay communities in Minneapolis to that in San Francisco.
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21 pages transcript
01:34:15 running time
Interviewee: Woodward, Kerry
Interviewer: Paulsen, Scott
Made in: Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
Creation: 10/18/1993
Oral History - Interview
AV1994.173.8 (Accession Number)
Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project'
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YAKOV SMIRNOFF- February 5, 2007
GUY MACPHERSON: Have you been to Vancouver before?
YAKOV SMIRNOFF: I came here several years back, probably 15 years ago. I think I was playing here at a club. That was kind of early in my career. And now I'm back.
GM: What kept you?
YS: I didn't hear from you so I figured nobody wants me here. And then I heard about your interview so I said, "Hey, I'm coming."
GM: Excellent. I have that kind of pull.
YS: Yes.
GM: I first saw you, I think, on Johnny Carson.
YS: Could have been, yes.
GM: Was that your first national TV exposure?
YS: Prior to Johnny Carson I did a couple of other things. I did the movie Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams and I did several Night Courts.
GM: You got those before you were on The Tonight Show?
YS: Yes. What was happening, the Carson people - the producer there - didn't really see me being on that show. And then I did a Miller Lite commercial and Carson saw the Miller Lite commercial, thought it was funny, and said, "Why don't we have him on?" And at that point the producer said, "Of course. We were planning soon."
GM: So you had a profile, then, as a comic before Moscow on the Hudson?
YS: Yes. And I was a comedian in Russia prior to that. So when I came to the United States I didn't speak English, so that was a little obstacle. But I eventually learned the language and little by little started working clubs. And probably I was here [Vancouver] - I don't know, I don't remember the exact date - prior to The Tonight Show.
GM: Did you also teach art in Russia?
YS: I taught art for a while in Russia before immigrating to the United States.
GM: And that was in 1977?
YS: Uh-huh.
GM: And a comedian. I would imagine deciding to emigrate when your job is telling jokes in Russian...
YS: Was not a popular choice.
GM: Was it difficult back then to get out?
YS: Very difficult. It was a very daring thing. I used to work in cruise ships on the Black Sea as an entertainer. I call them the Love Barge. I met a lot of Americans and that's where I kind of got the idea that there is more to life than being in Russia. Because they told us that we have freedom of speech and all of that. But Americans told me that they have freedom after they speak, which is a nice little feature. So that kinda intrigued me. And so I took a daring kind of a move and decided with my parents I said, "You know what? Let's give it a try." It took a long time. It took two years for us. And it was, like you guessed it, it was not a popular thing to do. They fire you from work pretty much. They turn people against you. So it wasn't a great thing.
GM: But you did it through the proper channels?
YS: I did it legally, yes. And the American government at that time - Carter was president - he wanted the Soviets to show human rights. Because they wanted wheat from the United States so we were basically exchanged for some wheat. So now when I see Wonderbread truck, I salute.
GM: What was your act like as a comic in Russia? You couldn't do the comparisons because you didn't know any comparisons.
YS: No. It was very safe. What they did at that time, they would censor your material. The government controlled everything. So once a year they censor your material and you could not talk about politics, government, sex and religion. The rest was fine. They had topics like buttons and fish and mother-in-law kind of stuff.
GM: Was your life there decent?
YS: Comparatively, I would say yes. But I lived in a communal apartment with my parents until we left with nine other families. But they told me I was having a good life.
GM: (laughs) So you believed them.
YS: Yeah, I believed them. We had no phone, no car, but I had the opportunity to travel. Compared to other people I was better off.
GM: Were your parents both on board with coming over?
YS: Mom was the last one to join. My dad was very much for it, even before I was. He was listening to Voice of America even though it was forbidden. In the middle of the night he would sit there with the short wave radio and listen. So he was very much encouraging us to get out. But mom was very cautious.
GM: What did he do there?
YS: He was a building construction engineer and inventor. He invented a bunch of stuff. A lot of it wasn't working, but one invention worked well. It was a device that measured the integrity of concrete. And in Russia, concrete was a national flower. The Berlin wall was one of the displays. So they paid him some money for that and that was enough for us to get some tickets to get out.
GM: Was the transition difficult for you or for your parents?
YS: It was harder for them because they're older than me. I don't know if that's an obvious thing. But for me it was exciting. Scary but exciting. For them it was a little bit more scary because they lived all their life there with all their friends and relatives. And the process, they made it very difficult when people wouldn't talk to you because you're a traitor and they announce it on television that people who leave are traitors. So it made it difficult, to say the least. But on the big picture, I'm lucky I did that.
GM: Have you been back?
YS: Yeah. Yeah, I've gone back several times. Everything changed dramatically.
GM: For the better?
YS: The majority, yes. I think there's a lot of kind of anarchy in some ways because people who are sort of black market people, they made it big and now it's legal, and people who were poor are still poor. But at least then they felt equal. Now they know they're not.
GM: How's your Russian? Have you lost it?
YS: It's perfect. My mom's still alive so I talk to her in Russian. I have some accent. When I speak to people from Russia they say, "Oh, you have an American accent." But it takes me two, three, four days or so and then I get back to normal.
GM: Now living in Missouri you must have a southern accent.
YS: I have a hillbilly accent. Absolutely. I was learning English for twenty years and I moved to the Ozarks and I have to start all over again.
GM: The culture shock of moving to Missouri must have been greater than when you moved from the Soviet Union.
YS: (laughs) You're right, you're right. In some ways, it is. On the other hand, it's safer. It's a nicer environment where you have your own theatre and you have people coming to you. So it's really something I could never imagine having.
GM: How many shows a year do you do there?
YS: About 200 shows a year. I have 2000 seats and it's pretty full most of the time.
GM: Do you constantly change the show from season to season?
YS: We have some big production numbers so you normally get three or four years out of it. In terms of my standup, I change it as much as I can to keep it fresh. But people enjoy seeing certain things and you've got to give them your greatest hits. That's what they come for.
GM: Smirnoff is a stage name, is it?
YS: Yes. Used to be Jack Daniels.
GM: (laughs) Did you change it because it was the vodka?
YS: Yes. I tried to figure out what would be a name that Americans knew. They knew Krushchev but that wasn't a good association. And they knew Brezhnev and all that. But they had a smile on their face when they heard Smirnoff. And I also was a bartender when I started in America. That was one of my first jobs.
GM: Where were you?
YS: In New York. That's where I kind of decided that Smirnoff is a good name.
GM: I've heard that even if people are really funny in their own language, it's much more difficult for them to be funny in their new language.
YS: I think I was very determined. I tell people I locked myself in my room and I watched TV for three months straight, and then I realized it was a Spanish station. But I was very driven and comedy was really important to me so I definitely wanted to learn. And I still have an accent but in terms of understanding of humour, working in the Comedy Store I was blessed with working with people like Robin Williams, David Letterman, Billy Crystal, Jay Leno. All of those guys were coming up at that time. So in a way I couldn't have asked for a better... I didn't even realize how lucky I was at that time.
GM: Were any of these guys like your mentors?
YS: Oh, absolutely. Robin, we were making Moscow on the Hudson and I was helping him with Russian and he was helping me understand things about American comedy. Bill Cosby was very influential. Carson. All of those people were very helpful.
GM: That was a good movie, by the way.
YS: Yeah, it was a fun movie. And it kind of started my career.
GM: A lot of your material these days is based on relationships. In the past, it was more Soviet versus American way of life.
YS: Also a kind of relationship, huh?
GM: Yeah, yeah.
YS: It was just more global.
GM: Did you have mixed feelings about the fall of the Soviet empire?
YS: Yes. When the Soviet empire fell I thought it was very inconsiderate of them to do this to me. Not even a phone call.
GM: They were just getting back at you for moving away.
YS: I think so. I think so. I mean, at least they could have said, "Okay, get ready. Your mortgage is gonna be the same, and your income is going to plummet." But it was actually one of the best things that happened to the world and to me, as well, because I needed it. I was too comfortable in that environment. I was doing Vegas, Atlantic City and was living high on the hog. And when this happened it helped me to reevaluate and see what is it I really want to do. And this new direction that I took I think is so much bigger than anything I'd ever done.
GM: In importance?
YS: For me, yes. And I think as a legacy, that's what I would like to leave for my children and grandchildren. You see, what happened here, I was blessed with a sense of humour and ability to be funny and make millions of people laugh. I took it for granted but I didn't really understand it empirically. I didn't understand what's funny, how am I doing it? I was just naturally funny. And most comedians probably don't even ever think of that. But when I started tracing it, I realized that laughter has a very specific formula. It has to do with two ingredients that most people overlook. It's kind of like Yin and Yang. There's somebody who creates laughter and somebody who laughs. You need two of those to create laughter. And in a relationship, exactly the same thing needs to be there, too. There has to be somebody who creates and somebody who appreciates otherwise it's not working. So it was like one of those epiphanies. And once I realized it and started tracing it, I realized that in the beginning of the relationship everybody laughs. And I have polled over three million people in my theatre and nobody remembers a good healthy relationship without laughter. In the beginning. And then it goes away. Little by little. And nobody knows why. And that's what happened in my marriage.
GM: Familiarity breeds contempt.
YS: There you go. In the beginning you're starting something and you're putting your effort into it but you didn't know what you were doing to begin with because the hormones are sponsoring you at that time. And then they check out and you're on your own. And you don't know what you did right or wrong. Every fairy tale ends with "happily ever after" but they don't tell you how. I believe I've figured that out.
GM: When did you figure it out?
YS: It's a process. It started right after my separation and divorce. But I'm tenacious. Just like I wanted to learn the language and become a comedian and, like you said, it seems not quite normal for somebody to come to another country and learn the language and figure out show business and Hollywood and make movies with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams and perform at the White House. All of the things that I chose to do, I did. But something that was so important to me, to create laughter in my marriage, and love, I couldn't make it work. So I failed. And that energy that I felt was so powerful to go after this and figure this out. So it started right at that point.
GM: How many years ago was that?
YS: Eight years. Then I went to college and got my Masters degree in psychology at an Ivy League university [Pennsylvania] and I just kept digging and digging. Now I teach at two universities: Missouri State and Drury University in Springfield. And the class is called 'Living Happily Ever Laughter'. And it changes people's lives. They're just blown away by this.
GM: You've figured it out but can you or your students put it into practice?
YS: Absolutely. Yes. Like anything new, like driving stick shift or typing, if you don't know how all of it takes practice. But what's amazing is that once they get it, it's so simple. They can implement it immediately. And then it's up to them, like anything else, whether they stick with it or not.
GM: People laugh at humour often because it's something fresh and new and something they hadn't thought of before. But if you're in a relationship for years and years, it's not fresh and new. You know the person inside and out.
YS: The secret here is not that laughter creates love; it's that love creates laughter. So what I'm teaching is that there is a formula of communicating and that formula brings the laughter. It's not the jokes, it's not your timing. It's about your intent in the relationship. I tell a story in my workshop. One of the things that changed the world was Reagan and Gorbachev meeting. Those were people who had great senses of humour. At that time, I was invited a lot to the White House so when Reagan was going to meet with Gorbachev, the head speech writer for Reagan called me and asked me if I would write some jokes for the summit because Reagan wanted to do a speech in the Kremlin in front of all the Russian politicians. And I'm thinking, if this doesn't work, I don't have any countries to go to! So but I did write the jokes and they used them in the speech. And that summit was crucial because after that the world started to change. I was friends with the interpreter who was in the room with Gorbachev and Reagan and I said to him, "What happened there that so dramatically changed the world?" And he said at first they were butting heads, Reagan and Gorbachev. They were both in the thinking modes. I call it thinking and feeling modes. The thinking mode is when you're all in your head and you're thinking how to create something. And the feeling mode is when people laugh and they feel good. So you need two ingredients, each person in a complementary mode. So Reagan and Gorbachev were both in their thinking mode, telling each other how to deal with the problems of their respective countries. And then Reagan, he said, got fed up. He got up and he headed for the door. And before he opened the door, he turned around and he smiled at Gorbachev and said, "My name is Ronnie. Can I call you Mischa? Let's play." And he told him a funny joke and it shifted Gorbachev into laughing. And then they connected and that's how the Berlin Wall came down.
GM: Wow. And you had a small role in it.
YS: A tiny role, but it's not even that. It's about understanding that role. So when I teach the class or what I'm going to be doing here at the seminar, they have an opportunity to start seeing when they're in a thinking mode or a feeling mode and they can change it depending on where they want to be. I teach them how to do it. What do preachers or sales people do at the beginning?
GM: They lighten the mood, ease tensions.
YS: They tell a joke. What they're doing is they're positioning themselves saying, "I'm going to be in a thinking mode, thinking how you feel. And if you're laughing, you're saying you like me the way I think." The same thing happens in a relationship. Husband, wife, they fight when they're in the similar mode. When they're in opposite modes, or complementary mode, laughter is there. No problem. But when they get into their heads or their hearts and not understand where the other person is, they clash.
GM: So when you point this out to the people...
YS: I make it funny. I tell them you learn and laugh your Yak-off.
GM: Do they have little exercises?
YS: Absolutely. Most of the time they spend practicing with each other and understanding that. Women's laughter is what men are after. They're the audience most of the time. A lot of research explains this phenomenon, that men are very much - and that was my graduate work - that men are very much interested in making women laugh. Women are interested in men who can make them laugh. So when people say they want someone with a good sense of humour, they mean two different things. There's research with 10 million people that says the number-one desired quality is a sense of humour. After financial security, education, even communication skills, they say they want a sense of humour. But what they're not realizing is they want two complementary opposite things. The men want somebody who will laugh at their jokes and women want somebody who can make them laugh, but they don't realize it. Once they realize it, and start seeing it everywhere, then they can focus on what it represents. And it represents a bunch of other qualities that they're not aware they're looking for. Like a good sense of humour in a guy is a sign of intelligence and creativity.
GM: Not everybody does have a good sense of humour, so are they doomed to a life alone?
YS: I don't think so. I think it's just one other measurement. If they have other qualities that are desirable... Most people laugh if you're funny. Most people. There might be one percent or two percent that are totally just not there. But if it's 99 percent that are laughing, they have a good sense of humour.
GM: I was just thinking that if it's the guy, whose role you say is to make the woman laugh, and he doesn't have that ability...
YS: But it's not... Here's the key. It's not about creating a joke; it's about understanding how a woman feels. That's where the rubber meets the road because the guys who will crack jokes that are inappropriate, they could be funny jokes, but you see women roll their eyes and they're going, "I don't want to be around this guy." But the guy who understands how a woman feels and can tune in to her feelings, that's the guy who will make women laugh.
GM: Has this helped you in your new relationships?
YS: Dramatically. Not only in my romantic relationships, but it helps me in my relationship with my kids, relationships with my employees. I understand which mode I'm in and then I try to position myself in the complementary mode with them. And the language is what I teach in this workshop seminar. It's very simple. All you need to do, the person who is in the thinking mode, they respond to the word 'think'. So when you talk to them you say, "What do you think about that?" And the person who is in the feeling mode, you ask them how they feel. And if they identify, if they say "I feel stressed, I feel frustrated", you know, then, how to talk with them. It's like Gorbachev and Reagan. Reagan didn't tell Gorbachev what he was doing. He just did it. And it turned around the whole thing. They could have been launching nuclear missiles if that didn't work.
GM: This seminar is for singles, aged 25 to 40. But you say this works in any relationship. So you don't need to be single. You could be married or use it in business.
YS: The reason I'm holding it for singles is because the name of the workshop is 'Let Laughter Lead You To Love'. And I don't think married people need to do that! I believe you can use laughter as a gauge not only in how your relationship is doing but who you want to attract in a relationship. That's why I wanted to specifically offer it before Valentine's Day to singles because they may use that immediately. There's going to be a lot of people there and they can mingle and practice it looking for the right person based on laughter and smiles and the joy they can create with that technique.
GM: Do you ever have people hook up at these seminars?
YS: I do, yes. I have people connect and stay together, or if it's married couples, they have improved their relationships so much based on this simple formula. I'll give you an example. A friend of mine called me yesterday. I was teaching at Drury College and she was helping me with my class. And her longtime boyfriend, they'd been having some challenges prior to this information coming their way. And she called me yesterday morning and she said, "I gotta tell you something. This was just so amazing. My boyfriend drove an hour, left me a message under my windshield wiper that said, 'Hurry home, sweetheart, there's a man waiting for you.'" And she didn't expect it, obviously. Branson is about an hour away, but he drove an hour there to leave her that message. And she said, "I couldn't drive fast enough home." And she said, "I'm so grateful to you." All I did for them was to explain that if you want to have this passion and laughter, all you need to do is to think how she feels. So he put his thinking cap on and kept thinking of different things to do for her to make her feel good. And they'd been in a relationship for twelve years. And she was just so excited that he knew what to do to get her excited. Obviously they had a very good evening.
GM: Is it possible for people to change? People get set in their ways.
YS: I think so. This formula can help people totally change because it's very, very simple. Men normally don't know. When we say "I do", we don't because we don't know what to do. Nobody gave us an instruction. My thought when I was getting married was my quest ends when I catch the girl. On the wedding day, once we're married, everything will live happily ever after. And that's all I need to know because no one said anything else. And the only other information we're getting is after people get in trouble and they're already unhappy. But in the middle, nobody's filling that gap. And I'm suggesting that laughter is that gauge. You know when the coal miners used to go in the mines and they didn't have any equipment to detect carbon monoxide, they would bring a canary with them. And if the canary was singing, they knew everything was fine. And if it stopped, they knew they were in trouble. So laughter, I believe, is that canary in the relationship.
GM: Interesting analogy. What do you think the biggest mistake people make in relationships is?
YS: The biggest challenge right now, in my opinion, in western society, is this: There's a 57 percent divorce rate. There's 120 million single people in the United States alone. The reason it is, when you're in the same mode, you repel just like magnets do. When I went to school I was able to learn that there's a lot of new information coming out with CAT scans and MRI's saying that we are genetically different in certain ways. Women are prone to feel first and then they think, and men are prone to think first and then they feel. So in the beginning of the relationship, we're kind of doped up for about a year with hormones and other new hormones that people didn't even know before like oxytocin, dopamine and things like that. And we do things right in that honeymoon stage of a relationship. It's always there. But then the hormones wear off and because society wants us in a thinking mode - we go to work and we're thinking and making deals and all that - and when we come home we're in the same mode. And you get into this, "Where do you want to go to eat?" "I dunno. Where do you wanna go to eat?" "I dunno." And you get those little challenges that grow into bigger challenges. To create laughter you need to have two complementary entities. Have you ever tried to tickle yourself?
GM: It's impossible.
YS: It's impossible, right? But somebody else can tickle you. That's how basic it is. You need people in opposite modes: one to be tickled and one to tickle. But if you have both people trying to do the same thing, it doesn't work.
GM: It's all very interesting and serious stuff.
YS: Very.
GM: But your seminar is being held at a comedy club. And people, of course, know you as a comedian.
YS: They will learn things that will make them laugh for the whole time. When I talk about things that make us different. For example, women's eyes are designed totally different from men's eyes. Women have wide peripheral vision because when we were hunter/gatherers, men had to get the animals so they developed tunnel vision. And women developed peripheral vision because they stayed with children and watched for the predators. So when we're in a social situation, if the woman wants to check out another guy, she doesn't have to turn her head. Men, we have to turn our head to look so that's how we get caught. Women's eyes by nature are designed like those wide-angle mirrors on the side of the car. That's why to women some objects appear smaller than they really are.
GM: (laughs)
YS: And women are more intuitive. They can read between the lines and they want men to read between the lines. We can't even colour between the lines! So I interact with jokes and humour. And the presentations and the questionnaires I give to them all have humorous punchlines. Laughter is a serious matter but it's very much an entertaining workshop. My goal is to pass on this information because I am personally so excited by this. My mission statement is "to experience happiness and teach it to the world with passion through comedy and sensitivity." So I'm making it very fun and interesting but mainly this information has to go out there because there are too many unhappy people.
GM: Could also do this within the framework of your standup?
YS: Absolutely. I do, but when I do, I have to have a two-hour show and my whole second act is about relationships. And it's all standup and very funny. I did a Broadway show, actually, in 2003. It was called "As Long as We Both Shall Laugh". And that was all funny stuff. But for them to learn the technique, you can't just do standup because then they walk out and they laugh, but they don't know what to take home. So what I want to give them is tools that they can take home and create laughter in their own homes. It's kind of like the Home Depot of comedy.
GM: Do you perform often outside the States?
YS: Not as often because I do a lot in my theatre. So once in a while I'll get out. But I'll be all this week, actually, in Yuk Yuk's working on new material. So I'll be there every night working basically on what we're talking about, just to make it more fun, more interesting, more entertaining.
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Black Girls and the Police State Menace
Whenever there’s a black girl on a school campus wielding a dangerous weapon like a cell phone, white macho can always be counted on to come to civilization’s rescue with the full force of fascist violence. These days, unarmed black children rank higher than mass murderers with semi-automatic weapons as public enemy number one on American school campuses. Shortly after the videotaped assault of a cell phone wielding sixteen year-old Spring Valley High School student in Richland, South Carolina by a white male school resource officer went viral, a New York Times letter writer naively asked—“Why are children not treated like children when they do silly things?”
Why? Because black children have never been children in the eyes of the police state and its proxy, American public education. Nor do they qualify as victims within the lens of a corporate media regime hell bent on exploiting black pain, à la news outlets like CNN. Zealously milking the moment for maximum reality TV effect, CNN correspondents played and replayed the brutal image; first, as the silent backdrop to an interview with a Richland school board representative, then as a frame-by-frame analysis to evaluate the girl’s “responsibility”. In their "analysis", the upraised arm of the girl being dragged from her desk was transformed into a strike against the officer. Her flailing legs were parsed as a potential “assault” on his person. Claiming “she had no respect for the school or her teacher”, CNN commentator Harry Houck deemed the assault to be justified, conjuring racist-sexist stereotypes of black girls as violent, lawless Jezebels. As Color of Change activists have argued, this shameless victim blaming is itself a form of emotional and psychological trauma that would never be inflicted on a white girl.
The criminalization and policing of black girls on school campuses has been well-documented by the U.S. Department of Education and the African American Policy Forum, headed by esteemed activist law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Black girls are suspended more than any other group besides black boys. They have higher suspension rates vis-à-vis white girls than do black boys in comparison to white boys. One of the most insidious aspects of race/gender disproportionality in school discipline is the double standard of conduct—when black girls “act out”, talk back, wear “inappropriate” clothing or use restricted personal items like cell phones in classrooms they’re disciplined more harshly than whites who commit serious offenses such as assault. The Indiana Education Policy Center’s 2000 “Color of Discipline” report concluded that black students were more likely to be referred out of class for lower level infractions such as excessive noise, disrespect, loitering and “threat.” Hearkening back to its Jim Crow legacy of anti-black terrorism, black children in the South are more likely to receive corporal punishment than are students in other regions.
So while white children are given the social and cultural space to “just be kids”—acting out, talking back, playing with gadgets and clothing styles—black children must always toe the line of respectability or risk detention, assault and/or death. And while white children of all class backgrounds have greater access to college preparation curricula and college resources, many black students have greater “access” to school police than a college counselor.
From high-achieving older students to the tiniest students just starting out, black girls are criminalized at every step of their school careers. In a widely publicized 2013 case, sixteen year-old chemistry student Kiera Wilmot was arrested, led away in handcuffs, and expelled from Bartow High School in Florida for a science experiment gone awry. In 2012, the handcuffing of black female preschoolers and kindergartners in Georgia elicited a groundswell of activism around the egregious numbers of very young black children who are suspended and expelled. Despite being only 18% of the preschool population, black preschool students receive 48% of school suspensions. By contrast, white students comprise 43% of all preschoolers and 26% of those suspended. Responding to these horrendous demographics, school-community activists of color have pushed for restorative justice programs, fewer police, and less paramilitary weaponry on campuses.
In Richland, black students are 59% of the student population and 77% of those suspended. The Richland Two Black Parents Association has been working with the national Dignity in Schools campaign to get the district to implement a culturally responsive discipline code “that clearly spells out that peaceful students will not be dealt with by law enforcement, but by school officials.” Addressing the epidemic of school push-out and prison pipelining that targets students of color, Dignity in Schools has advocated for a human rights-based discipline model which would replace school resource officers with community intervention workers trained to do mentoring, conflict resolution and peace-building in heavily criminalized schools. Changing the paramilitary climate of schools of color would remove the real menace to the mental health, wellbeing and academic success of African American youth who are bearing the brunt of the U.S.’ mass incarceration cancer.
Hillary Clinton and the Problem of White Feminism
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton rode a wave of feminist zeal. Touted by Gloria Steinem and other marquee white feminists as the antidote to “the patriarchy”, Clinton strode onto the national stage with her women’ s rights bona fides largely unquestioned. Flash forward and the adulation has waned. As evidenced by last night’s debate, Bernie Sanders’ left flank challenge has exposed Clinton’s corporate/centrist/imperialist underbelly and made her scramble for the populist street cred she lacks. Cautiously rebranding herself as a “practical” progressive, Clinton touted family friendly policies, an end to mass incarceration (motivated by the challenge she’s gotten from Black Lives Matters activists), subsidized college tuition, universal pre-K and defense of women’s health as bread and butter issues she’d fight for. In a nod to her traditional base, she attacked the GOP theocracy’s cowardly assault on Planned Parenthood.
Yet, as the economic climate worsens for communities of color, generalized white feminist shibboleths on women’s rights won’t cut it for women of color. For example, the Democrats’ narrow focus on income inequality and equal pay for equal work (a half step that would exclude women who work in low-paid historically female jobs) ignores the massive race/gender wealth gap which separates white women and women of color. While Clinton and Sanders blasted the big banks and the disaster of deregulation, there was no mention of the devastating impact of predatory and subprime lending on communities of color—policies that disproportionately affected black women and have decimated black wealth.
Over the past decade, the wealth gap between black women and virtually everyone else in the U.S. has widened to epic levels. According to the NAACP, in 2012, “Wealth for black women under age 65 was $100, amounting to a penny of wealth for every dollar of wealth owned by single black men and a fraction of a penny for every dollar of wealth owned by single white women or men.” Because African American women bear a greater child care burden, this disparity is not mitigated by the larger numbers of women of color in higher education relative to men (a factor which conservatives and others cite as an example of how sexist discrimination is nonexistent). As Nia Hamm writes about a recent Congressional Black Caucus economic report, “When African-American mothers — more than half of whom are raising their children on their own — can’t financially support their families, the consequences often have long-lasting and devastating implications for their communities.” Further, women of color are less likely to work in jobs that have wealth-generating fringe benefits such as defined benefit retirement plans or paid sick leave.
The nexus between poverty, wealth and opportunity is also reflected in the criminalization of black girls and women. Nationwide, African American girls are 14% of the youth population but constitute 34% of the juvenile incarcerated population. When white girls attend America’s schools they don’t have to fear being pounced on by school police or local law enforcement for not conforming to gender norms. As the African American Policy Institute has noted, black girls are subject to pernicious double standards about their race/gender identities. And they are systematically funneled through what the Human Rights for Girls organization identifies as the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline”. While prison pipelining ensnares youth of color of all genders, girls of color who are sexually abused are more likely to wind up in juvenile jails and experience a cycle of re-victimization that may result in commercial sexual exploitation. Nationwide, black girls have some of the highest rates of domestic sex trafficking victimization.
But when it comes to the status of black women in the U.S., the intersection of sexual violence, economic inequality and mass incarceration is seldom addressed in national policy forums. From the wealth gap to sex abuse prison pipelining, white women and girls actively benefit from black female criminalization. When white girls are perceived as brainy and/or non-threatening in schools with zero tolerance policies they automatically benefit from the wages of whiteness. When campaigns against sex trafficking minimize or don’t focus on the epidemic of sexualized violence against black girls and women, white girls and women are the default victims of choice.
Both Clinton and her right wing evil twin Carly Fiorina illustrate the perils of white role model feminism and the optics of empowerment. Rounding out her self-portrait in last night’s closing statements, Clinton extolled her “blessed” status as one who came from a humble background yet was able to seize the rugged individualist promise of American capitalist opportunity. Missing was a nod to the civil rights and social justice legacies—most notably affirmative action, which white women have been the biggest beneficiaries of—that facilitated her success and helped consolidate white middle class postwar wealth. But of course, Clinton’s narratives of progressive sisterhood only extend so far.
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Genes Can Make You Smarter? New Research
Mental Acuity - Gene Link Asserted...
Research on schizophrenia has taken an unexpected turn for researchers at the Feinstein Institute who found that a gene that plays a role in determining whether someone has this disease also seems to play a role in mental acuity and intelligence. (This in interesting note compared to APOEe4-risk for cognitive impairment in the case of Alzheimer's and Dementia)
The work, conducted at The Feinstein Institute's Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island, was originally aimed at studying the association between the gene dysbindin-1, located on chromosome 6, and an increased risk for developing schizophrenia, the debilitating mental illness whose sufferers are plagued by psychotic episodes and asocial behaviors.
"Our primary and first question wasn't to find genes for good cognition," said Anil Malhotra, principal investigator of the study. "It was to figure out what the effect of this risk form of the gene was, and that led us to our findings."
Malhotra and his team administered tests of mental acuity and took DNA samples from 213 schizophrenic patients and 126 healthy volunteers. The results showed that a specific variation of the dysbindin gene was not only associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia, but also with a low performance in general cognition. The researchers say this variation of the gene affects mental ability regardless of whether its carrier develops a mental illness, leading them to believe that the gene, in all its variations, is directly related to general intelligence.
"If having this risk form makes you perform worse, then in the other forms the converse is true—you perform better," Malhotra said.
The study is appearing in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, and found that the variant form of dysbindin-1 that is associated with lower intelligence was present in 7% of the general population and 12% of the schizophrenic population. In addition to an increased risk of schizophrenia, individuals who posses this gene variation can also expect to perform 3% to 5% percent worse on standardized neuropsychological cognition tests, which rate a person's mental skills in reading comprehension, attention, verbal fluency and memory.
According to Katherine Burdick, the study's principal author, these findings support the argument that genes (or the nature half of the nature vs. nurture equation) are significant determinants of intelligence.
Jensen has noted the link between intelligence and raw brainspeed.
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Home testimonies sports Bears football star Tommie Harris weathered tragic loss of wife
Bears football star Tommie Harris weathered tragic loss of wife
By Levi Photenhauer —
Chicago Bears star Tommie Harris was the best at everything, but he’d never been tested — until his wife died unexpectedly 41 days into their marriage.
“I was #1 getting drafted, #1 going to Oklahoma University, so I never was tested,” Harris recounts on a Grace For Purpose video. “I knew God in a good place. I didn’t know Him in a place when things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go.”
The Texas native was playing for the San Diego Chargers at the time. On a visit from his fiancé, Tommie decided to move the wedding date forward and go to the courthouse right then and there on New Year’s. They already had two kids together.
The church ceremony would come a few months later, and to fit the white dress better, Ashley wanted a breast reduction. It was a simple procedure, but she never woke up. A brain aneurysm tragically snuffed her life out on the operating table in 2012.
“I had something like $25 million in the bank when I lost Ashley, and not one dollar had been able to help her,” Tommie laments. “If it could have, I would have given every last cent to save my wife.”
Up to that point, Tommie was a football sensation. At Oklahoma, he was twice named All-American. In his eight years in the NFL, the 6’3”, 295-pound defensive tackle was three times a Pro-Bowl pick and once a Super Bowl player.
But when his wife slipped into eternity, he suddenly retired. He wanted to take care of his kids, Tyson and Tinsley.
“Physically, I was ready” to keep playing NFL, he says. “But mentally, I wasn’t dialed in. I mean, what if I went out there and suffered a head or neck injury and couldn’t take care of my kids? What would I tell them, that daddy had wanted to make some more money?”
He invested his money for the family to live on. He went back to school to complete his MBA and capitalized a variety of business ventures.
And he would grow in God. After winning so much in football, Tommie calls the untimely death of his wife “my greatest loss.”
“Today, I’m not the man Ashley married,” he says. “I’m a much better version of that man — one I wish she was here to see. But I know that she is here, every day, watching over me, Tyson and Tinsley, shining the light that guides us as we do our best to keep her spirit alive and make her proud.”
To know more about a personal relationship with God, click here.
Levi Photenhauer studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Los Angeles. His journalism instructor also sells bamboo steamers on Amazon. Click on the link or the image at right if you want to purchase one.
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The Citizens’ Voice celebrated its 40th anniversary on Oct. 5, 2018. Striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader, started The Citizens’ Voice in 1978. The Citizens’ Voice added the Sunday edition in 1993 after the closure of the Sunday Independent. Times-Shamrock Communications bought The Citizens’ Voice in 2000.
Gathering, distributing news has changed
by jreeser | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
In 1978, typewriters and notebooks were a reporter’s best friends. Today, it’s a mobile phone and a Twitter account that are must-have tools. Here are some of the changes in the way a newspaper is produced since The Citizens’ Voice launched in 1978. Then When the...
Then & Now: The Wyoming Valley has seen many changes over 40 years
by Bob Kalinowski | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Steve Barrouk served as president of the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry for 18 years and still is chairman of the Diamond City Partnership. We sat down with him to talk about the changes in the Wyoming Valley the past 40 years and some of the most...
Publisher’s Letter on the 40th anniversary of The Citizens’ Voice
by Staff Report | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Birthday celebrations often lead to reflection. Have I lived a full life so far? What are the highlights — and lowlights? Who am I thankful for? Are there any regrets? Are there changes I should be making? The Citizens’ Voice turns 40 on Oct. 9 and I can say,...
Top 40 sports moments of the last 40 years
by Matt Bufano | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Slow news day? It happens to the best newspapers and most-watched networks in America’s smallest and biggest cities. Relying on the entire Wyoming Valley (and then some), however, The Citizens’ Voice sports staff seemingly always has something to write about. A...
VIDEO: Watch the story of The Citizens’ Voice
Two-paper town: Wilkes-Barre market a rarity
by Michael P. Buffer | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Wilkes-Barre became a city with two daily newspapers in October 1978 when striking workers started publishing The Citizens’ Voice to compete with the Capital Cities-owned Times Leader. Forty years later, the newspaper competition continues — a surprising feat for a...
Some advertisers have been with us for the last 40 years
by Denise Allabaugh | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
While social media has changed the way businesses market to consumers, Garden Drive-In owner Doug Barbacci said newspaper advertising is “probably the most important advertising we do.” The Garden Drive-In on Route 11 in Hunlock Twp. is one of the businesses that...
Since the beginning: 40-year subscribers
by Bill Wellock | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
When The Citizens’ Voice started 40 years ago, it had dedicated employees, companies advertising with the new paper and four unions sticking together. None of that would have mattered if it hadn’t been for someone else — you. Locals who subscribed to the new endeavor...
The strike that launched The Citizens’ Voice
WILKES-BARRE — Union leaders blew a whistle inside The Times Leader, Evening News/Record newspaper at 5:45 p.m. on Oct. 6, 1978, giving the signal to unionized workers to abandon their jobs and risk their livelihoods. “I said, ‘Folks, we are going on strike against...
CV at 40: Natural disasters, scandals marked last decade
Plenty of good things happened in Luzerne County this past decade, and The Citizens’ Voice newsroom staffers were always on the chase for the most memorable events — those that dominated headlines, stirred emotions and especially affected readers — carried themes of...
CV at 40: 9/11 attacks, Hugo Selenski among enduring stories of the 2000s
by Jim Halpin | Oct 5, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
WILKES-BARRE — The 2000s brought about major news stories, both on the world stage and at the local level. The decade experienced the most devastating terrorist attack in world history and a global economic depression, and saw the emergence of one of Luzerne County’s...
CV at 40: Curley murder probe dominated headlines in the ’90s
by Eric Mark | Oct 4, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
News continued to break throughout the 1990s in the Wyoming Valley. The decade’s top stories included a murder investigation that drew national attention, the construction of a controversial arena and convention center, the creation of a conservancy dedicated to...
CV at 40: Banks murder spree shocked region during the ’80s
by Steve Mocarsky | Oct 4, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
WILKES-BARRE — The 1980s were marked by the rise of computers and the end of the Cold War, but there was an array of shocking, thrilling and disappointing local news in those 10 years that will be long-remembered by Wyoming Valley residents. The Citizens’ Voice,...
CV at 40: Flood indictment, Butler Tunnel incident top biggest stories of 1978-79
For 40 years The Citizens’ Voice has been reporting on stories of local interest to its readers. During the Voice’s infancy in October 1978, news of the labor strife between strikers and Cap Cities — the new owners of the Times Leader — dominated the pages. Here’s a...
FIRST EDITION: See the inaugural copy of The Citizens’ Voice
by Staff Report | Sep 25, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
The first edition of The Citizens' Voice was published Oct. 9, 1978.
TIMELINE: The history of The Citizens’ Voice
1978 Members of four unions — The Newspaper Guild, Typographical Union and the photoengraving and pressmen units of the Graphic Communications International Union — go on strike against Capital Cities Communications, publisher of the Times Leader, Evening News and...
Members of four unions — The Newspaper Guild, Typographical Union and the photoengraving and pressmen units of the Graphic Communications International Union — go on strike against Capital Cities Communications, publisher of the Times Leader, Evening News and Wilkes-Barre Record. The strikers launched their own newspaper — The Citizens’ Voice — on Oct. 9.
The strike ends without a settlement as Capital Cities moves to decertify the last of the striking unions. The unions continue to operate The Citizens’ Voice.
The Citizens’ Voice acquires its own press in June and consolidates its operations into its current building at 75 N. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre. Before the move, the newspaper’s news, advertising and circulation offices were located on the second floor of the Hotel Sterling and the plate and printing facility were in Plymouth.
The unions incorporate The Citizens’ Voice, shifting ownership of the newspaper and its assets to the original strikers and retirees. Of the 204 people who went on strike in 1978, eight returned to the Times Leader.
The Voice published its first Sunday edition on May 16.
Times-Shamrock Communications, owner of The Scranton Times, purchased The Citizens’ Voice in May.
In April, the Voice switched from its familiar tabloid format to a broadsheet newspaper.
FACTS ABOUT THE CITIZENS’ VOICE
• The Citizens’ Voice was first published as an interim newspaper published by the Wilkes-Barre Council of Newspaper Unions for the duration of the labor dispute. On settlement of the dispute, the intention was to cease publication. Two hundred out of 225 of the original Times Leader employees representing four local unions went on strike and formed an employee-owned newspaper called The Citizens’ Voice.
• The first edition of The Citizens’ Voice made its debut Oct. 9, 1978.
• The first issue of The Citizens’ Voice had a circulation of 45,000.
• At one time, all employees received the same salary from the publisher to maintenance worker.
• In 1989, The Citizens’ Voice Inc. was formed and the original strikers and retirees became shareholders.
• Times-Shamrock took ownership of The Citizens’ Voice on May 1, 2000.
• The Citizens’ Voice’s first newsroom, circulation and advertising offices were located at 1 N. Main St., just off Public Square. The newspaper operated for years out of the second floor of the Hotel Sterling. Operations moved to its present facility — 75 N. Washington St. — in June 1984. The building was formerly a warehouse for Fowler, Dick & Walker The Boston Store.
• The company’s color is orange because when the employees went to purchase delivery tubes they bought orange tubes at a substantial discount because no one wanted orange.
• The Citizens’ Voice made its debut as a tabloid because owners of the Wyoming Valley Observer — a weekly tab newspaper — allowed staffers to use their press.
• In 2014, The Citizens’ Voice launched a new Sunday broadsheet publication called the Greater Pittston Progress.
• The Citizens’ Voice published its first Sunday edition on May 16, 1993.
• The Citizens’ Voice was named the Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association in 2011.
• The Citizens’ Voice Facebook page was created in 2009 and, in 2018, has more than 30,000 likes.
• Jack Williams was the first publisher of The Citizens’ Voice.
• Community editor Leonarda Bilbow was one of the first “non-strikers” hired by The Citizens’ Voice. She was hired in 1979. Now in her 39th year, she has the distinction of being the longest Citizens’ Voice employee in the history of the paper.
• Former Ashley mayor and current Wilkes-Barre Twp. councilman, John Jablowski was one of the first Citizens’ Voice carriers.
• Former staff writer Frank Zini went on to become managing editor of the New York Post.
• Neil Corbett spent 34 years as the paper’s sports editor before his retirement in 2013. He was the last of the original strikers to leave the newsroom.
• Ed Hourigan Sr., the son of the Hourigan Family who sold the original Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company to Cap Cities, would be hired in the early 1990s as The Citizens’ Voice publisher.
• Presston, The Citizens’ Voice “orange” mascot was born in 1996.
• While Times-Shamrock owns newspapers, website, billboards and radio stations, in the late 1990s The Citizens’ Voice had a weekly television show called Northeast Real Estate Review hosted by Judi Shaver which ran on FOX every Sunday morning.
• King’s College is the school from which most of the newsroom staff graduated. Penn State University has the second-most graduates, followed by Syracuse University and Misericordia University.
• The Citizens’ Voice has won many awards for its special sections, including Gameface and JumpStart! Gameface highlights the best in high school football and debuted in 2007. JumpStart! debuted in 2010 and covers the latest entertainment events throughout the Wyoming Valley.
• The Citizens’ Voice switched from its familiar tabloid format to broadsheet in April 2017.
• The online feature NEPA Bazaars debuted in 2012 to catalogue, map and celebrate the annual summer tradition of church and fire company bazaars. It now has nearly 10,000 likes on Facebook.
• The Citizens’ Voice has been a primary sponsor of Valley Santa for 35 years. The program relies on financial donations to purchase Christmas gifts for children whose families could not afford to buy them.
• The Citizens’ Voice has co-sponsored the Wyoming Valley Athletic Association’s Dr. George P. Moses Senior All-Star Classic since 1979.
• ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter wrote a story about Greg Skrepenak for The Citizens’ Voice in September 1988.
• The number-one movie on the day The Citizens’ Voice debuted, Oct. 5, 1978, was “Grease” and a ticket cost $2.34, according to playback.fm. The number one song was “Kiss You All Over” by Exile and the number one fiction novel was “Chesapeake” by James Michener.
• The Citizens’ Voice took over presenting the George Hooper Memorial Award in 1997. It’s given to the top wrestler each year in the Wyoming Valley Conference.
• The bar and restaurant ads in the Citizens’ Voice that run with all type and no artwork are called “style ads.” The reason they are called “style ads” is that all the ads are set in the same font with no artwork permitted. Back when the CV was formed, the employees realized the potential for getting this business if they could accept late ads. Most bars and restaurants work late night and sleep most of the day. Advertisers would call to place ads at 2 p.m. for the next day’s paper. Trying to get their ads earlier was a losing effort so we decided to work with their deadlines, but the ads could be copy only and all set in the same type and all must run on the together. That is how style ads were born. Forty years later they still exist and are looked to regularly by our readers for dining specials and things to do.
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