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The Persepolis Fortification Archive Project is a new phase in recording and distributing the information that brings about these changes, using electronic equipment and media alongside the conventional tool-kits of philology and scholarship. In its early phases, the PFA Project has:
- Captured and edited conventional digital images of almost a thousand Elamite Fortification tablets, accelerating work that has been under way since 2002;
- Started to capture and edit very high resolution digital images of hundreds Aramaic Fortification tablets and their seal impressions, as well as uninscribed, sealed Fortification tablets, using large-format scanning backs and Polynomial Texture Mapping apparatus built specifically for the project;
- Started to explore advanced technologies for recording and conservation of Fortification tablets and fragments (3D scanning, subsurface laser scanning, CT scanning, laser cleaning and others);
- Formed a team of editors to prepare editions of Elamite and Aramaic Fortification tablets and studies of seal impressions, both those accompanying texts and those on uninscribed tablets, to be distributed on a real-time rolling basis along with images of the tablets;
- Catalogued, assessed and sorted about a third of the thousands of tablets and fragments that remain to be recorded, to identify priorities for conservation, study and presentation;
- Set up data structures for recording, linking, analyzing and presenting images and documents in the On-Line Cultural Heritage Environment (OCHRE);
- Entered co-operative agreements with projects at the Collège de France, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. which will lead to distribution of PFA data through at least three other on-line sources;
- Established a weblog to collect news reports on the status of the PFA as well as on-line images, articles, and books connected with Persepolis and the Persepolis tablets.
The PFA Project Team:
- Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University: Aramaic texts);
- Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (University of Colorado: seal impressions on Aramaic texts);
- Mark B. Garrison (Trinity University: seal impressions on all items);
- Gene Gragg (Oriental Institute: electronic analysis of Elamite texts);
Wouter F. M. Henkelman (Collège de France: final edition of Elamite texts from the papers of the late Richard T. Hallock);
- Charles E. Jones (American School of Classical Studies in Athens: new Elamite texts, weblog);
- Matthew W. Stolper (Oriental Institute: catalogue, new Elamite texts, project oversight).
Technical Support:
- Laura d'Alessandro (Oriental Institute: conservation);
- Marilyn Lundberg (University of Southern California: high-quality imaging of Aramaic and uninscribed tablets);
- Lec Maj (Humanities Research Computing, University of Chicago: advanced technology application, IT support and liaison);
- John Sanders (Oriental Institute: IT support);
- Sandra Schloen (Oriental Institute: OCHRE development and support);
- Bruce Zuckerman (USC: high-quality imaging of Aramaic and uninscribed tablets).
Student Workers and Volunteers (2006–07):
- Dennis Campbell (post-doc, NELC);
- Ivan Cangemi (undergraduate, Classics);
- Elizabeth Davidson (undergraduate, Classics);
- Irene Glasner (volunteer, OI);
- Louise Golland (volunteer, OI);
- Jennifer Gregory (graduate, NELC);
- Elise Macarthur (graduate, NELC);
- Clinton Moyer (graduate, Cornell University);
- John Nielsen (graduate, NELC);
- Miller Prosser (graduate, NELC)
- Foy Scalf (graduate: NELC)
Support for some phases of the PFA Project has been received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Chaire d'Histoire et civilisation du monde achéménide et de l'empire d'Alexandre of the Collège de France; the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration; the PARSA Community Foundation; the University of Chicago Provost's Program on Academic Technology Innovation; the University of Chicago Women's Board. Proposals to other agencies and donors are pending or in preparation.


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TPG Continues Unusual Record in China Financial Deals
Foreign private-equity firms have done well by investments in Chinese banks and insurance companies, but they haven't cashed in on investments in unconventional Chinese financial institutions. Until now.
TPG Capital is selling a leasing business to China's second-largest brokerage firm for $715 million, more than double the price it paid for asset in 2008.
The U.S. private equity firm has done well in a sector that is challenging for foreign firms. For example, it obtained control of Shenzhen Development Bank in 2004 after getting a waiver from a rule that foreign firms can't control Chinese banks owing to the precariousness of bank's finances at the time. TPG became the biggest shareholder by buying an 18% stake in the midsize lender for $150 million, and it was able to get a return of 16 times its initial investment after it restructured the bank and swapped its stake for a 4% interest in Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China in 2010.
Chinese financial institutions other than traditional banks and insurers pose their own challenges for foreign investors given that such businesses can be extremely localized and difficult to understand. Recently, the Chinese government has moved to crack down on undisciplined lending, in particular among shadow banks, which include pawnbrokers, trust firms, leasing companies and other informal lenders.
TPG is selling UT Capital Group to Haitong International Holdings, a unit of Haitong Securities. The Shanghai-based group's main operating unit is UniTrust Finance & Leasing Corp., which provides loans to small-to-medium-size businesses that want to buy equipment in a range of industries. Its clients also include bigger firms such as Lenovo Group Ltd., General Electric Co. and Panasonic Corp. It is the third-largest leasing company in China in terms of assets after Hong Kong-listed Far Eastern Horizon Ltd. and Taiwan-listed Chailease Holding Co.
TPG gained full control of UniTrust as part its 31 billion-yen ($288 million) investment in Japanese non-bank financial lender NIS Group Co. in 2008.
UT Capital, founded in 2005, also owns UniFortune, a business that leases heavy trucks.
TPG is selling the leasing business in an early stage of the sector's development in China. Only around 6% of capital expenditures and corporate purchases of equipment are made through leasing agreements compared with roughly 25% in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the industry.
Private-equity investments into China's leasing business are rare, but another foreign private-equity firm has taken the plunge. KKR & Co. led a consortium to invest $160 million for a minority stake in Far Eastern Leasing in late 2009.
"Leasing fills a need in China, particularly for small-medium enterprises", says Weijian Shan, a former TPG partner who led the investment in UniTrust and went on to start his own private equity firm, PAG. But he stresses that "control is key" to limit the risks of running such a business.
The sale of UniTrust has been months in the making. TPG kicked off the process in May, hiring UBS and Morgan Stanley to handle the sale. At the time, a person familiar with the deal said it could be valued at more than $800 million, north of the final sales price.
Under TPG, UniTrust's total assets rose to 10.5 billion yuan ($1.72 billion) in 2012 from 4.4 billion yuan in 2010, according to a statement from TPG. The firm made a net profit of 199 million yuan in the first half of 2013.
UT Capital was valued at a price-book ratio of 1.86, slightly higher than that of other leasing firms, according to Shenyin Wanguo Securities analyst He Zongyan. The firm has a return on equity ratio of 12.9%, significantly higher than 5% for securities firms, he said.
"Haitong will be able to grow [its acquisition] even faster and more profitably" given that the brokerage has a large customer base and can help lower the leasing firm's funding costs, PAG's Mr. Shan said.
--Chao Deng, with contributions from Amy Li
Corrections & Amplifications
The return on equity ratio for UT Capital at the end of 2012 was 12.9%. An earlier version of this post stated it was 10%.


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American schools are becoming segregated as a result of "culturism," not racism
A friend asked me what I thought of an Atlantic article pointing to the fact that, sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, America's schools are once again becoming segregated, as whites (and Asians and East Indians) do whatever they can to flee predominantly black schools. Black schools are academically much, much weaker than white schools and, as the whites flee, the infrastructure of the schools declines.
The article focuses heavily on the fact that academically-oriented black children suffer badly from this de facto segregation, and strongly implies that white racism is at fault. I readily concede that this re-segregation is happening and that the tragic result is that bright black kids are having their futures destroyed. I don't believe, though, that whites (and Asians and East Indians) are motivated by racism when they abandon previously integrated schools.
The problem isn't race, it's culture. (Call it "culturism," if you will.) Thus, white parents aren't saying "I can't let my little precious go to school with those black people because they are an inferior race who will taint her through contact." Instead, what they're saying is "I want my precious to have the best education possible and that requires, among other things, that the other families at the school have the same goal."
What these white (and East Indian and Asian) parents know is that black culture is not education-oriented. Indeed, for some time, among the children at least, it's been anti-education, with black children who work hard at school castigated by their black peers for "selling out" or being "Oreos."
Hispanic culture is also resistant to education. As to that, I actually have some first hand anecdotal data from people who have worked closely with the Hispanic community in the education context. In the late 1980s, very upper crust Hispanic friends of my family had set up an institution to try to teach Hispanic parents to encourage their children at school. These friends told me that the parents, most from rural areas, had the farmer's mindset, which is to get the kids out of school and to work as soon as possible. Even though the parents came to America for economic opportunity, they couldn't wrap their minds around the idea that, subject to some exceptions, education is the key to economic success in America. Children old enough to work were actively discouraged from seeking an education.
Twenty-five years later, my sister-in-law, who works in the Los Angeles school district, tells me the same story: Many Hispanic parents prefer their kids to earn some money sooner, rather than more money later. Sure, there's a bell curve, with certain black or Hispanic kids and their families focused hungrily on an educational goal but, for the most part, neither the children nor their parents focus their energy on education.
White, Asian, and East Indian cultures, for the most part, are obsessed about education as a necessity for thriving in America. Parents in these cultures understand that the school's intellectual environment matters. If the school culture sees every parent in the community demanding hard work and high grades, that will trickle down to the children, who will create a competitive, exciting academic culture. So yes, white parents are fleeing predominantly black schools (and doing so in whatever way possible), but they're not doing so for the old-fashioned racial reasons. It's all about education cultures versus anti-education cultures. Culturism, right?
I anticipate that someone will point out that the same article says that, when the schools were first integrated, the integration was successful. I don't doubt that. Back then, integrated schools were thrilling, shiny, new toys. As the toys lost their gloss, though, people made less of an effort.
More importantly, though, the integration happened thirty-five years ago. That's an important date, because it was before political correctness came along to poison things. In the late 1970s and throughout most of the 1980s, teachers could reasonably expect equal effort from Joe Black and Moe White.
Thanks to the scourge of political correctness, however, it's now racist to expect black students to work as hard and perform as well as white students. Heck, with microaggression, a new twist on political correctness, it's even racist if the teacher, when he walks into the classroom, says good morning to Moe White before he says it to Joe Black — never mind that Moe White sits next to the door, while Joe Black sits on the opposite site of the classroom.
Culture, not race. Culture, not race. Culture, not race…. Although that's not quite true.
There is a horrible racism pervading the American education system, but it comes from the Left. The Left has successfully argued that blacks are so mentally inferior to other races that they are incapable of elevating their culture to include good behavior, hard work, and ambition. Until that grotesque Leftist racism is killed, and blacks are recognized as fully equal to other races, and therefore capable of academic rigor, whites, Asians, and East Indians will do anything they can to insulate their children from black (and Hispanic) culture in America's public schools.


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Over the last few days I was thinking about what makes a great website in 2010. Among many things, I thought about a mobile version of your website. Is a mobile version a prerequisite for a great website?
A great website meets the needs of the audience. Is your audience searching your website with mobile devices? To know the answer to this question you need to be measuring traffic to your site. (another thing that makes a great website)
I thought I would share some data from www.gettysburg.edu. Using Google Analytics I looked at mobile traffic in three segments listed below.
November 3, 2009 – December 31, 2009
6,313 visits
January 1, 2010 to Feb 28, 2010
7,520 visits
March 2010
4,364 visits
About 2/3 of the visits are from external addresses and 1/3 are from a campus address.
This data tells me that at least initially that mobile traffic is increasing to the site. However it still only represents about 1% of the total visits to the Gettysburg website. Is that enough to spend resources developing tools for users on mobile devices?
The truth is that I don't know. Will we someday see 50% of the traffic to Gettysburg from a mobile device? Maybe. Maybe not. But here are a few facts to help you decide:
- More than 300,000 iPads have been sold in America since last week's launch
- CNBC Mobile's Web traffic has grown more than tenfold since its June launch. The site's traffic went from 2.7 million monthly page views to more than 30 million monthly page views.
- Last year, for the first time, notebooks outsold desktop computers
What do you think – are there other links and resources that you would suggest?


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It Doesn't Have to be Shakespeare: Adding Content
We often get asked by clients: "How often should I add content to my website?"
As an internet marketing company who gains profit from web programming and maintenance, it is hard to answer this question. Most likely, we will adding the content to their website and, therefore, charging them for the programming involved. We do not wish to look like we are "beefing up" our estimate to our benefit. However, as a reputable web programming firm which prides itself on good customer relationships, we owe it to our clients to be honest in our answers and estimations.
Search Engine Optimization advisors recommend that you add new content to your website once a week. This gives the search engines more meat to work with and also shows them (and your customers) that your site is active.
Upon receiving the content, you may need to adjust the timetable for your client, so be sure that you clarify at the beginning of your relationship that you will give them an estimate of how long the edits will take before you begin updates. Case in point, if they want to add a new section, your estimate should be much larger than adding one page of content to an existing department.
Don't forget that just adding photos to a site does not constitute adding content. While the search engines will notice a slight difference, this does not match the benefit of including keyword rich content to an established website. This doesn't mean that the new content needs to be 10,000 words of technical specs on a new product. Rather, it should be a summary of your new information with important phrases that will help your current and prospective customers find you through a search engine.
So, how often should you add content to your website? Try to add a page a week and maybe a new section every six months. Sticking to this timetable will ensure that you can handle updates in a timely manner and not be overwhelmed by trying to get 20 pages of content onto your site before that big presentation.
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Sampson Wesley Keeble
May 18, 1833 – June 19, 1887
A dedicated and respected member of the Republican Party, Sampson W. Keeble was elected to represent Davidson County in the 38th Tennessee General Assembly, 1873-1874. He was the first black Tennessean to serve in the state legislature. A Tennessee Historical Commission marker in downtown Nashville, near a one-time Keeble family home on South Broadway, proclaims,
Early years in slavery
According to the date on his tombstone in Nashville's Greenwood Cemetery, Keeble was born in 1833 at Stoney Lonesome Plantation in the Old Jefferson Community (Near Smyrna) in Rutherford County, Tennessee, to Sampson W. and Nancy (or Mary) Keeble. Their slave-owner's father, Walter "Blackhead" Keeble, had stipulated in his 1816 will that his slaves were to be cared for, educated, and freed as soon as the law would allow, and that any of his heirs who did not agree to those requisites would inherit nothing – land, slaves, nor money. When Walter died, the inventory for his 1844 will listed among his slaves 11-year-old Sampson and 16-year-old Marshall (perhaps the father or grandfather of evangelist Marshall Keeble, 1878-1968). The two youngsters were inherited by Walter's son, Horace Pinkney Keeble, a Rutherford County attorney. (At least one period newspaper named Horace's brother Edwin A. Keeble as Sampson Keeble's owner, but there is substantial evidence that Sampson was, in fact, part of H. P.'s household.) Also listed among Walter Keeble's slaves, who were grouped by family, were Sampson's mother, called Nancy Polly (40) to distinguish her from another woman named Nancy Betty (39); Sampson's sisters Elisa Jane, 9 [the "Eliza A." on Nancy's tombstone], and Catherine, 2 ["Kitty"]; and brother George Lent, 6 ["Ceorce L"]; the tombstone appears to name one more child, with a name ending in "y." That could be Joicy (six months old at the time of the inventory) or Billy Buck (age not given), both of whose names are listed near those of the Keeble family on the inventory sheet. There is no evidence that Pastor Marshall Keeble was related to this family, other than to share their slave owner's surname.
The white Keebles always used the word "servant" instead of "slave" when referring to their workers (a common practice of Middle Tennessee slave owners), and they seem to have treated their own "servants" with extraordinary consideration. Perhaps because of their tolerant practices, the future legislator gained a measure of independence early in his life. The Nashville Union and American (December 6, 1872) stated that in 1851, when Keeble was 18 years old, he took a job as "roller boy" on the Rutherford Telegraph in Murfreesboro; by 1854 he was working as pressman for both the Telegraph and the Murfreesboro News. He may well have learned the trade under H. P. and Edwin Keeble, who owned the Murfreesboro Monitor. Sampson worked for these newspapers until the Civil War, and then, according to an account in the Union and American (November 7, 1872), "he was in the Confederate lines during most of the war." However, he was probably, if anything, serving as an aide or manservant to Horace Keeble rather than actually carrying arms. A Clarksville paper's statement that "he shouldered his cooking utensils and went into the Southern army like a hero" suggests that he may have been taken along as a cook.
By 1865 Nashville city directories show that Sampson Keeble had settled in Davidson County.
(Pictured; Rep. Mike Sparks (R), Rep. Karen Camper (D), Rep. John DeBerry (D)
in front of the bust of Sampson Keeble, Tennessee's first black state legislator.)
He worked in a barbershop at 24 Cedar Street (today's Charlotte Avenue) and took various part-time jobs to support himself; family members report that he also worked for some time as a custodian in a law office, where he became interested in studying law. The attorneys in that practice, reportedly impressed by his enthusiasm for learning, supported his efforts. He was eventually able to pass the Tennessee bar, which in those days did not involve a written examination, but instead required assessment and approval by a handful of legal professionals and, finally, confirmation by a sitting judge. Keeble's legal training would later allow him to qualify for election as a Davidson County magistrate. Family members also believe he attended Fisk University briefly, although the university cannot locate his name in their records.
Keeble participated in "a meeting of colored men," some of Nashville's leading citizens, who met to quash rumors that the city's African Americans were planning "a mob and Massacre." The group, which also included William Sumner, Carroll Napier, Peter and Samuel Lowery, Henry Harding, Nelson Merry, and others, wrote a letter to city government officials, reprinted in the Republican Banner, assuring them that the rumors were false, and that "the feelings of the colored people [were predisposed] toward peace and good order."
Both Sampson Keeble and his brother George worked as barbers, along with several other Keebles (including a Wesley) who may have been relatives. Sampson eventually established the Rock City Barber Shop and managed it for about 20 years. (He was still listed as a barber in the Nashville city directory as late as 1885.) Barbershops of that era were strictly segregated: African American barbers were extremely popular with white customers, who still took considerable pleasure in being served and groomed by these deferential former slaves.
Many dramatic changes were taking place in the South during the early post-war years. Tennessee had returned to the Union with far fewer restrictions on its political structure than other Confederate states. The third state (July 19, 1866) to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship status to African Americans, Tennessee was readmitted to the Union a week later, without ever having to conform to the stiff federal regulations most of its neighboring states faced during Reconstruction. Tennessee's new constitution already included an anti-slavery clause, and, in less than a year (March 1867), the General Assembly would approve the right of African American men to vote and to hold political office – nearly three years before the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Keeble had been an active participant in the second State Colored Men's Convention, which met in Nashville in August 1866 and organized daily demonstrations at the Capitol, lobbying legislators to approve their right to vote. It was that dogged pressure, backed by Governor William G. "Parson" Brownlow, who needed the help of black voters in order to win reelection, that convinced the legislature to change the law. Almost overnight African Americans saw a transformation in their civic status. On September 3, 1868, at the beginning of the Circuit Court session, the Nashville Republican Banner published a story titled, "Negro Jurors – A Big Dose of Unadulterated African." It listed the jurors for the coming term, including Sampson W. Keeble, James C. Napier, and six other African Americans. Keeble's name also appeared on a list of Grand Jury members in April 1878 and of Federal Court jurors in March and April 1881.
By the time of the 1870 census Sampson Keeble had become the head of a large and complex household. He was the proprietor of the Harding House, a boarding house valued at $4000, a tidy sum for the period. This establishment stood near where the Ryman Auditorium is today. Keeping house was Eliza Keeble, 35, whom we know from their mother's gravestone to be Sampson's sister. The individual named Mary, 65, was probably Sampson and Eliza's mother (usually called Nancy, although her gravestone, as well as this census record, says Mary). She described her occupation as "at home," and was the only one in the family who unable to read and write. There were two children in the household: Hattie, 8 (ditto marks on the page suggest that her last name was Keeble, but in the 1880 census she was called Hattie Beckwith and identified as a niece), and "Saml" Keeble, Sampson's son. His age is illegible. It appears to be 4, but is likelier to be 11. Two other women also reside with the family: Kate Beckwith, 22, and Harriet Keeble, 30. Harriet, Sampson's first wife and the mother of young Samuel, was already an invalid. She died on June 16, 1870, shortly after this census was taken. Her funeral was held at the First Colored Baptist Church on West Martin (Pearl Street) near McLemore Street (10th Ave. N.), with the services conducted by H. S. Bennet and the Reverend Nelson G. Merry, who was the first African American minister ordained in Nashville as well as the founder of the Tennessee Colored Baptist Association. An 1872 Freedman's Bank record for 13-year-old Thomas Keeble (this was apparently Samuel, since "Sammy" was scratched out and "Thomas" written above it on the form) gave his address as 116 North Cherry Street (today's 4th Avenue), which was the site of Harding House, and he named as his parents Sampson W. and Harriet Keeble. (See image below.)
Keeble was believed to be among the wealthiest blacks in the city. An 1871 article in the Republican Banner called attention to the fact that a watch stolen from him was evaluated at $100 (the equivalent of as much as $2,000 in 2011). Another article from 1871 suggests that he may have built up his wealth by being sternly frugal. In a squabble with a Market House merchant over the price of a turkey, Sampson Keeble was severely injured when vendor Byron Jackson struck him over the head with a cane. The Nashville Banner reported that Keeble "was taken home mortally wounded," and that, despite the efforts of physicians who discovered a compound fracture of the skull and "performed the operation of trepanning," he was not expected to live.
In spite of such grave journalistic predictions, the plucky barber and boarding house proprietor not only survived his injuries but became even more intensely involved in civic affairs during the next two years. In July 1871 Keeble was named a director of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association, along with Henry Harding, William Sumner, Elias Polk, Abram Smith, Simeon R. Walker, Nelson Walker, John J. Cary, William Butler, J. W. Lapsley, J. L. Howard, Hiram C. Rhodes, and Oliver Thompson. This association ordered the construction of an amphitheater on the Colored Fairgrounds in preparation for the annual fair, scheduled to open on September 13. In May 1872 the Davidson County Chancery Court issued a decree granting the directors' petition for incorporation of the association. In June of that year Keeble was re-elected a director as the group planned the next fair, which would open on September 15 and run for six days. Sampson Keeble, now clearly playing a leadership role in the African American community, served as treasurer of the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association and as a member of the advisory board of the Nashville Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Bank, one of only a handful of all-black Freedman's Bank boards in the United States.
A petition was filed in Chancery Court on August 24, 1872, asking that the Freedman's National Life Insurance Association be incorporated under the following directors: Nelson Walker, John J. Cary, Henry Harding, Abram Smith, Richard Howard, W. C. Napier, Sampson W. Keeble, and William Sumner. "The capital stock of the company is not to be less than $100,000, and may be increased to $250,000, to be divided into shares of $100 each."
First African American elected to Tennessee General Assembly
Sampson Keeble offered his name as a Republican nominee for a seat in the General Assembly at a Party gathering in July 1869 but lost the nomination to J. H. Sumner, 51-33. He remained active in politics, and his intelligence and good nature won him many friends and supporters. In April 1870 he was on the committee that helped arrange a day of celebration after the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. Oddly, Tennessee, which already had a law on its books allowing black male citizens to vote, had voted against the Fifteenth Amendment. [In fact, Tennessee legislators did not ratify that amendment until the 100th General Assembly in 1997!]
The election year of 1872 was a busy time for Keeble. In March he was part of a group of barbers who signed a resolution calling for a state barbers' convention to get to know one another, to provide for the widows and orphans of deceased members, and "to strive to ameliorate our condition too, and thus contribute our mite to the great work of elevation." At the convention of the Davidson County Radical Republican Party that endorsed Ulysses S. Grant's nomination, Sampson Keeble was appointed to the County Executive Committee and was elected as one of the seventeen delegates to the State Convention. In October the members of the Republican County Convention unanimously nominated Keeble, Captain James W. Ready, and Dr. Rudolph Knaffle to be "candidates for the Lower House of the General Assembly of Tennessee," subject to the approval of the County Republican Executive Committee.
A November 2 article in the Nashville Union and American announced, "We have been furnished with one of the genuine Radical tickets for this county — variegated in color and in make-up." The newspaper urged readers to "vote the straight tickets."
Thus it was that in November 1872, riding the coattails of a sizeable popular vote for U. S. Grant for President, Sampson W. Keeble was narrowly elected, along with Dr. William P. Jones as Senator, and Philip Lindsley, J. B. Jeup, and James W. Ready as Representatives from Davidson County in the 38th Tennessee General Assembly, which convened on January 6, 1873. Grant was enormously popular among black voters, so Keeble certainly picked up most of those votes, but he must have won a number of white votes as well, from people who found his moderate political stance acceptable. Unlike most other counties that elected black politicians during the next decade or so, Davidson County continued to retain a majority of white voters. Keeble became the first African American to serve as a member of the state legislature (and the last for some time – it would be eight years before another African American member took a seat in the House). The Nashville Union and American reporter who wrote the story on November 7, 1872, was a little careless with his facts and rather ambivalent about Keeble's victory:
A cynical article from the Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (January 25, 1873) provided some details of the situation Keeble faced in the legislature:
During his term in the legislature, despite such insults by the press and his apparent isolation in the House, Keeble valiantly introduced several bills aimed at bettering the condition of the African American community. One bill was intended to amend Nashville's charter to allow blacks to operate businesses downtown; a second provided protection for wage earners (several black legislators of the 1880s would later follow his lead and introduce similar bills); and a third appropriated state funds to help support the Tennessee Manual Labor University. However, Keeble was unsuccessful at providing legislation to benefit his black neighbors, for none of his bills received a sufficient number of votes to pass into law. Keeble served only a single two-year term in the General Assembly and lost a later bid for re-election.
When writing about social events that included both black and white guests, several newspapers took note of a Nashville banquet to which Sampson Keeble was invited. According to the Dallas Morning News, "In 1873 Gov. John C. Brown of Tennessee gave a banquet at the Maxwell House in Nashville and one of his guests was Sampson Keeble, a man of very black skin." The Duluth News-Tribune and the Kansas City Journal said, "In Mr. Cleveland's first administration the late Frederick Douglass was invited to one of the congressional receptions, together with his Caucasion [sic] wife, then his bride. And John C. Brown, the Democratic governor of Tennessee, as far back as 1873, when he gave a banquet at the Maxwell house, Nashville, had among the invited guests on that occasion the Hon. Sampson Keeble, a black negro representative from Davidshon [sic] county, who not only attended the banquet, but responded to a toast."
The rise and fall of the Freedman's Bank
The concept of the Freedman's Bank was first proposed by abolitionist John W. Alvord at a meeting with business leaders in New York in January 1865. Originally intended as a savings bank for the benefit of African American soldiers, its scope was broadened to include all former slaves and their descendants. Charles Sumner steered the bill quickly through Congress, and it was signed into law by President Lincoln five weeks later, on March 3, 1865. The bank was based in Washington, D.C., but branch offices quickly opened in seventeen states, including Tennessee. Sampson Keeble served from the beginning as a member of the advisory board of the Nashville Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Bank. Advertisements encouraged African American depositors, telling them the bank was chartered by Congress and misleading them into thinking their money was safely under the protection of the federal government. Unfortunately, however, despite the best efforts of Congress and newly appointed bank president Frederick Douglass, the bank had no choice but to close in 1874 because of "overexpansion, mismanagement, abuse, and outright fraud." (Washington) African American depositors, many of whom had placed their life savings in Freedman's accounts, were shocked to discover that the federal government did not protect the bank's assets, and that they had lost everything. Local administrators, powerless to save their banks from the failure of the parent institution in Washington, D.C., petitioned Congress for help.
Sampson Keeble joined the Rev. Nelson Walker, Nashville entrepreneur Henry Harding, and other prominent Nashville citizens in sending a memorial to Congress. In their petition, they attempted to explain the magnitude of the fraud perpetrated on unlettered and trusting depositors by the bank, accusing it of ". . . appealing to a class of people who had been prevented by their previous condition of servitude from accumulating wealth or even a competency; and the principal, and in fact the effective, argument used by the managers and agents of the institution to induce that poor, unlettered, and trusting class to deposit their small earnings—the fruit of their toil—in the institution was, that it was an institution chartered by the Government, with its principal office at the seat of Government, and that its funds, by express direction of Congress, (which the class appealed to believed was a guarantee by Congress,) were to be invested in Government securities. It is easy to see that the colored people, for whose benefit Congress chartered this institution, would readily conclude that the Government was bound or under some pledge which secured their deposits. This may not be the law of the case, but it is certain that such representations were made by the agents of the institution, and that the people who placed their deposits in the bank believed that the Government was bound for the deposits, or at least bound to see that the deposits were securely invested in United States securities, and that this was a contract between the United States and the depositor . . . . There may be no legal obligation resting upon the Government to guarantee [to those left in the unfortunate condition of having every dollar most of them have in the world locked up in the payment of the amounts they have deposited on the faith of their confidence in what they regarded as the solemn pledge of the Government to have the funds of the institution invested in the securities of the Government, but we respectfully urge that there was and is a moral obligation resting on the Government to grant your memorialists, and the other depositors in the institution, speedy relief by assuming and paying the amounts due them; taking the assets of the bank, and holding every other officer or agent of the institution who is liable, civilly or criminally, to a strict responsibility for their acts."
Despite this passionate appeal, joined with similar petitions from other affected states, Congressional response was disappointing. Eventually, about half of the betrayed depositors received a fraction (60% or less) of the value of their accounts, while others lost everything they had saved. A number of depositors continued to petition Congress for years, hoping for reimbursement that never came. In the end, the African American community felt itself betrayed not only by the bank, but also by their government.
Civic and political activity
As a result of Keeble's membership on several boards and his political activism through-out the city, he was well known and admired within the African American community. After his legislative service, he was elected a magistrate in the Davidson County Court, serving from 1877 to 1882. His 1041-1022 victory in 1876 was contested on August 10 by his opponent, James W. Ready, his 1872 Republican running mate, who demanded a recount. After two days of counting Ready's votes only, election officials announced that his total was 1,060, 19 more than Keeble's original number. However, as the Daily American pointed out, "Ready should have enjoined the Sheriff from issuing a certificate of election to Keeble, and thus had the matter decided before the returns were made to the authorities at the Capitol. As the Sheriff was not notified of Ready's intention to contest the election, he gave Keeble a certificate of election, and the returns having been made to the Capitol, Keeble had no trouble obtaining his commission. . . . Ready's only recourse is now through the courts." When Ready challenged Keeble's election in county court August 25, Judge John C. Ferris ruled that the commission could not be set aside once it was granted, and that Keeble should remain in office. Meanwhile, Keeble had asked that his own votes be recounted. This time his total was 1,066 – higher than Ready's 1,060, after all. On August 22, in the midst of the recount process, Sampson Keeble had again been named a delegate to the State Republican Convention, along with A.V.S. Lindsley, Gen. George Maney, J. C. Napier, and Thomas A. Sykes.
An attack on Keeble's integrity was reported on November 15, 1878. A story in the Daily American called "Colored Justice under Suspicion" told of the arrest of Keeble and two black police detectives on charges of "extortion and official oppression," the second such charge against Keeble. It was not unusual for African Americans in positions of authority to be subjected to trumped-up charges by political opponents. It is apparent that these charges were also disproved, for Keeble continued to serve four more years as magistrate without interruption.
His cases were frequently covered by the "Courts" section of local newspapers. One can find articles, for example, recounting that he fined two women for breach of peace in 1877, jailed a man in 1878 for assault and battery, and ordered an inquest in the 1881 death of teenager Granville Bosley, who had been struck by lightning. In 1877 Keeble's office was the site of a protest meeting of journeymen barbers, who initiated a strike for higher wages and more equitable working conditions.
Sampson Keeble ran again for the General Assembly in 1878 but was defeated by a Greenback party candidate, perhaps partly because the Democrats were beginning to regain their political supremacy in Davidson County by that time, and partly because racial violence and poll taxes were producing their intended effect of intimidating black voters, who failed to turn out at the polls in their usual numbers. Keeble remained active in city government, however, serving on a federal grand jury in 1881 and eventually being elected as a magistrate.
Marriage to Rebecca Cantrell Gordon
By the time of the 1880 census, Sampson, now in his late 40s, was married to Rebecca Cantrell Gordon, a 29-year-old teacher (born August 24, 1849), who had been educated in New York; they were the parents of three-year-old "Jennie" (Jeannette) and one-year-old "S.W." (Sampson W. Jr.). These were the only Keeble children who survived to adulthood. Several others, including a set of twins, died in infancy. (Five-month-old Charles Marshall Keeble died in November 1881; another son, born during the election year of 1884, was given the name James G. Blaine Keeble, but this child soon died as well.) In the 1910 census, Rebecca would report that only two of the six children to whom she had given birth were still living. Also residing in the Keeble household in 1880 were Sampson's widowed mother, Nancy Keeble (78), and two young relatives, Hattie M. Beckwith (18, doubtless the 8-year-old Hattie "Keeble" of the previous census) and Maggie K. Smith (17), both of whom were attending school in Nashville. Everyone in the household except for Sampson was identified as "mulatto."
Keeble's wife Rebecca was the natural daughter of her mother Harriott's slave-owner, Carroll McGuire [named on her death certificate], and was raised in her father's home, with light duties as a household servant – a "foot slave." It is quite possible that she was educated along with the other children of the household. Delighted by this clever little girl, her father sent her to live with relatives in Staten Island, New York, and she received an education there that included lessons in music and Latin. She eventually returned to Nashville (after a failed romance, according to family lore) where she began to teach other African Americans, both children and adults, to read and write. Even after the Civil War, a considerable number of people opposed education for blacks, and some extremists attempted to find and close black schools, which were often makeshift workshops held in churches and private residences. Rebecca continued to teach, in spite of threats to her safety, moving from place to place to meet with her students. Sampson Keeble fell in love with this beautiful and spirited young woman, more than 15 years his junior, and they were married about 1875. Family members say that both Sampson and Rebecca were avid readers who particularly loved reading the Bible.
Family life and children's accomplishments
At some point, daughter Jeannette remembered, the family left Nashville for Marshall, Texas. However, they returned to Nashville a short time later when, as descendants tell the story, the passionately Republican Keeble "was run out of there for being a rabble-rouser." Jeannette may have been remembering her father's final years – he died in Fort Bend County, Texas, in 1887, when his children were still quite young. Rebecca returned to Nashville and continued to work after becoming widowed. She was a remarkable seamstress, and could knit, crochet, tat (make lace), and embroider expertly. Her name appeared in city directories from 1891 through 1918 in much the same form: "Keeble, Rebecca G (c), widow Samson W, seamstress," and her address for much of that period was a boarding house at 1605 Jefferson Street. Her son Sampson W. Jr. lived with her until 1910 or 1911. Keeble descendants remember that he owned a high-wheeler (penny-farthing) bicycle as a young man. There were a number of these bicycles around Nashville during the 1880s, as well as clubs that encouraged their use.
Benjamin and Jeannette Keeble Cox, both graduates of Fisk University, were lifelong educators, spending many years at the helm of the Avery Institute in Charleston, South Carolina. Sampson Jr. appeared from time to time in Nashville city directories, working as a porter, a clerk, or a messenger (for the Duncan Hotel); his last Nashville census entry was recorded in June 1910, showing him to be single and living in Rebecca's household. In August 1912 he took out a license in Detroit, Michigan, to marry Alice Criss, a woman who had been married once before. Keeble gave his age as 34, listed his occupation as janitor, named Sampson and Rebecca as his parents, and stated he had no previous marriages. C. Emery Allen, clergyman, officiated at the ceremony, held August 18, 1912. Unfortunately, when Sampson filled out his Draft Registration card in 1918 (medium height, medium build, brown eyes, black hair), his marriage seems to have ended. He listed Rebecca Keeble as his nearest relative, and his occupation as porter in the Hoffman Hotel in Detroit. Alice's name appeared on another marriage license in July 1920; 40 years old by then, and marrying a 33-year-old laborer named Ralph Dixon, she said (for the second time!) that she had had only one previous marriage.
Final years
After her son moved north, Rebecca continued to work as a dressmaker. When her eyes failed, Jeannette and Benjamin Cox took her into their home in Charleston, where she could be near her beloved grandchildren. She died there tragically, early in 1923, when a gas stove in her room set her clothes on fire. Although family members rushed to her aid, they were too late to save her.
The last year the name of Sampson Keeble Sr. appeared in the Nashville City Directory was 1886, when he was listed as a teacher. A brief obituary in the Nashville Daily American on July 3, 1887, said, "The many friends of Sampson W. Keeble (formerly of Nashville) will regret to learn of his sudden death, which occurred in Richmond, Tex., June 19, caused by a congestive chill [probably a form of malaria]. He was born in Rutherford County May 18, 1833. He was 54 years old."
It is not clear whether Sampson W. Keeble was buried in Texas or Tennessee. He is listed with his daughter and son-in-law, Jeannette Keeble and Benjamin F. Cox, on a grave-stone in Greenwood Cemetery on Elm Hill Pike in Nashville. The grave is on a piece of land that runs parallel to Spence Lane, directly across from the final resting places of R. H. Boyd, a Nashville publishing giant, and James C. Napier, the city's first African American councilman and Register of the U.S. Treasury under President Taft. There is no grave for Rebecca, although her death certificate says that her body was returned to Nashville for burial on January 10, 1923, so it is probable that Sampson was already buried in that city. Sampson's mother lies in the old Mt. Ararat Cemetery in Nashville, under a broken gravestone with this nearly illegible inscription:
|KEEBLE Born: 1805 Died: 1883
State Honors Sampson Keeble in 2010
On Monday, March 29, 2010, a bust of Sampson W. Keeble, commissioned by the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators, was unveiled outside the House Chamber in the State Capitol. Created by internationally recognized sculptor Roy W. Butler, the bust stands on a base of Tennessee pink marble engraved with the names of all fourteen African American legislators elected to the Tennessee General Assembly during the 19th century. The day-long ceremony, which was attended by eight direct descendants of Sampson Keeble, included addresses by three historians, a slide show by Mr. Butler illustrating various stages in the production of the bust, a luncheon for family members and legislators at the historic Hermitage Hotel, and the unveiling of the statue, followed by a public reception and the reading of a proclamation in the House of Representatives honoring Keeble and the other 19th century black legislators.
Many thanks to Sampson Keeble family members Helen Davis Mills, Dr. Leonard Davis, and Dr. Wendell Cox Jr., who provided invaluable information for this biography. We are so very grateful for your continuing support.
Much gratitude also to Walter Keeble descendant Virginia G. Watson for sharing her research on the Keeble family.
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ALCS Game 2 pregame
BOSTON — I was heading out of the Fenway Park pressbox last night and walking in was broadcaster Rick Sutcliffe. Naturally, I held the door for the man and he responded with a simple, "Thanks." No, Sut. Thank, you. Thank you for helping the Cubs to the 1984 division title. The least I could do was hold the door for the man.
Talk about an offensive explosion in that Game 1, huh? Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz continued to put up their ridiculous postseason numbers. Even if I played as the Red Sox on my gamecube — yeah, I'm the one guy in the world who still is rockin' the 'cube — I don't think I could match the stats their putting up. It's been flat-out sick. I know C.C. Sabathia struggled somewhat in Game 1 of the ALDS against the Yanks, but I didn't think he'd labor as much as he did last night. Indians need a big game from Fausto tonight. The last thing the Tribe wants to do is head back home down, 2-0.
As things stand right now, we'll be taking in a Rox-Sox World Series. What a boneheaded play by Stephen Drew last night in the bottom of the ninth. The ump calls him safe at second after Rox SS Troy Tulowitski's foot came off the bag, and Drew starts jogging back toward the dugout. OK, fine, you didn't realize you were called safe, but you don't see the shortstop arguing with the ump? That turned out to be quite costly, considering the D-Backs wound up losing in 11.
Anyway, I just got here to the Fens to prep for Game 2. For all of you dying to know who's taking the field tonight in Beantown, here are tonight's lineups:
Cleveland (0-1) at Boston (1-0)
at 8:21 p.m. ET at Fenway Park
Today's lineups:
Grady Sizemore, CF
Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
Travis Hafner, DH
Victor Martinez, C
Ryan Garko, 1B
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Kenny Lofton, LF
Franklin Gutierrez, RF
Casey Blake, 3B
PITCHING: RHP Fausto Carmona
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Varitek, C
Coco Crisp, CF
Julio Lugo, SS
PITCHING: RHP Curt Schilling
34 Comments
Man oh man! Talk about a bullpen (re: Gagne) implosion!
As someone who's rooting for Cleveland, though, I'm loving it!
Peralta is awesome. Why oh why can't the Jays find ****? Lingering memories of Tony Fernandez can only keep me satiated for so long….
You could have had Troy Tulowitzski with the 6th pick but your incompetent g.m. picked Ricardo Romero. Romero went 3-6 with a 4.89 E.R.A. with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats this year. Thank J.P. when you see him.
Oh, I know all about the Tulowitzki fiasco. That's been brought up many-a-time on this board and many other Blue Jay sites. Unfortunately, J.P. thought he was well-stocked at SS with Russ "The Fielding Disaster" Adams and Aaron Hill already in the system. Hill moves to 2B and Adams can't throw a ball to first, so once again the Jays lack ****.
Oh well. Thems are the breaks! Maybe Tony Fernandez can come out of retirement?
And, don't worry, when I see JP I'll be sure to thank him…..
I really enjoyed Fernandez except when he went against Boston. He always seemed to hit Boston pitching well.
Junior Felix, where is he?
He smoked Boston back in June of 1989. He even had a inside the park grand slam at Fenway that weekend. That kid was unbelievable that weekend, I thought he was going to be around for a long time. Felix was so fast.
Or maybe Denbo can work his magic on the one of the best FIELDING shortstops in baseball. He is at least going to try. Wouldn't that be a kick and MacDonald is a great guy too. Too much to ask?
If my memory serves me right, Junior Felix was a guy who didn't seem to understand his strengths. He was always swinging for the fences and striking out too much, when he should have been capitalizing on his speed and hitting into gaps. Eventually he just faded out of baseball as his OBP continued to drop….
Johnny-Mac is an awesome dude and his defense is great, but I still don't think he's an everyday SS. He's a great bench player and late-inning defensive replacement, but I personally think that's as good as it gets.
With that said, the Jays don't have many options this year, so they might as well go with him. I think the best the Jays can hope for is that stellar defense and a (cross your fingers) a .245 average.
But I'd love for him to prove me wrong….
Well here's hoping that the new batting coach can help him like he has others. Any increase is money in the bank.
That is, after all, supposedly why we got rid of Brantley and hired Denbo. If he can't fix some of our glaring weaknesses he is no good to us.
And I only harp on Tony Fernandez because he could hit, field, and do the little things. I'm just wondering why that position's been such a black hole for the past fifteen years….
I'm not sure I'm entirely sold on Denbo. I think a new approach was necessary, but Brantley definitely got screwed.
But I read an interesting article the other day (can't remember where) that showed the Yankees offensive stats were way down the one year Denbo was their hitting coach. Although they did make it to the World Series that year, their offensive stats were much better the year before and the year following Denbo's tenure.
So I looked up the Yankees hitting stats:
2001 (Denbo's year): .267AVG, .435SLG, .334OBP
So, as you can see, everything's down during Denbo's year. Stats aren't everything and I have no idea what the Yankees injury situation was that year, but it's definitely interesting.
With that said, if Denbo can lead the Jays to the World Series with a .267 team average, I'm all about it!
I'd like to present a new draft pick which seems to be missing from the 'missed pick' banter….
In 2006, check the 40 pick Kristopher Johnson when the 41 pick was Joba??
Some kids take longer to come along than others so let's not speak poorly of these fine men just yet.
As far as "missed picks" go, it also has to be kept in mind who is representing these players in the draft. Ian Kennedy, for example, was drafted 21st overall by the Yankees not because he was a secret or some diamond in the rough — everyone knew he was talented, but he was being represented by Scott Boras. A lot of teams know they can't afford to sign a Boras client even in the draft, so they let players like Kennedy slip down the draft until a team comes along that can afford him.
Chamberlain was picked that late because teams thought he was a medical risk.
The reason for the Jays missing Tulowitzski had nothing to do with his agent or money. It was a miss by the Jays!!!
Hansen was selected far down because of Boras was his agent and your right about Kennedy.
There's no doubt the Jays dropped the ball on Tulowitzki. But like I said, they thought they were locked in at SS with Hill and Adams. Unfortunately, though, things just didn't work out the way they planned. No one anticipated that Adams would have such massive defensive problems AND that those problems would also effect his approach at the plate.
I'm not making excuses for JP, but being a hindsight GM is a much too easy thing to do….
Well, Chamberlin doesn't appear to have been a risk afterall….As far as I can tell, this was a MISS by Theo.
Fair game.
In general, I think it's way too early to judge Chamberlain's draft class. I think the Yankees got lucky that two of those picks rose up so quickly. Time will tell, too, if they can stick around at the Major League level. Even Halladay needed a return to the minors after a quick (but not as quick as Kennedy and Joba) rise through the minor ranks….
And on another note, is anyone else who's rooting for Cleveland worried that their 1&2 starters got rocked by the Red Sox? Carmona and Sabathia are their money guys, but they were chewed up and spat out by Boston's big bats….
Obviously on Chamberlain everyone missed. The Red Sox were concerned of a medical issue and a few teams were as well.
I don't think the Yankees got lucky on Chamberlain, that is what you call good scouting. Getting lucky is when you draft Mike Piazza ( hall of famer ) very late in the draft. He was drafted as a favor. Imagine that.
Halladay went back to the minors to change his delivery. You don't do that on the major league level. If you do, you will have a very soar neck.
A credit to Halladay, some guys would have too big of an ego, not him and that speaks volumes of him.
My point was..if you 'fans'can be critical of JP passing on Tulo, why is the Joba 'miss' not being screamed from the rooftops?
Pretty easy to judge from the couch?
Joba made the move, all the way through the system because he had the talent to do so. Hughes, Joba and Kennedy. Not bad.
Drafting a s.s. is a good thing. There good enough athletes where you change there position and they can still do well. You draft a first baseman and he doesn't cut it, your limited at what you can do. You draft athletes like at s.s. or o.f. and you can move them around until you find there right position. Like B.J. Upton with Tampa Bay, he has found a home in c.f. He struggled mightly in the infield but he is too good of an athlete and he adjusted very well.
Tulowitzski was a much highly touted prospect that is why. Some teams had medical concerns with Chamberlain. Obviously the Yankees made the right move while everyone else didn't on Chamberlain. Tulowitzski was a can't miss prospect from everything you read about him.
Yankees have 3 great arms for the future. I think Hughes is the best of all them. The kid is just out of high school. I don't think he popped his first zit yet.
The jobs of J.P. and the front office is to find these prospects. That is why they get the big $$$. Boston and N.Y. have focused alot on there draft and have done a very good job. Boston and N.Y. are winning and developing young talent, not an easy thing to do but they are doing it. Some of these teams aren't building anything and aren't winning anything. Pathetic I think!!!
You're preaching to the converted here, buddy. I totally agree that it's much easier to judge after-the-fact. I've already stated my case about why JP didn't pick another SS — he thought he already had some depth there.
And, yeah, I get Bosox's argument about picking an athletic SS. At the same time, though, you can never have enough pitching and Romero looked like a strong lefty starter and you can never have enough of those in your system. But, hey, it didn't work out — Tulowitzki's looking like a future All-Star and Romero's struggling with injuries and consistency. I'm not ready to give up on him entirely (stranger things have happened), but his blue-chip prospect days seem to be fading….
Anyone else watching the D-Back/Rox game? Torrealba's having an incredible game at the plate!
And I'm really impressed with the Rockies middle-infield defense. Those guys can play!
Arizona's been a team that's defied statistics all year long. Looks like that's finally starting to catch up to them — they can't seem to get anything going in these first three games.
Rockies remind me of the Marlins of 2003. The team nobody wants to face. A team that has come out of nowhere. There pitching has been out of this world. That will be one tough team to beat in the World Series. They came into Fenway and beat the Red Sox 2 out of 3 back in mid June. They also smoked Beckett at Fenway, nobody did that this year. The Indians and Red Sox have there work cut out for them when they get to the fall classic. We could have some snow out there when the World Series hits Denver.
The Rockies defense has been solid in the playoffs. Nobody talks about it but they are doing it with the gloves.
I'd say their defense has been more than solid — it's been spectacular! I start sweating in anticipation every time there's a ground ball to short or second….
Not to mention Taveras' diving catch in center the other day….I almost choked on my excitement!
Do you get a chance to watch much defense up there with the Jays?
Choking on excitement, now that is just great!!!
The Jays actually have pretty good defense. Johnny Mac's spectacular, Hill's solid like a granite wall, and Wells makes everything look routine in CF.
But this is the playoffs! And I'm jazzed/revved/jacked up!
Guess what? Jeff Blair isn't a big FOX Sports or AJ Burnett fan:
Funny stuff….


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > February 2007 > History Department Plans Tour of England, Scotland in 2008
History Department Plans Tour of England, Scotland in 2008
PLAINVIEW – The Division of Social Sciences at Wayland Baptist University will host a travel study tour of England and Scotland in the summer of 2008, with an informational meeting slated March 1 for those interested.
Set for June 25 through July 9, 2008, the trip is titled "Victorian Vistas and Roman Ruins" and includes several days in London and other parts of England and three days in Scotland.
"This is a pretty different trip than we've taken in the past," noted Dr. Niler Pyeatt, professor of history and co-host of the trip with Dr. Kevin Sweeney, associate professor of geography and history. "There's not as much travel within the trip, so there's more focus on touring the area instead of just traveling."
After a day of travel to London via airplane, the touring begins on Day 2 with sightseeing at the Tower of London, followed by a day at Buckingham Palace and the Royal Mews, Westminster Palace and the Imperial War Museum. More museums follow on Day 4, with the Charles Dickens House, Sherlock Holmes Museum and Florence Nightingale Museum. Day 5 is a free day in London to spend as you wish, with optional trips to Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral planned. Pyeatt notes a large library and public records office in London might be a great day trip for genealogists who want to do overseas research.
After scheduled visits to Windsor Castle, Frogmore, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, where tours include the Naval Museum and the HMS Warrior, the tour continues to the resort area of Brighton along the English Channel. From there, the tour focuses on the Roman Ruins area at Fishbourne, the site of an old Roman villa, and the Verulamium Museum, where costumed reenactments of the Roman Empire's rule take place.
The trip also includes visits to Cambridge, Lincoln, York and Harewood House's Aviary Zoo as well as the York Castle Museum and Kirkgate. After a stop at Chester's Fort at Hadrian's Wall, a day of travel to Edinburgh, Scotland follows, representing the longest travel time within the trip. Day 13 features a tour of Edinburgh Castle and free time in Edinburgh, with the next day including the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, where Robert the Bruce won Scottish freedom from England, and Sterling Castle. The final day is the return trip to the United States.
"We've try to balance out between castles, cathedrals, nature and shopping as well as historical sites, and we've built in some free time and optional tours as well," notes Sweeney. "There is a lot of good shopping in Edinburgh and in Brighton as well for those with interest."
Organizers note that the March 1 meeting, planned for 6:30 p.m. in Gates Hall room 217, does not commit anyone to the trip, and no money is required at that time. Details about the trip and payment will be given at that time.
The tour costs $3,360 for students and $3,800 for all others. A $95 registration fee is due at the time of signup and a $400 deposit is due by June 1 of this year. The entire trip cost must be paid by March 2008 and can be spread over the next year.
The trip is arranged through EF Tours, a company Wayland has used several times for overseas study tours.
Students may choose to enroll in one of two upper-level history courses with credit earned through the trip. Courses offered – either Roman Britain or Victorian England – require additional cost to cover the tuition at Wayland. Some additional coursework may be required to receive full credit.
For more information, contact Pyeatt at 291-1175 or Sweeney at 291-1180.


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