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Science of Happiness Class - Fall 2008 Labs
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Schedule of Classes and Topics
Before Lab 1
8/26: Introduction: Logistics, goals, themes{No Reading}
PART 1: Who we are and what we want
8/28: The Divided Self: Naming your inner elephant{JH 1}
For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh... (St. Paul)
The mind is divided in many ways, but the division that really matters is between conscious/reasoned processes and automatic/implicit processes. These two parts are like a rider on the back of an elephant. The rider's inability to control the elephant by force explains many puzzles about our mental life, particularly why we have such trouble with weakness of will. Learning how to train the elephant is the secret of self-improvement.
Lab 1: Week of 9/1:
Getting to Know Each Other
Go Over Answers From Class
Negative/Positive - Divided mind:
- Heartland Forgiveness Scale
- Approach-Avoid Style (BIS-BAS)
- Big 5 Personality Scale
Give Altruism Slides/Intervention
Before Lab 2
9/2: Approach/Withdrawal and Negativity Bias {JH 2}
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it. (Marcus Aurelius)
Why are some people optimists and others pessimists? Why do people tend to choose mates, and even professions, whose names resemble their own? The automatic emotional reactions of the elephant guide us throughout our lives. Learn how to change those automatic reactions, using using meditation, cognitive therapy, and Prozac
9/4: Prospection: Thinking about the future {DG 1}
Journey to Elsewhen In Chapter 1, I describe how and why the human brain learned to look forward in time. I claim that this ability is uniquely important and uniquely human. But is that true? How do we know that other animals can't think about the future?
The psychologists William Roberts, Thomas Suddendorf, and Janie Busby describe research that attempts to determine whether non-human animals are, in fact, "stuck in time," or whether they (like us) can engage in "mental time travel." These writers conclude that animals cannot think about the long-term future, but the case is far from open-and-shut and their evidence and arguments are provocative.
Question What could a nonlinguistic animal ever do to prove to us that it can think about the future?
Readings T. Suddendorf, & J. Busby, "Mental time travel in animals?" Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, 391-396 (2003).
9/9: Natural selection and human nature {JH 3}
Zigong asked: 'Is there any single word that could guide one's entire life?' The Master said: 'Should it not be reciprocity? What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.' (Analects of Confucius)
Many species have a social life, but among mammals, only humans (and naked mole rats) are ultra-social – able to live in very large cooperative groups. The golden rule, supplemented with gossip, is the secret of our success. Understanding the deep workings of reciprocity can help you to solve problems in your own social life, and guard against the many ways people try to manipulate you.
9/11: Subjectivity: Comparing levels of happiness {DG 2}
The View from in Here In Chapter 2, I begin an examination of the emotional experience we call happiness. The human brain learned to look forward in time so that it could steer us toward happy futures and away from unhappy ones. But is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?
Philosophers such as John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham answered that question with a qualified "yes" and their philosophy of "utilitarianism" explains why. Robert Nozick disagreed, arguing that no one would want to spend his life in a virtual reality machine that provided artificial happiness. But is that true? Psychologist Geoffrey Miller speculates about what might happen to a society of individuals who learn how to synthesize happiness rather than "earning" it the old-fashioned way.
Question Is happiness one of many things a person can value, or is happiness what "valuing" means? In other words, do we ever value anything for any reason other than its potential to bring us happiness in the short or long term?
Readings "What Utilitarianism Is" in J.S. Mill "Utilitarianism" (1863), in On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism, in The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill, ed. D.E. Miller (New York: Modern Library, 2002).
"Happiness" in R. Nozick The Examined Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989, 102.
G. Miller, "Why we haven't met any aliens,"Seed, April/May, 41-43 (2006).
Lab 2: Week of 9/15:
9/16: Measurement of happiness {DG 3}
Go over Altruism Intervention
- Emotions Scale
- Life Satisfaction
- GSSOC Question
- Optimism?
Domain Specificity
- Maximizer/Satisficer Domain Specific Scale
- Basic Psychological Needs Scale
- Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale
Before Lab 3
Outside Looking In In Chapter 3, I dive into the psychological research literature by posing what seems like a simple question: How are you? As it turns out, people can't always answer this question accurately because they don't always know what they are feeling. This is a real problem, because a science of happiness requires that we measure happiness—and if people don't know what they are feeling, then how in the world can they tell us?
In his unbelievably brilliant book, the unbelievably brilliant psychologist Tim Wilson (who just so happens to be my research collaborator, so there is some small possibility I'm biased) explains how and why we are such "strangers to ourselves." The psychologists Norbert Schwarz and Fritz Strack describe some of the perils and pitfalls of measuring happiness.
Question What can and can't people tell us about their current emotional state, and are the things they tell us the best measure—or perhaps even the only measure—of their happiness?
Readings "Knowing Why" and "Knowing How We Feel" in T.D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 93-136.
N. Schwarz & F. Strack, "Reports of Subjective Well-Being: Judgmental Processes and Their Methodological Implications," in Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, ed. D. Kahneman, E. Diener, and N. Schwarz (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), 61-84; D. Kahneman, "Objective Happiness," in Well-Being, 3-25.
9/18: Naïve realism and self serving bias PART 1{JH 4}
Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? (Jesus)
Part of our ultra-sociality is that we are constantly trying to manipulate others perceptions of ourselves, without realizing that we are doing so. We see the faults of others clearly, but are blind to our own. Hypocrisy is part of human morality, and it sets us all up for lives of conflict. Learn how to take off the moral glasses and see the world as it really is.
9/23: Naïve realism and self serving bias PART 2{DG 4&5}
In the Blindspot of the Mind's Eye In Chapter 4, I pose and begin to answer the book's central question: Why do people make mistakes when they look into their own futures and try to decide what will make them happy? The full answer to this question extends over six chapters that describe the three basic mistakes that people make.
"Reality" is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually "out there" in the world when, in fact, it's not. When we imagine the future, we are similary overconfident that it will unfold as we imagine it.
The psychologist Jim Enns explains how our brains produce The Movie That Doesn't Seem Like A Movie. The fact that reality is a movie has important consequences for our personal and social lives, some of which are explored by the psychologists Edward Royzman, Kimberly Cassidy, and Jonathan Baron, and also by the psychologists Less Ross and Andy Ward. (By the way, near the end of their article, Royzman et al take a very clever whack at Nozick's experience machine argument from Chapter 2).
Question If people are naturally trapped in their own points of view, and if this is the basis of costly errors, then what kinds of individual remedies might we apply?
Readings J. T. Enns, "What Vision Is Not," in The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain (New York: Norton, 2004), 4-13.
E. B. Royzman, K. W. Cassidy, and J. Baron, "I Know, You Know: Epistemic Egocentrism in Children and Adults," Review of General Psychology, 7, 38-65 (2003).
L. Ross and A. Ward, "Naive Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding," in Values and knowledge: The Jean Piaget series ed. E. S. Reed, E. Turiel, and T. Brown (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996), 103-135.
The Hound of Silence Chapter 5 continues the discussion from the previous chapter. One problem with the "Reality Movie" is that some of the things that are in the movie aren't in reality itself. But the other problem is that some of the things that are in reality aren't included in the movie.
When we imagine the future, we leave things out, and the things we leave out are important. The psychologists Cheryl Wakslaks, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman review work showing that as the imagined future gets further away from us, we leave out more and more details. This causes us to agree to do things in the future that we don't want to do when the time to do them arrives, such as raking the leaves or visiting the dentist.
The psychologists Roger Buehler, Dale Griffin, and Lee Ross explore another consequence of our brain's tendency to leave some things out of the "Reality Movie," namely, the fact that we overestimate how much we will be able to do in the future.
Question If the foibles of imagination lead us to commit ourselves to take actions in the far future that we would be too lazy or scared to take in the near future, then should we really think of them as errors?
Readings C. J. Wakslak, Y. Trope, and N. Liberman, "Transcending the Now: Time as a Dimension of Psychological Distance," in Timing the future, ed. M. Myslobodsky (London: World Scientific/Imperial College, 2006).
R. Buehler, D. Griffin, and M. Ross, "Inside the Planning Fallacy: The Causes and Consequences of Optimistic Time Predictions," in Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, ed. T. Gilovich and D. Griffin (New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 250-270.
9/25: Exam 1
Lab 3: Week of 9/30:
Before Lab 4
PART 2: Barriers to happiness
9/30: Heritability, Adaptation and Hedonic Treadmill {JH 5, up to beginning of pg 90}
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. (Epictetus)
We often hear that happiness comes from within, you can't seek it in external things. And for a while, in the 1990s, psychologists agreed with the ancient sages that external conditions don't matter. But now we know that some do. Find out what you can do to improve your happiness, including spending money well. Buddha and Epictetus may have gone too far; the Western emphasis on action and striving is not so bad, when done right.
10/2: Cognitive failures: Barriers to getting what you want {BS 3}
Framing, availability, and choice
10/7: Hedonic (mis)forecasting Part 1 {DG 6}
The Future is Now In Chapter 6, I describe the second mistake we make when we try to estimate our future happiness. People gauge how happy a particular future will make them by imagining it, and then asking themselves how they feel when they do. The problem is that people get their current feelings and their future feelings all mixed up. We buy too much when we shop on an empty stomach because we can't separate how much we want the potato chips right now from how much we will want them tomorrow. Psychologist Leaf van Boven and decision-scientist George Loewenstein explain how and why this happens.
We gauge the goodness of the future (and hence the wisdom of our decision) by asking how we feel when we imagine it, and the neurologist Antonio Damasio describes a case of a brain-damaged man who has no feelings when he imagines the future, which makes it nearly impossible for him to decide what to do next.
Question We apparently can't do without our prefeelings, and yet, using them leaves us susceptible to a variety of errors. Is there a way to use them more wisely?
Readings "A modern Phineas Gage" in Descartes' Error, Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, A.R. Damasio, (New York: Avon Books, 1994) 34-51.
"Cross-Situational Projection," L. Van Boven, and G. Loewenstein in The Self in Social Perception, ed. M. Alicke, D. Dunning, and J. Krueger (New York: Psychology Press, in press).
10/9: Hedonic (mis)forecasting Part 2 {DG 7}
Time Bombs Chapter 7 extends the ideas presented in the previous chapter. The fact that the present exerts such a strong influence on our ability to imagine the future causes us to make some rather strange choices. For instance, psychologists Dan Ariely and Jonathan Levav show that the way we think about the future causes us to seek more variety than we will actually enjoy. Psychologists Chris Hsee, George Loewenstein, Sally Blount, and Max Bazerman show that choices involve comparisons, but the comparisons we make when we imagine the future are not the comparisons we make when we get there. Economist Dick Thaler and law professor Cass Sunstein discuss the ways in which social institutions might use these errors to promote desirable ends.
Question Are social policies that promote certain behaviors by capitalizing on the foibles of human judgment more or less insidious and effective than those that promote behaviors by explicitly rewarding and punishing them?
Readings D. Ariely and J. Levav, "Sequential Choice in Group Settings: Taking the Road Less Traveled and Less Enjoyed," Journal of Consumer Research 27, 279-290 (2000).
C.K. Hsee, G. F. Loewenstein, S. Blount, and M.H. Bazerman, "Preference Reversals Between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis," Psychological Bulletin 125, 576-590 (1999).
R.H. Thaler and C.R. Sunstein, "Libertarian Paternalism," American Economic Review 93, 175-179 (2003).
Lab 4: Week of 10/14:
Choice, Rumination, Perfectionism,etc... Scales
- Procrastination Scale
- Maximizer/Satisficer Scale
- Maximizer/Satisficer Domain Specific Scale
- Perfectionism Scale
Procrastination Intervention
Before Lab 5
10/14: Too much choice? {BS Prologue + BS 4}
Maximization, regret, perfectionism
10/16: Regrets, rumination, and social comparison {BS 6&7}
Opportunity cost and avoiding regret
10/21: Clinical depression {Reading posted on blackboard}
10/23: Weakness of will 1: Time Discounting, Temporal perspectives and visceral factors {Lowenstein article posted on Blackboard}
Lab 5: Week of 10/28:
Before Lab 6
10/28: Weakness of will 2: Addiction {No Reading}
10/30: Exam #2
PART 3: What makes people Happy?
11/4: Drugs & Happiness: recreation & medication{Reading on blackboard}
11/6: Cooking the facts {DG 8 & 9}
Paradise Glossed In Chapter 8, I describe the third mistake that prevents us from accurately imagining our future happiness. People are remarkably good at making the best of bad situations—changing their views of the world in order to feel better about the world in which they find themselves. For instance, psychologists Camille Wortman and Roxy Silver show that people cope with loss far better than most of us would expect.
Psychologists Shelley Taylor and Jonathan Brown argue that certain kinds and amounts of self-deception are the cornerstones of mental health. On the other hand, psychologist Roy Baumeister argues that self-deception has a cost, and that people who fool themselves about their own wonderfulness are a threat to themselves and others.
Question People change their views of reality in order to feel better about it, but should we teach and encourage or discourage such behavior?
Readings C.B. Wortman and R.C. Silver, "The Myths of Coping with Loss Revisited," in Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care ed. M. S. Stroebe and R. O. Hansson (Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2001) 405-429.
S.E. Taylor and J.D. Brown, "Illusion and Well-Being: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Mental Health," Psychological Bulletin, 103, 193-210 (1988).
R.F. Baumeister, "Violent Pride: Do People Turn Violent Because of Self-Hate, or Self-Love?" Scientific American, 284, 96-101 (2001).
Immune to Reality In the previous chapter I argued that people are quite good at changing their views of the world in order to change the way they feel about it. In Chapter 9, I argue that people are typically unaware that they have this talent. This lack of self-insight not only causes people to underestimate their future happiness, but it also causes them to do things that will undermine it, such as shopping in stores with liberal return policies, or seeking information about their secret admirers. Psychologist Daniel Gilbert (who often talks about himself in the third person) suggests that this tendency may even help explain why people believe in God. Psychologist Barry Schwartz asks whether the freedom to choose and to change one's mind might diminish, rather than enhance, happiness.
Question If people really are happier with choices when they can't undo them, then perhaps divorce should be illegal. How do we balance the costs of too little and too much freedom of choice?
Readings D. T. Gilbert, "The vagaries of religious experience," Edge, September 27 (2005).
B. Schwartz, "Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom," American Psychologist, 55, 79-88 (2000).
Lab 6: Week of 11/11:
Love and Attachment
- Attachment Style Scale
- Types of Love Scale (Friends vs. Parents vs. all Humanity)
- Identification with All Humanity Scale
- Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Empathy)
- Intercultural Empathy Scale
Before Lab 7
11/11: Pleasure misremembered, and relying on others {DG 10 & 11}
Once Bitten In this and the next chapter I ask whether and how people can overcome the errors that I describe in the previous chapters.
It is easy to understand why people make mistakes when they are doing something they've never done before. But why do people make mistakes when they are doing something they've done a thousand times? In Chapter 10, I argue that we often don't learn from our own experience because we often don't remember that experience accurately.
Psychologist Dan Schacter describes the tricks that memory can play on us, and psychologists Dan Ariely and Ziv Carmon show that memories of emotional experiences tend to leave out information about how long those experiences lasted.
Question Which is more important—experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?
Readings "The Sin of Bias" in D.L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers(New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2001), 138-160.
D. Ariely and Z. Carmon, "Summary Assessment of Experiences: The Whole Is Different from the Sum of Its Parts," in Time and Decision, ed. G. Loewenstein, D. Read, and R. F. Baumeister (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003) 323-49.
Reporting Live from Tomorrow If we don't learn from our own experience, can we learn from the experience of others? In Chapter 11, I claim that (a) we learn a lot from others, and a lot of what we learn is wrong, and (b) we don't learn much from others and much of what we don't learn is right. It sounds like I'm having it both ways, doesn't it? In fact, as I explain in this chapter, these two claims are not contradictory.
Psychologist Susan Blackmore describes the science of memes, which provides a way to think about how ideas (e.g., ideas about happiness) are transmitted from one human mind to another. One of the ideas that people transmit is that happiness comes from material wealth, and the economist Robert Frank explodes that myth. Sort of.
Question Should we or should we not attempt to debunk the myths that hold societies together but that reduce individual happiness?
Readings S. Blackmore, "The Origin of Language" and "Meme-Gene Coevolution" in The Meme Machine(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 82-107.
R.H. Frank, "How Not to Buy Happiness," Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 133, 69-79.
11/13: Happiness from within and without {JH 5 *starting with pg 90}
Ch.5: The pursuit of happiness
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. (Epictetus)
We often hear that happiness comes from within, you can't seek it in external things. And for a while, in the 1990s, psychologists agreed with the ancient sages that external conditions don't matter. But now we know that some do. Find out what you can do to improve your happiness, including spending money well. Buddha and Epictetus may have gone too far; the Western emphasis on action and striving is not so bad, when done right.
11/18: Love and Attachments {JH 6}
Ch.6: Love and attachments
No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. (Seneca)
There are so many kinds of love, but they all begin to make sense when you see where love comes from, and what it does. Understanding the different kinds of love can help explain why people make so many mistakes with love, and why philosophers hate love and give us bad advice about it.
11/20: Uses of Adversity, and the value of gratitude {JH 7}
Ch.7: The uses of adversity
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. (Nietszche)
Yes, unless it gives you post-traumatic stress disorder. This chapter explains how and why some people grow from their suffering, and what you can do to improve your odds of finding post-traumatic growth.
11/25: Virtue {JH 8}
Ch.8: The felicity of virtue
It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly, and it is impossible to live sensibly, nobly and justly without living pleasantly (Epicurus)
Is virtue its own reward? Yes, but in the modern West we've lost the ability to grow most virtues in good soil, and we've reduced virtue to just being nice. Where did we go wrong, and how can we forge a common morality in a diverse society?
Lab 7: Week of 12/2:
Gratitude Scales
- Gratitude Questionnaire
Virtue Scales
- Moral Foundations Questionnaire
- Disgust Scale
- Psychopathy Scale
After Labs
12/2: Divinity with and without God: {JH 9 & 10}
Ch.9: Divinity with or without God
We must not allow the ignoble to injure the noble, or the smaller to injure the greater. Those who nourish the smaller parts will become small men. Those who nourish the greater parts will become great men. (Meng Tzu)
The perception of sacredness and divinity is a basic feature of the human mind. The emotions of disgust, moral elevation, and awe tell us about this dimension, but not everybody listens. The "religious right" can only be understood once you see this dimension, which most liberals and secular thinkers do not understand – at their peril. Understanding this dimension is also crucial for understanding the meaning of life – the topic of the last chapter. Ch.10: Happiness comes from between
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.... (Upanishads)
What is the meaning of life? The question is unanswerable in that form, but with a slight rephrasing we can answer it. Part of the answer is to tie yourself down, commit yourself to people and projects, and enter a state of "vital engagement" with them. The other part is to attain a state of "cross-level coherence" within yourself, and within your life. Religion is an evolved mechanism for satisfying these needs. We can find meaning and happiness without religion, but we must understand our evolved religious nature before we can find effective substitutes.
12/4: What should government do, if anything? {Sunstein & Thaler article posted on blackboard}
List of Scales from Last Semester (We can add things!)
- Emotions Scale
- Procrastination Scale
- Satisfaction with Life
- Happiness Beliefs
- Happiness Strategies
- Maximizer/Satisficer Scale
- Maximizer/Satisficer Domain Specific Scale
- Basic Psychological Needs Scale
- Perfectionism Scale
- Heartland Forgiveness Scale
- Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale
- Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Empathy)
- Intercultural Empathy Scale
- Attachment Style Scale
- Approach-Avoid Style (BIS-BAS) Scale
- Moral Foundations Questionnaire
- Big 5 Personality Scale
- Disgust Scale
- Psychopathy Scale
- Gratitude Questionnaire
- Types of Love Scale (Friends vs. Parents vs. all Humanity)
- Identification with All Humanity Scale


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The week in review
Latest in the Western 29 Bypass resurrection: City Council votes 4-0 June 20 to oppose the controversial roadway. After a more than 10-year hiatus, the bypass revived June 8 at the end of a late-night Albemarle Board of Supervisors meeting.
Biggest foreclosure: "Preservation development" Bundoran Farm in North Garden goes on the block June 29, the Daily Progress reports.
Biggest paychecks: A power failure results in around 800 Charlottesville employees who have direct deposit getting paid twice– and many of those get an email warning not to spend the extra money, according to the Progress.
Biggest bathroom break: Ethyle Cole Giuseppe, 92, donates $100,000 to build a permanent bathroom at Greene County Community Park, the Greene County Record reports.
Most rabid: An infected raccoon sinks its teeth into the leg of hiker Kalie Sealander, 22, while in Shenandoah National Park, according to NBC29. Sealander has finished her rabies shots.
Most resolved: Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris is the first at the U.S. Conference of Mayors to sign a resolution urging an end to the war in Afghanistan and a reallocation of those resources for nation building in this country. The resolution passes June 20.
Briefest run: Attorney Peter McIntosh withdraws from the City Council race June 16, which he entered May 25, saying his heart wasn't in it, according to Greg Moomaw in the DP.
Best website: Waldo Jaquith, creator of the General Assembly-tracking site, Richmond Sunlight, is one of 16 people invited to the White House June 10 as a Champion of Change.
Farthest travels to have sex with a minor: Stuarts Draft resident Barbara Renee Case, 39, flew to Australia in May 2008 to have sex with a 15-year-old boy, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. She served 112 days in prison there for two counts of sexual penetration of a minor. On June 17, she is sentenced in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to 30 months in federal prison for engaging in multiple sex acts with the underage boy.
Most tragic fall– at the beach: Staunton toddler Lea Shiloh Moats, 2 1/2, tumbles backwards through the balcony railings at a fifth story room shortly after arriving at the Sandcastle Oceanfront Resort in Virginia Beach June 17 with her family. She dies early the next morning, according to the News Leader.
Most tragic fall– on the Blue Ridge Parkway: Jonathan Sullivan, 20, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, falls 100 feet while climbing Raven's Roost June 15, an accident believed to have been caused by equipment failure.
Latest to run afoul of county zoning: Arganica Farm Club, and organic distributor that operates out of historic Holly Tree Farm in Advance Mills, is cited with a zoning violation May 16 for allegedly running a warehouse/packing plant operation in a rural district, Graham Moomaw reports in the Progress. Arganica's founder, former DC real estate broker Dominique Kostelac, decries Albemarle's "adversarial" stance and threatens to move his operation to Maryland.
Latest in the Orange slaying: Brenda Canosa, 51, enters an Alford plea June 16 in the 2009 shooting of her estranged husband, Orange and Culpeper sheriff's investigator Bob Canosa. She claims she doesn't remember shooting her spouse.
Latest child molester: Eric Thompson Olsen, 56, of North Garden, pleads guilty June 15 to three counts of aggravated sexual battery of a seven-year-old girl, according to Tasha Kates in the Progress. He faces up to 60 years in prison when he's sentenced October 4.
Latest massive resistance controversy: The racist policies that shut down schools in Virginia– and in Charlottesville– in the late '50s rather than allow black children led the state to offer college scholarships to those whose education suffered, even if they're white. The Washington Post has the story.


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Ti-jurabi-chubi: Memory Work in Canada's National Parks
June 16, 2008
In the week following Harper's apology the headline story of the Calgary Herald's Sunday edition was a special report on the youth suicide epidemic on Tsuu T'ina Nation. That Saturday we spent the afternoon exploring the Sibbald Flat area.
The camping tradition at Sibbald Lake which spans several cultures and at least 11, 000 years continues today. It is with cruel irony that this area should be named after Howard E. Sibbald, an Indian agent (1901-1904) turned Banff National Park game warden (1909-). He was the Indian agent when the outer boundaries of Banff National Park were enlarged to encompass nearly all the hunting grounds of the Stoney-Nakoda First Nations and although he understood that the Stoney "took the enlargement of the Banff National Park very hard" he became a fierce opponent of First Nations hunting rights. So there it is, visitors to this area come away with his name on their photos! This region is associated with some of the oldest archaeological evidence of paleo-Indian hunting dating from the Plano Period (10,000 – 8,000 BP) as the glaciers retreated (now revised to as far back as 13, 000 years ago), the Assiniboine hunters of the 1700s and the Siouan-speaking Nakoda-Stoney who probably arrived in Banff in historic times-almost certainly after 1790, and perhaps not until the mid-1800s but they knew the place well by 1870. Surveyors and explorers of the late nineteenth century typically turned to Stoney guides, and as a result many landforms in Banff National Park are still known by their Stoney names.
Howard E. Sibbald was the the Indian agent on the reserve when the outer boundaries of Banff National Park were enlarged to encompass nearly all the hunting grounds of the Stoney-Nakoda First Nations. In his annual report (1902) he wrote that the Stoney "took the enlargement of the Banff National Park very hard." In 1903 he added that
"I consider these Indians have behaved very well under certain restrictions put upon them in connection with their hunting in the National Park; this was a hard blow to some of the old hunters who have hunted over this ground all their lives, but the majority see the benefits to be derived from this preserve in years to come (Sibbald 1902, 1903 Binnema and Niemi 2006)"
A Selected Timeline Related to Critical Events in this Region
11,000 years ago Prehistoric hunters chipped stone spearpoints to hunt in the hot grasslands. The Plano Period (10,000 – 8,000 BP) About 10,000 years ago the climate began to change and grasslands spread across southern Alberta. Mammoths and many other Ice Age animals became extinct, A beautiful example of an Alberta point. While other animals flourished including antelope and a new, smaller species of bison. This period, known as the 'Plano' period after the Spanish word for plains, lasted up to 8,000 years ago. http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta/archaeology/overview_pg3_planopr.html
1670-1821 The forefathers of the Nakoda Nation, identified as the Mountain Stoney and the Wood Stoney, lived during the fur trade era (1670 – 1821). "It is probable that all the Stoney Nakoda groups interacted and camped with one another during the pre-contact and early fur trade period, and gradually intermingled with other Assiniboine and Siouan speaking families over the centuries (Abawathtech.)
1700s Assiniboine hunted bison with bows. Aspen trees were already established. Prior to the arrival of Anthony Henday in central Alberta in 1754, Aboriginal people from the area were trading with Europeans either directly by visiting posts to the north and east themselves, or indirectly by trading with Cree and Assiniboine groups. These Aboriginal traders exchanged goods they had acquired from fur trade posts for furs, Beaver Indians at trading post. horses, food and other products. In turn, they then traded furs and other goods at posts for more goods that they could trade later. In this way European trade goods reached Alberta in unknown qualities for at least half a century before the first European arrived in person to trade.
1790 – "The Siouan-speaking Stoney (Nakoda) probably arrived in Banff in historic times-almost certainly after 1790, and perhaps not until the mid-1800s but they knew the place well by 1870. Surveyors and explorers of the late nineteenth century typically turned to Stoney guides, and as a result many landforms in Banff National Park are still known by their Stoney names [1] (Binnema and Niemi 2006)."
1875- Cattle ranchers had already arrived. Pine trees were already established.50 years ago Stoney Indian wove freshly-cut willows into the walls of a sweat lodge. There was already an open meadow.
1875 The Ontario family Andrew Sibbald came to Morley, AB from Ontario to teach at George and John McDougall's mission at Morley. In May 1900, Andrew Sibbald's son, Howard E. Sibbald became the farmer in charge at Morley, and from 1901 to 1904 he was the Indian agent there.
1880s Indian agents did tolerate or even encourage Indians to hunt for subsistence during the winters during the 1880s and early 1890s, and even later in more remote regions, but they believed that when a sedentary agricultural way of life was feasible for any given community, that community should be dissuaded from hunting. Thus, from the perspective of some Indian officials, the restriction of aboriginal hunting rights might be a blessing in disguise.
1895 Quebec established its 2,531-square-mile Laurentides National Park in prohibiting all hunting in the park.
1900 Quebec deputy superintendent general reported that the aboriginals' loss of hunting rights in the 2,531-square-mile Laurentides National Park near their reserve was one of the important factors that led them to direct their efforts towards agriculture.
1900 The last known wild passenger pigeon was killed around 1900.
1902 Howard E. Sibbald was the the Indian agent on the reserve when the outer boundaries of Banff National Park were enlarged to encompass nearly all the hunting grounds of the Stoney-Nakoda First Nations. In his annual report (1902) he wrote that the Stoney "took the enlargement of the Banff National Park very hard." Reflecting on the enlargement of Banff National Park, wrote "I hope it will be for the best, for as long as there was any game so close to the reserve, it was hard for them to get down to work."
1903-02 The Canadian Magazine published its obituary for the wild passenger pigeon species.
"[L]aws for the protection of our fish and game we have in plenty, but laws that are not enforced, and which are not supported by public sympathy, are worse than useless." See Binnema and Niemi 2006.
1903 In his annual report Indian agent, Howard E. Sibbald, wrote that although hunting restrictions were "a hard blow to some of the old [Siouan-speaking Nakoda-Stoney] hunters, … the majority see the benefits to be derived from this preserve in years to come." By that time, more Stoney had taken up paid work as guides even in the national park. He added that
"I consider these Indians have behaved very well under certain restrictions put upon them in connection with their hunting in the National Park; this was a hard blow to some of the old hunters who have hunted over this ground all their lives, but the majority see the benefits to be derived from this preserve in years to come (Sibbald 1902, 1903 Binnema and Niemi 2006)"
1903 In his annual report Howard Douglas argued that,
"Moose were frequently seen, elk, and black tail deer, big horns, and goats were plentiful; now some of these have totally disappeared… [and] there can only be one opinion on the subject. The Stony Indians are primarily responsible for this condition of affairs. They are very keen hunters, and have always been, and they are the only Indians who hunt in this section of the mountains. For years, from their reserve, they have systematically driven the valleys and hills and slaughtered the game. Their lodges are full of wild skins and meat. From thirty to fifty of the lodges are continually in the mountains from September 1 till Christmas … [T]he old haunts are deserted, the sheep runs are falling into disuse, and the greatest game country the sun ever shone upon is fast becoming a thing of the past. True, within the last few years, there has been a close season in which the Indians are supposed to stop harassing the game, but no notice has been taken of the law, and in short time this vast tract of mountain land, abounding in all that is required for the sustenance of wild animals, will be deserted, unless the Indians are compelled to live on their reserves. Laws are useless unless they are enforced. There seems to be a feeling that it would not do to press the more radical feature of the law amongst Indians. I feel that we have reached the time, when we can take a step in advance, when we can apply the laws more forcibly than we have, without creating any adverse sentiment. Let the line be drawn now; if we wait longer, the game will be gone (Douglas 1903)."
1904 In his annual report Howard Douglas made an appeal for game wardens as the noted that with the expansion of the boundaries of the park, that there were increased difficulties in enforcement. What was not clearly explained in his annual report was that the new boundaries prevented the Nakoda-Stoney from hunting on almost all their hunting grounds! Douglas called for "the establishment of a rigid and thorough system of game guardians to maintain the legislation needed for the enforcement of much more severe penalties for its infraction."
1909-06 The Canadian government provided for the hiring of game wardens in national parks. Douglas believed that the Nakoda-Stoney were the most serious threat to the game of Banff National Park and he therefore chose Howard E. Sibbald as the first chief game guardian.
1910 In Glacier National Park in Montana, William R. Logan, the park's first superintendent, was the former Indian agent on the Blackfoot reservation.
1911 The Canadian government passed the Dominion Forest Reserves and Parks Act, which established the Dominion Parks Branch-the world's first national park service-and helped institutionalize the Warden Service of the national parks. This altered the boundaries of national parks so that areas that were not important tourist destinations were removed from the national parks. As a result much of the land in Banff Park was reallocated to a forest reserve. The Stoney only briefly took heart. In August 1911, the assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior sent a sternly worded letter to the secretary of the DIA announcing that it intended to enforce a new regulation that stipulated that no one was allowed to enter the forest reserves without special permission from the Department of Forestry. The documents suggest then, that the policies of barring aboriginal people from Banff National Park were rooted primarily in the goals and values of conservationists and sportsmen. But aboriginal subsistence hunting also frustrated one of the central goals of the DIA at the time: the civilization and assimilation of aboriginal people. When he was still the Indian agent at Morley, in 1903, Howard Sibbald opined that "as long as they can hunt you cannot civilize them. I have lived alongside of them for twenty six years, and with the exception of a few of the younger ones they are no more civilized now than they were when I first knew them, and I blame hunting as the cause."
1930s By the 1930s, few Nakoda-Stoney could depend on full-time subsistence hunting.
2008 Harper's Apology
1. Luxton, Banff, Canada's First National Park, 49–50. For the Kutenai, see Raoul A. Andersen, "Alberta Stoney (Assiniboine) Origins and Adaptations: A Case for Reappraisal," Ethnohistory 17 (1970): 48–61; and Theodore Binnema, Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), 81–82. For the Blackfeet, see Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness, chap. 5; Brian Reeves and Sandra Peacock, "'Our Mountains Are Our Pillows': An Ethnographic Overview of Glacier National Park" (Glacier National Park, 2001); Brian O. K. Reeves, Mistakis: The Archaeology of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (Bozeman: Montana State University Press, 2003); and Binnema, Common and Contested Ground, chap. 2. The ancestors of the Stoney were among the Assiniboine who broke from the Sioux sometime before 1640. Some of their descendants were in the forests and foothills of the Rocky Mountains by the late 1700s, and in the area of present-day Banff Park by the mid 1800s. See Hugh A. Dempsey, Indian Tribes of Alberta (Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1988), 42–43. Also see Luxton, Banff, Canada's First National Park, chap. 4
Bibliography and Webliography
Binnema, Theodore (Ted) and Melanie Niemi, 'Let the Line be Drawn Now': Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada. Environmental History. 11.4 (2006): 33 pars. 15 Jun. 2008 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/11.4/binnema.html>.
Hildebrandt, Walter; Carter, Sarah; First Rider, Dorothy. 2008. The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7: Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council With Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy First Rider, and Sarah Carter. Mcgill-Queens Native and Northern Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN: 0-7735-1522-4 408pp. http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1419
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The industrial-size cries of the young heron reminded me of scenes from Jurassic Park. Their loud squawking can be heard long before you can see them. The activity in the nest is so aggressive and loud you would think an eagle was attacking. The huge nests balance on the tops of alder trees. This active rookery of about 50 nests is situated at c. 48°44'21.80″N, 123°37'38.78″W. On June 17, 2007 the young were visible with the naked eye. They are awkward and seem to be over-sized for their nests which sway as they fight over food that the adult heron bring.
As we chatted we could see a steady stream of herons flying back and forth between the food sources at low tide on the Cowichan Bay estuary and the rookery at the edge of the ravine that cuts deeply behind Pritchard Road. Dell Bumstead's mature, magical garden is at the end of Pritchard just on the edge of the ravine. Dell remembers when one flock of seventy heron flew over her garden c. 1997.
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Braves stick with six-man 'pen despite rash of injures
ATLANTA -- When the Braves decided to go with an 11-man pitching staff to create a roster spot for right fielder Jason Heyward on Friday, they certainly were not expecting that primary setup man Eric O'Flaherty might need to undergo season-ending Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery.
But even after an MRI exam showed a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of O'Flaherty's left elbow Saturday, Braves general manager Frank Wren said the team would continue to utilize a six-man bullpen, which is also without Jordan Walden, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday because of right shoulder inflammation.
"We're going to go with 11 [pitchers] for the foreseeable future until we need to make a change," Wren said. "We kind of planned that out over the last week or so when we got to this point."
While the Braves were not shocked to learn former setup man Jonny Venters needed to undergo Tommy John surgery this past Thursday, they certainly were not expecting to learn O'Flaherty could face the same fate just one day after Walden went down.
Left-hander Luis Avilan and Cory Gearrin will serve as closer Craig Kimbrel's top setup men in O'Flaherty's absence. The club expects Walden will be ready to rejoin the bullpen May 27, when he is eligible to come off the disabled list.
"Historically, teams went with 11 pitchers, that was the norm," Wren said. "It's just in recent years, with the use of bullpens, we've seen 12-man staffs be the norm. So, until you have that real extended, whether it's an extra-inning game or your long man has to fill in and do a four- or five-inning stint, you really don't need that 12th guy. That 12th guy is almost always a safety valve."


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Mass to Celebrate the Closure of the Year of the Priest
HOMILY: In most walks of life, we need back-up: e.g. reaching agreement in a family about some proposal; winning support at work for a new idea; welcoming a helpful word or a shoulder to lean on at a time of crisis; in sport, as in cricket: backing-up at the wicket to prevent an overthrow; and, of course, in the world of computers, making a back-up copy of files gives new meaning to the phrase Jesus saves! In the Church too, the sacraments back-up the living-out of our Christian calling. Indeed, the Eucharist is not just a back-up to something else; it is the very means of receiving the Lord fully into our lives. It is the major part of a priest's ministry, in which he brings the Lord to others. It is the summit of our prayer and worship as priests.
The Ministerial Priesthood functions amid today's frenetic reality. What we are doing today can seem to some a bit out of touch with reality. To some, the Priesthood appears to be a bit remote from the physical and moral difficulties of ordinary lives. Yet, as priests, we are to step into a new space, the space of the Transcendent, of Otherness. For, we are signed by a special character and - conformed to Christ the Priest. We need to see beyond the Priesthood, and delve more deeply into it, because it is our call to Priesthood that has to change people's lives. The transcendent demand needs ratification, so that the Priesthood is recognized as that group of men, anointed by Christ to stand in that daunting space, to gather the rest of God's people around that space, and to underwrite the presence of that holy space as near and accessible to each one of us. This 'other' space will provide a bridge between this world and the next, between what we are and what we shall be. So, by our ordination, we are anointed, to be Christ-like, to bring others to that goal of human history and that focal point to which the desires of humanity aim: Christ himself. We are called to a ministry of preaching and healing, to make people whole again, ready and willing to meet the Lord when he calls, to be there when others need us most. This requires us to develop our inner well-being; our generosity; our selflessness; our desire to give and encourage forgiveness in others by our word and example, and most of all by our generosity of service. We are called to have the strength and courage to contradict the ways of the world.
And to do all this, we cannot do it alone. There is another aspect of priesthood that complements the ordained priesthood. It is the priesthood of the laity. It is the priesthood conferred on all who are baptised. Yet, there is only one priesthood of Christ, within which there is a diversity of kind and function. It is the role of the ministerial priesthood to bring to its full exercise - and to its full expression - the priesthood of the entire body of Christ, in which all share in different degrees. And to remember, every ordained priest comes from among the laity in the first place.
It is difficult to convey what it means to say, for the first time, the words of consecration at Mass, and to realise that it is the first person singular - I - that we are using. It is my voice, my hands, my mind, that are engaged in this tremendous act which is central to the Eucharist, in which Christ is made present through my person. How could anyone in the priesthood ever have abused that anointing deliberately and-repeatedly, not just in a single, one-off moment of immaturity or indiscretion immediately regretted, but by knowing and planning habitually, without remorse or regret, what they were doing?
It's ironic that the Year of the Ordained Priest began as the Year of the Abused Victim. During this past year we have made no excuses; for there are none to make. The lapses and the offences of the few, who make up no more than a half of one percent of all clergy, have sadly damaged also the many. It's been a year when society has called into question the integrity of politicians and their expenses, financiers and their bonuses, and not least of all priests and their assaults on the innocent and vulnerable. All these groups have been guilty of betraying trust. All have been convinced of their own self-righteousness, almost their entitlement to do these things, their conviction that they were doing no wrong.
For priests who offended, I'm not sure that their abuses grew out of the rule of celibacy; abuse happens within otherwise good families too. I'm more convinced that it grew out of the clericalism of the past. That clericalism risks raising its head today among those who again are looking for identity in status, not service. They want to be treated differently. There are those who set high standards of morality for lay people, while they blatantly violate those same standards themselves. There are those who go to extremes to express the Mass in a particular way, whether it is in the Ordinary Form or Extraordinary Form, in a so-called VAT II rite or Tridentine Rile, through the "People's Mass" or the . "Priest's Mass". Some want to put the priest on a pedestal, whilst the people are consigned to be privileged spectators outside the rails. Flamboyant modes of liturgical vestments and rubrical gestures abound. Women are denied all ministries at Mass: doing the
, the serving, the Bidding Prayers, and taking Communion to the Sick. To many in our Church and beyond, this comes across as triumphalism and male domination. This clericalism conceals the fact that the Church as an institution has often acted in collusion with what I can only regard as structural sinfulness. It has paid dearly for it and is untrue to its humble Founder, Jesus Christ. Readings
This underlying culture of clericalism has to end and never happen again. In addition, where there have been victims of it, they merit our individual and collective expression of sorrow, without reservation, plus our promise of listening and healing, and our assurance of Support, These are openly given. Accompanying all this is a deeper truth without which life would be just too hard to live. It is the truth that there is a deeper power at work below the surface of our human failings and our uncertainties. The strength of the priesthood, exercised by some 99% of the clergy, lies in the daily sacrifice of self in the service of the Lord, in making him known, in a Church that all of us love and that does so much, good. We can only glimpse a horizon beyond which so little is known this side of eternity. Here, earthy symphonies will always remain unfinished. And we want a priest to ease us out of this world, who anoints and forgives us, to speed us on our journey into the next.
Together, whether you are ministerial priest or baptised priest, you are all called to be a dynamic force in the Church. You, the ordained, have to realise the power for good that you have and thus exercise your God-given gifts. None of you can measure the good that you do. Most of it is hidden. It is rarely publicised, and because of its personal and confidential nature it cannot be shouted from the roof-tops. It is known to the individual who has benefited. It is known to the Lord himself. Whereas everything else can be taken away from you, even your reason can diminish or disappear, no-one can take away your priesthood. You are a priest forever. Cherish that. You, the laity, and us, the ordained, have been given a dynamic force to be Christ and to make Christ present in this world, today and for as long as we are alive. Sometimes we need to pray as Pope John XXIII did one night he knelt by his bedside, tired and frustrated at the end of a long day. He said: "It's your Church, Lord. Get on with it!" AMEN.
Bishop Tom acknowledges the helpful advice and comments which he obtained as a result of consulting certain individuals and resources in the preparation of this homily, which was given in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Swansea, on the occasion of the Closure Mass for the Year of the Priest' 21st June 2010.


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When we bought our first teardrop travel trailer, about six years ago, the seller (who towed it with a Mini-Cooper) pronounced it a "GEM; garage-able, efficient and maneuverable". She noted the little trailer was easy to stow in a garage, easy on the gas mileage, and maneuverable in campgrounds and other tight spots
My wife and I have been retired for over a year, and had long-planned an active, traveling retirement. Now on our second teardrop, a reproduction 1958 Serro Scotty Junior, these little trailers have lived up to the "gem" description.
When we were younger, we would pile our two girls into our van, load a canoe on top, pitch a tent and tour much of the Pacific Northwest out of Spokane, our then-hometown.
As we have matured, the idea of tenting has lost its luster, and traveling in more comfort has risen. But, the thought of purchasing a big, expensive travel trailer, or fifth-wheel, getting terrible gas mileage towing it and storing the behemoth struck us both as somewhat un-American.
We were bitten by the teardrop trailer bug about seven years ago. These cute little trailers attract a crowd and we met owners who loved them. Teardrop owners stage teardrop rallies throughout the west and vintage trailer rallies also occur regularly, making places to meet new traveling friends.
Additionally, these tiny trailers, weighing only about 800 pounds loaded, can be towed by small cars and they fit easily into a garage (no hassle storing them somewhere). And you sleep off the ground, in a hard-shell camper, so the wife no longer worries about bear attacks!
Last summer, just before a planned bicycling tour of the Gettysburg battlefield, we found our second teardrop, a replica Scotty Junior made in 2011 by a skilled West Virginia shop teacher. We picked it up on the way to Gettysburg, and have since towed it all across the country, up the coast of Oregon, Washington and across British Columbia, and to the Grand Canyon and Southwest.
As I write, we are into a three week trip with our teardrop to Crater Lake National Park, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, over to Spokane, through Idaho into Montana's Glacier National Park, then up to Alberta, Canada to take in Lake Louise, Jasper National Park and other incredible places.
With our circuitous route, we'll log about 3,500 miles – and spend $500 on gasoline and, maybe, $350 on lodging. Not bad for a three week tour into wondrous country!
You might wonder "how do we do that"? Well, towing we get about 28 MPG (compare that to folks pulling giant fifth-wheels behind huge diesel pickups getting 7-8 MPG).
We don't duck the chance to spend a few nights with friends along the way; a real bed and shower is nice on occasion. For other nights we search out federal campgrounds (national parks, national forests, BLM) and with our America the Beautiful pass, we get half off all campgrounds. So, a $24 site drops to $12 (the discount does not hold in Canada, however).
And, the trailer fits into many camping sites too small for the giant rigs and takes only minutes to set up. It offers wonderfully comfy sleeping quarters, and we can cook with the best of the giant motorhome owners. The sun shines as brightly on our campsite as does the larger rigs, and our campfire and picnic table is just as rustic.
My wife has a ready response to the constant question "can you sleep in that little trailer"? Her reply "the sleeping compartment is 4' wide by 6'3" long; once we each stake out our two feet, we are very cozy and sleep like two bugs in a rug!". Add cabinets above our feet and head, and the teardrop has lots of storage capacity.
Most teardrops have a rear galley that pops open; some have built-in sinks and propane stoves. Ours is not quite so finished, but allows us storage for a camp stove, lantern, pop-up awning used in inclement weather, fishing gear and the like.
Long before retirement, we made a pact to do a lot of traveling in the US and Canada the next several years. A spring trip this year had us visiting Death Valley, Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree National Parks, taking in spring training games in Phoenix and visiting pals in Yuma. We have now visited eight of the nine national parks in California (only lacking Channel Islands NP; we'll get there someday!).
For meals, we prepare many of our own in camp; the pictures above show the "kitchen detail" built into many of these small, teardrop trailers. When you are camping in nice California weather, we and the fifth-wheel crowd all cook outside, so we do gourmet camp cooking with the best of them.
Pictured are several teardrop rigs, including ones that are 5' wide and up to 10' long, offering more sleeping space and more elaborate galleys. You'll also see an example of owners who creatively expand their living area with awnings and shade structures.
We currently own two small trailers, the 58 Serro Scotty teardrop reproduction model, and an original 64 Scotty Sportsman, a bit larger though needing a fairly intensive rebuild. We can tow the teardrop with our Focus, and we get lots of comments in the campgrounds, parked among the "big boys toys" –Guess who gets four-times better gas mileage?
So, consider the benefits of "small trailering". You can find slightly used teardrop trailers and their kin on eBay or Craig's List, and new units sold locally at places like Pan Pacific RV in Lathrop. In addition to teardrop trailers, modern pop-up campers and small van conversions offer all sorts of options that can sleep a family of 4-6 in most of the creature comforts offered by those giant fifth wheels!
With tiny trailers you can see much of the US and Canada, save money and be cozy and comfy as your bigger campground neighbors!
Our next feature will offer insights and photos of a recent trip to Crater Lake National Park, with a side trip to Lassen National Park and Mt. Shasta along the way. Stay tuned!
For additional travel destination inspiration, see my blog: http://blogs.eSanJoaquin.com/valleytravel; or contact me, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Happy travels in the west!


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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
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How sweet that she loves cows. I adore the Belted Galloway and have researched getting some for our farm.ReplyDelete
What great coincidences! I just looked at the book CLANCY THE COURAGEOUS COW today and thought of the Belted Galloways.ReplyDelete
These cows must like your books! Your granddaughter looks like a natural Cowgirl!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 7:42 AM
That is funny. And I love cows - gorgeous!ReplyDelete
is this an example of coincidence or is this fate?ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah ha! Surely one of the great connections, as in The Great Unexpected, mm?Delete
Long haired Oreos, huh! There used to be a herd of what we referred to as "Oreo cookie cows" not far from here but they had short hair. I always enjoyed seeing this special breed grazing in the fields, especially the little ones.ReplyDelete
Here in Wisconsin, we are fans of cows; being The Dairy State and all. When my children were young, we lived in a rental house in the country. The barn was situated near the side yard. I'd never seen a barn as close to the house as this one was. Cows begged for grass by lining up at the fence. The kids loved it. I completely understand your granddaughter's love of cows.


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Researcher Hopes to Help People With Dysphagia
Researchers from the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders and Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation (BIR) are working together to investigate the effects of drinking water on patients with dysphagia, a disorder that affects a person's ability to swallow.
Their study will document the benefits and problems of the "free water protocol," which lets patients have water and ice instead of restricting them to liquids that have been artificially thickened.
"Currently, some medical practitioners discourage patients with dysphagia from drinking water due to concerns that aspiration of the water into the lungs may result in pneumonia," said Helen Kenedi, MS, principal investigator of the study and clinical lecturer in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. "Patients who are denied access to water often report that they are thirsty, are dehydrated and have a decreased quality of life."
Based on the patient reports, Kathy Panther, speech-language pathologist and rehabilitation director for the Frazier Rehabilitation Institute in Louisville, Ky., developed a protocol that allows patients access to uncontaminated ice and water before and after meals. In theory, the properties of uncontaminated water will not be harmful to the lungs, so aspirating the water will be a benign event.
Although Panther reported improved quality of life among patients following the free water protocol, Kenedi's study is the first of its kind to objectively document other potential good and bad effects.
"Given our aging population, dysphagia is likely to become more prevalent as people suffer from strokes, traumatic brain injury or dementia" said Kenedi. "Documentation of the effects of the free water protocol will contribute to better management of individuals with swallowing disorders."
Other researchers involved in the study include Dr. Christine Dollaghan, professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Tricia Olea Santos, MS, doctoral student in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences; and Jacqueline Daniels, MS, speech-language pathologist from BIR.
The researchers will study patients who receive the free water protocol as part of their routine clinical care at Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation.
"We hope the results of the study will help to clarify the possible benefits of the free water protocol and the kinds of patients with whom it can be implemented," said Kenedi.
Helen Kenedi's "Descriptive Study on the Effects of the Use of the Free Water Protocol in Patients with Dysphagia" seeks improved quality of life for people living with the disorder, which makes swallowing difficult.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Roxanne Rogers and Blake Eckard
For what seems like for the umpteenth time, headed to the Jeonju Film Festival in South Korea, this time invited to screen They Had It Coming. This will give us a chance to see some friends, former students, have another taste of delicious Korean cuisine, and see how much things changed in two years. Don't yet know the screening dates, but was looking like May 3 and 5. It'll be the first public screening, though given that it is heavily talky and quite "American" I wonder what the largely Korean audience will make of it – a real subtitle marathon? Not going to exactly provide a good reading of how the film works on viewers.
Set in Blake Eckard's home town of Stanberry MO (pop. 1185), we shot in two phases, which, if it were up to my brain to sort it out, I couldn't say just when. I think spring and then autumn, 2014 or was it 2013? Dang if I remember. While in Stanberry shooting and acting in Blake's film Ghosts of Empire Prairie, he told us a handful of local stories, embellished in his story-teller manner, and finding these just too juicy to pass up, I asked if maybe we could spin a film around them and him. Such was the genesis of They Had It Coming. I tossed in a few things that had been lingering in my files for 20 or 30 years, we each wrote a bit more, and bang, we had a film. Frank Mosley, Arianne Martin, Roxanne Rogers and Tyler Messner came in, and in pretty quick order (less than a week?) it was mostly shot, in Blake's mother, Susan's, kitchen! Yep, that was the studio space where nearly 2/3rds of it was shot with window light and a black cloth. While I was off on a trip to Europe Blake used my camera to snare shots (above) of locals when they came into Eckard's Hardware to shop. Roxanne's sister Sandy let me use one of her songs, I tossed in a few of my own, Stephen Taylor's dad, Larry, lent his voice for a smooth TV announcer (he used to be anchor in Boise Idaho news program), and after a short bit of editing on CS6, out popped the film. My thanks to everyone who helped.
I sent an early cut out last summer, accruing a list of festival "no's," and getting the suggestion from Mark Rappaport, that I should change my title, which had been "True Gentry County Stories" to one of the lines in the film. I took his advice. They Had It Coming, while itself being a fiction, is simultaneously a kind of tone-poem/essay on the process of "story-telling." In my view a rather strange little beast it is, that for some reason gathers towards the end to provide a visceral punch of a conclusion. I don't really understand quite how it manages to do so – adamantly skirting all the usual mechanisms used – but it does.
Blake and Tyler Messner
Arianne Martin and Blake
Upcoming screenings include Coming to Terms in Houston TX, April 23, at the Blaffer Art Museum, and then on May 11 in Austin at the Austin Film Society; Last Chants for a Slow Dance will screen May 10 at AFS. And something is cooking for Phoenix AZ, just when up in the air. As is life….


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Revolution's fifth episode was no joke. Every second of "Soul Train" was jam-packed with action and tantalizing teases of the story's mythology. It's also nice to see creator Eric Kripke following through on his promise to quickly provide answers which only lead to bigger questions. Here are the 10 biggest burning questions from Monday's episode, "Soul Train." [Spoilers ahead]
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1. From meek to monster "Soul Train" started off with a bang — a (very much) shirtless Captain Neville(Giancarlo Esposito) beating the crap out of poor Danny boy (Graham Rogers). But before viewers can fully appreciate the 54-year-old's impressive physique, the show's timeline quickly shifts before the lights went out where we see a much different version of the militia leader. Stuttering, nervous and meek in the flashbacks, it appears that when the world lost power, Neville gained a backbone (and then some)!
Esposito explains Neville's transformation to TVGuide.com, "I think that all of us as people grow to a certain point. Sometimes we fulfill things that we never had, we change things that we don't want and so I think it's a very human reason [that Neville changed]." Well said, Esposito, but do you think that reasoning excuses Neville's sadistic behavior?
2. Miles tells it like it is Charlie's (Tracy Spiridakos) pouting has been an issue with the fans since the beginning. And while losing Maggie (Anna Lise Phillips) must have been hard, the last thing we needed was an episode full of "woe is me" mourning. Miles (Billy Burke) is soon to save us from the famous Matheson moping with a harsh dash of the truth: "Hangin' around here, crying. That's not going to help." Preach it, Miles!
Charlie's uncle continues his tirade against her emo ways throughout the episode. And while there were times I thought to myself, "Way harsh, Tai," I think he had a point. By the end of the episode, even Charlie seems to agree. But surprisingly enough, I don't know if I like the new, tough-as-nails Charlie we glimpsed at the end. I might actually come to miss the pout if she stays that way for too long!
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3. Let there be steam! Finally! The producers have brought in steam power. Why it took fifteen years for the Republic to get a train working, I really don't know. But I'm willing to suspend my belief in exchange for a little more steampunk action in the series. (Though, we can forgo the monocles.)
4. What's in a name? Did we miss some crucial, defining scene between Miles and Nate (JD Pardo) that somehow earned the militia spy the nickname "Nipples"? I'm sure he gets pretty chilly in the woods all the time, but Nate can't help how his body reacts!
In the end, Nate, Nipples, it doesn't matter. It's soon revealed that Nate's real name is nothing other than Jason Neville. That's right. The militia spy with the hots for Charlie is none other than Capt. Neville's son. Do you think there's any hope for the star-crossed lovers? Or is blood a bond you can never break?
5. Revolution is soo with it "I'm looking for a biography of Joe Biden" might just be one of the worst passcodes in the history of — well — history. Way to be topical, guys! I almost forgot there was an election happening, so thanks for the reminder.
Kim Raver Channels Lady Macbeth in Revolution
6. What happened to Julia? We already know Miles was the one to take Rachel hostage, but is that only the start of his home-wrecking ways? After a little scuffle with Neville in an alley, the militia captain asks Miles (oh so ominously), "Why Julia?" While the episode ends with Neville happily reunited with his wife Julia (Kim Raver), apparently things were not always so peachy. What do you think Miles did?
7. Pinky and Monroe Is all of this — killing Ben, kidnapping Danny, torturing Rachel — simply happening because Bass Monroe (David Lyons) wants to take over the world? While his power-thirst is no secret nor surprise, hopefully they develop Bass' motivations a little more so he doesn't become a live-action caricature of the megalomaniacal mouse bent on ruling the world from Pinky and The Brain. Is he doing it for love? For money? Because he was beat up as a kid or that his dad never hugged him? I'll take any explanation, really. Just throw me a bone!
8. Use your words, people! First Maggie's dog-murder death, now Nora (Daniella Alonso)! People in the future seem very stab-happy, if you ask me. But thankfully, Hutch's attack on our favorite rebel didn't cut any crucial arteries and Nora was able to pull through (and remarkably fast).
Revolution Burning Questions: Charlie's got some serious mommy issues
9. Nate never learns his lesson Put on some Usher, because Nate's "got it bad!" Right when Charlie's literally in his grasp, the spy once again lets her go. No one was aware of his betrayal the first time he did it, but this time he deliberately disobeys orders from Neville. How will the militia — not to mention his dad — react to Benedict Nipples' treachery?
10. What was Ben working on? Rachel finally spills the beans to Bass: she and her late husband were working together to turn the power back on. The key: the twelve silver pendants.
Twelve?! We know Grace has one, Aaron has one and the mysterious Randall has another. That means there are nine more pendant carriers out there. Who do you think they are? More importantly, do you think the rest of the pendant posse are friend or foe?
Revolution airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.


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Roger Ebert death will be felt at Conference on World Affairs
When the 65th Conference on World Affairs convenes next week in Boulder, it will do so without one of its greatest friends.
Roger Ebert, who died Thursday in Chicago at 70, once dubbed the gathering at the University of Colorado campus "the Conference on Everything Conceivable."
In 1975, Ebert launched the conference's extremely popular film program with the very cheeky title "Cinema Interruptus." The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic would choose one film, screen it in its entirety before the event, then show it over four two-hour sessions stopping and starting it for observations -- his and the audiences'.
The first film to get the once-over at the conference: Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane." The last "Interruptus" Ebert presided over was 2010's viewing of Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" with the director in attendance.
"We here in Boulder are saddened by this news. Roger gave so much to so many in his 40 years at the Conference," said conference director Jim Palmer in a statement Thursday afternoon.
It was always a wonder that a man whose insights and writing were so instrumental in championing the populist art of cinema also popularized -- along with "At the Movies" co-host Gene Siskel -- the critically reductive shorthand "Two thumbs up!"
Yet Ebert's prose never betrayed his expansive intelligence.He helped filmgoers see and understand what we have seen without all the fuss.
In the last few days it had become clear that the protean, prodigious critic was scaling back his reviews. Where for instance was his Chicago Sun-Times review of the new film "The Place Beyond the Pines"? It was just the sort of ambitious work Ebert could have illuminated.
On a Tuesday blog post called "A Leave of Presence," he answered that question.
"At this point in my life, in addition to writing about movies, I maywrite about what it's like to cope with health challenges and the limitations they can force upon you. It really stinks that the cancer has returned and that I have spent too many days in the hospital."
He then made a promise of sorts. " ... on bad days I may write about the vulnerability that accompanies illness. On good days, I may wax ecstatic about a movie so good it transports me beyond illness."
It is a shame and a communal loss he wasn't able to hold to that promise.


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Cheesy enchiladas sauced with a rich, meaty ladle of chili con carne is Texas on a plate, according to Lisa Fain, author of The Homesick Texan Cookbook. It's that combination of bean-less chili gravy and cheese stuffed and covered corn tortillas that is the essence of Tex-Mex and a true taste of Texas.
While most of us are pretty familiar with what a cheese enchilada tastes like, the unfamiliar component of this recipe is the chili con carne, which is, at its heart, chiles and meat with a handful of other spices added to make a deep, dark meat sauce. For those who are used to chili made with chili powder, tomatoes, and canned beans, this chili is going to come as something of an eye opener, spiced similarly to that bitter-hot chili that graces hot dogs. But it's that intensity that makes it the perfect sauce for a plate of quick fried tortillas filled with mild cheddar, giving the finished dish of enchiladas an intriguing depth.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Homesick Texan Cookbook to give away this week.
From The Homesick Texan Cookbook by Lisa Fain. Text and photographs copyright © 2011 Lisa Fain. Published by Hyperion. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved
- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- Rated:
- For the Chili Con Carne:
- 6 dried ancho chiles, stems and seeds removed
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or lard
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 pound ground beef
- 2 cups beef broth
- Salt, black pepper, and cayenne, to taste
- For the Enchiladas
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or lard
- 12 corn tortillas
- 4 cups grated cheddar cheese (16 ounces)
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, diced
In a dry skillet heated on high, toast the ancho chiles on each side for about 10 seconds or just until they start to puff. Fill the skillet with enough water to cover chiles. Leave the heat on until the water begins to boil and then turn off the heat and let the chiles soak until soft, about 30 minutes. Once hydrated, discard the soaking water and rinse the chiles. Place in a blender.
In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat the vegetable oil or lard, and cook the onions, occasionally stirring, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 30 more seconds. Place the cooked onions and garlic into the blender, along with the cumin, oregano, allspice, cinnamon, and 1 cup of water. Blend until smooth.
In the same pot you used to cook the onions and garlic, on medium heat, brown the beef, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. (If you like, you can drain the extra fat once the meat is browned,) Add the chile puree and the beef broth, heat on high until boiling, and then turn the heat down to low and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. After 30 minutes, adjust the seasonings, add salt, black pepper, and cayenne to taste.
To make the enchiladas, first preheat the oven to 350°F and greases a large baking dish. In a skillet, heat up the oil or lard on medium-low heat. One at a time, heat up the tortillas in the hot oil. Keep them warm in a cloth or tortilla warmer until all of the tortillas are heated.
Take a heated tortilla and use tongs to dip it into the sauce. Shake off most of the sauce, but be sure that it's moist enough to be pliable. Lay the tortilla on a plate or clean cooking surface, add ¼ cup of the grated cheese down the center of it, along with a few diced onions. Roll the tortilla. Place the rolled enchilada in the greased baking dish and repeat with the remaining tortillas. Pour the sauce over enchiladas and top with remaining grated cheese and diced onions. Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese is lightly browned and bubbling.
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A New Perspective with Patricia Hill Collins
Profile of the 100th ASA President
by Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware, originally published in Footnotes, Volume 36, Number 7.
I welcome this opportunity to introduce the 2009 ASA President, Patricia Hill Collins, to the sociology community. Patricia Hill Collins is the 100th president of the ASA and the first African American woman to hold this office. Her election is one of the many "firsts" that we are witnessing in this new millennium, as some of the barriers that have existed for women and people of color have lifted. What is the path that has brought our new president to the leadership of our national organization?
The Life
Patricia Hill was born in Philadelphia in 1948, the only child to Eunice Randolph Hill and Albert Hill. Her parents were directly affected by World War II. Her father was a veteran who met her mother in Washington, DC, where she had migrated to during the war to work. Pat is part of a cohort of working-class youth who had educational opportunities long denied their parents. During the 1950s and 1960s, most northern cities had public schools that were channels for social mobility. Schools were well funded, but navigating them was not easy. Pat was a quiet, but diligent, student in Philadelphia. Her education there was a stepping stone to Brandeis University. Writing in Black Feminist Thought, she said that, contrary to the support she had in the Black working-class community, the spaces she was desegregating were less welcoming:
Beginning in adolescence, I was increasingly the "first," "one of the few," or the "only" African American and/or woman and/or working class person in my schools, communities, and work settings. I saw nothing wrong with being who I was, but apparently many others did. My world grew larger, but I felt I was growing smaller. I tried to disappear into myself in order to deflect the painful, daily assaults designed to teach me that being an African American, working-class woman made me lesser than those who were not. And as I felt smaller, I become quieter and eventually was virtually silenced (Collins, 1990, p. xi).
Entering Brandeis in 1965, Pat used her time to reclaim that voice. Migrating from Philadelphia to the Boston area meant moving into new communities where one can see how others lived, what they assume, and their agendas. Majoring in sociology, which offered the freedom to shape her own pursuits, Patricia received her BA in 1969. Regarding her choice of major, she commented:
As an undergraduate I did not think that all the answers were personal or in your head. Sociology was right between the sciences and philosophy. The sciences, with an emphasis on empirical data, can reveal some of the hidden structures and patterns that are not obvious to you, whether you are talking about explaining natural or social phenomena. Philosophy offers explanations and interpretations. I was particularly drawn to the way that Sociology was taught at Brandeis, where they embraced a sociology of knowledge approach. Sociology was also the place where race was studied. I liked how this major enabled me to reach in many directions.
An important advisor at Brandeis was Pauli Murray, an African American woman who had opened many doors during the Civil Rights movement. Pat saw her connection to Murray important to intergenerational community building, as those who gain in one era have to work for social change over their careers. Even in college, Pat was involved in progressive educational pursuits in Boston's Black community. After college, she secured an MAT in Social Science Education at Harvard University in 1970. As a teacher, she was very involved in curriculum development at St. Joseph's School, a diverse community-based school in Roxbury. She participated in many of the progressive educational developments regarding inner city schooling. From 1976-1980, she was the Director of the African American Center at Tufts University, involved with many initiatives in programming and staffing. While working at Tufts, she met and married Roger Collins in 1977 and gave birth to their daughter Valerie in 1979. In 1980, she returned to Brandeis to pursue a doctorate in sociology. She was an ASA Minority Fellow and the recipient of a Sydney Spivack Dissertation Support Award.
In 1982, the Collins family relocated to Cincinnati, where Roger taught in the School of Education at the University of Cincinnati. Patricia joined him at that institution in the Department of African American Studies. This department would be her home base for 23 years where she also served as Chair from 1999-2002. Working in African American Studies gave Patricia the intellectual space to question the boxes that people generally use to frame issues within disciplinary fields. She also developed links between Women's Studies and Sociology, where in 1996 she became the Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Professor of Sociology, now Emeritus.
In 2005, Patricia Hill Collins joined the University of Maryland where she was the Wilson Elkins Professor of Sociology 2005-2006 and is currently Distinguished University Professor. In her new location, she is working with graduate students in race, feminist scholarship, and sociological theory. Over the years, Patricia has developed many international connections, spending time in Durban, South Africa; Berlin, Germany; Oslo, Norway; and Bristol and London in the United Kingdom. Her journey has taken her into many communities, helping her think about connections among different communities and what it means to cross race, class, gender, regional, and international borders.
The Work
Many people learned about Patricia Hill Collins when her groundbreaking article, "Learning from the Outsider Within," was published in Social Problems in 1986. The article articulated a standpoint reflecting her race, gender, and social class location as she moved across and within various institutions. A consistent theme in Collins's work is how she questions the traditional framing of issues. When I met her at a curriculum integration workshop in 1985, she spoke about how the national framing of "the Black family" as a problem was problematic because it neglected an understanding of families within the wider context of oppression and resistance. She talked with us about how many of her students entered classrooms believing these myths. Teaching students to think differently was a challenge, but she thought the key was to provide students with a framework that integrated broader social forces into an understanding of the tasks and resources of any family. Over her career she has reframed many of the major assumptions, demonstrating how dominant thought is typically reflective of power relationships; she has helped us all understand the counter narratives held within more subordinated communities.
In 1990 Collins published Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, which won ASA's Jessie Bernard Award, the SSSP C. Wright Mills Award, and garnered other awards from the Association of Women in Psychology and Black Women Historians. Collins has pushed scholars to identify the ground on which they stand, rather than claiming neutral space. Black Feminist Thought clearly identifies an intersectional analysis, rather than a hierarchical formula where race is primary over gender or where social class trumps all. Her theoretical analysis shows how oppression operates in various spheres—political, economic, and ideological. Thus, although we can appreciate that social class may offer some protection or resources to battle the sexism and racism that Black women experience, achieving middle class status does not remove one from the political, economic, and ideological operations. Most importantly, Black Feminist Thought illuminated how Black women have looked at and analyzed their lives in the past—challenging the sociological thinking that rendered them invisible, making them witnesses but not analysts of their own lives. The clarity of her discussion of power, including how oppressed people understand the power that engulfs them and develop alternative self-definitions of themselves and their situations, has turned the tide of theoretical analysis. In sharing the voices of Black women, Collins exposed many scholars to a literature and history that was new.
In 2000, Collins published the 10th anniversary edition of Black Feminist Thought, incorporating new work and more forcefully sharing with readers the idea that people who lack power have a viewpoint very different from the master narrative. She also incorporated a more comprehensive analysis of sexuality in her intersectional analysis and took a more international perspective. Between the two editions of Black Feminist Thought Pat published Fighting Words: Black Women and the Struggle for Justice (1998) tracking her thinking about empowerment and social justice. Throughout, Collins has been a major voice as a public sociologist.
An important collaboration for Collins is her work with Margaret L. Andersen. The two developed Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology (soon to be in its 7th edition). This pioneering volume, first published in 1992, has been a critical teaching tool for an intersectional analysis. Its various editions showcase new scholarship, but the thoughtful introductory essays have also been critical in teaching faculty and students a framework for understanding intersecting inequalities.
In Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism (2004) Collins has more fully integrated sexuality in to her analysis and we see the importance of looking across borders to view racism on a global scale. In this exploration of the historical and contemporary circumstances of African American men and women, she brings a wealth of material from history, empirical research, cultural studies, and keen observations of social, cultural, and political events. Shards of the old racism of segregation and exclusion are part of the racism of the 21st century, as the legacy impacts intergenerational mobility or lack of it. However, the increased concentration of wealth and power has a global reach influencing the images and options of racialized and gendered bodies. This book earned the 2007 ASA Distinguished Publication Award.
Patricia Hill Collins' trajectory of scholarship has been attentive to community building and institutional change on other fronts, as well. A long-time resident of Cincinnati, Collins was involved with community groups that support educational and cultural programs for girls and women. As a former ASA Minority Fellowship recipient, she has served on the ASA committee that oversees that program, two years as chair (1985-88), as well as the ASA Task Force (1989-93) that first created the Minority Opportunity Summer Training (MOST).
In setting "The New Politics of Community" as the theme for the 104th ASA Annual Meeting, Collins invites us to reframe the concept of community for the 21st century. Through her path, we see how Collins moves among multiple communities to be an outsider to some and an insider within others. Collins sees the task of constructing democratic communities, whether across space, between generations, or across categories of race, class, and gender as a core political challenge of our times. By weaving a network of family, friends, and colleagues, she aspires to generate communities that nurture her, as well as help to engender communities that support the development of scholarship framed by a commitment to social justice.
Footnotes, 2008
Patricia Hill Collins delivered her Presidential Address during the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting.


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Sunday, September 27, 2015
BCC Men's Closing Golf Tournament Held in Ideal Weather
Sunday is the BCC Ladies Closing and the weather is again forecast to be ideal.
Forecasts are for great weather deep into the fall and the Brockville Country Club will remain open until weather dictates otherwise.
The BCC Swing & Sweep is scheduled for Saturday, October 17, so get your teams booked for what will be a fun day.
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Week of 12/28/09 through 1/02/10
I was on vacation most of this week. I was in the office Tuesday and Thursday, but I had only one meeting with anyone outside of City employees. One was a meeting with Multnomah County mental health leader Joanne Fuller and multiple community mental health services providers, with Commissioner Saltzman and Chief Sizer. The unexpected snowstorm canceled a scheduled meeting with Fayetteville, North Carolina Councilor (and Benson High School alumna) Kady-Ann Davy. I also had my regular monthly meeting with Commissioner Fish.
Several citizens stopped by the office Thursday, December 31 between 3 and 5 p.m. for our end-of-year open house. Thanks to my former co-worker, Sadie Hanks R.N., who came in to volunteer during that time, and is our new regular helper covering the front desk during our Thursday staff meetings.
Our office was open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except 12/25 and 1/1.
Dinners at Home: ALL. How sweet. I hope you had happy times with friends and family this week, too.


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