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Israel Archaeological Dig Report: Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, 307 S. Washington St., 9:30AM - 10:30AM
|Monday, September 16
Deep Water Aerobics:: Allen Athletics and Recreation Center, 6:30AM
Business Opportunities in Health: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
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|Tuesday, September 17
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|Wednesday, September 18
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Pettit College of Law Recruitment: 104 Goodrich Hall, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
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Spanish Film Festival Movie: Korb Classroom Fine Arts Center, 7:30PM
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|Thursday, September 19
Chapel Sing: College Mall, 11:00AM
Biology Dept. Talk: 104 Hays Hall, 12:00PM
Div3 Colloquium: 114 Baxter Hall, 12:00PM
|Friday, September 20
Deep Water Aerobics:: Allen Athletics and Recreation Center, 6:30AM
Experience the Wabash Classroom: 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Faculty/Staff Luncheon: Fobes Lounge Sparks Center, 12:00PM
Cross Country at IU: Indiana Intercollegiates, Bloomington, IN, 3:30PM
Team Athletics Hall of Fame Inducti: Chadwick Court Allen Athletics and Recreation Center, 6:00PM
Vanity Theater: Young Frankenstein: 7:30PM
|Saturday, September 21
Dept. of Ed Studies Reception: Reception for Deborah Butler Forest Hall, 9:30AM
Reunion Planning Meeting: 104 Hays Hall, 9:45AM
Alumni Chapel: Chapel, 11:00AM
MXI & Athletics Homecoming Tailgate: The Lawn-(green space between MXI & Allen Center), 11:00AM - 2:00PM
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Football vs. Denison: Hollett Little Giant Stadium, 2:00PM
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monolayerSaltos de línea: mono|layer
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1A layer one molecule thick.
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1.1 Biology & Medicine A cell culture in a layer one cell thick.
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I've been taking a few online courses through the U of C's continuing education department, so I haven't had very much time to keep up with my leisure reading, lately. But, one book that I recently read in only a few days (even though I had multiple deadlines looming) was Would It Kill you to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners, by Henry Alford.
Pick this book up if you take the C-Train to work or school, or if you find yourself baffled at today's lack of common decency. It's what Emily Post might have written had she been born an acerbic gay man, in a different decade. It's sharp and observant, off-beat, well written, and very, very funny.
Calgary Public Library has everything you're into!
I just finished reading a great book by American war veteran and psychiatrist, Gordon Livingston. It's called the thing you think you cannot do: thirty truths about fear and courage. I didn't pick it up because I'm a particularly fearful person; in fact, I'm not sure why, given its relatively humdrum cover, I picked it up at all. But it spoke to me.
Livingston writes in a clear and accessible way, about some of the most difficult issues we face. How should we live in a world that is manifestly unfair, sometimes violent, and haunted by our impending deaths? What is real courage and who can we identify as heroic? Where do love, humour and hope factor into the equation? This short but very worthwhile read - peppered with quotes from everyone from Hillel to Nietzsche - is sure to make you think.
Here is my favourite quote, by Rumi: Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. It doesn't represent the tone of the whole book, but there's something about the imperative to destroy one's own reputation that I think is fantastic.
Need more suggestions about great books? Ask a librarian, during your next visit!
I'm reading French Kids Eat Everything (and Yours Can, Too): How our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters by Karen Le Billon, and it's fascinating! It's much more than a manual to cure picky eating and family food fights. It's an insightful examination of attitudes towards food, eating, and nourishment, and how they differ between the French model and the American (and by extension, Canadian) model.
I'm young (for a little while longer, at least) and single (likely for eternity) and it's my prerogative to eat dinner alone, standing over the sink. Or sitting on the couch, channel flipping. Or at midnight. Or twice. Because there's no one watching me, my eating routines lack both a social component and a sense of restraint. According to the author's mother-in-law, my normal habits are a recipe for obesity. So, apparently, is snacking, using food as a reward or punishment, allowing your children to dictate what or when they'll eat, and eating at any place other than the table, surrounded by your family.
Le Billon observes that French parents are firmly in control and by refusing to let their children eat the same thing every day, or complain about the food they're given, French children wind up eating a wider and much more balanced range of foods. They are more willing to try new foods, and they don't whine or throw hunger induced tantrums. Even children 5 or 6 years of age will sit patiently in a restaurant, while their parents linger over a nice long meal. This is because French children are taught that food is exciting and interesting; part of a familial set of rituals; and an aspect of their national identity about which to be proud.
It's a very far cry from exasperatedly stuffing greasy McNuggets into the whining maw of an angry 7 year old, en route to a hockey practice.
Check out this book whether you have children or not. As long as you're someone who eats, it will provide you with lots of interesting ideas. Food for thought, if you will.
I noticed a woman on the C-Train, jotting down the title, as I read. We started chatting and it turns out she is French. She said that in her family, they always made sure to eat together at the table, at a very precise time. Sure enough, she was slim. Maybe the French are on to something...
In my last post, I mentioned that I picked up How To Be Black because I thought it would be hilarious. Indeed, it's funny, but it's substantive, too, and definitely worth your time.
Author Baratunde Thurston tells the story of his Nigerian name and his time at Sidwell Friends and Harvard, and describes the huge impact that his mother has had on the formation of his character. Thurston also assembles a panel of black thinkers, and asks them questions ranging from: Can you swim? to Are we living in post-racial America?
This book is not a manual for how to be cool, urban, "thug", or whatever else we may associate with being black. Besides, even if it provided that kind of direction, the result would be people who are either "too black" or "not black enough" – and this paradox is a central theme. Thurston himself has at times been considered too black, or not black enough. So have Barack Obama and many other prominent black individuals. So, what's the right amount of blackness, anyway? Can you imagine being told that you're too white, or not white enough?
How To Be Black is a fabulous exploration of what it means to be black, but it's also a rallying cry for those who are fed up with being identified only as black, and who just want to be themselves – whatever colour that happens to be. As for Thurston, he's black and he's proud! He's also a computer geek, an avid camper, an eater of tofu and much more. He defies black stereotypes and encourages other black people to do the same.
Check it out!
Today I noticed two new books that I just can't wait to read! In fact, I'm sneaking some covert glances at a few of their passages, hoping my colleagues won't notice my temporary dip in productivity.
The first is Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners by Henry Alford. The front cover leaves something to be desired, but the back cover glows with praise, including "slaying wit", "profoundly, wonderfully goofy" and "A master of the delightfully harebrained scheme", so how can you go wrong?
The second is How To Be Black, by Baratunde Thurston. The first line in the jacket is "If you don't buy this book, you're a racist" which is just the kind of in-your-face comedy that I relish. Thurston is the director of digital at The Onion. Need I say more?
I haven't been this excited since I got my hands on a copy of Tina Fey's Bossypants. And now that I'm totally over my fear of being regarded as psychotic for laughing repeatedly and out loud on the C-Train, I'm ready to delve into these new titles.
Visit a branch near you for recommendations about hilarious new reads!
A customer started a chat with me today (you know that you can chat online with us, right?), in order to ask if she could place a hold on a book by Caroline Knapp. Interestingly enough, I'm reading a book by that same author right now.
My customer had read Pack of Two, a title I have yet to read, and Drinking: A Love Story, which I've read and reviewed. I told her that I, too, had read Drinking, but that I preferred the title I was reading right now: Appetites: Why Women Want.
Check out Caroline Knapp's writing, if you haven't already. She writes beautifully and bravely about her struggles (mainly with alcoholism and anorexia, but family relationships, too) and she is unflinchingly honest about the frightening terrain in the dark realms of her psyche.
I'm really enjoying Appetites: Why Women Want. It's described as an anorexia memoir, but it's much more complex than a simple recounting of what was eaten (or not) and how many pounds were shed. Knapp explores desire as it relates to food, cultural zeitgeist, mothering, and body image. I've never suffered from an eating disorder (unless "unrelenting nocturnal potato chip addiction" has finally made it into the DSM 4...) but readers don't have to have any familiarity with eating disorders to enjoy this book. Simply put, if you are a woman and have a body, Appetites: Why Women Want will very likely resonate with you. Place a hold today!
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How Not to Deal with Bullies
The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
We The Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-first Century
Dictators and warlords, whether in Africa or the Balkans, increasingly tend to believe that if they steadfastly resist them, UN interventions will eventually fail; the international community will become divided, grow tired, and give up. Too often they are right.
The arbiter of international peace and security is supposedly the United Nations Security Council, which is responsible for securing the peaceful settlement of international disputes and, if that fails, for taking action to deal with threats to the peace and acts of aggression. The Council is also the guarantor of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other treaties relating to weapons of mass destruction.
Sometimes the Council's action is blocked by the veto, or threatened veto, of one of the five permanent members, or simply by a general wish not to get involved too closely in a violent crisis. The secretary-general is constantly engaged in efforts to resolve all kinds of problems between states peacefully. If the Council does agree to take action against aggression, it proceeds in stages—first with demands to halt the aggression, then with a series of sanctions, and finally, if none of this has worked, with the use of force. Getting Iraq out of Kuwait was a rare example of the entire sequence being carried out. For most problems, however, non-forceful methods of peacekeeping are used.
Very few problems can be effectively resolved in a single action, but governments have come to dislike open-ended international commitments. There has therefore been pressure on the UN to withdraw from many of its recent interventions at the earliest possible moment, sometimes leaving behind an unresolved problem that continues to fester, and even reemerges once again as a threat to the peace. Angola, Haiti, and Cambodia are examples of this tendency, but potentially the most serious of all is Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The UN won the war to get Iraq out of Kuwait, but Saddam Hussein's regime, with all its unpleasant habits, remains more or less intact.
The connection between the particular and the general, between trying to disarm an aggressor state and the validity of arms control treaties is vividly illustrated in a concluding passage from Richard Butler's book, The Greatest Threat. Butler, a former Australian diplomat, has spent much of his professional life in the negotiation of treaties to control weapons of mass destruction; he explains that the deepest anxiety of states who have been unwilling to sign these treaties is that
the treaties could be cheated on from within and that the means of verification would neither deter nor detect such cheating.
Saddam Hussein's dubious gift to this world has been to constitute the outstanding case for the possibility of cheating from within; in particular, having joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, he then proceeded to create atomic weapons clandestinely.
In July 1997, Butler succeeded Rolf Ekeus of Sweden as executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the group set up by the Security Council in 1991 to monitor the elimination of all Iraq's weapons of mass destruction—nuclear, biological, and chemical. There had never been anything like it before. Butler, who had been Australia's ambassador to the United Nations, arrived at UNSCOM exactly at the time when Russia, France, and China had concluded that the active effort to disarm Saddam Hussein should end and a diplomatic accommodation sought. Lifting sanctions on Iraq would, among other things, allow the regime to repay the enormous debts owed to these countries for the armaments and other services they supplied before 1990. Thus only two of the permanent members of the Security Council, Britain and the United States, were still prepared to maintain the pressure on Iraq, including the use of force if necessary, that had made UNSCOM's inspections and other work possible.
The collapse of the Security Council's unanimity on Iraq was a disaster for Butler. It allowed the Iraqis to drive a wedge between the Council and UNSCOM and to give the impression that UNSCOM was the problem, not Saddam Hussein's determination to continue to develop weapons of mass destruction. It also gave currency to the constantly repeated Iraqi allegation that UNSCOM was deliberately blocking the repeal of sanctions that were causing great misery to the people of Iraq—although certainly not to Saddam Hussein and his cronies.
Another event at this time may well have seriously affected UNSCOM's work. In March 1997, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that the United States would not support lifting sanctions even if Iraq fulfilled its obligations to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. For Saddam Hussein this meant that there was little to gain from cooperating in the work of UNSCOM.
From the very beginning Iraq had played cat and mouse with UNSCOM—concealing, denying, confessing, obfuscating, and blocking. This had meant that UNSCOM investigations had had to be far more intrusive than was originally intended. By 1997, buoyed by the knowledge that three permanent members of the Security Council had broken ranks, Iraq, in the person of Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, was in a virtually continuous dispute with Butler over UNSCOM's inspections, its tactics, and its insistence on inspecting eight allegedly sensitive "presidential sites." These were places that the Iraqis claimed were harmless personal residences of Saddam Hussein, and therefore should be off limits. UNSCOM suspected they were being used to house biological and other weapons or records concerning them.
One of Aziz's constant complaints was the predominance of United States inspectors in UNSCOM. To Butler, Iraq's criticism seemed part of a campaign to sabotage UNSCOM, and he fought back gamely. He was particularly concerned that UNSCOM had not been able to establish whether Iraq had given up its biological weapons program. All this led to increasing tensions between Iraq and the United States and Britain, both of which began to build up their forces in the Gulf.
Renewed military action against Iraq in the form of US and British bombing seemed likely. In mid-February 1998, however, an inept televised presentation at Ohio State University by senior US officials, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, failed to persuade the audience that United States objectives in the Gulf were worth fighting for. Washington's interest in a negotiated outcome was then revived, and the US, along with other Security Council members, agreed that Secretary-General Kofi Annan should try to negotiate with Baghdad. Butler appears to believe that this was a surrender to the Iraqis.
According to the Canadian analyst David Malone, Annan set off for Baghdad "fortified (and seriously constrained) by detailed guidance" from the permanent member ambassadors in New York on the main elements of "an acceptable agreement (the bottom line being defined by the US and UK positions)."1 Annan and the Iraqi president agreed on a "Memorandum of Understanding" that included several face-saving provisions for Saddam Hussein, among them an arrangement by which UNSCOM, on its inspections of the "presidential sites," would be accompanied by "senior diplomats appointed by the secretary-general." In the final paragraph the secretary-general undertook to bring to the attention of the Security Council the "paramount importance" to Iraq of the lifting of sanctions. But the memorandum also included Iraqi concessions that met all essential US and UK objectives, particularly a promise that UNSCOMcould inspect the "presidential sites."
UNSCOM officials, accompanied by diplomats, visited the sites, and Butler, who at the time publicly supported the agreement, even said that "a new spirit of cooperation between the two sides" had emerged. But the Iraqis soon went back to their old ways, barring UNSCOM from places it wanted to investigate and proclaiming that only a single visit to the "presidential sites" would be allowed. This further discredited Annan in Washington, where the usual hawks had denounced his mission to Baghdad in the first place. Annan was particularly criticized for remarking about Saddam Hussein, "I think I can do business with him."
Butler was also increasingly at odds with Annan, or, less precisely, with what he constantly refers to as Annan's "senior staff." He later criticized Annan's Baghdad negotiations as giving the Iraqis what they wanted and weakening UNSCOM.2 After he retired in 1999 Butler even spoke of Annan's "deeply alarming" behavior.3 In his book, however, he concentrates most of his disapproval on Annan's "senior staff," who, he believes, resented his independence.4
Over the summer of 1998 UNSCOM's relations with Iraq steadily deteriorated. In August Saddam Hussein announced that both UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency had to stop inspections in Iraq and demanded changes in the commission's makeup—fewer American and British members, and administration—presumably Butler himself.
An additional scourge for Butler at this time was the resignation of Scott Ritter, a former US Marine who was head of UNSCOM's Concealment Unit, the team responsible for penetrating Iraq's concealment tactics and detecting hidden weapons production facilities. Ritter did not go quietly. He claimed that ineffectual action on disarmament was worse than no action,5 that Butler took direction from the US government, and, worse still, that he had allowed UNSCOM to become the conduit for US intelligence-gathering in Iraq.
For a UN arms control mission, the accusation that Washington had been exploiting UNSCOM's electronic eavesdropping for its own intelligence purposes could hardly have been more damaging, either to the integrity of UNSCOM itself or to the standing and acceptance of future UN arms control missions. Butler rejects Ritter's accusations, but on the question of intelligence his response is far from reassuring. He writes defensively, and at some length, that UNSCOM relied on some forty member states, including the US, for intelligence assistance. "Is it possible," he asks,
that some member state could have somehow taken advantage of UNSCOM personnel or facilities for its own intelligence gathering purposes? I can't know for certain.
In the light of subsequent, well-documented investigative reporting on the matter,6 this sounds less than candid.
Whatever the exact truth about American use of UNSCOM's eavesdropping, Ritter's claims concerning American use of UNSCOM intelligence contributed to increasingly nasty criticism of UNSCOM in the Security Council. "Ritter," Butler writes, "poured petrol on this fire, and Iraq gratefully warmed its hands over it." On October 31, 1998, Iraq shut down all monitoring by UNSCOM as well as its disarmament work, and declared that there would be no more cooperation until the UN lifted the sanctions. The Security Council, divided as it was, condemned this action.
On November 10, on the advice of the US, Butler evacuated the UNSCOM group from Iraq. On November 14, in response to an appeal from Kofi Annan, Iraq more or less backed down on its demand that UNSCOM be expelled, but with many conditions. These included resolving "the question of Butler and the composition of the Special Commission and its practices…." After a somewhat farcical debate in the Security Council, during which the Iraqis and Russians cooperated in drafting further letters assuring future cooperation with UNSCOM, President Clinton reluctantly called off the bombers, which were already on their way to the Gulf, saying that if Iraq again reneged on its promise to cooperate with UNSCOM, there would be an immediate military response without any further discussion or warning.
David Malone, Goodbye UNSCOM: A Sorry Tale of US/UN Relations. Security Dialogue, December 1999.↩
The publisher's publicity letter for reviewers of his book states that Butler's "authority was undermined behind his back. Kofi Annan, in the name of diplomacy, agreed to [Saddam] Hussein's outrageous demands, and then claimed victory."↩
Talk, September 1999, p. 198. Quoted by David Malone in Goodbye UNSCOM.↩
Butler was directly responsible to the Security Council, although he was appointed by the secretary-general.↩
The Butler/Ritter imbroglio continues. On July 3, 2000, The New York Times quoted Ritter as stating in a recent article that his team had effectively rid Iraq of dangerous weapons in 1997. Butler rejects this claim as "completely contrary to the advice that he repeatedly and robustly gave me when he was on the staff." Butler gives a fuller assessment of the current status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, and of Ritter's latest pronouncements, in "Guess Who's Back," The Washington Post, July 17, 2000.↩
For example, Seymour M. Hersh, "Saddam's Best Friend: How the CIA Made It a Lot Easier for the Iraqi Leader to Rearm," The New Yorker, April 5, 1999. Hersh writes that, in April 1998, the CIA took over control of UNSCOM's intercepts when they began to tap into Saddam Hussein's most closely protected communications and to expose Iraq's weapons concealment program. Butler says that "the US proposed a more elaborate method for monitoring Iraqi messages . An initial installation was done of this technology; we quickly found that it didn't work well, and I ordered it removed, which I'm sure didn't boost my popularity in Washington."
Initially, the USadministration and some newspapers furiously criticized the secretary-general for a spokesman's statement that, if true, the use of UNSCOM for US intelligence purposes would be extremely damaging to the UN. They went on to accuse Annan of undermining UNSCOMand sanctions. Later on, however, when it became clear that the allegations of Ritter and others were almost certainly true, the editorial line of leading US newspapers shifted to justifying, or deploring, the USpractice.↩
David Malone, Goodbye UNSCOM: A Sorry Tale of US/UN Relations. Security Dialogue, December 1999.↩
The publisher's publicity letter for reviewers of his book states that Butler's "authority was undermined behind his back. Kofi Annan, in the name of diplomacy, agreed to [Saddam] Hussein's outrageous demands, and then claimed victory."↩
Talk, September 1999, p. 198. Quoted by David Malone in Goodbye UNSCOM.↩
Butler was directly responsible to the Security Council, although he was appointed by the secretary-general.↩
The Butler/Ritter imbroglio continues. On July 3, 2000, The New York Times quoted Ritter as stating in a recent article that his team had effectively rid Iraq of dangerous weapons in 1997. Butler rejects this claim as "completely contrary to the advice that he repeatedly and robustly gave me when he was on the staff." Butler gives a fuller assessment of the current status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, and of Ritter's latest pronouncements, in "Guess Who's Back," The Washington Post, July 17, 2000.↩
For example, Seymour M. Hersh, "Saddam's Best Friend: How the CIA Made It a Lot Easier for the Iraqi Leader to Rearm," The New Yorker, April 5, 1999. Hersh writes that, in April 1998, the CIA took over control of UNSCOM's intercepts when they began to tap into Saddam Hussein's most closely protected communications and to expose Iraq's weapons concealment program. Butler says that "the US proposed a more elaborate method for monitoring Iraqi messages . An initial installation was done of this technology; we quickly found that it didn't work well, and I ordered it removed, which I'm sure didn't boost my popularity in Washington."
Initially, the USadministration and some newspapers furiously criticized the secretary-general for a spokesman's statement that, if true, the use of UNSCOM for US intelligence purposes would be extremely damaging to the UN. They went on to accuse Annan of undermining UNSCOMand sanctions. Later on, however, when it became clear that the allegations of Ritter and others were almost certainly true, the editorial line of leading US newspapers shifted to justifying, or deploring, the USpractice.↩


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There is much confusion in genealogical resources about the husbands of three of Isaac Sharp's daughters. Isaac was born in South Carolina in 1750 and later came north, marrying Mary Wolverton or Woolverton, born in 1761 in New Jersey. They then moved to Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Here is a Web page with a detailed listing of twelve of their sons and daughters: http://www.couchgenweb.com/family2/sharp.htm
Other resources list thirteen children, such as this one:
My particular interest is daughter Rebecca Sharp, listed as born in 1794 in Greene County, as she is my ggg-grandmother as shown in Conger genealogies. However, some genealogy databases list two husbands, both David S. Conger and Ephraim Corwin, but not as first and second marriages.
Thanks to the Charles L. Conger Archives at the New Jersey Historical Society, I have been obtained copies of family letters that verify the marriage of David S. Conger to Rebecca Sharp, of the Sharps of early Pennsylvania.
The source of the confusion appears to be errors about the spouses of three of the Sharp daughters in "Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania" (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), p. 171, online here: http://www.chartiers.com/beers-project/articles/sharp-171.html Otherwise this Sharp Family sketch is lively and interesting.
First, Rachel [born 1788] was said to have married David Cougar, which should be Congar or Conger. Actually Rebecca married David Conger.
We know that from family letters; from the 1850 Census for Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, showing David and Rebecca Conger and children; and from Iowa death records for David, giving his wife as Rebecca Sharp.
David and Rebecca's migration pattern in seen in their children's birthplaces as given in the 1850 Census: Elias in Pennsylvania, Isaac in Ohio, and Amanda and Sabina in Indiana. [Another son, John Spencer Conger, my gg-grandfather, had married in 1849].
Second, Rebecca [born 1794] is said in the Beers work to have married Ephraim Coruin, which should be Corwin. Instead, her sister Margaret [born 1796] married Ephraim Corwin. This is confirmed in a biography of Isaac Selover who married Ephraim and Margaret's daughter Mary in Ohio, as shown on this Web page: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Delaware/deltroy.htm
The mention in the Selover bio that Mary's "grandfather Sharp was a surveyor" matches the Beers biography of Isaac Sharp which describes him as both surveyor and school teacher.
Third, I have not found Rachel's husband. In addition, the online census databases have no record of a Thomas Largely nor anyone with that surname.
I hope this proves helpful to genealogists for both Conger and Sharp families. While Conger family researchers have always shown David's wife as Rebecca Sharp, it is the genealogy databases that have picked up the error from the Beers volume, creating confusion.


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The Viral Oncology (VO) research program is one of OSUCCC–James' six highly interactive cancer Research Programs. The programs comprise more than 200 leading scientists from 13 different colleges within OSU and affiliated academic institutions.
VO promotes collaborative research in order to discover mechanisms of virus-related neoplastic disease, design improved viral vector-mediated gene transfer technologies and improve oncolytic virotherapy.
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J Natl Cancer Inst 100(6): 407-20., 2008. Distinct risk factor profiles for human papillomavirus type 16-positive and human papillomavirus type 16-negative head and neck cancers (Gillison, M).Key Finding: Identified oral sexual behavior as the principal risk factor for oral HPV infection and HPV-associated oral cancers.
J Natl Cancer Inst 99(23):1768-81, 2007 Effect of tumor microenvironment modulation on the efficacy of oncolytic virus therapy (Carson W, Chiocca EA, Kaur B) [Featured editorial]Key Finding: A fundamental limitation to the success of oncolytic virus therapy of gliomas is the hyperpermeability and inflammatory response of tumors.
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J Clin Oncol 23(27):6481-8, 2005 (Gross TG et al.) Low-dose chemotherapy for Epstein-Barr virus-positive post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease in children after solid organ transplantationKey Finding: Low-dose chemotherapy regimen is effective for children with EBV-positive, nonfulminant PTLD who have experienced treatment failure with front-line therapy. This study represents the largest series of PTLD patients treated prospectively with a uniform chemotherapy regimen.
Nat Struc Mol Biol 13(6):509-16., 2006 RNA helicase A is necessary for translation of selected messenger RNAs (Boris-Lawrie K, Schoenberg D, Fernandez S). Journal Cover Story.Key Finding: Discovered a new regulatory axis of growth genes of cells and of viruses that is operated by a specific RNA-RNA helicase A interaction. RNA Helicase A is also a biomarker of human tumors.
Blood 112:3788-3797, 2008 HTLV-1 antisense encoded gene, Hbz, promotes T-lymphocyte proliferation (Green PL, Lairmore MD)Key Finding: This work provided direct evidence that HTLV-1 Hbz, which has now been shown to be the only viral gene expressed in ATL cells plays a role in tumor cell survival and organ infiltration. Hbz will be a key therapeutic target.
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Program Progent GrantP01CA1007030-07, VO member Michael Lairmore, DVM, PhD PI. This proposal continues the study of highly integrated retrovirus models to elucidate essential cellular mechanisms that define lymphocyte transformation and disease. The study of retroviruses has provided fundamental and critical knowledge for defining cell transformation mechanisms as well as fundamental cell biology paradigms. The VO will extend upon the established interactions through inter-related goals to define critical events that control lymphocyte transition from activation through immortalization and transformation. Project 1 Dr. Lairmore uses retroviruses to provide novel insights into how they alter transcription and DNA damage/repair signaling to establish persistent infections and set the stage for cellular transformation. Project 2 VO Co-Leader Patrick L. Green, PhD will define novel, post-transcriptional mechanisms of retroviruses and, working with Dr. Lairmore (Project 1), will comparatively test each protein in viral replication and lymphocyte transformation. Project 3 VO member Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD, working collaboratively with multiple PPG investigators will examine the fundamental translational control mechanisms in both retroviruses and in crucial growth control genes. Project 4 Weilbaecher, PhD Washington University, and Molecular Carcinogenesis & Chemoprevention Research Program member Thomas Rosol, DVM, PhD, combine their expertise with PPG investigators to study the role of bone microenvironment in osteolytic and osteoblastic tumor models. Project 5 Lee Ratner, PhD Washington University continues the highly dynamic collaborations between each university to test the contribution of the inflammatory microenvironment in carcinogenesis using unique transgenic mouse models.
The PPG comprises the five interactive projects above as well as three highly supportive Cores (Dr. Lairmore, Mathes, PhD, Fernandez, PhD (Statistics), Kvaraskhelia, PhD (ET), and Niewiesk, PhD).
Each project is related to two central components involving the regulation of lymphocyte signaling and gene expression by retroviruses or cellular microenvironment alterations leading to transformation and paraneoplastic disease. The PPG's interactive nature will provide rational hypotheses to support translational studies to define therapeutic intervention against retrovirus-induced lymphoma and refine animal models to determine molecular determinants of retrovirus-induced cancer.
CMV-Specific MicroRNA Signatures in Gliomas
VO members Sean Lawler, PhD, and Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD, have discovered CMV-specific microRNA signatures in gliomas from human patients. The team is currently attempting to validate these signatures and discover their targets. If true, the research may provide the first causative links between this virus and malignant gliomas. The discovery is part of a pilot project led by Dr. Chiocca, Chang-hyuk Kwon, PhD, and Charles Cook, PhD which focuses on validating the hypothesis of an association between cytomegalovirus (CMV) and glioma genesis and progression.
PBM-Mediated Associations Between Tax-1 & Cellular Proteins
As a result of their studies of HTLV-1 transforming protein, Tax, its role in the virus-host interface and, ultimately, cellular transformation and disease induction, VO Co-Leader Patrick Green, PhD, and his team's infection and proliferation assays revealed that the Tax-1 PBM significantly increases both HTLV-1 and HTLV-2-induced primary T-cell proliferation. Additionally, Tax-1 PBM was responsible for Tax-1's micronuclei/DNA damage induction activity relative to that of Tax-2. Viral infection and persistence were severely attenuated in rabbits inoculated with HTLV-1PBM. These results offer the first direct evidence that PBM-mediated associations between Tax-1 and cellular proteins play a key role in HTLV-induced cell proliferation and genetic instability in vitro, and they facilitate viral persistence in vivo. This provides new information regarding the distinct pathogenesis differences between HTLV-1 and HTLV-2.
Unique Class of PCE Discovered in Retroviruses and junD
VO member Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD, and her colleagues have discovered first in retroviruses, and subsequently in cellular proto-oncogene junD, a unique class of post-transcriptional control element (PCE). Viral proteins are not required for PCE activity and host DEIH-box protein Dhx9/RNA helicase A (RHA), previously known to activate transcription, recognizes PCE structural features to facilitate polyribosome loading (Hartman et al, Nat Struc Mol Biol 2006;13(6):509-516).
Oncolytic Viruses
Oncolytic viruses are either naturally emerging or engineered viral mutants with replicative selectivity towards tumor cells. These mutants include RNA and DNA, and it is likely that sequential combinations of different treatments will provide further patient life span extension. Despite various clinical trials, efficacy evidence has been elusive, human tumor tissue reveals that viral replication is minimal or nil, and a rapid host response consisting of infiltration and/or marker upregulation associated with mononuclear cells and lymphocytes occurs fairly rapidly.
VO investigators were among the first to observe a similar rapid response in animal models and to hypothesize that such a response was just one of several host responses whose role was to impede and limit the OV anticancer effect. The investigators have shown that several layers of host defenses must be circumvented for an OV successfully spread and kill neoplastic masses.
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Dr. Green and Dr. Lairmore also generated lentiviral vectors that express Hbz-specific short hairpin (sh)RNA to decrease Hbz mRNA and HBZ protein expression in transduced HTLV-1-transformed SLB-1 T-cells. Hbz knockdown correlated with a significant decrease in T-cell proliferation in culture, and both SLB-1 and SLB-1-Hbz knockdown cells engrafted into inoculated NOD/SCIDγchain-/- mice to form solid tumors that also infiltrated multiple tissues. Tumor formation and organ infiltration, however, were significantly decreased in animals challenged with SLB-1-Hbz knockdown cells. Together these studies indicate that Hbz expression enhances the proliferative capacity of HTLV-1 infected T-cells, playing a critical role in cell survival and ultimately HTLV-1 tumorigenesis in the infected host (Arnold et al., Blood, 2008; 112(9):3788-97).
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June 2012 rigid PCB shipments were up 11.6% and rigid bookings gained 11.8% from May 2012. The book-to-bill ratio for the North American rigid PCB industry in June 2012 continued to slip, but remained above parity at 1.01.
Flexible circuit shipments in June 2012 were up 2.1% and bookings were down 8.4% from June 2011. Year to date, flexible circuit shipments were down 7.1% and bookings were down 3.4%. Compared to the previous month, flexible circuit shipments were up 29.7% and flex bookings were up 14.9%. The North American flexible circuit book-to-bill ratio remained high at 1.16.
"North American PCB sales and orders were up in June compared to the previous month, which is consistent with seasonal patterns," said Sharon Starr, IPC director of market research. "Rigid PCB business continued below last year's levels, but orders continue to outpace sales, which is encouraging. The June book-to-bill ratios remained in positive territory for the seventh consecutive month and maintained an especially strong performance in the flexible circuit segment of the industry."
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Free Pancakes at IHOP on February 24, 2009
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For those of you who believe nothing in life is free, you're wrong. To celebrate National Pancake Day breakfast big-name IHOP is giving away buttermilk pancakes gratis in participating stores. Between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Feb. 24, diners can get three free pancakes — no coupon or purchase necessary.
This is the fourth year IHOP has celebrated National Pancake Day with this event, which it uses to raise money for community charities. In return for free pancakes, the chain asks that you consider making a donation to its charity, the Children's Miracle Network, or another local philanthropy. Will you be enjoying free pancakes at IHOP?
donomia 5 years
IHOP wow it seems a decade ago i went there once in the US
Molambert 5 years
i'm in ihop right now and its great!!!!!
LovinIHOP 5 years
Actually, gigill, there are a ton in Canada (although I know it's a huge country, so maybe not so close to you): 33020 S. Fraser Abbotsford, BC V2S 2A8 (604) 859-4636 5137 Kingsway Burnaby, BC V5H 2E6 (604) 451-5557 4567 Lougheed Hwy Brentwood Mall - Unit #56 Burnaby, BC V5C 3Z6 (604) 299-1111 173-9855 Austin Ave Burnaby, BC V3J 1N4 (604) 444-0201 1950 Harvey Avenue, #200 Kelowna, BC V1Y 8J8 (250) 860-2771 19700 Langley Bypass Langley, BC V3A 7B1 (604) 530-1169 514 8th Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 1Y6 (604) 521-3212 2755 Lougheed Highway Poco Place Shopping Center Port Coquitlam, BC V3B 5Y9 (604) 941-5345 6780 Number 3 Road Richmond, BC V6Y 2C4 (604) 273-3411 10551 Saint Edwards Drive Richmond, BC V6X 3L8 (604) 273-8253 8170 120th Street Surrey, BC V3W 3N3 (604) 596-4994 2429 152nd Street, Unit 107 24 Johnston Plaza White Rock, BC V4A 4P3 (604) 538-3595 Ontario 7514 Lundy's Lane Niagara Falls, ON L2H 1G8 (905) 356-2100
valancyjane 5 years
I wish they'd call this what it is, which is Mardi Gras. (The tradition used to be that you had pancakes or waffles on Mardi Gras to use up all the butter, because you didn't use it during Lent and it would go bad otherwise.) This is a war on Lent! Jesus is the reason for the season! (Just kidding, but really ... call it what it is.)
gigill 5 years
They don't have Ihops in Canada. :(
SusanTeufel 5 years
It's my birthday, so maybe I'll go get pancakes, lol...
Pallas-Athena 5 years
OOOH! I might go! I know of 1 IHOP near me in QNS.
jennjennnbubba 5 years
omg IHOP is still open for business? I won't be going but it sweet that they are doing it.
Rancher'sGirl 5 years
My husband and I are definitely making a special trip to the nearest IHOP tomorrow! :drool:
ilanac13 5 years
oooh now if only i didn't have to work and there was an IHOP near me. there were so many near my office and home in Florida, but alas there just aren't any in NYC. (none that i know of at least). you guys will have to go and enjoy the nanerpus pancakes w/o me.
gaucholoco 5 years
Nope. Maybe if we were talkin' IHOW...
Smacks83 5 years
No, the closest one in Queens to me is super ghetto and has lines for up to 3 hours waiting on weekends. Which is sad because i went to an IHOP when I was in Atlantic City with the bf and realized I liked their food.
aimeeb 5 years
Ha I haven't been in ages!
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I Must Set Forth, my Calabash Awaits!
The year is 1993, I am cowering behind my mother's door, listening as her younger sister recounts the beating her husband had just meted out to her, this time it had been worse than usual. My aunt had suddenly descended on us with her three children, a ton of boxes and bruises all over her body; I was young but I immediately knew that something was very wrong. I was curious, so I eavesdropped.
My mother's siblings were also present in the room, fusing over my aunt and tending to her wounds. The family had quickly rallied around and flocked in from various cities when my aunt had announced that she was finally leaving her husband of six torturous years. The general consensus of her family seemed to be that my aunt should "bear " the situation and return to her husband's house, after all what was the alternative, to shamefully return to her late parents' home? At the time I found it incredulous, I could not decipher what they meant by this. Even in my young mind I thought it quite clear; if someone constantly beat you up then they obviously did not like you and you would do well to stay away from them. Why then were these grownups giving this sort of advice?
A collection of random experiences and stories have greatly influenced and molded who I have become today, but that incident has left an indelible mark. What sort of country ensures that it inculcates in its people the 'values' of the worthlessness of a woman in the society, especially without the endorsement of a man, no matter how abusive? And nearly two decades later much has not changed, women are still being beaten everyday without any firm laws to protect them. What laws that there are only crawl out when a woman has been battered to death, and even then we can all hear over numerous outcries of rage, the mocking words; "too late".
Today I have become weary of relationships and I am paranoid about ever finding myself in defenseless situations. And for this I amplify for the rights of women at every opportunity I get. When I heard about the Voices of the Future citizen journalism training, applying was a natural step. Here is a great platform on which I can unmask the abuses which women undergo every day and the inequality we have to live with. Here I can eschew to the hearing of the world, societies that encourage male superiority and accept violence against women as a sort of norm. On World Pulse I have found my stage. On World Pulse I shall give voice to those who suffer in silence. On World Pulse I shall reorient the world, one person, one community, one country and one continent at a time. With the help of World Pulse I am ready to set forth on this life-changing journey, my calabash of grievances poised and overflowing, waiting to confront and influence the world.
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Your testimony is the story of the African woman, who is taught to bear it all, well put, it is time for change and change we must.Keep up the good fight.
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Your article is very true for women from several cultures around the world. I have seen and heard this repeatedly, but I agree, women should not feel ashamed to leave their husbands and it is we as women who has to teach them that it is okay to leave their husbands. I think that our society has been created by males and as such the norms are also developed by them. Therefore, they treat women as they please. What happened to your aunt at the end? did she return home?
I wish you much success Athena in your desire to help women. I admire what you are doing and hope that it gets you very far. Thank you for being such a great advocate!
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Dear Athena,
Thank you for sharing your story and your motivations for joining World Pulse!
What you say about your country supporting "the 'values' of the worthlessness of a woman in the society" is very interesting to me. Often we talk about women being the "unheard" or the "forgotten", but the way you describe the gender conflict in Nigeria makes it seem as though your society does not push women into the background, but, rather, brings them to the foreground to become victims of rage, discrimination, and violence. To hear of a campaign such as this makes me very sad, and, as you said, indignant.
I admire your determination to stand up for women like your aunt! And I look forward to reading more.
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*resolved this year to think twice and to smile twice before doing anything*
Hi Athena!
I'd love to say that Pulse Wire has power to make our voices bigger and bigger, due to the fact that all women here are having the same interests. I also would be happy to read your stories about Gender Based Violence, those cases related to violence must be healed. We all have to prevent the next victims, eradicate GBV, and raise awareness in terms of gender equity. Instead of men having dominant role in home.
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One theory on the disparity of credit scores in geographical areas is the prevalence of college graduates in top-rated cities.
The San Francisco-San Jose area is home to some of the top colleges in the country, including Stanford and the University of California. So, too, in Boston, where Harvard, Tufts, Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are either in the city or close by.Private businesses tend to set up shop close to those college incubators (think Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) in Northern California or Reebok, Gillette and Fidelity Investments in Boston. Those firms pay high salaries and good benefits to workers, and that could contribute to residents of those cities possessing higher credit scores. Of course, that's no guarantee. Memphis, of course, is the headquarters of Federal Express (FDX), one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Whatever the reason, TransUnion says that beefing up a credit score is an attainable goal as long as you manage your credit right, make debt payments on time and keep debt balances low. Do those three things and chances are your credit score will improve no matter where you live.
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Trailhead of the Monticello Trail (Kemper Park) (map)
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Join Devin Floyd, president of the Blue Ridge Discovery Center, for an inquiry into the habitat variety and diversity at the Secluded Farm tract of the Monticello Trail. Devin will guide you on an exploration of the factors that influence habitat variation upon the farm's rich woodlands and fields. Topics such as geology, soil drainage, land use history, slope, aspect and elevation will be explored. The two-hour hike begins at the Trailhead parking lot with a look at diversity in the Kemper Park rain-water retaining pools.
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