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A Brief History of the Circular Church
- Charles Towne's original settlers founded this protestant, or dissenting, church about 1681.
- The graveyard is the city's oldest burial grounds with monuments dating from 1695.
- The first meeting house on this site gave Meeting Street its name.
- The third structure here, a vast, circular hall built in 1804, burned in 1861. Bricks from "Old Circular" were used in building the present sanctuary, completed in 1892.
- Historically Independent: the congregation is now related to the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
From its beginning more than 300 years ago to the present day, the story of Circular Church has been attached by muscle and sinew to the history of the city around it. The beauty and cultural vigor of antebellum Charleston were intensified in this church. Likewise the calamities and dogged endurance of this church put the trials of the city into high relief.
Colonial Origins and Epitaphs This congregation was co-founded with Charles Towne, 1680-1685, by the English Congregationalists, Scots Presbyterians. and French Huguenots of the original settlement. In a spirit of diversity and liberality, these "dissenters" erected a Meeting House in the northwest comer of the walled city. The present sanctuary occupies that exact site. The street leading to it was called "Meeting House Street," later shortened to Meeting Street.
The earliest records of the church were lost when a violent hurricane swept them from the manse, located at White Point (the Battery), in 1713. The only artifact remaining from the 17th century is the brick grave structure of the Simonds family, dating from 1695, found on the south side of the sanctuary. With its large concentration of 18th-century gravestones, the churchyard rewards exploration with rare glimpses into the religious and artistic history of the young, struggling colony. The slates of the Peronneau family, for example, comprise a graphic history of changing portrayals of death in colonial America. The skull and crossbones of the earliest slates evolve into the skull with wings, the angel's head with wings, and then portrait busts, first primitive and then classical. A British cannonball burst in the graveyard during Sunday services in 1780, and earthquake, fire, and vandalism have taken their toll. Nevertheless, the recently restored graveyard (a project shared with the Historic Charleston Foundation) is unmatched in the South as a repository of distinguished funerary art.
Independence, Tolerance, and Activism
During the colonial period, this unusual church had no official name, but "suffered itself to be called either Presbyterian, Congregational, or Independent: sometimes by one of the names, sometimes by two of them, and at other times by all the three. We do not find that this church is either Presbyterian, Congregational, or Independent, but somewhat distinct and singular from them all." (Church records, February 5, 1775)Many of the early ministers hailed from Scotland, England, Wales, and New England. The "old White Meeting House" was enlarged in 1732, only a year after 12 Scots families had moved down the street to start a church with stricter Presbyterian government and doctrine. While many Presbyterians remained, the policy of this church "was not so much to define exactly the particular mode of their discipline, and to bind their hands up to any one stiff form adopted either by Presbyterians, Congregationalists, or Independents, as to be upon a broad dissenting bottom, and to leave ourselves as free as possible from any foreign shackles, that no moderate persons of either denomination might be afraid to join them." (Ibid.)
Shaped by its independent mind and goaded by a colonial government that treated "dissenters" (non-Anglicans) with contempt, this church became a greenhouse for revolutionary sentiment in the colony. Prominent members of the Meeting House, and its distinguished minister, William Tennent (1772-1777), were frequently heard speaking for political and religious freedom. Tennent took his life in his hands when he made a wide tour of the Carolina backcountry in 1775 to gain subscribers for the cause of independence. When the British captured Charleston in 1780, this church was bitterly rewarded for its love of freedom by the illegal exile of 38 heads of families to St. Augustine (in Spanish territory) and then to Philadelphia. Their families were left destitute in an occupied city. The Meeting House, vacant since the cannonball episode, was used as a British hospital and left a shell.
Yet these years of suffering were a furnace that forged the Independent Church into an Instrument that would exert great influence on the political, religious, and cultural renaissance of its city after independence. In 1782, acting in astonishing faith, the church-in-exile held a congregational meeting in Philadelphia where they made arrangements to call a minister to Charleston "as soon as may be feasible." (Tennent had died in 1777.) Members remaining in Charleston began the week of British evacuation to rebuild the Meeting House.
By 1787, the vigorous congregation had built a second meeting house on Archdale Street to accommodate their growing number. For 25 years, Drs. William Hollinshead and Isacc Keith, co-pastors of the church, preached one sermon in both houses each Sunday, alternating morning and afternoon services.
Robert Mills' "Extraordinary" Building
In 1804, the time had come to replace the Meeting Street house with a more commodious building. Martha Laurens Ramsay proposed a circular form and Robert Mills, Charleston's leading architect who also designed the Washington Monument in D.C., completed the plans. The church he designed was a Pantheon-type building 88 feet in diameter with seven great doors and 26 windows. On its main floor and in the gallery it was said to accommodate 2,000 worshippers! The first major domed building in North America, it was described by one observer in 1818 as "the most extraordinary building in the United States." However, people made fun of the fact that the church lacked a steeple and for years laughed at the rhyme:Charleston is a pious place
And full of pious people
They built a church on Meeting Street
But could not raise the steeple.
The pious (and somewhat proud) people of Circular Church, as it was now popularly called, stopped the laughter in 1838 by raising a New England-style steeple that towered 182 feet above Meeting Street.
The Archdale Street Meeting House separated in 1817 as the Second Independent Church, and in the 1830's it adopted the name Unitarian. The congregation of Circular Church remained trinitarian under the pastoral leadership of the Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1813-1835). Noteworthy is the fact that Palmer was a special son of this church, born in Philadelphia just two weeks after his parents had been driven into exile there in 1781.During the "glory days" of 1820-1860, Circular Church had a large congregation of white and black members. The first Sunday School for religious education in South Carolina was started here in 1816, and members founded the Charleston Bible Society, a prototype to the later American Bible Society. The membership included two governors of the state, prominent senators, the editor of the Courier, and many others whose voices made Charleston eloquent and who extended the influence of their church far beyond its walls. It also included many slaves and poor whose names were unknown to anyone beyond its walls.
Those walls of the splendid Circular Church were not long to stand. On December 11, 1861, a great fire started near the Cooper River. During the night, a "hurricane of fire" swept all the way across the city, leaving in its wake the ruins of Old Circular. The Civil War soon followed with its devastating effect. The black members of the church withdrew in 1867 to form the Plymouth Congregational Church.
The psychology of defeat continued to demoralize the church for more than a decade, and it was a chastened and much reduced congregation that gathered the brick from the overgrown ruins of the great 1804 meeting house and began erecting a new sanctuary in 1890. Once again Circular Church raised the eyebrows of the establishment. The building they created from the ruins - our present meeting house - was a radical departure from traditional Charleston architecture. Its Romanesque style, quite modern in 1890, was inspired by Henry Hobart Richardson and designed by Stephenson and Greene of New York City. It bespeaks a spirit of nonconformity and high adventure in a church that was breathing life again.
The building combines two powerful forms: the circle (the exterior plan), reminiscent of the former church and universal symbol of eternity and wholeness, and the Greek Cross (the interior plan), the Christian symbol of death and resurrection. For more than a century this worship space has moved the congregation gathered here to seek the wholeness and integrity of individuals, of the community of faith, and of civic life.
From Independence to Interdependence
The Independent or Circular Church joined the Congregational Association in 1882 and continued its membership when this organization became the United Church of Christ in 1957. Circular also joined the Atlantic Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1968. It is one of the few congregations in the South that expresses its ecumenical commitment by belonging to two denominations, the U.C.C. and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).Circular Church fosters active interdependence in the local community as well, trying to be aware of the needs of people on the margins of society. In recent years, this church was instrumental in founding the city's first marriage and family counseling center, Charleston's crisis intervention service (Hotline), Hospice of Charleston, and the Elder Shelter. Space and leadership were provided to the Charleston Interfaith Crisis Ministry, Amnesty International, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Charleston PEACE, and other community organizations.
The congregation, international and multiracial, has been served for over 30 years by "tent-making" (part-time) clergy, a reminder to the congregation that every member is called to priesthood and ministry.
Worship at Circular is enhanced by an exceptional tracker organ built for a church in Boston in 1890 by George S. Hutchings. The organ was moved here and restored in our loft in 1987 by Circular's then organist and choir director, Vernon S. Elliott. Restoration of the sanctuary was achieved in 1987, also largely by members of the congregation.
Circular Church draws strength from its 325-year memory and looks forward in hope as it continues the adventure of God in our day. May others be led to join that adventure!For additional information about the history of Circular Church, access our records which are housed at the South Carolina Historical Society. Another source is Joanne Calhoun's book, The Circular Church, Three Centuries of Charleston History, published by www.historypress.net in 2008. More pictures of Circular may be viewed at http://circular.smugmug.com and www.thechurchesofamerica.com


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I hate to high jack the your thread, but I had a quick question.. And the answer might help you too..
If you opt. For the monthly dues payments, can you pay off the year early? Dec/jan is normally A tight month for us, but buy April we should be able to pay off the rest of year.. So can I opt into the monthly payments and then in April pay off the rest of the year? |
In Dec/Jan I have: Christmas, DVC dues, My husband's birthday, Car insurance comes due, and that is generally about the time we need to order more oil to heat the house. This all results in a big deduction from our savings account. Yes part of that is that we have been putting in money to cover these things but that doesn't stop me from having that mild panic of "Oh no all the money came out all at once and now we have so much less" By March or April its nicely came back up to more normal levels and everything is good. So I could understand just wanting one less bill to hit at the same time. |
My husband and I both have VERY large families and between christmas, birthdays (in dec for both our kids), and other taxes coming due in jan. things can become tight.. However we are very good at setting a budget and sticking to it.. It would just mean Smaller christmas, and maybe instead of huge birthdays parties they kids will have to settle for a small home party.. In April we normally have extra cash, due to the way our budget is set. It just takes a few months to recover from the major damage we due during the holiday time. However if we could do payments I can build that into the budget each year, and then should for some reason we be unable to pay the lump sum, we can continue to make monthly payments... And if in April as planned we have the money, we pay it, and move on.. Also we would have the annual dues in our savings account, but as a rule we DON'T touch if we can cut back other ways. Just b/c we have the money in the savings account, doesn't mean we blow the budget each year. I hope this make sense to everyone.. |
It's not that we don't have the money but hate to touch the savings account.. We view our money in our savings account as an emergency fund, and having to pull money each year for dues, would cause a mild panic until April when we could put it back In.. |
There are a lot of strong opinions on here when it comes to other people's finances. There's a small percentage of people in this world who have an excess well beyond their standard of living, and if DVC purchases were only made by those folks, it would have folded a long time ago :thumbsup2
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The internet is full of surprises around every corner, and the age of YouTube has brought us some memorable "viral" videos. One of this year's most shared comes from Canadian indie band, Walk off the Earth, with their cover of Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" at every turn (now at 126 million views and counting.) While the band continues to produce unique versions of popular songs, they have two albums worth of original songs and are diligently working on their major label debut in their hometown of Burlington.
While at Summerfest 2012, multi-instrumentalists Mike Taylor, Ryan Marshall and Joel Cassady dropped into the Experience truck to talk about Canadian vs. U.S. crowds, tips on making it in the music business and the YouTube videos that have caught their attention, too.
SEN: Two of your band members are credited with playing kazoo, amongst a bunch of other wonky instruments. Any instrument you haven't tried yet that you want to?
Ryan: I can't play the didgeridoo yet. They're really cool.
Joel: I've always wanted to play the steel drums, I never got around to it. That's on my list.
Ryan: Something on my radar is the accordion. I wanna try to bring the accordion back to being sexy and foxy.
SEN: You all are one of the biggest underdog stories of the year, creating buzz on your own that paid off in a big way. What do you suggest to other D.I.Y. artists looking to do the same?
Ryan: I guess the thing is that you can't wait around for other people to do things for you. In the music business, there are so many awesome bands out there that, if you wait for somebody to help, all those other awesome bands are going to beat you to it. You just have to work your ass off.
Joel: Know that you've gotta do some crappy stuff. Everybody goes through some stuff that they don't necessarily enjoy and if you can persevere through that, good things are going to happen. Maybe not right away, but eventually.
Ryan: Joel had to be a wedding singer for two years and then we brought him in as a drummer.
Joel: Wedding singer/adult entertainer. It's in the past. [laughs]
SEN: You obviously got a lot of attention from YouTube and the Gotye cover. Any favorite non-music YouTube videos? (i.e. – David at the Dentist, etc.)
Ryan: I watch a lot of "Annoying Orange," he's one of my favorites.
Joel: One of my favorite one-off videos is "Goat Yelling Like a Man." Have you seen that? It's great.
Mike: We have some friends in a band that are YouTube artists, one is the Gregory Brothers. The other one is The Key of Awesome. Those guys kick it.
Joel: Back to the goat yelling like a man video, I don't wanna give too much away, but there's a goat in it and he yells . . . [laughs]
SEN: What's on your short list of other artists to cover?
Mike: We're in talks right now of doing a real happenin' version [of a] Tom Jones medley. That's in the works, but it's not ready to debut yet.
Joel: I think it's cooler to not plan it. Even the "Somebody that I Used to Know," video came about pretty quickly. Whether it's an old song or a new song, if it's a good tune and it's gonna work, it just happens.
SEN: What's the biggest difference between US and Canadian crowds?
Ryan: The US crowds get a little more crazy than the Canadian crowds do. That's more like where we're from. I don't wanna diss my own crowd, but sometimes Toronto crowds can get a little boring. Down here in the states, they're pretty wild. In west Canada, they're even more wild, they kind of have the US beat right now.
Mike: There's a little bit of a pause before people, let's say in Toronto, go nuts. They like to assess, evaluate and then they go for it. As where, they just fire from the hip [in the US] a little quicker and we like that.
Joel: I mean, in Canada, we do have to separate into territories like [Joel] did, west to east, so that's good. We haven't really been out east yet, they might throw fresh fish on the stage, I don't know, we'll have to see. Both crowds are great, any crowd is great, it's all good.
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Lead Poisoning: The Ignored Scandal
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
In December 1993, a slum landlord in Baltimore named Lawrence Polakoff rented an apartment to a twenty-one-year-old single mother and her three-year-old son, Max.1 A few days after they moved in, Max's mother was invited to participate in a research study comparing how well different home renovation methods protected children from lead poisoning, which is still a major problem endangering the health of millions of American children, many of them poor.
Congress had banned the sale of interior lead paint in 1978, but it remained on the walls of millions of homes nationwide, and there was no adequate federal program to deal with it. In Baltimore, most slum housing contained at least some lead paint, and nearly half of the children who lived in these houses had levels of lead in their blood well above that considered safe by the Centers for Disease Control. Max's blood lead was low when he moved into Polakoff's apartment, but Polakoff had been cited at least ten times in the past for violating Baltimore's lead paint regulations, and several former tenants would later sue him for poisoning their children, so the boy was now in great danger.
The research study in which Max and his mother participated was run by two scientists affiliated with Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University with support from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The scientists had formed a partnership with a local contractor, who identified slum landlords like Polakoff and urged them to rent preferentially to families with children aged six months to four years, just when they start crawling around the house and when lead exposure is most dangerous to the developing brain. If the parents agreed, their home would receive one of three different types of lead removal and their children—all of whom were healthy and normal and had low blood lead when they joined the study—would be given regular blood tests to see if their lead levels rose or fell.2
The three lead removal methods varied in cost and thoroughness. In twenty-five of the homes, areas with peeling paint were scraped and repainted and a doormat was placed by the main entrance. This was called "level I abatement" and the cost was not to exceed $1,650. Another twenty-five homes received more extensive "level II abatement" in which chipping paint was scraped and repaired, doormats were placed at all entrances, an easy-to-clean floor covering was installed, and collapsing walls were covered with plasterboard. The cost of this was not to exceed $3,500. In a third set of twenty-five dwellings, all of the above was done, but in addition, all windows were replaced. The cost of this "level III abatement" was not to exceed $7,000. Two control groups of twenty-five families each were also recruited into the study. Half lived in houses that had been built after the interior lead paint ban in 1978, and half lived in older houses that were supposed to have been fully renovated in the past.
Max's apartment received level II abatement. While carrying out the work, the contractor noticed some "hot spots"—areas of lead paint that could shed dangerous dust. He pointed them out to Polakoff, and also recorded their location on forms that were sent to the researchers, but no one told Max's mother. Because of the cost limits for level II abatement, the hot spots were not repaired. When Max was tested six months later, his blood lead had nearly quadrupled, to a level known to cause permanent brain damage.
In 1990, Leslie Hanes, another young black single woman, moved into an apartment that was supposed to have been fully stripped of lead paint years earlier. In 1992, she gave birth to a daughter, Denisa, and in the spring of the following year, she too joined the toddler lead study.3 The day before Hanes signed the consent form, the contractor found that her apartment was not in fact lead-free. The remaining lead paint was removed, but by the following September Denisa's blood lead level had more than tripled and was now six times higher than that currently considered safe by the Centers for Disease Control.
Denisa's mother was not informed of the blood test result for another three months, by which time it was nearly Christmas. The research assistant who told her about it wished her happy holidays and advised her to wash her front steps more carefully and to keep eighteen-month-old Denisa from putting her hands in her mouth. When Denisa eventually entered school, she had trouble keeping up and had to repeat second grade. This came as a surprise to her mother, a former high school honors student. As Hanes told The Washington Post's Manuel Roig-Franzia in 2001, sometimes Denisa came home crying because she thought she was stupid. "No, baby, you're not stupid," Leslie told her. "We just have to work harder."
The link between lead poisoning and low IQ is based on the findings of epidemiological studies of large groups of children, so there's no way of knowing for certain whether Denisa's problems—or those of any particular child—were caused by lead poisoning. Some children have a low IQ because they were born that way or for some other reason, but because Denisa's blood lead level was so high, it's very likely that in her case, lead poisoning was the cause.
Why was such an unethical experiment ever allowed to proceed? In Lead Wars CUNY's Gerald Markowitz and Columbia University's David Rosner convincingly show that the Baltimore toddler study emerged from a century of policymaking in which the US government, faced at various times with a choice between protecting children from lead poisoning and protecting the businesses that produced and marketed lead paint, almost invariably chose the latter. In the process, some of the scientific research on lead poisoning became corrupted.
Long before the Baltimore toddler study was even conceived, millions of children had their growth and intelligence stunted by lead-contaminated consumer products—and some five million preschool children are still at risk today. One expert even estimated that America's failure to address the lead paint problem early on may well have cost the American population, on average, five IQ points—enough to double the number of retarded children and halve the number of gifted children in the country. Not only would our nation have been more intelligent had its leaders banned lead paint early on, it might have been safer too, since lead is known to cause impulsivity and aggression. Blood lead levels in adolescent criminals tend to be several times higher than those of noncriminal adolescents, and there is a strong geographical correlation between crime rates and lead exposure in US cities.4
In 2000, the two mothers sued the Johns Hopkins–affiliated Kennedy Krieger Institute, which employed the scientists. The mothers' cases were thrown out by a lower court, but after an appeals court remanded the case to be heard, the mothers reached an undisclosed settlement with the institute. The ninety-six-page appeals court judgment compared the Baltimore lead study to the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which hundreds of black men with syphilis were denied treatment with penicillin for decades so that US Public Health Service researchers could study the course of the disease.
In September 2011, twenty-five other parents involved in the toddler study filed a class action suit against the Kennedy Krieger Institute, accusing it of negligence, fraud, battery, and violating Maryland's consumer protection act. Because the children's medical records are confidential, only their parents and the researchers know for certain which—if any—of them had been poisoned, but all of the plaintiffs claim their children had been endangered. A decision has yet to be handed down.
Surprisingly, many public health experts and professional ethicists defended the Baltimore toddler lead study. Like all US medical research, it had been reviewed in advance by an ethics committee, in this case one based at Johns Hopkins. According to Markowitz and Rosner, the committee's report questioned only whether the control group children, who lived in supposedly lead-free housing, would receive any benefit from the study, but said nothing about the potential harm to the children in the experimental groups. In a series of medical journal commentaries following the appeals court decision, many public health experts and professional bioethicists claimed that the decision was a disaster for their profession. The president of Johns Hopkins even predicted (incorrectly) that it would drive millions of dollars of research funding from the state. Others argued that research like the toddler study was necessary if affordable solutions to the problems of the poor were to be found.5
Of course researchers should try to find lower-cost solutions to serious public health problems like lead poisoning. However, three aspects of this experiment seem particularly outrageous. First, the landlords recruited into the study were encouraged to rent preferentially to families with small children, but didn't inform the parents in advance that they were being considered for a research experiment or that they might be better off looking for lead-free housing. Second, the parents were not informed immediately when lead "hot spots" were found in the apartments, or when their children's lead levels rose. If they had been, they might have taken steps to repair their houses on their own, or even moved out—a nuisance for the researchers, perhaps, but potentially of life-altering benefit to the children.
The third and most important point is that the researchers almost certainly knew in advance that level I and level II abatement—the cheaper of the three methods used—would not protect children from being poisoned. Markowitz and Rosner don't make this clear in Lead Wars, and so many readers might not realize just how problematic the toddler study really was.6 In the decade before the study commenced, the scientists conducted two other studies in which the homes of children with relatively high lead levels received treatments very similar to level I and level II abatement. Some of these homes also received bimonthly visits from a professional "dust control team"—something not offered to the families in the toddler study. After one year, lead levels in some of the children in these earlier studies had risen so high they had to be hospitalized.7 The most likely reason was that these cheaper abatement methods didn't involve the replacement of lead-paint-trimmed windows, which can produce plumes of lead dust every time they are opened or closed.8
As one of the scientists wrote in a 1984 letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, such partial methods should not be used for protecting the general population: "more permanent changes,…such as replacement of a deteriorated window casement, may be a more effective long-term solution."9 In subsequent studies, the scientists showed that window replacement was indeed crucial for the reduction of lead dust in contaminated houses,10 and that the amount of lead dust remaining in the toddler study homes after level I and level II abatement was similar to, and in some cases higher than, that found in scores of homes in which children had been poisoned in the 1980s.11 Why did the scientists then proceed to test two ineffective lead abatement methods on healthy children?
The researchers themselves seem to have been decent men. The senior researcher, J. Julian Chisolm, conducted a door-to-door survey of Baltimore slum children in the 1950s and found that on average, their lead levels were six times higher than among workers employed in the lead industry itself. He then helped develop a treatment known as chelation, in which lead-poisoned children are given injections of chemicals that bind to lead and draw it out of the tissues so that it can be excreted. The injections are painful, must be administered over several weeks, and don't prevent brain damage, but they do prevent death.
Mark Farfel, Chisolm's younger colleague, told The Baltimore Sun that it had always bothered him that children who were already sick received state-of-the-art hospital treatment, but so little was being done to prevent them from being poisoned in the first place. Farfel refused to speak to Markowitz and Rosner, and Chisolm was no longer alive when they began writing their book. But from the history they relate in Lead Wars, it's possible to imagine how these men could not effectively resist the momentum of government indifference to the poor, pervasive racial prejudice, and careless decision-making that influenced government policymaking throughout the lead-poisoning crisis.
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The child's name has been changed. ↩
Some families were recruited in situ; in these cases, the apartments they were already living in were subjected to either type 1 or type 2 abatement. ↩
The mother's and daughter's names have been changed. ↩
See Shankar Vedantam, "Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity," The Washington Post, July 8, 2007. ↩
See, for example, Robert M. Nelson, "Nontherapeutic Research, Minimal Risk, and the Kennedy Krieger Lead Abatement Study," IRB: Ethics and Human Research, Vol. 23, No. 6 (November–December 2001); Anna C. Mastroianni and Jeffrey P. Kahn, "Risk and Responsibility: Ethics, Grimes v Kennedy Krieger, and Public Health Research Involving Children," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92, No. 7 (July 2002); B.P. Lanphear, "Editorial: The Conquest of Lead Poisoning: A Pyrrhic Victory," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 10 (October 2007). ↩
In their grant proposal for the toddler study, the researchers claimed that they intended to test "a new approach" to lead abatement, a statement quoted uncritically in Lead Wars. In fact, many of the children in the study were being placed in homes treated with methods that had been shown to fail. ↩
J.J. Chisolm Jr., E.D. Mellits, and S.A. Quaskey, "The Relationship Between the Level of Lead Absorption in Children and the Age, Type, and Condition of Housing," Environmental Research, Vol. 38, No. 1 (October 1985), pp. 31–45; E. Charney, B. Kessler, M. Farfel, and D. Jackson, "Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Controlled Trial of the Effect of Dust-Control Measures on Blood Lead Levels," The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 309, No. 18 (November 3, 1983), pp. 1089–1093. ↩
M.R. Farfel, J.J. Chisolm Jr., and C.A. Rohde, "The Longer-Term Effectiveness of Residential Lead Paint Abatement," Environmental Research, Vol. 66, No. 2 (August 1994), pp. 217–221; M.R. Farfel and J.J. Chisolm Jr., "Health and Environmental Outcomes of Traditional and Modified Practices for Abatement of Residential Lead-Based Paint," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 80, No. 10 (October 1990), pp. 1240–1245. ↩
Evan Charney et al., "Effect of Dust Control on Blood Lead," The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 310, No. 14 (April 5, 1984), pp. 924–925. ↩
Farfel et al., "The Longer-Term Effectiveness of Residential Lead Paint Abatement." ↩
Compare Table ES-2 in "Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Repair and Maintenance Study in Baltimore: Findings Based on Two Years of Follow-Up" (Environmental Protection Agency, 747-R-97-005 December 1997), to Table 4 in Mark R. Farfel and J. Julian Chisolm Jr., "An Evaluation of Experimental Practices for Abatement of Residential Lead-Based Paint: Report on a Pilot Project," Environmental Research, Vol. 55, No. 2 (1991), pp. 199–212. It is necessary to convert micrograms per square foot into milligrams per square meter. ↩
See Helen Epstein, " Getting Away with Murder," The New York Review, July 19, 2007. ↩
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[1265] Increased Expression of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 Alpha in the Late Third Trimester Human Placenta from Patients with Chronic Hypertension
Hao Wu, Yanelba Toribio, Sandra Cerda, Carmen Sarita-Reyes. Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background: Hypoxia-inducible factor 1(HIF-1) is a critical transcription factor involved in oxygen homeostasis that regulates adaptive responses to hypoxia, including angiogenesis. In a normal pregnancy, there is extensive angiogenesis and vascularization of placenta. The expression of alpha submit of HIF-1 (HIF-1α) is increased under physiological hypoxia in early placentas and it is abnormally elevated in pre-eclamptic placental tissue. Since both diabetes and hypertension are known risk factors for preeclampsia, we studied the protein expression of HIF-1α in these conditions and evaluate its use as a marker of fetal hypoxia.
Design: Immunohistochemistry studies for HIF-1α stains were performed on late third trimester (≥ 35 weeks) placenta parenchyma. Consecutive cases of patients with hypertension and diabetes delivered at our institution from January to August 2010 were included, 10 age/race/parity comparable cases without significant medical history were selected as negative controls. Only nuclear staining of HIF-1α was considered positive, and Fisher's exact test was used to compare the percentage of positive cases between groups.
Results: 69 cases were included in our study, including 14 cases of diabetes, 45 cases of hypertension and 10 control cases. 20 patients presented with preeclampsia at the time of delivery. Nuclear expression of HIF-1α was seen in 34 cases (49%) of all 69 placentas, including 6 cases of diabetes (43%), 24 cases of hypertension (53%) and 4 cases of control patients (40%). 8 out of 20 cases with preeclampsia showed positive HIF-1α staining (40%). Upon further stratifying the hypertension patients into chronic hypertension group (15 cases) and pregnancy-induced hypertension group (30 cases), 11 cases of chronic hypertension placentas (73%) showed HIF-1α staining, while only 13 cases of pregnancy-induced hypertension placentas (43%) was positive; however, neither hypertension group had statistically higher HIF-1α staining than the control group (p>0.05). We did not observe any correlation between HIF-1α expression and microscopic vasculopathy.
Conclusions: There was increased HIF-1α protein expression in the placentas from patients with chronic hypertension, while its expression in pregnancy-induced hypertension and diabetes appeared to be comparable to that of placentas without significant medical history. Our data suggest there are different pathophysiological mechanisms between chronic hypertension and pregnancy-induced hypertension that affect late trimester placenta.
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We currently have a woodburning stove (bought the house recently and it was in it) and we've decided to replace it with a gas stove. I've come across someone selling a Jotul new never used but out of box for $600. He doesn't know the model as he won't be to the location where it's at for a week but gave me this information, can anyone help? Approximately 30" wide. Jotul cast iron fireplace. Has partial stack. Runs off Natural gas or propane. Max output natural gas, 30,240 btu/hr, propane, 26,600 btu/hr. I'd like to find out which one this is so I can view a picture online. Any help appreciated! |
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Gospel singer Marvin Winans to eulogize Houston in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. - Gospel singer Marvin Winans has been chosen to deliver the eulogy for singer and longtime friend Whitney Houston at her funeral Saturday in New Jersey.
Marvin Winans is a Grammy Award-winning member of one of gospel music's first families. In his role as a pastor he married Houston and Bobby Brown in 1992.
Winans son, Marvin Jr., and Marvin Winans' office at Perfecting Faith Church in Detroit confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday he will eulogize Houston at the private funeral at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church.
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Greetings solid citizens!
I've decided to try and get into music again, and to kick it off I've joined the Metal Guitar God 2013 Competition!
Go check out the video, and vote for me!
I really want to make more games too, so I'll be posting some more weird stuff in the not too distant future. Hoping my effort to exercize and eat healthy will have a positive effect on my energy, which has been very low for a long time.
Also, WOW! My tune Desert Rose has been downloaded a crazy half-a-million times! 519,475 Faces melted and counting! That's just nuts!
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Man, awesome. Glad you are going to make some more music. Your stuff was / is pretty influential to me.
I want to make some music with you. haha. I also think you and dan should hook up for another tune. I just finished one with him, called fist fu. |should stop on by and give it an ear.
Will vote as well. :)
Thanks man! Yeah we definitely have to collab. I just need to get my shit together. Dan and me talked about collabing again a while ago, and it's definitely my fault that it hasn't happened yet. Will give your tune a listen for sure. Thanks for the vote! :)
2013-10-23 04:31:25
Awesome solo! I'll vote for you ^_^
And your song Desert Rose is an Audio Portal metal classic now... You made it even before I joined the portal, man... Why did u stop making music? :(
Hey thanks!!
Yeah, it's been a long time since I made music. I'm not sure I have an answer to why I stopped. I guess I approached it in the wrong way, and the joy went out of it.


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Hello, I am in the midst of creating perennial beds. Can I plant spring-blooming bulbs like daffodils, tulips, and crocuses (croci?) in with the perennials (4 months after the perennials have been planted)? I have a narrow bed with catmint around the edge, and in the middle I will put either knockout roses or daylilies. Can I put tulips in there also? When I plant the tulips in the fall can I plant them in between the catmints? Can I plant them close to the daylilies or knockouts? How close? I also have another area with peonies...can I put bulbs in front of them? TIA! |
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You want to consider matching your spring flowering bulbs with perennials that will effectively disguise their ripening foliage as well as with perennials that will share similar growing conditions. Most spring flowering bubs are summer dormant and prefer to be on the dry side during that period. So pick from the drought tolerant perennials to make your bulbs happy as well. Nepeta/catmint is a great choice - good at shielding ugly bulb foliage and very drought tolerant. |
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Every so often you are going to have to dig out the bulbs to reduce the numbers and refresh the soil. It will not be an easy job to fossick between the roses. Daylilies have interesting and foraging roots. Just as they are coming into production the spring bulbs are 'going over' into dormancy - their best time for lifting. Which means upheaval for the ready to grow daylilies. You could have a garden policy of planting your bulbs in company with, say polyanthus Primulas, or P malacoides then rip the whole lot out and put in summer bedding plants, after adding compost to the bed. You could have a bed that, for example, combines Anemone nemorosa, Pulmonaria, Chionodoxa and Galanthus with later arriving Athyrium, Hosta, Ranunculus ficaria. The plants that develop later tend to have roots that use any surplus water, thus making a suitable environment for the dormant bulbs. Most of the tulip divisions are formal in their style, so tend to look most effective when planted in blocks or ribbons - then lifted. They can work well interplanted with Myosotis or Bellis but, again, remove them all for summer. Daffodils can work with Hellebores. Or with Clematis used as a ground cover or grow C integrifolia. Another possible is to plant your bulbs in bulb baskets with a marker showing above ground so you know where to excavate when the foliage has died back. |
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thanks Vetivert and Pitim! Vetivert, thanks for all the info.You sound like a very hard worker! I don't know if I could do all that...at least not yet. I may be a tad too lazy for all that, lol! Pitim, thanks for the detailed explanations! That helps a lot. I really appreciate it. I LOVE allium...and tulips and daffodils and crocuses and I like how you have a system for having all those. Thanks! |
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Weihnachtsmarkt | German Christmas Market
in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Kulturbrauerei. Very nice market. I realy like it. | Home developed and expired x-pro film.
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- MGT 671: Management of Organizational Change
- MGT 673: Organizational Structure and Design
Students will generally take all three of the courses listed above, and they will choose one of the two from the list below. A student who is waived from taking one of the first three courses will take both MGT 600 and MGT 675.
One or more business foundation courses may be required for applicants who have not completed an equivalent course at the upper-division undergraduate or graduate business level as part of an undergraduate baccalaureate degree program.
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- MGT 600: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Law
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Total number of required credits: 12
The Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Change Management is a one year certificate program, although part-time students may take 4 or more semesters to complete the program. Ten years is the maximum length of time a student may stay enrolled in the certificate program.
Students will only receive credit for courses if they receive a final grade of B- (2.7) or higher. No course with a final grade of less than B- (2.7) will count toward the Certificate in Leadership and Change Management in Business graduation requirements.
The purpose of the Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership is to develop skills that enable individuals to operate more effectively in today's dynamic organizations. The program's graduates will:
- develop an understanding of key components for leadership, motivation, and empowerment of others
- examine strategies for effective management of change processes and initiatives
- gain knowledge of organizational design and structures that facilitate high-performance work systems
- develop an understanding of corporate social responsibility and its impact on organizational effectiveness
Online programs and courses are offered by the Departments and Colleges of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth through UMass Dartmouth University Extension.


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This Beautiful Version of Psalm 23 Had Me in Tears
How Does Luke 15 Show God's Love Towards "Bad People"?
How Do 1 and 2 Samuel Help Us Understand the Role of the Holy Spirit?
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39 After walking a little farther, he quickly bowed with his face to the ground and prayed, "Father, if it's possible, let this cup [of suffering] be taken away from me. But let your will be done rather than mine." | 39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." |
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Tennessee Commercial Breeder Act
The bill was significantly weakened by several amendments and revisions. Originally, the proposition placed a limit of 75 intact dogs per commercial breeder which would only affect puppy mills since most reputable breeders are small scale operations. Also, the bill no longer authorizes confiscation of animals or criminal penalties, using civil fines of $50 to $1000 per violation instead.
One of the most important aspects of the law is that large scale commercial operations with more than 20 unsterilized female dogs maintained for breeding purposes must obtain a license from the Department of Health. It establishes that inspections are a prerequisite for licensure as well as abiding by new humane care standards for dogs and cats. The bill also holds the mass breeders accountable by forcing them to adhere to Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, which would allow people who bought sick dogs to seek legal actions against the puppy mill operators.
The bill was first introduced by state Sen. Doug Jackson after witnessing the conditions in a Tennessee puppy mill operated by Patricia Adkisson . The owner of the infamous Tennessee facility was charged with 24 counts of felony aggravated cruelty and nine counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. For more information about the bill, visit the http://www.animallawcoalition.com/companion-animal-breeding/article/68">Animal Law Coalition website or read the bill summary from the Tennessee government website
Highly abusive puppy mill in Texas shut down, criminal charges pending
Cloyce and Carol Heddins, owners of "Maggic Pets," operated a kennel so squalid that Dillon Steen, a former employee of Maggic Pets , says "I'll never get those images out of my head of everything I saw out there." Steen describes Maggic Pets in decidedly unmagic terms: "If you went and voiced anything about concerns about eye colds or this one's limping it didn't matter as long as that dog could still breed that's all that mattered [. . .] Puppies would go to start dying and rather than them being taken to the vet they'd be thrown in an empty dog food bag and thrown in the back of a truck and just let lay there until they died."
A citizen activist who witnessed these abuses took the case to the Humane Society, who called the Heddins' puppy mill one of the worst cases they had ever seen in North Texas.
On July 17th, a Montague county judge ruled against the Heddins and ordered that their nearly 500 dogs be given into the care of the Humane Society of North Texas. The testimonies of veteranarians, investigators from the Humane Society, and of Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham all contributed to the judge's decision, who did not find the Heddins' argument that evidence obtained from a search warrant was invalid convincing. Moreover, the Heddins were ordered to pay $40,000 to HSNT for the treatment and care of the dogs, though many were ill enough that the sum is not likely to be enough to cover costs. Prosecutors in the case have requested that the dogs remain in the care of HSNT while they pursue criminal charges.
Elite Animals Pet Shop Protest
Elite Animals Pet Shop Protest
Who: Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS)What: Elite Animals Pet Shop Protest
Where: 8729 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
When: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 1 - 3 p.m.
Why: To stop the sale of puppy mill dogs; convert store to humane adoption center.
The store was inspected and violations found. They cannot bring any animals into the store until they fix these violations.
Photo of Shirley "Chicken" by Christopher Johnson
Young CAPS protesters handing out CAPS brochures at Elite Animals
Young CAPS protesters handing out CAPS brochures at Elite Animals
Who: Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS)What: Elite Animals Pet Shop Protest
Where: 8729 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
When: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Why: To stop the sale of puppy mill dogs; convert store to humane adoption center.
The store was inspected and violations found. They cannot bring any animals into the store until they fix these violations.
USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs
USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs, Files Motion for Summary Judgement to Revoke her USDA License
URL: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20477675/detail.htmlPublication date: 2009-08-20
Publication name: ABC Boston
Headline: USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs, Files Motion for Summary Judgement to Revoke her USDA License
Summary: As a result of the CAPS undercover investigation into Kathy Bauck's practices as a large-scale dog broker, which resulted in her criminal conviction, the USDA has filed a summary judgement to revoke her license. President of CAPS Deborah Howard will appear on ABC Boston Channel Five's special report on the case tonight at 11:00pm. For more information on the Bauck case, visit www.caps-web.org.
Puppy Stores Under Fire
Puppy Stores Under Fire
URL: http://www.caps-web.org/pdf/pet-age-magazine.pdfPublication date: 2009-08-30
Publication name: Pet Age Magazine
Headline: Puppy Stores Under Fire
Pet Age magazine, August 2009: "Puppy Stores Under Fire" features quotes from CAPS West Coast Director Carole Davis and discusses CAPS' pet shop campaign and efforts to convert pet shops to humane adoption centers.
Deborah Howard to receive award at Pet Rock Festival
CAPS President Deborah Howard to receive award at the Pet Rock Festival in Worcester, MA on Sunday, September 13
URL: http://www.petrockfest.com/content/view/73/73/Publication date: 2009-09-08
Publication name: Pet Rock Festival
Headline: CAPS President Deborah Howard to receive award at the Pet Rock Festival in Worcester, MA on Sunday, September 13
Summary: Twenty years ago, public relations professional Deborah Howard walked into a Docktor Pet Center franchise – one of more than 300 nationwide – in Atlanta, Georgia, not knowing that that she was about to undergo an epiphany that would forever change her life. A tiny yellow Labrador puppy pressed an open cut against the wire bars of a dirty small cage.
Click here for the PDF Festival flyer.
Just how healthy is that puppy in the pet shop window?
Just how healthy is that puppy in the pet shop window?
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2009-09-24-dolittler-pet-shops_N.htm?csp=usat.mePublication date: 2009-09-25
Publication name: USA Today
Headline: Just how healthy is that puppy in the pet shop window?
Summary: Ever planned on buying a perfect, purebred pup from a pet shop? Or maybe you felt sorry for that little fluffy kitten you glimpsed in the window. If so, you've got company. Hundreds of thousands of pets are bought and sold from retail establishments every year.
State of Pennsylania Revokes Kennel License of Joyce Stoltzfus
State of Pennsylania Revokes Kennel License of Joyce Stoltzfus
URL: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pets/State_revokes_kennel_license_of_troubled_puppy_broker.htmlPublication date: 2009-10-07
Publication name: Philly.com
Headline: State of Pennsylania Revokes Kennel License of Joyce Stoltzfus
Summary: CAPS has been gathering consumer complaints for the puppy mill of Joyce Stoltzfus in Peach Bottom, PA (Lancaster County) for many years. We have investigated the facility. Puppy Love Kennel (renamed CC Pets) was the focus of stories CAPS generated with "20/20," and The Philadelphia Inquirer. CAPS gathered over a hundred consumer complaints, which resulted in the first settlement with the Office of the Attorney General. Stoltzfus was fined $35,000. She continued to violate the laws and CAPS continued to receive complaints. The Attorney General reached another settlement, this time with a fine of $75,000.
For more information visit: CC Pets / Puppy Love Kennels and the CAPS Investigation Report.
Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Anti-Puppy Mill Bill
Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Anti-Puppy Mill Bill
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flDK74ZkURkPublication date: 2009-10-16
Publication name: CAPS
Headline: Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Anti-Puppy Mill Bill
Summary: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 241, the anti-puppy mill bill. Is it any surprise? In 2000, Schwarzenegger and his family purchased a puppy from Elite Animals in West Hollywood, a pet shop that CAPS protested for about five months. Scharzenegger's puppy was bred and brokered by Gerald and Angie Wensman in Melrose, MN. CAPS has investigated this horrendous puppy mill twice. Look under the Investigations section of our website for reports and undercover footage. Elite Animals was still buying from the Wensmanns when CAPS started protesting the store in May 2009.


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"Some people do need the security of having money stashed away and others are relatively comfortable living on the financial edge," says Dena Wise, Ph.D, who is a professor and consumer economics specialist with UT Extension. She says a big factor in whether you spend or save is simply habit. We all fall into spending habits just as we fall into eating habits. It can just as difficult to change spending habits as it can be to change our diet.
In order to decide if you need to change your spending habits, Wise recommends that you ask yourself five simple questions:
1. Sometimes, so I buy things without knowing for sure that I can afford them?
2. Do I make spending decisions without really having a plan?
3. Do I often have less than $1,000 in my checking account?
4. Do I carry a balance on my credit cards from month to month?
5. Did I sometimes not have enough money to pay bills when they are due?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you need to focus on change.
Wise says there is also a methodical approach to changing your spending habits, and it is similar to the approach you might use to change your diet. She says the first step toward reining in your spending is to simply track what you spend for a few weeks. Keeping track of what you eat — recording expenditures in a journal or electronic device — can help you understand not only how much you spend and what for what, but also why you spend.
It is a good idea, especially the first week or so, to make notes on each spending or saving decision. The feeling you have before and afterwards can provide clues to understanding why and under what circumstances you spend or save.
A goal is to create or maintain an emergency fund. University of Tennessee Extension educators are encouraging state families to focus on saving during Tennessee Saves Week, Feb. 25 through March 1.
Wise says, "In today's economy, it is harder than ever to get ahead financially, but we are seeing a new determination on the part of consumers to find ways to stash away a little cash."
Join Tennessee Saves today at tennesseesaves.org or call the UT Extension office in Bradley County at 728-7001 for more information.