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Women's Issues
Self-Help Books
The Women's Movement, which ushered ina new wave of feminism during the sixties and seventies, rolls on in more and more wondrously diverse ways. Continue reading article on Women's Issues»
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The Self-Help books for women listed below offer a kaleidoscope of information, guidance, support, encouragement and celebration for women.
See also:Women's Sexual Health; Self Esteem and Self Confidence; Intimate Relationships: Relationship Advice; Communication Skills; Spirituality; Blended Family; Family Issues; Career Development; Eating Disorder; Body Image; Abusive Relationships; Recovery from Childhood Abuse
Best Self-Help Books on Women's Issues
"These are the Women's Issues Self-Help books I recommend most frequently to women in my practice who are exploring and deepening their feminine identity."David Yarian, Ph.D.
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The Anger Workbook for Women: How to Keep Your Anger from Undermining Your Self-Esteem, Your Emotional Balance, and Your Relationships
This Self-Help workbook addresses the unique concerns of women with anger problems. Rigid social patterning, Dr. Petracek argues, conditions many women to stifle or deny their anger - thus leading to other problems. Other women experience violent, outwardly focused anger. Building on women's tendency to be more relational than men, this Self-Help book for women advocates interactive techniques as a primary method of anger management. Using a wide range of practical tools, the workbook helps each woman develop her own individualized program. 2004, New Harbinger Publications
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
In this aggressive work, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis; first, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than antifeminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. Meticulously researched, this Self-Help for women book won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle award for general non-fiction. 2006, Three Rivers Press, 15th Anniversary edition
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
Circle of Stones draws the reader into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. The reader is led into a personal journey reflecting upon the question, "how might my life have been different if . . . ?" 1999, Innisfree Press
Composing a Life: Life as a Work in Progress
Bateson shows us that life itself is a creative process using the personal stories of five extraordinary women as her framework. She sees child rearing, career changes, relocations, and divorce as creative opportunities rather than a series of interruptions. She looks at life as a work of improvisational art. 2001, Grove Press
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The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem
Sue Patton Thoele continues her mission to help readers improve their self esteem and make use of their core emotional strength. Geared to women who all too often find themselves satisfying the desires of others at the cost of their own needs, this book supplies necessary tools to help readers transform their fears into the courage to express their own authentic selves. By revealing her own journey and the journey of other women, Thoele helps readers discover ways to set boundaries, transform self-defeating behavior patterns, communicate effectively, and become a nurturing and tolerant friend to themselves. This tenth-anniversary Self-Help edition contains 30 percent new content, which includes a new introduction. 2001, Conari Press, 3rd edition
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Dr. Lerner writes, "anger is a signal and one worth listening to." This renowned classic has transformed the lives of millions of readers. This Self-Help book for women teaches women to identify the true sources of their anger and to use anger as a powerful vehicle for creating lasting change. 1997, Harper and Row
This is a well-written, vigorous, and challenging look at Jewish traditions and values from the world-view of a leading feminist thinker. In this Self-Help book, Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, reconciles her Jewish background which she rejected for almost 20 years with her feminist ideology. When Pogrebin's mother died, she was not allowed by the patriarchal structure to recite the Kaddish, a prayer for the dead. She learns in time to embrace both feminism and a reexamined Judaism. 1992, Anchor
In Healing Your Emotional Self, Engel presents her remarkably effective Mirror Therapy program to enable you to reject the distorted images your parents either intentionally or unintentionally projected onto you. This innovative step-by-step system gives you the skills you need to construct apositive self-image, separate emotionally from your parents and discover who you actually are. Become skilled at self-nurturing and overcome your tendency toward self-blame, self-hatred, and self-destructiveness while you come to love who you see in the mirror. 2007, Wiley
The Heart and Soul of Sex: Making the ISIS Connection
Based on a landmark sex survey, researcher and sex therapist Ogden found "the language of spiritual experience comes closest to expressing the fullness of our sexual response, for it is the language of connection and ecstasy." This Self-Help book for women guides the reader on a path to her sexual "center" where healing, ecstasy and transformation occur. 2006, Trumpter
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An Oprah Book Club selection, this is the fourth in a series of autobiographical memoirs poet Maya Angelou has produced. This Self-Help book is filled with unforgettable vignettes of people from Billie Holiday to Malcom X, but perhaps most important is the story of her relationship with her son. 2009, Random House Trade
I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives
A friendship is a lot like romance – in the beginning all chemistry and luck, but then come commitment and dependability and other challenges, and as any old friends know, it keeps getting better if you hold on through the bends and curves. The authors share their own story of twenty-five years of friendship and the stories of other women. 2001, Simon and Schuster
Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss
Every year an estimated one million teen girls in the United States experience the death of their fathers. Countless more lose their fathers to divorce, addiction, incarceration or abandonment. This authoritative guide for adult women helps you to understand how your behaviors and relationships may be shaped by losing your father at such an important time of your life. With gentle expertise, Herring blends personal stories, up-to-date psychological information and interactive exercises for readers in this healing Self-Help guide. 2005, Hazelden
In this provocative volume, Polhemus, chair of Stanford's English Department, uses the "disreputible Bible story of father-daughter incest" as a lens to understand family and gender relations through the centuries. He casts a wide net over literature, art, psychology, show-busines, and politics to argue that the power dynamic between younger women and older men "in which daughters fall in love with their father's lives and older men are tempted by the intoxicating power and promise of youth" - is integral to our society. 2005, Stanford University Press
The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart
In The Mindful Woman, Sue Patton Thoele shows you how to incorporate mindfulness into your busy and dynamic life. This Self-Help book's gentle and humorous approach makes it a practical and easily understood guide, offering over sixty-five simple and effective practices to help you embrace mindfulness one moment at a time. 2008, New Harbinger
Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Well-known writers contribute vivid portraits in which they explore their relationships to their bodies. They describe dealing with cancer and chemotherapy, pregnancy and infertility, anorexia, aging, multiple sclerosis, diets and plastic surgery. This Self-Help book for women is an inspiring testimony to the female spirit and offers examples of women who lead lives that demonstrate the connection between the love for one's body as it is and the love one feels for the earth. 1995, Anchor
The Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening Self-Help book, social psychologist Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom – pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history – of treating men as the normal standard, women as abnormal. Tavris illuminates the similarities between women and men and shows that the real differences lie not in gender, but in power, resources, and life experiences. 1993, Touchstone
Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health
Mother-Daughter Wisdom is written to connect the dots between a woman's thoughts and her feelings, physical and mental health, friends and family, and in an overarching sense, the relationship between being a woman's daughter and raising a daughter of your own. Dr. Northrup seamlessly blends personal stories with clear research in a way that creates a compelling read from start to finish. The information is a welcome mix of old school medical advice and new school nutrition and stress relief. In Northup's world, whole foods and loving communication can play just as important roles as antibiotics. 2006, Bantam
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
This Self-Help book for women explores the profound pain of mother loss among women. As Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of other women who lost their mothers, she describes the secondary effects that may occur, including the girl filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings. 2006, Da Capo Press
My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity
This best-selling Self-Help book is based on hundreds of interviews with women and focuses on the complex relationship between mothers and daughters throughout a daughter's life. This relationship is complicated by society's denial of women's sexuality and is an enlightening resource for women coming to terms with their identity as adult daughters and mothers. 1997, Delta
Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
This major update of the Self-Help book that helped launch the women's health movement adds new chapters on online health resources, AIDS and managed care. This empowering Self-Help book for women remains true to the spirit of the original edition which was to give women tools to enable them to take charge of their health and their lives. 2005, Touchstone
The Perimenopause & Menopause Workbook: A Comprehensive, Personalized Guide to Hormone Health
Using extensive and interactive checklists, symptom lists, and self-assessments, this Self-Help book for women first helps you to track your symptoms. Then it takes you through all the medical and non-medical treatments available, including human-identical hormones, lifestyle and dietary changes, supplements, and other non-HRT treatments. 2006, New Harbinger
A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation
Why is it that newfound sobriety with its hard-won joys and accomplishments can be such a lonely and unsatisfying experience for many women? Once a woman leaves behind the numbing comforts of alcohol or other drugs, she is left to face herself - perhaps for the first time in her life. With gentle guidance and personal stories, Dr. Brown helps readers unravel painful truths and confusing feelings and weave for themselves a true sense of self. This Self-Help book offers women a map to find their way through the rocky spots in sobriety. 2004, Hazelden
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned or staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a narrow definition of female. She offers prescriptions for changing society and compassionate strategies with which to revive adolescent girls' lost sense of self. 2005, Riverhead Trade
This Self-Help book for women focuses on women's psychosocial growth from the late teens to middle age and is based on interviews with homemakers, career women, and academics. The book is a rich source of insights and consolation and speaks with directness to the dreams, emotional crises, inexplicable feelings, social conflicts, and psychological upheavals that mark each woman's life course. 1997, Ballantine Books
Sociologist Hochschild talks openly about what really happens in dual career households: women still do the majority of childcare and housework even though they also work outside the home. This Self-Help book can be useful to married couples by stimulating frank discussion of how household roles are divided. 2003, Penguin Books
The Secret Pleasures of Menopause
Dr. Northrup believes that it's time for you to step forward and learn to enjoy the best years of your life! Even though studies show that menopause doesn't decrease libido, ease of reaching orgasm, or sexual satisfaction, the majority of menopausal women aren't experiencing the pleasure and sexual satisfaction that is their birthright. It is a long-held misconception that menopause signals "the beginning of the end," and nothing could be further from the truth. In this fascinating Self-Help book, Dr. Northrup candidly guides you toward experiencing life after 50 as the most pleasurable time of your life! 2008, Hay House
Renowned news correspondent Cokie Roberts tells her own story and those of women of her generation. Having graduated from Wellesley in 1964, Roberts explains that the women of her generation were pioneers in many ways – especially when it came to career and workplace issues: "we were the first women at almost everything we did, and most of us often had the experience of being the only woman in the room." Many of the essays are political in nature, covering the Civil Rights Act, consumer advocacy, and the history of women in the military. She ends with a message of encouragement for young women – that we need only look as far as our foremothers for inspiration. 2010, Harper Perennial
The Woman's Guide to Total Self-Esteem: The Eight Secrets You Need to Know
In this Self-Help book for women , Drs. Dillon and Benson (a psychologist and a psychoanalyst) help women meet the challenge of building self-esteem. By pinpointing and understanding destructive beliefs, women can steadily acquire (or repair) a healthy and rewarding image of themselves. Clear demonstrations with related exercises clearly show how you can develop the eight building blocks of self-esteem: healthy entitlement; the courage to feel; self-objectivity; self-assertion; body acceptance; emotional balance; self-advocacy; and self-nurturing. The book concludes with the suggestion that attaining self-esteem is a lifelong process, and that life's crises can be opportunities for growth and a more enduring sense of worth. 2001, New Harbinger
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Dr. Northrup is a gynecologist who also acknowledges the usefulness of natural therapies and herbs. In Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many physical concerns, among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, and many others – explaining how many of these physical problems have roots in emotional upsets. Her medical approach is decidedly feminist, blaming our "addictive" and patriarchal society for many of the health problems plaguing women. She focuses on the whole of a woman's life to understand health problems in context. More than 1.25 million copies in print. 2010, Bantam
Women's Sexuality Across the Life Span: Challenging Myths, Creating Meanings
This important Self-Help book investigates how women come by, and live out, their sexual sense of themselves from childhood to old age. It offers useful suggestions for developing skills for sexual self-definition at every age and stage of development. Exercises include letter-writing and drawing to confront feelings, psycho-drama and body sculpting to exorcise demons, guided fantasy to activate disowned body parts, and self-affirmations to help women re-occupy their bodies. 2003, The Guilford Press
Estes, a Jungian analyst, draws on folklore, fairy tales and dream symbols to help restore women's neglected, intuitive and instinctive abilities. She describes the Wild Woman archetype, a female in touch with her primitive side and able to rely on gut feelings to make choices. An inspiring, compelling, moving and unusual Self-Help book. 1996, Ballentine Books
Women Who Worry Too Much: How to Stop Worry & Anxiety from Ruining Relationships, Work, & Fun
Women are more likely than men to develop anxiety disorders, and to worry more about things like social problems, work, and finances. Women Who Worry Too Much addresses the fundamentals of worry and offers strategies for overcoming it that include monitoring personal worry triggers, breaking worry-provoking habits, and avoiding avoidance—a major aggravating factor for all anxiety disorders. From it, you'll learn to use mindfulness techniques to avoid ruminating on the past or the future and how to use progressive relaxation to cope with worrisome situations. 2005, New Harbinger


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James and H. D. Smith Papers
Collection Summary
Title: | James and H. D. Smith Papers |
Call Number: | MS 94-24 |
Size: | 0.25 linear feet |
Acquisition: | Purchased from East Coast Books, 9-8-1992 |
Processed by: | CC, 5-6-1994; JEF, 11-19-1998; MN, 11-26-2013 |
Restrictions: | None |
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Content Note
This collection of James M. and H. D. Smith's correspondence contains 46 letters dating from August 19, 1852 to
October 3, 1857. A majority of the letters were written from Gouverneur, New York and Buffalo, New York.
James M. Smith is the son of H. D. Smith. James M. Smith wrote about his wife's health, family matters,
homeopathic medicine, and business affairs. H. D. Smith wrote about railroad projects, California gold mining,
mental illness, politics, business affairs, and family matters. Two letters in the collection are from the Kansas
Territory pertaining to the pro-slavery party and free state people.
Detailed Description: Series Listing
Series 1 | Box 1 FF 1-3 | James M. Smith Correspondence. Contains letters from J.M. Smith. Several of the letters are addressed to his wife, Margaret. 1852, 1854, and 1855. |
Series 2 | Box 1 FF 4-10 | H.D. Smith Correspondence. Contains letters from H.D. Smith, many of which are addressed to his son, James M. Smith. 1852-1857. |
Series 3 | Box 1 FF 11 | Other Correspondence. Contains letters from other individuals. These letters contain details concerning business affairs, family matters, and politics, including two letters dated 1857 describing pro-slavery party and free state people in Kansas Territory. 1852-1857. |
Detailed Description: Box and Folder Listing
Series 1 ‒ James M. Smith Correspondence
Box 1 | FF 1 | Contains one letter dated August 30, 1852 from J. M. Smith to his wife, Margaret. In this letter J. M. Smith discusses his wife's continued illness and states that there is an severe outbreak of cholera in Buffalo. He hopes his wife, who is under a physician's care, will be able to return home soon. |
Box 1 | FF 2 | Contains 14 letters from J. M. Smith to his wife, Margaret. These letters, dated 1854, contain details on politics, business affairs, homeopathic medicine, and his wife's illness. 1 letter dated October 7, 1854 contains a drawing from Margaret's daughter, Maggie. One letter from Bower, J. M. Smith's brother, was dated October 14, 1854 and contained a letter from J. M. Smith. |
Box 1 | FF 3 | Contains one letter dated January 14, 1855 from J. M. Smith to his wife, Margaret. The letter contains details on family matters and finances, and his wife's illness. Included are details of Margaret's possible return trip home from New York City where she has been under a physician's care. |
Series 2 ‒ H. D. Smith Correspondence
Box 1 | FF 4 | Contains one letter, year unknown, from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. The letter contains details of family matters. |
Box 1 | FF 5 | Contains two letters from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. These letters contain details on H. D. Smith's travel plans, business affairs, and family matters. The letter also talks about a rail road project in upper New York around Watertown, East Dodge, and Rome. One letter was dated August 2, 1852. Written on the back of a letter addressed to John B. Smith from "George." The letter was accidently opened by H. D. Smith. The sender of the letter refers to John B. Smith as "Doug" and marks on the back of the letter "Confidential." The letter gives details of a trip that "George" and a friend went on. |
Box 1 | FF 6 | Contains one letter from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. The letter was started on February 24, 1853 and was finished March 2, 1853. The letter contains details concerning a friend's mental illness, family matters, and the construction of farm house and a barn for a tenant. |
Box 1 | FF 7 | Contains four letters from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. One letter dated March 14, 1854 provides a good description of the rail road project and other business affairs. Furthermore, H. D. Smith reports that people are talking about J. M. Smith's increasing wealth. One letter dated April 28, 1854 contains details of gold mining in California, business affairs, family matters, and politics. |
Box 1 | FF 8 | Contains five letters from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. These letters contain details on rail road projects, business affairs, travel plans, and family matters. One letter dated January 18, 1855 contains details on the Watertown & Potsdam Railroad Co. and a new railroad at Erie, Pennsylvania. The letter indicates that the cattle need food and prices are given for hay, corn, oats, wheat, and flour. One letter dated March 11, 1855 contains a receipt for $17.50 that is signed by Esther M. Thrall. One letter dated July 5, 1855 contains details of one railroad project. Rome & Potsdam Rail Road Co. and Watertown & Potsdam Rail Road Co. are mentioned and four locations in upper New York state are referred to: Watertown, Potsdam, Antwerp, and Rome. |
Box 1 | FF 9 | Contains four letters from H. D. Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. These contain details of gold and mineral mining in California, business affairs, politics, and the railroad project. One letter dated May 7, 1856 contains details of possible effects from a potential banking crisis on the national economy. One letter dated June 13, 1856 states that the railroad project has not reached Antwerp yet; however, the iron rails have arrived and will be laid within the next week. |
Box 1 | FF 10 | Contains one letter dated May 9, 1857 from H. D Smith to his son, J. M. Smith. The letter contains details concerning the growth of dairying in the area surrounding Gouverneur, New York. Also, the letter states that supplies of cattle feed and hay are exhausted, and that $10,000 worth of new leather has been sent to market. |
Series 2 ‒ Other Correspondence
Box 1 | FF 11 | Contains 13 letters from other individuals dated 1852 to 1857. These letters contain details concerning business affairs, family matters, and politics. Two letters are from the Kansas Territory. The two letters dated February 9, 1857 and February 10, 1857 contain details of the pro-slavery party and free state people. Sales of land stakes are also mentioned. |


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HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau is aiming a half-million dollar marketing blitz at New York and Chicago.
The monthlong campaign aims to increase visitors from Hawaii's two largest East Coast markets over the next several months. Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, says while Hawaii enjoyed a record number of visitors and spending last year, there appears to be room for growth this year.
The marketing campaign will run from February to March 17. The bureau says it is intended to send the message that Hawaii remains America's favorite tropical destination.
Search for Navy SEAL called off
HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities have suspended the search for a Navy SEAL who went missing after he became separated from his unit during open ocean swim training off Oahu's Kaena Point.
The Coast Guard said Sunday that its crew, Honolulu lifeguards and firefighters along with Navy and Marine Corps crews have been searching for the sailor since Tuesday. They searched over 24,000 square miles using aircraft, cutters and small boats but found no signs of him.
The sailor's name was not released by the Coast Guard.
A call to a Navy spokesman was not immediately returned.
Family sues over police shooting
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — The family of a man shot to death by Kauai police a year ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the department, Kauai County and the officer involved in the shooting.
The suit was filed by the family of Richard Louis in Fifth Circuit Court in Kauai.
Louis was killed as officers came to arrest him at his home on a $310,000 warrant.
Louis had missed a court hearing two months earlier where he was convicted of theft, gun and drug charges.
Police said the 62-year-old Louis barricaded himself in his home, ignored orders to surrender and threatened to kill an officer with a metal object.
Gregory Meyers, a lawyer for his family, said Louis' home was surrounded; he posed no danger; and was not a flight risk.
The lawsuit accuses the agencies and officer of assault and battery, unlawful search and seizure, unnecessary use of deadly force, negligent training, intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death.
Police Chief Darryl Perry said he could not comment on the events that led to the shooting because the case is still being investigated.
"However, I can say that our officers are highly trained in the use of deadly force as mandated by Hawaii Revised Statutes, and I stand firmly behind the necessary actions taken by the officer given the totality of circumstances," Perry said.
Scientists seek to slow boats
HONOLULU (AP) — Some scientists are calling for stricter rules on boat traffic after a spate of collisions between vessels and endangered humpback whales in Hawaii waters.
If safeguards aren't instituted, some scientists and environmentalists fear even more collisions will occur in the future.
Since the end of December, there have been nine reports of vessel-humpback whale collisions in Hawaii waters. Eight of those have occurred in the past month. Incidents include a report that on Feb. 14 a humpback was seen off Maui with propeller slices on its body. Two days later, a female whale and calf surfaced under a vessel and left blood in the water. The following day a vessel and whale collided off Lahaina and the whale's left flank was bleeding.
Scientists say that reports of vessel-whale collisions increased from one to four per year in 2001-2005 to five to 11 per year in 2006-2010. The challenge, they say, is in determining the gravity of collisions. In most instances, the whales disappear before any injuries can be assessed.
"What's the point of having a sanctuary if it's not safe?" said researcher Marsha Green, referring to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary is the only place designated as a protected habitat for humpback whales.
State and federal officials currently are reviewing a proposed management plan for the sanctuary, which was designated by Congress in 1992 and serves as a major calving area for female humpback whales during the winter migration from Alaska.
An advisory group has recommended a 16 mph speed limit on boats in the 1,370-square-mile sanctuary.


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In a surprise transfer deadline day move Manchester United have agreed to let midfielder Marouane Fellaini go out on a season long loan to the their ex-manager David Moyes.
'I've worked with Marouane at two clubs' said Moyes today 'and I've always found him to be a very useful. The fans at Manchester United don't seem to appreciate him so I thought he might like to join me for a loan-spell and help with some odd-jobs about the place.
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Had this Dlink Air plus router with an wireless adator set up on with a PC running win Vista, but as the PC had problems I tried it with older XP PC and it worked fine for about 5 weeks but tonight the wireless adaptor on my desk has stopped flashing and I could not access the internet so I decided to try the Vista PC and it works fine on there, while it can get me online I would still like to fix the D Link to work with the older PC again if anyone has any idea as to what is the problem as it is a faster more reliable PC
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You could try deleting the wireless connection on the XP , connect by ethernet and then try to connect again wirelessly.
Have you updated your XP wireless drivers?
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Is the dongle the DWl-G122 which was very popular back in the days of XP? If so, and I still use one for XP machines, your problem is related to using the correct driver. If the XP machine has just had XP Service Pack 3 installed that would explain why it stopped working - D-Link released a new driver to cope with it.
In any event, you need to check on the back to see which hardware "revision" your adapter is. (I suspect it will be C) Follow this link D-Link DWL G122 Drivers and enter the revision to download the correct driver. For revision C there are 3 available. The most likely driver release you need is not the newest but V3.40 but download them all just in case.
Firstly uninstall the current driver and reboot. (Do this every time before trying each driver) Install the new driver and plug in the adapter only when told to do so. I have found that once installed the adapter may not work until another reboot. Always use the Windows Zero Configuration and not the D-Link utility option at the end of the installation routine.
These were very reliable wireless dongles and I must have installed dozens over the years. I have only ever had one that failed completely after several years. As I said I still use one when repairing towers with no wireless connection built in.
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Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:51PM
Hi all Thanks for the suggestions, the driver V3.40 worked, that was three days ago and ll is fine to date... Thanks again
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Great and thanks for coming back to et us know. Can you tick the Likes "Thumbs Up" next to my thread which will mark it as resolved. It helps others looking for the correct answers.
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Thanks Taff. I'm also facing same problem with my wireless adapter.
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A soldier's salvationTo Thomas Watt, one of the biggest shocks about Vietnam was his own survival. Then, when survival turned out to be as treacherous as war, he turned to his native roots.OMAK, Wash. - When his infantry company was ordered to Saigon in January 1968, Thomas Watt was thinking "party time." After surviving eight months in the jungles of Vietnam and a couple of major battles, the soldier was ready for a little rest and relaxation. Then enemy mortars and artillery began to shake the earth beneath him. It may have been the lunar new year, but it was no party. The 1st Infantry Division, the historic Big Red One, had been called in to protect Gen. William Westmoreland's headquarters in Saigon known as Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, or MACV. The Tet Offensive was under way. "A bunch of colonels and big shots were in trouble, and we got to get them out of there," Watt recalled in a recent interview at his home in Omak. "I remember seeing this colonel laying down there in his khaki uniform, a silver leaf, light colonel or whatever he was. He was laying there scared as hell, and we were taking fire." That's when Spc. Watt, of Omak, Wash., made a rash decision. "The enemy was across the street, and we're laying alongside the highway in this ditch," he said. "The enemy was going from house to house, and we couldn't keep up with them. We're trying to move these generals out. People are getting hit." Watt jumped up on the highway and started waving his arms to draw the enemy's fire. As soon as the North Vietnamese gave away their position by firing at Watt, his company opened up on them. A U.S. tank ended the encounter with a round from its 105-mm gun, destroying the house the enemy was using for cover. The soldiers eventually made it to MACV, and "these big shots come running out in their clean uniforms," Watt said. What amazes him to this day is that he never got hit. "It was like these bullets were going right through me," he said. Other Native American soldiers whom Watt knows have had experiences like that, he said, moments when they inexplicably survived the unsurvivable. Perhaps that helps explain why all of the enrolled members of the Colville Confederated Tribes who served in Vietnam - at least 125 men - returned alive. The tribal government is paying the way for 25 of the former soldiers to go to Branson, Mo., this week for Operation Homecoming USA's tribute to Vietnam veterans. As many as 100,000 Vietnam veterans and their families are expected to attend the weeklong event billed as "the homecoming you never received." It is being paid for largely by a contribution from Texas billionaire Ross Perot. More than 42,000 Native Americans served in Vietnam, and more than 90 percent of them volunteered, according to the U.S. Department of Navy's Naval Historical Center. Native Americans have the highest record of military service per capita of any ethnic group. "It was an honor to defend your people and defend your homeland," said John Stensgar, chairman of the Colville tribal veterans committee. "That's why so many of us went." Tribal elders have told Watt, 58, that his spirit protector was watching over him in Vietnam. Years later, while suffering the emotional wounds left by the war, a return to his Native American spiritual roots saved him from himself. Watt, the oldest of 12 children born on the Colville reservation, was called "Tinker," as his father was. And like his father, the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent him away to Indian boarding school when he was 17. Watt also followed the example of his father, a World War II combat veteran, by joining the Army while he was at school. It was 1966. Watt was sent to Fort Polk, La., for basic training and then to Fort Lewis, Wash., for advanced infantry training. "They asked me where I wanted to go, and I said Vietnam," Watt recalled. He got his wish, arriving in Vietnam on June 2, 1967. He had been "in country" about a week when his unit was loaded onto 30 to 40 helicopters to be transported to operations. One of the soldiers, "a new guy like me," was killed when he ran into the tail rotor of a UH-1 "Huey" helicopter. For the first three or four months, Watt saw little action "except for a few sniper rounds." He joined the rest of A Company, 1st Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment, in the jungle. "We walked all the time, walked two or three days and we'd dig in." On Halloween 1967, Alpha Company was taken to Tay Ninh province, where it surrounded Michelin's rubber plantation near the Cambodian border. Watt's company was ambushed soon after it landed. Watt looked up and saw a sergeant "with a lot of stripes" standing and firing at the enemy from behind a rubber tree. He was a 20-year man, a father of six, who had voluntarily put his life on the line so he could come home with a combat infantry badge. Watt yelled at him to get down, and just as the soldier turned to look at Watt, a bullet entered his temple. The soldier's blue eyes spilling out of his skull haunt Watt to this day. Alpha Company dug in. That night and the next it fought the enemy "probably 20 to 30 feet from our bunkers," Watt said. "It was a big mess. We called in artillery and airstrikes." Watt's first major battle had a name, Operation Shenandoah II. The exact number of enemy killed is unknown. "When we got done, we stacked the people up in these irrigation ditches," Watt said. About eight in his company were killed, as well, and many others were wounded. Watt has no idea how many U.S. forces took part in the operation. Later he found out other elements of the 1st Division and the 11th Cavalry were there, but at the time he thought it was just his battalion. "It seemed like we were just left there, and this is how we got to get out of there," Watt said. "We have to fight, or we're going to get killed." Over time, as his company got involved in more combat, Watt said, his fear became an adrenal high. "The more firefights we got into, I became more alive." As Watt's platoon incurred casualties, the killed or wounded were replaced by new soldiers. Those, like Watt, who had been in country for some time, avoided the newcomers, whose chances of survival were even slimmer than their own. Watt was close to two men in his squad, a red-haired West Virginian named Ronny Parks and a quiet young man from New York state named John Thompson. Both called the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Indian from Washington state "Tiny." Their next big fight was on Dec. 10. Watt's platoon came out of the jungle to defend an artillery perimeter near An Loc. Such duty was considered "relaxed time," and that afternoon the men drank cold beer from stands along Highway 13 and swam in a rain-filled bomb crater left by a B-52. What they didn't know was that dug into the nearby hillside were North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong, waiting for nightfall. The attack came about 10 or 11 p.m., after the platoon was nestled in bunkers around the perimeter of the artillery site. Watt described it as "massive screaming and gunfire … mortars, flares and tracers going off everywhere." Watt, armed with an M-79 grenade launcher, shared a bunker with Parks. As the fight began, a spent casing from Park's M-16 rifle struck Watt in the eye, partially blinding him. The enemy shelled the concertina wire 200 feet in front of Watt's bunker before overrunning the perimeter. A rocket-propelled grenade took out the bunker with the M-60 machine gun to Watt's right, killing one man and injuring another. Another rocket-propelled grenade hit the bunker to Watt's left. Parks ran over to find the platoon sergeant and a new guy dead. Watt found it easier to operate the M-79 from the rear of the bunker, launching round after round over the bunker's roof until the concussion from a grenade or mortar blast knocked him back inside. An enemy soldier came in right after him. Watt killed him in hand-to-hand combat. "When they get really close to you like that, it's scary," Watt said. The next morning, Parks counted 186 enemy dead around the three bunkers. "We stacked them up, and they hauled them off in dump trucks," Watt said. The platoon lost its sergeant, who was due to go home, and "a couple of new guys" whose names Watt never knew. Watt earned a Bronze Star and Army Commendation medals for his actions that night. The next day he was given the M-60. The increased firepower made him feel more secure, but it also made him even more of a target. On April 20, 1968, Watt was carrying the machine gun up a canyon somewhere north of Black Virgin Mountain in Tay Ninh province when his company was ambushed. Watt began laying down a hail of bullets, but the machine gun jammed. While he was trying to fix it, Thompson was hit. When the soldiers finally made it up to the top of a ridge, Watt's buddy was taken away on a Huey. Thompson died en route to a field hospital. "I can't do this anymore," Watt screamed, throwing his M-60 down into the canyon. To this day, he blames himself for his buddy's death. After that, the company commander took Watt out of combat for a while and gave him some time in Bangkok, Thailand. Watt went reluctantly. "We wanted to stay out there as long as we could so we would get an early release," Watt said. Also, Parks had just returned to the platoon after recovering from an injury. Watt's last fight was at Dian on May 20, 1968, the week before he was to come home. Nearly a year after arriving in Vietnam, he found himself defending his division's headquarters 25 miles north of Saigon. It was a war without fronts, it seemed to him, a war without direction, purpose or measurable success. "They had to call in jet strikes a quarter-mile away from base camp," Watt said. "That just didn't happen. That stuff was supposed to happen out in the jungle." When it came time to leave Vietnam, Watt said, he did not want to go. Parks had to pour whiskey down his throat and put him on the plane. Throughout his service in Vietnam, he had suppressed his emotions and numbed himself to what he had to do there and what had been done to him. Now, he feared what emotions would surface when he finally allowed himself to think about his Vietnam experience. As it turned out, Watt was a better fighter than he was a soldier. He felt he had served his time, but eight months remained in his enlistment. He could not obey orders. He drank, he got into fights and he went absent without leave. At Fort Ord, Calif., and then at Fort Lewis, most of his remaining time in the Army was spent in the stockade. "I just wanted to come home to the reservation," Watt said. When offered the chance for an early exit, he took it, signing an "undesirable discharge" in November 1969. The status of his discharge was later upgraded to honorable, under the Carter administration. He returned to the Colville reservation and married in 1971. Seven years and two children later, his wife left him. "I scared her," said Watt, who ended up in the psychiatric ward at Sacred Heart Medical Center over the breakup. In 1980, Watt's father, a veteran of heavy conflict in the South Pacific, committed suicide with a hunting rifle, leaving his son to clean up the room. For years after, when Watt dreamed of his father's face, it was with the blue eyes of that sergeant killed during Watt's first battle in Vietnam. After his father's death, the emotions he had stifled since returning from Vietnam emerged to destroy Watt's family and his life. He spent time in Omak and Spokane jails for drinking and fighting. More than once, Watt attempted to take his own life - including "suicide by cop." He had followed his father into battle and was about to follow him into oblivion. As in Vietnam, he felt dead and needed adrenaline to come out of it, to put himself into situations where "I felt alive." America has known about a soldier's heart, shell shock and battle fatigue through the Civil War and two world wars. But it was the Vietnam veteran who forced the nation to recognize post-traumatic stress disorder as a disability. In 1987, Watt checked himself into the Veterans Administration hospital at American Lake, Wash. He spent a year at a psychiatric hospital in Sheridan, Wyo., followed by two in-patient stays at American Lake in 1988 and 1989. During his first stay there, he was put in the same ward, the same room, that his father stayed in "back when they called it the 'psych ward.' " Watt remembered visiting his father there as a boy of 9 or 10. The nurse who cared for his father was now head nurse on the floor. As a patient himself, Watt believes he once heard his father call out to him. Through therapy, Watt recalled being out on patrol in a "kill zone," where anyone he encountered was to be considered the enemy. Someone ran across the trail in front of him. Watt hit the dirt and opened fire with the M-60. It turned out to be three children about 10 or 11 in age. Two were dead, and one was dying. He knows they were Viet Cong "mules" carrying supplies to the enemy, but they were just kids. "I started walking the trails, and couldn't get it out of my head," Watt said. "I learned that all the horrible things I did in the war were normal for war, but they were so hideous I couldn't accept them." It was not until his immersion into his Native American culture that he found "healing, an awareness and acceptance of where I was in relationship to Vietnam." During a fasting vision quest, Watt's protective spirit taught him the Native song he sings today. It is a song of healing and love in his heart for his parents, his children and, most significantly, himself. Watt has visited the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., and once visited Ronny Parks in West Virginia. Out of the original 34 members of their platoon, only the two of them remained in Vietnam after a year. The rest were killed or wounded. Watt is looking forward to Branson, Mo., but he is beyond seeking honor from the nation that sent him to war. "Honor comes from the other brothers, the other veterans," he said. "There will probably be some other Native guys, maybe some others from the Big Red One." He hopes to connect with some of them in Branson. "When I left, it was pretty bad. 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User talk:Bennmorland
Welcome to Wikiquote. You have done good work with the Woodrow Wilson article, but I would like to recommend using the Wikimedia Commons as a place to find or upload any further public domain or GNU FDL images. ~ Kalki 05:24, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Please do not link categories to Category:Categories but to the appropriate place in the category system. Using the poor analogy of a linked tree, Category:Categories is the single top-level category. From there, we have fundamental categories, main page categories and Wikiquote category as second level. Since your new categories are not featured on the main page and do not relate to Wikiquote, such as maintenance, faqs, etc., they go under the fundamental branch. I just collected several categories into Category:People there which is probably the next step in the subjects you have been working on. Look through the sub-categories there. Rmhermen 16:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Categorization by Nationality or Geography[edit]
Refer to Wikiquote_talk:Category_schemes#Nationalities
- Hi, thank you for your participation to category discussion. I'm happy to see you there. More discussion, better designed, I hope. --Aphaia 01:29, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom[edit]
I noticed that you added/updated a "cleanup" tag to this article; I have completed an overhaul of the article, and I would appreciate your input. Thanks! Essjay 05:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Adding a VfD entry[edit]
Bennmorland, could you please use the "Submit a new request" link at the top of the Votes for deletion page when adding an entry? When you edit the last entry and add a new one to the section, unless you make a point of fixing the edit summary, your new entry appears in the page history as part of the old entry. This can make it difficult for sysops to track down problems (like illegal or unsigned votes) when we have to sift through the history. That's why we created the link and added guidance on using it in the instructions under "Requesting deletions". (Although I noticed that the instructions had the wrong text for the link; I've just fixed that.) Sorry to be a pain in the butt about it. ☺ — Jeff Q (talk) 10:14, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
VFD vote[edit]
You voted doubly on WQ:VFD#Category:Native Americans. If you withdrew the former, it is okay, but would you prefer to make it clear, for example, strike your former vote? And if you don't mix another vote there, it would be more convenient for us. Anyway a deletion vote need at least 14 days and you can't begin another vote on a vote for a certain candidate. Thank you for your understanding. --Aphaia 07:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- In answer to your question on VFD, Benn M, a common practice is to use HTML strikeout markup (<s>text</s>) to surround the vote you wish to strike. I'd suggest you do so to your undesired Delete vote and remove your request for assistance. (I'd do it for you, but it's usually best to let voters do it themselves, to avoid the appearance of vote tampering in the history.) You can leave the original text in place or strike it through as well; both forms have been practiced here. — Jeff Q (talk) 18:40, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Alienware M18x R2
- Category: Notebook Computers
October 8, 2012
Editor's Rating
- Comfortable keyboard
- Beautiful 18-inch 1080p display
- Best-in-class performance
- Above average battery life
- High-end configurations are expensive
- Mouse buttons are mushy
The Alienware M18x R2 is definitely one powerhouse of a computer. It has a fantastic 1080p display, top-of-the-class performance and good battery life. While quite expensive, it makes a great gaming laptop and will handle anything you throw at it.
We reviewed the original Alienware M18x laptop in August 2011 and were very impressed by its outstanding gaming performance, gamer-friendly keyboard and the massive 18-inch display. The design of the original M18x did seem a bit aged and the high-price definitely wasn't for everyone.
The design of the M18x R2 is very sturdy and solid as it is made of anodized aluminum and a raised panel that adds some depth to its overall look. There's also a backlit chrome alien head in the middle of the lid. It measures 17.2 x 12.7 x 2.1-inches (wdh) and weighs 12.6-pounds, which is very heavy for a laptops yet expected since this is a gaming powerhouse laptop.
The beautiful 18.4-inch display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080-pixels, which is full high-definition resolution. The screen looks absolutely stunning, similar to the original M18x from last year. Streaming HD video looked fantastic on the display as well as the many games that we tried out. The screen also has very wide viewing angles, which is great to have while watching movies with more than one person.
Alienware designed the keyboard with gamers in mind, as it should be with a laptop like this one. The keyboard has a set of five macro keys with the ability to switch between different configurations to allow up to 15 macros for gamers. The keys provide solid feedback with little flex, which is always the goal. The keyboard deck is made of a soft-rubber material, which really helps to make things comfortable. A full numeric keypad is also included to the right of the keyboard.
Keeping with Alienware tradition, the keyboard is backlit in a full array of colors. There are preloaded affects for the backlit as well, which can be selected and customized via the AlienwareFX software that comes pre-installed.
The touchpad provides a lot of room for navigating and multitouch gestures. However, the two discrete click buttons seemed mushy and didn't provide much feedback much to our dismay.
For ports, the Alienware M18x R2 gives you four USB 3.0 ports, an eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port, HDMI-out, HDMI-in, VGA-out, mini-DisplayPort out, gigabit Ethernet, S/DIF, the usual audio ports and a 9-in-1 memory card reader. The HDMI-input allows you to use the big, beautiful display for things like a cable TV box or a video game system.
There is also a Blu-ray and DVD+/-RW optical disc drive and 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
The most expensive configuration, which was the one we were given, has a third-gen Intel Core i7-3820QM (2.7GHz) CPU, 16GB of RAM, dual 256GB solid-state hard drives and dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M SLI-enabled graphics with 4GB of dedicated video memory. There are lesser configurations available for much less money too.
We got top-of-the-class performance with the Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM combo. A PCMark 7 benchmark scored 5495, which is about 1500 ahead of the desktop replacement category average. Gaming performance is about as good as it can get. Today's 3D games run perfectly on this laptop set at 1080p resolution and high graphics detail. There's no doubt that performance with M18x R2 is the best you can get and for the money you'll spend, that better be the case.
Battery life comes in at about 3-hours with the discrete dual graphics enabled, which is about an hour or so longer than we expected. With only the integrated graphics enabled, expect to get closer to 5-hours, which is great for a desktop replacement.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
Adapted from NaturalNews.com, April 12, 2011
This nutrient-dense recipe makes a healthy dessert or snack. If you are short on time, simply press the mixture into an 8 x 8 pan instead of making the balls.
Ingredients |
1 cup dark chocolate chips |
1/2 cup NOW Flax Meal* |
1/2 cup NOW Oat Bran* |
2 tablespoons NOW Carob Powder* |
2 tablespoons NOW Dried Unsweetened Coconut* |
1 cup organic, natural peanut butter |
1/2 cup tahini |
1/2 cup honey and/or NOW Real Food® Maple Syrup* |
1/4 teaspoon sea salt |
- Coarsely chop the chocolate chips and add them to a medium bowl.
- Add the remaining peanut butter ball ingredients to the bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Scoop by teaspoonfuls and roll into walnut-sized balls, about 1 inch in diameter.
- Put on a plate or in a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.
- Cover the plate or pan and chill before serving. These taste best when kept refrigerated.
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Battling Cabin Crashers on the Trans-Mongolian Railway
The Trans-Mongolian Railway. Home for the next four days
Day 36: Mechanically speaking, the Russian train is superior to the UVZ.
Mechanically speaking. Comfort is another matter. The UVZ was an '05, so it still had some of that new-car freshness. The train, I am guessing, is a '55, and its new-train freshness has been long since depleted. This isn't all bad. In between the cars, the vestibule spaces, where passengers wait to unload, have an extreme industrial theme, with a pervasive gun-metal grey color scheme and sharp corners that give a strong Soviet flavor. The cabins themselves have seen better times and the upholstery has swallowed its fill of dead skin and dust. Sitting down, I begin to fantasize about a long and intensive fumigation--three days of marination in chemicals and steam. But I'm not sure that would quite do it.
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quote:Tremendous organization. Tremendous coach. Tremendous QB.
quote:its the peyton manning drill. slaughter your weak arse division. then u take care of that piece of shite team in your first playoff game. next is the acf title game is your real challenge but your opponent ant get out of his own way most of the time so.... but now that there is no spying, there is no chance of NE winning another SB!!!
quote:TOM BRADY
quote:except they played pretty damn well without him
quote:Jcorye1 LSU Fan Tom Terrific (greater than) Brees
quote:So I'm just going to assume that you get off to Tom Brady modeling photos? Because you've been sucking his nuts all over this site all day..
quote:Get the frick off our board.
quote:By the way, I don't think I've said anything that even implies Drew Brees isn't a top tier quarterback, future HoFer, and potential MVP player every single year he trots out of the tunnel.
quote:Tom Terrific (greater than) Brees
quote:I love this argument.
quote:i wasn't trying to bash brady. I was trying to compliment the Patriots organization. Brady is arguably the GOAT
quote:Yet this was needed
quote:This is coming from the guy saying Brady would be out of the league if it wasn't for Belichick.
quote:I'm sorry for liking a guy who 334 TDs compared to 99 interceptions (fwiw, Drew is at 324/165 and Peyton is at 436/209), who has won 3 championships (two as MVP of the SB), won two MVPs (2007 and 2010), and is a guaranteed first ballet HoFer.
quote:I'd make some rude joke about Brees, but I'm not ignorant enough to think he's some sort of average player that succeeds because of system.
quote:I have more posts on this board than you have total.
quote:They're a good organization and personally I would hope the Saints could match their resume in drafting and free agency the next couple of years along with some superbowl wins. 3 superbowls in 6 years sounds quite nice to me.
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Friday, March 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM
Because of population loss, two Cleveland City Council slots will be eliminated in January when the new council is seated. Council President Martin J Sweeney has been derided for how the new ward boundaries were drawn. Accusations of favoritism, and the seemingly secretive nature of the process have dominated local media. Now, Sweeney offers his view to ideastream's Rick Jackson,
With the residential decrease heavier in certain areas of the city, those wards were going to have to expand geographically; to stay level in terms of representation - roughly 23-thousand folks per council member…
But word got out of possible substantive changes angered some people, and though a few rumors proved to be wrong - some others were not…
Among the changes are the representation in several neighborhoods - and boundaries in virtually every ward.
Downtown was partly divided, while areas like Ohio City and Glenville were nearly consolidated under one representative.
Yet the full council voted 17-2 to accept the new map, as drawn by consultants and City Council President Martin Sweeney.
Saying no was Joe Cimperman, who represents downtown and the near west side - and Mike Polensek, who represents most of Collinwood and the Northeast corner of Cleveland.
Sweeney explains some of why the changes happened as they did - and started by challenging those who said the process was done behind closed doors.
Sweeney Council Bio
Plain Dealer article with map detail
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Pardee CEO Responds to Joint Venture Criticism
Pardee CEO Jay Kirby addressed members of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners Wednesday.
Hendersonville Scoop
WHAT HAPPENED? After members of the public railed against the proposed joint venture in Fletcher between Hendersonvillle's Pardee Hospital and Asheville's Mission Hospital for more than 40 minutes, Pardee's new CEO assured the Henderson County Board of Commissioners that proceeding with the partnership was in the best health care interests for residents of Henderson County.
WHY DO YOU CARE? Health care is a very competitive business in WNC. Henderson County owns Pardee Hospital, so the decisions made should reflect the wishes of taxpayers.
HOW DID IT GO DOWN? During the public comment portion of the meeting, local residents voiced their overwhelming disapproval for the planned outpatient care facility owned and operated by Pardee and Mission near the county line largely because of the nearby presence of Park Ridge Hospital.
"I do not see any reason for this facility," said Fletcher resident Paul Donahue. "It will only take patients away from people providing health care in our county. It will hurt both of our fine hospitals in the county. Pardee and Park Ridge are close by. This will do nothing to expand access to health care for Henderson County residents."
Park Ridge CEO Jim Bunch was less aggressive, but none the less direct.
"We love to compete and will continue to compete, but people do have a lot of questions about this project," Bunch said. "Our community deserves the answers. It's time to start that dialog."
Paige Wheeler also wanted those answers.
"No one can tell me what it is," Wheeler told the commissioners. "With a project investing so many dollars, we need more community input."
Fielding Lucas also echoed the requests for a public hearing to discuss the issue.
"We have public hearings for changing street names," Lucas said to the board. "It seems to me something this worthy would merit the same. How about it?"
An official public hearing did not happen Wednesday, but later in the meeting Pardee's new CEO Jay Kirby tried to address those concerns as directly as he could to both the full audience and the commissioners.
"Mission Hospital is going to build that building and I cannot afford Pardee Hospital not to be a part of it," Kirby said during his 90 minutes presenting before the board. "This project is critical for Pardee's future success. If we concede primary care in the northern part of Henderson County to Mission, then they own that market. I would rather not just walk away. If they will allow Pardee Hospital to have a part in that facility, I have to create a front door both to our hospital and for Park Ridge. I cannot allow Mission to have a groundbreaking in Henderson County without representation from this community."
State officials recently denied Mission Hospital's request to have an endoscopy center as part of that facility. Several commissioners said that made them wonder what exactly the proposed joint venture would involve if it moved forward.
"We have never seen a business plan regarding any of this," said Commissioner Larry Young. "We need to get to a legal agreement. I've used all three hospitals and have gripes about none of them. I don't want us to be the stepchild at the family reunion when it comes to this joint venture."
"The only thing I want to see is the documents," added Commissioner Tommy Thompson. "I'm not the smartest tack in the box, but I can read a contract. If that document conforms to what you've told us, I'll sign off on it."
Kirby said that Pardee would privately own half of the property on which the building would be constructed, and would also have a shared role in its governance, but because his competitors in the health care industry might use some private details of Pardee business practices if he shared all information about the joint venture with the board he preferred to keep other specifics confidential at this time.
"I'm asking you not to tie my hands so I can negotiate with someone who has more power and influence than Pardee does," Kirby said.
Commissioner Charlie Messer, who serves as the county's representative on Pardee's Board of Directors, said he understood and was willing to take a leap of faith with Kirby and the hospital.
"It may not be on paper, but I believe you have to trust the people you work with," he said. "After hearing your presentation, I'm willing to support you on this."
Commissioner Bill O'Conner, however, disagreed.
"I have asked for the basic fundamental information and we're not getting it," he said, adding that he had requested specific documents from UNC Hospitals about the arrangement several times and nothing had been shared. "I hope this relationship works. It's our hospital. It's our relationship, but it's starting off on and incredible series of handicaps. Until I see that people are thinking about both the downside as well as the upside, I will be unalterably opposed. I remain unconvinced."
He remained so and was the only member of the board not to support the resolution giving Pardee provisional support to continue negotiations with Mission in regards to the facility with the caveat that Kirby share more details about the facility with commissioners before any binding agreements were signed.
"If that doesn't happen, our support goes away," said Chairman Michael Edney. "Given where we are now, I authorize the Pardee board to move forward."
WANT MORE? You can view the entire meeting online.
WHAT'S NEXT? Stay tuned. This fight is just getting started.
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In 1998 President Bill Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus established the Minority AIDS Initiative as an emergency response to the incommensurate rise in HIV infection among blacks nationwide. Beginning in 1999 the MAI began funding programs targeting African Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities, including Hispanics.
Though the MAI accounts for only a fraction (almost two million dollars) of the public money going to AIDS programs in Miami-Dade, it has meant crucial support for several African-American organizations and the Center for Haitian Studies. Most of Empower U's budget comes from two MAI grants totaling $105,140; it's the nonprofit's first government funding. Other organizations with a white Hispanic client base received more than $500,000 in MAI funds.
Many in the African-American AIDS community were angered by an action taken several months ago by the City of Miami, which administers the $12 million federal Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS, or HOPWA, program for Miami-Dade County. The city unilaterally diverted $500,000 in HOPWA funds to three agencies -- the largest chunk, $187,000, to a for-profit Hispanic company, Saber Consulting and Management Corporation -- to conduct AIDS education programs. That is not forbidden by the HOPWA regulations, but it did appear inappropriate to the U.S. Department of Housing (HUD), which had received numerous complaints and subsequently ordered Miami officials to reinstate the housing money. The city and HUD are currently negotiating the reinstatement.
Nevertheless support for AIDS treatment, research, and prevention programs appears halfhearted in Washington. AIDS funding has remained flat and some existing programs and policies are under attack from conservative interests. "You've got more organizations and there are more [people with AIDS] coming into the medical care system, so you're actually looking at an overall decrease in monies," explains Petera Johnson-Hobson, executive director of Empower U and director of education and training for Florida AIDS Action, a statewide lobbying group. "It's gone past being a racism issue; it's a federal funding issue, and I don't know if there will ever be enough now to go around. We're going to have to look at other funding streams, like foundations, become innovative in how we do business."
Johnson-Hobson and Empower U may have to look with yet more urgency now that the Bush administration is questioning the legality of the Minority AIDS Initiative. In light of recent court rulings dismantling affirmative action policies, the qualifications for receiving MAI funds may be eased, thus potentially allowing nonminority organizations to compete. However, according to some AIDS experts familiar with the issue, nothing has yet been decided in Washington (officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the MAI, did not return numerous phone calls).
The administration has also ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to audit AIDS prevention programs in several states, while promoting sexual abstinence and, according to a dispatch last month by the Associated Press, deleting information about condoms and sex education from the CDC Website. The government scrutiny of prevention programs, which one San Francisco official called a "witch hunt," was spurred by revelations that AIDS aid was used by one organization for shopping sprees and tickets to Disney World. Some lawmakers have also questioned the use of CDC money for sexually explicit educational seminars and workshops.
Those laboring in Miami's inner-city trenches don't have to worry about conducting workshops for their clients -- it's hard enough just finding them to tell them the results of their HIV tests. The Florida Department of Health, with the support of the CDC, sends hundreds of outreach workers into the streets each month, often in large vans equipped with educational literature, condoms, oral HIV testing kits, nurses, and counselors. The HIV test is now usually performed in about five minutes with the subject standing right there at the street corner, market, or bus stop. The worker hands him a swab, sort of like a Q-tip, which he holds in his mouth and then pops into a plastic tube filled with a preservative solution. The sealed tube is sent to a lab. The results come back in two weeks, and the workers who administered the test go back out with the good or bad news. By then a lot of subjects, most of whom are also drug users with unstable home lives or no home, have disappeared.
In a matter of weeks, when a new instant-testing kit comes on the market, the result will come back in only about an hour, thus largely solving the problem of low "returns," in AIDS lingo, and revolutionizing the entire testing process.
For the past four years, despite -- perhaps because of -- aggressive testing, the number of new HIV or AIDS cases in Florida has remained at about 5000. That's almost an eighth of all new cases nationally, about 42,000, a number that has also stayed static. Last year Florida health department laboratories processed 271,000 HIV tests (officials don't know how many tests private labs accounted for but estimate roughly the same number). A fair portion, some 4300 state-funded tests, were performed out on the streets of Model City, Little Haiti, Allapattah, and Overtown by MOVERS outreach workers. MOVERS was the single most prolific tester in Miami-Dade, aside from the county health department itself. From its beginnings in 1991 as a ministry of Mount Tabor Baptist Church, MOVERS has grown in a separate nonprofit, employing 80 and operating Liberty City's only physician-staffed medical clinic solely for AIDS patients.


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