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Delicate Devastation (The Endurers #3)
by Rose Wynters
Peter Rynalt is an immortal Endurer that has dedicated his life to protecting humanity…. And enjoying only the most beautiful women. Born in 1103 in the Welsh countryside, his mortal life as Priest ended when Hell decided to crucify him. Known as the priest by some and the playboy by others, he leads an action-packed, dangerous life fighting demons and taking his pleasures where he likes. Until the night Kim runs into his arms, terrified and desperate for help after a demon attacks her.
Kim Jones is known and respected as a fun-loving, New Orleans beauty. Men want her, and women want to be her. It wasn't always that way, though. She is haunted by her past and terrified her beauty won't last forever. One night, fate presents her with a one-time opportunity to have the sexy Endurer that she desires. They discover an insatiable hunger that can't be satisfied, but is it enough for Peter?
Amidst the desperate and devastated streets of New Orleans, the major players continue to make their moves in a game of destiny that will affect the future of the entire world. Each day brings them one step closer to Armageddon…. And Hell keeps upping the ante. When citizens start disappearing, The Endurers work hard to find the group of demons responsible before they die.
It all comes to shattering climax when one of their own experiences a horrendous act that devastates his life and leaves him in shame. Evil knows no bounds and is determined to walk away the winner. Can Peter capture his queen in time?
Warning: This title is intended for readers over the age of 18 as it contains explicit sex scenes and/or situations and adult language, and may be considered offensive to some readers.
Copyright 2013 Rose Wynters
Her body was mouthwateringly gorgeous, but painfully thin. He walked closer to her, his eyes quickly scanning each injury. She was covered in scratches, cuts, welts, and bruises. They were fully setting in, and he knew they would look much worse before ever looking better. He growled when he saw the fingertip bruises on her throat.
"He choked you?" He enunciated each word, anger making his tone thick and dangerous, even to his own ears. He wasn't sure why he felt so overwhelmingly protective over her, but something about her made him extremely possessive. It was a foreign emotion, and one he wasn't quite sure how to handle.
Her slender hand moved up to her throat gently, her painted red nails erotic against the pale skin. "He must have. It all happened so fast. All I know is that I fought hard to get away from him." Her hazel eyes shut briefly as she inhaled, struggling for control.
She was so damned delicate he couldn't believe she had walked away from her encounter. Her fragile state reminded him of her mortality, and it angered him. He shoved a hand through his hair in frustration.
"Why in the hell are you so damn thin? Are you sick, or have you been dieting?" He spat the last word out at her, as she pulled the towel free from her hair to comb through the silky strands.
He suspected it was the latter, and he couldn't understand why women were so obsessed with it. She was so damned beautiful, exuding a raw sexuality that was making the caveman in him roar to life. Desperately he fought the sensual weave she was unconsciously weaving, but it was a battle he was losing fast.
"You look like death, and you're way too slender. You're lucky to still be alive."
She narrowed her eyes at him, as a look of irritation and something unidentifiable flickered across her face. Her arms crossed across her chest before she briefly looked away, her cheeks pink. When she turned back to him, she was completely in control.
"Get laid much, Peter? If that's your approach, I'm surprised you aren't a virgin. My weight isn't any of your business, so butt out. Besides, men love my body."
He growled, enraged at the thought of another man seeing her. She'd just waved a red flag in front of this bull, and it was a challenge he wouldn't back down from. When he spoke, his voice was deathly quiet and cold as ice. "Really? Let a lot of them see it, huh?"
She flushed, but didn't back down. "What's it to you, one way or another?"
"Nothing," he responded, his face serious and his voice harsh with lust. "It was nothing to me before tonight. That was before you walked into my bedroom naked, your body begging for this hard shaft between my legs. While you're in here, you won't be talking or even thinking about other men. You'll be too busy thinking about me, feeling me, as I bring that sweet area between your legs pleasure like it has never known before… Or will again."
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Overheard in GenForum: Early Quakers in Maryland
Of all of these meetings, the one most useful to genealogists, is the Monthly Meeting. There are two different types of records that were generated by the monthly meeting, the minutes and the registers. The minutes are the ones in which you will find the vital statistics of entire families. |
William Wade Hinshaw's Work
When someone mentions Quaker records, it is inevitable that someone else will mention Hinshaw. The two go hand in hand. You are correct though that Hinshaw's work does not include all records from all the Quaker meetings.
His published volumes, six in all, are broken up by states.
In addition to these six volumes, the work done by Willard Heiss in transcribing the records of the Indiana meetings is very often listed as Volume 7 of Hinshaw, despite the fact that the work was done after Hinshaw's death.
Additional Hinshaw Quaker Records
What does a researcher do though if they discover that the monthly meeting they are in need of has not been included in Hinshaw's volumes? The published volumes of Hinshaw actually just scratch the surface, even in regards to his own work. The Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, has the largest collection of Quaker meeting archives. However, they also include The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Unpublished Quaker Records, which consists of some 285,000 three-by-five cards. These additional Hinshaw records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library.
The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records in the Friends Library in Swarthmore College is a cross index that lists the surnames and indicates in what monthly meetings those surnames occur. You might find two microfilms in this collection interesting, and they are available from the Family History Library:
The meeting minutes are then found on an additional 70 reels of microfilm.
Repositories of Quaker Records
As was mentioned earlier, The Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College's collection is the largest collection of archives in either original manuscript or microfilm format. They were founded in 1871 for the express purpose of preserving the records of the monthly meetings under the jurisdiction of the Baltimore and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. So for your research, this may be the place to go. If you cannot get to the library on your own, you will probably need to hire a professional, as the librarians cannot answer research requests. However, should you be able to visit in person, they will be able to assist you.
The address for the library is:
The Friends Historical LibraryThe Quaker Collection
Haverford College Library
Haverford, PA 19041
In Conclusion
Finally, in regards to the book by Phebe Jacobsen, while I have not seen it, I discovered that it was catalogued in the Family History Library Catalog under MARYLAND - CHURCH RECORDS, INVENTORIES, REGISTERS AND CATALOGS. This leads me to believe that it is going to tell you where Quaker records can be found, rather than having the actual records for you to look at and search through. It was published in Annapolis, Maryland by the Hall of Records Commission in 1966.
You will want to search the FHLC at your local Family History Center or online, as there are a few books and a couple of microfilms for Maryland Quakers. And for a good online site, check out The Quaker Corner.
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I have followed Kate & the kids from the very beginning. (I am currently 20yrs old if that gives you any clue of when I started watching Jon & Kate plus 8) I feel she is a wonderful mother. I have always admired her parenting style & how she truly thinks about the best possible solution for all the obstacles she's gone through. I love seeing how much the kids have grown & experience all there different personalities unfold. Kate is truly an inspiration. I'm so happy to see Kate & the kids happy and thriving. :)
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Glad to see Kate and the kids again! Felt like 'going home'. They are all growing up, and seem to be fine. It is good to see the structure, and security that Kate has brought into her family, despite the turmoil she has been through. We have several twins, and even quads in our family…raising "multiples", for those who don't know, is very different. Kate is doing a great job instilling life lessons, and coping skills that the kids will take with them through life. Watching the show was like seeing how my god kids are being raised–their mother has a Doctorate in Early Childhood Ed. TLC…PLEASE KEEP THE SHOW ON!
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I see 61% saying they will watch. PUKE! What I find funny is the people who pick her apart and call her out on everything will watch.They don't want to be called out for watching her,how dare you question that.Yet they make fun of the sheeple who really like kate for watching.Makes sense right?Check out that 15 minutes of BS blog thing.We are trying to help the kids,kate is a monster,how dare she. Then its I watched I watched bla bla bla Im so much better than Kate.
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All I ever see is Kate disciplining the kids, complaining about the kids, and letting everyone know how hard her life is because the kids. We NEVER see her showing the kids any love and affection. I know having eight kids isn't always easy, but Kate seems to derive no joy or pleasure from her children, ever.
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Those kids college funds are already paid for, by the State of Pa when they were born rather Kate spent it or not is another story. I don't intend to watch her phony show I have seen enough of her, and I feel for those kids they are going to turn into entitled snobs, just like their Mother.
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Geez she's soooo over the top…. 'mommy dearest' however in her defense…. she must lie awake at night wondering how she'll get them all thru college etc, single woman 8 kids…god knows Jon has no $$$….but seriously Kate, those kids are gonna 'out' you one day….write a book etc… just from the clip I see you and Maddy are still at it…. you really need to do better by her…. one size does NOT fit all…..


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Mr. Sefrol wrote:Mad-mutt... Oh my god.
That dA comment. That's freakin Auto Trooper.
That's the name of a troll we had here a while back that was also a big MLP hater. This is a small world indeed. Never thought I'd see that name pop up again.
Also, here's something creepy
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That is a pretty picture. =OMr. Sefrol wrote:Also, here's something creepy :D
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TheLivingCouch wrote:Well, I sent in a batch of VA auditions for the Newsponies project. It will be a few days before callbacks but wish me luck.
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Mr. Sefrol wrote:Well that's something interesting, Couch. Might want to check that out myself and give what I've got.
Also, more art.
Apples to Venus
Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:08 pm
Mad-Mutt wrote:That MrPoniator guy just made a new animation.
http://mrponiator.deviantart.com/art/Ch ... -329025897
The dude with the comment below mine is apparently all butt-hurt about this being on the featured page.
Mad-Mutt wrote:Found this and it was kind of cool. A news team chatted with some of our fellow bronies to ask about the show.
http://www.kpho.com/story/19615023/fans ... -you-think
"My ex-girlfriend when she figured out I was a brony she was like, 'You're a brony?'" Plate said.
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Mr. Sefrol wrote:That's... kind of scary.
Kind of reminds me of-
Yup. This guy. Lenny Baxter, you silly man.
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text: Death Watch: November TV survival status reportBy Lynette Rice and James Hibberd,EWUpdated 6:13 AM ET, Thu November 8, 2012ABC's "666 Park Avenue" starring Terry O'Quinn and Vanessa Williams has suffered a ratings drop.Story highlightsAfter a flurry of cancellations and pickups, networks haven't made any big movesSeveral new broadcast shows are awaiting their fateThey hope to receive the back nine full-season order and keep goingUPDATED 11/7 It's been quiet. Too quiet. After a flurry of cancellations (Made in Jersey, Animal Practice) and pickups (Go On, Vegas, Elementary), networks haven't made any big moves the last few days. But that's about to change. There's several new broadcast shows that are approaching production on their 13th episode and are still awaiting word on whether they're going to receive the coveted back nine full-season order and keep going — or shut down. This is what we know, what we're hearing and ... what we suspect.In order of season-to-date performance in the adult demo including DVR:Revolution (NBC) 13.5 million, 5.4 adults 18-49 ratingStatus: Full-season order and deservedly so — the NBC lights-out drama is kicking butt on Monday night. Ratings have dipped recently, but it's still ruling at 10.Elementary (CBS) 14.2 million, 3.5Status: Everybody deduced this crime drama would get a full-season order, and now it earned CBS' post-Super Bowl spot. We can only hope the special airing won't have, say, Sherlock Holmes investigating the death of a pro football player.Go On (NBC) 8.7 million, 3.4Status: Full season order. Matthew Perry has the strongest new fall comedy and owes plenty to its Voice lead-in on Tuesdays.Nashville (ABC) 9.6 million, 3.2Status: Struggling creatively to find its footing after a great pilot. Ratings have been a disappointment, but we suspect ABC will let this show continue to play.The Mindy Project (Fox) 5.2 million, 2.8Status: Earned a back nine pickup from Fox and an order for two more episodes.The New Normal (NBC) 6.6 million, 2.7Status: Full season order.Vegas (CBS) 14 million, 2.6Status: Full season order.The Last Resort (ABC) 9.4 million, 2.5Status: Shawn Ryan's submarine drama will probably see a full season. The ratings aren't great, but it seems to be helping Grey's Anatomy at 9, and the net may be reluctant to remove this Jenga piece from its Thursday lineup.Chicago Fire (NBC) 8 million, 2.4Status: The cheesy firefighter soap came on with extremely low expectations ... and is pretty much meeting them. NBC's been generous with low performers in recent years, so maybe the network's overall improvement this fall will raise the ball to give this show a chance.Partners (CBS) 6.7 million, 2.4Status: It's pulling a higher number than competing comedies that have received full-season pickups. But it's the weakest link on CBS' popular Monday block. All 13 might air, but we suspect the suits are thinking they can do better. (And, they can).Malibu County (ABC) 9.1 million, 2.3Status: Based on its strong debut on a tough night last Friday, this broad comedy has an excellent shot of going the distance this season.666 Park Ave (ABC) 6.3 million, 2.2Status: Terry O'Quinn's supernatural drama should soon learn its fate. Given its recent ratings drops, and that ABC has two solid dramas ready to go for midseason, 666 is probably going straight to hell. (Oh no we didn't just say that. Oh yes we did!)The Neighbors (ABC) 7.3 million, 2.2Status: Full season order. Yeah, we know. We're vexed about it, too.Guys With Kids (NBC) 5.4 million, 1.9Status: NBC will probably wait to see how GWK does when paired with the return of another bland broad comedy, Whitney, that starts next week.Ben and Kate (Fox) 3.8 million, 1.8Status: Back six order despite very low ratings.The Mob Doctor (Fox) 5.1 million, 1.6Status: Fox plans to run all 13, but will want to start fresh next year with something else.Animal Practice (NBC) 4.86 million, 1.5Status: Canceled after four episodes; sets back efforts to represent primates in prime time.Arrow (CW) 4.4 million, 1.5Status: Full season pickup. The most-watched CW premiere since the start of The Vampire Diaries.Made in Jersey (CBS) 8 million, 1.1 Cancelled after three episodes.Beauty and the Beast (CW) 2.6 million, 1.0Status: Will probably squeak into a full season.Emily Owens M.D. (The CW) (1.7 million, 0.5)Status: Code Blue! Code Blue! Crash cart!See original story at EW.comMore from showbizDemi Lovato's plan to change the worldPitbull's cross-cultural appealHow much sin can Bourdain take?Powered by Livefyre


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Lead and potential health risks from subsistence food crops in urban Kenya
- N. M. Dickinson,
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Lead, zinc and cadmium were analysed in a range of subsistence crops cultivated in and around Nairobi city centre. Lead was found to be the only contaminant of concern, being widely dispersed with elevated levels found in crops and soils from both suburban and city centre areas. Extremely high concentrations were recorded in the edible portions of a variety of crops, and high soil Pb levels were recorded within 30m of busy roads. Based on these data, it is estimated that subsistence on a diet of crops cultivated in and around Nairobi could increase Pb intake by 10–100 times the FAO/WHO maximum tolerable levels, potentially contributing substantially to existing health problems.
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- Lead and potential health risks from subsistence food crops in urban Kenya
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Environmental Geochemistry and Health
Volume 9, Issue 2 , pp 37-42
- Cover Date
- 1987-06-01
- Print ISSN
- 0269-4042
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2983
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- Authors
- N. M. Dickinson (1)
- N. W. Lepp (1)
- G. T. K. Surtan (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Biology, Liverpool Polytechnic, Byrom Street, L3 3AF, Liverpool, England
- 2. Department of Botany, Kenyatts University, PO Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya


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Journalists pride themselves on presenting "both sides" of a story. But if establishment media can decide which positions get to take part in debate, then telling "both sides" may be a way of keeping news consumers on the outside.
Coverage of the health care reform debate provides a wealth of examples. Major news outlets go out of their way to avoid mentioning the progressive alternative to the Clinton health care program: a Canadian-style single-payer reform, which would replace private insurance with tax-financed comprehensive universal coverage.
Hillary vs. Insurers
In November, major media focused on the White House-promoted story of "Hillary Rodham Clinton vs. the Insurance Industry." "The First Lady came out swinging, visibly angry as she took on the health insurance industry," said ABC's John McWethy (11/1/93). "Hillary Clinton Accuses Insurers of Lying About Health Proposal," blared a front-page New York Times headline (11/2/93); the Washington Post's followed suit (11/2/93) with "First Lady Lambastes Health Insurers." CNN's Bob Cain (11/3/93) declared that the Clinton administration was "engaged in something close to an all-out war with the health insurance industry."
These stories referred to Rodham Clinton's attack on a $6 million advertising campaign by the Health Insurance Association of America challenging the Clinton plan. What the news outlets didn't mention is that the "Big Five" insurance companies--Aetna, Cigna, Prudential, Metropolitan Life and Traveler's--have withdrawn from HIAA and are generally supportive of the Clintons' health policies. These companies have invested aggressively in Health Maintenance Organizations and other managed care networks, which stand to expand dramatically under the Clinton "managed competition" plan. The "managed competition" theory, in fact, was cooked up by executives of the Big Five and other medical industry leaders in annual meetings held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The Times' Adam Clymer equated HIAA with the "insurance industry" throughout his piece--a particularly egregious error, given that the Times had earlier (2/28/93) run a detailed report on the Jackson Hole Group. The Post's Dana Priest hinted at reality, describing HIAA as a "trade group of mainly medium-sized firms," and later saying that the group "represents 270 medium-and small-sized insurers, many of whom could be put out of business by reform." Insiders will recognize this as a reference to the fact that big insurers stand to profit greatly from the Clinton plan; other readers will remain in the dark.
Viewers of the Nov. 2 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, however, got a more realistic view of the dispute. Along with advocates for the Clinton plan and for HIAA, the show's discussion of the ads featured Dr. David Himmelstein, co-director of the Center for National Health Program Studies at Harvard. Himmelstein, a single-payer advocate, agreed with the first lady that the insurance industry is the problem, but also noted that the HIAA represents the "small sharks" which will be eaten by the big sharks under the Clinton plan.
Conservatives vs. Clinton
Although a bill for a single-payer health care system currently has 95 co-sponsors, most press accounts did not acknowledge that the Clinton plan had serious competition until more conservative alternatives were unveiled.
The introduction by Rep. Jim McDermott (D.-Wash.) of a single-payer bill in March 1993 was largely ignored. ABC World News Tonight, in fact, has run only one story (6/23/93) that even mentioned single-payer since the beginning of 1993--a political report pointing out that Hillary Rodham Clinton had already dismissed single-payer, but needed to shore up her support among single-payer advocates.
But in September, when Republican Senator John Chafee (R.I.) introduced his "plan"--actually a 14-page outline--it was greeted with media fanfare. The Boston Globe (9/16/93) called it "the first serious response to the president's proposal." ABC News' Bill Greenwood (9/15/93) concluded optimistically: "Thirty-seven million Americans are now without health insurance. Between the President's plan and today's Republican alternative, they're certain to finally get some coverage."
Actually, Chafee's proposal closely resembles the Managed Competition Act introduced by Jim Cooper, which differs from the White House plan in not requiring employers to offer coverage, and by making insurance purchasing cooperatives voluntary, not mandatory. A Congressional Budget Office analysis of 1992 health plans (7/93) conservatively estimated that Cooper's bill would leave 25 million Americans uninsured.
But reporters rarely challenge the assumption that conservative "alternatives"--even that offered by hard-right Republicans like Sen. Phil Gramm (Texas) and Rep. Dick Armey (Texas)--actually guarantee universal coverage. "Growing Consensus on Covering All, but How?" was the New York Times' headline on a summary of the debate (11/14/93).
MacNeil/Lehrer helped puncture the consensus--in large part because instead of presenting "both sides," the debate featured members of four congressional factions: single-payer advocate Rep. George Miller (D.-Calif.), Clinton supporter Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.V.), Chafee supporter Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R.-Kansas) and conservative Rep. Armey.
In contrast to discussions which start with the question of cost control, host Jim Lehrer began by pressing all participants on their commitment to universal coverage. Kassebaum said she supported "the premise of access for everyone." Armey replied that "we can achieve universal affordability." Rockefeller attacked the Republicans and conservative Democrats head on: "There are only two groups that support [universal coverage], and that is George Miller with the single-payer approach and President Clinton with his job-based approach."
Bureaucracy vs. Market Forces
The New York Times' Clymer (10/17/93) also divided the debate between the Clintons and single-payer on one side, and Cooper and the Republicans on the other. Clymer admitted vaguely that the conservative alternatives were "less generous," but also insisted they were "less complicated"--the Republicans and Cooper "all see a virtue in less bureaucracy."
In fact, the U.S. market-based health insurance system is by far the most costly, bureaucratic and complicated healthcare system in the world. Peer-reviewed research published by Himmelstein and Harvard Center co-director Dr. Steffie Woolhandler (New England Journal of Medicine, 5/2/91, 8/5/93) found that private U.S. insurers spend 13 percent of every dollar for overhead, while Medicare and Medicaid combined average 3.5 percent overhead. Canada's single-payer system has insured overhead of less than 1 percent.
False ideological assumptions about bureaucracy and competition dominate op-ed and editorial pages. According to Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson (10/20/93), "We need to admit that reform's twin goals--comprehensive universal insurance and cost control--are at odds."
The General Accounting Office (6/91) and the Congressional Budget Office (7/93), however, both concluded that the savings on bureaucracy from switching to a single-payer system would almost immediately offset the increased cost of extending coverage to the uninsured and underinsured. Although single-payer achieves universal coverage and the conservative plans don't, the CBO concluded that by the year 2000, annual national health expenditures under a 1992 single-payer proposal would total $169 billion less than projected under Cooper's proposal.
Despite the fact that single-payer is the cheapest proposal on the table, journalists use the false equation of "cost" with federal expenditures to dismiss the Canadian-style plan. The Times' Clymer (10/17/93), wrote that single-payer requires "unpopular taxes," causing some sympathetic Democrats to dismiss it as "politically impossible." Clymer noted that these taxes would "replace" health care premiums, but didn't note that within a few years they would likely total substantially less than the combined premiums and taxes paid under either the Clinton or Cooper plans.
When asked by a reader why the administration had not given serious consideration to the single-payer plan, USA Today (9/27/93) replied that a single-payer system would have "caused great disruption to the economy, resulted in higher taxes and given the federal government vast new powers."
Beyond 'Both Sides'
Some mainstream outlets avoid these pitfalls. MacNeil/Lehrer has made an effort to include single-payer supporters on its health reform panels. Last year, the Chicago Tribune's Sunday magazine section (5/31/92) carried a long article that examined the problems facing the Canadian system without obscuring the broader successful context. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's special section on health reform (10/25/93) compared the U.S. system to those in other countries, and gave advocates of four reform approaches ample room to present their views. (Only single-payer, however, had a "counterpoint" placed in the middle of its argument--a distorted attack on the Canadian plan from HIAA spokesperson Ed Neuschler).
The medical press, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, has sustained a lively reform debate among medical professionals for years. Independent press highlights include special issues of Dollars and Sense (5/93) and the Washington Monthly (9/93), an In These Times piece by Woolhandler and Himmelstein (1/25/93) laying out the economic arguments for single-payer, and David Corn's insightful reporting on the politics of the single-payer movement for The Nation (e.g., 10/18/93).


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BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — Just under a year ago, Tabatha Wolfe was diagnosed with breast cancer.
"I had found it myself just doing my regular self exam. I did go and get it checked out because it seemed like it was getting worse. And it was breast cancer," remembers Wolfe.
She was all smiles Friday as she finished up her last round of radiation, but she's decided to take her fight against the disease one step further. She's one of just a dozen battling the disease in Baton Rouge, enrolled in a new nation-wide study looking at the benefits of a drug that attacks excessive protein created by cancer cells.
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"At first I was kind of scared because I am like, 'oh I don't know if I want to deal with any side effects. I kind of thought about the future and my daughter, and why not you know," Wolfe said when explaining her reasoning for joining the study.
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Last year there were no deadly car accidents caused by alcohol in southeast North Carolina.
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Montana Vigilantes |
by Fredrick Allen From Montana The Magazine of Western History, 54 (Spring 2001), 3-19; this article is presented courtesy of the Montana Historical Society. All rights reserved, © 2001. | ||||||||||||
What is certain is that once launched, the numbers took on a life of their own. After their initial appearance in the Daily Herald, the numbers ran again the following Friday, November 7, 1879, suggesting that a further sweep of undesirables was underway in time for the weekend, when drunken unruliness typically peaked. The numbers appeared for five consecutive days in boldface type on page three above the Brevities section of local news, abruptly ceased, then appeared again toward the end of the month and later in December. Hoping to allay fears about their mission, the vigilantes apparently sent word to the territory�s newspaper editors that they did not intend to resume lynching or engage in extralegal activity. Woolfolk of the Helena Independent, who at first hotly criticized the vigilantes, soon was writing that they actually supported the court system and intended to help carry out the law, not supersede it. No violence occurred. The vigilantes� restraint was just as well, since it turned out that the two men accused of murdering John Denn provided alibis and were exonerated. Had they been lynched, an irrevocable injustice would have stained the new vigilance committee.48 Still, it was only a matter of time until someone defied the vigilantes and challenged their powers of enforcement. One of the men exiled from Helena, an ex-convict named Cronan, got as far as the nearby community of Jefferson City and decided to stay. The vigilantes were notified, and in February 1880 a group of them rode out of Helena, seized Cronan, gave him forty lashes, and warned him to keep moving out of the territory.49 The beating had the desired effect, and Montana enjoyed unusually calm years in 1880 and 1881. But the incident served notice that the vigilantes could expect to be tested again. The Utah and Northern Railroad reached Butte and delivered the first passenger train there just before Christmas 1881. By February 1882 the Butte Miner was complaining of a rash of �sneak thieving,� and in early April its pages reported that nearly five hundred newcomers were in town, many without jobs or means. On the morning of Sunday, May 14, 1882, residents of Butte awoke to find the numbers 3-7-77 chalked on doors and thresholds across the city. Over the next two days, as an armed patrol scoured the streets at night, some forty men left town, many headed for Deer Lodge, the next stop on the railroad line.50 In Helena, Fisk�s Daily Herald warned that the vigilantes would soon have to put on their �war paint� again, and in June 1882 the numbers were posted around the city along with a new embellishment: a skull and crossbones. The numbers went up in Fort Benton, and a �billiardist� named Blackburn was reported to have boarded the first steamship headed back east. In Billings, a town built around the arrival of the Northern Pacific, a vigilance committee posted the numbers and �drove out in a body the entire lot of roughs, vagabonds and female nuisances,� the first recorded instance of the banishment of women.51 Emphasizing the difference between these new urban vigilantes and their gold-camp counterparts a generation earlier, Wilbur Fisk Sanders made a point in spring 1882 of publicly disparaging the use of coercion against people he considered mere riffraff. Sanders, the pioneer lawyer whose daring prosecution of a suspected highwayman at a people�s court in 1863 emboldened the first vigilantes to take action, wrote a letter to the Daily Herald urging tolerance of beggars and suggesting the establishment of a lodging house �where strangers could be accommodated for a day or two without charge, comfortably.� The police and courts could handle the criminal class, he argued, and only if they failed should �harsher methods� be considered. �But it is the height of folly,� Sanders added sharply, �to presume that he who asks lodging or bread is a criminal, and to visit upon . . . [him] the penalties of a Vigilance Committee would be heinous crime.�52 Simple intimidation worked for the vigilantes for a time, but eventually their bluff was called. In 1883 a mob in Dillon seized an accused killer named John A. Jessrang and attempted to force a confession from him by putting a noose around his neck and repeatedly hauling him off the ground to the point of near strangulation. When Jessrang refused to admit the crime, his chastened tormentors concluded he might be innocent and returned him to jail. Fisk, writing in the Daily Herald, responded angrily that Jessrang was guilty �beyond all doubt� and deserved to be lynched. With this open call for summary execution, Fisk crossed an important line. Three weeks afterward, another mob broke into the jail at Dillon and hanged Jessrang in his cell. A short time later, in March 1883, two men were lynched at Greenhorn, twelve miles from Helena, when a self-appointed posse accused them of setting a fire. Fisk wrote again of his approval of the killing. Appalled, Justice Wade exhorted the sheriff to track down the members of the mob, but no arrests were made.53
The danger of a return to extralegal justice quickly became clear. In June 1883 Butte�s vigilance committee seized an accused child molester and, after debating whether to hang him, finally settled on administering sixty-four lashes. The victim, insisting he was innocent, refused to leave town and walked the streets of Butte surrounded by friends. When the vigilance committee threatened him with death, he retreated to a nearby settlement, Centerville, where the sheriff supplied his group with rifles, raising the specter of a clash of arms. After a standoff, wiser heads prevailed, and the man submitted to arrest while the vigilantes agreed to let the courts handle the matter.54 Fisk, who might have been sobered by this episode, redoubled his advocacy of lynch law. He published the numbers again in July 1883, even though a prominent chronicler, Michael Leeson, was in town working on a history of Montana.55 Later that month, in Miles City, another town burgeoning with the arrival of the railroad, a man named Bill Rigney got drunk on a Friday night and was staggering home after dawn when he wandered into the home of the Northern Pacific�s resident top official and insulted the family in profane language at breakfast. A mob chased Rigney down and hanged him from the bridge over the Tongue River. Someone then torched the saloon where Rigney worked, and soon an entire city block lay in ashes. As in Butte, a standoff ensued between the vigilantes and their detractors, with serious violence averted once again by a narrow margin.56 Fisk�s thinking on lynch law crystallized soon afterward in an editorial he wrote about a hanging in Salt Lake City. A heavily armed black man named Harvey had run amuck there, killing the city marshal and wounding another man before being subdued and arrested. Hours later, a mob stormed the jail, seized Harvey, dragged him through the streets, and hanged him. Fisk was horrified, calling it a �brutal thing.� Then he got to the point: We do not object so much to a decent, orderly lynching when there is particular atrocity in the crime and there can be no mistake as to the criminal. But this beating, kicking, clubbing, and dragging through the streets, both before and after death, is too brutal to allow excuse, and would better suit cannabal [sic] savages than men who pretend to be civilized.57
Reading Fisk more than a century later, one marvels at the distinction he drew between good and bad lynchings. Mob violence was a terrible thing. But who could object to a decent, orderly lynching? Especially if the crime was atrocious and the criminal plainly guilty? What could be fairer or easier to carry out? That he could write as he did, without the least wisp of irony or uncertainty, might have marked Fisk as a simpleton in another time and place. Yet in 1883, in Montana Territory, his view represented the sincere belief among many respectable citizens that vigilante justice was still a workable, even indispensable tool of law. That Fisk was a liberal by today�s standards in other aspects of his philosophy�he supported voting rights and public education for blacks and gun control, for instance, while his wife was a temperance advocate�underscores the uncomfortable truth that in Montana many years ago (and in other parts of the United States as well) reasonable, educated, decent people blithely accepted lynching as public policy. In 1884 the shadow of lynching passed from Montana�s cities to its vast, unsettled central plain, where Granville Stuart, one of the territory�s earliest pioneers, led some of his fellow cattlemen in a famous raid along the Musselshell River and shot or hanged some thirteen suspected horse rustlers.58 Stuart�s Stranglers, as they were nicknamed, became the stuff of legend, not least because a gentleman cattle rancher from nearby Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt, admired them and tried to join their ranks. Roosevelt�s enthusiasm for vigilante justice, forged in Montana, continued into his presidency and helped shape his belief in the need for American imperialism.59
While attention was drawn to the cattlemen, the work of the urban vigilance committees continued unabated. In 1885, a prisoner named Con Murphy sawed his way out of the Helena jail�his second escape�and was captured after a shoot-out in which he wounded a policeman. A mob seized him, hanged him, and pinned a card with 3-7-77 on his back, marking the first time the numbers were directly associated with a lynching. Appropriately, perhaps, a young man who witnessed the event took the card from Murphy�s back and presented it as a gift to Fisk�s thirteen-year-old daughter, Grace. Afterward, Fisk�s wife, Lizzie, wrote her mother in Connecticut, asking, �What did you think of the hanging? I have wondered how it would impress eastern people.�60 Eastern people, for the most part, were not impressed one way or the other. According to research compiled by historian Richard Roeder, lynchings and banishments in Montana continued right on through the achievement of statehood in 1889 and into the twentieth century.61 The �mystic figures� continued to appear and took on a sort of split personality. They were used with obvious, malicious intent by anonymous agents from time to time to terrorize various groups and individuals, but they also were bandied about lightly as a token of frontier nostalgia. As early as 1882, the members of a men�s glee club in Helena styled themselves the �3-7-77 Boys.�62 Because of the deliberate confusion about the meaning, an erroneous idea took hold almost from the outset that the numbers had been used by the first vigilantes.63 The heroic stature of the early vigilantes, meanwhile, was reinforced at almost every turn by historians and journalists. In 1917 radical labor leader Frank Little, a member of the far-left Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, arrived in Butte and began attacking America�s recent entry into World War I. Speaking before large crowds of copper miners, Little called President Woodrow Wilson a �lying tyrant� and denounced United States soldiers as �scabs in uniform.� This proved to be free speech at its most dangerous. Tensions between labor and management in Butte�s copper industry already were high, and the state of Montana as a whole was gripped by a fever of hyperpatriotism and intolerance for dissent. In the early morning hours of August 1, 1917, six masked men seized Little in his boarding house, dragged him through the streets, and hanged him from a bridge. A sign was placed on his back with the numbers 3-7-77 and the initials of six other men threatened with the same fate. Though Burton K. Wheeler, then a federal attorney, condemned the affair as �a damnable outrage,� no arrests were made.64
Far from tarnishing the mystic figures, the lynching of Frank Little heralded the beginning of a period when veneration of the first vigilantes reached new heights. In 1920, hoping to profit from the advent of family vacations by automobile, state officials renamed the routes in southwest Montana from Yellowstone National Park to Butte and Helena the Vigilante Highway and designed red, white, and blue disks with the numbers 3-7-77 in the middle to mark the way.65 Two years later, in 1922, the numbers appeared in Missoula, not to frighten anyone but in recognition of a meeting of the Montana Society of Pioneers.66 For the most part, these celebrations of vigilante history were undertaken innocently, free of any intent to promote or even contemplate extralegal justice. In 1924 the principal of Helena High School, A. J. Roberts, was casting about desperately for some new tradition to replace the annual �senior-junior fight,� in which boys from the senior and junior classes picked a spring day at random in which to challenge each other to fisticuffs, with resultant physical injuries and property damage. Roberts�s brainstorm was a Vigilante Day Parade through downtown Helena with the students competing peacefully to build prizewinning floats. It took hold, and in 1931 Twentieth Century�Fox and Paramount both filmed the parade, giving it a national audience.67 The parade remains a popular event to this day. Gaining a final gloss of respectability, the numbers 3-7-77 were added to the Montana Highway Patrol shoulder patch in 1956. Promoted to superintendent that year, Alex Stephenson personally designed the new insignia as a tribute to law and order. A rock-jawed, old-school lawman, Stephenson was entirely ignorant of the numbers� convoluted history and believed they simply represented the vigilantes of 1864. �We chose the symbol,� he explained later, �to keep alive the memory of this first people�s police force.�68 As in the rest of the country, lynching in Montana faded from acceptance during the twentieth century, and the meaning of the vigilantes� numbers receded further into the mists of folklore. Longtime Montana Supreme Court chief justice Lew Callaway, whose father was an early territorial secretary and a friend and neighbor of James Williams, the executive officer of the 1864 vigilance committee, insisted that the numbers stood for a period of time, giving that theory a great deal of currency.69 Some skeptics believed that Callaway, a prominent Mason, meant to discourage an alternate hypothesis that the numbers were some kind of Masonic code that pointed a finger at Freemasons as the core organizers of the vigilance movement.70 The idea of a specific Masonic origin for 3-7-77 was first advanced by historian Rex Myers in 1974, and it is tempting. The numbers three and seven have significance in Masonry and the number seventy-seven has a tantalizing place in the history of Masons in Montana. In autumn 1862, during the first season of the gold rush to Bannack, a man named William Bell fell ill with mountain fever. On his deathbed, he asked for a Masonic funeral, and seventy-six Masons came forward the next day for the ceremony. Counting the Mason in the coffin, the theory goes, there were seventy-seven Masons in all, and realizing their strength in numbers, they soon joined forces and formed the vigilance committee that cleaned up the gold camps.71
The problems with this reasoning are plentiful. The vigilantes of 1864 included substantial numbers of non-Masons in their ranks, making it unlikely that a Masonic reference would have been adopted as a sign. In any case, Masons are not in the habit of advertising their secret symbols in public. Moreover, the numbers were not used in 1864, as widely believed, but in 1879, fully seventeen years after Bell�s death, long after the original vigilante leaders had departed from the field. Making a Masonic context even more unlikely, in 1879 the grand master of Montana Masons was Hiram Knowles, who had just retired after eleven years as a territorial justice and was an ardent enemy of vigilantism. And the grand secretary of the Masons was Cornelius Hedges, the probate judge of Lewis and Clark County who had presided over the coroner�s jury in the John Denn case.72 The use of numbers suggesting a link between the vigilantes and the Masons would have embarrassed and angered both men. Finally, giving the matter a suspiciously modern provenance, the story of the seventy-six Masonic mourners did not become widely known until the twentieth century, when a Masonic secretary found the account in the records of the Grand Lodge in Helena and passed it along to a journalist.73 The story was then popularized by an amateur historian, Charley Towne, the publicity director of the Montana Power Company, who often told it on his radio show in the 1930s. Over time, the numbers have lost much of their sting, but it is hard to imagine any Montanan not feeling a shiver of apprehension if he found 3-7-77 chalked on the front door or sidewalk one morning. Indeed, in 1974 the mayor of Virginia City abruptly resigned after someone sent him a card marked with the numbers during a political protest.74 Given Montana�s continued appeal to various freemen, militias, survivalists, separatists, supremacists, soldiers of God, and other off-kilter sorts, including the most notorious mad bomber of our age, perhaps the time has come to consider retiring a set of numbers whose use for many years was a call for open defiance of the police and courts and rule of law. FREDERICK ALLEN is a former political editor of the Atlanta Constitution and commentator for cnn. He is the author of a history of the Coca-Cola Company, Secret Formula (1994), which has been translated into seven languages, and of Atlanta Rising (1996), a book about the forces that shaped modern Atlanta. He lives in Atlanta and Bozeman, and is working on a book about Sheriff Henry Plummer and the legacy of vigilantism in Montana. |
48. Helena Independent, November 16, 1879; Helena Daily Herald, November 22, 1879. 49. Helena Daily Herald, February 13, 1880. 50. Butte Miner, December 22, 1881, February 11, April 6, May 16�19, 1882. 51. Helena Daily Herald, May 20, June 14, 19, August 23, 1882. 52. Ibid., May 19, 1882. Sanders and Fisk were political rivals within the Republican Party. 53. Ibid., February 12, March 10, 19, 20, 1883. 54. Butte Miner, June 24, 26, 1883. 55. Helena Daily Herald, July 20, 1883; Michael Leeson, The History of Montana, 1739�1885 (Chicago, 1885), 304-5. 56. Livingston Enterprise, July 22, 1883; Miles City, Yellowstone Journal, July 28, 1883; MNA �News Inserts,� September 25, 1933. 57. Helena Daily Herald, August 27, 1883. 58. In Strain of Violence, Richard Maxwell Brown calls the 1884 episode �the deadliest of all American vigilante movements,� a superlative supported in the book�s appendix three, which counts thirty-five victims (p. 101). The actual number, however, appears to be considerably smaller. In �The Central Montana Vigilante Raids in 1864,� which appeared in the premier issue of Montana The Magazine of Western History, January 1951, Oscar O. Mueller argues that fifteen to eighteen men died at the hands of Stuart�s posse. In a 1980 University of Oregon master�s thesis, �Granville Stuart and the Montana Vigilantes of 1884,� Richard K. Mueller (no relation to Oscar Mueller) puts the figure at nineteen to twenty-two. My own count shows a maximum of seventeen, while Michael Malone, Richard Roeder, and William Lang�s reasonable and reliable Montana: A History of Two Centuries (Seattle, 1976) estimates on page 163 �at least fifteen� victims. Meanwhile, Brown�s appendix three cites thirty victims of vigilantism in Montana from 1863 to 1865, while my examination of the Virginia City, Montana Post raises that number to at least thirty-five. In either case, the distinction of �deadliest of all American vigilante movements� properly belongs to Montana�s earliest vigilantes. 59. On Roosevelt�s seeing imperialism as an extension of the frontier, especially in the Phillipines, see page 106 of Richard Slotkin�s Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America (New York, 1992). On Roosevelt�s years in the West, see Carlton Putnam�s Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, 1858�1886 (New York, 1958). Stuart rebuffed Roosevelt�s bid to join the vigilantes fearing his fame (and lack of discretion) might bring unwanted publicity. 60. Jacob Mathews Power, �Tracking Con Murphy,� Montana The Magazine of Western History, 30 (Autumn 1980), 52-56; grand jury charge, January 1885, MC 54, Decius S. Wade Family Papers, MHS Archives; Lizzie Fisk to Mother, February 15, 1885, folder 8, box 7, MC 31, Fisk Family Papers, MHS Archives. 61. Folder 30, box 40, collection 2346, Richard Roeder Papers, MSU Libraries. Roeder kept handwritten notes on numerous lynchings from 1885 into the early twentieth century. 62. Helena Daily Herald, July 17, 1882. 63. Ten days after their first appearance, the Independent asserted mistakenly that the numbers �represent the old vigilantes sign.� Helena Independent, November 11, 1879. 64. MNA �News Inserts,� August 6, 1917; Butte, Montana Standard, June 5, 1992. On the hysteria surrounding outspoken opposition to the war, see Dave Walter, Montana Campfire Tales: Fourteen Historical Narratives (Helena, Mont., 1997), 153-71. 65. State Department of Agriculture, Labor, and Industry, Montana: Resources and Opportunities Edition (Helena, 1920), 60; MNA �News Inserts,� March 15, 1920. 66. Missoula, Missoulian, August 25, 1922. 67. Helena Independent Record, May 28, 1939, May 13, 1999. 68. Spokane, Spokesman-Review, February 11, 1968. The patrol publishes a brochure that gives essentially the same explanation today. 69. MNA �News Inserts,� April 26, 1929. 70. Colin Rickards, �Freemasons, Felons, and the Montana Vigilantes,� Quarterly of the National Association and Center for Outlaw and Lawman History (Spring 1978). 71. Myers, �Vigilante Numbers,� 67-70. For a persuasive argument against the Masonic thesis, see Burlingame, �Montana�s Righteous Hangmen,� 36-49; and folders 21, 22, box 26; folder 1, box 27, Burlingame Papers. According to Burlingame, of the 168 men known or suspected to have been among the early vigilantes, only 29 were Masons. 72. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Montana Grand Lodge, Proceedings, 4 vols. (Springfield, Ill., 1879�1882), vol. 1. 73. MNA �Inserts,� March 12, 1934, August 26, 1935; Butte, Montana Standard, March 16, 1975. Nathaniel Langford, who presided at Bell�s funeral, described the ceremony but failed to mention the seventy-six mourners in his book, Vigilante Days and Ways, published in 1890. Nor did he discuss the numbers 3-7-77. 74. Butte, Montana Standard, March 16, 1975. |
From Montana The Magazine of Western History, 51 (Spring 2001), 3-19; this article is presented courtesy of the Montana Historical Society. All rights reserved, © 2001.
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From the return of the CrossGen catalogue to the Red Hulk's Avengers membership and more, CCI held plenty of surprising Marvel news and Tom Brevoort took time to discuss it all and share exclusive art in this week's T&A.
Marvel T&T: Brevoort's Solo Show
While much of the Marvel staff hits Comic-Con International, Tom Brevoort pulls double duty in Marvel T&A with word on format experimentation, the future of Bucky Cap and more.
Marvel T&A: Cover Swaps And Character Comebacks
Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso return to CBR with a look inside Marvel's latest debated covers for variants program as well as news of returning characters to "Secret Avengers" and Greg Rucka's Marvel comeback.
Introducing Marvel T&A!
CBR is proud to present a new weekly feature with Marvel VP Executive Editors Tom Brevoort & Axel Alonso with a first installment looking inside Marvel Editorial, the idea of too much Deadpool and two new project announcements.
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