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Association for Gravestone Studies Collection
Association for Gravestone Studies Book Collection, 1812-2005.
Call no.: RB 004
Founded in 1977, the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) is an international organization dedicated to furthering the study and preservation of gravestones. Based in Greenfield, Mass., the Association promotes the study of gravestones from historical and artistic perspectives. To raise public awareness about the significance of historic gravemarkers and the issues surrounding their preservation, the AGS sponsors conferences and workshops, publishes both a quarterly newsletter and annual journal, Markers, and has built an archive of collections documenting gravestones and the memorial industry.
The AGS Books Collection contains scarce, out of print, and rare printed works on cemeteries and graveyards, epitaphs and inscriptions, and gravemarkers, with an emphasis on North America. The AGS Books Collection also includes the AGS publication, Markers. The collection is divided into three series: Series 1 (Monographs and Offprints), Series 2 (Theses and Dissertations), and Series 3 (Markers).
- Cemeteries
- Epitaphs
- Sepulchral monuments
- Association for Gravestone Studies
Bartlett, Simeon
Simeon Bartlett Account Books, 1792-1867.
Call no.: MS 175 bd
Freight hauler, farmer, sawmill owner, and possibly a hatmaker from Williamsburg, Massachusetts.
The first volume of Bartlett's accounts includes records of Bartlett's income, sales and exchange of goods and services, and details about his employees and family (such as family births, deaths, and marriages). Volume 2 contains lists of hat purchases, lists of teachers and their pay, his participation in town affairs, and a number of lyrics to Civil War songs.
- Clapp, Joseph
- Hat trade--Massachusetts--South Hadley
- Lyman, Joseph
- Rice, Aaron
- Songs
- Songs, English
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music
- Williamsburg (Mass.)--Economic conditions
- Bartlett, Simeon, b. 1764
Types of material
- Account books
Broadside Press
Broadside Press Collection, 1965-1984.
Call no.: MS 571
A significant African American poet of the generation of the 1960s, Dudley Randall was an even more significant publisher of emerging African American poets and writers. Publishing works by important writers from Gwendolyn Brooks to Haki Madhubuti, Alice Walker, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez, his Broadside Press in Detroit became an important contributor to the Black Arts Movement.
The Broadside Press Collection includes approximately 200 titles published by Randall's press during its first decade of operation, the period of its most profound cultural influence. The printed works are divided into five series, Broadside poets (including chapbooks, books of poetry, and posters), anthologies, children's books, the Broadside Critics Series (works of literary criticism by African American authors), and the Broadsides Series. . The collection also includes a selection of items used in promoting Broadside Press publications, including a broken run of the irregularly published Broadside News, press releases, catalogs, and fliers and advertising cards.
- African American poets
- African American writers
- Black Arts Movement
- Poetry
- Broadside Press
- Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
- Emanuel, James A
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Knight, Etheridge
- Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-
- Randall, Dudley, 1914-
- Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
Types of material
- Broadsides
- Ephemera
- Posters
Brooks, William Penn, 1851-
William Penn Brooks Papers, 1863-1939.
Call no.: RG 003/1 B76
Two years after graduating from Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1875, William Penn Brooks accepted an invitation from the Japanese government — and his mentor, William Smith Clark — to help establish the Sapporo Agricultural School. Spending over a decade in Hokkaido, Brooks helped to introduce western scientific agricultural practices and the outlines of a program in agricultural education, and he built a solid foundation for the School. After his return to the states in 1888, he earned a doctorate at the University of Halle, Germany, and then accepted a position at his alma mater, becoming a leading figure at the Massachusetts Experiment Station until his retirement in 1921.
Brooks' papers consist of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, an account book, and translations which provide rich detail on Brooks' life in Japan, the development of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University), and practical agricultural education in the post-Civil War years.
- Agricultural colleges--Japan--History
- Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886
- Hokkaido (Japan)--History
- Hokkaid¯o Daigaku
- Japan--Description and travel--19th century
- Japan--History--1868-
- Massachusetts Agricultural College--History
- Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station
- Sapporo N¯ogakk¯o--History
- Sapporo-shi (Japan)--History
- Brooks, William Penn, 1851-
Types of material
- Letters (Correspondence)
Buffington, Elisha L.
Elisha L. Buffington Diaries, 1894 July-Dec..
Call no.: MS 711 bd
A twenty year-old from Swansea, Mass., Elisha L. Buffington took a grand tour of Asia with his uncle Elisha D. Buffington and aunt Charlotte in 1894. Spending two months in Japan, the Buffingtons traveled through China and the Subcontinent, visiting the usual cultural and historic sites as well as more unusual voyages to the Himalayas.
Written carefully in two volumes (ca.381p.), Elisha L. Buffington's diaries record the impressions of a twenty year-old from Swansea, Mass., during his first voyage to Asia. Although the diaries do not cover the entire trip, they record details of two months spent in Japan, including an eyewitness account of the Meiji earthquake in Tokyo, and interesting visits to Shanghai and Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and India. The diary ends on December 27, 1894, when the Buffingtons were at Delhi.
- Buffington, Charlotte Walker
- Buffington, Elisha D
- Canada--Description and travel
- China--Description and travel
- India--Description and travel
- Japan--Description and travel
- Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912
- Singapore--Description and travel
- Sri Lanka--Description and travel
- Buffington, Elisha L
Types of material
- Diaries
Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886
William Smith Clark Papers, 1814-2003 (Bulk: 1844-1886).
Call no.: RG 003/1 C63
Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1826, William Smith Clark graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and went on to teach the natural sciences at Williston Seminary until 1850, when he continued his education abroad, studying chemistry and botany at the University of Goettingen, earning his Ph.D in 1852. From 1852 to 1867 he was a member of Amherst College's faculty as a Professor of Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology. As a leading citizen of Amherst, Clark was a strong advocate for the establishment of the new agricultural college, becoming one of the founding members of the college's faculty and in 1867, the year the college welcomed its first class of 56 students, its President. During his presidency, he pressured the state government to increase funding for the new college and provide scholarships to enable poor students, including women, to attend. The college faced economic hardship early in its existence: enrollment dropped in the 1870s, and the college fell into debt. He is noted as well for helping to establish an agricultural college at Sapporo, Japan, and building strong ties between the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Hokkaido. After Clark was denied a leave of absence in 1879 to establish a "floating college" — a ship which would carry students and faculty around the world — he resigned.
The Clark Papers include materials from throughout his life, including correspondence with fellow professors and scientists, students in Japan, and family; materials relating to his Civil War service in the 21st Massachusetts Infantry; photographs and personal items; official correspondence and memoranda; published articles; books, articles, television, and radio materials relating to Clark, in Japanese and English; and materials regarding Hokkaido University and its continuing relationship with the University of Massachusetts.
- Agricultural colleges--Japan--History
- Agricultural colleges--Massachusetts--History
- Agriculturists--Japan
- Agriculturists--Massachusetts
- Amherst (Mass.)--History
- Amherst College--Faculty
- Amherst College--Students--Correspondence
- Hokkaido (Japan)--History
- Hokkaid¯o Daigaku--History
- Hokkaid¯o Teikoku Daigaku--History
- Japan--Relations--United States
- Massachusetts Agricultural College--History
- Sapporo N¯ogakk¯o--History
- Sapporo N¯ogakk¯o. President
- T¯ohoku Teikoku Daigaku. N¯oka Daigaku--History
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Relations--Japan
- Universität Göttingen--Students--Correspondence
- Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886
- Massachusetts Agricultural College. President
Types of material
- Drawings
- Photographs
- Realia
- Scrapbooks
Cushing, David F.
David F. Cushing Daybook, 1860.
Call no.: MS 248 bd
Operator of a general store in Cambridgeport, Vermont, as well as a postmaster and a deacon of the Congregational Church. Daybook includes lists of stock, how he acquired his goods, and method and form of payment (cash or exchange of goods and services).
- Barter--Vermnont--Cambridgeport--History--19th century
- Cambridgeport (Vt.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Freight and freightage--Rates--Vermont--History--19th century
- General stores--Vermont--Cambridgeport
- Households--Vermont--Cambrigeport--History--19th century
- Cushing, David F., 1814-1899
Types of material
- Account books
- Daybooks
Enfield (Mass.)
Enfield (Mass.) Collection, 1800-1939.
Call no.: MS 010
Situated at the confluence of the east and west branches of the Swift River in western Massachusetts, Enfield was the largest and southernmost of the four towns inundated in 1939 to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Incorporated as a town in 1816, Enfield was relatively prosperous in the nineteenth century on an economy based on agriculture and small-scale manufacturing, reaching a population of just over 1,000 by 1837. After thirty years of seeking a suitably large and reliable water supply for Boston, the state designated the Swift River Valley as the site for a new reservoir and with its population relocated, Enfield was officially disincorporated on April 28, 1938.
The records of the town of Enfield, Mass., document nearly the entire history of the largest of four towns inundated to create the Quabbin Reservoir. The core of the collection consists of records of town meetings and of the activities of the town Selectmen, 1804-1938, but there are substantial records for the Enfield Congregational Church. The School Committee, Overseers of the Poor, the town Library Association, and groups such as the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Bethel Masonic Lodge.
- Enfield (Mass.)--History
- Enfield (Mass.)--Politics and government
- Enfield (Mass.)--Religious life and customs
- Enfield (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Quabbin Reservoir Region (Mass.)--History
- Quabbin Reservoir Region (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Women--Societies and clubs
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Captain Joseph Hooker Chapter (Enfield, Mass.)
- Enfield (Mass. : Town)
- Enfield (Mass. : Town). Overseers of the Poor
- Enfield (Mass. : Town). Prudential Committee
- Enfield (Mass. : Town). School Committee
- Enfield Congregational Church (Enfield, Mass.)
- Enfield Congregational Church (Enfield, Mass.). Women's Auxiliary
- Enfield Congregational Church (Enfield, Mass.). Women's Missionary Society
Types of material
- Account books
- Church records
- Photographs
- Sermons
Drawing upon the unique materials under their care, the staff of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives organize two to three exhibits a year in their reading room and work regularly with their colleagues in the general library to prepare other exhibits for display on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.
Current Exhibit
Deep in the Hole: Experiences of Imprisonment
- Sept. 15, 2014-Jan. 21, 2015
- Location: SCUA and Learning Commons, Du Bois Library
Deep in the Hole focuses on experiences of imprisonment and the prison-industrial complex, using documents from prison rights and activism collections held in Special Collections & University Archives. The exhibit examines a wide range of experiences of imprisonment including political prisoners, conscientious objectors in WWII, the war on drugs and marijuana decriminalization, psychiatric confinement, and the role of controversial activism and publications. The materials range from historic to contemporary, from the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois to the trenchant comics of prisoners.
Upcoming Exhibits
Photographs of Alton Blackington
- Jan. 25, 2015-May 31, 2015
- Location: SCUA and Lower Level, Du Bois Library
The exhibit showcases "Blackie" Blackington's New England photography from the 1920s to the 1940s. It covers terrain stretching from news of public officials and civic events to local personalities, but the heart of the exhibit is images of typically eccentric New England characters and human interest stories.
M.A.C. and the Women's Land Army of America in World War I
- June 5, 2015-Sept. 21, 2015
- Location: SCUA and Learning Commons, Du Bois Library
This exhibit investigates Massachusetts Agricultural College's participation in the Women's Land Army of America, a women's organization to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military from 1917-1922.
Benjamin Smith Lyman in Japan
- Sept. 25, 2015-Jan. 21, 2016
- Location: Learning Commons, Du Bois Library
A native of Northampton, Massachusetts, Benjamin Smith Lyman was a prominent geologist and mining engineer. At the request of the Meiji government in Japan, Lyman helped introduce modern geological surveying and mining techniques during the 1870s and 1880s, and his papers from that period illuminate aspects of late nineteenth century Japan, New England, and Pennsylvania, as well as the fields of geology and mining exploration and engineering.
Exhibits online | |
Photographer: DMH
Photographs from the collection of Diana Mara Henry
An exhibit by Chuck Abel. |
Rhetoric or Research
interprets student protests against CIA recruitment at UMass Amherst during the 1980s through a selection of images taken by student photojournalists.
By Tom Hohenstein (ETHIR recipient, 2011). |
Source, History, Story: Teaching U.S. History in the Archives
A digital curriculum for teaching U.S. history using archival resources.
An exhibit by Emily Oswald (ETHIR recipient, 2011). |
Behold And See As You Pass By
An online exhibit on gravestones and mortuary art in Early New England drawn from the Association for Gravestones Studies Collections.
By Molly Campbell (ETHIR recipient, 2011) |
Uncertain Futures
Science fiction readership in the Cold War and beyond.
An exhibit by Morgan Hubbard. |
Fifteen letters
Conrad D. Totman's letters home from Korea, 1954-1955.
An exhibit by Alex McKenzie. |
Du Bois: The Activist Life
An online exhibit on the life and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois based on his papers.
Herbals and Insects
A selection of rare botanical and entomological books from the SCUA collections.
Apiculture and culture
Books on bees and beekeeping.
An exhibit by Richard A. Steinmetz. |


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The Updegrove-DiMarco Home PageUpdated January 15, 2011 |
Researching DiMarco,Updegrove,Op den Graef, Gonder, Pelter, Williams, Shroyer,Sutphin, Weddle, Hylton, Rice, Jackson and more. These families are from Germany, England, Wales,Italy, Canada, Virginia, Oklahoma, PA, West Virginia, Maryland and points yet unknown! I am especially interested in information about Camillo DiMarco from Italy. The Sutphins in this family tree are centered around Carroll and Floyd Counties, VA. The Updegroves from PA and Oklahoma. The Williams from Maryland, West VA and N.C.. It seems to go on forever! Hendrick Sutphin born abt. 1768 in New Jersey married Rachel Owen in Carroll County, Va. in 1788. Parents of Hendrick are unknown. Camillo DiMarco came to the US from Italy as a young man and married Margaret Pearl Pelter of Hopewell, VA. The Pelter's are centered around Stuarts Draft and Waynesboro, VA area and can be traced back to England. Thomas Franklin Updegrove came from PA to Oklahoma with his brothers and raised his family there,(after stopping briefly in Kansas). The Updegroves can be traced back to Holland/Krefield, Germany. The Williams were Welsh, the Shroyers most likely German.I would love to hear from other family members and to share any info that I have with anyone who needs it! HAPPY HUNTING! Please note: This is a work in progress and all of my information may not be sourced or updated and may contain errors . I need to also make note that I have failed to give credit to some individuals and have lost thier information over the years. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to them. |
Janice Updegrove DiMarco Scottsville, Virginia 24590 United States |
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Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, and David Foote, CEO of Foote Partners, generally look at the monthly Labor Department jobs report and see slightly different things. For June, however, they both see growth in IT jobs.
Overall, the U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June.
Janulaitis looks at four categories: computer systems design and related services increased by 7,300 jobs (versus 6,100 in May); data processing, hosting and related services added 1,800 jobs (200 jobs May); telecommunications gained 700 jobs (700 in May); and other information services gained 100 jobs (1,400 in May).
Foote reports that the average monthly IT job growth in the first half of 2013 is up 43 percent from calendar year 2012.
Foote also looks at management and technical consulting, which grew by 8,400 jobs last month (3,200 in May and 39,400 in the past six months). Computer systems design and related services added 30,900 positions in the past six months.
Telecommunications, which has been on a long decline, and the data processing and hosting category had a combined 2,500 new positions in June, though they have been averaging 1,640 for the first five months of the year.
"Based on our interviews with over 96 CIOs in the last 30 days, we concluded that CIOs are not in a great hurry to hire new staff except to meet short-term needs until they see a clear trend as to what is happening with the economy," Janulaitis said. "Sixty-seven percent of the CIOs we interviewed do not see any real push to expand staffing over the next 12 months."
That more closely jibes with a survey from Robert Half Technology that found that the percentage of CIOs planning to expand their IT departments in the third quarter dropped to 12 percent from 14 percent in the second quarter.
However, according to a Dice survey, 73 percent of hiring managers said they will add staff in the second half of 2013, compared with 64 percent who said so about the first half of the year.
Foote, meanwhile, points to momentum in the IT hiring numbers and managers "clean sheeting" their IT organizations – "substantially refocusing their strategic targets and redefining what is core versus noncore as far as their investments in technology and people."
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A new CC team for Argentina
Argentina Flag / quimpg / CC BY
It's taken us a few months, but we would like to introduce some new members of the CC family – our new CC Argentina affiliate team.
The new Argentinian team (see their website here and their CC wikipage here), came on board late last year and is headed up by public leads Beatriz Busaniche and Patricio Lorente out of institutional partners Wikimedia Argentina and Fundación Vía Libre. Both organisations are well known in the Latin American open community. Wikimedia Argentina supports the local Wikimedia community and promotes projects for the dissemination of free content and wiki-culture. Meanwhile, the non-profit Fundación Vía Libre works closely with the free software community and is committed to spreading knowledge and sustainable development. Among other things, it is a participant in both the FLOSSWorld and Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF) projects.
With the new team, comes some exciting events for CC in the region. On 8 March CC Argentina, with Wikimedia Argentina and La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, will jointly host a breakfast with Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, an academic from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and legal lead of CC France. The theme of the event will be "legal aspects of the digital public domain." Melanie and Beatriz will then team up with Claudio Ruiz of CC Chile at the first Latin American GLAM-Wiki event in Santiago a week later.
This comes hot on the heels of the announcement a few weeks ago of a new CC-licensed Argentinian documentary, Runa Kuti: Indigenas Urbanos, which is making the rounds of film festivals. The film, which is under a BY-NC-ND license, focuses on the lives of indigenous Argentinians living in Buenos Aires.
Congratulations and welcome to the new team. We look forward to working with you on CC and all things open in Argentina.
Comments OffThe Power of Open: Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons
Since last fall, we've been talking at length to various creators about their CC stories—the impact Creative Commons has had on their lives and in their respective fields, whether that's in art, education, science, or industry. We are thrilled to announce that we have cultivated the most compelling of these stories and woven them together into a book called The Power of Open. The stories in The Power of Open demonstrate the breadth of CC uses across fields and the creativity of the individuals and organizations that have chosen to share their work via Creative Commons licenses and tools.
The Power of Open is available for free download at http://thepowerofopen.org under the CC Attribution license. It is available in several languages, with more translated versions to come. You can also order hard copies from Lulu. We hope that it inspires you to examine and embrace the practice of open licensing so that your contributions to the global intellectual commons can provide their greatest benefit to all people.
We could not have produced this work without the support of all of our creators, many of whom began telling their stories at our Case Studies wiki project, which we encourage you to contribute to—as your story may also be highlighted in publications like The Power of Open!
We would also like to extend deepest thanks to our sponsors, without which this book would just be a bunch of undeveloped stories sitting on a wiki. Thanks to Google, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Mozilla, JISC, PLoS (Public Library of Science), Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, the New America Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, MacMillan, Wellcome Trust, ict Qatar, loftwork, FGV Direito Rio, faberNovel, and Silicon Sentier!
Launch Events
But that's not all—The Power of Open is launching with events around the world! The official launch is June 29 at The New America Foundation in Washington D.C., featuring Global Voices Online and IntraHealth, with CC CEO Cathy Casserly representing for staff. Additionally, the first event already took place on June 16 in Tokyo, Japan, with Creative Commons Chairperson Joi Ito introducing the book to the Asia/Pacific region. For the full list of events taking place in Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Paris, head on over to the http://thepowerofopen.org.
Keep up-to-date on the launch events by using the tag #powerofopen on social media.
1 Comment »Stories of people & projects using Creative Commons in education, government, and data
The significance of Creative Commons and its licenses is often overlooked, embedded as it is into the fabric of sharing culture on the web. The current superhero campaign attempts to bring CC's role to the forefront, by highlighting people and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to this culture. But there are many more excellent stories of people and projects employing our CC licenses for educational, humanitarian, scientific, artistic, and just plain interesting uses. Some of these are currently reflected in our Case Studies on the wiki, but there's a lot of work left to be done in making these more accessible and useful to the rest of the world.
Part of that is improving the entry points for people new to CC, so we are highlighting case studies for different areas. We just added one for open educational resources (OER) case studies, focusing on the most compelling CC education project or implementation in policy from each country. Examples make the jobs of those advocating for OER at the policy level much easier, and we often notice a surprising lack of knowledge that many of the most compelling examples are to be found around the world. So we started this page to help everyone who is supporting OER advocacy efforts, and we encourage you to go ahead and add your own case study and write up its story; the more developed a case study is, the more likely it is to be featured and shared.
Other areas we have highlighted include Government use of Creative Commons and CC0 use for data. These case studies are also far from complete, so we encourage you to add to and improve them.
We've added a few more fields to the Case Studies template as well. For instance, have you ever tried to implement CC licensing into a publishing platform? Then you know that it would have been helpful to know how other platforms have done it. Alex mentions that we've gone ahead and added a field for technical implementations to Case Studies. See the Blip.tv case study as an example. In addition, we've added a field for "Impact"—what is the effect of this project or resource being under a CC license? What has it enabled that otherwise would not exist? Etc.
Like the rest of our content, the Case Studies are under CC BY, so do add, improve, remix, translate, print out and pass around, show them to your mom, or otherwise reuse them!
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Last year, we kicked off our global case studies effort, inviting you to share your stories—individuals, projects, and companies who use Creative Commons for different reasons and to solve different problems. Through the CC wiki, we attempted to capture the diversity of CC creators and content by building a resource that inspires new works and informs free culture.
Thanks to your contributions, the Case Studies project has grown into an incredibly valuable resource. But like all wikis, the Case Studies wiki is evolving. Everyday, more people and projects are using CC, and existing projects are continuously making themselves over.
To keep up, we've made the Case Studies project easier to navigate and ultimately more useful and participatory for the community by revamping the portal and building a new rating system, implementing lessons we've learned from other successful wiki communities such as Wikipedia. What's new:
- We used Semantic MediaWiki (an extension of MediaWiki) to organize quantifiable elements into a few common properties. Take a look at the case study for Cory Doctorow and you'll see a new box on the right that provides an at-a-glance view of some of the project's main properties. These properties are common to all case studies and their values can now be easily browsed.
- The ability to evaluate each case study by Page Importance and Page Quality. We drafted an Evaluation Guide with some basic criteria for what determines whether a case study is of high, medium, or low importance and quality. These criteria are meant to serve as starting points; we want you to edit and improve them as more case studies are evaluated and added. Each criteria that is not met comes with suggested edits to improve existing case studies.
What you can do now:
- Visit the revamped Case Studies wiki!
- Evaluate a Case Study
- Improve a Case Study by adding relevant data, updating old information, or editing the prose so that it sparkles
- Translate the new instructions. See the Portuguese translation of the evaluations page as an example.
- And as always, add your CC story or one you're familiar with
The goal of the new features is to encourage better quality and contribution. Please use and help us improve them!
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Re. "Doctor shortage reaching crisis stage" (Coast Reporter, Nov .16)
We are writing with the intention of bringing awareness to an often overlooked health care option: naturopathic medicine.
In B.C., naturopathic doctors (NDs) are licensed primary care physicians who, like family physicians, have at least seven to eight years of post-secondary education, are highly trained in the medical sciences and have the ability to diagnosis and treat people of all ages with a variety of acute and chronic health conditions. They are also authorized to prescribe a range of pharmaceutical medications, order lab tests and perform physical exams.
As generalists of alternative medicine, NDs have a strong foundation in nutrition, botanical medicine and homeopathy, while some have additional training in acupuncture, spinal manipulation and intravenous (IV) vitamin and mineral therapy, amongst others. Treatments also include healthy diet and lifestyle choices and techniques for stress reduction and integration of body, mind and spirit, to promote optimal wellness.
At this time, patients must pay out of pocket for service fees and lab tests; however, many extended health plans do cover a portion of the costs, and MSP offers a small reimbursement for people on premium assistance.
Although only a part of the solution to the doctor shortage, NDs have a significant role to play in health care and could help lessen the burden placed on GPs and walk-in clinics on the Coast. Currently there are four licensed naturopathic doctors who are accepting new patients: Dr. Jane Gartshore (Gibsons), Dr. Loreen Dawson and Dr. Baili Clarke (Sechelt), and Dr. Denise Rochon (Halfmoon Bay).
For more information on the scope of practice of NDs in B.C., contact the BC Naturopathic Association at www.bcna.ca.
Baili Clarke, Jane Gartshore, Gibsons
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Country Walk parents will tell you Frank Fuster is getting what he deserves. Vilified in the press for months before and during his trial, Fuster the molester was subsequently memorialized in Jan Hollingsworth's 1986 book, Unspeakable Acts, and a 1990 TV docudrama of the same name whose re-airing apparently triggered the most recent jailhouse attack.
Among social workers and prosecutors Country Walk has become legendary as the case that offers definitive proof that "ritual" child abuse is not a figment of overactive imaginations. The case made heroes of then State Attorney Janet Reno, and the two self-proclaimed child experts she recruited to interview alleged victims, Joseph and Laurie Braga. Just last week the Arts & Entertainment Network aired an hourlong special about the case, which spotlighted the Bragas' role in helping put Fuster away.
What the documentary didn't mention -- what virtually no one ever mentions -- is that, over the past eight years, Frank Fuster has compiled a small mountain of evidence to support his steadfast claims of innocence. Two weeks ago he filed a motion seeking a new trial, based in part on the Bragas' own questionable interviewing techniques. Compiled by attorneys Arthur Cohen and Robert Rosenthal, the 40-page brief sets out four distinct claims:
1)The gonorrhea test performed on Fuster's six-year-old son made use of a method that has been labeled "highly unreliable" by the Centers for Disease Control. When CDC lab workers used a superior method to re-evaluate thousands of samples that had originally tested positive, more than one-third of the samples proved to be negative. The child's gonorrhea test was the only physical evidence the state produced against Fuster and his wife Ileana. Despite hundreds of accusations lodged by children, many involving anal and vaginal penetration, doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Rape Treatment Center found no other evidence of sexual abuse. Frank Fuster's own pretrial gonorrhea test was negative.
2)Defense attorney Jeffrey Samek failed to present compelling exculpatory evidence. Stephen Dinerstein, a private detective hired by Samek, now says he spoke with several witnesses who would have testified that Fuster was working outside his home at the time he was allegedly abusing children who came to his wife's at-home day-care service. But Dinerstein contends that Michael Von Zamft, Ileana Fuster's attorney, and Samek ignored these possible alibis. He claims they also overlooked another key witness, Maritza Betancourt, an adult cousin of Ileana's who lived with the Fusters for several months before their arrests in August 1984. Ileana's family members say Betancourt would have testified that she saw no abuse. "Every time I found something good, I was told to back-burner it," concludes Dinerstein, who filed a sworn statement in support of Fuster's motion. Samek has since passed away.
3)Ileana Fuster was psychologically coerced into giving her confession. For almost a year after her incarceration, the seventeen-year-old undocumented worker from Honduras insisted she and her husband were innocent of all charges. Only after Reno's office applied intense psychological pressure did the girl issue a vague, and at times contradictory, confession. As a result of testifying for the prosecution, Ileana Fuster was sentenced to ten years in prison, served three and a half, and was deported to Honduras in 1989. (This past March New Times published a cover story detailing Reno's own highly questionable role -- including at least three jailhouse visits with the defendant -- in eliciting Ileana Fuster's statements.)
Dinerstein met weekly with Ileana Fuster during much of her incarceration and witnessed her gradual psychic breakdown. "They kept her in isolation, sometimes naked. She was denied food. She had no idea what was going on, because her lawyers wouldn't talk to her," the investigator says. "One of the things that really got to her was when she had her period. The way she described it to me, they washed her down with a hose, like she was an animal."
By July 1985 Ileana Fuster began to tell Dinerstein, and others, that she was being browbeaten to testify against her husband. "She would say, 'They want me to say something that is not true,'" prison chaplain Shirley Blando recalled in a 1985 deposition. "She thought that about the [State Attorney] and the lawyers for both [herself and Frank Fuster]. She thought everybody wanted her to say, 'I saw my husband do these things.'"
As the trial neared, Reno enlisted the aid of Michael Rappaport, a psychologist who ran a business called Behavior Changers. By his own account, Rappaport visited Ileana at least 34 times in prison and spent hours lobbying her to confess. In a 1991 interview the psychologist compared his methods to "manipulation" and "reverse brainwashing...almost like a hypnotic thing." Subsequent studies by cognitive and memory specialists have concluded that such an approach can induce false memories and false confessions.


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A native of Wilson, NC, she began singing in church when she was only six-years-old, and by the time she was in high school, she was writing songs and leading worship. Andrews went on to attend Liberty University, majoring in family and child development. She originally planned to work at an orphanage. However, during her junior year at Liberty, she felt God calling her into music ministry.
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Parents want to protect their kids from everything, which is virtually impossible, of course. But can you prevent your child from getting diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood. Glucose, which comes from the foods we eat, is the major source of energy needed to fuel the body's functions. To use glucose, the body needs the hormone insulin. But in people with diabetes, the body either can't make insulin or the insulin doesn't work in the body like it should.
The two major types of diabetes are:
In both types of diabetes, glucose can't get into the cells normally. This causes a rise in blood sugar levels, which can make someone sick if not treated.
Type 1 diabetes can't be prevented. Doctors can't even tell who will get it and who won't.
No one knows for sure what causes type 1 diabetes, but scientists think it has something to do with genes. But just getting the genes for diabetes isn't usually enough. In most cases, a child has to be exposed to something else — like a virus — to get type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes isn't contagious, so kids and teens can't catch it from another person or pass it along to friends or family members. And eating too much sugar doesn't cause type 1 diabetes, either.
While type 1 diabetes can't be prevented, some research suggests that breastfeeding, avoiding early introduction of solid foods, and other factors might play a role in lowering the risk of developing the disease. There's no reliable way to predict who will get type 1 diabetes, but blood tests can detect early signs of it. These tests aren't done routinely, however, because doctors don't have any way to stop a child from developing the disease, even if the tests are positive.
Unlike type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes can sometimes be prevented. Excessive weight gain, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle are all factors that put a person at risk for type 2 diabetes.
In the past, type 2 diabetes almost exclusively affected adults, usually those who were overweight. Doctors even referred to type 2 diabetes as adult-onset diabetes. But now, more children and teens are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which experts say is related to the rapidly increasing number of overweight kids.
Although kids and teens may be able to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes by managing their weight and increasing physical activity, other risk factors for type 2 diabetes can't be changed. Kids with one or more family members with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing the disease. Also, certain ethnic and racial groups tend to be more prone to developing it, including those of Native American, African American, Hispanic/Latino, or Asian/Pacific Island descent.
These simple strategies can help reduce your kids' risk for developing type 2 diabetes and other associated health problems:
If you think your child may be overweight and, therefore, at increased risk of type 2 diabetes, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian. They can help you determine what your child's weight goals should be and how to reach them.
It's important for growing kids to get enough calories and nutrients for normal growth and development, while preventing the excessive weight gain that can set the stage for type 2 diabetes and other health problems.
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Unchecked accusations about gas prices and oil production defined local coverage of President Barack Obama's speech at Ohio State University last week, the final stop on a four-state tour promoting his administration's energy policy.
The president's address—which followed a visit to the university's Center for Automotive Research, where he viewed the Buckeye Bullet, the world's fastest electric car—touted his "all of the above" strategy to advance renewable energy sources as well as natural gas and oil production. Unfortunately, many local papers produced unhelpful stories that simply pitted Obama's statements against disparaging remarks from Republicans without doing any fact checking or adding any context.
Coverage from The Columbus Dispatch, four miles from the Ohio State campus, epitomized this problem. The top half of the Dispatch's article, which ran the day after Obama's speech, was a colorful description of the president's visit, following which reporters Joe Hallett and Joe Vardon presented readers with a litany of criticisms. Wrote Hallet and Vardon:
Republicans were lying in wait for Obama, with a coordinated preemptive media strike questioning his energy policy and stoking the growing anger over high gas prices, which they blamed on the president.
Hallet and Vardon went on to, essentially detail this "media strike:" George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Ohio GOP spokesman Chris Maloney, Republican congressman Steve Stivers of Columbus, and Kirsten Kukowski, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman, took turns in the piece calling Obama's energy policy a complete disaster and claiming that it has failed to relieve rising gas prices or create jobs. Readers also got some quotes from Obama saying that domestic oil and gas production is up and from a coalition of Ohio environmental groups saying that more drilling won't help gas prices.
Nowhere did Hallett and Vardon cite any facts or figures to help their readers make sense of the various claims and counterclaims. Nowhere did they provide an evidence-based snapshot of trends in the US energy sector. And that's bad news if, as they also reported in the piece, "Over the last six presidential elections since 1988, the Columbus media market has accounted for nearly 18 percent of the statewide vote, including 16 percent of the Democratic vote and 19 percent of the GOP vote."
There's nothing like a bunch of uninformed voters making critical decisions.
Unfortunately, the coverage wasn't any better over at the Dayton Daily News, which took the same he-said, said-said approach to reporting. Reporter Jackie Borchardt even failed to correct a glaringly false claim by Stivers, the Republican congressman from Columbus, who claimed that expediting construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline—which Obama had directed federal agencies to do just hours before his visit to Ohio—would not connect Gulf Coast refineries to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. But that's simply not true. A recent article in The Christian Science Monitor by Mark Clayton, which included a helpful map, explained that "building just the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline would still mean transporting a lot of heavy crude from Alberta's tar sands that reaches it via existing pipelines—a key point made in a 2010 study by the US Department of Energy."
Thankfully, The Associated Press came riding in to rescue both the Dispatch and the Daily News—not to mention their readers. On the day of Obama's speech, the Dispatch ran an excellent piece, "FACT CHECK: More U.S. drilling drop gas prices," by AP reporters Seth Borenstein and Jack Gillum. The article, replete with an interactive graphic, which has received mentions from outlets as diverse as the Knight Science Journalism Tracker at MIT and NBC News's Meet the Press, exemplifies the type of data-driven reporting that CJR hopes to encourage with its recently published Reporter's Toolbox on Gas Prices and Oil Production.
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A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump Political rhetoric about the blame over gas prices and the power to change them—whether Republican claims now or Democrats' charges four years ago—is not supported by cold, hard figures.
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Tush Push
Terry - 26/12/2001
I know this has been a real favorite for many years, and lots of people like it, but I think it is overrated. Definitely will only do it to something FAST...but then fast songs usually make me want to do other, better dances. Oh well, I am usually at the mercy of tush-push lovers both old and new.
Terry - 26/12/2001
I remember doing some really good dance to this song a few years ago when it first came out, and even after reading the write-up I can't tell if it looks familiar or not. I do remember the dance being tricky. It looks like fun, in any case, and based on the write-up alone, I give it 4 boots!
Vertical Expressions
Terry - 26/12/2001
Another rare GOOD "slow" line dance! It goes wonderful to the music. I love the song, too, though it's one of the few I don't sing along to--it actually trips me up in the dance, which is rare. It's nice to find a slow, smooth dance that is a little bit of a challenge to do!
Waltz Across Texas
Terry - 26/12/2001
Yuk! I know it's a classic, but I think only because it's soo easy and there were no good waltz line dances back when it came out, so you'd do it out of sheer bordom...why can't we vote "zero" boots?
What's Your Name
Terry - 26/12/2001
Kind of cute, but not great. Was really different when it came out.
Terry - 26/12/2001
Interesting, and it was fun when first learned, but I got sick of it after a while. Certain parts of the dance were fun, but the rest of it was useless...you found yourself waiting for the "good" part to come around again, and got bored in between.
Need Somebody
p.raine - 23/12/2001
a good dance that flows well to the music.it also fits into many songs that bands play. although choreographed to a pop tune,fits the country alternative well.
Need Somebody
p.raine - 23/12/2001
a good dance that flows well to the music.it also fits into many songs that bands play. although choreographed to a pop tune,fits the country alternative well.
Moralito Samba
Ray Townsend - 22/12/2001
GREAT!!! Learnt it in about 15 minutes and probably the best dance i've ever done plus i've been dancing six years.
Crystal Blue
Helen "Hot Heels" D'Aguiar - 20/12/2001
I had the pleasure of demoing this with Andrew & Simon at my club's Christmas party. Needless to say it was a very popular choice of track with some neat steps. Consequently I taught it to my class this week and they loved it. Well done lads! It just goes to show that a dance doesn't have to be full of complicated steps or danced at 180mph to be enjoyed! Good luck with it, chaps!
Helen "Hot Heels" D'Aguiar - 20/12/2001
Although this dance has been around for a while it is a lovely piece of music with some simple steps for those who don't want to use too much brain power. The dance fits really well to the music and is for all abilities. Nice one, lads!
Wendy J - 19/12/2001
Takes a couple of goes to get into the swing of things, but fantastic dance and music. WE LOVE IT1


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Personal finance programs are a dime a dozen these days, so the bar is set pretty high when it comes to performance. AceMoney offers tools for creating and maintaining budgets, tracking investments, and even online banking. And while it successfully let us do all of the above, we found that it lacked protection for sensitive information.
The program's interface is very businesslike, and its simple, straightforward design makes the array of options easy to understand and navigate. Large commands at the top of the window let you toggle between seven categories, including accounts, portfolio, banks, payees, and reports. Although the data is presented in an easy to understand spreadsheet format, sample entries are included. A left-hand menu changes depending on which category is selected, and options are clearly labeled. With your portfolio, for example, you can opt to download the latest stock prices, or re-invest dividends. We were able to add banking and credit card information, and schedule bill payments with no problems, and we liked the calendar-style view of money in and out for the month. We also were able to quickly and easily view cash flow and transaction reports. We found a lot to like in AceMoney's simple approach, but we couldn't help feeling vulnerable entering data because the program isn't password protected and doesn't encrypt your private data.
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I was just looking at my Oasis folder, where I keep all my past articles as well as work on new ones, and I've noticed that this is my twelfth consecutive article! Has it really been a year since I came out to the internet world through my writings on Oasis? It sure doesn't seem like it. For this month's article, I'm going to just let you know where I am in life right now, how I think I've changed, how I'm going to change (and when), and just a bunch of other miscellaneous biographical information. Where Do I Stand?
Gracious! Where to start? I can't say that I've suffered any major traumas over the past year, which is a good thing. Yes, I did find out that I'm human just like the rest of mankind (there were times where I gave into temptation), and just as easily as I gave in, I got over it. I've dealt with the pains of infatuation with someone, and got over that just rather recently. I made the jump from being a high school junior to a senior, and soon, I'll be making the jump to Graduation Day. To be perfectly honest, I'm scared to death. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but this time, it's with more urgency and more fear. It's gonna be a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but don't forget that I've been a mamma's boy all my life, and it's going to be hard for the both of us to part when I move off to college.
I've slipped. Grades are starting to be average instead of above average. Sure, I'm still as sharp as a tack, I'm bright, and fairly well educated--I'm just not a studious person anymore. School gets in the way of life, the way I see it now. I'm not learning much of anything that'll help me reach my life goals. The fact is, I want to be a professional musician, and honestly, school isn't helping me reach that goal. I should be at home practicing 8 hours a day, not learning about the economy, history, or math. Yes, those things are important, but they aren't going to put food on the table--learning how to get around the bridge of "Cherokee" in a hip, fresh manner will. Being able to sight-read any piece of music will. Not knowing about Chester Arthur's brain hemorrhage after he left the Oval Office. Not knowing what happens to the tangent graph if you throw in a constant somewhere in the original equation. But I need my diploma and to get into a good school, so that's the only reason I'm in school right now.
I don't attend church anymore. The one church that I really rather liked turned out to think that homosexuality is a sin (which it isn't as most every self-respecting gay person knows, provided they believe in God), and they had to mention that in a service, so that was pretty much why I stopped going. Since this issue is one of the central things in my life, I've pretty much dismissed anything that goes against it, including my religion that I was baptized as: Catholicism. So yeah, that's where I stand on the ol' religion factor. I'm pretty pissed off at most organized religions not because of the gay thing, but just because of how they are in general. I'm not sure if I'll ever find a spiritual home or not, but that's all right, because I can make due without. It'd be nice to have people to talk with about it and stuff, but I don't see it as an essential thing in my life right now.
Internet relationships are still dumb, I think. For me they always have been, but I can totally see how a couple could get involved over the Internet. There's just way too many things wrong with the medium and so many limitations that it presents that pursuing one would seem totally worthless to me. Friends are cool, because they don't require as much energy as romantic relationships, but the latter is just...blah.
Abortion. All right, here we go. I just want to express my frustration at this whole thing. It makes so much sense to me as to what the solution should be, but to others, well...that's why they're called opinions: everybody has 'em. Mine is this: it should be allowed in cases of rape, incest, or other extenuating circumstances, but if a girl happens to get pregnant, I feel that it's her moral obligation to see that pregnancy through and the resulting child through until it is grown. There are those that say that a woman has a right to choose, and I implicitly agree, but I feel that when she has that right is a little different. I'm of the belief that once she's decided to have sex, she's made that choice: nowadays, you have to be a total blockhead to not know that having heterosexual sex can result in pregnancy, and with that being said, it can only be assumed that women would know that she's putting herself at risk. Am I wrong here? Well enough about that; I'm not a girl nor will I have children with one, so this issue isn't too important to me--I say this because I just felt like tackling a hot-button issue.
People are as happy as they wish to be. Plain and simple. I was talking to a few friends over the Internet about their Valentine's Day (it's February 14th as I write this section), and I got lots of negative responses to my query. Keep in mind, most of these people are gay--that being said, I've noticed that many more gay people seem to have a bad V-Day than straight people in general. I can totally relate and sympathize with those whose day was a bad one, but c'mon people! Just because you don't have someone to cuddle with or whatever doesn't mean you don't have friends that you can spend time with, family that you can love, or even yourself! For heaven's sake, don't forget about loving yourself: if you aren't good to anybody be good to yourself because you're going to have to live with yourself and the choices that you made for the rest of your life.
Chat rooms are fun. Sure, there can be crazy people in there, and yes, there always seem to be at least one pedophile in the room, but they sure are a hoot to just go into and talk to people. They shouldn't take the place of real friends and stuff of course, but semi-frequently is cool. Great place to meet people and just talk the night away (provided you don't have anything to do). And it's true, you CAN meet some people that aren't shallow and that aren't just looking to cyber...honest!
Isn't our new president just a great guy? When he gets idiots like Gale Norton and John Ashcroft in positions like Secretary of the Interior and Attorney General, (dis)respectively, it totally reflects the way that he feels towards people such as yourselves and I. There are some that say, "Well if that's the only issue that you look at, then you're a pretty closed-minded, shallow person." What do I tell them? Just put yourself in my shoes--what if you could be fired from your job for having a heterosexual boy or girlfriend? What if you got beat up or even killed as a result of being straight and there weren't any laws protecting you from such vicious hate crimes? These laws that we're trying to get passed aren't just for us; they're for everybody! Face it, Shrub has been a white, straight, Christian, well-off male all his life. Do you think he ever faced any sort of discrimination in his entire life based on his race, religion, or sexual preference? Do you think he ever has been made fun of, being called faggot, queer, or any other sorts of anti-gay names? Or how about being called any sort of racial slur, or being at the butt of a racial-based joke? I would bet a lot that the answer is, "He's never faced anything like that in his entire sheltered life." While I don't agree with it, I can understand why he wouldn't be so quick to pass hate-crime and other civil rights laws/acts. Why? Because these issues don't affect him.
As much as I love them, animals have more rights and protection than gay people do. In a nation that was supposed to founded as one to escape persecution, here we continue to have it within our own borders. Something that Shrub maintains is that we're looking for special rights as non-heterosexuals and that we're asking him to support us. Golly, nothing could be further from the truth! If the non-heterosexual community asked for special rights and privileges, I would be the first one to oppose it, because I'm against favoritism and discrimination of any kind, but all that we're asking is to be treated equally and fairly, just like the rest of the nation. I don't see this as any sort of favoritism by any stretch of the imagination. These next four years, in my honest opinion, are going to be way too slow as far as civil rights are concerned. With Shrub at the helm, the issues that concern you and I and many others will be somewhat pushed to the backburner by our new president, and it's up to all of us to make sure that as Americans, ALL our voices are heard equally!
Going Out
I've started to tell more and more people about me now, and they've all taken it rather well. I told my friend, Female J., and she was totally cool about it. These things don't bother her at all, and I knew that, so that's why I thought that I should tell her. Plus, we're good friends and I wanted her to see the real me now that we're such good friends.
I told my coworker (Male J.) about me just fairly recently. He has totally shattered all previous stereotypes that I had about jocks in general (I know, stereotypes are HORRIBLE, but when you've heard nothing but bad things about gays coming from their mouths, it's hard not to be a little apprehensive about these kinds of things). Anyways, I had decided to tell him because he told me something rather touching: he said that when his friends make fun of me (I'm a teeny bit flamboyant), he just tells them that I'm a good guy and a real cool guy to work with and they pretty much stop teasing me. Keep in mind, these are high school kids and not adults, if that clears up things a little bit. So anyhow, I totally love Male J. and Female J., and I have absolutely no regrets that I told them--it's made us closer, as well.
Who knows who I'll tell next? It just depends on who it is, how they are, and all that good stuff like trust, integrity, etc. etc. The path to coming out is coming to an end for me, and I'm getting to the point now where I'm going to be able to be totally honest with everybody, including myself, about who I am. When that day comes, I'll be there with bells on. Indeed, that day isn't too far down the road...I'm ready for the new things that lie ahead for me, for I know they'll only strengthen me as a person. On the road to self-acceptance, I've made friends and I've figured out who might not be my friends any longer, but in the end, I'll know that it's all for the better and I'll be a happier person as a result of what I went through in these early years of my life.
God Bless,
Mike is an 18 year old, semi-closeted individual living with his mom and stepdad. He is interested in music, computers, music, reading, music, writing, writing music, listening to music, composing music, arranging music, and other music related things. Mike enjoys feedback and would like to hear from you, and can be reached via ICQ: #56413145 or by E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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specialy alishanmao. Nice Vids and Reviews of the New Quadros from Lotus Rc. Please make some Pics from underneath the T580 P+ , i Ma interesting how they make the Snap In for the folding Arms. Is this possible ? And by the Way any News about the Two Props Heli you have Tested. email@example.com Sincerly Mike |
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It cost almost the same as this, shipping is extra cost.
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im sorry ya t580 messed itself up bruv i thought they would of sorted out the electronics for the new lot of t580s they released but i guess it really is just how i said it was ie brand new dress same old woman
want to kknow the absolute best way to get that bird up in the air again? DUMP THOSE ELECTRONICS and put in a real flight controller of your choice with real esc's and never worry about failed electronics AGAIN!!! most of the people who were dead against CHANGING ANYTHING back in the day soon started adding multiwii and/or openpilot copter control boards to the t580 with cheap NORMAL esc's or after waiting months for replacement arms and kicking off because i bodge repaired my arms suddenly and quietly used alu or other material arms lol out of the original 25 sent out for free i would happily stake money on a gamble that more than 50% dont have 100% original parts anymore and IF and they are 100% original no mods at all YOU WONT HAVE SEEN A VIDEO OF THEM FLYING IN MONTHS! just check the youtube and vimeo accounts of the 25 testers to see what im talking about! but back to getting you flying H, hows your soldering skills? if you have none i would maybe think about getting that t580 packed up to be sent back for a replacement! if you have any video footage to upload great upload it so they can see/hear what happened and that should help |
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I've gone to plenty of concerts in my life, from Lil Wayne to Genesis to Rush to Train. But this past weekend I went to Springfield College. While I was at SC, I attended their student concert, Ludacris. And it was AMAZING. Yes I'm an avid Luda fan, but this concert was really like no other. Luda […]
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Mother's Day
After a number of years and four additional children my Mom would sometimes go to professional conferences with my Dad and be the only wife there who did not have a career of her own. And was often treated as if "she just must not be smart enough to do something with her life." Because to some, nurturing 5 brilliant minds wasn't "good enough."
In reality my Mom put that Humanities degree to work! She took us on field trips to the local public library, the Nutcracker ballet, plays by Shakespeare, and the Musee d'Orsay to name just a few. [She still takes me on nice field trips!] And guess what I got my own degree in? Humanities from her alma mater.
Today, she'd probably have finished that degree and then still chose to be a stay-at-home mom. I'm grateful to my generation for a few more options and a little less angst about those personal choices.
But to my Mom I say:
Thank you for not succumbing to the pressure of your generation and for being a stay-at-home mom when it definitely wasn't cool.
Thank you for giving me siblings [and for putting up with us] who are now my best friends.
Thank you for teaching me to SEW so that one day when I grew up and started a blog, I would have something to write about [just kidding]. Thank you for giving me a creative outlet that has brought sanity amid my own stay-at-home mothering chaos.
A couple of other Mother's Day thoughts:
I realize that Mother's Day is a day of sadness for some because a mother, or the opportunity to be one, is not there. For that I have no solution or explanation other than to turn to the One who comforts when nothing else can.
And please don't let Mother's Day be a day of guilt. There is no such thing as a perfect mother - whether your own or yourself. We women are WAY too adept at focusing on all the things that didn't get done, instead of celebrating the things that did. So what if the meal lacked that gourmet flair? The kids didn't starve. That's good enough.
It's okay to celebrate the sacrifices inherent in motherhood and the efforts we continue to make.
14 comments:
- Lisa @ Life with 4! said...
Great post, Amy! That first picture is priceless!
I know I was blessed by my stay at home Mom and now I'm choosing to do the same. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else!
Good thought on Mommy guilt. I think we all face it sometimes. We have to remember to do the best we can and ask God for help to accomplish the everyday tasks.
Happy Mother's Day (belated). - May 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Kim said...
Thank you for your sweet thoughts. They express a lot of what I feel as I was like your mom. I didn't get to go to college for a lot of different reasons but mostly because of my mom's cancer and we couldn't afford it and I had to work full time to take care of myself. I had a car and lived in Provo while I worked as a travel agent. Then I met my sweetie and got married. I was able to be a SAHM when my oldest turned five and I quit work. I've loved every minute with my kids and wouldn't trade them in for anything!!
- May 10, 2009 at 11:20 PM
- Jodi@SimplyThisThat n.. said...
A totally awesome post Amy! Thanks. ooxx`jodi
- May 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- Lizzie said...
Yay for your Mum, actually, hurray for all Mums. There is no sacrifice in mothering, it's all pure love. I didn't have a degree, I had a trade, but I still stayed home and brought up our 4 wonderful children. The occupation with the most job satisfaction!!
- May 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM
- Anne said...
Amen Sister!
- May 11, 2009 at 6:00 AM
- Lynnie said...
Looking at you in the last picture is like staring into the face of your #2! Love you back.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- Steph said...
Just what I needed-- a feel good mother's day post to get me through this Monday. I could't have said it better.
And by the way, your dad's hair in the last picture-- AWESOME. - May 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Laura-Lu said...
Our mom is an amazing lady. She'll love this.
- May 11, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- dotti white said...
How wonderful that you recognize the special sacrifices your mother made and how it positively affected your life! Mothers are amazing! Have a great week!
- May 11, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- Debbie said...
Great post. Sounds like your Mom raised some lovely children! Thank you!
- May 11, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- Sherri said...
This was a wonderful post! I also quit graduate studies (for a Master's in English) at the half-way point because I had three children by then...and it was just getting to be too much! I haven't ever regretted it...I love being a stay at home Mom!
- May 11, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- ranette said...
Wonderful tribute to your Mom...very special.
- May 12, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- Sara said...
HOpe you had a Happy Mother's Day! Thanks for sharing!
- May 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- notes of sincerity said...
What a beautiful post Amy. :0)
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Responsive web design is becoming a hot topic recently. Looks time are saved as no need to develop different styles for different devices but it's really not easy to change a very complicate website to a responsive one. Or if you would like to build a brand new website, maybe you should try to start thinking about responsive layout in the beginning.
Responsive falls into fixed (Column grid's width are changing fixedly depending on the screen size) and fluid (Column grid's width are changing dynamically depending on the screen size) There are many techniques developed by experts to create a responsive website and a number of responsive frameworks can help to start with. Also there are two flows: focus on mobile device first then adapt to bigger screen responsively, or focus on large monitors first then adapt to smaller devices responsively.
Today we choose 14 responsive framework that are fully functional, well documented and intuitive to adapt. The first 9 are developed using CSS and JS. The last 5 adapted SASS (or LESS) which is predecessor of CSS. To know more about SASS and LESS, check out articles on SmashingMag and CSS-Tricks. Let us know what's your thought of them. What is your experience when using them to develop a responsive site?
Amazium provides a 960 grid system and a lot of other areas like typography, forms, tables, images and videos are all covered regarding responsive layout. Pretty knit system.
Fluid Baseline Grid
As the name goes FBG system is built with typographic standards in mind and combines principals of fluid-column layouts and mobile-first responsive design.
Foundation claims it has rapid prototyping that "dozens of styles and elements to help you quickly put together clickable prototypes, that can then be adapted and styled into polished production code. Forms, buttons, tabs, all kinds of good stuff."
Gridless is also a responsive framework utilising HTML5 and CSS3 that makes mobile-first responsive with beautiful typography.
Less framework
Less Framework is a fixed-width responsive grid system to design adaptive websites. It includes four layouts of different screen size (default, tablet, mobile and wide mobile) I think this one is the easiest and most intuitive one to try responsive layout change.
Same functions as above also includes a generator to create styles of different number of columns and widths.
Like Amazium and Lessframework, it's nesting and knit, which designed as one class per element rather than one class for all units of a single size.
Skeleton is a tool for rapid development. It includes an organized file structure and super basic UI elements like lightly styled forms, buttons, tabs and more to.
1140 Grid
It's a fluid responsive system. Instead of doing mobile-first responsive, it focuses on 1280 monitor and adapt to work on any other device.
320 and Up
Obviously it uses the "small screens up" as responsive web design flow. Guess what? The developer of 320 and Up was actually doing the other way around. Have a look at their website about their "mistake".
Bootstrap supports HTML5, CSS3 and built on LESS. It is a simple but fully functional frameworks, and it's responsive.
Golden Grid System
Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design.
The Semantic Grid System
Runs on LESS, SCSS or Stylus. Includes examples of fixed, fluid, maximum width, nested columns and of course, the responsive one.
Responsive grids for Compass
It's built on Compass. Compass is built on SASS. SASS is predecessor of CSS. CSS is.. I'm confused. Here is a tutorial of using SASS and Compass to build a responsive website.
What do you think of them? Or any other nice framework that I missed? Leave your best comment below.


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 House on furlough Senate meetings cancelled Wednesday, February 15, 2012 House on furlough The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Gerald Malloy, met Wednesday to discuss the "Omnibus Crime Reduction and Sentencing Reform Act of 2010." Josh Rhodes, staff attorney with SC Association of Counties, and David Ross, Executive Director of S.C. Commission on Prosecution Coordination, testified. The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Larry Martin, met Wednesday. Carried over: S.299: Court statements S.1003: False Claims Act. Bryan Stirling and Bill Gambrell, both of the SC Attorney General's Office, testified on the bill. S.1018: False Claims Act The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Jake Knotts, met Wednesday. Favorable report as amended: S.1060: Matters considered to determine release on bail. Mark Bourdon, attorney for the City of Charleston Police Department, and David Ross, Executive Director of S.C. Commission on Prosecution Coordination, testified on the bill. Carried over: S.45: Bond reconsideration S.267: Committing a general sessions offense while on bail bond S.376: Restraining orders S.393: Expungement of criminal records Thursday, February 16, 2012 House on furlough The Senate Corrections and Penology Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Paul Campbell, met Thursday. Favorable report: S.1099: Juvenile parole board members to receive a hearing fee S.1037: Wrongful conviction Favorable report as amended: S.1062: State funds may not pay for prisoner sexual reassignment surgery The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Luke Rankin, met Thursday. Carried over: S.80: Probate Court Other News House and Senate introductions are available online. The following are a number of bills of interest that were introduced last week: S. 1224: Cable service or phone service S. 1225: Serving written notice or claim S. 1230: South Carolina Money Services and Illicit Finance Abatement Act S. 1232: A parent to provide health coverage for a child S. 1233: South Carolina Taxpayer Relief Act Questions related to legislation can be directed to Kali Campbell Turner at (803) 799 6653, ext. 170 or email@example.com. Additional information can be found at www.scstatehouse.gov. *bolding indicates S.C. Bar membership


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anon September 29, 2011
fuck i wish i knew what this song was called
No Rammstein! September 10, 2011
I want to know the song, too! No, this is definitely no "Rammstein"!
Herb November 1, 2011
Oh ffs not knowing this song is driving me fucking mad
shit January 13, 2012
oooooh shit :-s i love her
asdkplmö, March 5, 2012
I hope this song mystery is going to be solved!
anon September 3, 2011
woww she dominates that cock with her hand
Johansen May 25, 2011
Wow nice girl. The song sounds like ramstain or something i heard in the movie xXx (vin disel)
anonymous April 22, 2011
its the jaderox song when she owns cocks with her hand!
anonymous April 19, 2011
come on people need that song
260965 April 26, 2011
The name of the band is Bipolar.
JJ May 8, 2011
Herb May 21, 2011
I've searched and searched for this Bipolar band and cabn't find them. Got any more info?
needthesongnaow!!! March 31, 2012
we need to solve this song thin asap. who uplaoded this? perhaps they know
asdkplmö May 10, 2012
maybe /b/ knows....
van-vinci August 18, 2013
this fucking video never gets old
IndustrialFan July 20, 2013
To me it sounds like it would either have to be My life with the thrill kill cult or Frontline assembly, I'm leaning more towards frontline assembly. It is definitely not Ministry or Ramstein
Cocksoup October 11, 2013
Hot girl, amazing song, arousing blowjob. Fuck I can't watch this video enough times. I play the video to jerk off to, I get distracted by the awesome music. I play the video to listen to the song, I get turned on and start jerking off. Someone please figure out the song, if the uploader would post the title we'd all be super appreciative!
Hookerspit December 30, 2013
I need to know this song!!! Its not RevCo, or Rammstein. Possibly Ministry or some foreign band... please! someone...
ew, girl boobies January 25, 2015
I like how everyone is obssessed about the song and doesnt even care about how she dominated that cock
knsknf January 26, 2013
it's lakota....i think dances with wolves
Doodoo January 1, 2013
Sounds like it might be a song by Ministry, but haven been able to find it.
Youw August 29, 2012
The song is, "Be my Friend" with Scape
anonymous September 3, 2012
wow that really got my hopes up unless im missing something here there is no way that is the song
419 October 14, 2012
If sumone can translate the language and give sum lyrics on the vocal part ,I would try finding it
EvL November 18, 2012
Here I was living my life all happy for the past two years n then all of a sudden I get this song in my head again. So I come here hoping someone may have found the song by now aaaaaand no. Sigh.
hhholy fuck January 31, 2011
i would have cum in the first 10 seconds of her slamming my dick like that!
andy January 27, 2011
who find this song title? please tell me!!!
Azel August 24, 2010
Why the fuck is this goth han-jobbing him when she can deep throat like THAT?????
MidWestReject August 20, 2010
Anyone have that song name Yet
YBSaxxx September 4, 2010
Holy shit! What a girl!
AZ3C4 September 10, 2010
Satana September 11, 2010
yeaaahhhhhh baby !!!
Gorgoroth August 13, 2010
Need song title.
Trace July 24, 2010
Whats the name of this song?
songwriter June 8, 2010
yeah man, what's the name of the song??? btw nice vid :D
boon610 June 12, 2010
very sexy 5 stars
anonymousdude June 30, 2010
still no luck finding that song. this video is amazing but that lack of song title is driving me nuts
Herb July 6, 2010
Yeh, Song name!!!!
karl g September 20, 2010
good song. good moves.
iam4porn September 25, 2010
who is this chic and is there any more of her clips she is fantastic i came in my pants!
WHUTUF December 17, 2010
Oh come on... STILL nobody knows the song name?
Herb December 6, 2010
No one got the song name yet? Shame!
Snarky McTwerpy December 27, 2010
Her name is Jade Rox.
Amazed December 30, 2010
This is by far the best Blowjob video on Youporn...Holy Shit!
aron6901 January 19, 2011
What is the name of this song?
lex December 2, 2010
daMN NICE DEEPTHROAT
DV November 26, 2010
dammit!!! i keep checking in to see if anyone knows this song yet. freakin mystery of my life grrr. Shazam doesn't even know what it is.
Song?? October 5, 2010
What is the name of the song?? Please tell
God damn October 8, 2010
She's going to town on that dick.
CW13 October 30, 2010
I like how she teases him sometime by pretending that she's about to suck him, but continues jacking.
master blaster November 10, 2010
oh, that's JadeRox, that chick is awesome, and she sells vids too, haha, I mught have to buy 1 now.
anonymousdude June 5, 2010
so anyone want to tell me the name of that song? both verizon song id and midomi are stumped
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