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Queenstown at night seen from the air
Queenstown was settled in the 1860's as a goldmining camp and is still a very small "city" of 10,400 people. It is the adventure capital of New Zealand and bungee jumping was popularized here; it is known as a haven for outdoor sports. New Zealand has one of the toughest emigration laws in the world. The place is so damn beautiful and idyllic that if they had an open door policy they would quickly be overrun with people.
Jack's Point Golf Course is set in a valley between the Remarkable Mountains and Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown. The course was designed in 2008 by Kiwi John Darby who studied golf and landscape architecture at Harvard. After seeing what he designed here, I would say he graduated magna cum laude. Darby's design philosophy is an interesting one, "look hard, play easy." Jack's Point was named in honor of "Maori Jack" Tewa who first discovered gold in this region and made a dramatic rescue of a passenger of an overturned ferry off this point of the lake.
Jack's Point is easily ranked as one of the top 25 courses I have ever played. Like my experience at Sand Hills, playing at Jack's Point permanently changes your perspective. The place raises the spirit, elevates your mood and leaves your yearning to come back for more.
The course begins with a conventional enough par four running parallel to the Remarkables. From the fairway to the top of the nearby mountain peak, it rises precipitously, to over 6,000 feet.
The Remarkables taken from the 4th fairway shows how steeply they rise
The remaining holes and overall experience at Jack's Point are anything but conventional. Holes two through five play sharply uphill and take you out of the valley floor. Like at Gullane in Scotland, the opening holes here rise quickly and sharply. The real drama begins on the 376-yard par four fourth, which offers the first glimpse of the lake.
The fourth fairway aligns with a grass airstrip used by a local skydiving company and our group played Jack's Point while they were diving. When the small propeller plane climbed off the meadow and just cleared the mountain top, it was hard to concentrate on hitting a golf shot. When the divers jumped out of the plane, we didn't hear or see them; the next audible sound was of the skydivers free falling. The unusual sound was easy to pick up because the golf course, like all of Queenstown, is isolated and eerily quiet.
The local skydiving plane taking off above Jack's Point
The sound of a body slicing through the air in free fall, is unique. After what seemed like an eternity, a series of color parachutes opened above us in rapid succession. The sensation is both mesmerizing and frightening, and I can assure you it is impossible to putt a golf ball when you hear bodies in free fall above you. Like skiers on a slope doing run after run, as soon as the skydivers landed on the ground, the plane came back and they began another jump. The multi-color parachutes present a unique vista against the backdrop of the near vertical rock faces. (Look closely at the picture below and see one red parachute against the middle of the mountain and one just above the tip of the peak. The little white speck behind that top diver is another diver still in free fall, yet to pull his chute). Golfers must muster up all the focus they can to continue their game in this environment.
The skydivers with parachutes opening between the Remarkables and Jack's Point
The fifth is a demanding 511-yard uphill par five and ends the onslaught of the initial uphill holes. The hole sweeps up the hill in a dogleg from left to right. The fifth is also your full-fledged introduction to the "Wild Irishman," a plant native to New Zealand. Like a crazy uncle, you take pains to avoid them; they grow around the fifth green, and the whole course, as a hazard. Locally called matagouri, they are a thorny bush somewhat like gorse, with small leathery leaves that grow up to 6 ½ feet tall.
View from the fifth hole of Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown
The 5th green is at the apex of the hill and offers the most dramatic view of Lake Wakatipu. The panoramic view from this spot features Cecil Peak across the lake and Queenstown situated at its southern end. The magnetic vista is hard to take your eyes off of, but the golfer needs to push ahead, as the best is yet to come.
View of Lake Wakatipu from the sixth hole
The 149-yard par three seventh hole can be compared to Pebble Beach's hole of the same number in both style and scenery. The small green sits almost 90 feet below the golfer and your tee shot appears to defy gravity for a few seconds above the water, with an astounding view in all directions. The hole was sited here because the prevailing wind is off the lake directly at you so it can make club selection a challenge. The setting of the course between the crystal clear waters of Lake Wakatipu and the dramatic craggy Remarkable mountains creates a vista comparable with many of the great ones in golf; think Royal County Down's ninth hole in the antipodes, and you've got it.
The amazing downhill par three 7th hole at Jack's Point
The fifteenth hole at Jack's Point is both unexpected and unconventional. The walk from the fourteenth green to the fifteenth tee is up a small incline. When you reach the crest of the hill, there is a handmade rough-hewn stone wall, the first on the course. A peek over the top of the wall reveals a 383-yard uphill par four gem. The tee box is built above a high meadow and the golfer must hit a forced carry over it, to a long fairway set at an angle to the tee box. I remember back to the first time I played North Berwick and was awestruck over the placement of the stone walls. The fifteenth rekindles that kind of wondrous feeling.
The par four 15th as seen from the tee box
The stone wall frames an elevated fairway and is part of a sheep paddock. If your drive doesn't carry the stone wall and ends up in the paddock, you may be able to find your ball, as the area is still grazed. Our friends at Brora would be proud to see sheep back in vogue on golf courses again.
The world-class 15th hole as seen from the fairway looking at the uphill green
The fifteenth is a classic risk-reward hole that dares the golfer to take an aggressive line left, with a severe penalty for missing. The approach shot to the well bunkered green plays a couple of clubs longer because the green sits about 30 feet above the fairway. Darby didn't quite achieve his stated goal here since fifteen is a "look hard, play hard" hole, although everything about it is just brilliant.
When this hole was originally designed by Darby he wasn't happy with the way it came out. The original green was down lower. He sat on a nearby rock all day as the crew shaped the hole and came up with idea of the rock wall and elevating the green to a higher position. It is now arguably the best hole on the course. Don't be surprised to find yourself hitting two balls off the tee even if your first drive is perfectly in play. The hole is that much fun. When I mentioned this to Darby, he said he does the same thing when playing the course!
The 15th hole looking back from the fairway shows the imaginative use of the stone walls
The sixteenth takes you most of the way down the hill in one long 463-yard par four. It is a glorious driving hole and lets you take a no-holds-barred swing given the width of the fairway. The course plays a demanding 6,691 yards from the blue tees and 7,088 from the tips.
The 18th green at Jack's Point at sunset
Jack's Point is sui generis. A buzzing plane, skydivers with colorful parachutes, a sheeps paddock, dramatic mountains and a perfect lake combine to create a unique setting for golf. It offers the perfect storm of distractions no matter where you turn, in an environment so pure and unspoiled it is hard for the senses to absorb it all. Even without the extras, the golf course itself is interesting, challenging and fun. All the fortissimo superlatives I have spouted about Jack's Point are not in the least big exaggerated, the place is revivifying!
As the southernmost course I have ever played, Jack's Point is also one of the most unique. After completing his studies at Harvard under the tutelage of Geoffrey Cornish, Darby apprenticed with both Gary Player and Arnold Palmer's design firms. In my view he is the most under-rated architect designing course today. I have a feeling we will be hearing more about John Darby.
The taxi driver who took us from the airport to Jack's Point was an Englishman who moved here thirty years ago. He came over and spent the first couple of years mustering sheep on horseback. People often ask me what I'm going to do when I'm done playing the top 100 courses in the world. I think I've got it: I'm going to drop out of the rat race, move to Queenstown and do the same damn thing. For many weeks after my trip to New Zealand my wife and boss would ask me frequently whether I was listening, "Did you hear what I just said?" Fact is, I didn't. I would just sit there with a dumb grin on my face looking right through them. Mentally, I was up on that sheep meadow in Queenstown, 14,950 kilometers away. Such is the appeal of this place, that it still has a grip on me.


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Just like most muscle cars, this Chevelle has a story to tell, and that story is: the sequel is better than the original. You see this killer '70 Chevelle has been rebuilt twice, but has been built right only once. Mike Gould is the current owner of the Tangelo Pearl drop-top, but this car isn't his first custom. Mike started wrenching on cars at 14, fixing friends' rides and doing what he could on his own car. Many years later he and his wife made a few great business decisions. Now his finances are secure enough that he doesn't have to get his hands dirty to have the car he wants.
Mike and his wife were walking a museum/classic car lot when they both trained their eyes on a Hugger Orange '70 Chevelle convertible. The car appealed to both of them and the decision was made pretty quick that this car needed to come home with them. It wasn't until Mike looked closer did he realize something just wasn't right with the car.
Mike took the car to Ron Kester at Ron's Restoration to have it looked over and noticed an issue with the rear wheelwells. Upon closer inspection it was determined that who ever did the last restoration hung new quarters on the car. This usually would be a good thing but these new quarters were stuck right over the top of the originals. Ron also decided to run the numbers and found out this car wasn't a real SS.
Most of us would just try and resell the car to someone else and try and find something better, but instead of passing along his bad fortune to the next guy, Mike broke the cycle and told Ron to redo the car right. With that, Ron tore the car down to bare bones and built it into the car you see here.
The chassis was cleaned up before the complete air bagged suspension, performance brakes and 9-inch rearend were mounted up. Then a chromed-out Ram Jet 502 was set in the newly restored chassis. The crew at Ron's then turned their attention to the body where all the previous modifications were ripped off and new sheetmetal was put on the right way. Once the body was blocked straight, it was pulled into the booth and coated in a few slick coats of Tangelo Orange with black SS stripes.
For the interior, Ron outsourced the work to Tracy Weaver and Jim Peters of the Recovery Room. These guys hand-built most of the hard pieces like the dash, console, kick panels, and door panels out of aluminum and fiberglass before covering everything in Tan Garret Leather. They also built the audio system which is chock full of all high-end components neatly hidden from view.
Mike loves cars and has a collection of about 30, ranging from a show-winning blown Willys, to a brand new Cobra Mustang, and the Chevelle is the newest addition. Because we know the story behind this car, we would say it's got to be twice as nice as the rest of them.

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The patriarch of the family, Grandpa Vanderhof, is an eccentric old man who hunts snakes and has never paid his income tax. Penelope "Penny" Vanderhof Sycamore is his daughter (a writer of sex-filled melodrama plays), who is married to Paul Sycamore, a tinkerer who manufactures fireworks in the basement with the help of his assistant Mr. De Pinna. (He used to be the family's iceman.) One of Paul and Penny's two daughters is Essie Sycamore Carmichael, a childish candymaker who dreams of being a ballerina (but in reality is terrible at dancing). Essie is married to Ed Carmichael, a vibraphone player who lives with them and helps distribute Essie's candies. Ed is an amateur printer who prints anything that sounds good to him. Paul and Penny's other daughter Alice Sycamore is quite obviously the only "normal" family member. She has an office job and is sometimes embarrassed by the eccentricities of her family, yet deep down, she still loves them. In addition, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan employs a black maid Rheba, who is engaged to Donald, also black.
The real action begins when Essie tells Grandpa Vanderhof that some letters arrived for him from the "United States Government," but that she misplaced them. Shortly afterwards, Alice comes home and announces that she has fallen in love with a young man with whom she works, Tony Kirby, the son of the company's executive. Before going upstairs to change, Alice tells her family that he will be coming over shortly to take her on a date. The entire family is still joyfully discussing her boyfriend when the doorbell rings. Penny answers the door and greets the man standing there, thinking he must be Tony, but only upon forcing the stranger to shake hands with the entire family do they realize that he is not Alice's boyfriend: he is a tax investigator.
His name is Wilbur C. Henderson (played in the film by Charles Lane), and he is investigating Grandpa for his evasion of income tax. When Henderson asks Grandpa why he owed twenty-four years of back income tax, Grandpa states he never believed in it, and that the government wouldn't know what to do with the money if he did pay it. Henderson becomes infuriated by Grandpa's answers to his questions. Henderson spots Grandpa's snakes, and runs out of the house in fear, but not before promising Grandpa that he will hear, one way or another, from the United States government.
Shortly afterwards, Mr. Boris Kolenkhov, Essie's extremely Russian ballet instructor, arrives and makes chitchat with the family, complaining of how his friend, the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina, was thrown out of Russia after the Revolution. In the middle of Essie's lesson, the real Tony Kirby arrives, and Alice is nervous that her eccentric family will scare him away, so she promptly leaves with him on their date.
In the course of their conversation, which is interrupted by Essie and Ed (who come home from a Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire movie) at one point, Tony wins Alice over, and they agree to get married. Paul comes up from the basement and tells Alice to watch his latest firework masterpiece, and she lovingly says: "It's the most beautiful red fire in the world..."
Ed returns from distributing Essie's candies with news that he is being followed by someone. When Mr. DePinna looks out the window, no one is there. Ed resumes printing leaflets. Paul and Mr. De Pinna are downstairs the whole time making fireworks. Penny recalls her days as a painter, and immediately remembers that she never finished her painting of Mr. De Pinna as a discus thrower. She calls Mr. De Pinna up from the basement and orders him into costume so she may finish her masterpiece.
At the same time, Mr. Kolenkhov arrives and begins Essie's ballet lesson. Ed provides accompanying music on the vibraphone. Rheba runs in and out of the kitchen cleaning. Grandpa takes this time to practice darts and feed the snakes. In the midst of all this hullabaloo, Tony appears in the doorway with Mr. Kirby and Mrs. Kirby. Before them is the entire eccentric spectacle. Apparently, Tony has forgotten for which night dinner was planned, and Alice is incredibly embarrassed.
Penny tells Alice not to worry, and that they can manage a nice dinner easily. She gives a list of things to Donald and tells him to run down to the store. Grandpa tries desperately to keep the party normal and under control for the sake of his granddaughter. Mr. Kirby reveals himself to be a very straightlaced fat-cat, who owns yachts so that he may relax and raises orchids as a hobby. Grandpa thinks that Mr. Kirby is not a truly happy man, but Mr. Kirby insists that he is just fine with his plot in life. Mr. Kirby investigates a child's model and finds it is Paul's "hobby." Mr. Kolenkhov brings up that the Roman hobby was wrestling, and demonstrates on Mr. Kirby (to much ado.) Mrs. Kirby tells them that her true passion is spiritualism, to which Penny replies, "We all know that's a fake." To say it concisely, the conversation is a fiasco.
To pass the time, Penny suggests they play a free association game. Alice knows what is coming and immediately tries to quash the suggestions, but Penny shrugs her off and instructs everyone to write down the first thing that "pops" into their heads after she says certain words.
Penny offers the words "potato, bathroom, lust, honeymoon, and sex." Penny reads Mr. Kirby's list first, with reactions of, respectively: "steak, toothpaste, unlawful, trip, male." Mrs. Kirby's list, however, causes much controversy. "Starch" is her response to potatoes, which is not that bad, but her response for "bathroom" is "Mr. Kirby," and she explains how rude it is that he hogs the bathroom in the morning. Her response to "lust" is "human," claiming it is a perfectly human emotion. Mr. Kirby disagrees, saying "it is depraved." "Honeymoon"'s reply is "dull," as Mrs. Kirby explains that there was "nothing to do at night." The shocker comes when Mrs. Kirby says her reply to "sex" was "Wall Street." She at first claims she doesn't know what she meant by it, but once provoked she yells at Mr. Kirby "You're always talking about Wall Street, even when--" and then stops.
The entire family knows what has happened, and Mr. Kirby and Mrs. Kirby are so embarrassed that they order Tony home with them immediately. Tony refuses to go. Alice agrees with Tony's parents, but Tony insists they stay. Grandpa offers his opinion, but before anyone can do anything, federal agents overrun the house. The head agent tells them that Ed's pamphlets, on which he prints anything that "sounds nice," read "DYNAMITE THE CAPITOL," "DYNAMITE THE WHITE HOUSE," "DYNAMITE THE SUPREME COURT." Grandpa tries to explain to the head agent, but he informs them they are all under arrest.
The agents discover enormous amounts of gunpowder in the basement and think it is for dynamiting Washington, so Paul and Mr. De Pinna rush down to save the fireworks. Meanwhile, the agents bring down Gay Wellington from upstairs, and she begins singing drunkenly. Alice and Tony cling to each other while the family argues with the agents. The fireworks go off. Act II ends with the entire house in an uproar.
Alice has decided to leave home, with no immediate plans to return. She was truly in love with Tony, and her family ruined her chances of ever falling in love, and for doing that, she can never forgive them. Penny keeps trying to tell Alice to stay, but Grandpa knows that Alice cannot be swayed.
Tony arrives and tries to convince Alice not to leave home. Alice knows she loves him, but just can't get herself to stay.
Soon, Mr. Kolenkhov appears with the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina, in all of her former glory. The grand duchess soon goes into the kitchen to cook the dinner for the family.
Mr. Kirby arrives to pick up Tony and to settle his score with Grandpa Vanderhof. Soon, Mr. Kirby and Tony get into a heated argument, the pinnacle of which finds Tony screaming that he purposely brought his family on the wrong night. He explains that he wanted each family to see each as they really were, that Alice's idea of a planned party was ridiculous. Grandpa Vanderhof jumps in and, with the family's help, persuades Kirby that his life is not as it should be. Grandpa accuses Mr. Kirby of wasting his life by doing things he does not want to do. Mr. Kirby puts up a big fight, with several valid points... but eventually succumbs. He is changed, and accepts the Vanderhof view of life.
The play comes to a conclusion as the family, along with Tony and Mr. Kirby, sit down to dinner with the Grand Duchess. Grandpa says a touching prayer, and then they jump into the food.
The play was the basis for the 1938 Academy Award winning film directed by Frank Capra. The film cast included James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington, Ann Miller, Dub Taylor, Charles Lane, Mischa Auer, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, and the uncredited Arthur Murray.


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"Aliens" in America: British Citizens during the War of 1812
Written by maurita on April 3, 2012 — 2 Comments
Post written by Rachel Schimke, a spring intern at N-YHS who processed the Peter Curtenius Papers. This year marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a conflict that is often overshadowed by the more celebrated wars in our nation's history. The newly processed Peter Curtenius Papers offer invaluable information for researchers interested in this […]
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The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, also the Articles of Confederation was the governing constitution of the alliance of thirteen independent and sovereign states styled "United States of America." The Article's ratification (proposed in 1777) was completed in 1781, legally uniting the states by compact into the "United States of America" as a union with a confederation government. Under the Articles (and the succeeding Constitution) the states retained sovereignty over all governmental functions not specifically deputed to the central government.
The final draft of the Articles was written in the summer of 1777 and adopted by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777 in York, Pennsylvania after a year of debate. In practice the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress ("the United States in Congress assembled") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation. The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States" confederation. The confederation was capable of making war, negotiating diplomatic agreements, and resolving issues regarding the western territories; it could not mint coins (each state had their own currency) and borrow inside and outside the United States. An important element of the Articles was that Article XIII stipulated that "their provisions shall be inviolably observed by every state" and "the Union shall be perpetual".
The Articles were created by the chosen representatives of the states in the Second Continental Congress out of a perceived need to have "a plan of confederacy for securing the freedom, sovereignty, and independence of the United States." Although serving a crucial role in the victory in the American Revolutionary War, a group of reformers, known as "federalists", felt that the Articles lacked the necessary provisions for a sufficiently effective government. Fundamentally, a federation was sought to replace the confederation. The key criticism by those who favored a more powerful central state (i.e. the federalists) was that the government (i.e. the Congress of the Confederation) lacked taxing authority; it had to request funds from the states. Also various federalist factions wanted a government that could impose uniform tariffs, give land grants, and assume responsibility for unpaid state war debts ("assumption".) Another criticism of the Articles was that they did not strike the right balance between large and small states in the legislative decision making process. Due to its one-state, one-vote plank, the larger states were expected to contribute more but had only one vote. The Articles were replaced by the United States Constitution.
"Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respective states. Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one general system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities, under a conviction of the absolute necessity of uniting all our councils and all our strength, to maintain and defend our common liberties...
The document could not become officially effective until it was ratified by all of the thirteen colonies. The first state to ratify was Virginia on December 16, 1777. The process dragged on for several years, stalled by the refusal of some states to rescind their claims to land in the West. Maryland was the last holdout; it refused to go along until Virginia and New York agreed to cede their claims in the Ohio River valley. A little over three years passed before Maryland's ratification on March 1, 1781.
Still at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, the colonists were reluctant to establish another powerful national government. Jealously guarding their new independence, members of the Continental Congress created a loosely-structured unicameral legislature that protected the liberty of the individual states. While calling on Congress to regulate military and monetary affairs, for example, the Articles of Confederation provided no mechanism to force the states to comply with requests for troops or revenue. At times, this left the military in a precarious position, as George Washington wrote in a 1781 letter to the governor of Massachusetts, John Hancock.
Since guerrilla warfare was an effective strategy in a war against the British Empire, a centralized government proved unnecessary for winning independence. Under the articles, Congress could make decisions, but had no power to enforce them. There was a requirement for unanimous approval before any modifications could be made to the Articles. Because the majority of lawmaking rested with the states, the central government was also kept limited.
Congress was denied the power of taxation: it could only request money from the states. The states did not generally comply with the requests in full, leaving the Confederation Congress and the Continental Army chronically short of funds. Congress was also denied the power to regulate commerce, and as a result, the states maintained control over their own trade policy as well. The states and the national congress had both incurred debts during the war, and how to pay the debts became a major issue after the war. Some states paid off their debts; however, the centralizers favored federal assumption of states' debts.
Nevertheless, the Congress of the Confederation did take two actions with lasting impact. The Land Ordinance of 1785 established the general land survey and ownership provisions used throughout later American expansion. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 noted the agreement of the original states to give up western land claims and cleared the way for the entry of new states.
Once the war was won, the Continental Army was largely disbanded. A very small national force was maintained to man frontier forts and protect against Indian attacks. Meanwhile, each of the states had an army (or militia), and 11 of them had navies. The wartime promises of bounties and land grants to be paid for service were not being met. In 1783, Washington defused the Newburgh conspiracy, but riots by unpaid Pennsylvania veterans forced the Congress to leave Philadelphia temporarily.
But, the Articles at that time were unsigned, and the date was blank. Congress began the signing process by examining their copy of the Articles on June 27, 1778. They ordered a final copy prepared (the one in the National Archives), and that delegates should inform the secretary of their authority for ratification.
On July 9, 1778, the prepared copy was ready. They dated it, and began to sign. They also requested each of the remaining states to notify its delegation when ratification was completed. On that date, delegates present from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina signed the Articles to indicate that their states had ratified. New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland could not, since their states had not ratified. North Carolina and Georgia also didn't sign that day, since their delegations were absent.
After the first signing, some delegates signed at the next meeting they attended. For example, John Wentworth of New Hampshire added his name on August 8. John Penn was the first of North Carolina's delegates to arrive (on July 10), and the delegation signed the Articles on July 21, 1778.
The other states had to wait until they ratified the Articles and notified their Congressional delegation. Georgia signed on July 24, New Jersey on November 26, and Delaware on February 12, 1779. Maryland refused to ratify the Articles until every state had ceded its western land claims.
On February 2, 1781, the much-awaited decision was taken by the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis. As the last piece of business during the afternoon Session, "among engrossed Bills" was "signed and sealed by Governor Thomas Sim Lee in the Senate Chamber, in the presence of the members of both Houses… an Act to empower the delegates of this state in Congress to subscribe and ratify the articles of confederation" and perpetual union among the states. The Senate then adjourned "to the first Monday in August next." The decision of Maryland to ratify the Articles was reported to the Continental Congress on February 12. The formal signing of the Articles by the Maryland delegates took place in Philadelphia at noon time on March 1, 1781 and was celebrated in the afternoon. With these events, the Articles entered into force and the United States came into being as a united, sovereign and national state.
Congress had debated the Articles for over a year and a half, and the ratification process had taken nearly three and a half years. Many participants in the original debates were no longer delegates, and some of the signers had only recently arrived. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were signed by a group of men who were never present in the Congress at the same time.
The signers and the states they represented were:
Roger Sherman (Connecticut) was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the Articles of Association, the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
Robert Morris (Pennsylvania) was the only person besides Sherman to sign three of the great state papers of the United States: the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
John Dickinson (Delaware) and Daniel Carroll (Maryland), along with Sherman and Morris, were the only four people to sign both the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
For a full list of Presidents of the Congress Assembled and Presidents under the two Continental Congresses before the Articles, see President of the Continental Congress.
In September, five states assembled in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments that would improve commerce. Under their chairman, Alexander Hamilton, they invited state representatives to convene in Philadelphia to discuss improvements to the federal government. Although the states' representatives to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia were only authorized to amend the Articles, the representatives held secret, closed-door sessions and wrote a new constitution. The new Constitution gave much more power to the central government, but characterization of the result is disputed. Historian Forrest McDonald, using the ideas of James Madison from Federalist 39, describes the change this way:
Historian Ralph Ketcham comments on the opinions of Patrick Henry, George Mason, and other antifederalists who were not so eager to give up the local autonomy won by the revolution:
According to their own terms for modification (Article XIII), the Articles would still have been in effect until 1790, the year in which the last of the 13 states ratified the new Constitution. The Congress under the Articles continued to sit until November 1788, overseeing the adoption of the new Constitution by the states, and setting elections. By that date, 11 of the 13 states had ratified the new Constitution.
Historians have given many reasons for the perceived need to replace the articles in 1787. Jillson and Wilson (1994) point to the financial weakness as well as the norms, rules and institutional structures of the Congress, and the propensity to divide along sectional lines.
Rakove (1988) identifies several factors that explain the collapse of the Confederation. The lack of compulsory direct taxation power was objectionable to those wanting a strong centralized state or expecting to benefit from such power. It could not collect customs after the war because tariffs were vetoed by Rhode Island. Rakove concludes that their failure to implement national measures "stemmed not from a heady sense of independence but rather from the enormous difficulties that all the states encountered in collecting taxes, mustering men, and gathering supplies from a war-weary populace. The second group of factors Rakove identified derived from the substantive nature of the problems the Continental Congress confronted after 1783, especially the inability to create a strong foreign policy. Finally, the Confederation's lack of coercive power reduced the likelihood for profit to be made by political means, thus potential rulers were uninspired to seek power.
When the war ended in 1783, certain special interests had incentives to create a new "merchant state," much like the British state people had rebelled against. In particular, holders of war scrip and land speculators wanted a central government to pay off scrip at face value and to legalize western land holdings with disputed claims. Also, manufacturers wanted a high tariff as a barrier to foreign goods, but competition among states made this impossible without a central government.
Political scientist David C. Hendrickson writes that two prominent political leaders in the Confederation, John Jay of New York and Thomas Burke of North Carolina believed that "the authority of the congress rested on the prior acts of the several states, to which the states gave their voluntary consent, and until those obligations were fulfilled, neither nullification of the authority of congress, exercising its due powers, nor secession from the compact itself was consistent with the terms of their original pledges.
Law professor Daniel Farber argues that there was no clear consensus on the permanence of the Union or the issue of secession by the Founders. Farber wrote:
However, what if one or more states do violate the compact? One view, not only about the Articles but also the later Constitution, was that the state or states injured by such a breach could rightfully secede. This position was held by, among others, Thomas Jefferson and John Calhoun. This view motivated discussions of secession and nullification at the Hartford Convention, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and the Nullification Crisis. In his book Life of Webster Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge writes A competing view, promoted by Daniel Webster and later by Abraham Lincoln , was that the Constitution (and Articles) established a permanent union. President Andrew Jackson during the Nullification Crisis, in his "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina", made the case for the perpetuity of the Union while also contrasting the differences between "revolution" and "secession":
This view, among others, was presented against declarations of secession from the Union by southern slave states as the American Civil War began.


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Spring St. Edward's University Magazine: Signs of the Changing Times
St. Edward's University Magazine has changed a lot over the years. We've redesigned the cover a time or two (or three or four, but who's counting?). We've re-imagined departments and features and nearly everything else you find inside the publication. And we've done it all in our never-ending quest to make the magazine a better way for you to stay connected with St. Edward's.
We're changing again, but this time, you'll barely notice a difference in the traditional pages of the magazine. We're moving online. Don't worry; the print version will still arrive in your mailbox three times a year. We're just adding more stories that you'll only find on the web — told through videos, slideshows, blogs and more — to take the magazine to the next level.
Starting with the Spring 2012 issue of St. Edward's University Magazine (which will be hitting your mailbox any day now), we invite you to visit www.stedwards.edu/webextras, where you'll find unique content that's an extension of what you'll find in print.
In the print issue, our cover story will transport you to Mongolia, where St. Edward's University alumnus Dustin Cooper Baltis '10 is teaching English — and coping with frigid temperatures, some of the world's worst pollution and locals who view him skeptically, to say the least. This is one story you don't want to miss, and it will probably only whet your appetite for more exotic travel tales. Online, we invite you to follow 2011 grad Marrianne Shea's blog of living in the middle-of-nowhere Turkey.
If you follow technology trends, you may have seen a news story or two over the past few months about the rapid rise of ebooks, thanks to the Kindle, the Nook and the iPad. In the print magazine, we asked what all of this changing technology means for academic libraries — and how the university's new library will address these changing trends. If it's been more than a year or two since you graduated, I think you'll be amazed at how fast things are changing. Our online companion piece to this story is a bit lighter. We convinced eight of your favorite St. Edward's faculty members to let us inside their offices with a camera to capture photos of all that they cram inside of their space.
And finally, have you ever wondered how to take better photos? Or if you're saving enough for retirement? Or how to teach your budding baseball start to throw a perfect curveball? This issue, we bring you 13 alumni experts — both in print and online — who graciously share their knowledge with the rest of us.
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Drug sweep defendant back in courtBy Susan Smallheer
STAFF WRITER | June 21,2013Photo by Eric Francis
Amber White of Springfield, one of 33 people arrested in a drug sweep Wednesday, returned to court Thursday to face a charge of violating her conditions of release.SPRINGFIELD A 20-year-old Springfield woman arrested on Wednesday as part of a regional sweep of alleged heroin and cocaine dealers was back in court Thursday, charged with violating conditions of her court-ordered curfew.
Amber White of Bacon Street pleaded innocent to violating her conditions of release. She had been arraigned Wednesday on felony charges of selling heroin.
Springfield Police Chief Douglas Johnston said in an interview that White stayed out all night partying, an apparent violation of the condition that she observe a 24-hour home curfew.
White, whose boyfriend Matthew Neathawk, 25, was also arrested in the drug sweep, initially told police she returned home at 4 oclock, but she later admitted it wasnt 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, but 4 a.m. Thursday, according to court records.
Springfield police wrote in an affidavit that White told them Thursday morning she stayed out all night at Freedom Park, a small public park near her home. She said she was too upset to go home and denied using drugs Wednesday night, police wrote. She told police the last time she used drugs was a week and a half ago, according to court records.
Police said White called them at 9 a.m. Thursday to report a custody issue involving her young daughter. It wasnt clear from court records who was taking care of the child, although police were in touch with Whites mother, Carla, and the paternal grandmother of Whites baby, Wendy Fernett.
Springfield Officer Jeremy Fitzgibbons said he learned from Fernett that Carla White had texted her that Amber had not come home.
According to court records, White, Neathawk and a young child were all present during the alleged drug dealing in the parking lot outside McDonalds restaurant in Springfield.
White pleaded innocent to two counts of selling heroin to a confidential informant, and one count of being an accessory to selling a narcotic. Neathawk pleaded innocent to one count of selling heroin and two counts of being an accessory to narcotic sales.
Upon the request of Deputy States Attorney David Cahill, White was rearrested Thursday morning and taken to court in White River Junction for another arraignment.
White was overheard in the court clerks office Wednesday sobbing and repeatedly saying, Were users! We dont sell this (expletive). Were users!
Charlie Buttrey stood in as Whites defense attorney for her brief arraignment on a misdemeanor count of violating a court-ordered condition of release and entered an innocent plea.
The parties have reached an agreement which is the same set of conditions upon which she was released yesterday with the additional condition that she provide the court with a $5,000 unsecured appearance bond, Buttrey told Judge Robert Gerety.
The judge replied, OK, well note your not guilty plea, maam, you are all set.
White is barred from possessing regulated drugs without a prescription, must abide by a 24-hour curfew except for legal and medical appointments, and have no contact with Neathawk.
White told the court Neathawk is the father of her children.
Herald correspondent Eric Francis contributed to this story.
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It's time again for monkey business! Sock Monkeys, on loan from the Red Heel Sock Monkey Rescue Shelter in Asheville, N.C., will make a return visit to the Mulvane Art Museum's Gift Shop from Sept. 18, 2012 to Jan. 27, 2013.
Sock Monkeys will be the theme of the family activity event "We Mean Monkey Business" from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at the ArtLab. Families can visit the exhibit then swing down to the ArtLab to create a special art project. ArtLab Family Day events are free and open to the public.
The Mulvane's Gift Shop will feature a variety of Sock Monkey related merchandise during the exhibit. A sock monkey is a toy made from socks fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a mixture of folk art and kitsch in the culture of the United States and Canada. The sock monkey's most direct predecessors originated in the Victorian era, when the craze for imitation stuffed animals swept from Europe into North America and met the burgeoning Arts and Crafts Movement. Mothers there took to sewing stuffed animals as toys to comfort their children, and, as tales of the Scramble for Africa increased the public's familiarity with exotic species, monkey toys soon became a fixture of American nurseries. However, these early stuffed monkeys were not necessarily made from socks, and also lacked the characteristic red lips of the sock monkeys popular today.
John Nelson, a Swedish immigrant to the United States, patented the sock-knitting machine in 1869, and began manufacturing work socks in Rockford, Ill., in 1890. The iconic sock monkeys made from red-heeled socks emerged at the earliest in 1932, the year the Nelson Knitting Company added the trademarked red heel to its product. Nelson Knitting was an innovator in the mass market work sock field, creating a loom that enabled socks to be manufactured without seams in the heel. Around 1951, the Nelson Knitting Company discovered that their socks were being used to make monkey dolls. In 1953, Nelson Knitting became involved in a dispute over the design patent on the sock monkey pattern. They were awarded the patent in 1955, and began including the pattern with every pair of socks. The sock monkey doll was then used in promotional campaigns celebrating the widespread application of their product by inventive homemakers in the field of monkey manufacturing.
In 1958, the scrap-craft magazine Pack-O-Fun published "How to Make Sock Toys," a guide to making different sock animals and dolls with red heeled socks. Frequently cited as being their most popular book ever, this pamphlet went through multiple printings and was being produced in new editions up until the mid-1980s.
Sock monkeys remain a popular toy to this day. Most vintage red-heel sock monkeys found today are no older than the late 1950s, and many date from the 1970s. A number of methods for dating sock monkeys have been debated by collectors, including the shape of the red heel, the tightness of the weave, sock seams, the style of clothing worn and other features.
For more information on the Red Heel Sock Monkey Rescue Shelter go to www.sockmonkeydreams.com.
The Mulvane Art Museum, ArtLab and gift shop are open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. The museum is closed major holidays.
The Mulvane is located on the campus of Washburn University, at 17th and Jewell Streets. Free parking is available directly to the west of the Museum. Call (785) 670-1124 or go to washburn.edu/mulvane.
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How does Carleton help prepare students for Life After Carleton? Career Center staff and the Pre-Health Advisor will be available to answer your questions, show you some of the resources we have to offer, and give you tips about how to connect liberal arts skills to rewarding career paths. Join us for treats and conversation.
Sponsored by New Students 2014. Contact: Jessica VanZuilen, x4462
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Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Maple Leafs and goaltender James Reimer agreed to terms Friday on a two-year contract.
Reimer, 26, went 12-16-1 with a 3.29 goals-against average and .911 save percentage in 36 games with the Maple Leafs last season.
A fourth-round pick of Toronto in 2006, Reimer has compiled a 65-48-15 record with a 2.85 GAA and .914 save percentage in 140 career games.
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Whether you are traveling with grandma and grandpa or a troop of young kids, you're sure to find something to please everyone from your Gulf Resort Beach vacation rental. Golf courses, many of them rated highly among golf enthusiasts, are easily accessible from most Gulf Resort Beach vacation rentals. If the kids are aching to ride a pirate ship, they can do just that in nearby Panama City Beach. Climb aboard the Sea Dragon for a pirate adventure affordable enough for all you scallywags. Of course, the beach, is the most obvious choice for recreation. Swim, snorkel, sunbathe, search for seashells, or just close your eyes and take a nap under the warm tropical breezes and brilliant blue sky.
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These perfectly tailored vacation lodgings are sure to make you smile. Imagine a living room where everyone can play games, or have good conversations while lounging in comfortable furniture. Imagine the peace and quiet you'll get from having multiple bathrooms, especially if your party includes teenagers. Family friendly options are easy to find in Gulf Resort Beach vacation rentals. From Gulf Resort Beach condos to houses, to cottages on the beach, you're bound to find exactly what you're looking for.
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Please pray for my friend who told me last night about his diagnosis. Stage 3 bowel cancer which is very aggressive. He is still very young and although he says he has some support I am not sure whether he is just saying this to put my mind at ease. His chemo starts this Wednesday.
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Shrimp – U.S. Southeast (except Louisiana), Bottom Trawl
Several species of shrimp are commercially caught in the U.S. South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, including White Shrimp, Brown Shrimp, Pink Shrimp, Rock Shrimp, Royal Red Shrimp, and Seabob Shrimp.
All Shrimp species are short-lived and produce many young. The abundances of Shrimp vary according to environmental conditions.
Shrimp trawling damages benthic (seafloor) habitat and results in large amounts of bycatch, including commercially important fish species and threatened and endangered sea turtles. Bycatch reduction and turtle excluder devices are used, except in Louisiana, and have helped reduce the impact of trawling on sea turtles.


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Jet is a provider of advanced onsite wastewater treatment systems throughout the world. The Jet residential wastewater treatment plant is the cleaner, lower-odor, lower-maintenance alternative to traditional septic systems.Jet Inc. has designed dependable residential and commercial wastewater treatment systems since 1955, leading the industry with innovative design, ...
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January 24th is Local Quilt Shop Day…so I'm joining with some great people this weekend to share my favorite local shops, in hopes that you'll get out this week and visit yours!
I'm lucky to have some great quilt shops nearby. I was hoping to get to a shop this weekend and take pictures…but since taking my 3 kids into quilt shop is not my idea of fun… I'm going to save my visit(s)for Quilt Shop Day.
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Quilted Straight, Material Girls Quilts Shop, Esthers Fabrics, and Heirloom Quilts
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Wazoo Survival Gear LLC filed as a Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) in the State of Texas on Monday, August 22, 2011 and is approximately four years old, according to public records filed with Texas Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Monday, July 6, 2015.
Nicholas Blackman serves as the President
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