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Special Commemorations
Cemetery History
Memorial Development
Dedication Ceremony, Saturday September 6, 2014.
Watch short videos on Comcast Newsmakers:
Yolanda Vazquez sits down with Char McCargo Bah, professional genealogist, to talk about the celebration. (July 22, 2014)
"The Journey to be Free: Descendants Returning Home to Alexandria." If you missed the special March 5 performance, we hope to repeat this event during the Dedication week.
Freedmen's Cemetery Ornament: The ornament commemorates the 150th anniversary of the cemetery's first burial and the memorial's official opening in September, 2014.The ornament depicts Mario Chiodo's passionate statue, The Path of Thorns and Roses, framed by the memorial's arched entranceway. As the centerpiece of the memorial, the statue depicts the allegoric figures of Oppression, Struggle, Sacrifice, Loss, Compassion, and Hope. Available for $18.00 from Alexandria's museum shops and online from The Alexandria Shop.
Alexandria Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery served as the burial place for about 1,700 African Americans who fled to Alexandria to escape from bondage during the Civil War. They found a safe haven in Alexandria because of the Union occupation, but their large numbers resulted in a refuge crisis. While many found employment, other contrabands, as the freedmen were officially known, were destitute after fleeing slavery, and arrived hungry and in ill health. Many were housed in barracks, and disease was rampant. In 1864, after hundreds had perished, the Superintendent of Contrabands ordered that a property on the southern edge of town, across from the Catholic cemetery, be confiscated for use as a cemetery.
In the first year, burials included those of black soldiers, but African American troops recuperating in Alexandria's hospitals demanded that blacks be given the honor of burial in the Soldiers' Cemetery, now Alexandria National Cemetery. The soldiers' graves were disinterred and moved to the military cemetery in January 1865. The last burial in Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery took place in January 1869.
The cemetery fell into disrepair, and a brickyard and railroad cutting encroached on its edges. The cemetery appeared on maps until 1939, but by then there would have been little remaining above-ground evidence of the burials. In 1955, a gas station was built on the property, followed by an office building.
More than 30 years later, historical research revealed the presence of the long-forgotten cemetery, and plans for rebuilding the Woodrow Wilson Bridge along the cemetery's southern edge focused attention on it. Archaeologists used ground penetrating radar to confirm the presence of graves on the site, and the Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery was formed to advocate for preservation of the site as a memorial. Additional archaeological excavations identified the location of graves to minimize impact of park construction. The layout of the cemetery, revealed by the archaeological work, will be reflected in design of the memorial park.
Watch a short video on Comcast Newsmakers (July 31, 2014), as Elena Russo speaks with Francine Bromberg, Acting Director of Alexandria Archaeology, about the historical research that revealed the presence of a forgotten cemetery.
1861: Alexandria occupied by Federal troops at beginning of Civil War1862: Contrabands (freed slaves) migrate to Alexandria in large numbers, causing a refugee crisis1864: First burials take place on land seized from pro-confederate owner1865: Black veterans are moved from Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery to Alexandria National Cemetery1865: Civil War ends1869: Military rule ends in Alexandria1869: Last recorded burial takes place in January; Parcel is reclaimed by former owner1894: Washington Post reports that graves are washing out of the cemetery; Alexandria Gazette denies that, but reports that Alexandria Brick Company and Manassas Gap railroad encroached on edges of cemetery1917: Property transferred to Catholic Diocese of Richmond1946: Parcel rezoned for commercial use; Diocese sells property with restrictions banning construction of automobile service station1948: Last known year that the cemetery location is marked on a City map1955: Gas station built on property, followed by office building 1961: Construction of Interstate 95 may have impacted edge of cemetery1987: City historian T. Michael Miller rediscovers 1894 Alexandria Gazette reference to the cemetery1995: Wesley Pippenger publishes the Gladwin Records, a list of burials in the cemetery1996: Archaeological remote sensing reveals presence of graves in vicinity of gas pumps1997: Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery formed1999: Archaeological excavations on VDOT property2000: Virginia State Marker erected 2004: Preliminary archaeological excavations on gas station and office building lots2007: Demolition of gas station and office building2007: Rededication Ceremony 2007: Archaeological excavations to determine burial locations2008: City conducts Memorial Design Competition. Winner is C.J. Howard of Alexandria2014: Dedication of the memorial -- September 6
The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery was founded in 1997 for the purposes of preserving, commemorating and researching a little known, Civil War-era, African American burying ground in Old Town Alexandria. The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery website honors Alexandria's freed people. It is intended as a resource to present their stories and to connect them to their descendants and to Alexandria residents of today.
The Friends' initial efforts concentrated on memorial ceremonies to honor and raise public awareness of Alexandria's freed people. In 2000, the Friends secured a Virginia state highway marker for the site. With the impending construction of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, the Friends collaborated with the City of Alexandria and Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project consultants to plan an appropriate memorial on the site. In 2007 the cemetery parcel returned to public ownership, a mid-twentieth-century gas station and office building were razed, and an archaeological excavation examined the layout of the cemetery. In 2008, the City of Alexandria held a design competition for the creation of a public commemorative park, and the cemetery was rededicated in a beautiful and moving ceremony. The dream and mission of the Friends is coming to fruition.
A rededication ceremony on May 12, 2007 honored the forgotten burial place of approximately 1,800 freedmen, who escaped the bonds of slavery, sought refuge in Alexandria, and contributed to the prosperity and cultural heritage of the City. The ceremony featured speeches, African drummers, a poem by Alexandria's Poet Laureate, and the lighting of luminaries representing each of the burials. The Alexandria City Council issued a Proclamation declaring a Week of Remembrance.
Schoolchildren, scouts, community groups, and participants in bag-decorating workshops at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum and the Alexandria Black History Museum, adorned the luminary bags with heartfelt artwork, words and poetry. Each bag was labeled with the name, sex and age of death of one of the deceased Freedmen. You can view the 1,906 luminary bags produced by each class, group or workshop.
The event was the culmination of twenty years of research and community activism. From the Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery, to Alexandria residents, City of Alexandria staff, and schoolchildren who participated in luminary decorating, this was truly a community effort. In 2011, the City of Alexandria will again honor these men, women and children, with the formal dedication of the Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial.
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Design Competition, first place winner, C.J. Howard of Alexandria. Elements of the winning design are being used in the memorial.
The City of Alexandria is developing the cemetery site into Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial. The memorial park, tentatively scheduled to open in September 2014, will honor the memory of the Freedmen, the hardships they faced, and their contributions to the City.
The project is being completed under the stewardship of the City of Alexandria and the Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery, with funding from the City, the Federal Highway Administration and Virginia Department of Transportation through the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project www.wilsonbridge.com, and a grant from Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership between the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic preservation.
The City of Alexandria conducted a design competition in 2008. The City sought design submissions from architects, landscape architects, artists, students, and other interested individuals, and received a broad range of submissions from individuals and firms from over twenty countries around the world. Alexandria architect C.J. Howard won first place honors in the design competition. In addition to receiving a $10,000 first place prize, Howard's winning design will be used as the framework for a detailed site design. The results of archaeological excavations are being used to insure that no burials are disturbed during development, and are contributing to public interpretation in the memorial.
Follow the progress on our Memorial Construction Update and Photo Gallery.
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At the first Predictive Policing Symposium, participants broke into smaller groups and reported the key elements of their
discussion back to the larger assembly.
Dr. Craig Uchida's group discussed how hot spots analysis has become increasingly commonplace. Predictive Policing on the
other hand is still evolving. There should be less focus on violent crime and more focus on the other 90 percent of things
that police do.
Several questions were raised during the session. Can we actually predict? With the tools and technology that exist, and the
data that is available, participants felt the next level of prediction is possible. Other questions included: What predictive
elements are we looking at? Are we looking at individuals? If so, participants suggested that we "tread carefully."
How does community policing differ? One participant said that that there does not seem to be much difference from what departments
are doing now, but perhaps predictive policing is more "high technology, high touch" because it develops relationships with
the community.
Participants discussed communication. How can departments share more advanced data collection and data analysis? Some options
included using BlackBerries and MP3s.
The group also addressed the need for resources, especially with current budget cuts. However, the focus should be on outcomes.
Is the data being measured the most effective in terms of performance? The real value is to do more with existing or diminishing
In Steve Mastrofski and Shellie Solomon's group, participants noted that good crime analysts are already practicing predictive
policing. Marginal improvements can be made and are areas of opportunity. The group highlighted the gap within agencies between
crime analysts and management. Analysts gather information and make recommendations to department administrators, but those
recommendations do not make it to the street-level cop.
A key point raised was that predictive policing should be community-based. Community leaders and the public must accept the
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Additionally, departments must hire individuals trained to care about data. To succeed, predictive policing involves changing
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Commander Jonathan Lewin provided the summary for the group that was also facilitated by Ed McGarrell and Captain Gary Lee.
Members asked whether they could ethically pilot predictive policing in just one area. If so, a cultural shift is necessary
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The group also discussed the need for data sharing and interoperable systems since crime does not respect agency boundaries.
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tools are necessary.
At the Second Predictive Policing Symposium, participants noted the importance of building a relationship with the community
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agencies should be involved in the predictive policing discussion. Other potential collaborators include police academies,
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From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. In 1965, he wrote about the power of demonstrations and "legislation written in the streets."
"I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance," Elouise Cobell said over the phone in mid-January from Washington, DC, as she prepared to testify against Interi
PÔRTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL--In their last full day of discussion and debate, the thousands of delegates attending the World Social Forum were asking themselves not only what they want but how to
In the next few weeks the Senate will hold hearings and vote on legislation that would outlaw the cloning of human embryos, either for the purpose of medical experimentation or the birth of a human being. The House already passed a similar bill in July. Until now the cloning debate has been viewed in Washington and the media as a classic struggle pitting social conservatives, antiabortion activists and the Catholic Church against the scientific community and progressive forces, with Republicans lined up on one side and Democrats on the other. Below the surface, however, another reality is beginning to take shape. Although reluctant to acknowledge it, some social conservatives and some left activists find common ground on the cloning issue [see Ralph Brave, "Governing the Genome," December 10, 2001]. An example of this convergence is a statement issued by sixty-seven prominent left progressives on January 23 supporting legislation to outlaw the cloning of human embryos.
The progressives backing this legislation worry that the market for human eggs that would be created by such research will provide unethical incentives for women to undergo health-threatening hormone treatment and surgery. They are also concerned about the increasing bioindustrialization of life by the scientific community and life science companies and are shocked that clonal human embryos have been patented and declared to be human inventions. On the other hand, few, if any, on the left oppose research on adult stem cells, which can be taken from people after birth and which have proved promising in animal studies and clinical trials. This approach poses none of the ethical, social or economic risks of strategies using embryo stem cells.
What about cloning a human being? Most members of Congress on both sides of the aisle would oppose a clonal birth. But for many in Congress, and in the scientific community and the biotech industry as well, opposition is solely based on the fact that the cloning technique is still unsafe and could pose a risk of producing a malformed baby. Far fewer members of either party would be against cloning a human baby were the procedure to become safe and reliable. After all, argue proponents, if an infertile couple desires to pass on their genetic inheritance by producing clones of one or both partners, shouldn't they be able to exercise their right of choice in the newly emerging biotech marketplace? Moreover, we are told not to be overly concerned, because even though the clone will have the exact same genetic makeup as the original, it will develop differently because its social and environmental context will be different from that of the donor.
What unites social conservatives and progressives on cloning issues is their commitment to the intrinsic value of life and their opposition to what they perceive to be a purely utilitarian perspective on biotech issues. To be sure, the social conservatives and left activists differ in the "life issues" they embrace and champion. The former crusade for what they regard as the rights of the unborn and family values and rail against infanticide, euthanasia and pornography. The latter speak out on behalf of the poor, women, abused children, fellow animals and the global environment. Both groups come together in opposition to cloning--but for different reasons.
Many on the left argue that with cloning the new progeny become the ultimate shopping experience--designed in advance, produced to specification and purchased in the biological marketplace. Cloning is, first and foremost, an act of production, not creation. Using the new biotechnologies, a living being is produced with the same degree of engineering as we have come to expect on an assembly line. For the first time in the history of our species, we can dictate, in advance, the final genetic constitution of the offspring. The child is no longer a unique creation--one of a kind--but rather an engineered reproduction.
The left also warns that cloning opens the way to a commercial eugenics civilization. Already life science companies have leaped ahead of the political game being played out in Congress and the media by patenting human embryos and stem cells, giving them upfront ownership and control of a new form of reproductive commerce, with frightening implications for the future of society. Many on the left worry that human cloning, embryonic stem cell research and, soon, designer babies, lay the groundwork for a new form of biocolonialism, in which global life science companies become the ultimate arbiters of the evolutionary process itself.
Neither the social conservatives nor the left activists are entirely comfortable with the new alliance, and they will continue to disagree in many areas. But on biotech issues both of these groups will increasingly break ranks with their traditional political affiliations--the social conservatives with market libertarians and the left activists with social democratic parties.
The biotech era will bring with it a very different constellation of political visions and social forces just as the industrial era did. The current debate over cloning human embryos and stem cell research is already loosening the old alliances and categories. It is just the beginning of the new biopolitics.
What would Jesus do? It's a no-brainer; he would leave the Christian Coalition, take a consulting job with Enron and then use his divine power to make George W. Bush president.
The New York Times's Martin Arnold calls the success of Bernard Goldberg's Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News "perhaps the most astonishing publishing event in the last 12 months." I concur. A number-one best-seller is indeed an impressive accomplishment for a clumsily written screed whose author never even bothers to prove his thesis, much less attempts to convince anyone who does not already know the conservative secret handshake.
Never mind that in their more genuine moments, conservatives from William Kristol to Pat Buchanan admit that the claim of liberal media bias is bogus, cooked up for political advantage. Conservative book buyers, fortunately for Goldberg, are rather late in getting the news. "Just turn on your TV set and it's there," the author, a twenty-eight-year veteran at CBS News, declares. In doing so, he echoes the line of many a know-nothing conservative before him. "There are certain facts of life so long obvious they would seem beyond dispute. One of these--that there is a liberal tilt in the media...," sayeth the editors of the Wall Street Journal. "The fact is everybody knows that Dan Rather is an egomaniacal liberal. Everybody knows that the major news networks lean to the left," chimes in Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online. Never mind, dear reader, that young Jonah was recently signed up by CNN, where he joins liberal Robert Novak and liberal Tucker Carlson as a regular commentator on what Tom DeLay calls the "Communist News Network." He can expect to compete with liberal lunatic Alan Keyes on MSNBC, who replaces liberal criminal Oliver North and liberal miniskirt model Laura Ingraham, and joins liberal carnival barker Chris Matthews, in being given his own show on that liberal network. Thank goodness for the fairandbalanced folks at Fox.
Taking time out from the 200-300 talk-radio programs that regularly feature authors of the conservative publishing house Regnery, which published his book, Goldberg appeared on Jeff Greenfield's Communist CNN program, where he told his host, "I could give you right now, Jeff, about 100 examples of liberal bias in the media that are current." Yet over the course of 230 pages, he manages to string together little more than one idiotic accusation after another. Goldberg reports, "Everyone to the right of Lenin is a 'right-winger' as far as media elites are concerned." He explains that the news bias comes from the same "dark region that produces envy and the unquenchable liberal need to wage class warfare." He insists, "If CBS News were a prison instead of a journalistic enterprise, three-quarters of the producers and 100 per cent of the vice-presidents would be Dan's bitches." Just about the only piece of actual news Goldberg produces is unproven and, I'm guessing, imaginary. According to the author, CBS News president Andrew Heyward once told him: "Look, Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left.... If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it."
Taking the conservative ideology of wealthy white male victimization to new heights, Goldberg pretends he has broken his pledge of omertà and suffered the horrifying consequences. He wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal attacking his colleagues. "So what happened?" he writes. "Well, as Tony Soprano might put it to his old pal Big Pussy Bompensiero in the Bada Bing! Lounge: Bernie G. opened his mouth to the wrong people--and he got whacked."
It's heartbreaking until you discover that while Goldberg admits that Heyward had every right to fire him for violating the terms of his contract, instead the boss whom "Bernie G." is either betraying or libeling in these pages found him a nice cushy job at 60 Minutes II and allowed him to serve out his time to qualify for a higher pension. Call me a liberal, but I believe the term "whack" carries a slightly different connotation among Mafia dons.
As for Dan's "bitches," this is likely a fantasy as well. The anchorman, according to Goldberg, "practically kissed Fidel Castro in front of the whole evening news staff when the dictator showed up at CBS News studios." Did I mention that Goldberg (though he'll probably deny it) "practically" beat my dog, raped my cat and exposed himself to a potted plant in front of the entire Nation staff? He "practically" did all this, by the way, before "practically" admitting that his book was cooked up in a few spare minutes to milk money from ignorant people willing to pay to see their prejudices confirmed. Go ahead, Bernie, "whack" me; baby needs a new pair of shoes.
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Speaking of liberals, George Will offered up yet another example recently of why the word "journalist" is considered so vicious an epithet among social scientists. Will has long been obsessed with education spending, which he finds wasteful and counterproductive. This leads him to twist arguments and statistics so shamelessly that one of his columns actually served as the subject of an article in the Journal of Statistics Education demonstrating how not to analyze SAT data.
Will's most recent foray into the topic is an almost perfect rewrite of a column he wrote a year ago. Writing on the Bear Left website (www.bear-left.com), Tim Francis-Wright notes that the College Board website contains at least three pages of warnings to journalists seeking to use state-level data, which Will ignores. He not only abuses the figures to denigrate the effects of investing in education, he constructs his entire argument on precisely two data points: test scores as reported by North Dakota and the District of Columbia. The divorced pundit distorts the implications of this tiny, intellectually immaterial comparison to support his own biased belief in strong nuclear families as the key determinant of educational success. Surprise, surprise.
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And speaking of the liberals at Enron, I could not follow this story were it not for the energetic reporting of the folks at Media Whores Online (www.mediawhoresonline.com) and the thoughtful analysis at Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo website (www.j-marshall.com/talk). Check 'em out.
Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post-9/11 world the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose District Attorney is Terence "Kayo" Hallinan, a progressive fellow. Indeed, in his 2000 re-election bid Hallinan survived years of abuse in the San Francisco Chronicle for supposedly being altogether too slack a prosecutor, with poor conviction rates and kindred offenses betokening softness on crime.
Yet this is the same Hallinan who's hit two gay AIDS activists with an escalating barrage of charges, currently amounting to forty-one alleged felonies and misdemeanors, all adding up to what he has stigmatized in the local press as "terrorism." That's a trigger word these days, as Sarah Jane Olson, a k a Kathleen Soliah, recently discovered when a judge put her away for twenty years to life for actions back in the 1970s.
Held in San Francisco County Jail since last November 28 are Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli. Neither man has been able to make bail, which Hallinan successfully requested to be set at $500,000 for Petrelis and $600,000 for Pasquarelli.
Why this astonishing bail? What it boils down to is that the two accused are dissidents notorious for raising all kinds of inconvenient, sometimes obscene hell about AIDS issues. They've long been detested by San Francisco's AIDS establishment, which Petrelis in particular has savaged as being disfigured by overpaid executives, ineffective HIV-prevention campaigns and all-round complacency and sloth.
They've taken kooky positions. Pasquarelli, for example, believes that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Petrelis hasn't scrupled to form alliances with right-wingers in Congress when it suits his tactical book. Being attacked by them can be an unpleasant experience. Who wants to get phoned in the middle of the night and be asked whether your wife has got your syphilitic dick in her mouth?
The two were thrown in jail because of an escalating campaign they launched late last year amid calls for an expansion of quarantining laws across the country, prompted by fears of bioterrorism. Petrelis and Pasquarelli took after an SF public health official, Jeffrey Klausner, for seeming to endorse quarantining of people with AIDS. They also assailed the media, notably the San Francisco Chronicle, for relaying what the two claimed were inflated statistics about increases in the rates of syphilis and HIV in San Francisco. The higher the stats, the more dollars flow to various AIDS bureaucracies. The Chronicle claimed tremulously that not only had its reporters been showered with filthy nocturnal calls to their homes but that there had been a bomb threat against the paper.
On the basis of what has surfaced so far, the charges and bail are way out of kilter with the facts of the case. Their severity defies logical explanation, unless we acknowledge the loathing Petrelis and Pasquarelli inspire in San Francisco's respectable element and among some well-known organizers.
Take Kate Sorensen, an AIDS activist who herself was held on $1 million bail for leading demonstrations outside the 2000 Republican convention in Philadelphia. The DA there took her to trial on three felonies, though she was only convicted of a misdemeanor. Such experiences have not evoked any solidarity with the San Francisco pair. Wrote Sorensen recently, "I will fight for our right to demonstrate. I will fight for our right to free speech. I will fight this police state, but I will not fight for you."
This self-righteous stance was elicited by an open letter of concern addressing the prosecution of Petrelis and Pasquarelli. Organized by the radical gay civil libertarian Bill Dobbs of Queer Watch, the open letter (go to www.openletteronline.com and look under "Politics & Activism," then "Petrelis-Pasquarelli") has been signed by hundreds, including many well-known gay figures like Harvey Fierstein, Scott Tucker, Barbara Smith and Judy Greenspan. The letter questions the motivation for the charges and makes the scarcely extremist demand that the two get fair legal treatment and reasonable bail.
Moderate though the terms of the letter are, it has aroused much fury from the San Francisco gay establishment, whose animus against Petrelis and Pasquarelli was what apparently prompted Hallinan to have the pair charged and arrested in the first place. On November 15 Martin Delaney of Project Inform, Mike Shriver of the mayor's office and fifteen others published a letter in the Bay Area Reporter urging people to pressure Hallinan, demanding "full prosecution of Pasquarelli, Petrelis and their collaborators."
Petrelis and Pasquarelli have a potent posse howling for their heads. "They fucked with the wrong people," said a health official quoted in the San Francisco Examiner on January 23. The "wrong people" include a broad swath of liberals and leftists in and out of government, the AIDS establishment and media figures.
Time was when a decent death threat used to be a badge of honor in the Fourth Estate. Jimmy Breslin recently recalled to Dobbs his glorious "Son of Sam" days, when violent threats were so routine at the New York Daily News that the paper's switchboard operator was wont to ask callers whether they were registering "general death threats" or "specific death threats for Mr. Breslin."
Granted, Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein is a terror survivor of "Attack by Lizard in the LA Zoo," and his wife, Sharon Stone, is the marquee celebrity for one of Petrelis's targets, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, but Bronstein should remember that Daily News phone operator and get off his high horse.
Hallinan's got a radical past and even radical pretensions. He knows as well as anyone that conspiracy charges have long been used to smash protest. And he knows as well as anyone that militant protest is at the cutting edge of social conscience. It's easy to grandstand about the foul tactics, the obscenities, the all-round vulgarity of Pasquarelli and Petrelis, but should this add up to a demand that they be thrown into prison for years? Of course it shouldn't. Judge Parker Meeks Jr. should resist the entreaties of the posse and cut the preposterous bail drastically or release them on their own recognizance. Hallinan should get his sense of perspective back, and drop the drastic charges.


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Before showing a Power Point presentation on unhealthy eating habits and the rise of obesity in the United States last Wednesday, Sag Harbor Elementary School parent Susan Lamontagne dropped dozens of bite-sized chocolates onto the wooden table where board of education members sat facing an uncharacteristically large crowd. The candies fell to the table with loud thuds, causing board members to lean back in their chairs.
"This is just to show that I'm not totally against this stuff," Lamontagne explained as a disclaimer before proceeding with the rest of her presentation, which outlined what she referred to as a health crisis in the United States.
Lamontagne attended the April 18 board meeting, along with a handful of other Sag Harbor mothers, including youth sports coordinator Allison Scanlon, Barbara Kinnier of the Wellness Foundation in East Hampton, and Barbara Clark, a member of the school district's Wellness Committee. The mothers came en masse to speak out against a proposed revision to the school's relatively new Wellness Policy, which was unanimously adopted by the board in November.
"If you reverse the current policy, you'd be moving backwards on an issue that every other school is moving forward on," Clark said.
"I feel very strongly that we should keep [the Wellness Policy] as is, even strengthen it," Scanlon added. "Any measures to allow food and beverages back into the cafeteria that contain high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners would be detrimental to students and staff."
The board was set to discuss changes to two specific paragraphs of the newly adopted policy, which were proposed by board member Sandi Kruel.
Rather than strictly limit the presence of "non-nutritive" sweeteners like sucralose, saccharine and aspartame — which the current policy now does — the revision suggests those items be sold "at a minimum." Similarly, it suggests foods containing hydrogenated or trans-fats or high-fructose corn syrup — also barred by the current policy — "only be sold at the school if another product cannot be substituted."
More specifically, the discussion seemed to hinge on jelly and diet Lipton Green Tea.
Kruel said she was first made aware of issues with the current Wellness Policy when a parent complained that her daughter, who is diabetic, doesn't have any drink options in the cafeteria now that the Wellness Policy is in place. The student used to drink Diet Lipton Green Tea, which contains artificial sweeteners and is therefore prohibited by the school's Wellness Policy.
According to Kruel, failing to provide more sugar-free drink options — beyond water — for children with diabetes is essentially a form of discrimination.
"We have vegan options and gluten-free options," she said, comparing diabetes to certain other dietary restrictions. "I'm not asking for Diet Pepsi," she continued. "But to tell someone to just drink water is kind of pompous, if you ask me."
Furthermore, Kruel said she pushed for more leniency regarding high-fructose corn syrup because the school's chef recently expressed concern over the fact that he's technically unable to serve the school's "no-cost" lunch option — a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — now that high-fructose corn syrup has been prohibited. It was one of the main ingredients in the jelly he had been using.
[District Superintendent Dr. John Gratto said in an interview this week that he spoke with the school's chef and made sure that peanut butter sandwiches (without the jelly) and apples could be substituted for PB&J.]
"I don't think we have the right to say absolutely no to everything," she added. And for this reason, Kruel said the main issue is that students need to learn how to make educated choices. "I teach my children: everything in moderation, because you're just not going to be able to walk into an IGA or King Kullen and not find high-fructose corn syrup."
School Board President Mary Anne Miller would agree on one point: that education is a key component to fostering the health and wellness of students within the Sag Harbor School District.
However, she and Kruel fall on two very different sides of the green-tea-and-jelly debate.
Miller, who was responsible in large part for crafting the new wellness policy, firmly believes that the strict elimination of ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners is non-negotiable.
"I am opposed to revising the policy because I don't think we should lower the bar, I think those things can be dealt with," she explained. "These are not challenges to me, and I think we can get around this without limiting choices."
She said the problems posed by green tea and jelly can be mitigated with more creativity and careful planning when it comes to purchasing. Though it takes time to search for more healthy items, and they may not be as cheap as fructose-filled jam, she added that the school could certainly buy a jelly made without high-fructose corn syrup, as well sugar-free drinks that don't contain artificial sweeteners.
According to the district's Business Director Janet Verneuille, the school district is currently in the process of bidding out food items for next year.
"Our intent is to include a jelly product that meets the district's required specifications as part of this bid for the 2012-13 school year," Verneuille wrote in an email. "We are optimistic that a vendor will win the contract to provide the desired jelly product at the lowest price to the cafeteria."
The shift in the school's approach to health and nutrition would bring about a "culture change" that Miller said she always anticipated when she sat down to write the Wellness Policy — she never expected these changes to be easy.
However, she continued, the obesity epidemic in the United States is so pervasive that making these blanket changes, in her eyes, is non-negotiable.
"This is an issue all over the country, school districts are trying to raise the bar with regard to health and wellness," she continued. "I don't think we can not do it."
As she stood before the members of the Sag Harbor School Board, Susan Lamontagne pointed to slides depicting information gathered by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Obesity in the United States has doubled in the last 20 years, she said, and the instance of diabetes has tripled.
She picked up handfuls of candies and dropped them back onto the table, causing more "thuds," as well as growing alarm among board members, for whom the candy was getting too close for comfort.
That was her point.
"We're surrounded by this stuff!" Lamontagne exclaimed. "It makes all of us parents who are trying to do the good thing look like the bad guys."
"I commend you for the changes we're already making," she continued, voicing support for the district's current Wellness Plan. "It's so vitally important that we have healthier foods in school, without high-fructose corn syrup."


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Some folks have already been playing with this Toolkit, including Steve Hassenplug, the folks at HiTechnic (check out their Downloads page), Guy Ziv over on nxtasy.org, and Jason King who has already developed some Text manipulation blocks, as well as myself (although I must admit, the others on this list have done significantly more than me at this point). More than one person is already on the way to adding proper array blocks into NXT-G, as well as math blocks, special display blocks, etc. The gloves are coming off…
The Toolkit allows a lot more than just making new NXT-G blocks as well: it will allow you to program the NXT in LabVIEW itself, as well as communicate in realtime between the NXT brick and the computer. Essentially, it allows you to control the NXT just like you would other hardware, using LabVIEW controls and indicators. Here's a screenshot of a program someone else has written to make Spike "do his thing", all under LabVIEW. Notice how the data from the sensors (like the sound sensor) can be sent back to be displayed while the program is running, and commands (like the "distance to strike" setting) can be sent from the computer to the NXT program. That whole sound sensor graph is programmed by using just three symbols in a loop (the light gray rounded rectangles): essentially you just tell the NXT to send the value of the sound sensor to a graph ("history"), and LabVIEW does the rest for you.
I must confess I had not used LabVIEW before starting to work with the Toolkit, but I've rapidly grown to like it. NXT-G is a great language to learn some things under, and for a long time folks have liked Robolab on the RCX and NXT… and it looks like with the Toolbox, NI is opening the doors to the next level of graphical code complexity.
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Does it run o MacOS X?
- Dec 6, 2006, 2:48:00 AM
- Tony said...
Looks like they're offering a free? student edition? Awesome! Unfortunately, it's windows only. Bummer.
- Dec 6, 2006, 2:52:00 AM
You have always been able to run LabView in Robolab and can now do so with version 2.9 on the RCX and NXT.
Why does everyone see this as a NEW feature.
Yes, Robolab does run on Mac OS X.
- Dec 6, 2006, 10:32:00 AM
Sounds like someone's a little defensive of robolab :-)
What do you mean you've "always been able to run labview in robolab"? That doesn't make any sense.
- Dec 6, 2006, 10:38:00 AM
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This is not Robolab... nor is Robolab the same thing as LabVIEW. LabVIEW is a much more powerful and complete programming environment than Robolab. What's new is that this Toolkit allows you to run LabVIEW, with all the bells and whistles that the firmware is able to support, directly on the NXT.
Hehe. I'll never have to use those "jump" and "land" blocks again.
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So scientists involved in forecasting worldwide are now trembling in their boots. The world has turned full circle. 300 years ago you were burned as a witch if you could see the future. Now your jailed for not being to see the future.
The jailing of the Italian scientists for not getting a forecast 100% right but using probabilities is bloody scary.
Our department run two forecasting models , one for Tiadal storm surge and the other for flash flooding.
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- Awesome Foundation!!! Review by Tracy
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I was introduced to this foundation years ago from my dermatologist and aesthetician and it is by far the best on the market for coverage and for oily skin....a little bit goes a long way....the only drawback is that I wish it was available in more shades the Satin II has but other than that well worth the $$$$ you will spend.
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- Color Selection Limited Review by Jeanna
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I have oily skin and 3 out of the 4 seasons I am lighter than golden light, the lightest shade available for this product. I love GloMinerals but I am super confused why the shades available vary SO MUCH by product. I could probably write this same comment under every product in the bases department.
Note from glo: Thanks for your feedback, Jeanna. We will pass your suggestion for a wider range of shades on to our Product Development team.
(Posted on 4/21/14)
- Best foundation ever! Review by Hillary
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I switched to Glo MInerals from Jane Iredale. I have also used Urban Decay, Merle Norman, and Laura Mercier. This foundation is by far, the best I've ever used. It seriously stays on all day. I have VERY oily skin...like disgustingly oily. I also have a little acne around my chin and forehead, and I have some sun spots on my cheeks. This stuff makes me look flawless. Iv'e gotten soo many compliments since I started using it. It hasn't broken my skin out like other foundations have in the past. The little bit of acne I do have is hormonal. I definitely recommend this stuff to anyone who likes a matte finish. It's perfection.
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- AMAZING! Only liquid foundation I will use Review by Priscilla
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I was introduced to Glo about 3 years ago. There formulas are life changing and this product is the only full coverage foundation I can wear. I normally wear the powder and concealer for everyday use, but if I have a meeting, event, or I am going out I wear the Matte foundation. This stuff will not budge, and it won't break you out.I have systemic Lupus and I get a red inflammation rash on my cheeks occasionally, and this is the only thing that covers it completely I get so many compliments on my skin when I wear this, and one tube literally lasted me a year. Such a great product and definitely worth the price! I will continue to purchase this for as long as it is made.
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- lack of colors Review by Britt
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have used the satin formula and loved it. In fact, i feel comfortable saying it's the BEST I've ever used. And i've tried all price ranges. It has my perfect shade and all. HOWEVER, I have very oily skin and it caused my skin to always be broken out. covered up the break outs fantasticly, but nonetheless. I would give anything for the matte to come in all the ranges satin does. I'm a cosmetologist and want to promote this product, but it's hard to with such a limited range of people it would match to. PLEASE COME OUT WITH ALL THE SHADES IN MATTE THAT YOU HAVE IN SATIN
Note from gloProfessional: Thank you for your thoughtful feedback, Britt. We will pass it along to our product development team.
(Posted on 3/21/13)
- This really works Review by Julie
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So impressed with this foundation, I have been addicted to the pressed base for a couple years now, but never thought about trying the matte liquid for my oily skin. It actually works and I don't break out from it. Love it!
(Posted on 7/9/12)
- Too Drying Review by Joann
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This product is very cakey for someone with moderately oily skin. I have the typical t-zone shine which needs an oil control product. Unfortunately, this one did not work with my skin. It looked cakey, dry and did not blend into my skin at all. Sticking to the loose base instead.
Note from gloProfessional: Thank you for sharing your experience, Joann. We're so sorry to hear it has been less than excellent. You are correct that this formulation is most well-suited for those with extremely oily skin. We've adjusted the description to reflect that. Thank you again.
(Posted on 6/21/12)
- Almost perfect Review by Kate
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This foundation goes on smoothly, gives great coverage and has great staying power - even on my oily skin. I gave it a 4 out of 5 because I have extremely fair skin, and even though I ordered the lightest color, it's still a bit dark for my skin.
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- The best foundation! Review by J W
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Truly the best foundation. Makes you look flawless and not made up. You can feel your skin and your skin can breathe. Does not look cakey and gives enough coverage for troubled skin. Perfect for oily-acne prone skin. I don't break out with this at all. You all should try. I have tried all foundation out there and this is it!
(Posted on 10/28/09)
- Exquisite Foundation Review by KLynn
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I have tried so many foundations and also have been a fan of the loose and pressed powder by Glo Minerals. I cannot believe the exceptional, full coverage of this Matte II foundation without having it feel heavy on my skin. I have oily, fair skin and this is an unbelievalbe formula. All Glo products are amazing. Sometimes I apply the pressed powder over the Matte II for added coverage. Never heavy or appearing "made up." I'm a HUGE FAN!
(Posted on 6/28/09)
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Royal news is icing on Christmas cake
Published at 12:24, Wednesday, 05 December 2012
WHAT better way to round off what has been, by anyone's standards, a great year for Britain, than news that a royal baby is on the way?
And not just any royal baby: but the baby that will secure the monarchy potentially into the next century.
Recession and austerity aside, 2012 has truly been a year to remember: from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, to the Olympics: and news of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy surely is the triple whammy of this annus mirabilis.
The anti-monarchist brigade should also be delighted: it gives them the opportunity to huff and puff in republican outrage about the iniquities of a hereditary monarchy – and no doubt the hackneyed, clichés about the "parasitical" royals/drain on taxpayers' money/yawn yawn, will be coming fast and furious.
Only the most misanthropic curmudgeon in the mould of Ebenezer Scrooge could fail to be pleased at this happy news, which comes at the start of the festive season of goodwill to all men.
In the short time since they have been married, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have shown themselves to be a most agreeable and popular asset to The Firm; and with the Queen now well into her ninth decade – and the Duke of Edinburgh in his tenth – the thought of a new generation of royals is to be welcomed.
Without knowing them, it is difficult to imagine that William and Kate will be anything other than exemplary parents
to the new baby. The new rules on succession, which have effectively brought an end to the system of primogeniture, are a timely nod to modern mores; and if the royal baby is a girl, then the idea of a future queen is a welcome one indeed.
The arrival of a new baby should also, it is to be hoped, bring an end to the witterings of those who have called for the monarchy to skip a generation, and for William to succeed to the throne instead of Prince Charles after the Queen's day.
Not only will Prince Charles be highly likely to prove a good king but Prince William should over the next couple of decades be allowed to enjoy the undoubted pleasures of family life, without the added burden of being king. With Charles as king, whenever that time comes, William will be able to do just that.
Our queen, of course, rose magnificently to the challenge when she succeeded to the throne in her 20s; but with luck there should be no need for such a burden to be thrust prematurely on to the shoulders of Prince William.
The royal pregnancy is yet another fillip for the country. We are living in difficult times, but this year has been one of great national pride. This week's news is the icing on the Christmas cake.
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I have to agree with Simon Hunter shame it takes a none Brit to sing our praises!! Im personally for the Royal Family well the imediate ones that is.
On a local issue whats the chances they dint choose FGH for the choice of birth place?
Wonderful article and they echo my sentiments perfectly!!
We should be proud that we are subjects of the greatest monarchy in the world. Many countries are envious of our royal family and so they should be!! I can not wait until the royal birth (i am hoping that its a little girl, they look much more cuter than boys) I already have my bunting at the ready for what promises to be another wonderful royal occassion in our lives.
God bless em all!!
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The Alexandria Heritage Trail is a unique 23-mile urban trail, exploring Alexandria's archaeology and history. Check the Heritage Trail Locations and look for Trail signs at some of these locations. The Guidebook, Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail, will enhance your experience.
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