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Charles Andrew Bothwell (born December 13, 1981), better known by his stage name Astronautalis, is an American alternative hip hop artist currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After gaining some recognition in local circles in Jacksonville, Florida and competing at Scribble Jam, Astronautalis self-released his debut album, You and Yer Good Ideas, in 2003. He eventually signed with Fighting Records and the record was re-released in 2005, followed by his second album, The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters, in 2006.
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The adjacent side of a right (left? Then again Corzine is a Wall Street hack anyway) triangle over its hypotenuse.
When did I ever say government workers do anything at the speed I would like? And I never said it would take DAYS; you made it plural. I said it would take ONE day. And in so-called "right-to-work" states (ironic because these same people who make "right-to-work" laws worship Ayn Rand, who argues that there is no right to work) a boss can fire you for taking a day to go get an ID if he or she was that heartless. You shouldn't have to choose between your vote and your job.
Unless he was using roids I don't see why you should be DQed for using a drug that makes you worse at something. If anything that's bonus points for him.
"Adam- Why the drama, missing several days of work' LMAO. If groups can drive voters to the polls can't they drive them to get ID's? How do these people enter a Government building that requires a Photo ID. The Left wants to continue the Chicago style voting where people live forever. "
Wiseguy: The drama of missing several days of work means you'll most likely get fired, ESPECIALLY if your boss supports the guy you're NOT voting for. As for driving people to get IDs, that solves one of the problems. I wrote a post further down in the comments explaining some of the other ones (for example, you need a birth certificate to get a photo ID in some states and vice versa. Some of those things cost money and money is a poll tax and poll taxes are unconstitutional). Plus, they make it far more difficult to register new voters, something which wouldn't do anything to combat "voter fraud."
Also, the penalties for getting caught are enough of a deterrant. $10,000 fine and 5 years in jail worth a single fraudulent vote?
Same day registration.
DJ Jaws, for a lot of people it takes a whole day to get an ID. Some people have no car and live in a place with poor mass transit options, so they have to get a ride, find a series of buses, to ride, or save money for a cab. This could require several days' work. And then, their bosses might fire them for missing a days work to go to the DMV and get a voter ID.
Oh, and here's one more thing. While you need your birth certificate to get a photo ID, you need a photo ID to get a copy of your birth certificate. See where if you don't have a photo ID you can't even get one to begin with?
And in Texas, they don't allow college student IDs or military IDs, as acceptable photo ID for voting, but they DO allow NRA membership cards.
I posted this somewhere; now I'm going to share it with all of you:
I'm sure you've been hearing about a lot of the things Republicans have done under the guise of preventing "voter fraud." They make up rampant conspiracy claims to try and justify their laws, which will do nothing to reduce fraud (which represents about 7 votes on average in each state over a ten year period of ALL elections, which is statistically less than one millionth of all votes cast) but will certainly suppress the votes of the elderly, college students, the disabled, the poor, and minority voters.
And it goes beyond voter ID laws. In Wisconsin (the "model" voter ID state), they made it intentionally hard to get the ID. First, Scott Walker wanted to close DMVs in Democratic-majority counties, then he ordered DMV workers not to offer a free ID unless asked directly, and then ordered for the firing of anyone who seemed somewhat helpful. And besides, in order to get this ID, you need a copy of your birth certificate or a passport, both of which cost money. That, in addition to the transportation cost exceeding that which you use to get to your polling station, is an unconstitutional poll tax.
In addition, they're making it harder to operate voter registration drives by demanding that all names are turned in within 48 hours. If anything, that will account for MORE mistakes and as a result FEWER voter identities verified. This is an obvious move to suppress votes and will do NOTHING to prevent fraud.
In addition, they're going about voter purges and insisting on using data that's flawed. Last I checked, you're innocent until proven guilty and the state has no right to purge you unless all evidence points to the fact that you're ineligible. They're purging eligible US citizens, including decorated World War II veterans. Provocoteur James O'Keefe released a video where he purported to show non-citizens voting but the people he accused of being non-citizens were, in fact, citizens.
When we bring these facts up to them, they tell us that the mere ease of voter fraud makes these measures necessary. Well I counter this: it's easy to rape or assault someone; does this mean we should go around castrating and amputating people? The punishment for voter fraud (a $10,000 fine and 5 years in jail) is enough of a deterrent.
Reactionaries like to claim that we like the slogan "vote early and vote often" even though I don't know who said that. I do, however, have a quote from Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the modern "conservative" movement:
"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
See where I'm getting at? They know fraud isn't a problem. They do, however, know that the only way they can stay in power is to suppress the vote.
(oh yeah, and the ACORN case was a case of an employee being lazy and covering his own tracks; he was promptly fired for it)
If that's the case, why should the government use the word "marriage" in its contracts at all?
THAT would be an act of intolerance, just like the mayors who don't like Chick Fil-A.
I'm a liberal and I'm against censorship. The only people I see promoting censorship are anti-gay groups in Africa.
If you're a gay hater and want to boycott the bakery, be my guest. You wouldn't be the first anti-gay person to boycott something because of their views on sexual orientation. In fact, anti-gay groups were boycotting things LONG before pro-gay groups were. Go ahead and protest outside their bakery. If it was my bakery I'd try to create dialogue with you, not shut you up.
Jon Stewart did a great piece on this.
The same thing I'm saying to Menino and Emmanuel - You can't stop the company from setting up shop.
What's interesting is 20-30% of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi still want to ban interracial marriages.
Except that it's not a mosque and it's not in the middle of a terrorist attack site. It's a cultural center that's two blocks north of the site. Also, go look up "Murfreesboro Mosque." You'll see that there are plenty of people who are intolerant of Muslims choosing to worship somewhere in their community. They're not merely saying that Islam is false, which is not intolerance but arrogance, they're trying to get that mosque shut down.
Show me one instance of gays committing violence against anti-gay people and I'll show you five instances of violence against gays.
They also fired a Muslim manager because he refused to pray in Jesus' name.
We're talking about giving people options to live in denser, more walkable communities with more transit options if large enough, but the right wing says that giving people this freedom is really a nefarious UN plot to take away "individual freedom" even though giving people the option, or FREEDOM, to live in dense communities is PROMOTING individual freedom. Of course the right has no problem dictating that communities must be sprawling and car centric. Somehow this dictation is "freedom."
Where have I heard ANY of this? And when have I wished cancer or death on people who disagree with me? If you want to read death wishes, go read some of the anti-Obama comments posted on Fox Nation, or go read about the Tea Party rally in Maryland against Senator Cardin where someone held up a sign wishing for Obama's death AND the death of his family. Go read about the pastors and politicians who have cited Psalm 109 in regards to Obama. And read about the anti-gay rally in the Bronx where a pastor said that gays were "worthy of death."
The only thing I have wished is for them to accept those people they invite into their personal lives regardless of their beliefs. And if I did read that a liberal would wish death onto someone I would puke because that's not what I believe in.


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Only on the menu for the months of October and November, this Pumpkin Custard ($8) is the autumn highlight at Cha-An. More
Only on the menu for the months of October and November, this Pumpkin Custard ($8) is the autumn highlight at Cha-An. More
There are not many Japanese restaurants in NYC that make mochi in-house—the sort of fresh, plush, and just chewy enough mochi that I crave. So I often find myself visiting Cha-An when said craving strikes. More
Cha-An is known for Japanese-inspired desserts, encompassing flavors such as sakura, matcha, and black sesame. But do not overlook the Chocolate Souffle ($9), a mainstay on the sweets menu. More
For the food alone, afternoon tea isn't a steal. With prices starting in the 20s and running up to the 50s, taking tea is more of a special treat where you pay for the atmosphere as much as the food. And, of course, the luxury to lounge around for hours with no bother—an experience that is well worth it. Today we give you our eight favorite places for afternoon tea in New York, from luxurious hotels to casual tea shops. More
The pastry chefs at Cha-An love using puff pastry; that one component plays an important part in a good number of their desserts. More
Sweet Potato Apple Cake ($9) is a new dessert on Cha-An's winter menu. It's sort of a pie-meets-tarte tatin, elegant and quiet. More
At the recently opened Victory Garden you can now get iced Hibiscus-Rose Tea ($3.50). The rose flavor comes in quite subtly, just tempering the tart and cool hibiscus. I prefer it without a sweetener—best to keep the drink light and the flavors pure—but you can ask for a little honey if you want. More
At Cha-An, the Earl Grey Flan ($7.50) occasionally appears on the specials menu—but even if you don't see it there, ask the waitress and she just might have a few extra hiding in the kitchen. More
Who doesn't like cream? Freshly whipped, thick and barely sweetened is how I prefer it, whether it's topping off a lush banana cream pie at Blue Smoke Bake Shop or served atop the chocolate mousse from Buvette. But it's excellent in all forms, including at Otto, where you get straight-up cream in the form of the Huckleberry-Mascarpone Cream Gelato. Break out the spoons! More
The Red Bean Butter Toast ($9) at Cha-An is substantial enough to count as a meal, so keep that in mind when you order. A three inch-tall cut of a remarkably pillowy soft bread is housemade and slightly sweet; it's given a light toast in the oven and topped with mashed and then whipped tsubushian, otherwise known as sweetened red bean paste. More
Matcha is an incredibly versatile ingredient, and New York restaurants and cafes have made good use of its potential. From warm matcha and buckwheat drinks to chocolate miso cakes topped with a matcha shiro-an, the possibilities are endless. Here are five matcha sweets we love. Let us know if we've missed your favorites! More
Ice cream, sorbets, and gelati. They're hardly the main focus of restaurant desserts, but often play an important supporting role, without which the dessert would not be nearly as good. From a quenelle of bold sake ice cream to pair with tempura rice pudding at 15 East, to ginger-lime ice cream and sticky toffee pudding (finished with fresh grated lime zest!) at Veritas, click through to find the five restaurant desserts we love where the ice cream is just as good as the star of the plate. More
We've mentioned Cha-An frequently in the past, most often for the lunch deal and sweet takes on classic Japanese desserts. A little-known offering at Cha-An is the Afternoon Tea, perhaps the cheapest in the city at $18 per person. More
There are times when it seems like you just can't do a decent sit down Japanese restaurant for $10 or less. And then you meet Cha-An and its $10 lunch menu and swear that this must be the best Japanese lunch deal in the city. More
For lunch today, winter commands "Set A" from Cha-An, a $16 prix fixe centered around one cozy bowl of porridge. It's a 15-grain rice porridge, and includes (among many other grains) red and brown rice, buckwheat, barley, and millet. It's the sort of dish you want after a hectic day or when you feed a need to revive your health. More
[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] At Cha An, a precise and neatly composed bowl of Zenzai ($8.50) starts with chilled matcha soup, bright and slightly sweetened, a trio of shiratama at the base, little orbs of chewy mochi balls. Above... More
[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] We have featured Cha An once before on this Lunch for One column, but we're back again with a look at their recently launched Summer Special lunch sets. The set runs $17 and includes any... More
[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] During summer I consume cold matcha-based drinks as frequently as I do coffee-based drinks—and at the top of my list is the Matcha Float ($7) from Cha An, where the drink easily doubles as dessert.... More
[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] At Cha-An in the East Village, a trio of cookies ($2 each) are an ideal accompaniments to a cup of afternoon tea. Dusty, crumbly shortbreads, sugar-dusted, in flavors of Black Sesame, Chocolate, and Matcha. The... More
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2006 The Air Force will begin retagging its staff directorates throughout the service this week to bring them more on line with those of the other military services and joint commands so it can operate more effectively with them to support warfighters.
The so-called "A-staff" structure will be introduced in Headquarters Air Force on Feb. 1, and all major Air Force commands will implement it by May 1, Brig. Gen. Keye Sabol, director of manpower, organization and resources, told the American Forces Press Service.
The concept is similar to that already in place in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, the Joint Staff and the combatant commands, dividing duties and responsibilities by functional areas, Sabol explained.
The new structure includes the six basic organizations that cross all service and command lines: A1 for manpower and personnel; A2, intelligence; A3, air, space and logistics operations; A4, logistics; A5, plans and requirements; and A6, communications.
In addition, it includes A7 for installations and mission support; and A8 for strategic plans and programs.
Also, in an effort to elevate the visibility and application of lessons learned throughout the Air Force, planners are introducing a new A9 function: analysis, assessments and lessons learned.
The Air Staff and major commands may combine these functions where they determine it makes sense because of size or functionality, but will retain the A-staff numbering system when doing so, Sabol said.
These new A-staff designators will replace the "two letter system" that's been in place since 1970 and varies at different command levels throughout the Air Force. For example, the logistics function at Headquarters Air Force is currently referred to as "IL," although different major commands refer to it as "LG" or other designations.
The new organization will help bring consistency throughout the Air Force and within DoD. For example, airmen serving in a personnel or "A1" functional area would communicate with their Army and Marine Corps counterparts in the "G1" or "S1" directorates, their Navy counterparts in the "N1" directorate or their "J1" counterparts on the Joint Staff, Sabol said.
These numbered designations go back to the early 1900s, when the U.S. military began adopting them based on a successful model used by the Prussian Army, Richard Baker, a historian with the Army Military History Institute at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., told AFPS.
Sabol called the Air Force's adoption of the structure an exciting development that will promote communication within the Air Force and with its services and joint military organizations.
The initiative is part of an ongoing transformation within the Air Force to tailor it to the needs of the 21st century and beyond, he said. "We have the best Air Force in the world, and we are trying to make it better," he said.
"Not only will this reorganization improve communication, both horizontally and vertically, but it will make us more joint and enable us to provide more support for the warfighter," he said.


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I believe the woman in this pic is my grandmother Croline Louise Grave pregnant with my father Roland Ashton Grave, born King Island 1887.
Also in the Naturalist's collection of pics is a pic of a "hunter" and a horse reputed to be a Mr Greave (as written on the original). I believe the man to be Harry Grave (not greave) the husband of the pregnant woman just mentioned.
regards, Ashton Grave (born 1949)
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Photograph - Wallaby Hunter's House, King Island, 1887 Reg. No: MM 91114
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- One of thirty-two black and white photographs in an album [two are loose] taken by A J Campbell during a Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria expedition to King Island. The album also includes maps of King Island in the inside front cover and back page and numerous newspaper clippings relating to the expedition. One of the newspaper clippings, written by one of the members of the party, documents the mission of the expedition thus: 'It is our intention, before the introduction of numerous foreign plants and animals rendered it impossible to do so, to ascertain as precisely as we could in the short time at our disposal the fauna and flora indigenous to the island.'
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- Sepia toned photograph on black card with gold edging.
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- Coastal bush scene with a man, woman and two children in front of their timber hut. The woman is holding one of the children in her arms. The house was made from materials salvaged from the wreckage of the ship Loch Leven which went aground on the northern tip of King Island in 1871.
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- Transfer from Museum Victoria Museum Archive, 2006
|200 mm (Height), 250 mm (Width)
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|The Field Naturalist Trip to King Island, 1887, Field Naturalists Exploration to King Island, 1887, Field Naturalists Explorations Party to King Island, 1889, Archibald James Campbell, Naturalist (1853-1929), A.J. Campbell Collection, Childhood & Youth Collection, Domestic & Community Life Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Transport Collection, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, Sustainable Futures Collection
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|Original Caption:
|The hunter's house, built of the wreck of the "Loch Leven"
|Organisations Depicted:
|Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
|Photograph: Sepia; 10 in. x 8 in.
|Place & Date Depicted:
|King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, 1887
|Archibald Campbell, Australia, 1887
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|Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, Kent Island Group, Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, 1887
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- Archibald James Campbell, Naturalist (1853-1929)
- A.J. Campbell Collection
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eBay Listing: 1963 Cadillac DeVille Convertible
"Cadillac," the word, means something that is an outstanding example of its kind, especially in terms of luxury, quality, and size. And historically, Cadillac has always been closely associated with those three terms. Regardless of definitions, or dimensions, and regardless of Cadillac's standing then or now, we love Cadillacs for what they represent in America. It is a brand that has continued to represent excellence and luxury.
The 1990 classic gangster film Goodfellas knows all too well about the Cadillac reputation. A sixteen-year-old wise guy by the name of Henry Hill uttered one line enthusiastically about Cadillacs that is also shared by yours truly who also parked Cadillacs at the tender age of sixteen.
"Here I was this sixteen year old kid, I could barely see over the steering wheel, and I'm parking Cadillacs!" -Henry Hill and Neil J. Helfgot.
Post WWII Cadillac was a force to be reckoned with. Harley Earl, and for a time Bill Mitchell, were amongst the list of great designers that pored their designer souls into the brand. They pumped out more chrome, and pastel than any other automaker, and the car buying population responded. We view the 1959 Cadillac as a peak of excellence, but it also is one car that is becoming near impossible to procure given its pricing bracket. So what comes next if all the 59's are out of contention? Well, 1960 and beyond is a great place to start. Thus, we looked high and low to find a relatively original drop top "Caddy, to set the pulses racing.
This 1963 Cadillac Convertible got our attention. It is well photographed, and appears to represent as relatively original, which is nearly irresistible in an old Cadillac. Elvis would've been proud to drive this Cadillac. It is one we wish we could call our own.
Bid now on this peak of excellence, a 1963 Cadillac DeVille Convertible. Auction ends Aug 17, 2014 12:15 (PDT)
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it is a 1964 caddy not a 1960
it's a 63… trust me, a 63.
your both wrong its 1963 deville,and the eldo had a 3in crome strip along the rocker panel
THIS IS A 1963 Cadillac no questions asked…done….finished….it's a 63. period
My grandfather owned a 62 , same exterior color with a saddle color interior. I washed the car many times. The interior on this 63 does not appear orginal? Keep in mind , Im comparing it to many memories of the 62.
Im sure there were some model year changes.
yes there were changes every model year.
Great looking car, I had one in 2006, and felt like the king until it blew a valve en route to Ft. Lauderdale at Yehaw Junction.That was enough to end the affair, although I've had several other Caddies since.
Whoever wrote the copy–the designer is HARLEY Earl–not HARVEY!
is this car still for sale and how much
Just beautiful. I love the old Caddy's and my wife would look lovely driving around in this. Very nice car
Yes Tom, my car is still for sale and you can call me at 239 285-7555
I too like Caddy's. Ironicaly I have a beatiful '68 Deville Convertible that is for sale. You can call me at 570-606-8081 or e-mail me for additional information.


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Posted: November 27, 2012|
4.20pm UPDATE: People are being asked to avoid flooded roads and be prepared for traffic delays during peak times.
Some of the county's main commuter routes along the path of the river remain under water today and are likely to stay closed for some time.
The latest information from the Environment Agency is that it's likely to take several days at least for the water to drain away.
The Environment Agency reported tonight that at 4:30 pm today the level at the Gloucester Gauge was 4.3 metres and steady.
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A peak level of between 4.3 and 4.4 metres is expected to occur tomorrow morning.
This means the roads, including the A417 at Maisemore and the B4213 Hawbridge, are likely to remain closed for several days.
Routes around the centre of Gloucester are also likely to be affected this evening as the River Severn continues to swell.
There's still a lot of standing water on routes all around the county and there are a number of minor roads inaccessible.
Gloucestershire Highways is signposting closures on main commuter routes and diversions are in place.
However, traffic delays during rush hour tonight and again in the morning are likely, particularly in Gloucester city centre and the north west of the county.
Drivers are being urged to avoid known flooded routes, to allow extra time for their journeys and to avoid travelling in peak periods if possible.
Gloucestershire County Council has asked the Highways Agency to stop planned night working on the M50 so the motorway will now remain open to help alleviate the situation overnight.
Jason Humm, Area Highway Manager, said: "Unfortunately, until the flood water subsides the roads will remain closed and in some cases this may be several days.
"We would encourage drivers to think about their journeys before setting off and to please avoid known flooded areas if at all possible.
"We are putting out clear diversions where the main routes are shut and I would urge people to follow them and not try to drive through the flood water.
"The main area of concern this evening is the centre of Gloucester as the Severn peaks and our teams are on standby to react if needed."
The weather forecast is looking brighter for the rest of the week and no more significant rain is currently forecast.
However, the River Severn is yet to peak in Gloucester so further localised flooding is still possible.
In Tewkesbury, the river peaked early this morning at around 4.8metres – a metre less than the 2007 peak.
There is localised flooding in the centre of Tewkesbury as a result but the A38 Ashchurch Road near Morrisons supermarket is the only main route closure, although many minor roads are affected.
Firefighters have responded to 32 incidents in the last 24 hours and rescued nine people from flood affected areas.
They have launched their hovercraft at Sandhurst to get to residents.
Flood defences are holding up at the Walham electricity station in Gloucester.
Flood victim Zog Ziegler is "toughing it out" after having a foot of water enter his home.
The motoring journalist lives north of Haw Bridge, near Tewkesbury, in an area that has flooded after the River Severn burst its banks.
He said: "It's not up to the levels of 2007. We had about 5ft of water in the house then and this time it's about a foot.
"We've got electricity and because we're in a three-storey house, we're two storeys above the flood.
"But it's pretty miserable. We can't get out. The lane is too deep, even if you had waders on.
"We're toughing it out for now. Rescue services have to deal with other people, rather than us."
In Tewkesbury town centre, Abbey Terrace resident John Badham was anxiously watching the flood level by his home.
He said: "We're dry, just about, but by the skin of our teeth."
He added that most people in the terrace had tiled floors and had moved furniture upstairs.
"If it does flood here, I don't think it will be a huge problem," he said.
ROADS 12.30pm UPDATE:
A438 Ashchurch rd, Tewkesbury - Flooded o/s Morrisons. Also Flooded o/s Boys Brigade. Both passable with care.
Barton Rd, Tewkesbury Flooded Closed
Bredon Rd, Tewkesbury Flooded by "White Bear" PH. Closed
sandhurst lane flooded - Closed
A417 Maisemore flooded. Closed.
Murrells End flooded. Impassable.
Wainlodes Lane flooded. Closed.
Swillgate flooded. Closed.
Abbey Car Park flooded. Closed.
Back of Avon flooded. Closed
Base lane sandhurst flooded. Closed.
B4213 Tirley flooded. Impassable.
Fetter Hill, Coleford. Road surface water / debris. Passable with care.
B4215 High Leadon. Flooded. Passable with care.
Lydbrook - B4234. Flooded. Closed.
Popes Hill. Flooded. Closed.
Redmarley to Pauntley. Flooded. Closed.
B4215 to Much Marcle. Heavily flooded. Closed.
Blakeney to Soudley. Flooded - road over bridge. Passable with care.
B4234 - Cannop Ponds. Closed.
All unclassified roads around Hartbury College. Flooded. Closed.
A40 Huntley – Four way traffic lights in operation.
Toadsmoor lane Chalford - road flooded. Closed.
A417 - Lechlade (outside garden centre) Passable with care.
South Cerney Rd to Siddington Flooded. Closed.
South Cerney Rd to Ashton Keynes Flooded. Closed.
Spitalgate Lane, Cirencester Flooded. Closed.
London Rd, Wotton-under-Edge Flooded. Closed.
A419 Preston Tollbar to Tesco's rab, Cirencester Flooded. Closed.
The Street, Daglingworth – Unclas Passable with care.
A419 n/bound exit at Driffield Flooded. Closed.
Kempsford to Cricklade. Some water on road. Passable
Dollar St, Cirencester Flooded. Closed.
In Tewkesbury Bredon Road is still sealed off outside the White Bear and Ashchurch Road is closed the town side of the traffic lights by Morrisons.
Traffic is able to pass through floodwater on the Newtown side of the lights.
Motorists are able to get into the town via the M50 and then A38 at Twyning and also via the A38 at Stonehills. Flood levels are expected to peak this morning in the town, where it has been raining persistently.
New Start Cat Rescue in Malswick, Newent, has had to move all its animals to safety after flood waters rushed into their pens. The charity is urgently appealing for donations of bedding and other supplies after losing two years' worth of goods they had collected.
Anyone who can help should call 07510 134805 or 07598 752992.
Stroud District Council, has handed out more than 2,000 sand bags to protect homes in the area, as neighbourhood watch wardens visited homes at risk to help out, as floods caused road closures at the Moreton Valence section of the A38 and the Ebley Bypass.
For Environment Agency flood warnings Call Floodline on 0845 988 1188, select option 1 and enter Quickdial number 0524124 to get more information
Traffic information can be found on the Highways Agency website: http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/
Latest Gloucestershire weather forecast
In Gloucester , city council officers and staff from Enterprise have been making regular inspections of streams and water courses around the city.
And as the weather worsened more than 1,000 sandbags were provided on a 'targetted' basis to properties assessed to be at risk from potential flooding.
City Council Chief Executive, Julian Wain, commented: "I am very pleased and proud of the work done by our staff and crews from Enterprise over the past several days.
"They have inspected a great number of streams and watercourses. They have cleared rubbish brought down by the high winds to keep water flowing and have provided sandbags and reassurance to residents across the city.
"Although it hasn't been necessary to open it our emergency rest centre remains on standby in case it is needed.
"We will continue to liaise closely with our partner agencies and the emergency services as we always do in situations such as this. And residents can be assured that we will continue to monitor and evaluate the situation in the days to come."
There have been no reports of any properties flooded in the City so far.
But, with the River Severn due to peak tomorrow morning staff will be working closely with the Environment Agency and other partners and will continue to issue sandbags to properties identified as being at risk.
The Environment Agency has confirmed that the majority of floodwaters in Cotswold district have gradually receded owing to relatively drier conditions.
CDC staff are now distributing Health Protection Agency leaflets around households in Cirencester which have been affected by floodwater.
The leaflets provide advice about cleaning up after floods and the health issues to be aware of in the wake of flooding events.
Working with Bromford Housing, a CDC Emergency Coordination team has also responded to concerns about elderly people in Chipping Campden and Willersey, ensuring that they are safe and well. The team has also worked with councillors in Bourton, Cirencester and Moreton-in-Marsh to address concerns raised by residents, and has been alerted to flooding in South Cerney and Daglingworth.
The Coordination team is continuing to monitor the situation and is encouraging residents to call suppliers directly to request sandbags – see www.cotswold.gov.uk for contact details. For other flooding problems, they are advising residents to call the Environment Agency on 0800 807060.
The Council's waste collector, Ubico Ltd, is operating normally today and envisages no problems during the week. Ubico is providing a free removal service for flood-damaged goods – please call 01285 623000 to request a pick-up.
The Abbey Grounds car park in Cirencester is now accessible with care but permit holders can use the Waterloo Car Park until the water subsides.
The Highways Agency have confirmed that they have removed bollards which normally block Gooseacre Lane in Cirencester, providing temporary access to Gloucester Street to improve pedestrian vehicular safety.
Councillors in flood-affected areas have continued to work hard to help alleviate problems. Cllr Joe Harris, Ward Member for Cirencester Park and Deputy Mayor of Cirencester, was one of a number of volunteers in Cirencester who have been working with residents to stem the flow of water to properties. He commented:
"I am very grateful to everyone who pitched in to help in this hour of need. Teams from both the town and district councils were working since Sunday to mitigate the effects of the flooding, especially around the Abbey Grounds area. "
His views were echoed by Cllr John Burgess, the Ward Member for Cirencester Beeches and Cabinet lead for Support Services:
"It is very unfortunate that flooding occurred and sandbags need to be deployed in the district, but it is heartening to see how quickly everyone pulled together to lessen the effects of this abnormal weather. Thankfully, most motorists seem to be heeding warnings from the police."
Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown issued the following statement:
"Just about the worst thing that could happen to someone's home is that it is flooded. I was able to witness firsthand wonderful caring work of the fire brigade on Sunday night in Daglingworth Village. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to anybody whose home has recently been flooded.
"If anyone has not been in touch with the relevant authority please would they get in touch with me, and I will try to be of assistance.
"Although a significant amount of work has been carried out in the Cotswolds by the relevant authorities since the 2007 floods; I am conscious that there is more to be done and I will redouble my efforts in any community who have been affected this time.
"Ever since the 2007 floods Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has been in regular contact with communities who have flooding problems. He has also help open meetings at which all the relevant authorities have been represented in Moreton, Fairford and Lechlade."


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Monthly Archive for August, 2010
UT football: Youth, surprises highlight depth chart
AUSTIN — After keeping the finer points of his team's personnel pecking order largely a secret through the spring and preseason camp, Texas coach Mack Brown released a two-deep depth chart featuring 18 true or redshirt freshmen Monday. Although there is still time for some adjustments before the season opener against Rice on Saturday, these […] [Read More]
Good Nielsen numbers for Cowboys-Texans (UPDATED)
I've been a laggard in filing to this space lately, so I'll try to pick up my game this week, beginning with a layup: ratings for the Cowboys-Texans game Saturday night on CBS. The national major market Nielsen rating was 4.5 with a 9 share, up from 3.2/6 for the comparable week last year. Houston […] [Read More]
Football: Zero Week recap
Plenty of interesting nuggets to look back on from the first weekend of high school football. Among them: Cy-Fair ISD heroics: Cy-Fair breaks a 10-game losing streak and gets its first win since 2008 with a 21-20 win over Katy Taylor on Saturday. The Bobcats scored 10 points in the final four minutes to pull […] [Read More]
Pearland Tournament shows off state's best
Another Pearland Tournament is done and we all have an idea now which are the teams to beat in the state this year. The champion this season is Corpus Christi King, which defeated Hebron in the finals on Saturday. The top finisher from the Houston area was ninth place Cypress Woods, which beat Dawson in […] [Read More]
UH game week (finally), realignment, expectations and much more
On Monday, it starts for the Houston Cougars. Finally. An honest-to-goodness week of game preparation. A chance to play somebody else. The Cougars put their 15-game home winning streak to the test — at least in theory — Saturday. Division I-AA (sorry, but that Football Bowl Subdivision/Football Championship Division stuff is confusion, bureaucrat mumbo-jumbo) Texas […] [Read More]
This week: Rice vs. No. 5 Texas
• Record: Season opener. • Ranking: No. 4 (USA Today coaches' poll), No. 5 (Associated Press). • Coach: Mack Brown. • Conference: Big 12. • 2009 record: 13-1 (lost to Alabama in BCS title game). • Series history: Texas leads 69-21-1.The Longhorns have won 10 straight and 40 of the last 41 against the Owls. […] [Read More]
Football: Hightower wins scorefest; Cy-Fair snaps losing streak and more
There were plenty of notable happenings around the area on Saturday as the first weekend of high school football came to a close. In our featured game of the night, Hightower outlasted Eisenhower in a high-scoring frenzy, beating the Eagles for the third straight season 44-39 behind an impressive performance by junior quarterback Bralon Addison. […] [Read More]
Rice forward Kazemi makes FIBA World Championship debut
• Rice forward Arsalan Kazemi had nine points and six rebounds in Iran's 81-65 loss to Brazil Saturday at the FIBA World Championship. Kazemi, a 6-foot-7 sophomore, was 4-for-11 shooting. Iran continues Group B against Croatia on Sunday. • • • • Rice left tackle Scott Mitchell has been named to the Lombardi Award watch […] [Read More]
Recruiting: A look at how Rice commitments fared
A weekly look at how Rice verbal commitments fared on Friday nights: • Kempner quarterback Julius White was 6-of-16 for 113 yards and a touchdown. He also scored on a 12-yard run in a 34-30 loss to Seven Lakes. • Round Rock Westwood wide receiver Grant Peterson had two catches for 11 yards in a […] [Read More]
Football: Is Katy that good or North Shore that bad? And a look ahead to Saturday
Color me surprised. While I realized that anything is possible and that Friday's clash of titans between Katy and North Shore could be anybody's ballgame, I didn't expect the 44-6 thrashing I saw on Friday night — which was the Mustangs' worst home loss since Galena Park ISD Stadium opened. Both coaches said earlier in […] [Read More]
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Social change colloquia past
Author Tom Fels and media artist Mark Tribe will speak on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in Room 2601 on Floor 26, of the Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst. The event, "Peace and War: Assessing the Legacies of Sixties Activism Today," marks the completion of the eighth annual Social Change Colloquium.
Longtime independent writer and researcher Tom Fels' new book Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune (UMass Press, 2012) explores the long history of Montague Farm, north of Amherst, one of the era's iconic experiments in social change. Before drawing his own conclusions about it in the book, he recounts the farm's many early contributions to the counterculture, and later the farm's devolution at the hands of competing farm-family factions, inviting us to question the balance between idealism and effectiveness. "For today's young," says Tom Hayden, author of The Long Sixties, "the economic future is far more bleak and global warming an unprecedented threat. Out of necessity, many will be searching for meaningful forms of communal self-sufficiency, healthful food, and renewable energy. Tom Fels' captivating and profound reflection on one earlier commune, Montague Farm, founded in the 1960s, offers hard-learned reflections, some practical, some eternal, from a time when communes were the chosen path of many." In the first hour of the colloquium Fels will read from Buying the Farm. There will be a question and answer period following the reading.
Mark Tribe is part of the next generation to be inspired by sixties activism. His Port Huron Project (2006-2009) is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era. Enacted at the site of the original event, each speech was delivered by an actor or performance artist. Videos of these performances have been screened on campuses, exhibited in art spaces, and distributed online as open-source media. As Julia Bryan-Wilson wrote in Artforum, in January 2008, "More than just recovering the past, these re-speaking projects use archival speeches to ask questions about the current place of stridency and forceful dissent, and the possibilities of effective, galvanizing political discourse." In bringing the words of Cesar Chavez, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and others to the public through contemporary media, Tribe, in this portion of his work, creatively recycles earlier activism to relate it to issues of today. In the second hour of the colloquium, Tribe will show and discuss some of his work.
Delevingne will discuss the mass media's role in the nuclear power issue and his own responsibility before and after the Three Mile Island accident and Chernobyl disaster. Anna Gyorgy will discuss citizen action and democracy, with international examples based on her work with the Clamshell Alliance, and, more recently, with the strong German anti-nuclear/pro-solar movements.
New England was an epicenter of the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Sparked by the proposed construction of nuclear power plants in Montague, Massachusetts, and Seabrook, New Hampshire, a grass-roots movement blossomed in the region, drawing on a long tradition of non-violent political protest. Shortly after arriving in the United States from his native France in 1975, the photojournalist Lionel Delevingne began covering the antinuclear movement, including the history of civil disobedience and occupation at Seabrook, the aftermath of the Three Mile Island disaster, and other protests from New York to South Carolina and Europe.
Delevingne is the co-author of Drylands, a Rural American Saga (University of Nebraska Press, 2011); Northampton: Reflections on Paradise (Nouveau Monde Press, 1988); and Franco-American Viewpoints (Nouveau Monde Press/Wistariahurst Museum, 1988). His work has been exhibited frequently in the U.S. and abroad and published widely in the mainstream and alternative press, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, Le Figaro Magazine, and Die Zeit. Delevingne has participated in many award-winning projects sponsored by National Endowment of the Arts/Humanities (NEA), Massachusetts Endowment for the Humanities, University & College Designers Association (UCDA), University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Anna Gyorgy was active in the early movement against nuclear power, and is the author-editor of the classic work NO NUKES: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power (South End Press, 1979/1981). She is in the process of returning to the U.S. after 25 years abroad, where she has since 1999 coordinated the multi-lingual website project: "Women and Life on Earth" (www.wloe.org).
The related exhibit "To the Village Square" includes some of the movement's most memorable images, shot by Delevingne, along with materials drawn from the rich anti-nuclear collections held in the UMass Amherst Libraries' Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Why These Stories Need to be Told in their Variety, their Intensity and their Honesty" (Nov. 10)
Social justice activist Tom Weiner will give a talk on his recently published book Called to Serve: Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft. The book is the fruit of years of extensive interviews with chapters for people who made different choices among the available options: to serve, to resist, to leave the country, to become a conscientious objector, or to find a way around the draft altogether as well as a chapter for those who loved, counseled and supported. His presentation will include several of his interview subjects who will share parts of their testimonies. Weiner recently donated the tapes of the interviews and the transcripts to Special Collections and University Archives.
On Friday, October 1, Steve Lerner will talk about his new book Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. The event will be held from 1.30-3pm in the Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst.
Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." In Sacrifice Zones, published by MIT Press in 2010, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution.
Steve Lerner is research director of Commonweal and the author of Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems.
This event is co-sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute's Environmental Working Group and Special Collections & University Archives
On Thurs. October 28, Amy Bass will talk on "Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The 1968 Olympics and the Creation of the Black Athlete," in Room 803, Campus Center, UMass Amherst. The event is co-sponsored by the Feinberg Family Lecture Series organized by the UMass Amherst Department of History, and is free and open to the public.
Amy Bass is professor of history at the College of New Rochelle. She is the author of Not the Triumph But the Struggle: 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete and Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois. She is the editor of In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century. Bass has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from Stony Brook University. Her research interests include African American history, modern American culture, identity politics, and historical theory and methodology. She has served as research supervisor for the NBC Olympic unit at the Atlanta, Sydney, Salt Lake, Athens, and Torino Olympic Games.
Dr. Bass's talk will explore the black power protest at the Mexico City Olympic Games by Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968. Their moment on the victory dais effectively linked American sports and racial politics in the U.S. She will examine how the black power protest in Mexico became the defining image of the 1968 Olympics. She will also explore how the Olympic Project for Human Rights mobilized black athletes to assume a new set of responsibilities alongside their athletic prowess, forcing Americans, and the world, to reconsider the role of sports within civil rights movements.
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- Raymond Mungo
- Raymond Mungo was a key figure in the literary world of the late 1960s counterculture. A founder of the Liberation News Service — an alternative press agency that distributed news reflecting a left-oriented, antiwar, countercultural perspective — Mungo moved to Vermont during the summer of 1968 and settled on a commune. A novelist and writer, his first book, Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times With Liberation News Service (1970) is considered a classic account of the countercultural left, and his follow-up Total Loss Farm (1971), based on his experiences on the Packer Corners commune, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Mungo has written several novels, screenplays, dozens of essays, and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles during a literary career of more than four decades. For the past ten years, he has worked as a social worker in Los Angeles, tending primarily to AIDS patients and the severely mentally ill.
- Todd Gitlin
- While a college student in the early 1960s, Todd Gitlin rose to national prominence as a writer and theorist of the New Left. A president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-1964, he was a central figure in the civil rights and antiwar movements, helping to organize the first national mobilization against the war in Vietnam, the March on Washington of 1965. After receiving degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of California Berkeley, Gitlin joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he is currently Professor of Journalism and Sociology and Chair of the doctoral program in Communications. Over the past thirty years, he has written extensively on mass communication, the media, and journalism. The author of twelve books, Gitlin is today a noted public intellectual and prominent critic of both the left and right in American politics, arguing that pragmatic coalition building should replace ideological purity and criticizing the willingness of those on both sides to use violence to reach ends to power.
- Talk II:
- Thurs, Oct. 29, 2009, 4 p.m., Blake Slonecker, Assistant Professor of History at Waldorf College, will present a talk, "Living the Moment: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the New Left, 1967-1981.
- Speaker:
- Junius Williams
- Writer and activist.
- Parker Donham
- Journalist and former press secretary for Eugene McCarthy
- Speaker:
- Tom Hayden
- Fmr President of Students for a Democratic Society
For nearly fifty years, Tom Hayden's name has been synonymous with social change. As a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1961, he was author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, the touchstone for a generation of activists. As a Freedom Rider in the Deep South in the early 1960s, he was arrested and beaten in rural Georgia and Mississippi. As a community organizer in Newark's inner city in 1964, he was part of an effort to create a national poor people's campaign for jobs and empowerment.
When the Vietnam War invaded American lives, Hayden became a prominent voice in opposition, organizing teach-ins and demonstrations, writing, and making one of the first trips to Hanoi in 1965 to meet with the other side. One of the leaders of the street demonstrations against the war at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, he was one of eight organizers indicted — and eventually acquitted — on charges of conspiracy and incitement.
After the political system opened in the 1970s, Hayden organized the grass-roots Campaign for Economic Democracy in California, which won dozens of local offices and shut down a nuclear power plant through a referendum for the first time. He was elected to the California state assembly in 1982, and the state senate ten years later, serving eighteen years in all, and he has twice served on the national platform committee of the Democratic Party.
- Panelists:
- Johnny Flynn, Tim Koster, Sheila Lennon, Karen Smith
As part of its annual Colloquium on Social Change, the Department of Special Collections and University Archives of UMass Amherst presents a panel discussion and readings from a new book, Time it Was: American Stories from the Sixties, a set of short memoirs written by people who participated in a wide variety of Sixties-era movements and events. Join us for speakers Johnny Flynn (American Indian Movement), Sheila Lennon (Woodstock), Tim Koster (Draft Lottery "Winner" and Conscientious Objector), and Karen Manners Smith, who spent five years in a religious cult.
For students, the readings and discussion provide an opportunity to hear stories that move beyond Sixties mythology towards an appreciation of the real — but no less exciting — experiences of young people in that tumultuous era. Non-students and members of the Five College and surrounding communities will find this panel discussion a chance to reconnect with their own memories of the period.
- Speakers:
- Eric Mann and Lian Hurst Mann
- Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles
- Flier announcing the event (pdf)
- Speakers:
- Carl Oglesby
- Writer, antiwar activist, former President of SDS
- Tom Fels
- Curator, writer, fmr resident of Montague Farm Commune
- Catherine Blinder
- Activist, writer, fmr resident of Tree Frog Farm Commune
- Flier announcing the event (pdf)
Social Change Colloquium
Each fall, the Department of Special Collections and University Archives sponsors a colloquium focusing on a topic in social change. Like SCUA's collections, these colloquia cover a broad terrain, touching on a variety of issues in social justice, equality, and democracy.
Colloquia are free and open to the public.
November 3, 2014, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Lower Level, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
"A Long and Winding Road: The legacy of the back-to-the-land communes of the 1960s," will explore the nearly forty year history of some of the region's best known communes: Montague Farm and Wendell Farms nearby in Massachusetts, and Packer Corners and Tree Frog Farms in neighboring southern Vermont. All were partners in the back-to-the-land movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s; all have survived into the current era. The colloquium's four speakers, who have each spent much of the intervening years on or near one of the four farms, represent each of these idealistic enterprises, as well as offering their own specific views. What have they learned from their long years in service to their ideals? Was the altruism of the counterculture era borne out in the experiences they faced later? Would they recommend the route of alternative life to the youth and radicals of today?
The sources of inspiration that led to the creation of these communities and the evidence of their later influence are documented by SCUA. The Famous Long Ago archive was formed to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the communes at Montague Farm, Packer Corners, Johnson Pasture, Wendell Farm, and Tree Frog Farm. Collections range from from the papers of writers Steve Diamond, Raymond Mungo, and Jonathan Maslow to those of anti-war activists Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner; from the records of the Liberation News Service, the organization that spawned the farms, to the Alternative Energy Coalition, and Musicians United for Safe Energy, later enterprises of the region's communal farmer-activists. It also includes the photographic collections of farm parent Roy Finestone, photojournalist Lionel Delevingne, and former head of a neighboring Montague ashram, Stephen Josephs.
Daniel Keller, filmmaker, farmer: Wendell Farm, Green Mountain Post Films
Verandah Porche, writer, teacher: Packer Corners Farm, Monteverdi Artists Collaborative
John Scagliotti, filmmaker, LGBT activist: Tree Frog Farm, Kopkind Colony
Susan Mareneck, artist, teacher, social worker: Early resident and longtime neighbor of Montague Farm, Montague Catholic Social Ministries
Timothy Miller, University of Kansas, scholar of intentional communities, author of The Hippies and American Values (1991), The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America (1998), The Sixties Communes: Hippies and Beyond (1999)
Verandah Porche, a forty-year resident of Packer Corners Farm (known to the reading public, through the works of Ray Mungo and others, as Total Loss Farm) works as a poet-in-residence, performer, and writing partner. Based in rural Vermont since 1968, she has published three volumes of poetry – Sudden Eden (Verdant Books), The Body's Symmetry (Harper and Row) and Glancing Off (See Through Books) – and has pursued an alternative literary career, creating collaborative writing projects in nontraditional settings: literacy and crisis centers, hospitals, factories, nursing homes, senior centers, a 200 year-old Vermont tavern, and an urban working class neighborhood. Broad Brook Anthology, a play for voices, honors the lives of elders in her home town of Guilford, Vermont. Listening Out Loud documents her residency with Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. Come Over is a CD of songs written with her neighbor Patty Carpenter, performed by the Dysfunctional Family Jazz band. She has read her work on NPR stations, in the Vermont State House, and at the Guggenheim Museum. In 1998 the Vermont Arts Council presented her with its Award of Merit, and Marlboro College, in 2012, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
Susan Mareneck arrived in the Pioneer Valley in the mid 1960s, and spent her college years engaged in civil rights and anti-war activities, majoring Art and Political Science. After experiencing Montague Farm for several months in its early days, she settled into an unrenovated 18th century farmhouse in nearby Leverett, a building without heat or running water. Improving it slowly but concertedly over the years, she returned regularly to the house for vacations and summers, and has remained a neighbor of Montague Farm and a member of its extended family ever since. Decamping after several years for a graduate degree in art, and finally a move to New York, she spent 30 years making art and teaching it at the Spence School and the Convent of the Sacred Heart, on New York's upper east side, before returning to western Massachusetts in 2009 to work full time with families in Turners Falls as Executive Director at Montague Catholic Social Ministries. Living three blocks from Ground Zero, Susan saw her world change forever on 9/11. Her turn from education to social work reflects her long interest in non-profits and the role of faith in social change. Her work in that area has included projects directed toward employment, racism, educational policy, and prisons. She has exhibited, lectured, and published in the visual arts and historic preservation, and remains active in organizing the local history of her town, North Leverett, Mass.
John Scagliotti is an Emmy Award-winning American film director, producer, and radio broadcaster. He has received honors for his work on documentaries about LGBT issues including Before Stonewall and After Stonewall. During the 1970s, Scagliotti was the News and Public Affairs Director of the pioneering radio station WBCN-FM in Boston. For his work in radio, he was awarded two Major Armstrong Awards. In the early 1980s, he attended New York University Film School and went on to create In the Life for PBS, the first gay and lesbian national television series in the United States. The Scagliotti-produced documentary film Before Stonewall (1985) won the Audience Award at L.A. Outfest and two Emmies. Scagliotti directed a companion piece, After Stonewall, which won a Golden Eagle and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Scagliotti is openly gay. His partner for 24 years was the late, highly regarded journalist Andrew Kopkind. Together they produced the radio show The Lavender Hour. Scagliotti is a longtime resident of the Kopkind Colony, an activist community housed at Tree Frog Farm, a close neighbor to Packer Corners Farm in Guilford, Vermont. The Kopkind Colony holds an educational summer residency program for nonpartisan, independent journalists and community organizers. In addition, the Colony fosters public education through publication of its lectures and the hosting of open forums on contemporary issues held at Tree Frog Farm and in other educational centers around the country.
Daniel Keller, a founder of Wendell Farm, in Wendell Massachusetts, has lived there, keeping it a working organic farm, since its inception in 1969. In collaboration with Charles Light, a former communard of the Johnson Pasture and Montague Farm, Keller's Green Mountain Post Films, with offices in nearby Turners Falls, has produced and distributed award-winning films for more than twenty-five years. GMP's first documentary Lovejoy's Nuclear War, released in 1975, about Montague Farm activist Sam Lovejoy, was one of the first films to question the nuclear energy policy of the United States. Since then GMP Films has continued to produce movies that explore social issues, Its films have been used as educational and organizational tools for activists working on peace, veteran, nuclear, environmental, and other related issues. GMP films include: The Last Resort (1978), and Save the Planet (1979), both on nuclear issues; The Secret Agent (1983), on Agent Orange; and Unknown Secrets (1990), on the reaction of artists and writers to the arrest, trial, and execution of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. For Vietnam Experience Keller and Light teamed up with musician Country Joe McDonald to bring viewers closer to the reality of the Vietnam War. Cannabis Rising is an early investigation into the issues surrounding marijuana today so much in the news.
Timothy Miller is a longtime student of communal living, professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas, and author of The Hippies and American Values (1991), The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America (1998), The Sixties Communes: Hippies and Beyond (1999). His course offerings include a history of intentional communities in America; American religious history; and an overview of new and alternative religious movements in the United States. Miller's major research focus is the history of intentional communities in America, especially in the twentieth century. For his work in this area, Professor Miller has been recognized by the Communal Studies Association as a distinguished scholar. Additional areas of research interest include American religious history, new and alternative religious movements in the United States, and religion in Kansas. Professor Miller also coordinates the Religion in Kansas Oral History Project. His most recent publications include The Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities (Richard Couper Press), Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World (Ashgate Publishing), as well as the second edition of The Hippies and American Values (University of Tennessee Press), and the second edition of Following In His Steps: A Biography of Charles M. Sheldon (University of Tennessee Press). Through Miller's work on American communes, he has long been familiar with the extended farm family at the center of the current symposium. In a recent book review, taking in the larger field in which he is involved, he wrote, "…it can be safely said that Montague Farm has the best published record of any of the communes."
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Collection, 1925-1986.
Call no.: MS 407
The Southeast Asia Collection highlights the regional wars from the 1970s to the 1980s, including a series on Southeast Asian refugees in America, along with materials on regional economic development, especially in the Mekong River Basin. The collection contains hundreds of reports on agricultural and industrial projects in the region, examining everything from the impact of electrification on village life in Thailand to a description of a Soviet-built hospital in Cambodia in 1961, to an assessment of herbicide in Vietnam in 1971.
Collected primarily by Joel Halpern and James Hafner, the collection includes background, field, and situation reports by U.S. Operations Missions and U.S. Agency for International Development; reports, publications, statistics, and background information from other U.S. government agencies, governments of Laos and Thailand, and the United Nations; correspondence, reports, and reference materials of nongovernmental organizations; reports and essays by individuals about Southeast Asia; news releases and newspapers; published and unpublished bibliographies; and interviews with U.S. military personnel. Most material comes from governmental and organizational sources, but there are papers by, and debriefs of, numerous individuals.
- Cambodia--History--1953-1975
- Laos--History
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Hafner, James
- Halpern, Joel Martin
Stone, George E. (George Edward), 1860-1941
George Edward Stone Papers, 1890-1957.
Call no.: FS 085
Professor of Botany, Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Correspondence, lecture notes, reports, notes on experiments, drawings depicting original apparatus, scrapbooks of printed botanical illustrations, student papers, genealogies, memorabilia, and photographs; together with papers reflecting administrative and official duties; correspondence, notes, and news clippings on psychic phenomena; and autobiographical notes, including reflections on Massachusetts Agricultural College and on Emily Dickinson.
- Botany--Massachusetts
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Horticulture--Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Agricultural College--Faculty
- Massachusetts Agricultural College. Botany Department
- Plant physiology--Massachusetts
- Barlow, Waldo
- Stone, George E. (George Edward), 1860-1941
Types of material
- Herbaria
- Photographs
Storrsville (Mass.) Lyceum Debating Society
Storrsville Lyceum Debating Society Minutebook, 1842-1846.
Call no.: MS 016 bd
Club that met weekly or bi-weekly in Storrsville, Massachusetts, to debate questions of local, national, and international interest including religion, abolition and slavery, human nature, penal reform, the lure of the West, intemperance, and war and peace. Single minutebook includes two versions of the constitution, proposed and debated questions, the teams, the outcome, and notations of any additional activities that took place during the formal meetings.
- Ciceronean Debating Club (Dana, Mass.)
- Dana (Mass. : Town)--Intellectual life--19th century
- Debates and debating--Massachusetts--Dana (Town)--History
- Storrsville (Dana, Mass. : Town)--Intellectual life--19th century
- Storrsville Lyceum Debating Society (Dana, Mass.)--Archives
Types of material
- Minute books
Textile Workers Union of America. New Bedford Joint Board
TWUA New Bedford Joint Board Records, 1942-1981.
Call no.: MS 134
Four local unions located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that joined in 1939 and became the first affiliates of the New Bedford Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America. Includes by-laws, minutes of board of directors and local meetings, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the administration of the New Bedford Joint Board, documenting its role in addressing grievances filed against individual companies, in facilitating arbitration, and hearing wage stabilization Board cases.
- Labor unions--Massachusetts
- Textile workers--Labor unions--Massachusetts
- Textile Workers Union of America
Topol, Sidney
Sidney Topol Papers, 1944-1997.
Call no.: MS 374
An innovator and entrepreneur, Sidney Topol was a contributor to several key developments in the telecommunications industries in the latter half of the twentieth century. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts (1947) and an engineer and executive at Raytheon and later Scientific-Atlanta, Topol's expertise in microwave systems led to the development of the first effective portable television relay links, allowing broadcasts from even remote areas, and his foray into satellite technologies in the 1960s provided the foundation for building the emerging cable television industry, permitting the transmission of transoceanic television broadcasts. Since retiring in the early 1990s, Topol has been engaged in philanthropic work, contributing to the educational and cultural life in Boston and Atlanta.
The product of a pioneer in the telecommunications and satellite industries and philanthropist, this collection contains a rich body of correspondence and speeches, engineering notebooks, reports, product brochures, and photographs documenting Sidney Topol's forty year career as an engineer and executive. The collection offers a valuable record of Topol's role in the growth of both corporations, augmented by a suite of materials stemming from Topol's tenure as Chair of the Electronic Industries Association Advanced Television Committee (ATV) in the 1980s and his service as Co-Chair of a major conference on Competitiveness held by the Carter Center in 1988.
- Boston (Mass.)--Social conditions--20th century
- Cable television
- Electronic Industries Association
- Raytheon Company
- Scientific-Atlanta
- Topol, Sidney
Totman, Ruth J.
Ruth J. Totman Papers, ca. 1914-1999.
Call no.: FS 097
Trained as a teacher of physical education at the Sargent School in Boston, Ruth J. Totman enjoyed a career at state normal schools and teachers colleges in New York and Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Massachusetts State College in 1943, building the program in women's physical education almost from scratch and culminating in 1958 with the opening of a new Women's Physical Education Building, which was one of the largest and finest of its kind in the nation. Totman retired at the mandatory age of 70 in 1964, and twenty years later, the women's PE building was rededicated in her honor. Totman died in November 1989, three days after her 95th birthday.
The Totman Papers are composed mostly of personal materials pertaining to her residence in Amherst, correspondence, and Totman family materials. The sparse material in this collection relating to Totman's professional career touches lightly on her retirement in 1964 and the dedication of the Ruth J. Totman Physical Education Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Supplementing the documents is a sizeable quantity of photographs and 8mm films, with the former spanning nearly her entire 95 years. The 8mm films, though fragile, provide an interesting, though soundless view into Totman's activities from the 1940s through the 1960s, including a cross-country trip with Gertrude "Jean" Lewis, women's Physical Education events at the New Jersey College for Women, and trips to Japan to visit her nephew, Conrad Totman..
- College buildings--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--Sources
- Conway (Mass.)--Genealogy
- Dairy farms--Massachusetts
- Family farms--United States
- Farm life--United States
- Physical Education for women
- Totman family
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--History
- Women physical education teachers
- Drew, Raymond Totman, 1923-1981
- Lewis, Gertrude Minnie, 1896-
- Totman, Conrad D
- Totman, Ruth J
Types of material
- Genealogies
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Students
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Student Body, 1867-2007.
Call no.: RG 045
Since the arrival of the first class of students at Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1867, the student body at UMass has grown to over 20,500 undergraduates and nearly 6,000 graduate students.
Record Group 45 includes the collected records of student activities at UMass Amherst, from student publications and organizations (fraternities and sororities, unions, and honorary societies) to records of student government, student protests, and religious and social groups. Also included are class notes and correspondence of some individual students while enrolled in the University.
- Aggie Life
- Bay State Ruralist
- College Signal
- College students--Massachusetts
- Greek letter societies--Massachusetts
- Student newspapers and periodicals--Massachusetts
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Students
Valley Peace Center (Amherst, Mass.)
Valley Peace Center Records, 1965-1973.
Call no.: MS 301
In the summer of 1967, members of University of Massachusetts Amherst campus groups, such as the Faculty Group on War and Peace and the Students for Political Action, joined with individuals from other area colleges and from the community at large to form the Valley Peace Center of Amherst for the purposes of opposing the Vietnam War, providing draft counseling, eliciting pledges from the government to avoid first use of nuclear and biological weapons, and reduction of the power of the "military-industrial complex". The Center was active for more than five and a half years, drawing its financial support largely from the community and its human resources from student and community volunteers.
Correspondence, minutes, volunteer and membership lists, financial records, newsletters, questionnaires, notes, petitions, clippings, posters, circulars, pamphlets, periodicals, other printed matter, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to alternative service, boycotts, war tax resistance, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.
- Amherst (Mass.)--Social conditions--20th century
- Draft--United States--History
- Pacifists--Massachusetts
- Peace movements--Massachusetts--Amherst
- Social movements--Massachusetts--Amherst
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Massachusetts--Amherst
- Westover Air Force Base (Mass.)--History--20th century
- Valley Peace Center (Amherst, Mass.)
Types of material
- Ephemera
- Pamphlets


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Digital Health and Fitness Tech is on the Move at 2014 CES
Kelsey Pommer
07 January 2014
With digital health exhibits expanding by 40 percent and digital fitness exhibits expanding by 30 percent, the 2014 International CES is sure to show you the technology that will help you stay healthy and in shape.
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