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mania and depression changed me
stole my dreams & who I believed I could be
I lost myself. I was afraid of myself, let alone other people's judgment. I feared that there wouldn't be opportunities for me to be "somebody". And if there were opportunities, I feared I wouldn't be able to handle it.
My hopes and dreams crumbled away. In all that rubble and anger, I discovered an opportunity to prove fear wrong and that is my story.
I trust that I am living with Bipolar Disorder for three reasons:
1. My genetic vulnerability (I was born with genes that when triggered could significantly alter my brain structure)
2. Environmental circumstances (stress and/or trauma)
3. How I respond to both
I can't do anything about my biology or the environmental stressors I experienced growing up. When difficult, traumatic and painful things happened to me growing up, I didn't cry…I didn't talk about it with anyone. I smiled. I was a smart, self-aware, kid who could tell anyone what they wanted to hear. In my family we lived by the unspoken rule, "You must always be strong.". As a result, I never let myself be vulnerable, I didn't know how. Not being vulnerable meant I was strong. The idea of asking anyone for help really scared me.
Therefore, when I was thirteen and my mom's cancer and grandmother's death hit my family at the same time, I ran. I abandoned my emotions by locking them up as though in a jar and ran away from my life.
This I call "the trigger" of my genetic vulnerability. Bipolar Disorder entered my life, but I didn't know until I was sixteen and that jar exploded during a full-blown manic and depressive episode.
the best and scariest experience of my life EVER.
I was swept off my feet by the possibilities and unique abilities of my thinking, learning, spirituality and emotional experience. I felt like I was a genius who had super hero powers and just so happened to be a prophet.
I felt at peace and invincible. It was beautiful, as I said, the best experience EVER. I had visions that gave me a profound understanding of the universe (but didn't excite those I called at 3am). I got the meaning of life. I felt I was literally a part of God. I truly believed I was a prophet speaking the words of God. My intentions were to unify all people. I didn't need sleep. I stayed up all night studying Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the Bible, Torah, Koran, Buddhism, and Quantum Physics.
At the same time, I was reckless with my relationships and life. I began with leading a walk-out in chemistry because I wasn't learning anything. I was a brand new driver in a mini-van doing 80 mph on surface streets. Without money, I tried to buy a new car. I seductively tried to encourage a salesman to want to give me the car for free. I didn't need sleep. My sexuality was beyond impulsive, I declared my desire to everyone I knew. So the people in my life (particularly my parents), kept me from acting on it. I also scared away the people I was trying to have sex with.
My thoughts worked in ways I had never experienced before. In the beginning they moved so fast that I couldn't speak them quick enough or even write them down. And I didn't have one thought at a time, I'd have three different perspectives taking place all at once.
As the mania intensified, I went more days with no sleep. My thoughts would get jumbled up in knots. I'd get so frustrated that I'd cry and scream, but no one understood because my words were incoherent. The only thing that helped me gain a sense of control and coherency of my thoughts was to doodle highly detailed intricate drawings that repeated the same kind of pattern.
I lost control of my mind, rapidly.
During the peak of mania, which lasted almost a week, every emotion that I had held within me came exploding out at once. I was completely out of control in my own body and mind, and I knew it, but I couldn't do anything about it. Mania caused me to think my parents were trying to hurt me. I called the police on my mom. I thought they locked me in a room to control me, so I violently took a hammer to the door (it was never locked.) I verbally attacked my mom with rage and hatred. I sobbed and wailed uncontrollably with guilt and shame as I mourned for the first time my mom's cancer and grandma's death, which occurred at the same time three years prior. I blamed myself for both. I started a fist-fight with a friend. I told another friend that he needed to get me pregnant right now because our child would be the messiah. I threatened to beat up a kid for splashing water. I had delusions of being raped. With this kind of terror, it's easy to forget the beauty of mania. It's so easy to silence mania and to be so full of shame.
I was never hospitalized. It wasn't an option because when I peaked I was on vacation. My mom journaled every action I took and every word I said. The police, who I called for help to protect me from her, considered putting me in jail to contain me. Instead, the Sheriff checked on me daily. My family brought me home and to get me help. By the time we arrived home, I had crashed into depression.
I preferred to be dead
If I were dead, I wouldn't have the awareness of not being able to think, feel, or move beyond a fetal position. Not thinking and not feeling was not living. I was not alive and did not see a light at the end of the tunnel. Death would have been better to me. However, I couldn't hold a thought in my mind long enough to make a plan and carry it out.
After a few weeks the medications began to kick in and I began to come out of my depression. I went back to high school struggling to hold my head up and stay awake. However, I was able to write beautiful poetry and announce to everyone that I was crazy.
rejection of the label and stigma
It took me months to start to almost feel safe in my own body and mind. I felt a huge sense of shame because I desired mania so deeply, yet I feared it more than death. When I felt I was in my "normal", a state where I was slightly manic (exuberant and full of energy), I thought I was safe.
I didn't want to be on medication for the rest of my life, medication to make me "normal". So when I felt normal, I stopped taking my medication under the supervision of my psychiatrist.
I relapsed within less than a few months.
I wasn't able to see the relapse until I saw the terror on a friend's face as I drove 80mph on a surface street without noticing it. He had me pull over, get in the passenger seat and drove me home and told my family. When I returned to my "normal" self I impulsively and persistently "educated" (forced them to listen) my family and friends about the early symptoms.
I didn't trust myself to be able to recognize when I was in trouble. Realistically, I couldn't, it all felt normal to me until I lose complete control of my mind and body.
When I relapsed, I wanted to be helped this time. I was deathly afraid of losing control and the mania peaking. I never wanted to go through depression that followed that kind of mania again. I wanted medication badly and was committed to taking it this time.
This forced me to believe in my diagnosis (it wasn't just a one time thing), the label, and accept that I'd be on medication for life. It made that amazingly beautiful, incredibly terrorizing experience feel wrong, bad, and permanent. I felt worthless.
pissed off enough to heal
When I finally started feeling better about myself (because I returned to my naturally exuberant state), three words from my psychiatrist's mouth changed my path, "You can't be…". After those words came a list of everything that I wanted to be someday, that I could no longer be because they required stress. So I gave up on going to college, and fulfilling my dream of making a difference in the world.
I got angry. I was able to feel for the first time since my depression. For some reason it was okay for me to place limitations on myself, but I refused to let anyone else place limitations on me. The day I got angry, I changed my focus from fearing that I wasn't in control, to taking it back, without asking for permission from an "expert". I chose to educate myself on how to integrate the limitations of Bipolar Disorder into my life, master my relationship with Bipolar Disorder and move beyond all stigma.
However, I trusted no one, especially an "expert" because they've never lived my life and I felt so dehumanized based on their analysis of me. Therefore, I began a long, lonely journey I called "Building My Own Damn River". I spent years on that journey. I read and lived the principles of every personal growth book, then began writing my own. I soaked up information about Bipolar Disorder like a sponge. I immersed myself in exclusive research during my eight years of higher education. I never wanted to have a major episode again.
bipolar disorder beyond episodes:
things medication doesn't fix
Due to my perceived differences in the structure of my brain due to bipolar disorder, to this day, I still have difficulties with impulsivity. I have difficulty thinking before I speak, it does not come naturally to me. As a result, I express my thoughts and emotions impulsively. I practice daily to do my best to think before I speak. Most people don't have to do that.
I don't embarrass easily because I don't pick up on subtle social cues easily (unless they are facial). In talking with people living with bipolar disorder, one of the things we often have in common is the feeling like everyone else got a book on all of the social rules and expectations except for us. It is true for me, I don't intrinsically know what is "socially appropriate" in certain circumstances and I don't have an intuitive sense of "the right time" to bring something up.
As a result, my deficits have given me the qualities of transparency, humility and humor to compensate for it all.
I am consistently doing my best to compensate for what I lack. Medication doesn't change that.
relapse prevention
learning how to live with it
I got good at preventing episodes by developing pro-active skills for responding to stress and conflict. Yet, I was always in a struggle for control. I felt the need to be in control, even after many years with the disorder. My deepest fear still was having another episode. It was so painful. I always felt alone and never felt safe being vulnerable with anyone. I repeated a lot of mistakes over and over again. I got sick and tired of doing the same thing and expecting a different result. So I decided that the pain from trusting and letting go of control probably wasn't worse. This is how I learned to ask for help, receive it and be vulnerable.
During this realization, I received a gift. The gift was giving myself permission to be Bipolar. Part of the gift was giving myself permission to not be afraid anymore. I replaced that fear with the trust that I'll be okay because I trusted people would help me. Furthermore, I began to learn how to stay safe as I go with my Bipolar experience. I learned how to identify and inhibit what's fueling mania. Most importantly, I learned to ask for help from my family, friends, colleagues and psychiatrist without feeling like a failure. After fifteen years, I still take my lithium every day. I've developed a relationship with Bipolar Disorder in which I give minor episodes permission to exist and know when to intervene. In finally learning how to go with the my life's journey, I haven't had a significant episode in fifteen years. I've overcome my fear of "experts". As a result, I've become an innovative and collaborative expert of facilitating a process that I hope will enable you to influence how you experience Bipolar Disorder.


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Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, Calif. to its 2014 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This annual list spotlights important examples of the nation's architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage. More than 250 sites have been on the list over its 27-year history, and in that time, only a handful of listed sites have been lost.
Historic Wintersburg documents three generations of the Japanese American experience in the United States, from immigration in the late 19th century to the return from incarceration in internment camps following World War II. The site contains six extant pioneer structures and open farmland, and is one of the only surviving Japanese-owned properties acquired prior to California's anti-Japanese "alien" land laws of 1913 and 1920, which restricted land ownership by immigrant populations. In contrast to Japanese American confinement sites from the World War II era, Historic Wintersburg represents the daily community life and spiritual institutions of Japanese settlers as they established a new life in America.
"Historic Wintersburg is a unique cultural site that tells the important story of early Japanese American immigrants as they sought to make a new life and build a community in Southern California," said Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, "We strongly support a collaborative effort that preserves Wintersburg's historic landscape while building upon its longstanding role as an educational and supportive space for the Huntington Beach community."
The site also chronicles the multigenerational story of the Furuta family, Japanese pioneers who cultivated a farm for close to a century, helped establish Japanese civic and business development organizations, and are a largely unrecognized part of Orange County's history.
The property is currently owned by Rainbow Environmental Services (Rainbow), a waste transfer company. In November 2013, the Huntington Beach City Council voted to rezone the property from residential to commercial/industrial. The Council also approved a Statement of Overriding Consideration—an action which allows demolition of all six structures. Although Rainbow agreed to provide preservationists until mid 2015 to find solutions to save the historic property, demolition of the site remains a possibility.
Members of the public are invited to learn more about what they can do to support these 11 historic places and hundreds of other endangered sites at www.PreservationNation.org/places
The 2014 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places (in alphabetical order):
Battle Mountain Sanitarium –Hot Springs, South Dakota. Battle Mountain Sanitarium has provided medical care to veterans in the region for more than a century, and is one of the few properties owned by the Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated a National Historic Landmark. Today, the VA is moving forward with a proposal to abandon the facility.
Bay Harbor's East Island – Miami-Dade County, Florida. Bay Harbor's East Island's collection of Miami Modern buildings are threatened with demolition by development proposals.
Chattanooga State Office Building – Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Chattanooga State Office Building, a midcentury landmark in the heart of downtown, is threatened with demolition by its new owner.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring House – Tallahassee, Florida. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1954, Spring House is the only built private residence designed by Wright in the state of Florida, and its novel "hemicycle" form of is one very few surviving homes that Wright designed in this style. Weather and the ravages of time have deteriorated the building.
Historic Wintersburg – Huntington Beach, California. Historic Wintersburg is a Japanese American pioneer property that tells the story of Japanese American immigrants in Southern California, and is now threatened by demolition.
Mokuaikaua Church – Kailua Village, Kona, Hawaii. Mokuaikaua Church, completed in 1837, is Hawaii's first Christian Church and is at risk from both earthquake damage and natural wear and tear.
Music Hall – Cincinnati, Ohio. A National Historic Landmark, Music Hall has played a significant role in the cultural fabric of Cincinnati since it was built in 1878. Today, it is deteriorating and in need of extensive repairs.
The Palisades – Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Several generations have cherished the scenic Palisades cliffs along the Hudson River. The LG Corporation plans to build an office tower along the cliffs in New Jersey, forever altering the landscape.
Palladium Building – St. Louis, Missouri. The Palladium Building housed a nightclub in the 1940s that—although restricted to a whites-only clientele—played a prominent role in the development of African American music. The Palladium now faces an uncertain future because it is not protected by local or national historic designations.
Shockoe Bottom – Richmond, Virginia. Once a center of slave trade in America, Shockoe Bottom was home to Solomon Northup's jail in "12 Years a Slave" and contains numerous underground artifacts. The site is threatened by potential development of a minor league baseball stadium.
Union Terminal – Cincinnati, Ohio. Union Terminal, an iconic symbol of Cincinnati and a world-class example of Art Deco architecture, is suffering from deterioration and is in need of extensive repairs.
Watch Status:
Federal Historic Tax Credit – Nationwide. The Federal Historic Tax Credit, a proven tool to encourage preservation across the country, is currently threatened by tax reform on Capitol Hill.
Follow us on Twitter at @presnation and join the conversation using the hashtag #11Most
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places has identified more than 250 threatened one-of-a-kind historic treasures since 1988. Whether these sites are urban districts or rural landscapes, Native American landmarks or 20th-century sports arenas, entire communities or single buildings, the list spotlights historic places across America that are threatened by neglect, insufficient funds, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy. The designation has been a powerful tool for raising awareness and rallying resources to save endangered sites from every region of the country. At times, that attention has garnered public support to quickly rescue a treasured landmark; while in other instances, it has been the impetus of a long battle to save an important piece of our history.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded nonprofit organization, works to save America's historic places. PreservationNation.org, @SavingPlaces

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AMONG THE most prominent Americans to study abroad in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly W. E. B. Du Bois, but the road that led him there was anything but direct. After his graduation from high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois wanted to attend Harvard, but was gently dissuaded by friends and counselors, who convinced him that he should go to a traditionally black college. Du Bois chose Fisk in Tennessee, where he was active in the choir, worked on the student newspaper, and took classes in German, among other subjects.
On graduating from Fisk, Du Bois, demonstrating his customary tenacity, applied for and was admitted to the program of study at Harvard, where he continued to use his knowledge of German in his classes in economics and philosophy. Finally he decided that he wished to study in Germany, and set sail for Europe. The years that he spent there were decisive for his further development.
This paper examines Du Bois's study in Germany, making use of a variety of documents relating to his stay in Berlin. Du Bois describes his life as a student in Berlin quite vividly in chapter 10 of his Autobiography, which is largely based on diaries and notes Du Bois kept as a student. The Du Bois papers stored at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst)' provide an interesting perspective on chapter 10, for here we can see the diaries in their original form, unedited by Du Bois, who wrote the Autobiography many years later and who left out much that is of interest not only to students of Berlin in the 1890s but also to biographers of Du Bois. In this paper I will draw not only on his correspondence and Autobiography but also on unpublished sources, including documents I found in Berlin. Although the focus will be on Du Bois, it is also important to sketch in the cultural and political climate of the time, since this provides the setting for Du Bois's development and helps explain some elements in the further course of life.
P r e p a r a t i o n s
Du Bois's first acquaintance with the German language appears have been in classes at Fisk University in Nashville (1885-1888), where he took beginning German and read excerpts from Schiller's play William Tell. His commencement speech was on Bismarck. At Harvard (1888-1890)he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with George Santayana, who himself studied in Gottingen and Berlin shortly before. 2 Du Bois wrote a paper on the German Railway System for his course on political economy ( he got an A). At commencement, Du Bois spoke on Jefferson Davis as a representative of Teutonic civilization.
After receiving his B.A., Du Bois applied for a stipend from the Slater Fund, which wanted to finance graduate study abroad. Du Bois missed deadline for application and indeed only heard about the existence of the fund after its director, former President Rutherford B. Hayes, complained publicly that no worthy black man had applied. Eventually, after a protracted correspondence with Hayes, Du Bois was awarded the prize.3 At age of twenty-four, he set sail for Europe armed with a good education in philosophy, history, and the German railroads; an adequate knowledge of the German language; intense curiosity; and little idea where he was going to study.
At first he landed in Holland, "an extremely neat and well-ordered, mud-puddle" (Autobiography;157), then took a boat trip up the Rhine before going over to Eisenach in central Germany, where he took a room with the Marbach family. After improving his knowledge of German over the summer (and falling a little in love with the eldest daughter of the family, Dora Marbach), Du Bois determined that the best university in Germany was that in Berlin, and so he set out for that city in the fall of 1892.
University Life
At the time the Friedrich Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin was the most modern in the world. Just a year before Du Bois's arrival, electric lights had replaced the gas lights in the library. There was a new, centralized clock system with bells that rang every quarter hour. The first toilets had been installed, along with central heating and ventilation. It certainly must have seemed a highly developed place to Du Bois, who not so long before had been looking for a summer teaching job by wandering on foot over the hot and dusty roads of rural Tennessee.
The university building, located then as now on the tree-lined Unter den Linden boulevard, had thirty-six lecture halls distributed over three floors. One room with two cells was set aside for the detention of students. The catalog room in the library was open to students daily, but only from noon until 2 P.M. As far as is known, Du Bois checked out only two books during his three semesters in Berlin.4
The winter semester of 1892,Du Bois's first semester, ran from mid-October until mid-March. The student body was made up of approximately 4,700 young men, of whom anywhere from 8-11 percent were foreign. More than 150 Americans were enrolled, and the largest group, 59, took classes in philosophy, philology, and history.
Of all the German language universities, only Vienna had a larger faculty. And on the faculty in Berlin were some of the most famous names anywhere in the academic world: the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey; the economist Gustav Schmoller; the historian Heinrich von Treitschke ("the most instructing and interesting especially for the modern ultra German point-of-view," noted Du Bois, Autobiography,Chap. 10); one of the founders of the field of German literature, Erich Schmidt; Max Weber; the classical philologist Theodor Mommsen; and the scientists Helmholtz, Planck, and Virchow.5
Students lived in apartments they sublet for the semester and frequently moved, never staying long enough in one place to be registered in the official Berlin address book. This was the case with Du Bois, as he moved at least four times during his stay in Berlin .6 As he wrote in an unpublished essay "Harvard in Berlin" (ca. 1893): "The correct Berlin method is to hire a nook in a flat, from three to five stories up. There with pipe and bier, coffee and black bread, he lives not like a king, but as a free and easy viking bound to the student world by his kneipes (drinking bouts) his societies, and-possibly-his lectures" (p. 11).
There were no required classes, and attendance was never taken. Students typically spent a semester at one university and then moved on to a second and a third to complete their education. This so-called "triennium" was in fact a requirement for all students. To get a degree it was necessary only to pass a final examination, and students often simply crammed for his exam after doing little or no studying for years.
Problems were caused not by the majority of students but (even then) by certain fraternities. According to the Berliner Zeitung, membership in certain student organizations meant they were taken care of for the rest of their lives; their careers as administrators or as judges were guaranteed. And yet these students were the laziest drudges imaginable.7 They spent two to three years carousing in bars, dueling, and discussing correct drinking customs. At a university in western Germany one fraternity was said to have forbidden its members to attend classes as being "improper behavior."
The Vossische Zeitung cautioned that these problems actually used to be worse. Whoever looked at the courses listed on the bulletin boards could find numerous announcements of student associations that invited participation in their meetings, where students would give lectures on topics they ad investigated themselves. Others invited professors from their own and her institutions to lecture on issues of current concern.8 Du Bois wrote that there were clubs "for all purposes, from philosophy to chess, and from converting the Jews to Alp-climbing" (Autobiography, 167). The students generally shared with the faculty members the conviction that the key to the answer to social problems was education.
But what was it that brought on the outpouring of newspaper commentary on the conditions of student life in August 1893? Why does the collection of Professor Virchow contain all these now-yellowed clippings? The uproar was brought about by a complaint by Professor Schmoller at the end of his course on national economy. His lectures were usually attended by more than one hundred students, guests, and dignitaries both from home and road. Schmoller thanked the students, but addressed his thanks only to those who had done the work, not to those who had skipped the entire semester and appeared on the last day to pick up their certificate of participation-something that, as he pointed out, was to be found nowhere else on earth and in no other system of education. Schmoller was concerned for the future civil servants and for the welfare of the nation, which he saw largely resting in their hands, and he (somewhat hysterically) compared the situation to that of France before the revolution. One paper (the Volks-Zeitung 185 of 9 Aug. 1893) urged Schmoller to use his influence to ban fraternities, which encouraged overindulgence, rowdyism, and "Nichtstun" (idling or inaction) among their members.
It is hard to imagine today any comments on student behavior by any professor, no matter how prominent (except maybe the late Allan Bloom), attracting such widespread attention and controversy as followed Schmoller's remarks. The reaction illustrates the esteem with which the views of distinguished professors at the Berlin University were held in German society of the 1890s.
The Political Situation
One national holiday in which of course the university participated took place every 27 January: the Kaiser's birthday. All the newspapers reported in great detail the celebrations of 1893, when the Kaiser turned thirty-four. The ceremonies began at 3 A.M. with martial music, a reception, a church service, and speeches, and lasted the entire day. Huge crowds lined Unter den Linden; boys climbed trees to get a better view of the parades. The guard of honor fired their guns in salute. There was a festive meeting at the Academy of Sciences, which Du Bois was to become a member of some sixty-five years later. At the university there was a ceremonial gathering in the main hall, and speeches on the history of the university, stressing the role played therein by the Kaiser's ancestors; other speeches focused on riveting topics such as the Kaiser's voyages to northern countries, and plays were performed with titles such as The Guardian Angel of the Hohenzollerns. In the evening a banquet took place followed by a gala opera.
One must remember that Germany had been united for only twenty-one years on Du Bois's arrival. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 had seen the triumph of German armies led by Prussia over the French of Napoleon III at Sedan and the later fall of the Paris Commune. The Prussian King, William 1, had been reluctantly persuaded by Chancellor Bismarck to accept the crown as Kaiser. The coronation took place in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
By the time Du Bois arrived in 1892, the first Kaiser had been succeeded by William 11, the man we think of as the Kaiser, who had forced Bismarck into retirement. With his departure the intricate system of alliances that he had maintained began to fall apart. Rapid industrialization, the acquisition of colonies, the creation of a fleet nearly equal to that of the British, and the powerful army all led Germany's leaders to claim for their country world power status. In reaction to this came the formation in 1892 of a Franco-Russian military convention. An essential component of the coming world war was thus in place.
On the domestic side, an election took place in the summer of 1893, and Du Bois was an eager student of the campaign as he saw it unfold in Berlin. By American standards, it was a rather quiet affair, with the Social Democrats the only party to engage actively in electioneering. Du Bois's unpublished essay "The Present Condition of German Politics" (reel 87, frame 391 ff.) records his observations, although his definition of left wing and right wing takes some getting used to. Evidently the young Du Bois could be described in today's terms as a libertarian, so his perspective looks skewed to today's viewer. Du Bois lumped the German Social Democrats together with the anti-Semites on the right wing. For Du Bois socialism meant state control and was therefore on the right. Even stranger is Du Bois's surprise that workers identified themselves with the Social Democratic party. Du Bois seemed to think that a socialist was an intellectual, that socialism was a theoretical, philosophical affair best represented by some of his professors at the university. Du Bois, who himself had been active in the choir at Fisk, was amazed when he attended what was billed as a reunion of two hundred workingmen's glee clubs, only to find himself "in the midst of 10,000 socialists!" He evidently did not know that these groups often were camouflage organizations for political clubs during the time when Bismarck's antisocialist laws were in effect. In addition to glee clubs (which performed the "Marseillaise" and other tunes from the official party songbook), there were dance clubs, athletic clubs, zither clubs, and a volunteer fire brigade. These clubs provided entertainment for working-class families, for example, by setting up photographic exhibitions and displaying items such as a barrel filled with workers' sweat.9 Du Bois noted at the gathering of the socialist glee club, "I asked a neatly dressed and harmless-looking little maiden with whom I danced: 'Are you too a socialist?' 'O yes!' she replied; 'And why?' She looked a bit puzzled and then answered half-timidly: 'Because my father is.' I danced with her again." Du Bois was interested in the Social Democrats, not because he agreed at this time with their Politics, but because they were a political movement for the disenfranchised and underprivileged, and so he saw in them a possible model for what could happen someday for his own race in America. Du Bois felt a similar attraction to Bismarck, whom he had described in his commencement address at Fisk as the unifier of a disparate and fractious nation.
The social democratic clubs did have an overtly political dimension as well. They would invite prominent speakers such as the revered founder of the party, August Bebel, who lectured in smoke-filled halls in sessions that lasted from 8 PM to midnight. Or the clubs engaged in debate on a topic such as the right to strike. Everyone was expected to participate in these debates, which were used as preparation for debates against other political parties.
Near the end of his long life (he lived to be ninety-five), Du Bois was to become a Communist candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York after World War II and later a member of the Communist Party of the United States, and East German accounts of his student days in Berlin frequently mention the allegedly lasting impression made by August Bebel on the young Du Bois. But this is a self-serving reinterpretation of history by the East Germans, who wanted to claim both Bebel and Du Bois as their own. The documents Du Bois wrote while in Berlin tell a different story.10 He was probably including himself when he said that most Americans would side with the German Democratic party, which in Du Bois's terminology was left wing but which would not be considered so today. The Democrats opposed state intervention and upheld the rights of the individual and the state over and against any centralized authority. Particularly they supported free trade and deregulation.
The result of the 1893 election was that fourteen groups were represented in the newly constructed Reichstag. The largest party was the Roman Catholic Center party, with ninety-six seats (about a quarter of the total), based on the support of 19 percent of the voters. The Social Democrats, although they received a larger percentage of the votes, had fewer than half as many seats, because Bismarck's restrictive voting laws did not permit one man one vote. The anti-Semites, who had had zero representation in 1884 and six in 1890, shot up to sixteen in this election.
Anti-Semitism in Imperial Berlin
Anti-Semitism was present in the 1890s not just in politics but also in the university. Among the professors, Gustav Schmoller could be heard saying: "We see that where large properties are the rule, the little Jew represents the middle class but by no means completely replaces it, we see above all that in these regions small towns, small markets with healthy life are missing..."11 But the most prominent anti-Semitic professors, the historian Treitschke and the economist Wagner, both of were professors of Du Bois.
Students, too, had their anti-Semitic organizations. The Vereine Deutscher Studenten (Clubs of German Students) founded in the 1880s under the guidance of Court Preacher and influential anti-Semite Adolf Stoecker were politically quite active. In 1893 they invited one Dr. Brecher, a notorious anti-Semite, to become an honorary member of their fraterntity. The rector of the university, the famous public health reformer Rudolf' Virchow, tried unsuccessfully to keep Brecher from receiving this dubious honor.12
This led to scathing denunciations of Virchow in the anti-Semitic press as "judenfreundlich" (philosemitic), as though that were a term of opprobrium. The university was called a bastion of Judaism with a high percentage of Jewish professors. One paper commented that Virchow in his ivory tower had lost contact with the people, who were (allegedly) suffering, under the increasing influence of Judaism. "We Germans," said another paper, still have reason to be proud of our higher education, but if Jewish, materialism takes hold then it will be in danger."13 One could without difficulty list many more such commentaries, as these examples are by no means isolated.
At the same time, the liberal press, influential although small in number, stoutly defended Virchow and said that the fame of the Berlin University was suffering under the onslaught of anti-Semitic students and professors. Virchow fought back in his formal address to the faculty, saying that although no professorship of anti-Semitism had yet been demanded, anti-Semitic professors had been called for-a highly unusual and courageous reference to current events in a speech in which only nice sentiments and vague words were expected.
The Club for Social Policy
One of Du Bois's professors, Gustav Schmoller, was a founder (in 1872,of the Verein fdr Sozialpolitik (Club for Social Policy), the primary organization for social reform.14 The fast pace of industrialization after the defeat of France had led to increasing class conflict and the prospect of worse confrontations to come. The state sought to head off these clashes by means of intervention in the private sector. There were widespread calls for a third path, one between communism and capitalism, one that would avoid the twin dangers of revolution and reaction.15
The Club for Social Policy, which brought together economists, government officials, scientists, and academicians, led the way with radical calls in the early 1870s for the abolition of private property. In the years that followed, however, the club retreated from the front lines somewhat and became an academic publication company (vom Bruch 1985, 67). Two representatively drab titles of the Publications of the Club for Social Policy under Schmoller's editorship are The Conditions of Farmworkers in Germany (3 volumes, 1892; the third volume was edited by Max Weber) and New Investigations into the Housing Question in Germany and Abroad (4 volumes, 190 1).
A central tenet of the club was that it should fall to the educated classes, the talented tenth, as Du Bois would later call them, to moderate between the propertied class and the proletariat (vom Bruch 1985, 62). As Schmoller himself said, "Science can and should not be impartial and colorless, but, while standing above the minor squabbles and controversies of the day, should deal with the large political questions of the age" (Ritschl, 258).
Another fundamental principle of the club was that the state was responsible for all its subjects and for their welfare. After careful study of a problem, the government must be prepared to take action. 16 A prerequisite for reform was a description of how a problem (such as child and female labor) arose, followed by, an exact statistical description of the problem. Du Bois notebooks of his courses with Schmoller include the following sentence, written in a mixture of German and English: "My school tries as far as possible to leave the 'sollen' [what should happen] for a later stage and study on[ly] the 'geschehen' [what actually happens] as other sciences have done" (Economics Notebook 1893/94, reel 87). Reform should be scientific, based on observation and quantification. Only then could the arguments be made for limiting work hours, improving hygiene and safety, reforming the tax code, and seeing to the education of the working class.
Schmoller, who became chairman of the club in 1890, was one of the most prominent members of a group known, at first pejoratively, as "Kathedersozialisten," or socialist professors. Under his leadership, the club concentrated on labor conditions. Questionnaires were distributed, and students in his seminars conducted interviews with workers. It must have been at Schmoller's encouragement that Du Bois became a member of the Club for Social Policy.
Du Bois's memory of Schmoller did not fade with the years. In 1958, when Du Bois went to East Berlin to accept an honorary degree from his old university (now renamed the Humboldt University), he was greeted by the dean, who still lives there in retirement. The dean recalled that the first thing Du Bois did when they met was to pull out of his pocket a calling card of Gustav Schmoller and say that when he (Du Bois) was a student, Schmoller had given him that card and invited him to attend one of his upper division courses. Du Bois never forgot the kind gesture. 17
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Among the documents in the archive of the Humboldt University relating to Du Bois, one sheds some light on the question: Why was Du Bois not allowed to take his degree at Berlin? The minutes of the faculty meetings show that typical topics discussed in the 1890s were these: Who is to be considered a candidate for tenure? Which professors are leaving for jobs elsewhere? There is also the occasional case of plagiarism. Another burning question was, Should students with no knowledge of Latin be allowed to r graduate with a degree they could not read? Old Professor Helmholtz called awarding these degrees a "deception of the nation" (minutes of 6 July 1893).
Du Bois, like a number of other students, wished to be admitted early for a degree, and his petition was considered on 18 January of 1894. The official minutes do not record the pro and contra, but only the final, somewhat convoluted decision:
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I was so excited to do this Dockside Market review. Dockside Market baked their first cakes at Ocean Reef in Key Largo over 30 years ago and sold them seaside at the local Dockside Mart. It was natural that the Florida Key Lime was the inspiration for the first Dockside Cake. Baked one at a time, using the only freshest ingredients and genuine Key Lime Juice. Dockside Cakes were so moist, so rich in taste and texture that their fame spread far beyond the shores of these tropical islands.
We were sent the Orange and oh my, it was delicious. As I said in an earlier post, I am not a huge fan of orange flavoring but this was amazing. It was soaked in real juice, the cake was moist, and for a few minutes I could pretend that I was sitting on a beach in sunny Florida. This is definitely a cake you could have for company or a party. It was that good.
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The Broken Christianity of "12 Years a Slave"
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Microarthropods and fungal competition: A story from Eastern Oregon's ponderosa pine forest soils.
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ABSTRACT- Many Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) and springtails (Insecta, Collembola) are considered generalist fungivores that exhibit preferences for certain types of fungi. They may help shape the soil microbial community composition through their fungal feeding habits. Using organisms from a Pinus ponderosa forest soil, we investigated two aspects of microarthropod ecology: (1) microarthropod feeding preference, and (2) microarthropod grazing's effects on fungal competition. Four microarthropod species statistically showed preference orders for the eight fungi offered in the feeding preference trials. Epicoccum nigrum was frequently the most preferred. Penicillium sp. was usually the least preferred, and Trichoderma viride was also usually low on the preference orders. Several arthropods did not show distinct preferences. There are several possible explanations for this: the preferred food was not offered, the arthropods are true generalist feeders, or the animals would not feed under laboratory culture conditions. The fungal competition studies indicate that microarthropod grazing sometimes influences fungal competition, but not always. The presence of grazers reduced E. nigrum's competitive advantage over the fungal pathogens, Leptographium wagnerii, and Armillaria ostoye, but not T. viride's. In general, the outcome of competition in my experiments depended on the relative competitive dominance of each fungus, and (indirectly) on the palatability of each fungus. Because these studies were conducted in a simplified laboratory environment, further study is needed to evaluate these interactions in the complex soil environment.
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If you have previously heard about this symposium, but have never actually been to one, you may not appreciate the opportunity the day offers to anyone who enjoys gardening. Once again we will have outstanding speakers presenting on forty diverse aspects of gardening. Talks will be grouped into two morning and two afternoon sessions; for most, the challenge is to decide which four out of the forty you will choose to attend.
Registration for the symposium ($40, or $20 for full time students) includes lunch onsite - which means you will have time during the mid-day break to socialize and network with other gardeners. (Don't forget, parking is free on Saturdays!)
• If you are new to this area, you might be interested in "Growing Roses in the Rogue Valley" or "A Year in the Life of a Locavore".
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The South Carolina African Heritage Commission is proud to announce that its Foundation has been awarded a $7,000.00 matching grant from The Humanities Council for the "African American Civil War Lecture Series." The goal of the lecture series is to enlighten the general public to the roles of African Americans during the American Civil War, moreover the series will provide opportunities for much needed dialogue about one of the most pivotal events in United States history. The series is timely and appropriate because through 2015 this nation will be commemorating the sesquicentennial of the war.
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Formally documenting your skills with Cisco operating system technologies is a big deal in the IT field. The more formal you're able to make your credentials, the better. Even if you have ample experience in the field working with Cisco OS options, earning a credential through Cisco certification exams is still a good idea. Not only does it show your current employer you possess the essential skills and abilities to handle any Cisco OS project that's required of you, but it also potentially opens up new career opportunities for you as well. The Cisco OS skill set is highly valued in the job market and possessing a formal credential to validate your abilities in this discipline can earn you raises, promotions and even new positions of employment.
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Mission services manager, Goodwill Career Centers
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What has been some of the best advice you've received?
The best advice I've received is to just be myself. I think that anyone striving to succeed professionally finds themselves going into situations thinking, what should I do, or what I am expected to do? Instead, we should be going into situations thinking, how can I be the best me at this moment and time? You can't change who you are at your core, and any success gained by attempting to reach a standard that really doesn't exist by being someone you aren't, won't last long.
Who has had a significant impact on your life and why?
Both my father and my husband have had such an impact on my life. My father is the reason I want to do so much in the community. I remember him talking about how talented the youth in Newnan are, but how it is rare that the youth bring their talents back to Newnan after graduating college. I am at home here in Newnan, and I want to accomplish something great here. I hope that our youth will see that the possibilities in Newnan are great, and there is so much to be done that can positively impact our community.
Every person needs someone to challenge them. My husband motivates me and challenges me daily. There are so many things I simply accept because that's just the way things are. Terrance "TJ" will often times bring on discussions that make me think differently about so many things I've just accepted both personally and professionally. I look back on the last 6 years, and know that his support and motivation has helped me to make some of the tough decisions that have come about professionally and personally.
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Our community is growing in a major way, and knowing that I can be a part of workforce development that will create a skilled workforce for Newnan is wonderful in every way. It's not just about a job for a person who is unemployed. It is about providing a skilled workforce to help our community grow to provide more job opportunities. It is about providing a way for a job seeker to earn wages that will lead toward creating a home that is financially stable. And, even though we may not always think about this, a job may be the difference between a food for dinner or no food for a family.
We are all connected regardless of our position at this moment. I am constantly reminded of this at my job daily, and I am humbled each day because I know that my success is success for our clients.
I love that through my job I am able to humble myself daily. I am truly thankful for the opportunities that Goodwill provides for me to connect to our community and job seekers.
It's so easy to come to work daily, and to collect a paycheck. It's another thing to come to work daily, and to see that the job you are doing is not only benefiting others; but, that it is also helping you develop in the skills necessary to be a more genuine leader in the future. The people I see in our centers are the people that motivate me to continue moving forward.


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Chaplain (LTC) Retired Thomas Edward Hines, Jr.
Reverend Thomas Hines Jr. passed on June 5, 2013. Funeral services will be held 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 10, at Roosevelt Hall Memorial Auditorium in Warm Springs, GA, with Rev. Eugene Wiseman officiating. Interment will be in Grantville City Cemetery.
Chaplain (LTC) Retired Thomas Edward Hines Jr. was the first born son of Thomas E. Hines Sr. and Louise Hill Hines in Grantville, GA. He was called to the ministry at 13 years of age. Rev. Hines was a United Methodist Minister and pastored several churches in Georgia before joining the U.S. Army. A real go-getter, Thomas completed a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Vanderbilt University while serving as a Chaplain for 21 years in the United States Army. His military service included a tour of duty in Vietnam. He lovingly provided basic needs, as well as fun for his family as they traveled extensively in America and abroad, which included living in Fairbanks, Alaska, for 2.5 years and 3 years in Frankfurt, Germany. Other duties include working as counselor in the Georgia State Prison System, and as counselor and chaplain at Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.
His philosophy of "Fix it or tear it up" meant turning across the Autobahn in Europe, backing up I-95 in D.C., and stopping in the middle of the battery area of Manhattan, NY, to retrieve a hubcap, which led to much shock and laughter for the family. His idea of ice removal in Alaska was gasoline and a match. He built a picnic set that looked like wooden wheelchairs and a storm shelter out of a septic tank. He also made a storage shed from doors, and others never knew which door to choose. His homemade rolls, delicious BBQ and patented pickled everything resulted in being the talk of many. He was a lover of music who purchased many instruments – never learning how to play them!
He is survived by his loving and dedicated wife of 52 years, Peggy; his three children, Trina Hines Nesbitt (Garvin), Thomas E. Hines III (Julie), and Mari Hines Early (Kevin); and seven grandchildren. He will be missed by his devoted mother, Mrs. Louise Hill Hines; four sisters and two brothers. He was truly one-of-a-kind and will be missed by the countless lives he touched in and outside his ministry.
Family will receive friends on Sunday from 4 until 7 p.m. at John Wesley United Methodist Church, Grantville, Georgia. Final arrangements have been entrusted to Sellers-Smith Funeral Home, Inc., Newnan; 770-253-1607, www.sellerssmithfh.com.


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Recently Collective Intellect has been working on more private data—for example, processing transcripts of calls made to customer service lines, or transcripts of doctor-patient consultations. "In that case the drug company wants to know what the themes of discussion are when a drug gets prescribed," says Greenstreet. He predicts that such tools will start being used on internal data much more frequently. "There's a lot of data in the enterprise that they don't have a handle on," he says.
David Steier, a director of information management with Deloitte's consulting arm in Palo Alto, California, agrees that many businesses are unknowingly sitting on top of valuable data. His team makes it possible to automatically extract insights from collections of documents that would otherwise have to be read individually.
"Auto insurance claims, for example, have text descriptions of the accident that would usually be read and interpreted by a person processing the claim," he says. "We can have software read that text, and other information on the form, to create a risk score for the claim automatically." Deloitte's system was trained on a batch of manually processed claims and was able to learn which words in the written description signaled high-cost accidents. "Motorcycle" and "flighted" (as in to a hospital) proved to be particularly strong indications that a claim would be expensive.
"You can use the score we generate to automatically route complex claims to the most experienced adjustors," says Steier. A similar approach can use the text of support requests and call transcripts to make predictions about which customers are likely to switch to a competing product, giving companies a chance to develop innovative strategies for targeting people before they defect. "Companies need to pay attention to the fact that there is a lot of high value in this unstructured data that it is easy to overlook," says Steier.


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The sun rises over rugged hills, passes over the bustling city of Somerset and sets over rolling farmland to the west. Close by is Lake Cumberland, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. The landscape inspires strong opinions among residents, including one fellow who says simply: "This is the most beautiful place in world." Clearly a lot of people would agree.
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Advice for Extending the Sprint
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Your Scrum team is days away from the end of its sprint when it discovers a significant impediment—one that's large enough to keep the team from delivering the product increment it's negotiated for the sprint. So how should the team handle this late-breaking discovery? And what should the Product Owner do about it?
This is the question posed by InfoQ reporter Mark Levison in a recent post titled "When to Extend an Iteration/Sprint." He aggregates advice from numerous Certified Scrum Trainers and, though there was some discrepancy among their responses, everyone seemed to be on the same page on this issue. Namely, all the CSTs surveyed explained that the team should inform the Product Owner as soon as the problem is discovered and that, under no circumstances, should the sprint be extended.
Perhaps the first point is an obvious one. When a problem arises, if the team informs the Product Owner immediately, it gives him or her more time to access the extent of the problem and formulate a plan of action with as much time remaining before the end of the sprint.
But why should a sprint never be extended?
In Scrum, development activity is organized in repeatable work cycles called sprints or iterations. It's essential that sprints always be the same length because 1) it allows the development team to establish a rhythm and 2) lets the Product Owner observe the team's velocity, which is extremely helpful with release forecasting. When a sprint's length deviates, it undermines the repeatability of the process and erodes the urgency associated with sprint deadlines.
So what does the Product Owner do in such a situation?
First, the Product Owner should take stock of the situation. If work can be reorganized to salvage important sprint goals, it should be. But if the problem is too far-reaching for that to occur, then it should be treated like any other PBI in Scrum. That is, it should be returned to the backlog (where its acceptance criteria might need to be revised) and added to the next sprint. More thoughts on why awarding partial credit within a sprint is potentially harmful, take a look at this blog post by CST Michael James.
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With the Jets sights now firmly set on the next game against Brett Favre and the Vikings, our friends at TiqIQ took a quick look at just what sort of a premium Favre is commanding against the Jets as compared to what it normally looks like on the road for Favre these days.
While the Bears and Packers games are commanding much higher premiums, the Jets did come in third with the "Favre Bump" compared to the average Jets gameday ticket.
To me what this indicates is that the Jets are interested to see Favre come back to New York, but there's a lot less vitriol there than those teams in the NFC North that have a longer history with Favre, especially the Packers.
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I've had a bad cold for a few days now. I've been going to bed pretty early, but I keep waking up with chills or fevers or both and I often reach for my phone to pass the time until I feel like I can sleep again. I'm pretty happy with most of what crosses my Facebook timeline, so i often peruse it in bed. Last night, I discovered that was a huge mistake, because I came across a post that made me rage. I refrained from rage-commenting — which I am very proud of because it would have accomplished nothing but more rage — but I promised myself I would post today to vent my feelings. Oh yes, I also rage-reported the post to Facebook. That made me feel better. It still took a while for me to calm down enough to go back to sleep though. (Facebook said the post did not violate its policies. That's fine. I still am happy about reporting it.)
I'm not going to link the post or name names. This isn't about picking fights with or shaming specific people.
The post in question was a link to an article blaming the spread of diseases on vaccinated people. The poster, instead of mocking the anti-scienceness of it all like everyone else on my timeline does, said, "shoot anyone who tries to vaccinate you."
I'm raging again just thinking about it.
A comment on this post expressed belief in the article and then complained that it didn't mention the fact that illegal immigrants were the biggest culprits in spreading diseases.
This isn't the first time I've heard anti-vaxers blaming illegal immigrants. It seems to go hand in hand these days.
But here's the problem: you can't have both. You can't say that diseases are spread by the vaccinated and also say that diseases are spread by illegal immigrants who are unvaccinated. It's one or the other. It's simple logic.
Illegal immigrants who are unvaccinated are absolutely capable of spreading preventable diseases — just like my Mayflower forefathers brought diseases foreign to the natives in this country, killing them off in droves. There are state programs, however, that provide vaccinations for low-income children for free. There are just a few forms to fill out and a few lines to stand in. I for one am happy that my tax dollars are being spent on that — which benefits all taxpayers and their children — and wish my tax dollars were spent so well all the time. You're not going to hear me be positive very often about how my tax dollars are spent, by the way. But paying for vaccinations is just pennies. And that's the solution for anyone capable of carrying preventable diseases: vaccinate them, when medically possible. I'm for spending some of our defense budget on vaccinating the world.
It seems to me that there is an agenda by the anti-vaxers that are blaming illegal immigrants. They want to keep those, uh, unwhite? people out of our wonderful nation … our wonderful nation made of immigrants.
I was re-watching Winter Soldier recently and there is a very brief part where Captain America is speaking to Falcon and he expresses pleasure at no more polio. Why is there no more polio? Vaccinations. How can people live in a world without polio and not realize that vaccinations have created that world?
And I just read this story about a family exposed to measles.
I actually have more to say, but I'm tired and sick. I'm not angry anymore though. I'm going to bed. I'm not reading Facebook tonight.


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Holy crap.
From ESPN Boston:
The arrest occurred at 4:42 a.m. Saturday, on Ben Hill Griffin Parkway in Estero, which is adjacent to Fort Myers. According to the arrest report, Britton, who was driving a 2008 black Chevrolet Silverado (a pickup truck), was paced at a maximum speed of 111 miles an hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone. With a police car in pursuit, Britton's truck swerved in between other moving vehicles and jumped over a curb, continuing down a small decline and knocking down a barbed-wire fence, according to the police report. Britton then continued down a dirt road for a quarter of a mile and attempted to pull into a wooded area before coming to a stop. When the officer approached and asked for his license, Britton first handed him his debit card.
Nice. I had a client with a "he gave me his credit card" DUI. FL cops love that line. (We won that one at trial, btw, since jurors don't like that kind of line without corroboration.) I should really move out to Ft. Myers and pick up a few of these spring training DUIs.
Here's his booking page from the Lee County Sheriff's Office http://www.sheriffle...267733257458693
Looks like he got the standard bond set - which is somewhat surprising given the 100mph/swerving through cars before crashing facts alleged.
Bad news: in addition to DUI (and DUI property, which raises the usual first offense DUI penalty of 60 days max to 365 days max) http://www.flsenate..../2012/0316.1935
it looks like the State Attorney might be able to add:
Fleeing and Eluding (High Speed), which is a second degree felony in FL, punishable by up to 15 years state prison. http://www.flsenate..../2012/0316.1935
Dashboard cams/video of stops are county by county in FL. In "outrageous" DUI cases, such as this one, having/not having a video will often make or break the case if there's no blow (which there was not in this case, apparently). So I'd like to see if there's a video.
He's set to be arraigned on 3/18/2013: http://apps.leeclerk...iminal Traffic#
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Review: Nip/Tuck - Joel Seabrook
(S07E03) "This is something I want to do. Something I probably should've done a long time ago." - Sean
Nip/Tuck's final season continued last night and the deep examination of Sean and Christian's relationship got fleshed out even further as the rift between the two of them continued to grow. These two are set on a collision course by the end of the season, though Sean seems to be doing everything in his power to just walk away.
It's becoming increasingly clear that Sean is the key to all McNamara/Troy's success and the closer he gets to reclaiming the life he always wanted, the more on edge Christian is becoming. The problem with that? Their conflict is starting to spill over into the lives of their loved ones.
Despite Christian's long-held beliefs that he's been instrumental in getting himself and Sean to where they are, if you really sit back and think about it... he isn't. What exactly has he contributed? Poor surgical skills? An ever-increasing mountain of debt? And an endless line of patients looking to get D-cups, thus creating the most stale and repetitive work environment imaginable? Without Sean, Christian is nothing and the bottom line is that he will not succeed on his own.
Fed up with his behavior, Sean is taking out all his anger in the wrong place -- Kimber. When she finally broke it off with him, Sean made it clear that the two of them "knew what this was about." He's not in it for love or even the apparently great sex. This was nothing more than a conduit for Sean to hurt the one person who's taken so much from him. Kimber's distance and brief obsession with Sean gave Christian time to reflect (granted, with a belt around his neck and penis in hand) and he finally came to the realization that Kimber always knew, yet could never follow through on -- he's no good for her.
Now, with the only man who Kimber has arguably ever loved rejecting her, she's left with nothing and has a life she doesn't know how live -- alone. So it wasn't shocking when she threw herself at Mike Hamoui on his yacht, only to be rejected again, and then throw herself right off the boat.
At this point, I'd be satisfied if this really was the end of Kimber's story on Nip/Tuck (from the sounds of it, she's a goner, lost at sea). From the pilot episode on (remember the lipstick?), Christian has done nothing but break her down and this moment was inevitable. Now, the only question is who the next victim will be? Julia and Matt have yet to make an appearance in these final episodes, but I'm guessing the two of them may be a bit more resilient to Sean and Christian's orbit of hatred.
A few more thoughts --
- Tate Donovan (Tom Shayes on Damages) directed this episode and I loved some of the shots he set up, especially the similarity of Joel Seabrook jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and Kimber tossing herself off the yacht.
- I do hope we get to see Sean travel to Africa or at least do something worthy of his talents by the series finale.
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A request for a 1.9-mill operating/capital millage will be put on the Aug. 5 ballot. If approved, the levy would be in place for eight years.
The Township Board this week unanimously approved putting the measure before voters.
Township Clerk Sue Buitenhuis said the millage proposal includes aspects that would ensure funding for both daily operations and larger expenses for the Fire/Rescue Department.
"The resolution included language specifying a certain percent was for operating and a certain percent was for capital, so that the board's full intentions are communicated to any future board," she said. "(We) wanted to make it clear of the intent to reserve part for capital expenditure."
The township decided to go the route of the property tax millage after public opposition to a proposed special assessment several weeks ago.
"It's going to be 2 percent higher than what would be collected before," Township Manager Bill Cargo said, "but the money going to the fire department will be the same."
There are several differences between an assessment levy and a property tax.
One is that a property tax is "captured" by tax increment finance districts — such as a Downtown Development Authority — while a levy is not. A property tax is also subject to the township's 1 percent Tax Administrative Fee, while a levy is not.
"That 2 percent difference wasn't as important as the ability to vote," Cargo said.
Despite the difference in amounts, Cargo noted that the money going to the fire department would be the same as if a levy were passed — just over $1 million for daily operations and a little more than $100,000 for capital needs.
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|Two Asheville Teens, Driver Charged in 1st Degree Burglary
|Written by Steve Frank
|Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:17
Boone Police have made three arrests—two in connection with an early-morning break-in at a Sunset Drive home—and a driver. 19-year olds Grant Weldon Gousby and Owen Dean Alspaugh Jr., both of Ashville were arrested and charged with one count each of first degree burglary.
Gousby and Alspaugh are alleged to have entered the Sunset Dr. residence and taken several electronic items. Police say the incident occurred in the early morning hours today, with officers first encountering a suspicious vehicle on Azalea Dr., there finding Shelby Nicole Phelps, age 20 of Ashville. Further investigation found that she was connected with Gousby and Alspaugh. After a search of the area, officers located the two suspects in the area of Blowing Rock Rd. Further investigation into their suspicious behavior led officers to the residence on Sunset Dr. where it was confirmed that items were taken from the residence and later located nearby. Alspaugh, who at the time was in possession of some of the property, was also charged with one count of misdemeanor possession of stolen property. Gousby and Alspaugh were taken before a Watauga County Magistrate and were issued a court date of April 17, 2012 and are being held on an $85,000.00 secured bond. Phelps was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and under age possession of alcohol. She was given a court date of April 17, 2012 and held on a $750.00 secured bond. With further investigation into this matter, no direct correlation was made with the other break-ins to local businesses.
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what does it mean when a guy says that you're more than friends but not boyfriend and girlfriend. then when I asked him what that meant he said, "idk together"..then I said so were together but not together boyfriend and girlfriend and he said he's just as confused as I am and I asked him what he... Show More
What does "we are more than friends" mean?
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Basically it means he needs more time to figure things out.
He wants more than friendship, and most likely wants to be bf+gf, but he only wants to "get there" once he is sure it's the right thing to do.
For example: if he is only getting to know you, he may need to be a little more sure that things are going to work out rather than end up being a short 1 month relationship.
Another example: if he had a recent breakup or something, he might want to be sure his feelings about his ex are gone, or that he is able to let his heart go in the way a girlfriend deserves.
He knows its too soon for you to be bf+gf, and believe it or not, it would be unfair to you to get there without him being ready. It'd be like a lie. So he is honest to you, even if that may have put him in a little bit of trouble or got you a little bit mad.
Just give him some time. when he asks you to move forward, it'll be for real, or if he ends things it'll be for the best.
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