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Today Rep. Justin Amash explained the detainee policy in the final NDAA bill.
Donald Trump's announcement on YouTube on Tuesday night that he was cancelling the Republican presidential candidate debate scheduled for December 27 tried to pin the blame on the Republican Party. A lot of the candidates aren't coming to his debate "because they think I'm going to run for political office, something I can't do now … But around the middle of May I'll be able to do whatever I want and I could run as an Independent. The Republican Party doesn't want me running as an Independent. So they've made this debate pretty impossible…"
Are African elephants an endangered species? Like so many questions, the answer depends on who's giving it. Villagers in northern Uganda whose food the animals devour would likely call them an endangerment — or worse. "[After] I found the elephants eating my crops in the garden, I started banging an empty jerry can to scare them but one of the big elephants charged at me. I was lucky because I ran in between the trees and the elephant stopped. I gave up my garden of millet and rice," said Mateo Ojok. He's one of the "internally displaced persons (IDPs) … struggling to resettle because persistent elephant incursions into their fields are threatening their livelihoods, and sometimes, their lives." Mr. Ojok added, "[Life in] this place is a struggle between the elephants and human beings. The elephants are giving us a hard time, they are really aggressive."
So aggressive, in fact that "the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates … the annual cost of elephant raids to crops in Africa" at "US$60 in Uganda … per affected farmer." That's a sizable chunk of wealth in a country where the "gross national income per capita" for 2009 was $511.9 in "current US [dollars]."
At a speech in Sacramento, California, on December 10, Richard Mack, former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), announced that within a matter of days he will be filing a lawsuit in federal court against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for slander, libel and defamation.
Sheriff Mack, who successfully challenged the 1993 federal Brady handgun control act in a landmark case that went all the way through the United States Supreme Court, has been an outspoken champion of constitutionally limited government and a critic of federal usurpation and abuse of police powers. The forty-year-old Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for lionizing left-wing extremists (such as unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers) and equally notorious for smearing innocent individuals and organizations with the "racist," "extremist," "anti-semitic," "anti-government," and "hate group" labels. It is not surprising then that it has targeted Richard Mack for vicious treatment in a number of its publications and web sites over the years. But even more troubling than what it has published about him, says Sheriff Mack, are the lies that it has spread to law enforcement agencies about him in the seminars and training programs the SPLC conducts for federal, state, and local agencies.
Forty members of Congress have sent a letter urging the House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders to protest provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize the indefinite detention of American citizens. The NDAA first passed in the House of Representatives weeks ago but endured strong opposition from a handful of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate last Thursday, where the bill was passed but with the addition of an amendment that forced the measure to be reconciled and revised for a final vote. The revised version of the NDAA was finalized on Tuesday, and a vote on it is set to take place this week.
Renewing a tune it has sung over the past few years, the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is once again proposing a nationwide ban on drivers texting and using cellphones.
As reported by CNN, the proposed federal ban "is the most far-reaching yet" made by the NTSB, "which in the past 10 years has increasingly sought to limit the use of portable electronic devices — recommending bans for novice drivers, school bus drivers and commercial truckers." Should the intrusive ban be pushed through nationally, non-emergency calls as well as all texting by drivers would be outlawed. The ban would include both hands-free and hand-held devices, but would exclude devices installed by carmakers.
The NTSB alleges that around 3,092 traffic fatalities last year were caused by distracted drivers — including those texting or on cellphones — but they insist that the numbers may actually be higher. "Needless lives are lost on our highways, and for what?" asked NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman, who is heading up the campaign. "Convenience? Death isn't convenient. So we can stay more connected? A fatal accident severs that connection."
With the January 3 Iowa Caucus just around the corner, every tiny fluctuation in the polls seems to matter. Just weeks ago, there was a four-way tie in Iowa among Texas Congressman Ron Paul, former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Those numbers have changed several times since then, particularly with Herman Cain dropping out of the race, and according to the most recent Public Policy Polling, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are now tied for first.
Just last week, Newt Gingrich held a clear lead in Iowa, but Paul has now closed the gap, polling at 21 percent, virtually matching Gingrich's 22 percent. Ron Paul reportedly has a great deal of support in Iowa and Romney is now coming in third in the Hawkeye State, with 16 percent.
Paul's campaign has been extremely successful in reaching Iowa voters, and intends to continue in its efforts. Paul's campaign has organized a "Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul" program which will feature approximately 500 youth in Iowa knocking on doors and manning the phone bank for their candidate. Additionally, the campaign purchased a $1-million ad buy in Iowa, which includes radio, TV, and mail advertisements, many of which focus on Newt Gingrich, who is currently Paul's greatest rival.
What is the price of freedom? $662 billion. That's the amount that will be spent on the defense budget for 2012 if it becomes law. For a moment, set aside the fact that the bill authorizes spending billions of dollars on the perpetuation of two unconstitutional foreign conflicts (Iraq and Afghanistan).
Set aside momentarily that the bill greases the skids for the deployment of forces into Iran (after "sanctions" fail to persuade Ahmadinejad to see things our way).
This bill, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 that will now be sent in its conference form, will soon arrive at the House and Senate for a final vote. Then, on to the desk of President Obama for his signature or veto.
Apart from the obvious eviscerations of the separation of powers and the enumeration thereof in the Constitution, this legislation converts America into a war zone and turns Americans into potential suspected terrorists, complete with the full roster of rights typically afforded to terrorists — none.
In advance of the holiday break set to begin on Friday, Congress is hurrying to enact the defense budget with an eye-popping $662-billion price tag.
On November 17, four convicted terrorists appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado, to review the alleged violation of their constitutionally guaranteed due process rights on the part of the government of the United States. The four co-petitioners are Omar Rezaq, Ibrahim Elgabrowny, El-Sayyid Nosair, and Mohammed Salameh. While these names may not sound familiar, their deeds are infamous. A brief "rap sheet" for each follows.
Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq is the sole surviving hijacker of EgyptAir Flight 648. He was one of three members of the militant Palestinian organization Abu Nidal (named for the founder of Fatah, Abu Nidal) who participated in the hijacking of the plane in 1985. The other two hijackers were gunned down either by armed sky marshals or by Egyptian commandos who stormed onto the airplane. On July 19, 1996, a federal district judge sentenced Rezaq to life imprisonment for his role in the hijacking.
Conservative economist Robert Higgs' warnings about the Heritage Foundation's Index of Dependence on Government were already outdated when they were published on Thursday. The updated statistics from Heritage for 2011, published the next day, showed the situation in the United States to be even worse than Higgs warned.
Higgs noted that the so-called "ruling class" (taken from Angelo Codevilla's book of the same name) is a tiny percentage of the total population in the country, and has in the past only been able to maintain its legitimacy through vote-buying and mainstream media credibility. The fear of the ruling class has always been that dissatisfaction and distrust would result in their expulsion from the seats of power. But Higgs notes that now there are so many Americans dependent upon the government for their very subsistence that resistance to the tyranny of the ruling class is being increasingly neutralized.
The more dependent the citizens become on their government, the less influence they are likely to have in any substantial downsizing of that government:


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Gallinule, a waterbird of the rail family, closely related to the coot. The gallinule is also called water hen and moor hen. It is found in Great Britain and in parts of the Western Hemisphere. Although gallinules have toes rather than webbed feet, they are skilled swimmers and divers. They feed chiefly on vegetation, snails, and crustaceans. From 6 to 14 eggs of various colors are laid on platformlike nests in marshes.
The Florida gallinule, about one foot (30 cm) long, is slate blue, with an olive-brown back, whitish underparts, and red legs and bill. It is found from Canada southward to the West Indies. The slightly smaller purple gallinule has purplish-blue underparts, an olive-green back, greenish-yellow legs, and a red bill. It ranges from the Ohio River southward into South America.
The European gallinule is Gallinula chloropus; Florida gallinule, G. chloropus cachinnans; purple gallinule, Porphyrula martinica. Gallinules belong to the family Rallidae.

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Development of a Molecular and Genetic Model for Metachondromatosis
Cartilage tumor syndromes are rare skeletal diseases marked by the development of multiple benign cartilaginous bone tumors in childhood, often carrying significant morbidity and risk of developing chondrosarcoma. Tumors can form on the surface of bones, as in the autosomal dominant multiple osteochondroma syndrome (MO), or within the bones, as in the nonhereditary Ollier and Maffucci syndromes. A very rare autosomal dominant syndrome, metachondromatosis (MC), forms both surface and intramedullary tumors. The cartilage tumors in these syndromes develop adjacent to joints and are believed to result from mutations in signaling pathways regulating the growth plate. Only the genetics of MO were previously known, and the cell(s) of origin and mechanism of tumorigenesis for all of these syndromes remains unknown. We have recently identified heterozygous loss-of-function (nonsense, frameshift, splice) mutations of PTPN11 in 10 of 19 families with MC using linkage analysis combined with multiplexed targeted genomic capture and sequencing. PTPN11 encodes SHP2, a protein tyrosine phosphatase important in receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Preliminary experiments suggest that truncated mutant peptides are not produced, and that loss of the wild-type allele may be required for tumor formation. The proposed research will create a molecular and genetic model for MC, demonstrating the genetic requirements for tumor formation, the molecular signaling events of tumorigenesis, and the cellular source of these tumors. Research will be conducted on tumors excised in MC patients, although the foundation will be the generation of several informative mouse models. Studies of MC will likely yield new understandings of skeletal growth and regulation that will be important for skeletal dysplasia and tumor research. Ultimately, a key signaling pathway may be identified that can be pharmacologically manipulated to biologically control tumors, sparing MC patients recurrent surgeries, disabilities, and the risk of developing chondrosarcomas.


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Gicumbi offers Ruremesha one-year deal
FORMER ESPOIR head coach Emmanuel Ruremesha has joined league club Gicumbi Fc on a one-year contract deal.
The Gicumbi FC Secretary General Antoine Dukuzimana confirmed the development yesterday. He said, "We have appointed Ruremesha as our new head coach. He is mandated to help Gicumbi Fc finish in top six in the league and at least a quarter final place finish in the Peace Cup competition next season,"
Ruremesha, formerly with Mukura, Kibuye and La Jeunesse has replaced Jean Baptista Kayiranga who helped the club finish 9th last season.
Kayiranga has now joined Mukura Victory Sports on a one-year contract. Ruremesha has been instrumental for the Rusizi-based club after helping them finish sixth last season before guiding them to the quarter final in the Peace Cup competition.


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The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) was administered for the first time in 1997 by the Bureau of the Census for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). CJRP replaced the Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities, also known as the Children in Custody (CIC) census, which had been conducted since the early 1970s. The CJRP, which will be repeated biennially, provides the Nation with the most detailed picture of juveniles in custody ever produced. The CJRP asks juvenile residential custody facilities in the U.S. to describe each youth assigned a bed in the facility on the census reference date. The census is not sent to adult facilities, or facilities exclusively for drug or mental health treatment, or abused or neglected children.
The CJRP differs fundamentally from the CIC census. CIC collected aggregate data on juveniles held in each facility (e.g., number of juveniles in the facility). CJRP, instead, collects an individual record on each juvenile held in the residential facility, with information on the juvenile's gender, date of birth, race, placement authority, most serious offense charged, court adjudication status, date of admission, and security status. These data were requested for all offenders under 21 years of age in the facility. Facilities also provided information on the housing of overflow detention populations, physical layout of the facility, separation of residents, counts of residents age 21 and older, and the use of locked doors and/or gates.
The Census Bureau identifies juvenile residential facilities for court-involved offenders across the U.S. In late September the Census Bureau mails out a notification letter to all identified facilities indicating that the CJRP forms will soon arrive in the mail. The letter also indicates the reference date for the census and the type of information that will be requested. Respondents are given a contact number with the Census Bureau in case they have questions or problems.
A few weeks prior to the census reference date, the Census Bureau mails CJRP forms (2013 | 2011 | | 2010 | 2007 | 2006 | 2003 | 2001 | 1999 | 1997) to respondents representing nearly 4,000 public and private residential juvenile facilities. Some State and regional agencies provide CJRP data for more than one facility under their jurisdiction.
The CJRP allows for electronic submission of the data by larger facilities and central reporters. As part of this program, Census provides data specifications to participating respondents and a spreadsheet format so that these respondents can also complete the form through common spreadsheet programs such as Lotus© or Microsoft Excel©
Data are to be returned one month after the reference date. Facilities that have not responded within a few months are sent a reminder notice and asked that a completed response be sent in. Census staff begin telephone calls to the facilities that had not responded by that time. Census closes out data collection in mid-July. Processing of the data including error checks, imputation and editing continues until the following September.
Data are received and prepared for analysis at the Bureau of the Census facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Respondent questions were fielded by Government Division, Bureau of the Census.
The inclusion criteria for the census are as follows:
These juveniles are the universe for the data analyses in Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement. Facility residents age 21 or older, and any nonoffenders are not included in Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement.
The Bureau of the Census (Census) mails out CJRP forms to all identified facilities. Of these facilities, some turn out to be closed on the reference date. A few additional facilities are identified as open on the reference date after the initial mailout (through responses from facilities or other contacts) and are subsequently sent forms. Of the facilities open on the reference date, some may be temporarily out of scope (i.e., they did not hold offenders on the reference date). Some facilities may be identified as permanently out of scope (i.e., they were not able to hold juvenile offenders over night). The remaining facilities are identified as in-scope. Of the in-scope facilities a small number may not send back the census forms nor respond to several phone calls from Census Bureau personnel requesting participation in the census. These facilities are designated non-respondents and the Census Bureau imputes responses for them. Using the number of in-scope facilities as a base, the CJRP facility response rate was 96% in 1997, 100% in 1999, 99% in 2001, 100% in 2003, 100% in 2006, 100% in 2007, 93% in 2010, 95% in 2011, and 92% in 2013.
Some facilities were not able to provide all the information requested for all juveniles meeting CJRP inclusion criteria. Roughly 1 in 6 records have had data imputed for one or more variables because information was missing. Data were imputed from complete records to fill in incomplete records. Therefore, reported CJRP estimates regarding the characteristics of juveniles in custody may differ from their actual characteristics. More detail on the imputation procedures is available upon request.
CJRP provides 1-day population counts of juveniles in residential placement facilities. One-day counts give a picture of the standing population in facilities. One-day counts are substantially different from annual admission and release data, which give a measure of facility population flow.
Juveniles may be committed to a facility as part of a court-ordered disposition or they may be detained prior to adjudication or after adjudication while awaiting disposition or placement elsewhere. In addition, a small proportion of juveniles may be voluntarily admitted in lieu of adjudication as part of a diversion.
Because detention stays tend to be short compared with commitment placements, detained juveniles represent a much larger share of population flow data than of 1-day count data.
The only geographic information collected in CIC was the county and State in which reporting facilities were located. Consequently, CIC was not able to provide information on the number of juveniles in custody under the legal authority of courts in a specific State. For example, juveniles in private facilities in Pennsylvania could have been sent here by a court in another State. For this reason, CIC could only produce State custody rates for the population of juveniles held in publicly operated facilities (which almost exclusively hold only juveniles from that State). The CJRP, on the other hand, captures information on the State where the juvenile committed the offense. The State of offense is presumed to be the State that has jurisdiction over the juvenile (although this was not reported directly). Thus, the CJRP for the first time allows presentation of State-based custody rates that include juveniles sent to both public and private facilities.
Although State custody rate statistics control for upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction, comparisons made among States with different upper ages are problematic. While 16- and 17-year-olds constitute approximately 25% of the youth population ages 10-17, they account for more than 50% of juveniles in residential placement. If all other factors were equal, one would expect higher juvenile custody rates in States where older youth are under juvenile court jurisdiction. In addition to upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction, differences in age limits of extended jurisdiction influence custody rates. States differ in how long they may keep juveniles in custody beyond the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction. Variations in provisions for transferring juveniles to criminal court also have an impact on juvenile custody rates. If all other factors were equal, States with broad transfer provisions would be expected to have lower juvenile custody rates than other States. (See the Juvenile Justice System Structure and Process section of OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book for State upper age, extended age and transfer provision information.) Demographic variations should also be considered when making jurisdictional comparisons. The urbanicity and economics of an area are thought to be related to crime and custody rates. Available bed space also influences custody rates. Bed space is particularly relevant to detention in rural areas.
By statute and regulation, OJJDP must protect the privacy of individuals included in its surveys. In the case of CJRP, OJJDP must assure that no juvenile can be identified from publicly available data, either tabular or electronic. To comply with this requirement, OJJDP has adopted a policy that requires all published table cells involving State level data be rounded to the nearest multiple of three. The table cells are rounded after the table has been produced from the underlying data. Each cell is rounded independently, without consideration to row or column totals. As a result, in many tables the internal cells will not add to the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP are based on rounded totals as well. More detail on OJJDP's privacy protection policy is available in "Disclosure Control in the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement" prepared by Joseph Moone, OJJDP Program Manager.
The juvenile population data for 1997 and 1999 are derived from the National Center for Health Statistics' Bridged-race intercensal estimates of the July 1, 1990-July 1, 1999 United States resident population by county, single-year of age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. [Released 7/26/2004; Retrieved 9/15/2004]. Prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau with support from the National Cancer Institute. Available online from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/popbridge/popbridge.htm.
Juvenile population data for 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2007 are derived from the National Center for Health Statistics' Intercensal estimates of the resident population of the United States for July 1, 2000-July 1, 2009, by year, county, single-year of age (0, 1, 2, .., 85 years and over), bridged race, Hispanic origin, and sex. [Released 10/26/2012; Retrieved 10/26/2012]. Prepared under a collaborative arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau. Available online from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm.
Juvenile population data for 2010 and 2011 are derived from the National Center for Health Statistics' Vintage 2012 postcensal estimates of the resident population of the United States (April 1, 2010, July 1, 2010-July 1, 2012), by year, county, single-year of age (0, 1, 2, .., 85 years and over), bridged race, Hispanic origin, and sex. . [Released 6/13/2013; Retrieved 7/1/2013]. Prepared under a collaborative arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau. Available online from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm.
Custody rates are calculated per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction in each State. Although in most States, juvenile courts have jurisdiction over the law-violating behavior of children younger than age 10, the number of juveniles younger than 10 in residential placement is not large enough to warrant the inclusion of younger age groups in the denominator of custody rate calculations.
Juveniles held in adult facilities. CJRP does not capture data on juveniles held in adult prisons or jails; therefore, in the CJRP data, juveniles placed in juvenile facilities by criminal courts represent an unknown proportion of juveniles incarcerated by criminal courts.
Juveniles held in drug treatment or mental health facilities. CJRP does not include facilities exclusively intended for drug or mental health treatment even though such facilities may house some offenders. There may, however, be numerous juveniles in residential placement captured by CJRP that were receiving such treatment.
Every effort is made to present the best, most accurate data in this application. From time to time this will result in changes to the data displayed for back years. For example, the rate statistics would change when revised population data are used in the rate calculations. When data were processed prior to the inclusion of 2003 data, errors were discovered in the 1997 and 1999 data files. In order to make the data compatible across all years, 1997 and 1999 data have been revised. The revisions did not have an equal impact on all States, but the result was a drop of about 1% in the total count of juvenile offenders in custody nationwide. Users who have printed or downloaded tables with 1997 or 1999 data may wish to capture that information with the revised data.
December 2011
With the release of the 2010 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement data, counts of youth held in tribal facilities are not included in Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement. As a result, U.S. totals across all years only include data from publicly and privately operated juvenile facilities and, thus, are reduced by the small number of youth in tribal facilities. There have been approximately 150 youth in tribal facilities on average.
Tribal facility data are not included for several reasons:
Thus, the U.S. totals for all years have been restored to include data only from publicly and privately operated facilities.
Additionally it should be noted that for the first time in 2010 CJRP data were also reported by facilities in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The Territory data present many of the same issues that tribal facility data present. And for these reasons we have chosen not to include them in this release. We appreciate the participation of tribal and Territory facilities and applaud their efforts. We plan to provide both data reported by tribal facilities and facilities in the Territories in the future when we have a better understanding of the data and can present them in a meaningful way.
May 2011
With this release of the 2007 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement data, Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (EZACJRP) and the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook have been merged into one data analysis tool. Going forward, the merged application will continue as "Easy Access to Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement," and it will include the ability to perform custom crosstabs along with the pre-defined tabular displays previously available from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook. Use the tabs labeled "US & State Profiles" and "State Comparisons" to view the data tables previously available from the CJRP Databook.
The CJRP reference date is generally the fourth Wednesday in October. However, a set of unforseen circumstances prevented the 2005 and 2009 mailouts from taking place in October of each year. The census date for these collections took place in the following February. The census reference dates are listed below:


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Emblaze First Else smartphone axed; Intuition UI may be licensed
Fledgeling touchscreen smartphone UI developer Emblaze has axed its First Else handset, citing "critical delays in deliveries and the current status of the project." The First Else was to be the first device to use the company's one-thumb interface, Intuition, promising single hand ease of use with a new, semi-circular options wheel. The First Else itself had specs much in line with the rest of the smartphone market, perhaps adding to Emblaze's concerns they wouldn't be able to sufficiently position the handset as distinct.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University's Wheat Genetics Resource Center was part of one of the puzzles on the television game show Jeopardy Oct. 14.
The Jeopardy category: State the state.
The answer: Located in Manhattan (no, not that one), it has the Wheat Genetics Resource Center and a nuclear reactor. Name the state.
The correct question: What is Kansas State?
Aman Gill, Ph.D. student and assistant professor at Pratt College in Brooklyn, N.Y., was tipped off to the segment by a friend. Gill sent a text message to his dad, who happens to be WGRC director Bikram Gill.
The highlight is available on YouTube: "KSU's Wheat Genetics Resource Center on Jeopardy!".
The WGRC at K-State is home to a gene bank holding more than 12,000 strains of wild and ancient wheat and genetic stocks. It collects and uses wheat germ plasm for crop improvement by broadening the crop genetic base and supports the free exchange of materials, technology, and new knowledge in genetics and biotechnology among the world's public and private organizations. The center sponsors graduate and postgraduate students and visiting scientists for academic training and advanced research in its laboratories.


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Posts Tagged 'Intelligence Ratings'
January 8th, 2014 at 9:22 am
'Intelligence' is the Most-Watched New Series Premiere of the Season With 16.6 Million Viewers
CBS's new drama INTELLIGENCE debuted to 16.59 million viewers, making it the most-watched new series premiere of the season[Read-More]
January 8th, 2014 at 8:32 am
TV Ratings Tuesday: Decent Start for 'Intelligence', 'Killer Women' DOA, 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Ties Low, 'New Girl' Down, 'The Goldbergs' & 'Dads' Up
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November 12th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
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CBS announced today the new premiere date for the action thriller INTELLIGENCE, which will have a special preview on Tuesday, Jan.[Read-More]
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CBS Announces 2013-2014 Premiere Dates Including 'How I Met Your Mother', 'Intelligence', 'Survivor', 'Mom', 'Person of Interest' & More
America's #1 Network Will Premiere Nearly All of its New and Returning Series During Official Premiere Week (Sept. 23-29)[Read-More]
May 21st, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Nine New Shows Ordered from ABC Studios for the 2013-14 Season
ABC Studios had another banner development year with nine new shows ordered to series. New dramas "Betrayal," "Killer Women," "Lucky 7," "Marvel's[Read-More]
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Espresso cups clink in their saucers, mopeds sputter down the alleyways, and scraps of conversation echo off the medieval brick buildings. A little boy shows off by naming all the colors he can see; elsewhere, a young woman angrily digs in her purse for her phone and vows to split someone's head open. And according to someone named Michele, rain is in the forecast.
I'm walking through the meandering streets of Siena, Italy, and the best way to enjoy my stroll is to listen.
Shoes scrape against the uneven stone streets as their owners bump into old friends. "Ehì, ciao! Come stai? Hey, hi! How are you?" They embrace, clapping each other on the back and excitedly sharing news.
Outside the library, the dominant sounds are those of a study break – quiet conversation, the click of lighters and the slow breaths of people inhaling tobacco. Nearby, a similar kind of click bursts out of tourists' cameras, while up the hill, a boy takes a clattering ride on his scooter down the cobblestones.
Little Siena lacks the roaring chaos of other cities; the wailing sirens and honking traffic and general hubbub of busier places don't exist here. The only near-constant sounds are birds chirping and espresso machines whooshing. Still, the lack of extraneous noise means I can really listen to what's going on here – people laughing, drinking coffee and living their intriguing Italian lives.
I finish my walk and turn toward home, my shoes scuffing against the cobblestones and my keys clinking in my bag. My small contribution to the city's hum feels like a connection.
I wander in the middle of the road, lost in my own thoughts, pondering the quiet and calm beauty of this place. Suddenly, a moped bellows to life behind me, and I flatten myself against a building to avoid its rusty wrath.
Maybe I'll ponder the city's noise levels from the side of the road.
Elena Neuzil is a native of St. Paul and a junior at the University of St. Thomas. She studies journalism, Italian and justice and peace and is currently abroad in Siena, Italy.


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Tiger Global Management, a private investment manager that was extensively involved in online classifieds a few years back, has made a major new investment in a Latin American classifieds company.
Navent, which operates real estate, recruitment and auto sites in 13 Latin American countries, announced a $30 million Series B funding round from Tiger Global, its controlling shareholder, and Riverwood Capital, a global technology private equity firm.
Navent owns Imovelweb in Brazil; Bumeran, a job site throughout Latin America, and Mercadoi in Mexico. The company said ImmovelWeb has grown to incorporate more than 300,000 listings, 2.5 million unique users monthly and more than 7,000 real estate agents registered. Bumeran has about 5 million unique users a month and more than 50,000 job listings, published by more than 15,000 companies, Navent said.
"As internet penetration in Latin America increases, the method for obtaining information and acquiring either a job or a piece of real estate will increasingly shift to an online experience," CEO Nicolas Tejerina said in the announcement. "This additional capital will help us take advantage of this opportunity and accelerate the implementation of our growth strategies.
"In the coming years we plan to continue rolling out new products and features, expand geographically, and consolidate our leadership position in key markets."
Navent operates in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Navent primarily manages real estate and recruitment sites, but it also offers Peru Autos, an automotive site in Peru (logically); a gaming site in Peru, and minority stake in an online restaurant guide in Argentina.
(More info here from TechCrunch.)
Tiger Global has quietly invested in numerous classified sites and Internet companies worldwide, including Bayt.com in the U.A.E; Bitauto Holdings (China); Baidu.com (China); HomeAway (a vacation rentals site in the U.S. and Europe); Amazon.com, Facebook, Priceline and Yelp (U.S.). On Tuesday, 360Buy.com, a Chinese business-to-consumer website, announced a funding round that included Tiger Global.


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Suffolk University is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. It is one of the schools The New York-based company chose to be added to the forthcoming 2005 edition of its annual "best colleges" guidebook, which will be titled The Best 357 Colleges (Random House / Princeton Review, $21.95 paperback), and available in bookstores in late August 2004.
Says Robert Franek, Asst. V.P / Guidebook Publishing, The Princeton Review, "We regard the schools in this book as 'the crème of the crop' institutions for undergraduate education. Only about 10% of the colleges in America, and only two Canadian colleges are in the book. Each one offers an outstanding academic program. We select schools for the guide based on our knowledge of them, on data we review about them, and on the opinions of students and parents we talk to and survey. We also work to have a wide representation of colleges in the guide, by region, size, selectivity and character. It includes public and private schools, traditional and non-traditional colleges, historically black colleges and universities, and science and technology-focused institutions."
The Princeton Review college guide is unique in offering both two-page profiles on the colleges and college ranking lists based on what over 100,000 students attending the schools in the book report about their college and campus experiences at them. The lists report the top 20 ranking colleges in the book in 63 different categories covering topics from academics and financial aid to aspects of campus life.
The book's profiles also include candid comments from surveyed students at each school about their opinion of it. When each edition is published, The Princeton Review posts the book's ranking lists and information from the college profiles in it on its website, PrincetonReview.com.
The Best 357 Colleges is one of over 200 books developed by The Princeton Review in a line published by Random House Inc. The 2004 edition was The Best 351 Colleges . Known for its books, test-prep courses and other education services, The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University or ETS.
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Ducks only add to the Pac-12's woeful week
What must those selectors for the NCAA Tournament think of the Pac-12?
It's the final week of the season, and the three supposedly best teams in the conference all go SPLAT as they attempt to clinch a piece of the title.
There was UCLA, which right now could have a share of the title in hand, but was pounded by last-place Washington State.
There was California, which could also be assured of being in that first place knot, except the Bears were blitzed at home by Stanford, and put on an unsightly late-game show at that.
And then came Oregon on Thursday. The Ducks are back at full strength, Colorado isn't (more on that later) and the result is the Buffaloes in a stampede.
Yeah, it was not a pretty sight: http://www.registerguard.com/rg/sports/29545556-81/oregon-colorado-ducks-game-half.html.csp
And a version from the Daily Camera in Boulder: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-college-sports/ci_22743906/mens-basketball-cu-buffs-wallop-oregon
So Oregon can still clinch a share of the Pac-12 title on Saturday. Maybe do that with a loss, in fact, if the Bruins lose at Washington.
But don't these late defeats have to damage the Pac-12 teams in terms of seeding for the NCAA Tournament? Now is when the selection committee is paying close attention, and what are they seeing?
Meanwhile, there's the curious case of Colorado.
The Buffs could still gain a tie for fourth, with a win over Oregon State and an Arizona loss to Arizona State on Saturday, in which case the Buffs would be the fourth seed in the Pac-12 tournament next week in Las Vegas.
Colorado seems to be a certain at-large selection for the NCAA Tournament. They're now 4-2 against ranked opponents this season (2-0 vs. Oregon) and they played a very strong nonconference schedule.
The one question that now pops up: what about Andre Roberson's health?
The nation's top rebounder, the Pac-12's best defender and Colorado's best player, Roberson didn't play Thursday night.
Before the game, the Daily Camera in Boulder reported that Roberson has mononucleosis, putting his status in doubt. (Well, who noticed his absence Thursday?)
The school, though it had known for two days, acknowledged just before the game that Roberson was out with a "viral illness."
Well, OK. And naturally, one of the first tweets in response to that official version was from someone claiming to be a CU booster with connections, who said, "no, he'd just talked to a CU assistant coach, and it was mono."
But here's the kicker: during the game, Colorado director of athletics Mike Bohn comes to the press seating area to berate the reporter for the Daily Camera who dared report it might be mono. "That could cost us a berth in the NCAA Tournament if they don't think he'll play," was part of Bohn's rant.
Well, gee, do you suppose the NCAA selection committee members will ask "what about Roberson?" if he still isn't playing next week at the Pac-12 tournament.
Yes, they will, even if it is only a viral illness. If he's out, he's out, for whatever reason.
Now, Mike, please return to your seat and try to act like the athletic director of a Pac-12 school. Otherwise, people are going to think you're the guy who brought a program into the Pac-12 totally unprepared (except for men's basketball) to compete at that level of competition.
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18 U.S. Code § 1903 - Speculation in stocks or commodities affecting crop insurance
Whoever, while acting in any official capacity in the administration of any Act of Congress relating to crop insurance or to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation speculates in any agricultural commodity or product thereof, to which such enactments apply, or in contracts relating thereto, or in the stock or membership interests of any association or corporation engaged in handling, processing, or disposing of any such commodity or product, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Source(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L),Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
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Based on section 1514 (b) of title 7, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Agriculture (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 514(b),52 Stat. 76).
Words "upon conviction thereof" were omitted as surplusage since punishment can be imposed only after a conviction.
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What financial commitment is required should I rent a property?
Unless otherwise stated, a tenant is responsible for Monthly rent in advance; water/sewerage rates; gas; electricity; oil; telephone; council tax and television; where applicable.
How much will I need to apply for a rental property (see below for Company applications)?
A deposit of 1½ of the current property monthly rental which will held by the DPS for the term of the tenancy
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What is an Environmental Policy?An Environmental Policy is a written statement outlining your parish or mission community's vision and driving force behind the objectives, targets and actions you are taking or will take in the future.
The policy should be a top-level document that will need to change little. It should be supplemented with a set of plans of action in different policy areas. All actions should be associated with targets, be measurable and time-bound, and be challenging but realistic.
The policy should be endorsed and actively supported by the leadership team, which may include clergy, lay leadership, PCC and churchwardens.
The policy should enable the leadership team to communicate its aims to the congregation, local communities and other interested parties, such as suppliers, grant-making bodies, the DAC and planning officers.
Suggested aimsThe overall aim should be along the lines of the excerpt from the policy of the Church of England. The environmental policy could also refer to the following principles.
The four principles on the environment adopted by the Lambeth Conference in 1998:
The 'Five Marks of Mission' agreed by the Anglican Consultative Council of the Anglican Communion:
Issues addressed by an environmental policy should include carbon emissions (and hence energy use in buildings and transport). Each parish and mission community should also adopt the targets for emissions reduction laid down in the Church of England's seven-year plan link.
Other issues could include (but are not limited to): air pollution, water resources and pollution, procurement and investment, waste management, the built environment, biodiversity, wildlife and endangered species. The policy could also attend to theology and worship, the communication of environmental issues, and the building of partnerships.
In May 2006, Devon Churches Green Action produced "World Without End …? Devon Church Policies for Sustainability" (pdf, 2,116k), which provides background and guidance for churches on the development of policy. It includes suggestions for policy statements in the areas of energy, buildings and land, waste, water, transport, money and trade. Some of the material is slightly out of date, but it remains a useful reference.
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Dancing with Ghosts
Rebecca Fearing is a world-renowned psychic, clairvoyant and healer. She is a native of California and has lived most of her life in Los Angeles.
She was born with her abilities and with astounding clarity has been able to talk to those who have crossed over. She is also an amazing psychic who taps into every aspect of your souls journey, your past lives, the present and your future life.
Listeners wishing to contact their loved ones on the other side will be invited to call in for an on-air reading with Rebecca.
From a very early age, Jeff Floro had an interest in the unusual. In high school, he saw a UFO first hand! Jeff met Rebecca through Rene Barnett when Rebecca was a guest on Nightvision Radio. The show went so well, Rene and Jeff recommended that Rebecca might be interested in hosting her own show. Since 2009, Dancing With Ghosts has been going strong ever since! "The show is a lot of fun," says Jeff. "And Rebecca is absolutely amazing! She's the real deal!" Jeff has been a musician since his early childhood, playing since he was four and a half years old. (He composed the theme song for Dancing With Ghosts, All About Guitar, and other shows that have appeared on LA Talk Radio and radio.)
Jeff is also an accomplished audio engineer, mixing music projects, feature films & TV, foley and dialogue recording and editing, and sound design. Jeff has maintained a keen interest in various paranormal phenomena, especially the studies of Zecharia Sitchin and ancient civilizations and religions, UFO encounters of all kinds, Near Death Experiences, and Psychic Phenomena, to name a few. Besides producing Dancing With Ghosts, Jeff also produces and hosts "All About Guitar" also airing on LA Talk Radio. ("All About Guitar" is on every Monday night on ch 1 at 8pm Pacific time, 11pm Eastern time.)
Guest: Karen Burleigh talking with Rebecca about dreams.
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NightVision Radio host Rene Barnett hosts a special edition of Dancing with Ghosts with guest Gloria Amendola. Together they discuss the Bloodline mystery, the mysterious region of France known as Rennes-le-Chateau and the upcoming Bloodline Mystery Tour hosted by Rene, Gloria and other members of the Bloodline team.
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Dancing with Ghosts show host, psychic and healer Rebecca Fearing takes your calls with your questions and concerns. Whether it's life, love or your career you have a question about or if you want to try to connect with a loved one who's passed she can help. Tune in and be amazed!
On TONIGHT's Dancing with Ghosts show host, psychic and healer Rebecca Fearing talks about DREAMS. We all have them but what is the meaning behind them? And can we control them?
Rebecca will also tell us what is in store for us for the rest of 2010.
We are all aware of one of the scariest films of all time, which showed a little girl taken over by an evil demon, The Exorcist. There are many fascinating and terrifying cases, past and present, of those who have been uncontrollably overtaken by an unwelcomed entity, possessed.
This week host, psychic and healer Rebecca Fearing discusses possession. Is there anything to it? If so, how we can protect ourselves? Rebecca takes listener phone calls.
Many people contact Rebecca when their children seem to display some sort of psychic connection/ability. It is thought that children are more open and comfortable with with the paranormal, things which we begin to suppress at the age of 5.
On this week's show host, psychic and healer Rebecca Fearing tells us how to recognize and foster your own child's psychic abilities.
Host psychic and healer Rebecca Fearing discusses dreams and how to interpret them. Rebecca takes listener calls as well.
There is no bigger challenge in life than losing a child. Those unfortunate enough to experience such a loss often wonder where their child is and if they are OK. In rare circumstances people actually get their questions answered. One of Rebecca's many gifts is connecting with loved ones on the other side and helping those heal who have lost.
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Today marks the fifth anniversary of David Foster Wallace's death. His 2005 Kenyon College commencement address, which went viral this year, has been called one of the best commencement speeches of the past quarter-century.
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Traditional Tibetan rug, gold with a blue, red and silver dragon motif, this 3 x 6 foot hand-knotted wool rug was donated by Julie and Joanna of Himalayan Rug Traders in Eureka.
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If you've been listening to the Mud over the past few months, you've heard some very special programming. In February, we focused on water-related issues; in April, we explored the world of cannabis; and in August, we explained how to protect your family and property from fire.
This fall, KMUD will extend the previous themes of water, earth, and fire to bring you special programming celebrating AIR, specifically, the air we use to broadcast a wide range of music and public affairs. We will be exploring the ways we are using our grassroots community airwaves in building community.
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Look before you leap: Insurance tips for a merger or acquisition
When it comes to insurance, surprises are never a good thing. The same goes for mergers and acquisitions: The more you know, the better off you are. That's the premise behind the growing field of "insurance archaeology" — you need to know what liabilities you're facing when merging with another company, and what sort of coverage exists. Recreating the company's insurance coverage history is the only way to get reliable estimates of future insurance costs and problems.
"A key component of standard commercial general liability policies is that they never expire," explains Sheila Mulrennan, president of the New York-based Insurance Archaeology Group. "If a claim is filed against a policyholder 20, 30, or even 40 to 50 years after property damage or injury occurs — as often happens in cases of environmental pollution — a policy that was in effect when the damage occurred is still effective."
Insurance professionals call this "long-tail" coverage, and it's a crucial consideration for companies evaluating a potential target for merger or acquisition. Generally, you won't need to wade through 50 years of insurance documents, but looking at the past five to 10 years of coverage can spare huge financial hassles later on.
Whether your internal resources or a professional auditor reviews the records, Mulrennan suggests these steps for a proper insurance audit:
- Locate the insurance records of the selling or merging company. They may be cleaning out their offices, and important documents can get tossed inadvertently. Look for primary and excess liability coverage, and keep an eye out for existing policies for which documentation has disappeared. Also, make sure to keep correspondence about past policies. In one instance in California, a letter from written by an agent to the company about their policy was the deciding factor for the court as to who was liable for payment.
The life span of M&A deals can be short — less than a week, in some cases. If this "historic coverage audit" can't be done ahead of time, get a written promise that all of the relevant materials will be saved, to be organized and reviewed at a later date
- Identify former owners of the merging or acquired company, noting who owned it and when. You'll need copies of liability policies to go along with any operations or real estate acquired, and evidence of any former owners' coverage. "Waiting until a claim arises may result in multiple entities competing for the same limits, where you'll have no documentation and no hope for cooperation," says Mulrennan
- Part of recreating the coverage history includes finding the "hidden liabilities" within the other company. Some liability considerations include environmental issues, workers compensation claims, claims related to discontinued products, international coverage, and employee issues like payroll and union contracts. If a claim arises after the merger and you're unprepared, you could be saddled with the financial burden
- Look closely at the policies you dig up to see what they actually cover. Some commercial policies are highly customized, containing endorsements, high deductibles, and expensive claims-handling arrangements. You could also be faced with nearly exhausted aggregate limits or insolvent insurers. All of this can spell inadequate protection against future losses.
- Transfer the insurance policies into your company's name before you buy or merge. Legally, policy transfers aren't required, but insurance companies can attempt to deny coverage on the grounds that an explicit assignment or transfer is missing.
- If you have an indemnification clause for claims arising out of pre-sale circumstances, review the coverage to verify that indemnification is within the scope of the policies. A clear indemnity clause is important because if you do encounter a "hidden liability," you'll need to decide who takes responsibility for it.
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|Contexts and Comparisons
|Chapter 8 - 19th Century Prose Narrative
Few Americans recognize the power of language as keenly as those of African descent. Instruction in reading and writing was withheld purposely from slaves in the American South, for fear that literacy would give them some degree of control over their destinies; yet even when illiterate, slaves -- like all oppressed people -- understood that their choice of words in any given situation could either imperil or empower them. African-American folklore, for example, found clever ways to imply, rather than directly state, opposition to the slave system. Despite the injunction against slave literacy, many nevertheless did learn to read and write, and some who escaped to the North created a new literary genre, the slave narrative.
The best known of these documents, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, is typically titled, for slaveowners believed the eloquence of the slave narratives proved that they must be forgeries. If these biographical sketches were authentic, they undermined the fundamental foundations upon which the slave system rested, the argument that Africans were in effect incapable of thinking and writing, that they were neither as intelligent nor as fully human as whites.
While narratives like that of Frederick Douglass tend to be epic tales of a black man's heroic triumphs, those written by women take a different form. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet Ann Jacobs, describes the sexual tyranny exerted by white slave masters over their women slaves; her story recounts the kind of domestic violence possible only when an owner assumes a double privilege over a slave because she is both black and female.
Jacobs was born in 1813 in North Carolina and escaped to the North in 1842. In 1852, after years of dodging efforts to recapture her, Jacobs accepted the humiliation of having the Northern woman whose children she had nursed formally buy her and finally give her legal right to control her own person. In 1853 she began to write about her experiences. After two printers went bankrupt before fulfilling their contracts to print her book, Jacobs took a step that characterizes the independence and perseverance she had shown throughout her life and paid to have the book published for herself.
Her story not only amply illustrates the cost of such independence and perseverance, but also how ingenious slaves had to be, how alert to language and nuance, if they were to accomplish anything for themselves. Jacobs demonstrates an acute sensitivity even while operating within an inherently immoral system. She observes, "I like a straightforward course, and am always reluctant to resort to subterfuges. So far as my ways have been crooked, I charge them all upon slavery." Like many other nineteenth-century women writers, Jacobs published her writing under an assumed name. Calling herself "Linda Brent" and giving all the actors in her story false names as well, she sought not to protect herself but those who had helped her escape from the slave South. Labeled a fiction, Jacobs's book was forgotten. Only in the last decade has her work been rediscovered. Careful research has proved virtually every detail of Harriet Jacobs's remarkable story true.
Those details explain Jacobs's need for subterfuge and indirection. Sexually harassed by the seemingly respectable physician who owned her, she asserted her essential freedom in the only way she could. Forbidden to marry another slave with whom she had fallen in love, she had no real options. Given the inevitability that she would become the sexual property of one white man or another, her only hope of eluding her master's advances was to enter a liaison with a white neighbor. To this relatively more decent man, who went on to father a legitimate family and have a successful Washington career as a congressman from North Carolina, Jacobs bore two children. This attachment infuriated her master but preserved her from his abuse.
Having children to care for gave Jacobs a reason to live; in the midst of her difficulties, she found strength in strong family ties. Her grandmother, who had been freed by her owner, supported herself in her own small house where Jacobs sought refuge for her children and herself. For an incredible seven years, she lived cramped and hidden in a space above a storage cupboard in her grandmother's house. Finally, she employed one more covert tactic and fled to the North where she ultimately was reunited with her children.
The first of the three brief excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl below comes from the preface to the book; the second describes her dilemma; the third shows how the human spirit can survive indignity.
From Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (1)
Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short of the facts. I have concealed the names of places, and given persons fictitious names. I had no motive for secrecy on my own account, but I deemed it kind and considerate towards others to pursue this course.
I wish I were more competent to the task I have undertaken. But I trust my readers will excuse deficiencies in consideration of circumstances. I was born and reared in Slavery; and I remained in a Slave State twenty-seven years. Since I have been at the North, it has been necessary for me to work diligently for my own support, and the education of my children. This has not left me much leisure to make up for the loss of early opportunities to improve myself; and it has compelled me to write these pages at irregular intervals, whenever I could snatch an hour from household duties. . . . I have not written my experiences in order to attract attention to myself; on the contrary, it would have been more pleasant to me to have been silent about my own history. Neither do I care to excite sympathy for my own sufferings. But I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered, and most of them far worse.
. . . For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. The influences of slavery had had the same effect on me that they had on other young girls; they had made me prematurely knowing, concerning the evil ways of the world. I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation.
But, O, ye happy women, whose purity has been sheltered from childhood, who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose homes are protected by law, do not judge the poor desolate slave girl too severely! If slavery had been abolished, I, also, could have married the man of my choice; I could have had a home shielded by the laws; and I should have been spared the painful task of confessing what I am now about to relate; but all my prospects had been blighted by slavery. I wanted to keep myself pure; and, under the most adverse circumstances, I tried hard to preserve my self-respect; but I was struggling alone in the powerful grasp of the demon Slavery; and the master proved too strong for me. I felt as if I was forsaken by God and man; as if all my efforts must be frustrated; and I became reckless in my despair.
. . . . Among others, it chanced that a white unmarried gentleman had obtained some knowledge of the circumstances in which I was placed. He knew my grandmother, and often spoke to me in the street. He became interested for me, and asked questions about my master, which I answered in part. He expressed a great deal of sympathy, and a wish to aid me. He constantly sought opportunities to see me, and wrote to me frequently. I was a poor slave girl, only fifteen years old.
So much attention from a superior person was, of course, flattering; for human nature is the same in all. I also felt grateful for his sympathy, and encouraged by his kind words. It seemed to me a great thing to have such a friend. By degrees, a more tender feeling crept into my heart. He was an educated and eloquent gentleman; too eloquent, alas, for the poor slave girl who trusted in him. Of course I saw whither all this was tending. I knew the impassable gulf between us; but to be an object of interest to a man who is not married, and who is not her master, is agreeable to the pride and feelings of a slave, if her miserable situation has left her any pride or sentiment. It seems less degrading to give one's self, than to submit to compulsion. There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. A master may treat you as rudely as he pleases, and you dare not speak; moreover, the wrong does not seem so great with an unmarried man, as with one who has a wife to be made unhappy. There may be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible. . . .
The crisis of my fate now came so near that I was desperate. I shuddered to think of being the mother of children that should be owned by my old tyrant. I knew that as soon as a new fancy took him, his victims were sold far off to get rid of them; especially if they had children. I had seen several women sold, with his babies at the breast. He never allowed his offspring by slaves to remain long in sight of himself and his wife. Of a man who was not my master I could ask to have my children well supported; and in this case, I felt confident I should obtain the boon. I also felt quite sure that they would be made free. With all these thoughts revolving in my mind, and seeing no other way of escaping the doom I so much dreaded, I made a headlong plunge. Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another. You never exhausted your ingenuity in avoiding the snares, and eluding the power of a hated tyrant; you never shuddered at the sound of his footsteps, and trembled within hearing of his voice. I know I did wrong. No one can feel it more sensibly than I do. The painful and humiliating memory will haunt me to my dying day. Still, in looking back, calmly, on the events of my life, I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others. . . .
[Years later] Christmas was approaching. Grandmother brought me materials, and I busied myself making some new garments and little playthings for my children. Were it not that hiring day is near at hand, and many families are fearfully looking forward to the probability of separation in a few days, Christmas might be a happy season for the poor slaves. Even slave mothers try to gladden the hearts of their little ones on that occasion. Benny and Ellen had their Christmas stockings filled. Their imprisoned mother could not have the privilege of witnessing their surprise and joy. But I had the pleasure of peeping at them as they went into the street with their new suits on. . . .
Every child rises early on Christmas morning to see the Johnkannaus. Without them, Christmas would be shorn of its greatest attraction. They consist of companies of slaves from the plantations, generally of the lower class. Two athletic men, in calico wrappers, have a net thrown over them, covered with all manner of bright-colored stripes. Cows' tails are fastened to their backs, and their heads are decorated with horns. A box, covered with sheepskin, is called the gumbo box. A dozen beat on this, while others strike triangles and jawbones, to which bands of dancers keep time. For a month previous they are composing songs, which are sung on this occasion. . . .
Christmas is a day of feasting, both with white and colored people.
(1) The text is that of the original 1861 edition, as reprinted by AMS Press, New York, in 1973.


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