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Epsom and Ewell - The 6 visits of Mr. Pepys
The exhibition, and this text prepared for it, is based on the work of Matt Skipp of Ewell
Samuel Pepys, the diarist, lived for seventy years - but his diary covers only nine and a half of those years: January 1660 to May 1669. It was started when he was twenty-six and he stopped writing it (because he thought he was going blind) when he was thirty-six. Pepys whole life is well-documented because he was a key figure in the running of what was then Englands largest business - the Royal Navy - but the nine-year period covered by the diary gives a unique insight into the daily actions and innermost thoughts of this most interesting of historys figures.
During the diary period Pepys visited our area on six occasions: once in 1663, four times in 1665 and once in 1667. He makes it clear that he was already well-acquainted with the area: a cousin lived at Ashtead and Sam spent time there as a boy. Because of the diary, it is possible to detail Pepys activities on each of his visits.
FIRST VISIT; 25-27th July 1663
The first recorded visit to Epsom was occasioned by Sams intention of seeing a horse-race on the Downs, but that having been cancelled because the House of Lords was in session on that day, Pepys and two companions decided to visit Denis Gauden (a navy victualler) at Clapham instead.
At Clapham the trio were entertained to dinnner (in those days the mid-day meal) during which there was a good deal of merry chat with Gaudens large family. After dinner they entertained themselves with music - Pepys himself playing some pieces on the viall, a kind of cello.
Towards the evening the trio decided to go to Epsum on horseback, but Pepys sent his servant Hewer back to London to look to the house. Unfortunately, on arriving at Epsom Sam and his remaining companion, John Creed, found the town so full of visitors that no lodgings could be found, so on they went to Ashtead, Sams old place of pleasure. During the journey from Clapham they had been followed by a little dog which Pepys thought probably belonged to Mrs.Gauden - so he felt he had to look after it.
On the way to Ashtead a goodman Arthur suggested trying Farmer Pages (in Farm lane) for lodging for the night, which they obtained - but in a litle hole we could not stand upright in, upon a low truckle bed. Before retiring for the night Pepys and Creed went for a stroll in the area and behind my Cosen Pepys house. We have all experienced Sams surprise that things appeared smaller than when he was a boy! After a good supper the duo spent an uncomfortable night in their little room on their tiny bed.
The next morning they rode to the Wells on Epsom Common and drank two pots of water each and met many people Sam knew. Pepys was amused by the way everybody turns up his tail, here one, there another, in a bush - and the women in their quarters the like - a testimony to the effects of the Epsom Salts in the water.
Then followed a walk to Mr.Minnes house and after that to Durdans - then owned by Lord Berkeley - and a stroll by Minnes Wood where Pepys reminisced about Mrs.Hely...with whom I had the first sentiments of love and pleasure in womans company...and taking her by the hand - she being a pretty woman.
As it was Sunday, Pepys and Creed, like all good seventeenth-century upright citizens, went to service in Ashtead church where Parson Downe preached a dull sermon. Back to the farmhouse for a meal of chicken - followed by cream!
The post-prandial period was spent wandering in the woods (and getting lost) with the little dog for added company. An hours lie down on the grass restored their energies for going back to London or for finding different lodgings on the way.
Going through Epsom Pepys remarks on how little entertainment there appeared to be for the visitors apart from drinking the waters in the morning.
The way towards London took the pair through Ewell and Nonsuch. About a mile beyond Nonsuch the little dog, which had stayed with them all this time, took it into his head to chase a flock of sheep and got lost. Pepys and Creed searched everywhere for the dog - going almost all the way back to Epsom and then back to Nonsuch, but in vain. Having lost the dog - and all the time spent looking for it - they returned to Ewell and took lodgings in an inn. They asked people to keep a look out for the dog,but can hear nothing of him. While supper was being prepared they strolled through Nonsuch Park to view the Palace which Sam believed to have been a very noble house. So walked back again; and by and by, our supper being ready - a good leg of mutton boiled - we supped and to bed, upon two good beds...we slept most excellently all night.
Next morning they rose at 7 oclock and rode back all the way to Epsom Wells in another vain attempt to find the dog. There were people singing on the Common and Pepys, being an accomplished musician and singer, hurried to listen - and was amazed to discover that it was not a choir but merely some people who had met by chance and had started to sing. (The diary is peppered with accounts of impromptu singing by groups of friends on the oddest of occasions).
After three cups of water they went back to Ewell for breakfast - last nights leftovers - and departed for home, Creeds horse having been re-shod with two new shoes. They hurried past Gaudens house at Clapham, feeling guilty about losing the dog, and left the horse (which Pepys had borrowed from Gauden) at Vauxhall. Pepys returned to his home by boat - it was now about one oclock in the afternoon.
SECOND VISIT: 21st September 1665
The Receipt of the Exchequer and the Tally Office moved from Westminster to Nonsuch Palace during the Great Plague of 1665, not returning until January 1666.. In 1665 Pepys had taken a second job - Treaurer to the Committee for Tangier - which involved him in dealings with the Exchequer He had been an Exchequer clerk under Sir George Downing during the earlier part of his career, hence his familiarity with members of its staff.
Pepys left for Nonsuch, taking £100 with him to pay in, soon after 6.00am in a coach specially sent for him by his patron the Earl of Sandwich. Throughout the journey he was worried about the dangers of robbery. As was so often the case in seventeenth-century English official life, when Pepys arrived he found that nothing was prepared for the transaction of his business - in fact the appropriate clerks were still in bed having been on watch during the night.
Annoyed though he was, Sam had to swallow his annoyance and spent some time viewing the house and park: and a fine place it hath heretofore been, and a fine prospect about the house - a great walk of an elme and a walnutt set one after another in order and all the house on the outside filled with figures...And one great thing is that most of the house is covered...with lead and gilded. During his perambulation, Sam came across a young girl singing very finely and thought she might, one day, make a useful addition to his household staff (her name was Barker and she did join his staff, in October 1666).
Off to Ewell for dinner with his Exchequer friends Jack Spicer, Edward Woodroffe, William Bowyer and a member of the Dukes Guard - a friend of Spicers. Pepys remarks that Bowyer, at 41, had the appearance of a man of less than 24 and is one of the greatest wonders that I ever did see.
About four in the afternoon the party broke up and, escorted by Spicers military friend for the sake of the £100 he was forced to take back with him to London, Pepys reached home before night. Never a man to waste time, Sam had spent his time in the coach, both going and returning, studying music theory!
THIRD VISIT: 29th September 1665
Sam rose at five oclock, borrowed a horse and accompanied by William Lashmore, a member of the Navy Office staff, rode off for Nonsuch again. It was a fine day and a good journey. He had left Greenwich (where he was in temporary lodgings) soon after five and reached Nonsuch by about eight oclock. He joined the Exchequer people for a service in the chapel - although it was a weekday - after which he went to the appropriate offices for his tallies. These were pieces of wood notched to represent amounts of money and split lengthwise to provide a duplicate. Again seventeenth-century incompetence meant that the tallies had been made out for the wrong amounts. After much argument Pepys made them see matters his way - but he still had to return home without the tallies - left my tallies there against another day.
He walked to Ewell, apparently with some old Exchequer chums, and treated them to dinner: a merry occasion due largely to the banter with an old maid lately married to a Lieutenant of a company that quarters there. After dinner he set off and came to Greenwich before night; and so to my lodging.
FOURTH VISIT: 20th November 1665
The account of Pepys fourth visit is very sketchy - it runs to a mere ten lines in the full printed version of the Diary. Sam is still lodging at Greenwich. Up before day - and then on horseback with two men in wind and rain along very bad roads. he arrived at Nonsuch in good time and collected his tallies - presumably those found wanting on his previous visit. Having done his work he collected a few of his acquaintances and took them to Ewell for dinner once more: and I saw my Besse, a well-favoured country lass there. Having splashed out a piece, worth in those days four shillings and sixpence , on his refreshment he and his escort set out along a different road:but it rained hard and blew, but got home very well.
FIFTH VISIT: 28th November 1665
Just a week later Pepys was back in our area. Having stayed the previous night at Sir George Smiths in Throgmorton Street, Sam left before daylight with Captain George Cocke, who was not only a friend but also a business and official associate. They took a hackney coach over London Bridge towards Nonsuch. It was typical of Pepys to stop the coach to write a letter - with pen, ink and wax that he always carried with him.
Having started off again they popped into Sir Dennis Gaudens house in Clapham for breakfast and to borrow a book (where Sam had lunched en route to Epsom in July 1663, we may recall) although Gauden was away at the time. A brief stop at Nonsuch (Pepys doesnt give us a reason) was followed by a visit to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, who lived in Worcester House in the Great Park of Nonsuch. This was probably the main object of the journey.
Sir Robert provided a good dinner - accompanied by the usual merriment and the company of two ladies not handsome, though, but rich.
After the meal the men got down to the real object of the visit, a discussion regarding the effects expected from the Additional Aid Act - one of a never-ending series of attempts to organise the fiscal life of the country, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Bank of England and the National Debt. The contemporary means for spending departments to obtain hard cash was for officials to borrow from bankers; some of the interest charged found its way into the officials pockets, so any attempt to diminish the returns provided by the existing system were not likely to find favour with men in Pepys position.
One of those present at this discussion was Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy and Pepys colleague on the Navy Board, who stood to lose much of his perks by the act. In spite of their fears the effects of the Act were not as bad as they had anticipated, in fact Pepys became quite enthusiastic for it later on.
Closeted alone, Pepys and Carteret discussed affairs connected with Sams kinsman and patron the Earl of Sandwich. Carteret had been putting in a good word for Sandwich with the Duke of Albemarle - the erstwhile General Monck, a principal architect of the return of Charles II from exile.
After all these weighty matters had been discussed, Pepys and Cocke took their leave and returned to London through Wandsworth.
SIXTH VISIT: 14th July 1667
Pepys last diary record of a visit to our area is that of a purely social visit with no business overtones. Its purpose was just pleasure, and as we read his account we can only marvel at what he, his wife Elizabeth, Mrs.Turner (wife of a colleague) and Will Hewer crammed into the day.
They left Seething Lane by coach just after five in the morning, and arrived at Epsom Wells at 8 oclock, having passed the journey pleasantly with the sort of gossip that might well take place today. Sam drank some water from the well - with the usual physical results, described in fine detail!
Back in the coach to the Kings Head in Epsom where dinner was ordered in a private room. There was more gossip: Nell Gwynn was lodging next door to the Kings Head in a menage-a-trois with Lord Buckhurst and Sir Charles Sedley - and keeps a merry house. Poor girl, I pity her (by all accounts Nell was doing well out of it: Buckhurst apparently paying her £100 a year for her companionship).
Sam decided to go to the parish church, it being Sunday, and went alone. There were not many in the congregation, but the five brothers Houblon - great friends of Pepys - were there and after the sermon they walked back to the inn with Sam as it was on the way to their lodgings. One of these brothers, John, became the first Governor of the Bank of England.
Dinner was served They were joined by one Pendleton and all had the customary merry time. After a post-prandial nap there was another caller, Tom Willson - a Navy Office colleague - who apparently knew Dr.Thomas Fuller very well - he of the prodigious memory. Sam was always fascinated by anything out of the ordinary and one can imagine his attention being held by such chat.
After Willson had gone, Pepys and his party went again by coach to the Wells and filled some bottles with water to take home. A conversation followed with the two ladies who farmed the well by arrangement with Richard Evelyn the Lord of the Manor.
Off again by coach to Ashtead so that Sam could show them his cousins house in Farm Lane and take them for a walk in the woods thereabouts - only Sam could no longer find the pleasant paths of his childhood. Not only that, but he sprained his ankle when he jumped down on leaving the woods.
Although in some pain, Pepys walked with the others to the downs where he recounts a meeting with a shepherd and his little boy: the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. Surrounded by the sheep, the boy was reading the Bible to his father. Pepys enjoyed a conversation with the man who, it turned out, had been a servant in Sams uncles house in Ashtead years before. The mans clothes and shoes were also objects of Sams wonder, as was the sheepdog that would turn a sheep any way which he would have him when he goes to fold them. The shepherds pay was four shillings a week the year round. After Mrs.Turner had gathered a pretty nosegay in the fields roundabout, they took coach once more and went through Mr.Minnes wood to view Richard Evelyns house, Woodcote Park.
From there the party made its way back to the Kings Head, on the way buying some milk from a woman with her milkpail. After a dish of some rather nasty cream in the inn, they paid the bill and left at about seven oclock and started the journey homewards in the cool of the summers evening.
The conversation in the coach was, as usual with Pepys, lively. He talked of his preference for owning, one day, a coach rather than a country house - how a coach would allow him and Elizabeth to go here and there rather than always stay in one place (he was later to own a coach, in December 1668).
They saw some glow-worms as it grew darker, but Sam was still in pain from his sprained ankle and Mrs.Turner was kind enough to keep her warm hand on it, which eased the pain somewhat.
Seething Lane was reached at eleven oclock at night and poor Sam had to be helped from the coach at the end of the Lane to his house. That night, with his ankle wrapped up in a medicated waxed cloth, Sam slept alone but in great pain all night long.
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My grandma died when she was 62, and that was way too early.
Our rides in her beat-up old, red car that we lovingly referred to as "the Klunker," our hot summer evening talks on her front porch, and our quick trips to the local restaurant with the best milkshakes in town. They were all cut short by an insidious and dreadful disease called Alzheimer's.
She would never get a chance to meet my beautiful wife or hold my kids in her arms.
Neither would my grandpa, who died of cancer when he was 80.
When I held his hand as he lay asleep in his hospital bed just a couple of days before he died, I thought about the countless nights I spent at his house, the smell of breakfast and pipe smoke each morning, his flat-top haircut, and either a Bible on his lap or "The Andy Griffith Show" on the television.
Some memories never fade.
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So much for family and friends and relationships.
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So much for art and music and creativity.
So much for sunsets and mountains and shooting stars.
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Why should we paint and design and build? Why should we continue to create and imagine and dream? Why play music and write stories and cry when there are happy endings in movies and plays?
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That is precisely why the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so important for humanity, because it gives us hope and assurance that, while we were powerless against death, only God has the power to defeat it. Therefore life, not death, is the purpose toward which we are moving and everything we do to that end is valuable.
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Family and friends and relationships all matter.
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So live and breathe and act each day as if it matters, like it has some sort of importance or significance … because it does!
For in Christ's resurrection, all things are made new.
Even and especially you.
Columbus' Brandon Andress is a former church leader and a contributor to the online Outside the Walls blog. He can be reached at his website andthentheendwillcome.com or brandonandress.com.

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Supervising the Attention –Deficit Hyperactive Employee
By: Cheryl Weldon, MA, LMFT
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not caring about their work or even their job; having no dedication or positive work ethic.
Supervisors may believe that this employee doesn't meet a deadline due to laziness or
incompetence. For most employees with ADHD this is simply not true. It is not the desire to do a
good job that is lacking; rather it is the ability of the brain to attend to tasks. It is important that a
supervisor understand the signs and symptoms of an employee who either is already diagnosed
with ADHD; or at the very least displays the symptoms. The work life will become much more
tolerable and less stressful in supervising this employee when there is a clear understanding of the
First and foremost, ADHD is a disorder of the brain. It is not an issue of willpower. Though with
treatment the disorder can be managed; it is not cured and the employee lacks the ability to
control the disorder without some type of treatment. Symptoms that were seen in the individual as
a child may have changed now that the individual is an adult. Most often in adults hyperactivity is
displayed as an inability to relax, restless nervous energy and talking excessively. Adults with
ADHD show their impulsiveness in volatile moods, often interrupting others, and blurting out rude
or insulting remarks. The ADHD adult's inattentiveness is evidenced by unintentionally tuning
out, consistently losing or forgetting things, and the inability to focus on tasks. One might find it
helpful to picture the world from the ADHD brain.
Imagine standing on the racetrack during the Daytona 500. Each race car that goes by is a thought
in the mind of the ADHD employee. Try to catch each thought and track it around the entire oval
for 500 laps to the finish line; all the while ignoring the screaming of the fans and whine of the
engines and screech of the tires. Ignore the ambulance rushing out to a crashed car; but, don't
ignore the yellow flag signaling your thoughts to slow down. Don't forget to watch the board in
the pit area so you know when to come in for a moment. While in the pit stop don't get distracted
by the changing of tires or the other race cars zooming by you. Keep your eyes on the thought
that is ahead of the others and will make it to the checkered flag first.
Dr. Thomas Brown of Yale University School of Medicine states that "ADHD is essentially a
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starting tasks. This employee will have problems staying on task; will be easily distracted; will
have difficulty being persistent. This employee may appear "moody," and have difficulty
managing stressful situations. This employee will be impulsive in actions and will have impairment
in retrieving information from short-term memory. The employee is often chronically late, misses
or entirely forgets deadlines and/or important meetings, and works many hours without
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with diagnosed ADHD will not hesitate to tell their employers, and co-workers, and anyone else
who will listen. At times, it may seem like it is used as an excuse, but be assured, it is not. These
employees are seeking understanding and insight into their worlds. It is important to sit down with
the employee and have a conversation about the issues at hand. This does not have to wait for
performance review time. Many issues need to be addressed immediately.
Techniques that will be beneficial for the ADHD employee include assisting in organizing the
environment and prioritizing tasks. The ADHD employee will benefit from "ticklers" regarding
deadlines. It is important to remember that this employee will most likely need additional time and
therefore, the deadline needs to reflect this. For instance, if a report is required on the fifth day of
the month, require this employee to turn it in on the third day with a reminder on the first day by
email, or memo. Visuals are always helpful; make a monthly calendar with deadlines inserted,
remembering to use the above formula of extra days. Meet with the employee often and review a
"to do list" for the week. It may require a daily prioritizing until the employee can "get into a
routine." Routines are important for the ADHD employee. Transitions can be distracting. Again,
the focus is lost and it may take some time for the employee to get back on track. As with
children, have the employee tackle tasks in small increments. This will accommodate several
areas: motivation, staying on task, completing tasks, and time management. Assist the employee
with self-control by agreeing on a signal, either verbal or visual, that can be given during meetings
or conversations that will deter interruptions. When asking for information, be clear in
expectations; when giving directions, give them clearly and concisely. Whenever possible, use
audio, visual equipment as aids; computers with voice activated software; extra clerical support;
and flexible schedules.
Understandably some of these accommodations will not work for every organization. However, if
available, these will assist the ADHD employee in achieving full potential. ADHD employees, as
with employees who do not have ADHD, need to hear how they are performing. It is important to
give frequent feedback; it will be received well as long as it is given in a respectful constructive
manner. The employee needs to hear when a job is well done; needs to be recognized for
creativity and "good ideas." Remember, the ADHD employee will be creative and intuitive if
given the opportunities. Give them the boundaries and they will fill the void. Above all, never
imply that the ADHD employee is not intelligent or dedicated. And most important: BE
PATIENT! Tap into the rich resource of their talents and abilities, the ADHD employees will
… "Understanding ADHD- Myths and Misunderstandings." www.CHADD.org.
… "ADHD in Adults." www.Helpguide.org.
… Hallowell, Edward M., M.D. & Ratey, John J., M.D. "50Tips on the Management of Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder." www.acbr.com. Faslink. Fetal Alcohol Disorders Society, Research,
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How is the e-sport scene doing?
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Couponing your way to a healthy diet
The Monroe on a Budget column runs Tuesdays in The Monroe Evening News. Here is this week's installment:
Have you ever wondered where the savings are on "healthy" foods?
The key is to find the savings in every possible direction, including paper goods and personal care products.
That's the concept Jessica Hacker of Caldwell, Idaho, teaches through her website www.livingonacoupon.com. You may have seen Ms. Hacker on TLC's "Extreme Couponing," but there is more to her shopping skills than a binder full of coupons. Some of her tips coincide with what I teach on Monroe on a Budget, but I also picked up a new idea when I spoke with her on the phone last week.
Ms. Hacker and her husband have a 3-year-old girl and she also has three teenage stepsons. The oldest boy is now in the Marines, and the other two are in high school.
A family of six would have a monthly food budget of $984.40 using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cost of Food Study thrifty range, the target point I teach for grocery bills. But Ms. Hacker says she has a grocery bill of $160 a month, which includes six gallons of organic milk a week. And she's hitting that point in a community whose stores double coupons only during special sales.
While the TV show brought attention to couponing, Ms. Hacker said she spends a lot of time explaining the details during classes and to her readers.
"It put high expectations in people's eyes," she said about the show. "They (viewers) don't understand how they did it, and how it works."
Ms. Hacker actually combines couponing with stockpiling, followed by focused menu planning. Her shopping efforts take about five hours a week, starting with five Sunday newspapers delivered to her house and a binder organized with 36 categories of coupons she is likely to use.
The key, she said, is following the grocery sales cycles. Canned goods are on good prices now, and will be again in the fall. But summer is time to stock up on condiments. The groceries she stockpiles are ones that fit her family's favorite menus and preferred personal care products.
Her tactics include earning coupons through purchase of toiletries and paper products, as can be done at CVS and Rite Aid, and apply those savings to other groceries such as the organic milk brand she prefers to buy.
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Ms. Hacker builds her menu plan an entire month at a time, based on groceries she already has in stock. Since she buys only what her family would eat, and marks containers with expiration dates so the inventory is rotated, her family's favorite foods are ready to prepare with huge savings along the way.
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The plane was submerged in the pond near Carrollton, about 40 miles west of Atlanta.
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Bergen says the plane left McCollum Field south of Atlanta and the pilot did not file a flight plan.
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|Written by Mike Schulz
|Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:00
At Riverssance, collectors and connoisseurs of art have the opportunity to purchase the works they most love, but their creators are competing with one another for more than just a sale. They're also competing for a share in the festival's $3,000 awards purse.
Riverssance artisans are eligible to compete for one of 13 cash prizes – a dozen $200 Awards of Merit are presented, along with one $600 Best in Show award. (Winning artisans also receive a metal statue designed by area artist Eric Mart.) And as in most trials, the artists' hopes for a cash award lie in the hands of a jury.
Before an artist's contributions are showcased at the Riverssance Festival of Fine Art in Lindsay Park, their work must first be accepted by the festival's screening committee, which, this year, is led by Jury Director Jodean Murdock.
As in a trial jury, there are 12 individual jurors involved in the Riverssance screening process, a group, Murdock said, composed of "artists, art administrators ... people knowledgeable in the field." Among this year's participants were Riverssance Director Larry DeVilbiss; Deb Doehler of Black Hawk College's art-department faculty; and retired Black Hawk artist Bill Hannan, whose exhibit of paintings, calligraphy, and handmade books recently appeared at the Rock Island Public Library.
The process itself begins with the collection of entries, and Murdock revealed that between January and March of this year, 186 artists applied for inclusion at Riverssance. Along with a written entry form, artists provide representations of their work on disk, which are subsequently viewed by the Riverssance screening committee.
As opposed to the deliberations in a trial jury, however, the 12 Riverssance jurors don't discuss the works' artistic merit; each judge screens the contributions privately, with their judgments eventually combined for a group "consensus."
Entrants' artwork, no matter the medium, is judged in four areas: (1) initial and overall impact, (2) original concept, (3) use of materials and technique, and (4) consistency – an indication of what Murdock called "professionalism and maturity." Using these four artistic barometers, the 12 judges rate the artists' work on a scale of one through 10, and after the screening process has concluded, the 12 individual scores are tallied; artists with the highest overall scores are subsequently included in the festival. (A perfect object of art would, therefore, yield a score of 120.)
In the end, 106 artists made the final cut this year, a number dictated, Murdock said, by "the layout of the park. ... We only have room for so many." As would be expected, the majority of the artists included are from Iowa and Illinois, but Murdock sounded pleased to report that Riverssance 2005 will also showcase the work of artists from "Colorado, New York, Florida ... all over."
Once the Riverssance artisans have been selected and their work displayed at the Riverssance festival, the recipients of the 13 cash awards are determined by a single judge elected by the screening committee, who announces the winners – including the prestigious Best in Show winner – at the weekend's conclusion.
This year's awards judge is Kristin Quinn, a noted area artist whose oil paintings are often exhibited in local galleries, and who serves as a professor in and chair of the Department of Art at St. Ambrose University. Quinn, who has previously served on arts juries for such organizations as Quad City Arts – "but not," she admitted, "on a ... show of this magnitude" – said that "it's an honor and a privilege" to have been asked to serve as Riverssance's judge. "It's one of the highest-quality crafts shows in the area," she said. And when it comes time to make her final Best in Show selection, Quinn said she's confident that the winning artwork will be one that grabs her viscerally, be it a painting or a sculpture or a ceramic piece. "Once it gets down to the final 10," she said, "I'm sure I'll see something that is really going to resonate."
From the initial selection process through the announcement of the final Best in Show selection, Jodean Murdock said the jury-screening process does a great deal to improve the quality of any art show. "Since they're being rated by other artists," Murdock said, both the artwork in question and the festival itself are "raised to a more professional level."
Even if an individual's work isn't selected by the Riverssance committee for festival inclusion, though, Murdock said that the jury-selection experience is one that every emerging artist should take part in. This artistic trial-by-jury, Murdock said, allows up-and-coming artisans "to have an understanding of the process" of professional, artistic jurying, enabling them to "continue bettering their work, and continue learning."
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This is a city where the food is diverse yet unified, and by that I mean different kinds of fish, fowl and miscellaneous all come together in the deep fryer.
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I'm here on serious business; I'm here for my fantasy football draft.
I've been training hard this week and eating right, so I can't throw it all away now in some orgy of oil.
Last week my wife secured a brisket from her brisket man (what, your wife doesn't have a brisket man?) at Texas Hickory Brisket. I did five pounds of brisket in about six days, and I feel like Rocky. It is that kind of lean protein loading (OK, I didn't trim off the brisket's fat cap) that is going to get me through all 14 rounds of the draft.
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Where There's Fuel, There Could Be Fire
Forests have always burned, but large fires in the South and in the West recently have caused an exceptional amount of property damage and an unfortunate loss of lives. What made these fires burn so hot and with such intensity was an accumulation of brush and dead wood on the forest floor.
Heavy fuel loads that result in damaging fires don't happen by accident. Ironically, they are often a result of too much fire control. As we have built our roads, reservoirs, towns, private homes and developments, we've extinguished fire from the natural cycle of our urban and suburban woodlands. Whenever fires threaten our homes and towns, we put them out quickly and aggressively. Our roads and right-of-ways also serve as natural fire breaks. Without periodic burning, however, fuel loads on the forest floor keep increasing. Eventually the fuel load becomes so high that it can contribute to an uncontrollable fire.
We also brought in non-native species of plants for forage, landscaping and timber production. These plants (fescue, brome, old world bluestems) create more dead fuels, while multiflora rose and nonnative pines are richer in oils and resins so they burn hotter than naturally occurring vegetation.
While battling the wildfires that our culture helped to create, government began trying to control the fuel buildups that make wildfires worse. State and federal agencies across the nation have increased the amount of land burned intentionally (called prescribed burning) to reduce the amount of fuels available for wildfires. They have also increased the amount of timber harvested to decrease fuel loading.
At the same time, a group of six federal agencies initiated the Joint Fire Sciences Program. The participating agencies are the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The Joint Fire Sciences Program uses federal funds to gather scientific information about wild land fuels and fuel management from across the nation. Sound scientific information is necessary for land managers to make the right choices when faced with fuel management issues.
Missouri is more fortunate than states to our west in our wildfire control efforts. Our climate is wetter, so we get a lot more rain each year than western states. The moisture helps our leaves and ground plants decay and return to the soil rather than accumulate as fuel. Also, when we have lightning storms here,


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California Is the Future
From Escape From L.A. to Star Trek, the Golden State has set the sci-fi agenda.
In the frontier myth of American history, California represents the completion of a manifestly destined expansion across the continent. It's easy to see Utopian San Francisco and "Hell A" as twin land's ends for idealists and cynics. In the north, beyond the Golden Gate there lies only "space, the final frontier." Conversely, in Richard Kelly's apocalyptic Southland Tales, the Santa Monica pier is where the world ends "not with a whimper, but with a bang," taking L.A.'s palimpsest of corrupt politicians, soulless celebs, activist porn stars, and deranged cops with it.
A third, smaller, but consistent vein of sci-fi unites both utopian and dystopian futures without mapping them onto a Nor Cal–So Cal binary and dispenses with the quasi-biblical tales of Sodom and Eden. More importantly, it allows the possibility of multiple futures for rethinking the present. A number of films depict the north as a dystopia-within-utopia: Gattaca (1997) is set in a near future where genetic modification is cheaply available while in earlier films such as THX 1138 (1971) and Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) developments that promised well-being and peace surveil and threaten human civilization. Both speak to an unease with the promise of information technology.
Similarly, the rebooted Planet of the Apes films have replaced fortress L.A. with the sleek research complexes of Silicon Valley. In William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, San Francisco suffers the noir-ish malaise of Blade Runner L.A.—this time due to free-agent capitalism run amok, with a community of squatters inhabiting the rusting hulk of the Bay Bridge and bike messengers, data pattern analysts, and a rogue pop idol with artificial intelligence in the lead roles. In the south, Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy (1984–1990) posits three possible directions for Orange County: The Wild Shore follows nuclear apocalypse, The Gold Coast extrapolates a 2027 "autopia" from 1980s suburbia and hyperconsumption, and Pacific Edge allows that even the O.C. might have access to a sustainable future, as communities reclaim the coast from cars and concrete.
The sci-fi imagination has a strong link (one might even call it a feedback loop) to the tech and entertainment industries that drive California's economy, and therefore, its very real, near-term growth. Sci-fi narratives are, after all, allegories for the times in which they are created, but they also generate a nostalgia for past images of the future, which shape communities' actions as they build and plan—and as those communities experience their lived environments. Some critics have made much of the fact that Ridley Scott originally planned to film Blade Runner in New York and the studio requested a location change. But this is largely irrelevant, as the movie's imagery and subject matter have resonated with audiences and have played a huge role in how L.A. is viewed and how the city has imagined itself over the past few decades. On the day I visited to photograph the atrium of the Bradbury Building, the only other people present were fans of the movie looking for traces of that elegantly distressed future. Repetition of the tropes of urban decay vs. ecotopia might become self-reinforcing in a way that precludes thinking differently about the present, or even seeing that the future that we've come to expect might not be the one we're likely to get.
Fredric Jameson argues that the value of utopian/dystopian sci-fi is not that it delivers images of possible futures but instead is its ability to "defamiliarize and restructure our own present." The photographs in the map show how filmmakers have taken familiar California locations from downtown Los Angeles to Berkeley to do just that.
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Northeastern University Physicists Create Assembly Technique for Carbon Nanotubes
BOSTON – October 29, 2008 – Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., distinguished professor and chair of Physics at Northeastern University, Evin Gultepe and their team of researchers from the university's Electronic Materials Research Institute have demonstrated a technique to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) into three-dimensional structures. This technique will be useful for the large scale, accelerated assembly of SWNTs at room temperature, which is more suitable for nanoscale electronic applications, such as flat panel displays and electronic memory devices.
(Image: A cross-sectional view of SEM micrographs of assembled SWNTs in anodic alumina array fabricated on Silican)
This research was published in an October 2008 issue of the journal Nanotechnology.
The electronic properties of SWNTs, such as large current capacities and quick mobility, makes them one of the most highly researched structures for the development of nanoscale electronics. They are able to conduct energy more quickly and efficiently than current structures and provide a platform from which to build smaller-scale products. Widely used materials, such as copper, do not meet the requirements as effective electrical interconnects on a smaller scale.
The challenge of utilizing carbon nanotubes (CNT) in the nanoscale is to assemble them into three-dimensional structures for large scale applications. Currently, manufacturing CNTs requires growing or assembling them into a device, which requires very hot temperatures and complex post-assembly procedures. In contrast, a post-synthesis assembly method allows for the arrangement of CNTs in ambient temperatures, which gives more flexibility in the manufacturing process.
In this newly discovered process, Gultepe, Sridhar and their colleagues manufactured nanotemplates, with billions of nano-sized holes in which to house the SWNTs. Utilizing electrical fields, they were able assemble the SWNTs vertically into the alumina nanotemplate, with a silican substrate bottom layer and a metal top layer. The vertically-assembled three-dimensional SWNTs provide the electrical interconnection between the nanotemplates and the silicon substrates.
"The greatest significance of this process is the potential to manufacture three-dimensional SWNTs electrical interconnects at a high-rate and on a larger scale," said Sridhar, who is also the Director of the Electronic Materials Research Institute at Northeastern. "Scaling down the nominal feature size means greater performance and decreased costs."
In addition to Sridhar, the team of researches involved with this project includes Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D., Director of Northeastern's Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Dattatri Nagesha, Ph.D., Bernard Diddier Frederic Casse, Ph.D., and Selvapraba Selvarasah. This research was supported by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology and the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers Program.
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Why the Formerly Grand Old Party Needs to Change and Won't
by Jeremiah Goulka
Mitt Romney had hardly conceded before Republicans started fighting over where to head next. Some Republicans -- and many Democrats -- now claim that the writing is on the wall: demography is destiny, which means the GOP is going the way of the Whigs and the Dodo. Across the country, they see an aging white majority shrinking as the U.S. heads for the future as a majority-minority country and the Grand Old Party becomes the Gray Old Party. Others say: not so fast.
In the month since 51% of the electorate chose to keep Barack Obama in the White House, I've spent my time listening to GOP pundits, operators, and voters. While the Party busily analyzes the results, its leaders and factions are already out front, pushing their own long-held opinions and calling for calm in the face of onrushing problems.
Do any of their proposals exhibit a willingness to make the kind of changes the GOP will need to attract members of the growing groups that the GOP has spent years antagonizing like Hispanics, Asian Americans, unmarried women, secular whites, and others? In a word: no.
Instead, from my informal survey, it looks to this observer (and former Republican - http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175590/tomgram%3A_jeremiah_goulka,_confe...) as if the party is betting all its money on cosmetic change. Think of it as the Botox Solution. It wants to tweak its talking points slightly and put more minority and female Republicans on stage as spokespeople. Many in the GOP seem to believe that this will do the trick in 2014 and beyond. Are they deluded?
You've heard the expression "putting lipstick on a pig," haven't you?
The Blame Game and the Short-Term Outlook
Although most Republicans see hints of future demographic challenges in the exit polls, many prefer to focus on other factors to explain Romney's loss out of a desire not to "blow up the party if there are less radical solutions." (Hence, the delusional quality of so many of their post-mortems and the lack of interest in meaningful change.)
First, they cite the Romney factor: a weak candidate, too moderate -- or too conservative -- who failed to fight the Obama campaign's early efforts to paint him as an out-of-touch plutocrat. In other words, his history (Bain Capital and Romneycare) depth-charged him before demographics could even kick in. He was, unfortunately, the perfect quarter-billionaire candidate for a Democratic narrative that the GOP is only out for the rich and doesn't "care about people like me." (He predictably lost that exit poll question by a margin of 81% to 18%). Running a "vulture capitalist" (and a Mormon) drove a number of Republican voters to stay home or even -- gasp! -- vote for Obama. It's a mistake that won't be repeated in 2016.
Second, they point to the Obama factor. In both 2008 and 2012, he attracted unprecedented levels of minority and young voters, a phenomenon that might not be repeated in 2016. Some Republican operatives are also convinced that his campaign simply had a much better "ground game" and grasp of how to employ technology to turn out voters. (Half of self-identifying Republican voters think, as they did in 2008, that Obama simply stole the election through registration fraud involving African Americans.)
Third, they emphasize the powers of incumbency. Romney only became the presumptive front-runner because the GOP's A-list -- mostly too young in any case -- feared the huge advantage an incumbent president enjoys and stayed home. 2016, they swear, will be different. Nor do they seem to fear a reprise of the 2008 and 2012 primary circuses because the A-listers in 2016, they insist, will all have well-established conservative bona fides and won't have to bend over backwards to cultivate the conservative base.
Trying to appeal to the Right while facing various nutcase candidates, Romney shot himself in both feet, labeling himself a "severe conservative" and staking an extreme anti-immigration position. George W. Bush, on the other hand, could run as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000 because his street cred on the Right was unchallengeable. Indeed, Paul Ryan is already talking up "compassion," while Ted Cruz, the new (extreme) senator from Texas, is hawking "opportunity conservatism."
Fourth, there is the perceived success of Republicans other than Romney, particularly in what white Republicans call the "Heartland." GOP operatives are still angry at Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock for losing two gimme Senate seats to the Dems by "saying stupid things" (in the words of Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor and frequent visitor to Iowa), and they wonder how they lost in Montana and North Dakota.
Still, they kept their majority in the House of Representatives, losing only a handful of seats. (That the GOP lost the majority of total votes cast gets less attention.) The Party also added a 30th governor to its roster, and held onto its control of the majority of top offices and legislative chambers in the states. Come 2014, GOP operatives expect the Party to do quite nicely, as the opposition party often does in midterm elections, especially if turnout demographics look like 2006 and 2010. Another lesson many movement conservatives have learned is that the more they pound away on their issues, the more they shift American politics rightward even when they lose.
All of this suggests to anxious Republicans that they are not crazy for seeing no immediate need to make big changes to appeal to demographic groups outside the Party's aging white base. But the short term is likely to be short indeed. Think of them, then, as the POD or the Party of Denial.
Meanwhile, on the Bridge of the Titanic
Avoid it as they may, the long-term picture couldn't look grimmer for the Party. Demographics may well be destiny. Even a cursory look at the numbers exposes the looming threat to the Party's future prospects.
* Whites: About three-quarters of the electorate (and 88% of Romney's voters) this year were white, but their numbers are steadily sinking -- by 2% since 2008. Yes, many whites may have stayed home this year, turned off by Mr. Car Elevator, but whites are projected to become a demographic minority by 2050 -- or possibly even before 2040 -- and minority births are now outpacing white births.
* White Christians: The bulk of Romney's supporters (79%) were white Christians (40% of whom were evangelicals), but this is an aging and shrinking group. Three-quarters of senior voters but only a quarter of millennial voters are white Christians, and the generations in between are much less likely to consider themselves "strong" members of their religion than seniors. (Non-white Christians, Jews, observers of other faiths, and the growing number of the religiously-unaffiliated all overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.)
* Hispanics: According to the Washington Post exit polls, Obama received 71% of the Hispanic vote in 2012 (67% in 2008). Already 10% of this year's voters (9% in 2008), the Hispanic population is exploding, accounting for half of U.S. population growth.
* Asian Americans: The nation's fastest growing demographic group -- now 3% of this year's voters (2% in 2008) -- gave Obama 73% of its vote in 2012 (62% in 2008).
* Unmarried Women: The percentage of unmarried women has been growing slowly since the 1970s, up to 53% of women as of last year. Even among subgroups favoring Obama, there was a marriage gap in which unmarried women (23% of this year's voters) favored Obama by huge margins. Despite winning 53% of (mostly white) married women, 31% of this year's voters (down from 33% in 2008), Romney lost women overall by 11 points.
* The Young: The millennial generation (born between 1978 and 2000) has been voting overwhelmingly for Democrats (66% for Obama in 2008, 60% this year). They are projected to be 40% of the eligible voting pool by 2020. Because they are relatively diverse and secular, the GOP cannot assume that enough will emulate previous generations and swing to the right as they age.
Such polling figures should frighten GOP leaders. There's no reason to believe that what we saw on November 6th was anything but the tip of the iceberg.
The factions in the party that are not socially conservative see these looming threats as an opportunity to get the GOP to drop the social stuff. But movement conservatives aren't going to cede ideological ground, not when they (correctly) think it's a necessity if they are to attract their base voters. "This country doesn't need two liberal or Democratic parties," is the way Bobby Jindal puts it, typically enough.
Like right-wing pundit Fred Barnes, many movement conservatives and Tea Party leaders will continue to insist that whites are going to remain "the nation's dominant voting bloc… for many elections to come." Hedging their bets, they have decided to become more "inclusive" or at least just inclusive enough in these days of micro-targeting and razor-thin election margins. After all, Romney would have won New Mexico, Florida, Nevada, and Colorado if he had captured even slightly higher shares of the Hispanic vote and he could have won in the Electoral College if fewer than 200,000 voters in key states had switched their votes.
To get more inclusive, however, these leaders offer an entirely cosmetic approach: emphasize the Party's middle-class message, increase outreach or "partnership" with Hispanics and Asian Americans, back off the anti-immigration message a tad, say fewer stupid things à la Akin and Mourdock, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.
A Nonsense Strategy
When it comes to why this won't work down the line, it's hard to know where to start. Take that middle-class message. Many Republicans think that it should offer "crossover appeal" on its own, so long as it's said loudly enough.
But what exactly is it? After all, it's never about jobs going abroad, retirement worries (except insofar as the GOP wants to increase insecurity by privatizing Social Security), underwater mortgages, missing childcare for working families, exploding higher education costs, or what global warming is doing to the Midwestern breadbasket and coastal agriculture (much less the long-term capability of the planet to sustain life as we know it). Instead, it remains about "choice," lowering taxes (again), "entitlement reform," and getting the government out of the way of economic growth.
As if what the middle class really wants or needs is "choice" in education (Jindal's plan to divert tax funds to private and parochial schools through vouchers was just ruled unconstitutional); "choice," not affordability, in health care (the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in America); and ever more environmental pollution, as well as further challenges to getting workman's comp if you get injured on the job.
Studies have repeatedly shown that most Americans are "operationally" liberal on the substance of most policy issues. In other words, Republicans will support "small government," until you ask about cutting spending on anything other than anti-poverty programs. In fact, less than a third of self-identifying Republicans surveyed by Reuters/Ipsos this year "somewhat" or "strongly" disagreed with the proposition that the wealthiest Americans should pay higher tax rates.
As a counter to the charge that the GOP is the party of the rich, Jindal offered this on Fox News: "We... need to make it very clear... that we're not the party of Big: big businesses, big banks, big Wall Street, big bailouts."
Um… who other than Republican true believers will buy that?
The Jerk Factor
As for those demographic groups the GOP needs to start winning over in the medium- and long-term, putative 2016 A-lister Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wants to see a middle class "message of prosperity and freedom for all" communicated loudly to immigrants and the young. But as one astute Republican insider said to me, "Hispanics won't hear our message so long as they think our immigration platform says, 'We hate Mexicans.'"
Bobby Jindal was right to say, "If we want people to like us, we have to like them first." But the Party hasn't truly begun to grasp what might be called the liking gap between the GOP and the groups it needs to cultivate. It's time for Republicans to take a long, hard look in the mirror. It's not just recent anti-immigration fervor that repels Hispanics and others from the party. The GOP needs to internalize the fact that the dead bird hanging from its neck is its entire modern history.
It's true that the Democrats were once the segregationists and Abraham Lincoln and the conservationist, trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt were Republicans, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But that's ancient history.
The Party's modern history began when business leaders got politicized in response to the New Deal and then the GOP began courting the Dixiecrats after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 (despite knowing that he had "just delivered the South to the Republican Party"). The white South started voting for GOP presidential candidates in the Nixon years and would soon become solidly Republican. At 70% of the electorate (nearly 90% in Mississippi), it remains so today.
White-flight suburbs around the country followed suit. Add in the fervent cultivation of evangelical Protestant Christians -- anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-evolution, anti-science -- and the various modern incarnations of nativist Know Nothings. Don't forget the ejection of moderates from the Party, and you have the essential history of the modern GOP in two paragraphs.
So the GOP can say that it wants to and plans to like Hispanics, Asian Americans, unmarried women, and secular youth, but to be believable, merely easing off on its anti-immigration message or going quiet on abortion won't do the trick. And if it wants to prove that it cares, it will have to put some real money where its mouth is.
What the Party Should Do -- and Won't
Here's an idea: how about some "extraordinary financial gifts" like the ones Mitt Romney denounced just days after his loss!
To really go after the groups it needs, the GOP would have to do the inconceivable: drop the "entitlement reform" racket, open the wallet, and reach below a restrictive definition of the middle class. It might, for instance, mean adding more money to Food Stamps, rather than poking fun at the "food stamp president," because a full quarter of Hispanics and 35% of Hispanic children are poor.
According to the Census, the median income for Hispanics in 2009 was $38,039 versus $51,861 for whites. The difference is far starker when you compare median net worth: Thanks to the economic crisis, Hispanic households lost 66% of their median net worth, falling to $6,325 in 2009, compared to $113,149 for white households (a 16% loss).
It would undoubtedly mean supporting equal pay for equal work, which the GOP has consistently opposed. It would mean working to make healthcare more affordable for everyone. That's how you prove you care in politics -- and it would also be good for the nation.
Similarly, if the Republicans want to be taken seriously as "defenders" of the middle class, they would need to do something to defend it from its predators. No, not the lower class but the upper class, the predatory lenders and speculators, the fraudsters, the manipulators of the financial system, the folks who got bailed out while everyone else shouldered the risk.
It hardly needs to be said that this isn't likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.
So far the only Republican suggestion I've heard that seems more than (barely) cosmetic is for the Party to drop its aversion to gay marriage. That would, at least, be a beneficial, if cynically motivated, move to look less hateful.
Hesitation in the Face of Change
It is, of course, theoretically possible that Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could attract enough Hispanic and other voters in 2016 to win the presidency. Provided that the primaries don't turn into another bizarro battle. Provided that the tone set by Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, or fringe candidates of their ilk doesn't sink the A-listers. Provided that not too many "stupid" things are said -- on abortion, immigration, evolution, or global warming. (Rubio has already gotten to work on that one by punting on a question about the Earth's age to keep the creationists happy.)
But come 2020, 2024, or 2028, whatever's left of the GOP is going to be kicking itself for not having built a foundation of anything other than words that no one outside its rank-and-file actually believed. Texas, after all, could go purple by 2020 or 2024.
Of all the signals emanating from the GOP since Election Day, perhaps the most significant came last week when the socially and fiscally conservative Tea Party kingmaker Jim DeMint voted with his feet. The man who would rather have "30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in principles of freedom than 60 who don't believe in anything" is leaving that body for the Heritage Foundation -- a hint about the future of what is arguably the most important GOP organization in the country.
It looks like the GOP is at the wheel of the Titanic, sailing toward that iceberg, while the band plays "Nearer My God to Thee" for all it's worth.
© 2012 Jeremiah Goulka
Jeremiah Goulka writes about American politics and culture. His most recent work has been published in the American Prospect and Salon. He was formerly an analyst at the RAND Corporation, a recovery worker in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. He lives in Washington, D.C. You can follow him on Twitter @jeremiahgoulka or contact him at email@example.com. His website is jeremiahgoulka.com.
by Adolph L. Reed Jr.
WHEN Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina announced on Monday that she would name Representative Tim Scott to the Senate, it seemed like another milestone for African-Americans. Mr. Scott will complete the term of Senator Jim DeMint, who is leaving to run Heritage Foundation. He will be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction; the first black Republican senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts retired; and, indeed, only the seventh African-American ever to serve in the chamber.
But this "first black" rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes "how far we have come." It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress.
The cheerleading over racial symbolism plays to the Republicans' desperate need to woo (or at least appear to woo) minority voters, who favored Mr. Obama over Mitt Romney by huge margins. Mrs. Haley — a daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India — is the first female and first nonwhite governor of South Carolina, the home to white supremacists like John C. Calhoun, Preston S. Brooks, Ben Tillman and Strom Thurmond.
Mr. Scott's background is also striking: raised by a poor single mother, he defeated, with Tea Party backing, two white men in a 2010 Republican primary: a son of Thurmond and a son of former Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. But his politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans. Mr. Scott has been staunchly anti-tax, anti-union and anti-abortion.
Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward, they wouldn't do much better among black voters than they do now. I suspect that appointments like Mr. Scott's are directed less at blacks — whom they know they aren't going to win in any significant numbers — than at whites who are inclined to vote Republican but don't want to have to think of themselves, or be thought of by others, as racist.
Just as white Southern Democrats once used cynical manipulations — poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests — to get around the 15th Amendment, so modern-day Republicans have deployed blacks to undermine black interests, as when President Ronald Reagan named Samuel R. Pierce Jr. to weaken the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Clarence M. Pendleton to enfeeble the Commission on Civil Rights and Clarence Thomas to enervate the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Over the course of history, racial alignments have shifted radically. The Democrats were the party of white supremacy until the New Deal. The Republicans were a party of relative, if feeble, support for civil rights until the 1950s. The tables have completely turned. No Republican presidential nominee has won the black vote since 1936. All four black Republicans who have served in the House since the Reagan era — Gary A. Franks in Connecticut, J. C. Watts Jr. in Oklahoma, Allen B. West in Florida and Mr. Scott — were elected from majority-white districts.
There is little that connects these men to mainstream black politics or to the country's first two black senators, Hiram R. Revels and Blanche K. Bruce, who were elected (by the Mississippi State Senate) during Reconstruction, that extraordinary and brief moment of African-American political empowerment after the Civil War destroyed chattel slavery.
Not until the Great Migration of blacks to Northern cities between the two world wars were they again capable of electing candidates of their choosing. In the South, blacks began to register to vote in substantial numbers only after the Supreme Court overturned the "white primary," which had allowed Southern Democrats to exclude blacks by defining the party as a private club, in 1944. The Voting Rights Act in 1965 turned the trickle of black politicians into a flood.
But the increase in representation has been a mixed blessing. Redistricting and gerrymandering have produced "safe" seats for black politicians across the South but have also concentrated black votes in black districts, giving white Republicans a lock. (As The New York Times reported, House Democratic candidates won about 50.5 percent of the national vote last month but only 46 percent of the seats; in North Carolina, they won 51 percent of the vote but only 27 percent of the seats.)
For Mr. Scott, the true test will come in 2014, when he will presumably run for a full six-year term. As Mr. Obama has shown, the question is not whether whites are willing to vote for a black candidate, but whether black candidates can put together winning coalitions (no matter their racial makeup) and around what policies. I suspect black South Carolinians will not be drawn to Mr. Scott.
The trope of the black conservative has retained a man-bites-dog newsworthiness that is long past its shelf life. Clichés about fallen barriers are increasingly meaningless; symbols don't make for coherent policies. Republicans will not gain significant black support unless they take policy positions that advance black interests. No number of Tim Scotts — or other cynical tokens — will change that.
Adolph L. Reed Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Copyright 2012 The New York Times
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