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Eve Shapiro moved to Chicago in August, 2009 from Minnetonka, MN to join AVODAH. As a Community Organizer at the Lakeview Action Coalition, she acts to sustain racial and economic diversity in the Chicago communities of Lakeview and North Center and to build bridges between community members.
When I was younger, I would spend a few hours a year in a downtown soup kitchen placing stale white rolls on dingy lunchroom trays. The recipients would walk slowly along the line of steaming, salty entrees, volunteers flashing beaming smiles which floated above their disposable aprons. Their quickly-moving, plastic-gloved hands distributed cookies and cartons of milk and creamed corn to the masses. And while I felt a sense of self-congratulatory pleasure at the work I had done to feed some men for a night, there were, in retrospect, a lot of impermeable surfaces that delineated where my skin gave and their skin received. Whether the plastic gloves and aprons were there to protect their food or my suburban sensibilities of cleanliness, the divisions between us were emphasized. There was comfort in the anonymity of who I was, and without an exchange of names, not to mention life stories or values, we secured our places in the room. One of us behind the buffet of food, the other in front.
In college, I organized similar ventures for students at my Hillel to prepare and serve dinner at a local women's shelter. There were few shelter guests—12 or 14—which allowed us to sit down and chat with the women during dinner. We exchanged pleasantries and some personal information, but were unsure which questions would pry too deeply. Again, I felt that same sense of pride that I had taken time from campus life to not only feed some women for a night, but to talk a little with them. And while I was progressing towards a more humanizing view of the homeless/the poor/the underserved, there was still a large barrier that allowed me to feel secure in the notion that I was doing good for these other people. They were receiving and I was giving and that difference proved that our communities were distinct.
Considering my prior isolationist feelings and viewpoints on poverty, I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be a part of AVODAH. We have had weekly opportunities to explore, learn, and discuss how poverty manifests itself, how our city is failing those in need, to meet people like Adam and Marcia working to make change, and also what we can do to make change. But beyond the intellectual consideration of social justice concerns, making personal connections through AVODAH has shown me that community has a vital place in our lives.
Since last September, through Avodah's placement I have been working at Lakeview Action Coalition (LAC) as a community organizer. Lakeview may look like a beautiful place, and it mostly is, but the oft-dismissed side effects of gentrification have taken their toll on the affordability of housing, accessibility of free health care, and the provision of services to those who need them. During the nine months that I have been organizing I have seen the underserved in the community line up nightly to receive their dinner, their LINK card, their subsidized bus passes, and get together and talk. Really talk about what is going on in their neighborhood. These people, the people I work with at LAC, formerly anonymous service recipients as well as wealthier neighborhood residents, have united to identify issues of low-income building weatherization and green job accessibility, frame those issues, set small achievable goals, and most importantly, hold me accountable to set up individual meetings with them, research the required information for making our next steps strategically, and organizing our monthly task force meetings. This has been possible because they know the strength that can be garnered by knowing each other, not by face and name alone, but by life-story, current values, motivation, dare I say it…self-interest. I, along with these leaders, have formed a strong, solid, powerful group of residents who have built our own community of sorts around promoting justice.
Many of the same themes I've observed through work at my placement have been reiterated in the programming and the community that AVODAH has helped us build. Although the topics we've talked about through weekly program nights, reflection during retreats, or even spontaneously, in the middle of breaking bread together, have not surprised me. As with organizing, it has been the building of community through this open and intentional dialogue with my brilliant and insightful fellow AVODAHniks—AVODAHlings if you will—that has challenged my understanding of what Judaism, social justice, and community have to do with each other and with my own identity.
Coming from an inter-faith background, I was attracted more to Judaism because of the seemingly high value on community. There was a magnetism of sorts between me and that sense of kinship that evolves as a group of people live together, eat together, pray together and work alongside each other. AVODAH has helped to move that notion of Jewish communal identity from a theoretical place to actual practice in my life. For one of the first times I feel Jewish not only when I observe the holidays but in my daily life as well. Constantly negotiating how to treat those around me with the highest consideration possible has made that component of my beliefs much more salient this year.
But beyond living in a Yiddish-accented Real World episode, the AVODAH community has fostered deep and powerful individual relationships that strengthen the group as a whole. I've spent late nights up with my roommate talking about her challenges of working within an organization where burnout and lack of resources prevent institutional goals from being met. I've argued with other AVODAHlings about what sorts of social justice work are the most altruistic and the most beneficial. I've also prayed with AVODAHlings at shul and around the dinner table, eager to tear into that first piece of Becca and Corey's challah for Shabbat. We've sung songs for havdallah and inhaled the spicy fragrance of cinnamon as we passed our makeshift spice box, we've cooked delicious meals together and devoured the fruits of our labor, we've played Hot Seat and eagerly learned dishy details of each others' lives. And all of it, from the intellectual to the banal, from the spiritual to the occasionally profane, has increased our bond as a community. That bond is powerful enough to make a collective change on all fronts of social justice work. From direct service to advocacy to organizing, AVODAHlings support each others' work and each other when struggles emerge. Without that feeling of someone to lean on, I know that I for one would have been overwhelmed long, long ago by all the change that absolutely needs to happen to consider ourselves as moral beings in this extremely disparate world.
I feel privileged to know my fellow Chicago Corps members, 14 women who are sensitive enough to observe the pain of the world, intelligent enough to identify specific actions they can take to alleviate some of that pain, and passionate enough to agree to share nine bedrooms and five tiny bathrooms in order to engage with AVODAH, an organization that sets us up for a lifetime of anti-poverty work.
Without the support, feedback, and mutual ambition towards a common goal that our community has given us, we would be much poorer for it, and I believe that I would be much less effective in the work that I do. Having a community at work and at home is a constant reminder of who I am accountable to but also a reminder that there is always someone there to reflect with and to receive insight from. This year has elicited many surprising feelings in me, but significantly I've felt humbled upon recognizing the disservice I gave to those individuals in the shelter when I polarized our goals and needs. I look forward to expanding my understanding of effective organizing and social justice work through the end of this year and for most of my anticipated career. And what I hope for most, beyond AVODAH, is the continuance of a community that is as supportive, challenging, and powerful as this one has been.


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The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life is a unique fundraising event that runs mostly on enthusiasm. Its advocates say, with each step the walkers take, the closer we all get to eliminating cancer.
"When I was first a volunteer we said, one out of four cancer patients could be saved," said volunteer, Betty Lou Jones of Meridian. "Now three out of four can be saved. Not only the treatment is easier. The quality of life is so much better."
The funding for research is what makes the hope for a cure possible.
The volume of awards bestowed at the Mississippi Relay Rally in Jackson was too many to mention individually.
But Lauderdale County led the way. Four teams from Lauderdale County raised over $10,000 each including Anderson Nursing Administrators, Mississippi Power Company, Northcrest Baptist Church Team #3, and Camie's Crusaders, named for cancer survivor, Camie Heard.
"I was so impressed and so inspired by her attitude when she was diagnosed," said longtime friend Carrie Latham, team captain for Camie's Crusaders.
"It is an awesome, awesome honor," said Heard. "Of course the ultimate goal is to find a cure for this."
Lauderdale County placed at the top in the Mid-South division of six states in per-capita giving. WTOK was recognized for best overall coverage of the relay for Life in the Mid-South division.
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Published: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 9:16 a.m.
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In an editorial titled "New Jail Still Needs a Clear Plan," published Dec. 11, the editorial board urged Parish President Charlotte Randolph and Sheriff Craig Webre to work together to come up with a clear and concise plan for the new Lafourche Parish jail.
We agree that a clear jail plan is needed for Lafourche.
Rather than spend money on building a much larger jail than your parish needs — one that will have 200 empty beds the day it opens based on current population — we urge you to build a jail facility that meets the parish's needs, ensures public safety, and that will save millions of dollars in construction and operating costs.
We reiterate that the best way to ensure that the parish builds the right-size jail is to hire a criminal justice expert.
In December 2011, nationally recognized criminal justice expert James Austin testified before the Parish Council and offered to conduct a criminal-justice assessment and develop a 10-year baseline population projection that could guide the parish in deciding how big a jail it needs.
As he pointed out to the council, nationwide arrests and jail populations are decreasing.
Austin has done this work around the country, including in Orleans Parish, where his study resulted in the decommissioning of thousands of jail beds at a savings of more than $3 million in just the first three months of 2011.
Only after a true needs assessment to determine the beds Lafourche will need will the parish be in the position to collect proposals from architectural companies to ensure that parish residents pay a fair amount for this new construction.
Only after proposals are collected would it be prudent to hire an architect and begin jail construction.
If Lafourche builds a jail that is the right size, it will ensure the safety of Lafourche Parish residents as well as make a sound financial decision for now and for the future.
Julie Thibodaux
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Published: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 3:45 p.m.
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On Saturday, Terrebonne Parish suffered a true loss with the passing of Mike Voisin.
There is little that can be said to lessen the sadness being felt by Mike's family, friends and the residents of Terrebonne Parish. However we can state without question that Mike Voisin represented the best of Terrebonne Parish.
Mike was certainly a tremendous ambassador and statesmen for our seafood industry, our community and our culture. Because of Mike's leadership and tireless efforts, the Louisiana oyster industry has grown to become a force in Louisiana and the rest of the United States.
Mike always worked to better our community through his extensive volunteer work on the various boards and commissions on which he gladly served. It is safe to say that Mike's service has had a positive impact in every corner of our community.
I am personally deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to work closely with Mike on many occasions. I greatly benefited from his counsel and will miss his friendship and his mentoring.
I ask that the people of Terrebonne Parish continue to keep the Voisin family in their thoughts and prayers. We hope that they take comfort in the fact that Mike made a lasting difference in our parish, our region, our state and our country. He certainly made a lasting difference in my life, and for that I will be eternally grateful.
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DENVER - National Jewish Health allergist Harold Nelson, MD, is evaluating a treatment for cat allergies that could reduce treatment from three years and more than 100 shots to four months and as few as four shots. The study will evaluate a new form of immunotherapy, developed by the company Circassia and called ToleroMune®, that uses small pieces of the irritating substance produced by cats instead of the full-sized protein that causes symptoms in allergic people.
"Immunotherapy, or allergy shots, is the only treatment that can actually treat the underlying disease, rather than just the symptoms," said Dr. Nelson, principal investigator for the international study. "Use of it has always been limited by the long treatment required. If the current study confirms earlier findings, it could be a major step forward for allergy treatment."
Cat allergy is one of the most common allergic disorders, affecting an estimated 10 million people in the United States. It is also a common trigger for people with allergic asthma. A single protein, known as fel d 1, secreted by glands in cats' skin, causes almost all cat-allergy symptoms.
Traditional immunotherapy involves the injection of allergenic proteins, whether from cats, dogs, pollen or other allergenic sources, into patients over an extended period. By gradually increasing the amount of protein injected, and continuing the process for up to three years, immunotherapy eventually desensitizes most patients so that they no longer react to the protein. In addition to taking years, the traditional approach has some danger of a significant allergic reaction as the protein doses are increased.
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The Madelia Community Hospital Foundation is pleased to announce that scholarship packets are available. Applications are being accepted for two $500 scholarships for Madelia-area high school seniors pursuing a career in healthcare. Applicants must be accepted in an accredited associate or baccalaureate program leading to a healthcare career.
The Madelia Community Hospital Foundation has been supporting local students for many years," said Traci Henry, president of the Foundation board. "Since 2007, more than $6,000 in scholarships have been awarded to Madelia High School students. I urge students and their parents to check out all the scholarships available on the website."
Madelia Community Hospital & Clinic receives such wonderful support from our community; it is only fitting for the Foundation to give back through these scholarships. The Foundation also praised local donors for their generosity in establishing these scholarships.
"These donors understand that our children are our future, and if we invest in their education, we will all reap the rewards," said Henry.
The Foundation hopes that the scholarships will inspire and encourage students to dedicate their lives to caring for others through the healthcare industry.
Applications are available at the counselor's office at Madelia High School, at the Madelia Community Hospital & Clinic front desk, or online at www.mchospital.org. Please submit applications prior to 3 p.m. on Monday, April 22nd, 2013. If anyone has questions call the Foundation office at 507.642.5224.
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(Reprinted with permission from Ancestry Daily News Archive. Originally posted 6/18/2001 © 1997-2010 Ancestry.com)
Since the weather here in the Midwest is just now starting to feel like summer, it is strange to be writing about Family History Month in October, but now is the time to begin planning.
Last year, the Ancestry.com editorial staff did a little digging to learn about the origins of Family History Month. From Curt Witcher, manager of the Historical Genealogy Department of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana and president of the National Genealogical Society (NGS), we learned:
"The concept of designating October as 'Family History Month' began several years ago. It originated with the Monmouth County Genealogical Society, whose aspiration was that during this month, societies would do something special to draw attention to and promote family history. Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia all passed 'proclamations' in the last few years declaring October as Family History Month. At the last NGS board meeting, the NGS board officially endorsed the concept and will use the NGS Newsmagazine to promote the idea."
This year, as Dick Eastman mentioned in his newsletter last week (www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/3999.asp), more societies are joining in and are helping to make Family History Month an official nationwide event.
With official recognition of Family History Month, we can get a media spotlight shining on genealogy. This extra attention brings in more researchers using the libraries, archives, and courthouses seeking the records of their ancestors. This added use helps these facilities justify increased budgets to add to existing collections, aid in records retention, expansion of facilities, extended hours, digitization of records, new projects, etc. As Dr. John Daly, Director of the Illinois State Archives says in his article, "Genealogy Power,"
"Family historians and genealogists have replaced academic researchers as the principal users of public archives in the United States. The combined memberships of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians today are twenty-eight thousand. A study published in American Demographics in December 1995 cited that 113 million Americans have some interest in genealogy, and that 19 million have a strong working interest in the field . . . If the administrators of public archives in the United States had to rely upon the use of archives by academic researchers alone to justify the existence of archives, they would find it extremely difficult to do so."
More researchers also means more members for the genealogical societies that help us to preserve the records we rely on, and help keep us informed in regards to issues and resources that affect the genealogical community. More members mean more funding and more volunteers for the important projects they are currently working on, or dream of starting.
In addition, as mentioned before, it can bring more researchers into the game, and more researchers means more potential cousins to exchange information with. Who knows what this new wave of genealogists will bring to the table? The key to your brick wall? A family bible passed down through another line? A fresh look at attacking a shared research problem?
Making It Happen
So how do we make it happen? A great place to start is with your local society. Attend the next meeting and ask what they have planned for this auspicious occasion. The "FGS Delegate Digest," Summer 2000 (Vol. 7, No. 2) offered the following suggestions to its member societies:
• Conduct a one-day "Introduction to Genealogy" workshop in your area.
• Contact editors of area publications (community and genealogical) to request a feature article on family history.
• Request that local libraries display family history material during October.
• Sponsor a writing contest for children, "Family History Begins with Me: Writing My Own Life Story."
• Ask our museums, historical, ethnic, business, and religious organizations to highlight the role families have held in their respective history.
• Provide volunteer speakers to local service clubs and organizations for October meetings about family history.
• Convince local and state officials to deem October as Family History Month.
As anyone who tried to access the Ellis Island database in its early days can attest, there are a whole lot of us out here. The trick is for us to be noticed by the rest of the world. As Dr. Daly says in his article, we need to "Point out that persons with family history interest represent 113 million American citizens, 113 million consumers, 113 million letter writers, and 113 million votes."
Another thing to remember is that when you are a member of a society, you are counted as a family historian. As our collective voice is heard, we in essence become masters of our own destiny.
NOTE: Feel free to pass this article around on your favorite lists. The more people we get involved, the better our chances for success. Look for more updates and announcements on the project in future issues of the Ancestry Daily News.
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Ever since the movie "Fargo" came out a decade ago, my ability to mimic the Scandinavian-inflected accent of my hometown and home state of North Dakota has been a guaranteed way to elicit laughter during my public speaking.
That joking ended earlier this month, when I realized -- in a painfully public manner -- that my use of that North Dakota accent was in a small but undeniable way supportive of a white-supremacist account of the history of this country. The story of that episode illustrates not just the depth of the pathology of white America but also a way we white folks can -- with self-reflection and help from others -- start to transform ourselves.
For those who have never seen the 1996 movie or heard a white person from the Dakotas or Minnesota (despite the title "Fargo," which is the largest city in North Dakota, the film is set in Minnesota), the accent has an amusing sing-songy quality and trademark phrases such as, "Ah, geez" and "Yah, you betcha!" In print it may not sound particularly funny, but with the right delivery it can be a crowd-pleaser.
That is, it's a crowd pleaser in certain crowds -- such as an audience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I was speaking, and where few are likely to think much about real Dakota history.
I was at the university to participate in a panel on racism and white privilege, a subject about which I've written a book, making me an alleged expert. In my introductory remarks I made reference to my upbringing in North Dakota and the accent made famous by the movie, using it for a bit of comic relief in a discussion of a difficult subject.
On that panel with me was D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, a professor of American Indian Studies at that university and a citizen of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. Although I didn't poll the audience, I'm pretty sure Clark was one of the few indigenous people there. (Clark told me later that of the 100-plus students and faculty who have self-identified as American Indian on campus in recent years, about 15 to 20 are citizens of Indian nations or tribal members, and even fewer are tribally connected.)
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In his remarks, Clark spoke about the racism in that university's continued use of a caricatured Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, which is a constant reminder of the arrogance, ignorance, and cruelty of the dominant white culture. [For examples of this manifestation of white supremacy, see websites in support of the mascot's use at http://www.honorthechief.org/ and http://www.chiefilliniwek.org/. Resources on efforts to force the university to stop using the mascot are at http://www.iresist.org/, http://www.retirethechief.org/, and http://www.prairienet.org/prc/prcanti.html. The statement of American Indian Studies faculty and the staff of the Native American House at the university is at http://www.nah.uiuc.edu/statements.htm.]
In the course of his talk, Clark made reference to the fact that in the United States, English is a foreign language. That remark set off in my head a chain of thoughts that left me resolved to never again joke about a North Dakota accent.
Let's start with the obvious: While some of the indigenous people killed or displaced by Europeans and their descendants learned to communicate in English with the settler-colonizers, they did so in a second (or third, fourth, or fifth) language. English is not a native language in the territory we now call the United States -- it's the language of a colonizing people who pursued a genocidal strategy to acquire that territory and its resources. Though I've spent some time reading about that history, it had never occurred to me think of English in that way; being part of the dominant group in a society allowed me to avoid those kinds of obvious, and harsh, realities.
As I sat at the table next to Clark, I realized what his remark meant: I don't really speak with a North Dakota accent, and to label my speech as such is to obscure that history of European colonization and barbarism toward indigenous people. What would a real Dakota accent, North or South, sound like? Nothing like the characters from "Fargo," that's for sure. That white Dakota accent is mostly Scandinavian, transplanted through colonization.
As all this ran through my head, I realized I should scrap my planned closing remarks and use my last few minutes to face this issue. I told the group that I was embarrassed that for so long I had not recognized these obvious points. I was emotional and probably not being all that clear; I looked out at the audience and saw that I wasn't explaining it well. So I went to the blackboard and wrote "North Dakota," and then erased "North." What's left? "Dakota." Who are the people today who really speak with a "Dakota" accent? Their ancestors aren't from Scandinavia or any other part of Europe.
Those people were -- and still are -- the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota, usually collectively referred to as the Great Sioux Nation. Their languages are part of a family that linguistic anthropologists call Siouan or Siouan-Catawban, which is still spoken on the Great Plains of the United States and parts of southern Canada.
I don't speak any of those languages. I can't reproduce the accent with which those peoples speak. In other words, I can't do a real Dakota accent. I can only do the settler-colonizers' accent.
In my home state, we took not only the land of the people of those nations but their name as well, and we then pretend that we are Dakotans. It's perhaps a small point, but an important one: I am not of the Dakota people. I am of the people who tried to exterminate the Dakota and who colonized their land.
And what of those original colonizers and their descendants? I can hear my people in North Dakota saying something like this: "Hey, most of those so-called colonizers were relatively poor farmers from Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe who came to the United States to scratch out a living and who built a prosperous life through a lot of hard work."
Fair enough; those folks did work hard under arduous conditions. In my family, the last immigrant from Scandinavia was my paternal grandfather, who came from Denmark as a teenager and worked hard his whole life as a blacksmith, mostly in North Dakota and Minnesota.
But no matter what the stories of our families, two things are unavoidable. First is that the land on which those immigrants worked so hard was available only because of a genocidal campaign that eliminated most of the indigenous population. Second is that the majority of those immigrants and their descendants never challenged that injustice. Like most European immigrants who came here without much privilege, they accepted what was to be a privileged place in a white-dominant society by embracing white supremacy.
It's easy for me to sit back, writing this essay, to make all these obvious points about the white supremacy that exists out there, in the world. But the fact remains: For years I have used the "Fargo" joke without any thought to those very same points. This is a story not only of the crimes of the past and present, but of how I -- like so many white people -- can both know these things and ignore them at the same time.
So, what triggered all this as I sat on the panel at the University of Illinois? The simple answer is, Tony Clark.
Because the logo of the main university in my home state, the University of North Dakota, is the racist "Fighting Sioux" caricature, I have been studying the issue of American Indian mascots and nicknames for some time [http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/fightingsioux.htm]. Much of what Clark said was familiar to me. Yet there was something about his clarity, honesty, and passion that got to me. His presentation forced me to remember that what is for me a political issue is for him and other American Indians today also a lived reality. Clark, his Indian colleagues, and other citizens of a variety of Indian nations -- students, staff, and faculty -- walk every day on that campus and look at t-shirts and posters with a caricature that remind them that the dominant white culture doesn't really much care about them.
The discussion that day made me uncomfortable, and for that I am grateful to Clark. Like anyone in a position of dominance, it's easy for me to grow comfortable with injustice, even when engaged in political activity to resist it. Listening to Clark that day I learned some things, but just as important is that I had to confront an emotional reality; it was the combination of that knowing and feeling that led me to recognize what was wrong with the jokes I've been telling about my home state's accent.
In the context of all that must happen for the United States to become a truly just multiracial society, this struggle of mine over a marginally funny joke might seem fairly inconsequential, just a small step in one person's struggle. But the bigger lesson is that I wouldn't have taken the step (1) if there had been no forum in which I could hear Clark speak, (2) if Clark had not been willing to be generous in offering to the group his knowledge in such honest fashion, or (3) if I had run away from my feeling of discomfort.
For people with privilege in an unjust world -- whether it's men in relation to women, the setter-colonizer in relation to indigenous peoples, white people in relation to people of color, the rich in relation to working and poor people, or U.S. citizens in relation to the country's domination of the rest of the world -- it's imperative that we invite into our worlds those on the other side of that privilege, not to make us feel good but precisely to challenge us to have the courage to feel uncomfortable.
If we can't do that, there is little hope for the world -- and no hope for our own souls.
--------------------- I am grateful to Professor Clark for his comments and suggestions, which are reflected in this final version of the essay. For more information on his work, see http://www.nah.uiuc.edu/faculty-Clark.htm.
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html) and a board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center (http://thirdcoastactivist.org). He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights Books). He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Genevieve Tenoso said:
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Prof. Jensen,
I am delighted to read of your recent reflections after speaking with Prof. Clark. I was sorry to have missed the panel myself, but I was presenting as an anti-mascot speaker elsewhere. Your moment of enlightenment reminds me of a conversation that I shared with a Dine (Navajo) activist a couple of years ago. We were thinking about ways of communicating through the frustratingly heirarchical, linear, and binary style of U.S. English...aspects that seem inherent in the language. And he hypothesized that there may be ways to decolonize the English language and employ it in the expression of Indigenous epistemologies. It is a struggle at times to recognize the oppressive power wielded through English in our expression, and I am encouraged in learning that others are also thinking reflexively about communications too many of us take for granted. I enjoyed your essay. Genevieve Tenoso, Lakota Ojibwe, UIUC.
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Professor Jensen,
Thank you for your piece on English as a foreign language and for exposing the perpetuation of racism through white privilege and appropriation of native language and culture. The "white privilege" perspective always catches my attention because we have had some success here in Boulder Colorado (maybe whiter than N.D.)in using white privilege to help people understand how racism works and those with white skin privilege are complicit, even though they don't consider themselves racist. Many are willing to experience the discomfort of exploring white privilege, but not of discussing racism directly. I have not seen your book, but will see if our bookstores have it.
By the way, my roots are in N.D. too and like you I can turn the Nort Da ko'da accent on, usually for a laugh too. Also, I am Turtle Mountain CHIPPEWA. It seems we Ojibwe always get overlooked when people talk about the Dakotas. We have more than 30,000 tribal members.
Migweech for your work and sense of humor.
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SILVERTHORNE - When Gary Drescher became the manager of the Buffalo Mountain Metro District in 1998, Wildernest was a neighborhood on the outskirts of Silverthorne.
Under his leadership over the last 14 years, it has become a community.
Now looking ahead to his retirement this week, Drescher is preparing to say goodbye to the community he helped build.
"It's hard to believe it's been 14 years. The time just goes by so quickly," he said. "And when I realize how closely connected we are to the community and what good friends we've developed, I realize how difficult it's going to be to leave."
With life at altitude becoming more difficult, Drescher and his wife, Barbara Leffler, plan to sell the property in Wildernest they've owned since the mid-1970s and relocate to the Front Range.
The couple first came to Summit County to visit in 1976, and bought their Wildernest condominium as a vacation residence two years later.
At that time, Wildernest was primarily populated by second-home owners and seen as being somewhat distant from the community, Drescher recalls.
At the time, he and Leffler lived in Denver, where Drescher worked for a large savings and loan company. When the position of manager for the Buffalo Mountain Metro District opened up, they jumped at the opportunity to make Summit County their permanent home.
Over the next few years, Drescher would realize a number of big wins for the neighborhood, including the hard-won construction of a walkway along Ryan Gulch Road, intended to keep pedestrians safe from traffic on the road.
"As we looked around, the nature of the community was changing from one where it was predominantly second homes, to one where we had a lot of local families," he said. "As a consequence, more and more school-aged children ... were walking there and there was no good way for them to get out of traffic."
A 22-year-old woman had been killed walking on Ryan Gulch Road in 1998, first sparking conversations around the need for the walkway. After years of work and negotiations with the county and the community, the sidewalk was completed in 2006.
"Hardly a day goes by that I don't see people on the walkway at all hours of the day," Drescher said. "That's really improved the safety for our residents here in Wildernest."
Drescher also lead a multi-year bark-beetle and wildfire mitigation effort in and around Wildernest, ridding the area of approximately 10,000 dangerous dead trees. The project became a statewide poster child for interagency partnerships on forest health.
"We realized we couldn't just expect the federal government or county government to do everything," Drescher said. "We had some serious fire issues within Wildernest, so starting in 2006, we set aside money every year to assist property owners in removing standing dead trees from their property."
When property owners took responsibility for cutting down the dead timber, the metro district stepped up to help remove it, covering approximately a third of the cost of the undertaking.
In the wake of a series of devastating wildfires that swept across the state this summer, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet visited Wildernest to tour the mitigation area and draw attention to the project as a success story and to promote proactive prevention efforts.
"It's obvious, facing these fires, that the mitigation work has been critical to saving people's homes," Bennet said in July following the tour.
The metro district, which has been in place since 1971, is a quasi-municipal corporation, collecting fees and property taxes to maintain the sewers, roads and water to the residents of Wildernest. In his tenure at the helm of the district, Drescher has managed to secure and protect open space surrounding the neighborhood from development and helped construct a new district office on a roughly $2 million annual budget.
Drescher was born in Hershey, Penn., and grew up on a small nearby farm that had been in his family for four generations. He met his future wife, Barbara, in the clarinet section of his high school band.
In 1969, he graduated from Lehigh University and later became an officer in the army.
Over the next six-and-a-half years Drescher traveled the world on military assignments, spending two tours in Europe and a third in Vietnam, where he was responsible for collecting intelligence along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border.
When he returned to the U.S., he and Leffler moved to Colorado. They'd never lived here before, but had passed through the state on a trip between duty stations.
"We found the scenery to be incredibly beautiful and the people friendlier than any place we'd ever been," he said. "We decided if we had a chance to live in Colorado (we would)."
They wanted to make their home in the mountains, but knew the best employment opportunities lived on the Front Range.
Drescher found a job with the savings and loan firm, while Leffler opened a psychology proactive. They lived in Denver full time for 22 years before the opportunity to move to the High Country presented itself.
Finally making it to their end goal, the couple immersed themselves in the local community. They've been involved in the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival as well as the Lake Dillon Theatre and Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Two years ago, Drescher and the metro district started a scholarship program for graduating seniors who live in Wildernest.
It's a statement to how much the neighborhood has changed, and how many families now live there.
Now, after they return to the Front Range, Drescher and Leffler have plans to do some traveling.
There will be a retirement party for Drescher from 3-6 p.m. Saturday at the Buffalo Mountain Metro District Office on Adams Avenue in Silverthorne. Drinks and appetizers will be served and the public is welcome to attend.


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Home › Forums › General Forums › Food, Hydration, and Nutrition › dried eggs or freeze dried? Need some advice for a good choice/flavor
It's been awhile since I have used powdered eggs since REI discontinued their powdered eggs. The taste was ok but I am looking for a more flavorful option. Need some advice on where to get them, what brands are good, any powdered version taste ok or go freeze dried?
I know I can go Mountain House Eggs/Bacon for $32/can but that's as far as my research went before I decided I need to consult my fellow like-minded hiker for some advice. Thanks gang.
Ova Easy eggs taste more like fresh eggs than some others. http://www.nutriom.com/ I use Honeyville dried eggs for items I bake, and for places where the egg flavor is not obvious since they are (or were) less expensive.
@wandering_bobLocale: Oregon, USA
Mtn House freeze-dried scrambled eggs – with or without peppers and ham – are God-awful. Buy a single package and see what I mean.
Thanks Bob
I'll just take your word for it! Update- found the Ova Easy @ REI- might be my best way to go when I combine it with other gear and get free shipping.
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Another option is to go with Mountain House's Breakfast Skillet meal–the usual MH FD eggs, with FD potatoes, sausage, peppers, and onions. Not too bad, and a few more calories than just eggs.
But Ova Easy is the real deal–in your UL fry pan slathered in olive oil, add Harmony House diced potatoes, Packit Gourmet FD tomato chunks, some FD sausage crumbles or Hormel bacon bits, maybe some FD cheese, and you've got a killer omelet. Add 4 strips of warmed up Hormel shelf stable bacon, and she'll ask you to marry her all over again. Well, maybe if you throw in a toasted buttered bagel or muffin, and a mixed fruit cup?
Thanks Gary for the menu idea! yeah, that'd be much better than just some eggs in a wrap!
I recently had a chance to eat powdered eggs from Honeyville and they were not too bad.
I also had some Rancher's Cut freeze dried scrambled eggs recently and really like them especially with some freeze dried cheese and freeze dried mushrooms. All three were also from Honeyville.
One of the very good things about Honeyville is their periodic sales which go up to 20% off on everything. Their bulk packaging in cans works well because the lids seal firmly after opening the can, thus protecting the food well until it is used. Their dairy and eggs items make it much easier to cook and bake "real" foods in the backcountry. I have also found their freeze dried and dehydrated vegetables and fruits to be very high quality, with none of the off processing taste found in some other products.
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One league source said meeting between Goodell and Payton prior to the Super Bowl is "very doubtful," while another said it would not happen.
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Re: "Socialist America," by John M. Kunst Jr., letters, Dec. 8
I have to take my hat off to John M. Kunst, Jr. of Fairplay for having the courage, unlike most conservatives or Tea Partiers, for voicing his opinions and beliefs. However, the United States is not a socialist nation or a capitalist nation. In the past, men and corporations with ambition and no restrictions were able to accumulate incredible wealth and political influence. It was also a period when children under 12 worked to help support families, the poor worked in sweat shops, the sick had no health care options, without social security the elderly had to live with family members, the poor lived in unheated fire traps, the majority of voters were older white men, little public education, and the wealthy lived on nob hill with little thought to anyone else. In the 1930s, the Democrats created Social Security and numerous socialist work programs that built all our great dams and infrastructure.
As for the complaint against those not paying taxes, I find the argument offensive. As a military retiree with service in Vietnam and Desert Storm and with all (three) my children serving in the military and two still serving their country, retired from college teaching, I do not as a retiree make enough money to pay taxes. Does Mr. Kunst include me and a majority of other military and elderly retirees as - quote "perplexing and destructive that 47 percent of us pay no taxes? These folks have no skin in the game - no investment in our future."
Most people who claim to be American patriots and practically all our congressional leaders have never served in our military and sadly neither have their children. While I don't know a thing about Mr. Kunst or that pillar of right-wing philosophy, Mr. Liddick, I wonder whether their extreme patriotism has led them to serve their country. I don't expect everyone to serve but people like Audie Murphy proved his courage and patriotism while John Wayne played and talked the part.


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The Lake Region State College volleyball team continued their run on a terrific season by defeating Williston State College in impressive fashion on Thursday night.
The Lady Royals made few mistakes in the first set and went on to win the set 25-17.
The second set was a competitive one but the Lady Royals didn't let up and took the second set by a score of 25-19.
In the third set, the Lady Royals took a huge lead and it looked like they were going to win easily. Williston College fought back and made it a 24-23 game in favor of the Lady Royals.
LRSC finally earned the final point they needed to win the set 25-23 and take a 3-0 victory.
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MOUNT PLEASANT -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has swung into Michigan looking for some campaign momentum.
The Texas congressman trails Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in polls ahead of Michigan presidential primary on Tuesday. Paul spoke to more than 1,000 energetic supporters on Saturday at Central Michigan University and many more couldn't get into the packed auditorium.
Paul has other Michigan stops planned for Sunday and Monday.
Some of Paul's views on limited government and low taxes fit in with the Republican mainstream, but he breaks with much of his party when he criticizes American intervention abroad and puts a premium on individual rights as the nation works to root out domestic terror.
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Female Russian Runners Kiss—Very Publicly
(NEWSER) – Maybe it was just affection or maybe a blatant political statement, but as the debate heats up overRussia's anti-gay policies, two female Russian runners yesterday shared a very public smooch—atop the winner's podium at the World Athletics Championship in Moscow. Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova had just won gold in the women's 4X400 relay, reports Sky News, which seems sure that the kiss was a protest; other outlets aren't so sure, and neither runner has commented publicly.
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The McPherson County Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at the McPherson Municipal Center, city commission room.
The program "Santa Fe Trail 101" will be given by Steve Schmidt, Santa Fe Trail Association Ambassador.
Visible remnants of the Santa Fe Trail on Steve and Glenda Schmidt's farm in Marion County have recently been added to the National Register of Historic Places. All interested persons are invited to attend.
Tickets will be available at the meeting for the McPherson County Historical Society's 44th annual banquet, hosted by the Smoky Valley historical Association in Lindsborg Nov. 9 at the Messiah Lutheran Church fellowship hall. Tickets cost $15.
A Swedish-style dinner will be served at 6 p.m. The theme will be on Birger Sandzén, with a talk and private tour of the Sandzén Gallery following.
For more information, call David Nigh in McPherson at 620-241-0604 or Chris Abercrombie in Lindsborg at 785-227-3480. Public is invited to attend.
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Burglary arrest: Police arrested three people after responding to a burglary alarm in the 9700 block of Twin Creeks Avenue about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Two of the robbers hopped fences as they fled on foot, but they were apprehended with the help of a police dog. Watysha Ivy, 21; Dennis King, 23; and Alexander Williams, 18, were arrested on suspicion of burglary and other crimes.
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Resisting arrest: A business owner near East Marsh Street and South McDonell Avenue flagged down police at 8:34 a.m. Tuesday to report a woman who refused to leave the premises. When an officer arrived, the woman threatened and spat on him, police said. Kourtney Taylor, 21, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and battery on an officer.
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The Stockton Fire Department responded to 98 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday, including six vehicle accidents, 77 medical calls and two structure fires.
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I love to work with QCAD. It's really a good program and it's getting better all the time. Recently I came across another exciting piece of software: Z88Aurora
Z88Aurora is a free finite element software package for static calculation in mechanical engineering. Beside linear static analysis you can use it for large displacement analysis, stady state thermal analysis and natural frequency analysis.
AND it can do 2D, too! Sounds great, doesn't it? So I fired up my QCAD installation and quickly designed a simple 2D-drawing and saved it as DXF R2010.
Then I tried to import it in Z88Aurora and ... failed. Oh dear, I was disappointed. It seems, that the DXF from QCAD is not compatible with the Autocad-DXF that Z88Aurora expects.
Please make it work! That would be such a great thing to be able to use QCAD as a source for 2D-models.
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David Irving's Right Wing ExtremismTable of Contents
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David Duke
|29 Oct 1994
|Diary: P speaks in North Kenner, New Orleans, and then dines with David Duke, who had been in the audience.
|30 Oct 1994
|Diary: P dines at Duke's home. 'He gave me a chapter of his draft memoirs to run my eye over; immediately, I seized a pen and began sub editing it, with the result that he wants me to edit everything he's written to now. Several chapters of his quasi Mein Kampf.'
|31 Oct 1994
|Diary: P works all day editing Duke's memoirs, 'much better than I anticipated. Many insights.'
|1 Nov 1994
|Diary: P and Duke spend several hours discussing politics, 'An interesting character. His book is a real self appraisal, and deserves success; iof [sic] he can find a publisher and distributor. If he cannot, then of course his strictures on the opposition races become self justifying.'
|3 Nov 1994
|Diary: P and Duke have lunch.
|5 Nov 1994
|Diary: P and Duke have two meals together. Both speak at a Liberty Lobby-sponsored radio conference, along with Willis Carto, Tom Valentine and Eustace Mullins. After dinner, P and Duke, along with two of Duke's acquaintances, proceed to a beach disco until 2 am.
|15 Nov 1994
|Diary: P drafts letter to Ed Novak (P's book agent) recommending Duke's memoirs.
|5 Dec 1994
|Diary: P speaks to Duke who had received a 'feisty' reply from Ed Novak agreeing to act for him, 'and advising Duke to live a good life for ten or twenty years outside politics in the hope that people will forget Duke was once in the Klan. I suggest that he reply to Novak, tongue in cheek, that he will go one better than leading a mere good life, he'll become a literary agent and lead a holy life. I suggested he now contact Aleta Daley in New York.' P speaks with Duke later, who had been contacted by Aleta Daley; 'His self esteem is restored. I ask about access to his mailing list. He says it is 115,000, of which 45,000 are high grade; however he laughed off my suggestion that we trade the list for my free work on his MS [memoirs]'.
|8-13 Dec 1994
|P and Duke are regular companions as Duke and girlfriend stay with P in Key West. They dine, talk politics, strategize on fundraising and play tennis.
|13 Dec 1994
|Diary: 'For one like myself whose interest in the Holocaust is purely self-defensive, it is hard for me to listen politely to his seemingly endless vapourings on the - to me - boring subject; ditto the Jews and Zionism, although these are admittedly topics of the chapters he has been writing while down here.'
|23 Dec 1994
|Diary: Duke sends P 400 addresses from his mailing list of people who have donated $100 or more to Duke's campaign.
|30 Dec 1994
|Diary: P works to convert hundreds of names on Duke's list to his computer disk.
|6 Jan 1995
|Diary: P writes 'got the David Duke list to load with virtually no problem. Hurrah! 404 names and addresses of his best contributors; I weeded out half a dozen duplicates. These are some names I recognise too—I'll have to weed them out first.'
|7 Jan 1995
|Diary: P comments 'Time to get to work on milking the David Duke list.'
|21 Apr 1995
|Diary: Duke phones P to check whether "Jim [sic] McVeigh" is on his mailing list.
|2-11 May 1995
|Diary: P and Duke visit frequently while Duke is staying at Sam Dickson's vacation house.
|On 8 May P edits Duke's book chapter on the Holocaust.
|1 June 1995
|Diary: 'the $2000 cashier's cheque from David Duke came, a loan.'
|28 June 1995
|Diary: P asks Dickson to repay Duke, with P to repay Dickson in three weeks.
|14 Nov 1997
|Diary: P edits Dukes memoirs, and later speaks at St. Tammany Parish Hall, at request of Duke.
|15 Nov 1997
|Diary: P helps Duke with his manuscript, 'Cut out the word Jewish ten or twenty times per page.'
|Dec 1997
|P's Action Report; 'I have spent a couple of days in Louisiana, where the local Republican Party chaired by the well known, indeed notorious, David Duke has invited me to speak. I take the opportunity to read some of his draft memoirs, which in my view need editing—for "political correctness" as much as for anything else!' (p.30)


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December 9, 2005
The four Prevensie children find themselves with a huge responsibility when they wander through a wardrobe only to find a fantasy world on the other side. Friday afternoon, I watched Narnia with Rodger Murcheson of First Baptist Church of Augusta and found the world of Narnia can teach us all something about ourselves.
The movie begins with the seemingly impossible, children finding their way into this magical world through the wardrobe. Roger Murcheson of First Baptist Church of Augusta says the movie can be a teaching tool for churches.
"CS Lewis was writing a story for children. He was trying to enhance and enliven their imagination, and if imagination is teaching, then he would be pleased this was trying to awaken people's faith and let it happen naturally," Murcheson said.
Lewis said the story is a supposal of what would happen were Christ to enter a world like Narnia, depicting him coming as Aslan the lion. Though Murcheson warns not to read too much into it.
"In this movie, we saw the sacrifices many Christians attribute to Christ, so yes, it's difficult not to see Aslan in that way, but that would lessen and make smaller to only equate Aslan to Christ," Murcheson said.
The bigger lesson, says Murcheson, is on the question of finding one's own faith.
"If we go digging and hunting with our intellect often we're sadly disappointed, faith and God are all about us, and sometimes we discover it by accident," Murcheson said.
First Baptist Church is filing an entire theatre on Saturday, they have 440 tickets to Narnia and they'll be taking some children from Urban Ministries with them.
If you've seen some of the clips of Narnia in the trailers and you're a parent, no doubt you're asking which children should see it. I have a 5-year-old and after seeing it today with Rodger Murcheson of First Baptist Church of Augusta, I've decided it's just too intense for my daughter. Murcheson agrees some of the scenes might frighten young children and has already cautioned his congregation.


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On Wednesday, May 22, MoDOT will be replacing loop detectors on Route MM at the intersection of U.S. 61 in Hannibal. Traffic will be reduced to one lane with the right turn lane onto U.S. 61 closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. near the Route MM entrance into Ayerco.
Loop detectors are in-ground devices used to notify the signal when vehicles are stopped at the intersection; they activate the traffic signal to change. Once the loop detectors are replaced, crews will repair the pavement at the intersection. To avoid delays, alternate routes are suggested.
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Andrew, Michael,
The one thing that is really missing from QCad (and frankly also both bothers and annoys me), is how QCad's way of saving is so non-Mac on the Mac version.
For a start a very important element is missing from all windows in QCad, the black spot within the red 'close window' button, which is there to indicate that the drawing has not been saved yet.
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?fi ... b0PyTA.png
Secondly, the save window on Mac is very Windows- ie the buttons all across the top right hand side of the save window, offering options of being able to create a new folder, navigation etc. List view, detail view? what's that?- it's all wrong. Where's the Macintosh's excellent column view system gone??
I'm sorry to be picky, but standards are there to be kept, not broken, and many times I have found myself cursing QCad's save because of this, not being able to find something as quick as I normally would. I've also noticed (and this is probably a bug) that the existing save screen dosen't seem to recognise external usb sticks either.
Wrong way of saving;
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Correct way of saving (in/ on Macintosh)
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Please will you fix this for us Mac users??
Kindest regards,
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When one thinks of Stone Age archaeological sites, Stonehenge, Altamira and Newgrange may come to mind. Most likely The Céide Fields will not. But they should.
On the way to Ballycastle, County Mayo I was not sure what to expect. Neither was I sure, given the treacherous nature of the cliff-side Irish road, that I would arrive.
My experience in archaeology lay with the ancient Mediterranean world - the colossal monuments of Greece and Rome. I had visited marble temples stretching into the sky and seen vast cities of intricate stone streets. The idea of field walls did not conjure up images of importance or grandeur.
The Fields were not featured in a single book I had read nor were they covered in any class I had attended (not even "Neolithic and Bronze Age Farming Communities"). I was skeptical of what might be so significant on the cliffs of Mayo. I shouldn't have been.
For this is not just another archaeological monument or visitor center, it is the world's most extensive Stone Age Monument - the remains of a highly skilled and organized agrarian Neolithic society, which has been preserved undisturbed for nearly 5,000 years.
The Fields are almost completely concealed underneath a blanket bog, which has safeguarded the site from both natural and human destructive forces, being that it is hard to erode or loot something under four meters of densely packed plant matter. This is both a blessing and a curse for the archaeologists, including my guide, Gretta Byrne. The bog and size of the site make conventional archaeological techniques, such as the use of trenches, largely infeasible.
Patrick Caulfield, a local schoolteacher, first discovered the site during the 1930s. While cutting peat bog for fuel, Patrick came across piles of dry-mortared stone stacks that he concluded were man-made and due to their location deep under the bog, ancient. Patrick's son, Seamus, grew up to be an archaeologist, and it was he who began the first true excavation of the Céide Fields in 1970.
Seamus discovered an oval enclosure within which there were a number of postholes for roof supports. The enclosure, probably a domestic structure, was replete with an outside hearth and what conceivably had been an animal pen. Pottery shards and other domestic materials were found within the enclosure.
Through cross comparison with pottery found in tombs and Neolithic sites in Western Europe, the Céide Fields' shards, along with radiocarbon dating from the hearth, placed the occupancy of the enclosure at around 3000 B.C. A primitive plough head was also discovered within the enclosure, which gave additional evidence of animal husbandry, probably cattle, as the horse was not yet introduced to Ireland.
Much of the rest of the site remains underneath the bog. The Céide Fields workers rely on probing, an inventive yet rudimentary way of mapping the site adapted from a traditional practice of finding ancient trees deep beneath the bog. An archaeologist (or like-minded volunteer) pushes an iron rod down into the bog until met with resistance such as a stone wall. The wall position is then marked and followed in its presumed direction, much like a game of Battleship. In this way, the main plan of the Céide Fields has been discerned. A number of sectional cuts have also been made into the bog, unearthing segments of these stone walls. Primarily, this has been done for the benefit of the visitors. Interestingly, the bog is already reclaiming these sections.
The Céide Fields, as understood today, is a network of parallel stone enclosures with a number of those walls running up to two kilometers in length. The site has been mapped up to ten square kilometers or four square miles but it is clear that the site is much more expansive than these numbers suggest. Although there is one known domestic structure (Seamus' oval enclosure) found, there must be others.
The sheer scale of the site is an indication of the size of the population and the degree of organization that it would have taken to construct such fields. The area, at the time of the stone enclosures' construction, was a dense primeval forest filled with animals that today can only be found in Ireland's museums, including wolves, brown bears and boars. To clear this landscape for agriculture, let alone move the over a quarter of a million stones used for the enclosures, would have taken a great deal of cooperation from a sizable community. This society would also have to have had a source of food production independent of these new fields and independent of the population working on them.
No evidence has yet been found of any fortifications at the Céide Fields. This has prompted many into believing that this agrarian society lived peacefully without thought or threat of war. Although this is a tempting and agreeable hypothesis, it is argued from a position of lack of evidence rather than proof positive.
The Céide Fields' society did not live in isolation. We know that the population participated in trade and therefore certainly had contact with various other peoples, as evidenced from a number of flint and Porcellanite (used for stone axes) finds from County Antrim in the north. It is certainly possible that their interaction with neighboring groups was completely peaceful, but it is unlikely. Just because defensive structures, such as protective walls (which would be larger and thicker than the farming walls) and tower foundations, have not been uncovered is not reason enough to presume that they do not exist. The Céide Fields is such an expansive site that these structures could lie undiscovered deep beneath the bog miles away.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Bellarmine College Prep held off St. Francis for a 21-14 West Catholic Athletic League victory on Friday night as the Lancers were literally knocking on the door in the waning seconds.
St. Francis running back Alex Andrighetto was stopped on a run to the outside on a fourth-and-goal play from the Bells' 4-yard line with 19 seconds to play.
Bellarmine took advantage of Lancers' gifts, none bigger than a double-reverse pass thrown by Joseph Mihanovic that was picked off and returned for a 27-yard touchdown by Anthony Guttadauro with 2:01 left in the first period.
Guttadauro also scored on runs of 7 and 4 yards in the third quarter.
Andrighetto started the game by rushing 12 times for 64 yards on the Lancers' opening drive, finalizing with a 6-yard TD run. Andrighetto, however, was limping badly in the second half and finished with 85 yards on 22 carries.
Bells quarterback K.J. Carta-Samuels was just 6-of-12 for 68 yards passing with a late interception by Chandler Wolf that gave the Lancers needed life.
Carta-Samuels made the play of the game, though, escaping a strong rush on a fourth-and-8 play, only to find Gavin Lynam for a 21-yard completion to the Lancers' 4-yard line to set up the Bells' final touchdown.
The game marked the debut of St. Francis quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie, who transferred from Mountain View and wasn't eligible per Central Coast Section playoff rules to play until Oct. 7. Fischer-Colbrie threw an 11-yard TD pass to Trillion Hebert with 4:48 to play to cut the lead to 21-14.
Bellarmine 7 "0 "14 "0--21
St. Francis 7 "0 "0 "7--14
SF -- Andrighetto 6 run (Fordham kick)
BCP -- Guttadauro 27 interception return (Bush kick)
BCP -- Guttadauro 7 run (Bush kick)
BCP -- Guttaduaro 4 run (Kelly kick)
SF -- Hebert 11 pass from Fischer-Colbrine (Fordham kick)
Records -- Bellarmine College Prep 4-1, 1-1; St. Francis 4-1, 1-1.