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Week of November 22, 2010
Full-time Positions
1. The Cattleman magazine
2. 4-H Youth Development Animal Science Specialist
3. 2 Positions at the University of Vermont
4. Dairy Products - Sales Position
5. Assistant/Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
6. Research Food Technologist / Research Animal Scientist / Research Chemist
Campus Opportunity
7. Student Assistant Career Services and Alumni and Industry Liaison
8. Angus Internship, Scholarship Applications Being Accepted
9. Covance
10. USDA Offers New Scholarship Program for Non-Veterinary Students
11. Industry Panel Discussion
12. CCO Inside Track Nov. 17, 2010
1. The Cattleman magazine
Livestock advertising sales
The Cattleman magazine, Fort Worth, Texas, the business journal of the Southwestern cattle industry has an immediate opening for a sales professional with an interest in beef cattle and beef producers to serve a large territory selling print and online advertising products.
The livestock sales professional will be provided an existing base of more than 500 clients and will be expected to cultivate new clients for the print publication and website.
This position requires attendance at client auction sales, industry events and major national livestock shows. This position may provide, or will arrange for, ring service at qualified auction sales.
The successful candidate will be independent, self-disciplined and inquisitive with an interest in other people, the ability to see tasks through to completion, ability to meet deadlines, and the desire to be part of a team.
Other requirements:
A detailed job description and list of benefits are available.
Please email cover letter and resume to Ellen H. Brisendine, editor, The Cattleman, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
1301 W. Seventh Street, Ste. 201
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
2. 4-H Youth Development Animal Science Specialist
Purdue Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education
This administrative professional staff member will be a team committed to enhancing the Indiana 4-H Youth Development program. The successful candidate will have responsibility focused on 4-H Animal Sciences programming, and will work closely with Faculty, Extension Specialists, Educators and animal industry stakeholders. This individual will be managed jointly by the YDAE faculty member responsible for 4-H Animal Sciences programs and the Indiana 4-H Program Leader.
Application: Purdue University Human Resources website - http://www.purdue.edu/hr/employment/ position number 1001055
3. 2 Positions at the University of Vermont
The Department of Animal Science at the University of Vermont invites applications for two Tenure-track Faculty Positions to begin August 2011.
Food Animal Biotechnology: This is a 9 month, tenure track, research and teaching position. Responsibilities include teaching and advising undergraduate and graduate level courses, and University service. In addition, the appointee will be required to develop a funded, innovative research program in the area of animal/rumen biotechnology to address areas of economic importance and interest to Animal Agriculture and/or Food Systems. Ideally, the research program should focus towards product differentiation and value added treatment-based strategies tailored towards different market segments, such as: infants (development and growth, disease control, or prevention of adult disease), youths (development and growth, or prevention of adult disease), adults (maintenance of good health), and the elderly (delay senility - "Cognitive Foods", reduce osteoporosis - "milk products"). Work can also be tailored towards value added processing of biomaterials and by-products. Research focused on dairy cattle is preferred and the appointee will be expected to collaborate with colleagues within and outside the Department of Animal Science to strengthen national and Vermont dairy issues.
For further information on the Food Animal Biotechnology position, contact search committee chair Dr. Feng-Qi Zhao at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Animal Genetics/Genomics: This is a 9 month, tenure track, research and teaching position. Responsibilities include teaching an introductory animal genetics course (focusing on ruminant and monogastric livestock animals), contributing to upper or graduate level courses, and advising undergraduate and graduate students. University service is also expected. In addition, the appointee will be required to develop a funded, innovative research program that will focus on host animal genetics and biochemical processes influencing desirable production traits in livestock and/or environmentally sustainable food production systems. This integral process will ultimately lead to the development of healthier and more nutritious foods, while establishing breeding lines of highly productive, but low methane emitting dairy and beef cattle. Moreover, this individual will be part of a large multidisciplinary team that will contribute new knowledge to better understand and combat obesity in humans where there is a direct link between intestinal microbial ecology and the diversion of calories towards fat production. Research focused on dairy cattle is preferred and the appointee will be expected to collaborate with colleagues within and outside the Department of Animal Science to strengthen national and Vermont dairy issues. Research programs should incorporate the use of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and, or Metabolomics.
For further information on the Animal Genetics/Genomic position, contact search committee chair Dr. David Kerr at email@example.com.
Applicants for either position are encouraged to apply before December 6, 2010, at which time review of applications will begin. Candidates must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral level degree in Dairy Science, Animal Science, Animal Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Functional Genomics, Biotechnology, or a closely related field. At least two years postdoctoral experience is required and demonstration of success in attracting extramural funds is preferred.
All candidates must apply online at www.uvmjobs.com and must attach to that application a curriculum vitae and statements of research interests and teaching philosophy along with three (3) letters of recommendation.
4. Dairy Products - Sales Position
Under the guidance of the Sales Manager this position will be responsible for growing a new territory to pre-determine sales levels. Although this person will be heavily supported by ANIMART, they will need to function at a very high level independently in the field. If you thrive in a team environment, but need the freedom to use your entrepreneur spirit to excel, please apply. For more on our company, please visit http://www.animart.com
Responsibilityes and Duties Include:
Expand business in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, Immerse yourself in the MI, OH and IN dairy industries and be part of the community, Meet, then exceed an annual sales budget, Have made responsiveness and solutions selling part of who you are, Handle on-farm sales calls and ongoing client nurturing, Accurately track customer data via available software packages, Travel to trade shows, meetings, informational sales programs and/or committee meetings, Pursue professional growth opportunities, Contribute to ANIMART's culture through by taking initiative, respecting others, and leading, Have great communication and listening skills, Close business
4-year degree in agriculture, Dairy Science or related field with a dairy background, Successful sales experience (verifiable), Working knowledge, understanding and interest in livestock production-based agriculture, Excellent written and oral communication skills, Proficient computer skills in Excel and other Microsoft Office products,Strong organizational and documentation skills Ability to set goals and achieve them, Positive attitude and approach, accountability, and professionalism, Clear driving record
Please send cover letter and resume to:
Karen Hunt, HR Manager
5. Assistant/Associate Professor of Animal Science
Department of Agricultural Sciences, Canyon, Texas
West Texas A&M University, a Member of The Texas A&M University System, invites applications for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor of Animal Science.
This is a twelve-month, tenure track position that reports to the Head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences. West Texas A&M University is located in one of the largest cattle feeding areas in the world, producing more than 7 million finished cattle annually, along with extensive cow-calf and stocker cattle production. The area also benefits from a high concentration of allied industries and services such as beef processors, feed manufacturers, renderers, pharmaceutical and biological manufacturers, technical support, and world-class consultants in feedyard health and nutrition.
Review of applications will begin January 1, 2011 and the search will continue until the position is filled. Position is available for the Fall 2011 semester. Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Electronic applications are encouraged. Applicants should provide a letter of interest, copies of official transcripts, resume, and a statement of current and future research interests.
Also, applicant should arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to:
Dr. Mike S. Brown, Search Committee Chair
Department of Agricultural Sciences
WTAMU Box 60998
Canyon, TX 79016-0001
Phone: (806) 651-2550, Fax (806) 651-2938
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
6. Research Food Technologist / Research Animal Scientist / Research Chemist
The Quality & Safety Assessment Research Unit, U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in Athens, Georgia would like to invite all interested and qualified candidates to apply for a Research Food Technologist / Research Animal Scientist / Research Chemist position in the area of poultry muscle quality.
Please use the link below or go to www.USAJobs.gov and search Athens, GA for specifics of the position.
The position closes December 10, 2010 and all must follow the "How to Apply" section in the job announcement.
7. Student Assistant Career Services and Alumni and Industry Liaison
The Career Services and Relations position will work closely with Barry Delks in enhancing industry and alumni relations. The student assistant would help Improve careers services and coordinating communication to improve the Successful Alumni and Intern web sites. Duties may consist of activities including:
Minimum 5 hours/week in the spring- could start now
Paid position
Send resume and cover letter to:
Barry Delks
Lilly Hall Room 2109
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765 496 7234
8. Angus Internship, Scholarship Applications Being Accepted
The American Angus Association®, Angus Foundation and Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) are offering several opportunities this fall for college students hoping to further their education and gain valuable real-world experience with the world's leading beef cattle association and branded beef program.
Available internships offer goal-oriented students an opportunity to build upon writing, editing, photography and organizational abilities while developing knowledge of agriculture and the beef industry. Deadlines, requirements and application details for the paid internships follow, in addition to scholarship opportunities also being offered through Angus Foundation and CAB.
The American Angus Association Junior Activities Department is offering college sophomores, juniors or seniors the opportunity to assist with the planning and execution of junior shows and leadership events, and gain experience in association work. Applicants must be enrolled in an agriculture-related major and should be self-starters who are detail-oriented, outgoing and have the ability to work well with all types of people. Travel to the National Junior Angus Show (NJAS), Leaders Engaged in Angus Development (LEAD) Conference and other shows should be expected as part of the internship.
The internship spans approximately late-May to mid-August, with specific starting and ending dates depending on applicant's availability. Applications are due Feb. 1, 2011.
Applicants may send a cover letter, resume and references to: Robin Ruff, Director of Junior Activities, American Angus Association, 3201 Frederick Ave., Saint Joseph, MO 64506.
For more information contact Ruff at 816-383-5100 or email@example.com.
The American Angus Association Communications and Public Relations Department is now accepting applications from college juniors or seniors studying communications or agriculture communications. Applicants with strong writing and design backgrounds who have completed coursework in news and feature writing, as well as editing and design are encouraged to apply. Photography experience and an understanding of video and social media would be an asset in this fast-paced internship. Travel is likely.
The internship spans approximately late-May to mid-August, with specific starting and ending dates depending on applicant's availability. Applications are due Feb. 1, 2011.
To apply, send a cover letter, resume, references and writing samples to: Crystal Albers or Crystal Young, American Angus Association, 3201 Frederick Ave., Saint Joseph, MO 64506.
For more information contact Albers or Young at 816-383-5100; firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
The Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) Industry Information Division
Click here for complete job description or to apply online. A brief cover letter, resume and three writing samples are requested.
For more information contact Miranda Reiman, CAB Industry Information assistant director, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 308-784-2294.
CAB's Colvin Scholarship Fund will award five scholarships in 2011 totaling $15,000 to individuals who demonstrate leadership in the beef industry. Applications will be judged on activities and scholastic achievement, essay and verbal communication skills and reference letters.
The top applicant will receive a $5,000 award; second place, $4,000; third, $3,000; fourth, $2,000; and fifth place, $1,000.
The application deadline is Dec. 4. For more information visit www.certifiedangusbeef.com, select Press Room and click on the Colvin Scholarship tab. The top two scholarship winners will win an all-expense paid trip to the 2011 Certified Angus Beef® Annual Conference, Sept. 22-24, 2011, in Sun River, Ore. Winners will be announced in January 2011.
Angus Foundation - In 2011, the Angus Foundation will make available general scholarships to students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in higher education. Eligible Angus youth meeting the qualifications for the Angus Foundation's 2011 Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship Programs will be considered by the Angus Foundation's Scholarship Selection Committee.
As in past years, other specific and special criteria scholarships administered by the Angus Foundation will also be available. Scholarship recipients will be recognized at the 2011 NJAS in Harrisburg, Pa.
Applications will be available online beginning Dec. 1, 2010. Visit www.angusfoundation.org for more information.
9. Covance Internship
12 week, paid internship
2011 opportunities include positions at our:
Additional programs details:
10. USDA Offers New Scholarship Program for Non-Veterinary Students
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) has established a new scholarship program for non-veterinary students who wish to pursue careers that have an impact on the health of animal agriculture. The Daniel E. Salmon Scholarship Program, named after the founding chief of USDA's Bureau of Animal Industry (predecessor to today's Veterinary Services program), will offer scholarships to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Students selected for the scholarships will receive tuition assistance, employment while in school and job benefits, including paid vacation and sick leave. They may also be eligible for a permanent Federal position upon completion of their degree and scholarship program requirements.
Interested students may apply to scholarship announcements, which will be posted between January and February of each year at www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/, click on "Work for VS." Questions about the scholarship program can be directed to the Veterinary Services Management Support Staff at (301) 734-7517.
Students pursuing veterinary degrees may apply for a veterinary services scholarship through a separate program, the Saul T. Wilson, Jr. Scholarship Program.
11. Industry Panel Discussion
The Purdue Collegiate Chapter of Farm Bureau is hosting a panel discussion of industry organizations on Monday, November 22nd at 4:30 pm in the PMU North Ballroom. Students and faculty are invited to attend, ask questions of the organizations and their representatives, and network. The evening will close with a private dessert reception for Collegiate Farm Bureau members and special guests.
12. CCO Inside Track Nov. 17, 2010
I. The CCO will have normal walk-in hours on Wednesday November 24th but will be closed on Thursday November 25th and Friday November 26th due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
II. Time at home is the perfect chance to network. Let students know this is a great time to express career interests to family members and visit nearby companies. For more information on networking, refer students to the CCO's networking page.
III. The MIT AMGEN-UROP scholars program is an exciting, paid, 9 week research opportunity with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The program is open to student with and without previous research experience. It is the perfect opportunity for students to network with distinguished researchers in their field. See the attached flier for more information.
IV. Full list of On-campus and Off-campus career events.
Hannah Schmidt, The Inside Track Editor
If you have trouble accessing this page because of a disability, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Another reason to visit Sarasota County: fresh local food
Published: Monday, November 12, 2012 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 4:56 p.m.
With the increasingly popular farm-to-fork and tide-to-table movements flourishing, Visit Sarasota County planted a new seed to grow visitor awareness of what our top culinary destination has to offer. Similar to other product development that we have engaged in over recent years, such as our architecture guides or Circus Heritage Guide, this new guide aims to make our agricultural offerings easy for our tourists to experience for themselves.
Some popular agriculture statistics our tourists are
interested in:
The top 5 crops for our region are: Cucumbers,
tomatoes, melons, cabbage and peppers.
How many acres of land are used for farming in the area? Sarasota County, 61,033; Manatee County, 313,485.
How many commercial farms are in the tri-county region? 1,341 -- Sarasota County, 305; Manatee County, 794; Charlotte County, 242.
How many jobs in the region are related to agriculture? Sarasota County, 33,113; Manatee County, 29,875; Charlotte County, 11,024.
Tour Sarasota Agriculture is a new product that enables visitors and locals to experience the farms and farm-fresh food in and around Sarasota County easily and efficiently. It's a one-stop shop in the form of a brochure, with everything you're looking for in one place.
Foodies, and those interested in experiencing farm-fresh produce, can save time scouring the Internet for addresses, directions and information on goods available, and now can access local farm offerings and adventures with this handy guide.
The guide provides a list of farms, farmers markets, community gardens, culinary events and farm resources around Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties. A convenient map includes an index of which farms are open to the public, provide tours or have markets.
While we already are getting this guide into the hands of our visitors at the Visit Sarasota County Visitors Center (which is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 701 North Tamiami Trail in downtown Sarasota), we also are getting it into the hands of the people in the community who may not be aware of the farm-richness that abounds right outside our front doors.
You also can snag a copy of the guide by picking up the fall 2012 edition of Edible Sarasota magazine. Edible Sarasota magazine was the perfect partner for Visit Sarasota County to collaborate with to create and distribute this guide, because this is the kind of fresh-food content its readers have come to expect.
Nearly every tourist to our area dines out here at some point. Each meal presents a chance for a diner to get to know our local food and our local chefs. We are increasingly finding out from comments in our visitor center that tourists want to see what restaurants are serving fresh and sustainable products, and where these products are coming from. This guide makes it easy for a visitor to experience this for themselves.
Food is "experiential," and seeing where your food comes from makes it a more hands-on, personal and therefore a more memorable experience.
By buying and eating fresh and local food, you support local farmers and restaurants, save the environment, improve your health and have a more authentic and sustainable dining experience.
Virginia Haley is the president of Visit Sarasota County. She can be reached at (941) 955-0991 or email@example.com.
This story appeared in print on page D5
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


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Walnut Grove Park LbNA # 23164
|Placed Date
|May 28 2006
|Madison, WI
|Found By
|Middle Sister
|Last Found
|Oct 29 2011
|Hike Distance
Distance: ~1 mile round trip
Difficulty: Easy
**Note: this box had been missing, but now is back in place as of summer 2010. Happy Hunting!**
Getting there:
Walnut Grove park, and the greenway behind it, is located north of West Towne Mall on the west side of Madison. To get to the starting point for the hike, take the Beltline Hwy (Hwy 12/14) to Gammon Rd. Exit Gammon Rd. north. Turn left onto Mineral Point Rd. At the 2nd light, turn right onto Randolph Dr. Randolph Dr. ends at Tree Lane; park somewhere nearby on Tree Lane.
Directly across from Randolph Dr., there is a paved driveway going past the townhouses. Take this path, and continue on it after the pavement ends. Youll cross the creek (on pavement stones), and then the path turns into a dirt pathway. The path follows the creek.
At the first branch in the path, go right onto the smaller path into the trees.
At the T, go right and cross the stream. (Now the creek is on your left.)
At the T, go left and follow the path the path for quite a while. Ignore the small path that breaks off to your right.
At the crossroads, look ahead and to your right. The box is in the hollow stump.
To return:
You can either re-trace your steps, or else continue forward on the path until you reach the park. To continue, follow the same path that you were originally on straight through the crossroads. Veer right at the fork, and go up the hill. At the crossroads veer left, then go straight. Walk past the bench, and youll be in the park. There is a water fountain there and play equipment. If you want to walk home from here, you can follow the road (Westfield) to the right, then take a right at the stop sign at Tree Lane.


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USAID Nigeria in Abuja is seeking to employ a suitable and qualified candidate for the position of Project Management Specialist, Capacity Building)in the HIV/AIDS and TB Office.
Job Title: Project Management Specialist (Capacity Building)
Open To: All Interested Candidates
Opening Date: May 9, 2011
Closing Date: May 20, 2011
Work Hours: Full-time; 40 hours/week
In addition to the basic salary, all allowances will be paid in accordance with the Mission Local Compensation Plan.
A copy of the complete duties and responsibilities is available in the Human Resources Office. Contact (09-461-9319)
Minimum Requirement
A Master's degree in one of the followings fields of study is required: Public Admin, Organizational Management, Finance, Business Admin, public Health, International Relations, Development or policy.
Five (5) years working experience and Level IV (fluent) English language speaking and writing proficiency is required.
Selection Process
It is essential that the candidate address the required qualifications above in the application.
Additional Selection Criteria
1. Management will consider nepotism/conflict of interest, budget, and residency status in determining successful candidacy.
2. Current employees serving a probationary period are not eligible to apply.
3. Current employees who are qualified will be given preference.
4. Only successful applicants who meet the minimum requirements will be notified.
5. The Human Resources Office will NOT accept applications or resume submitted in U.S. Government official envelopes.
6. The minimum requirements must be adequately addressed in the cover letter of your application package. Failure to do so will disqualify your application.
Application Deadline
20th May, 2011
How To Apply
Interested applicants for this position MUST submit the following, or the application will not be considered:
1. A type-written application specifically applying for this position, and addressing the minimum requirements as advertised. Please reference the job title and announcement number on the application letter.
2. A current resume or curriculum vitae, listing all job responsibilities; plus
3. Any other documentation (e.g., essays, certificates, awards, copies of degrees earned) that addresses the qualification requirements of the position as listed above.
4. Please indicate position title and vacancy announcement number on the top right corner of the envelope and also on the subject line of the application letter
Submit Application To:
USAID Nigeria
ATTN: Human Resource Office
c/o U.S. Embassy
Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive
Central Business District
Abuja, FCT,
Point of Contact
Tel: 09-461-9300 ext. 9319


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On Jan 19, 8:38 pm, "Rob"
> Hi All
> I run a small (4 node) LAN with a Fed 8 box doing NAT with iptables for the
> WinXP machines that we use. Is there a nice tool to give me summary
> statistics on which local (192.168.x.x) addresses use up the cap each month?
> I'm not interested in specific connections, just the total cap usage.
> Thanks
> Rob
-You may try ntop www.ntop.org.
If you would configure it, It will give you more than you need, It's
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Papa is discing corn ground, with Roy's horse & kids brought it here. Liesce Lumber Co. stopped, inquired the way to Bill Heyl's. Bertille got the mail, received an invitation card to come to Ruma to J. Merycouth [sic- Myerscough] dance at the hall, wedding anniversary dance. Mrs. Dalkert passed away Oct. 3. buried this afternoon. Harold Hellmer & Bertram were published 1st time.
Wednesday, April 27, 1932
It is white frost & pretty cold this morning. We cooked a kettle of soap this morning. The people from Collinsville that wanted to buy timber stopped in again, papa went along to the woods with them, but didn't sell anything. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary worked around there place up here, cut lawn & such like. The Hecker baseball club, All Stars are giving a dance in Fred Weber's barn tonite, Rheinharts playing. Fredrick Fristche was here & got 2 settings eggs 35¢. Ray Schmidt the tinner of Waterloo was around advertising stoves. In the evening paper, it say Chas. Dalkert, editor & publisher of the Waterloo Times died & will be buried Fri afternoon, he was 68 yrs. old, suffering from an heart attack. The sons will keep up the business as usual. Mrs. Friewelier, Anna Faust mother died & will be buried Thurs. afternoon at Waterloo. Henry & family & Ralph Collier where here this evening.
Friday, August 15, 1930
We all went early this morning to church. The priest passed Miss Stella Roscow by this morning at the communion railing. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were here for dinner and breakfast. This afternoon we all went into Belleville. We got some cook pots. Rosalia went and got the mail. This evening Papa, Rosalia, Bertille, Uncle Fred, Aunt Mary, Henry & family went up to Uncle Adam's & Emil's. I have seen in the Waterloo Times that Miss Ida Sommer & two girl friends from Columbia motored to Louisville, Kentucky, where they will spend a week seeing many points of interest such as Mammoth Cave, Lincoln's birthplace at Hodgenville, Ky., The Old Kentucky home of Bardstown & Camp Knox. They expect to return home Sat. Also Miss Marie Kolmer and Louise Dalkert left Sat. for a tour of the west. Their stops will include Denver, Colorado Springs, Estes & Yellowstone parks. They will be gone about 2 weeks. A 8 lb. baby girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Strattman, the shoe man, at St. Mary's Hospital, East St. Louis, Monday morning. They now have a pair. On August 9, Miss Alice Hoffman became the bride of Mr. Roy Bohres of St. Louis.
Saturday, June 14, 1930
Today is Flag day but I didn't see very many flags floating. Leona called this morning and wanted to know if one of us could come out there today and watch the kids, her and Henry was going to cultivate corn. So Papa & Rosalia went out. Papa went to Waterloo & Rosalia stayed there, she had dinner there. Papa came home for dinner. After dinner, Papa went to New Athens & Freeburg on business. We have an invitation from Mrs. Cleveland to go to Weber's barn dance, it is Mrs. Weber's birthday. I don't know if we will go yet or not. I seen posters today for Harry Kammlers dance next Saturday, the 28 of June. I noticed in todays Belleville News Democrat that Edward Neff from 19 North Church Street was in the hospital undergoing medical attention. And also that Miss Ester Ida Dalkert had her name analysis. She is from Waterloo, Ill. Miss Irene Roth analyzed it for her. Good many people are cutting wheat already. Steve Rennecker went out shocking for Jake Klein. Henry & family came up this evening & brought Rosalia along back with them, they didn't get off of the machine because they wanted to go to Waterloo to get their machine, they had theirs in there getting it fixed up in running condition. We stayed at home this evening. George Wagner & Bernice, Charles, Melvin were over here this evening a little while. He came to get a spring chicken for Sunday. We sold him one for .75¢ a piece. He took 1. Afterwards Papa went along with him to see his barn. Ralph Rausch took a motor cycle ride this evening. The motor cop is on the road now. I think he was on Saturday anyway.


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January this year saw local Venturer Kieran Debenham (Welcome Bay Scout Group) attend the annual Walsh Memorial Flying School where he undertook a 2 week intensive course learning to fly and at the end of it made his first solo flight at 16 years of age. He joined 65 other students in attending this very popular two-week long training camp at Matamata.
The annual event has been run by the Scout Association of New Zealand since 1967, providing the highest quality aviation training in the country for budding young pilots both male and female aged 16-19. The Walsh has many past students with successful careers in aviation.
This school is named after Vivian Claude Walsh (1888-1950) who was an engineer and his elder brother Leo Austin Walsh (1881-1951) who were pioneers of New Zealand aviation. The Auckland Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, concerned to preserve the memory of the brothers' contribution, formed the Walsh Memorial Air Pageant Organisation. Several events raised significant monies for educational purposes - now administered via the New Zealand Aeronautical Trusts Ltd.
The School is supported by the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Air New Zealand, Air Nelson, Air BP, Airways New Zealand, Civil Aviation Authority, New Zealand Met Service, Aviation Services Limited, Royal Aeronautical Society, Rotary International and Fuji Xerox.
Various other planes of interest also visited during the school giving the students chance to see 'up close and personal' which they wouldn't be able to do otherwise, including a Beechcraft 1900D (Eagle Air), Strikemaster, Spitfire, Albatross, MASH Helicopter, Chipmunk & CT4 Airtrainer
During the school besides the flying and lectures, there is a time for the students to meet with people from the Air Force, Air NZ and other flying career options so they can get an idea of where to go if they wish to pursue a career as a pilot.
The 2013 school was very fortunate to have the last public display of the only flying de Havilland Mosquito on its ferry flight back to Auckland from the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Show, in Masterton before it was dismantled for shipping to it's American owner. Students and staff were very privileged to be able to get a close inspection of the aircraft during the afternoon. At the Wings Parade, on the last day of the School, the Mosquito's pilot Keith Skilling presented Scout Wings to the 41 students who had flown their first solo flight before departing for Ardmore with a flying display of the aircraft. Our thanks to the Mosquito's owner Mr Jerry Yagen of the United States.
The School relies on Flying Clubs to provide aircraft and instructors, and this year, as with previous, a number of planes and instructors from Bay Flight Tauranga played a large part in supporting the School, and last night (Tuesday 19th February) Andrew Sims (one of the Instructors from Walsh, as well as being an Instructor with Bay Flight) re-presented Kieran Debenham with his Wings Badge in front of his Scout Group - Kieran is currently the only youth scout member in the Western Bay of Plenty Zone (Katikati to Te Puke) to have achieved this feat.
During a visit to the school in January Welcome Bay Scout Group Leader Neil Debenham also got chance to take to the air in a CT4 Air Trainer.
If you would like to participate in this type of event, feel free to contact Neil Debenham, 07 5432428.


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Lambert's Sweet Sauce O' Mine Original Barbecue Sauce
Lambert's Sweet Sauce O' Mine Original Barbecue Sauce was created by Mark Lambert, a 3-time Pork Shoulder Memphis in May World Champion Pitmaster. This award-winning Mississippi style Barbecue Sauce is a combination of tomato, molasses, and vinegar with a unique a blend of spices that just needs to be tried. Sweet Sauce O' Mine is the original from Mark Lambert and it goes great on everything from pork to fish - even veggies! 18 oz. Made in USA.
Manufacturer model #: SS02010.
- Award-winning Mississippi style barbecue sauce
- Combination of tomato, molasses, vinegar and spices
- 18 oz.
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This is a cool idea for a widget - thanks.
My only gripe is that after drilling down into some categories and their children, and clicking on a category - I wish that the widget would already be expanded as much as needed be so the current category would be displayed (and probably indicated as the current category).
Additionally, it would be nice if when viewing a post that's in category foo, this widget would be expanded far enough to see category foo as well.
Does that make sense? Thoughts?


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3 suspected gunmen held in shooting of LA deputy
LOS ANGELES Authorities have identified three men who were arrested following the shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy.
The deputy and several other members of an anti-gang detail approached a group of men in South Los Angeles Friday when the men took off. Authorities said at least three gunmen opened fire, striking the deputy in the abdomen.
He was in stable condition Sunday after undergoing surgery at a hospital.
The sheriff's department identified the suspects as 36-year-old Michael Cones and 24-year-olds Joe Childs and Brendan Caveness. They were booked for investigation of attempted murder and were being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
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SEIU, Priorities USA Action Launch Radio Ads Against Romney in Florida
The Service Employees International Union and Priorities USA Action are taking aim at GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with a Spanish-language radio ad campaign in Florida, that calls him "two faced" for his outreach to Hispanics while pushing for tough curbs on illegal immigration.
Officials from both groups said Mr. Romney is running Spanish-language ads that frame him as someone concerned about the Hispanic community. But when speaking to broader audiences, Mr. Romney advocates for policies that would harm Hispanics, the officials said in a conference call with reporters. They cited Mr. Romney's remarks at Monday's debate, calling for undocumented immigrants to "self-deport." That would only be achieved by making life "miserable" for Hispanics by depriving their access to jobs and other basic needs, said SEIU's Secretary Treasurer Eliseo Medina. It would also hurt the U.S. economy, and shows Mr. Romney lacks understanding "about the real world," Mr. Medina said.
"For Latinos, immigration is a defining personal issue. How a candidate talks about it tells Latinos who is for them and who is against them," he added.
The radio ads also cite Mr. Romney's criticisms of the DREAM Act, a bill that would grant permanent resident status to undocumented immigrant students who completed some college or military service. The bill failed to pass the Senate in 2010 largely because of Republican opposition.
Stuart Stevens, the chief strategist for Mr. Romney's campaign, called the ad "completely false." "You're now coming down to Florida where you have unions that are attacking him with an ad that's just completely false," he said.
Immigration policy remains a hot-button political issue in the presidential election, and Hispanics are one of the fastest-growing segments of the electorate. Traditionally, Hispanic voters register as Democrats by a ratio of two-to-one, but party affiliation isn't necessarily an indication of how they'll vote. In 2004, George Bush won 56% of the Hispanic vote in Florida, where Latinos have historically supported Republican presidential candidates, according to Pew Research.
In 2008, President Obama carried Florida, the nation's biggest swing state, with just under 51% of the vote. It could be tough to duplicate that this year, with the sluggish economy and high home foreclosures in the state.
Also, some Latinos have taken issue with Mr. Obama's deportation policies. More than one million people have been deported he took office in 2009, and deportations hit a record in the year ended Sept. 30 of 2011. Mr. Obama said last March that his administration had refocused its immigration enforcement on deporting criminals. On Tuesday officials for SEIU and Priorities USA defended Mr. Obama, saying he has a strong record of supporting issues important to Hispanics, and blaming the Republican Congress for blocking an overhaul of immigration laws.
The new ads will air in Tampa and Orlando for several weeks at a combined cost of "six figures," the groups said.


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Bailout is a waste
Published: Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 6:26 p.m.
With the disgraced Detroit three automakers getting $17.4 billion of our taxpayer dollars in loans, thanks to the disastrous George Bush, we should remember the last several billion that we gave the industry and the outcome of it. In the 1990s, the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles worked to make 80-plus-mile-per-gallon cars and allowed for communications amongst scientists between the Big 3 automakers to help speed that process along.
The partnership was a huge success, with three 70-plus-miles-per-gallon prototypes. General Motors had the Precept, a five-seat sedan with ample trunk space, with one version getting 108 miles per gallon equivalent running on hydrogen. Ford had the Prodigy, getting 72 miles per gallon, and Daimler-Chrysler also had a 72-miles-per-gallon vehicle. Taxpayers were proud that their billions were not wasted and expected these vehicles on the market.
But none of the automakers put any of these vehicles into production, or anything similar. Instead, they chose gas-guzzling SUVs, the epitome of stupidity from a climate-change and energy-conservation perspective. Using slick ads to push their behemoth vehicles, the automakers are among the biggest culprits in the fast rise in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
What happened to the efficient vehicles? The failure to incorporate that technology was also a major cause of our economic collapse. With the rise in gas prices this past summer, the values of SUVs plummeted, and for many, their gas guzzlers are now worth less than the loan they have on them.
Why should we give a bailout now, when the automakers are the ones who put themselves into the crisis they are in through their own idiocy? Why dont they dust off these efficient vehicles and put them into production, something both our wallets and our planet could have used a decade ago?
They say those who forget history are bound to repeat it. After the foolish follies of the auto industries, in pushing gas guzzlers on the American public (along with tax breaks that they manipulated through Congress), why should we bail them out?
What we need is massive investment in mass transit and a high-speed passenger rail, a much better way to travel with exponential fuel savings compared to the most efficient vehicles.
Chad Kister
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Steven Pincus
Steven Pincus received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990. At Yale he teaches 17th and 18th century British and European history, the history of the early British Empire, and Directed Studies. In addition to research seminars in History, he regularly co-teaches cross disciplinary seminars with faculty in other departments. Recent topics have included the Divergence of Britain, Comparative Revolutions, and Early Modern Empires in Theory and Practice.
He is the author of Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 and England's Glorious Revolution 1688-89 and most recently 1688:The First Modern Revolution. He has also edited two collections of essays. He has published numerous essays on the economic, cultural, political and intellectual history of early modern Britain, early modern Empires, and the early modern Atlantic. He has also published work on comparative revolutions and state formation.
Pincus is completing a book on the Declaration of Independence due out in 2016 and is simultaneously completing a book on the origins of the British Empire (c. 1650-1784)which offers a new interpretation of the American Revolution and the origins of British India. He is also working with Jim Robinson of Chicago on a book on the Divergence of Britain: the state and the making of the first industrial revolution.
At Yale Steve Pincus is a co-organizer of two regular colloquia: CHESS workshop and a new workshop on Early Modern Empires.
Steve Pincus has supervised doctoral dissertations on a wide range of topics in European, British and Atlantic commercial, political, intellectual, cultural, and imperial history.


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OAKLAND — The Oakland teachers union announced Tuesday that mediation failed to bring about a contract agreement between its bargaining team and the school district administration. Once mediation officially ends, the union will be one step closer to the possibility of a strike — an outcome that was narrowly avoided in 2006.
In a news release, union leaders described the school district's final contract proposal as "unconscionable." District staff members would not comment on the specifics, saying both sides were still in mediation and bound by a confidentiality agreement, but union President Betty Olson-Jones said the district's proposal included no raises or cuts to the salary schedule.
"We understand there's a fiscal crisis, but teachers have got to see something," Olson-Jones said.
The district administration, which must cut at least $27 million from next year's general purpose fund because of ongoing state budget cuts, did take back its earlier proposals to reduce teacher pay by 3 percent and to cut preparation periods for elementary school teachers, Olson-Jones said.
Still, those concessions fell far short of the union's demands. The teachers union has asked for annual, 5 percent salary schedule increases for the next three years and for smaller class sizes at struggling elementary schools. Olson-Jones said she fears the language the district is proposing will lead to larger class sizes. She also said the district wants to eliminate the provision in the last contract that requires a minimum number of adult education teachers.
Once mediation ends, a third-party "fact-finder" produces a report with nonbinding recommendations; if an agreement hasn't been reached by then, the teachers can opt to strike.
District spokesman Troy Flint said the administration was still optimistic that a new contract will be reached without a strike. "I think in the past few months there has been a better shared understanding of the financial crisis we face at the district, state and national levels," Flint said. "I think we can use that understanding as the basis for an agreement."
The union plans to hold a rally at 4:30 p.m. today in front of the district headquarters.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
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But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box (3.15).
Duty is also a part of this "moving box" hemming Henry in and dictating his actions. He is as much a prisoner to his moral obligations as to his fear of sullying his reputation.
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As he perceived this fact it occurred to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered (3.16).
Henry tries to free himself of responsibility for his actions by claiming he never had agency over them to begin with. This is another mark of his immaturity and mental weakness.
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He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part--a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country--was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand (5.13).
Henry acts out of duty and out of the loss of his personal identity. He can't take credit for his actions because they are not entirely his.


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Taylor to Pair With The Black Eyed Peas
New York show part of busy week for superstar.
Taylor Swift will make a special appearance with The Black Eyed Peas at the historic Concert 4 NYC in Central Park on June 9. In addition to Taylor, Natasha Bedingfield, MC Hammer, Debbie Harry, LL Cool J and Carole King will perform to support the Robin Hood Foundation and its mission to fight poverty in New York City. Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Smits and others will make special appearances throughout the evening.
For more information on the concert, ticket availability and how to donate, visit robinhood.org.
The appearance in New York will be part of a busy week for Taylor, who closes out CMA Music Festival on Sunday night (June 12) at LP Field in Nashville. Prior to that Music City performance, she has sold-out shows in Columbus, Ohio, tonight (June 7), Milwaukee (June 8) and Detroit (June 11).
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Jim Crow
Jim Crow Summary & Analysis
A Blackface Scheme
Thomas Rice wanted to be famous. The young actor, nicknamed "Daddy," performed in theaters throughout New York for much of the 1820s, but remained frustrated by his small roles and jealous of his colleagues who enjoyed greater celebrity. Seeking new opportunities in the West, Rice accepted work as a stage carpenter in Louisville, Kentucky, an adjunct performer for an acting troupe in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a freelance prop man for a dilapidated playhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
While in preparation for a stage show in Pittsburgh, Rice concocted a plan to win the notoriety he so desperately desired. He persuaded a black steamboat baggage carrier to accompany him to the theater. During the performance, Rice secretly led the man through a private entrance and into the dressing room backstage. There he commanded the worker to disrobe and proceeded to clothe himself in the man's tattered apparel and his patched shoes. Rice applied black cork all over his face and topped his costume with a matted black wig and a disheveled straw hat. The actor listened for the bell, which signaled the play's intermission, and sauntered onto stage. Before a curious audience he began to dance, exaggerating his movements, limping and shuffling, and belted a distorted version of a song he had heard a slave deliver while in Cincinnati, Ohio:
O, Jim Crow's come to town, as you all must know,
An' he wheel about, he turn about, he do jis' so,
An' ebery time he wheel about he jump Jim Crow.
The Atlantic Monthly reported several years later that the all white audience responded with tremendous enthusiasm: "The effect was electric. Such a thunder of applause as followed was never heard before within the shell of that old theatre.... Next day found the song of Jim Crow, in one style of delivery or another, on everybody's tongue. Clerks hummed it serving customers at shop counters, artisans thundered it at their toils... boys whistled it on the streets, ladies warbled it in parlors, and house-maids repeated it to the clink of crockery in kitchens."24
The parody earned Thomas "Daddy" Rice instant success and took him from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, Boston, and back to New York City, where his Jim Crow routine earned more money for the fashionable, upscale Bowery Theatre than any other performance to date. White audiences indulged in the comedic performance and returned again and again to enjoy the elaborate spectacle. By the mid-1830s, Rice's "Jump Jim Crow" routine became America's first international hit.
The Strange Career of Minstrelsy
After the Civil War, minstrelsy, the slapstick blackface performances popularized by Rice, survived as a beloved form of entertainment. (Even Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, an avid supporter of abolition before the war, enjoyed entertaining dinner guests in the 1870s and 1880s by performing his own Jim Crow impersonations.)25 That such an industry based on stereotypical images of blacks continued to thrive through the turn of the century reveals that white American consumers preferred to imagine African-Americans as jovial, gimpy buffoons rather than accept more sober and truthful representations. By the early 1900s, the still fashionable term "Jim Crow" had evolved from a way for whites to refer to the "comic" and "simple" existence of an entire race of people into a description of the laws that controlled them; the ludicrous portrayal of a crippled black slave came to define the elaborate system of racial segregation in place in the American South since the 1870s.
Why would such a seemingly outdated phenomenon—one born during the height of the domestic slave trade, when the institution spread rapidly westward and few leaders anywhere in the country supported federally mandated abolition—survive decades after the Emancipation Proclamation? The answer, like the moniker "Jim Crow," is intimately connected to the enforcement of racial apartheid in the American South.
The "Splendid Failure" of Radical Reconstruction
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Republicans in Congress ratified the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which prohibited slavery, guaranteed all citizens equal protection under the law, and granted universal male suffrage. What followed was a brief, albeit revolutionary, period of biracial democracy in which African-Americans, many of them former slaves, seized political, educational, and economic opportunities to reconstruct the society within which they lived. Some 2,000 blacks served in nearly every level of government in the South, from the school board to the Senate, even amidst a hostile environment of disenfranchised southern Democrats.
By the late-1870s, however, Radical Reconstruction had come to an end. As the central government withdrew federal troops and re-enfranchised ex-Confederate men, Democrats quickly regained power throughout the South and began to dismantle policies instituted during the prior years. Whites employed violence to remove black southerners from positions of authority, intimidate black voters, and purge black families from coveted land. As northern leaders looked on, southern lawmakers, business-owners, employers, landlords, educators, religious leaders, and politicians cooperated to resurrect the sort of racial hierarchy in place during the antebellum years.
Jim Crow: The New "Peculiar Institution"
Even as the radical era came to an end, however, black citizens continued to vie for greater freedom, still boldly challenging centuries of anti-black traditions. Those most likely to violate white southern customs were the children and grandchildren of former slaves, the newest generation since the war and the first to have no recollection of slavery and its horrors. Whites spoke disparagingly of these "new negroes," those who seemed less respectful, less faithful, less moral, and less carefree than their ancestors. "They don't sing as they used to," one white woman from Atlanta told a northern visitor. "Every year, it seems to me, they have been losing more and more of their carefree good humor. I sometimes feel that I don't know them any more... they have grown so glum and serious that I'm free to say I'm scared of them!"26
The growing population of "new negroes," many of them more educated and less fearful of white authority than their predecessors, posed a significant threat to white domination in the South. In response, white southerners devised a plan to quarantine and control them. From the late 1870s to the 1960s, every state in the South, along with several states outside of the former Confederacy, including Indiana, Maryland, Kansas, Oregon, and California, passed laws to prohibit the mixing of races in just about every foreseeable circumstance. Taking cues from northern segregation policies enacted prior to the Civil War, southern legislators dictated where black citizens would eat, drink, sit, swim, walk, work, play, learn, live, be hospitalized, and be buried. Laws mandated separate seating areas for blacks on public transport, in sports stadiums, in restaurants, and in playhouses and movie theaters. City and state officials established whites-only lavatories, drinking fountains, waiting rooms, prison cells, ticket counters, and telephone booths. Furthermore, some laws did more than simply separate the races; black southerners were prohibited from accessing certain facilities altogether, such as public swimming pools, tennis courts, and roller skating rinks. And housing codes forbade black families from renting, purchasing, or building homes except in neighborhoods designated for them.
Some statutes even required items touched by or pertaining to black citizens to be isolated from those used by whites. In some instances, courtrooms maintained two Bibles—one for black witnesses and one for whites. A West Virginia law passed in 1890 required black birth, marriage, and death records to be stored separately from those of whites. Similarly, Florida legislators in 1939 ordered schoolbooks used by black students to be shelved separately from those used by whites; several school districts across the South prohibited the exchange of schoolbooks between white and black schools.
Enforcing White Supremacy
Black schools in Jim Crow societies often had few textbooks for students in the first place. Democratic-controlled local governments and white school board leaders refused resources to black educational institutions, so teachers instructing black pupils usually did so without adequate facilities or proper supplies. Such a system disadvantaged black children and ultimately served to enforce white supremacist theories that blacks were intellectually inferior.
Southern Democratic governments sought not only to limit black academic pursuits, but also to curb political participation. Radical Reconstruction had taught whites that the black vote was intimately linked to that population's quest for equal rights. Thus, it had to be suppressed. Although the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution prohibited the use of race to bar anyone from voting, southern legislators found loopholes; they enforced a series of requirements, including poll taxes, property qualifications, and literacy tests, that appeared color-blind, but actually worked to prevent blacks—who in the South were disproportionately poor and illiterate—from voting. (Though thousands of poor and illiterate whites also lost their right to vote under these rules, officials often allowed them to skip voting tests altogether.)
African-Americans continued to cast ballots in large numbers in many southern counties until the 1890s, and some even continued to hold office, with a few maintaining seats in Congress until the turn of the century. But as the years passed, with tougher voting requirements and increasingly violent harassment at the polls, black southerners found it more and more difficult to participate in the political process. Ultimately, white authority all but eliminated black suffrage in the South, so much so that by 1940, less that 5% of eligible black southerners were registered at the polls.
Sex and Race
The most common kind of Jim Crow legislation, however, applied to sex, or, as the text of an Ohio law passed in 1877 read, "illicit carnal intercourse" between a person of "pure white blood" and anyone with "a distinct and visible admixture of African blood."27 Throughout the Jim Crow era, at least twenty-seven states, including California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, and Wyoming, enforced stringent anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting interracial marriage, intercourse, and cohabitation. No other Jim Crow code or law extended so widely beyond the borders of the American South. Race-based legal restrictions pertaining to marriage were one of the first proposed in the post-Radical Reconstruction era and the last to go. (The Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation statues unconstitutional in the 1967 case Loving v. Virginia, three years after the Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation and two years after the Voting Rights Act banned discriminatory requirements for voter registration.)
Jim Crow Justice
Black southerners were forced to comply not simply with state policies and city codes, but with unwritten "negro laws," as well. These implicit boundaries, unspoken social codes and customs underwrote all official legislation and served to reinforce racial hierarchies. For instance, one wrong move, look, word, or reaction could result in imprisonment, the loss of a job, or a fate far worse.
In a society in which whites used intimidation, harassment, and violence to contain and control blacks, normally positive individual attributes like confidence, intelligence, and achievement could be suicidal. Southern black families that achieved even modest economic success, black men and women who attempted to vote, and those who failed to act in a servile manner in the presence of whites were subject to punishment at the hands of white mobs. These vigilante groups, which included religious men, family men, and all sorts of citizens from various classes and occupations, were responsible for some of the most appalling crimes ever recorded in the United States—terrorism, arson, torture, dismemberment, sadism, and slaughter. Scholars have been unable to agree on the true number of people murdered during the Jim Crow years, but well over 4,000 black deaths have been documented. Even an accurate tally of deaths cannot adequately explain just how treacherous a world this was for black southerners and, fundamentally, all those—including white citizens defiant of segregation laws—who threatened white supremacy in the South. (It must be noted that not all lynching murders occurred in the South. In fact, some 10 to 15% of these cases occurred elsewhere, in places such as Marion, Indiana, Maryville, Missouri, and Salisbury, Maryland.)28
Resistance and Accommodation
In the decades following Radical Reconstruction, black southerners were thoroughly excluded from the same society that had, for two centuries, depended entirely upon their inclusion. Theories of white supremacy and stringent patterns of racial etiquette underpinned all economic, legal, political, and social institutions. Through a system of racial segregation, psychological subjugation, and anti-black violence, the white South sought to reclaim the power it had lost after the Civil War; in many ways, it succeeded.
And yet black Americans never found themselves entirely powerless, reduced to the status of mere victims of an oppressive system. The history of Jim Crow is a story of white power, but it's also a story of black survival and resilience. Many of the ways in which African-American men and women responded to the Jim Crow system cannot be described as explicitly rebellious. In fact, most of the choices that black southerners made each day resembled a sort of resignation. In light of what we've learned about the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power struggles that followed, it may be difficult to comprehend the fact that most black southerners, prior to the 1950s, chose to yield to the obstacles that prevented them from exercising their rights. These men and women hoped to live their lives to the fullest within the confines of the Jim Crow system; they followed the rules because their day-to-day experiences taught them that any attempts to challenge centuries of anti-black traditions were futile, if not fatal. In particular, the older generation—those who had been born into slavery—recognized the fatal consequences that could come from asking questions, pursuing higher education, or seeking economic advancement.
Yet, even through acts of accommodation, many tested the limits of segregation and discovered ways to undermine the system without appearing to do so. Stripped of political power and civil rights and faced each day with the threat of violence, many chose to carefully navigate through the complex maze of rules and restrictions in order to ensure a future for themselves and their families. Booker T. Washington, a former slave who became a spokesperson for black vocational learning, vowed to be their guide; through encouraging self-help and accommodation, Washington hoped to protect his people and aid them in earning educational opportunities, better jobs, and, ultimately, economic independence. Black citizens, he preached, must not fight disenfranchisement and segregation but must instead focus on proving themselves worthy of the vote and social equality. "[T]he whole future of the Negro," Washington professed in his autobiography, "rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character."29 His many black supporters trusted that this plan for peaceful cohabitation with whites and gradual economic advancement would help chip away—however slowly—at an elaborate system of oppression.
The Game That Can't Be Won
Not all African-Americans accepted the plan for survival and advancement touted by leaders such as Washington. The younger generation of black southerners, many of them more educated and less fearful of white authority, rejected accommodation, even as a strategy to earn new rights. They were far more cynical than their predecessors for they believed that by playing by white rules, blacks would forever lose. Success could not be attained, they resolved, without provoking white resentment and inviting retaliation. The intimidation, harassment, terrorism, and violence they endured betrayed any expectations for meaningful change and convinced them that the "American Dream" did not apply to them.
The Risk of Revolution
Why, then, didn't black southerners in the Jim Crow South retaliate against their white oppressors? Why didn't they stage a mass revolution? Why didn't whole communities take up arms against those who after Radical Reconstruction had employed violence to strip them of positions of authority, the vote, and their land? Why didn't they implement their own equally effective brand of violence to demand justice and punish the white mobs that terrorized their communities?
Some did. These acts, however, were all too often sporadic and unorganized, and they resulted, without exception, in greater white violence. In fact, the odds were stacked against armed defense and rebellion of any kind. Throughout the Jim Crow era, anti-black violence underpinned each economic, legal, political, and social institution in the South. White lawmakers, business-owners, employers, landlords, educators, religious leaders, and politicians worked in concert to ensure white supremacy by any means necessary. Black men and women who demonstrated too much aspiration, confidence, or success lost their jobs, their homes, their farms, their freedom, or their lives. Individual attempts to prevent such crimes were in vain. Furthermore, from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s, the federal government and the rest of the country remained indifferent to these injustices and, in some cases, condoned them. Thus, any attempt at organized armed rebellion would have led to a race war that black southerners were certain to have lost.
Living within a highly organized system of white power that seemed as impenetrable as it was treacherous, African-Americans—black leaders as well as average men and women—resisted, rationalized, undermined, accommodated to, migrated from, and tested the limits of a system created to control every aspect of their lives.
The Ghost of Jim Crow
The Jim Crow era lasted for nearly a century, largely because the federal government and the majority of non-black Americans ignored or condoned this apartheid and the barbarism associated with it. Jim Crow institutions officially fell in the 1950s and 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement effectively destroyed many of the legal, political, and social structures that hindered African-American progress for so long. The damage inflicted from this dark century could not be (and was not) thoroughly resolved by a decade of peaceful protests or by the violent riots and black separatist movements that followed. Some would argue, in fact, that although the term "Jim Crow" and the black caricatures first associated with the phrase refer today to a bygone era in American history, echoes of this troubling time continue to haunt the nation.


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Marinated Grilled Chicken -- Village
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon fresh oregano or 1/4 teaspoon dried
- 2 whole chickens, quartered
Make marinade by combining lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and oregano. Place chicken in a dish with tall sides and pour marinade over chicken. Use spoon to baste chicken with marinade. Refrigerate for 2 to 24 hours--a longer marinade time will produce a more intense flavor. Remove from refrigerator and use a flat-sided utensil to gently scrape off any marinade solids. Grill chicken over high heat for a total of 20 minutes, turning over after first 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
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Green Bean Recipes
BLT SaladPut those ripe summer tomatoes to good use! Think of this as a deconstructed BLT salad with some corn and fresh green beans thrown in for good measure.
Creamy Green Beans and MushroomsGreen beans, lightly boiled, then tossed with sautéed mushrooms and onions, held together with sour cream sauce.
French Green Beans with Butter and HerbsFresh haricot verts, skinny green beans boiled, drained, then sautéed in butter with onions, tarragon, thyme, parsley, and chives.
Green Bean Salad with Basil, Balsamic, and ParmesanFresh green beans, blanched and toss with a balsamic vinaigrette, red onions, basil, and Parmesan.
Green Beans with Almonds and ThymeRecipe for green beans, boiled first, then sauteed in butter with thyme and toasted almonds.
Green Beans with BaconLightly blanched fresh green beans sautéed in bacon fat and served with a little bacon, black pepper and either vinegar or lemon juice.
Green Beans with SalsaAn easy to prepare green beans recipe with tomato and chile salsa. A Latin twist on the classical haricots a la provencale recipe.
Green Beans with Shallots and PancettaQuick and delicious green beans recipe with fresh green beans, shallots, and pancetta.
Green Beans with Tomatoes and BaconPioneer Woman's slow cooked fresh green beans with tomatoes, bacon, and onions. A great Thanksgiving side!
Mexican Green Bean SaladMexican green bean salad with fresh green beans, cilantro, jalapeno, red onion, cotija cheese, avocado, tomato, olive oil and lime juice.
Mexican Three Bean SaladClassic three bean salad with a Southwestern twist! Pinto beans, black beans, and green beans, with onions, jalapenos, Cotija cheese, cilantro with a sweet lime dressing.
One-Pan Roasted Harissa Salmon with VegetablesWhen I'm looking for a few oohs and ahs at the dinner table, but don't want to fuss or wash a bunch of dishes, I turn to this simple one-pan roasted salmon.
Roasted Green Beans with Onions and WalnutsOven roasted green beans, drizzled and cooked with balsamic vinegar, honey, thyme, and garlic.
Sichuan Style Stir-Fried Chinese Long BeansLong and crunchy Chinese green beans, quickly stir-fried Sichuan style with red chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, and sesame oil.
Sriracha Orange Glazed Green BeansQuick and easy! Green beans boiled and tossed with spicy orange marmalade sauce to glaze
Stir Fried Green Beans with Ginger and OnionsGreen beans stir fried with ginger, onions, garlic and a little soy sauce.
Warm Green Bean and Pancetta SaladWarm green bean salad with pancetta, tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese.
Wax Beans with MintSimple wax beans recipe with wax, or yellow green beans, chopped mint, olive oil, and salt. Delicious combination of mint with the beans.


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To American International Group Inc., commonly known as AIG, for even thinking about joining a lawsuit against the U.S. government that alleges the terms of the bailout it received in 2008 ultimately hurt shareholders. The lawsuit was filed by Starr International Co. The head of the company, Hank Greenberg, is the former chief executive of AIG. Greenberg wants $25 billion in damages for AIG shareholders, claiming the interest charged on the bailout loans was too high. The outcry was swift and vast. That had AIG's board running for cover and ultimately deciding it would not join the litigation. How the thought of joining the lawsuit had any life at all is baffling.
To a New York State Bridge Authority board member for suggesting a fee be charged to walk across and enjoy the 1.25-mile-long Walkway Over the Hudson Bridge. While the proposal was quickly struck down, board member Rod Dressel proposed the fee to help cover maintenance costs, which the authority, under state law, is required to fund. The mere suggestion that the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation collect the fee is flawed and shortsighted. While maintenance of the 121-year-old bridge is an underfunded financial strain, there is no denying the enormous economic gains the bridge brings to the region's tourism industry. The fee suggestion was unsupported and off-the-cuff.
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The Hornell Board of Public Works on Thursday appointed Ashley Weakland as a city engineering aide.
Weakland is a 2006 graduate of Canisteo-Greenwood Central School. A holder of two architecture degrees, she is also a graduate of the University of Michigan and the State University of New York at Morrisville.
A complete story will appear in the Sunday Spectator.
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…Zuccotti?
Can Occupy Wall Street be a revolutionary movement? For its own sake, I hope not.
Contemporary culture has a habit of playing fast and loose with the term "revolution," happy to attribute it to events which are at most the crumbling of an unpopular dictatorship in the face of protest. Real "world-historical" revolutions, to use a time-honored phrase, are rare. That's a good thing, because they are also, in their grandeur, terrible.
Such revolutions happen because an entire political and social order has become unsustainable – something that the Occupy Wall Street movement certainly believes. But, critically, that situation must lead to a complete systemic collapse before revolution can triumph. Otherwise, like Europe's "Springtime of Peoples" in 1848, or Germany in 1918, any uprising will be a damp squib, and the old order will have its revenge. The French Revolution succeeded in being epoch-making because the state it seemed to overthrow was already disintegrating under the weight of its own problems. The Bastille could be stormed on 14 July 1789 because its loyal garrison-commander was almost isolated in the capital: most of the royal troops in Paris refused to march, or had already joined the local authorities in rebellion.
The United States government, or indeed that of New York City, is nowhere near that situation. For that everyone should be glad, if the alternative is revolution. Glorious outcomes do sometimes emerge from revolutionary trauma, but at the expense of years of strife, tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths, often military dictatorship (Cromwell, Napoleon), and the unleashing of unexpected consequences that bring drastic shifts away from the original revolutionaries' hopes. Even the joyous collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989, the closest thing we have seen to a "peaceful revolution," opened the way to the hideous violence that subsequently wracked Yugoslavia throughout the 1990s.
The French Revolution also offers a more specific cautionary note to the current protesters, and their claim to be 'the 99%'. In the liberating moment of 1789, it was easy for Parisians, and enthusiastic revolutionaries in general, to assume that they, too, were "the people," and could successfully represent the overwhelming majority against the corrupt elite. What they discovered soon after was that a solid portion of the actual people of France stood entirely against the ideals they professed. Particularly in the matter of religion and its role in the state, revolutionaries found themselves in a civil war with a large part of their nation, a war that cost up to half a million casualties. It is an enormous leap from where we are now to that kind of confrontation, but when you start imagining revolutions, that is what you are talking about.
Nonetheless, the events of 1789 also contain a warning for "the 1%." France in the eighteenth century had a 1% that saw itself as the leaders and potential saviors of the nation. Most of them acknowledged the serious fiscal straits of the state, and many had been active, in some cases for decades, in advocating structural reform. Others of the same elite had been involved in blocking royal efforts at reform, but their argument often hinged on a principle of resistance to tyranny, and an adherence to constitutionality, that made sense in their time, and might have clear echoes now.
One thing agreed by almost everyone in that 1% was that they represented the nation's best hope for escaping crisis, if only the king would offer them more power and more freedom to modernize as they saw fit – while retaining and enhancing their leading place in state and society. The drive of the 1% to force change in government that suited their purposes helped make France ungovernable, and actively promoted the desperate last-ditch efforts to impose reform that collapsed into direct confrontation, and revolution.
That 1% was of course the nobility, and it only takes a glance at the most abiding clichés of the French Revolution to know what awaited many of them when their gridlocked leadership failed to offer the people a way out: overthrow, exile, or the guillotine. Just because a revolutionary collapse is highly undesirable, and highly unlikely, doesn't mean that it cannot happen, given sufficiently inept elites.
David Andress is a professor of modern history and an associate dean at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. He is the author of "1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).


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Police say 14-year-old took SUV for joyride
A 14-year-old took the family's 2004 Escalade for a joyride this morning before it landed in a creek north of Interstate 635 in Irving, police said.
Irving police spokesman David Tull said the incident occurred about 2 a.m. in the 10400 block of North MacArthur Boulevard just south of Coppell and west of Carrollton. The teen hit a puddle, lost control and overcorrected before leaving the roadway and landing in the water, Tull said. Tull said he did not know how far the teen had driven before the crash or how badly the vehicle was damaged.
KDFW-TV reported that officers arriving at the scene removed their gunbelts and dove into the water, fearing someone was trapped inside. Authorities later found a teen soaking wet and walking on the road in Coppell.
Tull said when officers interviewed the teen, he changed his story a couple of times. Tull said he could not confirm a media report that the teen at one point claimed he had been kidnapped. "Indications are, he had taken the vehicle without permission," Tull said. It was unclear whether the teen, who was not injured, would face any criminal charges.


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A Strenuously Balanced View on Climate Science
Richard Littlemore | January 17, 2006
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In a fact-bashing roundup, one of Australia's biggest newspapers has embarrassed itself in delighted support of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate conference held there last week.The Australian announced in this Editorial that climate change isn't proven; and that, if it is proven, it's too expensive to address by seeking an agreeable global mandate.
Ross Gelbspan | January 13, 2006
By Ross Gelbspan • Friday, January 13, 2006 - 11:55
Watch the skeptics hop all over this one!
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany recently published findings indicating that plants are responsible for between 10 and 30 percent of the methane found in the atmosphere.
Methane is a major greenhouse gas. Far more powerful than carbon dioxide, it traps in more heat per molecule. The good news is that methane generally settles out within a matter of months - while CO2 stays up in the atmosphere for about 100 years.
John Lefebvre | January 13, 2006
By John Lefebvre • Friday, January 13, 2006 - 11:05
We at www.desmogblog.com have, perhaps, been a bit careless in villifying "the energy industry" and its role in sowing confusion in the debate over climate change.
In truth, the industry is anything but unanimous in its views on this matter. And far from deserving to be tarred with a stinky brush, good performers like BP Global, Royal Dutch Shell and, in Canada, Suncor, should get some credit.
Ross Gelbspan | January 12, 2006
By Ross Gelbspan • Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 10:11
J. Alan Pounds and 13 co-authors recently published a piece in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Nature, which concluded that global warming has likely caused the extinction of nearly 70 per cent of amphibian species in a mountainous region area of Central and South America. Pounds, an eminently respected researcher, heads up a conservation biology laboratory in Costa Rica.
His team concluded that the spread of the fungus that killed the frogs was due to global warming. Their conclusion is based on their finding that patterns of fungus outbreaks and extinctions in widely dispersed patches of habitat were synchronized in a way that could not be explained by chance or by local variations in weather conditions.
Richard Littlemore | January 11, 2006
By Richard Littlemore • Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 09:14
Credit first to Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail, who in a Vancouver weather story on Jan. 10, 2006 offered this "old joke."
A newcomer to Vancouver arrives and it's raining. He gets up the next day and it's still raining. It rains the day after that and the day after that. He goes for lunch five days later and it's still pouring. He sees a young boy walking down the street, and he says, "Does it every stop raining here?"
Richard Littlemore | January 10, 2006
By Richard Littlemore • Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 11:09
The Salem Oregon Statesman Journal ran an opinion piece today that declared, conclusively: "Global-Warming Fears Pointless."
The article was a prescription for inaction, a recommendation that we should all throw our hands up in despair over our inability to understand or affect climate change.
It was also irresponsible journalism of the worst sort.
James Hoggan | January 10, 2006
By James Hoggan • Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 06:54
Google Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and you will find a host of stories lauding a new international group nominally dedicated to reducing climate change by developing new technology.
Great, you say.
But, if you read very far into the material, you will find an international industrial spin project - a blatant effort to distract the public from the Kyoto process and to justify huge increases in the production and consumption of fossil fuels, especially coal.
James Hoggan | January 8, 2006
By James Hoggan • Sunday, January 8, 2006 - 20:18
The New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, whose three-part series was the smartest and scariest thing written about climate change in 2005, has started 2006 with another installment, an article entitled "Butterfly Lessons" (which, woefully, the magazine has failed to make available online).
Kolbert follows a trail of butterflies, mosquitoes and frogs to show how much our climate has changed already and how dramatic the coming change may yet be. Her writing style is brisk and informative, devoid of hysterical language but filled with anxiety inducing facts. She also allows herself the odd twist, just to keep you alert (and entertained).


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Got the "head" portion done, now it's time to go around the opening and pick up stitches to make the ribbing around the face.
Since I'll be working with unattached yarn, what is the best method to make sure the new stitches will not come unraveled? I've been watching the "picking up stitches" video, and get the idea, but the video is using yarn that's already worked into the project. Do I just find a place and tie a knot and then start picking up stitches from there? The way the pattern reads, there is not even any yarn from the previous knitting to try and weave it together with.
Thanks for any advice! (And, if anyone else has done the citizenSAM helmet liner pattern, can you tell me when you switched to the double pointed needles? This just said "when necessary....and I need details! Because by the time I figure it's necessary, I ended up with oddball numbers on each needle, and ended up with a loose stitch that I managed to work in somehow. ugh)
1. Picking up stitches. When I need to pick up stitches in this type of circumstance, I begin the first stitch by leaving a long tail - at least 4 inches - so I can weave it in using duplicate stitches. This will make a stretchy, almost invisible securing of the yarn without knots. Just pull a loop through where you want to start leaving the long tail and continue picking up the stitches. When you get back to that first stitch, knit or purl as needed but be sure to tighten the tension on that loose stitch as you turn your work so it doesn't separate too much. Once you have completed the area you are working, then thread that long tail thru a needle and duplicate weave the ends into the knitted fabric.
2. You need to change to the double pointed needles when you have tight tension on the circular needles. You don't want your stitches to have to stretch around the circular needles. As you knit and decrease you will have to manipulate the remaining stitches on the DPNs so that you have the ones you need to knit together on the same needle. I do this by simply slipping the 'missing' stitch from one needle to the next so I can knit 2 together from the same needle. You will often be working with a different number of stitches on each DPN so don't let that worry you. When I get down to the next to last row, I make sure that I am ending so that I have a free needle to knit the last round onto. That will make it easier to finish the round smoothly.
Please contact me if you have more questions. I'll try to answer as soon as I can but I'll be off-line most of the next couple of days as DH is in hospital again - surgery tomorrow which hopefully will stop all the bowel obstructions.
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About Mundo Churrasco
The Bardon restaurant modern interior features warm deep red walls, with wrought iron panel detailing thru-out - making for a warm and inviting atmosphere and an option of indoor or covered in outdoor dining
The Bar is a feature of its own, made of recycled timber with a red granite top reminding the charcoal pit.
Very disappointing, terrible service and bland food.
We attended for lunch on Sunday 8th January without a reservation. The cashier/door hostess was abrupt and gave the impression that they were booked out. After much mutterings and further curtness she decided we would be allowed to stay. an honour and privilege well above what we deserved. She never explained what the procedures were, set prices etc. Set us down and walked off. She gave the impression that she had better things to do. First impressions indeed!
The general staff were polite but unfriendly with exception of an older female, possibly the maître d'. The food was ordinary - chicken was flavourless, the three meats were bland and surprisingly not as tender as might be expected. The desert taster was fantastic. Overall it we found it to be unfriendly and overpriced at $108 for a 2 person Sunday lunch with one drink each. We will never return.
It's hard to really be constructive when describing our recent experience at Mundo Churrasco, but I'll do my best. So any good points? Yes, I suppose the staff were friendly and we got the food quickly. They also had a good selection of beer and wine. Why the low score? Well to be perfectly honest our food was terrible. And I don't mean in a disgruntled customer that's really picky and is never satisfied kind of way, but rather it's the sort of food you'd be disappointed to get from a catering van at a function that you were dragged along to by someone you didn't even like!
The menu choices were one - the Churrasco meat buffet. Firstly you get all of your sides in tiny bowls which were chips, potato salad, rice, and some other similarly bland and cheap offerings. Then when you've poked at them for a minute and sighed the waiters start coming around and offering various meats, each drier and more inedible than the last. I'm sure I can still taste the half pork, half beef sausage long after the meal. I've had bad meals before, but the main complaint here is the price... Put simply for $34 every other restaurant around (and I've been to many of them!) beats Mundo hands down, every time. Apparently no one's ever complained before, I seriously doubt it. But who knows, maybe we just caught them on a bad night.
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