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Private is an engrossing book series by Kate Brian that chronicles the rise of an ambitious teenager named Reed Brennan. However, as Reed becomes a member of her new school's elite yet disparate popular group the Billings Girls, issues involving mystery, romance and morality arise.
Private Series
Reed Brennan, the ultimate outsider, arrives at Easton Academy on scholarship and quickly realizes that the Billings House Girls are her ticket to everything the exclusive private school has to offer. Life is a parade of cute boys, designer clothes, and unparalleled privilege in Billings...but beneath the surface lies a dark underbelly of secrets and murder.
The Billings House elite have Reed on speed dial, but she can't decide if they love her or secretly hate her. Everything seems to hinge on getting an invite to The Legacy, an exclusive party that all of Easton Academy is buzzing about. The other hopefuls just want to see and be seen, but The Legacy means everything to Reed.
Reed, it seems, has earned an all-access pass to privilege. She's accepted by the right girls, wanted by the right guys, and her elite status guarantees her name is on the guest list of every not-to-be-missed party in town. One list Reed never expects to make is a list of suspects in a campus murder . . .
The police have arrested an alleged campus killer, but in Reed's mind, the case is anything but closed. She's convinced the police have locked up an innocent victim and the real killer is still at large. Reed has to retrace the murderer's steps all the way back to the truth . . . even if it leads her surprisingly close to home.
It's the end of an era for the Billings House girls. Reed returns to Easton to find that last year's alphas have been replaced by a new crop of kinder, gentler drama queens. The headmaster insists there will be no more hazing, but the Billings Girls make their own rules, and some of them have no intention of playing nice.
From campus new girl to the best of Billings House—Reed has the potential to be the most powerful girl at Easton. Of course, having everything she ever wanted means she has everything to lose. All eyes are on Reed to see if Billings' history will repeat itself—after all, every Billings House leader before her met a tragic end.
Reed plans a fundraiser in NYC to save Billings House. Everyone's buzzing about the event, and Reed's never felt so popular or powerful . . . until questions surface about the recent death of one of Reed's fellow Billings Girls. As party excitement fades to scared whispers, one thing becomes clear: Someone will do anything to see Billings—and Reed—go down.
Easton Academy is rocked by its second murder. No one knows who the killer is, but everyone agrees that Reed, who was recently named Billings' president, gained the most from the victim's death. To clear her name, Reed must uncover her fallen classmate's secret. And, as any true Billings Girl knows, secrets can kill.
Reed leaves the drama of Easton behind for an exclusive island getaway, where she'll reunite with former Billings Girls Kiran and Taylor. They'll spend their days tanning on white-sand beaches and their nights partying on sixty-foot yachts, but even in paradise, trouble is destined to find them.
Far from Easton Academy, on the island of St. Barths, Reed loves her ocean view, her circle of friends…and Upton _______. It's a shame one of Upton's exes will do whatever it takes to get Reed out if the picture…
Reed returns to Easton to find that Billings House has been destroyed. Noelle wants to walk away, but Reed refuses to back down. It's up to her to determine the fate of the Billings Girls, and she won't stop until they're stronger than ever.
Against all odds, Reed re-established Billings as a glamorous undeground literary society. Then something horrible happened: Noelle disappeared. Now Reed fears that unless she finds Noelle soon, she'll lose her friend forever. . . .
Reed and Noelle now know a shocking secret about the original Billings Girls . . . and each other. But the truth about their past can't save them from the tragedy that befalls Easton next. All the signs indicate that Reed and her friends are cursed, and some of them won't survive it.
After the shocking revelation that Reed and Noelle are descended from witches, and the harrowing ordeal at Reed's birthday party that followed, the Billings Girls are faced with their final test: getting out of Easton alive.
Ariana Osgood was supposed to spend Last Christmas with her boyfriend, but she got snowed in with bad-boy Thomas Pearson. Read Last Christmas, the PRIVATE prequel, and find out what happened next. It will change everything you thought you knew about PRIVATE.
This prequel goes back to when it all began with a dusty leather-bound spell book. With the book of spells in hand, the Billings Girls possess enough power to form a secret coven. Bonded in sisterhood, they wield their magic to free themselves from the watchful eyes of their headmistress—and to bolster their courage with the boys of Easton Academy. But what starts out as innocent fun, soon turns sinister. From 1915 to 2010, fun always leads to something sinister when it involves the Billings Girls.


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See it in a New Light with Edge Lighting. We start with a basic lighting problem and solve it from a technical stand point while incorporating the essential elements of contemporary yet timeless design. We develop and manufacture specification grade, energy efficient fixtures that exhibit superior craftsmanship and aesthetics, while utilizing the latest in engineering technologies. The simple yet elegant collection is perfect for a variety of indoor and outdoor applications in both residential and commercial settings.Made in the USA.
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Love it, I finally found a light that allows me to read at night and lets my lovely wife sleep. Great control on the beam spread cool to touch LED and a hi low switch. Saved my marriage
On Aug 20, 2013 by Juan C. from Chicago, Illinois (Customer)
not what I had hoped. I think I will return for a nightowl 3, as recommended by customer service.
Great Light!
On Jul 19, 2012 by Kurt from CO (Customer)
After I ordered the Nightowl I was worried that it wasn't going to be bright enough because it reminded me of those LED book lights with flexible necks. I had second thoughts and also worried that the beam would be too narrow to be of real use for reading. I've had that experience with LED flashlights before. Anyway, it arrived in perfect shape, the installation was easy, and I disvocered that I needn't have worried at all. Works great, and I even use it on the lowest setting. Even though it was easy to install, I'm giving it 4 stars because the instructions were terrible. I was able to figure it out quite easily, but they might be pretty confusing to some people.
Well constructed, pleasing light
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Took a bit of a gamble given the price of this light and not seeing it in the flesh. In retrospect, very pleased with the purchase. Well built with quality materials. 3-way toggle on-off is dainty but solid with a nice tactile click between settings (on low, off, on bright). Light quality is also pleasant, not incandescent-warm but not far off and nothing near the cold-white or full-spectrum-white that are the most common complaint about LED-based lights. Also light is diffused by a frosted flat lens. Neck is also high-quality and should stand up to years of adjustment. Have to agree with other opinions that instructions are limited, but if you take your time to look over and study the mounting plate it should not be more than half an hour to install the light.
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Great lamp, low power, excellent quality. it wont disturb your bed-fellow. The only thing that kept it from five stars was the price.

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Demand for security is on the rise, as computing devices become increasingly mobile and connected. According to Technology Business Research, expects Intel to quickly move to embed McAfee technology into all of its device platforms, providing a stronger baseline of security.
The addition of McAfee will differentiate Intel's platforms from competitive offerings by Advanced Micro Devices as well as ARM. Going forward, Intel wants IT managers and consumers to associate McAfee, security and Intel. TBR believes Intel ultimately views its planned acquisition of McAfee as a means of continuing growth by adding hardware-based security to its numerous platforms for PCs, embedded devices and, increasingly, mobile devices. Through the acquisition Intel will position security as the "third pillar" of its device platforms, following energy efficient performance and Internet connectivity.
Intel's acquisition of McAfee will also change the landscape for security software. While dwarfed by market leader Symantec, McAfee enjoyed the differentiation provided by being the largest pure-play security vendor. Whereas Symantec worked to balance both security and systems management, McAfee's sole focus was on improving and expanding its presence in the security space. After riding its pure-play status and frequent acquisitions to close the gap in security, McAfee now joins Symantec in providing security as part of a much broader product set. McAfee will hand the title of largest pure-play security vendor to Trend Micro in return for the multiple benefits of joining a much larger organization, including revenue stability, the ability to increase cross-selling, product integration and access to greater financial resources. McAfee will continue to sell and support its current product lineup under Intel.
More recently, Intel has begun internally leveraging software to augment its platforms, following the belief that today's platforms require both software and hardware. To that end, Intel has made software a vital piece of its efforts to win in the tablet and handheld devices space. The company has partnered with Nokia to spur development of the MeeGo operating system and created the Intel AppUP application store.
According to TBR, Intel's immediate goals are to better protect device users in tasks such as social networking, e-commerce and online productivity. TBR believes Intel and McAfee are likely to benefit significantly from rising demand for embedded mobile security that has a minimal impact on device performance; however, TBR believes Intel will continue to focus on selling silicon. Therefore, the chipmaker hopes the integration
TBR believes that the rise of sensitive computing tasks performed on mobile devices will cause demand for security to continue to grow. Although Intel's acquisition of McAfee may not have an immediate impact on the PC market, we expect the tie-up to change the dynamic of hardware-software partnerships.
TBR claims the agreement with McAfee will pave the way for additional embedded software agreements, creating a new distribution channel with powerful influence over the ultimate success or failure of software makers, based on their ability to partner with vendors like EMC, IBM and HP, which use hardware platforms as vehicles for software sales.
However, the developments will not fully take effect until approximately 2012, when Intel begins integrating McAfee directly into its hardware. The companies have been working together for 18 months and will release joint products in 2011; however, TBR does not expect the first fully-embedded security platforms to arrive until 2012.


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Deep breath. Banner could not have planned this better.
Ditch TR and grab a first
Tank! Tank!
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The NAND flash memory market is expected to achieve healthy 8% growth this year because of major sales drivers, including solid-state-drive (SSD) equipped ultrabooks, according to an IHS iSuppli report.
Global NAND flash revenue this year is projected to reach $22.9 billion, up from $21.2 billion in 2011. With NAND flash consumption increasing in the three principal markets for smartphones, tablets and SSDs in ultrabooks, NAND revenue will climb continually during the next few years, hitting approximately $30.9 billion by 2016, according to the market research firm.
Underperformance of Tablets Hurts NAND Flash Market, But Continues to Drive It
The NAND industry finished 2011 somewhat below industry expectations, mainly because consumers did not embrace tablets as enthusiastically during the fourth quarter as initially expected. While the Apple iPad is a major achievement, the same level of success has not been shared by other manufacturers' tablets.
"Given the lukewarm performance of the tablet segment last year, there was some trepidation coming into 2012 for the NAND industry. But even though most NAND manufacturers had planned to be on the fast track in 2012 to increase production at newly built fabs, each supplier has since reduced capital spending compared to its original plans, electing to moderate supply expansions to allow demand to catch up. Such a strategy will avoid a precipitous price decline that the industry won't be able to withstand, leading to more optimism for a stronger 2012," said Michael Yang, senior principal analyst for memory & storage at IHS.
The greatest success besides the iPad has been achieved by lower-end tablets such as the Kindle Fire from Amazon. However, the Fire comes with only 8GB of NAND flash, compared to the iPad's maximum 64GB of storage. This is resulting in overall lower consumption of NAND flash than if competitive tablets had similar NAND densities to the iPad. Even so, tablets will be responsible for 12% of NAND flash bit shipments this year, with NAND flash consumption in tablets reaching 3.6 billion gigabytes, up from 1.6 gigabytes in 2011.
On its own, Apple will consume about 25% of the overall NAND supply in 2012, equivalent to some 8 billion gigabytes. The iPad will be responsible for 74% of NAND consumption in the tablet segment this year, accounting for 2.8 billion gigabytes out of a total 3.8 billion gigabytes in tablets.
Ultrabooks and Smartphones: New Opportunities Emerge
The shining new hope for the NAND industry this year could well be the ultrabook. With their light weight, long battery life and fast boot-up times, ultrabooks will appeal to all types of users. This will push total NAND consumption in the PC segment to more than 15% of total NAND flash supply. SSDs will account for some 3.3 billion gigabytes of NAND flash consumption this year, up from 1.7 billion gigabytes in 2011.
Another area of growth that the NAND industry can rely on this year is the cell phone market, particularly in the smartphone segment. Smartphone shipments this year will hit 626 million units, with an average NAND flash content of 9.0GB. By 2016, NAND memory content in smartphones will amount to 18.9GB, representing 16% of total NAND bit shipments. Overall NAND flash consumption in 2012 for smartphones is forecast to reach 5.7 billion gigabytes, up from 3.1 billion gigabytes in 2011.
The Apple iPhone, with an average density that is more than two times that of other smartphones, will consume more than 3.2 billion gigabytes in 2012. Other Apple products that will use NAND flash in significant quantities are the Mac Book Air and iPod Touch.
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Dominik Sets Record Straight
Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Mark Dominik said while he knew Brandon Marshall was going to be available, contrary to published reports, the Bucs were not in the running for the receiver. "I know there was a report that we were one of four finalists for Brandon Marsahll," Dominik said. "That's not true. We evaluate each person individually. We dig into it like we would any college draft pick because you're giving up value which is draft choices and you have… Read More »


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Top 10 Band Guitarists
Music would not have been the same if these guys hadn't picked up a guitar. They're the musicians behind some of the greatest riffs, solos and songs in history. They love their guitars as much as we love them for their guitar-playing. Join WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 band guitarists of all-time.


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Environmentalists are focusing on two habitats most at risk from warming — sea ice and mountain ranges.December 2008, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a petition to list the whitebark pine, a high-altitude tree being decimated by the mountain pine beetle, which flourishes in warmer temperatures. Also up for listing is the mist forestfly, an insect that survives in alpine springs in Montana and Alberta, Canada, and whose existence is threatened by shrinking glaciers.
'The science is very clear that pika populations are collapsing,' Greg Loarie, an attorney with Earthjustice.Sierra Nevada in California," says Greg Loarie, an attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental law firm that represents the Center for Biological Diversity in its efforts to protect the pika. "My feeling is that no politician wants to deal with this thing at all as it's such a hot-button issue. We're seeing agencies bending over backwards to avoid listing because of climate change."
It's impossible to connect emissions from a particular facility to a specific animal or plant.administration imposed a rule that effectively barred the wildlife service from regulating greenhouse gas emissions when fulfilling its obligation to save the animal from extinction. The Obama administration has let that rule stand for the polar bear, much to the dismay of some environmentalists.
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An old chisel can find new life
Rather than throw away his gunked-up putty knives, Club member Lance Balwin of Prescott, Arizona, keeps the blades clean of paint and putty buildup with an old chisel dedicated to this purpose. He uses an inexpensive chisel that�s past its useful life for woodworking but can still take the sharp edge necessary for the job. Only a stiff, sharp blade is really effective; cleaning with another putty knife or a razor-blade knife is usually unsatisfactory.
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Fine Arts December graduates exhibit work at UMES
PRINCESS ANNE, MD –(Dec. 2, 2013) "Presences and Personas," an art exhibit featuring the works of two University of Maryland Eastern Shore fine arts majors graduating this month, opens Dec. 5 with a reception from 4-6 p.m. in the Mosely Gallery.
Megan Powell and Jared Murphy, both of Salisbury, are the artists.
Powell has selected photographs from her collection of abandoned buildings, which reflect "Presences," to display.
"These spaces retain something from previous inhabitants and events that she was able to feel while shooting and tried to capture that feeling with her camera," said Susan Holt, the Mosely Gallery director.
Powell's concentration is commercial photography. She interned for and has been hired by Kim Luck Photography, a professional studio in Ocean City, Md. Examples of Powell's commercial art will also be on view, Holt said.
As a sequential artist, Murphy has developed his own comic book characters. These "Personas" will be showcased in the form of pencil drawings, computer illustrations and a large scale pin-up, Holt said.
Murphy interned with Coldstream Studio in Mardela Springs and has exhibited and sold his work at Comic Con fairs in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He also regularly participates in the Salisbury Downtown Plaza's third Friday event.
The show runs through Dec. 13. Admission to the Mosely Gallery located on the second floor of the Thomas Briggs Arts and Technology Building is free. Call 410-651-7770 or visit www.moselygallery.com for more information.
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American Artstone wins national award
NEW ULM – American Artstone Company, a cast stone and architectural precast manufacturer in New Ulm, was presented with a national award by the Cast Stone Institute (CSI) at the 2013 Annual Convention on Oct. 4.
Artstone received one of two Hardscape Excellence awards for its work on the University of Minnesota BioDiscovery District Plaza in Minneapolis. This achievement is Artstone's 10th CSI Excellence Award in the past eight years.
The work on the BioDiscovery District Plaza was completed under direction of the landscape architectural firm Damon Farber and general contractor M.A. Mortenson Construction Company.
Artstone's scope of work for the plaza included cast stone site-walls, caps and seat-walls used in the streetscape. The pieces were particularly difficult to manufacture because they were comprised of asymmetrical compound curved cast stone walls, seats and caps that needed to conform to the curved features of the plaza and main building entrance.
The judges commented that the use of dark colored cast stone was impressive as were the complex shapes that were precisely well done. The compound curves and consistent coloration supported the excellent craftsmanship. Overall it was a very strong design.
Artstone President Larry Thompson credits the employees for their skilled and creative workmanship. Artstone was involved early in the design process and made recommendations related to profiles, piece sizes, connections, and even the "skateboard deterrent" profile used on the cast stone caps and seats.
Greg Saterdalen, Artstone's business development manager, accepted the award on Artstone's behalf.
"It was an honor to represent Artstone at the convention and accept the award presented by the Cast Stone Institute. The Institute received a record number of project nominations this year and all were absolutely beautiful and representative of the quality required from certified producer members," Saterdalen said.
The Cast Stone Institute defines cast stone as "a highly refined masonry product that provides ornamental or functional features to buildings and other structures." Ingredients in cast stone include "fine and coarse aggregates, Portland cement, mineral oxide color pigments, chemical admixtures and water," according to the association.
American Artstone was founded in 1914 in a Fairfax, Minn., and continues operations today in a state of the art facility in New Ulm.
Artstone prides itself on the ability to provide exceptional architectural solutions for clients. Artstone management is proud of their craftsmen who continue to produce the highest quality, custom cast stone products available.


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Grab a GPS and go geocaching
Annie Love, 29, runs briskly along her favorite loop trail around Seattle's Green Lake then suddenly veers off ...
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Annie Love, 29, runs briskly along her favorite loop trail around Seattle's Green Lake then suddenly veers off in the direction the global positioning system (GPS) in her hand is indicating. She's hot on the trail of GC180ZE, a "geocache" hidden somewhere in Woodland Park and one of almost 6000 in the city. Love heads south until she reaches an upright dead tree. Bingo! She digs through a pile of leaves to find a small box, signs the tiny log book inside, replaces the container and runs off in search of the next hidden treasure.
"I've discovered some of my favorite urban trails through geocaching," says Love.
A high-tech version of hide and seek, geocaching involves logging onto one of the sport's websites, such as www.geocaching.com, and searching by zip code or region the location of local caches hidden by other "geocachers" (anyone who joins the online community and searches for or hides geocaches, or "caches" for short). Select a single or string of caches along a trail or scattered throughout a park and download their GPS coordinates (longitude and latitude) to your handheld GPS receiver. Then lace up your running shoes and follow the receiver's directions to those locations to uncover the hidden treasure.


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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Lockheed Martin Opens New Saudi Arabia Office
Lockheed Martin opened a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The new office will support the growth of defense capabilities and aerospace technologies in Saudi Arabia, the company said.
In January 2012 Lockheed signed an agreement with King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology to improve joint research and support the development of the Saudi national policy regarding science and technology, according to the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council.
"We are focused on developing partnerships that sustain long-term jobs for Saudi people in the security, aerospace and commercial sectors," said Marilyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin. More
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Budget cuts kill annual energy report
The Columbus Dispatch - April 26, 2013 12:45 PM
In a move that can only be described as a bummer, the Energy Information Administration said this week that it will stop publishing its Annual Energy Review.
The culprit is federal budget cuts. In place of the annual report, the agency will expand its Monthly Energy Review to include annual data.
On the EIA website, you can see what is now the final report in the annual series, published last year with figures for 2011.
The EIA, which is part of the Department of Energy, has had several rounds of cutbacks in recent years. Despite the loss of personnel, the EIA website remains one of the most valuable resources for energy reporters. I would hate to see its depth and breadth get trimmed by further budget cuts.


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Lewis Hine: The Rise of a Landmark
(September 12 – November 26, 2013)
Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) documented the construction of the monumental Empire State Building at every stage, from its inception in the bedrock to its spectacular appearance on the Manhattan skyline. The photographs that emerged from Hine's yearlong project do more than glorify the magnificent building, however. They speak to the integrity and courage of the workers who constructed it. Dovetailing with Fairfield University's campus-wide focus on Cities, this exhibition of photographs explores the human condition in early 20th-century urban America through 51 engaging photographs
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson
Considered the first novel in English published by a black American woman, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There (1859) fuses elements from several genres, including the sentimental novel, the slave narrative, the gothic romance, and the satire, to portray the life of a mulatto indentured servant in the antebellum North. The book was relatively unknown until it was discovered by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and published under his editorship in 1983. Since then the novel has forced critics to reevaluate the history of African American literature and to reconceive the development of the fictional narrative form in the United States.
Biographical Information
Most of what is known about Harriet E. Wilson's life has been pieced together by literary historians following the rediscovery of Our Nig; accordingly, reconstructions of Wilson's biography are incomplete and contain many contradictions. According to the 1860 Boston federal census, Harriet E. Adams was born in 1807 or 1808 in Fredericksburg, Virginia; however, the 1850 New Hampshire federal census claims she was born in 1827 or 1828 in New Hampshire. The 1850 census lists Adams as a resident of Milford, New Hampshire, in the home of a white family, the Boyleses, who served as the model for the Bellmonts in Our Nig, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Recent work by Barbara A. White, though, shows Adams to have resided with the Boyleses for a brief period following her indentured servitude to a family named Hayward, the more likely model for the Bellmonts.
In the fall of 1851 Adams married Thomas Wilson, whom she may have met through the abolitionist movement. Abandoned by her husband nine months after their marriage, Harriet Wilson delivered a son, George Mason Wilson, in 1852; mother and son lived together in poverty and poor health. In an effort to secure a more comfortable life for her son, Wilson left George with a couple in New Hampshire and traveled to Boston, where she remained from 1856 until 1863. There, hoping to become self sufficient and to regain her son, she registered the copyright for Our Nig in 1859, paying for the novel's publication with money she had earned as a seamstress. The book received little attention, however, and George's death is recorded in an obituary in the Farmer's Cabinet of February 29, 1860. There is no record of Wilson's life after 1863, although some sources list her death date as 1870.
Plot and Major Characters
In Our Nig a white orphan, Mag Smith, is seduced by a wealthy gentleman, who then abandons her. Later Mag bears a child, who dies within weeks of its birth, and she is ostracized from the community. She lives in virtual isolation until an African named Jim befriends her and proposes. Overcoming her initial shock at an interracial marriage, Mag marries Jim and later bears two children. When Jim dies of consumption shortly afterward, Mag, together with Jim's partner Seth Shipley, leaves her six-year-old daughter Frado at the home of a middle-class white family, the Bellmonts, and flees town.
When Frado reaches the age of seven, she becomes the Bellmonts' indentured servant and is beaten regularly by Mrs. Bellmont. For years Frado suffers at the hands of Mrs. Bellmont and her daughter Mary; her only respite comes from her relationships with the family's male members, particularly the oldest son James, who plans to take Frado to Baltimore as his servant. However, illness forces James to return to his parents' home, where both his and Frado's health decline. As she grows older,. Frado prevents further beatings from Mrs. Bellmont by threatening not to work. Feeling "the stirring of free and independent thoughts," Frado turns to books for comfort and, when she is eighteen, is freed.
Having very little with which to support herself, Frado is employed in a number of different professions, but her failing health forces her to accept public charity intermittently. However, she gradually perfects her needlework skills and sews straw hats with a white woman, who teaches Frado more about sewing and shares her library with her. This brief period of Frado's life is interrupted when a black man named Samuel comes to town on the fugitive slave lecture circuit. Frado and Samuel marry, but Samuel often leaves his wife to lecture, and eventually runs away to sea. When Frado bears their son, Samuel returns for a short time, only to abandon them again and die of fever in New Orleans. The novel closes with an abbreviated account of Frado's adventures fleeing slave-catchers and "kidnappers" and being abused by professed abolitionists who "didn't want slaves at the South, nor niggers in their houses, North." Appended to the text is Harriet Wilson's direct appeal to her audience, imploring them to purchase her book and provide her with the means to retrieve her son George.
Major Themes
In his introduction to the 1983 edition of the novel, Gates claims that Our Nig is a major example of generic fusion in which a woman writer appropriated black male (the slave narrative) and white female (the sentimental novel) forms and revised these into a synthesis at once peculiarly black and female." In many ways Frado does typify the sentimental heroine—parentless, poor, friendless and abused, relying on her own strength of character—but she also diverges from that tradition in her rejection of religion and her inability to establish a stable domestic life. Julia Stern (1995) contends that such differences mark Wilson's synthesis of sentimental and gothic traditions, particularly in the portrayal of Frado's suffering. And, while the novel itself is not literally a slave narrative, some critics have conjectured that the slave-narrative conventions used in Our Nig were intended to demonstrate the parallels between the treatments of blacks in the North and the South, including the similar economic motivations that structure relations within both systems.
Critical Reception
Our Nig was largely forgotten soon after its publication in 1859, possibly due to its criticism of abolitionists and the controversial portrayal of an interracial marriage. Although the novel was mentioned in Herbert Ross Brown's The Sentimental Novel in America (1940) and Joseph Kinney's "The Theme of Miscegenation in the American Novel to World War II" (1972), Our Nig was virtually unknown among literary scholars until 1983, when Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reintroduced it to the public. Subsequently many critics have addressed Wilson's manipulation of genres and her representation of African Americans and of Northern abolitionists, and have compared the novel with Harriet A. Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Iola Leroy, and William Wells Brown's Clotel. While, in the words of reviewer Francis Browne (1987), Our Nig "hardly ranks with the masterpieces of the genre," its historical importance as a "forerunner of the Afro-American literary tradition" is unmatched nonetheless.
Elizabeth Breau (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Identifying Satire: Our Nig," Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 455-65.
[In the following essay, Breau contends that Our Nig is meant to satirize the slavery and indentured servitude that were allowed to exist in the antebellum North.]
In his introduction to Harriet Wilson's novel, Our Nig, Henry Louis Gates argues that the book is both a sentimental novel and an autobiography.1 Establishing the autobiographical nature of the text is his first concern; he begins his essay by referring to the historical data—publishing records, census information, and the death certificate of Wilson's son—that helped him establish Wilson's historical identity and authorship. He supports his argument by comparing the plot details of Our Nig with the information contained in the three appendices that follow the text.
A reader guided by this interpretation of Our Nig reads it as a serious text, written by one who "preferred the pious, direct appeal to the subtle or ambiguous."2 The image of Harriet Wilson as a desperate mother "forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child without extinguishing this feeble life" hovers over Our Nig as we read, underscoring the similarities between the author's claims in the preface and the suffering of her heroine, Frado.3 Gates claims that Wilson would have produced an inferior product had she strayed from her lived experience and attempted to write fiction:
the 'autobiographical' consistencies between the fragments of Harriet Wilson's life and the depiction of the calamities of Frado, the heroine of Our Nig, would suggest that Mrs. Wilson was able to gain control over her materials more readily than her fellow black novelists of that decade precisely by adhering closely to the painful details of suffering that were part of her experience.4
Gates also implicitly disparages Wilson's creativity in his discussion of the ways in which her narrative compares with what Nina Baym has called the "overplot" of the sentimental fiction produced by Wilson's white female contemporaries. Although Gates credits Wilson with the creation of a new form of fiction, "the black woman's novel … because she invented her own plot structure through which to narrate the saga of her orphaned mulatto heroine," he implies that Wilson mimicked that literature with which she was most familiar, altering it only when it did not conform to her real life experience.5 The picture drawn of Wilson in Gates' introduction is therefore not that of a creative writer comfortably in control of her material, but instead that of a nearly illiterate woman who stumbled onto originality because her life story—the only story she was equipped to tell—did not conform entirely to contemporary literary convention.
Gates' definition of Our Nig as largely autobiographical convinces us that we must ignore indications that Wilson's meaning is not always straightforward and that textual inconsistencies or "inversions" may not be due to lack of authorial skill. Once Our Nig is perceived as a true life story, similar to the slave narratives written by Wilson's contemporaries, it becomes difficult to read the text's satiric or ironic moments as more than the angry aberrations of an unskilled writer. A detailed examination of Wilson's prose, however, suggests that large portions of Our Nig are satiric and that Wilson's indictment of antebellum Northern racism derives most of its power from that satire.
Michael Seidel writes that one of the first hints that a text may be satiric is "the claim to truth as a narrative privilege."6 Although this is most notably true in those satires that are patently false, such as Don Quixote, Candide, or Gulliver's Travels, a satire that disguises itself as truth need not be obviously fantastical. Our Nig purports to be truthful in several ways. Its full title is Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By Our Nig.' Gates comments that "the boldness and cleverness in the ironic use of 'Nig' as title and pseudonym is, to say the least, impressive, standing certainly as one of the black tradition's earliest recorded usages."7 Wilson's "pseudonym" functions to convince her readers that the author and protagonist of her tale are the same. The pseudonym also suggests that, as a true narrative, Our Nig will conform to the generic model of the slave narratives that themselves mimicked the sentimental fiction written by white women. The allegorical phrase, "Two-Story White House, North," further suggests a serious, non-satiric text because it also conforms to the generic expectations of both abolitionist literature and sentimental fiction.
In contrast, the juxtaposition of "Our Nig" and "Free Black" does not conform to such generic expectations but instead implies that the narrative concerns itself with an aberration from the status quo. This part of the title supports Wilson's satiric pseudonym, challenging beliefs in Northern equality and suggesting social depravity. As a satirist, Wilson is outraged that slavery, or its partner, indentured servitude, can exist among those who congratulate themselves on their moral superiority to Southern slaveholders. Significantly, Frado is not even legally indentured; she is bound by default as it becomes increasingly clear that her mother is never going to return for her. The Bellmonts, at whose home she is abandoned, never consider that Frado might do something besides work for them; by the time she becomes an adolescent, she knows she is compelled to remain with them until her eighteenth birthday.
Wilson's preface invites inspection. Beginning with the usual demurrals regarding her literary talents and a seemingly straightforward statement about her financial desperation, she disguises her purpose with a disclaimer that conforms to the satirist's tendency "to deny what they are doing at the same time that they are doing it, and this presents the satirist as something of a hypocrite (her)self."8 Wilson tells us that she "would not … palliate slavery at the South by disclosures of its appurtenances North."9 By accepting this statement, innocently placed after a description of how her poverty has induced her to write, the reader is lulled into accepting the assertion (surprising for Wilson's time) that the injustices commonly said to belong only to the South also exist in the North. Although Wilson hastens to reassure us that "my mistress was wholly imbued with southern principles," the text contains no other indications that Mrs. Bellmont is a southerner, and none of the book's other characters are so excused. Wilson continues:
I do not pretend to divulge every transaction in my own life, which the unprejudiced would declare unfavorable in comparison with treatment of legal bondmen; I have purposely omitted what would most provoke shame in our good anti-slavery friends at home.
Wilson could, in other words, make the North seem even crueller and more inhumane than the South, had she the desire to do so. And, in telling us that she has omitted the worst of her tale, the real cruelty, she has ironically informed us that the free North is crueller to its black residents than the slaveholding South. As the events of Frado's life make clear, "our good anti-slavery friends at home" have every reason to feel ashamed.
Before beginning my analysis of the text proper, I would like to say a few words about the three letters appended to it. Gates relies heavily on these to support his claim that Our Nig is autobiographical, even going so far as to suggest that Wilson's style reveals that she felt less anxiety about those portions of the text that are historically verifiable than she did about those sections for which we have no supporting documentation.10 Wilson could not have known, however, that those reading her work in the twentieth century would have access only to certain historical records—we have her marriage certificate, for example, but do not know either the exact date of her birth or who her parents were. Moreover, Gates does not remark on the ways in which the appended letters are inconsistent with the careful authentication that usually accompanies nineteeth-century African-American autobiographical texts. Wilson's text lacks, for example, prefatory letters by distinguished white friends of the author vouching for her honesty and integrity. This lack of white approval sets Our Nig apart from other antebellum African-American texts and indicates that it may not be restrained by the author's deference to her white patrons. Wilson further indicates the extent to which her text rejects white assistance by ending it with three letters that supposedly verify the events it depicts. The placement of the letters at the end of the text, rather than at its beginning, inverts the form of antebellum African-American literature and suggests that Wilson may be parodying generic requirements.
The authorship of the three appended letters is dubious. The second letter, written by "Margaretta Thorn," "is the source of the little that we know about the author's childhood … she was hired out to a family 'calling themselves Christians' … [who] put her to work … allegedly ruining her health by unduly difficult work."11 Although this account corresponds with Frado's servitude in the Bellmont household, it seems odd that Gates should suddenly forget his meticulous concern with verifying every detail of Wilson's life with historical documentation enough to be silent on the identity of Margaretta Thorn, the author of this crucial letter. Even her name, "Thorn," is strange, underscoring the ways in which her anonymity prickles at the reader seeking reassurance that Wilson is a reliable black storyteller and not one who takes advantage of white sympathies and credulity.
The first and third letters are even less convincing as authenticating documentation. The first letter is signed "Allida," with no surname. Although Gates declares Allida's letter conclusive in establishing the autobiographical nature of Our Nig, he gives no more thought to the identity of Allida than he does to that of Thorn. He is a little more concerned with the author of the third letter, who has simply signed with the initials, C. D. S. Since these initials were a "legal abbreviation for 'Colored Indentured Servant,'" Gates concludes that C. D. S. was either an indentured mulatto or a white friend who chose not to sign his or her name.12
Rather than suggesting that Gates overlooked essential information that holds the key toOur Nig's authenticity, I would like to propose that the three appended letters function as a deceptive claim to truth, masking the novel's satiric intent by parodying the form of slave narratives. If parody, as Linda Hutcheon writes, "is a form of imitation, but imitation characterized by ironic inversion, not always at the expense of the parodied text," and if Wilson was writing a satiric tale of slavery in the ostensibly free North, it seems logical that she would mimic, without insulting, the genuinely autobiographical slave narratives that were also written to advance the position of African-Americans.13 Wilson could, in other words, have written all three letters herself. The placement of the letters at the end, rather than the beginning of the text, constitutes one parodic inversion; that they are signed in two cases with incomplete names (either female or neuter), rather than with the names of respectable, well-known (male) citizens is another.
It is no trivial matter, given the ongoing pressure felt by African-American scholars to verify the claims made by slave narratives, to suggest that Wilson's narrative is not an authentic autobiography. A false or fictional autobiography impugns the claims of black abolitionists to be truthful and undermines assertions about the horrific nature of slavery. As I suggest above, however, the expectation that nineteenth-century blackauthored first-person narratives contain only unaltered truth restricts our ability to see the authors of such texts as creative artists and confines them to the limiting role of political advocates who did their inadequate best with the existing white literary tradition.
Wilson recognized the trespass her fiction constituted and addressed it by including a portrait of a dishonest African-American who misrepresents his suffering under slavery within her text. Frado's husband, Samuel, "left her to her fate—embarked at sea, with the disclosure that he had never seen the South, and that his illiterate harangues were humbugs for hungry abolitionists."14 In a genuine slave narrative, this disclosure of Samuel's fraudulence would be accompanied with moralizing, the author's lament about how the degradations of unequal treatment had bestialized the man so that he could no longer comprehend the damage his imposture did to his race. Wilson, in contrast, merely has Samuel die, less than a page later, "of yellow fever, in New Orleans." His death serves as a satiric punishment: yellow fever signifies his cowardice and dishonesty. It is also fitting that he, a pretended runaway slave, should die in the deep South, captured, as it were, by his own falsehood.
The text proper of Our Nig is rife with inconsistencies that, to the reader who interprets all statements at face value, suggest authorial incompetence or error. The story begins with a discrepancy that should alert the wary reader that this text may contain more than it appears...
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Cynthia J. Davis (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Speaking the Body's Pain: Harriet Wilson's Our Nig," African American Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall, 1993, pp. 391-404.
[In the following essay, Davis reads Our Nig as a challenge to the sexualization of the black body, contending that the novel humanizes blacks by testifying to their capacity for pain.]
"I know
That care has iron crowns for many brows;
That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon
Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears
Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks
At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry;
That gentle spirits on the rack of...
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Our Nig
In light of these other nineteenth-century black women's attempts to either defuse or deny the black woman's sexualized body, Our Nig's detailed descriptions of the physical body appear all the more striking. What we are forced to witness throughout Wilson's tale (even more, perhaps, than we might wish) is a body whose primary and delineating experience is not sexuality, but pain. Frado's dominant bodily experience is of pain; the dominant motif in Our Nig not rape but torture. Pain defines both voice and body, the speaker and the spoken.
When we first begin reading Our Nig, it is difficult to envision how pain will ever figure as anything but a brutally silencing force. From the moment Frado enters...
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John Ernest (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Economies of Identity: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig" PMLA, Vol. 109, No. 3, May, 1994, pp. 424-38.
[In this essay, Ernest explores the paradox of Wilson's attempt to seek patronage from her readers: To be successful, such an effort would depend on the good will of Northern white readers, yet her story exposes Northern racism and criticizes abolitionists, thereby alienating the very audience she needed to cultivate.]
Over one hundred years after Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) appeared and disappeared, the book can be bought and read again.1 Purchasers of the 1983 reprinting fulfill, belatedly, the...
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Jill Jones (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "The Disappearing 'I' in Our Nig," Legacy, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1996, pp. 38-53.
[In the following essay, Jones discusses the linguistic methods Wilson uses in Our Nig in order to create an authoritative voice against her dis empowerment by race, class, and gender discrimination.]
In "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman pledges himself to speak for the many voices that cannot be heard without him:
Through me many long dumb voices,
Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
Voices of prostitutes and of deformed persons,
Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs....
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: '"To Weave It into the Literature of the Country': Epic and the Fictions of African American Women," in Poetics of the Americas: Race, Founding, and Textuality, edited by Bainard Cowan and Jefferson Humphries, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, pp. 31-45.
[In the following essay, Fox-Genovese argues that Our Nig reverses the conventions of domestic fiction in an attempt to describe the obstacles facing the integration of the stories of African-American women into the American literary landscape.]
Toward the end of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel, Iola Leroy, Dr. Frank Latimer asks Iola Leroy (to whom he will shortly propose marriage),...
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Ronna C. Johnson (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Said But Not Spoken: Elision and the Representation of Rape, Race, and Gender in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig," in Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers, edited by Jea Campbell Reesman, University of Georgia Press, 1997, pp. 96-116.
[In the following essay, Johnson claims that the narrative structures and lacunae in Our Nig encode the sexual violence committed against the author.]
Many critics and historians have established the idea that rape and its threat, as well as struggles to meet dictates of the code of "true womanhood," placed intertwined burdens on the narrative self-representation of antebellum black women. In Harriet E....
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Further Reading
Curtis, David Ames, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Establishing the Identity of the Author of Our Nig." In Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance, edited by Joanne M. Braxton and Andrée Nicola McLaughlin, pp. 48-69. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Compares the fictionalized autobiography of Harriet Wilson with the historical facts of her life.
Davis, Cynthia J. "Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)." In Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Denise D. Knight, pp. 484-89. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood...
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U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron R. Hume dived into a shark tank at Sea World Indonesia to celebrate Earth Day 2009. The Embassy organized a day of environmentally-themed, youth-oriented activities for approximately 100 Indonesian children from several Jakarta public schools and a foundation serving youth with cancer. This year's celebrations were aimed at calling attention to Indonesia's unique underwater biodiversity and Indonesia hosting the World Oceanic Conference in Manado and Coral Triangle Initiative Summit, May 11-15, 2009.
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisex-ual, Transgender and Quest-ioning Social Action team of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua will host a panel forum on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. in the basement level of the Fredonia Grange Hall, 58 W. Main St., Fredonia.
The panel starts at 2 p.m. and features speakers who will share personal experiences and specific ideas for social action involvement. At the end of the discussion there will be information about how community members can work toward equality for all. This panel is open to the general public and is free of charge. Light refreshments will be served. Call 679-7944 or visit www.uucnc.org for more information.
Volunteers needed for Invasive Species Pull Saturday morning
On Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m., the Chautauqua Water-shed Conservancy will hold its fourth annual Invasive Species Pull. This year's pull will target Garlic Mustard and other invasive species at the CWC's Loomis Goose Creek Wetland Preserve on Route 394 in Ashville (next to Ashville Bay Marina).
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Taste of the South Friday in Dunkirk
The Juneteenth 2013 Celebration Committee will sponsor the Annual Taste of the South on Friday from 5-8 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 16 W. Fourth St., Dunkirk. The theme for the event is "Southern Down Home Cooking."
The Annual Taste of the South is an all-you-can-eat Southern style African American down home buffet featuring barbecue ribs, shredded pork, baked beans, green beans, Hoppin' John, black-eyed peas, macaroni and cheese, corn bread, candied yams, sweet potato pie, banana pudding, and many other dishes.
For more information and reservations, call Laurie Williams at 785-3668 or Loretta Slaton Torain at 363-1102. The public is invited to attend.
Valley Historical Society meets Tuesday
The regular meeting of the Valley Historical Society will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Museum at corner Main and Lester streets, Sinclairville. Dr. Thomas Greer will present the program about Governor Reuben E. Fenton and the Fenton Mansion in Jamestown.
Pancakes and eggs breakfast Saturday
The Town of Gerry Republican Committee will hold a pancakes and eggs breakfast on Saturday from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Gerry firehall at the four corners in Gerry. A donation of $7.50 is requested for each breakfast and all funds received will be used to support Republican candidates in November's election. All are invited to attend. For more information, call Cherin Mehs at 985-4257.
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The Putnam Record will sponsor its first Safety Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Floral Hall Pavilion at the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds. This free community event will promote child safety, car safety and home safety. NYS Police will do car seat checks. The Dunkirk Fire Department. will promote fire safety and the Dunkirk Police will do fingerprinting. There will also be giveaways, prizes and refreshments. For more information call Putnam Record Agency 366-2744.
Family Martial Arts Center to host kids night Saturday
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Planning key in business
In my last column we talked about the first steps in solving an immediate cash crisis. In this column, we'll finish that conversation and get to some solid strategies for building a strong financial future for your business.
We've already covered the basics; acceptance, getting your accounts in order, collecting accounts receivables, setting up solid collection and invoicing strategies and getting a professional involved. Now we head into the more difficult areas.
Now that you have all of your accounts in order and all of these statements in front of you, what do you do with them? One of the first things is use them to start forecasting your spending and receivables for the foreseeable future.
This will help you get a handle on what you can put toward your debt so you can set up payment plans with your creditors as well as help you monitor your financials in the future. Monitoring your financials is going to be key for your ongoing success, always understanding where you are will help make sure that things don't slip away from you.
You'll be able to spot things at the first sign of trouble (when one month is just a little bit off) and make adjustments rather than when creditors are knocking at your door. You can also use your financials to benchmark your business's performance against other businesses in your industry.
For example, if you are making widgets, what are your cost of goods sold compared to other companies that make widgets?
This information can be very helpful especially if a particular area such as COGS, labor or other significant cost center is significantly different. It means that there may be room for improvement, therefore, higher profits. You can gain easy access to this industry specific information through sources like the LSCP or the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center.
This is a good time to take a good hard look at your budget. Is everything necessary? Are you regularly paying overtime? Do you have travel and entertainment expenses? Are you upgrading technology frequently? How quickly is your inventory turning? If there are things that can be cut, now is the time to do it.
Now that you've forecasted and know what you can put toward your debt, it's time to prioritize your debt and make plans to pay. This will involve contacting each of your creditors and explaining the situation honestly and frankly.
The most important thing here is to realize that you owe a debt and must pay it but you cannot under any circumstances overpromise and under deliver. If you say the check is in the mail, make sure that it is in fact, in the mail.
Over time, through aligning your business with industry standards, paying down debt, monitoring your financials and cutting unnecessary spending you may be able to right your ship. When you do, staying the course will need to be your priority. Enlist a bookkeeper, but stay involved, in the end you are responsible.
Reconcile your cash on hand, credit card receipts and deposits daily and enforce rules for cash and inventory handling. Having a financial strategy is an asset in any business, once the crisis is over, you'll be glad to have one.
As always, contact the LSCP at 906-226-6591 with any questions. We're here to help.
Editor's note: Amy Clickner is CEO?of the Lake Superior Community Partnership. Her twice-monthly column will address topics of interest to the local business community.


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The changing face of global commerce is rerouting flight plans. "Many companies are using large-cabin, long-range business jets to provide nonstop access to overseas markets, especially Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa," said Ed Bolen, the National Business Aviation Association's CEO.
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Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Fantastic Race! Mad Dog Rules!!In full: I should have done this race last year but injury put paid to that! This year they have changed the course so there is not such a twisting finish but a fast, flat race in! Due to things out of the organisers control(i.e. council car-parks!) plus the late arrivers, the race was delayed by half an hour, but this was relayed to the runners very quickly. The race itself was brilliant with the drummer band at 4k a real surprise! But for the notorious Southport wind this would have been a PB for me! A great day only spoiled by the weather, agree this would be an amazing summer evening event, but also understand this would be impossible with summer traffic etc. Will be back next year! WOOF! WOOF!Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Cold but friendlyIn full: 2nd time we have done this race . The course was even better this year and the samba band and entertainment on the way was superb. A few more buses would have been nice but overall excellent. A special mention for the marshals and cadets who were very encouraging in the cold conditions. Well done to the organisersDate of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Just keeps getting better. The 10k that's man's best friend.In full: The friendliest and best-organised 10k in the country did it again today. An even better course than last year, as the organisers had removed the pavement section at the end and managed to keep the coast road open for the whole event. Superbly organised, very friendly, and a great t-shirt and goody bag. I for one will be back next year. Well done to the organisers.Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Simply BrilliantIn full: Great organisation, good atmosphere, quick course and the best goody bag I've seen!Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: When does 2014 open?In full: There was a delay - but they kept us informed and being based in the school was great, somewhere warmish & dry to wait! As a non-driver I can recommend the train and walk to the start:-)Love the course, hate the cold that prevented me drinking and breathing at the same time. Like the changes to the course from I & II, good to see a race organiser listening to feedback.And a goody bag of treats to put all others to shame!Woof! Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Flat fast and funIn full: The start was delayed by half an hour due to queues for car park and shuttle buses to the start. They may have to reconsider the number of entries in future. However, it was very fast, well marshalled with closed roads. The T-shirt and medal are great and the very generous goody bag makes a £20 entry fee acceptable. It would be a great course to run on a fine summer evening rather than a freezing February day but highly recommended.Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Top 10K in UK.In full: Great idea to have names on shirt numbers, samba band fantastic, buses fine ( people need to not leave it so late to arrive ! ), course excellent ( i.e. road closures, out & back, tide in, straight line finish, RAF ( ?? ) lads encouraging. Your marketing is first class, how to build a brand !For punters, also unbelievable value for money! Date of review: February 10, 2013
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BEIJING (AP) Zou Shiming and Zhang Xiaoping gave the host country two boxing gold medals on the final day of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
Zou wept openly atop the medal podium after fulfilling his vow to become China's champion. The final step was easier than he imagined: Mongolia's Serdamba Purevdorj couldn't keep fighting early in the second round of their light flyweight bout because of a shoulder injury.
Although Zou won without many style points in Beijing, he had his long-sought gold medal - China's 50th of the Beijing Games, no less. The adoring Workers' Gymnasium crowd gave one last grateful roar for its trailblazer, who won China's first bronze medal four years ago in a sport banned by the government from 1959 to 1986.
"The (final fight) makes it look like I easily won the gold medal, but there was much work and preparation that went into this," Zou said. "It's regrettable that I couldn't be more entertaining to my fans in the gold medal bout, but most important is to get the gold medal, which I did."
While Zou sweated his way through a difficult tournament, Zhang nimbly slipped past several better-pedigreed opponents to capture the light heavyweight gold. After knocking off two medal favorites in the early rounds, he beat Kenny Egan of Ireland 11-7 in the final, leaving another opponent claiming favoritism toward the Chinese fighters in Beijing.
"I think the (judges) got it right," Zhang said. "I believe even if this fight was in Ireland, the result would be the same."
Although Italian super heavyweight Roberto Cammarelle ended China's hopes for a third gold medal by flattening Zhang Zhilei in the final bout, the Chinese haul of four total medals was a more-than-reasonable reward for a nation that dedicated itself to a strong home showing in boxing.
Russia matched China's double-gold performance with a victory by lightweight Alexey Tishchenko, his second Olympic gold after winning at featherweight in Athens. Mongolian bantamweight Badar-Uugan Enkhbat and Kazakh welterweight Bakhyt Sarsekbayev both beat Cuban boxers to earn their first Olympic titles Sunday.
Cuba led the Olympic field with eight total medals - but no golds for the first time in a games it didn't boycott since 1968. The Val Barker Trophy for the Olympics' most outstanding and stylistic boxer went to Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine, who won the featherweight title Saturday.
Zou appropriately was the first man in the ring for the final day of fights in Beijing. To keep his pressure to a minimum, he spent the last two weeks at home instead of living in the athletes' village, eating hamburgers and pizza in a hilariously misguided attempt to keep down his weight by avoiding the Chinese food he finds too greasy.
"Even last night, when I was sleeping, I thought about what I should do if I fell behind, and what I should do if I took the lead," Zou said.
Zou had a 1-0 lead after a tentative first round against Purevdorj, but the Mongolian coach literally threw in the towel just 19 seconds into the second when his fighter's right arm was hanging limply at his side.
Before climbing on the medal podium, Zou choked up when the announcer said "China." He cried after accepting his medal, and tears prevented him from singing every word of the national anthem.
He then held the gold aloft to all four sides of the ring, soaking in cheers. Zou has become one of China's most recognizable athletes with his world titles.
Cammarelle left no doubt in the tournament's final bout, plugging Zhang Zhilei with a series of combinations for his second Olympic medal.
Cuba rolled into the medal bouts with eight fighters on its young team qualifying for hardware, but went 4-4 in the semifinals before four losses on the weekend.
Cuban welterweight Carlos Banteaux was so tough earlier in the Olympics while charging forward, but he inexplicably allowed Sarsekbayev to be the aggressor. Banteaux stalked his opponent but threw poor punches, while the Kazakh kept knocking him backward after failing to score in the first round.


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Reading Reinforcement
By CKR
from Ohio
About Me Education Oriented, Working Parent
Comments about Educational Insights Hot Dots® Let's Master Grade 1 Reading:
My daughter is a first-grader and was so excited to receive this educational toy. She was able to use it independently right away. The first book contains activities pertaining to short vowels, long vowels, vowel digraphs, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, and special vowels. The second book contains more activities including special vowels, sentence sense, sight words, plurals, capital letters, punctuation, reading comprehension, and then several challenge pages. These skills correlate and reinforce what she has been taught in school already this year and the pages are great review. The Hot Dots pen is easy to use and tells the child whether the answer is correct or incorrect with a verbal response and/or a green or red light. This product would work well for centers or small groups in a classroom setting. I did feel that my daughter worked through most of the material pretty quickly and I am not sure how much she will use this after initially working on the pages.We received this toy from Educational Insights in exchange for this review; all opinions are my own.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great reading help
By Springs Gramma
from colorado springs co
About Me Grandparent
My 7 year old grandson needs special help being interested in reading. This toy did the trick. Usually he will read 3 or 4 short pages, then loses interest. With this, he stays connected for about 30 minutes at a time. He really likes that the pen says different things, not just yes or no.
Classroom View of Hot Dots Reading
By First Grade Teacher
from Hutchinson, MN
About Me Teacher
I received Hot Dots Let's Master 1st Grade Reading and Language Arts to review with my first grade classroom. My students love this product! They can work independently or in a small group. The books are small and spiral bound, so they are easily stored. The wands glow green for a correct response when the student touched a correct answer, and red when touching an incorrect answer. The wands can also be easily programmed by the students to be silent, low sound, or loud. There are two levels of materials for students to use, so I can my differentiate instruction. During Daily 5, students can use the Hot Dots to practice short and long vowels, vowel digraphs, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, "rule breaker" vowels or special vowels, sentence sense, plurals, comprehension and silent letters. I am very pleased with this product, and highly recommend Hot Dots for center use, small group instruction, home schooling, and also for parents to use as added support or enrichment at home.
Perfect for Struggling Readers
By Amy D
from Massachusetts
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
My 6 year old was having some difficulties reading basic sight words. I tried many workbooks, and activity book but nothing seemed to help until we received Hot Dots Let's Master Reading Grade 1. This system contains a fun pen that requires two AAA batteries (not inc.). The pen works by positively reinforcing your child's answers. They have to answer certain questions in the lessons. Each question has an answer with a black dot. To answer, you child simply needs to hover over the right dot. Now, my daughter is reading at her grade level in just 3 months time thanks to this very interactive system. There are so many lessons too so it really helps keep kids entertained.
Helping Children Excel
By CrissaR
from Utah
My son loves playing with the Hot Dots Jr. sets. This Hot Dots 1st grade reading is going to be so great for him in the near future. After looking through the book I know what kinds are things are coming up and can watch for him to be ready for this book in case it is before 1st grade. I want my child to be an accelerated learner and with the help of Hot Dots I know he can be. This pen is a great motivational tool. Lights and sound good off when an answer is chosen. This will help my child be able to do the books on his own in the car or at home. Moving from one Hot Dots book to the next is going to be so helpful in my child's education.
Fun and easy educational tool!
from Perryville, Missouri
About Me Education Oriented
Hot Dots Let's Master Reading is such a fun and easy game for kids to play both independently and with a small group. The packaging is easy to keep organized and both the pen and book fit back into the original box. As a classroom teacher it is important that the kids can access the materials by themselves and with this product there is nothing to worry about. The book covers many reading skills and the directions are also easy to understand and read, so my students can be even more independent! If you are looking for a gift or a classroom resources this would be perfect!
Great on-the-go activity!
By Sara
from Cumming, GA
About Me Education Oriented, Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent, Teacher
These are great for the car! My boys love using these while we are driving around town. I love that they are practicing their math skills while having fun!
Indendepence Achieved!!
By Jolene
from Mims, FL
About Me Education Oriented, First Time Parent
These work great for my son!! I think it would be good to have these at the surrounding grade/ability levels too. I think the challenge would be good for him! Thanks so much!! Excellent product and awesome customer service!!!
Learning made fun!
By Julie M
from West Seneca NY
About Me First Time Parent, Stay At Home Parent
We started with the Hot Dots Jr Kindergarten reading set and now are moving onto this Hot Dots First Grade Reading set. This set includes 2 spiral-bound books and Hot Dots Jr. "Ace"-the Talking, Teaching DogTM interactive, electronic Hot Dots pen. This set is very challenging for my son, but a challenge is good. It works very simply. There are black dots next to each question, my son then picks and answer and places the Hot Dots pen on his choice. If he is right the pen turns green and gives him positive reinforcement. When he gets the answer wrong the pen turns red and tells him to try again.My son just loves to learn and these sets are really taking him to the next level.He is excelling in his academics and he is always being praised by his teachers. I would not trade these sets for anything and I really recommend them! The set is very colorful, durable and I think it will last a very long time!
Independent Learning with Hot Dots
By Mary
from Omaha, Nebraska
About Me Education Oriented, Homeschooler, Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
I received Hot Dots Let's Master Grade 1 Reading free for review. All opinions are my own.Hot Dots Let's Master Grade 1 Reading includes an interactive talking Hot Dots Pen and two Hot Dots workbooks. The workbooks include questions, and multiple choice answers with a black dot next to each possible response. Your child will use the Hot Dots pen to select an answer by vertically pressing down on one of the dots. If the answer is correct a positive reinforcement will be heard and the pen will light up green. If the answer is wrong, a try again message will sound and the pen will light up red. The Grade 1 Reading books cover topics such as phonics, sight words, reading comprehension, punctuation and grammar.My oldest is in 1st grade and this is a great supplemental reading tool for her. She can do the book independently and loves to bring it along when we are in the car. She can also bring it with us to waiting rooms because it has the ability to adjust or mute the sound, but still light up to let her know if her answer is right or wrong. My daughter is an independent learner, so this is an extremely attractive learning tool for her. She spends at least 30 minutes a day with her Hot Dots set, and that's of her own choosing. Overall this is a great supplemental kit for teaching first grade age kids reading. The pages are durable and made to last through repeated use. These books can be used as a teaching tool and as a review for previous concepts to reinforce those ideas. I recommend this kit to anyone with a first grade aged child. It's a great introduction to reading for them.


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This kid-friendly tool set looks just like mom and dad's, and encourages hours of happy make-believe play. The power drill spins and hums for added realism, and the working screwdriver comes with removable heads.
- Includes carrying case, working screwdriver with removable heads, hammer, wrench and more.
- Requires 2 AAA batteries (not included).
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Lincoln Avenue fire under investigation
OBSERVER Staff Report
The Dunkirk Fire Department has provided more information about the fire that occurred Saturday evening on Lincoln Avenue.
Firefighters responded to a reported structure fire at 128 Lincoln Ave. at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Crews found heavy fire in a one-and-a-half story frame house. Exterior and interior attacks were made using two two-and-a-half inch and two one-and-three-quarter inch lines.
The residence was not occupied at the time of the fire. Damage to the house was heavy with exposure damage to an exterior wall at 126 Lincoln Ave.
There were no injuries. The fire is under investigation by the Dunkirk Fire Department and the Chautauqua County Fire Investigation Team.
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criminal possession of a weapon
On Friday, New York State Police in Jamestown charged Jeffrey Young, 54, of Merriam Street in Ellicott, with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony.
Young was detained following a traffic stop on Washington Avenue in Jamestown. Reportedly, he possessed a switch blade in plain view.
Young was processed at the state police barracks in Jamestown, arraigned in the City of Jamestown, and remanded to the Chautauqua County Jail.
Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office
MAYVILLE – Albert Chapman Jr., 29, of Jamestown was taken into custody Wednesday after appearing on the Chautauqua County Most Wanted List for violation of treatment court. Chapman was taken to the Chautauqua County Jail.
On Friday at about 2 a.m., deputies charged Jose L. Maisonet, 18, of Jamestown was charged with disorderly conduct.
Reportedly Maisonet was in the roadway on E. Second Street obstructing traffic. According to deputies, he intentionally slapped a slow moving vehicle which had slowed down for his presence.
Maisonet was taken into custody and then released with an appearance ticket for Jamestown Court at a later date.
RIPLEY – At about 10 p.m. on Friday, Patrick R. Ziolowski, 31, of Route 76 in Ripley was charged with speeding 47 mph in a 35 mph zone, one headlight and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation.
A sheriff's deputy stopped Ziolkowski on West Main Road for speeding and for having only one working headlight. Further investigation reportedly revealed his driver's license was suspended for failure to answer a summons.
Ziolkowski was taken into custody and later released with appearance tickets for the Town of Ripley Court.
City Court
An appearance ticket for Dunkirk City Court was issued by the building inspector to Sandra Waskiewicz for property located at 152 King St. The appearance ticket was for a charge of failure to remove unregistered vehicles from the property and failure to comply with a directive of the building inspector to remove said vehicles. Waskiewicz pleaded guilty and was fined a total of $150, $50 for each count and a $50 court surcharge.
State Police at Jamestown
KIANTONE – On Friday Kevin Haglund, 32, of Maple Street St. and Dominique Leeper, 27 of Arden Parkway, both in Jamestown, were charged for unlawful possession of marijuana.
They were stopped at a road check. Troopers reported that both possessed less than 25 grams of marijuana.
They were released on appearance tickets returnable to the Town of Kiantone Court on March 19.
ELLICOTT – On Saturday, troopers charged James Brown, 39, of Baker Street in the city of Jamestown for driving while intoxicated.
Troopers reported Brown was stopped for moving from lane unsafely on State Route 394. Brown reportedly failed field sobriety tests. He was taken to the state police barracks in Jamestown where he provided a breath sample reported to be .12 percent.
Brown was issued traffic tickets and is scheduled for the Town of Ellicott Court on March 19.