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To protest curiousity-crushing test prep, Penn State Professor Timothy Slekar told his 11-year-old son to write "I prefer not to take your test" on the state exam.
He has been forced to complete worksheets in language arts and mathematics. He can alphabetize spelling words and find the main idea of a paragraph. He's had practice in sequencing. He can round numbers. He can add, subtract, multiply and divide with fractions and decimals. And he has mastered the scripted art of estimating (Who knew there were incorrect estimates?). He has had multiple PSSA practice tests and according to these tests my son is ready.
. . . But what has been lost during these past five months? He sits in social studies and science classes that have been shortened to allow more time for reading and math instruction. He hasn't been given the opportunity to engage real children's literature.
Inspired by Slekar, a Pennsylvania mother opted her sons out of testing, falsely claiming a religious objection.
But there's a backlash against the anti-testing backlash. At Jezebel's Learning Curves, Anna North argues that testing is necessary, especially for children whose parents lack the "time, education and English proficiency" to monitor their children's learning and spot when they're falling behind.
Standardized testing is rarely fun — and it could almost certainly be improved — but it's not nearly as antithetical to real, deep learning as its detractors suggest. Learning how to study will serve kids well throughout life — and while stimulating curiosity is important, most adults are probably glad our curiosity was supplemented by requirements from time to time.
If well-educated parents scuttle standardized testing, their children are likely to learn critical reading and math skills, North argues. Other people's children may not.
Like North, I see no problem in teaching Pennsylvania children to find the main idea in a paragraph, or to add, subtract, multiply and divide with fractions and decimals, or to learn sequencing, rounding and estimating. Apparently, the school is teaching in a boring way and without integrating reading and math into history and science. But it is possible to teach reading comprehension and math skills without drudgery.
Standardized testing is not the devil," writes Robert Pondiscio. "Test prep is the devil." Time-wasting test prep is most likely to be a problem at high-poverty, low-performing schools, he adds.
At my South Bronx elementary school, we had a Teachers College consultant who encouraged us to "teach tests as a genre of literature." But even that pales in comparison to a grad student of mine who was mandated to spend two hours per day on test prep from the first day of school.
Instead of boycotting the tests, parents should demand good teaching, Pondiscio writes.
. . . I would march into the school office the first day of school with the following bargain: "I'm sure you agree the best test prep is great teaching and a robust curriculum, Ms. Principal. So let's keep our focus right there. Don't worry about spending my child's time and your budget dollars on test prep materials. Because if they show up in our kids' classrooms, we can promise our kids won't be showing up for the test."
Pro-testers think anti-testers are like parents who won't vaccinate their children, suggests Alexander Russo.


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Promotion of fundamental labor rights and safe workplaces is a core U.S. value.
Over one hundred years ago, on this day, a fire started at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in Manhattan. The fire swept through the top floors, too high for ladders to reach. Hundreds of workers, mostly immigrant women and girls threw themselves off window ledges onto the streets below. One hundred and forty-six workers were burned or crushed to death.
The Triangle Fire galvanized hundreds of activists to push for fundamental reforms in the workplace. Frances Perkins, who stood helpless watching the fire, became an even more fearless advocate for workers' rights. She later became secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Today, hundreds of organizations commemorate the Triangle Fire by redoubling efforts to reform laws to protect the safety of working people. They honor the memory of those workers who died by reaffirming the necessity of safe workplaces.
Despite these formidable efforts, industrial fires continue to occur in many parts of the world. In 2012, dramatic factory fires took the lives of more than 400 workers, mostly women and girls, and drew the scrutiny of major media, governments, civil society, NGOs, international brands, and consumers.
The Obama administration has made strengthening worker rights and the rules governing the global marketplace central to its mission to create more broadly shared prosperity. With the UN Guiding Principles, international labor conventions, and corporate social responsibility values in mind, international buyers are now more substantively engaging with their suppliers. We continue to urge governments to hold accountable those responsible for negligence or abuse. And workers are organizing to make their voices heard.
All stakeholders need to ensure that global supply chains reflect our values -- the dignity of work, the right of workers to organize, an end to discrimination, and an end to forced and child labor. These are not just core labor rights; they are human rights.
The United States is playing an active role in moving this ambitious agenda forward, and the Department of State is advancing dialogue among all parties to more adequately assist those who work in challenging industrial environments around the world.
Today, we honor the workers who have died in these tragic fires and be inspired to fight for better safety protections for those who are living.
Michelle T.B. in North Carolina writes:
It's so sad to hear this happened to hard working Americans. I am happy they are taking steps to make it safer for people in the work place. I feel they still have a far way to go but hopefully we are moving in the right direction.
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History has proven time and again that such an armed revolution.
This is a collective ambition and the preponderance of negative adrealina Man:
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Snowden is a traitor
"Loose Lips Sink Ships." That was what everyone learned and understood about giving our enemy information that would harm our World War II efforts.
Edward Snowden is not concerned about aiding our enemy that is trying to kill us. He is concerned about our government trying to learn what our enemy is planning.
It is not up to him to decide what should be secret and what should not be secret.
If he doesn't like what he is privileged to learn with a top secret security clearance, he should address his concerns to the proper authorities, not give out secret information to our enemy.
You can be sure our enemies will be much more careful using telephones and the Internet to plan their attacks on us.
Just imagine how much secret information China and Russia have gleaned from the laptops he is carrying around.
I think Edward Snowden should be caught, tried, convicted and imprisoned for being a traitor.
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Cuba sends fresh faces to Olympic Games
BEIJING (AP) Yordenis Ugas doesn't rest his legs with one round left in his first Olympic boxing match. Instead, the skinny young man trying to fill Mario Kindelan's shoes stands straight in his corner, emulating the great Cuban fighters' macho imperviousness to fatigue.
The last boxer to stand in that coveted spot as Cuba's lightweight champion was Kindelan, the impeccably graceful amateur who won two gold medals, three world titles and two Pan Am Games crowns before retiring in 2004.
Kindelan's most talented teammates are gone as well, tempted away from Beijing by professional riches beyond Cuba's shores. Five Cubans won gold medals in Athens in 2004, but three have defected, and a fourth was kicked off the team for trying.
For the first time in at least 16 years, Cuba has no returning gold medalists at the Olympics. Kindelan, the only Athens champion still in the Castro family's good graces, has been replaced by Ugas, just one of several raw but talented youngsters hoping to keep Cuba's gilded reputation intact.
"In Cuba, we have a great reserve (of talent)," said Teofilo Stevenson, the heavyweight champion who epitomizes Cuban boxing culture. "We've been working for many years, and our guys have been preparing for London (in 2012). We have plenty of talent that longs to make history and demonstrate what the Cuban school of boxing is capable of doing."
From his seat in the VIP section of Workers' Gymnasium, Stevenson sees reason to be confident about Cuba's youngsters. Now 56, the three-time gold medalist probably is the greatest fighter in Olympic history - and he's a Cuban hero for repeatedly refusing to turn pro, even to fight Muhammad Ali.
"Ugas got our third victory, and we're unbeaten," Stevenson said Monday after Ugas easily beat Algeria's Hamza Kramou. Hours later, featherweight Idel Torriente kept Cuba unbeaten with another easy win.
"Gradually, our guys are advancing. I have no doubt they will keep our little country at the top of Olympic boxing."
Stevenson, now the vice president of Cuba's national boxing association, wouldn't predict how many gold medals will go back to Havana, claiming "they all have a possibility."
He just might be right. The Cuban team's transformation has been remarkable since December 2006, when gold medalists Odlanier Solis, Yan Barthelemy and Yuriorkis Gamboa all defected during a training session in Venezuela.
Seven months later, two-time gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux and world champion welterweight Erislandy Lara apparently tried to defect in Brazil during the Pan Am Games, but were apprehended and sent back to Cuba. Stevenson argued Rigondeaux and Lara deserved another chance to fight for Cuba, but both were dismissed, with Fidel Castro saying they "had reached the point of no return."
So Lara didn't return, hopping a speedboat to Mexico last spring.
The defections stunned and embarrassed Cuba, and the team refused to travel to the world championships in Chicago last fall for fear of more losses. Still, Stevenson's beliefs were proved correct when the defectors' replacements led a triumphant roll through pre-Olympic tournaments earlier this year, with 10 boxers qualifying for Beijing in every class except light heavyweight, the only spot where Cuba has never won gold.
"Our 10 boxers are going to win," said Cuban coach Pedro Roque. "Gold, bronze, silver, it doesn't matter. They will win."
In the spot where Rigondeaux could have tried to become the fourth fighter in Olympic history to win three gold medals, Cuba has bantamweight Yankiel Leon, who has a nasty right hand but almost no international experience.
Instead of Solis, the Athens gold medalist who succeeded three-time Olympic heavyweight champion Felix Savon, Cuba's representative is Osmay Acosta, who has never won a world title.
Two of the most promising Cubans also have the least maturity - what Cubans call "la cabeza loca," the crazy head.
Ugas is a tall, rangy 22-year-old with stellar punching power, but no significant experience and a penchant for losing his concentration in bouts. Middleweight Emilio Correa, also 22 and the son of 1972 Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr., won the Pan Am title but hasn't fared well against Russia's Matvey Korobov, his top rival in a stacked division.
Their opponents express a common surprise at the Cubans' relative inexperience. They share Stevenson's belief that Cuba's amateur boxing culture simply runs too deep to be uprooted, even by wholesale change.
"They've got a new team, a young team, and it won't change anything about what we think of them," U.S. coach Dan Campbell said. "That's still 'Cuba' on their shirts. They're the best in our business, up there with Russia. We're all trying to catch up."
Associated Press writer Anne-Marie Garcia contributed to this story.


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Dec. 18, 2007 Empty Stocking Fund
December 17, 2007
Today's focus: Ms. G
Household members: 10
Children: 8
Special circumstances: "Ms. G" will not be able to afford presents this year because her income is used towards bills.
Her holiday hopes: For her children to have a nice Christmas.
Clothing needs: Girls shirt sizes 14, medium and 3T. Girls pants sizes 1, 5 and 3T. Girls shoe sizes 6 1/2, 12 and 9. Boys shirt sizes medium, 4T and 18 months. Boys pant sizes 10, 4T and 18 months. Boys shoe sizes 4 and 10.
Toys list: CD player (for two children), Barbie dolls, trucks, cars, baby doll and an infant music or learning toy.
The Empty Stocking Fund is a joint effort of the Salvation Army and Freedom New Mexico. Recipients receive gifts and clothes for their children and some may receive baskets of food with green beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes and a meat voucher from a local grocery store. Larger families may receive donated turkeys instead of the voucher. The food baskets will also go to seniors on fixed incomes.
Who's helped: Around 600 families who've asked the Salvation Army to help make Christmas special.
Donations: Can be dropped off at the CNJ, 521 Pile St., or mailed to the CNJ, P.O. Box 1689, Clovis, NM 88101. Envelopes should be clearly marked "Empty Stocking Fund."
Contributions will be forwarded to the Salvation Army office, 317 E. Second St., or gifts may be purchased for specific children by choosing an Angel tag off trees located at North Plains Mall and Wal-Mart in Clovis.
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Holiday not too taxing
August 5, 2006
CNJ Staff Photo: Andy DeLisle
Sandi St. Clair, a house parent for the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home in Portales, carries clothing for, left to right, Dian, 11, Julienne, 14 and India, 5 while shopping Friday at J.C. Penney.
Editors note: Freedom Newspapers has agreed not to publish the last names of the children in this story by request from the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home in Portales.
Juggling an armful of clothing, a cell phone and four shopping lists, Sandi St. Clair took a break from her back-to-school shopping by perching on the edge of a display table. Around the harried guardian, three young girls stood impatiently awaiting the continuation of their shopping spree.
St. Clair, a houseparent at the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home, was at the North Plains Mall early Friday morning to take advantage of the tax holiday.
The statewide event began at 12:01 a.m. Friday and continues until midnight Sunday. Shoppers can save about 7.5 percent on clothing, footwear and school supplies.
"This (tax holiday) is a very good opportunity (to save money)" St. Clair said, "and it allows the kids to get more."
While quantity was on St. Clair's mind, her young charges were drawn to items that would reflect their individual style.
India, a Portales kindergarten student, was searching for her favorite color. "I like pink," India said. With an eager attitude, the energetic 5-year-old was successful in choosing a pink corduroy jacket and a sequined denim jacket with matching jeans. The youngster also chose a purple sweatsuit, adorned with the words, "Dance Dance Dance," that she plans to wear her first day of school.
"I like to have my picture made," India said with a dimpled grin, "and I like trying on clothes."
Unlike her younger housemate, fourth-grader Dian avoided the feminine colors and gravitated toward items with an athletic style. With a shrug of her T-shirt-clad shoulders, she said she was searching for the perfect pair of jeans. Preferring not to speak, the shy girl instead displayed her choices by holding them in front of her face. Her selections included several camouflage pieces and lots of denim.
"She (Dian) is not a girly-girl," St. Clair said. "She's sporty."
The most fashion-conscious of the shopping group was Alexis.
"It (clothes) doesn't have to look like the stuff in magazines," Alexis said, "but it has to be cute." The headstrong Portales sixth-grader wrinkled her nose in disgust at sweat pants and cuffed denim capri pants.
"I want what is in style," Alexis said. "That stuff is old where I come from."
After much debate over appropriate fit and age-appropriate material, the preteen eventually settled on a stylish pair of black culottes. "They're comfortable," she said.
Style was also on the mind of Julienne, a Portales ninth-grader. The oldest of St. Clair's charges, she preferred to shop alone. The teenager considered a soft, pink sweater before deciding it didn't suit her style.
"I only like hot pink," Julienne said, "and then only with black."
All four girls said they enjoyed the shopping trip and are looking forward to wearing their new clothes on the first day of school.
"Now I have to get my hair braided," Alexis said.


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was curious if anyone hear has given a listen to the talk show on the "other" network in the "other" city as this show airs opposite of Reghi.
Don't know what to make of it thus far, it sounds better than Reghi's "I told you so" style, but at the same time, I'm not sure if these guys "know sports" as other sports talkers do, I mean the one guy is a DJ on WRQK.
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In short: Run by runners for runnersIn full: First class organisation that runs London close. Amazing value for the entry fee with brilliant goody bag full of food you want to eat. Great hoodie as well.Digital clock at halfway and chip timing and an announcer who does their best to call out as many names as he can in the final 100m. Great marshalls and good visibile prescence out on the roads which helped the runners.Well stocked water stations.Definite highlight of the year for meDate of review: March 13, 2011
In short: "Ronseal" race - does what it says on the tinIn full: Great race to test the winter form and a good hard workout on traffic free roads. Very well organised by the promoting club, plenty of marshalls, mile markers, traffic free route. More of a club runners event but I guess that's the appeal of it. Date of review: January 3, 2011
In short: Organisers have bitten off more than they can chewIn full: Race is far too big at almost 12,000 runners for the start and finish on Broad St. With this amount of runners you need a big open road or split starts like London. Shocking scenes at the finish for the bow-wave of runners in the 2hr to 2h20 slot which could easily have been avoided by better organisation of the finish line funneling. I got a PB but I won't go back again.Race starts too early in my opinion - no-one could get in by train as there are no trains into B'ham before 9 a.m. Make it a 10 o'clock start and sort out the start and the pens.Date of review: October 29, 2010
In short: Well organised marathon with PB potentialIn full: Well organised event, great use of the greenway and traffic free without shutting down loads of roads. Well stocked drinks stations, all the basics ticked from a runners point of view. This is a wonderful, low-key marathon which has much to recommend. No negatives to report.Date of review: May 31, 2010
In short: Well run event, does all the basics rightIn full: Used this as prep for London in 2009 and even though weather awful came back for more this year. Good use of facilities at nearby leisure centre and good start/finish area which was very family friendly. Well marshalled all the way around, good course, very quiet in regards to traffic. Water stations were fine. Low key race which does a lot better in terms of organisation than a lot of bigger races.Date of review: March 15, 2010
In short: Coventry keeps on learningIn full: I've done this race every year since 2006 and it gets better every year. Well thought out route, well publicised locally, great buy in from local council and businesses. Minor irritations about the start from last year were rectified for this year. Very professional finish area, plenty of medical staff en route, LOADS of marshalls. A great advert for the city of CoventryDate of review: October 26, 2009
In short: Race of the Falling LeavesIn full: perfect race organised by a wonderful club and as such retains a homely feel. Well organised, plenty of marshalls, quiet lanes out in the countryside. Minimal traffic. Weather made it perfect yesterday. Plenty of toilets at the sports hall and good to have a shower afterwards. MASSIVE spread of home made cakes when you finished to tempt you. Not as big/corporate as Coventry or Leicester but definitely one for the first timer.Date of review: October 5, 2009
In short: An event for all abilitiesIn full: Great race, good HQ - family friendly. No problems in getting going and well stocked water stations. All the basics were done right and it had something for everyone. Nice touch to have banana and Mars bar when you finished.Choice of T-shirt with every pre-entered runner's name on it - way better than the cheap one size fits all rubbish we got at FLM. Big fat WELL DONE to the organisersDate of review: May 10, 2009
In short: Becoming a classic raceIn full: something for everyone - course can cope with 1700+ runners and everything went well. Personal favouriteDate of review: April 7, 2009
In short: As organised as FLM (if not better imo)In full: An abject lesson in how to organise a race:*great parking for over 900 competitors*good sized hall*efficient baggage storage and transporting it to finish for you*well organised start with plenty of start line marshalls*tannoy system you can hear at the start*chip timing*abundance of marshalls out on course to direct you* plenty of signage to warn other road users of race*well stocked water stations with BOTTLES that had SPORTS CAPS. No shitty plastic cups. Easeier to carry with you along the course to regulate your thirst*gels at the later water stations*good finish area, announcer calling out your name as you finished*hoody sweatshirt in your size handed to you as you finished (your size is written on your race number for you)Nocheap rubbish t-shirts that I wouldn't even wash my car with *goodie bag with batch, cereal bars, water, bananas, crisps*energy drinks at the finish*runners shop at the hall selling trainers for between £10 and £30 and plenty of bargains to be had.No crappy medals, no annoying flyers. It's as though the race was designed around the runner. London could do a lot worse than looking at the clothing this race handed out and the goodie bagsDate of review: March 22, 2009
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Occom, Samson
Samson Occom 1723-1792
American missionary, educator, sermon and hymn writer, and essayist.
Occom was one of the first Native American scholars and writers, and, with the issuing of A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian (1772) and A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774), the first to be published.
Biographical Information
Occom was born in a Mohegan settlement in Connecticut, to Joshua and Sarah Ockham. Occom's mother, who had a great influence on her son, was descended from the great Mohegan leader Uncas, and it was she who first converted to Christianity. Occom himself converted at the age of seventeen. When he was only nineteen he became one of the leaders of the Mohegans when he was named one of the tribal councilors. During this time he taught himself English in order to read the Bible, and in 1743 he was accepted into the private school of Eleazar Wheelock, pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Lebanon, Connecticut. After studying four years with Wheelock, Occom planned to enter college, but poor health and eye strain prevented him. For the next two years he taught school at New London before moving to Long Island, New York, where he spent eleven years teaching and serving as minister to the Montauk. In 1751 he married Mary Fowler, a Montauk woman with whom he was to have ten children. Inadequately paid in his official positions, Occom supplemented his income by farming, fishing, hunting, making and selling wooden utensils, and bookbinding. He was ordained by the New Light Calvinist sect of Connecticut in 1756 and by the Presbytery of Suffolk, Long Island, in 1759. Occom's affiliation with Christianity and the white establishment led to conflict when he openly opposed government acquisition of tribal lands and advocated better education for Native Americans. In 1765 Occom was sent to England with the Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker to raise funds for Wheelock's Indian Charity School. There he delivered over three hundred sermons and collected over £12,000. When Wheelock subsequently moved the school from Connecticut to New Hampshire and severely restricted the number of Indian students, Occom felt betrayed, and their relationship became permanently strained. In 1785, Occom co-founded—with Joseph Johnson, his son-in-law and former pupil—Brothertown in Oneida County, New York, which was populated primarily by converted Native Americans. He moved his family there four years later and spent his remaining years engaged in pastoral and civic duties. Shortly before his death in 1792, Occom established the first Indian Presbyterian church in Brothertown.
Major Works
Occom's A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian and A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs are believed to be the first two books published by a Native American. The Sermon was first delivered on September 4, 1772, at the execution of Paul, a Mohegan who had killed Moses Cook, a white man, in a drunken brawl. Occom's message on the need for temperance so moved his audience that he was encouraged to publish it. The first edition sold out in two weeks, followed by a second and a third that same year; ultimately, nineteen editions were published. Two years following the publication of the Sermon, Occom issued A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, a compendium of pieces he had gathered during his ministry, including some that he had composed himself. This work went through three editions.
Critical Reception
Occom's works have often been viewed as pioneering efforts, valued for their historical significance as among the earliest efforts by a Native American writer and as expressions of an active proponent of Indian rights. Bernd Peyer has called Occom "the 'father' of modern Native American literature" for his groundbreaking works, and A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, pointing to the nineteen editions of A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian has declared this work "the first Indian best-seller." Increasingly, however, critics—including Brown Ruoff—have begun to view Occom's writings as literary works. Brown Ruoff has analyzed the Sermon within the genre of the "execution sermon" and praised Occom's handling of "the delicate task of communicating with both white and Indian audiences without alienating either one." David Murray and Michael Elliott have similarly noted Occom's precarious position between two cultures and examined the rhetorical strategies in the Sermon necessitated by its dual audience. For her part, Margaret Connell Szasz has investigated Occom's role as a mediator between the two cultures, observing that while Occom's message "appealed to both native and non-native, his heart and affections lay with the natives, whom he often described as 'my people.'"
Principal Works
*"An Account of the Montauk Indians, on Long Island" (essay) 1761
†"A Short Narrative of My Life" (autobiography) 1768
A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the Second of September, 1772; for the Murder of Mr. Moses Cook, Late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December, 1771. Preached at the Desire of Said Paul (sermon) 1772
‡A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Intended for the Edification of Sincere Christians, of All Denominations [editor] (song collection) 1774
§"Sam Occom's Diary" (diary) 1993
*This work was not published until 1804, when it appeared in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 9.
†This work was not published until 1982, when it appeared in The Elders Wrote: An Anthology of Early Prose by North American Indians, 1768-1931, ed. Bernd Peyer.
‡Scholars believe that, in addition to compiling this collection, Occom composed some of the songs himself, including "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound" and "Now the Shades of Night Are Gone."
§This work, covering the years 1743 to 1790, was edited by Julia Clark and published in 1993 in The History and Archaeology of the Montauk, ed. Gaynell Stone.
Belle M. Brain (essay date 1910)
SOURCE: "Samson Occom, the Famous Indian Preacher of New England," in Missionary Review of the World, Vol. 33, 1910, pp. 913-19.
[In the following essay, Brain offers a survey of Occom's career.]
Samson Occom, the foremost Christian Indian of New England, was one of the best-known and most eloquent preachers of his day. Until the close of the last century his story was but little known; but now, thanks to the exhaustive researches of Dr. W. De Loss Love, we have a full account of his life and the times in which he lived and worked.1
Occom was born in 1723 in a wigwam in the Indian village of Mohegan, not far from New London, Conn. His father, Joshua Ockham, Aucom or Mawcum, as the name is variously spelled, seems to have been a man of some distinction in his tribe; while his mother, who soon figures in the records as "Widow Sarah Occom," implying her husband's early demise, was far above the average of Indian women in industry, intellect and affection. She is said to have been a descendant of the famous Mohegan chief Uncas.
Tho Sarah Occom eventually became an earnest Christian and exercised a strong influence on the life and character of her distinguished son, at the time of his birth she and her entire family and tribe were heathen. In an old manuscript still preserved at Dartmouth College, written by Occom at the age of forty-five, he quaintly gives these glimpses of his early life:
I was Born and brought up in Heathenism till I was between sixteen and seventeen years of age, at a Place called Mohegan, in New London, Conn., in New England. My Parents lived a wandering life, as did all the Indians at Mohegan. They Chiefly Depended upon Hunting, Fishing and Fowling for their living, and had no connection with the English, except to Traffic with them in their small trifles, and they strictly maintained their Heathenish ways, customs and Religions. Neither did we cultivate our Land nor keep any Sort of Creatures, except Dogs, which we used in Hunting, and we Dwelt in Wigwams. …
Once a Fortnight in ye Summer Season a Minister from New London used to come up and the Indians to attend; not that they regarded the Christian Religion, but they had Blankets given to them every Fall of the year, and for these things they would attend. And there was a Sort of a School Kept, when I was quite young, but I believe there never was one that ever Learnt to read anything. And when I was about ten years of age there was a man who went about among the Indian Wigwams, and wherever he could find the Indian Children would make them read, but the Children used to take Care to keep out of his Way; and he used to Catch me sometimes and make me Say over my Letters, and I believe I learnt some of them. But all this Time there was not one amongst us that made a Profession of Christianity.
For fully fifty years faithful workers among the colonists had endeavored to give the gospel to these Indians, but with almost no success. "There has been Something done to Christianize the Mohegans and other Indians in the Colony of Connecticut," wrote Cotton Mather in 1715; "but, Lord, who has believed! They have been obstinate in their Paganism; however, their obstinacy has not put an End unto our Endeavours."
About the year 1740, however, when the great revival under Whitefield was sweeping over the colonies, the whites redoubled their efforts for the Indians, and the Indians responded as never before. Among those early convicted of sin was young Occom, then in his seventeenth year. After six months of doubt and darkness, he finally accepted Christ and resolved to devote his life to His service. So eager did he now become to learn to read the Word of God that he bought a primer and went from house to house begging his white neighbors to give him a little instruction.
As time went on his desire to serve Christ grew greater rather than less. By dint of great perseverance he learned to read a little in the bible, and he faithfully used every opportunity for talking to the Indians concerning their souls, but he sorely needed further instruction. This he presently secured from the Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, a Congregational minister in Lebanon, Conn., who afterward became president of Dartmouth College. In the manuscript already quoted, Occom tells how his acquaintance with this good friend began:
At this time my Poor Mother was going to Lebanon, and having had some knowledge of Mr. Wheelock, and Learning that he had a number of English Youth under his Tuition, I had a great Inclination to go to him and be with him a week or a Fortnight, and Desired my Mother to Ask Mr. Wheelock whether he would take me a little while to Instruct me in Reading. Mother did so, and when she came Back she said Mr. Wheelock wanted to see me as soon as possible. So I went up thinking I should be back again in a few Days. When I got up there, he received me with Kindness & compassion, & instead of staying a Fortnight or 3 weeks, I spent 4 years with him.
When, on December 6, 1743, Dr. Wheelock opened the doors of his home and received the young Mohegan into his household, he little realized how great an event it would be in the lives of them both. Not only did it give Occom the preparation needed for his life work, but it led the good doctor to establish his famous Indian Charity School, which played an important part in the early evangelization of the Redmen.
Quick to recognize the latent talents of his dusky pupil, Dr. Wheelock set about developing them with rare patience and skill. Under his wise instruction Occom soon mastered the arts of reading and writing and began the study of Latin and the classics. At the same time he was learning many things not found in the textbooks. The refining influence of the Christian home of which he was an inmate did much to mold his character, and association with white youth of his own age revealed defects in his training which he was wise enough to endeavor to remedy.
In view of Occom's desire to be a missionary, it was planned to give him a course at Yale on the completion of his preparatory work with Dr. Wheelock. But at the end of four years, tho he had made "such progress that he would doubtless have entered upon his second year at his first admission," this plan had to be reluctantly relinquished. His eyes had been so seriously overstrained by application that continuous study was out of the question.
It was hopeful, however, that he might be able to take a private course in theology under some minister, and in the autumn of 1748 negotiations to this end were entered into with the Rev. Solomon Williams, of Lebanon. But Occom's eyes continued so weak and he had such a spell of illness, that this plan had to be given up.
Poor Occom was greatly disappointed, yet his missionary zeal continued unabated, and his heart was full of hope that he might yet find a field of labor among his people. Ere long God honored his faith and called him to a work in which He greatly blest him.
This was at Montauk, the eastern extremity of Long Island. The place was ever a favorite resort of the Indians, and in the summer of 1749 Occom went there on a fishing excursion with a party of his fellow tribesmen. He was an expert fisherman, but he cared more for men than for fish just then, and leaving his companions to engage in their sport, went about among the wigwams fishing for men. So great was the interest that the Indians pleaded with him to come and start a school among them. As a result he returned to Montauk in November, 1749, and began a work there in which he continued twelve years.
Tho merely a teacher, he soon added to his work in the school three religious services on the...
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Harold Blodgett (essay date 1935)
SOURCE: "Conclusion," in Samson Occom, Dartmouth College Publications, 1935, pp. 215-18.
[Blodgett is the author of the first comprehensive biography of Occom. In the following excerpt from that work, he offers a summation of the missionary's life and work, declaring that Occom "never 'sold out,' as so many Indians did. … [He] stood for Indian autonomy, dying at last in an independent Indian township which he had fought to create and preserve."]
The Indian who emerges from the foregoing record is not a subtle character. No complex analysis is required to arrive at a fair estimate of the man. As a preacher he never questioned the orthodoxies in which he...
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Bernd Peyer (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Samson Occom: Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the 18th Century," in The American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 6, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter, 1982, pp. 208-17.
[In the essay below, Peyer characterizes Occom as "the 'father' of modern Native American literature."]
Native American scholarship began early in the 17th century—almost immediately after the foundation of the first New England colonies—as a consequence of efforts made by elergymen such as John Eliot and Thomas Mayhew who hoped to speed up the dissemination of Christianity by educating Native Americans and training them as missionaries. In 1665, the Harvard Indian College commenced offering...
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David Murray (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Christian Indians: Samson Occom and William Apes," in Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts, Pinter Publishers, 1991, pp. 49-64.
[In the following excerpt, Murray argues that the deferential tone in Occom's letters addressed to whites is a rhetorical tactic that allows him to mount criticisms of the whites.]
The difficulties of talking about self-expression and power can be seen particularly clearly in the intermingling, in the early writings of Indians, of their perceptions of their own inferiority and the injustices done to them. The interconnection of these two issues was a historically determined matter,...
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A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Introduction: Samson Occom's Sermon Preached by Samson Occom … at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian," in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 4, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 75-81.
[In the following excerpt, Brown Ruoff explores Occom's Sermon in the context of the genre of the "execution sermon."]
Occom (1723-92) was raised as a traditional Mohegan, the northernmost branch of the Pequots and fiercest of the New England tribes. For a brief period in the mid-seventeenth century, the Mohegans, then numbering 2,000, greatly expanded their territory. By the end of the seventeenth...
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Michael Elliott (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "'This Indian Bait': Samson Occom and the Voice of Limnality," in Early American Literature, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1994, pp. 233-53.
[In the essay below, Elliott analyzes Occom's discourse in his correspondence, Sermon, and other writings, contending that the rhetorical strategies he employs reflect his precarious position between white and Indian cultures.]
In 1759, Samson Occom (1723-1792) became the first Native American to be ordained as a minister of the Christian gospel. As both Mohegan Indian and a Protestant minister, Occom held a socially and discursively precarious position in New England society. Perhaps no one event better encapsulates the...
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Margaret Connell Szasz (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Samson Occom: Mohegan as Spiritual Intermediary," in Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994, pp. 61-78.
[In the following essay, Szasz investigates Occom's position as a cultural mediator between Anglo-Americans and Native Americans.]
The traveler bound along the turnpike road to New London, Connecticut, in 1764 might have noticed the construction of a large, two-story house just east of the town of Norwich. But the home would have attracted little attention unless a local resident had explained that it belonged to Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian.
By the 1760s, when the Occom family home...
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Bernd C. Peyer (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Samson Occom and the Vision of a New England Christian Indian Polity," in The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellusm America, University of Massachussetts Press, 1997, pp. 54-116.
[In the following essay, Peyer surveys Occom's complete body of work, stressing the "vision of a New England Christian Indian 'Body Politick'" expressed throughout his writings.]
Samson Occom's Remarkable life history spans a dark period in the evolution of Indian-white relations in North America, dominated by suspicion and hatred on both sides. In spite of severe health problems and permanent disillusionment with Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism, the "Pious...
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Further Reading
Eells, Earnest Edward. "Indian Missions on Long Island, Part V: Samson Occom." Journal of the Department of History of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, XIX, No. 3 (1940): 99-109.
Surveys Occom's career and declares that his "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound," included in A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs put Occom in the "proud position of being the first hymn writer of the American Presbyterian Church."
Richardson, Leon Burr. An Indian Preacher in England. Dartmouth College Publications, 1933, 376 p.
Reprints letters to and from Occom, as well as extracts from his diary...
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Physical fitness, but not muscle strength, is a risk factor for death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at an early age
- 1Department of Neuroscience, Neurology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2Statisticon AB, Uppsala, Sweden
- Correspondence to Dr P Mattsson, Department of Neuroscience, Neurology, Uppsala University Hospital, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden; peter.mattsson{at}neuro.uu.se
- Received 4 June 2010
- Revised 8 August 2010
- Accepted 10 August 2010
- Published Online First 18 September 2010
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder mainly characterised by motor symptoms. Extensive physical activity has been implicated in the aetiology of ALS. Differences in anthropometrics, physical fitness and isometric strength measured at 18–19 years were assessed to determine if they are associated with subsequent death in ALS.
Method Data on body weight and height, physical fitness, resting heart rate and isometric strength measured at conscription were linked with data on death certificates in men born in 1951–1965 in Sweden (n=809 789). Physical fitness was assessed as a maximal test on an electrically braked bicycle ergometer. Muscle strength was measured as the maximal isometric strength in handgrip, elbow flexion and knee extension in standardised positions, using a dynamometer. Analyses were based on 684 459 (84.5%) men because of missing data. A matched case control study within this sample was performed. The population was followed until 31 December 2006, and 85 men died from ALS during this period.
Results Weight adjusted physical fitness (W/kg), but not physical fitness per se, was a risk factor for ALS (OR 1.98, 95% CI 1.32 to 2.97), whereas resting pulse rate, muscle strength and other variables were not.
Conclusions Physical fitness, but not muscle strength, is a risk factor for death at early age in ALS. This may indicate that a common factor underlies both fitness (W/kg) and risk of ALS.
Funding This study was sponsored by the Selanders Foundation, which was not involved in the completion of the study in any way.
Competing interests PM received research support from Selanders Foundation and Epilepsifonden. HA serves on the Advisory Board Neurology of H Lundbeck AB, Sweden, and on the Advisory Board Immunoglobulins of KL Behring, Sweden. He received research support from Selanders Foundation. IN received research support from an anonymous donor.
Ethics approval The study was approved by the local ethics committee.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.


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Hill Billy Half Marathon: Run Your Pace - Page 2
Getting lost in the forest's beauty, I stepped right into a four-inch deep mud puddle. … Couldn't I have at least made it two miles before soaking my feet? I focused more intently on my foot placement and began to notice very frequent mud and puddles on the trail. The farther I ran, the more gunk I encountered.
So, to keep things fun and relaxed, I bounded off of rocks and logs to avoid the deep mud and murky water. I was feeling great and having the time of my life.
Through all my goofing, I was slowly creeping up on the lead female, Christina Bauer (second place at Moab's Red Hot 33K, and my fellow LaSportiva Mountain Cup competitor). I was confident that I could catch her, but was in no hurry to do so. It was a completely foreign though for my miler's mind, but after bonking (hard) at the Red Hot 33K, my number one race goal, was to run my race at my pace.
I must have splashed through a dozen knee-deep snow melt puddles (no way to avoid them) before I was on Bauer's heels. I stuck behind her enjoying a comfortable pace and was debating on when I should make a move. Just after mile four, she stopped to tie her shoe, and I took off in hopes of creating a serious separation on the windy trail. Since we were friends and both experiencing challenges on the trail, I made sure to say "good work" as I passed Bauer.
Almost immediately my mental state changed from enjoying the chase to fear of being hunted down. My pace quickened. It was an out and back course, so I could gauge my lead after the turnaround. And, I wasn't as far ahead as I had hoped. Luckily, it was mostly downhill … my favorite direction to run!
With one mile to go, I still felt strong enough to run another five. Then, with 200 meters to go, I still felt cloud-high. The course rounded a corner and I gave a quick look to see if second place was going to engage in a full sprint-battle to the finish. No one was there. I kept my pace and headed into the shoot as first female.
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Happy Birthday Mario!Posted by Christian Carey in Birthdays, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Electro-Acoustic, File Under?, New York, tags: ICE, Mario Davidovsky, Miller Theatre, Tony Arnold
Composer Mario Davidovsky turns 77 today. The International Contemporary Ensemble and soprano Tony Arnold are celebrating his birthday with a Portrait Concert at Miller Theatre tonight at 8 PM (details here). They've also recorded a birthday greeting for the composer (video below), adding a bit of angularity and jocular dodecaphony to a more traditional number.
Mario Davidovsky Birthday Toast from Miller Theatre on Vimeo.