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Celebrations are in full swing at the suburban Queensland home of Schapelle Corby's mother Rosleigh Rose.
Cheers, yells and the sound of popping corks could be heard coming from the backyard of the family home at Loganlea, south of Brisbane, on Monday afternoon.
Ms Rose has taped off the entry to her front door and boarded up her windows following the news her daughter has been released on parole from Bali's Kerobokan prison after more than nine years inside.
A clearly delighted Ms Rose made a brief appearance outside to pop a champagne cork in front of the media, but did not speak.
A throng of family friends and well wishers have been making their way in and out of the residence, but have been reluctant to speak to waiting media.
Corby's half-brother James Kisina left the home about midday drinking a celebratory beer with a friend.
The pair returned about an hour later with party supplies - a bottle of bourbon, a two-litre bottle of coke and a carton of beer.
"I'm speechless," Mr Kisina told media about news of his sister's release.
"I'm just going to go party, hey."
Mr Kisina said he did not know what he would say to his sister when he eventually saw her, but would be giving her a hug.
A family friend, who did not want to be named, told reporters the family was braced for the intense media interest.
"It's going to be worse than Lady Di, everywhere she goes, any time she scratches her bum or anything, someone will have a picture," he said before leaving on his motorbike.
"She'll cope."
The visitor described Schapelle as "very nice, like her mum".
The man, who said he'd known Ms Rose for 42 years, said he expected her to go to Bali to visit her daughter, but hadn't asked why she wasn't there already.
"It's her life, her daughter, her way of dealing with things," he said.
"I think she'd go totally to pieces if she went over there - one, because of the circus over there, and that'd tear her apart more than anything and I think Schapelle realises that."


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From: "Irish Mom" <>
Subject: [IRELAND] (POEM) Songs Of Our Land by Frances Browne
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:03:06 -0500
I haven't sent any poems to the list in some time:
Songs Of Our Land
by Frances Browne
Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever,
The power and the splendor of thrones pass away;
But yours is the might of some far flowing river,
Through Summer's bright roses or Autumn's decay.
Ye treasure each voice of the swift passing ages,
And truth which time writeth on leaves or on sand;
Ye bring us the thoughts of poets and sages,
And keep them among us, old songs of our land.
The bards may go down to the place of their slumbers,
The lyre of the charmer be hushed in the grave,
But far in the future the power of their numbers
Shall kindle the hearts of our faithful and brave.
It will waken an echo in souls deep and lonely,
Like voices of reeds by the summer breeze fanned;
It will call up a spirit of freedom, when only
Her breathings are heard in the songs of our land.
For they keep a record of those, the true-hearted,
Who fell with the cause they had vowed to maintain;
They show us bright shadows of glory departed,
Of love that grew cold and the hope that was vain.
The page may be lost and the pen long forsaken,
And weeds may grow wild o'er the brave heart and hand;
But ye are still left when all else hath been taken,
Like streams in the desert, sweet songs of our land.
Songs of our land, ye have followed the stranger,
With power over ocean and desert afar,
Ye have gone with our wanderers through distance and danger,
And gladdened their path like a home-guiding star.
With the breath of our mountain in summers long vanished,
And visions that passed like a wave from the sand,
With hope for their country and joy from her banished,
Ye come to us ever, sweet songs of our land.
The spring time may come with the song of our glory,
To bid the green heart of the forest rejoice,
But the pine of the mountain though blasted and hoary,
And the rock in the desert, can send forth a voice.
It was thus in their triumph for deep desolations,
While ocean waves roll or the mountains shall stand,
Still hearts that are bravest and best of the nations,
Shall glory and live in the songs of our land.
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Orphans lie still and untouched in their cribs, all day and all night.
Because of its very low population densities, Poland was untouched the plague - and by the ensuing pogroms.
His ethereally beautiful girlfriend, Marina, was with him, sitting silent in front of an untouched cocktail.
Of course, Meat Loaf's art supplies were found moments later, untouched by Busey.
There was a line that was missing in the first cut: "He gave a pack of cigarettes to me untouched."
A stray shell burst just in front of him, and another just behind him, but he and his horse were untouched.
The lunch which the maid had brought to his room was on the table by his bed, untouched.
The leaves of the book are then untouched until we reach the sixty-ninth from the end, upon which is one worm hole.
Thirteen killed, your honor, and fifteen wounded; scarcely one of us untouched.
When assigned to this new, untouched field, his heart and the heart of his wife were deeply moved.


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Mock Trial District results are in, Revere, Hoban are winners
Revere High School captured a big win at the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education's High School Mock Trial District Competition on Friday. More than 3000 high school students were in courtrooms to take part in the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education (OCLRE) 31st Annual Ohio Mock Trial Competition. The competition pits high school trial teams against each other, arguing cases inspired by real-life happenings. This year's case involves an "Occupy Wall Street" scenario played out on a high school campus. Fictitious Philips High School agrees to license naming rights of its field to a large corporation. Students protest this action and the school district responds by installing security cameras and searching the students' lockers. The students claim the school district has violated their rights under the First and Fourth amendments.
Summit County's Common Pleas Courthouse became a hotbed of high school-related activity as 20 teams overtook 10 different courtrooms today, and the competition waged on. The students play the roles of attorney, witness and bailiff in the mock trials. Local judges and attorneys volunteer their time and expertise to preside over and score the mock trials.
"I congratulate the kids," said Judge Alison McCarty, who chairs the Akron Bar Association's Mock Trial Committee. "They work hard, learn about our justice system, and really become excited about the law. This is a great experience that each student will remember for a long time."
McCarty said that over 40 lawyers and judges participated this year to ensure that the students received a realistic experience when they walked into the courtroom.
In order to advance to the Regional Competition, which occurs in three weeks, teams must win both of their trials. This year, 7 teams from 5 schools advanced. Revere High School took home the top honor, and Hoban came in second place. Two other Hoban teams advanced, as did teams from Hudson, St. Vincent - St. Mary and Buckeye High Schools.
The Akron Bar Association sponsors the District and Regional Competitions, which are held each year in the Summit County Courthouse. Teams that advance from Regional Competition will take part in the State Competition March 6-8 in Columbus. The state champion will advance to the National High School Mock Trial Championship May 8-10 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Attorney Marissa Pappas, and Magistrates Kandi O'Connor and Bill Wellemeyer listen to students argue their case at the Mock Trial Competition held Friday at the Summit County Courthouse. Photo by Tom Bown
Attorneys Kandee Robinson and Darren DeHaven listen to high school students argue their case, while Judge John Quinn, center, presides. Photo by Tom Bown
Students and observers fill the courtroom of Judge Lynne Callahan on Mock Trial Day at the Summit County Courthouse. Photo by Tom Bown
Attorneys Brian Williams, Lisa Vitale and Cara Ford (left to right) listen to students argue on Mock Trial Day in the Summit County Courthouse. Photo by Tom Bown.
Attorneys Stephanie Zaranec, Jeremy Veillette (center) and James Knapp listen intently to the students plead their case in the courtroom of Judge Alison McCarty. Photo by Tom Bown.
A student argues, and other listen carefully during the High School Mock trial Competition held at the Summit County Courthouse Friday.
Photo by Tom Bown.
Mock Trial Committee member Attorney Keith Malick adds up the scores for the Mock Trial Competition. Photo by Alison McCarty.
The attorneys pictured are Brian Williams, Lisa Vitale and Cara Ford.


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Looking ahead to September 20
March 10, 2014
"Today we discovered that the general election will be held on the 20th of September 2014," said ACT leader Jamie Whyte.
"The most important outcome of this election is that a Labour-Green-NZ First coalition not come to power. Their policies of high taxes, central planning and economic isolationism would do serious damage to the prosperity of New Zealanders.
"Without ACT MPs, National will not be able to form a government and keep put Labour-Green-NZ First. ACT must win Epsom and get several more list MPs into parliament.
"ACT is also needed in parliament to remind other MPs of whose money they are spending. A fiscal surplus is forecast for coming years and, already, the other parties plan to use it to buy votes. $60 a week baby bonuses, extended paid parental leave and solar panel subsidies are sure to be just the start.
"ACT is the only party that will always favour letting people keep their own money.
"Over the coming months, ACT will be announcing policies that will make New Zealand a more prosperous and fair country where everyone can thrive.
"We look forward to putting our ideas to voters."


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QUEBEC-RESEARCH-L ArchivesArchiver > QUEBEC-RESEARCH > 2004-04 > 1081796053
From: "Bertrand Desjardins" <>
Subject: PRDH Problem
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:55:00 -0400
Bonjour everybody,
A few weeks ago, I celebrated my 31st anniversary as a member of the
Programme de recherche en demographie historique (PRDH for short), of which
I am now in charge. The PRDH is a University research project aimed at
bettering our knowledge of the French-Canadian population of Quebec from the
initial peopling of the territory by French migrants, while training
students to become researchers in the field of demography. To accomplish
these goals, we created a data base made up of a transcription of the main
elements of the baptisms, marriages and burials from the catholic parish
registers and of the individual biographies and genealogies which can be
established from them.
Among other things, I bear full responsibility for the genealogical
decisions of the project, our data management, our displays, etc. I am very
proud of our work and I do not hesitate to write that I feel we have
produced the best information system of the kind on a specific population in
the world. So you will understand when a message like the one below is
brought to my attention, which includes the phrases "These are very serious
fielding problems with the PRDH, and should be
remedied as it is causing much misinformation and obvious confusion" and
"But, while we are at it, let me issue a warning! The PRDH is pretty solid
in compiling family associations in the pre-1750 period, but is frequently
(understandably) incomplete and down-right incorrect in the post-1750
period", even if I am at home enjoying the day off with my family, I hasten
to react...I will successively address the two issues brought up by Mr.
[From: "Kevan Barton" <>
Subject: Correction: RE: PRDH Problem
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:34:36 -0400
The PRDH has a tendency to mislabel a number of vital events depending on
how you choose to view the data in your pull. It is a database field
problem. I think the problem centers on the family view offered where it
gives familial data in four columns: Birth, Marriage, Death, and First Name
of the Child. This is what I see very frequently:
For a Birth in the family-view:
If there is no birth date in the baptism certificate, then the birth date in
the family view defaults to the baptism date. However, the data base in the
family-view will field the baptism date as the birth date. This is a
serious problem and should be remedied as this is causing much confusion.
Without looking at the specific certificates, you can't know for certain if
the fielded birth date in the family view is the actual birth date, the
baptism date, or both (born and baptized on the same day).
For a Death in the family-view:
If there is no death date in the burial certificate, then the death date in
the family view defaults to the burial date. However, the data base in the
family view will field the burial date as the death date. Without looking
at the specific certificates, you can't be certain if the death date in the
family-view is in fact the death date, the burial date, or both (died and
buried the same day).
These are very serious fielding problems with the PRDH, and should be
remedied as it is causing much misinformation and obvious confusion.]
All the above is true. There are two dates associated with both Baptisms
and Burials in the Parish registers, that is birth and baptism, and death
and burial. Catholics were obliged to baptize as soon after birth as
possible and for obvious reasons, burial was usually close to death, so
dates are usually close from one another.
In its repertory ovf vital events, the PRDH has always transcribed both
dates when available; so any case where there is only one means the priest
did not specify the other (ususally the birth or death date is then
As demographers, we had to have a birth date for each of the individuals so
their age at different events could be ascertained. So we defined a variable
for that which stored the birth date if it was available, and the baptism
date as a proxy if it wasn't (knowing it was cetainly very close to it).
Same for death/burial date.
This date is the one which is displayed in the Birth/Deat columns. Thus
"Birth" does not identify "Birth date", but "Information about Birth date,
which can be baptism date in some cases". One has indeed to go back to the
transcription of the corresponding act to know exactly. I readily admit this
can cause confusion.
The late Rene Jette was very adament this should be remedied and it was on
the CD version of the PRDH families 1621-1765, where both dates are
distinguished in the individual files (but not in the family files, so not
to overcharge the displays). The site will be updated in a few weeks and I
will have the displays of the site changed to remedy the situation.
[But, while we are at it, let me issue a warning! The PRDH is pretty solid
in compiling family associations in the pre-1750 period, but is frequently
(understandably) incomplete and down-right incorrect in the post-1750
period. An excellent example is the marriage association of Ignace Levesque,
husband of Marie Catherine Raymond and Marie Genevieve Laplante. The PRDH
ascribes another marriage to Ignace even though this other lady is still
producing babies from her first husband. This is really bad news and I've
seen this bad connection cropping up in data bases (i.e. the Ancestral
File). The PRDH is not performing well in some contexts and is being the
cause of bad data! ]
I have more difficulty with this affirmation. It is not acceptable to state
one mistake and write "is FREQUENTLY incomplete and down-right incorrect in
the post-1750 period". Imperfections in the data in the parish registers,
the multiplication of homonyms with time and the necessity to handle hundred
of thousands of informations necesseraly cause mistakes to happen. Everybody
benefits from the work of their predecessors. Tanguay was the first to do
systematic Quebec genealogy 1621-1750s and made a lot of mistakes. Godbout
came after him and made less. Jetté came after them and made even less for
the 1621-1730 period (but committed a few). We came after Jetté...But nobody
had done 1760-1799 completely and systematically before us, hence...
Look at the numbers : there are some 75 000 marriages before 1800, which
means some 150 000 filiations have to be established. If 150 mistakes are
found in the PRDH information on filiations, you have a 99.9% exact data
base as to that part of the information. Find 1500, and you have 99%. I can
vouch you will never finf 1500 bad filiations in our data, so I can't accept
our information would be equated with "FREQUENTLY incomplete and down-right
In the case stated by Mr. Barton, the priest wrote in the marriage of Ignace
Lefevre to Genevieve Laplante he was the widower of Marie Boucher. This
information was processed without benefiting from the linked Baptisms, so a
mistake was made where Ignace was confused with the only Lefevre-Boucher
couple around. Actually, Ignace's former wife was Marie Raymond, whose
mother was a Boucher, inducing the priest to write a faulty name in the
marriage act. I have corrected the data and it will show up correctly in the
updated version of the site in May.
I would argue the best thing to do when one finds a mistake is not to cry
wolf and issue a warning the PRDH is being the cause of bad data, but to
write it in to us, so we can make the correction, to the benefit of
everyone. This said, I recognize our mistake and...I do believe there are
not many of them around!
[Comments wanted.]
You got them! Please note I appreciate people working seriously at genealogy
and as the years go by, the information will keep getting nearer to
perfection...if such a level exists!!
The best to you all,
BERTRAND DESJARDINS Ph. D.
Prog. de recherche en démographie historique
Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques
Dép. de Démographie, Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. centre-ville
Montréal (Qc), Canada H3C 3J7
Tél.: (514) 343-7613 Fax: (514) 343-2309
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And Now, a Magazine for the Over-40 Woman
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Published: February 7, 1988
FRANCES LEAR didn't know anything about headlines or deadlines. But she was convinced that she had an idea. Two years ago, armed with a huge settlement from her divorce from the television producer Norman Lear, she started work on a magazine for women over 40.
''I was tired of seeing 17-year-old models and reading stories for young marrieds,'' the 62-year-old, white-haired Ms. Lear said during an interview in her New York office. ''We have been shut out of the media for so long that we have not seen ourselves in positive images anywhere.'' And so the concept for Lear's, her glossy, upscale magazine for the ''woman who wasn't born yesterday,'' began to crystallize.
On Feb. 23, that magazine will make its debut, and Ms. Lear's attempt to reach the growing and potentially lucrative market of older readers is drawing a lot of attention. Few publications now aim for that market, and thus far, Lear's has gotten a surprisingly strong response from subscribers and advertisers.
Ms. Lear is drawing a good bit of attention herself. As one publishing executive put it, ''Who is that woman anyway, and how can she spend $25 million to start a magazine?'' (Ms. Lear has said that she expects to spend that much of her $100 million-plus divorce settlement on the publication before it reaches profitability.) Even with that kind of backing, Lear's future is unclear. For one thing, Ms. Lear is a novice in publishing and has already developed something of a reputation for being both unpredictable and hot tempered. And advertisers and publishers alike concede that selling to the older market is a particularly tricky challenge.
Indeed, the market that Ms. Lear has gone after is one that most advertisers and publishers are just now beginning to address, drawn in by changing demographics. ''This is the time the baby boomers grow up,'' said Michele Magazine, publisher of Lear's. While there were 47 million women over the age of 40 in 1984, there will be 52 million in 1990.
''By 1990, we will be a middled-aged culture,'' said Susan Gianinno, executive vice president and director of marketing at Young & Rubicam.
The numbers have also proved attractive to Peter Diamandis, chairman of Diamandis Communications, formerly CBS Publications. Mr. Diamandis is testing the waters for older readers with a magazine called Memories, which features updates on major events and celebrities. The company is spending about $1 million to market a single issue. If the test is successful, Mr. Diamandis may publish Memories monthly.
FOR YEARS, there have only been two major publications in the field: Modern Maturity, which is mailed to the 17 million members of the American Association of Retired Persons, and 50 Plus, which was started in 1960 and acquired by Whitney Communications two years later. Fifty Plus has about 500,000 subscribers and was recently purchased by Reader's Digest.
Almost everyone else was focused on a much younger part of the spectrum. ''There has been a belief that the exciting market to chase is the youth market, or people 18 to 34,'' said Kenneth Dychtwald, president of Age Wave Inc., a communications and consulting concern based in San Francisco. Much of what has driven that point of view, he said, is the belief that when consumers pass a certain age, they are set in their buying patterns and far less interested than other groups in keeping up with new trends.
Those assumptions are being challenged. Recent research has shown that older consumers do change their buying habits, said Ms. Gianinno. ''More products are being made for the older market and more companies are seeking ways to promote existing products to that audience.''
Several experts caution, however, that the key problem facing Ms. Lear and others in the magazine industry is still how do you address that audience. For example, 50 Plus is the ''wrong title'' for that magazine, said Mr. Dychtwald, adding that ''Americans have gerontophobia: anxiety about growing old.'' Mr. Dychtwald believes that the subscription level of 50 Plus is fairly small in relation to the size of its potential market - there are 60 million Americans over the age of 50 - and that its name is partly to blame.
Clay Felker, editor of Manhattan, inc., believes it is a mistake to announce that the target audience is a particular age, whether over 40 or over 50. ''The stories should define the audience,'' he said.
EVEN Mr. Diamandis knows there are special problems. ''All of these magazines are very risky because people do not want to be identified as old,'' the 56-year-old executive said. ''If somebody handed me a magazine that was clearly labeled for the elderly, I would have to read it inside of Playboy or Esquire.''
The trick, experts say, is to approach the market obliquely. Lear's answer is to push a glamorous image for the older woman, one that appears to be designed to overcome the stigma of aging by blurring age distinctions. Fashion layouts in the magazine, for example, use models not only in their 40's, 50's and 60's but also in their early 30's.


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PHOTOS: Big ID theft bust in Beaverton
Three suspects have been arrested in a large credit card theft case discovered last week in Beaverton.
Click Here to view photos of the suspects and evidence collected in the investigation.
Beaverton Ofcr. Mike Rowe said the investigation began Oct. 21 when the Best Buy store reported a case of fraud involving stolen credit cards. Beaverton Police worked with the U.S. Secret Service and the Port of Portland Police to arrest three suspects at the airport two days later.
Daviel Brown, 28, and Robert Lee Brown, 35, of Oakland, Calif., and Blake Littles of Pixley, Calif. are facing charges identity theft and theft charges. The Browns were also wanted on similar charges out of California.
During the investigation, police found a mountain of evidence: more than 200 counterfeit credit cards and driver's licenses, a credit card embosser and electronic credit card encoder, hologram Visa stickers and merchandise purchased with the counterfeit cards. They also found $5,000 cash.
Images courtesty of the Beaverton Police Department.


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Paul Krugman cuts to the core motivation behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bid to strip many of his state's public-employee unions of their bargaining rights, on the way to crushing the unions altogether.
Why bust the unions? As I said, it has nothing to do with helping Wisconsin deal with its current fiscal crisis. Nor is it likely to help the state's budget prospects even in the long run: contrary to what you may have heard, public-sector workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere are paid somewhat less than private-sector workers with comparable qualifications, so there's not much room for further pay squeezes.
So it's not about the budget; it's about the power.
In principle, every American citizen has an equal say in our political process. In practice, of course, some of us are more equal than others. Billionaires can field armies of lobbyists; they can finance think tanks that put the desired spin on policy issues; they can funnel cash to politicians with sympathetic views (as the Koch brothers did in the case of Mr. Walker). On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
Given this reality, it's important to have institutions that can act as counterweights to the power of big money. And unions are among the most important of these institutions.
You don't have to love unions, you don't have to believe that their policy positions are always right, to recognize that they're among the few influential players in our political system representing the interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that's to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions.
And now Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to get rid of public-sector unions, too.
Even though Walker, a radical-right Republican, raised his right hand and swore to serve the people of Wisconsin, his actions reveal him to be nothing but the Koch brothers' hired hand.
That's right, Wisconsin's chief executive isn't a public servant. Rather, he's an agent of two Texas billionaires with extensive business interests in the state. They wanted — and are getting — the best Wisconsin government their money could buy.
The same can be said for Wisconsin's wealthiest citizens, who are benefiting to the tune of $400 million from the tax cuts Walker arranged for them almost as soon as he became governor. Oh, and the $42 million budget surplus Walker inherited upon taking up his duties? Not two months in office and it's gone.
This is blatantly government of the oligarchs by the corrupt and for the wealthy.
Walker claims he's just doing what he must to deal with a $360 million fiscal crisis, not mentioning that he very deliberately caused the fiscal crisis.
Sound familiar? It should because it's right out of the Karl Rove/George W. Bush playbook. It's the same dirty work that made a complete mess of U.S. finances just in time for the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
Walker's conniving mismanagement and union busting must be stopped. Because if he succeeds it's only a matter of time before his radical-conservative clones in Ohio and elsewhere follow suit.
The good people of Wisconsin who've turned out in tens of thousands in Madison to raise hell and demand fairness are doing their best to see to it that it is stopped. We wish them good luck, Godspeed and plenty of support from millions of good Americans nationwide. But even if Wisconsin's public employees succeed in beating back this assault on their bargaining rights, it won't be enough.
The proper and absolutely necessary response to Walker and other Republican governors like him is a recall election. We understand Wisconsin law is such that a recall can't be undertaken for a year. That's a terrible restriction, given how much damage one power-hungry, sold-out pol can do in a year.
Alas, the law is what it is. But once the year is up, the people of Wisconsin should go after Walker with a justified vengeance, unelecting him by a landslide margin.
To borrow a term from the Tea Party dupes who did plenty to help elect this Bush clone, this fraud, a successful recall would be a splendid example of the people taking back their state.
That is, taking Wisconsin back from their marionette governor and his Texas billionaire puppeteers.
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Allen Shi '06 and Sunny 'Yao opened YiPing, an Asian fusion restaurant in San Ramon. (Photo: sanramon.org)
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Cal State East Bay business grads Allen Shi '06 and Sunny Yao '01 opened YiPing, a new Asian fusion restaurant in San Ramon, Calif.
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Chapter Summary: The Hawclys travel to the village for supplies and mail. Bruce Lee films have brought a new style of violence to the village and Cutuk bears the brunt of this with all the kids wanting to fight him because he is white and therefore different. His crush on Dawna escalates when she gives him a love note. They stay at the Wolfgloves' home and Enuk gives Cutuk a small ivory carving of a bear.
Discussion Questions:
Why are the village kids so cruel to Cutuk? (p. 44)
Points to Consider:
Why do Iris and Cutuk relish going to the village, despite the abuse and the staring? And why does Jerry feel differently? (p. 46)
What is Cutuk's perspective of village life?
Why does Cutuk feel "wrong" inside his body? (p. 50)
What social issues are revealed in Cutuk's observations of the village?
What is ironic about the Hawclys' existence compared to the Wolfgloves'?
How are the Spenholts and the Hawclys different? (p. 56)
How is Iris different than Cutuk? (p. 53)
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A Century Of Connection: Welle Family's College of St. Benedict Legacy [VIDEO]
ST. JOSEPH — In our third installment of, "A Century of Connection: The College of St. Benedict" series we spoke with one family that has deep roots within the St. Ben's community.
Karen Welle-Bellmont is one of 19 women from her family to graduate from The College of St. Benedict. If you count the Welle's St. John's University alumni they have a total of 42 graduates dating back to 1917.
It's a tradition that started with Nick and Marguerite Welle. Their son Bob and his wife Jeanette continued that legacy. Jeanette Welle. Jeanette was the widow of a World War Two veteran when she married Bob.
Prior to meeting Bob, Jeanette was raising her daughter Karen as a single mother. Jeanette's mother encouraged her to go to school and get her degree. She eventually graduated and was the senior class president.
Karen decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and attend St. Ben's. She graduated with an Elementary Education degree and two minors. Karen helped pave the way for her younger siblings who all attended St. Ben's and St. John's.
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Margi says her daughter Bridget Sitzer graduated from St. Ben's in 2008. She also has two other children who graduated from St. Ben's and St. John's.
Margi said she encouraged her children to look at other options for college but all three made the choice to go to St. Ben's and St. John's.
The Welle family was honored with the Legacy Award in June for their century of dedication and tradition.


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In a recent conversation the president of the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon was asked, "What are your dreams for NEST?" The president, George Sabra, paused, then replied, "It may be a luxury to dream when we are trying to survive in very difficult circumstances." That comment, so honest, so poignant, has lingered with me. What happens to us when dreams become a luxury?
The Near East School of Theology is one of the main centers of theological education for Evangelical – Protestant – pastors in the Middle East. The school was formed by the merger of two schools in 1932 that had been preparing leaders for Arab and Armenian congregations tracing their origins to Congregational and Presbyterian mission work in the 19th century. The school has endured through numerous sectarian and political crises in Lebanon, civil war, wars with Israel, foreign Syrian political and military control, and a large and growing population of refugees, originally from Palestine, and now joined by those fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria.
American seminaries worry a lot about survival. Schools like Bangor Theological Seminary have essentially closed. Andover-Newton is selling its campus and becoming a significantly reduced presence within Yale Divinity School. Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School is selling its campus. Gettysburg and Philadelphia Lutheran seminaries are envisioning some sort of merger. Bexley Seminary is taking up residence at Chicago Theological Seminary which sold its own campus several years ago. Everyone speaks of transformation, but the hard truth is that these decisions were driven by the reality that old financial models were untenable if schools were to survive.
Right now George Sabra has other kinds of problems. One very practical question is how to finance the housing and feeding of students from Syria who, unlike their classmates from other places, cannot return to their homes and their families when the semester ends. Their homes are too dangerous or perhaps in some cases no longer exist. And what of these students following graduation? Where will they serve in a region that is experiencing the relentless loss of Christian communities to violence, threats, and emigration? American seminaries have problems. But NEST's problems are of a wholly different order. It is no wonder that it may feel like a luxury to dream in such circumstances.
Dreaming is hard throughout the Middle East. The Arab Spring has devolved into chaos in Libya, repression in Egypt, and civil war in Syria. Turkey's promising democracy is being distorted by the consolidation of power in a President who tolerates little dissent. Kurdish hopes for sovereignty are being thwarted. Iraq faces political fragmentation and escalating violence. Iran and Saudi Arabia vie for regional dominance through proxy wars in places like Yemen and Syria. Palestinians have endured Israeli Occupation for nearly fifty years and several generations of Palestinians have lived in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza, and the West Bank for nearly seventy years. "It may be a luxury to dream when we are trying to survive in very difficult circumstances."
To be deprived of dreams is more than tragic; it is dangerous. Those whose dreams are only nightmares grow cynical, despairing, bitter, and often violent. But dreams constructed of fantasy are hardly a sufficient alternative. Which is perhaps why, in the conversation with President Sabra, we heard more about NEST's sense of God's call and its own vocation rather than about dreams. He described it this way: "Bearing witness to the God of life and love."
What does that look like? Merely sustaining a rigorous program of academic preparation for religious leaders in the region is part of it. Contributing to a vibrant interreligious dialogue in Lebanon is another. Providing a form of sanctuary to students coming from dangerous places is another. Engaging in frequent service days for Syrian refugees in Beirut is yet another. Courageously bearing witness to the God of life and love in a region many of us are prepared to dismiss as a place of death and hatred is prophetic in and of itself, "conjuring and proposing" in the words of Walter Brueggemann, "futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one." Perhaps that is what it means to dream in the Middle East today.
Christians in the Middle East will not house all the refugees, will not end all the violence, will not usher in governments responsive to the needs of their citizens. But they will contribute to these things, perhaps not so much by their dreams, but by courageously responding each day to their calling. Our handwringing is of little use to them. What they need is our support, our accompaniment, our advocacy, our presence. Christians in the Middle East don't need us to dream for them, they need us to trust with them in the God of life and love.
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June 2, 2016
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Nap time
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June 26: A petty theft was reported on Shortlidge Court.
Garment grab
June 27: A Cambria Way resident reported some of his clothes missing and told authorities he suspects his housekeeper might be stealing them.
June 29: Neighbors on White Rock Road reportedly got into a fight. No one was arrested.
June 30: Someone shot a BB gun at a Stanford Lane home's glass door, shattering it.
Open door
June 30: A thief stole items from an unlocked vehicle parked on Brisbane Circle.
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Jeremy Spencer's Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem — Exclusive Video Trailer
Today, RevolverMag.com presents the exclusive trailer for Death Punch'd, the forthcoming book by Five Finger Death Punch co-founder and drummer Jeremy Spencer. Check out the video — which features appearances by Spencer, Zoltan Bathory, Ivan Moody, Jason Hook and Chris Kael — above, and tell us what you think in the comments or on Facebook!
The book will be published September 2 by Harper Collins and can be pre-ordered HERE.
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"The day I left treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, I decided to write my story," Spencer said. "I was feeling raw and exposed and hoped just 'getting it all out' would be therapeutic. And it was. Sitting on a tour bus with little to do, I found myself writing two or three thousand words a day. It didn't occur to me until I'd written 50 or 60 thousand that my story might be helpful to others who need encouragement in pursuing their dreams and for those struggling with addiction.
"I sent that first draft to my dad who said, 'No parent wants to read about his son's sex, drugs and rock and roll exploits,' but he said there might be some benefit in sharing it with others, so he agreed to help me with revisions. What had begun as a way to help process my own 'stuff' has resulted in the publication of Deathpunch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem. At first, I was apprehensive about the reaction I'd get from having the 'arrogance' to think anyone would want to read about my life. However, that initial apprehension has been replaced by knowing that if my story can help even one person, whatever criticism I might receive will pale in comparison. I'm not proud of many of the episodes in the book, but the person I was, under the influence, is not who I choose to be.
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Violet_Crumble (35,408 posts)
Margaret Sanger...
I learnt a lot about her and read some of her books back in pre-DU days on a forum with a large population of anti-choicers. I don't know much about early American feminists, but is she considered one of the group of early feminists in the US?
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Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 07:17 AM
orpupilofnature57 (15,472 posts)
1. I believe it's Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 02:12 PM
PassingFair (22,235 posts)
2. Sanger died in 1966
She was a true crusader for birth control and choice.
Unfortunately, she was also into eugenics and some
of the "master race" shit in the 30's, so she is often
brought up by anti-choicers as proof of the "evils"
of choice.
Response to PassingFair (Reply #2)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 07:19 PM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
6. please ....
This forum ain't the place for all the old falsehoods about Sanger.
She absolutely did NOT have anything to do with "eugenics" as that term came to be used and applied, or with anything having anything to do with any "master race".
She isn't proof of anything the anti-choice brigade might want to say. Lies are told about her by the anti-choice brigade.
The reasons are two-fold, as were her own goals, which they oppose: women who enjoy their own sexuality without concern for right-wing "morality", and women who control their own reproductive destinies.
Martin Luther King himself praised Sanger when he accepted an award in her name from Planned Parenthood:
... There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern. ...
I have just posted a thread about an event in Canadian feminist history that changed the course of Canadian history in general, by the foundation it provided for equality-seeking groups to press their cause. Women won a case againt discriminationin 1929, and 80 years later that case continued to be cited, in the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.
As MLK acknowledged in 1966, this other women's battle, the struggle in the US for access to the means to plan their families, paralleled and directly benefited African-Americans' struggle for equality.
Response to iverglas (Reply #6)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:01 PM
PassingFair (22,235 posts)
8. From the same Wiki article you linked below:
An advertisement for a book entitled "Woman and the New Race". At the top is a photo of a woman, seated affectionately with her two sons.
Sanger's 1920 book endorsed eugenics.
As part of her efforts to promote birth control, Sanger found common cause with proponents of eugenics, believing that they both sought to "assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit."[72] Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, which aims to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing reproduction by those considered unfit. Sanger's eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, and compulsory segregation or sterilization for the profoundly retarded.[73][74] In her book The Pivot of Civilization, she advocated coercion to prevent the "undeniably feeble-minded" from procreating.[75] Although Sanger supported negative eugenics, she asserted that eugenics alone was not sufficient, and that birth control was essential to achieve her goals.[76][77][78]
In contrast with eugenicists who advocated euthanasia for the unfit,[note 9] Sanger wrote, "we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."[79] Similarly, Sanger denounced the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program.[74] In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain in the hands of able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment.[76][80]
Complementing her eugenics policies, Sanger also supported restrictive immigration policies. In "A Plan for Peace", a 1932 essay, she proposed a congressional department to address population problems. She also recommended that immigration exclude those "whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race," and that sterilization and segregation be applied to those with incurable, hereditary disabilities.[73][74][81]
I didn't say she was a Nazi, I said she was involved in the "eugenics" politics of the time.
Response to PassingFair (Reply #8)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 11:41 PM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
9. wiki is a handy reference for many things
That doesn't make it gospel for all things, even on a single subject.
Your post about Sanger was negative, and wholly improperly vague and unsourced:
Unfortunately, she was also into eugenics and some
of the "master race" shit in the 30's
I would suggest that if you want to defend that claim, you be the one to provide citations (primary sources) to substantiate it.
This passage from the wiki article:
Although Sanger supported negative eugenics, she asserted that eugenics alone was not sufficient, and that birth control was essential to achieve her goals.
is simply not meaningful. What goals? The goal of women having autonomy?
I couldn't make head nor tails of this bit of what you quoted from the wiki:
In contrast with eugenicists who advocated euthanasia for the unfit, Sanger wrote, "we believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."
until I went to look at the original -- and saw that the DU system had eliminated the text in square brackets in the original, which I include below, replacing the square bracket with pointy ones (and boldfacing for emphasis):
In contrast with eugenicists who advocated euthanasia for the unfit, Sanger wrote, "we <do not> believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding." Similarly, Sanger denounced the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program. In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain in the hands of able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment.
I assume that the sentence originally read something like "nor do we believe ...". This is rather important; the way the text appears in your post, it has Sanger believing in killing "defective progeny".
Sanger's interest in eugenics predated the Nazi era by some considerable time, and she had dissociated herself from those who pursued the issue well before Hitler took up his own version. The concept at the time she wrote about it had no more to do with Nazi "eugenics" than prenatal testing for congenital disorders today does. "Dysgenic breeding" is precisely what genetic screening of potential parents, for instance, is meant to avoid -- and it is individuals practising it for themselves, just as Sanger dreamed of happening.
She lived to 1966. Her thoughts about improving the quality of life for individuals and communities circa 1920 are hardly what she or her life's work should be judged by.
I don't think anyone today has the least clue what it was like 100 years ago to live with severe epilipsy, or any number of genetic disorders, or other conditions believed to be inherited.
And I am quite sure that you know that when she used concepts like "race" and "racial betterment", she was referring to the HUMAN race, not to the constructs of race that racists operate by.
Sanger was among the MOST enlightened of her age -- she did, as that passage states, seek to empower individuals to control their own reproduction. Most western governments, on the other hand, applied policies of involuntary sterilization to various population groups, in particular individuals with intellectual disabilities. Perhaps you are familiar with the famous decision of the great and good Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v. Bell, under a forced sterilization statute similar to those in many US states, some of which have only been repealed in very recent years.
So again, please provide the substantiation for your statement:
... she was involved in the "eugenics" politics of the time.
The eugenics policies of the time were applied by governments all over the world, and Sanger's influence on those governments and their policies was pretty much nil.
She was indeed a person of her times, largely in that she did not have access to the science we have access to today, to understand some of the problems she was seeking to solve, let alone access to the solutions available to us today in the form of both treatments and social supports, for example.
To pick on Margaret Sanger, of all the people available to target for anti-human social policies advocated and applied 70 or 80 years ago, always just strikes me as rather bizarre.
I should probably apologize or something for my vehemence on this issue. As Violet Crumble intimated, some of us have long experience with the vilifying of Sanger. It makes me absolutely crazy to see feminists saying Well, she did good work on that birth control stuff, but yeah, she had a bunch of nasty ideas and so we'll just add a big "but" to everything that's said about her. It does no one any good. Letting the misogynist right wing get away with lies does no one any good. Pandering to the misogynist right wing out of ignorance does no one any good.
The misogynist right wing hated and hates Sanger because she rejected every link in the patriarchal chain around women's necks. She stood for everything we stand for: women free to express their own sexuality as they choose, and control their reproductive functions as they choose. She issued the most fundamental challenge to patriarchy and women in the US especially owe her a great debt. She should be held up with pride as a woman who helped to change her times (while still being a woman of her times, as are we all), not grudgingly acknowledged for some little good she did.
Response to iverglas (Reply #9)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 06:35 AM
PassingFair (22,235 posts)
10. It wasn't meant to be negative.
I, too, hate that it comes up every time Sanger is mentioned.
But it DOES come up. Maddeningly so.
I felt it was OK to express that in here.
You don't need to apologize, I get that it's maddening.
"She was indeed a person of her times, largely in that she did not have access to the science we have access to today, to understand some of the problems she was seeking to solve, let alone access to the solutions available to us today in the form of both treatments and social supports, for example.
To pick on Margaret Sanger, of all the people available to target for anti-human social policies advocated and applied 70 or 80 years ago, always just strikes me as rather bizarre."
Response to iverglas (Reply #9)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 08:37 AM
seabeyond (110,159 posts)
11. for me, it is one of those, it is what it is. whatever that may be, lol
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932
On the extermination of blacks:
"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
It is no secret that Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, but that statement needs to be put into historical context. The discussion of historical context is not meant to be an excuse or an apology for Margaret Sangers beliefs. But it is important to judge Sangers beliefs according to the scientific culture of her time. Eugenics was a theory about improving hereditary qualities by socially controlling human reproduction. Eugenicists were hoping to improve the human race by preventing people with genetic defects from reproducing, and limiting birth control and abortion for women who were considered fit or healthy. This concept got interpreted as a justification for racism, and eugenics was incorporated into the Nazi regime.
We do not want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.
Margaret Sanger was aware of concerns that birth control would pose a threat to the African American community. Consequently, she was determined to alleviate these concerns by involving the African American community in the formation of birth control clinics in the South. The quote above comes from a letter that Sanger wrote to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, one of the financial backers of the birth control movement. In the letter, Sanger argued that African American doctors needed to be employed at birth control clinics. Sanger felt that it was important to employ black doctors and social workers in order for patients to feel that the clinics represented their community. When the Birth Control Federation of America became Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942, Sanger established the Division of Negro Service to oversee outreach to the African American community nationally. Sangers work was endorsed by African American leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and W.E.B. DuBois.
Many of our feminist sheroes were products of their time. Take Susan B. Anthony for example. Anthony started out in the abolition movement. She was inspired to take up the cause of womens suffrage as a result of her experience within the abolition movement. The male leaders of the time would not let women speak at abolition meetings, and the women were segregated in the meetings. Anthony began agitating for womens suffrage because she realized that women would not be able to fully participate in public life without first gaining the right to vote. During the Civil War, suffragists were asked to put their movement on hold. It was, they were told, the Negroes hour. Susan B. Anthony was happy to oblige. But when male abolition leaders failed to pick up the cause of womens suffrage at the end of the war, Anthony felt betrayed. Anthony became single-minded in her later years, which is completely understandable when you consider that she had been trudging the suffrage road alone for several decades. Near the end of her life, Anthony began to make compromises with white Southern suffragists. She was willing to accept female suffrage that was limited by race if it meant that at least some women would gain the right to vote.
Grappling with Margaret Sangers views on race is important for feminists today, as is the acknowledgment that Susan B. Anthony embraced racist ideas near the end of her life. What does it mean for the womens movement today that we are still overcoming the legacy of racism within this country? How can the feminist movement expand to include issues of race, class, nationality, sexual orientation, ablism, and more? For me, feminism simply means equality for everyone. Consequently, feminism incorporates so much more than simple gender parity.
Response to seabeyond (Reply #11)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 11:53 AM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
13. we really need to stop this
Okay, hold on, I see what that is. But it absolutely is not clear from the way it's presented.
The first set of little snippets are the FALSE representations of what Sanger wrote and said. Disconnected words, taken out of context, falsely described (e.g. there isn't even any reference to "blacks" in the first mishmash of cuttings). And aha, you have found that blurb that the moron at that long ago anti-choice forum misread so badly as
Founder of Planned Parenthood, <Margaret Sanger was> the largest abortion provider in the world.
The authors of the second set of excerpts still haven't got it right, though. I'm not quite sure what they're saying about that line about not wanting "the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population" -- the plain and simple fact is that she didn't want that word to get out because it was FALSE -- and this statement is pretty problematic:
Eugenicists were hoping to improve the human race by preventing people with genetic defects from reproducing, and limiting birth control and abortion for women who were considered fit or healthy.
Sanger herself had always REJECTED the notion that the "fit" should breed more (while the "unfit" bred less), i.e. she rejected "positive" eugenics and favoured "negative".
Grappling with Margaret Sangers views on race is important for feminists today
How is grappling with straw ever more than a waste of time, let alone important? What are these "views on race"? The notion that African-American women should have access to contraception?
In 1919, she wrote:
Eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state. We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother.
In fact, some early US woman suffragists like Anthony did buy into some racist policies. Racism is also alleged against Emily Murphy, one of Canada's Famous Five (as I've meant to add to my thread on that case):
Sanger, on the other hand, simply does not suffer that historical disability as unequivocally. Sanger opposed immigration policies based on stereotyping early on. Murphy had it in for Chinese immigration to Canada -- her failure actually lying in her blindness to all the complex mechanisms of disadvantage and exploitation that were the real problems. Few social reformers of the day were raging lefties, politically; they didn't have a class analysis (and of course were generally privileged themselves). Hardly anybody actually was, or did.
As far as feminism including or not including everyone, once again, why are we bashing feminists from a century ago, and why should feminists today have to answer for them? Why not bash the Black Panthers for excluding women's rights and interests in the 1960s, and hold equality-seeking African-Americans accountable for them today? Why not bash gay men from a little later even, because they did not join forces with feminists and reject male privilege, and hold the whole LGBT community accountable for them today? Why not bash the Taliban for the abuses committed against women right up to this day, and hold all Muslims everywhere accountable for them? Does anyone actually bash slavery abolitionists in the US for not including votes for women in their agenda? Hell, not many even bash those founders and framers who not only didn't give African-Americans and women the vote, they owned and sexually exploited slaves. Oops, I see I'm not even being original here. In its page on Sanger, PP says the same thing about those founders and framers.
In Canada, women fought in the Persons Case and won a victory that has benefited every disadvantaged, stereotyped, hated minority in Canada in the near-century since. There can be no doubt that if Emily Murphy were living today, she would be overjoyed with the society that has grown up out of equality-seeking actions like hers. She would be a woman of our times. She wasn't. She was a woman of her times, with all the disabilities that status carried.
And for fuck's sake, Margaret Sanger was writing about eugenics IN 1920. She lived nearly another half-century after that. She was getting close to 90 when she died: she was born in 1879. I wonder what most of us would have been up to if we'd been born in 1879.
Response to iverglas (Reply #13)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 12:49 PM
Scout (8,622 posts)
14. thank you
i get so fucking sick of the Sanger bashing...
i'm going to bookmark this thread for future reference.
Response to iverglas (Reply #13)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 12:58 PM
redqueen (109,237 posts)
15. Love this post.
Hell, Sanger was anti abortion, at least at first at first, but of course that doesn't matter to those who treat her so unfairly, for such obvious reasons.
Response to redqueen (Reply #15)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 10:34 AM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
16. exactly!
Check out that Feminists for Life place for all the anti-abortion quotes from early US feminists. Of course they were anti-abortion -- abortion was a threat to women's lives, for starters! And it was seen by them, as the anti-choice "feminists" allege it is today, as a social failure, since all women would want all pregnancies if only they had the resources to feed, clothe and house all the babies.
On social conditions in the US when Margaret Sanger was coming of age, this is a good short introduction:
The Conscience of Place: Where the Other Half Lived
Since abortion was generally reviled, arguing that access to contraception, and empowerment of women generally, would reduce abortion was (and still is) a popular tactic. And unfortunately, that did and does leave individual women as the casualties sometimes. Emma Goldman did it too (although again, the dangers of abortion at the time were reason enough not to agree to perform them):
In 1916 her campaigning for contraception resulted in Goldmans conviction for violation of the Comstock law. The US politician Anthony Comstock (1844 1915) was a fervent stickler for Victorian morals and sniffed out offences everywhere; all information about birth control was therefore deemed illegal, obscene, prurient and lascivious. The law that bore his name was not taken off the statute books until 1936.
From her own experience as midwife and nurse, the feminist Goldman saw for herself the dubious methods women were using to prevent the birth of further children, whom they couldnt afford to feed (either). Goldman was asked to perform abortions but refused because she saw that it would do nothing to tackle the social problem. She therefore fought for birth control as a positive alternative.
Emma Goldman disseminated her opinions in a plethora of presentations and a series of articles and books. From 1906 to 1916 she published the newspaper 'Mother Earth', which she filled with anarchic-feminist content. She went to prison three times for her campaigns. She died in 1940, in Toronto, Canada.
It's interesting that Goldman, whose goals and efforts were similar to Sanger's when it came to contraception, has received so much less attention. I would think that's because she was in fact overtly political and openly challenged the political order from a left/anarchist position, which Sanger didn't do as consistently.
Sanger did write under the anarchist banner in her early life though -- "No gods, no masters":
The main cause of the social misery endured by the working women to-day lies not so much in the value of wages received as in the way they have to be earned. It is not alone the work done, but the bullying, the hustling and the submission which the wage system entails, that blights the life of the worker and creates a just hatred of the master class. And there can be no hope for the woman worker until she realizes the degradation of "work" and the injustice of a system which forces her, in order to obtain the barest necessities of life, to be snubbed and insulted and driven by a master.
... No one doubts that the ordinary working woman can get on with the capitalist system as it is--at a price. The demand of the class-conscious worker, however, is not strength enough to get along with it, but to destroy it. Can woman hate enough to do this and yet love her class enough to think it worth emancipating? Can she look upon the colossal good, the hardihood and the endurance of the wage slaves without feeling sympathy? Can she look upon the colossal evil of wage slavery without once feeling despair? Can she be a rebel woman? Can she be a fanatic? Is she prepared to sacrifice the whole race for the sake of itself?
The masters argue that because we cannot have equality in a silk factory we cannot have it anywhere. Because we cannot have good-fellowship in business we cannot have it at all. They argue that society cannot do without "labor", meaning servitude -- without the bossing and the firing and the too old at forty and all the rest of their filth. If society cannot do without masters and wage slaves, so much the worse for society. For we are prepared to sacrifice our machines, our wheels and tunnels and wires and systems and slave lives for one hour of happiness.
Do not be led astray by the towering materialism which dominates the mind of the wage earners to-day which rests upon the false assumption that because a few generations go on doing the same thing over and over again, we all live in a system of clockwork evolution. Do not let fear prevent you from leading a free life. Live up to your own ideal and to the standard inscribed on the banner of the WOMAN REBEL--No Gods, No Masters.
Now there's some intersectionality: feminism and class consciousness.
The anti-choice right wing hates her for her libertinism. We should probably celebrate her more for it.
Unfortunately, she does seem to have largely abandoned that path in favour of the "scientific" social reformism of the day.
Response to iverglas (Reply #16)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:09 PM
PassingFair (22,235 posts)
17. Thank you for this, Iverglas!
Everywhere I look I see nasty quotes, I've
even heard some of these excerpts on radio
talk shows.
I'm going to have to actually READ HER BOOKS now.
A thousand thanks!
(And I'm not sorry that I brought the subject up,
since I don't mind being schooled)
Response to PassingFair (Reply #17)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:25 PM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
18. we must thank VC
Who I know did take a serious interest in Sanger back in the old days -- but who posted here and ran! Tsk.
I hope she'll come back and add her thoughts, because I think she's the only one of us who has read those books, so far.
Response to iverglas (Reply #18)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 01:06 PM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
19. Violet reports that she has the flu
So we will have to wait a while for her to share her wisdom about Sanger.
Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Sun Apr 8, 2012, 07:51 PM
Warren DeMontague (78,804 posts)
3. People opposed to choice and freedom love to drag her name through the mud
personally, I think she took many brave, forward thinking stances and like many important players, she moved the ball forward considerably. We all owe her a great debt IMHO.
Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 11:43 AM
redqueen (109,237 posts)
4. No, not really.
She was a staunch defender of free speech and did a lot of important work in enabling women to escape the horrors of back alley abortions by championing birth control, but since that was her main focus as opposed to more of a mix of feminist issues, she is not classed as such.
It's interesting to note the double standard she's subjected to. Ford was a supporter of Hitler and way into eugenics, but you don't see him getting the kind of treatment Sanger gets for her views. Ah the joys of being a woman.
Response to redqueen (Reply #4)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 04:05 PM
Warren DeMontague (78,804 posts)
5. Ugh. Ford was a HORRIBLE anti-semite.
And Edison was a complete thug. Half the reason Hollywood is in Southern California was so filmmakers could get away from his East Coast goon squads.
Many things we don't learn in history class.
Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 08:04 PM
iverglas (38,549 posts)
7. remember that weird nun and her leaflet?
Well the book can be had at Amazon now, and I still haven't figured out the title. Bad translation, maybe?
Margaret Sanger: Father of modern society
I'll always remember the moron on the forum who misread the first statement in the thing as saying that Margaret Sanger had performed more abortions than anyone else on earth. Ah, how rumours begin ...
The Demonization of Margaret Sanger
The Mosher piece is typical of many anti-Sanger letters-to-the-editor written by representatives of anti-choice groups that have appeared over the past few years whenever Sanger is mentioned in the context of an article on Planned Parenthood or contraception. In fact, the Mosher piece and many others like it borrow freely from anti-Sanger materials that have been in circulation for at least twenty years, including an offensive little pamphlet entitled Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society written by Elasah Drogin. The pamphlet, written in 1979, "exposes" Sanger as a eugenicist, racist and war-monger, but is most intent on proving her a sexual maniac with insatiable desires. It displays a portrait of Sanger on its cover, her head rising up above a modern metropolis, war planes swirling above her and a Nazi prison camp in the foreground. While this is one of the more absurd examples of anti-Sanger material in circulation, the Drogin pamphlet and most other attacks from anti-choice groups rely on the same small group of Sanger documents over and over again, including letters she wrote in the late 1930s to birth control movement contributors and black leaders expressing her concern that blacks living in the South would view her "Negro Project" as an attempt to limit their race. ...
Sanger absolutely was an early USAmerican feminist, just not one that people usually think of in that respect, and a whole lot more radical than some of those others.
n 1914, Sanger launched The Woman Rebel, an eight-page monthly newsletter which promoted contraception using the slogan "No Gods, No Masters."[19][note 3] Sanger, collaborating with anarchist friends, coined the term birth control as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as family limitation[20] and proclaimed that each woman should be "the absolute mistress of her own body."[21] In these early years of Sanger's activism, she viewed birth control as a free speech issue, and when she started publishing The Woman Rebel, one of her goals was to provoke a legal challenge to the federal anti-obscenity laws which banned dissemination of information about contraception.[22] Sanger also wanted to publish a book that directly described contraceptive options (in contrast to the articles in The Woman Rebel which only indirectly discussed contraception), so she gathered information, much of it from Europe, and published the pamphlet Family Limitation, in direct violation of the Comstock laws.[23] Her goal was fulfilled when she was indicted in August 1914, but the prosecutors focused their attention on The Woman Rebel articles Sanger had written on assassination and marriage, rather than contraception.[24] Afraid that she might be sent to prison without an opportunity to argue for birth control in court, she fled to England under the alias "Bertha Watson" to avoid arrest.[25] While she was in Europe, Sanger's husband distributed a copy of Family Limitation to an undercover postal worker, resulting in a 30 day jail sentence.[12] During her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.[26] Noted attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge, but, bowing to public pressure, the government dropped the charges in early 1916.[27]
Response to Violet_Crumble (Original post)
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 09:10 AM
MadrasT (7,237 posts)
12. It seems like
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Maybe she did some great things, and she was also a product of her time.
I am not one to vilify someone whole cloth because they held some radical opinions that seem troubling a century later.
It has always seemed wrong to me to try to discard/discredit *everything* a person says or does just because we don't agree with every last one of their positions.
This is an interesting thread and I learned a lot. Thanks.


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Is the "Jewish writer" label still relevant? Was it ever?
By **Sam Kerbel**
American Jewish writers have a long tradition of rejecting this very title. Allegra Goodman cites Cynthia Ozick as saying that to be classified as such "reduces art and ideas to ethnic commodities." Bernard Malamud has stated that this "term is schematic and reductive." Most recently, Nathan Englander, author of the newly-released short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, explained his dismissal of the "Jewish writer" label in an interview for The Atlantic:
"People always say 'you're a Jewish writer,' but for me there is no divide. I'm Jewish. And I'm a writer I understand that some amount of categorization is unavoidable, everyone has to do it. It's how we make order. But don't expect me to represent my work as genre fiction."
If the recent 92nd Street Y panel entitled "In the Beginning There Were Words: The Greatest Jewish Books" serves as any indication, contemporary literary critics and writers generally dismiss Ozick, Malamud, and Englander's line of reasoning—that the "Jewish writer" label is constricting and shouldn't be applied to their work. Adam Kirsch, a poet, Tablet Magazine columnist, and senior editor at The New Republic, called Englander's assertion "preposterous." The novelist and forthcoming Harper's book critic Joshua Cohen appreciated Kirsch's choice of words and considered whether Englander—who, in Cohen's opinion, spends a significant amount of time explaining himself—made this claim because he yearns to write for a non-Jewish audience. Ruth Franklin, another senior editor at The New Republic, agreed with Cohen's analysis, diagnosing Englander's propensity for elucidation as a sign of anxiety.
Indeed, despite the glowing reviews Englander's most recent fictional work has received, none of the panelists had much of anything positive to say about it. When asked by moderator Liel Leibovitz about the invocation of Anne Frank in works by both Englander and Shalom Auslander—and what, in turn, these works say about the current state of American Jewish literature—Kirsch disparaged the broad and problematic stereotypes that the former invokes in his fiction. Franklin criticized Englander's recycling of themes that appeared in works by Roth, Bellow, and others almost half a century ago, leading her to claim that Jewish literature finds itself in a "shadowy" moment, searching in the dark for an original and authentic voice to reinvigorate it.
But the exigency of Englander's problem—and that of virtually every Jewish writer before him—still remains: what can be called a Jewish book, and who exactly is a Jewish writer? For Kirsch, the answer for both lies not in the identity of the author or the work's subjects but rather in their mutual concern for Jewish books. If an author or book wrestles with issues of Jewish relevance like identity or language (whether English, the primary language of American Jews, can be appropriated as a Jewish language), it falls in the Jewish category.
But despite the ubiquity of Woody Allen film screenings to the present day, the Jewish artist's fixation on personal identity seems to have run its course.
Having removed questions of identity as a necessary rubric for designating Jewish fiction, Kirsch has offered elsewhere a possible remedy to Franklin's disillusionment with contemporary Jewish literature. In his review of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank for Tablet Magazine, Kirsch observes, "Englander's stories of identity and belief seem shallow and garish, while his story of Jewish politics feels challenging and true." He speculates whether Jewish fiction of the not-too-distant future must shift its focus from the psyche to politics. This, Kirsch admits, has consequences. He fears it will exacerbate the rift within the Jewish community drawn not on religious lines, but rather "between those who see themselves as members of a historical Jewish nation, and those who find such an identity archaic or delusional."
For those who doggedly persevere on the unavailing search for the next Bellow, Malamud, or Roth–the next great Jewish writer who can depict the lived American experience with clarity and imagination unfettered–the political realm may not hold the answer. But despite the ubiquity of Woody Allen film screenings to the present day, the Jewish artist's fixation on personal identity seems to have run its course—just look at the tepidness of Roth's recent novels in comparison to his earlier, more virile works. At a moment when the political divide between liberal and Orthodox Jews is expeditiously deepening—when, as Peter Beinart describes in his groundbreaking 2010 article "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment," the disconnect between Zionism and lived experience has intensified for secular Jewish youth —one could argue that there's a responsibility for Jewish writers to tap into the unexplored reservoirs of creativity percolating outside the identity realm. For the sake of Jewish literary vitality, perhaps this is the moment when we stop looking for the next Bellow, Malamud, or Roth and look for something else entirely.
Sam Kerbel is an editorial assistant at Guernica.