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Web Agency Madeincima
Founded in 2010 by the web designer, creative and usability specialist Andrea Cima Serniotti, Madeincima stands out particularly for its internationalism, its planning methodology focused on the user, its ambitious and constant aspiration for the improvement of the web quality in Italy.
The Madeincima web agency offers its services to customers in many countries (such as Italy, Ireland, Germany and Australia). Solidly based in Trento and Turin, it can rely on the collaboration of a network of experts of international calibre.
Thanks to its international approach, Madeincima provides services on a global scale, as well as being constantly updated on the latest developments in the field of web design. This allows Madeincima to realise top quality websites: graphically catchy and, most importantly, functional and efficient.
Thanks to the continuous enhancement of its structures and its network of collaborators, Madeincima can offer a complete range of high quality services to support you in the pursuit of your goals.
The Team
Andrea Cima Serniotti - Creative Director
Andrea is the founder of Madeincima. As well as being the Creative Director, he deals with the design and the realisation of websites, plans the projects and makes sure that our services are always top quality.
Right before setting up Madeincima, Andrea had worked for many companies and web agencies for more than five years (download Andrea's resume in PDF format, 111KB), doing some freelancing on the side.
First-class graduated in Communication in the Information Society with a degree thesis on gridding web design which has been awarded as "Best Thesis 2006/2007", Andrea worked for more than two years at the City of Turin's website.
As soon as he graduated, he got hired by a small up-and-coming Irish web agency called Visrez, based in Dublin. After almost one year spent there Andrea signed a new contract with one of the finest and biggest Irish web companies, Arekibo Communications. Entered as Senior Web Designer, in six months time Andrea becames Front-end Lead, leading some important projects for clients such as Eircom, Revenue Office Ireland and SEUPB. Andrea was responsible for all the front-end part of their websites, including XHTML, CSS, Accessibility and Usability.
At the end of November 2009 got hired by one of the most prominent web agencies in Melbourne, Get Started where he works on many projects such as MiningMan, Stratsec and Fitline.
Mirko Corli - Social Media, SEO, Web Marketing Expert
The Web is getting social. You want your website to be social too. Mirko, our community builder and social network, search engine optimization (SEO) and web marketing expert, will help your business in planning successful strategies and campaigns.


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The lightweight car with its efficient aerodynamics is claimed to be the world's most frugal petrol-powered vehicle, achieving 3.4 litres/100km in regulation tests.
The Insight has an aluminium body and a one litre lean-burn engine which is claimed to be the world's lightest engine of this capacity.
The engine works in tandem with a system called IMA - Integrated Motor Assist - which boosts acceleration by using a thin, brushless DC electric motor. It reduces the demand on the petrol engine to save fuel and improve performance.
When the car is slowing down, the electric motor becomes a generator to transform energy into electricity which is stored in a nickel metal hydride battery.
The Insight conserves fuel with a system which stops the engine automatically whenever the vehicle is stationary, and which restarts as soon as the accelerator is pressed.
Tyres have been developed which have a 40 percent reduction in rolling resistance.
The Insight will be available with either continuously variable automatic transmission or with a manual gearbox; in manual form it weighs only 820kg, thanks to the weight-saving measures which include the aluminium body and extensive use of aluminium in the front suspension and other mechanical areas.
The Insight will be built at Honda's Takanezawa plant, which also produces the NSX and S2000 sports cars.

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A CHESS SCANDAL—OR A RANDOM EVENT? Here is the background for Hou Yifan's protest: She has won four Women's World Championships and has a rating of 2651 that is close to the top 100 in men's rankings. She
had declined to defend her women's World Championship to compete in this tournament against the top men in the world. She made her protest because she had been paired up against seven women and only three men in the tournament—something that seemed very unusual because there are so few women chess players at that level.
The tournament's response was that all the matchups were randomly selected by a computer.


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The Key Products are obtained from the skin of the fruit where the majority of the properties are placed.
We serve all over the world
The proximity to the raw materials allows LemonConcentrate to reduce the time between the collection and the processing of the fruit in order to assure a fast and efficient distribution of the products, a very important fact in the sector, where the freshness of the raw material is vital to guarantee a high quality final product.
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Category: Stock Graphic
Stock Graphic - Op Art Vector Pack 160227 by Go Media @ CreativeMarket
File Size: 11.57 MB; Requirements: Adobe CS3+; Vector: Yes.
Op Art is a fascinating pack among the ranks of our Halftone series. The level of detail is really mind boggling! I hope you've been doing finger push-ups, because you'll keep zooming, and zooming, and zooming but never reach the end of the kaleidoscopic patterns! Those with slower computers be warned ЁC there are 12 MB of points in this pack!
Keywords: geometric, halftone, illusion, pattern.


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Randomly came across this video about the beautiful wind powered kinetic art of Anthony Howe featuring Low in the Sky's music. Nicely done. Always cool to happen upon PatternBased tracks used in well done vids. Great Big Story should consider crediting the musical artists in their videos though.
Enjoying the series, Million Ways To Live, by my friend Luke Sniewski. Luke and his family are traveling the globe and exploring via filmmaking, the various ways people around the world live healthy. Very cool idea and great execution for the family of first time filmmakers – Luke, Claire, Jack and Emily. Great work and nice use of the PatternBased catalog.


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mmp% Physicians and Surgeons. E. F. PARSONS, M. D., PHYSICIAN Ofice No. 45 Pearl Street, Thompsonville, Conn. Connected by Telephone. No. oi Gall 3. Office hours—8.00 to 9.00 a. m. 12.00 to 3.00, and 6.00 to 7;30 p. m. Dentistry. EO. WILBUR, DENTIST.- • H -OFFICE Hours at Thompsonville, 8.U0 to 11.30 a. m. and 7.00 to 9.00 p. m,—Saturdays all day. '• At 26 Pratt St., Hartford, 1.00 to 4.80 p.m., Saturdays excepted. Artificial Crowns a Specialty. B. H. r THORNTON, DENTIST, Mansley's Block, Main street, Thompsonville, Conn. FIRST-CLASS WORK—LOWEST PRICES. Printers and Publishers. T HE PARSONS PRINTING COM-pany, Steam-Power Printers, and Publishers of THE THQMJPSONVILLB PRESS, opposite the depot, Thompsonville, Conn. Tailoring. • twttm jftewtotg, Banks and Banking. »J«HE B. D. & BOBT. £. SPENCEB CO., BANKERS. Commenced business September 8, 1887. Capital, $25,000 ROB'T. E. SPENCER, CASHIER. J. W. GRAHAM, ASST. CASHIER. OFFICE HOURS, 9.30 A. M. to 12.00 M. to 3.30 p. MV 1.30 W. ANDRE & CO., Custom Tailors. Gent's garments of every description cut and made to order; also Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing done. Mrs. Simpson's block, Main St., Thomp- Bonville, Conn. fc Meat and Fish Markets* BENJAMIN BRIGHT, DEALER IN Beef, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Poultry, Tripe, Ham, Lard, &c. German Sausage, from the best New York makers, kept constantly on hand. All kinds of Meats in their season at lowest cash prices. Main street, Thompsonville, Conn. Music, Etc* PIANOS t Lindeman & Sons, Steinway & Sons (as • g ood as the best.) The Shnbert (a fine medium piano. Also, the Pneumatic Symphony, two organs in one—two instruments in a single case. Xj. P. dJ SON", Thompsonville, Conn. XHA. A T »T •E3?r, Teacher of :M/usio, Lindsey's Block (Room 1), Thompsonville, Conn. .Also agent for the Finest PIANOS and OKGANS sold in this vicinity. Can refer to scores of purchasers. Musical merchandise of every description on hand, or obtained at short notice. Transact business similar to any National bank. Deposits received subject to check on sight. Sell Non-Taxable 7 per cent, guar-teed Real Estate Securities. Deposits in Savings Department draw interest from the first of each month. THE B. D. & ROBT. E, SPENCER GO. NOTE.—We are doing a safe, increasing, paying business. I am responsible for all transactions, and oversee all negotiations. I respectfully request business relations with merchants and individuals of this town. R. D. SPENCER. Thompsonville, Conn. DEJSSIiOW - : —TEACHER OF— piano-forte, Organ Playing & Harioiy. Address P. O. Box 462, Thompsonville, ----- Conn. JOHN W. MARTIN, TEACHER OF THE VIOLIN AND CORNET, AND ALL VALVE INSTRUMENTS. RESIDENCE : Lincoln St., - - Thompsonville, Ct. Post-office box, 227. Hair Dressing and Shaving. MICHAEL DONLON, HA*K DBESSKR. Fred. F. Smith's old stand, under ffkompsonville Hotel, Thompsonville, Ct. All branches of the business done in an artistic manner. Please give me a call. Miscellaneous. CHARLES E. PRICE, AGENT.—Dealer in Wood and Coal. Wood a specialty— Chips for sale. Moving and heavy teaming done on reasonable terms. Thompsonville, Conn. JAMES WATSON. GRAIN; MEAL and Feed for sale at reasonable prices. Custom grinding done at the usual rates. ^ fall supply always on hand. Main dtreet, Thompsonville, Conn. ggp-Custom grinding done also at the jSorth mill, on Springfield road. tester;-: • m mHARLES BERBERICH, BAKER, Spen- 4 / cer's Bank Block, So. Main street, fpj. mjpsonville. A full line of bread, cake nnrt » in fact, everything usually kept fn nfl 'st-class country bakery. Hnt •v and Rails every morning. Thomp. ^nville' Cotm' ~aT_ JR. IiBETE, UNDERTAKE* an<l EWBALIBEil, 45 AND' MAIN ST., THOMPSONVJLA"^ • • • CONS. Telephone collections direct with .store. v N. P. PAi'JIEB, PHOTOGRAPHER, ; Thompsonville, - Oann. PI0TUEE FRAMES 01 AlM« E3BDS. • -Views of Residences made to ordasv Crayons a specialty. Lightning, and later processes used itndio. rainy TO EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS and TRUSTEES ! THE MIDDLESEX BANKING COMPANY, Middletown, Conn., CAPITAL PAID, $600,000, offers Debenture Bonds, 6 Per Cent. Semi-Annual Interest. 1—Trustees are permitted by law to buy these bonds. 2—The issue of these bonds limited by law. Railroads. N EW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD. DECEMBER 22, 1889. Trains leave Springfield,Going South, for NEW YORK—Express trains at 1.58, 2.08 (daily, except Monday), 7.50, 11.45 a. m.; and 1.45, p. m.; also 1.58 a. m. Sundays, and 6.33 p. m daily, including Sundays. FOR NEW HAVEN—Accommodation trains connecting with express trai ns forNew York, at 5.40,7.00,9.25 and 11.50 a..m; 3.00, 4.80, 6^40 and 8.25 p. m. Sundays Only—Accommodation for New Haven at"7:47 a. m._ LOMGMEADOW»*-&r47;7.0919.34, 3.09, 4.39, 6.49 ,8.?4 p. m. - THOMPSONVILLE-i-5.56, 7.18, 9.43 a. m.; 12.09, 3.18, 4.48, 6.59, 8.43 p. m. ENFIELD BRIDGE—6.01, 7.23, 9.48 a. m.; 12.14, 3.23, 4.53, 7.04, 8.48 p. m. " WAREHOUSE POINT—6.06, 7.28, 9.53 a.m.; 12.20, 3.28, 4.59, 7.10, 8.53 p. m. WINDSOR LOCKS—6.11, 7.33, 9.58 a. m.; 12.25, 3.33, 5.04, 7.15, 8.58 p. m. WINDSOR—6.16, 7.45, 10.10 a. m.; 12.37, 3.45, 5.17, 7.25, 9.10 p. m. Trains leave Hartford, Going North, for SPRINGFIELD, Boston, Albany, Northampton, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Montreal, and all points on the Connecticut River line—Express trains "at 1.47 a. m. (daily,except Monday), 2.20 . in. (daily) and, 11.38 a. m. (local express); 12.05, 2.20 and 6.50p. m. (daily); accommodation trains at 5.55, 8.03 and 9.26 a. m.; 1.35, 4.40, .20, 9.35 and 11.25 p. m. WINDSOR—6.3.0, 8.18, 9.40, 11.51 a. m.; 1.40, 4.53, 6.35, 9.48, 11.39 p. m. WINDSOR LOCKS—6.23, 8.29, 9.53 a. m.; . 12.02,1.52, 5.07,6.46,9.59,11.52 p.m. WAREHOUSE POINT—6.29, 8.34, 9.58 a.m.; 1.57, 5.12, 6.51, 10.04, 11.58 p. m. ENFIELD BRIDGE—12.03, 6.35, 8.39, 10.03 a., m.; 2.02, 5.17, 6.55, 10.08, p. m. THOMPSONVILLE—12.08, 6.41, 8.44, 10.08 a. m.; 12.14, 2.07, 5.22, 7.00, 10.13, p. m. LONGMEADOW—12.16, 6.51, 8.52, 10.16 a. m.; 2.16, 5.32, 7.08, 10.21 p. m. SUFFIELD BRANCH. SUFFJELD TO WINDSOR LOCKS—7.10 9.3Q a. m.; 1.80, 4.30, 6.10 p. m. WINDSOR Locks TCL. SUFFIKLU—8.15, 10.12 a. m.; 1.53, 5.08, 6.48-p. m. |ty»Pocket TIME TABLES can be obtained from the Ticket Agents at stations. daily at my studio. Sig 8ittings made in cloedy or ^weather. THE —OF TO-DAY! Where can 1 buy to the be# advantage? Where cau I fe&j in th* goo& old-fashioned style—Honest value for Monest money—without beings pelled to takfe a fanh or bar©' With every purchase. Easily solved-— visit to TheiThompsonvute Shot Stbfe will convince you that jou need seefe no further, in town or city, for the best value in Boots and ShoesM-An i excellent assortment; Ladies, ana Gent's, Misses' and Boy's, and Children's Boots, Shoes, Slippers Rubbers cqnstantiy on han^ at bot- M. DEll'STER, Bia-AEMOtOi fcjg 3j Published every Thursday Evening, "by THE PABSONS FBINTIH& COIPAMY. THE THOMPSONVILLE PRESS is an eight column folio weekly, filled with, infer-, esting reading—New Exig&ad, lopal and general news, and well-selected miscellany. TERMS: $1.50 a year in advance; six months, 75 cents; three months, 40 cents. Postage prepaid by the-publishers. Papers are forward until an explicit order is received by ^the publishers for their discontinuance and until payment ol all4W3»arages is made, as required by law. Neinotice will be taken of anonymous communications. Whatever is Intended far insertion most he authenticated; by iff fa name tod address of the writ""*r—"not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. , . | We do not hcid; ©nrseiyes respensiDle for any views or opinions expressed in the oxnmunications of our correspondents. RATES O* AUYNRTISIN^ irine bflWor oiie inch space, constitute a square. Cards ot-we inch space or less, per year. #8.00. V * Beading Notices, 10 cents a line, r Ordinarr adyertl«in»« IW 4*"% one Week, 76centfc saMe*nten€ insertion, 50 cents. Special rates " knowv cm application. w Transient advertisements to be paid in advance. , I ^ /-I Births, Maniacs, and Deaths inserted tree. Obituary notices, 6 pents aline. THE THOMPSONVILL* PRESS will We for ule at JOhn Banter's* and by news boyB every Thursday evening. Copies fol ^ * •Jing wt ' If you're waking call me early, call me early, mother dear; For I've a heap to resolute upon this glad New Year; There's lots of things I'm going to say that I'm a-going to do, And I kind of hope in a thousand things I'll manage to keep a few. I'm going to do the very best that ever % fellow can, And I will make no friendship with a very angry man; I will not look upon the wine when it is glowing red, So may my evening hat sit loose upon my morning head. I will not loaf with sinners at the corner of the street, Nor will I talk about myself to every one I meet; I'll be the good boy of the school and study all the day, Nor prod my seat-mate' with a pin to see him laugh and play. When Wisdom crieth at the gates I'll know that she means me; And when she putteth forth her voice I'll answer: " Here I be!" When slugger men affront me I will give the answer soft, But the little man who tries it may venture once too oft. I will not lie about my age, my salary or weight; To help in deed the friend in need I will not hesitate; I will not scoff at feeble things, not even at the poor; And fractured toys and broken hearts I'll try to mend and cure. I'll go to see no gray-haired sire pose as the " Preacher Boy," Nor go to hear a suckling babe play "Little Fauntleroy." I will not whistle in the cars the airs I do not know, Nor hold high revel in my room while others sleep below. I will not wear my dress-coat when the sun is in the sky; I will not wear a collar more than seven inches high; I will be so good and sensible that people in the street Will lift their hats to me and say, "Ah, Gabriel," when we meet. Good-night, dear mother, sweet goodnight ; nay, do not weep for me, I am so good to-night I fear the morn I ne'er may see, But if I do live through it, when to-morrow disappears— . You'll likely think your precious boy will live a hundred years. LOOM,« J.H. EGBERT'S NEW YEAR'S. This day Egbert had been down to the very e^d o^ the^garden^ to the little h<?use childish curiosity through the palings, to Where he heard voices. A boy of about his own age, a poorly dressed and not very pretty boy, stood with woe-begone look while a sweet-faced woman bound up a cut finger, and then when it was done she passed her plump arm around-the child's neck and drew the curly brown head to her breast and with the other she platted his cheek, and then caressed his curling hair, and finally, kissed him two or three times very tenderly. Suddenly Egbert's, heart swelled and his throat pained with the effort to keep back the tears. No one loved him like,that. "Mother," said the boy on the other side of the fence, "mother, it doesn't hurt a bit now. Shall I go on chopping?" "Yes, dear, but be a little more care-: ful." "Don't you be seared. You best little mother in the whole world." So the "best little mother" went into the cottage, giving her boy one more beaming glance of love as she entered the door, and the boy returned to his job of splitting kindlings. Egbert stood a little while and theit went slowly toward the house, his brain filled with thoughts and his heart with a vague sense of grief and almost anger. He wanted a mother. He had none.; no one to love him in thiat precious fashion that he he had just beheld. His nurse bad always been good tahim, his father more than good* but why had he no mother? Where was she, or had he never had one? His father gave him everything that money could buy or affection devise, but he had never known a mother, never heard the name even, at least as applied to himself, but now he suddenly-felt that he had needed a mother always and he had never had one. v ' What was the reason?" Did" everybody have Mothers or only the poor, for he realized that, these people were poorer than: others, and yet as he remembered that sweet comforting Smile and that tender car^s he felt-Wronged and defrauded. "I will have a mdlheF, too,"«aid he, "even if "I: have to live in a cottage aad ;wear ol^.piothes^ have no playthings like that ooy; I'll asfe fatherriptt^aWay/' Egbert gallon wonld be ten ye^rs-old rinNe.w Year's I)ay ajbd he had never. knownanyotherhometbanthiSj'Which wais in asnburb of N<jW Y:ork an^ct^ed against intrusion- He saw no children, except when he rode on his pony beside hls father ia thelr exeurai<»i#^n« ht^visiiofrr nor did Mr. Fallon visit any person; The servants were the same tfcathad come there wheto he diet, and not one of them ever said a ttoftmatfeotfd give tfiis little fellow the idea that life hadisrer held any other ties fo? him than thpSe he now had. f Egbertur&ura^^ he fooifc no ofie, andsb he Wfent-im stairs, hut ther " ' " " so almost mechanically he went ml until reached the gai^t, where b#wen>over tl notice the quaint old broken ftirniture that was stored here, and;finally his glance fell upon a queer,'old fashioned little hair trunk bound with iron bands, studded with brass nails.; He thought what a pretty place this would be to store his smaller playthings in, and knowing that everything there would willingly be given to him, he" tried to open it and see what it looked like on the inside. The trunk was locked, but he soon found means to open it, and he found it filled with women's clothes,. He tossed them out impatiently, and then at the very bo'tom of the trunk he found a portfolio of papers. Among them was a letter sealed and addressed to his father, and a picture painted on porcelain of a lovely woman, who somehow looked fadailiar to hiui; but he knew he had never seen her, yet he loved her, and he put the picture in his pocket and.took up the old portfolio, and went back down stairs. He scarcely knew what he was about or what he was thinking of, and his little brain was as confused as his heart was full. He entered the study and found his father there talking with the nurse, Who seemed to hide something under her apron. Egbert smiled a little contemptuously as he at once understood that it had something to do with New Year's—some new gift. "Father," said he, "were you thinking of giving me anything to-morrow?" "Why, yes. It is New Year's, and your birthday. Is there anything you would like to have particularly?" Egbert hesitated and grew red. "Father, I don't know as I could, but. if I could have one, I should like to have a mother." If a knife had pierced that father's heart he could not have grown more pale than did Mr. Fallon when his boy stammered out that pathetic request. He groaned in agony as he staggered forward and stretched his arms across the table, and hid his face upon them, while he trembled in every limb. Egbert came close to his father wonder-ingly, but he could not understand this sudden display of emotion, and he laid the portfolio down on the table, with the picture, and finally seeing that his ftither seemed so grieved, he put out his hand instinctively, and tried to caress his father's hair, as he had seen that poor woman do. That light touch brought Mr. Fallon's mind back to his child, and he slowly lifted his face from the table, and then drew the boy to his. knee, a very unusual liMtrnpn forjijm toffike. What made you ask me that question, Egbert? Who has been talking to you ?" 'No one, father, only I saw that poor' children bad mothers, and to-day I some-hpw felt that If I had a mother of my very own,I should feel so contented and happy, and I felt, too, tbat/I bad always wanted one, only I never knew it until to-day, and I thought you could get me one, perhaps, instead of any play toys. I am tired of all kind of toys, and when I saw that boy's mother love him so tenderly, I made up my mind to ask you. I should love you just the same. Father, why is it I have no mother, or don't rich people have them?" "My boy, I have tried to keep this sorrow from you, and to so fill a mother's place that you would never miss her, but it is useless. Nature*has spoken. You had a mother once, but—you have none now. You can never have another." But where is she, father? Is' she dead?" "Yes, child, dead to us all." -J "But when did she die?" "Eight years ago, Egbert. Now, my boy, listen^ You-must not speak of her again, never, never. I cannot bear it, to me nor to any one else. You must think no more about it, and be as happy as you can with me. Am I not good to you?" "Oh, yes, and 1 will try," said the boy, trying to struggle against the tears; and then he rose and went out of the study and up. to his room, where he went to bed to think and try to understand this first sorrow and first mystery of his young life. /• Mr. Fallon remained in his study a prey to violent emotion. This child, whom he ha9 surtoiiiided with such tenderness, and who had all that was left of his broken heart, .found that not enough, and his innocent nature cried out for mother love, not even knowing what itwas. And that mother, weak, unworthy, sln-ftol and abandoned; whait did she care if the little heart broke for want of a mother's tender care? - 'jtj, . Hot tears forced themselves through his eyelids, and sobs racked^ls breast as he thought it all over. "n ; He had taken bis- young bride to his heart- and home, with pride and love,deep and true, and lb tiro short years she had proved unworthy of his name. 1 Even while her first bortf lay upon hfer breast she was a guilty wretch* and then. When his cousin had discovered all the wrong, and had proved it to him, e!»e dared deny it and so malte it; all the; "deeper. y a Then he had driven her forth, torn from tier false arms the pretty baby, and she had gone out of bis home and life forever^ leaving the blight of her sin upon "them |bth. ^','^"'^11'"' • Then he had-made a recluse of himself for the sake of his child, and had tried to so fill this Utile heart that it should never another love, and yet that heart missed somethings Ah, well*' he would have to know it some day. Perhapa lt Was best that he learn it now, while too yoring to ut^Ierstapd. utmos been his co writt letters, their touch withered his heart |fad life at once, eight years ago when Jimy was'driven forth a wanderer and ati|outcast, weeping and declaring her innocehce^P the last,in spite of the proofs In hil|p«ssesBion. Theij|; she bad taken her shattered life home lj?'her parents, and . they bad sheltered lfer.\', The^helieVed in her innocence. Well, she waf their child, and they ought to be-lieve l||r. "Oh'I'Amy, little Amy, I loved you so!" hie. ni|pnured. "I could love you now, God :if||p me I I believe I do yet, in spite ofati|tfhd I forgive you, for you were so young# At 'tfiis moment his eyes fell upon the portfpop lying upon the table, and me-chanip| 0y he opened it, only to start, breath and strain his eyes to the as he examined one "by one the rtiich proved upon their face that if; wife, so wrongfully accused, had en away, the innocent victim of iln. not need the letter which she had on her dying bed to him, confess ime and begging forgiveness, to proveMat Amy was as pure as an angel; and ri<)W he sprang to his feet, with new life ii^i his veins, new hope in his heart, new light in his eyes. Fornix long years that letter and the portfqpjb, with the rough copies of the false fetters which had condemned an in-nocentfwoman, had lain almost under his hand aijid he had never known it. Whl|»; Lydia died her little trunk had been ij^bt to him, but he never looked beyond top, and he never knew that her hopele&s love for him had been the'motive for th^crlnie. He^fpsed the portfolio, saying: ,"Sh||i8 dead now; I will forgive her wheu^ny forgives me," And;|as he moved the book the picture lay eaqrosed? He grasped it, and through blindlm tears he kissed the face of his poor=, ^fe, and then he rose with a new energylsaying: "I wfll start this hour, and if they will let montee her I will pray her forgiveness on myL knees. My poor, persecuted wife.'-# - A spit rustle of garments, a breath of perfut^ Sweet as a clover field, then a low, tender voice whispered: "Clafence, she has long ago forgiven you,.auf has loved you always." ^'AnS, oh, my wife!" , , AfteSawhile, when they could talk, Amy told -him that her longing to behold her child; -Sad . been . so great* that she had stoleni|here like a thief, and had man-gain entrance, and then she had hidden%ehin|i;the.curtain as her husband ^~en a silent Sp,ecta- Morningf- dawned and Egbert dressed and. went down stairs, feeling as if something njusual was about to happen. -The remembrance of the conversation with his 'father weighed upon his young heart, and checked the curiosity as to his expected presents. •. The door opened and his. father came in leading the lady of the.portrait. One look at that face was enough, and mother and child were in each other's arms. The little heart had nothing left to long for, he hafd his mother, and yet two pearly tears swath in bis eyes, and his lips quivered, but it was with pure joy. MRS. H. "Here' are my stamps. Now I won't have- to be forever dipping my pen in ink as I open my letters," and Herbert Ambrose tried the little rubbers one by one on the blotter of his desk. "Cashier," "Business Manager," "Foreman," "Mrs. H.," were the di&erent types.; At sight of the-la&'one He gave' an exclamation, "Itfra. BT.l What will she e«ay when she sees that, I wonder? . Mrs. H.! Well! well! I yonder why she never did get married though! She's pretty enough. 11 don't know as I would mind marrying her -myself>" and the proprietor of the Djaily Echo chuckled to himself as he thought of what the world would say if he married hi^ typewriter girl. AJ1 the papers would have- three-line, heads beginning, "Married His Typewriter," and their pictures would be published all over the land probably. No, on second thought he guessed he wouldn't. "I would like to see her the first time a letter is referred to her with the red Btamp on the tpp. I bet she'll blush like a schoolgirl, and she's thirty if she's a day." :With this not altogether kind remark hetopkuplu8 morning work and did not think further of rubber stamps nor of his stenpgeapher who sat in her Uttle corner of thebig rpom on the next floor pounding out orders for metal, tape, etc., and letters tp brother efUtorB on every conceivable, sub jeot. She was 30 ,fif ,she was. a day," but her face was one of thoee that never grow old s^d neyer grow ugly-' Her eyes were a steady gray , her hair dark and smooth, herlii>S'firm and full# a face that you mig^t Pass every day for a year aitd not: nptic^l* - Elsie'Harley had been in The EdiO office two years, and the managing cannot get* acquainted withth^t jgirl.!'. She-.ealbe- and" did- her wpw-^y-mter, ^eu ispsrisfisibit®, the hadher ok,Butthat Wasall-ttieylEnew iabouther. his Would.hate,<m ^"tb^inHie letter bold red :lette|e;.Wfa^i lng editor said. Ulrls were always get tinjj: sick just when they were needed most, and he sent the office boy down to her address to get her excuse. "No such penpn has ever lived at that number," was the word he brought back, and the managing editor looked across the desk at the city editor in a questioning way. "It is very strange," was. all lie said, but he took the word to Mr. Ambrose as soon as that worthy gentleman arrivedi "Bless my soul," was that gentleman's ejaculation, "who ever heard of such a thing? Didn't anybody ever know where she lived?" Nobody from the office had ever been at her house. "Maybe she has sent her excuse to me," he said. "Sure enough, here it is," and he opened a square envelope addressed in her bold, round hand. "Dear friend'' (she had never called him that before), "I thank you. I thought you would never know. I do not know how you found it out, but you have acted generously to ward me, and I am more than grateful. MRS. H." "Mrs. H.I There's a mystery here. I shouldn't wonder if it would make a good story, but we won't say anything against her. I suppose I shall have to get some one to fill her place, for it is evident she is not coming back. I would like to know what she thinks I found out; something connected with that stamp, I know. I thought those stamps were going to save time, but if they all have the same effect as this one did and I have to break in somebody new for: every one of them, I will be always behind." The new stenographer came, passed through the ordeal of being "broken in," and in time Elsie Harley was forgotten. Forgotten by all save Mr. Ambrose. The look in her clear eyes as she slowly turned toward him the last time he saw her haunted hiin, and he would say to himself: "I would miss a whole edition of The Echo to find out that girl's history." In the summer time Mr. Ambrose went to his country home a little way out of the city, running in every, day to bis business and back to the cool green shades at night. One morning three pears after Elsie Harley's mysterious leavetaking he was coming in on the morning train, and as they stopped at a station on the way a cofBn was taken off ttnd put intoa waiting hearse. The conductor of the train khew Mr. Ambrose and remarked to him after the train moved on, "That was the fellow we read about in the dispatches a day or two ago who was pardoned from prison. He died of consumption and they've brought him home." Mr. Ambrose, rememuered the case. "He was supposed to have burglarized a house and killed an old man, was he not?" "Yes, that was the charge. He was. a youffg doctor, the nephew of the man who was killed. He had married a girl whom the old man did not like, and the latter refused to help him in any way. worl^ no?~Sup-" port the two. The doctor "and the old man had a quarrel one day, and that night the old man was killed and the house robbed. The doctor was arrested and: convicted, and it was only the other day that the real murderer confessed on his d6ath bed. Then it was too late. Consumption had marked the doctor for its prey, and now he is dead." "And what became of the wife?" "She went away after he was sentenced and was gone a couple of years. Somebody said they saw her in the city during that time and that she was working ih ani office there. They said she passed as a girl and that she was saving up her money, thinking sometime he would be set free, for the faithful girl never believed him guiltiy, though the circumstantial evidence was so strong that it seemed almost impossible that he should be otherwise^" "I must look that matter up. It will make a good story for Sunday," said. Mr. Ambrose to himself, and that afternoon he left his office on an earlier train, and stopped off at the little station to look up for himself the story of the dead-man. He was directed to a little cottage, and a woman in black opened the door. ••Elsie Harley!" and then, it all came to him. Elsie Harley was the dead man's wife, that was the secret of her life. She took liini into her little parlor and told him tile story. "I thought you had found out my secret and that you did not like to speak to me abput it. I scarcely know how I gpt I^me that day. Those red letters Seemed burning themselves into my brain. I wrote to you something, I do not know what, atnd I came back here discouraged." . That was only a part of the long sad story. Elsie's life liad been a weary one, and the skies had been ever dark for her, but at. last there came a ray of light. At first she was offered'her old position, hut she said she could not go back to that. Then as time went on Mr. Ambrose rer called what he. had once thought about proposing to hU typewriter, and he said to hin^elf, "She isn't a typewriter now. No i^atter pf blame can be attached to her m any way». ah{l slie "is prettier, than, she was then* If I dpn't believe I will ask hes now." And he did, and today she is Elsie Ambrose, and is happy only for the thought of that grave down in the country—the, g^ave of the one whose wrong was righted top late.—Katherine Hartpfrn in Ra^gyilie(N. Y.) Advertiser.. The oldest man in Illinois died the other day at the age of 110. Since 1871 $3 fe*orit% method of killing time has been tp watch tKft cloc^w He was Dennis t^Haraof CMcago. heart fhll of this '"'M fipw could guilt haye ,.!r2k ^ ' to her.. She took it rateedhereyes she.stuck iM old iaet^di^ -Don't fcrget gs Whin jrpu have a news item. For instate, if yonr wife whlps joi right before the public. If you have <?om-the ^pauy, teU ns-r-if;yoa *re not ashamed Of J J j&ur visitcuM. If: * young«ter arrlve8 at fjnpr house and. demands food and rai-nt, hey worth of cigars and ohndi aad ift<« * " P«d-ln- " sohsfelibeTf' >iU fttrnlsh a .... may reqaire.1^ y^nJwive f. social ^ath-; ring- of a itew f^Iei|d% why, KM the Ihatbap Rei^Mlcaii^wesay hkHnsjrpand Ix or seven pies, a big loaf eake, and a ourw A FORERUNNER PROMISED. LESSON I, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 5. Text of the Lesson, Lake I, 5-17—Com- . mit Verses 13-10—Golden Text, Malaclil lii, 1—Commentary by the Bey. D. H, Stearns. [Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per- , mission of H. 3. Hoffmar, publisher. Philadel r phia.] Whether we study the Old Testament or the New we are studying the same book, written by the same author, the Holy Spirit, and it is all concerning the one Glorious Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord God of the Holy Prophets. The saying of a servant of God, that "the New Testament lies hid in the Old, and the Old lies open in the New," is worth oft repeating. The last prophet in the Old Testament is heard saying, as the voice of Jehovah: "Behold, I wfll send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me" (MaL iii, 1), and the lesson for today is the record of the announcement by the Angel Gabriel that the messenger was soon to be born, so that, although some 400 years intervene between Malachi and Luke, there seems to be no break in the story. 5. "A certain priest named Zacharias." Five persons are mentioned by name in our lesson and in the verses immediately following, but the two with whom we have specially to do are the priest Zacharias and the angel GabrieL It will be helpful to remember that this lesson is in the time of the iron kingdom of Dan. ii, 40, and the fourth beast of Dan. vii, 7, 23; that Rome now ruled the world; that Palestine was divided, not into twelve divisions as in the lessons just closed, but into three—Galilee, Samaria and Judaea —and that Herod was the Roman ruler of the southern province of Judeea, in which Zacharias and Elizabeth lived. It will be seen in I Chron. xxiv, 10, that Abia or Abi-jah was the eighth of the twenty^four courses or orders into which David divided the priests. Elizabeth being also of the priestly tribe of Aaron or Levi shows that they were obedient to the law which required them only to marry in their own tribe (Num. xxxvi, 5-9). Zacharias signifies Jah is renowned or remembered, and Elizabeth the oath of God; let the diligent eat the meat. 0. "They were both righteous before God.'' They were in fellowship with the righteous Lord who loveth righteousness (Ps. xi, 7); and were therefore like Noah, righteous before Him (Gen. vii, I), because like Abram they believed God (Gen. xv, 6; Rom. iv, 3). By nature "There is none righteous, no, not one;" and by the deeds of the law no one can become righteous; but the righteous Lord has provided a righteousness for all who will accept it, even His own, even Himself. 7. "They had no child." It was with Elizabeth as with Rachel and Hannah and Ma-noah's wife; but she, like they, looked unto God, and surely Joseph and Samuel and Samson and John the Baptist are among the greatest of men, and all sons of women who had been barren. When in days to come we see the significance of Isa. liv, 1, we shall then readily recognize these.shadows. 8. "He executed the priests' office before God in the order of his course." What a glorious motto for every day are those two words, "before God," calling to mind such texts.as Gen. vii, 1; xvii, 1, I Sam. xii,3, 7; Acts x, 83, etc., and reminding us that we opghjt to live as in His sight, doiug ^11 things cense was made - according to' God's express command for the service of the' sanctuary, abd it was forbidden to make any like it for ahy other purpose, upon pain of death. The priest was to burn it every morning and evening when he dressed and lit the lamps (Ex xxx, 7, 8, 34-S8). Dr. Brown quotes from Lightfoot as follows: "The part assigned to each priest in his week of service was decided by lot. Three were employed at the offering of incense—to remove the ashes of the former service; to bring fn and place on the golden altar the pan filled with hot burning coals taken from the altar of burnt offering, and to sprinkle the incense on the hot coals, and while the smoke of it ascended to make intercession for the people." This was the most distinguished part of the service (Rev. viii, 3), ohd this was what fell to the lot of Zacharias at this tima 10. "The whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense." The connection of prayer and incense is seen in Ps. cxli, 2; Rev. viii, 3, 4; and the incense is significant of the merits of the Lord Jesus, whose least word and smallest act wqs fragrant to God, because he sought neither his own will nor his own glory, but did always those things-which pleased his father (John vi;, 38; viii, 29, 50). It also teaches us that, apart from the merits of Christ, nothing we do, not even our prayers, can be acceptable in God's sight; but, inasmuch as he ever livcth to; make intercession for us, the weakest may with boldness come, and the feeblest may do hiin service, since what is done by any re-deerhed soul, as unto him, is made acceptable by his merits 11. "There appeared unto him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense." This was in the Holy Place, into which the priests went every day, where were the tables of shewbread, the golden candlesticks, ten of each (II Chron. iv, 7, 8). and the .golden altar, or altar of incense, before the veil, and by the side of which the angel now stood. The angels are God's ministering spirits (Heb. i, 14), and are often spdken of in Scripture as ministering to His children; .but in all the Bible we only know two of them by name, this one, Gabriel (vs. 19), being the same who appeared to Daniel, and shortly after this lesson to Mary. la. "When Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him." So it was With Mary (vss. 29, 30), and Hagar, and Gideon, and the women at the sepulcher, and the disciples (Gen. xxi, 17; Judg. vi, 22, 2$; MTf rvi, 5; Lu. xxiv, 87); and so we suppose it would be with most of us should a heav ly,visitor suddenly appear to us; but no^h^ wife was not afraid, why should any-of us be :(Judg. xiii, 22, .23). if we ar®.walking in fellowship with God, and abiding in that love of His which casteth out all fear (I John xxi, 18). 13. "Pear not, Zacharias." Thus God and His angels are always seeking to comfort those who loot to Him; and notice how.often they call peopie by name, "Pear not, BJary" (VB, 80); "Pear not, Abram;" "Fear pot, Ha- ;" "Pear not, Joseph" (Gen. xv, 1; xxi, 17; I,' 30r. One of the most precious " Fear tadtV' to me in the Bible is Isa. xli, 13. which the Spirit spoke to my soul in the sum-mer of 1875, making it wonderfully true to nte that season, and times without' number fro^n'that day to this. "Thy prayer is heard." All true prayer for things a^rding to His will, in the name esuvis surely heard. and the answer will toe mahiftet in dtie tiitte: bet us lifts oh "e* ^w^tibu'eOt^eK'^ that we mtty te always on in; it bemea, . Conalder. carefully^fk. xi, s ; i John v, 14, 15. .islimt call his name John." Among aeavan if Ma- While James it hpw long it wonld take a - cauaonrball toreachthe sun^fgoingata velocity of 148% feetper second, his neighbor^ 340 MAIN ST., SPRINGFIELD, MASS-WINTER TEIWI begins Monday, Dec. 2d, 1889. Application for admission should be made at ooce, as the entering class is double that of any previous term. Young mien and young women,educate yourselves for business that pays. Hundreds of our students are holding good paying positions. School of Shorthand and Type Writing. .Send for illustrated catalogue. JAMES & F. E. ELY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT, THOMPSONVILLE, - - - CONN. Insurance placed at the lowest rates, and losses promptly paid by the following first-class companies: 2BTNA, HARTFORD, PHCENIX, NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE : FIRE ASSOCIATION of Philadelphia'; NIAGARA and CONTINENTAL of N. Y. The attention of investors is called to the Loans of the Iowa Mortgage Co. (6 per cent, interest guaranteed) on Farm Lands in amounts from $300 to $5,000. Also, agent for Cunard and Allan lines of steamers. Full particulars on applioation to . "SIS. JssXjt V A Town Klerk's Office. Thermometers for Fancy Work(new designsPock-et Knives, Scissors, Shears, Skat en, IWhips, Hand Hags, Trunks, Driving Gloves ! If they are not what you want, What is the matter with a Nice Robe or Blanket! If this wont do, take a HARNESS for your Husband, or Brother, or someone else's Brother. Come in and before buying. look over my stock A. T. LORD'S, MAIN ST., THOMPSONVILLE. HOLIDAY We have one of the largest lines of FANCY ROCKERS, EASY CHAIRS in Silk Plnsh, MUSIC and WALL CABINETS,' STANDING CABINETS, EASELS, FANCY CENTRE TABLES, ONYX TOP TABLES, BOOK CASES, WRITING DESKS, . PARLOR DESKS, that can be found in Springfield. Please give us a call and be convinced that our prices are the lowest. Are you going to b.uy ? If so, don't fail to see our magnificent stock and get our prices. We are not undersold by any one, and can please you. 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Physicians and Surgeons.
Ofice No. 45 Pearl Street, Thompsonville,
Conn. Connected by Telephone. No. oi
Gall 3. Office hours—8.00 to 9.00 a. m.
12.00 to 3.00, and 6.00 to 7;30 p. m.
Hours at Thompsonville, 8.U0 to
11.30 a. m. and 7.00 to 9.00 p. m,—Saturdays
all day. '•
At 26 Pratt St., Hartford, 1.00 to 4.80
p.m., Saturdays excepted.
Artificial Crowns a Specialty.
Mansley's Block, Main street, Thompsonville,
Printers and Publishers.
T HE PARSONS PRINTING COM-pany,
Steam-Power Printers, and
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opposite the depot, Thompsonville, Conn.
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Banks and Banking.
BANKERS. Commenced business
September 8, 1887.
Capital, $25,000
OFFICE HOURS, 9.30 A. M. to 12.00 M.
to 3.30 p. MV
ANDRE & CO., Custom Tailors.
Gent's garments of every description
cut and made to order; also
Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing done.
Mrs. Simpson's block, Main St., Thomp-
Bonville, Conn.
fc Meat and Fish Markets*
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Poultry,
Tripe, Ham, Lard, &c. German Sausage,
from the best New York makers, kept
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in their season at lowest cash prices.
Main street, Thompsonville, Conn.
Music, Etc*
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Lindeman & Sons, Steinway & Sons (as
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fine medium piano.
Also, the Pneumatic Symphony, two organs
in one—two instruments
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Thompsonville, Conn.
XHA. A T »T •E3?r,
Teacher of :M/usio,
Lindsey's Block (Room 1), Thompsonville,
.Also agent for the Finest PIANOS and
OKGANS sold in this vicinity. Can refer
to scores of purchasers. Musical merchandise
of every description on hand, or
obtained at short notice.
Transact business similar to any
National bank.
Deposits received subject to check
on sight.
Sell Non-Taxable 7 per cent, guar-teed
Real Estate Securities.
Deposits in Savings Department
draw interest from the first of each
NOTE.—We are doing a safe, increasing,
paying business. I am responsible
for all transactions, and oversee all
negotiations. I respectfully request
business relations with merchants and
individuals of this town.
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ffkompsonville Hotel, Thompsonville, Ct.
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artistic manner. Please give me a call.
CHARLES E. PRICE, AGENT.—Dealer
in Wood and Coal. Wood a specialty—
Chips for sale. Moving and heavy
teaming done on reasonable terms.
Thompsonville, Conn.
and Feed for sale at reasonable prices.
Custom grinding done at the usual rates.
^ fall supply always on hand. Main
dtreet, Thompsonville, Conn.
ggp-Custom grinding done also at the
jSorth mill, on Springfield road.
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fpj. mjpsonville. A full line of bread, cake
nnrt » in fact, everything usually kept
fn nfl 'st-class country bakery.
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>GLSEN is pleased to announce that Google has joined that Safe Schools Movement as the newest GLSEN National Corporate partner, and released the following blog posting today in support of our work.
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October 22, 2010
>I am so humbled by the attention my story has received in the past week, and grateful for all of the personal words of encouragement. Rightly, the focus will soon move from my story to the opportunity to galvanize all the support and love into action for those young people who are currently struggling.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth need hope for the future and help today. That's why GLSEN's work is so important. And that's why I'm asking you to take action now.
Visible adult support - at home, in school, in the community - is one of the most important lines of defense for a young person in crisis. GLSEN's Safe Space Campaign is designed to build that crucial lifeline in schools.
I urge you to visit the Safe Space website to take part in this campaign and send a Safe Space Kit to the school you attended, or that your child attends, or another school that you care about. With a Safe Space sticker to make supportive adults visible to the students who need them but may be too afraid to ask, and a guide to improve school climate for LGBT students, the Safe Space Kit helps concerned adults make a difference.
As I shared in my words last week, adults cannot look aside as young people struggle. The issue of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment is personal for me and must end. Click below to watch a PSA I have filmed for GLSEN to help get the message out.
The good news is that there are things we can do to help. Please visit GLSEN's website to learn more. Thank you to all of those who are doing their best every day, and for taking action now.
Councilman Joel Burns
Fort Worth, Texas
P.S. Join me in taking action; visit GLSEN's Safe Space Campaign website and send a Safe Space Kit to your local school today. I also would love for you to keep in touch with me; please visit joelburns.com.
October 22, 2010
>All during Ally Week we'll be highlighting stories about allies as part of the Ally Week story contest. We received this story of all-ages, school-wide Ally Week action from the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, an independent school in New York City, NY.
If you have an Ally Week story you want to share, email us at email@example.com.
LREI Students Take Action During Ally Week
Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School is an independent school in the West Village section of NYC. It was founded in the late 1920's by Elisabeth Irwin. She was committed to encouraging students to take action within their communities and they have been doing so for decades.
When teachers from the Four Year Old class through the High School spoke to students about Ally Week, many students were ready to take matters into their own hands. Students were encouraging their parents to grab an Ally Sticker on their way to work.
First Graders were generating a game plan for what to say when the time came for them to stand up for others. Leading up to Ally Week, our first graders talked about what it means to be an Ally, framing the conversation around what it means to be a friend. Some children push and tease and bully, our teachers explained, and sometimes they hurt other kids by ignoring them. Our teachers stressed the fact that kids can make a difference in situations like these. Being an Ally means speaking up!
The children brainstormed ways to stand up for their friends, then created speech bubbles. Specifically, these are scripts of what to say on the playground. The first graders also role played about what they learned and made cut-paper collages in art class.
An 8th grade student informed her 5th through 8th grade peers at their weekly Middle School Meeting that Facebook friends were encouraging people to wear purple on October 20. Purple represents Spirit on the LGBTQ flag and that's what this youth wanted to promote at our school, spirit for all. Upon hearing this, another middle schooler realized that some students and faculty who may want to participate may not actually own an item of purple clothing. She was inspired to make purple ribbon pins which she then distributed on Wednesday, October 20.
Third Graders, while on a farm trip for the week, learned about the different colors on the LGBT flag and made purple wrist bands with construction paper to wear on October 20. While looking around the Farm for tape, one student said, "Why don't we use the Ally Stickers instead of tape," and the idea spread.
Our goal is simple, start the year reminding students, families and faculty of the importance of being an Ally. Start when they are young and remind them every year. The rest of the year, practice, practice, practice. One day, when they hear LGBT bullying or slurs, when someone they know (or don't know) is being teased for who they are, we want our students to know what to do. For LREI students, taking action is a part of their learning. It's a part of their life.
Click here for information on how educators can support Ally Week.
October 21, 2010
Eliza Byard
GLSEN Executive Director
Please take a moment to thank President Obama for recognizing the challenges that LGBT youth face. Below is a link to the White House web site and a sample message you can send to the President—feel free to incorporate a personal message.
Sample Message
Subject: I appreciate your support of LGBT youth
Dear President Obama,
Thank you for your recent message to America's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. Through the power of your voice you are giving hope to many youth who may experience bullying, harassment and discrimination in their schools, homes or communities. I appreciate your strong support for LGBT youth and encourage you to continue to do as much as you can to help improve the lives of all youth.
October 21, 2010
>All during Ally Week we'll be highlighting stories about allies as part of the Ally Week story contest. The Yulee High School GSA submitted this message and public service announcement video about bullying, the product of a class project.
If you have an Ally Week story you want to share, email us at email@example.com.
At Yulee High School in Yulee, Fl, the two-year-old GSA is sponsoring it's first Ally Week. When the word went out to the faculty about the event, TV Production teacher Ashely Guinn showed what having an Ally really means. Guinn divided her students into five groups and had each group create its own anti-bullying public service announcement video to be played for the whole school during morning announcements each day during Ally Week. This unsolicited action by a teacher Ally and her students captured the heart of what Ally Week is all about.
October 20, 2010
>All during Ally Week we'll be highlighting stories about allies as part of the Ally Week story contest. Claire from Bothell, WA, submitted this video about organizing a GSA in her school. If you have an Ally Week story you want to share, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you would like to start a GSA in your school, go to www.glsen.org/jumpstart and download the Jump Start Guide, with instructions on how you can organize your own student club!
October 19, 2010
>All during Ally Week we'll be highlighting stories about allies as part of the Ally Week story contest. Seventeen-year-old Adrien, a queer transmale student in Washburn, WI, has this story to tell about why allies are important to him. If you have an Ally Week story you want to share, email us at email@example.com.
I realize that the school I attend is probably on the safe side, but without the safety net of the students and faculty that support me, I have no idea where I would be. As a queer, transmale student in a rural high school in northern Wisconsin, I will stand on the rooftops to scream how important allies are to me. During the second semester of my freshman year in high school, I began further exploring my gender identity, transitioning slowly from female to genderqueer to male.
In the years that have followed, I have taught, simply through my existence, the students and staff surrounding me about the fluidity of gender. The journey has not been easy. My mom has been my biggest ally. She has been my backbone, my support group, my cheerleader, and sometimes, the one thing that keeps me pushing through. The encouragement my allies give me is phenomenal. Some days, the only thing that makes the journey easier is the people that continue to hold me up.
When my mom and I were lobbying in Washington, D.C. with GLSEN for the Safe School Advocacy Summit in March of 2009, we both wore GLSEN pins. Every representative that we talked to, my mother would point at her pin and say, "Straight is the heart of GLSEN." Allies can help our voices be heard.
I have a couple things to say to you allies out there. First and foremost, remember this: while you support your LGBT friends, try to be as proactive as you can be. If you hear someone saying "that's so gay," don't just let it go unnoticed. Being a bystander can sometimes be as bad as being the bully. But most importantly, I want to say thank you. Without your support, some of us have a hard time pushing through. I appreciate everything you do, and so does my mom.
If you'd like more information on how you can be a better Ally to transgender and gender-nonconforming youth in schools, download the Ally Week guide: Be an Ally to Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students.
October 18, 2010
>All during Ally Week we'll be highlighting stories about allies as part of the Ally Week story contest. Nowmee is a GLSEN Ambassador and made this fantastic video for Ally Week. Check it out! If you have an Ally Week story you want to share, email us at email@example.com.
October 17, 2010
>We want to make sure that everyone knows about Ally Week, so we're having an #AllyWeek Twitter Contest! The contest ends at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT) Friday, October 22. Five Winners will get an Ally Week T-shirt, wristband, and two great films you can show to your GSA: Brother Outsider and Out in the Silence!
Each time you tweet about Ally Week can get you closer to winning! Here are the rules!
- All tweets must have the #AllyWeek hash tag to be counted.
- Tweets that consist of only "#allyweek" and nothing else will only be accepted once an hour.
Example: dayofsilence: #allyweek #allyweek #allyweek = 1PT
- Tweets containing Ally Week, not the number of times you mention Ally Week within your tweets.
Example: dayofsilence: OMG I just got 47 more pledges for Ally Week! Ally Week is so great, I love Ally Week! #allyweek = 1PT
- Tweets must be ABOUT ally week:
Doesn't count: dayofsilence: It's gloomy outside and looks like it might rain, and I'm worried soccer practice will be cancelled #allyweek. = 0PT
Counts: dayofsilence: It's gloomy outside and looks like it might rain, and I'm worried that our #allyweek activity will be cancelled. = 1PT
- You can only retweet another's Ally Week post only once.
If you have any questions or ideas, or if you want to tell us what you're planning for your Ally Week please email us at email@example.com.
October 17, 2010
Ally Week is almost here!
Ally Week, October 18-22, is a week for students to organize events that serve to identify, support and celebrate Allies to LGBT youth. Whether you've been planning for weeks or are just getting started now, there are plenty of things you can do for Ally Week!
- MAKE SURE TO REGISTER your participation in Ally Week so we can have an accurate number of how many people participated. Click here to register!
- Spread the word on Facebook! Change your status to one of the following:
- I'm proud to be an Ally to LGBT youth! Celebrate Ally Week, Oct 18-22. Learn more at allyweek.org
- Be an Ally. Be the Change. Celebrate Ally Week, Oct 18-22. Learn more at allyweek.org
- Spread the word on Twitter! Tweet about your Ally Week experience using the #AllyWeek hash tag to spread the word! And see about the #AllyWeek Twitter Contest below!
- Don't have anything planned? You can still participate! Check out the Ally Week Action guide or 10 Things You Can Do for Ally Week, both available at AllyWeek.org/action.
- Be visible! Yellow is the official AW color, so if everyone participating wears yellow you'll be sure to stand out. And don't forget t-shirts, buttons, stickers, face-paint—these are all ways you can help draw attention to your action.
- Be respectful! Ally Week is about ending anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in school. To do this, it's important to treat people with respect. There are likely people at your school who will try to challenge your activities or your beliefs. Treat these people not as they treat you but with the same respect you hope to be treated with. Remember, Ally Week is a peaceful action!
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Boxer-turned-politico Joe Mesi has had a change of heart.
A Democrat who's running for New York state's Senate, Mesi this summer said he did not support same-sex marriage. Then, earlier this week, Mesi switched gears and declared he will back legislative efforts to pass gay nuptials.
Even before that announcement, however, Mesi's been getting all sorts of pro-gay support:
During a nine-day period last month, Mesi received about $37,000 from individuals or groups who in one way or another have ties to organizations that support same-sex marriage rights. In June, during an interview on WBEN radio, Mesi said he opposed same-sex marriage.
Earlier this week, on the same radio station, he said he supports the right.
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Skip to comments.Oslo attack speculation centers on Kurdish group (Ansar al-Islam; The 2001 Original Iraqi Al-Qaeda)
Posted on 07/22/2011 12:57:27 PM PDT by tobyhill
In the immediate aftermath of the attack in Oslo, speculation about the party that might be responsible has centered on Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish militant group that has been tied by U.S. officials to al-Qaeda and that carried out attacks on American troops and civilians in Iraq at the height of the war there.
Norways contingent in Afghanistan, or even its cartoon crisis of 2006, could make the country a target for any number of terrorist groups, as the Atlantic has noted. Already, theres been at least one claim of responsibility for Fridays bombing from an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist.
The U.S. ambassador to Norway, Barry White, said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon that investigators were still assembling information about the attacks and had not reached any conclusions on who was responsible.
Theyre still looking at it, White said. Often times the early answers are the wrong ones.
Still, Ansar a Sunni group that has been formally designated a terrorist organization by the United States makes good sense if for no other reason than the timing of the attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The possibilities are endless.
But seriously, coordinated attacks are a hallmark of the Jihadis. This posturing has got to stop.
It's right at the tip of my mind but I JUST can't qute recall. Will someone please refresh my memory regarding the most prominent religion among the Kurds?
That seems odd, because from what I know (granted not much) Kurds are favorable to Westerners because they seem them as their protectors. The rampant speculation has to stop though, just like it was out of line with the Tucson shooting.
Maybe Saddam Hussein (and the Turks!) were right after all!
I was afraid for a minute it said Barry Manilow.
That caught my eye, too.
Ansar al-Islam (Friends of Islam, roughly) are seriously bad news.
The Germans have busted a few of these clowns here in Berlin, and PROMPTLY deported back them to their countries of origin.
Not far from where I live, there's a little storefront mosque. Heard a good story about it, from my upstairs neighbor, a sheik.
A few years ago, this mosque had some real wacked-out imam preaching all kinds of wackiness. Someone (a parishoner apparently) didn't like it, and said something to the police. They (the cops) put an informant inside the mosque with a wire and recorded one of the sermons. Then the police informant bought a couple of books in the basement; among them, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion".
The imam was arrested for promoting anti-Semitism, and duly deported back to Egypt, no questions asked.
That's how you handle these sort of things. In the aforementioned case, a conscientious parishoner may well have prevented something much worse. In the case in Norway, there was no such luck. Generally, that tells me this was a small, and very tight-knit conspiracy.
They're Amish
Right-wing middle-class homeschooling concealed-carry-advocating Barack-Obama-questioning Christians are suspected.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the agency that issues the franchise to these various splinter groups, and when they seem to be failing, they take back their support of these "little brothers".
The Muslim Brotherhood has supplied the training, the start-up money, and a considerable amount of logistic support, but if the "little brothers" cannot show a definite aspect of return on MB's investments, then the big boys step in and activate the shock troops they have had lying in wait for some time now.
And if some of these shock troops are blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordic types that speak with an East Norwegian accent, so much the better. A Muslim fanatic of whatever color is still a Muslim fanatic.
"An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that a militant calling himself Abu Suleiman al-Nasser had claimed responsibility for the attack, according to Site Intelligence Group. On a jihadist Web forum, Nasser asserted the attack was another message from mujahideen fighters and speculated on the reasons Norway was targeted but did not claim responsibility."
Wow..real nice of the Washington Post to do a correction so fast on behalf of barbarian terrorists! Interesting that conservatives that try to set the record straight at the WP NEVER GET CORRECTIONS!!
Go figure...(eye roll)
"The rampant speculation has to stop though, just like it was out of line with the Tucson shooting."
I was thinking maybe muslims had something to do with this, but I don't want to jump to any conclusions. /s
RE: A Kurdish militant group has been tied by U.S. officials to al-Qaeda and that carried out attacks on American troops and civilians in Iraq at the height of the war there.
I spent some time in a Kurdish camp in 2005 and they hated Saddam as much as I did. I felt comfortable in walking around without a weapon so there must be more to the story or I was pretty dumb and lucky.
Infiltrating mosques is against the law in these parts.
I think it's a fair assessment that it probably IS Islamists, but if the off chance that we're wrong, then the the accusations of "Islamophobia" will go through the roof. We don't have the luxury of the media to backpedal for us.
It shouldn't be.
The FBI infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan quite successfully, I would argue. As well as various Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist groups.
If there was a church out there preaching some extremist nonsense (and I'm quite sure there is), don't think for one minute it isn't infiltrated.
It's common-sense security. Identify the threat, prove the threat, neutralize the threat. It's law enforcement 101.
Lots of things have changed since the FBI infiltrated the KKK in the 60s. I don't think the government will do anything inside a mosque. They'll probably spy on Christian "extremists" but not INSIDE a mosque.
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94-Year-Old Woman to Soon Graduate from Mass. High School
A 94-year-old woman is on track to graduate from a local public high school decades after she left the school just a couple credits shy of finishing.
Genevieve Johnson was set to graduate in 1936 from Westford Academy, then a one-room schoolhouse, according to the Westford Academy Ghostwriter student newspaper and WBZ-TV. But, because of the Great Depression, she said she needed to find a job instead to help support her family.
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This spring, she returned to the school to complete the two-and-a-half credits she'd been missing for the past 78 years.
"It means that I will gladly say that I got a high school education, which I've always wanted, and here I am and I'm going to finish,'' Johnson told WBZ-TV.
"It isn't the same as when I went to school. We had homework naturally, but not as much as they do today,'' she added.
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Students look different, too.
"We had short hair, no long hair,'' Johnson told the Ghostwriter. "I don't remember anyone with long hair. The boys had to have the nice haircuts.''
She's taking classes in English, US History and acting and has become one of the most popular students, according to the Ghostwriter and WBZ-TV.
"She actually lived through what we're learning about so she provides an interesting insight to the class,'' junior Renee Brody told the Ghostwriter.
Johnson will walk at graduation and will receive a "certificate of attendance.'' But, she won't get a diploma because she is not taking the MCAS.
The student newspaper's editor-in-chief Ethan Walshe wrote that Johnson deserves a diploma. A poll below his column on the newspaper's website had received more than 150 votes as of this afternoon, and 91 percent of voters agreed with Walshe.


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More people seeking advice over difficulty having babies
The number of people using the Family Planning Association's subfertility clinics, which provide clinical assessment, treatment and referral to specialists for couples who have tried unsuccessfully to have babies, has nearly doubled in the past five years.
Apart from physiological problems, the association has found that stress caused by a heavy workload and insufficient knowledge about sex are among the problems couples face.
Last year, the association's four subfertility clinics saw more than 1,990 clients, a 90.4 per cent rise on the number seen in 2002.
A senior doctor at the association, Grace Wong Ching-yin, believed the surge in demand for help was linked to people's increased awareness they needed professional help.
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Besides physiological reasons, Dr Wong said some couples were very busy in their jobs. They tried to calculate the wife's ovulation cycle and had sex only around that time, thinking this was a more 'efficient' way to have a baby.
'However, it's hard to make precise predictions of ovulation. The fewer times you have sex, the chance of having babies is reduced. We encourage them to increase the number of times they have sex to around two or three times a week.'
Although times have changed and people are marrying later, with the average age of 31 for men and 28 for women, Dr Wong said the biological clock of humans had basically remained the same.
A woman's ability to get pregnant can dramatically decrease after she reaches the age of 35, while the motility of sperm in men can decline with age. But she said so far there was no evidence that the increasing demand for fertility services was linked to people marrying later in life.
'We respect people's choice on whether to have babies or not. We don't blindly encourage people to have babies, but we encourage [those who do] to use early family planning.'
Sometimes, it was a lack of serious lack of knowledge about the mechanics of having sex that led to unsuccessful intercourse, let alone having babies.
To improve sex education, the association launched a new sex therapy programme in February, which provides sex coaching, dysfunction therapy and talks on sexual activity.
'I think sex education in the city has improved in recent years, but there is room for improvement,' Dr Wong said.
In February 2005, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, when chief secretary, called on couples to have at least three children to help halt Hong Kong's sliding birth rate and this year proposed one-off direct subsidies or tax credits for families with newborn babies.
An advisory body has also proposed special paternity leave for civil servants and discounted tickets for family activities.
Increasing demand
The number of people seeking help from the Family Planning Association's subfertility clinics in 2002: 1,047
The number seeking help in 2004: 1,240
The number seeking help last year: 1,993
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