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Kelp Forest
Discover an underwater forestat 28 feet, the Kelp Forest is one of the tallest aquarium exhibits in the world. You'll get a diver's-eye-view of sardines, leopard sharks, wolf-eels and a host of other fishes as they weave through swaying fronds of kelp, just like they do in the wild.
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There are more than 100 species of rockfish and they come in many different shapes, sizes and color patterns. Colors vary from black and drab green to bright orange and red, and some rockfishes wear stripes or splotches. Their heads feature large eyes and thick, broad mouths that dip downward at the corners. Rockfish are known for the bony plates on their heads and bodies and the heavy spines on their fins.
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Leopard shark
Leopard sharks are one of the most common sharks along the coast of California. They're beautiful, slender fish with silvery-bronze skin, patterned with dark ovals that stretch in a neat row across their backs. (Look closely at the dark spots—the older a leopard shark is, the paler the interior of the spots.) Sturdy, triangular pectoral fins are matched by two dorsal fins, and a long, tapered tail swishes gracefully back and forth.
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"Cabezon" means "large head" in Spanish, and this sculpin's big head allows it to gulp some good-sized prey. Cabezon can swallow small, whole abalones, regurgitating the inedible shells.
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California sheephead
Male and female sheephead have different color patterns and body shapes. Males are larger, with black tail and head sections; wide, reddish orange midriffs; red eyes and fleshy forehead bumps. Female sheephead are dull pink with white undersides. Both sexes have white chins and large, protruding canine teeth that can pry hard-shelled animals from rocks. After powerful jaws and sharp teeth crush the prey, modified throat bones (a throat plate) grind the shells into small pieces.
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Pacific sardine
Like synchronized swimmers, sardines in a school move together as one—staying together is their way of life. This communal lifestyle is good for these small fish. When predators come near, there's safety in numbers. And when it's time to reproduce, there's no need to seek out mates—plenty are close at hand.
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Our kelp plants grow an average of about four inches a day and require weekly underwater gardening by scuba divers who untangle and trim the fast-growing plants.
Don't be surprised if you see rockfish hanging motionless or even upside down among the kelp blades. These fish can hover without sinking or floating because they have a gas-filled sac called a swim bladder helps them stay put.
Pumps push up to 2,000 gallons of sea water a minute through the exhibit and a specially designed surge machine creates the constant water movement that kelp needs to survive.
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American Profile featured "20 of the nation's most celebrated and distinguished authors" in last week's issue. The publication is inserted in the Sunday, Jan. 23, edition of the Messenger, but you can also read the story online here: http://www.americanprofile.com/article/44187.html.
It's just a short description of each, and it mentions their most well-known work. If you're looking to read more "classics" in 2011 or just feel the need to educate yourself in American literature, this list is a good place to start.
I've never been a big fan of English literature, always favoring early American authors. And reading through this list confirmed what I already suspected: My favorites are from the early 1900s. It's funny because in my mind the list automatically split into pre-1900s and post-1900s (my favorites).
I came across several authors, novels and short stories that I plan to revisit. Happy reading!

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Validates whether the value of the specified attributes are unique across the system. Useful for making sure that only one user can be named "davidhh".
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :user_name, :scope => :account_id end
It can also validate whether the value of the specified attributes are unique based on multiple scope parameters. For example, making sure that a teacher can only be on the schedule once per semester for a particular class.
class TeacherSchedule < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :teacher_id, :scope => [:semester_id, :class_id] end
When the record is created, a check is performed to make sure that no record exists in the database with the given value for the specified attribute (that maps to a column). When the record is updated, the same check is made but disregarding the record itself.
Configuration options:
- :message - Specifies a custom error message (default is: "has already been taken").
- :scope - One or more columns by which to limit the scope of the uniqueness constraint.
- :case_sensitive - Looks for an exact match. Ignored by non-text columns (true by default).
- :allow_nil - If set to true, skips this validation if the attribute is nil (default is false).
- :allow_blank - If set to true, skips this validation if the attribute is blank (default is false).
- :if - Specifies a method, proc or string to call to determine if the validation should occur (e.g. :if => :allow_validation, or :if => Proc.new { |user| user.signup_step > 2 }). The method, proc or string should return or evaluate to a true or false value.
- :unless - Specifies a method, proc or string to call to determine if the validation should not occur (e.g. :unless => :skip_validation, or :unless => Proc.new { |user| user.signup_step <= 2 }). The method, proc or string should return or evaluate to a true or false value.
Concurrency and integrity
Using this validation method in conjunction with ActiveRecord::Base#save does not guarantee the absence of duplicate record insertions, because uniqueness checks on the application level are inherently prone to race conditions. For example, suppose that two users try to post a Comment at the same time, and a Comment's title must be unique. At the database-level, the actions performed by these users could be interleaved in the following manner:
User 1 | User 2 ------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- # User 1 checks whether there's | # already a comment with the title | # 'My Post'. This is not the case. | SELECT * FROM comments | WHERE title = 'My Post' | | | # User 2 does the same thing and also | # infers that his title is unique. | SELECT * FROM comments | WHERE title = 'My Post' | # User 1 inserts his comment. | INSERT INTO comments | (title, content) VALUES | ('My Post', 'hi!') | | | # User 2 does the same thing. | INSERT INTO comments | (title, content) VALUES | ('My Post', 'hello!') | | # ^^^^^^ | # Boom! We now have a duplicate | # title!
This could even happen if you use transactions with the 'serializable' isolation level. There are several ways to get around this problem:
- By locking the database table before validating, and unlocking it after saving. However, table locking is very expensive, and thus not recommended.
- By locking a lock file before validating, and unlocking it after saving. This does not work if you've scaled your Rails application across multiple web servers (because they cannot share lock files, or cannot do that efficiently), and thus not recommended.
- Creating a unique index on the field, by using
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements#add_index. In the rare
case that a race condition occurs, the database will guarantee the
field's uniqueness.
When the database catches such a duplicate insertion, ActiveRecord::Base#save will raise an ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid exception. You can either choose to let this error propagate (which will result in the default Rails exception page being shown), or you can catch it and restart the transaction (e.g. by telling the user that the title already exists, and asking him to re-enter the title). This technique is also known as optimistic concurrency control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_concurrency_control
Active Record currently provides no way to distinguish unique index constraint errors from other types of database errors, so you will have to parse the (database-specific) exception message to detect such a case.
Back it up with a unique index
As mentioned briefly above, as well as using this validation in your model you should ensure the underlying database table also has a unique index to avoid a race condition.
For example:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :login_name end
The index can be specified in the migration for the User model using add_index like this:
add_index :users, :login_name, :unique => true
You do a similar thing when using the :scope option:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :user_name, :scope => :account_id end
Should have a migration like this:
add_index :people, [ :account_id, :user_name ], :unique => true
Note that both the attribute being validated (:user_name) and the attribute(s) used in the :scope (:account_id) must be part of the index.
For a clear and concise explanation of the potential for a race condition see Hongli Lai's blog.
Does not work with polymorphic relations
If you have polymorphic relations, e.g.:
class Bookmark < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :thing, :polymorphic => true belongs_to :owner, :polymorphic => true end
and you want to ensure that a thing can bookmarked by an owner at most once, you can't do this:
validates_uniqueness_of :thing, :scope => :owner
Instead, you must use the real column names, e.g.:
validates_uniqueness_of :thing_id, :scope => [:thing_type, :owner_id, :owner_type]
multi scope to sql
validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => [:big_category_id, :small_category_id]
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Packers turn Lions into Lambeau lambs … again
The Lions extended their own NFL record for consecutive road losses against one opponent to 22 and clinched last place in the NFC North one season after making the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.By: By Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, Superior Telegram
GREEN BAY, Wis. — It was there for the taking. Again.
But like they have most every Sunday this year — and for the last 21 seasons in Green Bay — the Lions couldn't make the plays they needed to.
Matthew Stafford let a fumble slip out of his hands when he cocked his arm back to pass. Nick Fairley poked a ball loose, but no Lion was around to recover. And when the Lions needed a defensive stop, they gave up big play after big play, mostly on the ground.
The Packers ran for 140 yards in snowy conditions and kept the ball on the ground for all seven plays in their go-ahead fourth-quarter touchdown drive to beat the Lions for the second time this year, 27-20, at Lambeau Field.
The Lions extended their own NFL record for consecutive road losses against one opponent to 22 and clinched last place in the NFC North one season after making the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.
At 4-9 and losers of five straight, they're tied for the worst record in the NFC with the Panthers, Eagles and next week's opponent the Cardinals.
The Packers (9-4) took over sole possession of first place in the division with their second straight victory and a Bears loss to the Vikings earlier Sunday.
The Lions dominated play for most of the first half, advancing into Green Bay territory on their first four possessions and holding the ball for nearly 23 of the game's first 30 minutes.
But the Packers scored 10 straight points to open the fourth quarter after trading missed field goals earlier in the second half.
DuJuan Harris scored his first career touchdown on a 14-yard run to give the Packers a 24-17 lead with 10:45 to play, capping a seven-play, 59-yard drive in which Green Bay stayed exclusively on the ground. Harris carried on the final two plays of the drive, and the recently-signed Ryan Grant had a 13-yard run on his only carry of the game.
The Lions stalled near midfield on the ensuing drive, and the Packers tacked on a field goal on their next possession. Aaron Rodgers, who completed just 14 of 24 passes for 173 yards in the game, threw a 38-yard bullet to Randall Cobb between three defenders on third-and-11 to keep the drive alive.
Cobb caught seven passes and tied a season-high with 102 yards for the Packers.
Calvin Johnson finished with 10 catches for 118 yards and stayed on pace to break Jerry Rice's single-season receiving record for the Lions.
Johnson needs to average 100.3 yards over the final three games to top Rice's mark of 1,848 yards set in 1995. He passed 1,500 yards for the season Sunday and joined Marvin Harrison and Andre Johnson as the only players in NFL history to reach that milestone.
The Lions opened the game with a 12-play, 80-yard drive, scoring on Stafford's 3-yard bootleg on fourth-and-inches. Stafford faked a dive to Mikel Leshoure, who was stopped for no gain on the previous play, and ran by an unsuspecting Frank Zombo for his fourth touchdown of the year.
Rodgers drove the Packers inside the Lions' 15-yard line on the ensuing possession, but Lawrence Jackson sacked him from behind, jarring the ball loose, and Stephen Tulloch recovered.
Stafford followed with an 11-play, 79-yard drive, with the Lions leaning heavily on Joique Bell during the possession. Bell carried five times for 25 yards on the drive, and Kris Durham, in his first game and start as a Lion, made a diving one-handed catch to put the Lions in scoring range.
Bell followed with a 3-yard gain, and Stafford threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Tony Scheffler on a well-designed pick play.
The Packers answered with a 49-yard Mason Crosby field goal, then forced turnovers on the Lions' next two possessions.
Stafford lost a fumble when the ball slipped out of his hand near midfield that Green Bay's Mike Daniels returned 43 yards for a touchdown, and on the next possession he underthrew Durham, his former teammate at Georgia, when it appeared that Durham ran the wrong route.
The Lions had 117 of their 135 rushing yards in the first half, but took primarily to the air in the final two quarters. They had just six 100-yard rushing games the first six weeks.
Stafford finished 27 of 45 passing for 264 yards. Tight end Brandon Pettigrew, the Lions' second-leading receiver, left with an ankle injury in the first quarter.
Daniels' touchdown was the eighth non-defensive score the Lions have allowed this year. They allowed four special-teams touchdowns in back-to-back September losses, have given up two interception-return touchdowns and had a fumble returned for a score in a loss at Tennessee.
Copyright (c)2012 Detroit Free Press/Distributed by MCT Information Services
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View additional infoThree GREAT parcels combine for a total of 75.11 acres of prime land in a strategic location waiting to be developed. Property is located near the prestigious Web School. This highly desirable property includes scenic vistas and spectacular views. Rich in history, the property offers new riches to the developer with dreams. For detailed information about what can be developed on the property please check with the appropriate departments at both the City of Claremont and County of Los Angeles. (Additional APNs include 8669-015-012; 8669-015-011; and 8669-012-002) $4,388,8883752 Hollins Avenue Claremont, CA 91711
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View additional infoUpon entering this Majestic Mediterranean Estate which has 7 bedrooms and 8 1/2 bathrooms you are surrounded by arches and ornate wrapped pillars. Standing in the foyer you immediately gaze in awe at the brilliance and clarity of the custom Schonbek Chandeliers that suspend from the cathedral ceilings. The grand double staircases and marbled flooring grace the rotunda. The formal dining room seats 20 guests with ease. The adjacent butlers panty makes your formal entertaining effortless. This estate is an entertainers paradise. The gourmet kitchen has an elongated granite island, dual Gaggenua cook top stove and Thermador ovens which make family gatherings and corporate entertaining a cinch. Spoil yourself in the master retreat which has a warm fireplace, wet bar, sitting area, built in steam sauna and salt water osmosis shower to go along with the sunken spa. Each bedroom has its own bathroom for privacy. This estate has a 960 bottle climate controlled wine room, game room, a studio perfect for your artist or musician and office/study on main floor. The park like backyard has over 20 varieties of fruit trees and a gazebo. The grounds have rain sensor sprinklers and a salt water pool. Equipped with video surveillance. $2,900,0001047 Pomello Drive Claremont, CA 91711
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View additional infoTucked away on Yuba Lane in Northeast Claremont and never before on the market. This unique and truly one of a kind statement home, was designed by a noted La Jolla Architect. European styling, appointed with timeless finishes and materials, the open single level floorplan has a great room with soaring 12 foot ceilings and spectacular windows offering views of San Antonio Peak. Clean lines and extensive use of stone and wood make this home a work of art. The chef?s kitchen with center island is equipped with Dacor cooktop, double convection oven and GE Monogram refrigerator. The steamed beech wood cabinetry was designed and built by Don Wells. Each bathroom includes honed travertine, slate, custom Villi Glass tiles and radiant heated flooring. The generous sized bedrooms all have walk in closets with custom California Closet built-ins. Spacious TV room with mountain views, an amazing dual office suite, children?s study/playroom, exercise room and mudroom complete the interior. Park like grounds, multiple patios, on over ? of an acre, with a motor court, 3 car garage and an incredible workshop. This sprawling custom home is an excellent example of perfection, well thought out, artfully designed and expertly painted with low VOC paint in tasteful colors. $1,888,0004303 Mohawk Claremont, CA 91711
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Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, R.I.P.
When Popcorn Sutton died in mid-March at the age of 62, the national press ran obituaries. Though he was just an old moonshiner who'd plied his trade for half a century and done nothing else of consequence, a whole bunch of folks in Tennessee and North Carolina grieved more than they would have over the death of a military hero, movie star, or ex-president. A few lamented the disappearance of the best 180-proof whiskey available on planet Earth. More mourned the loss of a dogged warrior who'd fought the enemy's merciless legions, held them at bay for nearly a lifetime, and finally yielded to overwhelming numbers and resources.
You can see photographs of Popcorn on the world-wide web, a scrawny old man wearing overalls, a faded flannel shirt, and the wreck of a brown hat—the splay of his red-gray beard covering his chest, sad eyes seared by the gaze of the Beast. One snapshot shows him standing by his Model A Ford, with mom corn and pop corn painted on the front bumper. Another with Willie Nelson's arm around him. A third with him holding a copy of Me and My Likker, his autobiography.
You can even go to YouTube and see a snippet of The Last One, a film about Sutton, made by Neal Hutcheson, whose North Carolina company, Sucker Punch Pictures, features Appalachian stories and themes. The Last One is a step-by-step workshop on how to make a still and run off your very own moonshine, with Popcorn and assistant J.B. Rader as instructors.
It's like watching a segment of Paula Deen on the Food Network. Popcorn talks you through the exacting process, starting with the selection of a site and ending with the sampling of the finished product. You can sense the true artisan's quest for perfection in his careful explanation of each step. This is no hustler, out to make a quick buck. Scuttling around the copper kettle and tubing, sealing the contraption with his skeletal thumb, he is the master of a great craft, cooking one more batch for posterity, "the last run of likker I'll ever make."
By the time Hutcheson shot this film, Popcorn was already a mythic figure.
Everybody in that part of the country knew who he was and what he did. Of course, he had no intention of stopping, any more than Michelangelo considered stopping after finishing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Sutton went right back to the old copper cookery, and no one seemed to mind—except for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Perhaps for them he had become the embodiment of surd evil. Perhaps his local fame reflected poorly on their competence and relevance. Whatever the case might be, last year they swarmed all over his three-still operation and heaped numerous charges on his back, already bent double from hauling 25-pound sacks of sugar to mix with the sour mash.
Following Popcorn's arrest, ATF Special Agent James Cavanaugh proclaimed, "Moonshine is romanticized in folklore and in the movies. The truth though is that moonshine is a dangerous health issue and breeds other crime."
Not as dangerous to health as the ATF. You will recall that this same agency was complicit in killing 78 people at Waco, including 21 children and 2 pregnant women. When it came time to investigate this federal massacre, the chief of ATF operations at Waco said there were no guns on the government helicopters. Under questioning, he changed his story, admitting there were indeed guns, just no mounted guns. A bullet from a hand-held gun is just as lethal as one from a mounted gun.
Who was the leader of the ATF at the Waco massacre, whom critics have charged with lying to investigators? The same James Cavanaugh. Question: Over the years, who has posed the greater threat to human life—poor old Popcorn Sutton or the federal government, led by trigger-happy hotshots like Cavanaugh? The evidence seems clear. The score is at least 78-0, not counting Ruby Ridge.
Here's what Popcorn said about moonshining, in general, and his own operation, in particular:
If you ain't got the proper equipment to start with, then you don't need to get in the business, because you don't need to kill a bunch of people and make 'em sick . . . I wanted to make a product that they'd come back and see me when they got that drunk up.
Apparently, he knew more about the equipment he was using to make whiskey than Cavanaugh knew about the equipment the government used to kill civilians at Waco.
Following Popcorn's arrest and subsequent death, plain folks expressed their anger on the world-wide web. On a site called Smokey Mountain Breakdown the following appeared:
[R]evenuers suck. Like our federal government doesn't have better things to do. But we keep making them bigger and fatter, and creating new departments for them to run and staff. Defend the country, deliver the mail, I'm thinking that's about enough for them to handle.
East Tennessee has been robbed of a man who was a part of history. I met Popcorn a few years back, and I thought he was precious[.] I never heard tale of any time he ever hurt a soul[.] They should have just let him be to continue his craft. Well, I'm sure ole Popcorn knew he had many freinds and aquaintences that will be missing him. I bet he is in Heaven tending a Golden Still.
While many attitudes and values have changed over the past 200-plus years, some have remained constant. Government still wants to tax sin, in general, and whiskey, in particular. Ordinary people believe fiercely, unequivocally that such taxes are wrong, indeed downright wicked. What we see in the case of Popcorn Sutton is the continuation of the Whiskey Rebellion, which began in George Washington's administration and threatened the very existence of the new nation.
In the late 18th century whiskey was more than merely a solace against bone-chilling winter and—with an average of seven children per house—a way to sweeten the lengthy confinement between harvest and spring planting. ("Maude, tell them children to shut up, and bring me my jug.") It was also a money crop and, along the frontier, a medium of exchange.
"How much is that cotton dress in the window?"
"Three gallons, Ma'am. But it's been there for a while. I'll give it to you for two."
It was Alexander Hamilton's idea to impose an excise tax on whiskey—to raise revenue to pay off the war debt of the colonies and to establish the right of the federal government to jerk the chain of the newly freed citizenry. As Hamilton put it, the whiskey tax was "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue." Hamilton was the quintessential apostle of Big Government. Aaron Burr did the right thing for the wrong reason.
The law specified that small producers of whiskey would be taxed at a rate of nine cents per gallon, while large producers would pay only six cents per gallon. President Washington—who was a large producer—thought Hamilton had a good idea. So did Congress. Again, some things haven't changed.
On the other hand, small farmers, who remembered fighting a revolution in part over the Stamp Act of 1765, felt betrayed. This was the first time the new government had flexed its muscles, and folks in the boondocks didn't like it a bit. In the hills and hollows they concluded that this was just the kind of situation for which the Second Amendment was created. Their struggle for independence began in South Park Township, Pennsylvania, and spread southward and westward. Soon a loosely organized but well-armed resistance movement was flourishing nationwide, directing their attacks against the likes of tax collectors, mail carriers, and courts—i.e., government agents.
George Washington—who had fought and defeated the armies of a tax-mad king—wasn't about to let the same thing happen to his own duly constituted government. He declared martial law, recruited some 13,000 men, and appointed Lighthorse Harry Lee as their commander, with written instructions to fight those "who may be found in arms in opposition to the National will and authority." It was the first time a president assumed that the will of his government and the will of the people were identical—but by no means the last. To underscore that proposition, he even rode out at the head of the army, which was just about the size of the force he'd led against the British.
Instead of Braddock, Washington's army pursued a folk hero—nameless and faceless—called Tom the Tinker. To this day, no one knows for sure who he was or if, indeed, he ever existed. In a sense, it doesn't matter. In many states, groups organized, calling themselves Tom the Tinker's Men. They narrowed their focus to target whiskey-tax collectors and those who collaborated with them, if only by complying with the law. Of the latter group, historian William Hogeland wrote:
You might find a note posted on a tree outside your house, requiring you to publish in the Gazette your hatred of the whiskey tax and your commitment to the cause; otherwise, the note promised, your still would be mended. Tom had a wicked sense of humor and a literary bent: "mended" meant shot full of holes or burned. Tom published on his own, too, rousing his followers to action, telling the Gazette's editor in cover notes to run the messages or suffer the consequences.
Though the army was effective in Western Pennsylvania, Washington didn't even attempt to enforce the tax in the hills and valleys of the outlands. Today history books concentrate on success in Pennsylvania and ignore failure in the rest of the country. As Murray Rothbard explained,
Washington, Hamilton, and the Cabinet covered up the extent of the revolution because they didn't want to advertise the extent of their failure. They knew very well if they tried to enforce, or send an army into, the rest of the back country, they would have failed. Kentucky and perhaps the other areas would have seceded from the Union then and there.
In 1802, Congress repealed the law that precipitated the Whiskey Rebellion. However, today it is still illegal to make whiskey, even for your own consumption—a law that defies common sense. As a consequence, the spirit of Tom the Tinker lives on, particularly in the mountains of Appalachia, where white lightning remains a respectable beverage.
To his admirers, Popcorn Sutton was the reincarnation of Tom the Tinker. Had he been a purveyor of pornography or methamphetamine, he would have been a pariah, loathed by the very people who found him quaint and heroic. Whiskey is different from dope and smut. It just is.
Popcorn was arrested because somebody couldn't keep his mouth shut. One of his "still sheds" caught on fire; and both the county and local fire departments came to put out the flames. Before they had completed the job, Popcorn showed up and asked the firefighters to please not mention the presence of three stills, coils of copper wire, bags of sugar, sour mash, and more than 800 gallons of moonshine stored in the remains of an old school bus. Somebody ratted him out, and the feds swooped down on his property and hauled him away, along with his paraphernalia.
He hadn't been arrested since 1998; and in the past he'd been given probated sentences, since no one took what he'd been doing too seriously. This time Popcorn promised never to do it again; he pled ill health, saying, "I'd like to die at home rather than in a penitentiary." The court was unforgiving. The prim judge said he'd heard no expression of remorse and sentenced Popcorn to 18 months in prison.
Popcorn waited until the word came to surrender. Then he did what he believed he had to do. He climbed into his old Ford Fairmont—the one he'd traded three jugs of moonshine for—shut the windows, and cranked up the car. That afternoon, his wife, Pam, found him, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning.
"He got his letter to report Friday, and he just couldn't handle it," she said. "We tried everything we could to leave him on house arrest, and they wouldn't do it. So I thank the federal court for this."
Some of his admirers have said that the making of moonshine is a dying craft, that Popcorn was the last great practitioner. They complain that there's no money in moonshine anymore, that soon enough no one will even know how to make the stuff.
Don't you believe it. The spirit of Tom the Tinker and Popcorn Sutton will rule the mountains until the final trumpet echoes in smoking valleys. Raw-boned mountain boys already know it isn't just the money. It's the incomparable thrill of thumbing your nose at Alexander Hamilton. Popcorn has left them the how-to DVD. A dozen young towheaded adventurers are back in the mountains right now, soldering coils together, cooking sour mash, listening to the drip, drip, drip of their own fierce defiance. And they don't give a damn for George Washington's army.
This article first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
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I just finished reading "Little Doc," written by Archie MacIntosh, M.D., about his twelfth year of life in Old Fort, North Carolina, in the year 1932. It brings home to me not only this fine remembrance of an American hero by Tom Landess, whom I have admired for many years, but also the memories of my own small home town. It was not in the south, but in western New York. Except for the tannery--we had sauerkraut factories, and were the world's largest producer of that fine food--and Old Fort's permanent black population--ours was transient, come in to pick up potatoes in the fall, growing up as a young boy in the two towns was identical. We had our stills, and men who supplied good likker, and taught us boys to drink it right. We had no Popcorn Sutton, but I suspect that most other places didn't either. Nobody got arrested in our town except for outlanders who tried to disrupt our one cop's ability to keep our teenagers out of trouble. I do mostly admire George Washington, but every great man can be a trial, can't he?
This is a fine piece of writing from one of the last few good men who was "a real soldier once and young." Not many could pull this story off because they would not know what was lovely and beautiful about an old mountain bootlegger who had a craft and worked at it. Tom Landess tells stories that need telling and I admire most everything he notices about politics, history and the world his cheerful eyes have seen, his heart has admired and his mind has understood. If I was a young college student interested in knowing a genuine remnant of the south country and a real gentleman, I would be begging this man to have a cocktail with me sometime this summer. And I would offer to bring the moonshine.
Cleo Epps is also another interesting bootlegger from Oklahoma.(she was done in by low life acquaintances who used her and her stump-dynamite to blow up a Judge in the early to mid seventies) The monks of Clear Creek in a strange sign of God's goodness have built a monastery on property she once owned near a little ground spring called, Clear Creek. Good water is as important to good moonshine as the corn and sugar.
Readers can find out more about her at http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/itemsofinterest/centennial/centennial_storypage.asp?ID=071023_1_A4_spanc48104
Of course the reporter from The Tulsa World doesn't spin a tale like Tom Landess -- but there are not many folks left who can. Thanks Dr. Landess for this fine contribution to Chronicles. -
The only thing Aaron Burr did wrong was to wait too long!
Very interesting piece. I just ordered the documentary. (Wish I'd seen it before writing "The Whiskey Rebellion.")
A correction regarding the 1790's whiskey tax. Hamilton's excise was earmarked for funding the war debt -- not paying it off. The distinction is crucial. Hamilton was indeed a father of big national government -- and big business, and their connections -- and therefore wanted to create a flush investing class, with close ties to federal government and the military establishment, whose investments in national debt would finance big national projects. Paying off the debt would not have achieved that. Funding the debt, swelling it to massive proportions by absorbing state debts in it (and including the army officer class among the creditors), and supporting investors' interest payments with a regressive tax on non-investors (the bondholders' interest income was of course untaxed) -- those measures did achieve it.
There's more, specifically on Hamilton (and the recent cult of Hamilton, in both liberal and conservative policy circles) in my new book "Inventing American History" (MIT Press; I've given the Amazon URL as my Website). More too in my book dedicated to the rebellion itself, where I discuss the brutal suppression of the Ohio headwaters area by Washington, Hamilton, and Lee, which was even worse than your piece suggests.
Thanks very much again for the steer toward "The Last One."
William Hogeland -
Tom, is the story of Henry Todd Lincoln of Ellenton SC true? Lincoln biographers seem unable to find any reference of his existence. I shouldn't be surprised.
An old grad school chum hailed from the mountains of North Carolina. He assured me that the best moonshine was fine tuned to produce one of three moods: fighting, crying, and loving. The very worst outcomes came about when the mason jar contained the wrong stuff, generally provoking fighting rather than loving. Some years after I returned from Vietnam, an old Southern friend gave me a swig of some double distilled applejack produced from an old Southern Illinois family recipe by a high school science teacher. A brief sniff of the beaker had the slightest odor of apples, but it was loaded for bear. Amazingly enough, it was smooth. I am coming to believe that a sure test of a free republic is its tolerance, if not support, of the family production of intoxicating beverages.
To Etienne Gervaise:
Absolutely true. I know younger members of the family that "adopted" him; and my wife, Mary Beth, knew Henry Todd. Before I wrote the piece, she called and confirmed some of the details, including the location of the Todd estate in New England and the name of the woman who corresponded with her parents and sent some money for his support. She was somewhat reticent about telling all this -- probably because of warnings her parents had given her. I saw no reason to keep the secret, since all the principals in the arrangement were long since dead.
I'm surprised no one has raised this question before. When I wrote the essay, I fully expected the Lincoln worshipers tp descend on me like the winged monkeys. I guess they don't read Chronicles.
I was traveling back from Knoxville, Tennessee in 1992 when a buddy of mine said "let's get off on the back roads".
We were in Haywood County and right near Canton. We took an exit and worked our way over and through the hills. The barns were right up beside the roads and the turns were tight, nearly 90 degrees in some cases and this was not mountain side driving. There were old homes about and plenty of trailers. It has always amazed me how most of those trailers get hauled up into the mountains and placed in the spots where they are placed since a flea couldn't turn around in most areas.
But as we drove we came upon a sign that said, and with a large painting of a dog sporting bloody teeth, "this property protected by pitbull with AIDS". An open invitation to investigate more so we pull along side a trailer with signs covering the entire property. One specifically said "this is the property of Popcorn Sutton. Anyone caught trespassing will have their damn a$$ shot off by my 12 gauge shot gun"-signed Popcorn Sutton.
I took more trips to Knoxville over the years and we always drove up toward Popcorn's place. We stopped and spoke with him a few times. I can not say that I ever bought likker from him since my taste in likker generally runs along the Sparta/Piney Creek areas of the Blue Ridge Mnts but he was interesting to say the least.
Walt Wolfram of North Carolina State has featured Popcorn in several of his linguistic preservation studies. These works are worth a look.
The likker making area Popcorn hails from, Cocke County Tennessee, still turns out plenty of likker. I do not consider it to be at the level of North Carolina mnt likker but it can be passed off to gentlemen.
My Popcorn story. Rest as best you can.
The claim is that Lincoln was the progeny of an Enloe riding judge from either Rutherford or Macon Counties in North Carolina.
In fact, I had two fraternity brothers who swore that he was their kin and they were Enloes from Macon County NC.
Well, I'll be buying his how-to DVD and I'll show it to posterity. The spirit will indeed live on even though it's unlikely that I'll ever make shine myself.
There is a story narrated by either Walker Percy or Shelby Foote about driving William Faulkner to tour the battle field of Shiloe and stopping in to acquire some local whicky along the way. Faulkner knew both the where and how of the local craftsman and was thus able to provide spirits for the tour in the otherwise dry county they were traveling through. I believe this story is told in the interview with Shelby Foote after his reading of the Battle of Shiloe on tape. (But I am not sure)
Sorry for the spelling of Shiloh, a national shrine and great civil war battle to Shiloe, some kind of three piece, rock band. I never won a spelling bee and never will learn to use spell check. Which makes me twice as stupid as the average blogger.
Making likker is not that difficult but do not put the set up in your basement.
Mr Mcallum,
Thanks for the advice, but even I'm not that stupid.
There was an old moonshiner in these parts who once had his still, of all places, on his roof, on the backside of the house. The revenuers came looking for the still, and poked around in every nook and cranny of his property, but never looked up at the roof. I kid you not, it actually happened. That was before they used planes.
I hear that Indian reservations were a good place to put stills in Oklahoma. Put them just inside the line of the reservation and they couldn't touch it. The Indian lawmen didn't care.
"There was an old moonshiner in these parts who once had his still, of all places, on his roof, on the backside of the house."
Mr. Wilson,
Yes, we have them in Oklahoma like that on top of trailer houses in the deep woods and in the fall they serve as a deer stand as well. There is no end to the folk wisdom that surrounds us, if one has eyes to see it.


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My main concerns are that the tweet is playing too low (and that there will be distortion), and that the spike in impedence at about 2300hz will be an issue; although i'm less worried about the spike.
i know you are all busy people, and budget projects are usually trivial, but i think that this 2-way has some serious potential if the Neo tweet is as good as people have been saying it is, especially considering the total cost for drivers and xovers would be about $75.00.
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Jonathan Raiffe, 30, fondly remembers lighting menorah candles and participating in Hanukkah sing-along's with friends. In college, however, "I pretty much went my own way."
Dean Neiger, 29, grew up in Belgium where anti-Semitism was prevalent and his family was not very religious. His attendance at synagogue and other Jewish institutions was sporadic, at best.
And Brenda Bracha Vargas, 29, raised in a Christian household, explored Judaism as a teen, after attending a friend's bar mitzvah. At 26, she began a rigorous Orthodox conversion that she says has given her life new meaning.
On Thursday the three will come together on the sixth night of Hanukkah for latkes, vodka and candles. Vodka Latke is expected to attract about 500 20- and 30-something Jews for a modern-day celebration of the Festival of Lights, held on the terrace of the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach.
The event is hosted by The Tribe, a local organization nationally recognized as one of the 50 most innovative Jewish groups in the country, the only one in Florida so honored. The Tribe, founded in 2004 under another name by two young women looking to revive the fellowship and community they had known growing up, is one of several groups around the country seeking to redefine what it means to be young and Jewish in the 21st Century, where technology rules and traditional religious institutions no longer hold the influence they once did.
"At the heart of Judaism is community and it's an essential component of Jewish life," says Rebecca Denar, The Tribe's director. "Now we're able to have multiple ways of expressing Judaism and multiple ways of providing community."
Searching for ways to bring young people back into the fold is nothing new for traditional denominations. Typically, young adults drift away from the religion of their youth during high school, college and the years that follow. Eventually marriage and children may bring them back, but as young people postpone those life-cycle events, the span of years in which most have no affiliation with a religious institution is growing.
"When kids get done with college and until they have children themselves and are maybe ready to join a synagogue, there's really not much out there for them," says Ira Sheskin, director of the Jewish Demography Project at the University of Miami's Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies.. "Not that they don't feel Jewish. But when they go into a synagogue, what they see is older people and families, not others like them."
What's more, Jewish Millennial — born in the 1980s and early '90s — are markedly different from their parents at that age, Sheskin adds. They tend to be better educated, but fewer are married and more are likely to be children of intermarriage. Figures collected by Sheskin show that this generation's participation in Jewish institutions, including membership in synagogues and community centers, is low.
National studies and local data collected by The Tribe confirm this portrait of disconnection. More than 75 percent of those who have participated in The Tribe's activities are not members of any synagogue.
It's not just young Jews who fall away from traditional ties to faith. A report released in October by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life underscored that the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion is accelerating, from 15 percent just five years ago to about 20 percent today. This is particularly true for younger Americans. A third of adults under 30 have no religious affiliation, compared with just one in 10 for the 65 and older set. However, the survey also found that many of the country's 46 million unaffiliated adults consider themselves spiritual in some way — that is, they believe in God or pray every day.


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Goldman Sachs has long been criticized by some as being too close to government — dubbed Government Sachs by some of its detractors — and Monday marked another appointment of a Goldman alum to a seat of high finance.
The new governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, spent a career as an investment banker at Goldman.
Here's a brief list of some of the more recent and prominent global governmental ties to Goldman:
Mark Carney – Newly named Governor of Bank of England served as head of the Bank of Canada since 2008. The former Goldman investment banker has clashed with some bank heads while in government, including getting lambasted by J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon in a private meeting last year. Goldman's CEO Lloyd Blankfein stepped in to try and smooth over the disagreement, according to reports.
William C. Dudley – The current president and CEO of the New York Fed was Goldman's chief economist until joining the Fed in 2007.
Mario Draghi – The current head of the European Central Bank was a former vice chairman and managing director.
Stephen Friedman – A former chairman of the NY Fed and member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Board, Freidman had run Goldman prior to the Paulson-Corzine duopoly. He returned to Goldman in 2005 to become a director.
Gary Gensler – Chairman of the CFTC and former Treasury employee, he spent 18 years at Goldman, rising to co-head of finance.
Mario Monti – The prime minister of Italy, Monti was an international adviser to the bank until he took over as head of the country.
Robert Steel – Currently the deputy mayor of economic development for New York City, he served as under secretary for domestic finance from 2006 to 2008 under George W. Bush. He left that position to become CEO of Wachovia. He was a vice chairman and co-head of equities at Goldman
Hank Paulson – Paulson was the head of Goldman when it went public in 1999. He then became U.S. Treasury Secretary and helped navigate the U.S. through a financial crisis that saw the banks brought to their knees, turning to several Goldman alums for help along the way.
Bob Rubin – Another former Goldman head who became U.S. Treasury Secretary. He served under Bill Clinton until 1999.
Jon Corzine – Corzine lost a battle with Paulson to control Goldman but went on to become a senator for New Jersey and then governor of the state, before losing a reelection campaign to Chris Christie.
Joshua Bolten – Chief of Staff to George W. Bush and a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Bolten had been executive director of legal and government affairs at Goldman in London.
Neel Kashkari – The man charged with running the Troubled Asset Relief Program while at Treasury.
Edward M. Liddy – A former Goldman director, he was Hank Paulson's pick to run AIG after the government all but nationalized the insurance giant.
Steve Shafran – A former senior adviser to Paulson and Tim Geithner at the Treasury, he is now at Georgetown.
Ken Wilson – He was the head of Goldman's financial institutions group when Hank Paulson tapped him as an adviser on how to solve the banking crisis.
Robert B. Zoellick – Zoellick spent most of his career in government and most recently served as president of the World Bank from June 2007 to June 2012. But he took a short stay as a vice chairman at Goldman and the chairman of its board of international advisors from 2006 to 2007. He is now is a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School.
And here's just a couple that have left their government positions to work at the bank:
Gerald Corrigan – Former president of the NY Federal Reserve now Chairman of Goldman's bank holding company.
John Rogers — The current chief of staff at Goldman, he was once assistant secretary of the Treasury and under secretary of state for management.
Jake Siewert – A former counsel to Geithner and White House spokesman for Bill Clinton, he joined Goldman to take over the communications department the very week that Greg Smith quit in that New York Times op-ed.


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Memphis downtown business development equates to buying the same house over and over again.....businesses move in...squeeze us for incentives and tax breaks and then leave with no compunction because we don't hold them accountable in their contracts. And then we hear the same song and dance of "how necessary it is to spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of taxpayer money to promote and retain business."
Mayor....have you looked at the city debt load recently?
And now you have the gall to claim that spending all of your citizens money is affirmative action?
Lets call it what it is....an endless cycle of our inept city leaders being fleeced by smarter businessmen.....over and over again.
184 properties under PILOTS in the afore mentioned downtown area.
How many does that leave that havent squeezed us for a PILOT? two?
Have you ever heard a city leader propose that we actually reduce our debt instead of continuing to float bonds to spend even more??
I didnt think so.
But there's never any shyness about borrowing more and more and more.
To those of you that insist that this is a complex issue and taxpayers just don't understand.....go sell that somewhere else.
Somewhere Sidney Schlenker is laughing....I'm not sure whether he's looking down or looking up....but he has to be convulsing with laughter over the inanity of our city council and city mayors....they're as dumb as they were when he fleeced the city into building the Pyramid in the 90's and left us holding the bag.
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Roku's Networked Music Player Streams Digital Music from PC to Stereo System via Blackfin® |
Digital media has become a major force in electronics sales, with consumers searching for greater quality and a more convenient entertainment experience. Still, consumers often find it difficult to take full advantage of digital media. That's because while most digital media (such as music files) reside in a home computer, consumers want to access the media via an application-specific medium (i.e. a stereo system).
Roku, a privately held company based in Palo Alto, California offers a product called SoundBridge™, which lets consumers play digital music files, connecting a stereo or powered speakers to a computer's digital music library. WMA, MP3, AAC, AIFF and WAV music formats are supported. SoundBridge is also network-ready with wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi, allowing users to listen to their digital music collection in any room of the house.
To be successful in the market, SoundBridge had to be affordable enough to appeal to a mass audience, yet powerful enough to execute rich audio features and networking services. Today, SoundBridge is based on what Roku's marketing literature dubs a "super fast" 400 MHz Blackfin® processor from Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), giving it more than enough headroom to handle powerful features such as simultaneous real-time music visualizers, music decode, user interface (UI) browsing, wired and wireless networking, and future software updates
Managing a Home Music Library
Almost all music is distributed today in digital rather than analog form. Until recently, most digital music was sold on compact discs (CDs). But today, a new method of distributing digital music has become increasingly popular transmission of files via the Internet, followed by storage on home computers. Music distributed in this manner typically is played back either through stereo systems attached to the home computer or through portable devices. As for all of the CDs purchased over the years, many sensible music lovers use software such as Apple's iTunes® or Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10 to quickly transfer or "rip" songs to their computer for easy access and in a variety of formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, AIFF, and WAV formats.
Roku's SoundBridge is an elegant device for streaming digital music from a computer to a stereo system. SoundBridge connects to a stereo system or powered speakers to play PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house via Ethernet or a Wi-Fi network. SoundBridge supports: Windows Media Connect and Windows Media Player 10; Apple Rendezvous™ and iTunes; Rhapsody; and any music service using Microsoft's WMA DRM 10 file format such as Napster, Musicmatch, and WalMart.com. Users can browse, select, and control music from across a room using the SoundBridge display and custom remote control, quickly browsing huge music collections by song, album, artist, genre, or composer with the help of Blackfin's fast processor. SoundBridge supports both wired Ethernet networking, as well as 802.11 wireless networking and has both analog and digital audio outputs.
Why Blackfin Processor?
Last year, Roku's design team set out to develop a leading-edge network music player, which was to be displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had a number of design obstacles to overcome, and a short deadline of less than one year. Roku's designers wanted SoundBridge to play music from both wired and wireless networks, support a variety of music formats, and include "headroom" for future capabilities, all at a low cost.
Roku chose an ADI Blackfin processor for the job with great results. Blackfin processors are designed to meet the computational demands and power constraints of today's embedded audio and communications applications. The Blackfin Processor offers breakthrough signal processing performance and power efficiency, a RISC programming model, and low cost. Roku's founder, Anthony Wood, also the inventor of the digital video recorder and 20-year veteran of the consumer electronics industry, said, "ADI's Blackfin processor provides the processing performance we needed to quickly stream music from a computer to a stereo system. The Blackfin Processor's price point also allowed us to offer the Roku SoundBridge at a price that's affordable for consumers."
With a Blackfin processor, interfacing SoundBridge to a wireless Compact Flash card was a snap the generic bus of the Blackfin processor easily interfaced with the Compact Flash Wi-Fi adapter slot via the Blackfin processor's generic address and data busses. Since the Blackfin processor is a general-purpose microprocessor with an easy interface to 16 MB of RAM and 2 MB of ROM, Roku could easily run both wired and wireless drivers on the same processor. Roku purchased a number of programs for SoundBridge from other companies, which easily ran on the Blackfin processor, including the TCP/IP network stack from Kadak and various music file decoders.
Great Tools
About ADI's integrated development environment (IDE), Roku's Wood said, "VisualDSP++ has great compilers and debugging tools. It was a tremendous aid in the development of our product." Roku also found ADI's VisualDSP++ Kernel (VDK) and real-time operating system useful. The VDK has standard libraries and frameworks that allow easy inclusion of boilerplate, class libraries, and value-added IP code. For example, the code for SoundBridge operations and network services was easily ported to the Blackfin processor, saving development and debugging time.
When SoundBridge boots, it runs the VDK, which sets up operating system tasks and spawns threads to perform various operations, such as real-time audio transformations (volume, pitch-shaping, equalization), notify (interrupt handler for remote control), display, and network services, all running on the Blackfin processor.
Network services include Apple Rendezvous, which is actually technology known as Zeroconf and/or IPv4LL, and is implemented in Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, in every network printer, and in many assorted network devices from a variety of vendors. SoundBridge also includes support for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), a set of standards for interoperability of networking devices that extends the UPnP concept to network devices so that they can be installed and set up without manual intervention. SoundBridge communicates with the "source" server, and communication is specific to the server in use. "SoundBridge is a powerful, highly threaded application," said Wood. "The Blackfin Processor has plenty of processing headroom for SoundBridge's MIPs budget." For future generations of the product, the Blackfin processor offers pin- and package-compatible upgrades.
Gone are the days when consumers rummaged through cabinets looking for CDs. Many savvy music lovers have already organized their large music collections on home computers. Now they can enjoy the convenience of a digitally cataloged music library, using the SoundBridge Network Music Player to browse their favorite music by song, album, artist, and genre from the comfort of their sofa. Cost-effective yet powerful, ADI's Blackfin processor is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure their music is delivered quickly and efficiently.
For more information on the Roku Soundbridge product, please visit www.rokulabs.com.
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The Young Men's Initiative
Launched in 2006, the Young Men's Initiative (YMI) focuses attention and resources on the special needs of urban young men of color living in poverty who are most at risk. In addition to the services available to all Sponsor-A-Scholar (SAS) students, YMI offers a series of targeted activities specifically for boys. These activities are designed to:
- recruit more boys and strong male mentors;
- develop boys' leadership skills and personal responsibility;
- expose boys to positive male role models and career opportunities;
- reward achievement and offer academic enrichment; and
- create a positive peer group of college-bound young men.
The overall goal of YMI is to help our young men acheive success both in high and in college and lead productive, fulfilling lives.
Leadership Roundtables
YMI's monthly Leadership Roundtables provide young men with a safe forum where they can explore relevant cultural, social, developmental, and political issues that affect their lives. These interactive, educational, and thought-provoking meetings provide YMI participants with the opportunity to engage in respectful dialogue, and articulate their own values, goals and needs.
The Leading Man Newsletter
The Leading Man is a monthly newsletter written, edited, and produced by the boys who participate in the Young Men's Initiative. The publication features articles about SAS activities, relevant topics of interest, and spotlights "Man of the Month" – the student recognized for his accomplishments in school, the Sponsor-A-Scholar Program, and the community. This designation has become a coveted honor among the young men in the Program.
The Reading Man Book Club
The YMI Reading Man Book Club engages our YMI high school seniors with literature typically read by college-bound students. Monthly discussions are conducted in a supportive, small group setting, while weekly exchanges occur through an online message board.
Team Building and Leadership Development
Team building and leadership development activities include community service projects, attendance at sporting events, and an annual camping and whitewater rafting trip for senior boys – an outing that has become a rite of passage for the young men in the Program.
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College and career awareness opportunities expose boys to the experiences, values, expectations, and responsibilities of college and the world of work. Activities include visits to a wide range of professional settings in the fields of business, law, journalism, and education to explore potential career paths.
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The young men who participate in the SAS Program face numerous obstacles and powerful negative messages in their schools and neighborhoods. Our support and the impact of the Young Men's Initative is vitally important - guiding them on a positive path toward college, degree attainment, and a successful future.
Become a Mentor
Mentors are at the heart of the SAS Program. Philadelphia Futures has a significant need for male mentors who can serve as responsible male role models for the boys in the Program. Find out what it takes to change a life.
Facilitate a Leadership Roundtable
Share your professional expertise with the young men in the YMI Program by facilitating one of our monthly Leadership Roundtables.
Host a YMI Visit at Your Workplace
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