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Property owners near OĺFarrell and Jones Streets have come up with a creative approach to combating drug dealing and problem sidewalk behavior: install planter boxes. The Pacific Bay Inn (which houses formerly homeless persons) recently placed planter boxes in front of its Jones Steet location and they are already being cheered by tenants, workers and others in the area. Longtime Pierre Hotel tenant Karen Taylor says ôthey make the whole block look nicer.ö The Central City SRO Collaborative (CCSRO) will install barrels planted with flowers and vegetables in front of some Tenderloin SROĺs next spring. Such plantings do more than help create safer streets. According to studies in Charles Montgomeryĺs new
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by Peter Cole' Dec. 11' 2013
With the passing of Nelson Mandela, our responsibility is to commemorate the global fight against apartheid andŚmore importantlyŚfollow his lead and push for radical change in our own times. Though a tremendous leader, Mandela sat in prison for decades while millions of people, in South Africa and around the world, built the most impressive global movement in recent history. In the San Francisco Bay area a passionate cadre of longshore workers led the to fight to overthrow the racist, oppressive regime. In November 1984, days after Ronald Reaganĺs landslide re-election, members of Local 10 of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to touch South African cargo for eleven days, arguably the most dramatic act in the Bay area, itself a leader in Americaĺs anti-apartheid movement.
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by Rochelle Metcalfe' Dec. 11' 2013
NELSON MANDELA peacefully transition to the other side. R.I.P. MADIBA. During the summer, his severe illness kept many of us on edge, touch and go; he lingered a little longer until December 5. He was 95. We knew he would leave us soon, not knowing the exact time or day, The Nobel Peace Prize winner died at his home in Johannesburg. REST, SWEET WARRIOR....YOU FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
Mandela was a great man of courage, vision, hope, forgiveness, love for human kind - a graceful man. Madiba, as his family lovingly calls him, spent 27 years behind prison bars in 1962, for his opposition to apartheid, the oppressive, violent system of segregation created by South Africaĺs white minority government. He became an international symbol of the struggle for black liberation and universal human rights!
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Kshama Sawant of Seattle showed socialist victories are possible. Will they spread?
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by Randy Shaw' Dec. 10' 2013
On December 5, fast food workers in over 100 cities carried out their largest mass protest in history. The protests built upon similar events held in fifty cities in August. The national media wrote advance stories on the plight of low-paid fast food workers which even before the protests occurred helped revive national focus on rising inequality in the United States. And considering that the December 5 fast food protests were large, boisterous, and colorful, they would have dominated evening news broadcasts and the following dayĺs newspapers but for an unforeseen development: legendary freedom fighter Nelson Mandela died in South Africa during the protests. Mandelaĺs death understandably dominated television news for the balance of the day, while the fast food protests were ignored. While labor and activists groups promoted the protests through social media, traditional media sources continued wall to wall Mandela coverage through December 6, a day which otherwise would have put fast food workers in the spotlight,
While few outside Rush Limbaugh
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Rally Today Against Urban Green, Ellis Act Eviction Speculators
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At 12pm on Tuesday, Dec 10th, the direct action housing rights group, Eviction Free San Francisco, allies and individual community supporters and activists will gather to hold a rally in front of 1746 Union Street, the offices of out-of-state speculators and mass evictors, Urban Green LLC. The rally is being staged to demand that Urban Green drop all of the Ellis Act Evictions and also to bring attention to the abuse of the Ellis Act and the need for state reform. The event is being endorsed by Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Chinatown Community Development Center as well as Housing Rights Committee of SF. The rally will include speeches from current Urban Green tenants being evicted, other San Franciscan Ellis Act evictees, as well as organizers from both housing and environmental groups who will expose Urban Green as green washers who use environmentalism as a marketing scheme, while mass-evicting San Franciscans from their homes.
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The share of renters who pay more than 30 percent of what they make on housing, or what the study labels ôcost-burdened,ö rose 12 percentage points last decade, reaching 50 percent in 2010. That includes 27 percent who face a ôsevere burden,ö or in other words, pay more than half of their income on rent, a figure that rose 8 percentage points. Initial estimates show that there were a record 21.1 million renters who were cost-burdened in 2012.
Day of Action Unites Students, Teachers in Protest
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Educators, parents and youth hold mass demonstrations nationwide to demand quality public schools
Eighteen-year-old Tre Murphy, a native of Baltimore, has been active in social justice concerns since the age of 12, he says. But on Monday, his activism will take an urgent and personal turn when he plans to participate in the National Day of Action for education.
He is among thousands of young people from more than 60 cities slated to participate in the day of protest, which is being hailed as the largest unified opposition to educational reforms that organizers say have devastated families and communities.
San Francisco Must Raise Minimum Wage
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But San Francisco is being left behind. The city was the national pioneer in raising its local minimum wage in 2003, and still has the highest of any city over 30,000 in population, $10.55 per hour and indexed to inflation (it will be $10.74 in January). Yet San Franciscoĺs higher housing and overall living costs requires a significantly higher local minimum. This may require a ballot initiative to overturn the 2003 measure setting the current rate, but such a proactive move for economic fairness is imperative. There is little doubt that San Francisco voters would raise the cityĺs minimum to at least $12 if not to $15 if given the chance on the November 2014 ballot.
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A fearsome read, if you´re down in the details. Off the cliff we go, is what I´m coming to a preference as...
Forward!And we never even recovered from fdr.
We went over the cliff some time ago, economically speaking.And we never recovered from Lincoln. Never mind FDR.
One big difference is that the real rate of unemployment is being hidden today. Tens of millions are now dependent on the wide array of government programs and are effectively ´´out of the workforce´´.
I caught an interesting tidbit last night, when our PBS station ran Ken Burns´ documentary on the drought of the 1930s. FDR and his advisors tried really hard to come up with a way to rescue the farmers and small town people, and FDR told them that no one could figure out what to do. That to tell them otherwise would be dishonest.But FDR visited the dust bowl, and the next day it rained. The folks there called it Roosevelt rain.Now let´s see if you people can connect the dots about what I said, to president zero.
My grandmother was a farmwife who despised FDR and wanted one of her 10 children to someday write a book about him & call it ´The Rape of the American Farmer´. His ideas of subsidies killed many farms & she never let her children forget.
1937 will look like a Picnic In The Park compared to 2013.
Grapes of Wrath?
2013 will be our 1929. It is all just beginning....
And this time the rising tyrant is in our own country.
Intereting parallel in a fascinating article. It describes the fiscal situation in the US and draws on history to warn us what may lie ahead. Only the people have changed - the script remains the same. History is an indispensable teacher.In Europe, we also have the eerie rumblings of the events of almost a hundred years ago. Think trigger points. When Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to Austria´s throne to protest the seizure of Bosnia by the northerners, it propelled Europe into a destructive war that brought it to its knees and ushered in a new world order. I see similar discontent in countries like Spain and Greece where the opposition to the German financial complex is widespread.
This woman wrote the amazing book, The Forgotten Man. Any stephen king book pales in comparison for getting you scared to death. And Shlaes book is based on fact!
You must understand there are still people in our nation that believe FDR got us out of the Great Depression. Of course he did nothing of the sort.In reality FDR caused the depression to run much longer than it would have if the federal government had left the economy alone. Hopefully it won´t take a world war in 2017 to end the Obama recession.


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Posted: Sun Sep 25th, 2005 02:11 am |
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george franks Member
I am curious about the ages of Civil War buffs, historians, enactors, living historians, interpretors, etc. I was born in 1958. I grew up watching westerns, disney historical shows and movies, and the few Civil War shows like the GRAY GHOST, The Rebel and even (sort of.)..RIN TIN TIN. In 1961 I saw LIFE magazine do a series on the Centennial. And all the stores carried toy Kepis (I had several), Kadet Muskets, Marx toy guns and CSA flags and more. It all gelled for me when my parents took me to see Gettysburg for the first time in July 1963 days after the 100th of the battle. The park was pristine, packed. I remember vendors on the sides of the road selling authetic relics. I climbed on every cannon I saw. I loved the ground, the monuments, the museums, etc. I was HOOKED. I went on to visit many other battlefields over the next several years. And was fortunate enough to serve as a drummer boy with an N-SSA unit (even though my father was not a member). Pretty amazing looking back. I saved my pennies to buy relics, repro gear, books, toy soldiers. You name it. Interested to see about others - both older and younger than me. I have to admit, I have never met a WWII or Korea combat veteran who was interested in the Civil War. But I am sure there were and are some... |
Posted: Sun Sep 25th, 2005 03:02 am |
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a20thmainemiss Member
i dunno, maybe you should look on the poll about that. it's in the reenacting section. |
Posted: Sun Sep 25th, 2005 03:19 pm |
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kj3553 Born in the wrong century
I was born in '53, and remember all those programs you mentioned, especially Rin Tin Tin. My interest in the Civil War grew out of my mother's love of history. Whenever we took a family vacation, we'd camp somewhere near a body of water so my Dad could go fishing, and Mom could take my sister and I to any historical sites that were within driving distance. The first Civil War site I was taken to (but of which I have no recollection, as I was 3 years old), was Chickamauga. Over the years we visited just about every major and many minor battle sites, but I knew I was finally learning something when I no longer had to ask my mother, "Which side won this battle?" The event that really turned the corner for me was the movie Gettysburg, when my interest went from casual to intense. My Dad had passed away, and I thought it would be fun for Mom and I to visit Gettysburg again. So we took a long weekend and drove there. That weekend, after touring the battlefield, we went downtown to see the Gettysburg movie which was playing there. The rest, as they say, is history... Oh, and I know several WW2 and Korean War vets who are interested in the Civil War and are members of the CWRT I belong to. ~KJ |
Posted: Mon Sep 26th, 2005 09:23 pm |
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GenHood Member
I was born in 1965, and when I was eight our pastor took the Sunday School kids to Springfield, IL to see all the Lincoln sites (his home, the Old State Capitol, his law office, and the Lincoln Tomb where all but one of the Lincoln family rests). We also went to the Lincoln cabin in Petersburg, IL where I purchased a few postcards and a small Rebel Battle Flag. Why? Something about that flag interested me, so when I returned to school on Monday I checked out a big, red clothbound book on the Civil War. It had lots of illustrations of the battles, generals, soldiers, etc. I think I eventually checked out every Civil War book in our school library. I later gave my first oral book report on Robert E. Lee that same school year. My interest waned a little through my teens and 20's, but when I received "The Killer Angels" as a gift the same summer we went to Gettysburg, it roared back with a vengeance. I always make it a point to check on ANYTHING related to the war whenever and wherever I travel, even if it's a small monument in a tiny county courthouse yard, and add it to my collection of visited sites, along with a photo. Although not a participant, I enjoy attending re-enactments and living history events, and have visited battlefields big and small, and look forward to seeing and experiencing even more. |
Posted: Tue Sep 27th, 2005 03:36 pm |
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I was born in the suburbs of Chicago....my father, grandfather and all before us came from Tennessee/NorthCarolina.....I was the first born up north. When I was 6 years old, my dad took us on vacation to Tennessee and Atlanta. The night before we left, he told me of the Great Civil War....all about the soldiers, battles, horses and cannons. As a 6 year old kid, I couldn't wait to visit those battlefields. By the time I was in my teens, I read every book I could get my hands on about Gen. Forrest, Shiloh, Ft. Pillow and the war in general (all of Buce Catton's books). As I got older still, I visited Shiloh, Ft. Pillow, Parker's Crossroads, Corinth, Gettysburg, Pea Ridge....In college, I read more Civil War books than books for my major! This past year, I started reenacting (I am 40 now, so I figure I had 34 years to read about the war, now it is time to experience it!). No matter how old I get or how much I learn, I can never know enough or find out enough.....It's a hobby....a way of life...it's remembering my past....it's teaching my son by my example and passion for the subject..... Albert Sailhorst, Cannoneer, Scott's Tennessee Battery |
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Boots Member
man, at 34, i feel like i'm just a kid ~ grew up lost in books. developed a fascination for the Lincoln conspiracy when i was a teenager (acurally read all the trial transcripts in my sophomore year in college ~ they're great reading if anyone hasn't seen them). that lead to a curiosity about the war's impact on civilians and the younger generation who got involved late (the kids who went to war at 14). i'm not all that saavy about tactics, etc. nor am i particularly inerested in the details of such things (though i like to listen and learn). but i do find the effects of the war on the people who lived through it to be extraordinary. despite its historical inaccuracies, i think the movie <i>Glory</i> gave a huge boost to my passion for the era at a time when i was just beginning to form an attachment to it, so i hold it dear. : D |
Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 06:51 am |
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kj3553 Born in the wrong century
I still love Glory. I think it's one of the best Civil War movies ever made. One thing that sticks out in my mind, though, is from a review I read on the movie when it came out. The author, who should have stuck to reviewing instead of thinking he knew anything about history, remarked that Matthew Broderick was too young to be playing the colonel of a regiment. If that person had even bothered to investigate before writing, he would have found out that the real Robert G. Shaw at the time he was commanding the 54th Mass. was actually younger than Broderick was when he portrayed Shaw. ~KJ |
Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 07:04 pm |
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Boots Member
that's so true, kj ~ i always marvel at how young shaw was and i think even though broderick was actually older, he has the right youthful quality to portray that. and actually, matthew broderick is just an all-around good match for shaw. other than the hairline, their features are strikingly similar. : D |
Posted: Sun Oct 2nd, 2005 06:36 am |
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Harry Member
I was born in 1953 and remember all those television programs as well. I've always had an interest in history in general and military history in particular. I grew up out west in Arizona. My great-granddad was a cav soldier serving with Gen. Miles in Arizona during the Indian Wars and was in the party that "escorted" Geronimo out of Arizona. My great-granddad served at Fort Huachuca and nearly 100 years later, I followed in his footsteps there for my tour of duty. I now work for the Florida Park Service at Fort Taylor, Fl. We host a reenactment every Feb and so it just seemed natural to don the Federal blue and man the 10-inch Rodman seacoast cannon we have set up in our casemate. Our unit is one of the few in the nation to do heavy artillery drill. Our unit also has a 3-inch ordnance rifle w/limber that we take to reenactments around the state. Harry |
Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 06:22 pm |
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MAubrecht Member
In 1978, I was a scrawny six year-old kid with only two real interests in the world; GI Joe and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Unlike today, the 70's was a much simpler time, and playing army or sports in my backyard was all that really mattered. Family time was also an important part of my childhood and vacations were eagerly anticipated in the Aubrecht house. Over the years, we had driven or flown to several destinations including Disneyworld, Niagara Falls, and Sea World. All of them were magical, but none as special as the place we visited in 1978. That was the summer my family traveled to the National Military Park at Gettysburg. I remember it like it was yesterday and how funny the name "Gettysburg" sounded to me at the time. I also recall how I had absolutely no idea what was there. Did it have an amusement park, or a beach, or maybe some natural wonder, or a water park? Those were the types of getaways I was used to. "Nope." my mother said, "Don't worry. I think you'll like it." For some reason, both my mother and father kept the main attraction a surprise and I vividly recall asking them repeatedly on the drive there, where were we going and what we would see. After what seemed like days, we finally arrived at this little tourist town in Pennsylvania greeted by miles of wooden rail fences and wheat fields. "What is this?" I asked myself, "Some kind of farm?" Pulling into the town, I can still picture all of the flags (both Union and Confederate) that adorned the doorways of virtually every store and hotel in sight. I also remember seeing what I thought were blue and gray cowboys painted on the signs for several museums and attractions. "Whatever took place here," I told myself, "it happened a long time ago." As we checked in, my parents gave me a very brief introduction on where we were and why we were there. Hearing the key word "war," my mind began to race as I tried to take it all in. A Civil War? Americans fighting Americans? Soldiers? Slaves? Instantly a mass of both familiar and foreign terms sparked my interest. As we departed the hotel and began to sightsee, I found myself becoming more and more excited about where we were and what I was about to experience. I recall seeing real cannons for the first time and lots of big gray statues and monuments. I remember feeling so small while looking up at these giant bearded guys on horses that were wielding guns and swords. Very cool. Very cool indeed! The battlefield itself was a bit of a bore initially as endless rock outcroppings and miles of grassy fields failed to capture the imagination of this six year-old boy. On the other hand, the many museums and other attractions we later visited really caught my eye. I clearly remember every sight we saw including the Wax Museum, Robert E. Lee's Headquarters, Jenny Wade's House, the Gettysburg Cyclorama, and of course the National Cemetery where miles and miles of tombstones mark the graves of our fallen brothers in arms. After attending every show and spectacle available, the battlefield took on a whole new meaning and I vividly recall our second tour out to hallowed locations like Seminary Ridge, Little Round Top, High Water Mark, the site of Pickett's Charge and Devil's Den. I remember ducking down behind the stone walls and pretending it was July of 1863. Often I would force my little sister to play the role of the "loser" in that particular melee and I must have "shot" her dead a thousand times. (Sorry Melissa.) As our vacation progressed, the tales of these men and the three-day battle in which they participated captivated me like nothing had before, or has since. I began to understand the impact of the Civil War and respected the North's battle to preserve the Union, as well as the South's fight for state's rights. Initially, I struggled to find the "bad guy" in all of this. After all, when I played army at home it was always me, the American, fighting any number of our previous enemies whether the Germans or Japanese or Russians. This "civil" war however was very different and even I could not bring myself to judge either the blue or the gray. Ultimately, neither side were "true enemies" and I felt that both were acting on behalf of their country and God. Over the next few days, I spent every waking minute possible soaking up as much knowledge as I could on the War Between the States. I also soaked up a ton of souvenirs and went home loaded down with a kepi hat, musket pistol, books, toy soldiers, postcards, maps and even a bunch of View Master discs (remember those) that featured the photography of Matthew Brady. In retrospect, Mom and Dad definitely shelled out some cash on that trip. The following year we returned again and I don't think I ever anticipated a family vacation as much as that one. By then I was a seasoned seven year-old Civil War Buff who had even memorized the Gettysburg Address. "Four score and seven years ago…" This time, I understood exactly where we were and the sacrifice of the men President Lincoln honored in that speech. What had started off as a simple family vacation changed my life forever as Gettysburg left an indefinable impression on me that remains to this very day. Now I live in Fredericksburg, Virginia and the same magic that I experienced in the north now surrounds me in the south. Just as I cannot forget this childhood experience, I cannot forget the men who fought and died so that America could be reborn in unity. God Bless every Billy Yank and Johnny Reb who fell on the fields of battle all across America and God Bless my parents who introduced me to them all. |
Posted: Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 01:39 am |
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TheStratton4 Member
Mid-forties here. Didn't get hooked until I was in very early twenties. Bruce Catton -I mentioned in another post, is what did it for me intellectually. The rest of it was like falling in love in alot of ways, a passionate obsession. I think I connected the dots very early to Walt Whitman. Experiencing his prose and poetry gave me an emotional connection to the period that has endured to this day. For me, it is always a journey to touch- in some meaningful way -the people of those times. It is to know who they were, what they thought and suffered, and to appreciate their sacrifice. All my efforts are ultimately to come closer to this goal. Laurie |
Posted: Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 04:51 pm |
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Sarladaise Member
I was born in Austria in '50 and apart from hearing about the American Civil War in history class at school my interest was first kindled reading "Gone with the Wind" (in German) during my teens but books about the American Civil War are hard to come by in Austria and my interest was only revived after moving to the US in the '80s, visiting different battlefields and reading James McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom". But, like KJ, it was after seeing the movie "Gettysburg" that I became a real Civil War Buff. In the meantime, we have left the US and moved to France but my interest is as keen as ever and we go back to the US often so I can visit and re-visit battlefields and stock up on CW books. Sadly, none of my friends here share my interest and remarks like "won any battles lately?" are common.... Fortunately, there is the Internet! |
Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2005 02:16 am |
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anv57regnc Member
I was born in Oct 1971 in Baltimore, MD. And when I was a kid, my grandma lived in Va, and was a history buff. Me I would have rather watched Star Trek reruns then. But as she would take me to places like Bull Run, and Gettysburg I started to also love the history. By the time I was 11, I wanted to reenact, but cost and the fact that I was to young to fight keep me away. I did not want to beat a drum. Well she got sick, and the trips were less and less. My teen years hit, and history was the last thing on my mind. So for many years I really did not think about it. Got married, and all the normal things you do. But about 7 years ago my grandma died, and I went on a trip around to the places in VA that she use to take me too. But my wife got me a use copy of Gettysburg from a videostore that was going out of business. Well I poped it in one afternoon, and started to really really miss Gettysburg the town. The very next weekend I took a trip there and refell in love with the town. The 2nd time there about a month or so later I walked in to a Yankee camp out my the PA monument. And just like when I was a kid, I got the bug to reenact. And the rest goes, I found a unit, joined. Did that for a while but found out that I had all of these family members who fought for NC, and I really wanted to do a NC impression. So I started a unit, the 57th North Carolina Co A, based on one of my family members units. Thats been over 3 years ago. We are still going strong. I still live in Baltimore, but I take a trip to Gettysburg 3 or 4 times a month. Just for lunch, or shopping for new gear, or just to go flagging at the NC monument. Yes it is a 1 and a half hour trip one way but I love that place so much that it feels like home to me. |
Posted: Sat Nov 12th, 2005 01:38 pm |
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Bill Member
Where as much as when. For me it all began, back in 1962. At the time I was trying to balance an 5 year Apprenticeship, and its encumberant day school, with further studies at night. Our local library was my study den as well as my peace and quiet. Walking out one night I noticed a display set up by the American-Australia League. One of the books which I can still see now propped up on its display stand, resplendent in its white dust cover, even amongst the other books on display, caught my eye. 'A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton' And that was the begining..... Regards Bill |
Posted: Tue Nov 15th, 2005 08:55 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Born December 1974, a little over a week before Christmas. So I'm in my early thirties. My mother's told me that I've been intrested in the war since I was real little though to be honest it wasn't until I was around 11 that I can remember getting intrested. So I guess I'll have to take her word for it. Let's see, places I've visited. Well, I've been told that when I was real young we visited Appomatox and Durham Station, though my parents did pick up Catton's A Stillness at Appomatox there so I have that as proof (photos would personally be better since they could claim to have bought it there and actually purchased it at some bookstore somewhere else). I do know of four places for certain I've been. Fort Morgan, Berkeley Plantation, Petersburg, and Fredricksburg. Fort Morgan I don't remember to well. All I really remember is an anchor and some masonry. That probably due to the fact that we were on vaction to the Gulf Shores area of Albama at the time and on that same day we either visited the USS Alabama or an aquarium in addition to visiting the fort. Maybe all three in one day. The Alabama and the Drum really left a big impression as did walking over a pool of lemon sharks and seeing a dolphin show on me when I was about seven or eight. Berkeley Plantation and Petersburg were both part of another vacation when I was 11, the beginning and the end. What I remember the most about Berkeley Plantation was the gardens cause we really spent a lot of time out there. But there was a place in the main building itself where you could see where a cannonball was lodged into the building during the war. And you could visit the spot where Taps is supposed to have been written. But Petersburg sticks out even more. It was the last day of our vaction and as we were getting ready to leave the hotel I hit my head on the bathroom wall. Don't even remember what I did that caused it, wheter I slipped on a wet floor, got in a shoving match with one of my sisters, or tripped over something. At anyrate, I had a serious goose egg and we thought at first that it was even worse. So I kinda milked things a little. We probably would have stopped anyway, but since I was "injured" we stopped. I can remember seeing where there had been railroad mortars near the visitor center. But what I really got out of milking my injury was a chance to walk down into the crater with my mom while my dad and sisters drove down. We beat them too, as I recall. On the way out of the park there was an encampment where they explained what life during the seige was like for the Confederate soldiers. Fredricksburg was a bit more recently, either '97 or '98. I'm a little fuzzy on the exact year and have to go grab some souviners from the Smithsonian museums to find out the year. My baby sister is in the navy and around that time was in A school in Dahlgren, Va. Flew down with my folks to visit her for three-four days. While there we hit the mall in DC then the following day we hit Fredricksburg. Biggest problem we had was trying to actually find the park. We'd found the visitor center no sweat and had checked out the displays. But then we took the car so as to visit the sunken road, the Kirkland memorial (which I was actually more intrested in finding after having read about him years before), and all that area. As I recall, at that time the sunken road was one way for car traffic, though I doubt it's changed if they're still letting cars go down it. We nearly got lost trying to find the entrance to the sunken road and almost gave up on that. Beyond the places I've visited, I amassed a small collection of historic books on the war, but that's normal. My current prizes in my collection are reproductions of Union army manuals from Stackpole books. My dad's told me that in eighth grade my history teacher told both him and my mom that I actually knew more about the war than he did and at times when we were studying it he'd either turn the class over to me or would ask me if things he was teaching us were accurate. That's something I have a harder time believing than I was intrested in the war at a young age and we visited Appomatox and Durham Station. As a teenager, I'd think I'd have remembered if one of my teachers was actually turning a class over to me because I knew the subject better. I do remember that in eleventh grade we had to go more in depth on the war and at least half the class was asking me for help with the war because I did actually know more about it than our teachers then appeared to know. Though they weren't exactly history teachers (one was our english teacher and the other was more of an economics teacher, the actual history teacher for the 11th and 12 grades was primarily teaching on the 12th grade team and was not teaching us at the time as he was too buisy with the seniors) and they did pretty much set us loose without doing much in the way of teaching the subject. What probably helped bring half class looking to me for help was that initially both the 11th and 12th grades would have one period a day during the regular class periods where we could take what amounted to a mixed elective. For whatever the reason this was dropped after the first half of the year, my guess was that we needed to focus on more grade specific subjects during the second half that we didn't have during the first half. At anyrate, the whole idea was that each of the teachers would teach a specific subject, history, creative writing, etc., each quarter and we had to sign up for each. So you'd get so many seniors and juniors in a class that was a bit smaller and more indepth. Second quarter I took the history course and for the final project of the course I did a pamphlet on the war, complete with a cardboard map of Sherman's March to the Sea then through the Carolinas. Got an A+ which wasn't easy to hide from the rest of the juniors since I had to turn it in late thanks to a computer crash and a very understanding teacher. Plus since all the rooms were open to everyone in the 11th and 12th grade, folks could easily see my map. So my already having done something on the war earlier in the year probably helped to cause folks to think of me as someone to ask for help. Last edited on Tue Nov 15th, 2005 08:59 am by Hellcat |
Posted: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 05:08 pm |
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Notch Neutral Revisionist
I was born in 1966 and while growing up I really never got involved in anything historical. I think my interest in history started when I joined the US Army in 1985. My interest in the Civil War really didn't start until about 5 years ago. I work at a military base and I started seeing a lot of displays of Civil War era stuff so I started reading and ended up watching the Ken Burn's Civil War documentary and found that the stories in the story were fascinating, intriguing, and thought provoking. The fact that an event that happened over 140+ years ago can still produce stories, news and information and lessons in life is just mind numbing. I now host a Civil War website, have visited a few battlefields with plans to visit many more, and possibly would like to get involved in reenacting and volunteer work at Wilson's Creek NB (which is not too far from my home). |
Posted: Sat Mar 4th, 2006 06:32 pm |
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arooper Member
I was born in 1983, 22 years old. Grew up outside of Boston, MA. I really liked the Alamo movie as a little kid, and we had Ken Burns' Civil War book lying around, I so I always flipped through it and stared at the pictures for hours. I didn't really get into it until freshman year of college when I took a class about the Civil War in literature now. I wrote a fourteen page paper defending Longstreet's actions at Gettysburg, and I was pretty much hooked at that point. |
Posted: Mon Mar 6th, 2006 02:42 am |
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susansweet2 Member
I am it seems older than most of you. I grew up in the 50's watching the same tv shows. My favorite was The Rebel with Nick Adams. I lived in Southern California . The closest we ever got to the Civil War in the East was a trip when Iwas in 3rd grade to visit my father's cousin in Springfield. I was crazy about Lincoln that year. My brother on the other hand wore his kepi hat from Disneyland everywhere he went, he was two years younger. He had a Confederate one , I had a Union one . We always bought hats when we were at Disneyland and we went many times a year. My dad's cousin took us everywhere around Springfield to show me all the Lincoln sites. He nick named my brother Beau explaining who Beauregard was to my little brother. He loved it. I studied history in school but focused on English History middle ages and Renaissance. I retired from 30 years of teaching and decided to see some of this country. On the first trip east I saw a sign that said Pea Ridge. The was the start. I have visited many battlefields in the South and East in the past few years. I have also discovered a Civil War site near my home in Southern California The Drum Barracks. I now am a docent there once a week, belong to a book discussion group and am program chair of Orange Country Civil War Round Table. I have come a long way in the past couple of years. Still have much to learn . Susan |
Posted: Tue Mar 7th, 2006 01:20 pm |
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arooper Member
Does anyone else dislike the term "buff"? It sounds so stupid. I'd rather be called an "enthusiast," as silly as that is, or even Civil War bore. Anything but buff. |
Posted: Sat Mar 11th, 2006 01:52 pm |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
arooper - When you posted this, I remembered a silly little editorial I wrote on just that subject almost 7 years ago. Searched everywhere and finally found it: What Do We Call Ourselves? In the almost four years that Civil War Interactive has been a viable entity, there's been one question that I ponder almost every day. It obsesses me in a way, like a riddle wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by ...well, you get the idea. It's a simple question on the surface, and to some, not a very important one. Stated bluntly - what do we call ourselves? By "we" I mean those of us to whom the Civil War is more than a black and white glimpse of a distant past. "We" who actually take pleasure in doing whatever we can to keep the memory of the men and the deeds alive. "We" whose idea of a vacation is hiking steep hills in 100 degree weather as long as the hills are on a battlefield. And yes, "we" who look at the men not as one dimensional symbols of a past forever gone, but instead as three dimensional icons of the freedom that we now enjoy. Are we Civil War Buffs? Civil War Fanatics? Civil War Aficionado's? Civil War Lovers? You see where I'm going here? We need a damn name. So what should we be called...... Civil War Fan - I can't imagine calling myself a Civil War fan. When I think of "fan" I think of sports....football fan, baseball fan, etc. I get strange images of lines of mini-vans slowly parading through Gettysburg waving their banners that read " We Get A Charge Out Of Pickett" or "Meade Will Take Us To The Playoffs!" It denotes cheerleaders on top of Little Round Top reciting "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate......Joshua!!!" No, Civil War Fan won't work. Sunday would no longer be the Fan's sacred day. It would be whatever day Civil War Journal was on. Can you imagine as we sit there like couch potatoes, a huge bowl of chips and a quart of beer in hand, screaming "Sickle's you bum! Does the word FLANK mean anything to you, you moron!!!" Meanwhile, our spouses desperately parade in front of the TV in various stages of undress, pleading for a moment of attention....."Not now dear, there's two minutes left in the third day.." Of course, now that I think about it, that's precisely what I do when Civil War Journal is on. Civil War Lover - Another one that just doesn't sound quite right. Even though we know better, it implies that we love war. "Yea man, and then that whole regiment was decimated...I just love that!" It really labels us as rather demented, lost souls who take pleasure in the carnage that occurred. I imagine that people that don't understand form a rather disturbing mental picture of us. It probably involves us retiring at night with a good book that we ordered from the back of a Soldier of Fortune magazine. No, I don't think "Love" and "War" should ever be used together unless "Make" precedes the former, and "Not" precedes the latter.. Civil War Aficionado - Way too snobbish. Let's face it, words that sound as if they may even be remotely foreign turn people off. It gives one the image of a stately, erect (in stature we mean, you pig), gentleman escorting a portly woman in an evening gown to a quaint table set up on the banks of Bloody Pond at Shiloh...."The special today will be Carp...". Nope, Aficionado just won't do it. Picture if you will an Aficionado re-enactor as he gently runs the cork of his canteen under his nose, commenting on the fragrance and the age of the pond water. He would insist that he be allowed to place himself gently on the ground when shot, so as not to disturb the crease in his pantaloons. No, Aficionado is way too presumptuous. Civil War Fanatic - Well, I'm sure we can all see the problem with this one right off the bat. In this day and age, there's just too many collateral images that pop into our mind when we hear "Fanatic". Instead of mini-vans, we'd have lines of sandal-clad Ayatollah Khomeni look-alikes in a slow procession through Gettysburg, chanting mantras to the spirits of the lost. The visitors center would look like O'Hare airport during a Hari Krishna convention. I can picture Civil War Fanatic terrorists holding hostages in the State Department...."We demand that the Imperialist Union Government admit to the cover-up of the lost Pickett Report or we will blockade the building until you comply!...". No, there's enough people out there that think we're fanatics. Let's not encourage them. Civil War Buff - This one might be the most acceptable, but I still have some problems with it. It just sounds so superficial. Nowadays (is that a word?) anyone who knows who was fighting, or in what century the war was fought, can be considered a buff (i.e. possessing a higher than average knowledge of the event). A Buff sounds like he or she would be better at minutiae, rather than a thorough understanding of the war. A Buff might know the size of the boot that Stonewall was wearing when he was shot, but probably has no idea who won the Battle of Chancellorsville. You can be a car buff, or a gun buff, but can you really be a Civil War Buff? I don't know..... So I hope that now you can at least understand my dilemma. There's a large part of my life that has no name. I'm the bastard child of a nameless Civil War affliction. But I guess we'll just clog along, secure in the knowledge that we know who we are. Truth be told, I shouldn't worry so much about what people should call me. I know what they do call me, and that's bad enough. Till next time........ |
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Venture capital tends to flow into particular geographic areas, making them hotbeds for startup financing.
What startup founders want in venture capitalists
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Early-stage strategies for startup growth
Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, recently gave guidance for success for entrepreneurs.
Bridge Capital Holdings Reports Financial Results For the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended June 30, 2013
Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
San Jose, CA – July 25, 2013 – Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK), whose subsidiary is Bridge Bank, National Association, announced today its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.
Venture capitalists increasingly rely on big data
When deciding whether to provide startup financing to a particular business, venture capitalists use many criteria.
Entrepreneurs preparing to advertise to investors as SEC lifts ban
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently lifted its ban on advertising share offerings not registered with the SEC and limited to accredited investors only.
Where is venture capital going?
In the second quarter of 2013, U.S. venture capital investment in the tech industry doubled, according to a report from CrunchBase.
Renewable energy industry projected to grow
In a statement in late June, the International Energy Agency announced that renewable energy technologies will eclipse the use of natural gas and nuclear power by 2016.
Veterans as entrepreneurs
As one million Americans are expected to transition out of the military by 2015, many veterans are returning home and finding that they are not satisfied with desk jobs.
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Blues are so much harder than pinks. While I want to walls to coordinate with some furniture I already have, blues can be very finicky and look totally wrong when the light hits them and of course the size of the room is another factor too. Tomorrow I am off to Sherwin Williams to check out recommended shades of blue and hopefully I will have made my decision come Monday. Stay tuned for before and after shots of the rooms. I certainly have my work cut out for me when it comes to decorating :) In the mean time I will just keep my favorite song of the moment on repeat:
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Naoya Hatakeyama, Still from Twenty-Four Blasts, 2011
HD video installation from a sequence of 35 mm film
Courtesy the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; © Naoya Hatakeyama
In the wake of last year's earthquake and tsunami disaster, this Japanese photographer took arguably the most compelling images yet. His careful approach to landscape photography is a big reason why.
Naoya Hatakeyama is not just another landscape photographer. In fact, upon understanding the impetus for his dramatic large-scale color photographs (on view later this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), one could even say that landscape itself only plays a small role in his work.
Take, for instance, his recent video made from still images, "Twenty-four Blasts." It functions as a document of the controlled explosions that occur almost daily in a limestone quarry he had photographed early in his career. He turned his photographs of these explosions into a video that recasts them as a kind of performative, almost sculptural, phenomenon. The final piece is engaging and modern—and, in truth, looks like a large-scale animated GIF.
Still, not all of his imagery is so easily consumed. In 2011, over a span of three months, he made some of the most haunting work of his career. Though he had documented his hometown of Rikuzentakata, Japan, earlier in the decade, he photographed it again in the immediate aftermath of the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Upon his return, he found the area devastated, his childhood home in ruins, and the life of his mother tragically taken during the disaster. Somehow, though, his images of the destruction remain surprisingly removed. They are quiet, focused and intentional. In the exhibition, the images from 2011 are juxtaposed with an earlier video installation of images of his mother, of the Kesengawa river, and the way the environment once appeared.
There is a tone of transcendence in Hatakeyama's work. He handles difficult subject matter in a way that shows us something beyond the physical: he reveals a glimmer of beauty in poised compositions of still chaos; his landscapes are timelessly suspended as majestic and prodigious relics of our earth. His images delve deep into our human connection to the environment and question how we shape our world and how our world reacts to shape us.
At the beginning of Hatakeyama's career, it was his interest in human systems and networks that led to his study of micro- (and, later, macro-) cosmos. For an early series, "Lime Hills," he photographed limestone quarries. This visual investigation continued at the factories that supported this infrastructure, then finally the urban Tokyo cityscape, built from these same materials. In the city, he began to investigate other systems, such as sewers and hidden riverways.
When Hatakeyama started to look at "proper" landscapes, he photographed the natural world in the same austere manner. His series "Another Mountain" shows the mark of tourism on the Swiss Alps, while "Terrils" documents the hills of a French landscape formed by coal mining. His images are full of a sense of tension stirred by the human manipulation of the environment.
Lisa Sutcliffe, curator of the forthcoming exhibition, says Hatakeyama's work is a reflection of his contemplative and thoughtful nature. "I think of him almost as a scientist in the way he approaches his work," she says. "His work is rational and considered. He is looking at things through space and time."
Sutcliffe cautions us against leaping to the conclusion that man is an evil element with respect to nature here. Instead, she says, "Hatakeyama's vision is a little more nuanced, a little bit more interested in matters of the sublime. He looks at man in a more subjective way—as part of history and part of the natural world."
"Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories" is on view at the SFMOMA July 28 through November 4. For more information on the exhibit, visit: www.sfmoma.org.


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I working on a game website. At the end of the game , the user can publish his score on Facebook via the method stream.publish
The problem is that I cannot refresh the page because the game as to remains in the same state.. so I m opening the URL obtained by $facebook->getLoginUrl( params)
in a new window with window open
If the user has already authorized the app , everything works fine, the url returns to my redirect_uri
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He leans too far to the right to be Labour, and annoys his own backbenchers for implementing policy that aren't traditionally held party beliefs. His record abroad is impressive, but at home, much of the country has taken a dislike to Tony Blair... what you thought I was talking about David Cameron?
Although the first stage of the inquiry was just about to end, Lord Justice Leveson said: 'For me and for the team, however, we have only just started.' The second stage will continue once all police matters have been completed, but a first report will be released before the end of 2012. The rotten apple which dropped from its tree has bounced, rolled and spread its seed across the country to grow forests full of rotten apples.
It lasted little more than two minutes and, like the best News of the World splashes, was executed with brutal finality. Without any warning, we were called from our desks to the centre of the newsroom where Rebekah Brooks was waiting for us with our editor Colin Myler alongside her.
When the News of the World closed down, you'd think after playing a small part in its downfall, I'd be happy.
We're all in this together? Not since Marie Antoinette's infamous "let them eat cake" has a phrase so neatly captured the class divide. For despite what the likes of David Cameron and his erstwhile chum, the former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, might once have thought - we are blatantly not all in this together.
Poor David Cameron, he's not going to live this one down in a hurry, is he? Forget messing up the budget, turning off women voters, strikes across the country and a dismal showing in the local council elections. His greatest embarrassment right now, and if we dare to speculate, for some time in the future, will be his inability to abbreviate his text messages correctly. In quite possibly the highlight so far of the soap opera that is the Leveson Inquiry, ex-News International exec Rebekah Wade outed David Cameron as so far behind the times he needed advice from a newspaper editor to type his texts correctly.
This week we are likely to see yet more drama and revelations in the sage that is the Leveson Inquiry as the prime minister's former spin doctor Andy Coulson and former Sun editor and horse owner Rebekah Brooks take the stand. You may be starting to tire of the blanket coverage but please don't switch off just yet. There are big issues at stake.
In July last year I suggested that the claims made by Rebekah Brooks that she knew nothing of phone hacking under her tenure, if true, suggested she was at best a poor leader, and that if she was indeed neutral in shaping the culture under her at News International, we had to look further up the food chain for those culpable - recalling the old saying, a fish rots from the headhttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alex-jaconelli/a-fish-rots-from-the-head_b_894606.html.
There is a deliciously banal absurdity to the news that Rebekah Brooks, the disgraced tabloid editor at the epicentre of the phone-hacking scandal, was loaned a police horse by the Metropolitan Police.
It's ironic that this week Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times included a supplement listing the 100 best companies to work for. You won't find his company listed, or any other publisher or broadcaster for that matter.
Last July Rebekah Brooks told her assembled staff that "worse revelations are yet to come and you will understand in a year why we closed News Of The World". We haven't had to wait a year and the evidence from the Surrey Police published today by our House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee lays bare the scandal of phone hacking at the paper during the Milly Dowler case.
How different the world looked for the Murdochs last Christmas. The BSkyB decision had just been withdrawn from Vince Cable. It now looked as though their bid would go through on the nod. Once approved this would allow the Murdoch dynasty to straddle Britain's media like a gloating colossus, dwarfing the BBC and all other commercial competitors. Politically they would be untouchable.
Think of the issues that have raised our national hackles in the past few years; oil prices, cash for influence, expenses, bankers' bonuses...for a while we're appalled, outraged, demanding justice, or at the very least all the juicy details. And then? Business as usual. Should we do more or realise that we're a fickle bunch?
Was I the only one who expected to see Frank Pentangeli wheeled out at the Murdoch inquisition yesterday?
At 80-years-old, Rupert Murdoch has had an equally dated approach to public relations throughout the hacking scandal.
Of course Murdoch wasn't the only one who was blind. But for someone who succeeded in the past by being uniquely in touch with popular sentiment, this latest debacle demonstrates yet another source of blindness: success.


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Police said the car sped down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, where security vehicles stopped it at Garfield Circle.
The woman slammed the car into reverse, crashing into a police cruiser, and tried to get away. At that point officers began firing, a witness said.
Dramatic video footage by a videographer for Alhurra TV, a Middle Eastern news outlet financed by the U.S. government, showed the black vehicle then speeding around a nearby traffic circle with a police car in close pursuit and then heading away. The car crashed into more security barriers a few blocks later, witnesses said.
More shots were fired after the vehicle stopped, and the woman was hit several times, said Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier. Carey was later pronounced dead, Lanier said. Two officers were injured.
A Capitol Police officer whose vehicle crashed during the chase was hurt, authorities said. The officer was released from a hospital Thursday night. The Secret Service did not release information about its injured agent.
Chaos and a child in the car
Inside the woman's car was the 1-year-old child, who was not harmed. The child was taken into protective custody, officials said. Officers didn't know there was a child inside the woman's car during the chase, officials said. Also, the early investigation revealed that there was no evidence that the woman had a gun or fired a shot.
The bedlam from the fatal chase reverberated throughout a U.S. Capital already shaken by the recent mass shooting at the Navy Yard in the city and on edge due to tensions over the showdown over shutting down the federal government.
Authorities locked down the Capitol building and other government facilities in the area.
House and Senate sessions were immediately suspended, with legislators ordered to take cover and keep away from windows. Police also closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.
Sirens blared as people in and around government office buildings reported hearing gunshots. Bystanders hid in fear.
Shemaiah Ofori-Attah and her husband, Edmund, at first thought the speeding black car and sirens were part of a motorcade.
"Then when we heard the gunshots we knew this was something serious, so we just dropped to the ground," she said.
Danny Farkas, the Alhurra videographer, captured the scene. He said he had a fleeting thought that perhaps the driver had explosives in the car.
"I was surprised at the movie-like quality of what was going on in front of me," he told CNN's "New Day."