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The poster citing the loss of Reala and Superia 400 in 120 may be basing this on the latest announcement on the AP website dated Friday 26th July which quite clearly states that both of the above have ceased production. The fact that there are 5 links to retailers who hold existing stocks of such film does not in itself invalidate the poster's assertion.
If AP has been told that Reala and Superia 400 in 120 has ceased production then this would seem to be a good source of information.
There seems no end to the Fuji discontinuations. Sounds like Michael Corleone's announcement of the end of the other heads of the five families in NY after he had arranged their demise
The Fuji U.K. website still doesn't carry an announcement on the loss of Neopan and Provia let alone anything on Superia 400 and Reala in 120 despite an assurance I received from a spokesperson there a few days ago that something would go on the website
Is Fuji U.K. so demoralised that it cannot be bothered to keep customers informed and its website up to date? It certainly looks like it. Maybe the spokesperson is too busy working on his CV in preparation for his own departure.


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Daniel Claro
Graduated: 2013
Principal Adviser: Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
Dissertation Title: Bodies in Motion: Material Culture and the Experience of Mobility, 1803-1851
Bess Williamson
Graduated: 2012
Principal Adviser: Arwen Mohun, Department of History
Dissertation Title: The Right to Design: Disability and Access in the United States, 1945-1990
Hillary Murtha (abstract)
Graduated: 2010
Principal Adviser: Anne Boylan, Department of History
Dissertation Title: Instruments of Power: Sonic Signaling Devices and American Labor Management, 1821-1876
Janneken Smucker (abstract)
Graduated: 2010
Principal Adviser: Susan Strasser, Department of History
Dissertation Title: From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value
Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt (abstract)
Graduated: 2009
Principal Adviser: Bernard L. Herman, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: Portrait of a Woman in a Silk Dress: The Hidden Histories of Aesthetic Commodities in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Rebecca Sheppard (abstract)
Graduated: 2009
Principal Adviser: Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
Dissertation Title: Making the Farm Pay: Persistence and Adaptation in the Evolution of Delaware's Agricultural Landscape, 1780-2005
Bryn Varley Hollenbeck (abstract)
Graduated: 2008
Principal Adviser: Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
Dissertation Title: Making Space for Children: The Material Culture of American Childhoods, 1900-1950
Patricia J. Keller (abstract)
Graduated: 2007
Principal Adviser: Bernard L. Herman, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: The Quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, Context, and Meaning, 1750-1884
Jalynn Olsen Padilla (abstract)
Graduated: 2007
Principal Adviser: Anne Boylan, Department of History
Dissertation Title: Army of 'cripples': Northern Civil War Amputees, Disability, and Manhood in Victorian America
Thomas Ryan (abstract)
Graduated: 2005
Principal Adviser: Bernard L. Herman, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: Jacob Eichholtz and an Artist's Construction of Middle-class Identity in Nineteenth-Century Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Ann Kirschner (abstract)
Graduated: 2004
Principal Adviser: Christine L. Heyrman, Department of History
Dissertation Title: "God Visited My Slumber": The Intersection of Dreams, Religion, and Society in America, 1770-1830
Ryan K. Smith (abstract)
Graduated: 2002
Principal Adviser: Christine L. Heyrman, Department of History
Dissertation Title: Protestant Popery: Catholic Art in Protestant Churches, 1830-1890
Diane E. Wenger (abstract)
Graduated: 2002
Principal Adviser: Cathy Matson, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: Creating Networks: The Country Storekeeper and the Mid-Atlantic Economy
Cynthia G. Falk (abstract)
Graduated: 2001
Principal Adviser: Bernard L. Herman, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: Constructing Identity with Belongings and Buildings: Pennsylvania Germans in the New Nation
Christopher Schroeder (abstract)
Graduated: 2000
Principal Adviser: Christine L. Heyrman, Department of History
Dissertation Title: Dreams of a Prairie Republic: Morris Birkbeck and settlement on the Indiana-Illinois Frontier, 1764-1860
Laura Johnson Abstract:
Exploring the mutability of cloth and dress in determining one's place in early American society is at the heart of this investigation. In intricate cultural calculations, Indians could be both encouraged to accept and paradoxically prohibited from wearing European textiles. Their desire for and access to these articles in the larger trade goods complex became a function and focus of colonial governments from contact through the mid-eighteenth century. Textiles functioned as devices for the creation and re-creation of identity, relationships of exchange and kinship, political and social power--all forms of cultural production--on the early American frontier. This dissertation explores the role of cloth in exchange relationships and identity formation through a close examination of the American southeast. Other regions of intense inter-colonial conflict, such as the mid-Atlantic or the Great Lakes regions, provide excellent occasional opportunities for comparative analysis of the intensely layered textile interactions occurring between Europeans and southeastern Natives. Rather than present analysis using a Eurocentric framework, I focus on Native access to and use of European-produced textiles, which fell into one or more themes. Natives themselves would not have classified their perception of or use of wovens using these categories, but analysis of treaty records, archaeological remains, swatches, account books, prints and paintings reveal that Natives consumed textiles in one or more of these methods.
Hillary Murtha Abstract:
Historically, bells and other sonic signaling instruments have proved extremely versatile for sending forth a multiplicity of signals throughout many kinds of communities. This dissertation explores nineteenth-century America labor managers' use of bell, and in some cases, horn signals to direct, discipline and subordinate their workforces--a phenomenon here termed "sonic labor management." "Instruments of Power" is a tripartite study that examines industrial labor, agricultural labor and domestic labor, and discusses both free and enslaved workers.
Geographically, the first section focuses on New England textile mills, the second on southern plantations (both during the antebellum period and Reconstruction), and the third on domestic service in both northern and southern antebellum homes. Although the managerial authority embodied in bell signals never went entirely unchallenged, in each setting signal bells gave visible and aural shape to managerial power and demarked racial, gender and, especially, class hierarchies. This is an interdisciplinary study, traversing the fields of material culture, aural history and labor history, and exploring the interrelations between the visible, the audible and the internalized.
Janneken Smucker Abstract:
By examining the relationship of Amish quilts to the individuals who made, bought, sold, exhibited, and preserved them during the last half of the twentieth century, my dissertation investigates intersections of art, craft, fashion, globalization, and consumer culture. I argue that both Amish and non-Amish individuals, influenced by understandings of theology, Modernism, connoisseurship, nostalgia, "Amishness," consumerism, and authenticity, crafted the value--monetary, aesthetic, emotional, and cultural--of Amish quilts during this era. In the 1970s old Amish quilts became status symbols within the art world because to art enthusiasts' modern eyes, they looked like abstract paintings when hung on walls. Part of the appeal stemmed from the quilts' origins within a seemingly exotic American subculture that was simultaneously otherworldly and evocative of America's own pre-industrial past. When antiques dealers came knocking on Amish doors in search of quilts, families were eager to sell rather than continue to own an object the outside world considered a valuable work of art. Soon Amish entrepreneurs found additional ways to benefit from the newfound interest in their bedcovers; they made new quilts to sell on the retail market. Following the Vietnam War, Hmong refugees arrived in the United States with their own needlework skills. Some of these immigrants soon found piecework in cottage industries making quilts sold to tourists visiting Amish settlements; but rather than market these as Hmong-made quilts, businesses promoted them as Amish-made. With the commercial success of new quilts, multinational corporations also attempted to gain a share of the market by outsourcing Amish-style quilts for production in factories in China. Concerned consumers wanted assurances that the quilts they bought were in fact made by Amish quilters, rather than Hmong seamstresses or Chinese factory workers, valuing "Amish" as a seal of authenticity. Quilts, considered a quintessentially American form of cultural production, became a flash point in the Buy America campaigns of the 1990s, indicative of both increasing globalization and hyper-consumption.
Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt Abstract:
This dissertation explores the many hidden histories revealed by a single resonant object: a 1746 portrait of a woman in a silk dress. In this portrait, New England artist Robert Feke portrays Philadelphian Anne Shippen Willing wearing a Spitalfields flowered silk, a fabric woven in London by Huguenot Simon Julins after a pattern by English silk designer Anna Maria Garthwaite. Each chapter of my dissertation considers one of these four creators of this object (designer, client, weaver, and painter) and discusses transatlantic networks linked to them in the time (1688 to 1791) and space of their collective lives. Ranging from Philadelphia, London, and Newport, to Lincolnshire, Boston, and Bermuda, my work challenges scholarly models that privilege metropole over colony as it alternates between metropolitan and colonial perspectives of production, consumption, and use. Analysis of architectural spaces, decorative arts, and cultural landscapes as well as textiles, silk designs, and portraits--all tied together through this single portrait--reveals that the makers and users of these objects and images fashioned and displayed ideologies, from the personal to the political, through their material world.
My work contributes to scholarship on the consumer revolution by revealing the emotive, ideological power objects hold beyond consumer behaviorism or emulative refinement. In particular, this portrait of a colonial merchant's wife wearing a flowered silk dress highlights how people in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World produced, used and consumed aesthetic representations of nature to express cultural fascinations, map changes in their landscapes, perform colonial merchant identity, fashion revolutionary political economy, and imagine America as an imperial New Eden. This single object reveals the importance of nature and landscape for creole and merchant identity formation, particularly how classical republicanism manifested materially and people used aesthetic commodities to wrestle with issues of commerce, consumption, and virtue in the British Atlantic World.
Rebecca Sheppard Abstract:
This dissertation explores the evolution of the built environment and landscape associated with agriculture in Delaware, between 1780 and 2005. Agriculture is an economic system, a way of life, and a cultural landscape. It also evokes aesthetic responses that can have political repercussions and it is a form of environmental land use with ecological consequences. Over the past three centuries, the agricultural landscape of Delaware evolved in response to a variety of pressures and forces. Different elements of the landscape appeared, changed, or vanished. What persists provides clues for understanding that evolution and the forces that shaped it. This dissertation argues that we can learn much about how the practice and product of agriculture in Delaware evolved from the evidence that survives in its landscape. The recursive relationships between people, land, markets, and society have long driven changes to the built environment. The landscape materializes relationships of farmers and laborers and shows us how families coped with shifts in the economy and the market. The objects in those landscapes document the range of choices farm families confronted and the ways in which they altered their environment. Ultimately, the landscape teaches us about Delaware farmers' responses to the "Great Transformation" from an agrarian economy and culture to an urban, industrial society. This dissertation uses a close examination of the state's agricultural history and landscape to address these issues. Case studies of individual farm landscapes serve to reveal the broader patterns in each of the state's various regions and allow us to gauge the extent of change and persistence in farming over time. (top)
Bryn Varley Hollenbeck Abstract:
This dissertation analyzes the relationship of the home to child rearing and family life between 1900 and 1950. This study explores the ways in which parents used their homes to nurture their children, and the reasons why different options were available and attractive. Specifically, this project tours the middle class family house and investigates the construction and use of the many spaces of childhood: the small child's bedroom; the household spaces, inside and out, where the child played; and the places utilized for education and discipline. The sources include design treatises, medical literature, advice manuals, government publications, trade literature, poetry and fiction, works of art, photographs, autobiographies, and personal writings in letters and baby books. Through this research, it becomes clear that evolving theories of child rearing, the realities of parenting, and the activities of children shaped the ideology, function, and material culture of middle-class homes. Focusing on the material culture of childhood reveals much about middle-class Americans' views of the past, their hopes for the future, and the ways in which people used objects as a response to cultural transformations and dislocations. Additionally, by analyzing the family home and the young child's place and spaces therein, this project produces a nuanced portrait of "modern" America. It points to the importance of young families as contributors to critical trends in twentieth century history, as they drove suburbanization, consumer culture, professionalization, medical advances, a national media, and a nuanced middle-class identity. This dissertation contributes to historiographical discussions about the nature of childhood and child rearing in history, agency and causality in design and suburbanization, consumerization, nature, memory and modernization, and the role of material culture in creating and contesting identity. Finally, this dissertation illuminates the interplay among experts and parents, and highlights the power of both parents and children in the negotiation of the home and the greater culture.
Patricia J. Keller Abstract:
This dissertation explores when and why home-produced bedquilts and quiltmaking evolved as significant objects and activities in the 18th and 19th centuries among women residing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I rely on probate inventory data drawn from six selected decades between 1750 and 1884, for estates from urban Lancaster Borough/City (primarily Germanic with a significant English element) and two disparate outlying rural areas: Drumore Township, settled by British Quaker and Scotch Irish Presbyterians; and the Cocalico valley, a Germanic region settled by persons of Anabaptist, Lutheran, and Reformed faiths. I use rates of ownership and appraised valuations of fiber-processing tools, spinning wheels, looms, and household furnishing textiles, as primary evidence to develop and interpret patterns of household textile production and consumption from the mid 1700s through the mid- and late-1800s. Bedquilts' meanings were situational and changing. These were tasteful and costly ready-made consumer trade goods popular among the international elite of the Atlantic world by 1750. Bedquilts emerged as the handwork of elite and typically urban women later in the century, markers of status and needlework competency, and fell from urban fashion in the early decades of the 1800s. Simultaneously, quilts and quiltmaking were embraced by some rural women as the1800s progressed, as industrialized spinning and factory textile production displaced household hand-spinning, dislocating women from this ages-old arena of handcraft production. The quilts these rural women and their descendants produced in the ensuing years met profound needs for women's continued involvement in the production of cultural material and situated their makers within multiple contexts of gender, taste, needlework competency, social and community identities, and ideology.
Jalynn Olsen Padilla Abstract:
More than 20,000 Union Army soldiers returned from the American Civil War missing an arm or a leg. For decades and even generations after the war's end, Americans' image of the Civil War veteran often included an empty sleeve or pant leg. Although scholars of the Reconstruction and Gilded Age eras have studied the experiences of disabled veterans as recipients of federal pension benefits or as beggars on city streets, only recently have they turned to considering veterans within the framework of disability history. This dissertation examines the readjustment, work, and personal experiences of the most visible group of disabled veterans--amputees--along with the shifting cultural meanings attached to their disabled bodies. Using sources such as census and pension records, literary productions, prosthetic manufacturers' catalogs, and amputees' own writings, it explores how the presence of Civil War amputees forced Northerners to reconsider what it meant to be a "cripple" in Victorian America and how the men themselves adjusted to the loss of physical wholeness.
Two themes run through this dissertation: the desire of Union amputees to be seen as independent and their concerns about looking manly in the public arena. While many disabled veterans made a successful postwar transition to paid work, they often had to rely on the federal government for financial assistance and on female family members for help with daily tasks. They frequently called on their war experience to differentiate themselves from other nineteenth-century "cripples." As able-bodied men paid increasing attention to their appearance in public, particularly bodily symmetry and muscular strength, Union amputees expressed concerns about matching up to the ideal. They often claimed to wear their empty sleeves and pant legs as badges of honor, but privately wished they had the strong, athletic bodies they had taken to war. Prosthetics manufacturers designed and advertised substitute limbs, but few amputees used them consistently. By placing disabled Union amputees at the center of analysis, my work illuminates the Civil War's enduring legacy of disability that continued to shape the daily lives of maimed veterans, the nature of public policy, and the cultural perception of disabled bodies.
Thomas Ryan Abstract:
This dissertation is about objects, identity and middle-class formation in early nineteenth-century America. First, it explores the interpretive power of objects--among them a "flower chest," a copper measure, and a portrait--to understand the occupational journey of a young coppersmith, Jacob Eichholtz, within the context of three generations of his family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In the process objects demonstrate a power beyond their ability to merely illustrate arguments based on documentary records or supplement the evidentiary basis of historical interpretation; objects do more than mark identity, they make identity.
Second, this study delves into the nascent world of early nineteenth-century American art, and the rarified world of twentieth-century art collecting, to challenge the validity of assertions of "native genius" in the one and the moniker of "naive" art in the other. In the first case it demonstrates that only by constant application, instruction from available sources at hand, and the support of benefactors could an aspirant like Jacob Eichholtz gain sufficient competence and capital to succeed in the competitive world of American art. In the second instance, this study argues that naïve art and folk art are expressions of individuals who worked outside of the mainstreams of popular culture and unaware of the western studio-art tradition.
Finally, this project argues that Jacob Eichholtz's 1832 rowhouse established the standard for middle-class architecture in Lancaster lasting into the twentieth century. Yet, it did so amidst a diverse architectural landscape and new ideas about class and the configuration of urban space. More specifically, this dissertation demonstrates that the presence of Pennsylvania German architecture in urban centers in the nineteenth century was more than a matter of surviving examples from the eighteenth century; two new house forms were derived from the earlier tradition and competed for favor among Lancaster's middle class. Eventually, however, middle-class Lancastrians chose the rowhouse form as their preferred domestic arrangement, and the more prosperous among them, like Jacob Eichholtz, chose to situate their residences in new, residential neighborhoods that were themselves symbols of middle-class refinement.
Ann Kirschner Abstract:
The diaries and memoirs of evangelical Protestants in eighteenth-century America reveal an overlooked belief and devotional practice: the recording of spiritual dreams. Dreams often prodded nonbelievers into spiritual conviction and conversion and also were entwined with evangelicalism's most essential daily practices--prayer and study of the Bible. Like conventional prayer, spiritual dreams were thought to offer the chance for "sensible communion" with God. That dialogue often delivered specific bible verses that seemingly addressed the dreamer's spiritual condition or brought him face-to-face with exemplary biblical figures. Dreams thus delivered animated and personalized versions of the scriptures evangelicals devoted themselves to reading daily. For many evangelicals, to dream was to experience religion. Indeed, the validation of spiritual dreams depended on distinguishing them as personal religious "experiences" in order to shield them from charges of religious enthusiasm levied against those who fell into trances, shouted too exuberantly in public meeting, or claimed religious authority on the basis of visions.
The dissertation examines how believers came to embrace their dreams yet wrestled with their meaning and source; how contemporary pedagogy and gender influenced the imagery of dreams; and the limits evangelical culture placed upon the experience of dreaming. The result is a new picture of evangelical spirituality, one in which demonic power threatened in tangible and psychic form, leading a great many believers to doubt the validity of their own conversions as well as their ability to discern God's will. As if to counter these doubts, evangelical dreams disclose a deep concern for proving piety through spiritually-guided good deeds and suggest how that pursuit awakened significant issues of gender identity. What their dreams also reveal is a culture preoccupied with the power of writing, reading, and speaking as signs of God's grace and as weapons that could thwart the devil and frustrate new sects that used their visionary power to promote controversial theologies. This emphasis on literacy had at least one salutary result: spurred by their dreams to create written records of their spiritual experiences, some evangelical women made tangible the religious authority promised in their dreams but hindered in their churches.
Ryan K. Smith Abstract:
A contradiction in Protestant/Catholic relations arose in antebellum America. From 1820 to 1850, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States gained about 1.6 million members, growing from a tiny minority into the country's largest single religious body. This rapid growth triggered a corresponding rise in anti-Catholic hostilities. Activists representing every major Protestant denomination attacked "popery" through lectures, tracts, newspapers, missionary societies, and politics. Yet at the same time, a remarkable change was taking place in Protestant church buildings. Previous generations of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, Congregationalists, and Baptists had guarded their distinct traditions against any associations with Catholicism. But in the 1830s, these denominations began employing symbolic crosses, building Gothic-inspired churches, decorating sanctuaries with flowers and candles, worshipping with robed choirs--in sum, practicing elements of the "popery" that they were denouncing. Such innovations inspired fierce controversies, but by the late nineteenth century, the wave of appropriations had reached a successful conclusion, as crosses, choirs, and the like lost their Catholic associations and sparked resistance only among small factions of the main denominations.
This dissertation attempts to relate these appropriations to the anti-Catholic activities surrounding them, through a mixture of design analysis and narrative history. It finds that both trends revealed a recognition of power in the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic worship, in its tradition, its art, and its emphasis on tangible access to the sacred, seems to have been well suited for the era's romanticism and market-based materialism. Far from being exclusively the concern of urban immigrants, Catholic designs appealed to young, genteel observers throughout the country, and it was this segment of Protestant congregations that promoted the artistic innovations most vigorously. Their appropriations served as a subtle strategy intended to win and retain more Protestant converts while denying the unique attractions of Catholicism. The results presented a colorful new religious landscape. But in the innumerable aspects of Catholic worship that were not adopted and, more profoundly, in the competitive aims of the appropriation, they also illustrated the durability of traditional religious boundaries.
Diane E. Wenger Abstract:
This dissertation analyzes the role of the country storekeeper in the early republic. Samuel Rex operated his store from 1790 to 1807 in Schaefferstown, a small Pennsylvania German village seventy-five miles from Philadelphia. Through his activities Rex connected Schaefferstown residents, the regional iron-producing community, and Philadelphia merchants in an interconnected network of relations. Rex's Schaefferstown customers obtained some needs through traditional exchanges, but they also produced goods for distant markets, and they sought consumer goods they could not make or buy locally. At his store, Rex facilitated both local and distant exchanges; he offered banking services, sold luxury and everyday merchandise, and bought country produce and manufactured goods. He resold some of these goods locally, but he sold far more to the regional ironmasters. He supplied pork and grain to feed their workers, and served as a company store where workers charged purchases against their wages.
Rex also sold produce in Philadelphia. Twice a year he hired local farmers and craftsmen to drive butter, whiskey, lard and other produce to the city and to carry back cargoes of imported goods to replenish his inventory. Urban merchants welcomed Rex's business because he bought large amounts of goods and paid for them on time, and because he channeled country produce to them. Though Rex sometimes encountered problems, most transactions at the store took place in a spirit of mutuality and meeting common interests. He succeeded in a risky business because of his location and a favorable economy, and because he had the right combination of background and skills; he was equally at home in the countryside and in the urban business community. This study contributes to our understanding of everyday life in the mid-Atlantic, inland commerce and transportation, and the exchange role of country storekeepers. It illustrates the mixed nature of the economy and complicates the market/community dichotomy that informs most interpretive models. It shows that the storekeeper was both an economic and cultural broker--an agent of exchange and change--and suggests that a "network of relations" is a fruitful way to understand early American economy and society.
Cynthia G. Falk Abstract
Studies of late eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians of German descent have often highlighted the role ethnic background played in distinguishing members of the group and the objects they created and used. Although research on contemporary British-Americans has addressed how social and economic status affected participation in the consumer revolution and the degree to which individuals embraced new objects associated with refinement and gentility, similar issues have not been explored with regard to the Pennsylvania Germans. In analyzing the material culture associated with the group, scholars have generally perceived people of German descent as part of a homogenous community united by ethnic background and have overlooked divisions based on rank, or even religious belief. When they have observed change or divergence among members of the group, they have quickly turned to interpretations focused on Pennsylvania German assimilation.
This dissertation takes a new approach to the study of Pennsylvania German material culture. Using period documentary sources as well as evidence instilled in surviving buildings and other artifacts, this study reevaluates the importance of ethnic affiliation in the lives of late eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians of various nationalities. It specifically addresses the roles ethnic background, social and economic status, and religious belief all played as people of German descent made choices about what types of houses to inhabit and how to furnish them.
Late eighteenth-century commentators often exaggerated the presumably ethnic characteristics of Pennsylvania Germans' built environment in order to make statements about the national economy and the hierarchical ordering of society. Surviving structures, on the other hand, indicate that elite people of both German and English descent were engaged in a period of transition in regard to their domestic accommodations. The dwellings they constructed were of a new form and were furnished with new kinds of objects. They reflected contemporary ideas about improvement and luxury. They served as physical manifestations of refinement and gentility, characteristics fundamentally associated with status, which were tempered by religious exhortations against extravagance. As expressions of personal identity, they demonstrate the importance rank and religious piety, as well as ethnic background, held in the lives of Pennsylvania Germans.
Christopher Schroeder Abstract:
A community study and intellectual biography, Dreams of a Prairie Republic follows immigrant Europeans, white Southerners, Eastern migrants, and free and bound African Americans as they converged on an Illinois settlement known as "English Prairie," founded by English radical Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825). Closely tied to London radicalism, the freethinking Birkbeck arrived in America in 1817 yearning for a new society free from traditional religious and political authority. Within a year, he had secured more than 29,000 acres for a venture that became a transatlantic cause cèlébre as hundreds of settlers flocked to the lower Wabash frontier after encountering Birkbeck's trans-Appalachian dream in popular accounts of his immigration experience. That controversy sparked a transatlantic pamphlet war that spoke to the post-revolutionary debate on virtue, authority, and the place of the West in America's republican destiny and identity. Contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic came to view English Prairie as a microcosm of the radical promise inherent in republican revolution, a grand experiment in human nature with revolutionary implications for the church and state relationship, indeed for all of society. But during the initial decade of settlement chaos reigned. Political and personal rivalries arose between elite factions, while immigrant radicals and free blacks sparred with traditional Southern whites over slavery and differing concepts of race and masculine independence. By 1860, much of Birkbeck's radical dream had fallen to the conflictive reality of social and cultural diversity and the instability of a developing market economy. In their struggle to forge a unified "American" identity in the face of disunion, English Prairie's white heirs bridged old cultural divisions by defining their world along traditional lines of anti-Catholic evangelicalism, republican nationalism, racism, and material progress, a hard-won compromise between the cultural values brought by British immigrant settlers and the racial and religious mores of the white Southerners who dominated migration to the region. In probing the intersection between late Georgian radicalism and the development of trans-Appalachian North America, the dissertation illuminates the roles played by transatlantic reform impulses, ethnic relations, slavery, and sectionalism in building a liberal social order in the early republic.

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|Apps Ranked Sixth in Lindy's Pre-Season Poll
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|Thursday, 07 June 2012 13:18
The Appalachian State University football team is ranked sixth by Lindy's Football Championship Sub-Division Top 25 preseason poll. The Mountaineers, who were 8-4 last season and lost to Maine in the opening round of the FCS playoffs, are one of three Southern Conference
teams ranked in the Top 10. Georgia Southern was ranked seventh and Wofford was ranked tenth.
Sam Houston State, which lost to North Dakota State in the FCS National Championship game in January, is the top-ranked team in the poll. North Dakota State is No.2 followed by Montana State ranked third, Towson State, and Montana to round out the top five.
Montana travels to Kidd Brewer Stadium to play ASU on Saturday, September 8; the Mountaineers open the season at East Carolina on Saturday, September 1. Old Dominion, which moves up to the Football Bowl Series next season and will join Conference-USA, was ranked eighth. And the Monarch, despite their move up next season, are eligible, at least with league athletic directors who voted on the issue, to compete for the Colonial Athletic Assocition title this season. University presidents will finalize the issue at their annual CAA meetings next Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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Origin Baby Shower, Baby Shower Invitations, Baby Shower Celebration Celebrations
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Underwater topographic charts
Husband-and-wife team Robbie and Kara Johnson are behind Below the Boat, which offers wooden bathymetric charts (like topographic maps, but underwater instead of on land) for sale. Laser-cut and glued together, the results look really lush. It's fascinating how topography can exist underwater as well as over land.


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Bristol Rugby Secure Play-Off Place In Torrential Conditions
Bristol Rugby 18 - 13 Plymouth Albion
Bristol Rugby confirmed their place in the promotion play-offs after overcoming Plymouth Albion 18-13. Tries from Jack Tovey and Junior Fatialofa, as well as 8 points from the boot of Ed Barnes, settled a tense encounter played in swirling wind and rain.
Both sides toiled in the sodden conditions, but it was Bristol who seized the early initiative, George Watkins evading several tackles and winning a penalty which Nicky Little kicked to the corner.
In an error-strewn opening 15 minute minutes, Plymouth Albion's Cameron Mitchell intercepted a long pass and looked set to score, only for Sean Marsden to race back and make an excellent tackle.
With the ball squirming loose and large areas of surface water on the pitch, running rugby was almost impossible. Both sets of forwards saw a lot of possession in a war of attrition at the breakdown.
Plymouth's Kieran Hallett squandered the first real opportunity of the game, his long-range penalty ricocheting off the bar before Jack Tovey cleared to safety. Seconds later, Hallett had a chance to make amends after Bristol were penalised for not rolling away. The fly-half made sure of the three points on this occasion, giving the visitors a 3-0 lead.
The hosts began to gain the ascendancy, building phases and punching holes through the Plymouth midfield. The Bristol pack was tenacious at the set-piece, and earned a penalty for their side after driving their counterparts back at the scrum, though Nicky Little's mammoth effort fell just short of the posts.
The fly-half orchestrated proceedings well and instigated another penalty for his side after he had forced a lineout deep in Plymouth territory. However, Little failed to convert and decisions started to go the way of the visitors. Both sides traded kicks as the conditions worsened with Plymouth looking to find space behind the Bristol backline.
Then, in a moment of invention, the host's luck changed. Man-of-the-match James Merriman pounced on a loose ball deep in is own 22 and darted up the touchline, outpacing a defender in the process. His inside ball found the on-rushing Jack Tovey who finished in the corner with aplomb to give Bristol a 5-3 lead. Barnes missed the difficult conversion but the momentum had swung the way of Paul Hull's men.
The dogged Bristol forwards continued to cause problems and No.8 Aaron Carpenter was yellow-carded after blocking Richard Bolt's progress. Ed Barnes converted the penalty to increase the lead to 8-3 at the break.
As the rain continued to fall, Bristol began the second period in explosive fashion. Barnes and Fatialofa linked up well in the midfield, but any flowing rugby was hindered by the boggy Memorial Stadium pitch. The first clear-cut opportunity of the half came when Bristol executed a rolling maul just five metres from the line. The resulting drive saw Junior Fatialofa burrow between the posts to touchdown. Ed Barnes slotted the extras to extend the advantage to 15-3.
Plymouth hit back almost immediately and the visitors were awarded a penalty after Ruairi Cushion had carved an opening. Kieran Hallett capitalised to cut the lead to 15-6 on the hour mark.
Hallett had another chance to cut the deficit, but he opted to kick for touch rather than the posts. The decision would prove costly as Mariano Sambucetti forced an error at the line-out and Bristol were able to clear their lines through the boot of Nicky Little.
In a closely-contested second half, Bristol's excellent forward play continued to pose headaches for the visitors. Referee Sean Davey had no choice but to award the home side a penalty after Plymouth hooker George Porter's ill-discipline but Ed Barnes' kick sailed narrowly wide of the target.
On a surface that now resembled a mudbath, Sione Tu'ipulotu's half break was rewarded with a close-range penalty. After taking a quick-tap, Plymouth Albion moved the ball wide and Aaron Carpenter pierced the defensive line to score. Hallett converted to make the score 15-13 and set up a nailbiting finale.
The Bristol support breathed a sigh of relief when Ed Barnes instantly replied with a penalty, giving Bristol a five-point lead at 18-13. In an incredibly tense closing four minutes, Paul Hull's men hung on and defended stoutly at the death. The final whistle was met with a roar from the Memorial Stadium faithful, as Bristol recorded a hard-fought victory and cemented their place in the top eight.
Bristol Rugby:
Sean Marsden; Jack Tovey, Junior Fatialofa, Ed Barnes, George Watkins; Nicky Little, Richard Bolt; Mark Irish, Ross Johnston, Darren Crompton, Mariano Sambucetti, Roy Winters, Iain Grieve ©, James Merriman, Dan Montagu.
Replacements: David Blaney, Wayne Thompson for Darren Crompton (72 mins), Jason Hobson for Mark Irish (72 mins), Darren Barry, Jamie Miller, Robbie Shaw, Jack Adams for Nicky Little (72 mins)
Plymouth Albion:
Mark Lee; Ben Mercer, Kenni Fisilau, Sione Tu'ipulotu, Cameron Mitchell; Kieran Hallett, Ruairi Cushion; George Porter, Gareth Evans, Ryan Hopkins, Tom Skelding ©, Robin Copeland, Wayne Sprangle, Rory Watts-Jones, Aaron Carpenter.
Replacements: Tom Kessell for Ruairi Cushion (68 mins), Alex Davies for Kieran Hallett (77 mins), David Morton, Gavin O'Meara, Dan Collier for Tom Skelding (68 mins), Tyler Hotson for Rory Watts-Jones (68 mins).
Referee – Sean Davey (Sussex)
Assistant Referee – Michael Tutty and James Minards
4th Official – Andy Weymouth
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Horace Silver Memorial Service: July 7 at 7 p.m.
July 1, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: NEA Jazz Masters, RIP
A memorial service will be held Monday, July 7 at 7 p.m. for pianist and composer Horace Silver, at the Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church at 290 Henry Street in Manhattan, NY, 10002.
Attire is casual, and the family requests flowers not be sent to the church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to:
Horace Silver Foundation
20 Emerson Point
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Silver passed away June 18 at his home in New Rochelle from cardiac arrest.
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1928, Silver got his first big break in 1950. when saxophonist Stan Getz heard the pianist's group in Hartford and invited them on tour. Moving to New York in 1951, he recorded many memorable sessions for the Blue Note Records and remained with the label until 1980.
Silver, who was honored as an NEA Jazz Master in 1995, will be remembered for his soulful hard-bop performances and compositions, which include "Peace," "Song For My Father," "Sister Sadie" and "The Preacher."
WBGO says goodbye to this dear friend and master musician. Our condolences go out to Jemela, Greg, other family members and the countless others he touched over the years.
Thank you, Horace, and rest in peace!
Pheeroan AkLaff on Dolphy Tribute: Listen Now
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Drummer Pheeroan AkLaff talks with Sheila Anderson about "Freedom Of Sound," a two-day celebration of saxophonist Eric Dolphy at Montclair State University May 30 and 31. Enjoy!
Happy 100th Arrival, Sun Ra! Listen Now
May 22, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: Playdate, RIP
It's the 100th anniversary of afrofuturist Sun Ra's "Arrival" from the planet Saturn, by way of Alabama, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Listen to his Arkestra perform "Space Is The Place," as recorded by WBGO on April 21, 1991:
Sun Ra was born Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, and developed his persona and approach to music, which combined imagery from Egyptian mythology, Freemasonry and space travel, while based in Chicago in the 1940s.
His big band, the Arkestra, embodied this vision in sound and dress, and performed his sophisticated arrangements, which incorporated psychedelia, traditional African folk songs and bebop. His live shows were spiritual, and made a profound impression on those who saw them.
"When I saw Sun Ra on the banks of the Hudson in the late 1980s," recalls JazzSet producer Becca Pulliam, "it was a long summer evening, the sun was setting, and he had a little electric keyboard. I wonder what powered it. He and the musicians were singing "We travel the space wa-aves .. from pla-net to pla-net .."
Show #2 of our series Playdate With Matt Wilson celebrates Sun Ra with more highlights from the Arkestra's performance in 1991 for WBGO. To learn more about Sun Ra and his centennial, click here.
To celebrate Sun Ra's centennial, former Arkestra drummer Michael D. Anderson has digitally remastered and released more than twenty albums from the first half of his career, from 1957 through 1972, many of which have never been available in digital form. For more information, visit iTunes.
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Cinemax Starts Production on New Spy Drama, 'Nemesis'
The eight-part series is is produced by Kudos Film & Television ('MI-5,' 'Life on Mars') for BBC One and HBO/Cinemax in association with Big Light Productions. It will shoot in Scotland, London and Morocco, and is slated to air on Cinemax in 2012.
Spotnitz will executive-produce along with Alison Jackson, Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett from Kudos Film & Television and Christopher Aird from the BBC. Eliza Mellor ('Albert Schweitzer,' 'Derek') produces, and SJ Clarkson ('Heroes,' 'Life On Mars') will direct the first two episodes.
5 Reasons to Watch 'Strike Back'
Think of it as a British take on '24,' and although it won't make you forget Jack Bauer, it is a thoroughly enjoyable action hero romp from a global perspective. The series has also been a moderate hit for Cinemax, and it was recently renewed for a second 10-part season.
Damian Winds Up With a Bomb Strapped to His Chest on 'Strike Back' (VIDEO)
There are, however, inherent risks and drawbacks as well to this particular partner arrangement. With Scott rushing in before fully understanding the situation or environment he's heading into, he's more likely to get caught and incapacitated. Or, as in this week's episode, tied up with a bomb strapped to his chest.
Andy Cohen's Guests Think 'The Real Housewives' Should Air on Cinemax (VIDEO)
Now, negligees, rose petals, nudity, massages and copious amounts of foam have all become staples of the reality TV romance-setting playbook. Last night 'Housewife' Ramona pulled out all the stops to set the mood for her possibly philandering husband Mario.
Talking about the couple's "sexy time" Cohen asked Mary McDonald ('Million Dollar Decorators') if she thought Mario was hot. Echoing, no doubt, many viewers' sentiments, McDonald said, "I was grossed out. ... I don't really need to see this."
Fellow guest Rocco DiSpirito concurred that 'Housewives' belonged on Cinemax, not Bravo, adding that, "It [was] like the soft-porn channel all of a sudden."
NBC's 'Smash' Books Katharine McPhee and Jack Davenport, IFC Renews 'Portlandia' and More
McPhee was cast over the weekend in NBC's upcoming musical pilot, 'Smash,' Deadline reports. The network's answer to 'Glee,' based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, follows the production of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. McPhee will sing in the show.
Also on board: British actor Jack Davenport, who will play the show's choreographer, according to Deadline. Debra Messing is already on board as the musical's lyricist.
In other TV news ...
• IFC renewed 'Portlandia' for a second season. The sketch comedy show stars 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Fred Armisen and indie rocker Carrie Brownstein. The 10 half-hour episodes will premiere in January 2012. [IFC]
• Barbra Streisand apologized for her 'Glee' dis. When asked if she'd appear on the show, singer/actress told reporters, "Not if I can help it." She clarified later, saying, "What I meant was that I've been overwhelmed preparing for my performance on MusiCares, the Grammys, recording a new album and starting a new movie. So I couldn't take on any more work, and besides that, I wasn't asked." [TMZ]
• 'Home Game' has scored its lead: Rob Riggle. The former 'Daily Show' correspondent will star as a former NFL player in the CBS comedy pilot. [THR]
Cinemax Orders 'Femmes Fatales' Anthology Series
For those of you who do not live in your mother's basement, 'Femme Fatales' features genre pictorials of scantily-clad models and B-movie actresses. Like a woman in a silver bikini and holding a laser gun? Now you're getting the picture.
"It's a different show than we've ever done before," says Bob Conti, senior VP of creative affairs at Cinemax. "We have an opportunity to tell some sexy and thrilling stories that all have powerful women."
Max Headroom, Actor, Pitchman-man-man and Talk Show Host?
Max Headroom, who always reminded me of a young Christopher Titus immortalized in claymation, hosted several talk shows for the BBC and got his own taste of the late night dynasty on Cinemax with 'The Original Max Talking Headroom Show,' a cyberpunkish gab fest hosted by actor Matt Frewer as the digital stutterer.
Here's a hilarious sit down with William Shatner that's hilarious for two reasons: (1) the brilliant, improvised jabs they take with and at each other are themselves hilarious and (2) they are both such animated characters that it's actually hard to tell the two apart.
'Max Headroom' Coming to DVD
Too young to remember Matt Frewer's babbling blonde digital hipster? Allow me to play professor: In the mid-'80s, Frewer (you know, that guy) played a strange, spastic (and sarcastic) computer-animated Coca Cola pitchman and music video host that lived inside of your TV. He frightened young children and hypnotized susceptible nerds into guzzling Coke by the gallon.
Perhaps as a meta-comment on his own existence, his creators produced an insane cyberpunk TV movie starring Max that satirized TV marketing, the media, politics, and everything else worth satirizing.
Cinemax: all HD, all the time
So what's this mean to us as viewers? I'm having a hard time wrapping myself around this one. Sure, they mention some new-ish movies they will premiere, like The Bourne Ultimatum, Shrek the Third and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. But to me, Cinemax is synonymous with B movies from a decade or so ago, one of those channels that you get for free in your cable TV movie package bbut never watch.
I know what you are thinking... your burning question that you are too embarrassed to ask...
HBO channels to go all Hi-Def by 2008
Is a series-ending black-out even more vibrantly black in high-definition? Well, subscribers of HBO and Cinemax will find out next year when the entire multiplex of pay-cable channels goes hi-def.
According to Bill Nelson, chairman and CEO of the networks, the conversion to HD for all 26 HBO and Cinemax channels will begin later this year and be completed by the 2nd quarter of 2008.
Complete Star Wars marathon on Cinemax in November
After securing all the Star Wars films on DVD, the first thing I did was to start with The Phantom Menace and watch all of the films in story order. Of course, I had to make due with Lucas' egregious digitally "improved" versions of the original trilogy. Sure, now you can get the original theatrical versions on DVD, but back then they weren't available. Why not just attach a vacuum hose to my wallet, George?
Sorry, I'm getting off the subject, which is that in November, Cinemax will be airing all six Star Wars movies both in release order and in story order. Now you can see how how Anakin turned from a young lad on Tatooine who wasn't a very good actor into the Dark Lord of the Sith with James Earl Jones' vocal cords. You'll also see Leia help smuggle both the Death Star plans and two cinnamon buns strapped to the side of her head, thwarting the Emperor's diabolical plan to win the Intergalactic Bake Off and Craft Fair. Cinemax on Demand will also be offering all six movies starting November 2nd, plus video extras, including a deleted scene in which a group of confused Ewoks take turns pooping into R2-D2.
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(WASHINGTON) -- Sunday on This Week -- only a few days after the start of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games -- Republican Rep. Mike Rogers praised efforts by the Russian government to secure the site, but cited intelligence sharing between the United and Russian as a point of weakness.
"First of all the guards, gates, and guns portion of this is really unparalleled for an Olympic games, so the Russians have been very good about that physical security presence, an outer ring and then you have inner rings of security so that what your reporter was discussing is the closest proximity, so you won't see the big guards, gates, and guns. That gets pushed out," Rogers, the House intelligence committee chair, said.
"The other part that I think they've done well is aggressive counterterrorism operations and I think Brian Ross talked about that earlier, they are aggressively pursuing leads that they have, some include kicking in doors and taking people down in the way that they did in Dagestan. That is a preemptive counter terrorism strike to try to secure the games.
Internationally the intelligence…is as good as I've seen it…the Brits are working with the French are working with the United States and everyone in between to try to find to try those pieces of intelligence that might help protect the games. The one last weakness, and this was the tension between Russia and the United States, was that internal sharing of intelligence that we believe would be important," he said.
Concern over security in Sochi has cast a shadow on the event for months. Just this week ABC News reported on the ongoing plot to blow up an airplane during the Olympics.
Asked by Martha Raddatz about the ability of the United States to evacuate American athletes in the event of an emergency, Rogers expressed confidence.
"I think all the preparation that can be done to protect our athletes from a United States perspective is there and it's exceptionally well done. So I believe that if there is any event that would lead to the evacuation of our athletes, that in fact would happen and would happen orderly and in good order. Again, we were hoping that the Russians would share more internal information on security threats, so the operation in Dagestan is a great example," Rogers said.
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Here's the horizontal version of this artwork (if you prefer, see the vertical image also in this gallery). HD177830 b is a 1.52 Jupiter mass planet orbiting the K0 star HD177830, located 192 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. This planet is likely to be within its habitable zone. A moon found here could have liquid water and look similar to our own home world.
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Day 02 : Visit Orang Utan - Back To Medan
Morning, walk along the river bank to the crossing point and cross the river by small canoe to Orang Utan rehabilitation center. Then hike up the hill through Sumatra rain forest until the feeding site of Orang Utan. Enjoy your time by exploring the activity of Orang Utan during feeding time. After the visit, return to your assembling point and drive back to Medan. End of service
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Beauty Most Unusual: Edible Perfume Because Smelling Beautiful from the Inside Out is Important!
I admit it, I'm addicted to fine fragrances. Scent has the power to awaken the most wonderful feelings and memories. A spritz here and there can evoke feelings of happiness, cheer, and even excitement.
But did you ever think that maybe the traditional application methods such as a spritzing or misting would be replaced by consuming your fragrance?
Yes, like literally eating it.
Beauty Most Unusual?
At some point in your fragrance life you have probably unintentionally misted perfume into your mouth or too close to your face allowing you to not only smell your scent but taste it too.
Not a pleasant experience is it?
Dunno 'bout you but it makes me gag when I've done this in the past.
However, Alpi Deo Perfume Candy claims that their product called Deo Perfume Candy will not only sweeten your mouth but your body too. Therefore allowing you to "eat" your fragrance.
The company claims that once you've eaten the candy that your skin will emit rose oil components contained within the candy. The ingredient used is called geraniol and has already been distributed in chewing gum products in Japan that the company manufactures which also produce a body fragrancing effect.
The company totes this as a great solution for those who are sensitive to fragranced products as you won't have to actually apply anything on your skin for use therefore avoiding sensitivity issues.
The product has launched in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Hungary but no word when we'll actually be able to experience Edible Perfume here but hey it's an tempting idea to head to counter and be asked, "Would you like that scent in an EDP, EDT, or a EDC (Edible Candy)?"
What do you think?
Willing to eat your fragrance?
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Personally, I'd rather stick to misting it on!
5/16/11 12:21 Cj:
Hey Muse This actually sounds kinda cool to me lol if it really works that is. Think of how good some of the perfumes you have would taste lol!
5/16/11 12:23 Tammie:
I heard about the Japanese gum and want to try it SO bad, but I can't find it in the Japanese markets, and I loathe the idea of paying shipping for a chewing gum lol.
5/16/11 12:52 Biba:
What? O.o
5/16/11 14:59 Eli:
Alpi (the brand which releases the product) is a Bulgarian brand with traditions in making mints and sweets on our market. I haven't seen these so far, but I'm looking forward to them, as I'm a firm fan of their mints
5/16/11 17:29 Resa:
We actually have something here in Hawaii called Body Mint. I used to be a salesgirl for them. It's got chlorophyll in it and it cut down on BO and stuff but uhh it turns poop green! It even says this on the box!
5/17/11 5:01 Kerri:
That just can't be healthy….
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8/27/11 10:58 Joel:
I myself as a male would love to try it sounds very tasteful to me. I've been looking for ideas of having body creams as a edible product for some time know.


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Why Marriage Matters: This is Our Family's Story
Reverend Gib and Beth Rossing of Olympia, WA, have written a thoughtful story about why marriage matters to their family.
This is our family's story.
We've been married 52 years and we have been blessed with four children. Our two daughters are both happily married and we have 8 grandchildren. And both of our sons are in long-term, committed relationships – but neither of them can be married.
If you're watching television this summer, you might see us sharing our story with people around the state. As a newspaper reader, you're probably interested in more than a 30-second sound bite. So here's a little more about why we feel so strongly about the importance of the freedom to marry for all Washingtonians.
When our eldest son told us he was gay, it was tough to get used to. When we were growing up nobody talked about gay and lesbian couples. It was a different era then. But we had to find some way to understand because he was still our son, the same one we'd loved all his life. We prayed about it and we came to realize that the greatest commandment is love – and to treat others as we want to be treated. We knew that we had to listen to our son, and to open our ears and our hearts.
Since that time, we've been reassured and overjoyed by the loving, committed relationship our son has found with his partner. We visited with them at their home and saw them as old married folks that share their lives and their joys and sorrows. They are each other's soul mates. It is just wonderful to watch. By the time our younger son told us he was also gay, we had come to understand that all of us, gay or straight, want to be married for similar reasons – to make a lifetime commitment to the person we love. Marriage means two people taking responsibility for one another in good times and bad.
We love all our children as they are. Who you marry is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. No one should be told they cannot marry the person they love.
We're proud that all four of our children have found life partners, and that they are committed to the responsibilities of marriage. As a minister, Gib was able to stand before our daughters at their weddings and perform their ceremonies. We would like to do the same for both our sons.
That's why we're telling our family's story. We're working with volunteers in our church and our community to make sure that everyone who has questions about this issue has a chance to talk to someone with a story like ours.
This summer, as Washingtonians are discussing the why marriage matters to same-sex couples, we encourage you to reach out to gay couples you know, or to friends with gay children, about their family's story. How would you feel if your children were excluded from marriage? Washington is a state where we treat others as we want to be treated, and that includes being able to marry the person you love. That's what all parents wish for all their children.
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Justin Bieber Uses Flag Outfit to Say Sorry for 'Evil' America Comment
In a recent Rolling Stone article, Bieber insulted many by saying "you guys are evil" for not having a free health care system as they do in his native Canada. Yet when visiting Nottingham, England, Bieber couldn't have shown more love for the country that made him into a global star.
"He's a young kid and said something that got blown well out of proportion," an insider tells me. "He loves America and is proud to wear the stars and stripes when he is traveling overseas."
Justin's outfit was made by OnePiece, a fast-growing loungewear company that has dressed Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, among others. It started up in 2007 when three hung-over Norwegians had the idea to sew together a hooded sweatshirt and a pair of sweatpants, connecting the two with a giant zipper.
No offense, but I think I'll stick to a colorful sweater!
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- Thursday 07 AprilBy tony
wow a flaggot.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy j
dont be a hater tony
- Thursday 07 AprilBy themeeker
I know it's our flag, but that outfit is so gay, it's flaming.
I don't forgive the little beeber girl for biting the hand that feeds her.
- Thursday 07 April
lmao that was so funny i almost didn't catch that 'l'
- Friday 08 AprilBy Al
I have never like him.
Now I hate him even more.
He's proud to be Gay.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy sue
I think he just slamed America again by wearing the flag. Our soldiers have gave there life for this country and that flag and he is wearing it on his body???
- Thursday 07 AprilBy gouki
the guys that raised the flag on iwo jima would turn over in
there graves if they saw this.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Charlie
Perhaps if Americans are evil the little homo should stay in Canada.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Charlie
Someone should ask him if canada's socialized health care is so great why do folks who are gravely ill pay to see a Dr. in the U.S.A. Stay in Canada and keep your socialism there you little sissy.
- Thursday 07 April
America may not be socialist, but it does have some socialist programs. Public school, for example, is a socialist program. Socialism isn't bad in moderation.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy stacey
I as an American find it offencive that he is wearing our flag as an outfit.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy stacey
*offensive* sorry for the typo
- Thursday 07 April
He is a joke . Have you ever heard him try to sing without a band ?? Would make ur cat run away. Also keep his dumb zz out of this country.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy sue
He is making millions in this country and he calls us evil. Stay home and quit wearing our flag.
- Thursday 07 April
that little girl gets uglier all the time.wearing stars and stripes is just tacky and insulting, as wel as disrespectful. perhaps she should ask RuPaul for fashion advice.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Lance
When was the last time Canada was attacked?? You should be kissing the flad, not wearing it.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Lance
ok I can spell-FLAG
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Honest to God, I thought it was Michelle Williams in the pic
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Dad
I just smashed his cd's my daughters have and ripped his posters off there walls and forbid them from listening to that little twinkie again.
- Thursday 07 AprilBy Daughter
Dad, how could you do that! I love JUSTIN BIEBER!!! OMG How could you!!! Dammit Dad!!!!
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Another new book on innovation, "Where Good Ideas Come From," by Steven Johnson examines the context of innovation, "including the physical, social, technological and economic conditions … in which successful innovation occurs." Two examples of innovative environments are the internet and the city, which Steven uses "as a backdrop" to identify seven patterns that distinguish "unusually fertile environments." The patterns "include the power of the slow hunch and the role of serendipity, error and inventive borrowing."
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