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IGHR Course 9, "The Five Civilized Tribes: The Records and Where to Find Them"
Many family historians and genealogists are not aware of the methodology used to document Indian heritage or the steps needed for individuals to apply for citizenship (tribal registration) in a federally recognized tribe. Even when researchers know some of the records, they frequently do not understand the historical background that is needed to interpret the records. This course will introduce individuals to the records, what they mean, and where to find them.
Few people are eligible for enrollment in a federally recognized tribe, but that does not mean that they do not have Indian Heritage. This course will help genealogists document their heritage in relationship to any of the Five Civilized Tribes—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.
As the title indicates the course will focus on pre-removal records available for the Five Tribes but will also discuss some of those created following removal. The week promises to be full of valuable information.
The team of faculty consists of individuals with extensive knowledge of and experience with records the Five Tribes: Rachal Mills, Lennon, cg; Debra Osborn Spindle, cg, Angela Walton-Raji, Craig Scott, cg, and Linda Woodward Geiger, cg, cgl.
For a detailed list of classes in this course click here.
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On the beach, in the heat of the day, parents walk patiently with intrigued children who carefully collect the shells that heavily salt the white sand. Other beachgoers snooze in the sun or read under an umbrella. A few head into the warm Gulf of Mexico water, carefully keeping their distance from other swimmers.
No one plays music from a boom box. No one drinks tropical cocktails from a 28-ounce glass. No one is cruising the beach armed with arrogant attitudes and lame pickup lines. People in Naples mind their own business, keep quiet and hope you do the same.
In the serenity of the Naples Pier, a wooden platform stretching about a block into the gulf, muffled sounds of English, French, German, Italian and Spanish mix as people fish or perhaps catch another stunning sunset.
This is the town for families not wanting to stand in line at Space Mountain. This is the place for couples looking for a quiet weekend—not for clubgoers hoping for a late night of dancing and drinking.
Hunkered down on its little piece of Florida's southwest coast, Naples lacks the busy-ness of the big resort cities, even making Ft. Myers, 40 miles to the north, seem more like a metropolis by comparison.
Incorporated in 1925, Naples never grew to big-city proportions. Most of the year, the community has just 22,000 residents, though that swells to a still-manageable 33,000 in winter when part-timers flee cold climates.
And though there are comparably quiet places to be found in Florida, few are as far south and thus as warm as this one is in winter.
Carly Madison, 23, of Red Wing, Minn., first visited last January and returned in August. "I would say it is pretty much a ghost town in January," Madison said. "It was almost like we were the only people on the beach."
Locals say the busiest season is spring, when families on spring break crowd the beaches, restaurants and hotel pools. But the rest of the year is filled with quiet moments that provide a break from city life.
Carol Flanigan lives in Naples full time, managing 5th Avenue Coffee Co., a coffee shop she recently sold. During the busy season, her customers may have to wait a few minutes to order a coffee or breakfast sandwich.
"It's pleasantly busy, [but] it's not terribly packed," Flanigan said. "It's still quaint."
Pleasantly busy means Naples has less traffic, noise and stress. Naples is 14 square miles and longer than it is wide. The western border is the gulf, and almost one-eighth of Naples is water, with inland waterways winding down from the northern border and snaking up from the south, coiling into canals and quiet coves.
The result is a community that revolves around water.
Jet-skiers are about as racy as it gets. Otherwise, visitors might grab a deep-sea fishing charter, relax on the pier or snore up some sand on the beach to make sure they're rested for dinner along the town's version of restaurant row: 5th Avenue.
Even with the slow daily pace, longtime residents say Naples has changed in the last few decades. Condos and multimillion-dollar homes have popped up along the inland waterways, but it's not necessarily a problem.
Development means Naples has become a bit more cosmopolitan—quiet and quaint but rich, with international restaurants and upscale shopping. These are not shops you'd find in a mall. Sure, there are the comfortable walking shoes and sunscreen, but there also are bronze statues and fine jewelry, foreshadowing, perhaps, an upscale vision of Naples as a playground for the rich.
The upscale shops are primarily downtown, housed in a row of colorful buildings in gold, pink and yellow that hint at Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean architecture.
And a mile stretch of 5th Avenue, the artery running through downtown Naples and ending at the gulf, hosts dozens of restaurants ranging from casual coffee to upscale Italian.
Tables are parked outdoors at almost every restaurant, creating a surprising cafe culture that starts in the morning—but not too early. Customers trickle into cafes, reading the paper under umbrellas while dogs snooze below.
By evening, the cafe tables have new life as couples dine alfresco at sophisticated restaurants and families sit on benches enjoying ice cream.
But nights don't reach the wee hours. "It's not the big party strip," Flanigan said. "It's not crazy like that. It's more laid back and comfortable."
The climate of quiet and comfort is actually the law: Any restaurant within 300 feet of residences needs to wrap up the music before 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends. And dance clubs? None downtown. By midnight, the crowds have retreated, and the sensible option is to go home and go to bed.
Hey, tomorrow's another, big, slow day.

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OWASP Newsletter 14
From OWASP
- 1 OWASP Newsletter #14 (29-Feb-2008)
- 2 Featured Item: OWASP Employee #2, Paulo Coimbra
- 3 Featured Item: Proposed OWASP Project Assessment
- 4 Featured Project: OWASP Spring of Code 2008 is about to be launched - March 3rd
- 5 Latest additions to the WIKI
- 6 OWASP references in the Media
- 7 Application Security News Feed
OWASP Newsletter #14 (29-Feb-2008)
Welcome to the 14th edition of the OWASP Newsletter, featuring OWASP Employee #2 - Paulo Coimbra, the Proposed OWASP Project Assessment and the OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Project.
As always, if you have any content to add to the next edition, please feel free to add it directly to its WIKI page OWASP Newsletter 15.
Alison McNamee - OWASP Operations Director - [email protected]
Featured Item: OWASP Employee #2, Paulo Coimbra
- Paulo Coimbra (following his recent sucess of managing Spoc 07) as accepted to become the 2nd OWASP employee (he will be working part-time until June and full time from then on). Paulo will take on the role of OWASP Project Management, and here are his first short-term action plan:
- To launch and manage the new season of code – OWASP Summer of Code 2008.
- To contribute to and stabilize OWASP's new Project Assessment Criteria.
- To contribute to the assessment, and re-assessment, of all OWASP projects.
- To build and maintain a wiki page with the status of all OWASP projects and their assessments.
- To welcome new developers who are interested in joining OWASP community.
- To help project leaders and participants with their projects in any way that I can.
Featured Item: Proposed OWASP Project Assessment
- OWASP has begun the process of stabilization its PROJECT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA. The objective is to have clear and objective requirements for OWASP project's (for both tools and documentation).
- The current structure is still in flux, so please spend some time reviewing it and send us your comments.
- The objective is to map all OWASP Projects to the proposed 3 project modes (Release Quality, Beta Quality and Alpha Quality) in the next couple months.
Featured Project: OWASP Spring of Code 2008 is about to be launched - March 3rd
- OWASP is about to launch the 'OWASP SUMMER OF CODE 2008' (SoC 2008). This follows the successfull OWASP Spring of Code 2007 (SpoC 07), in which 21 projects were sponsored with a budget of US$117,500, and the OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 (AoC 06), in which 9 projects were sponsored with a budget of US$20,000.
- The SoC 2008 is an open sponsorship program were participants/developers are paid to work on OWASP (and web security) related projects.
- The SoC 2008 is also an opportunity for external individual or company sponsors to challenge the participants/developers to work in areas in which they are willing to invest additional funding.
- For more details see:
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 - Main page of SoC 08
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Press Release - Press release.
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Applications - To submit applications.
- OWASP Summer 0f Code 2008 : Selection - Jury's evaluation of applications.
- Who Can Apply?
- How To Participate (To Developers)
- Schedule
- Jury and Selection Criteria
- Operational Rules
- General Rules
- SoC 2008 Budget
Latest additions to the WIKI
New Pages
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Press Release
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Applications
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Applications - Proposal Type
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 - Selection
- Control Template
- ASDR Table of Contents
New Chapter Pages
Updated Pages
- OWASP AppSec Europe 2008 - Belgium
- OWASP AJAX Security Project Roadmap
- Category:OWASP AJAX Security Project
- Testing for AJAX Vulnerabilities
- CSRF Guard 2x Roadmap
- Category:OWASP Testing Project
- OWASP DirBuster Project
- OWASP Project Assessment
- Front Range Web Application Security Summit Planning Page
- Reviewing Code for Data Validation
Updated chapter pages:
- Belgium
- Bay Area
- San Jose
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Boulder
- Denver
- Spain
- Latvia
- New Zealand
- Eugene
- Helsinki
- South Africa
- Greece
- Austin
- Memphis
- NYNJMetro
New Documents & Presentations from chapters
For a complete list of chapter presentations see the online table of presentations.
OWASP references in the Media
- Your Client-Side Security Sucks
- The Changed Face of Cybercrime
- Authentication & Authorization Assumptions
- Locks are to keep the honest people out
Application Security News Feed
- Feb 28 - The W3C Web API Working Group has posted the first public working draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. "XMLHttpRequest Level 2 enhances XMLHttpRequest with new features, such as cross-site requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending and receiving." I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with XMLHttpRequest Level 1 to tell immediately what's new here. (by undefined) - The W3C Web API Working Group has posted the first public working draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. "XMLHttpRequest Level 2 enhances XMLHttpRequest with new features, such as cross-site requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for ...
- Feb 25 - Introducing the Adobe AIR security model (by Lucas Adamski) - Learn more about the rationale behind the AIR security model and what you should consider when building AIR applications.
- Feb 28 - OWASP Hartford tomorrow (by Marcin) - Tomorrow, February 28th, is the first ever meeting for the brand new Hartford Owasp chapter. James McGovern, the chapter lead has been putting some effort into starting it off with a bang, so I hope everyone in the NY/CT/Mass area can make it. Agenda ...
- Feb 27 - Off the wire: Extended validation certificates and XSS considered harmful (by Undefined) - A cross-site scripting vulnerability on the popular SourceForge.net website shows how Extended Validation SSL certificates could be exploited by fraudsters.
- Feb 27 - Security is Everybody's Business - Microsoft Certified Professional (by Undefined) - Security is Everybody's Business Microsoft Certified Professional - 17 hours ago It seems like all of us really need to understand *application security*, whether or not that was part of our original training. Fortunately, a pair of new...
- Feb 27 - Extended Validation SSL certificates not going anywhere, as predicted (by ivanr) - According to Netcraft, there are around 4,500 web sites using Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, one year after this new type of certificate was introduced. At the same time, over 800,000 sites continue to use the old-style certificates...
- Feb 27 - Polymorphic Javascript (by Gareth Heyes) - Finding a pattern in malicious javascript is difficult, it's possible to selectively change the source code yet still execute the same payload. There are many ways to morph Javascript and I shall go through a few of the possibilities and provide...
- Feb 26 - Improving Hackvertor: Polymorphic Javascript Payloads (by Arshan Dabirsiaghi) - One of the cooler tools in the webappsec hacker's handbook is Hackvertor. It's a smart encoding tool written by Gareth Heyes that helps you craft XSS vectors that pass whatever filters you're trying to evade. Rather than wasting 3 paragraphs ...


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ENG 320 Studies in Literary Modes: American Modernism
This course explores the literature and culture of the United States in the early part of the twentieth century, with its overlapping milieu of high modernists, Harlem Renaissance writers, young bohemians, and political radicals. We will examine the profound redefinitions of the self catalyzed by the rise of psychology, rapid urbanization and mechanization, and the Great War, and we'll discuss the public's response to the varied artistic movements of the period, from Primitivism's allure to the impersonal promise of Futurism. From painting to film, from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives to Langston Hughes's poetry and Meridel Le Sueur's reportage, this course will examine a variety of texts that contributed to the literary experimentation and extraordinary achievement of the period. Other readings may include but are not limited to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Other Poems, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Nella Larsen's Passing, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and poetry by Williams, Taggard, Stevens, Frost, Cummings, Moore, and Millay. This course is offered in the fall semester. (Not offered 2005-2006)
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One of the instant benefits to signing Jim Thome could be his recruiting ability.
Thome played coy Saturday when asked, but it was clear he had already begun selling the idea of joining the Phillies to former Minnesota teammate Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer is a free agent who can mash lefties and play multiple positions. The Phillies, like many teams, would value that sort of commodity.
During his re-introductory news conference Saturday, Thome had nothing but praise for the 32-year-old Cuddyer.
"I would put Michael as one of my top-five, all-time favorite teammates," Thome said. "No question. He's up there. He's a winner."
As colleague Bob Brookover noted last week, Cuddyer fits the Phillies well. Because of his versatility, the Phillies could use him where needed whenever injury strikes. They will not be alone in the sweepstakes to sign him. But Ruben Amaro Jr. has a close relationship with Cuddyer's agent, Casey Close. (He also represents Ryan Howard.)
Thome was asked if he could gauge Cuddyer's interest in Philadelphia.
"I can't answer that," Thome said. "I knew you'd ask that. Look, every player that sees the way the Phillies have done things over the last seven or eight years, they've set the bar very, very high. Guys around baseball would love to come here. When you win, you create a lot of good things."
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"He did not," Thome said.
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"I could, yes," Thome said. "Absolutely. I'm sure we will talk going forward."
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We are told the physical reality has nothing to do with
spirituality. That science rejects religion, that it repudiates the very
existence of inner world and finer energies in and around us.
We are told that science confirms long made spiritual assessments, that quantum physics is the expression of the "outer" reality.
We've been told everything is energy, nothing is real or
that everything is material and there is only our Reality to serve us.
Which one is the truth? Where is the limit between being down-to-earth person or being in the clouds and how one can find the right place to exist?
These are some of the questions I try to address in my site.
Hello and welcome to my world! My name is Denitsa and this is my new project - To The Future With Love!
The purpose of this site is simple:
I wanna write and send to the future, everything that I consider valuable and important. Like an open message in a bottle headed to the future. Our personality is ever changing, so I want to compare my beliefs now, with the ones I'd have after 10 or so years. And meanwhile, I'd like to share my current state of understanding with all of you.
This site is meant to educate and help you (and also me) on your journey to the truth. We all are nothing but travelers on our way to our real selves. I'm offering you my understanding as a base (or just a color) on your never-ending story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
We are all one and the physical and the spiritual interwolve eachother in what we call our Reality. So i tried to examine our life from that angle.
I don't claim I know everything or that what I wrote here is final. Take it for what it is - an opinion, not different than your own, that could be right or wrong. I don't believe in absolute meanings or absolute truth. I'm a physicist and I know there is one thing that is for real and this is our Universe and our experience in it.
Everything that is not happenning is not real and it's
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AMASE 2009 Expedition Takes Off
AMASE 2009 expedition takes off in the Arctic
Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution of Washington checks out the red beds from Sverrefjelle.
Image credit: AMASE
by Juan D. Rodriguez
From August 1 to 24, 2009 AMASE (the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition) will be taking place in Svalbard (Norway, 76-81° N). This expedition involves different researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA/JPL, ESA, Cornell University, the Earth and Planetary Exploration Services (Norway), DLR (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the University of Leeds (UK).
AMASE has established Svalbard as a test bed for life-detection technology to fly on future NASA and ESA 'Search for Life' missions to Mars (such as Mars Science Laboratory and ExoMars). These expeditions have run since 2003 and are managed by Hans E.F. Amundsen (EPX, Norway), Andrew Steele and Marilyn Fogel (Carnegie Institution of Washington), Pamela Conrad (JPL) and Liane G. Benning (University of Leeds). This year it will include more than 30 scientists and engineers from different disciplines (microbiology, geology, biogeochemistry, robotics, etc.) carrying out very different activities: from testing equipment that eventually would fly in future Mars missions, to studying the conditions in which extremophiles thrive in glacial ice, and developing and testing protocols to search for past and present habitable environments on icy planets. All of this is work that needs to be done before sending the next new generation of landers and rovers over the next few decades.
Svalbard from the air.
Credit: Juan Diego Rodriguez
So far six AMASE expeditions have been carried out, testing different instruments that will fly aboard future Mars landers and also performing the procedures to detect signs of microbial life or organics in the subsurface of the Red Planet. The main goals for AMASE this year are to integrate and test two new instruments for the Mars Science Laboratory and four for the ExoMars mission using the FIDO (Field Integrated Design and Operations) rover from NASA/JPL as an advanced mobility platform, as well as test protocols for the future Mars Sample Return mission. The main research will be carried out in Bockkfjorden, Murchison Fjord and Wallenbergfjord, which are rich in carbonates, clays, basalts or water-ice that are considered good Martian analogues.
The interest in combining the new instrumentation and the field work in these areas is not only for life-search testing procedures, but also for the different teams to work together, enhancing the integration between scientists from different institutions, fields and backgrounds that will work with a variety of instruments. Also an important goal is to improve the way the instruments will give us the information we need: an absolutely fundamental requisite to study samples on Mars or return them to the Earth is to use completely clean and sterile instruments, not only to avoid detecting a life-signal that could actually have come from our own planet but also to avoid that microbiological contamination of Mars or any other planetary body in our Solar System.
Welcome to the Start of AMASE!
by Adrienne Kish
August 3, 2009
Ticket desk…security checkpoint…remove laptop, shoes, liquids…find gate…kill time until boarding call…board plane…try to sleep, watch bits of movies, eat…land…deplane… Ticket desk…security checkpoint…remove laptop, shoes, liquids…find gate…kill time until boarding call…board plane…try to sleep, watch bits of movies, eat…land…deplane… Ticket desk…security checkpoint…remove laptop, shoes, liquids…find gate…kill time until boarding call…board plane…try to sleep, watch bits of movies, eat…land…deplane…Welcome to the start of AMASE!
|Martian gullies on Earth!
Credit: Juan Diego Rodriguez
After 36 hours or more of flying and all the jet lag, the first view of Svalbard does not disappoint. Such a stark beauty with dramatic geology rising out of the ocean bearing floating chunks of ice reminding you that you've officially left the August heat and humidity much closer to the equator back home. The AMASErs rallied together in Longyear on the island of Svalbard from all over the globe and collectively tried to get our bearings through the mental fog of jet lag in the land of the midnight sun. There is nothing quite like wandering around the town site and wondering why you are tired in broad daylight and then realizing it's 2 am.
A group of us including our fearless expedition leaders, the Mars rover crew from NASA JPL, members of the Slice team from NASA Goddard, the Life Marker Chip team from NASA Marshall and Charles River Laboratories, and scientists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington all traveled north to Ny-Alesund to the northernmost permanently inhabited research outpost on Earth to be joined later by the rest of the AMASErs arriving on the research vessel Lance. The view of glaciers flowing down mountains on all sides and rock meeting water with blue ice floating past makes every documentary film scene you've ever seen of the Arctic pale in comparison to the real deal. You're left with a sense of being so small in relation to the hugeness of the world around you.
We are going to be busy unpacking and checking out the status of our instruments after the rigors of so many transfers through cargo holds in anticipation of getting to sink our teeth into the very Mars-like environment around us (of course only the geologists will literally bite into the rocks, or at least lick them…a phenomenon that will never make sense to the microbiologist!). The scenery is breathtaking, the scientists are ready, (most) of the equipment and personal gear has arrived, and we are ready to start racking up the science. Let AMASE 2009 begin!


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Oh noes! Ronaldo is "sad," and no one knows why. Not his teammates, not his bosses, and surely not the media, who have speculated that it could be anything from dissatisfaction with his contract to missing out on Player of the Year award to rifts in the locker room to the anniversary of his father's death. But, real talk (Real talk?), it's probably about the money.
Ronaldo scored a pair on Sunday against Granada, and was notably muted in celebration. Afterwards, he briefly addressed reporters.
"I do not celebrate my goals when I am sad. I am sad due to a professional issue that the club knows about. That is why I was not celebrating. I am not happy, the people here know why. I am not going to talk more about this, there are more important things."
There are, of course, no more important things in Madrid than Ronaldo's happiness, but what can they do if they don't know what ails him? Ronaldo reportedly refused to get into specifics in a meeting with club president Florentino Perez on Saturday. He would only tell the media that his sadness isn't about being passed over for European Player of the Year for Andres Iniesta. (He wouldn't comment on his teammate Marcelo saying Iker Casillas, not Ronaldo, should have won the Ballon D'Or, but it's been reported that Ronaldo and Marcelo are no longer on speaking terms.)
It is most likely the cash. Ronaldo makes upwards of $16 million a year, good money but still only good for fourth most in the world. He used to keep a lot more of it: under the "Beckham Law," highly-paid foreign workers in Spain were taxed at around 24 percent. With the abolition of that law, Ronaldo loses more than 40 percent of his earnings to taxes.
There's not a ton of sympathy for Ronaldo, as Spain's economy continues to tank. ("If Cristiano is sad, people should go into the streets and cry," a former Barcelona coach scoffed.) And there's a Qatari billionaire in Paris and a Russian oil tycoon in Dagestan that would love to have him. But there's the little matter of Ronaldo' €1 billion buyout clause that runs through 2015. With no offers currently on the table, either Real will offer up a nice raise for no good reason, or Ronaldo will have to learn to deal with his crippling depression.


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Hometown hero Scott Quigg will challenge Yoandris Salinas for the WBA World super bantamweight title at Manchester's Phones 4u Arena on September 28, in a bout acting as chief support to David Haye's blockbuster clash with Tyson Fury.
The unbeaten Bury fighter claimed his 26th win and 19th inside the distance with a clinical third-round stoppage of William Prado in Bolton in June, and now faces the Cuban known as 'El Nino' on a huge night of boxing in Manchester.
"It's a dream come true that my first World title fight will be in Manchester," said Quigg. "It'll be a massive boost to have my fans there and, with Haye and Fury fighting too, it's a huge night to be involved in and a great stage to land a World title. I've worked so hard to get here and I'm going to grab this title with both hands."
Quigg's promoter Eddie Hearn added: "It's fantastic for Scott to be challenging for his first World title on this bill – they're both young unbeaten fighters desperate to take this golden chance. It's a great fight on what promises to be a huge night for British boxing."
Also included on the stacked September 28 card will be an intriguing international middleweight contest between Irish southpaw Andy Lee and Italian tough nut Domenico Spada.
The 29-year-old Lee, ranked at number eight by the WBC, is a former World title challenger, and has won two fights so far this year, outpointing Anthony Fitzgerald in February and then blowing away Darryl Cunningham in one round three months later.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old Spada, ranked at three by the WBC, has boxed for both the European and WBC interim middleweight titles.
World-ranked and in pursuit of another title shot, Lee and Spada meet in Manchester with plenty at stake.
"This is a great next step for me in my career," said Lee. "Spada has been around the world scene for years now and has never before been stopped. He's a renowned tough guy with a solid chin and a great work ethic. Therefore, it is my aim to go out there, put on a show and become the first man to stop him."


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On May 2, 1885, Clark W. Bryan published the first edition of Good Housekeeping, setting forth the purpose of the magazine as "a family journal conducted in the interests of the higher life of the household." He said the publication had a "mission to fulfill compounded of about equal portions of public duty and private enterprise...to produce and perpetuate perfection as may be obtained in the household."
To carry out the declared mission, the magazine quickly became a guardian of its readers' interests by initiating a campaign against the misrepresentations made by suppliers of food and other products in an article titled "Guard Against Adulteration."
The Phelps Publishing Company purchased the magazine in 1900 and created the Good Housekeeping Experiment Station, to study the problems facing the homemaker and to develop up-to-date, firsthand information on solving them. In 1902 the Experiment Station began testing products and accepting advertising for those that met its approval. To inform readers of the magazine's efforts, "An Inflexible Contract Between the Publisher and Each Subscriber" was included in every issue, which pledged a money-back guarantee on the reliability of every advertisement printed in the magazine. By 1905 the Experiment Station solidified its fight against the abuses found in the sale of food by developing a "Roll of Honor for Pure Food Products." Products listed in the honor roll that were featured in advertising were distinguished by a five-pointed star carrying the words "Pure Food Assurance — Good Housekeeping."
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Changes were taking place in American life during the first decade of the 20th century, and because of the Experiment Station's success with the magazine's readers, the time was ripe for extending the magazine's efforts to provide simpler and better methods for managing the home. Although the first article on electric cooking appeared in the magazine in 1899, very little space was given to the use of electric power in the home until 10 years later, when it began to be evident that housekeeping was entering a new era of progress, i.e., the machine age. Little was known about the new machines, and questions about them began to pour in to Good Housekeeping. The editors soon discovered that to answer the questions satisfactorily, the magazine had to begin a program of intensive investigation and research to develop firsthand information to pass along to the readers. Because there was no other source, the publishers in 1909 built a facility on the street level of the Good Housekeeping building in Springfield, Massachusetts, called the Good Housekeeping Institute.
The purpose and mission of the Institute was to serve the needs and interests of the homemakers and homes of the United States as no other institution of its kind ever had. The facility included a model kitchen, a domestic science laboratory, and test stations where the work was to be conducted under practical household conditions. Any product that withstood the investigation and experience of the Institute staff was eligible to be included in the newly developed list of "Tested and Approved" products to be published in the magazine.
The first installment of the "Approved" list appeared in the December 1909 issue and featured the inauguration of the "Good Housekeeping Tested and Approved Seal by the Good Housekeeping Institute conducted by Good Housekeeping Magazine." Twenty-one consumer products were listed in the issue and included various household appliances, such as a washing machine, refrigerator, gas range, and an electric iron. By the end of 1910, almost 200 products were qualified to carry the "Seal of Approval."
When Hearst bought Good Housekeeping in 1911, the magazine's operation, including the Institute, was moved to New York City. To bolster the magazine's continued fight against misrepresentations in the food and drug industry, Hearst hired Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, "Father of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)," to head the newly created Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health. He had been a frequent contributor to the magazine during his tenure at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and under Dr. Wiley's direction, the "Tested and Approved Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health Seal" was created to cover the food and cosmetic products that were advertised in the magazine.
The Tested and Approved Seal was in use until 1941 and gained fame as perhaps the most important guide in consumer buying. The brand took a major step forward that year: Rather than Good Housekeeping merely approving products, the magazine decided to guarantee that if a product was not as advertised in the magazine, legitimate complaints would be taken care of by replacement of the product or refund of the purchase price to the consumer. This change added to the recognition and merchandising value of the original Seal of Approval.
In 1962 the phrase "as advertised therein" was deleted to clarify the conditions of the money-back guarantee. The words within the oval were changed to "If product or performance defective Good Housekeeping guarantees replacement or refund to consumer." On July 4, 1975, a new federal law governing guarantees and warranties (Magnus-Moss Public Law 93-637) took effect and prompted another change in the wording of the Seal. It now read, "A limited warranty to consumers; Good Housekeeping promises replacement or refund if defective." Throughout its history, consumers have interpreted the Good Housekeeping Seal to be an indication of a "good product," but many do not realize that the Seal is also a money-back warranty, backed by the magazine.
Before the introduction of the Limited Warranty in 1975, Good Housekeeping did not stipulate a time frame for consumers to file a complaint about a defective product. Beginning with the July 1975 issue, a four-year limitation from the date of purchase was included in the terms of the warranty. Then, in October 1984, this was changed to a one-year warranty at the recommendation of the technical staff of the Institute. In their opinion, a manufacturing defect for the majority of the Seal-bearing products would become apparent within the first year of use. The Institute updated the Seal logo in 1997 and changed the terms of the warranty. Because a one-year warranty was the norm offered by the majority of manufacturers carrying the Seal, Good Housekeeping's one-year limited warranty was extended to two years from the date that the product was first sold to a consumer.
Why the Change from the "Tested and Approved" Seal
The Seal became the object of controversy initiated by several government agencies, which ultimately resulted in an action by the Federal Trade Commission against Good Housekeeping. The FTC was given certain powers to control advertising that appeared to violate the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and the Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938. In 1939 the FTC filed a complaint charging Good Housekeeping with misleading and deceptive acts and practices in the issuance of guarantees and Seals of Approval and the publication of advertising that contained grossly exaggerated and false claims. Hearings were held for almost two years, and in May 1941, the FTC issued an order directing Good Housekeeping to cease and desist from the use of seals declaring that its advertised products had been tested and approved. It declared that, while tests were made by Good Housekeeping, such tests were generally not sufficient to assure fulfillment of the claims made for such products. The FTC found that the magazine was publishing advertising containing deceptive statements about specific advertised products. A cease and desist order was signed by Hearst, and the words "Tested and Approved" were deleted and replaced with the words "Replacement or Refund of Money Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping."


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For one thing, I've yet to figure out a stable solution the internet issue. You know how it is when you travel. There are all sorts of issues with international roaming, 3-G, data connections from your hotspots, local tricks with the wireless, blank spots, time limits, posting issues over time zones, and so much else. It takes days to figure it all out. I'm right now typing from my hotel room, listening to the bird song outside my window and wondering why the birds in Rome never sleep, and just grateful that I have (for now) and connection that will allow me to post at all.
In sum here is my brief report: this conference is more successful than the organizers expected. I saw 300 plus people at the Vespers last night and it probably 50 people were standing in the back. This service was not even open to the public. So a success so far? I would say so. The mood is at once serious and exuberant.
Dom Alcuin Reid has accomplished something extraordinary here. The liturgy book itself is a feat: a large harback volume with all the music and words plus translations in four languages. It is a marvel unto itself. The liturgy was beautifully sung as the schola that sings at a local extraordinary form Mass led us in some very tricky Mode III Psalm singing that certainly kept me on my toes.
The schedule of speakers is so spectacular that it tempts anyone who came here as an excuse to sightsee to skip the sights and stay closely connected to this conference. It all begins again at 9:00am today.
I'm truly not sure how much I can really blog this event but I will try to post a few more items as the week progresses.
Fr. Z has has excellent images from the Vespers, and here are some more scenes from last night's blognic.
|William Mahrt, president CMAA


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A Morenci graduate recently earned a Doctorate degree at Michigan State University.
Dr. Ryan Shadbolt completed all requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in geography at Michigan State University in August 2009.
His Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Climate Trends and Synoptic Patterns Associated with Major Precipitation Events of the Southern Appalachians."
Shadbolt previously received his Master of Arts degree in geography at Michigan State University in 2003 and received his Bachelor of Science degree at Central Michigan University in 2001, where he majored in earth science and minored in geography, mathematics, and computer science.
Shadbolt is employed by the Geography Department at Michigan State University as a postdoctoral research associate. He is collaborating with Geography Department faculty and research meteorologists from the U.S. Forest Service to develop and test numerical modeling tools for predicting smoke from wildfires.
He is a 1997 graduate of Morenci Area High School and is the son of Brian and Linda Shadbolt.


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Career, College & Job Fair at Leeward Community College set for April 12Leeward Community College
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Posted: Apr 9, 2007
PEARL CITY, Oahu — Leeward Community College (LCC), the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu (UHWO), Leeward Partnership for School-to-Work (LPSTW), and GEAR UP Hawaiʻi will sponsor the annual Career, College & Job Fair on Thursday, April 12, 9:00 am — 2:00 pm at the Library at Leeward Community College.
The fair is free for the public and serves as a resource for students, businesses, colleges, and the community. The state's low unemployment rate and relatively strong economy are serving as catalysts for brisk hiring by growing businesses, as companies looking to hire continue to face one of the tightest job markets in recent history.
Activities will include:
- More than 90 employers will be recruiting and eager to talk about their company, agency or organization including City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiian Electric Company, U.S. FBI, Servco Pacific, POI Employment, Child and Family Services and many more.
- Over 60 representatives from undergraduate and graduate university programs will share information for certificates, associate degrees, bachelor degrees and master degrees, including: LCC, UH-West O'ahu, UH-Manoa, Chaminade University, Hawaii Pacific University, Central Michigan University, Argosy University, and University of Phoenix.
- Special College Planning presentation to 500 area high school students emceed by Kutmaster Spaz.
- Hawaiian Electric Company testing for open positions in their office and automotive pools. Interested candidates must register on site in advance. It's first come, first served with testing beginning at 1:30 pm.
- Fair attendees can also test their physical skills at U.S. Marines Obstacle Course or the U.S. Army's Climbing Wall that will be set up on campus.
- The Honolulu Police Department's bomb squad, chopper, and other units will present different demonstrations.
The fair is open to the public. Admission and parking are free.
The Leeward Partnership for School-to-Work is a non-profit organization whose membership is comprised of Campbell, Pearl City, Kapolei, Nanakuli, and Waianae high schools, along with businesses, non-profit organizations, and the University of Hawaiʻi. Its mission is to:
- Develop, maintain, and strengthen partnership connections,
- Provide a forum for business, labor, education and residents of the community,
- Develop, jointly, policies and an infrastructure for a seamless career development system, and
- Prepare all students for satisfying career choices.
For more information, call Leeward Community College's Job Prep Services at 455-0240 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Mini Gadgets BB2COOKIEJAR30HR32GB Bush Baby Tardis Cookie Jar Camera/DVR is a fully funtional cookie jar. It comes in the shape of the famous 'TARDIS' and contains a hidden camera. It is a great choice whether you're keeping watch on your child's nanny, someone coming in to work on your home, or adding a bit more home security while you're away. This TARDIS cookie jar will fit right perfectly in the most highly trafficed room of your home. The design of the cookie jar and the fact that the jar lights up and makes sounds, goes a long way in concealing any electronics contained within, even when closely examined. It features quality video capture that records 1280 x 960 video, and you can either record continuously, or use the motion detection setting. This unit features plenty of storage with an internal storage capacity of 16GB. The handy auto-overwrite feature makes it easy to use on a daily basis.
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Stomp The Violence
Tony Herbert's response to the gun violence that plagues urban communities and has brought the Central Brooklyn community into crisis mode that warranted the initiative – an emergency call to action for the leaders in 'The Village' to stand up and to engage in meaningful dialogue that will compel the youth to lay down their firearms.
Community activists, organizers, parents, concerned residents and youth gathered together for the 2nd Annual Central Brooklyn Youth Summit on Saturday, April 19th at the legendary Boys & Girls High School in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City.
It was Community Advocate, Tony Herbert's response to the gun violence that plagues urban communities and has brought the Central Brooklyn community into crisis mode that warranted the initiative – an emergency call to action for the leaders in 'The Village' to stand up and to engage in meaningful dialogue that will compel the youth to lay down their firearms.
From prison stripes to pinstripes, former General Manager of X-Clan, Naquan A.N. Muhammad, now a successful political consultant, approached front and center, donning the finest in gentleman's attire, accessorized with $800 gators, to share the experiences that led him to five years in prison for attempted murder. Brother Naquan engrossed the group with a gripping account of his gang-banger years which began as a result of peer pressure in the public school system and urban street life. It was a tragic recollection of how a gun charge landed him in prison at the tender age of 17. "Back in my day, you did not hold a gun until you prove you were good with your hands," Muhammad reminisced. "In my day, if you couldn't fight, you'd better not show up with a gun or it will be taken from you and you would catch a serious beat down. Most guys started with their hands, graduated to the knife, and then the gun. Me, I skipped straight to the gun because I was very good with my hands." Muhammad continued by telling the astounded group how shooting someone cost him five years of his freedom in a prison where if you get out of line, big burly prison guards would teach you very quickly that you are not so tough at all.
"The panic button was pushed immediately upon getting word that a 2-year-old had been shot! And we know we are in crisis mode when three young children are left without a mother because a stray bullet killed her. Whether it was accidental or not -- we need to get these guns off the streets and out of our communities," Herbert demanded. "We have to come together. We owe our youth an opportunity for a better tomorrow. Unfortunately, our generation was lost. The older generation in our community didn't prepare us for this. They prepared us for civil rights to fight for equality, to enable us to get good jobs, which is great. But they didn't realize, and therefore, didn't tell us that there was going to be a genocide amongst our community – the Black and Brown people – we were not warned that we were going to go out there and try to kill each other because of stupidity," he chided.
Herbert proposed that the community unite with the efforts of the Central Brooklyn Youth Task Force, in order to come up with a dynamic that will address the challenges threatening the survival of youth in the community.
"Starting with this group, I propose that we initiate a 'Take Back Our Streets' resource tour. Meaning, we need to approach every city agency; every existing organization that has programs for youth, and ask them to come out to target areas in our community. Put them on the street corners where the problems exist. If there is a shooting one day and/or some sort of blood spilling, the next day, we need to put a bunch of tables out there to give our kids information about positive things that they can be engaging in – information about jobs; education, access to cultural programs; after school programs; homework help. Wherever there might be a need, we need to raise awareness out here in the streets. Not just one or two tables – I'm talking about going 25 to 30 tables deep. We need people to get into the fight. We are at war and the people with the guns and the drugs and the gangs are winning. If we don't come together and protect our kids, we are going to lose another generation.
Huge kudos go out to a wonderful group of youth from Mel Jackson's Leadership Training Institute (LTI). These intelligent young ladies and gentlemen traveled a very long distance to support the Central Brooklyn Youth Summit's efforts, willfully contributing to the discussion, attentively and patiently listening while solutions were being explored among the group.
A most inspiring testimonial came from young Shaun Alexandria Collins, a student of Sophia Williams' Cadet Academy of Honor and Excellence. Collins shared his aspirations of becoming an engineer, starting at Science Technology Engineers Program (S.T.E.P.) at Hofstra.
Jeffrey Davis of the "Stop the Violence" coalition, declared his solidarity with Tony Herbert, (Herbert, who is now going after the New York State 18th Senatorial seat) putting to rest a disparity that resulted from mistaken identity pursuant to the tragic death of Mr. Davis' brother, New York City Councilman James E. Davis, who was assassinated on July 23 2003.
A most enlightening and encouraging presentation was made by Police Sergeant, Glenn Horton, Office of the Chief of Community Affairs. Sergeant Horton's presentation shed light on many questions raised as a result of police abused on neighborhood youth and residents. Sergeant Horton, a long-time Bed Stuy resident himself, brought a sense of relief to the adults and youth at the forum, who were concerned with the many incidences of police misconduct, including and especially manhandling of youth. Sergeant Horton asserted that not all police are bad, and outlined some of the positive things the NYPD is doing for the community -- including a monitoring system of civilian complaints against police personnel and specifying actions that are taken within the NYPD to alleviate offenses against community residents by certain police who are not following the rules.
"People need to get together and put the pressure on a lot of these politicians because the politicians are the ones who have the money to help. The problem is, they give the money to the constituents who got them in office – and those people, in turn take the money out of the community and buy property and houses with it. The community must come together and confront the politicians saying, 'We know you have X amount of money that is allocated for our community. You are not helping us. You are not doing what you promised.' Demand these politicians to put a fair amount of money in our community to end this senseless violence and loss of lives," was a solution presented by Harlem icon, Dr. Ernest Hyman, Founder of the Harlem Karate Institute.
The end result was clear. Politicians need to be confronted about funding allocation discrepancies, parents and the community-at-large need to take responsibility and become more involved in what children and youth are doing. CBOs and organizations who are receiving government grants, need to come out of the woodwork and from behind their desks, and make parents, youth and the community aware of their existence and their services. Essentially, a call was raised for the entire community to unite and "Take Back Our Streets."
Attendees and participants of the Central Brooklyn Youth Summit 2008 Think Tank included Josette Dugue, Assistant Principal, PS 12 - Ocean Hill Brooklyn; Parent Coordinator, Tony and Sophie Williams of the Cadet Academy of Honor and Excellence; Naquan A.N. Muhammad, CEO Hiram Consultant Group, State Assembly Candidate, Linda Wheeler; Police Sergeant, Glenn Horton, Office of the Chief of Community Affairs, Michelle Mitchell's Phenomenal Women Group; Brenda Jeanne Wyche from The Black Star News and President of Phenomenal Women New York; Donna Jackson from the Leadership Training Institute (LTI), Asst. D.A., Shantel Jacobe and Shellon Richmond from the office of District Attorney Charles Hynes, Dr. Ernest Hyman from the Harlem Karate Institute, Phenomenal Women and Owner of Madeline's Pet Boutique in Bed Stuy, Phenomenal Woman and Entrepreneur, Abena Evans and Phenomenal Woman and Entrepreneur, Tammay Morton.
In an effort to deter kids from making bad choices that will land them in jail, Retired Riker's Island Correction Officer, Lorenzo Steele, gave a live, no-holds-barred, bloodcurdling presentation on the horrors of prison, complete with a gory slideshow that would send Freddie Krueger crying for his mommy.
The full day affair concluded with an explosive youth step competition. Youth from all over Brooklyn assembled in the auditorium at famed Boys & Girls High School in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, to exhibit their skills during Brockstarr Entertainment's Youth Step™ Step Show Tournament 2008. Skillfully choreographed step routines, accompanied by powerful chants, intricate formations and brilliant uniforms and costumes drove the audience wild evoking thunderous cheers and praise from amazed children, teens, parents and community residents. The Bombay Steppers of Sheepshead Bay High School, Icy Blue of Columbus High School, Lady Governors of Dewitt Clinton High School, Exclusive Step Team of Wings Academy High School and special appearances by the Order of the Feather Fraternity : Gowanus Wildcats were all the rave.
The illustrious event, MC'D by WBLS celebrity radio personality, Dr. Bob Lee, was a triumphant finale to a day of reckoning and strategizing -- Phase I of Tony Herbert's "Take Back Our Streets" initiative.
The Bombay Steppers of Sheepshead Bay High School took 1st place Winning Female category.
Lady Governors of Dewitt Clinton High School took 2nd place Winning Female category.
Wings Academy High School took 3rd place Winning Female category.
Icy Blue of Columbus High School took 1st place Winning Mixed Team category and
Exclusive Step Team took 2nd place Winning Mixed Team category.
As a result, all step teams now get the opportunity to continue in the Youth Step™ Step Show competition. Each team carries their points over to the next show which is scheduled for May 17, 2008 at 2:00pm at Wadleigh High School, located at Wadleigh High School 215 w 114th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues in Harlem, NYC. Admission is Free
The Finals, which are slated for January 2009, will be announced at a later date.
The Youth Step™ Step Show Tournament 2008 was sponsored by the New York Daily News, WBLS, Snapple, Stall and Dean Apparel, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).
The Brooklyn Youth Step™ Step Show Competition was sponsored by The Brooklyn District Attorney's office.
Youth Step™ Step Show Tournament Schedule 2008 :
May 17, 2008 Wadleigh High School Harlem New York
November 8, 2008 P.S 18 Staten Island New York
November 22, 2008 Wadleigh High School Harlem New York
December 6, 2008 Lehman College Bronx New York
December 13, 2008 York College Queens New York
January 2009 Championship {Location TBD]
About Youth Step™ and Brockstar Entertainment, Inc.
Youth Step™ ,founded by James Brock Harris III, CEO of Brockstar Entertainment, Inc., is a full service entertainment company specializing in college and high school step shows. Brockstar Entertainment, Inc. has over 27 years of experience in promoting step show competitions around the country, most notably, Madison Square Garden in 1984. Brockstar Entertainment, Inc. was part of the group from 1993-1996, who produced the first ever nationally televised step show entitled, "Stomp!" Brockstar Entertainment competitions have been held Annually at Disney's MGM Studio in Orlando Florida.
About Tony Herbert
Anthony "Tony" Herbert Sr. is a relentless advocate for health issues that effect the lives of all New Yorkers. His special interest in women's health issues and supporting research to resolve them stems from the loss of his mother to ovarian cancer just a few short years ago. Tony has also had a number of his closest friends diagnosed with fibroid and HPV problems. As a grassroots activist, Tony he has taken the lead on the issue of women's health and a number of other crucial issues including, but not limited to, employment, economic empowerment and development, affordable and fair housing and most importantly, quality education for our youth. Tony has been instrumental in organizing business seminars, health and job fairs and small business boot camps to help tackle many of these issues. Tony has a broad range of corporate and government experience. He has worked under the leadership of Congressman Edolphus Towns as a volunteer and then hired as Special Assistant by the Congressman to represent his interests in the Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of the 10th Congressional District. Tony has also served as a special assistant to New York City Councilwoman Priscilla Wooten. In this role, Tony acquired his skills as a community advocate while fighting for the rights of residents in the council manic district so they may gain access to the city services their tax dollars paid for. Tony also held the position of Director of Community Relations for former NY State Senate Minority Counsel Leader, Martin Connor. Tony's responsibilities in the Minority Leader's office were to identify and build working relationships with community leaders in minority neighborhoods who were victims of voting rights violations and subjected to the dilution of their voting power. Most recently, Tony worked as Senior VP for an investment banking firm on Wall Street where he was in charge of their Government Relations and Small Business Development Programs. He also worked as a Business Concierge for North Fork Bank in their Small Business Division. Tony is a constant media presence, appearing on television, radio and newspapers on a regular basis, fighting against gun violence and advocating for safety and a better quality of life for troubled communities. To learn more about Tony Herbert, visit http://www.tonyforsenate.com/
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Doctor Bob Lee is currently the Community Affairs Director for WBLS/WLIB, New York. A highly sought after motivational speaker and event host, Dr. Bob Lee is one of the most accredited radio personalities in the country and abroad. Dr. Bob Lee's signature attributes stem from the WBLS: On Time Program" which he implemented in 1981, encouraging students to stay in school and take a serious interest in education, and the ever popular weekend edition of "The Quiet Storm." His notoriety has garnered him appearances in films, videos, commercials, and voice-overs. As Founder of the Make the Grade Foundation, a 501(c )(3) non-profit organization that facilitates and encourages academic achievement by providing tutoring and mentoring programs for youth, Dr. Lee continues to raise awareness to the importance of higher education to massive populations of young people. Dr. Bob Lee received his BA and MA in Communications from New York Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing his Ph. D. in Natural Healing. To learn more about Dr. Bob Lee's Make the Grade Foundation, logon to www.makethegrade.org . To learn more about Dr. Bob Lee, logon to www.doctorboblee.com .
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The art of stepping derived from a dance developed in South Africa, called the gumboot dance The gumboot dance began with rural laborers who came to work at the diamond mines of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Strong traditions of rhythm, song, and dance was part of their culture and they brought this culture with them to the mines. These laborers experienced terrible oppression and hardship at the mines. They would be severely punished if they were even caught talking to each other while working. This oppressive situation led the miners to adapt and create new forms of communication and entertainment among themselves. During the civil rights movement, African-American Greek-affiliated fraternities and sororities adopted the ancient African gumboot dance, and it was performed for essentially, the same reasons in which it was created by the miners in South Africa -- to unite as a people and to posses something unique that they could call their own.
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"Ignatius writes the Spiritual Exercises in the cave at Manresa." Painting by Carlos Saenz de Tejada, 1897-1958.
Often described as Ignatius's greatest gift to the world, these exercises unfold a dynamic process of prayer, meditation, and self-awareness.
Finding God in All Things
Throughout much of the world, the Jesuits are best known for their colleges, universities, and high schools. But in a time when many are searching for greater meaning, another aspect of Jesuit life is attracting wide interest. And that is the unique spirituality introduced nearly 500 years ago by St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.
Ignatius was a Spanish soldier and aristocrat who discerned his calling after suffering nearly fatal wounds on the battlefield. He established the Society of Jesus in 1540, instructing the early Jesuits — to go out and "find God in all things." That is the signature spirituality of the Jesuits.
Ignatian spirituality is grounded in the conviction that God is active in our world. As the great Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote: "God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush, my needle — and my heart and my thoughts." The spiritual path laid out by Ignatius is a way of discerning God's presence in our everyday lives. And doing something about it.
The Jesuits have a handbook for this search. It is
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of St. Ignatius Loyola, composed by the saint before he was even a priest. Often described as Ignatius's greatest gift to the world, these exercises unfold a dynamic process of prayer, meditation, and self-awareness. The basic thrust is to make us more attentive to God's activity in our world, more responsive to what God is calling us to do. Ignatian spiritual directors accompany or guide people through the exercises in retreat houses, parishes, and other settings.
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Warren Farrell discusses Boy Crisis and Fatherlessness with Presidential Candidates
Dr. Warren Farrell with Presidential Candidates Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal, discussing impact of fatherlessness on problems with boys.
Proposal for a White House Council on Boys and Men
This study, resulting in the proposal to President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men, was originally inspired in 2009 by a discussion between Dr. Warren Farrell and the White House Boards and Commissions Director, Joanna Martin. Shortly after, Dr. Farrell created a multi-partisan Commission of 34 prominent authors, educators, researchers and practitioners to accomplish three goals: investigate the status of boys and their journey into manhood; identify both surface and underlying problems confronting boys and men; create a blueprint toward solutions. This proposal is the result.
Although the Commission is diverse, we have in common at least two beliefs: first, the desire to support the progress made by our daughters in the recent past, and to continue that into the distant future. To this end, we desire for the White House Council on Boys and Men to work parallel to and co-operatively with the already-formed White House Council on Women and Girls.
Second, the Commission members share the belief that our daughters and sons are in the same boat. Therefore, if just one sex wins, both sexes lose. The more closely our Commission investigated, the more concerned we became with the crisis our sons, fathers, and men currently face. It is a crisis as ubiquitous yet invisible today as our
financial crisis was five years ago. We will first identify the five major components of the crisis—each with potential solutions. As with the financial crisis, real answers require more than putting out fires. So we conclude by fundamentally re-thinking the journey from boy to man in the past, with an aim to preserve the best and modify the rest.
First, then, the five major components of the crisis:
1. The Education of our Sons
2. The Emotional Health of our Sons
3. Children without Dads; Dads without Children
4. The Crisis of Boys' and Men's Physical Health
5. The Future of Work, and of Boys and Men at Work
Lately the proposal is getting some attention from the media with articles in publications such as Forbes Magazine where they published an article titled "The Need to Create a White House Council on Boys to Men." The article interviews Dr. Warren Farrell about the proposal for a White House Commission on Boys and Men. The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article titled "Saving the 'Lost Boys.' Click the 'News' tab above to see these and more.
Who and What: A multi-partisan Commission of 34 nationally-known scholars and practitioners request that President Obama create a White House Council on Boys and Men. Why: A nationwide crisis of boys and men already exists. The Commission identifies five components:
• Education: Boys are behind girls in almost every subject, especially reading and writing. Yet boy-friendly programs (e.g., recess and vocational education) are being curtailed.
• Jobs: Our sons are not being prepared for jobs where the jobs will be. Yet women rarely marry men in unemployment lines.
• Fatherlessness: A third of boys are raised in father-absent homes; yet boys and girls with significant father involvement do better in more than 25 areas.
• Physical health: In 1920, American males lived only one year less than females; today, it is five years less. Yet federal offices of boys and men's health are non-existent.
• Emotional health: Between ages 13 and 20, as boys feel the pressures of the male role, boys' suicide rate soars from equal to girls', to five times girls'.
Each of the five crisis components is potentially handled by a different department of the government; therefore coordination and prioritization is best handled at the White House level.
Short-Term Investment: One million dollars. Long-Term Savings: Savings of billions of dollars per year. For example, homes with fathers create more boys who become taxpayers as opposed to costing taxpayers billions for prisons and social welfare. Quality-of-Life Savings: Priceless. Timing: The mere presidential announcement of a White House Council on Boys to Men makes visible an invisible crisis. Within one year after the Council is created, a White House Conference on Boys to Men will present "best practices."
More information: Warren Farrell, (415) 259-6343
The Proposal to Create a White House Commission on Boys and Men
Executive Summary
This is a proposal for President Obama to issue an Executive Order to create a White House Council on Boys and Men, parallel to his already-created White House Council on Women and Girls. The proposal is the result of an18-month study by a Commission of thirty-four nationally known scholars and practitioners, led by Dr. Warren Farrell.
The Commission identifies problems at a crisis level in five areas: education; emotional health; physical health; father involvement, and work. (The facts are documented in the endnotes of the body of the proposal.)
Boys are more medicated and less educated. They are considerably behind girls in reading and writing, motivation, grades, and standardized test scores. More boys are dropouts and expelled. In higher education, as this graph reveals, males have gone from 61% of graduates to a projected 39%.
Percent of All College Degrees, Female vs. Male, 1966–2019
Among Hispanics and African-Americans, the male-female gap is greater. As for consequences, by his mid-30's, the African-American boy who drops out of high school has a 60% chance of having spent time in prison.
Solutions a Council might explore include more male teachers; updated teacher education; boy-friendly teaching, testing and schools; and incentives for children having both parents.
Emotional Health
Boys' suicide rate goes from equal to girls' prior to adolescence to five times girls' between 20 and 24. Among the elderly, men over 85 have a suicide rate 1300% higher than their female peers. Other symptoms of male emotional challenges range from ADHD to violence, crime and the 5 D's: depression, drinking, drugs, disobedience and delinquency. A Council might proffer such solutions as parent and professional education, communication and relationship-skill training, and encouraging mentoring and two-parent families.
Father Involvement
With one out of three children in the U.S. living in father-absent homes, the Commission examined the potential benefits of more-involved dads to single mothers, and to our children's emotional stability, academic achievement, social maturity, physical safety, and future marital success. It examines the possible impact of fathers on the reduction of social problems from poverty to unwed births and crime. It considers solutions ranging from examining the impact of paternity leave (e.g., in Sweden, 85% of fathers take paternity leave) to the potential of a male birth control pill; from legislation to create incentives for father involvement in unwed and divorced families to educating boys in school as to their value as future dads.
Physical Health
The Commission examines why the male-female life expectancy gap has grown from one year in 1920 to more than five years today. And why boys and men die earlier than girls and women from nine of the 10 leading causes of death. The proposal cites the economic costs of neglecting boys and men's health, from the cost of emergency room use, to the cost to women (e.g., half of elderly poor women were not poor before their husband's death). The Commission applauds the progress of the many federal offices of women's health, and suggests parallel offices for boys and men's health. Their mission might range from boys' physical health (e.g., testicular cancer; safer football) to male emotional health (e.g., military
men's transition home).
One of every five men 25 to 54 is not working. Half of African-American young men ages 20-24 are jobless. The areas of future job growth (e.g., health; education) are areas our daughters are preparing for; the areas for which uneducated boys have typically found jobs (e.g., manufacturing; agriculture; construction) are in decline. And the mostly-male jobs requiring more education are being outsourced overseas.
A White House Council on Boys and Men would examine the potential for restoring vocation to education, and for developing our sons' (and daughters') skills to match employers' future needs. It can expand the concept of a "man's work;" and study other countries' successes. And when men do work, it can recommend ways to increase safety (92% of workplace deaths are men).
In Conclusion
The Commission concludes that our sons face a profound crisis in education, work, and their physical and emotional health. Respected publications such as The Atlantic have seen the symptoms and predict "The End of Men." If the symptoms are ignored, and our sons see the "end of men" as their future, they will have little inspiration for life's journey.
Solutions may need to go beyond more fathers, mentors and male teachers. They may require a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to be a man. In the past, we taught our sons to consider themselves "real men" if they did what was healthy for society's survival—whether to risk death in war, or to build a railroad. Calling our sons heroes if they risked being disposable was often healthy for the society, but it is unhealthy for our sons.
The Council can provide leadership to sustain the respect for firefighters and soldiers that allows us to recruit protectors for our homes and country, even as we also encourage alternative paths to becoming a valued man. Leadership for the future must both question and honor traditional masculinity. As our history of male-as-sole-breadwinner fades as downsizing and outsourcing burgeon, both sexes will need to be prepared to raise money and raise children. Our daughters have learned to do both; our sons have not.
A White House Council on Boys and Men can co-ordinate the nation's best efforts to parent, mentor, and teach each of our sons to discover who he is. It can end the era of boys and men as a national afterthought. It can provide leadership to raise young men that our daughters are proud to love.


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Prop 8: California Supreme Court Sets Hearing for Sept. 6
The battle over Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, is set to resume September 6 when the California Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether proponents of the ban can legally defend the initiative they sponsored.
The hearing, set to take place in San Franscisco, is pivotal to ProtectMarriage.com, the conservative group responsible for getting Prop. 8 onto the 2008 ballot.
At issue in the case to be heard by the California Supreme Court is whether proponents of ballot measures, like Prop. 8, have the legal authority to defend such measures in court when the governor and attorney general refuse to do so.
In August of 2010, then Chief U.S. District Judge Walker struck down Prop. 8, declaring it "unconstitutional."
Both former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Jerry Brown, attorney general at the time, refused to challenge the Walker's ruling, so supporters of Prop 8 are hoping to take matters into their own hands.
Members of ProtectMarriage.com cannot continue with their appeal of the 2010 ruling overturning the ban until the state supreme court makes its decision.
If the state supreme court decides that those who initiate ballot measures can defend those measures in court, then ProtectMarriage.com's case can go forward in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The federal appeals court had said it needs further clarification on state law before it can review the constitutionality of the appeal, and is looking to justices of California's High Court to provide that clarification with their ruling.
Until the decision comes, the federal appeals court has postponed making any decision on the marriage ban's constitutionality.
Months after Walker overturned Prop. 8, the district judge retired and said he was gay, bringing an end to ongoing speculation over his sexuality.
When Walker also revealed that he was in a long-term homosexual relationship, supporters of traditional marriage questioned whether the federal judge's decision might have been tainted, as he stood to personally benefit from striking down Prop 8.
The ProtectMarriage.com legal team had asked a judge in April to vacate Walker's ruling, arguing that Walker violated federal law by failing to recuse himself from the case.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware rejected the group's argument, saying that all Californians had equal interest in the case.
ProtectMarriage.com's legal team has vowed to continue their "tireless efforts to defend the will of the people of California to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman."


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