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Monday, July 9, 2012
Understanding Emma Smith's Life by Mark Staker
1- How long have you been studying Emma Smith and how did your interest in her get started?
I've worked as a curator for the LDS Church for just under twenty years now. But it was not until about eight years ago that I began to look seriously and intently at Emma's childhood home in Harmony, Pennsylvania, and tried to understand Emma's life as fully as possible. I've spent much of my time in the past eight years trying to understand Emma and her family.
2- What was Emma's early life like before she met Joseph? What sort of young woman was she? What were some of her greatest strengths?
Emma's family were some of the first white settlers in the Susquehanna Valley, and they lived initially in fairly remote circumstances. There was still an Indian village in their valley when Emma's parents first arrived. Emma's father was a "Leatherstocking" and made a living hunting animals in the forest then shipping the meat downriver to the major markets in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Her brothers took lumber downriver. When she was young the family moved from their log home into a nice frame home described as a "mansion" by one visitor. (Homes were all much smaller then and it would not be considered a very large home by today's standards.) The ceramics and other artifacts recovered in archaeological excavations confirm what we find in tax records and in accounts by their neighbors—the Hale family was well-off by local standards and was one of the wealthy families of the county. Several of her brothers served in local political offices and they provided a respectable voice in the community. There is circumstantial evidence that Emma attended a girl's finishing school about a mile or so west of her home where a Swedish schoolmaster (who claimed to be a descendant of royalty) taught the girls academic subjects in addition to the traditional subjects taught at other schools such as sampler making, textile production, and homemaking skills. Emma likely learned some Latin, European literature, advanced math, and perhaps philosophy.
Other young women in her valley described in their journals an interest in young men and they spent much of their time courting and socializing. This included long walks to hear piano concerts at neighbors homes, visits to the local taverns where lions and other exotic animals were brought for exhibition. A traveling art exhibit was also enjoyed by those who could afford the steep admission price of $1.00. In short, Emma grew up in a life of refinement, relative ease, and high status. She was, nevertheless, religiously devout and considered of high character and morals. Her family adored her and her neighbors admired her. Two of her sisters named a daughter after her, Roxy Emma Wasson and Emma Diantha Morse.
Perhaps one of Emma's greatest strengths was her ability to give up the material comforts for what she believed was right. When Emma married Joseph Smith she married someone who had few of the things she enjoyed. He lacked her education. He grew up without life's comforts. His family did not enjoy the high status and political influence her family held. The girls Emma's age filled their diaries with discussions of wedding plans with fine cakes covered in sugar plums, ornate ceremonies in their parent's parlor, and lots of wedding guests from the community. Emma gave all that up to marry the man of her choice. Emma also left all of her extra clothing behind and an assemblage of furniture, cows, and other possessions she had collected before she married Joseph. She did not know if she would ever get those things back.
3- I've always wanted to know more about Emma and Joseph's courtship. How did they meet? Do we know much about how they fell in love or what their early relationship was? Why did Emma's dad not like Joseph so much?
Joseph lived a long day's ride northeast of Emma when they courted and he would have needed to stay overnight in her valley when he visited. It is likely Emma's parents provided a place for him to stay, probably the log home where Emma was born which remained standing at least until 1829. He would likely have gone over the back roads across Ocquago Mountain to court Emma so he could avoid paying the toll road expenses to use the turnpike. Most of Emma's neighbors took that back road north to Colesville when they traveled. It was customary for young men in the region to bring nuts, raisins, and other treats to the young women they courted and every young man wrote letters to a young woman. Because Emma could later say Joseph did not know how to write a well-worded letter at that point, it is clear he wrote her letters as well. The stagecoach came through South Bainbridge and Colesville twice a week heading south to Harmony and so Joseph could well have sent a few letters each week to Emma. Emma's brothers and sisters married locals and moved within sight of their parents. Emma's father listed as the first reason he was opposed to Joseph the fact he was "a stranger." After Emma married her family made great effort to encourage her to live in their valley. This seems to support a concern about Joseph living elsewhere. Isaac also was apparently concerned about Joseph's religious experiences. Emma's mother was a Shouting Methodist and would have heard stories of similar religious experiences in her own congregation, but Emma's father was more skeptical and had some involvement with Methodists as well as Quakers but was generally a Deist—denying the miraculous aspects of religion. These seem to be the major concerns he had with Joseph. He was not particularly concerned about Joseph's involvement with the Josiah Stowell search for an abandoned silver mine because he had been heavily involved in the enterprise himself.
4- I have always been so impressed with Emma's relationship with her mother-in-law Lucy Mack Smith and the obvious love and respect that they had for each other. How did their love and relationship develop? Did they have a special connection right from the start or was it something that grew over time? What made their relationship unique?
When Emma first married Joseph, her mother-in-law welcomed her into the Smith family. Emma, nevertheless, still struggled initially. The Smith family worked very hard and it was an adjustment for Emma. Neighbors said she would come over and cry, noting she was in a "hard place." It was not easy. At the same time, Lucy was a confidant, forceful woman who directed her own household and it was difficult for Emma to adjust to living under another roof. It appears she had been in charge of the kitchen in her parent's household and was used to managing affairs at home. It was an adjustment for her to fit into the Smith family. Lucy was patient and loving. Emma returned that love and as circumstances changed over the years she sought to care for her mother-in-law's needs. Caring for each other perhaps contributed to their relationship, but they also shared trials and difficulties together and these may have strengthened their bond. Because Emma always stood by Joseph in trying times, Lucy would naturally appreciate the devotion to her son.
I don't know if their relationship was unique. It was certainly uncommon in some respects. That Emma would be drawn to her husband's family was typical of the period. Today men are usually more involved in the families of their wives that was the standard in the early 19th century. Women were typically (but not always) drawn into their husband's family in what is called a "patrilocal" pattern. Joseph's move away from his family so that Emma could return home to hers not long after their marriage was not typical and reflects both the love Joseph had for Emma and the initial difficulty she had leaving the valley where she was born and raised. Lucy reflects great admiration for Emma in her later years. The two women had shared homes from time to time and lived in very close quarters with each other for many decades. Undoubtedly that close interaction helped foster a close relationship. Sadly, Emma did not have the same relationship with her own mother. She wrote a very tender letter to her mother shortly before Joseph died that indicated she had not heard from her parents since she left the Susquehanna Valley. She gives the names and ages of each of her children. One would think that her mother would have at least been interested in her grandchildren, and perhaps Emma thought she might still be since her father had recently died when she wrote the letter. She may have hoped to reconnect with her mother at that point.
5- In D&C 25: 11 the Lord tells Emma to "... to make a selection of sacred hymns, as it shall be given thee, which is pleasing unto me, to be had in my church." This commandment was given in July of 1830, not long after the church was organized. How did Emma-- whose life was anything but calm and slow-- actually compiled this hymn book. How many years did it take her to do it? How did she collect and choose the songs she included? Did she face any challenges in getting it published?
The valley where Emma grew up was intently interested in hymns and hymn writing. The local newspaper regularly published hymns written for its pages. These hymns were typically published anonymously and I have not been able to tie any of them to Emma. One hymn was written by a female identified as E. H. but it appears from the introduction that she came from another village in the county. Although it is not clear if Emma ever wrote any of her own hymns, her calling was not to write hymns but to select them. She grew up as a Shouting Methodist where the hymn tradition was very important to worship service. Her family later recalled she had a beautiful singing voice and there is some suggestion she had a particular gift for singing. Joseph may have done pretty well himself. His father taught singing and it was an important trait emphasized during the first decades of the nineteenth century. We usually emphasize the first hymnal published in Kirtland. But it is clear that hymns were sung in the early Church before that hymnal was published, and it is likely that Emma played a role in directing the development of those hymns first sung.
Since the emphasis was on her selecting hymns rather than writing them, it is likely the earliest hymns sung were well known to most of the members and were selected from popular hymns of the day. By the time the Saints moved to first publish Joseph's revelations in 1833 there may have been some discussion of making hymns available in a published format as well but nothing was done toward that goal until the Doctrine and Covenants was available in 1835. W.W. Phelps began writing hymns and publishing them in the newspaper as perhaps an indication that Emma (or Joseph) had recommended developing their own hymn tradition to reflect distinctive Latter-day Saint doctrines. Because Phelps and other members wrote early hymns and no known hymns by Emma are found, scholars have often emphasized the role others played in developing the first hymnal. Since Emma was charged with making a selection of hymns, I think she may well have played the final selecting role in that first hymnal. She later went on to develop another hymnal for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in her later years and clearly played a central role in developing that volume. There is no information of which I am aware that sheds light on how Emma went about selecting songs. Did she collect a large number of possibilities and then winnow down from there? Did she recommend songs that were particularly meaningful to her? I don't know.
6- As I've read and studied about Emma Smith's life I have discovered that there is a lot of confusion, speculation and gossip about her life in Nauvoo and her and Joseph's practice of polygamy. I was wondering if you might be willing to help me understand a bit more about what she went through, the choices she made, and the consequences of them. I'd especially be interested if you might be able to lend a little bit more light about D&C 132: 51-56 and what would have been going on in Joseph's and Emma's lives at this time. It is a passage of scripture that has always confused me, mostly I think because I don't understand the history of the context in which it was given.
Polygamy is a fascinating subject, and one that played a significant role in Emma's spiritual life during the Nauvoo period and perhaps earlier. Much more is written on the subject than is really known about it, however. Many members in Nauvoo knew very little of the doctrine, even many of the inner circle of Church leaders later acknowledged knowing nothing on the subject until 1841-1842, and even fewer knew actual details of practice. Such basic facts as Joseph's marriages to other women were often recorded in shorthand, cryptic wording, or not at all. Complicating this lack of data were some genuine disagreements about what occurred. One of Emma's sons would later write a "Last Will and Testament" just after Emma died where he stated she claimed Joseph never practiced polygamy. Emma is often hit hard because of this and accused of lying. Others accused Emma of lying long before her son published that statement. When Brigham Young said the harsh things he did about Emma almost twenty years before her death, it was right after Emma's sons had visited Salt Lake City and were attempting to attract converts in part by condemning polygamy and claiming Joseph never taught it. It was in this context that Brigham Young accused Emma of being one of "the damndest liars that ever lived on this earth." Since when Emma's oldest son published a Last Will and Testament right after her death claiming she had never spoken on the subject earlier but finally indicated Joseph had never practiced plural marriage, Emma could not have lied to her sons about polygamy when they claimed Joseph never taught it during their 1860s mission. It appears that at some point, either earlier, later, or both, Emma was misrepresented and unfairly credited with saying things she had not said. This was also true immediately after her husband Joseph was killed when the national newspapers came out claiming Emma had acknowledged Mormonism was all a sham. She countered that claim by writing a letter indicating she had never said any such thing and someone was crediting her with something she had not said. She was not able to do the same thing about marriage claims because she was likely never aware such claims were made.
In short, because what few details we know about polygamy in Nauvoo were sharply disputed by the very individuals who knew most about the subject, it is unlikely we'll ever get a good picture of what really occurred. Only new, significant sources will help us resolve the picture. This is particularly the case with the verses in D&C 132 that you've asked about. Emma did not comment on the revelation. Neither did Joseph ever explain what was meant. His nephew Joseph F. Smith later said that Section 132 was written in a specific context to address specific issues and if it had been written for the entire Church it would have been a very different revelation than we currently have. What we know about the context is that the revelation was specifically directed to Emma and the information in that revelation was specifically focused on her.
6- I have always been fascinated about the organization of the first Relief Society and Emma's role as it's first president. It must have been an incredible time to be a woman in the gospel. What were some of Emma's roles and responsibilities as the first Relief Society president and what type of work were the early Relief Society sisters engaged in?
When the Latter-day Saints were still in Kirtland, Ohio, and the Kirtland Safety Society had recently collapsed—ending their hopes of using the financial institution to create a Zion society in which there were no poor—a group of members got together and formed what they called a "Relief Society." It appears this organization was an attempt to consecrate properties for the common good of the members of the organization. Among the interesting details of this organization is the fact that men and women were included on the list of members when at the time men were the only ones acknowledged by the law as the owners of property. (There were exceptions for widows, etc., of course.) I know a lot has been written about female benevolent societies and the relationship between the Nauvoo Female Relief Society organization and those benevolent societies, but I get the sense that the NFRS organization was intended to accomplish much more than its name may suggest. Of course the first Female Relief Society members were involved in such things as providing textiles and other things for those working to build the kingdom (such as temple builders), but the sources suggest they were expected to accomplish much more than this. Others have done much more research on the origins of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society than I have and so I would recommend going to those sources for additional insight. I know that in the next year or two several significant books that shed more insight into the organization of the Relief Society are scheduled for publication.
7- The other part of Emma's life that has always confused me was why the Relief Society was eventually disbanded. Did that happen before or after Joseph Smith's death? Do we know the reasons? Do we have any idea about how Emma felt about that?
My understanding is that the Relief Society was never really disbanded. After Joseph died meetings were no longer held because of other pressing issues and the eventual flight of most of the members. Emma never expressed her thoughts about the organization or its demise. When the Reorganized Church was established, however, she never pressed to reinstate the organization, apparently believing it had already accomplished its original purpose.
7- I remember once reading a remark by someone who said that Emma Smith's picture didn't deserve to be hung up in the Relief Society room because she hadn't been faithful enough and didn't cross the plains with the Saints. It has surprised me to see that even today, with all that we know about Emma and her life, that there is still a lot of hostility towards her and confusion about her life and her role in the gospel. If you had been standing next to this woman when she made this remark about Emma what would you have told her?
It is hard for me to evaluate "faithful enough" and what is necessary for someone's picture to be placed on a wall or not. Emma's portrait currently hangs in the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City as one of the presidents of the Relief Society. Certainly each of the presidents of the Relief Society have contributed significantly to the organization and deserve to have their portraits hung somewhere. Emma fills a unique role among women in the Church. She was there at the Hill Cumorah when Joseph Smith retrieved the plates. She served as his first scribe and taught him how to pronounce the names as he first read them, explained the intricacies of Jerusalem's walls as Joseph surprisingly asked about it as he translated, felt the plates rustle underneath her tablecloth while cleaning the house but did not look underneath the cloth because she was asked not to, walked through the snow during a Missouri winter with her children and no husband, and provided solace for Joseph while he languished in prison.
The evidence is overwhelming that if there had been no Emma to support Joseph Smith along the way, he could not have accomplished what he did. We owe to Emma, in part, the foundation of our Church. When Joseph Smith was killed, his brother Hyrum died as well. Samuel died a few days later. But I get a sense that Emma died on some level at the same time. She became a martyr to the cause as well. Today we can diagnose things such as post-traumatic stress disorder that were never even thought of in Emma's day. Because we are not in a position to judge the trials that others experience and how well they weather through those trials, I don't think we are in a position to determine whether Emma was "faithful enough" or not. Does Emma's portrait deserve to be hung in the Relief Society room when Belle Spafford's portrait is not hung despite the latter's many decades of service to that organization? I don't know. Perhaps Emma's portrait is more deserving of a place in the foyer besides that of Joseph Smith as his associate in founding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She played a fundamental role in providing the place, means, and some of the tutoring for the translation of the Book of Mormon; she played a central role in establishing our hymnal which is also considered scripture; all the temple endowments for women trace their lineage back to Emma as the one who first provided that saving ordinance for women; and she endured countless hardships so that Joseph would have more time to produce revelations, direct affairs of the Church, and preach to the Saints.
9- I understand that you have been working to help restore Emma's early childhood home and a few other historical sites that were important places in Emma's life. Could you tell us a bit more about those projects and what visitors might expect to see and experience when they go?
I have spent a number of years trying to understand the nature of the log home where Emma was born in 1804 and the frame home that her family built less than a decade later in the same area. It has been an interesting process and I've learned a great deal about the Hale farm and the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale family in the process. I've also worked to understand the Joseph and Emma Smith home that once stood nearby. In the not distant future all of this research may help us better celebrate the events of Church history in Pennsylvania more fully.
10- Is there anything else you would like to share about Emma or your work?
Sometimes when Joseph Smith dictated his history he talked about events in which he was involved as "I" did this, or "I" did that without mentioning the significant role Emma played in these same events. This was a common way of responding in the early nineteenth century. It did not mean that Joseph felt Emma had not contributed to an event—such as Book of Mormon translation—but that Emma was considered an extension of Joseph. Sometimes the identity of women was so subsumed in that of their husband in the nineteenth century that they go unnoticed. The author Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer, for example, is really Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer. But her identity was tied into that of her husband as was typical of the period. For Emma this was much more the case. Joseph came to recognize in Nauvoo that even his exaltation was tied to that of his wife. He could not return to live with God again without being sealed to his wife. We naturally focus on Joseph because he was the source of revelation from God, but Emma was so much a part of Joseph that she shared in much of what he accomplished. According to one of his associates, Joseph was told by Moroni that he could not recover the plates unless he married Emma and brought her to the hill with him. After Joseph married Emma he was able to receive the plates at his next visit with her accompanying him along the way. Thankfully she agreed to leave behind family, friends, all her possessions, and any dreams of a life of ease she may have fostered to join Joseph on the journey. We are all blessed because of it.
Thank you Mark for the privledge of intervieiwing you. I learned so many new things about Emma and you have given me some beautiful ideas to think about. I look forward to reading your book when it is finished!
Also, if you would like to link to your own post about Emma Smith or share your testimony of the Book of Mormon for Emma's birthday gift you can link up to it below. The blog hop will be on all of my posts this week so you are welcome to join in any time.
9 comments:
Excellent questions, Heather -- and truly fascinating answers! Thank you for this wonderful interview that sheds some very interesting new insights into the life of our beloved Emma, whom I sincerely respect.ReplyDelete
I also respect Emma a great deal, and I really love this interview. Emma should be revered for what she went through, and for her part in founding the Church.Delete
It surprises me whenever I hear of Emma being criticized by modern Mormons. Unlike many other LDS women, she had to face polygamy with no prior expectation of it. That is no small matter. It was simply unleashed upon her by God, and so I don't judge her for the painful & often violent reactions she had to it. I also certainly do not judge her for remaining in the midwest or joining the Reorganized Church instead of joining the trek to Utah. She did what she thought was right, and anyone who dares to judge her is just a tourist with a typrwriter.
This was wonderful! Thank you so much! I am thrilled to hear that a biography of Emma and more information on the founding of RS will be forthcoming!Delete
During our date night on Friday night (which involved hanging out in a fort we built in our bedroom after the kids went to bed), my husband and I were going through a list of questions for couples to ask each other. One of the questions was "If you could have dinner with any person from history, who would it be?" I choose Emma Smith because I admire and identify with her a lot, but am saddened by all of the confusion and unanswered questions about her. This interview offered some excellent insights. Thank you so much for doing it!ReplyDelete
I'm sorry to pop back in again... I keep thinking of the reference to Belle Spafford in this interview. Could you offer some insight? Did Sister Spafford leave the church?ReplyDeleteReplies
Ashlee, I was wondering about that too. I'm not sure what he meant. I will try to ask him.Delete
Ashlee, Here is what he explained when I emailed him. I think I was just thinking that he was saying her picture wasn't up in the RS building on Temple square but he was just referring to RS rooms in general in the church.Delete
"I should have been clearer in my comments about Belle Spafford. I admire Sister Spafford greatly. She served as General Relief Society President from 1945 to 1974 as the longest serving president in that position ever. I wish she were honored more and remembered for her service, and that is what I was getting at with my comment. What I was trying to say was that while Emma deserves to have her portrait hung in the Relief Society room as the founding president of that organization, there have been many other faithful women who have sacrificed and given much in their own terms that also deserve to have their portraits hung in the local wards as well. I don't want this comment to diminish in any way Emma's contributions. ( I suggested in my earlier comments for your blog that I think Emma shares some responsibility for the production of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the Church and should be honored as such.) It was more of a offhanded comment to suggest while we should honor and love Emma we can't forget the other great souls who have contributed so much along the way."
Thank you for the clarification! And I agree with his assessment!Delete
Do u know when marks book will be out?ReplyDelete


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A Russian ballet star who has danced the roles of violent and powerful historical figures at the Bolshoi Theater has confessed to organizing the acid attack on the theater's ballet chief, Moscow police said Wednesday.
A masked man threw a jar of sulfuric acid in the face of artistic director Sergei Filin as he returned home late on Jan. 17, severely burning his eyes. The 42-year-old former dancer is undergoing treatment in Germany.
Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, 29, confessed to masterminding the attack, and two other men confessed to being the perpetrator and the driver of the getaway car, police said in a statement. All three were to appear in court on Thursday, when prosecutors were to move for criminal charges to be filed against them.
"I organized that attack but not to the extent that it occurred," a bleary-eyed Dmitrichenko said in footage released by Russian police.
Moscow police said in a statement that investigators believe that Dmitrichenko harbored "personal enmity" against Filin.
The attack threw light on a culture of deep intrigue and infighting at the famed Moscow theater. Within hours of the attack, Bolshoi managers were speculating that the attack could have been in retaliation for Filin's selection of certain dancers over others for prized roles.
Dmitrichenko, who joined the Bolshoi in 2002, has not suffered for starring roles. Most recently, he danced the title role in "Ivan the Terrible," a ballet based on the life of the ruthless 16th-century czar who killed his son in a rage. He also has danced Spartacus in the ballet of the same name. Dmitrichenko's page on the social networking site VKontakte includes a photograph of him as the leader of the slave uprising dancing with a dagger in each hand.
Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, who also is a Bolshoi soloist, is reported to have had a troubled relationship with Filin and felt she was unfairly denied major parts, an angle to the case that has been played up by Russian state television.
Filin's lawyer and wife, however, both cautioned that the ballerina is unlikely to have been the only cause of the conflict.
"Sergei thinks the motives of the crime are somewhat different," Filin's wife, Maria Prorvich, was quoted as saying in an interview to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "The girl is only a pretext, but certainly not the main cause of the crime."
She said Filin had suspected Dmitrichenko's involvement in the attack, but is certain that the circle goes beyond the three men arrested on Tuesday.
Filin's lawyer agreed. "We believe that investigators still have a lot of work to do to establish all of the facts," Tatyana Stukalova said in an interview on Rossiya state television.
Investigators became suspicious of Dmitrichenko when they found out that he had recently been in a close contact with an unemployed man with a prison record. The suspects were making inquiries about Filin's schedule and whereabouts, and bought SIM cards for mobile phones registered under fake names, police said.
Police determined that the acid that the alleged attacker, 35-year-old Yuri Zarutsky, splashed on Filin's face had been purchased at an auto shop. Police said Zarutsky is believed to have heated it to evaporate the water to make the acid stronger. On the night of the attack Dmitrichenko tipped off Zarutsky when Filin left the theater, police said.
Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova told The Associated Press that Filin had been informed about Dmitrichenko's detention, but said the theater would not comment until after the trial.
The Bolshoi's general director, Anatoly Iksanov, has accused veteran principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze of inspiring the attack. Tsiskaridze, a long-time critic of the theater's management, has denied the allegation.
Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, Anzhelina Vorontsova, was coached by Tsiskaridze.
When contacted Wednesday by the AP, Tsiskaridze texted back: "I have nothing to say..."
Izvestia, a Kremlin-friendly daily, on Wednesday quoted ballet teacher Marina Kondratyeva as saying that Vorontsova had not been given leading parts lately but for a good reason: "How could Filin `elbow her out'? Tsiskaridze is mentoring and coaching her - but she was just plain fat."
Filin was instrumental in bringing Vorontsova to Moscow to study and had hoped she would stay to dance for him at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, Moscow's second ballet company, where he was artistic director before taking up the Bolshoi post in March 2011. Instead she joined the Bolshoi.
Russian newspapers quoted unidentified ballet dancers as saying that Dmitrichenko had a fiery temper.
In a rare public outburst, Dmitrichenko posted an angry comment in November responding to a newspaper review that said his "artistic scope is limited not to mention his physical potential."
On the website of the Kommersant daily, Dmitrichenko accused the ballet critic of bias, calling the writer "a failed performer." Kommersant later took down his comment. One of the screenshots of the detailed remarks read: "I'm happy, I'm accomplished, I work with the genius of a teacher, I work with a genius, Grigorovich himself!!! What about you??"
Yuri Grigorovich led the dance company for three decades, resigning in 1995, after losing a protracted dispute with theater management, but he remains on the Bolshoi staff. Dancers and teachers still loyal to Grigorovich have resisted efforts by a series of successive artistic directors to bring a more modern repertoire to the theater, still celebrated mainly for the classical ballets that grace its stage. Filin, who danced for the Bolshoi from 1989 until 2007, was seen as capable of bridging that gap.
Both of Dmitrichenko's main starring roles were in ballets choreographed by Grigorovich. He was next due to appear at the Bolshoi on March 16, in "Sleeping Beauty, dancing the part of Bluebird.
AP writers Lynn Berry, Varya Kudryavtseva, Sasha Merkushev and Yelena Yegorova contributed to this report.

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Butler University's men's basketball team is the overwhelming sentimental favorite against Duke in tonight's NCAA championship game. It has a longest-in-the-nation, 25-game winning streak, and it could be the first team since the 1972 UCLA Bruins to win an NCAA men's basketball title in its hometown.
But that is only a part of the story for the Bulldogs – underdogs with a wonderful, if little-known pedigree.
Before there was ever an NCAA tournament, which began in 1939, Butler was crowned the AAU national champion in 1924. And in 1929, when coached by Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle, they were awarded the John J. McDevitt Trophy, a national championship designation bestowed by the Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia.
Hinkle was a veritable institution on the northern Indianapolis campus. He coached the basketball, football, and baseball teams to more than 1,000 victories during a career that spanned five decades.
'Hoosiers' fame
In 1966, nearing the end of his time on the bench, Butler Fieldhouse was renamed Hinkle Fieldhouse in his honor. The largest basketball arena in the United States until 1950, it hosted the finals of the state high school basketball tournament for many years, including in 1954, when tiny Milan High School won the title in a story immortalized in the movie "Hoosiers."
Butler has continued to play in this aging treasure, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Last year the school began considering remodeling the brick fieldhouse and recently announced a $10 million plan to modernize the facility while keeping its essential character.
Fundraising for the project couldn't commence at a better time. But as good as things are now for the program, Butler for many years played in the shadows of other Indiana colleges.
Indiana's basketball tradition
Indiana University and Purdue belong to the mighty Big Ten Conference. There's also Notre Dame in South Bend, a perennially dangerous team that has never won a national championship in basketball, but which ended UCLA's record 88-game winning streak in 1974.
And don't forget that Indiana State briefly held center stage in the state in the late 1970s, when Larry Bird took the Sycamores all the way a memorable showdown with Magic Johnson-led Michigan State in the 1979 NCAA final.
Even during the Hinkle era, the Bulldogs and their Hall of Fame Coach often shared the limelight in the old Indiana Collegiate Conference with down-state rival Evansville College (now the University of Evansville), led by another Hall of Fame coach, Arad McCutchan. The Purples Aces actually were more successful in postseason play, winning five national small-college championships even as Butler gained a reputation for upsetting Big Ten teams.
In recent years, Butler has become one of the most respected teams from a "mid-major" conference, the Horizon League, which includes schools such as Valparaiso, Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Wright State.
Ironically, Butler has a number of similarities to Duke. Both are private schools with strong academic reputations and strong basketball traditions. Each plays in a basketball-oriented state, uses a storied old gym (in Duke's case, Cameron Indoor Stadium), and even share blue as their school color.
Here's the tale of the tape for tonight's final:
Number of in-state students on basketball roster
- Butler – 10
- Duke – 4
Year of university founding
University enrollment
- Butler – 4,512*
- Duke – 13,000
* This reportedly makes Butler the second smallest team to ever play in the NCAA championship game after Jacksonville in 1970.)
Year varsity basketball program began
- Butler – 1897
- Duke – 1906
Number of consensus All-America players ever
- Butler – 0
- Duke – 15
Annual undergraduate tuition
- Butler – $28,460
- Duke – $39,075
Percentage of basketball players who graduate
- Butler – 90 percent
- Duke – 92 percent
Number of Final Four appearances
- Butler – 1
- Duke – 15
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Mrs. Florence Tabor, 42, wife of Clarence Tabor, 230 East Broad street, West Hazleton, was found dead in the water-filled bathtub of the family's apartment at 4:45 p.m. yesterday. About an hour earlier she had told members of the family she was going to take a bath.
Chief County Detective Charles Connelly last night said he is satisfied the death was either from natural causes or was accidental, unless the results of a post-mortem prove otherwise.
Dr. Julius Foldes, local pathologist, performed the post-mortem last night at Hazleton State General Hospital.
Tests today indicated she had fallen asleep and drowned, it was reported. According to Dr. Foldes, her death was attributed to pulmonary edema.
Lieutenant Edward Waitkus of the West Hazleton police said members of the family told him a telephone call came fro Mrs. Tabor while she was in the bathroom and a son went to the bathroom door and called to his mother that she was wanted on the telephone. When she did not come out of the bathroom in a few minutes, Waitkus was told, both the father and son went to the bathroom where they found her submerged in the water. They carried her to a bedroom, began artificial respiration, and called Dr. George B. Dornblaser. The West hazleton ambulance crew and the physician used a resuscitator on the victim for a half hour but their efforts to revive her were unsuccessful.
Deputy Coroner Louis C. Fierro, who was summoned to the home, notified District Attorney Stephen Teller and Dr. Herman L. Feissner, county coroner, who dispatched the county detective to this city. Detective Connelly witnessed the post-mortem, and later interviewed members of the family. Trooper Ralph Cameron, Bureau of Criminal Intelligence operator at the local state police barracks, was also called on the case.
Born in West Hazleton
A sister, Anna, prededed her in death. Surviving are her husband, Clarence, two sons, Paul and Leonard, at home; and the following brothers and sisters:
Mrs. Vincent (Margaret) Wolchesky, Hazleton; Anthony Bronsavage, West Hazleton; Joseph Bronsavage, Hershey; Adele Bronsavage, Hazleton; Michael Bronsavage, Weatherly; Mrs. George (Martha) Zimmerman, Hazleton.
The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the Bonin Funeral Home, Second street, entrance, with Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Crane, of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10 p.m."
This article most likely came from the Hazleton Standard Speaker. I'll be looking for the article when I return home this summer so I can find out the publication information. According to her death certificate, Florence died on February 25, 1962 so finding it shouldn't be difficult.
Florence was my paternal grandmother. She died 10 years before I was born. My father was the son that found her in the tub. What the article does not reflect is that it was believed by my father that Florence intentionally took too many sleeping pills and then took a bath in order to kill herself. I imagine it's a difficult subject for my father (I no longer communicate with him). He had commented that she killed herself, and then other times he would merely state that she fell asleep in the tub and died. I have little doubt that this event affected him enormously.
|Paul, Florence (Bronsavage), and Leonard Tabor
Whether the death was accidental or intentional, it's sad that Florence died so young and before I could ever have a chance to meet her.
Something I noted from the above transcription that was a bit odd. The body was found "yesterday" and already the coroner had finished his autopsy (complete with toxicology...really????) and the funeral was set. Were things really taken care of THAT quickly back then? I've seen few articles where the death and funeral are announced so quickly together!
I may have to see if I can lay my hands on the coroner's report. Not to be morbid or anything, but between my father's need to change history every 5 minutes and my need to know the truth, I feel that I must locate as much information as possible on why Florence died much too soon.


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Splat's friends are having a rehearsal for their cool new band, the Cat Gang. But something's missing . . . it just doesn't feel right without Splat! Everyone wants Splat to join the band. But Splat can't sing and he doesn't play an instrument! What can he do that is perfect for the Cat Gang?
Beginning readers will cheer on Splat in his noisy and hilarious quest to become a member of the band.


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For the province of Firenze, to whom Ponte a Mensola belongs, on 2020-05-31 are reported 3,467 cases. In the previos day there were 3,464 cases, thus having a variation of 3 cases, i.e. 0.09% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
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Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a steepest ascent tariff reform for a small open economy. By construction, it is locally optimal in that it yields the highest gain in utility of any feasible tariff reform vector of the same length. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform rules, as e.g. the proportional and the concertina rules. We develop the properties of this tariff reform, characterize the sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples. Moreover, being a general concept, we apply it to the issue of market access and examine its implications. Overall, the paper's contribution lies in presenting a theoretical concept where the focus is upon the size of welfare gains accruing from tariff reforms rather than simply with the direction of welfare effects that has been the concern of the literature. JEL code: F15. Keywords: Steepest ascent tariff reforms; piecemeal tariff policy; welfare; market access; small open economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7565
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By Kathryn Doyle
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are often sleepy during the day tend to have underlying conditions that raise their risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a large new study.
Based on data for more than 84,000 U.S. women, researchers linked daytime sleepiness to a more than doubled cardiovascular risk, but they say sleep disorders and other illnesses are really to blame, making the drowsiness a symptom, not a cause.
âThis is what we thought was going on,â lead author James E. Gangwisch told Reuters Health in an email. âWe thought that it was most likely that the daytime sleepiness was associated with insufficient sleep, shift work, snoring, and sleep adequacy,â which are themselves associated with metabolic disorders like diabetes that are risk factors for stroke and heart attack, he said.
Gangwisch led the study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York.
He and his coauthors analyzed data from 84,003 women in the Nurses Health Study II from 2001 to 2009. In the first year, the women answered a questionnaire that asked about sleep duration, disturbances, snoring and shift work.
One question asked how often a woman felt her daily activities were affected because she felt sleepy, and responses could range from ârarelyâ or âneverâ to âalmost every day.â
The researchers kept track of other factors like shift work, aspirin use, diabetes and high blood pressure every two years until 2009.
By that time, five hundred of the women had been diagnosed with heart disease or stroke.
Women who reported being sleepy during the day almost every day, which was five percent of the total group, were almost three times as likely to have been diagnosed with heart disease as those who were almost never sleepy during the day.
The women who were often drowsy were also more likely to have unusually short or long sleep durations, to have trouble getting adequate sleep, to snore, do shift work and to suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity and depression.
Once other sleep variables and diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol were factored into the calculations, daytime sleepiness by itself no longer affected heart disease risk, according to the results published in the journal Sleep Medicine.
Gangwisch and his colleagues point out that they cannot determine whether thereâs a two-way relationship between poor sleep and other health conditions. Disturbed sleep, as happens with sleep apnea, for instance, is thought to contribute to cardiovascular risk factors like high blood pressure.
On the other hand, they write, illnesses from depression to diabetes are thought to contribute to sleep disturbances as well as independently raising cardiovascular risk.
According to a 2013 study in the same journal, for example, people who slept less than five hours a night were twice as likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol as those who got seven to eight hours a night (see Reuters Health article of November 6, 2013, here: http://reut.rs/1gVvsW2).
The new study was large and has many strengths, said Kristen L. Knutson, who studies sleep and heart health at the University of Chicago Department of Medicine and authored the 2013 paper.
No one study can completely answer any research question, she told Reuters Health by email, but according to the new report, âsleepiness is a sign of either insufficient sleep or disturbed sleep or underlying medical conditions, all of which has been previously associated with cardiovascular disease.â
Coronary heart disease, the most common form of heart disease, kills about 380,000 people each year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Any increased risk for heart disease or stroke can be problematic, and ideally we should identify ways to reduce risk, Knutson said.
âGet adequate good quality sleep by following commonly recommended sleep hygiene techniques such as maintaining a regular sleep schedule, allowing adequate time in bed to sleep, maintaining a comfortable sleep environment in terms of darkness, temperature, and humidity,â Gangwisch recommended. âGet adequate exercise but not shortly before bedtime.â
People who are often sleepy during the day should see their doctors, he said.
âExcessive daytime sleepiness could indicate problems with sleep that are treatable,â he said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1rqTor7 Sleep Medicine, online April 14, 2014.


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Studying Off Campus
Because theatre is, in part, a study of the world we live in, our students are encouraged to explore Augustana's study abroad opportunities and other off-campus study programs. The length of study can range from a month to a semester to an academic year.
In addition, our students regularly travel to theater centers and festivals around the country, from New York to the Twin Cities to the American College Theater Festival. Faculty sometimes lead international trips during spring break, the January interim term or the summer break.
Sioux Falls itself is a major cultural center for South Dakota, and we have strong relationships with area theaters like the Children's Theatre Company of South Dakota and the Bare Bodkins Theatre. The Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science downtown draws national touring productions from Broadway and has an active educational exchange with Augustana. Company members receive discounted opportunities for professional memberships, professional headshots, and specialty classes, as well as opportunities to direct professionally for local community playhouses and area high schools.
Students have also participated as interns or company members with:
- The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn.
- The Black Hills Playhouse, South Dakota
- Dakota Players, South Dakota
- Dakota Academy of Performing Arts (DAPA), Sioux Falls
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Authorities say two missing Amish girls have turned up safe about 24 hours after they were apparently abducted from their family's roadside farm stand in northern New York.
St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain says the girls turned up cold and wet but unharmed Thursday evening at a home in Richville, about 13 miles from where they disappeared in the rural town of Oswegatchie.
Word of 12-year-old Fannie and 7-year-old Delila Miller's return came shortly after about 200 people attended a prayer vigil at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church.
The sisters vanished at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after a white car pulled up to the farm stand.
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BOSTON -- A compromise bill reforming the state's welfare system was delayed a week on Thursday when a South Shore senator objected to the short time lawmakers were given to look over the final version hammered out by a Democrat-controlled conference committee.
Sen. Robert Hedlund, a Weymouth Republican, said he was a member of the panel that met formally only once last November, where they voted to close the negotiations to the public. Hedlund complained that advocates lobbying lawmakers seemed to have more input in the negotiations than committee members.
Throughout 2013, lawmakers in both the House and Senate spent months discussing, debating and working out details to come up with a wide-ranging package of reforms to the state's welfare system aimed at preventing fraud and abuse, while finding ways to get people off public benefits and into a job.
"However, the manner in which the bill is presented to us today was abrupt to say the least," Hedlund said before making a motion to delay action on the bill until June 26. The compromise bill was filed Wednesday evening.
After 15 minutes of debate, the Senate voted to delay, on a voice vote.
Hedlund argued that legislation of "this magnitude" should have more time for review, and said the conference committee's version of the legislation is weaker than what the Senate passed. He particularly mentioned a section that passed the Senate, but was left out of the final bill stipulating that that no one would be eligible for public housing unless they were a legal citizen.
Sen. Michael Barrett, a Lexington Democrat, said that section raised concerns for the conference committee because the state has agreed to allow victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to seek shelter in Massachusetts.
Sen. Jennifer Flanagan (D-Leominster), another member of the conference committee, said lawmakers have debated reforms for years. "The bill before us is a true compromise," she said.
Sen. Stephen Brewer, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said a conference committee's job is to blend the two versions of legislation.
"No one gets everything they want," he said.
Brewer said welfare will "never be a perfect system, but I believe this system, these reforms are going to make a huge difference of accountability, transparency, and have people go back to work as best as possible."
The legislation includes $18.5 million for job training programs, and creates a program to connect "able-bodied" individuals with full-time jobs before they start receiving benefits. It revives a full employment program aimed at placing benefit recipients in full-time jobs. Employers who hire individuals from the full employment program would be eligible for a health care subsidy for one year followed by a tax credit of $100 per month up to $1,200.
"We want them to be able to take care of their families. We also provide job training to make sure people are educated in the field," Flanagan said. "We require applicants to seek employment. We don't want them simply staying home collecting their benefits."
The Department of Transitional Assistance would be required to have specialists assigned to help high-risk recipients. It also establishes a program to allow welfare recipients to save money, above the asset limit of $2,500 toward first, last and security rent payments and for education as they transition off public assistance.
The bill also reduces the period for benefit extensions, requires self-declarations of residency to be signed under the penalties of perjury, bans self-declarations from being used as the only verification form of eligibility, and increases penalties for store owners who knowingly allow the purchase of prohibited products or services, such as Lottery tickets, with an EBT card. Store owners could face license suspensions.
Republican senator holds up vote on welfare reform
BOSTON -- A compromise bill reforming the state's welfare system was delayed a week on Thursday when a South Shore senator objected to the short time lawmakers were given to look over the final version hammered out by a Democrat-controlled conference committee.


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In NAG's development division we hire a variety of people from a variety of backgrounds - in fact we have a very diverse community of technical staff. At the time we hire them, of course usually we have a role in mind for them, whether it's someone with a specialism that enables them to work on a particular piece of software, or someone we want as an "all-rounder" who needs to make software work on lots of different hardware.
However, it's not always clear what direction their talents will ultimately take them, and when we're interviewing we can't always tell what virtues a person has. It would be nice if we could know in advance, but usually we just can't.
I got to thinking - what are the attributes of a good software developer? I came up with the following list.
- A logical mind
- Impatience
- Patience
- Curiosity
- Ability to transfer knowledge
- Knowing when to let go
- Knowing the right people
Number 1 seems obvious. You can't write software without using logic; or at least, not the kind of software that we build.
Number 2. A degree of impatience is vital. It's often what drives us to make improvements to software. Is the software build system too slow for your liking? Find a way to speed it up so you don't need to wait around so much for it to complete.
Number 3 - patience. Does this contradict number 2? Not at all; sometimes you need to take your time. When you're wading through a mountain of code trying to track down an obscure bug in, for example, an optimization routine, you might need to re-start the debugger, or re-compile your code, a hundred times before you pin down what's going wrong. (Of course you might never pin it down at all - then you might need to call on attribute 7).
Number 4. Curiosity - never mind that it kills cats - it can be very useful. How can a routine that multiplies a vector by a scalar sometimes give slightly different results when called with the same data? Well, it can if it turns out that the location of the data in memory might affect the result - for example if a fast algorithm using 64 bit registers is used when the data is nicely aligned, but a slower algorithm using 80-bit registers is used when it's not. If the vector and scalar contain complex rather than real numbers, the arithmetic operations involved are sufficiently complicated that the results can differ by about one unit in the last place. Knowing this enables us to make a judgement on whether the difference is important or not.
Number 5 - ability to transfer knowledge. At NAG it's no use being an expert in one thing. Good at Fortran? Well, our customers want to use C, C++, C#, Java, Basic, Python, and anything else you can think of, so you'd better be flexible. And you need to be able to show other people how to do it too. (As an aside, I wonder if anyone knows a way of calling a NAG library routine from emacs lisp? Not that I'd want to do it - just curious.)
Number 6 - knowing when to let go. Sometimes a developer doesn't want to stop work on a piece of software until it's absolutely right. Being a perfectionist is no bad thing, but sometimes - you just need to stop. Otherwise no-one else will ever get chance to use it.
Number 7 - knowing the right people. When you get stuck on something, or just need a bit of advice, there's nothing like being able to ask your colleagues for help at tea time. And a good way to make them happy to help you is by trying to be helpful to them in return when they need it.
How do I myself fit into this list of attributes? Well, I have to admit that I'm very good on the impatience front. I can't stand the few seconds pause while Visual Studio fires up. But my best attribute is probably number 7. I'm lucky to be able to work with a whole bunch of talented people who don't mind helping me out when I'm stuck.


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Lecture takes place during this year's Edinburgh TV Festival, which runs Aug 22-24.
Kevin Spacey is to deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at this year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, powered by YouTube.
The award-winning actor, director and producer recently executive produced and starred in the Netflix original series House of Cards.
Spacey commented: "As a newcomer to the TV industry I am honoured to be invited to give the MacTaggart Lecture. Clearly this has been an exciting period for me personally but also I believe this is a time of huge opportunity, innovation and creativity for all of us who live to tell stories and engage audiences.
"I'm excited to share my thoughts and meet players from across the media industry. I'm also an Edinburgh TV Festival virgin so have no idea what I am letting myself in for!"
The MacTaggart Lecture has previously been given by the likes of James Murdoch, Greg Dyke, Jeremy Paxman and Mark Thompson.
Advisory chair of the festival, Karl Warner, added: "Kevin Spacey sums up everything we want this year's International Television Festival to be; creative, inspiring, and about story-telling in all forms, across all platforms. He's a genuine artist and visionary, and I'm thrilled he'll be at the centre of the Festival, delivering an unmissable MacTaggart lecture."
The 38th edition of the festival runs Aug 22-24.


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I remember 20 years ago when I was in business school and I learned Michael Porter's 5 forces model as a way to understand the industry attractiveness and competitive intensity. It's a great starting point for thinking strategically. But, by any means, I'm not an economist, academic or even analytics junkie. I'm just a simple brand guy, who sees Porter's Model as a great starting point to assess the power of your brand. I'm not here to debate the model, just use it.
Using Porter's Model for Brands
First of all, Brands can be anywhere from Indifferent to Like It to Love It all the way to being a Beloved Brand. They sit somewhere on a made up mythical Brand Love curve. At Indifferent, you're basically a commodity and you are only picked when your "product" is in front of the consumer. Margins are low, price goes with the market and all off your marketing effort is around distribution and price. As you move to Like It, you become competitive but the consumer only usually picks you if they see something logical in your offering that makes you appear to fit their needs. At this point, brands should be trying to figure out: are you better, different or cheaper? Because while you might be playing in the mix of the other brands, if you're not one of those three, then you might not be around for very long. As you get more into the Loved and Beloved stages, the consumer starts to feel more and possibly think less. You have a connection and bond with your consumer. They are a fan, your brand is becoming a favourite part of their life and they build you into their normal routines. They defend you, sell you and crave you at times.
The challenge for Brand Leaders is to start seeing that love as a source of power. And that source of power as a means to making more money than if you had no love. Marketers that "get it" see the connection between Love and Power and Profits.
Looking at Porter's Model of the 5 Forces, we can see that a Beloved Brand can leverage all 5 forces as a competitive strategy to beat down on the less loved brands. McDonald's beats down on Burger King, Wendy's and Hardee's with such a force those brands now find themselves confused and suffering.
A Beloved Brand starts with a certain power over the buyer–whether that's consumers or the channel. In terms of CONSUMERS, they feel more and think less. It's a part of them. They are fans, craving the brand and build it into their life. They can't live without the brand. And the CHANNEL needs the brand, caters to them, cannot stand up to them. People would switch customers before switching brands. The channel finds themselves Powerless in negotiations. They need the brand.
Once the Beloved Brand has a power over the two main buyers–consumers and channel, they can use it over the other forces. No real SUBSTITUTES can match the Beloved Brand. It becomes less about product and more about connection and how consumer feels though the brand. You end up with a Monopoly on feelings which then takes away ability to substitute. Unless it is "better" what really can the substitute do. It is Hard for NEW BRANDS to break through. New brand starts in the rational position difficult to break the emotional bond. And SUPPLIERS are at the mercy of the brand. High volumes drive down costs and margins. Suppliers build completely around brand. Can't get out.
The Beloved Brand commands a power over their competitors in relative terms to their competitors whether it is Buyers, Substitutes Suppliers or New Entrants. If you look at the love consumers have for a brand like Apple, you can start to see how it becomes a power. Apple uses the love to replicate the power of a monopoly.
Going Beyond Porter
Porter is a great starting point for assessing brand power. But Brands are in the midst of a huge change on a few fronts. The obvious one people can see and touch is Media. But don't forget to look beneath the surface and you'll start to see a bigger change in brands than media and that's the Brand Culture and the Conversations.
There are now 5 types of media: paid, earned, social, search and home media. Back in the 1970s, it was all about advertising through PAID MEDIA, with 30 second TV, print and out of home ads. Even with Paid media, the Beloved Brand can get Better slots, lower rates and more integrations. The first social media I would argue is PR, capturing EARNED MEDIA and becoming part of the conversation at home or at the lunch table at work. A Beloved Brand is more newsworthy and their New Products are lead story. Look at the amount of positive press Apple gets from the news media. HOME MEDIA would be how you use your home page–whether to influence or sell. For a Beloved Brand, the website can engage inform, design and sell. As part of the SEARCH process it can be the destination. For a Beloved Brand, search is a winner, because Being a famous brand beats paid SEO. For SOCIAL MEDIA, a Beloved Brand has an easier time generating social spins, where advocates follow, share and spread the news.
As we take all that influence of media, we can start to see the influence of others can have on brand choices. KEY INFLUENCERS are more likely to actively recommend a Beloved Brand they feel emotionally connected. Look how Apple uses key influencers. And what is a growing area for Brand is CONVERSATIONS and the influence of popularity on our decisions. Beloved Brands know that a line up attracts a line.
Brand = Culture. Brand and Culture are one. Advocates want to work there. Fully Engaged on Day 1. The area many brand leaders are missing is the influence of CULTURE as a source of brand power. Brand Leaders should look to Culture as an Asset to make your Brand Experience more powerful. Brand Values should come from the DNA, and act as guideposts to ensure that the behavior of everyone in the organization is set to deliver upon the Brand's promise. Having values is one thing, but the other component of Culture is the right people leadership. Use the values to help people deliver upon the right behaviors, skills and experiences. Leaders must embody the Brand's DNA and live by the values. Employees will be watching the Leaders to ensure they are living up to the words on the wall. Leaders need to believe that by investing in their people, the business results will come. Better people produce better work and that drives better results. Talent management means hiring the right people and providing the right training. Too many companies are skimping on training and development, which is equivalent to cutting back on your R&D.
So with these 13 sources of Power, the Beloved Brand can leverage this power to drive higher growth and deeper profits. The Beloved Brand commands a premium price, lower costs, better shares and the ability to move into new categories. Each of these drives profit for the brand.
The more LOVED the brand, the more POWERFUL the brand.
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RE: Disclosure and Use of Tax Return Information REG 137243-02 http://www.irs.gov/irb/2006-03_IRB/ar16.html
- Introduction
- Consent for Disclosure of Tax Return Information Outside of the U.S.
- Consent for Solicitation of Services by Any Person
- Knowing, Informed and Voluntary Consent
To the Internal Revenue Service:
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse1 (PRC) is pleased to join the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in commenting on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS or agency) proposal to update rules regarding disclosure and use of tax return information by tax return preparers.2 http://epic.org/privacy/tax/irscom3806.html
We offer, in addition, the following supplemental comments.
At no time is one's expectation of privacy greater than with tax preparation. The proposed rules address privacy concerns in some important ways by requiring consumer consent where none was previously required. At the same time, the rules open the door for far more insidious privacy invasions by allowing tax return information to be used for marketing and shared by preparers with "any person."
We direct our comments to the following aspects of the proposed rule changes to 26 CFR Part 301.
- Consent for Disclosure of Tax Return Information Outside the United States
- Consent for Solicitation of Services by Any Person
- Knowing, Informed and Voluntary Consent
2. Consent for Disclosure of Tax Return Information Outside the United States
In recent years, advances in technology have led to outsourcing of all manner of customer financial transactions and account services. Driven by low-cost workers, large accounting firms and other tax preparers, like many other industries, contract with foreign companies. By most accounts, outsourcing for tax preparation has increased dramatically. The New York Times, for example, in a February 15, 2004, article, quoted one certified public accountant as saying: "The number of returns is four times larger than last year, and many more times the several thousand just two years ago."3
Risks to privacy and the inability of the individuals - and the government - to seek redress for privacy violations and data security breaches have been addressed by organizations such as the PRC,4 and in extensive press coverage, as well as a study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.5
To its credit, the IRS's proposed rule closes the loophole in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that requires neither notice nor consent before sensitive customer data is transmitted to foreign "service providers." In written comments and public hearings the agency will doubtless hear appeals from companies that outsource tax preparation seeking to modify or eliminate required consent. We urge the agency not to be swayed by these arguments. The agency must persist in putting privacy and security above corporate profits.
3. Consent for Solicitation of Services by "Any Person"
The proposed rules remove previous restrictions on sharing information outside an "affiliated group" for marketing. If adopted, tax return preparers may seek consent to furnish tax return information to ìany personî to solicit the taxpayer to purchase other products or services. In addition, the proposal allows that an entire tax return may be disclosed for marketing purposes. The privacy implications of this proposal are disturbing and far reaching.
To conduct most business, consumers may reveal only certain kinds of personal information. Tax return information, in contrast, can encompass nearly every aspect of a consumer's financial as well as personal life. Tax returns routinely include Social Security numbers, account numbers, investment successes - and failures - and even information about business or personal relationships gone sour. The marketing and profiling potential from such all-encompassing compilations of personal data is unlimited. Informed consent cannot be realistically obtained for all the potential uses if tax preparers are allowed to disclose information to "any person."
Consumers may ultimately sacrifice privacy in as yet untold ways. For example, a large corporate tax preparer that profits from the sale of tax return information to third-party solicitors may well afford to charge minimum fees for tax preparation. Small independent tax preparers that have no inclination to share information with outsiders may be forced to charge fees commensurate with the work involved solely in tax return preparation. If faced with a choice, some consumers, particularly those of modest means, may be forced to choose cost over privacy.
Another unfortunate byproduct of third-party sharing of tax return information could be that taxpayers are driven by cost considerations to large companies. This could easily prove the downfall of many independent preparers that may be more respectful of client privacy but that rely solely on income from tax preparation. This is not a result the IRS should encourage.
The IRS should abandon its proposal and specifically prohibit disclosures to third-party solicitors.
If the agency persists in removing barriers to third-party solicitations, the agency should place very stringent limitations on the practice. For example:
- Only identity information should be shared.
- Disclosures to third parties should be limited to solicitations for financial services or products.
- Preparers that provide information to third parties should be required to create an audit trail of all such disclosures.
- Third parties that receive tax return information should be prohibited from further disclosure of the information.
- Penalties for unauthorized disclosure or misuse of tax information should apply to third-party companies that receive information.
4. Knowing, Informed and Voluntary Consent
The proposed regulations are a great improvement over many other forms of notice and consent consumers now receive. For example, (1) notice of disclosures and use must be separate from all other documents, (2) the tax preparer may not condition services upon consent, and (3) consent must be obtained before information is disclosed.
We also agree with recommendations made by EPIC and NCLC addressing situations where time pressures and lack of English literacy may prevent taxpayers from reading consent forms. Thus, tax preparers must take extra steps to ensure that consent is informed and voluntary.
The IRS should also take steps to prohibit statements in the consent form implying that a taxpayer may be harmed by not giving consent. For example, consent forms should not include language such as, "By not consenting you may not learn about valuable offers." We have seen such statements included in privacy notices mandated by GLB. Some companies on the one hand give the required opt-out, but on the other hand include language to imply that opting out will have some adverse effect on the consumer. This should not be allowed in the tax preparers' consent forms.
To be fully informed, taxpayers should also be advised of the consequences of giving consent. For example, if a tax preparer seeks consent to the use of offshore tax preparation services, the consent form should clearly state that it is difficult ó or impossible ó for the United States Government to pursue an action against a tax preparer located outside the United States. Similarly, a tax preparer that seeks consumer consent to sell or share tax return information with a third-party non-affiliate should clearly advise the tax payer that information, once disclosed, is out of the tax preparer's control.
Again, we appreciate the opportunity to comment.
Beth Givens, Director
Tena Friery, Research Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
3100 5 th Ave., Suite B
San Diego, CA 92103
1. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer education and advocacy organization based in San Diego, CA, and established in 1992. The PRC advises consumers on a variety of informational privacy issues, including financial privacy, medical privacy and identity theft, through a series of fact sheets as well as individual counseling available via telephone and e-mail. It represents consumers' interests in legislative and regulatory proceedings on the state and federal levels. www.privacyrights.org
2. We have also reviewed, and fully endorse, the comments prepared and submitted by Chi Chi Wu of the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC).
3. 'Outsourcing Abroad Applies to Tax Returns, Too," Lynnley Browning, New York Times, February 15, 2004.
4. Statement on Outsourcing and Privacy, Testimony of PRC Director Beth Givens before the California Senate Business and Professions Committee, March 9, 2004.
5. Offshore Outsourcing of Data Services by Insured Institutions and Associated Consumer Privacy Risks, FDIC, June 2004, www.fdic.gov/regulations/examinations/offshore/


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TV and movie mogul J.J. Abrams ("Lost," "Super 8") is hoping you'll be as haunted by "Alcatraz" as he was by his visits to the long-abandoned prison island.
"It feels a little bit like a ghost house, like you're in this haunted house," Abrams says of the former federal penitentiary nicknamed "The Rock," which was closed in 1963. "Like the fact that it was this notorious prison, the look of it and the feel of it…We've filmed in other prisons and things ‑‑ this place does not feel like any other prison that I've either visited or served time in."
Abrams and his creative collaborators have concocted a Fox series springing out of Alcatraz's intimidating iconography, which looms large nearly five decades after it ceased to house prisoners. In fact, the shutdown of the prison figures prominently in series, which instead of being prompted by simple budgetary issues, the end of Alcatraz was prompted by the sudden disappearance of every living person – inmates and guards alike. And now, in the present day, several of those long-lost criminals are resurfacing, some untouched by the passage of time.
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"Alcatraz is notorious, and the criminals who were housed there were the worst of the worst and part of their crimes are somewhat reflective of their time," says executive producer Jennifer Johnson. "When we meet them present day, part of their unfinished business will be these tremendous and heinous crimes that they were pulling off in the past. And then the part that they haven't aged and that they feel that really no time has passed for them and they have the same venom and the same urgency in the same crimes that they're perpetrating as they did in the past before they disappeared, presents our team with a unique challenge and makes them think differently than other cops do because these guys are ghosts. They have no credit card records – they barely know what a credit card is. They don't have friends and family members they can go visit. They don't have a girlfriend or children around. So it's a unique crime show in that our team has to think completely outside of the box."
That team is comprised of San Francisco police detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) whose job draws her into the Alcatraz intrigue and hooks her due to a personal connection; Dr. Deigo "Doc" Soto ("Lost" alum Jorge Garcia), an author who's studied the prison's lore for years; and the enigmatic Emerson Hauser ("Jurassic Park" star Sam Neill), who's made it his life's mission to crack the mystery of the inmate disappearance.
"Each of their characters has an incredible tie to Alcatraz," says Johnson. "Rebecca had family members who were guards there. Her Uncle Ray, who raised her as a father, was a guard there. So was her grandfather – or so she thought….[There's] an intensely personal connection between Rebecca and Alcatraz. She might be getting closer to answers to her life story."
Garcia had a personal tie to the old prison as well: his girlfriend had been intensively researching a book on Alcatraz when Abrams first approached him about the new series. "When you read about historic criminals, there's a certain romanticism that you put on them, but then when they're in front of you, these are scary, scary, scary human beings, and it's kind of a wake‑up call for him when he volunteers with enthusiasm and then finds out this is a lot harder than he thought it was going to be."
Driving the mission to recapture the emerging Alcatraz inmates is Neill's shadowy secret agent.
"Hauser does bad s**t, but he does what's necessary," explains Neill. "He is, by no means, a guy with an entirely white hat. He has a lot of scars, and I'm interested to know about the other scars that I can see on his banged‑up old body. And I'm enjoying being in his company."
Not so much that spooky prison, adds Neill: "Just the name Alcatraz puts a shiver down my spine, you know?" he laughs. "The charisma of that strange place is something that I believe has permeated the show, and when I first went out there – it was 15 years ago – it just struck me as being something surreally cruel about that isolation in full view of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I'm very, very, you know, careful about my tax returns because I really don't want to go to prison anywhere, but imagine the cruelty of a prison where you sit behind bars looking at something as lovely as San Francisco and San Francisco is looking at you. That's such an incredibly harsh reality, and just that name tells you enough about the ethos of the show."
"Alcatraz" debuts tonight at 8 PM ET on FOX


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The Florida Highway Patrol said Monday that "charges are pending" in its case involving superstar golfer Tiger Woods, though it was unclear whether Woods and wife Elin Nordegren or other parties would be charged in the crash.
The agency released its first official statement Monday evening, saying the investigation continues and that authorities have been "unable to speak to Mr. Woods about the crash...despite attempts to do so," according to Usmagazine.com.
Woods' agent said Sunday his client was not required to speak to officers and that he had no "legal obligation" to meet with police after providing his license, registration and insurance.
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The golfer and wife Elin have denied three meetings with cops, and Woods' only comment on the accident has been a veiled apology defending his wife and calling the crash an "embarrassing" mistake.
"As you all know, I had a single-car accident earlier this week, and sustained some injuries. I have some cuts, bruising and right now I'm pretty sore," Woods wrote on his site Sunday.
"The situation is my fault, and obviously embarrassing for my family and me. I'm human and not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again," he wrote.
Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, turned away troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol for a third straight day Sunday.
Rumors have circulated since the crash that Woods and Nordegren fought before he got into the car, reportedly about allegations of Woods' affair with A-list night club hostess Rachel Uchitel as reported in the National Enquirer. Uchitel roundly denied the accusations to TMZ, saying she had never been with Woods. Uchitel was spotted Sunday leaving her Manhattan apartment and later connecting with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred in Los Angeles, the New York Daily News reported.
TMZ.com reported the scratches on Woods' face weren't from the car crash but from Nordegren herself, citing a source that had apparently talked to Woods after the accident.
Woods defended Nordegren, saying she acted "courageously" and bore no responsibility for Woods' crash.
"The only person responsible for the accident is me," Woods wrote. "My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false."
The No. 1-ranked golfer in the world asked that the media and fans provide "privacy" and "understanding" in the accident's aftermath.
"Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible," he wrote.
The Windermere Police Department initially reported that Nordegren heroically used a golf club to extricate Woods from the vehicle, but Nordegren told a different story to the Florida Highway Patrol, according to TMZ. The source TMZ spoke with said Nordegren didn't use a club to help get her husband to safety but instead struck the car with the club in anger before Woods drove away.
On Sunday police released a 911 tape from Woods' neighbor, which did not identify the famous golfer by name.
"I need an ambulance immediately, I have someone down in front of my house, they hit a pole," the male voice said. "They're laying on the ground. I see him and he's laying down… It's a black Escalade."
The couple previously turned police away for questioning twice, both late Friday and early Saturday, when Nordegren told officers Woods was sleeping and couldn't answer questions.


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San Francisco's Nob Hill is steeped (pun intended) in history, evinced by a plethora of significant architectural icons including Grace Cathedral, the Mark Hopkins Hotel, the Fairmont, Masonic Auditorium, 1201 California Street and the Pacific Union Club.
Known as California Hill prior to the 1850s, the neighborhood was reputedly renamed for the nabobs (or "nobs") Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker who built their mansions there after amassing fortunes in the railroad industry.
Called "The Big Four," these tycoons were investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, which brought to completion the first Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. Not surprisingly, they chose to live on high ground where the views were spectacular and where they didn't have to rub elbows with the denizens downhill.
Their grand estates did not survive the ravages of the 1906 earthquake, yet still today Nob Hill is synonymous with wealth and prestige. In addition to a host of seminal San Francisco landmarks, the hill is home to many well-kept Edwardian flats and apartment buildings, as well as several notable 20th-Century "vintage" high-rises like the Gramercy and the Comstock.
Perhaps most famous is 1201 California – known as the Cathedral Building. It was designed by the architectural firm Weeks and Day, which also created the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Constructed just prior to the publication of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, the building was his inspiration for the "Coronet Hotel."
Hammett famously intertwined real parts of San Francisco with fictional settings in his legendary novel. The femme fatale Bridgid O'Shaughnessy briefly stays at the Coronet and meets private detective Sam Spade there. Hammett writes, that (disguised as a Miss Wonderly) O'Shaughnessy "…in a belted crêpe silk dress, opened the door of apartment 1001 at the Coronet."
Ninety years later, Nob Hill retains its allure and appeal. It is clean, pleasing, safe and relatively quiet for being so close to the city's professional heart. There are numerous restaurants, shops and markets on and surrounding the hill: The Big Four, Trader Joe's, Venticello, Nob Hill Hardware, Brownie's, Top of the Mark, Nob Hill Grille, CVS Pharmacy, and the Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar.
It's a very walkable neighborhood with every destination on the downslope (walk down, Uber up). And MUNI and nearby cable car lines make it a cinch to get to and from the financial district, Union Square, Chinatown, Aquatic Park, North Beach, Polk Street, Pacific Heights and other destinations.
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