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There's a new doll on the market that has many parents up in arms. It cries, it makes sounds when it eats, it burps when patted. Sounds reasonable so far, right? So what's the big issue with this doll? Apparently the fact that instead of coming with a bottle to feed it, this baby doll comes with a nursing bra-like halter top and is, indeed, meant to be "breast-fed" by children.
Spanish toy maker Berjuan has created Bebé Glotón (which, despite the literal translation of "Baby Glutton," is actually a term of endearment in Spanish culture), a doll specifically designed for young children to breastfeed. The doll, which is not yet available in the United States, makes suckling sounds and motions when placed on the pasty-like flowers on the halter top that represent nipples. You can see a Bebé Glotón demonstration here.
Bebé Glotón by Berjuan Credit: Berjuan.com
There have been a mix of reactions to this doll by bloggers across the 'net. Some see it as a positive thing, helping to normalize breastfeeding and combat the ubiquitous inclusion of bottles with dolls, while others think the doll is stifling creativity and simply not necessary. Still others think a breastfeeding doll is exposing young children to too much, too soon.
Cate, a self-professed lactivist who writes at Eco Child's Play, says she doesn't believe that "setting aside creative, imaginative free play for an instructional doll is the best for kids. The silly doll is simply encouraging parents to buy more 'stuff,' and plastic stuff at that. Let your kid put her own favorite baby doll up her shirt and 'breastfeed.'"
On the other hand, Catherine from Their Bad Mother believes, "marketing dolls as nursing dolls is necessary, I would argue, because it counters the dominance of dollies-with-bottles. Children can pretend to breastfeed any old doll, but they don't, and they don't, arguably, because pretty much all of those dolls come with what are more or less express instructions to bottle feed this baby, dammit."
Beth at The Natural Mommy said when she first heard about the breastfeeding doll, she thought, "Finally!," but the more she learned the more she thought Bebé Glotón "was a bit much."
It includes a vest that the girl has to wear with appropriately placed flowers for the baby to nurse on. But wait a minute? Isn't the biggest convenience of breastfeeding the lack of required materials? I mean, really, all you need is a baby that roots around and sucks on whatever you place near his mouth as soon as you hold him in a horizontal position. That's pretty darn realistic, if you ask me. I just don't think we're clearing up any confusion by having little girls put on special vests to breastfeed.
Plus, without the vest, you get rid of all critics raising an eyebrow at the 'appropriately placed flowers.'
But then the same people will be telling little girls to please use a nursing blanket or go the restroom to feed their baby dolls.
And then the baby doll nurse-ins will begin.
Julia at Parent Dish believes there is a benefit to the doll. "Anything that encourages breast-feeding and empowers young girls to embrace the natural side of womanhood is a good thing."
Melissa at Rock and Drool, however, is adamantly against the doll stating there is "no way in HELL" she would ever buy this doll for her daughters and goes so far as to call it "ridiculous," "stupid," and "moronic." Melissa, who points out that she breastfed her three children, said, "Are you freaking kidding me? A DOLL to promote breastfeeding? In children? WHY??? I fail to see the notion of how a doll is going to promote something like breastfeeding. And I don't understand why it's necessary! Quite frankly, I can't even voice why this doll disturbs me on so many levels. It does. It's just…WRONG."
Julie from Julie's Health Club on the Chicago Tribune asks, "if it's OK for children to mimic bottle feeding a baby, why shouldn't they be encouraged to breastfeed a baby?
But in the U.S., breastfeeding is often seen as a sexual act, rather than vital nourishment. And despite the popularity of those tarty Bratz dolls, many parents are concerned that a breastfeeding doll is too much too soon. What's next? Playing house and pretending to make the baby?"
A commenter on Julie's Health Club reacted strongly by saying, "This is a sad, stupid, ignorant, very untasteful way to raise a child. Let a child be a child! Stop trying to fill their minds with things they should not even know about until they are of age to know. If United States lets this doll come in, we will see more children abused, sexually, and they will be led to doing things grown ups do before they are 5 years old even. America!!!!!!!!!!! Wake Up!!!!!!!!!"
Bloggers aren't the only ones talking about Bebé Glotón. Fox News chimed in on the "controversial" doll, by linking (probably not surprisingly) breastfeeding with sex.
Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FOXNews.com, said although he supports the idea of breast-feeding, he sees how his own daughter plays with dolls and wonders if Bebe Gloton might speed up maternal urges in the little girls who play it.
"Pregnancy has to entail maturity and understanding," Alvarez said. "It's like introducing sex education in first grade instead of seventh or eighth grade. Or, it could inadvertently lead little girls to become traumatized. You never know the effects this could have until she's older."
Sommer at Mama 2 Mama Tips said, "I have to wonder if Dr. Manny Alvarez is ignorant on history, does he think breasts have always been about sex and selling beer? Most likely he is projecting his ideas about sex and breasts onto children. To a child there is nothing sexual or inappropriate about pretending to breastfeed a doll. Because there is nothing sexual to young children, period. Certainly not feeding a baby doll, whether it be bottle or breast."
As for my opinion, I believe children imitate what they see. If they see mom, auntie, or mom's friend regularly breastfeeding a baby, chances are they at some point will try to do the same. I can't count the number of times my daughter Ava tucked a baby doll under her shirt to "nurse" it, just like she saw her mama nursing her brother Julian. And while to my knowledge my younger son Julian has not nursed any dolls himself, he has brought me dolls, stuffed animals, Legos, etc. for me to "nurse" and I know of many little boys who have nursed their dolls. There has never been anything sexual about my kids nursing dolls nor have either of them expressed interest in having a baby of their own. I mean, c'mon, does this look sexual to you?
I think Bebé Glotón is a bit gimmicky and I am not in favor of toys that are made to perform a certain function and stifle creativity (or ones that are battery-operated). I also don't believe having a special breastfeeding doll is necessary. However, I do think it's good to have another option available on the market besides all of the dollies with a bottle. If a well-meaning friend or relative wanted to buy my child a doll and knew that we did not formula-feed, I'd like to think she'd have the option of buying a breastfeeding doll like Bebé Glotón. I wouldn't seek out the doll myself for reasons already stated, but if we were to receive it as a gift, that would be fine by me. For the record, Ava saw the YouTube video of the doll and said she wants one. I'm not getting her one, but still, this doll obviously has some appeal to little girls. Julian, on the other hand, after watching it just kept imitating the doll's burps. 😉
What do you think about Bebé Glotón?
Related posts:
From The Unnecesarean: Spanish Toy Maker Introduces World's First Breastfeeding Doll
From Alpha Mommy: The Doll that Breastfeeds
From Feministing: Breastfeeding doll will lead to horny 5 year olds, pregnancy
From MotherLode: A Doll That Breast-feeds
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As we mentioned, the Corsair Vengeance memory modules feature a new aluminum heat spreader to help dissipate heat and also provide an aggressive look. The icing on the cake is the price, Corsair is pushing their high capacity Vengeance models into some pretty sweet price points. Our Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 memory kit is available for as little as $104.99. That's a lot of memory for not much money!
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For six years, about 300 hybrid vehicles slated for Miami-Dade municipal service sat unused in a Miami parking garage. The $4 million fleet of low-emission cars, trucks and vans produced absolutely no emissions as they sat unused, although more than 125 cars have entered service since South Florida's el Nuevo Herald shed light on the mothballed fleet last fall.
The reason for the vehicles' longterm storage is unclear, but taxpayers were peeved enough at the mayor whose administration bought the dormant fleet — Carlos Alvarez — to oust him in a recall in March 2011. But nothing had been done about the unused cars when el Nuevo Herald covered the gas-sipping ghost fleet in a special report. To date, about 170 of the vehicles remain, including patrol cars, Priuses, trucks and vans.
Concern about Prius batteries sitting unused for more than half a decade have been assuaged by Toyota's limited powertrain warranty, which covers the pricey battery packs for eight years or 80,000 miles. Miami-Dade's new Carlos, er, mayor — Carlos Gimenez — assured his constituents that the previous Carlos' misappropriations are under investigation.
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A bear having entered into monastic life spoke highly of his love for vow of silence. For days he spoke how he had loved a rowdy life and recited all his past escapades. "Now as I go through every little transgression I feel myself blessed. Wasn't Holy Spirit behind me after all?" After having exhausted his understanding on the subject he ended saying, "Am I not fortunate?" Brother Fox who was subjected to the non-stop confidences of the bear finally blurted out, "If only you had shown your gift for introspection before you took the vows, this monastic life might still yield some fruits for me."
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This went somewhat un-noticed during all the media hype of the Olympics going on currently, but Goodell told PFT's Mike Florio that he wants the NFL to be an olympic sport.
If you've been watching the Olympics (or at least reading the killer coverage our guys have been banging out), you're fully aware just how ridiculous some of the sports being played in London are. To wit: the silly shuttlecock scandalthat went down this week in badminton.
The point here is really that badminton is an Olympic sport and football is not. That seems, at least in the spirit of gladiating and whatnot, kind of ridiculous. Fortunately, change could be coming: Roger Goodell told Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio on the Dan Patrick Show Friday that American football should "absolutely" be an Olympic sport.
"Absolutely. We're already taking steps to gain that IOC recognition," Goodell said. "We have, I think, 64 countries that are playing American football now, and that's one of the requirements. That's been growing dramatically -- I think it was 40 just five years ago."
Naturally, no one in the NFL minds that this increase in worldwide football playing equates to many more people around the world wanting to purchase team-related merchandise. But the game truly is international (if you want a great example, see the podcast that friend of the blog Ric Silvestre does at NFLemPT.com, a Portuguese site dedicated to the NFL) and Goodell would love for that to be reflected in the international games.
Plus, look at what playing in the Olympics did for the NBA. Once pros started going to the games in 1992 with the Dream Team, the international popularity of the NBA absolutely exploded. And for Goodell and the NFL, joining the Olympics could certainly be a stepping stone to getting an international franchise in the league.
"Our point is just to keep growing the game," Goodell said. "We're having a tremendous reaction in London and the UK for the game of football, our regular season game over there is sold out again this year, we are seriously contemplating as early as 2013 playing two NFL games next season and I think we'll do that. It's a response to the tremendous fan reaction and the growth of the game. If we can continue to grow the game there and have the fan reaction that we have, there very well may be a franchise in London."
Obviously they'll continue with the UK series, which will be the real impetus for getting a franchise across the pond. But the continued push to get American football in the Olympics (and the laughable dominance of the USA in the sport for the short- and long-term future) will only help, as the NFL's worldwide popularity would grow exponentially.


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Ancient people had created work songs to get them through labour which was often imposed. Nowadays work song could refer to the music one listens to while at work. Whatever your interpretation, we would like to hear it from you.
The artists in residency, Taryn Takahashi and Hyo Myoung Kim, at Gallery Primo Alonso are interested in the historically spontaneous emergence of work songs. Our project incorporates this nature of work song to create works based on your work song during the residency period in August 2009.
Let us know what your work is and what you sing (or perform in any other way: hum, whistle, tap, etc) or listen to while working, we will share the resulting works along with the information of the origin of the works in the commencing exhibition and the online space constructed for the project.
In August, you can visit us at Gallery Primo Alonso during the weekends from 12pm-5pm or weekdays by appointment. You can perform your interpretation of work song live, to be recorded if you wish. You can also send a recording via email or share the link where we can have access to it. We will receive input for the whole period of August.
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3. What song do you sing when you work or what song or music do you listen to when you work (referred to as "work song")?
4. How does your work song affect you and your work?
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Q: My Grandparents were: Guy Lucian Martin and Geraldine (possibly spelled Geraldeen) Lyle. My grandfather was supposedly born January, 1899 in Purdy Co. Oklahoma. My Grandmother was (supposedly) born in Tennessee circa 1905. With so, so many sites with conflicting records, one could go crazy!
Lorine's A: Start with the U.S. census - it will help you sort
out family groups. It will also give you birth locations and approximate years, plus parents places of birth and much more (depending on the census year)
First, I'd go to http://allcensusrecords.com/ and see what questions are asked on each census. Then I'd start looking for your family, going backwards one census year at a time.
For the ancestors you named above, you have some great clues to get you started -- look for Guy in the 1910 census, see if you can find his parents. He'd be about 11
years old. Same for Geraldine. She would be a 5 year old (or 4 or 6, don't be too concerned if the ages are out by a year or so)
Q: My Grandmother's parents were: Sidney Lyle and Georgia Lovell. Where they were born is a mystery as well, I would presume late 1800s?
Lorine's A: Okay so you have Geraldine's parents names - find them in 1910, then 1900 then 1880 census....get an approximate year of birth and a location of birth for both of them.
Q: My father as well was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma September 2, 1926. His name was James Kenneth Rothner. Him, of course, I know about, however HIS Mother and father are, to say the least are a mystery!
Lorine's A: You have so many more clues than you realize. You can find your dad and his parents in the 1930 census! He will be about 4 years old. Finding them will give you great clues and you can then work backwards on this family - to 1920, 1910 etc.
Q: His mother's name was Joy Rothner, nee: Davis. She was supposedly born in Tennessee. My grandfather was Frank Rothner, where, when, he was born I cannot find.
Lorine's A: Census, census census... I can't stress this enough. Get those census records from 1930 back, and get your family groups in order. Write down everything you find! Keep careful track of dates of birth, locations of birth,
parents birth locations, etc.
Be sure to keep track of all children, don't just focus on your direct ancestor. You never know when you will need to find out something that will require the name of a sibling or research on a sibling will lead you to the parents....
http://allcensusrecords.com/ will get you started, and give you an idea of where to look for the census you need. Once you get back to 1880 it's online for free at http://familysearch.org/
There are some tips and suggestions for using search engines effectively at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ If you are new to searching, you might not get good results if you don't know
how to widen your searches to allow for spelling errors and mistakes in indexing.
Here's an example of what census research can tell you. I had a quick look in the
1930 census for your Frank and Joy and James Kenneth... It took a bit of time but I found them. Frank's real name is Theodore. That's a good example of family lore being not quite correct. James Kenneth is listed as Kenneth J. The surname is indexed as rothMer, but on the census page itself it is rothNer. (although the surname is a bit smudged and could easily be misread as rothMer)
So it's kind of hard to find them in an index unless you are willing to search under the last name (using wildcards!) and location and check every possibility
Here's where they are: Oklahoma > Tulsa > Tulsa > District 116
Brief extract:
- Rothner, Theodore, head age 27, b Missouri, md at age 18, father and mother born "United States"
- Rothner, Joy J? or G?, wife, age 28, b Arkansas, father b Illinois, mother b Texas
- Rothner,Frank S son 5 b OK
- Rothner,Kenneth J son 3 b OK
- Rothner,Teddy son 1 b OK
- Davis, Mary E., mother in law 61, widow, md at age 31, b Texas, father b Mississippi mother b Tennesee
- Berry, Sadie, aunt (more details in the census)
- Davis, Winnie B, brother in law (more details in the census)
I didn't write out all the details, but you can see what a fantastic amount of new facts you have now added to your family tree with one census record!
You now know that your grandfather went by the name Theodore -- and you have some new questions to answer - did he also use the name Frank, or was that a mis-remembered piece of family lore?
You have approximate years and places of birth for your grandparents Theodore Rothner and his wife Joy Davis.
You have Joy's mother's name, approx. year of birth and place of birth.
You have Joy's mother's approximate year of marriage - and can look for a marriage certificate
You have Joy's father's place of birth and you know he died before 1930.
You have a brother for your Joy. You have an aunt Sadie -- it's up to you to find out how she fits into the family. Since the relationship of each person is given re the head of the house, we might expect that Sadie is Theodore's aunt. However you need to take a good look at the census details and keep an open mind. This may be very helpful as you continue backwards on the Rothner & Davis families.
You have an approximate year of marriage for Theodore and Joy, given his age of 18 at marriage, so now you can look for a marriage certificate - the fun just goes on and on! I only looked in one census for one of your family lines - and you have several more to go.
I'm itching to search this family myself, what fun you are going to have!


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I met Actor/Director Gregg T. Daniel relaxing with a fresh salad in the lobby of the Lounge Theatre, waiting for me to get my interview notes together. I wasn't late, but I felt like I was; because Mr. Daniel's sites were already launched and soaring towards accomplishing his latest project; so I had some catching up to do. Having come fresh off of his critically acclaimed run of August Wilson's Jitney at South Coast Repertory (and later the Pasadena Playhouse), it was a little surprising to witness his exuberance. Most performers usually need a bit of down time to shake off the yoke of a demanding acting role. But Mr. Daniel is spry and enthusiastic, ready to direct Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble's passion project, Elmina's Kitchen. And that enthusiasm was quite contagious.
How did acting find you?
I grew up in Brooklyn. My father was Caribbean, my mother's American, and because my father came out of that British educational system, Shakespeare was big in our house. The tragedies, the comedies, the sonnets, and I would actually read them being the precocious child that I was. I didn't know about iambic pentameter, but something about the language really attracted me. I just felt the rhythm of it, the power of it. So words and language became my love, my joy.
But it wasn't until high school that I realized I wanted to be in the performing arts. But I think the foundation was that I had been exposed to plays and language more specifically. I was sensitized to language; and of course theatre is all about language. Then I went to NYU which was in the Village. There were all these companies that were doing all this vital work at the time and I was exposed to all that.
I experienced something a lot like that. I fell in love with language, and out of that, became a writer.
Exactly. There's something in the DNA that when it was triggered by exposure to those forms, it just filled us if I could be so bold. I was so filled with the love of it that soon I was just plotting my chart for, how do I get more? The difficulty was that no one in my family came from the performing arts. So trying to chart a course to… what do I do now? How do you pursue an education in the arts when your parents can't really help you in terms of pointing you in the right direction? But thank God I did have a lot of people around me, friends [who] made me aware of those place, NYU, Julliard and conservatory programs.
So how did directing find you?
Once I graduated, I wanted to get as far away from the conservatory program as possible. My first job out of school was at Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Then I went on to Hartford stage. It was the first time I had to compare my process and my conservatory training with that of other actors. And thank God the directors that I worked with were kind enough to see that, I started asking lots of questions - and got a lot of answers - and that got me on the track for this directing thing. I still loved acting but I still was excited about the whole Mise-en-scène: how you have the lights and costumes and the sound, all make that story. So when I got back to New York I started my own theatre company.
What's your first love? Acting or Directing.
Oh that's tough. As I grow older, probably directing. I think [acting] because I needed to be on stage, and being in the character. But as I grow older, I love working with actors; and not just actors, designers. I guess being aware of the whole rather than the one. As an actor you concentrate on how do I make my character work, why does he want this, what's preventing him from getting it? But when you are looking at the directing puzzle it's so much more [about] how do I make everything tell the same story. I think that inspires me now. I would never leave acting, I love it. There are still so many roles I want to play. However, the directing I'm definitely leaning toward now. And I'm doing it more now; now that we have a company here too, it's making me a better director.
Let's talk about your company.
Sure, Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. It was formed three or four years ago by myself and some colleagues of mine. They have careers, but were passionate about doing material and working on stage. And really the only way you can do that, other than waiting to get a phone call from a theatre company, is to do your own thing. It goes back to getting older and I don't want to wait for a phone call to get me started on this amazing play. I don't wanna wait! You want to start doing your own. So we were audacious enough to say OK, says go!
Thank God we weren't young. It's wasn't like 'I've got a barn, let's start a theatre.' We were married, we were having children, but we still had that same need. So with that we said, 'OK, let's start a theatre company.' There are four founding members, my wife, myself, and another younger couple from Chicago. (Gregg T. Daniel, Jason DeLane, Yvonne Huff, Veralyn Jones)
LA is very such a film and television town. New York and Chicago are very much steeped in theatre. So when all of us started migrating out here because we wanted to make a living, we started doing film and television. But the need to do theatre was strong as ever. So that's how we came together and said we're going to found a company. We said we're going to look at the kind of material we wanted to do and we're gonna do it!
I read that LDTE was primarily founded on the premise of maturity and experience in exploring works. Does that mean no young folks allowed?
Oh, absolutely not! We have guest performers all the time. For example, our inaugural production was called Three Sisters After Chekov, a wonderful adaptation of Chekov's Three Sisters set in Trinidad, in 1941. The founding members were in it, of course I directed and there were a wealth of guest artists in it. I'm excited when I come across young actors; there's a whole generation of young actors that I don't know, and they're damn good!
Of course it depends a lot on the play we're doing, if it calls for a younger actor sure. Eventually we would like to have a program where we are all training and taking classes together. That's the true sense of a company. Not together to do one play, but you're exploring Alexander technique, restoration, Masques, almost harkened back to my conservatory days where you're training your entire instrument; a company that trains together and comes up with techniques together.
Do you ever see this company doing a musical?
Absolutely, absolutely. I have a lot of respect for musicals. They are very hard to do. The cardinal rule with musicals is when you can't say it, you sing it. And that's the best musicals when it's not motivated by a song, it's because a group of people need to communicate with song. But pulling material from the places that we do, we might even commission a musical one day. As long as it fits our mission statement and it's material that we feel is relevant, and will resonate with LA audiences because that's our base, oh yeah.
The next production from LDTE is called Elmina's Kitchen.
It's sort of the clash of three generations of men in this family in contemporary London, all feeling disenfranchised because while they are living in England, the first generation of the English born blacks of England's large Caribbean population, they are still part of the minority culture. It's just a beautiful story!
How did you find it?
USC. Earlier this year they were doing a symposium called "Voices from the Black Diaspora" and they invited an aborigine writer from Australia, they invited an Ethiopian woman, and they invited this brother, a Black British playwright named Kwame Kwei-Armah. And we did snippets from each play. And when I heard two scenes from Kwame's Elmina's Kitchen, I thought 'wow, this is an interesting play. I wonder what the rest of it is [like]. So I ordered it, I read it and thought, this play is perfect for our company. This [play] fits our mission statement perfectly! Our interest seems to be leaning to more global voices. That seemed to be our niche right now. Voices that are unique to a culture, but still involve people of color.
By the way, I just read that Kwame Kwei-Armah is now the artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore. He is going to try and fly out for the opening[LDTE 's production of Elmina's Kitchen happens this August 2012].
Aside from the great writing, why select this play? Are there relevant themes you want to explore in this piece?
Yes! It's really a cautionary tale about what's happening to inner city communities. It's a lot about young people being drawn to crime. Young people who have broken their relationship with their parents, who are seeing the way to success as being gangs. This play is a cautionary tale about what happens when those generational ties are broken. Every day you see in the paper just younger people, dying. And lots of innocents too. So it's for my community, for the black community, that's why we're doing it. Because it's the same story whether it's in Brickton or it's in Compton or Watts or God knows what areas of Paris compare. But in terms of people feeling powerless, people feeling disenfranchised and turning to the only way they know how to feel successful. And a younger generation being lost in that [feeling of powerlessness], who has eschewed school and can't seem to find a regular way to achieve the dreams. So they are turning to the streets and to crime and to gangs, and to violence.
I was surprised how universal that struggle was, no matter what country you were in. If we don't establish those ties with younger people again, and bring them in, we'll probably lose a whole generation. That's why we're doing the play, because it resonates so much in minority communities in major cities.
Any plans to do community partnerships or outreach?
We have someone on outreach. We would love to bring in young people for special performances, discounted performances for either schools or organizations to come see this play. Because they really are the ones who need to see it. There is a theater-going audience who just loves drama and loves a well-written play. But the audience we're really speaking to are the young people.
I love your excitement. You seem like a person that really loves what they do.
I do. I've been very very lucky. When I fell in love with language, I was able to find what my voice was going to be. To be able to make a living at what I do… which is not just film and television, with stage, I can't complain!
The name and the mission of the Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble are mirror images of themselves. The goal of the company is to reach the lower depths, or rather the deeper layers of emotions and performance aesthetic in theatrical stage works. On the brink of its second full fledged production, resident director Gregg T. Daniel and company seem ready and eager to tackle this latest work, written by and featuring a story about people of color.
The Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble presents the West Coast Premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah's play Elmina's Kitchen August 11, through September 9, 2012 @:
The Lost Studio
130 South La Brea, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Please ticket info call: (323) 960-4451
Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.


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I love to make simple quilts and let the fabric do all the work. Especially when the fabric is large-scale or busy. I created this simple four-patch quilt to show off pieces of the Lecien Merry Bon Bon collection. The cute, retro-inspired prints create a quilt with a very vintage nursery feel.
Adding to the vintage-y feel of this quilt, it came out of the dryer especially crinkly thanks to the linen in the Merry Bon Bon fabric. I love the finished effect. So soft and snuggly.
This quilt was made as a sample for American Quilting in Utah where I used to work.


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Bingham, William
7 July 1835–18 Feb. 1873
William Bingham, author and educator, was born in Hillsborough, the fourth child and eldest son of William James Bingham, headmaster of Hillsborough Academy, and his wife, Eliza Alves Norwood. Named for his paternal grandfather, who was a schoolmaster and professor at The University of North Carolina, he was also, on his mother's side, a great-grandson of James Hogg (1729–1805), a Hillsborough merchant.
At the age of ten, Bingham moved with his family to Oaks, a rural community twelve miles southwest of Hillsborough. Completing the course of study at his father's school at fourteen, he remained at home and worked at the family farm until 1853, when he entered The University of North Carolina. Graduating with first honors in 1856, he chose as the topic of his commencement address "The People and Their Common Schools." Soon afterward, his father employed him as a teacher. In January 1857 he was made a full partner in the school, under the firm name W. J. Bingham and Sons. Later that year, with his younger brother, Robert, he toured several private schools in Virginia to observe their teaching methods.
Bingham remained with the school for the rest of his life, initially concentrating upon the preparation of more advanced pupils for college. His father's failing health, and after 1861, his brother's absence with the Army of Northern Virginia made him the dominant figure in the school's management. Late in 1863 he officially became headmaster. A year later, in December 1864, he succeeded in obtaining a special, thirty-year charter for the school from the General Assembly. Under its provisions, its pupils would be exempt from conscription until the age of eighteen but would receive military training, live under military discipline, and be liable for mobilization as a separate unit in case of local emergency. Bingham himself, as headmaster, became an ex officio colonel in the state militia, and his instructors were likewise granted militia commissions. By this charter, the school's curriculum was militarized for the first time, and, also for the first time, the school officially became "The Bingham School." That same month, Bingham moved the school from Oaks to Mebane, a railroad junction in eastern Alamance County, to give it better access to transport; and he reopened its boarding program, which his father, with a few exceptions, had allowed to lapse after leaving Hillsborough in 1845.
With the aid of his brother-in-law, Stuart White, and a cousin, William B. Lynch, whom he had accepted as partners in 1864, Bingham kept the school open throughout the Civil War, except for a brief period during Stoneman's Raid, when the student body was called to active duty. At the same time, by virtue of his militia rank, he exercised various military police functions for the state government throughout portions of Orange and Alamance counties. In 1865 he bought out White and Lynch's interests and resumed his position as headmaster and sole proprietor of the school.
Meanwhile, Bingham met with success in another quarter. During the war, he had written and published under Confederate imprint a Latin grammar (1863) and an edited translation of Caesar's Commentaries (1864). By the late 1870s, both were being used as textbooks in almost every state in the Union, and both remained in print for over twenty-five years. Bingham also produced an English grammar (1867) and a series of Latin readers; at the time of his death, he was preparing a textbook on Latin prose composition.
In early 1873, Bingham suffered an apparent physical collapse, attributed by contemporaries to strain and overwork. By 1 Feb. he was well enough to accompany his brother to Raleigh as a member of a delegation of fifty-five dignitaries petitioning the state senate to reopen the university. Three weeks later, however, he died in Gainesville, Fla., where he had traveled for his health, and was buried in the Mebane City Cemetery.
Bingham served as a Presbyterian elder for much of his adult life. Celebrated for an extraordinary speaking ability, he was also an accomplished pianist and organist and was highly regarded as an occasional poet. In December 1856 he married Owen White, the sister of a college friend. The couple had six children: William James (28 Nov. 1857–24 Jan. 1888), Ernest, Walter Lenoir (1863–86), Norwood, Herbert (1873–97), and Mary Stuart, who married Preston Lewis Grey, of Bristol, Va.
Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 4 (1906).
Kemp P. Battle, "Orange County," Western North Carolina Historical and Biographical (1890).
William Bingham, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (1864), A Grammar of the English Language (1867), A Grammar of the Latin Language (1863), A Latin Reader (1869), The Life and Writings of Hugh Miller (1859), "The People and Their Common Schools" (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and "There Remaineth a Rest to the People of God," The North Carolina Speaker, ed. Eugene G. Harrell and John B. Neathery (1887).
Raleigh State Chronicle, 6 Dec. 1893.
C. L. Raper, The Church and Private Schools of North Carolina (1898).
Robert Hamlin Stone, A History of Orange Presbytery, 1770–1970 (1970).
Walter P. Williamson, "The Bingham School," Our Living and Our Dead, vol. 2 (1875).
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"Bingham School." N.C. Highway Historical Marker P-16, N.C. Office of Archives & History. https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/division-historical-resources/nc-highway-historical-marker-program/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&k=Markers&sv=P-16 (accessed March 15, 2013).
"William Bingham's Superintendency." Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina part 2. Raleigh: Guy V. Turner. 1898. 151-153. http://books.google.com/books?id=9AnNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA935#v=onepage&q&f=false
Bingham, Sallie. Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir, with a New Introduction. New York: Applause Books. 1991. 94-102. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOtWPQJsEvIC&lpg=PA94&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed March 15, 2013).
Image Credits:
E.G. Williams and Bro. "Engraving, Accession #: H.19XX.318.142." 1907. North Carolina Museum of History.
1 January 1979 | Steelman, Bennett L.
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