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Jason Snelling
The young football star has a bright future ahead of him - and he isn't about to let his epilepsy slow him down.
From the time he was 15 years old, Jason Snelling, currently a running back for the Atlanta Falcons, experienced a mysterious ailment that caused seizures, dizziness, and migraines. Perhaps worst of all, it almost cost him his football career.
Five years later, he was diagnosed with epilepsy, an often misunderstood neurological disorder that affects approximately 2.5 million Americans. Contributing to the difficulty in diagnosing (and treating) epilepsy is the fact that it's not a "disease" in and of itself, but rather a condition where abnormal electrical activity in the brain causes an involuntary change in body movement, awareness, sensation, or behavior. The only visible result is a seizure, although there are many types and varying severities of seizures.
Clearly as unafraid of a challenge off the field as on it, Snelling recently decided to speak out about his ongoing battle with epilepsy. He participated in the National Walk for Epilepsy on March 28 in Washington, D.C., and created a walk team called "Rush to Support Epilepsy," in the hopes of raising awareness about the condition and reducing the stigma sometimes associated with it.
Everyday Health: What was it like when you were diagnosed with epilepsy?
Jason Snelling: It took a long time for the doctors to diagnose me because not all seizures are due to epilepsy; it could have been a seizure disorder that was caused by something else. In my case, it did turn out to be epilepsy. On one hand, I was happy - after all those years of not knowing - to finally know what it was, and that it was something that could be controlled. But on the other hand, I wasn't that familiar with what epilepsy was and everything that it entailed. When I found out exactly what it meant and that I'd have to take medicine every day, I felt a little discouraged. I didn't like the idea of having to be dependent on medicine every day like that. That was hard for me at first.
Everyday Health: Were you uncomfortable telling people that you had epilepsy?
Jason Snelling: When I was younger, I wasn't upfront about it right away - not at all. You know, it's a scary thing, even with people who are close to you, for them to see a seizure for the first time. And at first, I wasn't sure how people would react to the news that I had epilepsy. I wasn't sure about my peers because even with the ones that accept it and are supportive, it still frightens them. Also, a lot of people don't understand the condition. So, I wasn't always upfront. But then I realized that people were more supportive than I thought, and I wasn't giving people enough credit; I've been lucky to always have support around me.
If you just explain it to people, they're very understanding. It's good just to let them know. It's good to make people aware that there are people like me who have epilepsy. So yes, at first, it took a while. But as I got older and as I realized that epilepsy was something I could manage, I felt like my story could be positive for a lot of people.
Everyday Health: Why did you decide to start speaking publicly about having epilepsy?
Jason Snelling: I had been involved with the Epilepsy Foundation in college, and then, after I started playing for the NFL, I wanted to start speaking out more and let people know that it's possible to achieve whatever they want. I figured that now I'm in a good position for spreading the word about epilepsy, and it all came together when I was given the opportunity to participate in the National Walk for Epilepsy. I'm very, very excited to have participated in that.
Everyday Health: Has your epilepsy affected your football career? And if so, how?
Jason Snelling: Actually, yes, it did, during my sophomore year in college. It was a time when my epilepsy wasn't controlled and I was trying to find the right medication. I was having migraines and a lot of dizziness, and I couldn't play football. But then I got with a great team of doctors, and together we found a medication that worked for me - and it's been working for me ever since. Until that happened, though, it looked like I might not be able to play at all. I tried to stay positive during that time, and it all worked out. I thank God I was able to find something that worked for me. And I encourage others to keep trying to find the things that work for them.
Everyday Health: How has your epilepsy affected your approach to your overall health?
Jason Snelling: It just makes me want to take good care of my body in general. First of all, in terms of the things I eat, I had to go through different dietary regimens when I was being tested for epilepsy, and I maintain a strict diet. Also, I don't drink, and I always get enough rest. I stay in contact with my medical team, of course, and just generally have a pretty good approach to my overall health.
Everyday Health: Are you ever apprehensive about playing such a rigorous sport?
Jason Snelling: No, not really. I've been playing all my life. And to be honest, [regarding] the times when I've had seizures, it's actually never been when I've been playing sports or exerting or anything like that. Seventy percent of the cases of epilepsy have no cause, and that's the category I fall into. So, I don't worry about football ever triggering an episode at all.
Everyday Health: What advice do you have for someone who's recently been diagnosed with epilepsy?
Jason Snelling: You know, there's a big fear factor about having seizures in public, of maybe having one in front of other people. And I like to tell people not to worry so much about that - epilepsy can be managed, and you can go on and do whatever you want to do. I was able to fight my fears and overcome a lot of things; having epilepsy has actually built my character.
Whenever I talk to kids, I tell them to remember that epilepsy is something that can be controlled. You just have to take more precautions and do a little bit more to take care of your body; with epilepsy, your body is working on a different track than other people's. It's a neurological condition. I tell people that they have to pay attention to the small things - make sure you get enough rest and eat right. I don't drink because it could raise my chances of having a seizure. So, sure, there are certain things that you're going to have to sacrifice.
It's also important to remember that taking the medicine every day, consistently - just doing that one thing - could be the difference between having a seizure and not. Once you have a seizure, you're more vulnerable to having another one; that cycle repeats itself, and it can be dangerous. So, it's the little things like resting, eating well and taking your medicine. And once you get into the rhythm of doing that, you begin to understand that you can have the same quality of life and it can all be positive.


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LPL Financial said in early June that Dan Arnold, currently head of strategy for the largest independent broker-dealer, had been named chief financial officer of the company, the latest step in a management reorganization that has played out over the last few months.
In assuming the CFO position effective June 15, Arnold replaced Robert Moore, who became LPL's president (replacing LPL veteran Esther Stearns, who took a new job at the company) and COO on May 1. Following what Arnold says is be a three-month "deliberate and thoughtful" transition period, he will begin reporting to Mark Casady, chairman and CEO of LPL.
Running strategy for the company, Arnold added that he gained a "whole perspective" on the company, noting that he "had the good opportunity to run Uvest for 12 years," eventually selling Uvest—which provides brokerage services through regional and community banks and credit unions—to LPL in 2006.
Prior to becoming head of strategy for LPL, Arnold was president for four-and-a-half years of LPL's Institution Services division, which includes Uvest and provides brokerage and insurance services to 680 banks and credit unions.
Becoming CFO, he explained, a role in which he will be able "to support the entire customer base" of LPL, including its nearly 13,000 representatives, "was very appealing to me."
As CFO, he will continue to manage the public company's capital with a "strategic outlook" and to align LPL's investments so as to expand its capabilities, enter new markets and drive more automation and productivity to all its constituents. LPL, he said, will continue to support organic growth opportunities and "acquisition opportunities."
Wells Fargo Advisors said in early June that Kent Christian is the new president of Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network (FiNet), the firm's independent channel. Christian replaces John Peluso, who was recently tapped to become president of First Clearing Correspondent Services, a non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo.
"Kent brings to FiNet essential experience, an informed perspective and leadership skills that will help us to further strengthen our firm's attractiveness to a growing number of entrepreneurial minded, independent advisors," said Wells Fargo Advisors CEO and President Danny Ludeman, in a press release.
"His appointment to lead our independent advisor business underscores the importance we place on serving the needs of independent business owners," added Ludeman. "It also affirms our commitment to the multi-channel model that provides choice and flexibility to advisors and clients."
Christian joined Wells Fargo Advisors in 2005 as president of the independent brokerage group, which includes FiNet. Most recently, he was president of Wells Fargo Advisors' Financial Services Group.
"This is an exciting time for Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, and I am excited to help lead a team of talented managers supporting strong independent business owners in their efforts to serve their clients," Christian said in a statement. "In many ways, returning to the independent brokerage business is like a homecoming for me, and I look forward to leading this business at a time when its potential for growth has never been greater."
While Peluso led FiNet, the channel grew to 1,100 financial advisors and more than $55 billion in client assets, topping $600 million in production.
"In general, FiNet's yearly growth target is to help FAs open up between 75 to 100 new practices a year. And we believe this is sustainable," he said in an interview earlier this year. "Including solo practitioners and teams, this entails about 140 to 200 advisors per year joining FiNet."

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Pointe A provides one-of-a-kind colored gemstones in delicate doses. Designed to satisfy even the most minimal of minimalists, these pieces will bring your jewelry look up to date in a flash.
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Every Mac comes equipped with assistive technologies to help students with special needs experience the power and simplicity of OS X. With features like an advanced screen reader, FaceTime and Photo Booth, OS X helps a wide range of learners get more from their Mac.
The Mac has several features designed to help students with cognitive and learning disabilities get organized, stay focused and learn in ways that fit their unique capabilities.
Simple Finder
Using parental controls, the Mac can be set up to provide a greatly simplified experience that may be better for students with cognitive and learning disabilities. Simple Finder reduces the Dock to just three folders. Limit the list of apps a student can open to only the ones you choose, so students can stay focused. Files, folders and apps are displayed in a single window of neatly arranged icons so everything is easier to find.
Safari Reader
For some students, navigating the web can be a sensory overload. Safari Reader reduces the visual clutter on a web page by removing distractions. It strips away ads, buttons and navigation bars, allowing students to focus on just the content they want. And Safari Reader works with Text to Speech and VoiceOver, so students with print disabilities or vision impairments can get auditory feedback.
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Text to Speech
We all learn in different ways. Some of us learn better when more than one sense is engaged simultaneously. With Text to Speech, students can have the word or a paragraph read aloud as they're reading it onscreen. Choose Alex — the voice of Mac — or other male or female voices to do the reading. Students can also adjust the speaking rate and select from over 20 built-in languages.
Stumbling across unfamiliar words is bound to happen when reading new texts or learning new subjects. With the Dictionary app, students have quick access to definitions and synonyms to help with grammar, spelling and pronunciation — even if they're offline.
Word Completion
Word completion in OS X can help students who have print disabilities or cognitive challenges or are learning English improve their vocabulary and word-building skills. After typing just a few letters, press the Escape key and OS X suggests words. Students can see the list of all the words that start with certain letters so they can pick the right word. This helps highlight correct word usage and can turn spelling into a more positive experience.
Dictation can help students with disabilities like dyslexia or dysgraphia by letting them speak what they need to write. They can reply to an email, search the web or even write an entire report using just their voice. Students can navigate to any text field, activate Dictation and start talking. Dictation converts their words into text.
Looking at a densely written page can be overwhelming. To help keep the attention of students who tend to lose focus, Summarize condenses long passages into shorter, more easily digestible segments. Select Summarize in TextEdit or Pages, and a panel pops up that allows the student or teacher to summarize the text to a more manageable length — even all the way down to one sentence — so the student can understand the main concepts.
Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track
Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track converts text to spoken audio and allows students to download tracks to any iOS device. So students who benefit from hearing text rather than reading it can listen to assignments on their own time. And because it's a service built into the operating system, creating the file takes only three simple steps — so there's no need for teachers to spend time recording audio.
Photo Booth
Students can use Photo Booth to take snapshots and make short videos, giving them another way to communicate. For instance, students who struggle with personal interaction — like answering a direct question — may find it easier to see their own face on the screen in order to begin communicating. And because Photo Booth is integrated with the built-in FaceTime HD camera, it displays photos and videos the moment they're captured. Students can record a short video with one click, then share it with a second click. And therapists can use Photo Booth to model speech, motor skills or other forms of therapy.
With Calendar, students can get pop-up reminders so they know when their next band practice is or when their next math assignment is due. Alerts can help busy students keep on track and stay organized.
iPhoto and iMovie
For students who have a hard time communicating their thoughts in written words, iPhoto and iMovie allow them to express themselves through multimedia. With a digital camera and iPhoto, many aspects of learning that are traditionally print-oriented can be captured in a concrete, visual way. This can help students who are struggling readers or learning English. And teachers can create photo books to teach social situations and life skills or model appropriate behaviour, so students can refer to these stories for future use.
With iMovie, students may find the process of writing both the visual and the audio elements of a script — and the overall excitement of making a movie — more engaging than other kinds of narrative writing assignments. iMovie can also help strengthen sequential ordering skills, and give students the chance to use visual-spatial strengths and develop their storytelling skills. And both iPhoto and iMovie come standard on every new Mac.
File structures can be confusing. Spotlight gives students an easy way to track down files, assignments or email. It's a lightning-fast search technology built into OS X that students can use to quickly pull up what they're looking for. As students start typing in the Spotlight search field, they get instant results. Spotlight not only finds files, folders and documents, but also contacts, calendars, apps and even dictionary definitions. Students can search other computers on their network, too, making it simple to share projects and homework in class.
FaceTime can be a window into the classroom. It lets students who are home- or hospital-bound engage with the rest of the class. Or allows a therapist to observe a student in action without disrupting the teacher's lesson. Thanks to its high-quality video and fast frame rate, FaceTime is also ideal for students who communicate using sign language. Every gesture and facial expression shows in crystal-clear detail. And because FaceTime comes standard on the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, students can use it to communicate with other OS X or iOS users.*
For blind or low-vision students, OS X comes with a variety of assistive technologies — such as a built-in screen reader, screen magnification and Dictation — to help them get the most out of their Mac.
VoiceOver is a remarkable screen reader that comes standard with every Mac. More than just a text-to-speech tool, VoiceOver tells students exactly what's happening on their Mac, and lets them navigate it using gestures, a keyboard or a braille display. And it uses Alex, the voice of Mac, who speaks the way people naturally talk. Learn more about VoiceOver
Zoom is a built-in magnifier that enlarges anything on the screen up to 20 times. Students can use it full screen or picture-in-picture, which allows them to see the zoomed area in a separate window while keeping the rest of the screen at its native size. So students can better read an essay, view a diagram or focus in on maps. Activate it in a variety of ways, from a keyboard command to a trackpad gesture. And Zoom works with VoiceOver, so students can better see — and hear — what's happening on their screen.
Dictation lets students talk where they would type. They can reply to an email, make a note, search the web or write a report using just their voice. Click the microphone button and Dictation converts words (and numbers and characters) into text.
Invert Colours
If a higher contrast helps students better see what's on the screen, OS X lets them change display settings. They can invert colours, increase and decrease contrast, or switch to greyscale. Once the colours are set, the settings apply systemwide, so students get the same view in every app.
Students who are deaf or hard of hearing can take advantage of all that the Mac has to offer. FaceTime and iMessage allow for easy communication with teachers and classmates, and captions help students use videos and enhance their learning experience.
Thanks to its high-quality video and fast frame rate, FaceTime is ideal for students who communicate using sign language. Every gesture and facial expression is in crystal-clear detail. And because FaceTime comes standard on the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, students can talk to OS X or iOS users in a classroom down the hall — or halfway around the world. As if they're face to face.*
Mono Audio
Stereo recordings usually have distinct left- and right-channel audio tracks. So students who are deaf or hard of hearing in one ear may miss some of the audio contained in that channel. OS X can help by playing both audio channels in both ears, and lets students adjust the balance for greater volume in either ear — so they can experience all the audio in a lecture, educational video or musical composition.
GarageBand may help improve auditory comprehension among deaf and hard of hearing students — particularly those adjusting to new cochlear implants. Teachers can create podcasts of conversational speech and download them to a Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Students use the podcasts to learn inflection and how to differentiate one voice from another. GarageBand comes standard on every new Mac and is great for speech therapy, learning tonal languages like Chinese, or helping deaf students gain an understanding of how loud things sound with an audio wave file.
For students who have difficulties using the keyboard, mouse or trackpad, OS X technologies help them make keystrokes and mouse gestures. Or students can convert words to text simply by speaking.
Multi-Touch Trackpad
The Multi-Touch trackpad is built into every Mac notebook. And the Magic Trackpad is designed to work with Mac desktop computers. These trackpads allow students to tap, scroll, pinch and swipe their way through their Mac. And because Multi-Touch gestures are so precise, it's the most fluid, natural and intuitive way to control what's on the screen or zoom in on text and objects.
Dictation lets students talk where they would type. They can reply to an email, search the web or write a report using just their voice. Students can activate Dictation when their cursor is in any text field, then speak what they want to write. Dictation converts words into text with minimal physical touch.
Slow Keys
Slow Keys adjusts the sensitivity of the keyboard to process only the keystrokes students mean to make. It builds in a delay between when a key is pressed and when it's entered. Students can adjust the delay and choose to have a sound play when a key is entered.
Sticky Keys
For students who struggle with pressing keys simultaneously when entering key commands, Sticky Keys combines students' keystrokes by letting them press keys one at a time. They can enter key combinations — such as Command-S (for Save) — and OS X displays each pressed key, accompanied by a sound effect, so students can make sure the right keys are entered.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Using keyboard shortcuts (or key combinations), students can quickly perform a wide range of tasks — such as capturing a screen (Command-Shift-4) or zooming in (Command-Option-+) — without touching a mouse or opening menus. In addition to using many preset shortcuts, students can create their own. Shortcuts can be made to work systemwide or only in specific applications.
With Automator, complex repetitive tasks — like renaming files or resizing images — that might overwhelm a student who has trouble using a mouse or trackpad can be executed with a single click. Students simply tell Automator which actions to perform and in which order by dragging them into a workflow, and Automator performs the task as often as they want. Or Automator can record actions as students do them and save them to use later.


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(CNN) -- They could've gone shopping much closer to home. Instead, Tomo Adachi and Lauren Kennedy packed up the car, drove six hours from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago, got a hotel and made a weekend of it.
This wasn't your typical outlet mall excursion or antiquing road trip. The pair of 20-something graphic designers were in the market for quality American-made clothing and accessories, and they wanted to meet the people behind the goods.
They arrived in town late Friday night and were among the first to show up on a recent crisp October morning at a warehouse in Chicago's Fulton Market area. Music by Band of Horses played softly in the background, giving the airy, white-washed loft space an ambiance equal parts gallery opening and trade show. A large vintage American flag looming over the showroom signaled the common domestic origin of the clothing, accessories, shoes, bicycles and skin care products for sale.
Adachi and Kennedy were already fans of some of the brands at NorthernGRADE, a pop-up menswear market of American-made goods making its Chicago debut two years after launching in Minnesota. Meeting the crafters, designers and small-business owners behind the brands added to the appeal, they said.
"I like the idea of craftsmanship. I feel like the brands are doing it because they care and there's something about that that's very commendable. I'd rather support that than go to the mall and buy something made overseas," said Adachi, 25.
"We had to come, especially since events like this don't happen much in the Midwest," said Kennedy, a 23-year-old self-described "made in America freak" who was turned onto the concept by her boyfriend. "It's so awesome to see people doing what they love. It's evident in the quality of their products."
About 800 people turned up for NorthernGRADE Chicago, according to organizers' estimates, from across the Midwest and beyond, underscoring the growing popularity of the made in America movement in style and fashion, especially among younger consumers.
Where to shop made in America: The short list
The markets are fueling the movement beyond the country's major fashion markets, where the concept has proven successful. NorthernGRADE is modeled after New York City's annual Pop-Up Flea, which began in 2009 as a showcase of brands mostly from the United States known for their quality goods. The creators of NorthernGRADE adopted the model for a Midwestern audience by focusing on brands from region. But the focus on quality brands hasn't changed, said Katherine McMillan of men's accessory line Pierrepont Hicks, which co-founded NorthernGRADE.
"I would not feel comfortable producing this market if I didn't believe in all of the brands we invite to take part," she said. "We all have similar philosophies and ethics about our products. If someone's products don't turn out to meet (our standards), we don't invite them back."
It's a phenomenon that draws comparisons to the slow food movement, farmers' markets and food and wine festivals as venues for showcasing artisanal approaches to crafting goods. By allowing consumers to touch the materials and talk to vendors about where the products came from, brands can educate them on why they're worth the markup.
"The Midwest has long history of manufacturing, but no one was cheering it on until now," said fashion and brand consultant Noah Zagor, who showed up at the market dressed the part in a vintage denim Levi's jacket and Alden "Indy" boots, both of which were made in the United States.
"There's a new generation of men learning about basics of getting dressed, and they want knowledge. They want to know where their stuff comes from."
It's tempting to want to stereotype supporters of American-made apparel as either a bunch of trendy urbanites who want to look like lumberjacks on the weekend or blue-collar workers expressing patriotism through their work boots. But this event brought in visitors of all stripes. Teenagers dragged their parents along for their wallets while middle-aged men scanned the displays for unadorned pairs of jeans and silver-haired couples, who remembered the days when manufacturing plants dotted the Midwest, tried on trapper hats.
One thing they all seemed to share was nostalgia for an era when clothing and accessories were made to last, regardless of whether they were actually alive during that time.
One man came from London in search of "a few bits of inspiration" for a potential American-made and UK-made retail concept in England, which is also experiencing a wave of nostalgia for a time when clothing was made closer to home.
"People like me want to stray from goods made in the Far East," said David Swetman, a 27-year-old freelance designer who resembled a menswear model in a Barbour jacket and fisherman's sweater over a flannel shirt, JW Hulme duffel bag slung over his shoulder.
"We're swinging away from fast fashion, and we're willing to invest and spend more on quality," he said. Sure enough, he left the market about an hour later with a $300 Archival waxed cotton vest, a $195 shawl-collared Pendleton sweater and leather shoelaces of different colors. "A nice way to accessorize your brogues," he noted.
For anyone who might use the words "classic," "structured," "Americana" or "heritage" to describe their personal style, there was plenty to covet: colorful racks of Oxford cloth button-ups, thick shawl-collared sweaters, jeans from some of the hottest names in premium denim and all manner of vintage.
Footwear fanatics had their choice of leather boots and shoes in every imaginable color and texture from Red Wing and Oak Street, two boot makers representing old and new school establishments. Tables displayed unisex accessories, from sturdy canvas rucksacks, shoulder bags and pencil cases to wool trapper hats and candy-colored assortments of neckties, bow ties and blankets.
Like other market-goers, Adachi was dressed as though his outfit had come from the showroom: Red Wing Heritage boots (made in America), Raleigh Denim jeans (naturally), flannel shirt (no) and Hill-Side scarf (yes) over a henley (no).
Kennedy also looked the part in dark jeans, vintage pullover sweater and boots, though none of it was made in America, underscoring arguments that clothing made in America can be prohibitively expensive or hard to find.
What would make her wardrobe more patriotic, so to speak? "More shows like this would help," she said. "It's hard to find this stuff in person."
Maybe it's the election season or the state of the economy or the approaching holiday season, but industry insiders agree an increasing amount of products and services are coming out with the made in America tagline.
Radio host Glenn Beck last month announced his line of American-made jeans, which gets its denim from the same North Carolina mill used by many premium jean brands. Made Collection, an online flash site sale, launched this fall offering American-made products at discounted prices. In time for the holiday season, luxury and mass market retailers such as Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and Barneys are continuing the trend of partnering with independent brands and designers who make their products in America.
The pop-up markets are becoming more frequent, too. The Chicago show marked NorthernGRADE's first incursion into another city and its third one in 2012, two years after it was started by Pierrepont Hicks and J.W. Hulme. More shows in other cities are scheduled for 2013, including St. Paul, San Francisco, Nashville, Denver and Moscow.
Another pop-up, American Field, debuted in Boston the weekend before NorthernGRADE Chicago and featured 40 vendors over two days, organizer Mark Bollman said.
"It's one thing to read about companies making things in the U.S. or to check a label, but I think it's a whole other thing to have a physical representation of like-minded companies in one place," said Bollman, founder of Boston-based outfitter Ball and Buck. "You can directly see and understand the growth of this movement and really understand the impact of a purchase, be it big or small."
The markets featured a combination of businesses that use American factories and workshops to produce their goods along with artisans and crafters who, by virtue of living in the United States, make their product here. Across all categories, the raw materials may or may not be domestically sourced depending on availability, with hardware such as zippers, snaps and woven fabric among the materials in shortest supply in the United States.
The growing hype has some worried that "made in America" is on the precipice of becoming a passing style trend before it actually has a chance to realize its oft-cited underlying goals.
"The initial made in the USA message was about bringing jobs back to the country to stimulate the economy, ending the dependency on other countries for goods and bringing back the education and know-how that comes along with the industry. All that's being diluted and boiled down into the message of buy made in the USA. The bottom has been taken out and become a selling point," said Chicago-based menswear blogger and digital strategist Brad Bennett, who helped coordinate NorthernGRADE.
It's unclear whether interest in American-made clothing correlates with an increase in industrial domestic manufacturing of clothing, which declined by 0.7% from September 2011 to September 2012, according to the Federal Reserve's numbers on industrial production. However, preliminary numbers for September showed a 1.6% increase over the previous month.
That's where the markets come into play, to create a movement by bringing together consumers, brands and retailers who are doing their part to raise the profile of American-made fashion.
"It's definitely a celebration of things made here but also a celebration of the people making it," said Bennett, whose blog, Well Spent, features "obtainable, honestly crafted goods" from the United States and abroad.
"It's a pretty cool thing to pick up a bag knowing it's going to last the rest of your life and then shake the hand of the person who made it," he said. "You're not just coming to NorthernGRADE to spend money, you meet people and it's sort of like, here's your community."
It's a doggedly enthusiastic community of people who are obsessed with craftsmanship and design. They're not only entrepreneurs but experts and storytellers who can spin a loooong yarn on the virtues of selvedge denim, waxed cotton and Chromexcel leather. Like Tony Patella, co-founder of Tellason jeans, who explained in an hourlong phone interview why the weave and dye of his denim makes it more expensive per yard compared to denim used for jeans in the mass market.
A big part of selling made in America is educating the consumer on what they get from their investment, said Lesli Larson, co-founder of Archival Clothing, whose best-selling roll top backpack goes for $220.
"You pay upfront, but you buy sparingly and wisely with the idea that you're going to use this piece for many seasons and eventually you get pennies per wear," she said.
Her business grew out of her blog, which documented "long-lost artifacts" from Montgomery Ward catalogs and Americana-inspired fashion being produced in Japan with old machines and equipment purchased from the United States.
"The shift of moving past a state of nostalgia to what can we do to make this a reality using available resources has been the challenge," said Larson, who also works in the archives department of the University of Oregon-Eugene.
Larson relishes the opportunity to share her knowledge, which she did with fans including Adachi, who spent more than three hours floating around the showroom before deciding to drop $300 on an Archival vest. His girlfriend's big-ticket purchase was a pair of Tellason jeans for $198. They were confident that the purchases were worth the money, not only for their quality but because of the stories behind them.
It reminded Adachi of a TED Talk by Simon Sinek who put forth the idea that people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
"I'm the type of person who's more interested in why," Adachi said.
For others, though, the origin of the goods was not nearly as important as their quality.
"I came to the event for the uniqueness of the collections," said Jeff Medchill, a mortgage industry auditor who also picked up a pair of Tellason jeans. "American-made is not a strong point, I wouldn't go out of my way to avoid or buy American-made."
Collin Moody said he was drawn to the event because he supported Chicago-based retailers Haberdash and Penelope's, which were showing at the market. Normally, not everything they carry in their stores is domestically made, reflecting a commonly held position among consumers and stockists that buying made in America is secondary to sourcing high-quality products made responsibly regardless of their origin.
"We're interested in the ethics of the products. We try to be conscious of where they come from and who's making them," said Moody, 21, also a student. "It also helps us not be wasteful."
For retired carpenter Paul Hortenstine, the market was simply an opportunity "to find quality products made in the USA."
He and his wife made the trip from Shorewood, Illinois, after learning of the event on Twitter. He had his sights set on a Stormy Kromer trapper hat, but stopped on his way over to quiz George Vlagos, proprietor of Oak Street Boots, on the origin of material for his footwear (Horween Leather of Chicago).
"This guy from Oak Street Bootmakers, he's making quality product. I'm all for seeing people succeed making quality products in the U.S.," Hortenstine happily exclaimed as he walked away without purchasing a pair, which run from $200 to $500.
"The price is high but quality justifies it," he said. "Maybe you can buy it all or you can focus on one or two things."
He finally settled on two hats in different colors from Stormy Kromer, which have been made in Ironwood, Michigan, for more than 100 years. He also picked up a vest, a recent addition to Stormy Kromer's apparel catalog, reflecting the success of what sales rep Joel Anderson called "the Trojan horse approach."
"They come for the hats, because that's what we're known for, and they find our apparel," said Anderson, whose brand was one of few at NorthernGRADE that fell into the heritage category (along with Red Wing) for its long history. While Stormy Kromer is an established brand, being in the same space alongside up-and-coming brands puts it in front of a new, younger audience of consumers and potential wholesalers.
"It's a three-pronged approach. Educate consumers on our rich history and story, meet fellow vendors, and get new retail business," he said. "You never know who's going to come in."
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - First one in, last one out?
That is certainly the script that En Fuego Baseball hopes is followed at this week's 18u BCS Finals as the Perfect Game national championship tournament heads into its round-of-16 playoffs Thursday afternoon.
The Mobile, Ala.-based En Fuego squad that has been here since Saturday somehow dodged the worst of the rain delays and became one of the first teams to clinch an automatic berth into the playoffs at the 18u BCS Finals when it beat the Syracuse Sports Zone Chiefs, 6-4, in its sixth and final pool-play game Wednesday afternoon
En Fuego, which translates literally from Spanish to English as "on fire", made its move into the 16-team playoff bracket well in advance of the rest of the field, which will be set after the conclusion of pool-play Thursday morning. En Fuego won a pair of games on a much needed sun-soaked Wednesday, topping Next Level Baseball, 7-5, just before tripping up the Syracuse Sports Zone Chiefs.
"We've been coming here for the last three or four years and we try to get lower Alabama represented a little bit, along with the panhandle of Florida, Mobile and Mississippi," head coach Larry Thomas said Wednesday before the game against the Chiefs. "The kids love coming down here and we love the competition."
En Fuego also brings teams here to the PG Memorial Day East Classic as well as the BCS Finals.
"They love coming to Florida," Thomas said. "The kids get to see the different cultures and the different styles of play, and you get scouts out here and everybody wants to be seen. You just want to raise their bar and try to make them better players,
"Our main goal with En Fuego Baseball is we teach. We don't go out and recruit; we get our guys home-grown and we teach our guys from the minute they're 10, 11, 12 years old all the way up until they're 18."
En Fuego Baseball has existed as an organization for almost seven years and all of the coaches within the organization have had some sort of experience in professional baseball.
Thomas, a right-hander, was a second round pick by the Chicago White Sox in the 1991 draft out of the University of Maine and was a set-up man for the ChiSox for three seasons (1995-97); he appeared in 57 games in 1996 and finished 2-3 in 30 2/3 innings with a 3.23 ERA. One of the other coaches in the organization is Rick Patterson, who coached on the minor league level for almost 25 years.
"We try to teach the kids the pro-style of baseball," Thomas said. "That way they're very well prepared at the high school (level) and beyond into college. You've got to earn their respect and once they know you've played (professionally), they kind of feel you out and then they actually know that you know something."
Thomas and Patterson worked together at Bishop State Community College for a spell and Thomas is now the pitching coach at Faulkner State Community College in Baldwin County, Ala.
"This is kind of like recruiting for me," he said. "I can come out and see different kids play and try to catch some juniors and seniors that haven't signed yet. You're always looking for talent."
Thomas said most of the teams he's brought here in the past have been somewhat incomplete - the squads that boasted very good pitching lacked the necessary offensive skills, and vice versa. This year's group seems a little more balanced and more capable of taking on the national-level competition this tournament offers.
The En Fuego team Thomas has guided into the playoffs includes four 2012 or 2013 prospects who have either signed with or committed to either junior college or NAIA programs.
Catcher/outfielder Nick Lowe (2013, Satsuma, Ala.) has committed to NAIA Williams Carey College in Hattiesburg, Miss., and middle-infielder Cody Christian (2012, Satsuma), right-hander David Mosely (2012, Mobile, Ala.), and shortstop/righty Toby Thomas (2012, 8 Mile, Ala.) are all going the juco route.
Christian is headed to Shelton Community College in Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Mosely to Faulkner State CC and Thomas to Pensacola (Fla.) State CC.
Lowe was 7-for-16 (.471) with four doubles and five RBI in five games at the tournament. Thomas, Larry's son, was 7-for-20 (.350) in six games with a pair of doubles and triples, with four RBI and seven runs scored, and also pitched effectively against the Chiefs.
Tyler Odom (2012, Hattiesburg, Miss.) was 9-for-20 (.450) with two doubles, a home run, seven RBI and seven runs in six games, and right-hander Jordan Brown (2012, Penix City, Ala.) pitched nine innings of one-hit ball, and allowed no earned runs and struck out 14.
None of these players are highly ranked and my feel like they have been lost in the shuffle.
"You're only as good as your competition, and they know when they come into these (PG) tournaments they're definitely playing against the best," Thomas said. "The main reason I come here (to the BCS Finals) is because I know they're going to be playing against the best.
"You're playing against some Latin guys, you're playing against some D-Is and our kids kind of like that; they're going to junior college so they want to show they've been over-looked," he said. "They leave it out on the field."
En Fuego recently played in the PG WWBA 18u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., June 29 through July 6 and missed the playoffs despite finishing 5-1-1. The team then took a couple of weeks off before coming down here.
"What's big in our organization is weight-training," Thomas said. "We kind of space it out so they can have four or five days at home to do their weight-training and then continue it on the road."
While En Fuego might lack some of the D-I star power that a lot of other teams in the 18u BCS Finals field possess, the coaches and player expect to come into a tournament like this and be competitive. Its 6-0 pool-play record certainly speaks volumes.
"These guys are scrappy; they like to play," Thomas said. "If they think they're down and out, they're going to battle until the end. We've got a lot of kids that I wouldn't say have a chip on their shoulder, but they have something to prove. I think they've done well enough to leave it out on the field and let the scouts make their decisions after that."


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So far, this story has attracted no comments, compared to the story on the lying law student, which has 27 posts.
@Did. Do you have something constructive to add?
No comments could be because no one truly believes that things will change. UVa is a school, and policies are only words written on paper. The school is made up of people, men & women in positions of authority and the male/female students that attend as well as support staff.
Can those sitting in their ivory towers who write these policies truly be held accountable for the actions of the students? In theory, they could have a zero tolerance policy and make examples of students behavior, but the fact remains, each situation is different, and as a business (Yes, UVA is a business), their goal is to make money. To kick out a student who has a bank full of money and a daddy who holds the ATM card, UVA admins will not be able to kick out every spoiled/irresponsible child that attends. With that said...stuff will happen because of the tendency to turn a blind eye to bad behavior, until something really bad - such as Yeardley Love's senseless murder, happens. Then you will see them scramble again to try and set firmer (whatever) policies. You have 2 UVA LAW students currently in the spotlight for their behavior...Lets just wait and see what happens next...
Well said, I am waiting to see if the proof is in the pudding.
@Chris. An observation that a racist lie garners more attention/concern that physical/mental abuse of women.
Check out those two smiling as if they are happy with being forced to change their policy of the last twenty years which very effectively covered up every sexual assault that was ever reported to them!
22 years. 22,000 students. A drink till blackout and hookup culture. Zero sexual assaults prosecuted by UVA's private, armed militia answerable to no one besides Casteen, Sandridge, and the rest of the UVA administration.
Amazing, huh?
We can only hope that Susan Russell's bill in the General Assembly becomes law ASAP.
@Did. yep, that is a constructive comment. Should have led with it.
@roadtrip. The previous policies were horrible. The new policies, at least on paper, seem somewhat improved. I still don't think the culture is one that will allow for the kinds of responses that I'd like to see. Zero tolerance should be the rule. The problem that comes with it, though, is that students are still entitled to due process. The school can't just override that. There have to be codified procedures and processes and hearings such that all students are treated fairly. That said, I think that along the lines of the honor code, once a student is found guilty of committing a sexual assault the police should be involved if the victim wishes it and the student found guilty should be expelled.
As you say, let's see what happens next. A new policy is all well and good, but ultimately it's the implementation that matters most.
Perhaps law student Perkins should pick up this cause and run with it. He is very credible.
Just to clarify, the new policies are not original and thought out by Lampkin and Davis. The new policies just place the school in compliance with Title IX and they still are in conflict with the Clery act. The new policies don't make them a national model, they make them compliant with current law. And that's the least they should be doing.
@Sean - UVa Police are sworn officers, certified by The Commonwealth of Virginia.
@WTF? Yes, they are. And they are paid by and report to the University of Virgina president, not the local or State police. Therefore, they take their marching orders from the University President. Should they perform in a less that stellar way, the State Police have no ability to perform an in-house investigation . Ergo, they are University employees and perform their duties o the standard and rules dictated by the University.
And that's why HB2490 was brought forward to the General Assembly.
There has been no public statement by President Sullivan to say that she welcomes the local police to assist with felony crime investigations on her campus. Why not? What does UVA have to hide?. If you have never been affected by crime, you wouldn't even notice the jurisdictional guidelines - but if you have been a victim of campus crime, you know all too well that jurisdiction makes a huge difference in the outcome of the case. And the average citizen just does not comprehend nor wants to hear about jurisdiction.
Unfortunately, for me to say this, many good UVA cops will take offense. But it only takes one mishandled case to require the lawmakers to step in and change the laws so no more cases fall through the cracks.
..."but if you have been a victim of campus crime, you know all too well that jurisdiction makes a huge difference in the outcome of the case. And the average citizen just does not comprehend nor wants to hear about jurisdiction." (Above)
So much has been said lately about the University's mishandling and outright tendency to ignore cases of rape on campus. The "lets not bring attention to ourselves in that way" MO makes the mind race with wondering just how much rape occurs on campus. Not until there is a murder here (or should I say murderS since the Harrington case has still not been solved) does the general public begin to take notice.
Chris's statement above, " I think that along the lines of the honor code, once a student is found guilty of committing a sexual assault the police should be involved if the victim wishes it and the student found guilty should be expelled", points precisely to the problem. Students are not tried and found guilty of committing sexual assault because reports and accusations are swept under the rug. Scenario: the victim is accused of being a willing participant or partially to blame, the lines are bluured, the guilt is shared, there is too much involved in pressing charges and proving rape, the already traumatized victim who can bear no more now sees silence as their only cocoon, the edge of the rug is lifted and voila, the house is clean...NOT. It is time for some major spring cleaning with some honest housekeepers at the helm.
First, I've been the victim of crime on the campus and I have to say that the University Police have been nothing less than stellar. The law going through the General Assembly is a joke, UPD has qualified and certified officers in their department that are completely capable of handling rape and sexual assaults. What I think we have going on at UVA is a situation where these women (note I said women, not girls, they are grown), are getting all liquored up and sleeping with people that they normally wouldn't "hook up" with, and therefore report it as a rape because, as I've heard at least three female students in the last year say, "He must have drugged and rapped me because there is no way that I would sleep with someone like that!". I understand making mistakes, I think that most of us have done it, however it's not rape. You're no more special than the next person, suck it up and continue on with life.
If having a campus police department was as bad as you all say it is, how come the state doesn't ban them?? And to say that the VSP doesn't have the authority to investigate isn't true at all. The VSP is almost always involved in a criminal investigation of another police department, look at all the times the county police have shot people, who investigates? The Virginia State Police.
Quote:"The women are getting all liquored up and sleeping with people that they normally wouldn't "hook up" with"
Yes, sadly this is often the case, but not always, as we know in the cases of the four women mentioned in this article. Unfortunately it does happen often enough that it affects the legitimate cases, a typical "cried wolf too many times" kind of thing. Sigh.


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Affordable Dual Core from AMD: Athlon 64 X2 3800+by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 1, 2005 9:36 AM EST
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DivX 6 with AutoGKArmed with the DivX 6 and the AutoGK front end for Gordian Knot, we took all of the processors to task at encoding a chapter out of Pirates of the Caribbean. We set AutoGK to give us 75% quality of the original DVD rip and did not encode audio; all of the DivX 6 settings were left at default.
Windows Media Encoder 9To finish up our look at Video Encoding performance, we have two tests both involving Windows Media Encoder 9. The first test is WorldBench 5's WMV9 encoding test.
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masher - Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - link> " believe he meant to post this review showing the X2 3800 matching or besting the XE840 in all but a handful of tests:"
Let's see...the 840 wins 3DMark, half the Cinebench, Lame Encoding, DivX encoding, MPA encoding, SiSoft FP, Sisoft Multimedia, and Sphinx.
The 3800 wins the 3D shooters, PoVRay, ScienceMark, picColor, and half the Cinebench.
The Intel results are "all but a handful"?
PrinceGaz - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkI was surprised that no attempt was made (or posted in the review) to overclock the X2 3800+, given that most people reading it here would want to know what headroom it had.
Fortunately most other good sites did overclock it and post their results, and the general consensus is 2.4-2.5GHz was as much as they could do with air-cooling at reasonable voltages. Looks like the X2 3800+ really is all the speed-binned rejects, at least from the samples AMD sent out to review sites. Reply
Houdani - Monday, August 1, 2005 - link
As for overclocking, we had no problems reaching 2.46GHz with our Athlon 64 3800+ sample using standard air cooling. The overclocking wasn't as impressive as what we saw with the Toledo based Athlon 64 4200+, but we will save a final conclusion on overclocking until we get more Manchester based processors in house.
Well, Anand did to a tiny bit of overclocking, he just didn't do any benches with the overclock. The above snip was taken from the final page of the article.
[L]http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...[/L] Reply
PrinceGaz - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkApologies to Anand, I was skimming through the article rather than reading it in full, and missed that. Seems like 2.4-2.5GHz is all the current batch of X2 3800+ can do, which is less than impressive. Ordered a X2 4400+ today as a result. Reply
Hacp - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkThey had a DDR2 533 1gb kit for 80 bucks at monarch I think. But I think the DDR2 667FSB chips are more expensive... Reply
Joepublic2 - Monday, August 1, 2005 - link"Except that by the time you get a new motherboard that supports that cheaper Intel chip and the pricier DDR2 memory, any price advantage Intel had is already gone. And the AMD system still outperforms the Intel one 15% in for the 830D and 20% in the 820D. So choose wisely..."
"From what I can see, Intel 955 chipset motherboards are around $180 - $220, which is a lot more expensive than a decent Socket 939 motherboard. SO overall thge system cost is much cheaper than the Intel 830, and very close to the 820."
You guys obviously haven't checked prices lately. At newegg, you can get a nice ASUS 945 board for $130, which while being more expensive than an EPOX 939 at $85, is much lower than "$180-220". Also, 2GB of DDR is $177.98, and 2GB of DDR2 is $186.00. But I agree, it's worth the extra $50 over the Pentium D 820 platform. Reply
krisia - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkHmmm, zipzoomfly has a 945 mobo for $110 and 1GB DDR2 ram for $92.
Looks reasonable to me...
Hacp - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkIMO Anand's article was the fairest. He compared the Intel 830 to the AMD 3800. Some sites compared the 820 to the 3800+ and it obviously was not fair to Intel to do that.
Also, if you want an entry level processor and want multitasking, you should go with an HT enabled Intel. At 240 dollars, you should be able to buy a 3.2 GHZ Intel processor with HT enabled, which will perform WAY better at single threaded tasks and perform well in some multithreaded applications. Thats what ENTRY is. You sacrafice future performance for performance right now.
Finally, Anand, I would have liked to see the 3800+ compared to the 3.2 GHZ Intel Dual core processors. Why? Because AMD's PR numbers for single threaded applications indicate that the 3800+(2.0 GHZ with 512 Cache AKA the 3200+) should be comparable with the 3.2 GHZ processor. You shouldn't soely compare the processors on price, but also the PR system :). A 3.0 and 3.2 Intel Dual core comparision with the 3800+ X2 would have been a nice...... Reply
cryptonomicon - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkthat chip looks awesome! how come they don't have that benchmark called um,
Comparison over number of Threads
or something, where they run some sort of bench over 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, threads. I always thought that was an interesting one to see how effective each processor handled multiple threads. Reply
Samus - Monday, August 1, 2005 - linkThere is no reason at this point to go with an Intel based system for general productivity (business, graphics, compression, a/v editing, 3D modeling, CAD) AND gaming (where AMD had always excelled)
I couldn't agree with Anand more. Where you loose single threaded/task performance (from clockspeed) you more than make up for it in multi threaded/task performance. The overclocking potential is also fairly good, 2.46GHz is nothing to sneeze at when your talking about a 2.0GHz budget chip for 350 bucks.
Also, comparing 512KB dual cores to 1MB dual core's at the same clock speed, there is little performance difference because since the cores communicate directly via L2, not via HT (or bus like Intel) your theoretical performance-based L2 is 1MB and 2MB respectively. AMD's memory controller is so efficient to begin with that the difference between 1MB and 2MB L2 cache is very little.
The cache's are also independent (like they always have been, ie L1 and L2 being non-consecutive) so they don't hold the same information.
Boy, they've come a long way. Reply


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Girls Who Wear Glasses & Boys That Break Glasses
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So...this happened.
I have worn those glasses since...let's see*...before Noah was born. That means they have survived years of not only my own idiocracy, but also the infancies and toddlerhoods of two grabby, destructive children.
Child number three, alas. It was just too much to ask for a simple pair of reading glasses. Especially if said reading glasses were stupidly left out on the coffee table, in plain sight and easy reach of said child.
Honestly, I'm such a rookie sometimes. WHATZ THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN?
To be fair, though, I've been whining fairly regularly about my aging eyesight over the past year, getting headaches, squinting a lot more at screens and pages, and ever-so-casually bumping up the font size because technology, whippersnappers, my lawn and reasons. I knew it was time to get another eye exam and a new prescription, but I just didn't, thanks to my trusty ol' pair of specs being handy and pretty much close to good enough.
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But even after Ike snapped my glasses in two, I still wishy-washied around about it. I don't like shopping for glasses. It stresses me out, trying on frame after frame, since I don't ever really know what looks good on me but always feel like it's never the stylish frames, but rather the old-lady styles that I am not cool enough to pull off ironically. Also, I was a blonde the last time I shopped for frames. Also also, my right ear is ever so slightly higher than my left. Which means an ill-fitting frame can give the impression that my entire face is kind of...slanting down to the left.
(Maybe because it is? Oh, God.)
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Anna Elizabeth Lewis was born a child of joy. Shortly before her birth in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1840, her slave mother was set free by the Quaker family who owned her, and all of the happiness and joy of the mother's realization of freedom was breathed into the soul of little Anna Elizabeth.
As Anna grew older her mother had to assume the responsibility of a woman lone in the world with the little girl child to support. She was fortunate in finding another devout Quaker family of Pennsylvania willing to take Anna to rear, while the mother traveled with one of the prominent families of the country. A background was thus formed for the fine, spiritual life which she ever manifested in her work, and no one who knew her, failed to love and honor Anna Elizabeth for it.
When the mother realized that Anna Elizabeth had reached the period in life where her distinctive attractions might bring her in contact with matrimonially inclined youth, she joined her daughter and together they came west, stopping in St. Louis, Mo., for a time, finally locating in Chicago, in 1854. While in the city of St. Louis, Anna Elizabeth met a young man, Joseph Henry Hudlun, and although the meeting seemed a casual one, fate seemed the directing hand, and 1854 found young Hudlun also located in Chicago. In 1855, after a brief courtship, they were joined in wedlock.
During the years of great growth and development of the city of Chicago, the lives of both Anna Elizabeth and Joseph Henry Hudlun blossomed with kindly impulses
They realized that to become substantial citizens they must acquire property, and they owned the first house, a little five room cottage, contracted for and built by colored owners. This little home, at 279 Third Avenue, not far from the Dearborn Station, soon became the Mecca toward which the old pioneers and the strangers alike wended their way for social life and civic betterment. In times of distress, as that of the Chicago fire of 1871, the doors of the Hudlun home were thrown open to colored and white alike and as many as five families found refuge therein at that time, and all lived in harmony and good will, subsisting on hard tack furnished to the sufferers by the city and water from Lake Michigan drawn to the home by Hudlun in his little buggy. This sufficed until roomier guarters and better fare could be provided.
This one act endeared them to all Chicago and not to know the Hudluns, was to be denied the best in the city.
While Anna Elizabeth Hudlun was busy rearing the family, working in old Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church where her mother was among the earlier members and with which Anna herself connected in her very early years, working to keep the mixed schools of Chicago open, and ministering to the needy of all groups, Joseph Hudlun was likewise serving the Master.
He was born a slave, in Culpepper Court-house, Virginia, October 4, 1839, but through frugal habits and conscientious labor, he amassed considerable property by the time of his death in what is now a thickly settled part of the South Side. Thirty-nine years of continuous service on the Chicago Board of Trade, where he did his duty well at all times endeared him in the hearts of every Board of Trade man. How well and conscientiously he served them was brought out on the night of the fire of 1871. Leaving his little family, he went to the Board of Trade in the thickest of the conflagration, opened the vaults and
Not alone did Joseph Henry Hudlun serve on that night of the great Chicago Fire. "Mother Hudlun" as she was affectionately called, was seeking out the distressed to give them help and comfort, aside from those who were sheltered under her roof. These deeds gained for her the title of "Fire Angel" which clung to her to the end.
When the second conflagration came in 1874 and swept the homes of the colored neighborhoods into oblivion, again "Mother Hudlun" was conspicuous for her solicitude for the homeless and distressed, supplying good clothing, sheltering and feeding many families. So endeared to the people had she become by this time that another title was added in reverence and affection. "Chicago's Grand Old Lady."
Anna Elizabeth Hudlun would have been called one of the foremost social welfare workers of her day had her work been classed. She was an ardent supporter of the work done by her children along that line, and week ends found several of the dependents of the Juvenile Court, who were under the supervision of her daughter, Joan, finding change and recreation under her hospitable roof. She was an enthusiastic club member and organized a club for the purpose of placing needy old people in the Home for Aged and Infirm, which Joan helped to found, officer and support, when it was very unpopular. To her last day she
On November 21, 1914, she passed on to that sweet rest which the dear Lord has provided for them that serve Him.
Anna Elizabeth Hudlun left behind her beautiful memories in the hearts of all classes of Chicago's cosmopolitan people who honored and loved her for the Good Samaritan that she was.
"Tis hard to take the burden up,
When these have laid it down;
They brightened all the joy of life,
They softened every frown.
But oh! `Tis good to think of them
When we are troubled sore;
Thanks be to God that such have been
Although they are no more!"


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By Lisa Tetrault-Zhe
Hampton Union, January 10, 2014
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
Lois Costa, principal of Marston Elementary School in Hampton,
has been chosen as Principal of the Year. Here, some fourth-graders
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HAMPTON — On Thursday afternoon, Marston Elementary School Principal Lois Costa dined with her family at Church Landing in Meredith.
No, she wasn't playing hooky from school ...; she was being honored as the elementary school Principal of the Year by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals at its winter conference.
"I was completely surprised, thrilled beyond belief (when I received the call that I'd won)," said Costa, who's been principal at Marston for five years. "I'm very excited. It's a great honor, a validation of all the work we're doing here. It's never about one person but the work we do together."
Costa, who first joined the staff of Marston 14 years ago as assistant principal under David O'Connor (who is now principal of Hampton Academy), was nominated for the award by two staff members. Sue Antico (guidance counselor) and Rosemary Sheehy (reading specialist) said they felt Costa deserved to win because of her commitment to the school.
"She leads by example," Sheehy said. "She's very invested in the school. And she has more energy than the rest of the staff combined."
"I think her work ethic is amazing," Antico agreed. "She leads by example. There's nothing she'd ask of us that she wouldn't be willing to do herself."
Prior to joining the Marston staff, Costa worked for several years as a third-grade teacher at Reeds Ferry Elementary School in Merrimack. She said she most enjoys working with the children.
"I'd say the most enjoyable part of my job is being with the students and staff," Costa said. "We come together every day for a morning meeting, and those are wonderful, when we come together as a community. When educators move up in the ranks, sometimes it's easy not to be connected with the students. But I never wanted that separation."
Her biggest challenge — the changes to education.
"The stresses and demands placed on public education can be tough," Costa said. "There are evaluations and standings, not only at the state but national level. We have to always be thinking about where does Marston stack up. We have to be sure we're meeting every child's needs as well. All of them are from different backgrounds and have different needs."
According to Costa, SAU 90 Superintendent Kathleen Murphy suggested she be nominated for the award, which is presented by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals. Last year, she requested they apply for an EDDY (New Hampshire Excellence in Education award), which they won.
"She's not only a great superintendent, but also a mentor," Costa said. "She has a lot of experience, not only as a superintendent, but also at the state level. Sometimes it takes someone on the outside to recognize and validate our work, and she's done that. When we applied for the EDDYs last year, I didn't think we were ready, but she told us to go for it."
Antico said she admires Costa's connection with all of her students.
"In the role of principal, you're leading the school. Academics take the forefront, as they should," Antico said. "But with Lois, there's a personal level. She always asks what she can do if there's a situation at school with a student. I don't think that happens everywhere. She reaches out to the students. Students talk about her, not that they had to go to the principal's office because of a bad decision, but that they went snowshoeing with her, for example."
After submitting the paperwork, Antico and Sheehy had to submit five letters of recommendation. Following that, Costa did a phone interview with the 12 member committee, and they did a school visit last month.
Costa holds a bachelor's degree in family consumer studies and elementary education from the University of New Hampshire, as well as a master's degree in education from UNH. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Southern New Hampshire University.


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There are various efforts under way on social media and in the community to assist the youngster, who is slowly recovering in a hospital.
One nonprofit that is accepting donations for him is the Child Protective Services program called BEAR – short for "Be a Resource for CPS Kids."
The website is bearesourcehouston.org and the phone number is 713-940-3087. BEAR is a 501 (c)(3) public/private partnership that provides emergency goods and services directly to children under CPS care in Harris County.
"That organization is accepting donations because – when the child gets out of the hospital – that's where he's going to get his clothes, backpack, school supplies, toys," CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin said Wednesday.
Contributions through this accountable organization can be made to the boy as well as other children – including the six others belonging to the child's father and stepmother who were placed in emergency CPS custody this week.
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"We only accept new and unused items for children in care," she said. "It's important to us; so many of them have never owned anything new."
Gifts for the child can be delivered to BEAR at 2223 West Loop South, Suite 126, Houston, TX 77027.
"There's a security guard at the front door and they can say it's for BEAR and for the child," Cashin said. "If staff is there, they're welcome to come to the office."
Online donations for him are also being accepted through BEAR's Annual Fund.
Visit bearesourcehouston.org and click on the "DONATE NOW!" button at the top of the page to make a monetary contribution. Donors can denote that the gift is for this particular child or send an email to email@example.com or a note via http://www.bearesourcehouston.org/form/contact.asp to indicate that a certain contribution is for this boy.
The Advocate is suggesting that donors indicate "Bleimeyer Child" because we have not identified the boy by his first name in our reporting, though BEAR does not use last names to ID children. If you want to use the first name, they are aware of his full name.
Contributions over the "next several days" will be set aside for him, Cashin added.
This week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a warning about potential charity scams related to the Washington mudslide disaster. An Advocate column published last April after the West Fertilizer Co. explosion explained that there are good, bad, better and best ways to contribute to each kind of crisis.
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This week, the Federal Trade Commission warned donors who are asked to contribute to a charity through urgent appeals in person, by phone, mail, email, websites or social media to be cautious. Ask for the name of the charity, ask what percentage of your donation will support the cause, verify that the charity has authorized the solicitation, ask for a receipt showing the amount of the donation and that it is tax deductible and, for security and tax purposes, donate by check made payable to the beneficiary and not the solicitor.
The Advocate will add more donation sites for the malnourished boy as their operators can be substantiated.


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As an Armour Guy, both Recce (Jeep, Lynx and Coyote) and Tanker, I find the above post to be a lot of hogwash.
Here's my take on the logic: there is one Corps in the Army that trains on, and fights in, armoured vehicles from Battle School to release.
Why do we now have another Corps, who are supposed to be the experts at the dismounted fight, now spending 2/3 of their precious training time learning how to fight armoured vehicles? You guys complain about a dissolution of skills that would occur if you were forced to crew the LAVs and I can't help but chuckle a little. What exactly do you think happens when you ask an infanteer to suddenly forget what he knows about dismounted skills and become an ersatz blackhatter!? Tankers crew armoured vehicles and their damned good at it. We can be good at it too but it comes at a price and that price is a greatly reduced capability to do things like airmobile ops, MOUT, patrolling, etc. There's only so much time in the training calendar.
I just don't buy the argument that asking tankers to switch from the Coyote to the LAV will be the death of the Armour Corps. They have the same bloody turrets so from an IT point of view its a piece of cake. As for TTPs, so you need to learn a different routine on the Advance to Contact or during the Assault. Big freaking deal! Those different TTPs are still in armoured vehicles. It's not like we're asking you to suddenly learn how to fight dismounted.
most likely the "infantry" personnel you are hearing that from are from the E&K Scots
Who commanded all those Universal Carriers, 3/4 ton trucks, M113's, Grizzlies, Coyotes, and now the LAVs before and currently in the Infantry Bns?
I would point at the fact that the Armour has nearly, if not totally, lost its role of 'close support' and is trying to validate its' existence. Being bus drivers does not solve the problem of providing close, intimate support to the Infantry.
Are you now suggesting that Armour now develop yet another 'sub-trade' to go along with Tanker and Recce, and create the Armour Personnel Carrier Regiment, like we had in WW II (the Kangaroos)?
Are you seriously going to compare a universal carrier to a LAV-III?
Over time, the thing we call an "APC" has gotten increasingly complex, to the point now where the LAV turret is for all intents and purposes a tank turret. It has an FCS of similar complexity to a tank. You've got thermal sights, you've got laser range finders, you've got a stab, and if we had the Aussie version, we'd have dynamic lead too. OK, so the gun is smaller and there's no loader - that's a tank turret nonetheless.
Even Grizzly didn't have a tenth of the complexity that's in a LAV turret. It's night and day. The skillset of fighting out of a LAV turret has way more in common with Leo than Grizzly.
Nobody is talking about giving up tanks. For that matter, nobody is talking about giving up Recce either.Instead - given that the LAV would accompany the infantry if not ON the objective, at least NEAR the objective, you are INCREASING the amount of close support tasks given the Corps. A LAV putting coax and 25mm fire down is most certainly providing 'close support'.
Yes, that is exactly it. The Aussies do it (I think they never stopped), the Brits are now seriously considering it, and the argument for us following suit is so strong as to be overpowering.
The amount of skill overlap between the Tank/Recce/Dragoon roles is still huge - you need to know how to move tactically, operate a turret, live on a radio net, occupy a hide, do maintenance, yadda yadda yadda. The differences are in the employment of those skills - tanks, to destroy the enemy by fire and manouevre. Recce to find the enemy and gain information about the ground. Dragoons to get the infantry to the objective and then provide integral close support during the fight. There's more in common between these roles than there is difference.
.... inserting a "Dragoon" Squadron or two into every Armoured Regiment.
Sounds like Assault Troop being resurrected.
With Tankers retraining to crew Warrior and transport the Infantry, it seems like the MOD are thinking ahead to FRES...
I am saying that Infantry have been 'mechanized' and capable of using complicate machinery and weaponry for quite some time and have over the years increased their abilities.
Just like it would be silly to compare a Sherman to a Leopard.
NO. It is only a turret. A turret that is mounted on an APC.
The skillset of fighting a LAV has more in common with fighting a M113 with a .50 Cal than it does a Tank.
To employ a LAV like this is suicide. It should be employed as the M113 was when we practiced Mech Infantry tactics. If it is going to approach or roll onto the OBJ, then it had better have the close intimate support of Tanks. To use it in your example, as the only armoured vehicle is sheer stupidity.
If I am correct, they are not taking Armour soldiers only to do this.
The Brits, as you site, have been doing this for years with their Saxon 'armoured bus'. They were 'owned and operated' by the Royal Army Service Corps.........or what we would call MSE OPs.
You give too much credit to Armour soldiers. I have known few who have felt comfortable doing 'all trades', but I have know many who felt competent in one; either Tanks or Recce, but seldom both.
My personal recommendation would be to strip the 3rd battalions from the OOB (for now, or at least reduced to nil strength).
WTF?! You got so used to bandying about brigades and divisions on AOC that you glibly toss 1/3 of our combat strength? If there's a god, let him strike you down now!! I'm waitingFine time for the atheists to be proven correct OK, I hope Jorgie hobbles over to your office and *****-slaps you into the middle of next week. Heresy. While I see this thread as the sort of discussion one has at the liars' table in the mess, you've got to be kidding about losing the 3rd Bns! Hell, we're hard pressed to run PCF courses and the like with what we have, and you want to reduce even that down time between taskings?
IMHO we cannot "wish away" that training/manning bill to the armour corps (or anyone else for that matter).
The gunner or CC in our LAV turret lases, reads off the range in their readout, applies the appropriate aiming mark in the ballistic Cougar-style sight to the target, then fires. It is, essentially, an estimated engagement with some technology helping the range estimation.
that having the Reserve Armour Corps soldiers crew infantry LAVs will be the Corps' saviour.
However, to relegate the collective knowledge held by what has been called "the combat arm of decision" to a ferry service for LAV passengers will push us through a door that will likely be one way. It will also push the infantry back into what has been derisively called "thinking at a walking pace and C-7 range, no further, no faster" rather than thinking larger and faster, which I think will do them a disservice as well.
3) The snobbery I keep seeing about "bus drivers" and "ferry service" and comments in a similar vein does a disservice to everybody. The soldiers who crew LAVs, be they blackhatters or pongos, serve every bit as honourably as those in any other combat arm. A potential "Dragoon" who gets his section to the debussing point and then shoots them onto the objective is performing a function every bit as respectable as the tank crew who shoots on the same objective or the recce crew providing flank guard or the outer cordon. I see absolutely no loss of honour or glory or whatever else for the Corps to provide this function.
Ah, but the Armoured Corps assumes that training bill for every one of its soldiers no matter how they are ultimately employed. Every single trooper will, through the course of their career, get the driver training, turret/gunnery training, and ultimately crew commander training "for free" instead of as an addition on top of their usual trades training.This actually makes it *cheaper* to crew those LAVs, because you aren't training those crew members in all the Infantry skills before you provide the LAV stuff. An "off the shelf" Crewman is already trained to crew that LAV, or worst-case, just needs a conversion course to teach the differences between the vehicle he was trained on and the current model APC - which is also cheaper than a full-blown, "start-from-scratch" course.It also helps address the manpower shortage (assuming sufficient recruiting, which admittedly is one hell of an assumption) by providing some parallelism to training, by routing your future LAV crewmen through the Armoured School for DP1/DP2/DP3 where your section members will be at the Infantry School for DP1/DP2/DP3. Not only are you not "supertraining" your infantry by adding the vehicle skills on top of their core skills, you aren't forcing the Infantry School into running vehicle skills courses as a duplication of the Armoured School's courses.
It also helps address the manpower shortage (assuming sufficient recruiting, which admittedly is one hell of an assumption) by providing some parallelism to training, by routing your future LAV crewmen through the Armoured School for DP1/DP2/DP3 where your section members will be at the Infantry School for DP1/DP2/DP3.
Speaking of artillery, given that the FOO and the FAC ride the turret to use its tools to help their trade, how do we address THAT issue?
Having talked to a cbt engineer friend of mine who just got back from the a-stan, he told me his LAV crew were all RCD. A gunner, commander and driver, all 011. Guess some of this thought is happening.


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