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Baker County, Oregon Genealogy
|Baker County, Oregon
Location in the state of Oregon
Location of Oregon in the U.S.
|September 22, 1862
|County Seat
|Baker City
| Baker County Courthouse
1995 Third
Baker City, OR 97814
|Website: www.bakercounty.org
|Named for: Edward Dickinson Baker
This article is about a northwest Oregon county. For other uses, see Baker.
United States Oregon Baker County
- 1 Records held at the Courthouse
- 2 Historical Facts
- 3 Places / Localities
- 4 Resources
- 4.1 Biography
- 4.2 Cemeteries (Rural)
- 4.3 Census
- 4.4 Church History and Records (rural only)
- 4.5 Court Records
- 4.6 Directories
- 4.7 Emigration and Immigration
- 4.8 Migration
- 4.9 Gazetteers
- 4.10 Genealogy
- 4.11 History
- 4.12 Land and Property
- 4.13 Maps
- 4.14 Military History and Records
- 4.15 Newspapers
- 4.16 Pensions
- 4.17 Probate Records
- 4.18 Rivers and Waterways
- 4.19 Taxation
- 4.20 Vital Records
- 5 Societies, Libraries and Museums
- 6 Web Sites
- 7 References
Records held at the Courthouse
- County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Baker County Court House as of July 2005. This courthouse has the reputation of being the cleanest county record depository in the state of Oregon.
- Record Loss: Some will books were lost in a county clerk's office fire in 1890s. One early marriage register missing (as of 2005).
- 1 December 2010: Cleanup Underway No records damaged or lost due to quick action.
Historical Facts
Named for U.S. Senator Edward Dickinson Baker of Oregon, who was killed at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in the Civil War.
Parent County
22 September 1862: Baker county was created from Wasco County. [1]
Boundary Changes
14 October 1864: Union County set off.
17 February 1887: Malheur County set off.
1 February 1901: The Panhandle area between the Powder River and the Wallowa Mountains was returned from Union County, forming the northeast corner of Baker County.
Places / Localities
Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. > Trivia Tidbits
An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney counties WorldCat 5436806 ▲ FHL
([Spokane, Washington]: Western Historical Publishing Company, 1902).
Heavy on history (prehistoric to time of publication), heavy on biographies of prominent men, but little of genealogies and
Also available in other forms:
- WorldCat 24186308
- eBook - HeritageQuestonline.com (LAR)
Thirty-one years in Baker County: a history of the county from 1861 to 1893; Isaac Hiatt WorldCat 841884 ▲ FHL
(Baker, Oregon: Baker County Historical Society and the Powder River Sportsmen's Club, 1970).
Cemeteries (Rural)
- Baker County, Oregon: reprints of records published in the Oregon Genealogical Society quarterly, volumes 21-22. 1982-1984 FHL 1049531
- 1870 - the area between Baker City, Haines and the Blue Mountains, generally known as Wingville was overlooked and not enumerated.
- Eastern Oregon 1870 U.S. Census : Baker County, Grant County, Umatilla County, Union County FHL
- 1880 - the portion that was later be Malheur County, all the places south of Malheur River including what is now Ontario, Vale, Nyssa, Owyhee, etc was not enumerated.
- 1870, 1880, 1890 and 1900 censuses, the Panhandle of Baker County enumerations can be found in Union County when it was part of Union County.
- 1870
- 1880
- 1890
- 1900
- 1910
- 1920
- 1930
- 1905
Church History and Records (rural only)
Court Records
- Widow's pension applications and ledger, Baker County, Oregon, 1913-1936 FHL
(Baker County Court, State of Oregon, 2001)
- Eastern Oregon directory, 1899-1900: a complete directory of Umatilla, Union and Baker counties; with the Portland business directory FHL Collection
- Baker City (Oregon) city directories, 1908-1935 FHL Collection
- Baker (Baker County, Oregon) city directory: including Baker County residents, rural routes, also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory, 1959- FHL Collection
Emigration and Immigration
- Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records, 1892-1924, listing passengers who stated they are going to Baker County, Oregon
Early migration routes to and from Baker County, Oregon Genealogy for European and African American settlers included:
- Snake River
- Oregon Trail 1830s to 1890s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon[2]
Biography, History
- The History of Baker County; Baker County Historical Society, pub. 1986. WorldCat 15218008 ▲ FHL Collection
([S.l.]: Baker County Historical Society (OR), 1986)
Little of biography and local history, more of family genealogies.
- Centennial pioneer families of Baker County, 1976 FHL Collection
Also see: Biography, Genealogy
Land and Property
- Hometown Locator for Baker County
Military History and Records
Court records for the widows pensions
Probate Records
Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. >> Rivers and Waterways
- Baker County, [Oregon], assessment tax rolls, 1892-1897 FHL Collection
- Baker City (Oregon) city directories FHL Collection microfilm 2309792 Item 1
Tax lists are for Baker, Grant and Union counties 1908-1909, listed as last part of the volume.
Vital Records
Social Security Death Index, begins about 1962 to at least 2 months ago.
Many early marriages are listed on the Western States Marriage Index.
Societies, Libraries and Museums
Web Sites
- Baker County Trails to the Past
- The Baker County ORGenWeb Project, a member of The ORGenWeb Project
- Linkpendium
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Baker County
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Baker County (backup site)
- Webtree.com, listing individuals who born or died in Baker City or County, Oregon. Submitters of gedcoms may add, update or remove contents.
- FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Baker County
- ↑ WorldCat 50140092 ▲ FHL CollectionHandybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.] (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002)
- ↑ Jim Tompkins, "The Oregon Trail 1841-1848 Map V" in Oregon Trail Landmarks at http://www.oregonpioneers.com/OTMap5.jpg (accessed 18 July 2011).


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Weber amendment passes House floor
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Weber (R-Texas) offered his amendment highlighting the findings of the State Department's exhaustive environmental review of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Congressman's amendment strengthens the argument to pass the Northern Route Approval Act, which declares that a Presidential permit is not required for the Keystone XL Pipeline's application.
"My amendment simply sets the record straight by adding findings from this Administration's State Department that attest to the safety and environmental soundness of this project," said Congressman Weber. "The science supports approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, and I agree. Given the facts, I see no reason to make the American people wait any longer for a project whose construction will support upwards of 40,000 jobs and generate upwards of $2 billion in earnings."
Along with Congressman Weber's amendment, which passed the floor by a vote of 246 to 168; Congressman Lee Terry's (R-Nebraska) legislation, the Northern Approval Act passed the House floor by a vote of 241 to 175 (1 Present vote).


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Elizabeth Smith points out a handy bit of functionality for the PHP-GTKers out there on her blog today - tooltips in PHP_Gtk2.
She talks specifically about how she's using them in her CC Desktop framework to make tooltip creation simple:
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He may not speak English fluently, but Koji Uehara doesn't need English to be fluent in the language of baseball.
It's as easy as: A, B, C. Or, rather make that: one, two, three.
"One finger is a fast ball; sometimes that index finger'll get swirled, that'll mean a two seam fastball; sometimes there'll be a sharp knifing motion, that means cut fastball. Then there's two fingers, usely a curveball or breaking ball, three fingers means..." said Dirk Hayhurst, a retired Major League Baseball pitcher who is fluent in the language of baseball.
Hayhurst can go on and on. Maybe it's not so easy after all.
All those swirling fingers and knifing motions are the way catchers speak to him. In fact, Hayhurst pitched many, many games in the minor leagues to a catcher who hardly spoke a word of English.
"We just broke camp from spring training and we're driving the team bus and he's sitting on the bus reading a book called English for Dummies," Hayhurst recalled.
On the field, though, he was certainly no dummy.
"You spend one week throwing to this guy and he knows what to do," Hayhurst said.
A pitcher and catcher learn from one another just by flashing a series of ones, twos and threes. But it goes beyond mere hand gestures, says Hayhurst. Speaking the language of baseball also means knowing the unwritten rules of the game. Rule number one: you don't peek. That means the batter can never look back at the catcher to look at signs.
But if a batter did steal the signs — when Hayhurst was pitching to his Spanish-speaking catcher, language wasn't an issue.
"My catcher, who doesn't speak a lick of English outside of these baseball rules, said, 'He peeking! He peeking!' And my next pitch was high and tight and I put this guy in his place," Hayhurst says. "I don't think he read that in the English for Dummies book."
When you want to nail someone, Hayhurst says, the sign is an over-turned palm with the thumb gesturing angrily.
So what are the origins of the baseball signs?
"The basis for signs and signals and sign-stealing pretty much go back to the American Civil War," said Paul Dickson, author of The Hidden Language of Baseball.
Baseball was played before the Civil War, but coded hand signals became a common tool for soldiers on the battlefield trying to communicate with one another. Coded signs and signals were used by both the Confederate and Union armies. After the war, those coded signs were carried from the battlefield to the ballfield. The jump from soldiers in battle to men on a field isn't a hard leap to make, says Dickson.
"The manager, who is the field general, is in uniform and he's directing, the first and third base coach are the first lieutenants, the catcher is the sargeant directing the men in the field [and] the pitcher and catcher are the battery," Dickson said.
Signs were not only meant to communicate with allies but to confuse the enemy who was actively trying to break the code. Just as the unwritten peeking rule is universa,l so it seems is the act of decoding the opposing team's signs. And throwing "deeks," or decoy signs — that's part of the game, too.
"You have to disguise your signs. You've got your poker face out there in front of the world," said Joe Vavra, a third base coach for the Minnesota Twins
Vavra has a pretty good poker face, and a good memory. While he's throwing out deeks, he also has to remember the real signs for each player on the team as well as teach them the signs.
"We'll go over them, we'll go over them, we'll go over them," Vavra said.
As for teaching the players who don't speak English. Who needs it? Vavra just mimes the movements for the players who aren't completely comfortable in English.
"I can show them the actions and they understand," Vavra said.
Still not every play in baseball can be reduced to a tap on the forehead or a brush of the arm. Language is sometimes necessary, like during a mound visit when players and the coach come together to discuss strategy. What happens when everyone speaks a different language? Hayhurst says yes, sometimes, you just have to bring the interpreter to the mound. But even then the situation is not quite clearcut.
"The interpreter will speak and the shortstop will try to reinterate what the interpreter is trying to reiterate from the coach to the second baseman who speaks really only fluent Japanese," Hayhurst said. "And the funny thing is, is whether the Japanese second baseman understands or not, he will be bowing his head over and over again, which confuses the American coach because that's a sign that [the Japanese player] understands."
But the Japanese player may just be bowing his head as a sign of respect toward the coach.
"So it can be a recipe for disaster, it really can," Hayhurst said.
Still, oddly enough, he says more often than not miscommunication has nothing to do with a player's native tongue. In fact, according to Hayhurst, when two players do not speak the same native language they can actually be more attentive and careful when reading the signs.
"I've seen guys mess up signs who speak the same language way more than I see problems with guys who grew up 3,000 miles away from each other," Hayhurst said.
So this weekend, when you're watching the series, be on the lookout for the verbal and the nonverbal signs. There's a whole lot language going on.
A previous version of this story incorrectly spelled Dirk Hayhurt's last name.


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Arkansas leads the way in human trafficking laws
Thirty-nine states, including Arkansas, passed legislation against human trafficking this year. The legislation cleared both houses of the Arkansas Legislature unanimously—an indication of the universal urgency to find solutions. Even more notable at home is the toughness of Arkansas's law.
With its enactment of our new law, Arkansas strengthened its stance against human trafficking more than any other state, according to the Washington-based Polaris Project. The group advocates for stricter laws against human trafficking, and it had high praise for Arkansas's new law. The legislation expands the definition of human trafficking and makes it a Class Y felony, punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. The measure also allows for victims to qualify for restitution and other services and provides law-enforcement officers with specialized training. The law also allows for the seizure of traffickers' assets and mandates the posting of the hotline number for the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.
Forced labor is one form of enslavement, but an increasing number of cases involve sex trafficking. This crime is being perpetrated in Arkansas and across America more than most people realize. Earlier this summer, a Little Rock man was convicted in federal court of sex trafficking. It was the first such conviction in the Eastern District of Arkansas, but the offense had been ongoing for quite some time. The U.S. Attorney said that a key factor in bringing cases of human trafficking to light is the awareness of others.
That awareness is spreading in Arkansas, thanks to the work of national and local organizations. Many companies in Arkansas's trucking industry, along with the nonprofit group Truckers Against Trafficking, are training drivers to look for and report signs of enslavement. Already, reports from Arkansas truckers are on the rise. Their watchful eyes across our state's roadways can be a powerful resource for law enforcement and may save lives.
Human traffickers target people who are often the most vulnerable in society. Commonly, victims are new to this country. They come after being promised a better life and a better job, but are tricked into owing their captors large sums of money. The only form of repayment these captors will accept is forced labor or the sex trade.
Fortunately, help is available for victims of these crimes. Partners Against Trafficking Humans, or PATH, provides safe shelter in Central Arkansas for individuals who gain freedom or escape. Knowing that help is available is certainly an incentive for those who are trapped in what they consider a helpless situation.
Criminals are trafficking women, men and children from coast to coast at appalling rates. While breaking the law, they are also robbing their victims of their liberty, one of the strongest tenets of our American way of life. In Arkansas, and every other state, prosecutors and law enforcement are acquiring stronger tools and more support to stop traffickers, and state agencies will protect survivors and help them reclaim their freedom.


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Coach Mike McCarthy says slumping Packers (5-6-1) must win out
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Still trying to make sense of one of the toughest losses in his successful tenure as Green Bay Packers coach, Mike McCarthy made it clear what his struggling team must accomplish.
Speaking Friday morning, a day after the Packers were embarrassed 40-10 by the Detroit Lions, McCarthy feels the Packers must win their remaining four games.
"I would think so, yes," McCarthy said.
Even that might not be enough to get the two-time NFC North champions back in the playoffs. Winless in its last five games (0-4-1), Green Bay is in a big bind going into the final month of the regular season. The Packers have tumbled from the top of the division to third place with a 5-6-1 record.
Not only is Green Bay trailing NFC North leader Detroit (7-5) by 1½ games, the Packers have never reached the playoffs with a sub-.500 record after 12 games since the NFL expanded the schedule to 16 games in 1978.
McCarthy didn't downplay the predicament facing his team.
"Oh, we're in a hole," he said. "We felt like we were in the hole going into the Detroit game. We've got two division losses and a tie. That's not where you want to be."
The Packers are in danger of missing the postseason for the first time since 2008, when they had a five-game losing skid late in the season and finished 6-10. That was Aaron Rodgers' first year as the team's leader on offense.
"It's pretty hard to get any lower than right now after a terrible loss on national television, but we have to keep going," linebacker Clay Matthews said after Thursday's game. "We still have four games left — a whole quarter of the season. We've got to finish strong. We'll take some time to reflect on this loss and get away for a few days and come back and have an Atlanta team at home."
Green Bay doesn't play again until it hosts the last-place Falcons on Dec. 8, but McCarthy isn't sure if Rodgers will resume playing then. The star quarterback has missed the last four games because of a broken left collarbone.
Rodgers was cleared to practice on a limited basis earlier this week and did some throwing on the field Tuesday and Wednesday.
When asked Friday whether Rodgers has a chance to play against Atlanta, McCarthy replied, "I don't know that."
"I just know when we came off the field Wednesday that he wasn't ready to play yet," McCarthy added. "So, we'll see how the testing goes. But it needs to be the right thing. I know he wants to play, I know he's trying to gear up each and every week to play, but we'll see what happens next week."
Feeling the sting of the Packers' most lopsided loss since they fell 35-0 at home against New England in McCarthy's first season as coach in 2006, at least one frustrated player commented on how much Rodgers has been missed.
Green Bay didn't have a victory in its five November games after Rodgers went out after the first series of the loss to Chicago on Nov. 4. The last time the Packers were winless in a full month of games was December 1990, when they went 0-5.
"It definitely made things a lot more difficult without Aaron," left guard Josh Sitton said Thursday. "I think we all know that. There's no denying that. You can't say, 'Hey, we can go and play just as good without Aaron.' We haven't won a game without him in five weeks. He's the best player on this team. Yeah, we need him, but there's a lot more going on than just that."
Indeed, the Lions exposed the shortcomings for an injury-depleted Green Bay team in several areas.
"It was a very convincing win by the Lions," McCarthy said.
The statistics reflected the one-sided outcome.
Detroit outgained the Packers 561-126 in total yards and had possession of the ball for more than twice as long: 40 minutes, 26 seconds to the Packers' 19:34.
The Lions also gashed Green Bay for 241 yards rushing four days after the Packers allowed a then-season-high 232 yards on the ground in their overtime tie against Minnesota.
Detroit accomplished all that despite turning over the ball four times. The Lions scored 37 unanswered points after a strip-sack by Nick Perry resulted in a short touchdown return by Morgan Burnett that put the Packers up 10-3 early in the second quarter.
McCarthy noted an estimated 20 missed tackles by Green Bay's defense and coverage units on special teams.
"You get above 10 missed tackles in a game, that's a long day," McCarthy lamented.
A sputtering offense certainly added to the Packers' holiday misery. Led by their formidable front line, the Lions sacked Matt Flynn seven times and held Green Bay to a season-low 24 yards rushing.
Flynn, the fourth starter at quarterback for Green Bay in the last five games, also had three turnovers.
"We got drilled by a very good football team that played very well," McCarthy said. "So we'll take that hard lesson, swallow, they'll be accountable for it, and we'll be ready to go when Atlanta comes in here."
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This version has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 15 with Mate desktop. In fact, we have made Linux Mint our development OS because of the efficiency and clean GUI it offeres. We are not a fan of the clunky and slow Unity desktop Ubuntu now provides. Mint is faster, less of a resource hog, and more intuitive as far as I'm concerned. But it still has full access to the Ubuntu repositories and Software Center.
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On Sunday, August 6, 2006, Andrews University added 294 undergraduates and graduates to its almost 30,000 alumni. Graduates heard insipiring talks throughout the weekend services. David Faehner, vice president for advancement, spoke at the 8 pm consecration service. The title of his presentation was, "Honestly, What's it all About?"
The baccalaureate service took place Saturday, August 5, at 11:20 am in the Pioneer Memorial Church. Randall Wisbey, president of Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Md., spoke on "The Ultimate Obligation."
Frank W. Hale, Jr. PhD was the keynote speaker for the commencement service. Dr. Hale is vice provost and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, and his speech was entitled "Now is the Time."
You can listen to these talks on the graduation page. There, you can also read the award citiations for honorary degree recipient Frank W. Hale, Jr. and John Nevins Andrew Medallion recipient Patricia Gustin.


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CAMDEN, N.J. - May 8, 2013 --Camden's school board is laying off nearly 100 teachers and support staff members and all 113 lunch aides.
The cuts were deeper than expected. Some of the lunch aides might be hired by the district's food vendor.
The Board of Education took the action Tuesday night.
Board members declined to answer questions from teachers and members of the public who attended the meeting.
The state government is taking control of the school district, which is in one of the nation's poorest cities.
One reason for the layoffs is a declining enrollment in a city where many children attend charter schools.


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Mentally ill in jails deserve better
I have read The News & Advance's editorials about deaths in Virginia's local and regional jails. Jamychael Mitchell's case interested me because of the mental state he was in at the time of his death. Even after a judge requested he be sent to a mental hospital, he was still denied treatment for his mental illness. In a state survey by the Treatment Advocacy Center, about 20 percent of inmates in jails have a serious mental illness. Once in jail, most mentally ill offenders do not receive the treatment they need and they often stay longer than their counterparts without mental illness. Also, the harsh environment in corrections facilities can enhance the chances for the victimization of a mentally ill inmate. Not only does incarcerating a mentally ill individual hurt them, but it also hurts the taxpayers. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) claims that housing an inmate with mental illness in jail costs $31,000 annually, while community mental health services cost only $10,000. Instead of punishment, the focus should be treatment.
One way to help enforce this notion is the expansion of Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT). CITs are programs for law enforcement that train police officers to respond safely to individuals experiencing mental health issues by using "verbal de-escalation" skills. Although there are over 2,800 CIT programs, NAMI reports that they only represent about 15 percent of police jurisdictions in the U.S.
Instead of denying treatment to mentally ill individuals, there should be more of a focus on rehabilitation to those individuals who cannot function in society due to mental illnesses. There should be a call to reform this issue in the criminal justice system.
Make your voices heard
The House tax bill would tax graduate students for tuition stipends they receive. What kind of terrible redistributive nonsense is this? It will set America back and the potential of each generation to better itself from the previous one. And this is just so large corporations can receive their $1 trillion in tax cuts? Wake up, folks, you know where the GOP interests lie.
It is imperative that you call each of Sens. John McCain, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Jeff Corker and the remaining few GOP thought leaders - even if you don't live in their states - and tell them you're against this terrible tax bill and make sure it never makes it to reconciliation. Currently, only the tax cuts for the wealthiest are permanent. Any so-called "middle class tax cuts" expire in a few years around 2026. And the true cost of the $1.4 trillion in deficit is actually much higher once it's all done - as confessed by White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney himself. These facts have been reported over and over in The News & Advance.
There are better and fairer ways to improve and simplify our tax system, which I admit does require an overhaul. The cons of this bill, however, and its negative impacts far outweigh any pros. There is also very little evidence over time that trickle-down tax cuts work in creating economic growth. What does work in improving growth is investments in human capital such as a better and higher education to improve worker productivity - the very items this tax bill threatens. Remember, even Ronald Reagan had to increase taxes after his initial tax cuts.
Please call the above four senators, along with Virginia's own Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and let them know you're against the Trump tax bill as it currently stands. Make your voice heard.
Our guardian angels
On Aug. 18 at 10:08 a.m., my husband and I were involved in an auto accident on Virginia 151 turning left on Virginia 6 East toward U.S. 29 South.
We were devastated beyond belief not having seen the approaching pick-up.
There was an angel and her son who took over helping us. We did not get her name. Hopefully she will see this letter to her local newspaper. It has taken a long time to digest and recover mentality from the accident, but we have, and my husband and I want to thank the very kind lady and her son for assisting us and getting all the necessary rescue persons there. If anyone knows who this angel is, we would like to acknowledge her help to us. Thank you.
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I let loose with a chorus of "amens" and "hallelujahs" when reading a July 1 article on organic foods in the Los Angeles Times written by Russ Parsons.
Parsons declared, "I don't believe in organic" in an article that tossed organic fanatics on the hot plate for the industry's too common "shove-it-down-your-throat" shenanigans toward mandatory organic food consumption.
Perhaps even more shocking to organic followers was Parson's admonition that he liked organic and conventional farmers. He called organic agriculture an "oversimplification."
I was stunned by what I read – verbiage from a mainstream writer in a major daily paper who actually "gets" the organic issue.
"I think the ones who need to do the apologizing are the often well-meaning organic advocates who paint such a black-and-white picture of the way farming works that it seems there should be no choice at all," Parsons skillfully wrote. "The real world isn't black and white at all."
I get tired of reading that organic agriculture is the greatest innovation since the ark. It's the organic way or the highway.
For the record, I am pro conventional and organic agriculture. There should be place settings around the table for both growing methods. However, consumers, including moi, should have the right to choose which foods to consume. It's a free country, but that's fodder for a future commentary.
What keeps ticking in my brain cell-declining "chrome dome" is a population clock referenced by speakers I heard last summer during the BIO International Convention in San Diego which drew 35,000 attendees.
The speakers predicted world population will surpass 8 billion people by the year 2025. The current tally is about 6.7 billion.
While both conventional and organic agriculture can help feed tomorrow's hungry mouths, I believe conventional agriculture will be the breadwinner in growing the mammoth amounts of food demanded in the future.
I am grateful for biotechnology, farm chemicals, and other methods, including organic, that fill my belly and billions more every day with safe and nutritious grub.
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Israel Encourages Setler ViolenceWritten by Stephen Lendman Subject: Israel - Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
Settler violence is terrorism. Even America's State Department says so. Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another.
Israeli setter violence is out-of-control. It's risen sharply in recent years because nothing is done to stop it. Israeli extremists literally have license to attack Palestinian civilians, destroy their property and crops, inflict bodily harm, and at times kill.
Last March, the London Guardian headlined "Israel 'turning blind eye' to West Bank settlers' attacks on Palestinians," saying:
Settlers conduct "systematic and expanding campaign of violence against Palestinian farmers, families and children with the Israeli authorities turning a blind eye, according to confidential reports from senior European Union officials."
Two EU reports the Guardian obtained showed "settler violence (more) than tripled in three years to total hundreds of incidents."
In February, EU ambassadors in Brussels said:
"Acts of settler violence are becoming a serious concern for the Israeli state which has so far failed to effectively protect the Palestinian population."
The report said attacks rose from 132 in 2009 to 411 last year. Farmers are most vulnerable. In 2011, about 10,000 olive, almond, and lemon trees were destroyed.
Israeli authorities largely turn a blind eye and do nothing. "Over 90% of monitored complaints regarding settler violence filed by Palestinians with the Israeli police in recent years have been closed without indictment."
Whitewash is official policy. Settlers are free to attack, injure, and destroy. Why not? Who'll stop them. Every day is Kristallnacht in Palestine. Israeli security forces and supportive Fatah ones conduct their own reign of terror.
Settler attacks alone are out-of-control. "Discriminatory protections and privileges (they get) compound these abuses and create an environment in which (they) can act with apparent impunity."
Government failure to act encourages violence. Settlers believe they enjoy "tacit support of the state of Israel."
Farmers in their fields are assaulted. Children heading to or from school or at play are attacked. Most settlers are nonviolent. Too many others hate Arabs and show it.
"Arguably the single most important deficiency in the provision of an impartial rule of law is the difference in the level of protection afforded to settlers and Palestinians," said the report.
Around 100 militant settler leaders "mastermind" attacks. Israeli authorities fear electoral fallout by deterring them. "In Israeli terms, there (are) negative political consequence(s) to cracking down on settler violence and no political gain" by doing it.
The EU report was one thing. Failure to act against Israel made it toothless. Follow-through never occurs after similar UN reports. One released in July said settler attacks increased 150% since 2008. Apparently it understated how bad things are.
Incidents include violence and destructive acts against individuals, mosques, crops, livestock, and other property. Former IDF head Dan Halutz said Netanyahu does nothing to stop them. "If we wanted, we could catch them, and when we want to, we will," he added.
Last February, Israeli television reported Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman caught on tape. He was advising extremist settlers how to seek pardons if charged. He'd approve them, he said.
On issues regarding Palestine, Israeli governments (past and present) pursue similar policies. Settler terrorism continues because no one stops it.
Last July, Haaretz contributor Amira Hass discussed it. She touched important nerves. She headlined "The anti-Semitism that goes unreported," saying:
"Here's a statistic that you won't see in research on anti-Semitism, no matter how meticulous the study is. In the first six months of the year, 154 anti-Semitic assaults have been recorded, 45 of them around one village alone."
"Some fear that last year's record high of 411 attacks - significantly more than the 312 attacks in 2010 and 168 in 2009 - could be broken this year."
Last June, 58 incidents occurred - nearly two a day. They included "stone-throwing targeting farmers and shepherds, shattered windows, arson, damaged water pipes and water-storage facilities, uprooted fruit trees and one damaged house of worship."
"The assailants are sometimes masked, sometimes not; sometimes they attack surreptitiously, sometimes in the light of day."
Palestinians got "death" and "revenge" threats. Another said, "We will yet slaughter."
Merriam-Webster calls Semites "member(s) of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs." So are other Semitic-speaking people.
Anti-Semistism affects Palestinians like Jews. It's no secret who's more egregiously treated. "It's no accident (why) diligent anti-Semitism researchers" don't explain, said Hass.
Palestinian Semites are harmed, not Jews. In response, "Israeli Defense Forces, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks."
Palestinians face daily terror threats. Who'll be attacked next? Will their children get to school and return home OK? How many trees and other crops will be destroyed? Is praying in community mosques safe?
On February 24, 1994, Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Muslim worshippers. Palestinians fear similar incidents for good reason. Even the conservative Washington Post commented. Last August it headlined "Settler violence against Palestinians raises alarm in Israel," saying:
Jewish youths viciously beat an Arab teenager. "(S)oul-searching about the depths of ethnic hatred in Israeli society" followed. Too bad arrests virtually never occur.
"Israeli authorities (made none following) the Aug. 16 daylight firebombing of a Palestinian taxi…." They did little more than say they suspected extremist settlers. Case closed!
Four Palestinian family members and the driver were severely burned. Hospitalization was required. Netanyahu promised to find those responsible but did nothing. It happens after virtually all terrorist incidents harming Palestinians. Israeli authorities don't care and show it.
Rarely ever do US media report negatively about Israel. Exceptions prove the rule. Left unsaid is how bad things are. Life in Occupied Palestine means having no one to turn to for protection.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other resistance groups do their best to protect Gazans. They're no match against Israeli F-16s, attack helicopters, missiles, bombs, artillery shelling, heavily armed invaders, and assault vessels attacking Palestinian fishermen.
West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinians are virtually defenseless. They face three brutal enemies - extremist settlers, Israeli security forces, and PA ones used against their own people.
There's nowhere to hide. Security is a four-letter word. Systemic violence is a way of life. No one's sure from day to day who'll live, die, stay unharmed and free, or know their homes and other property are safe.
Being Palestinian is their mark of Cain. Praying to the wrong God endangers them. Profound insecurity defines their lives. So do fear, intimidation, and institutionalized violence. Terrorism stalks them daily.
It takes a tolls. Palestinians bear physical and emotional scars. Children are especially harmed. Some end up permanently traumatized. Most people outside Occupied Palestine know or care.
Occasional Israeli policies are cosmetic without teeth at best. On October 12, the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) headlined "Israeli Police Forms 'Jewish Terror' Branch In The West Bank," saying:
Netanyahu "form(ed) a unit" to deal with "Jewish Terrorism…." Allegedly it's to curb settler violence. Previous measures did nothing. Policies with teeth didn't follow rhetoric.
Protecting Jews alone matters. Palestinians are on their own. It's been that way during 45 years of occupation. Netanyahu changed nothing. As they say, the proof is in the pudding. In Palestine, there is none.
On October 11, B'Tselem headlined "Five attacks on olive harvesters and damaged olive groves in four days," saying:
Events suggest "that Security forces (aren't) prepared (or don't care about) protect(ing) Palestinian olive harvesters and their property from settler violence."
In Ramallah and Nablus regions from October 7 - 10, B'Tselem "document five cases of injury to Palestinian farmers and their olive trees…."
Three other similar incidents occurred. Olive trees were either damaged or stolen. Several attacks occurred in full view of nearby Israeli forces. They witnessed them and did nothing.
In two farmer attacks, they violated IDF and High Court instructions. They "prohibit closing off areas to Palestinian farmers and removing (those) attacked by settlers." Security forces are supposed to investigate these type incidents. Instead they ignore them.
On October 7, 25 olive trees belonging to Abu Fahaida family members were destroyed. The Zayit Ra'anan outpost lies 500 meters from their land. Extremist settlers infest it.
Some showed up the previous day. They confronted family members. Israeli security forces are stationed nearby. Palestinians asked for protection but got none. Following the incident, they complained to police. They're assured no help there either.
On October 7, ten masked settlers attacked Beitillu village farmers. They came from the nearby Nahliel settlement. They're suspected of setting their field ablaze.
On October 9, Farata and Amatin area farmers arrived on their land to harvest olives. It's located near the Havat Gilad outpost. On arrival, they discovered that unknown persons stole their trees and crops.
About 220 trees were taken. Around 130 belonged to Ibrahim Salah. He complained to police with help from Yesh Din human rights volunteers. More on their new vandalism report below.
B'Tselem said Salah can't reach his land "without prior coordination with the army due to the proximity of the Havat Gilad outpost." Jewish settler rights alone matter.
On October 9, Qaryut residents discovered over 80 olive trees owned by 10 families severely damaged. Their land lies two km from the Eli settlement. Rabbis for Human Rights reported the incident. They try to help but have little success. Israeli authorities turn a blind eye.
On October 10, Ratib Na'asan, an al-Mughayir village resident, discovered about 100 olive trees he owns damaged. Most were "denuded down to the trunk."
In an adjacent plot owned by his brother, Jamil, 40 trees were vandalized.
B'Tselem documented earlier incidents. They happen regularly. The only time charges followed, it said, was when one of its volunteers videotaped settlers stealing olives. Perhaps it was evidence too compelling to ignore. It's also another example of the exception proving the rule.
Even soil is fair game for theft. On October 12, Maan News headlined "West Bank settlers 'stealing soil' from Palestinians," saying:
Israeli authorities ignore it. An unnamed police official said nothing can be done to curb this type theft. In other words, he doesn't care. Truckloads of Palestinian soil were reported stolen from various locations. Each load is worth 2,000 shekels.
On October 12, Yesh Din headlined "Investigation of vandalism of Palestinian trees: One indictment in 162 investigations," saying:
Like B'Tselem, Yesh Din documents vandalism. It's done it since 2005. Only once did charges follow. They came over four years after the incident occurred.
So-called investigations conducted were whitewashes. Rhetoric substituted for action. Settlers are free to commit "ideological" crimes. Palestinians are fair game. They're denied inviolable international law rights.
Yesh Din, B'Tselem, and other human rights groups show how egregiously they're treated. Abuses happen regularly out of sight and mind to most people not paying attention.
Western media largely ignore them. Israeli authorities don't care. Fatah ones do little or nothing to help. Imagine living this way from day to day.
Imagine not knowing whether your property will be safe, destroyed or stolen. Imagine being unsure from dawn to dusk if you and family members will be safe.
Imagine daily fear and insecurity. For Palestinians, it's their way of life. Most Israelis and Western residents can't imagine what they endure. Somehow they persist and press on. One day they hope to live free.
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Cindy Sherman (American, b. Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 1954)
Untitled Film Still #53 (Blonde: Close-Up With Lamp), 1980
Dated, signed, and numbered lower right
Black and white photograph
Image: 26 x 38 in. (66 x 96.5 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/16 x 41 1/8 in. (73.8 x 104.5 cm)
Gift of Donald Droll in honor of Chloe Hamilton Young, 1984
Cindy Sherman transforms herself into a disquieting image of 1950s B-movie femininity in this photographic performance. Engaged with issues current in the early 1980s under the rubric of postmodernism, the work investigates the role of photography in the construction of the unified self, and makes explicit the power relations provoked by the act of looking.
This large photograph belongs to Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1977-80), a series of sixty-five grainy, black-and-white photographs reminiscent of "film noir" movie stills.1 Although Sherman is both model and photographer in these works, these images are not autobiographical. She photographs herself in various guises of stereotypical femininity, each a moment in a larger implied narrative.
Along with many artists working in the 1980s, such as Barbara Kruger, Martha Rosler, and Sherrie Levine, Sherman adopts the postmodern stance that photography is a strategy for revealing the cultural constructions we designate as truth. Counter to classic modernist notions of the photograph as formal icon or truthful document, the fictional narratives of Sherman's Untitled Film Stills and the feminine conditions they construct suggest that photographic production, like all forms of representation, is ideologically motivated.
In Untitled Film Still # 53, Sherman engages with another theme of postmodern practice and theory of the 1980s: the camera is not a neutral device but an ideological apparatus that frames and constructs a particular viewpoint. In this case, Sherman seems to have consciously manipulated the image to emphasize the controlling (implicitly male) gaze of the viewer from which the young blonde anxiously averts her own gaze. As a number of writers have pointed out, the young women in the Untitled Film Stills series reenact cinematic codes of femininity of the 1950s.2 Outfitted in a demure '50s nylon blouse and carefully done hairdo and makeup, the Oberlin figure thus reconstructs the codes of passivity, vulnerability, and anxiety. A '50s lamp and diffused lighting suggest an evening encounter in a domestic interior. The young woman has little room to maneuver in the limited space left to her between the viewer and the wall. Other Stills portray such constructs of femininity as the brutalized victim, the vamp or hooker, 1978, AMAM inv. 81.21), and the bourgeois hausfrau.
Other writers have suggested that Sherman's role-playing exposes femininity itself as a masquerade, and is thus a fiction rather than an absolute identity.3 The masquerade of femininity enacted by Sherman's women, as well as the role-playing of Sherman herself, recall another postmodern tenet: that the self is a matrix of shifting identities rather than a unified whole.4
Critical response to Sherman's Untitled Film Stills has been generally laudatory. Writers interested in postmodernism and critical theory, such as Craig Owens and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, as well as those interested in other perspectives, such as Peter Schejldahl and Rosalind Krauss, offer diverse interpretations of the series.5 The ambiguity of Sherman's work allows and encourages a relatively wide range of interpretations.
P. Mathews
Work reproduced with permission of Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1954, and grew up in suburban Huntington Beach on Long Island, the youngest of five children. She came to New York in 1977 shortly after receiving her B.A. in photography at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1976), a thriving art program at that time. She exhibited photographs of herself in 1977, and began the Untitled Film Stills in the same year. She continued to work in series and in 1980 began to work in color as well (as in Untitled #87 [Blue Shirt/Red Blanket], 1981, AMAM inv. 82.73). After several more groups of photographs of single women, she moved to images of herself dressed as historical costumed figures, and then to several series based on violent images of otherness, death, and brutality. She no longer always uses herself as a model, but photographs mannequin body parts in several grotesque series related to violent sexuality. Most recently, Sherman has photographed rotting fruit with visceral connotations.
Sherman became well known after her first one-person exhibition of Film Stills in 1981 at Metro Pictures in Soho, New York City. That same year she was featured in the Young Americans exhibition at the AMAM. In 1982, she had her first European exhibition in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum. A sign of her early success came in the form of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1983. She remains an important figure on the New York and international art scene, with works in major collections around the globe, and continues to create imaginative, often bizarre works.
General References
Crimp, Douglas. "Cindy Sherman: Making Pictures for the Camera." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 38, no. 2 (1980-81), pp. 86-91.
Cindy Sherman. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987. Essays by Peter Schejldahl and Lisa Phillips.
Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills. New York, 1990. Introduction by Arthur C. Danto.
"Collaboration John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman." Parkett 29 (1991), pp. 74-123.
Krauss, Rosalind. Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993. New York, 1993. With an essay by Norman Bryson.
Purchased from Metro Pictures, New York, by Donald Droll, 1984, and given by him to the museum
This print
The image
Cindy Sherman. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982, cat. no. 33.
Krauss, Rosalind. Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993. New York, 1993, pp. 62-63.
Cindy Sherman. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987, pl. 33.
Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills. New York, 1990, pl. 36.
Technical Data
The gelatin silver print is printed on a fiber-based paper with a very matte finish and a visible texture. The overall condition is good, although there is faint staining, probably from residual processing chemicals, on the recto; this is more pronounced on the verso. The photograph is not mounted and there is some vertical puckering from the top and bottom edges. A slight diagonal scuff mark appears just to the left of the lamp.
1. Each image was published in an edition of three 30 x 40 in. prints (as here) and ten 8 x 10 in. prints. For a checklist of the series and many illustrations, see Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993 (New York, 1993). For illustrations of almost all the images, see Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills (New York, 1990).
2. For example, see Douglas Crimp, "Pictures," October 8 (Spring 1979), pp. 75-88; and Craig Owens, "The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Part 2," October 13 (Summer 1980), pp. 58-80.
3. Joan Riviere is responsible for the original concept; see her "Womanliness as a Masquerade," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 10 (1929). On Sherman, see, for example, Craig Owens, "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism," in Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture (Berkeley, 1992), p. 183.
4. The classic text for this theory is Roland Barthes, "Death of the Author," in Image/Music/Text (London, 1977), pp. 142-48.
5. Craig Owens, "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism," in Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture (Berkeley, 1992), p. 183; Abigail Solomon-Godeau, "Photography after Art Photography," Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation, ed. Brian Wallis (Boston, 1984), pp. 79-80; Peter Schejldahl, "The Oracle of Images," in Cindy Sherman (exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987), pp. 7-11; and Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993 (New York, 1993).


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Arrive at Tunbridge Wells West for 10:00 and take a look inside our Victorian Engine Shed. Board the train shortly before departure and travel to Eridge hauled by a steam locomotive, your Morning Coffee being served upon departure from Tunbridge Wells.
Upon arrival at Eridge you'll have the opportunity to alight briefly and see our steam Locomotive. Rejoin the train ready for the heritage diesel Locomotive to haul you back up the hill to Tunbridge Wells, arriving back there for approximately 11:40. What a great way to start your day out in the Weald!
Tickets are valid for travel all day which means after enjoying your 10:20 round trip you can stay on board and take our 12:00 service back down the line to explore some of the places along the line.
What's included in the ticket price?
• Morning Coffee service on the 10:20 departure from Tunbridge Wells West.
• All day travel on the Spa Valley Railway after your 'Morning Coffee'.
• A choice of tea or coffee served on board one of our heritage carriages.
• 2x Danish Pastry, 1x Croissant, 2x Morning Coffee Biscuits per person.
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Re: Star Wars Battlefront II
I think its a pretty sweet game and i LOVE the way you can be Boba Fett......and i think he doesnt do all that bad against the other jedi and stuff.......i especially love his flamethrower.......its one of the coolest games ive ever played.....i have it for x-box.
[i] "I love that crunchy sound they make when they die." ―RC-1207 (Sev), killing Geonosian [/i]


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Why didn't France join Bush's "coalition of the willing," to invade Iraq?
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him: "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."
This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its "coalition of the willing" to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush's call and "wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs."
After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn't comply with Bush's request. Instead, his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal.
ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.
a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian foreign minister later said the American president told him he was "on a mission from God" to defeat Iraq.
Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses and Iraq battle photos to war reports he hand-delivered to Bush. One declared: "Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground."


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Sand table in a rural school remembered
At Duff Valley District 4, the one-room school I attended as a child, we had a sand table. It was a sturdy, wooden box about 2 feet wide, 3 feet long, and 6 inches deep, supported by 4 legs. The outside of the table was painted a sickly shade of pale green, and the inside held about two inches of sand.
I suppose that someone's father made it for the school and filled it with clean sand from a blowout in his pasture. Sand is one thing that is plentiful in the Nebraska Sandhills.
Sometimes we played at the sand table when we spent recess inside or when we finished all our schoolwork. However, I don't remember any special toys for the sand table. By the time I was in fifth grade or so, the teacher had dumped out the sand and was using the table to store a set of Funk & Wagnall encyclopedias that my mother had donated to the school.
I had never considered the age of that sand table, but after reading about sand tables in the 1916 issues of Primary Education, I suspect it might have been a couple of generations older than me.
According to Primary Education a scene constructed in a sand table was an excellent educational device. For example, a teacher's classroom activities during the county fair included a model fair in the sand table:
The children constructed a fair in the sand-table, placing booths and a merry-go-round, and pasteboard people, horses, cows, etc. Each child also made a toy merry-go-round to take home. These were made from the given pattern during the drawing and construction periods, thus giving lessons in tracing, some measurements, cutting, coloring and construction. (Source)
How-to books for sand table scenes were offered for sale in the advertisement section of the magazines. In the articles, many sand table scenes are described:
- A zoo and a cherry orchard
- Springtime
- A millinery store
- Holland
- A Dutch sand table
- A Japanese tearoom
- Animals of Africa, an African village, and the Sahara Desert
- Farming in the rain belt vs. dry farming
- A barnyard (for use in Language, Science, and Hygiene lessons)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The frequent mention of the sand table in this teachers' magazine suggests that it was an effective teaching and learning tool. If it seems odd or quaint, remember the times. In 1916, the students weren't jaded by electronic wonders, and teachers didn't have today's myriad of resources.
A sand table was so simple and inexpensive to make that any school could have one -- even our little country school out in the Nebraska Sandhills. However, I think our sand table was just a relic by the time I came along in the late 1950s. Our teachers were using modern technology to enhance our learning -- the phonograph, the hectograph, and the filmstrip projector!
Also in Google Books: Primary Education magazines from 1894 through 1923


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DUBLIN, Ohio, 24 July 2013— Fourteen libraries in Australia have completed implementation and are now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services. These libraries join more than 120 libraries worldwide using the cloud-based library management services that simplify operations, streamline workflows, offer new opportunities for collaboration, and provide powerful discovery and delivery services for library users.
"Coming onboard with WorldShare and being part of the WorldCat community has been very exciting," said Karin Gilbert, Head of the Learning Resource Centre, Lowther Hall. "The product development is excellent, updates are regular and reflect the input we give, and we feel excited to be part of this innovative product and community."
Included in the list of Australian libraries in full implementation of WorldShare Management Services are:
- Auburn City Library Service (New South Wales)
- Collie Public Library (Western Australia)
- The Hutchins School (Tasmania)
- Isaac Regional Council Libraries (Queensland)
- Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School (Victoria)
- Mazenod College (Victoria)
- Monash Health Libraries (Melbourne)
- Plantagenet Public Libraries (Western Australia)
- Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
- St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne (Victoria)
- St Michael's Collegiate School (Tasmania)
- Somerset College (Queensland)
- Shore, Sydney Church of England Grammar School (New South Wales)
- Trinity Theological College, Leederville (Western Australia)
"Our implementation went quite smoothly thanks to the dedication and hard work of the OCLC support team in Melbourne," said Alison Kidman, Manager of Information Services, Shire of Collie. "We are very pleased to now offer our patrons a far more enriching online experience that WorldCat brings, and look forward to incorporating further developments."
OCLC staff in Melbourne has extensive experience in supporting libraries in Australia and New Zealand and worked closely with libraries in the region to facilitate implementation and support of the WorldShare Management Services. "These libraries are leading OCLC's new, innovative approach to cooperative library management services in this part of the world," said Chris Thewlis, OCLC Regional Manager, Australia/New Zealand. "We expect other institutions will follow their lead."
WorldShare Management Services offer unified, Web-based applications—from acquisitions and circulation, to metadata and license management, resource sharing and analytics—to streamline workflows, and create new value for their institutions and users. They also offer the ability to manage collections of print, electronic and digital material from start-to-finish. The integration of license management features into interlibrary loan processes set WorldShare Management Services apart from traditional integrated library systems.
To support WorldShare Management Services for members in Australia and New Zealand, OCLC began operating a new data center in Sydney, Australia, in March 2012. The Sydney center employs state-of-the-art technologies to ensure high-level performance, reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness. In addition, the new center enables OCLC to comply with access and data privacy requirements in Australia and New Zealand, and adhere to technical standards that promote the cost-effective, worldwide sharing of information across platforms. And to demonstrate OCLC's commitment to information security, OCLC obtained its ISO 27001 certification in February 2012.
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By Jakob Rodgers Updated: October 8, 2013 at 11:47 am • Published: October 8, 2013 | 6:55 am
Facing the threat of a bitter court battle, a Colorado Springs mother on Monday resumed treating her 3-year-old son's cancer the traditional way: using chemotherapy.
Had she been left to choose, Sierra Riddle would have swapped those chemo-filled pills for a unique strain of medicinal marijuana grown near Divide.
"I'm not going to gamble with his life," Riddle said. "But at the same time, I don't think we should poison his body if he doesn't need it."
Children's Hospital doctors in Colorado Springs ordered the treatment, and the case was reported to the El Paso County Department of Human Services when Riddle refused. The case has raised the issue of parental rights when weighed against doctors' expertise - a debate that boils down to whether Landon Riddle's mother could scientifically prove her case in court, said F. Scott McCown, director of the University of Texas' Children's Rights Clinic. In other words, they have to side with research.
"You have to understand that parents have rights with regard to their children, but that children also have rights," McCown said. "Children aren't property of parents - parents can't do as they wish with regard to a child.
"And so at some point, the state has to intervene."
Doctors diagnosed Landon last fall with T-cell ALL leukemia and began him on an intensive regimen of chemotherapy and radiation, Riddle said. Though he went into remission about 45 days later, treatment protocol called for at least three years of chemotherapy to keep the disease from reappearing.
Nine months of treatments made him violently ill, his mother said, causing him to vomit 30 to 50 times a day. She moved from Utah to Colorado to seek alternative treatments and tried several remedies, including morphine and Oxycontin.
In May, Riddle tried something else.
She stopped a daily regimen of chemotherapy pills in favor of a strain of marijuana called Charlotte's Web - a variety grown and sold in Teller County that has gained national attention.
The strain features very little THC, the psychotropic agent in marijuana, but high amounts of CBD, which is believed to harness the plant's medicinal properties.
The difference was remarkable, Riddle said, adding that Landon remained in remission and the chemotherapy's side effects faded.
She planned to continue the marijuana supplements until a doctor at Children's Hospital objected and her case was reported to the El Paso County Department of Human Services.
The Colorado Children's Code outlines a parents' rights to care for their children as they see fit - a provision that often comes into play when a family's religious preference conflicts with medical practices, said Karen Logan, the El Paso County's child protection manager.
But social workers can become involved when life or safety is at risk, Logan said. She declined to specifically address Landon's case, citing department policy.
Children's Hospital officials also declined to comment on the case. In a statement, the hospital said an oncology group featured at its hospital boasts a survival rate or more than 90 percent in research trials treating Landon's type of leukemia.
In mediation overseen by El Paso County social workers, Riddle agreed to resume the chemotherapy in lieu of taking the case the court, saying she had "no choice."
She vowed to change her mind, though, should an oncologist agree to testify in favor of the marijuana treatment.
"They're not willing to work with me," she said.


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Wednesday September 8, 2010
As Michael Douglas battles a throat tumour, he has a lucky charm to see him through the treatment – a Welsh Dragon baseball cap.
The hat is probably a gift from his Swansea–born wife Catherine Zeta-Jones or one of their fans back in Wales.
It may have been given to him this summer when the couple made their annual visit to her native land, with Dylan and Carys, their two children, who both have traditional Welsh names.
The charismatic 65-year-old has pledged to beat cancer.
In a recent interview with US chat show host David Letterman, he appeared upbeat and positive.
The health problems come after a tough year for Michael, in which his son has been jailed on drugs charges and he is involved in a court battle with his ex-wife.
Watch Michael's Letterman interview.


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Man arrested in hit-and-run death of NC college student
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A Greenville man has been arrested in the hit and run death of a college student last year.
Pitt County sheriff's deputies and the North Carolina Highway Patrol said Tuesday that 47-year-old William Earl Langley has been charged with felony hit and run and other charges.
Twenty-year-old Austin Baeza was found dead in a ditch along N.C. Highway 33 last August. Nicki Baeza says her son had left his home in Greenville and gone for a walk when he was struck and killed.
Detectives say they never found Langley's vehicle.
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Q: My 5-year-old daughter has had impetigo, a bacterial infection, on her chin three times in the past year. We were prescribed a cream to use for several days to clear it up. What causes this, and how can we get it to stop?
Q: My 5-year-old daughter has had impetigo, a bacterial infection, on her chin three times in the past year. We were prescribed a cream to use for several days to clear it up. What causes this, and how can we get it to stop?
A: Impetigo is a common contagious skin condition that results in blisters or open sores with a honey-color crust. The infection is most commonly transmitted by touching an area where bacteria live and transferring it elsewhere, either on the same person or onto another person.
Carriers (those without sores but who carry the bacteria on their skin) can spread it to others. The bacteria commonly live in the nose, underarms and groin.
To prevent spreading, use an antibacterial soap for the underarms and groin of all household members. Don�t share towels, do wash hands frequently and avoid picking the nose or skin lesions. For persistent cases, doctors might recommend antibiotics and testing for possible carriers.
Q: My company recently raised my co-pay on prescription drugs, and one medication I take now costs $80 a month. Is it proper to ask my doctor if he can prescribe something cheaper?
A: It is absolutely appropriate for a patient to ask whether a generic medication equivalent is available and if there is another medication within the drug class that would be less expensive while providing the same benefit.
In addition, some drugs are priced based on pill numbers, not milligrams. A patient should ask if it is safe to split pills to reduce the cost.
Q: Is it OK to use expired over-the-counter creams such as hydrocortisone, Preparation H and Neosporin? Does the potency of the products simply continue to decline over time, or can using expired stuff actually hurt you?
A: It is best not to use expired over-the-counter topical products because they can become less potent over time. The manufacturer guarantees the safety and efficacy of a product as long as the product has not expired.
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If you are hanging curtains, drapes or sheers, accuracy in measurement is not so critical. You can always hang the rod higher or lower or hem the bottom, if they are a little off. Measuring for a window blind is just a little bit different. If they don't fit properly, it can be compared to a person who wears size 8 shoes trying to squeeze into a size 6 or walk in a size 10. Either way, it is just not going to work. Some people have no problem taking measurements, especially if the blinds are for a simple window. But not all windows are easy to fit.
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By Michael Muskal, Times Staff Writer Confusion, surprise and confrontation over top federal and judicial appointments has a rich and colorful history. Given the political nature of the choices and the sense of entitlement from different branches of government, it is not surprising that even the highly popular Barack Obama has found two of his appointees snared in controversy: Gov. Bill Richardson, who withdrew as the nominee for Commerce secretary amid questions about campaign contributions, and Leon Panetta, a surprise choice to lead the CIA who immediately faced questions about his lack of experience in the spy business. Here are some past appointments that shook the political world: The dispute over Supreme Court appointments goes back to 1795, when President George Washington picked John Rutledge of South Carolina to replace the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay. Rutledge gave a speech that was highly critical of the Jay Treaty, which resolved some of the issues that dated from the American Revolution. According to the Senate's official history, the Senate rejected Rutledge after opponents cited the speech as an example of his decreasing mental capacity.
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Did you know that the average gestation for an elephant is 2 years!?!?!?… OMG!
Entering meltdown mode in 5…4…3…2… And…
Yeah. That about sums up the extent of the past 24 hours of my life. I am a total WRECK! I know it's the hormones combined with a large dose of disappointment, but I am just SO ready for this baby to be here. I'm ready to feel normal, to be able to think with a clear mind, and REALLY, REALLY ready to sleep on my stomach again. Mostly, I'm just ready to have that bundle of happy in my arms, so I can feel just that, HAPPY. I'm so beyond excited to be a mom, but I am also so very impatient. You can ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I do not do well with waiting for anything. I'm a need to have it, and need to have it right now type of woman. I talked with you last week about my distaste for surprise, and well, lets be honest here… we all know that stems from a lack of patience.
So here I am, in the middle of life's ultimate waiting game, and I'm about to pull my hair out. My inner control freak is freaking out!
Hey, at least I don't look this bad… hopefully. :)I'm pulling out all the stops to distract myself but nothing seems to be working. I'm flying through work because I feel like if I get everything done MAYBE God will let this baby come. I know it doesn't work like that. There is no magic key or secret action that is going to unlock my belly and let a baby fall out. (LOL… although, that makes for an interesting visual, and would be quite the story!) I seem to have a grasp on the idea that I'm out of control, but I'm having a very, very hard time getting my mind to let go and just let God do what it is He does.
That's my biggest issue. It's like I can't convince my mind that God understands what I'm feeling. (YES, I know this is ridiculous!) Part of me wants to be mad or frustrated with Him for "not listening." The other part of me is dying for Him to give me peace and joy through this period. Like with every conversation I have with you, I know balance is the key.
So for the rest of this phase of gestational purgatory I am going to do my best to find it. I think it's completely normal for me to feel like time is ticking on in slow motion. I think it's also perfectly normal that I'm impatient, but I cannot let these things become an excuse. I can't live in a constant state of disappointment, or discontentment. I need to put a smile on my face and bask in the fact that THIS TOO SHALL PASS. I won't be pregnant for much longer, and I really need to try and focus on the great moments. I know there are parts of this I will miss eventually, and if I take them for granted now I'll regret them later. I don't want to welcome regret into this world along with my son. I want him to arrive feeling nothing but how much we love him, and how excited we are to be his parents! Even though the days are long right now, the joy of the Lord is my strength! God has a specific and unique plan for his life, just like mine, and that includes his birthday.
If you think about it this week say a prayer for me; that I would really truly give up control and let God do His thing in His timing. He knows exactly the day, hour, and minute that this boy is going to arrive, and he knows exactly why. Pray that I would find joy and peace in the waiting, and that I can focus and prepare myself in this short amount of time I have left. Lastly, please pray that he arrives safe and healthy. I can't wait to meet him, but I do want what is best for him!
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Cisco is not a cloud service provider, but it has an expanding suite of products under the label "Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1." With it, Cisco is building out a private cloud across seven major data centers in hopes that its experience will serve as a model for customers to build out their own private clouds.
Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1 derives both from Cisco's own data center experience and from acquisitions such as Tidal Software in 2009 with its IT automation products, and newScale in 2011 with its service catalogue, self-service portal and process orchestrator.
When it started its data center conversions in 2009, Cisco moved decisively into virtualization and found that server consolidation leads to many other changes. IT operations managers wrote scripts that automated steps in the virtual server creation process. Some integrated Cisco software with open source code. Others generated scripts for provisioning a simple database server.
"Cisco started with simple virtualization of our data center, [but as server consolidation took hold] we had a lot of tribal knowledge associated with all those different pieces," recalled Mike Myers, director of technical services for data centers and platform services (an unprepossessing title for someone who has been commissioned to convert bare metal servers and "tribal knowledge" into a company-wide second-generation private cloud).
[ For more on Cisco's cloud computing initiatives, see Chambers Reinventing Cisco, Or Recycling Tactics? ]
In February 2009, the servers in Cisco's seven major data centers were less than 5% virtualized. Cisco's IT operations will have changed that number to 95% by mid-year, and the process is still underway. When it's finished, Cisco will not only operate with heavily virtualized servers, storage and networking -- it will have also created a portal where employees automate the provisioning of their own virtual servers, set access controls and security through rules and policies, and automate many IT processes.
Myers' long name for the change is the Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services. In fact, it's a private cloud, built around Cisco's own Unified Computing System servers and VMware virtualization software. Throw in a helping of open source code such as Puppet configuration management and automation packs created by Cisco for targeted environments, and you have many of the ingredients Cisco used to create CITEIS (pronounced "cities") for its employees.
In place of tribal knowledge, Cisco found it could share automated scripts across data centers to do the same things in the same way, such as provisioning a virtual server or a database server. It did not select a cloud vendor per se; it made Cisco Process Orchestrator from Tidal or the Cisco Cloud Portal with its self-service catalogue from newScale part of its own cloud suite.
That decision might seem odd since Cisco's WebEx conferencing product uses OpenStack rather than CITEIS, and Cisco even puts out an automation pack to generate an OpenStack-compatible private cloud. But Cisco joined OpenStack after its own private cloud development was well underway, and Cisco wants its suite to allow customers to create a variety of private cloud environments, not just an OpenStack-compatible one. Thus it has automation packs for its own UCS Manager for Unified Computing servers and for VMware's iSphere 5 environment.
Cisco has learned a lot, Myers said, about potential cost savings in the private cloud as well as the potential toll on IT personnel as the conversion occurs.
First, cost savings: In 2009, running a mid-sized application requiring 24 servers, 6 TBs of storage and 5 database schemas had a cost of ownership per quarter of $78,826 and would take 45 days to deploy. As the Cisco conversion progressed and by the end of 2011, the cost of ownership had dropped 45%, to $41,438 as a UCS virtualized server, network and storage environment was established. The deployment period dropped to 17 days.
A year later, total cost of ownership dropped another 24% to $31,598 as the data centers adopted workflow automation, pre-configured bundles of applications, application servers and operating systems and storage optimization. The time to deploy an app dropped to five days.
When Cisco completes the conversion by mid-year, the total cost of ownership will have dropped another 21% to $24,894 as self-service provisioning is fully implemented and other processes have been automated. The time to deploy a mid-sized app will drop to one day.
Moving from bare metal to virtualized servers provided big, easy savings. Each successive stage became more difficult, Myers acknowledged, with savings shrinking. But when it's complete, Cisco will operate 15,000 production and non-production servers and 12,000 engineering compute services servers in seven data centers as part of CITEIS.
"When we first made the self-service portal available, end users thought it was great," said Myers, adding that the addition of Oracle database schemas and middleware to the service catalogue made a huge difference in how useful the environment could be.
Some IT staffers took to the changed environment eagerly; others approached it with great wariness. The first set realized they could automate many time-consuming manual processes. The second set thought, "I've pushed this button [deploying a freshly configured application] for a long time, and now you're automating it."
"There's a very human aspect associated with a transformation like this … You had to get people into the mindset that automation didn't eliminate jobs but freed up workers to take on the task at hand. It was an education process," Myers said.
In the end, reluctant staffers were confronted with this reality, Myers said: "Your button-pushing job has been replaced. But opportunity still exists. We have the technology background and we're big enough for you to grow and be successful."
From its own private cloud deployment, Cisco is learning what its customers will need as they strive to achieve self-service operations and 95% virtualization. The process is not easy, but the total cost of ownership figures, if borne out by others, indicate it's worth the effort.
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