“This financial crisis is for capitalist neoliberals what Chernobyl was for the nuclear lobby.”
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit in 2008
- The popular backlash against capitalism has not been substantial: "Polls suggest that the popular backlash against the economic system has been less sharp than the left expected. Last November a survey of 29,000 people across 27 countries (almost all democracies) by GlobeScan and the BBC World Service found that only 23% agreed that capitalism is “fatally flawed” and needs replacing. Some 51% believed it had problems that could be addressed through regulation and reform, and a further 11% were happy with the system as it is. Similarly, there was more support for an increased government role in redistributing wealth and regulating businesses than for outright state control of big industries."
- Certain right-wing issues are more salient during recession: "Non-economic issues dear to conservatives—like crime, immigration [see here] and national security—matter at least as much in recessionary times. Certainly, Mr Cameron’s narrative of British social decline has resonated with voters. For Mr Sarkozy, a firm line on crime and the secular ideals of the French republic have been keys to success."
- The right has embraced more interventionism: "Pressure from within her own party that persuaded Mrs Merkel to set up a vote-winning “Germany Fund” to help businesses cope with recession. Gaullists love Mr Sarkozy’s support of a Tobin tax on currency speculation. Some Tories may grumble about Mr Cameron’s accommodation with Labour’s “big state”—but they do so quietly. He has had the latitude to make promises to protect health spending and clamp down on bankers, while avoiding promises to reverse recent tax rises." This has caused calls for Mrs Merkel to pursue a more "pure CDU" and Sarkozy has been attacked for his ideological confusion.
Read the full piece in The Economist.


What's The Biggest Threat To The US? Obama! Just Ask Senate Hopeful Ken Buck (As Told By Tom Tancredo)
Once again, shooting for the lowest common denominator:
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Buck Saturday flip-flopped on statements made Thursday by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo that Barack Obama is the greatest threat to the United States, now claiming Tancredo’s comments had a lot of truth to them.
Speaking after Tancredo at the Conservative Western Summit on Saturday, where Tancredo reiterated statements made at a Buck supporter barbecue on Thursday, Weld County District Attorney Buck reversed his position.
“The other day my good friend and supporter Tom Tancredo said that the greatest threat to this country is the man who occupies the White House, Barack Obama,” Buck said Saturday. “There is a lot of truth in what Tom Tancredo says.”
I'm not sure how to even respond to this kind of idiocy. And according to that study in the Boston Globe, it wouldn't matter if I tried. Funnily enough, Buck's campaign called to complain to the Colorado Independent for their coverage. Not for agreeing with that nutcase Tancredo that Obama is the biggest threat to the country, no, no, no. He objected to being characterized as flip-flopping on his agreement with Tancredo:
Saturday, speaking after Tancredo at the Conservative Western Summit, where the former congressman reiterated his previous remarks, Buck said, “The other day my good friend and supporter Tom Tancredo said that the greatest threat to this country is the man who occupied the White House, Barack Obama. And there is a lot of truth, a lot of truth in what Tom Tancredo said.”
But Buck then went on to provide more context:
“The greatest threat folks is not a single man, but rather the progressive liberal movement that is going on in this country. It is the $13 trillion of national debt; it is a huge threat to our security and financial system; Obamacare, cap and trade, card check, our disintegrating relationship with Israel. It is a huge threat to this county.
“Folks, picture this for just a second. If Obama leaves office, you turn on your TV and you hear the following, ‘I, Joseph Biden do solemnly swear.’ The threat continues because then Nancy Pelosi is in office, Harry Reid is in office, Barney Frank is in office … and the liberal progressives continue marching down that path. We can’t allow that and in November you will have that chance. And I will beat [Sen.] Michael Bennet on Nov. 2.”
You stay classy now, Buck. You can support Michael Bennet here in his fight against DeMint protege Buck here.


My daughter (19) coughed up blood a few days ago. She's never done this before. It was around 4pm and she hadn't been coughing hardly at all. She coughed a couple of times in the kitchen and she spit in the trash can and there was a lot of bright red blood. She coughed again and more came out. After about 10 minutes there was no more blood. She said she felt fine. Why did this happen if she hasn't been coughing and she hasn't been sick? Her doctor said if it happened again to call. We go to CF clinic next week and we'll get more answers but it really scared us. Any advice?


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Perhaps because of greed, politics and other forms of bigotry of those in charge of security under President Jonathan, they are failing to understand the potential dangers facing the country today, writes Tukur Mamu
“For many of us that are part of the military establishments the country, particularly for reasons that have to do with bigotry at the highest level of our security organizations, we seem to be heading towards complete anarchy. The signs are very clear each day you review the security situation in the country and how the leadership is being misguided to taking decisions that are counter-productive to our national interest and survival as a nation.
“In any nation, the day security forces, particularly the Police and the Army for reasons that have to do with injustice and corruption in their respective establishments, decide not to obey superior orders directly or indirectly while in the line of their duty as we are gradually witnessing in Nigeria today, that nation if care is not taken is heading for total breakdown of law and order. I am afraid that for some of us that knew, this is the situation in Nigeria today”. These were the words of a retired General and a member of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) in a confidential chat on the state of the nation with DESERT HERALD Magazine last week.
Even though the recently passed Freedom of Information Bill (FoI), was meant to ease the difficulties and hazards of investigative reporting, it has not been effective due to the typical attitude of Nigerian politicians and those in position of authority. DESERT HERALD magazine in an effort to unravel the security debacle associated with the Boko Haram insurgency and killings spree, conducted in-depth investigation on the failure of Nigerian security agencies (despite billions of naira being expended in the name of security votes by both the federal government and some state governments in the North East) to deal with what many believe to be a common threat to national survival, peace and security.
From September 2010 when the Boko Haram killings escalated in Maiduguri ostensibly as a reprisal attack for the extrajudicial killings of their spiritual leader, late Muhammad Yusuf and hundreds of the Boko Haram followers allegedly on the instruction of the former Borno strongman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to date over 1000 security personnel comprising of the Army, Police, Immigration, Customs, Civil Defence Corp and SSS as exclusively gathered by DESERT HERALD Magazine from official sources that pleaded not to be mentioned, lost their lives to the Boko Haram insurgency and sophistication.
At the moment and according to our sources over 200 Police and military officers are nursing various degrees of injuries mostly sustained during attacks by the radical Islamic sect. The Police, according to credible information and statistics at our disposal, have recorded the highest number of deaths and casualties as a result of Boko Haram attacks with nearly 700 officers so far killed and more than 160 conservatively left at the mercy of their families and well-wishers for their treatments mostly as a result of gun shots and bomb attacks they met in the line of duty. And for the first time in the history of the Nigeria Police Force the frequency of officers rejecting postings to volatile areas like Maiduguri, Damaturu and Potiskum leading to many abandoning their duty posts or submitting their resignation letters as alternatives to such postings which they believe are tantamount to giving out their lives to a nation that doesn’t value and honour such lives with adequate compensation after they were killed or maimed is alarmingly on the increase as exclusively gathered by DESERT HERALD magazine. Also, instances where both soldiers and the Police chose to run for their dear lives or removing their uniforms to disguise as civilians during Boko Haram operations instead of protecting the people is no longer news, particularly to residents of Maiduguri, Damaturu, Azare, Kano and Potiskum where such attacks have recently recorded high casualties on the part of the security personnel.
The most frightening scenario, according to DESERT HERALD magazine investigation, is that the morale, zeal, patriotism and the desire to sacrifice their (soldiers’ and police) lives in the ‘war’ against Boko Haram has gone with the fear of official corruption in the system that prevented training and retraining, motivational allowances commensurate with the hazards of the job they do, inadequate and lack of modern arms and equipment and the delay or failure to pay families of several officers that lost their lives or sustained serious injuries as a result of their commitment and sacrifice to the fight against the Boko Haram sect.
Investigation by this reporter reveals that such cases which have already affected the psyche of several officers have of recent worsen in the Nigeria Police where insiders confided that more than 70 percent of the officers that lost their lives to the ‘war’ against Boko Haram were yet to be paid their entitlements or any commensurate motivational allowances leaving their poor families in abject poverty and in many cases finding it difficult to even feed themselves or to pay for their children school fees. Also, the inability of the Police authorities and in some cases the military too to shoulder full responsibilities of officers that sustained injuries in the line of duty despite provision for such eventualities by government has greatly discouraged many officers from dedicating themselves in securing a nation that gives them virtually nothing in return. “That is why in most cases and during most of the attacks on Police stations you will notice Police officers removing their uniforms and even dropping their guns and running to houses for shelter. The soldiers too were not exempted of recent. The truth is our security forces did not have the type of sophisticated weapons and mind the Boko Haram people possess. It is not their fault. It is the greed and corruption in the system. Why will they be so stupid to sacrifice their lives while the so called army Generals, IGP, DIGs, AIGs and CPs are intimidating them with their alleged loots; the loots that supposed to cover their welfare and hazards? Some of them (junior officers) are guarding the mansions of such ogas and they see day and night how money and valuables are being brought as proceeds of the money that supposed to go to them. Many of them are buying edifices worth N500million in choice areas in Abuja. Where did they get the money from? Do you expect junior officers to sacrifice their lives seeing the recklessness and greed of their seniors? That is why the fight against Boko Haram is irrational because Jonathan will not succeed.
“If the Americans with all their intelligence, pay package, attractive condition of service and transparency in managing such resources failed in fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan twelve years after invading the country and now looking desperately for reconciliation and truce with the ‘terrorists,’ I wonder how far Nigeria can go in confronting the Boko Haram with all those shortcomings under Jonathan notwithstanding the military cooperation between the US and Nigeria in this regard. Whether Jonathan accepts it or not, the only option to this crisis in view of the crisis in Nigerian security system and the corruption is to engage the Boko Haram in meaningful dialogue because the Nigerian government under him don’t have the capacity to engage armed militants in insurgency operations”, a former Commissioner of Police told this reporter.
The most visible signs of the failure of the ‘war’ against Boko Haram, according to former FCT minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufa’i, in a chat with DESERT HERALD in his Kaduna residence is when you are approaching the SSS headquarters in Abuja. “The SSS because of the fear of Boko Haram attack and as a clear sign that they too are struggling to protect themselves not the citizens have completely blocked the other express road leading to their office along Aso Rock, forcing commuters to use only one lane. When you interact with them you will discover that most of them did not even know the job”, he said.
The recent Kano attack, which the Boko Haram sect has since claimed responsibility, has demonstrated not only the failure of intelligence that may have averted the destruction and loss but the need to review the welfare, capability and size of Nigerian security if only to attract officers to dedicate themselves in sourcing and providing useful intelligence and to be prepared to sacrifice themselves for future security challenges. For more than 14 hours the Boko Haram sect has held the commercial city of Kano hostage with both the Police and the Army unable to confront their excesses resulting in unacceptably high casualties and the death of more than 200 people.
Ironically, instead of the security agencies to be following and attacking the insurgents it is the other way round; it is the Boko Haram people following them in their homes and offices and killing them with impunity and without resistance. It is clear that most of the junior officers are no longer willing to sacrifice their lives due to the corruption in virtually all the security agencies that worsen their living condition particularly after sustaining injuries or death in the line of duty.
It is because of same crisis of corruption, greed and inefficiency particularly in the Police, according to former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav, that the removal of Hafiz Ringim will not bring any change or progress in the fight against the Boko Haram sect. He said while the Boko Haram people are patriotic, dedicated and determined in fighting what they believe in, it is the contrary on the part of our security agencies despite the billions at their disposal.
Tsav told DESERT HERALD magazine that “the removal of Hafiz Ringim will not provide solution to the insecurity in the nation. The depleting of trained and experienced manpower of our Police service each time we have security challenges is panicky and counterproductive. Each time such attack happens, experienced and trained officers are retired, making room for mediocre. If government must change the leadership of the Police, we expect that the background and service records of the person to be appointed be discreetly scrutinized by the appropriate agency of government”. Tsav also cautioned that “what is the guarantee that the new IGP will be better than the out-going? You do not cut your nose to spite your face”. Tsav, like most other commentators and as thoroughly investigated by DESERT HERALD magazine, also believes that “the problem with our Police Force is corruption and in-fighting between the IGP and other senior officers especially the DIGs and AIGs rivalry”.
The issue of corruption or using such security votes dedicated to the fight against the Boko Haram sect as a conduit pipe is not only limited to the Army and the Police. At states level, particularly in states that are prone to the Boko Haram attacks, looting of public resources is gradually shifting from lucrative ministries like Health, Education, Works, and Local Government Affairs to fraudulent and controversial security votes that presumably will escape future investigation by the EFCC.
In Yobe State, for example, DESERT HERALD magazine gathered that Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has within 4 months claimed to have spent a whooping N1billion even though he has failed to prevent the Boko Haram’s coordinated attacks and unlike other states like Borno, Gaidam despite the huge bill on security did not come to the aid of those that were devastated or displaced either by the attacks of Boko Haram or the recklessness of security operatives mostly after such attacks by way of intimidating innocent people or even killing them in many instances. After banning Achaba in Potiskum and Damaturu with provision of few Keke NAPEP by his government, the Kekes DESERT HERALD gathered have been shared by his self-appointed council chairmen and other politicians in those areas.
In Potiskum, for example, DESERT HERALD gathered that the Council Chairman, Umaru Mammadu Kori, took five of the Keke NAPEP. He also gave one Keke NAPEP to Muhammadu Guza, the vice chairman two, Salisu Awwal one and one to Musa Lawan. While the ban on Achaba, according to the authorities, is to prevent further attacks which are mostly carried out using motorcycles, the implications on the lives of the people and even security wise are many. In Yobe for example where the government has not made adequate provision for the highly inflated Keke NAPEP, the main preoccupation of the citizens is the Achaba business, while those engaged in car wash and mechanics also rely on the Achaba business for their means of livelihood. Also, majority of parents that cannot afford car of their own relied on Achaba to take their children to school. The difficulty on the side of parents and the alarming joblessness as a result of the ban, pundits believe, will breed more crime in the state.
Pundits also argued that if Mr. Hafiz Ringim is subjected to pressure leading to his sack, the bulk of the security failure is on the National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi and the Director General of the SSS for failing to provide useful intelligence that will help in halting most of the successful Boko Haram attacks particularly the bombing of the UN building in Abuja and the recent siege on Kano, targeting Police formations and the SSS office.
Incidentally, both the NSA and the DG of the SSS are from the Niger Delta region where Mr. Jonathan comes from. DESERT HERALD gathered that in the SSS, for instance, there is a lot of politics on how to tackle the Boko Haram crisis and most importantly who among the officers will be trusted with such sensitive duties. An officer of the SSS, who pleaded anonymity, told DESERT HERALD magazine that the current leadership of the SSS has been infiltrated by all manner of bigotry notably religious. “Our officers of northern extraction are now living under suspicion because the leadership of the SSS does not trust them. They now see northern Muslims as either members of the Boko Haram or sympathizers of the activities of the sect. President Jonathan too knows what was in his mind when he declared without any evidence to back his claims that Boko Haram has infiltrated the security agencies. Just pay a visit to the SSS headquarters and see how senior and experienced Muslim officers from the north are rendered redundant and virtually jobless on account of their faith or region. The current DG has even recalled retired officers from the South and engaged them while others that are serving with unquestionable devotion and dedication in their years of service are now redundant and frustrated. Is this in the interest of the SSS and the fight against Boko Haram?” he lamented.
He said any security organisation that has the mixture of Christians and Muslims and allows religious bigotry to consume it will never succeed particularly in confronting challenges such as that of Boko Haram.
Another controversy that requires urgent investigation if the Jonathan government is serious in unravelling some of the killings in the name of Boko Haram is the recent bombshell by the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau. Shekau in a recent video he released after the Kano attacks has denied the mass killings of civilians by his followers during the attacks on Police, Immigration and SSS formations.
He blamed it on the “conspiracy on security personnel”, saying they should be held responsible. He insisted that his men know their targets and that the government too knows who they are targeting.
Until some of the recent allegations against the security forces, particularly the civilian casualties that are being recorded after each attack by Boko Haram, are thoroughly investigated by government, crisis of lack of confidence and trust on the government by the people will undermine all efforts. As it is, the public don’t trust the security forces. In fact, they see them as even worse than the Boko Haram sect due to the incidences in Maiduguri and Damaturu where people claim that the security forces have killed hundreds of their people in the aftermath of the Boko Haram attacks. They said each time there is an attack the Police and the Army justify the lives of innocent civilians in order to demonstrate to government that the killings are succeeding against the radical sect. The failure to investigate such wanton killings in the past has resulted in committing crimes against humanity by some security operatives. Even if Shekau’s claim cannot be relied upon there is the need for government to investigate how over 200 innocent people died due to gun shots during the recent attacks in Kano.
Another argument by security experts and other commentators on national affairs is that President Goodluck Jonathan’s resolve to engage the Boko Haram sect with military ‘power’ or to eliminate them in his words may end up in what former President George W. Bush promised to achieve against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda which the Americans despite their technology and military power failed to achieve 11 years after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre.
The aftermath of the Kano attacks by the radical Boko Haram sect, how it was well coordinated, hitting its target and the devastation has made Mr. Jonathan who is hitherto opposed to any form of dialogue to extend an olive branch to the sect for dialogue. But because of how the crisis was poorly managed and underestimated by Mr. Jonathan at the initial stage of the insurgency prompting him to be making ‘uncomplimentary’ public remarks that are provocative and unwise for a leader in such situations against the sect, the Boko Haram whom many believe are being sponsored outside Nigeria have out rightly rejected Jonathan’s offer for dialogue describing it as “mischievous and insincere”.
Apparently asking for an impossible demand as a condition for discussing with Mr. Jonathan’s government, leader of the Boko Haram sect, Imam Abubakar Shekau said in a video posted on YouTube last week that for them to dialogue with government, President Jonathan must convert to Islam. As impossible as this demand according to many government officials is, public opinion however argued that the sect made the demand because they are not convinced about the sincerity of Mr. Jonathan, considering conflicting and inconsistent utterances of the president about how he will confront the Boko Haram issue. Mr. Jonathan himself believes that the “Boko Haram sect is faceless and hence negotiating with them will not be possible”. He told Reuters news agency at the presidential villa in Abuja last week, that “if they (Boko Haram) clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the reason why we destroy some innocent people and their properties, then there will be a basis for dialogue”.
“We will dialogue, let us know your problems and we will solve your problem but if they don’t identify themselves, who will you dialogue with?” But pundits argued that if the government is really committed they know the channels to follow to reach out to the Boko Haram leadership and said issues of negotiations of such nature because of the politics involved should not be subjected to public debate and information. They also argued that if truly Shekau’s Boko Haram are being sponsored outside the country it will be counterproductive to his interest to publicly accept Mr. Jonathan’s offer of negotiation with the manner the president extended it through the media because if the dialogue suffers setback Shekau’s interest too and that of his followers from those allegedly sponsoring them will be jeopardized. Boko Haram people according to elder statesman who is also an indigene of Borno, Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno are not ghost people and that their immediate society knows them because all of them have parents mostly in Borno and Yobe states.
Even though Mr. Jonathan has now acknowledged that “Military confrontation alone will not eliminate terror attacks, an enabling environment for young people to find jobs was also needed”.
“Our commitment is to make sure our irrigation programmes are all revitalised so most of these young people are engaged in productive agriculture and will not be free for them to recruit,” Jonathan said in an ornate diplomatic meeting room adorned with pictures of Nigeria’s heads of state since independence in 1960.
Even though over N500 billion has so far been spent on the Niger Delta militants and that their agitation has proven to be selfish and for economic reasons rather than the one being championed by late Ken Saro Wiwa, the former zoology lecturer and one time governor of Bayelsa state in the oil rich Niger Delta acknowledged that the Boko Haram crisis would be much harder to resolve than the Delta conflict, but still despite recognizing the sensitive nature of the Boko Haram crisis government has so far only succeeded in politicizing the issue and allowing it (government) resolve in fighting the sect to be a major conduit pipe for security chiefs.
Also, keen observers of the Boko Haram imbroglio and elder statesmen like Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno and Air Marshal Alamin Daggash (Rtd) did not agree with Mr. Jonathan’s claim that the “Islamist militants (Boko Haram) do not have a clear public figurehead or negotiable aims.
“If Osama bin Laden had been invited for talks, he wouldn’t have appeared. Boko Haram, if you invite them, they will not come. They operate without a face. They operate without a clear identity, so it is difficult to interface with such a group. That is the greatest difference between Boko Haram and the Niger Delta issue,” he said.
But the irony of Mr. Jonathan’s reference to Osama bin Laden is that the late Bin Laden is not waging a war on his country in the name of perceived injustice such as corruption or the extrajudicial killing of the Boko Haram’s spiritual leader, Muhammad Yusuf and many of their followers that instigated the insurgency in Nigeria but against America, Israel and other western countries that he and Al-Qaeda believe are fighting Islam and Muslims. And when the United States after spending 11 years of military confrontation that failed to eliminate the Taliban and Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and wasting trillions of dollars and at the end suggesting for dialogue with the Taliban, they know exactly where to reach such leaders that are predominantly in the mountains or initiating how the Taliban can present trusted mediators assigned by them (Taliban) to represent them. Pundits said by bringing the planned negotiation to the media, Mr. Jonathan has completely failed in attracting the Boko Haram sect to accept his offer for negotiation.
The nagging questions on the lips of Nigerians regarding why Mr. Jonathan chose the military option in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency are many. Why did he accept to continue with late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s policy of negotiating, empowering and settling the terrorists of the Niger Delta region? Why the federal government under him did committed to spending more billions on the so called militants and is opposed to pursuing genuine negotiation with the Boko Haram that may prevent further deaths and destruction of properties? Why is he not holding security chiefs accountable for the billions of naira his government is spending in tackling the Boko Haram attacks and without result except escalation of the terror attacks? Why did he fail to arrest those he openly accused of sponsoring the sect and particularly the ex-governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, for his alleged role of their emergence and instigation of the crisis? Why is Jonathan convinced despite repeated failures that he can succeed in crushing insurgence with the zeal and determination of Boko Haram?
Did he as President ever care to independently find out why his forces are woefully failing against the Boko Haram sect and most importantly the silent crisis in the Army and the Police regarding the deteriorating welfare of junior officers in the ‘war’ zone? Why are they rejecting postings and the claim that both the dead and the injured are not compensated or catered for?
Until such a time when politics, bigotry and corruption are removed in the fight against the Boko Haram sect and Mr. Jonathan adopts sincere dialogue, provide employment opportunities in the North East as he is doing to the Niger Delta militants, ensure justice to all segments of the society and most importantly to resist foreign intervention/offer of solution to the current debacle particularly from the United States and Israel and adopts a Nigerian solution, his ‘dream’ of crushing the activities of the Boko Haram sect will be as difficult as the head of a camel passing through the eye of a needle.


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BOONEVILLE – The man who fled the scene of the accident last summer in which one Prentiss County school official was killed and two were injured was sentenced Thursday and will serve six years in prison, according to the Daily Corinthian.
Dylan G. King, 21, of Corinth, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident involving a death and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with 14 years suspended, six years to serve, and five years of post-release supervision by Circuit Judge James Roberts. He also will pay a $1,000 fine.
King left the scene of an Aug. 22, 2012, accident that caused the death of Jason McKinney, the county school district’s curriculum coordinator and transportation director.
Also injured were Superintendent Randle Downs, who suffered a punctured lung and back injuries that kept him away from work for two months, and federal programs coordinator Luke Ledbetter, who suffered a broken leg.
McKinney’s widow, Dawn McKinney, gave a victim impact statement on behalf of herself and the couple’s three children.
King was represented by Corinth attorney Nicholas Bain.


By Marty Russell
The Beloit College Mindset List came out Tuesday, that yearly gauge of where this year’s college freshmen are coming from and that annual reminder of just how old the rest of us are getting. The list can come in handy for those attempting to teach these youngsters by reminding us of what they do and don’t know, like the time I had a student who insisted that the Vietnam war took place between World I and World War II or that the War of 1812 took place in the 1940s.
Of course for those of us of a certain age (i.e. anyone over 18) the list can also be pretty scary when we think about all the things we experienced that the Class of 2016 never will. Most of them were born in 1994 meaning, for them, JFK, Richard Nixon, Elvis and John Lennon have always been dead. And who the heck is Phyllis Diller?
Here’s a sampling of some of the findings of this year’s Beloit list:
They have never seen an airplane “ticket.” Likewise, they’ve never carried luggage, only rolled it.
Maintaining relations between the United States and the rest of the world has always been a woman’s job at the State Department and women have always been fighter pilots and astronauts.
There has always been email and I’ll wager none of them has ever “licked” a postage stamp. They have no recollection of when Arianna Huffington was a conservative.
Slavery has always been unconstitutional in Mississippi and Southern Baptists have always been apologizing for supporting it in the first place. Likewise, there have always been black students at Ole Miss. (Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery until the year after the Class of 2016 was born, in 1995).
“The Twilight Zone” involves vampires, not Rod Serling.
Of course, one of the biggest differences between the older generation and the Class of 2016 involves digital devices. Most have never had to “process” a roll of film and wait for the prints to be delivered. Most have no use for radios or TV sets since most of their music and video is delivered over their phones. Most get their news from “The Daily Show” and not daily evening national newscasts (or, sadly, newspapers).
Interestingly enough, because most of them go through life with ear “buds” in their ears, most will enter college with some degree of hearing loss.
Most have never seen a set of encyclopedias, just Wikipedia. There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.
Two-thirds of all independent bookstores in the U.S. have closed during their lifetimes and they are more likely to read an e-book than an actual printed one.
So those are just some of the 75 items on this year’s Beloit list that we have to take into consideration when dealing with the younger generation. It’s enough to make you want to say, “Pass the Geritol.” Geri-what?
Marty Russell writes a Wednesday column for the Daily Journal. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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|Abstract: ||A new method for the synthesis of constrained phenylalanine derivatives is described. In this regard, the simple synthesis of acyclic diene building blocks embodying an alpha-amino acid moiety has been achieved. The diene building blocks have been prepared by cross enyne-metathesis reaction as a key step. The Diels-Alder reaction of the dienes with a dienophile such as dimethyl acetylenedicarboxilate (DMAD) followed by oxidation of the resulting cycloadduct gave highly substituted phenylalanine derivatives. (C) 2002 . .|
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I don't mind getting likes. I am happy when people visit my site and read my posts. I don't get many visits, but that's because I am writing about esoteric things that are not mainstream, and that's ok. Not everyone is into this stuff. I get it.
But I am getting all these 'fake' likes from people who have never even visited my blog, and they are identical to each other. They are obviously computer-generated automatically every time I create a new blog, and I am wondering if all this spam is something that WordPress came out with, or if it's it a viral spam bot that some user spread onto the WordPress community.
Is anyone else having this issue?
The blog I need help with is taobabe.wordpress.com.


Hemingfordian North American Stage
The Hemingfordian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 20,600,000 to 16,300,000 years BP. It is usually considered to overlap the Early Miocene. The Hemingfordian is preceded by the Arikareean and followed by the Barstovian NALMA stages.
The Hemingfordian can be further divided into the substages of:
- Late/Upper Hemingfordian: Lower boundary source: base of Burdigalian (approximate).
- Early/Lower Hemingfordian (shares lower boundary)
Langhian | Serravallian
Tortonian | Messinian
|Zanclean | Piacenzian|
|Early | Middle | Late||Preboreal | Boreal |
Atlantic | Subboreal | Subatlantic
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JV baseball picks up ‘W’ in home tilt
Fairfield’s JV baseball team got its season started Monday with a home doubleheader vs. Williamsburg.
The Trojans lost their first game 5-3 before bouncing back to claim a 6-4 win in the nightcap.
Nick Jackson allowed four runs — one earned — in four innings to earn the win in the nightcap. Jackson gave up two hits and tallied a strikeout. In relief of Jackson, Wyatt Stark allowed no runs and struck out four in two innings.
Alex Christensen slapped two hits with one RBI, and Jordan Reid hit an RBI double. Dillon Shelby went 1-3 with one run batted in.
In game one, starter Cam Baumann logged four innings and allowed just one earned run while striking out five. Giovanni Cingire took the loss in relief, tossing two innings of four-run ball. Cingire fanned four.
Offensively, the Trojans’ Cody Craff went 1-for-2, and Stark and Alex Simpson knocked in one run each.
Next up for the Trojans is a JV/varsity doubleheader vs. Ottumwa Friday in Fairfield.


Nassau County Police conducted an undercover sting in Hicksville and Levittown Wednesday which led to the arrest of four people in connection with selling alcohol to a minor. Three of the stores in question were in nearby Levittown.
According to police, an undercover agent entered four locations and purchased alcohol without being properly identified. The sting is part of a program entitled “Project 21.”
Police said the following people were cited for selling alcohol to a minor:
- Defendant Sufia Begum, 57, of Hicksville, sold alcohol to a minor while working at Super Village Green, 56 East Village Green, Levittown.
- Defendant Raymond Vandermark, 50 of Levittown, sold alcohol to a minor from Division Avenue Dairy Barn, 100 Division Avenue, Levittown.
- Defendant Kwoltz Leung, 55 of Brooklyn sold alcohol to a minor while working at Newbridge Beer and Soda, 8-10 West Village Green, Hicksville.
- Defendant Christina Tetenes, 18 of Levittown, sold alcohol to a minor while working at Mobil Gas Station, 363 Newbridge Road, Levittown.
All the defendants are charged with prohibited sale of alcoholic beverage and were issued appearance tickets to appear on Monday, May 20, 2013 in First District Court, Hempstead.


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please help me
Hi… i purchased galaxy note 3 from saudi arabia as you do.I used the saudi sim in my note 3 and it was working fine…Now i am in india
I have rooted and tried with region lock away app but still Im getting Invalid SIM card, Network Locked SIM card inserted.
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View Full Version : Can you DO/USE ..MASKs.. in LW..!?!
10-21-2004, 03:54 PM
Like on a composition software, you could use masks..etc..!!
As i was using LW.. i came to a point where i though a mask would do all the work for me..with less messing around in LW..!!
Is it possible...say to use a MASK for objects..to appear..dissappear...etc...?!?!?
10-21-2004, 04:08 PM
You can have a foreground layer that could include a mask. But I am not sure why you would want to. Are you talking about alpha channels? This sound more like something you do in post.
10-21-2004, 04:35 PM
Masks are easily done in LW.
Using gradients, you can have a null in the scene that takes one image out of view while bringing others into view.
This is but one example. Lw is quite under-rated when it comes to it's compositing abilities.
10-22-2004, 02:16 AM
You can also use 2 bit images (b&w) as clip maps on polys. They will even cast shadows. :)
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WU request: OCT 20
WU declined and then approved: NOV 12
MTCN: 17 days... still waiting..
Snippets of emails back and forth throughout process.
Western Union payouts are done within 7-14 business days (excluding weekends.) We try our best to process payouts quickly but occasionally will require the alloted timeframe given.
I see that we are just waiting for Western Union to provide us with your MTCN, the Senders Address and the Senders Name. This should be available within 5-7 business days. Once available, it will be posted in the History section of your Cashier, https://cashier.lockpoker.eu/history
Our apologies. We have recently received a large influx of payout requests which has caused a small delay. However please expect to receive your full pickup information shortly.
ALSO would like to note, in these emails I have specifically asked (several times) about the 10 pct fee that is supposedly to be returned at some point in this process. Each time they have answered question/s regarding the time frame of payment, but ignored the question about the 10 pct fee (supposedly waived for your first WU per month, as if you could make more then one a month)
***First time using WU to withdraw on LOCK. switched over from Cake/Juicy after back to back checks taking 4 months each


World's Hottest Chili Pepper Tops Previous World's Hottest Chili Pepper As World's Hottest
So is there like a national title-writing competition or something? I think I could place.
Seen here looking suspiciously like Satan's fiery turds, the Naga Viper was recently named the world's hottest chili pepper after beating out the previous hottest, Bhut Jolokia, by over 300,000 units on the Scoville scale of unholy hellfire.
Researchers at Warwick University testing the Naga Viper found that it measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which rates heat by tracking the presence of a chemical compound. In comparison, most varieties of jalapeÃ±o peppers measure in the 2,500 to 5,000 range -- milder than the Naga Viper by a factor of 270.
...the new pepper is actually the handiwork of Gerald Fowler, a British chili farmer and pub owner, who crossed three of the hottest peppers known to man -- including the Bhut Jolokia -- to create his Frankenstein-monster chili.
"It's painful to eat," Fowler told the Daily Mail. "It's hot enough to strip paint."
"It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down," he told the paper. "It can last an hour, and you just don't want to talk to anyone or do anything. But it's a marvelous endorphin rush. It makes you feel great."
You know what else makes you feel great? Not shitting f***ing magma. Just sayin', if it can strip paint you better believe it can strip a butthole. Ever seen one? Just like a dried belly button.
Thanks to Bloody Shadow, who doesn't shadowbox as much as he shadowstabs. I like your style!


Dr. Basil Cherpelis MD Dermatologist
Dr. Basil Cherpelis is a dermatologist in Tampa, Florida and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Florida Hospital Tampa and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. He received his medical degree from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and has been in practice for 18 years. He is one of 11 doctors at Florida Hospital Tampa and one of 8 at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute who specialize in Dermatology.
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'She bade him leave his horse with her and ride on her own two-winged horse'
Illustration for The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life
, from Myths and Legends of Russia
, collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev and translated by Norbert Guterman; published by The Folio Society: [link]
The embroidery on the knight's cloak is almost directly inspired by an Ivan Bilibin illustration.
As it will no doubt be noticed that the horse's head appears to lose itself in the red cloak, I also would like to point out that this is another one which suffers from the paleness of the ink against the strength of the gouache (or a different, darker ink, as the case may be elsewhere) in the original drawing. However, this is the final printed illustration: [link]
Much better, I think?
I promise you a great deal of planning went into it
(in this as in all the others). Here, I had the problem of depicting in silhouette the horse's head, the knight, and both
wings, all occupying pretty much the same space. In order for all these elements not to become one amorphous blob, I had the cloak blown in between the horse's head and the farthest wing. It also helped me to define the shape of the knight quite satisfactorily. As I knew the pantone black wouldn't have a problem fighting the red in the final reproduction, I trusted the device well enough to expect it to work in the final result, even though the black of the mane in particular doesn't look strong enough in the original. So I did nothing more to it lest the attempt should instead prove detrimental, as it often does... The end, in this instance, seems to have well justified the means, I think...
_______________Copyright Niroot Puttapipat and The Folio Society, 2009
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I’ve been spending some time worrying over issues of transparency and participation in public humanities projects like historic designations and other writing about neighborhood history. Instead of hiding my work until I complete the “finished product” – whether that is a National Register nomination or a walking tour program – I’m interested in making more of my work public, visible and subject to feedback and criticism throughout the process. This idea is inspired in part by the concept of “open notebook science” and I’m curious to see how it works for me as a scholar and practitioner.
At the moment, I’m working on a National Register Historic District Nomination for the neighborhood of Midtown Edmondson. I met last night with a group of neighborhood residents who are volunteering to support the project and provide feedback on the draft nomination. One neighbor recalled the Super Pride location at W.Lafayette Avenue and N. Payson Street and asked that a history of the store be included. Here is my first draft of a short summary – I’ll likely update the post if I have any corrections or additions:
Super Pride was established by Charles Thurgood Burns (1915-1991) in 1970 when he took over the bankrupt “Super Jet Market” located on East Chase Street. Renaming the business Super Pride, he restored the business to profitability within three years despite the challenge of some food companies that refused to work with a black-owned store. Burns had started in the grocery business around 1921 delivering groceries for the small store his grandfather owned on Dolphin Street. He sold vegetables, produce and fish out of the back of a cart during high school and college then later became the co-owner of Hilton Court Chain of Ethical Pharmacies – a business that according to Burns’ obituary, “catered to the needs of black consumers at a time when white-owned businesses ignored them.”
Between 1970 and 1990, Super Pride grew to seven locations, employing more than 400 people, and making over $43 million in annual sales. Under Burns’ leadership, Super Pride sponsored Black History Month activities and supported the Arena Players. By the late 1990s, however, the business struggled to compete against national chains and the city’s shrinking population. In the fall of 2000, Super Pride closed all eight of its locations and, in November, held an auction to liquidate the stores and their remaining equipment to satisfy creditors.
Over the past year, I’ve helped to start the Preservation Rightsizing Network to bring greater attention to the intersecting issues of historic preservation and “rightsizing” in cities like Baltimore. My participation in this project has sparked my interested in digging into the history of how vacant properties have been discussed and managed in Baltimore throughout our city’s history.
Initial research turned up a report from 1994 highlighting an initiative (“never tried before on a citywide scale in Baltimore”) by Mayor Kurt Schmoke to restore or raze vacant rowhouses. Digging back a bit earlier, I found discussion under Mayor Theodore McKeldin who sought and received a new local ordinance allowing the city to demolish houses after they had been “boarded” for ninety days or more. McKeldin tied vacant houses to public health and safety, remarking in 1964:
“Vacant houses not only have a blighting effect on the areas around them but they are also an open invitation to vandals and a potential hazard for children who attempt to play within such buildings.”
I was unsurprised to find these connections back to post-WWII urban renewal efforts but I am even more intrigued by the intense debate around vacancy that took place over fifty years before in the summer of 1910.
On August 21, 1910, the Baltimore Police Board Published a “complete census” to count all of the city’s vacant and occupied dwellings. A member of the prominent local real estate firm William Martien & Company had suggested the survey to the Secretary of the board, reportedly, “As a result of the agitation over the number of vacant houses.” The census found that the Northwestern district led the city with over 1,300 vacant dwellings. Realtor James Cary Martien pointed to the city’s rapid suburban growth and the aging core as the cause, remarking:
“The number of vacant houses in the city is due both to the many dwellings being built in the suburbs and the dilapidated condition of many in Baltimore”
In the weeks that followed the publication of the report, a series of letters to the Sun expanded on Martien’s summary and tied the issue to the fights over “negro invasion” and the aggressive efforts by some white elected officials and property-owners to enforce racial segregation in residential neighborhoods.
When some residents argued that high taxes brought on vacant and abandoned houses, one northwest Baltimore resident wrote back under the name “Pure White” in a letter published on August 27 —
“Taxes may, and I presume do, have something to do with it; for our taxes are inordinately and unnecessarily high, but the possibility, and indeed the probability, of the negro neighbor is the main reason…
When a man works and saves and buys a home thinking it will be his shelter in his old age, and wakes up some morning to find he has a negro neighbor, he feels hurt and aggrieved that he has to give up his home, but he moves… I know of three families who want to buy a home this fall and they prefer the city to the suburbs, but they are hesitating because of this disagreeable possibility. We of the northwestern section have enough to bear in our close proximity to their noisy and disagreeable alleys, and we don’t want them next door to us. The real estate men—a few of them, not all—are to blame for the vacant houses and with them, lies the remedy.”
On September 2, 1910, another local echoed this sentiment and signed their letter “Justice” in a call for the city to protect him from the possibility of black neighbors —
“The writer has been living for nearly half a century in a neighborhood now threatened with negro invasion. There are several vacant houses in the block, and this fear may be the potent cause of non-rental or sale. Each vacant house is a standing menace to the rest. We live in daily dread that we may be driven out and forced to sell at a depreciated price if we can sell at all.”
On September 15, 1910, another letter recognized the alarming “negro invasion” but still gave priority to the threat of high taxes —
“The vacant house problem in the city should be one of grave concern at this time to our municipal administrators, to our real estate agents and to those having the welfare of the city at heart.
It is not a temporary but a growing evil that is confronting and threatening every owner of property. The number of vacant houses has grown and grown until at last there is common alarm in the matter, and justly so. What then are the causes producing this condition? There are many, but the fundamental one is purely economic—high taxes.
There are other contributing causes, but high taxes are essentially at the root of this ever dangerously increasing trouble. Negro invasion into heretofore white residential neighborhoods is undoubtedly aggravating the situation, and the alarm at such invasion is becoming more and more evidenced by the strained and tense feeling of the people residing in such invaded neighborhoods.”
I’m hoping to put a bit more time into this research over the next month and give these letters the context they deserve. Check out Garrett Power’s excellent 1983 history of the city’s residential racial segregation ordinances in the early 1910s for some excellent background.
In the piece, I was excited to find a reflection on the interracial makeup of the forces at the 1814 Battle of North Point and the the naval forces more broadly during the War of 1812. The example is used to illustrate the nation’s retreat from an integrated military (the U.S. Army formally prohibited enlistment for “Negroes and Mullatoes” in 1820) and urge free blacks to maintain an ‘organized neutrality in the case of a military conflict involving the U.S. writing:
“Shall we a third time kiss the foot that crushes us? If so, we deserve our chains. No! let us maintain an organized neutrality, until the laws of the Union and of all the states have made us free and equal citizens.”
The full piece is pretty fascinating but I pulled the quote on the Battle of North Point and the War of 1812 for its particular local interest.
An Important Subject Noted
The ‘Emancipator and Free American,’ the leading abolition paper of the north, has the following article which we copy entire that our Maryland readers may know something of what is going on out o’doors… we consider its character the most seditious and mischievous of any thing we have lately seen…
The Duty of Coloured Americans …
A large proportion of the seamen by whom our principal victories were gained in that war, were men of colour, who were then enlisted without restriction, but now we have a standing general order of the navy, that not more than five in a hundred seamen enlisted, shall be coloured — and this is officially explained to be for the purpose of confining coloured men to menial services on board our vessels of war! Said a brave man in Baltimore, who fought in the defence of North Point and afterwards served against Algiers in the Guerriere,
‘there we stood intermingled, white and coloured, manning the same gun, and shot down indiscriminately; the officers exhorted us to fight bravely in the defence of our country; and then after the war was over they tried to get us to go to Africa, and told us that was our country; but I will not go. I feel that this is my country and that I shall never go out of it alive.’
The Maryland Colonization Journal was published by the Maryland State Colonization Society an organization dedicated to promoting the transportation of manumitted enslaved people and free blacks to the west coast of Africa from 1827 to 1863. Records and correspondence from the history of the Maryland State Colonization Society are housed at the Maryland Historical Society (MS 571) and a substantial portion of the microfilm from that collection has been digitized by the Maryland State Archives.
This whole thing should be considered a working draft. It is back-dated to the last major revision in December 2013. Some of the different accounts of Babe Ruth in Fayetteville are contradictory and confusing – more work is really needed to parse through the variations on the stories involving the bicycle. Another version of this post that includes the footnotes can be found in this Google Doc.
Babe Ruth never owned a bicycle growing up in Baltimore. Born at his grandfather’s modest rowhouse on Emory Street in 1895, George Herman Ruth spent his first several years moving here and there in southwest Baltimore. At age seven, he entered St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys – a reformatory and orphanage on Wilkens Avenue established in 1866. At St. Mary’s, George learned to play baseball and at in early 1914 signed a contract with Jack Dunn, the owner and manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
By March, George and his teammates had arrived in Fayetteville, North Carolina where he started his life-long love of bicycles. On a Wednesday evening, March 18, 1914 – a little over a week since his first game in professional baseball – George hurried out after dinner to meet a new acquaintance – one of a handful of local boys who biked out to the field to watch the Orioles train. That afternoon, the boy had offered George a chance to borrow his bike after dinner and George lept at the opportunity.
While biking through town and gaining a bit of confidence, Babe Ruth decided to show off. He rode past the hotel where the Orioles had been staying, riding on the wrong side of the road and waving to a group of teammates out front. His teammates saw what George did not — a large truck bearing down on the novice cyclist.
Another account from Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert W. Creame descibes a similar incident:
“One day, barreling around a corner, he missed running head-on into Dunn and Egan only by braking violently and twisting the bike to one side. He smacked into the back of a wagon and ended up on the ground, the bike draped around him, grinning at Dunn with cheerful embarrassment. Dunn looked at him sourly and said, “If you want to go back to the Home, kid, just keep riding those bicycles.”
In a minor variation on this theme, Allan Wood quotes Dunn as shouting, “You wanna go back to that school? You’re a ballplayer, not a goddman circus act!”
After another bicycle accident soon followed, Orioles scout Sam Steinman remarked to sportswriter Roger Pippen, “If Dunn doesn’t shackle that new babe of his, he won’t be a Rube Waddell in the rough, he’ll be a babe Ruth in the cemetery.” Pippen’s next article for the Baltimore American, published March 19, 1914, described a “young fledgling” ball player with the name “Babe Ruth” – the first time the nickname appeared in print.
When the regular season began in late April, the Orioles returned to Baltimore. Like all the players, Ruth received food and lodging during the spring training but did not get paid until the regular season began. When Ruth received his first paycheck, the first purchase he made was a bicycle. According to his recollections from The Babe Ruth Story, told to Bob Considine, Babe later shared:
“I went out and celebrated, just as soon as I got my first paycheck – $100. I bought a bicycle, something that I had wanted and often prayed for through most of my young life. Most of the Orioles, of course, had cars, but none of them was as proud as I was, riding the first possession of my life through the old streets of Baltimore.”
In his book, Robert Creamer contradicted Ruth’s recollections reporting the envelop had only $50 but still “more money than Ruth had ever seen” but reflected on the new bicycle writing: “Tooling around Baltimore on it, [Ruth] felt richer than God.”
Ruth’s history of collisions continued even after he bought the new bike (he bought a motorcycle and a car soon after). Newark pitcher Al Schacht was run down by bicycle ridden by a “gangling, moon-face kid” with a handful of hotdogs. Schacht yelled, “Why the hell don’t you watch where you’re going, Rube?” The “kid” replied “Sorry, mister, I almost dropped a hotdog and my hand slipped.” Schacht was even more surprised a short time later when he spotted the kid on the field wearing the Orioles uniform.
A few years later, just days after Babe Ruth and the Red Sox won the World Series in Boston, Ruth picked up his share of the winnings and spent the evening as the official “starter” for bike and motorcycle races at the Revere Beach track.
Ironically, Ruth’s success and the growing popularity of baseball eclipsed the long-standing interest in bicycle racing that made professional cyclists some of the highest paid athletes in the United States in the early 20th century. The circumstances had been quite the opposite a few decades earlier when, after the invention of the safety bicycle in 1885, cycling experienced a boom in popularity that rivaled baseball and even threatened attendance at the games:
“The owners also tried to capitalize on the bicycle craze of the ‘nineties, but without financial success. According to Al Reach, thousands of dollars were lost in laying out tracks for bike races in many of the baseball parks.”
One final note – I pulled this quote from some memoir but now I can’t find the source. Frustrating!
When we got outside, Babe looked around frantically for a taxi but there wasn’t one on the street. Suddenly, two kids on bikes came pedaling around the corner. Babe jumped in front of them, and they hit their brakes so they wouldn’t crash into him.
“Hey, kids, how much for the bicycles?” asked Babe.
“Huh?” the kids said.
“Here,” Babe said, pulling a $20 bill out of his pocket….
“Y’know how to ride a bicycle?” Babe asked me.
“Then let’s go!”
Back when I visited him in 1932, Babe Ruth drove me to Wrigley Field in Chicago. I almost died. Well, he rode a bicycle the same way– like a maniac. He took off and started pedaling furiously, weaving around street vendors, potholes and garbage cans. Little old ladies were diving out of his way. Cars were honking at him, and I wasn’t sure if it was…
CASH FOR NEGROES – The subscriber has built a large and extensive establishment and private jail for the keeping of SLAVES in PRATT st., one door from Howard st. opposite the Circus or Repository.
The building having been erected under his own inspection, without regard to price; planned and arranged upon the most approved principle, with an eye to comfort and convenience, not surpassed by any establishment of the kind in the United States, is now ready to receive SLAVES. The male and female apartments are completely separate – the rooms for both are large light and airy, and all above ground, with a fine large yard for exercise, with pure delightful water within doors. In erecting and planning this edifice the subscriber had an eye to the health and cleanliness of the slaves, as well as the many other necessary conveniences. Having a wish to accommodate my Southern friends and others in the trade, I am determined to keep them on the lowest possible terms, at twenty-five cents per head a day, and furnish them with plenty of good and wholesome provisions. Such security and confidence I have in my building that I hold myself bound to make good all jail breaking, or escapes from my establishment. I also will receive, ship or forward to any place at the request of the owner, and give it my personal attention.
N B – Cash and the highest prices will at all times be given for likely slaves of both sexes, with good and sufficient titles. Persons having such property to dispose of, would do well to see me before they sell, as I am always purchasing for the New Orleans market – I, or my agent can at all times be found at my office, in the basement story of my new building.
Hope H. Slatter
Classified Ad 40 — No Title, The Sun (1837-1987); Jul 11, 1838; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Sun, The (1837-1987) pg. 3
I wrote this post back in 2010 but took it down after judging it a bit too personal and not my strongest writing. I recently received a comment from someone who grew up in Arcola Knolls looking for more information about the development so I wanted to re-post with a few minor edits from the original.
There are many modest vernacular examples of mid-century modern design in the Washington, DC suburbs that often go overlooked in favor of more iconic, innovative, or controversial buildings. My own appreciation for the vernacular modernism of Maryland’s post-WWII subdivisions, gas stations, auto garages, and municipal buildings arrived gradually during the three years I lived in a 1962 split-level in the Arcola Knolls subdivision at the edge of Wheaton Regional Park. Although not quite as stylish as the homes in nearby Hammond Wood designed by Charles M. Goodman, Arcola Knolls testifies to a fascinating period in regional history as rapid residential development encouraged local architects, developers, and home-buyers to experiment with contemporary architectural design.
Jo-Rich Developers, Inc. began work on Arcola Knolls in 1961 with the subdivision of the former agricultural property into 11 lots along Arcola and Orebaugh Avenues. Jo-Rich Developers, Inc. grew out of the friendship between builders Joseph Bonnett and Richard Cohen, just 27 and 21 years old when they began the project. Bonnett, a veteran and married father of two, planned to move his own family into the project upon completion while Cohen still lived with his parents in the North Portal Estates neighborhood of Washington, DC. Bonnett described the design of Arcola Knolls as “striking and daring in the contemporary style,” featuring a “post and beam effect, exceptional window space and adaptation to indoor-outdoor living.” Each house included four bedrooms and three baths, and was listed for sale by N.S. Bryer, Inc. for $28,950.
In April 1962, Jo-Rich Developers advertised the small development as “Silver Spring’s Most Contemporary Community,” emphasizing its proximity to churches, Northwood High School (1956), Wheaton Library (1962), and Wheaton Plaza (1959). With the rapid growth of Wheaton in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the adjoining Wheaton Park served as a pocket of wilderness, described in a Washington Post headline: “Verdant Island Rises in the Suburbs.” The Post noted that when “asked how the county managed to save the plot from homebuilders,” a Maryland National Capitol Parks and Planning official said simply, “‘We got there first.’”
Architect John Arnold d’Epagnier (1913-1977) graduated from Catholic University with a B.Arch. in 1936 and by the 1950s maintained an office in the recently transformed Cissel-Lee building in Silver Spring. Previous examples of his residential design included “The Presidential,” a 1955 model home in Burnt Mills Estates, a “community of contemporary homes…to appeal to the modern-minded young families.” In addition to residential architecture, d’Epagnier designed a wide range of commercial structures and religious buildings including the Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah synagogue at 16th & Jonquil Streets NW, and St. John the Baptist Parish in Colesville, a congregation to which he also belonged.
d’Epagnier’s design for Arcola Knolls evidently proved popular as Jo-Rich sold all eleven homes within a few short months. My own grandparents purchased a home at the end of Orebaugh Avenue in 1962 and remained there for over forty years. My grandfather was a mechanical engineer working for the Department of the Navy and my Mom recalls that the modern architecture held a lot of appeal.
Unfortunately, Jo-Rich Development abandoned modern architecture on their few subsequent project, building low-slung Colonials in Montrose Park, Bethesda. Joseph Bonnett went with Dutch Colonial dwellings designed by architect Morton Noble for his late-1960s development, Hearthstone Square. In 1973, Richard Cohen went on to take over Wilco Companies – a commercial real estate development firm started by his father Charles Cohen in the early 1960s with investment from the sale of his two successful prior enterprises the Capitol Trash Company and the Normandy Cup Company. The firm remains a large commercial real estate development and investment firm in the Washington, DC area.
Arcola Knolls, the project where Richard Cohen’s development career began, where my grandparents bought a house and my mother grew up, remains a stand-out example of vernacular modernism in the Maryland suburbs.
“California Contemporary Homes Open Next Week.” The Washington Post and Times Herald (1954-1959), May 8, 1955.
Dessoff, Alan L. “Verdant Island Rises in Suburbs.” The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973), July 7, 1960.
Montgomery County Circuit Court Land Survey, Subdivision, and Condominium Plats. “Plat 6353, Arcola Knolls, Blocks A-B; William Cohen and Charles Cohen,” June 20, 1961. Link.
“Young Builders Go Contemporary.” The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973), March 31, 1962.
In September 1973, Mayor William Donald Schaefer led an effort to commission a set of ten murals funded by a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 85 artists submitted over 200 designs to the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) for a competition reviewed by a panel of judges including: Jane Harrison Cone, a curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Serena Jordan of Northwest Baltimore Corporation, James Lewis, a professor of Morgan State and founder of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, M. Jay Brodie of DHCD, Betty Wells, a local artist, and Joan Berska of the Mayor’s office.
The panel selected ten winning designs and provided each artist with donated paint (Sears offered around 80 gallons), scaffolding, and a a $1000 honorarium. By July 1974 nearly all ten of the murals were complete and Mayor William Donald Schaefer was pleased with how the colorful murals had brightened the streetscape, remarking on a bus tour of the murals in early October:
“It’s a psychological thing. I don’t know if you’ve heard my lecture: If you go into a neighborhood and it’s dull an drab, you’re dull and drab. But if you go into a neighborhood and it’s bright and clean you feel better. You expect big things to be done. But it’s the little things that make the difference between living in a city and just existing.”
Mayor William Donald Schaefer’s bus tour was followed by a bike tour of a selection of eight of the ten artworks organized by the Baltimore Bicycling Club, Citizens For Bikeways and the Better Air Coalition to kick off Clean Air Week in Maryland.
Bill Tashlick, who led the ride, was an architect with the Rouse Company before starting work with the Baltimore Department of Planning in 1971. As the chairman of a joint bicycle task force including government agencies and citizens groups, he worked with the Maryland Department of Transportation on the design of bikeways across the state.
Tashlick’s bike tour of Baltimore murals began at Roland and Lake Avenues near the city line at the top of one of the city’s first designated bikeways. Gil Watson – who covered cycling for The Baltimore Sun in the 1970s and by the 1990s worked as the paper’s Sunday editor - joined the group of 23 cyclists on a chilly Sunday morning and provided an fascinating account that sketches out the 10 mile route:
Down Roland avenue, down University to San Martin, Howard to North. First stop was North and Park avenue where, in huge, cheerful block letters the word “Baltimore” itself is immortalized.
From Park we worked over to the 1800 block McCulloh, where a bold wall of yellow, green, orange and chartreuse (I think) rose from a small expanse of open grass. (All the murals are graced with a bit of open space.) Sunday early-risers eyed us as we eyed the wall.
Behind the Afro-American at Druid Hill avenue and Jasper street, a stylized pair of black dancers frozen on a white background was stop No. 3. No. 4 was the coffeeshop across from the Greyhound terminal on Howard.
Moving out again, some of us still carrying coffee, we headed for the Police Stables on the Fallsway, where a big horizontal design plays perspective games with motorists headed north.
We then chugged up to the corner of Barclay and East Chase. Kids were playing basketball in front of another mural, this one a towering vertical in green and white.
Two more stops, one at Aisquith and Lanvale, the other in the 1600 block North Calvert, and we ended our mural tour at what is surely one of the most intriguing – Robert Hieronymous’s creation at Lanvale and St. Paul. Fantastically detailed, intricate and dominated by a one-eyed pyramid and an eagle, it has to be seen to be appreciated.
For that matter, they all have to be seen. The ride took roughly two hours (skipping one painting in Patterson Park facing Baltimore street and another at West Mulberry and Mount).
This map involves a bit of conjecture as Gil Watson left out some details on their route towards the end of the ride. A few of the murals have survived the 30 years since but most are faded beyond any recognition or lost altogether. The mural painted for the police stables on the Fallsway still sports a small metal sign that appropriately credits funding for the “Wall Painting Project” to the NEA. Look out for an update with a gallery of the ghosts of surviving murals later this summer or follow the route to see how many you can spot yourself.
Banisky, Sandy. “Bringing Color, Design to Some of Baltimore’s Blankest, Dullest Walls.” The Sun (1837-1987). October 12, 1974. Link. “Other Murals, Other Artists.” The Sun (1837-1987). June 23, 1974. Link. Watson, Gil. “Wheeling: A Bike Tour of Downtown.” The Sun (1837-1987). November 3, 1974. Link.


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A Marion County judge could decide as soon as Friday whether state superintendent Glenda Ritz‘s legal challenge against members of the State Board of Education can move forward.
Tuesday’s oral arguments, though, focused on whether Ritz had the authority to file the lawsuit at all. Lawyers for Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller argued their office has the sole authority to prosecute and defend suits against the state.
But that’s just state law prescribing a duty of the Attorney General, not affording it an “exclusive power,” argued Indiana Department of Education lawyer Michael Moore.He told Marion County Circuit Court Judge Louis Rosenberg the Department of Education’s lawyers sought permission from the Attorney General, but that their request was denied. Moore argued that decision was “arbitrary and capricious,” and the AG’s office can’t be given “unfettered discretion” to determine which state agencies can have their day in court.
“That’s essentially me as a lawyer telling one client, my wife, ‘You can’t sue your husband,’” Moore said in court.
But attorney David Arthur, representing the Attorney General, said the statute clearly stated Moore couldn’t be allowed to represent Ritz — as an elected state official — in court.
“The appearances filed in the court on behalf of the plaintiff should be stricken because only [the Attorney General] is allowed to appear in court under the circumstances of this case,” Arthur said.
Rosenberg initially told the courtroom he’d file a decision on the Attorney General’s motion to block Ritz’s suit by Friday. He said he’d allow Ritz’s attorneys to file written responses to matters discussed in the oral arguments, leaving open the possibility a decision could come next week.


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Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of a Hoarder tells how the author, Corinne Grant, recognized her hoarding issues, delved into the causes of that behavior, and learned to make different choices. It’s a personal story that seems to be told with wit and self-compassion. For example, this comes from the prologue:
Hoarding isn’t something anyone is aware of until it’s too late. Hoarding sneaks up on you in the middle of the night wearing dark glasses and a false moustache and weasels its way in when you’re not looking.I say “seems to” because I didn't read the entire book,
Don’t tackle the really painful stuff first, you’ll only discourage yourself. Work up to it. You’ll find you get tougher the longer you stick with it and, eventually, you’ll build up the emotional equivalent of abs of steel.What may be my favorite:
Keep one item that reminds you of a particular time and place (your time machine) and get rid of the rest.
Don’t throw out things in anger. ... Giving away a perfectly good bedside table won’t make your ex wake in the night in a vale of tears, it’ll just leave you with nowhere to put your alarm clock. Revisit it when you’ve calmed down. You’ll probably let go of it in the end anyway, but at least you will have done it rationally.
I still have stuff that is useless of other people but means a lot to me. Most people do. Just throw out the duplicates, the stuff that is irrelevant and the stuff that make you feel miserable or guilty or angry. Throw out the stuff that doesn’t sing to you.
Don’t let others bully you into tidying up their way. There are no rules. You can get rid of stuff in big chunks, do it one thing at a time, give it to charity, give it to friends, leave it on the footpath with a sign that says ‘free to good home.’ ... It doesn’t matter as long as the stuff goes and you feel like you've done it the right way.And on the joys of having done the letting go:
I don’t lose things now; I don’t need to buy a new pair of scissors every time I need to cut something. My bills get paid on time because I know where I keep them. I don’t have to leave the house to have dinner anymore. I actually enjoy being in my own home. I’m in control now, not the stuff.
Update on Dec. 22, 2013: I was confusing this book with another one. This isn't one I borrowed; it was a gift from organizer Lissanne Oliver. Thanks, Lissanne!


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I don’t feel like doing it. I’m not feeling it. I’m not in the mood. To hell with what you’re feeling, get up and do it anyway. Stop giving in to your feelings, sometimes if you should wait until you feel like doing something, it would never get done.
Forget feelings, our emotions are not always programmed or aligned with our desires. Instead of giving in to your feelings , let the focus be on creating winning habits. We are creatures of habits, therefore, we are more likely to function , based on a disciplined behavior, over our feelings.
A lot of the things we do, we don’t like, but we do it anyway. There’s a high percentage of people who don’t like their jobs but they do it anyway, because that’s how they make a living. Apply that same concept to other aspects of your life and I promise you, the results will be great. There are a lot of things that you won’t like, hey, I hate to exercise, I hate the feeling, I hate the pain. But, I still do it everyday, because I love the results. I’m not a big fan of my job, I go everyday and I still go above and beyond, because I love being able to pay my bills. So you may not always like the process but if it’s a habit that gets you a desired result, then to hell with feelings.
Your bills won’t care that you didn’t feel like working today. Your health won’t care that you didn’t feel like eating right or exercising. Your dreams won’t come to you, if you decided to quit half way along the journey, because you don’t feel like going anymore. Get out of your feelings, your goals don’t care. Do it anyway, you will thank yourself later.
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If you want to know how tall you are, you can use the inches-to-foots conversion tool to find out the correct answer. To convert 55.5 inches to feet, multiply the height in centimeters by 2.54 and multiply the result by 6.25. The result is 4.625 feet. To find out how long you are in feet, divide the height in centimeters by the number of inches in feet.
In metric systems, the unit of length is the inch. This measurement equals one-twelfth of a foot or one-sixth of a yard. The metric system measures inches from side to side. The inch is a popular customary measurement unit in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. To convert the height in centimeters to feet, simply multiply the height in centimeters by two.
To determine the feet equivalent of 55.5 inches, multiply the height in feet by 2.55. Using the conversion table below, you can estimate how tall you are in feet. To get an idea of how much you’ll need to invest in clothing and shoes, you’ll need a tape measure and a ruler. You can also buy a ruler to convert the measurements from inches to centimeters.
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