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MUSC Health, Philips to Form Partnership for Patient Monitoring Transformation
Contact: Heather Woolwine
woolwinh@musc.edu
CHARLESTON, SC & AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and MUSC Health, the clinical enterprise of Medical University of South Carolina has announced an eight-year, $36 million (USD) strategic partnership to transform and improve patient monitoring for more than one million patients a year. The strategic partnership is based on an enterprise managed services model through which Philips will install, integrate, and manage patient monitoring systems (including consumables) and software, as well as providing maintenance, training, and consulting services within a structured monthly payment model.
Serving patients across South Carolina and beyond through four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites, MUSC is now the fifth long-term, strategic partnership for Philips in North America. As hospital systems move from volume-based to value-based care, long-term, strategic partnerships are becoming the business model of choice for hospitals and health systems to better manage the cost and complexity of their technology investments, while expanding quality access to advanced medical care for their communities.
Philips is a leader in patient monitoring systems and software, with more than 275 million patients monitored by Philips systems annually. Through this long-term, strategic partnership, Philips will provide MUSC Health with continuous access to standardized, current-state patient monitoring technology, implementation, and asset management services. This approach helps MUSC to implement standardized clinical practice based on defined monitoring configurations and enable integration and interoperability with other clinical IT systems. Moreover, MUSC will have better collection and management of patient data in order to provide more informed, proactive diagnostic and treatment services, helping to reduce complications, adverse events, length of stay, and readmissions.
"We want to give our staff, learners, and patients access to the best patient monitoring technologies in order to deliver on the highest quality, safest, and most reliable health care through the use of Philips patient monitoring equipment across our entire enterprise," said Patrick J. Cawley, M.D., CEO, MUSC Health. "As one of the leading academic health centers in the country, whose value proposition is transforming expertise, learning and discovery into unrivaled patient-centered care in every setting, partnering with Philips will help us to meet our goal of delivering an exceptional patient care experience."
Long-term, strategic partnership models are well established globally and have demonstrated significant productivity improvements for pioneering Philips partners including Royal Belfast and Ashford St. Peters, and the New Karolinska Solna (NKS) hospital in Sweden. In less than a year, Philips has signed four long-term, strategic partnerships in North America including Westchester Medical Center Health Network (15 year term); Mackenzie Health (18 year term); and Marin General Hospital (15 year term).
"Due to a growing aging population and the rising number of people with chronic diseases, health care providers are seeking more cost-effective ways to monitor, diagnose, and treat patients," said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips. "As the health care industry is evolving, long-term, strategic partnerships are becoming the business model of choice, allowing health systems to address value-based models and keep pace with technology, while improving the patient experience. Together, Philips and MUSC can offer patients access to more than a century of experience in health care innovation and deliver an exceptional patient experience and quality care, while managing the rising health care costs."
MUSC is one of the nation's top academic health science centers, with a 750-bed medical center (MUSC Health) and six colleges. As South Carolina's only comprehensive academic health center providing a full range of programs in the biomedical sciences, MUSC is engaged in activities statewide. Its campus is located on more than 80 acres in the city of Charleston, with an overall population of about 13,000 clinicians, faculty, and staff, including nearly 3,000 students in six colleges (Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy) studying for degrees at the baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, and other professional levels.
About MUSC
Founded in 1824, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) continues the tradition of excellence in education, research and patient care. MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and nearly 800 residents in six colleges and has more than 17,000 employees. As the state's only integrated academic health sciences center and largest non-federal employer in Charleston, the university and its affiliates have collective annual budgets in excess of $3.2 billion, with an annual economic impact of nearly $4 billion and annual research funding in excess of $284 million.
As the clinical health system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care available, while training generations of competent, compassionate health care providers to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. Comprising some 1,600 beds, more than 100 outreach sites, the MUSC College of Medicine, the physicians' practice plan, and nearly 275 telehealth locations, MUSC Health owns and operates eight hospitals situated in Charleston, Chester, Florence, Lancaster and Marion counties. In 2019, for the fifth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health the No. 1 hospital in South Carolina.


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News Hugh Jackman Gets Religious for Upcoming Movie Hot on the heels of his Instagram tease that he may be ready to hang up his claws as the "X-Men" movie character Wolverine, Tony winner Hugh Jackman is preparing to star in the new "faith-based" film "Apostle Paul," according to a report in Deadline Hollywood.
By Playbill Staff
Recently seen on Broadway in The River, Jackman would play Jesus' follower in the film, which is being developed by Warner Bros.
Matt Cook's screenplay will tell the story of Saul of Tarsus, the real-life character started as a persecutor of Jesus' followers. But, according to the Bible's Book of Acts, Saul encountered the risen Jesus as he walked along a road from Jerusalem, and underwent a profound conversion. He changed his name to Paul and took responsibility for spreading Jesus' teachings throughout the eastern Roman Empire, and the city of Rome itself.
Jackman will be a co-producer of the film, in partnership with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
The acclaimed singing actor posted a photo March 28 on Instagram, which reads "Wolverine… One Last Time. HJ" Two Wolverine projects are in the works, "X-Men: Apocalypse," which is scheduled for 2016, and an "Untitled Wolverine Sequel," which is due in 2017. Jackman last appeared in the role in 2014 in the film "X-Men: Days of Future Past." (Jackman is also working on a movie about the life of master circus showman PT Barnum, titled, "The Greatest Showman on Earth.")
Jackman's posting is below:
WOLVERINE ...ONE LAST TIME. HJ
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High School Newspaper Runs Profile On Student Working In The Porn Industry
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Neetu Chandak Education and Politics Reporter
A California high school newspaper ran a profile on an 18-year-old student who works in the porn industry Friday, following censorship accusations against the district by a teacher.
The profile, published in The Bruin Voice, follows Caitlin Fink's journey into the adult entertainment industry and the challenges she faced academically and financially. She sells erotic pictures of herself, can participate in professional pornographic scenes and is a verified member on the website Pornhub.
The Lodi Unified School District (LUSD) wanted to review the article before deciding on whether it should be published, The Associated Press reported. However, paper adviser Kathi Duffel accused school officials of censorship.
School newspaper stories may face restraints if they are libelous or slanderous, encourage unlawfulness or contains obscenity.
LUSD Superintendent Cathy Nichols-Washer said Duffel could be punished "up to and including dismissal" if she denied the review in an April 11 letter, the news agency reported.
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Duffel's attorney Matthew Cate found the article did not violate education codes. Lawyer Paul Gant, who represented LUSD, said the district would not stop the story from publication but added the article could have been reviewed in a legal manner.
LUSD did not agree with Cate's legal opinion in its entirety and was "disappointed" over not receiving a chance to review the story. (RELATED: Utah Mom Facing Charges After Allegedly Giving Teens Lap Dances At Birthday Party)
"Moreover, because the District has been denied an opportunity to preview the article, the District does not endorse it," LUSD said in a statement Wednesday.
Duffel said the story was not about glamorizing the porn industry.
"I'm 18, what I'm doing is legal, and I don't see why everyone is making such a big deal out of it," Fink said, the AP reported.
Fink added that she wanted others to be educated about the reality of the adult entertainment world, according to The Stockton Record.
"People think sex work isn't work but it is work, you're just taking off your clothes," Fink said, The Record reported.
Bailey Kirkeby, who wrote the piece in the Bear Creek High School paper, was "very proud" of the story, she told the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Lodi Unified School District is very pleased that the process we have been engaged in regarding the Bear Creek High School newspaper has resulted in an article that meets legal requirements," the district said in a statement Friday.
"We know that these experiences regarding controversies and debates help prepare our students to be successful as they pursue future efforts of higher education and career," it added. "We take our responsibility to our community very seriously and we will always be diligent in our efforts when student safety is at issue."
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Melissa Carter: Nudity: A gateway to peace?
Melissa Carter
Outspoken, That's What She Said
It's been a difficult few weeks with the constant news of terrorism and the threat of war. You've also seen the international movement to bring peace to those conflicts currently taking place in Europe. But there is another effort you may not know about that's trying to promote peace in a different part of the world, and one that as a lesbian I can get behind 100 percent. Ladies, it's an effort you need to support, too.
The drug wars in Colombia are infamous and have been ongoing since the 1960s. Basically, the conflict involves the government in Colombia, crime syndicates, paramilitary groups, and left-wing guerillas, and has killed over 200,000 people and displaced another 5 million. So the hatred is deep-seated.
That's why a recent photo shoot with a former drug cartel leader and the ex-detective that investigated her gang is catching headlines, and made me nearly spit out my coffee at work when I first laid my eyes on it. This effort to promote peace shows Ana Pacheco and Isabel Londoño posing together, naked.
In the cover shot, Pacheco, a former senior member of the cartel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is naked with her arms and legs over former policewoman Londoño, who is kissing Pacheco's cheek. The photo is reminiscent of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous naked pose for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Once sworn enemies, the pair agreed to pose like this in the Colombian magazine SoHo. Other photos included in the shoot show the women standing topless in an embrace, and pressing against one another wearing white, sweaty tank tops. Oh my.
But this wasn't a reunion that they expected or initially felt comfortable with.
"At first I was surprised when they asked me to pose with hardly any clothes on with a guerrilla," Londoño told The Daily Mail, "But I liked the message and we in Colombia are so used to strong images that we needed to do something shocking to reach the people and show them there is a way to peace."
Pacheco told local media that although her initial reaction was one of hesitation, she decided to accept the invitation. "It's been very important for my life, the image is about being at peace, and what's more beautiful than two women from the opposite sides doing it. It's time to ask for forgiveness from those I hurt during my time as a guerrilla."
As much as I enjoy these photos, I hate to report that the two are not lovers in real life. In her interview, Pacheco says her husband has been really supportive about her career choice to continue modeling. Oh well.
Still, in this time of sadness SoHo's effort is a nice respite from the contrary images of despair and disgust I've been seeing for far too long. My lesbian sisters and I will appreciate this display of togetherness, but what has the reception been in South America to these attractive women tangled up with little or no clothes on?
One reader of the magazine commented, "This is the peace we want in Colombia."
I add with arms open, "En Estados Unidos tambien." (In The United States also.)
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Roverandom, a full-length book of fantasy written by JRR Tolkien, was first published in 1998.
The history of Roverandom is a somewhat complicated one, springing as it did from a Tolkien family holiday to the Yorkshire coast taken during the Autumn of 1925, shortly after Tolkien had accepted his appointment as Bosworth & Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.
The previous four years had been spent in tenure at the University of Leeds, and the opportunity for the Professorship at his alma-mater was a welcome one, allowing him more time and freedom of research, and so the family escaped for something of a celebration.
Have you read Roverandom? Share your thoughts and write a review!
Tolkien's children were eight (John), five (Michael), and nearly one (Christopher) at the time. The family rented a cliff-top cottage overlooking the sea and the beach near the town of Filey.
As Tolkien scholars Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull describe in their wonderful introduction to the published version of Roverandom, "At this time Michael Tolkien was extremely fond of a miniature toy dog, made of lead and painted black and white" (Roverandom pg ix). One day as they walked the beach, the toy was left on the shingle and could not be found, despite hours of searching.
Tolkien, as was his wont, decided to create a story around the lost toy, as a way of explaining its disappearance to his distraught son.
This was the synthesis of the tale, but it likely was not written down immediately, but told orally as a bedtime story, as Tolkien was later to do with another tale of his
own devising, The Hobbit.
Two years later, in September 1927, the Tolkiens were again on holiday, this time in Lyme Regis on England's southern coast.
Three of Tolkien's illustrations for the novel, reproduced in the published edition of Roverandom, date from this time period, suggesting (as Hammond & Scull do) that the tale was retold there, perhaps for the enjoyment of the youngest son Christopher Tolkien, who was still but an infant on the original holiday.
Hammond & Scull contend that this revival in interest finally led Tolkien to commit the story to paper, which he appears to have done near the end of 1927.
Once it was committed to paper, the story underwent various revisions. It was originally tentatively named The Adventures of Rover, but Tolkien amended the title to Roverandom and it stuck.
In late 1936, the complete manuscript was one of several pieces submitted to Allen & Unwin Publishers, who had accepted The Hobbit for publication and had invited Tolkien to submit any of his other writing for children.
Tolkien submitted the story, along with his illustrated children's book Mr. Bliss and Farmer Giles of Ham.
Rayner Unwin, the ten-year-old son of Stanley Unwin, reviewed the books, and noted that Roverandom was "well-written and amusing", but in spite of a positive review, the story was not accepted for publication.
After this point, the story was by all appearances set aside and forgotten. Allen & Unwin were pleased with the commercial success of The Hobbit and were intent upon an actual sequel, hobbits and all.
So the manuscript lay hidden for all intents and purposes, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, until resurrected after the posthumous success of many of Tolkien's other "non-Middle-Earth related" tales.
The tale itself concerns a dog named Rover. Rover makes the rather regrettable mistake of biting a passing wizard, who turns him into a tiny toy dog.
From this point, Rover is involved in a series of episodic adventures. He is purchased by a little boy, who loses him on the beach. He is saved by a second wizard, and later travels to the moon (where he meets the comical man-in-the-moon) and under the sea in a quest to be restored to his true size and form.
The abrupt changes of scenery denote something of the "unpolished" nature of the work, but do not necessarily detract from the very fun nature of the tale itself. Tolkien was a very meticulous reviser of his own writings, especially when intended for publication.
The narrator, however, reminds us much of the narrator of The Hobbit, with his playful interjections of wit and humor. Tolkien, customarily, added bits and pieces of folklore and language play from his vast store of knowledge, giving the story a type of depth that can be enjoyed on more than one level.
Like many of Tolkien's "secondary" tales (Smith of Wootten Major, Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle) Roverandom is a thoroughly enjoyable tale filled with the warm personality, wit, and imagination of its author.
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: Springbank 22 Year Old "Sovereign Wax Top - K&L Exclusive" Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
Springbank 22 Year Old "Sovereign Wax Top - K&L Exclusive" Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml) (Pre-Arrival)
We had an exceptional cask of Springbank last year that sold out after almost no effort on our part. We only received 78 bottles from that cask because it had supposedly been split with another market. As it turns out, we might have found the rest of that cask. The supplier is unable to confirm if this is the rest of the cask that we didn't get last year or if in fact it is a sister cask. Again we've only been allocated a tiny amount (108 bottles) and the proof is slightly lower by one tenth of one percent. If it is indeed the same juice, it certainly is not the same bottle. Last year's came in the Hunter Laing Old & Rare packaging while this year's is bottled under the Sovereign line with a handsome wax top to indicate it's of a different caliber than most Sovereign bottlings. Regardless of the cagey back story, this stupendous example of Scotland's most (read ONLY) old-style distillery is a true wonder. The distillery releases a 21-year-old at 46% which easily fetches $400, but never achieves quite what these single casks can deliver. There's no question that these old Springers are expensive, but in context their quality, scarcity and the enormous amount of care and energy that go into producing this whisky means that it should be considered by all who care to be the very most valuable commodity in the whisky drinking world. We certainly think it's worth every penny we're charging and maybe much more.
Springbank 22 Year Old "Sovereign Wax Top - K&L Exclusive" Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
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By: Jackson Lee | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 6/18/2019 | Send Email
One of Campbeltown's finest, it's hard to pass up anything this old from this distillery at this price. This is one beautiful dram, one I'm highly tempted to pick up to add to my Scotch cellar. The nose is beautiful with tropical fruits like mango and pineapple sitting in a sweet brine. I also got notes of wet hay, pencil shavings, and quince. The palate was sublime, evoking an audible expression of surprise and pleasure. The texture alone was fantastic, soft and silky yet not quite oily with more tropical fruit notes to back up the nose. The finish was long, with oak, baking spices and an almost overly ripe pear. Definitely one for the whiskey nerds.
By: David Othenin-Girard | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 6/17/2019 | Send Email
I was absolutely obsessed with the magical 22 year old Springbank we sold last year. That special cask only turned out 78 bottles and I was under the impression that the rest had gone to Europe. Now I'm not so sure. When Hunter Laing said they had another 108 bottles of 22 year old Springbank, they couldn't confirm that it wasn't the exact same. Upon tasting it there's almost no doubt that this is either the same cask or a sister cask of very similar quality. It's a pretty weird thing to have happen, especially when Scotland is being tight lipped about it, but I'm not complaining or questioning it for one second. I think I called last years whisky, "a living legend in our midst." It's sounds like hyperbole, but this is truly one of the finest modern Springbank I've ever tasted. Very much in the old style although it begins rather restrained it's packed with layer upon layer of complex flavor. Light peat, camphor, new Jordans, expensive non-scented candles. On the palate surprising big Campbeltown peat. Big smoke, tons of tension. But with just a little tiny smidge of water, the nose explodes from the glass. Soot, cigars, lemons, leather, creosote, fresh tennis balls, quince jam, chamomile, coriander, thujone, more and more keeps coming out. On the palate it's now pure highland peat smoked lemons, menthol, citrus oil, green tea, hints of candied stone fruits, grains of paradise and almost numbing feeling that brings me back to absinthe. The finish is long and lingering, the menthol note keeps coming back with every breath in. This one is emotional. Satisfying to the soul. Exhausting. I'm winded. We keep pointing back at Springbank, there's just nothing like it. The difference between modern whisky and real whisky, the answer is right here.
By: Andrew Whiteley | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 6/13/2019 | Send Email
The perfect example of why Springbank remains my favorite distillery. This whisky offers a bit of everything. At 22 years old it's as fresh as a daisy with loads of bright fruit, fresh cut grass, and a little minerality on the nose. On the palate the bourbon barrel influence is complex and well developed - there is a fine tannin structure and the alcohol is well integrated into the body of the whisky. It shows stone fruits and that gentle smoke that makes Springbank so lovely. The midpalate has chew. Classic. The finish is long and clean and full of grilled peaches and vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel. A sister cask to last years 22 year old, but with a touch more body and intensity.
By: Stefanie Juelsgaard | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 5/30/2019 | Send Email
Springbank is already regarded as one of our favorite distilleries at K&L for their dedication to the labor and time they devote to their whisky. Because we already hold them in such regard, we are always particularly psyched to see these tiny single barrel offerings hit our shelves. With a big, chewy middle (thanks to bourbon barrel aging) and the perfect intertwining of spice and light smoke, this is one of the more unique Scotch's we will offer this year. The smoke carries an earthy, not petroly character, which integrates seemlessly with the other characters. The cask strength brings drive to these flavors and makes for one pretty damn good drink.
Clynelish 21 Year Old "Sovereign Wax Top - K&L Exclusive" Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
Braes of Glenlivet (Braeval) 29 Year Old "Sovereign Wax Top - K&L Exclusive" Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
Auchroisk 24 Year Old "Old Malt Cask" K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
Mortlach 9 Year Old "Old Malt Cask" K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
Longmorn 14 Year Old "Old Malt Cask" K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky (750ml)
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'V for Vendetta' Creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd Talk Guy Fawkes Protest Masks
Andy Khouri Published: November 28, 2011
"At the moment, the demonstrators seem to me to be making clearly moral moves, protesting against the ridiculous state that our banks and corporations and political leaders have brought us to," said Alan Moore in an interview with The Guardian. The popular comics writer was referencing the protestors of Occupy Wall Street (and other places), many of whom have masked themselves in the visage of V, the Guy Fawkes-inspired hero of V for Vendetta, the anarchist graphic novel Moore created with David Lloyd in the 1980s.A classic graphic novel that's remained in print from DC Comics/Vertigo for decades (and reissued recently in the form of a prestigious Absolute Edition), V for Vendetta tells the story of a vigilante and anarchist who endeavors to bring down fascism in a grim future version of Great Britain. As a tip of the hat to Guy Fawkes' plot to destroy the House of Lords in 1605, V wears a mask modeled after the historic figure and ultimately inspires others to do the same.
The story was adapted by Warner Bros. into a live-action film in 2006. Subsequently, the international hacking group Anonymous adopted V's Guy Fawkes mask as their official visage. The mask was worn by protestors at rallies against the Church of Scientology, Sony, various banks and at activist events in Brazil, Iran and other places around the world, including the recent Occupy protests.
"The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way," said David Lloyd in conversation with BBC News after visiting the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City's Zuccotti Park.
While Moore doesn't presume that the protestors who've worn his character's face are necessarily fans of his work -- "[The mask is] cool-looking. I'm not trying to make a proprietorial statement," he said -- the writer did express some measure of satisfaction with the predicament. "I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?" Moore confessed. "So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar. It feels like a character I created 30 years ago has somehow escaped the realm of fiction."
Read more from Moore at The Guardian and more from Lloyd at BBC News.
Filed Under: Alan Moore, AlanMoore, anonymous, David Lloyd, DavidLloyd, guy fawkes, GuyFawkes, Occupy Wall Street, OccupyWallStreet, V For Vendetta, VForVendetta
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£9m bid accepted for former Hinckley United striker
Andre Gray could be moving from Brentford to Bristol
Andre Gray in action against Workington for Hinckley United in 2011
A striker who was playing for Hinckley United just a few years ago could be making a £9 million transfer.
Andre Gray, now of Championship side Brentford, is the subject of a £9m Bristol City offer which has been accepted according to the BBC.
The 24-year-old goal machine's second club after coming through the ranks at Shrewsbury was the now-extinct Knitters, before he moved to Luton for £30,000 in 2012.
In 2012/13 Gray netted 30 times in 44 appearances as the Luton won promotion from the Conference last season. He won the Skrill Premier golden boot and was also named Sportsbeat Young Player of the Year, earning an transfer to Brentford, where he fired the side to the play offs in an 18 goal season last term.
Now according to the BBC, the striker, who had been a target for Hull City, is believed to be discussing personal terms with Steve Cotterill's Bristol City side.


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28 books by Adams, John
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Diary and Autobiography of John Adams
John Adams' Diary, partially published in the 1850's, has proved a quarry of information on the rise of Revolutionary resistance in New England, the debates in the early Continental Congresses, and the diplomacy and financing of the American Revolution; but it has remained unfamiliar to the wider public. "It is an American classic," Zoltán Haraszti said recently, "about which Americans know next to nothing." Yet the Diary's historical value may well prove secondary to its literary and human interest. Now that it is presented in full, we have for the first time a proper basis for comprehending John Adams—an extraordinary human being, a master of robust, idiomatic language, a diarist in the great tradition.
The Autobiography, intended for John Adams' family, consists of three large sections. The first records his boyhood, his legal and political career, and the movement that culminated in American independence. The second and third parts deal with his diplomatic experiences, and serve among other things as a retrospective commentary on the Diary; they are studded with sketches of Adams' associates, which are as scintillating as they are prejudiced, parts and in some cases all of which were omitted from Charles Francis Adams' 19th-century edition.
John Adams's Diary, partially published in the 1850s, has proved a quarry of information on the rise of Revolutionary resistance in New England, the debates in the early Continental Congresses, and the diplomacy and financing of the American Revolution; but it has remained unfamiliar to the wider public. "It is an American classic," Zoltán Haraszti said recently, "about which Americans know next to nothing." Yet the Diary's historical value may well prove secondary to its literary and human interest. Now that it is presented in full, we have for the first time a proper basis for comprehending John Adams—an extraordinary human being, a master of robust, idiomatic language, a diarist in the great tradition.
The Autobiography, intended for John Adams's family, consists of three large sections. The first records his boyhood, his legal and political career, and the movement that culminated in American independence. The second and third parts deal with his diplomatic experiences, and serve among other things as a retrospective commentary on the Diary; they are studded with sketches of Adams's associates, which are as scintillating as they are prejudiced, parts and in some cases all of which were omitted from Charles Francis Adams's nineteenth-century edition.
The Autobiography, intended for John Adams's family, consists of three large sections. The first records his boyhood, his legal and political career, and the movement that culminated in American independence. The second and third parts deal with his diplomatic experiences, and serve among other things as a retrospective commentary on the Diary; they are studded with sketches of Adams' associates, which are as scintillating as they are prejudiced, parts and in some cases all of which were omitted from Charles Francis Adams's nineteenth-century edition.
Diary of John Quincy Adams
Volumes 1 and 2 of the Diary of John Quincy Adams begin the publication of the greatest diary, both in mass and substance, in American History. Recording a span of sixty-eight years, it has been known heretofore only in partial form. When, over a hundred years ago, Charles Francis Adams edited his grandfather's diary, he chose to omit "the details of common life," reduce "the moral and religious speculations," and retain criticisms of others only if they applied to public figures "acting in the same sphere with the writer."
Now the diary is being published complete for the first time. Starting with the entries of a twelve-year-old, the present volumes cover John Quincy Adams's formative year—his schooling and travel abroad, study at Harvard, and the first months of training for the law. Adams's six years overseas with his father took him to a half dozen countries, with lengthy stays in Paris, the Netherlands, and St. Petersburg. On his return he stayed for a time in New York, making the acquaintance of influential congressmen. To finish preparing for college, he lived with an aunt and uncle in Haverhill, caught up in a round of social activities. Entering Harvard with junior standing in the spring of 1786, he graduated in fifteen months.
As Adams matured, diary entries became less a dutiful response to a father's request and more a record of the young man's perceptive observations and reflections—and thus a rich source for social history. There are accounts of play-going in Paris, evenings with Lafayette and Jefferson, the diversions of rural New England, apprenticeship in a Newburyport law office. And through the eyes of a serious but not unbending student we are given a picture of Harvard in the 1780s.
Candid opinions of preachers, writers, men of affairs, and family members accompany the closest self-scrutiny. Here is a remarkable record of the passage from adolescence to manhood of a precocious and sensitive boy torn by self-doubt and driving himself to fulfill his promise and his parents' expectations.
The Earliest Diary of John Adams: June 1753 – April 1754, September 1758 – January 1759
The existence of this diary was totally unsuspected until its recent and somewhat accidental discovery among papers at the Vermont Historical Society during a search by Wendell D. Garrett, Associate Editor of the Adams Papers, for Adams family letters of a later period.
In part, the diary antedates by more than two years all other diaries of John Adams, and as a whole it is an invaluable addition to the Adams Papers, significantly supplementing the Diary and Autobiography of John Adams issued by the Belknap Press in four volumes in 1961. The editors' introduction describes the romantic and dramatic circumstances under which the diary is believed to have left the hands of the Adams family and found its way into the possession of young Royall Tyler, later a successful writer and distinguished Vermont judge, but in the 1780s a suitor for the hand of John Adams's daughter Abigail. Among other matters, the newly found diary contains material on John Adams's life as an undergraduate at Harvard, his choice of a career, his law studies and his first case as a practicing lawyer, his ambitions, and his observations on girls.
As L. H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, says of John Adams, "He almost never fails to give even his casual reflections a characteristic turn. He is a great stylist… His wry, amusing, engaging comments, whether on daily life in New England, on literature, science, or government, show an original mind at work."
Housing America in the 1980s
John S. Adams
Russell Sage Foundation, 1987
Library of Congress HD7293.A625 1987 | Dewey Decimal 363.50973
Housing provides shelter, in a variety of forms, but it is also resonant with meaning on many other levels--as a financial asset, a status symbol, an expression of private aspirations and identities, a means of inclusion or exclusion, and finally as a battleground for social change. John Adams' impressive new study explores this complex topic in all its dimensions. Using census data and other housing surveys, Adams describes the recent history of housing in America; the nature of housing supply and demand; patterns of housing use; and selected housing policy questions. Adams supplements this national and regional analysis with a remarkable set of small-area analyses, revealing how neighborhood settings affect housing use and how market forces and other trends interact to shape a neighborhood. These analyses focus on a sample of over fifty urbanized areas, including the nation's three largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago). Special two-color maps illustrate the dynamics of housing use in each of these communities. Clearly and insightfully, this volume paints a unique picture of the American "housing landscape," a landscape that reflects and regulates significant aspects of our national life. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Legal Papers of John Adams
Like many another statesman, John Adams entered the political arena by way of the legal profession. Here, gathered together in three volumes, is an inclusive presentation of the important legal cases in which he was involved. Student notes and Commonplace Book, which show the influences on the young law student in 1758 and 1759 are followed by Adams' Pleadings Book, a collection of forms providing a cross-section of the law in eighteenth-century Massachusetts and showing his work as teacher as well as student.
The sixty-four cases documented are divided into sixteen legal categories such as Torts, Property, Domestic Relations, Town Government, Conservation, Religion, Slavery, and Admiralty. They are preceded by editorial headnotes which discuss the background, significance, and importance of each category and case. Careful and thorough footnotes explain textual and legal problems; a register of John Adams' contemporaries furnishes sketches of his colleagues on the bench and bar; and an exhaustive chronology records his growing practice. But the bulk of the material consists of Adams' own notes and minutes, supplemented by court records, letters, depositions of witnesses, and the minutes of other lawyers, as well as extracts from Adams' correspondence and diary to make the record of each case as full as possible. Many of the cases concern events, personalities, and legal struggles directly related to the American Revolution.
The entire third volume of this imposing collection is devoted to the so-called "Boston Massacre." Confronted by a fascinating mass of conflicting evidence, charges and countercharges, and confused and confusing witnesses, many Americans will be surprised to discover that they must revise their notions about what actually happened on that March evening in 1770, why it did, and what ensued.
These three books comprise the first segment of Series III of The Adams Papers. The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has made possible the editing of these volumes by means of a generous grant to the Harvard Law School.
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor
Library of Congress E322.A4 2007 | Dewey Decimal 973.44092
"A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life."
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.
As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to "My Dearest Friend," debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president).
Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection—including some letters never before published—invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.
Papers of John Adams
Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton
Library of Congress E302.A26 1977 | Dewey Decimal 973.4408
Volume 18 is the final volume of the Papers of John Adams wholly devoted to Adams' diplomatic career. It chronicles fourteen months of his tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint commission, with Thomas Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with Europe and North Africa. With respect to Britain, Adams found it impossible to do "any Thing Satisfactory, with this Nation," and the volume ends with his decision to resign his posts. His diplomatic efforts, Adams thought, were too much akin to "making brick without straw."
John Adams' ministerial efforts in London were disappointing, but other aspects of his life were not. He and Jefferson failed to finalize treaties with Portugal and Great Britain, but they did, through agent Thomas Barclay, conclude a treaty with Morocco. Barclay's letters are the earliest and most evocative American accounts of that region. Adams witnessed the marriage of his daughter, Abigail 2d, to William Stephens Smith, promoted the ordination of American Episcopal bishops, and toured the English countryside, first with Thomas Jefferson and then with his family. Most significant perhaps was the publication of the first volume of Adams' Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. This work is often attributed to concern over Shays' Rebellion, of which Adams knew little when he began drafting. In fact, it was Adams' summer 1786 visit to the Netherlands that provoked his work. There, Dutch Patriot friends, involved in their own revolution, expressed interest in seeing "upon paper" his remarks "respecting Government."
Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Anne Decker Cecere, Richard Alan Ryerson, Jennifer Shea, and Celeste Walker
In mid-March 1781, John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed his tactics, and in a memorial made a forthright appeal to the States General of the Netherlands for immediate recognition of the United States. Published in Dutch, English, and French, it offered all of Europe a radical vision of the ordinary citizen's role in determining political events. In this volume, for the first time, the circumstances and reasoning behind Adams's bold moves in the spring of 1781 are presented in full.
In July the French court summoned Adams, the only American in Europe empowered to negotiate an Anglo–American peace, to Paris for consultations regarding an offer made by Austria and Russia to mediate the Anglo–French war. In his correspondence with France's foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, Adams passionately insisted that the United States was fully and unambiguously independent and sovereign and must be recognized as such by Great Britain before any negotiations took place. This volume shows John Adams to be a determined and resourceful diplomat, unafraid to go beyond the bounds of traditional diplomacy to implement his vision of American foreign policy.
No family in three generations has contributed so much to American history as the Adamses. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the Adams Papers series is complete, the writings of these three statesmen will have been examined thoroughly.
Aside from the Legal Papers of John Adams, published in 1965, these two volumes are the first in Series III: General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Papers of John Adams include letters to and from friends and colleagues, reports of committees on which he served, his polemical writings, published and unpublished, and state papers to which he made a contribution.
All of Adams's newspaper writings, including "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," are in these two volumes. In addition to being a condemnation of the Stamp Act, the "Dissertation" is shown to be one of the building blocks of the theory of a commonwealth of independent states under the king, which reaches complete statement in the Novanglus letters. For the first time, all thirteen of these letters appear in full with annotation.
The period September 1755 to April 1775 covers Adams's public service in Braintree and Boston town meetings, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the First Continental Congress, and the First Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. During this time his political future was being shaped by circumstances not always of his choosing. He hesitated at first at the threshold of a public career, political ambition in conflict with concern for his family's well-being. But as the confrontation with Great Britain sharpened, the crisis became acute; no choice remained. For Adams there was no shirking the path of duty.
On the last day of December 1780, John Adams wrote that he had just spent "the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life." He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, attempting, without success, to open Anglo–American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 of the Papers of John Adams, over 600 letters and documents that Adams sent to and received from numerous correspondents in Europe and America provide an unparalleled view of Adams's diplomacy and a wealth of detail on the world in which he lived.
These volumes chronicle Adams's efforts to convince the British people and their leaders that Britain's economic survival demanded an immediate peace; his "snarling growling" debate with the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, over the proper Franco–American relationship; and his struggle to obtain a loan in the Netherlands, where policies were dictated by Mammon rather than republican virtue. Adams's writings, diplomatic dispatches, and personal correspondence all make clear the scope of his intelligence gathering and his propaganda efforts in the British, French, and Dutch press. The letters reflect his interest in Bordeaux wines, the fate of Massachusetts Constitution that he had drafted in 1779, and political developments in Philadelphia, Boston, London, and St. Petersburg. The volumes leave no doubt as to John Adams's unwavering commitment to the American cause. Even in this most difficult year, he believed the revolution in America to be "the greatest that ever took Place among Men." He felt honored to serve a new nation where "the Wisdom and not the Man is attended to," whose citizens were fighting a "People's War" from which the United States would inevitably emerge victorious to take its rightful place on the world stage.
The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord North's ministry in March 1782 opened the possibility that John Adams might soon be involved in negotiations to end the war for American independence. To prepare for the occasion, Adams and Benjamin Franklin discussed in their letters the fundamentals for peace. Adams made it clear to the British government that there would be no negotiations without British recognition of the United States as independent and sovereign.
This volume chronicles Adams's efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of the new United States. The documents include his vigorous response to criticism of his seemingly unorthodox methods by those who would have preferred that he pursue a different course, including Congress's newly appointed secretary for foreign affairs, Robert R. Livingston.
In April 1782 the Netherlands recognized the United States and admitted John Adams as its minister. For Adams it was "the most Signal Epocha, in the History of a Century," and he would forever see it as the foremost achievement of his diplomatic career. The volume ends with Adams, at long last a full-fledged member of the diplomatic corps, describing his reception by the States General and his audiences with the Prince and Princess of Orange.
"Once more after an Interruption of ten Years, I pronounce myself a happy Man, and pray Heaven to continue me so." Thus wrote John Adams in late August 1784 after the arrival in Europe of his wife Abigail and daughter Nabby. Adams and his family were living together in the pleasant Paris suburb of Auteuil. There Adams, with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, formed a joint commission to conclude commercial treaties with the nations of Europe and North Africa. For the first time since he had left America in 1778 on his first diplomatic mission, Adams was no longer engaged in "militia diplomacy."
Volume 16 of the Papers of John Adams chronicles fourteen months of Adams' diplomatic career. As minister to the Netherlands he raised a new Dutch loan to save America from financial ruin. As joint commissioner he negotiated a commercial treaty with Prussia, proposed similar treaties with other European nations, and prepared to negotiate with the Barbary states. The commissioners also sought to resolve Anglo-American differences left over from the peace negotiations and arising from the two nations' burgeoning trade. Volume 16 thus forms a prelude to the next phase of John Adams' diplomatic career, for his February 1785 appointment as minister to the Court of St. James meant that the management of Anglo-American relations would be his responsibility alone.
John Adams's shaping of the vice presidency dominates this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles a formative era in American government spanning June 1789 to February 1791. As the first federal Congress struggled to interpret the US Constitution and implement a new economic framework, Adams held fast to federalist principles and staked out boundaries for his executive powers. Meeting in New York City, Adams and his colleagues warred over how to collect revenue and where to locate the federal seat. They established and staffed the departments of state, treasury, and war. Adams focused on presiding over the Senate, where he broke several ties. Enduring the daily grind of politics, he lauded the "National Spirit" of his fellow citizens and pledged to continue laboring for the needs of the American people. "If I did not love them now, I would not Serve them another hour—for I very well know that Vexation and Chagrine, must be my Portion, every moment I shall continue in public Life," Adams wrote. He plunged back into writing, using his Discourses on Davila to synthesize national progress with republican history. Whether or not the union would hold, as regional interests impeded congressional action, remained Adams's chief concern. "There is every Evidence of good Intentions on all sides but there are too many Symptoms of old Colonial Habits: and too few, of great national Views," he observed. Once again, John Adams's frank letters reveal firsthand the labor of nation-building in an age of constitutions.
"Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One," John Adams wrote in late 1787, wrapping up a decade's worth of diplomatic service in Europe. Volume 19 of the Papers of John Adams chronicles Adams's last duties in London and The Hague. In the twenty-eight months documented here, he petitioned the British ministry to halt impressment of American sailors, toured the English countryside, and observed parliamentary politics. Adams salvaged U.S. credit by contracting two new Dutch loans amid the political chaos triggered by William V's resurgence. Correspondents like Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette mulled over the Anglo–American trade war that followed the Revolution and reported on the French Assembly of Notables—topics that Adams commented on with trademark candor. He wrote the final two volumes of his work, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.
Adams yearned to return home and see the American republic take shape. "For a Man who has been thirty Years rolling like a stone," Adams wrote, the choice was whether to "set down in private Life to his Plough; or push into turbulent scenes of Sedition and Tumult; whether be sent to Congress, or a Convention or God knows what." Back on his native soil of Massachusetts in June 1788, Adams settled into rural retirement with wife Abigail and watched the U.S. Constitution's ratification evolve. By volume's end, John Adams again resumes public life, ready to serve as America's first vice president.
"You may well Suppose that I was the Focus of all Eyes," John Adams wrote on 2 June 1785 of his first audience with George III, which formally inaugurated the post of American minister to Great Britain. Eager to restore "the old good Nature and the old good Humour" between the two nations, Adams spent the following months establishing the U.S. legation at No. 8 Grosvenor Square. For Adams, it was a period of multiple responsibilities and mixed success. He remained minister to the Netherlands and one of the joint commissioners charged with negotiating commercial treaties with the nations of Europe and North Africa--sensitive duties that occasionally called for Adams to encode his correspondence with the aid of his new secretary and future son-in-law, Col. William Stephens Smith.
Rebuffed by the British ministry in his mission to enforce the peace treaty of 1783 and renew Anglo-American commerce, Adams identified and achieved other goals. He preserved American credit despite the bankruptcy of a Dutch banking house that handled U.S. loans, petitioned for the release of impressed sailors, marked the ratification of the Prussian-American treaty, championed the needs of the American Episcopal Church, and laid the groundwork for negotiations with the Barbary States. His attention was not confined solely to foreign affairs. John Adams's letters from London, laced with his trademark candor, demonstrate his ripening Federalist view of the new American government's vulnerability and promise.
Adams FamilyEdited by Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Robert F. Karachuk, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara B. Sikes, Mary T. Claffey, and Karen N. Barzilay
On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism.
Adams' diplomatic efforts were also complicated by domestic turmoil. Americans, in a rehearsal for the later Federalist-Antifederalist conflict over the United States Constitution, were debating the proper relationship between the central government and the states. Adams, a Federalist as early as 1783, argued persuasively for a government that honored its treaties and paid its foreign debts. But when bills far exceeding the funds available for their redemption were sent to Europe, he was forced to undertake a dangerous winter journey to the Netherlands to raise a new loan and save the United States from financial disaster.
None of the founding fathers equals the candor of John Adams' observations of his eighteenth-century world. His letters, always interesting, reveal with absolute clarity Adams' positions on the personalities and issues of his times.
Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Hobson Woodward, Mary T. Claffey, Sara B. Sikes, and Judith S. Graham
John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the problem was Franklin's moral bankruptcy and servile Francophilia in the service of a duplicitous Comte de Vergennes.
Volume 14 covers more than just the peace negotiations. As American minister to the Netherlands, Adams managed the distribution of funds from the Dutch-American loan. Always an astute observer, he commented on the fall of the Shelburne ministry and its replacement by the Fox-North coalition, the future of the Anglo-American relationship, and the prospects for the United States in the post-revolutionary world. But he was also an anxious father, craving news of John Quincy Adams's slow journey from St. Petersburg to The Hague. By May 1783, Adams was tired of Europe, but resigned to remaining until his work was done.
Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Jessie May Rodrique, Mary T. Claffey, and Hobson Woodward
A new chapter in John Adams's diplomatic career opened when the Dutch recognized the United States in April 1782. Operating from the recently purchased American legation at The Hague, Adams focused his energies on raising a much needed loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This volume chronicles Adams's efforts to achieve these objectives, but it also provides an unparalleled view of eighteenth-century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution.
John Adams was a shrewd observer of the political and diplomatic world in which he functioned and his comments on events and personalities remain the most candid and revealing of any American in Europe. His correspondence traces the complex negotiations necessary to raise a Dutch loan and throws new light on his conclusion of a treaty of amity and commerce with the Netherlands, achievements of which he was most proud. Events in England and elsewhere in Europe also provided grist for his pen. Would the establishment in July of a new ministry under the earl of Shelburne hinder or advance the cause of peace? That question bedeviled Adams and his correspondents for the fate of the new nation literally rode on its answer. The volume ends with Adams's triumphal departure from The Hague to face new challenges at Paris as one of the American commissioners to negotiate an Anglo-American peace treaty.
These volumes provide an unparalleled account of the conduct of American diplomacy in the early years of the republic, while the war with Britain continued and after the treaty of alliance with France was signed. John Adams served for ten months as a commissioner to France. Though he was the newest member of the three-man commission, he was its chief administrator, handling most of its correspondence, and his papers are the first full documentary record of the commission ever published. They provide a wealth of detail on every aspect of diplomacy, from negotiations with ministers of state to the arranging of prisoner exchanges.
The documents throw new light on Adams's relations with his fellow commissioners, Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee. Historians have depicted Adams as hostile to Franklin and supportive of Lee, but the record shows that he found himself increasingly in disagreement with Lee, while working harmoniously with Franklin from the outset. Moreover, after the commission was disbanded in February 1779 and Franklin was appointed Minister to France—a move Adams had advocated—he undertook an important mission at Franklin's behest. It is now clear that the rift that developed between the two statesmen did not begin until after Adams's return to Paris in 1780.
Legal and constitutional scholars will find Volume 8 of particular interest. The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, drafted by John Adams in 1779, served as a crucial source for the Constitution of the United States; today it is the oldest written constitution in the world still in effect. The earliest surviving version of Adams's text, the Report of a Constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is here published with full annotation for the first time. It is John Adams's most enduring constitutional work.
These volumes document John Adams's thinking and actions during the final years of his congressional service and take him through his first five months as a Commissioner in France in association with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee.
While Adams was still in Philadelphia, military matters continued to he his major concern. Most demanding was his presidency of the Board of War, which took up his "whole Time, every Morning and Evening." In general, though, the documents and reports of his conduct reveal a commitment to a national outlook. Congress should be a national legislature, and personal, state, and regional rivalries should give way to concern for the greater good—these were his deeply held convictions.
When chosen a Commissioner to France, Adams was reluctant to go. But duty and the honor of the position, along with the encouragement of an understanding and self-sacrificing wife, persuaded him to accept. With son John Quincy for a companion, he crossed the Atlantic to a new career. His initiation into the complexities of diplomacy brought a growing awareness of European affairs and the problems facing the new nation in the diplomatic arena. Letters deal with such varied topics as the supervision of American commercial agents in French ports, regulation of privateers, settlement of disputes between crews and officers, negotiation of loans, and help for American prisoners in England. Personal letters run the gamut from Adams's views on the proper conduct of American diplomacy to strangers' pleas for aid in locating relatives in America. Contrary to the usual impression of Adams as little more than a clerk for the Commission, evidence shows that he was its chief administrator.
Acclimation to living abroad among diplomats did not stifle Adams's yearning for the simplicities of private life in the midst of his family. Yet as the important and interesting documents of this volume show, the groundwork was being laid for his even more significant role in diplomacy.
As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing amount of correspondence. The majority of his letters were written to secure the facts that would enable this duty-ridden man to decide and act effectively on the issues being debated. Military affairs, a source of never-ending concern, provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including several accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of various high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of the riflemen sent from three states southward to aid the Massachusetts troops.
The heated question of pay for soldiers and officers strained relations between New England and southern colonies early. By refusing to confront the issue of slavery when it was raised by several correspondents, Adams sought to avoid exacerbating regional sensitivities further. When the question of independent governments for former colonies arose, at the request of several colleagues Adams sketched a model, Thoughts on Government, three versions of which are included here.
His optimistic republicanism, however, was balanced by fear that a "Spirit of Commerce" would undermine the virtue requisite for republican institutions. Adams' important committee work included his draft in 1775 of rules for regulation of the Continental Navy, which have remained the basis for the governance of the United States Navy down into our own time, and his plan of treaties, which would guide American diplomats up to World War II. Both were derivative, but he skillfully adapted his materials to American needs and circumstances. These volumes reflect the spirit of those tumultuous years when the leaders emerging in America confronted each other, and exciting new ideas, as they tried to resolve the issues of a revolutionary period.
Vice President John Adams and the US government faced a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles the period from March 1791 to January 1797. The grim shadow of the French Revolution and the whirlwind of a massive European war left political leaders like Adams struggling to uphold the young nation's neutrality. "I Suffer inexpressible Pains, from the bloody feats of War and Still more from those of Party Passions," he observed. With the federal system newly in place, fresh challenges crept in on all sides. Adams and his colleagues sought to bolster the government against the effects of the Whiskey Rebellion, a seething partisan press, a brutal yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, and violent clashes with Native peoples on the Ohio frontier. Working with George Washington and an increasingly fractious cabinet, Adams approached a set of issues that defined US foreign policy for decades to come, including the negotiation, ratification, and funding of the controversial Jay Treaty, as well as the awkward cultivation of ties with France. Revealing exchanges to Adams from son John Quincy, a junior statesman who sent rich reports from war-torn Europe, underline the family's enduring commitment to public service. Pausing on the cusp of his presidency, John Adams amplified his lifelong dedication to sustaining democracy, amid bouts of internal and external crisis: "I am happy that it has fallen to my share to do some thing towards setting the Machine in motion," he wrote.
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams
Midway Plaisance Press, 2008
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You and Your Deaf Child: A Self-Help Guide for Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Gallaudet University Press, 1997
Library of Congress HQ759.913.A33 1997 | Dewey Decimal 649.1512
You and Your Deaf Child is a guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children that explores how parents and their children interact. It examines the special impact of having a deaf child in the family.
Eleven chapters focus on such topics as feelings about hearing loss, the importance of communication in the family, and effective behavior management. Many chapters contain practice activities and questions to help parents retain skills taught in the chapter and check their grasp of the material. Four appendices provide references, general resources, and guidelines for evaluating educational programs.
Once parents have worked through You and Your Deaf Child, this friendly guide can be referred to for specific information and advice as different situations arise.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock Musical to Close on Broadway
The show, based on the film of the same name, will end its run at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre.
Bethany Rickwald
School of Rock jams at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical School of Rock will end its run at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 20, 2019, after 31 previews and 1,307 regular performances. The show began its run November 9, 2015, and opened on December 6.
Based on the hit 2003 film, School of Rock tells the story of a down-on-his-luck wannabe rock star named Dewey Finn, who poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school and enlists his fifth-graders to form a rock group and conquer Battle of the Bands.
Directed by Laurence Connor, the musical features a score by Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater and a book by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. The creative team also features choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, scenic and costume design by Anna Louizos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Mick Potter, comedy direction by Cal McCrystal, and music supervision by Ethan Popp.
The show currently has productions running on London's West End and across the United States on its National Tour – which launched on September 30, 2017, in Rochester, New York. Beginning on October 31, School of Rock will begin its extended sit-down production at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, Australia before touring Asia.
In addition, Andrew Lloyd Webber teamed up with R&H Theatricals, a division of Rodgers & Hammerstein, and granted youth performance groups and schools the rights to perform the production before it even opened on Broadway. About 1,000 schools have performed School of Rock around the world.
The opening night cast featured Alex Brightman leading the cast as Dewey Finn, alongside Sierra Boggess as Principal Rosalie Mullins. The current Broadway cast of School of Rock includes Justin Collette as Dewey and Analisa Leaming as Rosalie.


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How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations – Gavin Esler
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In the past, it was possible to live with delightful confusion: one could be English or British, Scottish or Irish, and a citizen/subject of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain). For years that state has been what Gavin calls a 'secret federation', but without the explicit federal arrangements that allow Germany or the USA to survive.
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Tua Tagovailoa injury timeline: What's next, dates to know and the big NFL draft question
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Tua reflects on his grueling injury, weighs future pro plans (3:32)
Tua Tagovailoa discusses his season-ending hip injury suffered against Mississippi State and maps out his future plans and road to recovery. (3:32)
Tua Tagovailoa, the early favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL draft, has a decision to make. The Alabama junior quarterback is out for the season after he injured his hip in mid-November, and he might have played his final college game. He has been passed by LSU's Joe Burrow in the QB rankings of ESPN NFL draft experts Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay. And he faces an uncertain rehab for a unique injury.
What exactly is this injury, and what is the timeline? When does he have to decide about entering the NFL draft? And how high could he go if he forgoes his final season of eligibility?
With help from ESPN injury analyst Stephania Bell, college football reporter Alex Scarborough and NFL reporter Kevin Seifert, plus insight from Kiper and McShay, we have answers about what's next for Tagovailoa:
OK, what happened to Tagovailoa?
Scarborough: Let's set the scene: It's Saturday, Nov. 16, and Alabama is winning big late in the first half on the road against Mississippi State. Coach Nick Saban is ready to pull Tagovailoa, but the quarterback says he wants in for one last drive, and Saban obliges.
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Three plays later, Tagovailoa rolls to his left, extending the play, and just as he throws the ball away, two defenders land on him. He falls awkwardly, his knee driven into the ground, causing his hip to dislocate and fracture the posterior wall. He also breaks his nose and suffers a concussion. He gets carted off the field and flown to a Birmingham hospital, and he eventually has surgery with a specialist in Houston on Nov. 18.
And what have his doctors said about the prognosis?
Scarborough: From the moment the team's orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Lyle Cain, addressed the hip injury, he has insisted that Tagovailoa will make a "full recovery." In fact, that exact phrase has appeared in three separate statements released through the university.
What exactly is this injury?
Bell: It's a right hip dislocation and posterior wall fracture. The hip joint is composed of the "ball" portion (the round head of the femur, or thigh bone) and the "socket" portion (the deep, saucer-shaped acetabulum, which is part of the pelvis). The joint is inherently stable and requires a great deal of force to disrupt, but a high-energy impact in just the right direction can cause the ball to move out of position relative to the socket, resulting in a dislocation.
In Tagovailoa's case, falling hard on his knee (the far end of the femur) with his hip flexed, compounded by the weight of defenders falling on him, created a high-energy impact that forced the hip out of position. Unfortunately, on the way out, the ball of the femur struck the rim of the socket, causing a fracture of the back (posterior) wall.
Tua carted off field after taking big hit
Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa is carted off the field in the second quarter after throwing downfield and taking a big hit.
It's also important to note the impact of Tagovailoa's severe nasal fracture. According to Jeff Allen, Alabama's associate athletic director for sports medicine, Tagovailoa complained only about his face when Allen arrived at the quarterback's side. Allen said the bleeding from Tagovailoa's nose was "as severe and profuse as I've seen." Allen was immediately concerned there might be additional facial fractures. Between the hip dislocation and the nasal bleeding and suspected fractures, the medical staff triaged Tagovailoa's acute injury management just as they might after a severe motor vehicle crash. Tagovailoa's hip was put back in place within minutes at the stadium and the facial bleeding was slowed. He was then transported to St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham for further evaluation and ultimately traveled to Houston for surgery.
Less than 48 hours after suffering the injury on the field, Tagovailoa underwent surgery with hip specialist Dr. Chip Routt at Hermann-Memorial Medical Center. As soon as Routt repaired the posterior wall fracture, Dr. Tang Ho arrived to the operating room and repaired Tagovailoa's nasal fracture. The entire process lasted approximately four and a half hours.
Have any other football players had the same injury?
Bell: It is hard to know for certain whether there have been any collegiate or professional football players who have suffered the exact same combination of injuries, as they are rare occurrences and not all injury details are public knowledge.
In December 2015, Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount reportedly chipped a bone in his hip. He returned the following season to play in all 16 games. Former Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta suffered a hip fracture/dislocation in July 2013, but returned later that season as a part of the team's Super Bowl run. He reinjured his hip in 2014, underwent another surgery and sat out 2015, but returned to lead all NFL tight ends in receptions in 2016. Pitta then injured his hip a third time in June 2017, forcing him to retire.
Tua Tagovailoa is expected to begin throwing again in the spring, but he has been told to rest for the early stages of his rehab. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
There are so many possible nuances to each specific injury configuration that it is fair to assume that Tagovailoa's injury is unique. And no, we can't compare this injury to Bo Jackson's.
That said, there is one recent case that is comparable, and it involved another Alabama player. It was in the BCS national title game after the 2011 season, when linebacker C.J. Mosley picked off a pass from LSU's Jordan Jefferson and was injured on the tackle.
Allen noted that Mosley's hip dislocation was obvious when the medical staff arrived on the field based on the awkward positioning of his leg. Mosley's dislocation was put back in place on the field by Dr. Cain. Unlike Tagovailoa, Mosley did not require surgery, but he did require months of careful rehabilitation. It's worth noting that Mosley's injury happened in January and he was back on the field in full capacity that summer for Alabama's workouts. He went on to be picked in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft.
Is there any worry that Tagovailoa might not be the same athletically?
Bell: Tagovailoa is expected to make a full recovery given the quick reduction of the hip dislocation and the subsequent timely surgical care, which means he should return to full strength. It is critical, however, that Tagovailoa follow the post-operative guidelines, including what could be most challenging: rest. As the fracture heals in the early phase, it is essential not to overload the hip, making the first six weeks of rehab particularly tough for an athlete who constantly wants to push himself.
"This isn't something that I can rush," Tagovailoa said last week. "If I want to play to my full potential, I know I can't just come back and play on it as if it were my ankle. I think a lot of that has to go into my decision-making, too, as to whether I stay or leave."
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As he moves forward, there will be serial imaging studies to ensure that the healing progresses. Rehab will gradually involve progressive strengthening, range of motion and ultimately football activity. Allen, having worked with Mosley, knows what it takes for an athlete to return to a high level after this type of hip injury. Allen also has worked with Tagovailoa following two ankle surgeries and notes his work ethic and upbeat attitude as additional reasons to believe in his ability to return to pre-injury form.
What is Tagovailoa doing in the meantime?
Scarborough: Tagovailoa returned to Tuscaloosa five days after his surgery in Houston, even attending Alabama's final home game. He sat on a golf cart during that game and, a week later, traveled to Auburn for the final game of the regular season, this time forgoing the golf cart for crutches.
He has been rehabbing every day since the surgery but isn't expected to begin weight-bearing activities until the end of this month. In another month and a half, he should be able to begin athletic activity again. By the spring, he is expected to begin throwing.
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Let's switch gears here. Is there much history of QBs getting hurt but still being drafted in the first round?
Seifert: It has happened. Probably the most notable example was Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford, who twice injured his shoulder during his final college season in 2009. The second instance required season-ending surgery. Bradford was unable to throw at the 2010 NFL combine, but the St. Louis Rams still drafted him No. 1 overall.
He struggled through an injury-ravaged career that included two ACL tears, but played nine seasons for four different teams.
When does Tagovailoa have to decide whether he'll enter the draft?
Seifert: The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL's April draft is Jan. 20. The league will send a full list of those players to teams by Jan. 24.
Is there any chance he might return for his senior season?
Scarborough: Absolutely. Tagovailoa told ESPN recently that he's going to weigh the decision carefully and could make up his mind anytime between now and the deadline to enter the draft.
"If I come back, the risk is, what if I get hurt again?" he said. "But the reward could be maybe I jump back to the top of the charts, the boards for all these teams."
Tagovailoa also said he'd be tempted to enter the draft if he were considered a top-10 or top-15 pick instead of returning to school for his senior season.
"I think that'd be tough to pass up," he said. "But there's a lot more to it than that in some aspects."
He could either return and play his senior season in 2020, proving he's healthy again, or he could make use of a redshirt year and not risk reinjury and instead sit out while continuing to use Alabama's facilities.
Tagovailoa attended Alabama's game against Western Carolina, a few days after having surgery in Houston. John David Mercer/USA TODAY Sports
What's Bama's plan to replace him if he leaves?
Scarborough: It might have been a blessing in disguise that Mac Jones got some much-needed experience this season in relief of Tagovailoa. The redshirt sophomore started three games -- the only three starts of his career -- against Western Carolina, Arkansas and Auburn, throwing a combined 10 touchdowns and two interceptions. But he's no shoo-in for the starting job long-term.
Tagovailoa's younger brother, freshman Taulia, is a former four-star recruit who played some this past season. And Paul Tyson, the freshman and great-grandson of Paul "Bear" Bryant, will have a say as well. What's more, the No. 1-rated dual-threat quarterback in the 2020 class, Bryce Young, is expected on campus soon.
OK, so what other dates should we know for him?
Seifert: If Tagovailoa enters the draft, teams will get a chance to talk to him at the NFL combine, which starts Feb. 24 in Indianapolis. Not all top quarterbacks work out there -- Kyler Murray, the eventual No. 1 pick in 2019, skipped workouts -- but medical evaluations and interviews with team officials are always on the schedule.
Alabama will likely hold its annual pro day in mid-March. If Tagovailoa has started a throwing program by then, scouts could get a closer look at his progress. It will already be a well-attended event based on the Crimson Tide's other top prospects in the 2020 class.
The draft begins April 23 in Las Vegas.
Let's talk Tagovailoa as an NFL prospect: What makes him special?
McShay: Tagovailoa has elite accuracy at all three levels, but particularly when throwing downfield. He has a smooth delivery, fast eyes and good arm strength. And the 6-foot-1, 218-pound lefty also does a great job anticipating and leading his receivers into the ball with high-end touch.
But will he regain the twitchiness and suddenness that stood out before his injury? Tagovailoa keeps his feet aligned with his eyes as he moves quickly and smoothly through his progressions and then is sudden in his release. Whether he is still effective in that area will be really important.
His final 2019 numbers are impressive and back up what evaluators see in his game: 2,840 passing yards, 33 touchdown passes, three interceptions, 71.4% completion percentage, 11.3 yards per attempt and a 94.5 Total QBR.
How much will his injury history hurt his draft stock?
Kiper: This injury makes Tagovailoa the biggest wild card in the class -- if he enters the draft -- and he'll be the hot topic through April. He has also suffered left and right high-ankle sprains in the past year, plus a sprained knee he suffered last season. These are concerning injuries, and teams are going to do their homework over the next few months to see how he's progressing from his hip surgery.
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That makes Tagovailoa's stock complicated, because teams will want their own doctors to evaluate Tagovailoa's medical reports, and they'll have to weigh whether they want to use a valuable pick on a quarterback who might not be able to work out for them. If you're a general manager, do you trust Tagovailoa's tape and trust that he'll recover to be your franchise quarterback? It's easier said than done, because your job is on the line if the pick doesn't pan out.
With all that being said, Tagovailoa is going to go earlier than people think right now, as long as he doesn't have any setbacks in his rehab.
And where do you have him ranked now?
Kiper: He's still No. 3 on my Big Board, the second-ranked quarterback behind LSU's Joe Burrow. Tagovailoa is the best pure passer in this class, and he has all of the physical and mental traits that teams look for as the face of their franchise. He'd be fighting neck-and-neck with Burrow if not for the injury, and even then, I'm not dropping him much.
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McShay: I'm a little more cautious right now. I have him at No. 12 in my latest top 32 rankings, behind Burrow (No. 2) but ahead of Oregon's Justin Herbert among quarterbacks. If healthy, he's still my QB1, though, even over Burrow. Expect his ranking to fluctuate plenty over the coming months as we continue to learn more about his recovery.
Make your predictions: Will Tagovailoa be picked in Round 1?
McShay: Yes, I still have him as a first-rounder. Remember, NFL teams will want to capitalize on the fifth-year option that comes with a Day 1 selection. And there are plenty of teams, at both ends of the first round, that need a quarterback. But again, it's very early, and there is still a lot we don't know.
Kiper: Barring a setback, there's no question in my mind that he will be a first-round pick. He's too gifted. Now, could he drop to the middle of Round 1? Absolutely. And some lucky team -- how about Miami, which has two extra picks? -- is going to get its guy.