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Pronto submits permits for bike share stations, is on schedule for September launch
Dragon Fest attendees test out a Pronto bike. Photo from Pronto.
Pronto Cycle Share is moving forward on schedule, and outreach has begun to finalize station locations. The bike share organization has applied for permits for what will be 50 stations, all operational by the end of September.
The Alaska Airlines-sponsored system will launch with 500 bikes in the center city neighborhoods and the University District. If all goes according to plan, the service boundary and density of stations will increase in future phases.
The organization has been getting in touch with nearby businesses to inform them of the station plans, especially for stations that could displace a parking space. As a rule, Pronto is only using on-street stations when there are no good off-street alternatives nearby. Many on-street stations will also be placed near street corners in space where it is illegal to park anyway. This is why a 55-foot station can take only one parking space, as Capitol Hill Seattle reported yesterday.
The station permits do not necessarily mean these are absolutely final, as Executive Director Holly Houser noted in an email: "Station locations shown have been submitted for permit approval where applicable and are not yet finalized."
Below is a look at those permit locations:
The goal is to have stations close enough together that it is not difficult to find one near you so long as you stay in the service area.
This is the perfect place for a bike share station. Image from Google Street View.
At first glance, there is one omission that leaps out: There is no Pike Place Market station. The closest stations are at Westlake Park and on the waterfront downhill from the market. Pike Place Market was one of the most highly-requested stations in the Pronto Cycle Share feedback-gathering map, but Houser said they had trouble getting one in the market's historic district due to stringent regulations there.
That seems like a big missed opportunity for businesses in the market, and I hope they find a way to remedy it soon.
To get downtown ready for bike share, the city is also moving forward on a two-way protected bike lane on 2nd Ave from Pike Place Market to Pioneer Square. As we reported previously, that pilot project bike lane is on track to be installed by the time Pronto launches.
You will be able to get ready for the launch of Pronto by buying a membership starting August 25. A year membership costs only $85, a killer deal since a 24-hour pass will cost $8 and a 3-day pass will cost $16.
A membership or pass gets you unlimited 30-minute bike trips, which is enough time to get to and from most of the bike share stations in the system. The pricing structure is designed to encourage short trips within the city's dense urban core. If you need more time, you can always check in at a nearby station to renew your 30 minutes. They just want to make sure the bike stays in rotation and that you didn't lock it up outside a bar or go for a joyride to Golden Gardens.
Launching the bike share system in 2014 and getting 2nd Ave ready for it has been a big goal of Mayor Ed Murray in his first year at the city's helm. Pronto has a couple demo bikes they are taking around town for outreach events (they are prototypes, and some details like the basket will likely change). Looks like the mayor is ready:
Stamp of approval from the guy who's making Pronto happen in Seattle! Mayor Murray! #SeaMayor #iheartID #GoPronto pic.twitter.com/m0tu3P3MlE
— Pronto Cycle Share (@CyclePronto) July 13, 2014
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29 Responses to Pronto submits permits for bike share stations, is on schedule for September launch
Bob Payne says:
I saw in the Eastlake neighborhood newsletter that the community organization is suggesting the station in the middle of Eastlake be up between Roanoke Park and Seward School, instead of at foot of Lynn St. So yeah, like you said, I suspect several of these will change.
Thanks, Bob! (though I like that station plan near the wine shop and that little park). It's interesting that they are urging people to follow the Cheshiahud Loop route along Fairview Ave E instead or Eastlake Ave. I personally prefer the Fairview route, but Eastlake is probably more popular.
The Eastlake portion is definitely the most awkward part of the system, since it is largely there to connect the center city and U District system areas. I'm interested to see how many people actually use Pronto to travel between the two areas, and how many bike from the U district straight up to Capitol Hill or vice versa. Tell Gene Balk there's gonna be a whole lot of data to crunch!
Ints says:
Equally awkward as the Eastlake series of stations is the "orphan" Children's Hospital station.
I understand why there is a station there, but really, if the the stated goal is to call this a network then there has to be more than this lone station out in this neck of the woods.
It will be interesting to see how much use this station gets, and whether bikes end up accumulating there as a destination, it ends up always vacant from heavy demand from people going to other areas or just sits as it's nearest neighbor is the 25th AV NE and BG trail station.
While on the map above, the Children's station looks lonely, if one asks for directions from Google maps for Children's to (for example) UW Medical center it gives three option for biking, ranging from 10 minutes to 14. I don't know how Google estimates ride times. I do know when I first started to commute by bike (after not having ridden at all for a decade) I was about 50% over Google's estimate, riding a relatively heavy, upright, IGH "Commuter bike" (probably not totally unlike a "Pronto" bike). But even 50% over 14 minutes, is still less than 30.
Also, for the brave (or those with money to burn on over time charges) Google estimates 25 minutes from MOHI to UWMC, with 2 route options, one of which is over the Fremont bridge! If one is in Pronto's target audience I'd suggest not taking the Fremont bridge, but rather take the University bridge and make a stop at station a bit the south of the bridge. Still, for the adventurous, and/or experienced, the Fremont route is plausible. After a year and a half riding cargo bikes, I can routinely meet or beat Google's estimate while riding a large cargo bike, so matching Google's estimate on a share bike certainly seems possible.
Innts says:
It's just that when someone rides out to that outlier of a station at Children's and finds all of the spaces taken because of the excellent programs they have at the hospital to support things like bike share, that rider gets to ride back to 25th AV NE and the BG trail to see if there still are spaces at that station. The point of a network is to provide options. Whether a bike route network or a bikeshare network, without options it really isn't a network.
Oh, wait, (as you pointed out while I was writing this) ; "in all this excitement I kind of lost track" of the fact that share stations have finite capacity, well, "you've got to ask yourself one thing, do I feel lucky?"
If one is going TO Children's and the station is full it would really, really suck, sure you get an additional 15 minutes, which you can use to, what? go back to exactly where you started from? On the other hand, most people will realize that problem, and therefore not even try going to Children's. but leaving Children's would not be so bad as there are a number of stations in the U district, so if one is the gambling type, maybe the odds are not so bad that there will be an empty slot at Children's.
But, since Children's put up, what? half a million? for this thing, I suppose Pronto will have a technician with a truck stationed there pretty much 24/7 (to keep the helmet vending machine working if nothing else, or more likely, BE the helmet "vending machine").
Innnts says:
It depends in the end on how well they manage this system. With Children's as a major sponsor, if there is a lot of demand at that station, I would think that the station would be expanded or that bikes would be relocated by truck to provide room at that station and redistribute bikes back into the system. That kind of popularity might warrant additional stations nearby which would start to develop more of a network out in NE Seattle. Another great potential location in a year or so will be the Husky Stadium link station.
Surely, during the average day, nearly as many people leave Children's as go to Children's? Are people going to arrive by Pronto then leave by some other mode?
Sure, you'll need to start the day with enough empty rack space to hold the float of people who have arrived and not yet departed, but for most of the day, shouldn't departures roughly equal arrivals?
LWC says:
Josh – not necessarily, and that is the point! In any given day, I might arrive somewhere by bike, go across town by Car 2 Go, carpool with a friend somewhere else, walk to another part of the neighborhood, and take the bus home. I imagine bikeshare to simply enter that mix, not to become my primary means of travel on any given day. I imagine others will use it in a similar manner much more often than they use it for strict round-trips.
I'd be extremely worried about riding Pronto to such an isolated spot, given that the only recourse if it's full is to ride 20 minutes away and walk back. I think it's a problem that could significantly impact the usability of the service.
What if you could sign up for text alerts for when your favorite corral is full? Would be hard to check your phone when riding I guess, but it might save you some hassle. I agree that the prospect of backtracking to another corral and then walking to your destination could defeat the advantages of the system. I'd continue to bus it instead. And I also agree that a single day for me could include bikeshare, zipcar, bus and walking.
FWIW, I am not worried about the one Childrens' station. It's kind of an odd outlier, and its success or failure will have little impact on the system as a whole.
The downtown station density, capacity and recirculation is what will make or break the system. If people arrive to a full downtown station often enough, they could quit trusting it. So that's Pronto's biggest challenge, I think. But they can do it.
"It's interesting that they are urging people to follow the Cheshiahud Loop route along Fairview Ave E instead or Eastlake Ave."
The problem with the Chesiahud Loop route is that it just doesn't work. I tried it once and about halfway between the U-bridge and Fairview Ave., you run into private property, which you have to go up the hill all the way back to Eastlake to go around (and the hill is quite steep). There is no reason to do all that up and down when you can just go straight-up down Eastlake all the way.
As to the Children's station, there are two things that will help balance demand somewhat. First, the hospital operates 24/7, so there are people beginning shifts even the evening as the daytime shift ends. Second, people living in homes near the hospital might use Pronto to ride in the reverse direction to jobs in the U-district. Even if the station isn't right in front of their house, if they have to walk right by it to reach the bus stop along Sand Point, it becomes a might-as-well, as pedaling down the Burke-Gilman trail (or even up the sidewalk on the 45th St. viaduct) is often quite a bit faster than waiting for a bus and riding it.
One big thing that is missing though, to make taking bike share from Lauralhurst to campus is a station alongside the Burke-Gilman trail at the bottom of the hill. I see stations planned around the HUB, but nobody wants to lug a bikeshare bike all the way up that hill. Much easier would be to just return the bike at the bottom of the hill and walk up the stairs unburdened.
I agree the Cheshiahud route isn't great and it's actually kind of hard to follow. However, if you spot the non-standard routing signs (easy to miss), it turns out you don't have to go all the way to Eastlake when you hit that private property area. There is a cut through a couple alleyways. You can see it here: https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=University+Bridge,+Seattle,+WA&daddr=ZymoGenetics+Inc,+Eastlake+Avenue+East,+Seattle,+WA&hl=en&ll=47.642738,-122.325597&spn=0.007633,0.015793&sll=47.64206,-122.323607&sspn=0.030534,0.063171&geocode=FUkh1wIdlou1-CkXGVpU8BSQVDH7FJ1nnlnkSQ%3BFTPL1gIdvG21-CGXs__8sx3Q8ymtbYloJBWQVDGXs__8sx3Q8w&t=h&dirflg=b&mra=ltm&z=16&lci=bike
Though it's not unhilly, it's not as bad as going all the way to Eastlake. And since I find biking on Eastlake very stressful, I choose to deal with the hills.
If you look at the Bike Master Plan, you'll see that they make vague reference to the possibility of a trail of some kind through or around that private property cut-off. I don't know what they have in mind, but I would love to see something like Portland's floating esplanade path. I explained that idea here: http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2012/09/18/regional-council-recommends-westlake-cycle-track-more/#comment-189667
Is there another way to get a list of these proposed stations with more details about the specific placement at each site? I'd like to know which of them are being proposed to be located on the street vs. on the sidewalk, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to tell just by looking at the maps.
I really do hope they change the baskets as they don't reallly look like they would function as a true basket and would only work with a purse not other items. I think they should switch to the type of basket they have on the Denver b-cycles. It worked great on my last business trip in Denver where I often thru loose items in it and didn't have a bag.
Also I am concerned about how far apart some of the stations are. My experience in Denver was that sometimes I would have to go 3-4 stations out from my preferred to find a docking station in the morning with openings. If this happened with the separation of our stations you would be in for a long walk and negate any time savings by taking a bike.
A bit off topic, sorry, but since you did mention B-Cycle (which has 83 stations) Who is going to be the first to complete the Tour de Pronto? https://denver.bcycle.com/About/TourdeBcycle.aspx
Yeah, especially the one lonely First Hill station. It's a slog from that one to any of the others.
Not just that it's a long way — it is in the context of "I want to go here but I need to dock somewhere else" — but you have to either cross I-5 or cross Boren and Broadway and deal with a pretty discontinuous local street grid to get to the nearest station. If you have to go dock somewhere else you're probably going downhill to there, but you'll have a steep walk back up, and that's all after making the steep climb up there for nothing.
Based on my recent experience with CitiBike in New York, simply watching which stations were full or empty in the morning and the evening, the actual problem with the system may well be the lack of spaces downtown, particularly during the non-summer months. There are a lot of racks in places where people live and very few racks where people work. In New York, at least, the racks near the midtown office buildings were all packed (as in, "no space to park") during the workday and empty at night when the bikes were in the neighborhoods. In summer, CBD bikes will circulate because tourists at the downtown hotels will use them, but during the rest of the year, they'll just languish there until it's time for the Capitol Hill residents to go home. But there appear to be only six racks in the middle of all those tall buildings. Where do you go when they're full?
Mmmmm says:
$8 a day is very expensive and I think a deterrent to casual use of the bike system, especially given the current map of stations. Why are prices in the USA so much higher than in Europe (e.g. a bit more than $2 in Paris—and $40 for a yearly pass— and $3 in London)? The cost of a bike pass needs to be basically the same as a bus pass to encourage the alternative transportation.
Hmmm says:
With respect to the price for Vélib', one might read the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9lib'#Financing
I don't know that Seattle even owns any billboards (I suspect most are privately owned), but perhaps they could give Pronto control over the parking meters on Westlake and Shilshole Avenue NW (including the authority to meter parking spaces of course) Bwahaha!
Actually, if one purchases the annual membership (and uses your own helmet) Pronto will be less expensive than the bus. Though you are probably right in your statement: "The cost of a bike pass needs to be basically the same as a bus pass to encourage the alternative transportation." Supposing Pronto could get a large number of people to sign up at $90 a MONTH (like a Metro monthly pass) then they'd probably be able to afford to expand the system to the point where it is "effective transportation". Of course there is vicious cycle there, raise the price, you get fewer users, and those you do get will of course demand service commensurate with the price, which you can't really afford with so few users. Therefore, subsidizing if with other funds might work better, Like bus/train transit is. But the "war on cars" folks won't like that. Ironic that, the "war on cars" people do have a point, they just chose not to know who the "enemy" is.
A door zone "bike lane" (that arbitrarily starts and ends without reason) can be made without removing any parking, but you can't run a bus down a 4 foot "lane" !
"We have met the enemy and he is us", the reason for a "war on cars" is to decrease congestion, so that it will be more convenient for the important people to drive their cars. (Welcome to human nature 101)
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Jonathan Callahan says:
I just wanted to comment that I am pleased the initial rollout plan seems to have taken user input from their interactive map to heart. Although I would still prefer a "neighborhoods and bike paths first" rollout, I think the suggested placement of stations within the targeted area largely makes of sense.
I will only offer a few suggestions for what I would like to see in an expansion:
Burke Gilman stations at Steven's Court, Blakely and NE 45'th Place, 40th NE and NE 52'nd Place
Gates Foundation station (or are they above riding bikes?)
Myrtle Edwards stations at the W Thomas pedestrian bridge
Westlake (parking lot) stations at the foot of the Galer pedestrian bridge, near China Harbor, FREMONT!!!
even more Burke Gilman stations strung out between the UW, Fremont and Ballard
A system like this succeeds if it helps people. It can help people most by allowing them to make short trips quickly. And it faces logistical problems doing this if stations are in an area where a single kind of trip predominates, so that bikes aren't redistributed by other random trips. It's plausible, for example, that bike share along the waterfront path might help people working at Amgen get to work, but it can only help about as many people per day as there are spaces at the station, because essentially nobody will take bikes away from that station during the morning rush.
Bike-share in Seattle is threatened less by our lack of bike paths than by our lack of truly mixed-use neighborhoods. If you ride the bus, think about bus stops that really gum up the works, where a bunch of people get off and then a bunch of people get on pretty much all day. Where does that happen? Mostly it happens in the places where we're putting bike share. It also happens in First Hill and the ID, as well as The One Bus Stop In Lower Fremont and a couple places in Ballard; First Hill and the ID are a lot closer to the rest of the system, though, so I'd say the poor coverage of those areas is a much greater omission than anywhere north of the cut. And I say that as a Fremont resident.
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How to develop victim awareness within our services and better collaboration between services ?
The European Forum for Restorative Justice, together with its partners in the Criminal Justice Platform Europe (CJPE) is organizing an international expert seminar on the implementation of the EU Victims' Directive on 23 February 2017 in Brussels.
The focus will be on Art. 25 and 26, respectively on training of professionals and lay people and cooperation between services in order to provide better support and protection to victims of crime across Europe.
The event is free of charge, but preliminary registration is required.


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Follow This Transgender Teen's Transition to Match His Identity Before Adulthood
ABC News' "Nightline" followed this teen's journey from Natalie to Nathan.
By MELIA PATRIA and ALEXA VALIENTE
• 13 min read
A Transgender Teen's Transformative Journey
Before Adulthood Before he began his transition, Nathan Jones was born a female.
Courtesy Tammy and Jim/ABC News
— -- intro: When Nathan* was a fourteen-year-old, he was like a lot of boys his age. He loved rocking out, riding his bike and sports of all kinds. But there's more to him than meets the eye.
Anatomically, Nathan is female and was originally born a little girl named Natalie.
Transgender Teen Reunites With Second Grade Counselor Who Helped Him Get Through Life
"I always remember just being different from all the other girls. You know, they would want to play with Barbies and do other girlie things, and I always wanted to play with the boys," Nathan, from Phoenix, Arizona, told "Nightline." "I always thought I was different than any of the girls, and from a young age, I was really adamant that I was a boy."
He's so adamant that at 4 years old, the pre-schooler said, "I'm a boy," and as a second grader, wrote flyers that said, "I am not a girl. I am a boy," to hand out to classmates.
Back then, his parents missed the signs.
"We really fed into society's way of saying that, you know, what does a four-year-old know?" Nathan's mother Tammy told "Nightline."
"You know, you ask a four-year-old, 'What do you want to be?' And they say, 'Superman,' … next week, it might be 'Spiderman,'" Jim, Nathan's father, told "Nightline."
They assumed Natalie was just a tomboy who preferred boy's clothing and toys. But, finally at age of 13, Natalie asked to be called Nathan, coming out to them as transgender.
"I've always felt like I've had a boy's brain," said Nathan. "And I always felt like I was trapped in this girl's body."
"If someone were to wake up in the wrong body, they would be the same way," he explained. "They'd be uncomfortable. They'd be freaking out. And that's what it's like. You just feel uncomfortable."
Tammy and Jim accepted Nathan as their son and started using male pronouns. And now with their support and help, he is one of growing number of transgender kids who are transitioning both socially and medically, all before adulthood.
"It's finally giving him what he needs," said Tammy, who said she regrets not realizing it sooner.
In 2011, they had already consulted with physicians and therapists as they prepared to launch Nathan into the first generation of transgender kids, and they agreed to let "Nightline" document the transformational journey over several years.
In going public with their story, they asked for tolerance and recognition for what the "opposite path" looks like. In the last six months, at least six transgender teens have committed suicide because they felt unsupported by parents or peers, according to news reports. In fact, a staggering 41 percent of transgender youth will attempt suicide before age 25, according to studies on the population.
"Little kids, you know, have a hard time dealing with these feelings," Dr. Marvin Belzer, who helps run the largest transgender youth clinic in the county at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, told "Nightline." "Then they get into adolescence, and their body starts going through the wrong puberty. And it just becomes a panic. And they get depressed and suicidal."
For teens in particular, those feelings are often compounded by social stigma and prejudice. "The percentages [of] how many were spat on and how many were hit, how many had to drop out of school, are horrendous," he said.
Current estimates are that one out of every thousand children is transgender, according to Belzer.
"So, if you have a school of a thousand kids," he said, "you probably have one."
Click through to follow Nathan's journey.
*Nathan is a pseudonym used at the family's request.
quicklist:1 title:Spring 2011 text:"Nightline" first met Nathan when he was 14 years old in 2011. He and his parents were preparing for his multi-phase transition.
"Five years on testosterone will get a lot of the irreversible changes that he wants, and the voice change, that won't go back, and hair growth and things like that," said Tammy. "So, then we'll go from there."
Both she and her husband Jim said they believed the transition was crucial for Nathan's happiness, because living as girl had made him a depressed and angry child.
His early preference for boyish clothing made him look ambiguous and brought a lot of ridicule. Tammy said in the fifth grade he was assaulted by a group of boys who brutally kicked him in the genitals because they were unsure if he was a boy or a girl. Concerned for his safety, she pulled him out of school and started home schooling instead. He returned to public school for junior high, but Nathan said the cruelty continued.
"People started thinking of me as, 'the weird kid' and 'the different one,'" he said. "I got taunted in the halls. People would, you know, go by and call me, 'Princess,' or, 'girlie,' or stuff like that, and it was hard."
At 14, Nathan said it was easier to take classes online, but it left him depressed and even more isolated.
"It's hard. You know, I want to be able to hang out with people, you know, go do regular teenage things. And now, it just feels like I don't have anyone to talk to," Nathan said.
He tried his best to pass as a boy, but he said his high voice and female breasts were painful reminders of his brain-body mismatch.
"Puberty was a big hard point in my life," he explained, "I felt like my body was betraying me."
Every day he wore a thick bra-like tank top to bind his breasts down and frequently hunched over.
"I want my boobs gone, I don't want them -- I never wanted them in the first place," he said.
As part of his physical transition, he had just started drugs that suspended his period, similar to an early menopause.
"Going through your period is something that's hard for a girl," he said, "but for a guy it's just completely embarrassing and wrong." media:30085933
quicklist:2 title:June 2011 text:In the future, Tammy and Jim hope Nathan can re-enter school as a male and be accepted by greater society as the gender in which he identifies. So, after three months of waiting for a hearing date, they went to court to legally change his name.
"Nathan is now officially our son. He doesn't have to have his female name any longer," Tammy said.
"I'm going to remember this day as one of the greatest days of my life," Nathan said, outside the courthouse.
Afterwards, his family held a celebration complete with a cake that said, "It's a boy," and Tammy sent out birth announcement cards as a way of letting friends and family know.
"I just say, 'Help us in accepting and loving and welcoming our son, and then as of this date, she will no longer be she," Tammy said, displaying the card.
While some critics believe transitioning youth before adulthood is a mistake because they might change their minds, Nathan said he felt male his entire life and did not think he would ever regret any part of his transition.
"This is something I'm going forward with," he said, "and it's something that I've really wanted."
According to Dr. Belzer, children under 11 years old do sometimes remit on their transgender feelings, but he said, after 12 years old those feelings are usually set. "The important thing is that you support them and give them a loving environment," Belzer said, "letting them know, should their feelings persist, there are options to change, if they want to."
Transgender feelings are not a choice, Belzer said, citing brain and genetic differences that are currently under research. And, considering the difficulties of transitioning, as well as the stigma, he said, "It's clear that these people would not choose to have to go through this life." media:30085190
quicklist:3 title:May to July 2011 text:Throughout the summer, Nathan saw an endocrinologist in preparation for cross-gender hormone treatment. At home, he created a paper chain to countdown the days to his first shot of testosterone.
"When I get down to one, it's gonna be one of the happiest days of my life," he said.
"To have that coursing through his veins, is just what's going to be making him happy," said Tammy.
In July, he got his first shot. Over time, the testosterone will masculinize his body. His voice will lower, and he will develop more body hair and muscle mass. His breasts will shrink some, and his ovaries and uterus will go dormant. To maintain the effects, he will have to inject the hormone every two weeks for the rest of his life. There are also controversial, irreversible side effects, including potential infertility.
"Nightline" asked Jim and Tammy what they would say to critics who might say "Don't mess with nature," and 'What if he changes his mind?" Jim responded, "You can look at it that way, but you can look at it this way, too: would you rather have a happy kid or would you rather have a dead kid?"
Jim said, for him, the answer was clear.
Because hormonal treatment is relatively new for transgender children, some critics caution the long-term impacts are not completely known. "There is some truth to that matter," said Dr. Belzer. "Except in medicine, we have to weigh the risks of doing nothing…the risks of doing nothing are actually pretty horrendous."
"If we can help them pass in life, their life is just going to be so much easier," Belzer explained, "They're not going to have the prejudice and stigma."
After his first testosterone shot, Nathan went to a Trans support group that his mother helped him find. Though technically an adults group, they welcomed the teenager and helped him celebrate with Testosterone-themed cupcakes. media:30088459
quicklist:4 title:May 2012 text:A year later, Nathan's parents made the bold decision to allow him, at age 15, to get a double mastectomy to remove his breasts; also known as "top surgery."
"My parents were [originally] thinking, you can have that when you're 18. From there it sort of evolved to, okay we need this now," said Nathan.
"When I first started doing this type of surgery, I didn't see any patients who were minors," said Dr. Michael Brownstein, the reconstructive surgeon who performed the procedure. "And now I see a respectable number."
He said minors like Nathan need permission from both parents, and that Nathan had letters of referral that indicated he was capable of making the decision and that the procedure was appropriate for him.
"I think ... Nathan is going to be quite pleased," said Dr. Brownstein.
Though the procedure costs almost $10,000, not covered by insurance, Tammy said it was worth the financial sacrifice. media:30085000
quicklist:5 title:September 2012 text:Several months later, Nathan's chest had healed from the top surgery, and he felt comfortable enough to go for a swim for the first time in years.
"It's been forever since I've been at a pool and felt comfortable being in a pool with my shirt off, so I mean, I can't even describe the feeling," he said.
"It's amazing," added Tammy. "This is exactly why, you know, we wanted to do the top surgery. We wanted him to be able to do things that kids do, and that is what he is doing now."
"To see him smile again and be comfortable in his own skin, that's the best," said Jim.
When he started driving, Nathan also got a driver's license with his new name and gender listed as male.
"New name, new gender, new everything really," he said. media:30085143
quicklist:6 title:June 2014 text:Three years after beginning his transition, Nathan, 17, is a visibly masculine, confident young man. He returned to a large public high school and graduated, wearing the blue cap and gown designated for senior boys.
"This is how I dreamed it would happen," he said. "I'm graduating as a boy, not as a girl like I was afraid of."
Before he transitioned, he said it hurt to look in the mirror, but now he could do that proudly. "This is the way I've always wanted to look, and this is the way I've always imagined myself being," he said.
"If we didn't transition for sure, we wouldn't either have a child or he would be a very angry person," Tammy said. "We had a really angry girl. The more counseling we got and the closer we got to things, we saw this child blossom."
"I know if I had to live as a girl now… I would most likely be very depressed," said Nathan. "Hopefully not, but I most likely would have tried to kill myself."
Looking back, he said he was grateful for his parent's support and he also shared a powerful memory of a school counselor whose indelible words comforted him for over a decade.
Her name was Amy Spletter and Nathan, then Natalie, was sent to her office in the second grade because he had been telling his classmates he was a boy.
"I remember she sat me down in her office and she said to me, 'There's other people like you and you're not alone,'" said Nathan. "So, I always thought that was the most profound piece of advice ever and it kept me going from second grade on."
He had lost contact with her, but "Nightline" tracked her down and soon Nathan was on her doorstep to see her and thank her after all those years.
"Look at you! Oh, my gosh!" exclaimed Amy, opening the front door with tears in her eyes. "Oh, that's my wish and my dream come true," she said, embracing Nathan.
"You sat me down and you just told me that there were other people like me," he told her. "I never heard that before… I thought I was the only one."
"It has kept me going all these years," he continued. "Just the fact that you said that to me meant so much."
Amy said she could never forget him either and that in her twenty-year career, she kept only one file: Natalie/Nathan's. She took it out to show him, and inside were the flyers he had made in the second grade that declared, 'I am not a girl,' 'I am a boy'.
"I couldn't do anything big," explained Amy, "but I could be there every day when Natalie needed to talk."
Nathan said he doesn't want another transgender kid to have to go through life thinking they're different or wrong. "They need that one person that says, 'You-- you're all right'," he said. "That's what matters, is just having one person."
In his case, he had three: his caring parents and a counselor who made all the difference. media:30087569

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Mussina, Yanks blank Blue Jays
NEW YORK -- Mike Mussina gave the New York Yankees just what they needed, allowing three hits in eight sharp innings to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 Tuesday night for the best start in franchise history.
Jorge Posada homered and Bernie Williams had three hits and two RBIs for the Yankees, who have won 11 of 13 to open the season for the first time.
Following a 10-9 victory Monday night, when New York used five relievers for 42/3 innings, manager Joe Torre was counting on a long outing from Mussina (3-0).
He provided exactly that, striking out nine and beating the Blue Jays for the seventh straight time since joining the Yankees.
New York is 5-0 against the Blue Jays this season, scoring 37 runs to outslug them in the first four wins. This time, the Yankees relied on Mussina's pitching.
Coming off a 120-pitch effort in a 2-1 win last Wednesday against Minnesota, Mussina looked as if he might not last long at the start.
He threw 17 pitches to the first two batters, walking No. 2 hitter Frank Catalanotto on nine pitches. Then, with a 2-1 count on Vernon Wells, Mussina induced an easy double-play grounder to get out of the inning.
He retired 18 of the next 19 batters -- allowing only a clean line-drive single to right by Catalanotto with one out in the fourth -- before Eric Hinske and Greg Myers singled with one out in the eighth.
CLEVELAND -- Matt Lawton hit a three-run homer to help rookie Jason Davis and Cleveland defeat Baltimore.
Orioles starter Omar Daal later was ejected for hitting Lawton in the back with a pitch. Lawton simply picked up the ball and good-naturedly flipped it back to the left-hander.
By then, the Indians had overcome a 2-0 deficit to lead 6-3.
Davis (1-2) allowed three runs and eight hits over seven innings in his second career win. The 6-foot-6 right-hander had a 1.42 ERA in spring training, but was hit hard and had a 12.86 ERA in his first two starts.
Davis struck out only one, but threw 65 of 87 pitches for strikes.
Milton Bradley and Shane Spencer had three hits each for Cleveland, which was hitless over the first three innings.
The Indians got five hits in a four-run fourth inning off Daal (0-2), capped by Lawton's second homer.
Bradley began the rally with a single to extend his season-opening hitting streak to 13 games -- longest by an Indians player since Toby Harrah hit in 14 straight to open 1982.
One out later, Ellis Burks doubled in Bradley to make it 2-1.
Spencer singled and Lawton drove a 2-2 pitch over the right-field fence for a 4-2 lead.
Jerry Hairston hit his first homer with two outs in the fifth to bring Baltimore within 4-3.
Bradley hit a one-out double and took third on an infield single by Omar Vizquel. Burks singled in Bradley, and Spencer followed with an RBI double to make it 6-3.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Ryan Christenson had a two-run double hours after being called up from the minors, and Einar Diaz added a two-run single in a five-run fourth inning as Texas beat Anaheim.
Rookie Colby Lewis (2-0) fell behind 2-0 after three innings, then took advantage of the Rangers' big fourth, allowing three runs and seven hits over six innings.
Lewis, who walked eight over 3 2-3 innings against Oakland in his previous start, walked four and struck out two.
The Rangers' bullpen took over in the seventh, and reliever Aaron Fultz gave up a leadoff homer to Darrin Erstad to make it 5-4. But Fultz and Ugueth Urbina, who got the final four outs for his fifth save in as many chances -- combined to allow one hit over the final 2 2-3 shutout innings.


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Südbrookmerland är en kommun i det tyska distriktet Aurich i det historiska landskapet Ostfriesland i delstaten Niedersachsen. Kommunen är belägen mellan städerna Aurich och Emden och har cirka  invånare.

Geografi
Kommunen ligger inom ett tidigare myrområde inom landskapstypen geest. Inom kommunen finns flera insjöar, bland annat Grosses Meer och Sandwater. Südbrookmerland gränsar till kommunerna Brookmerland, Grossheide, Aurich, Ihlow och Hinte i distriktet Aurich samt till staden Emden.

Historia
Kommunen ligger i det historiska området Brookmerland.
Den nuvarande kommunen bildades i juli 1972 inom ramen för en kommunreform genom att tio tidigare självständiga kommuner slogs samman.

Ett av de mest kända föremålen som har hittats i området är en guldskiva från Moordorf. Skivan är från bronsåldern (omkring 1500 f.Kr.)

Südbrookmerland bildade under tidig medeltid en naturlig gräns mellan de områden som behärskades av biskopen av Münster och ärkebiskopen av Bremen. Under medeltiden var området en del av det historiska området Brokmerland. Tre romanska kyrkor från 1200-talet finns kvar i dag. Kyrkorna byggdes ofta på en så kallad terp, det vill säga en konstgjord kulle som skulle skydda från översvämningar från havet, bland annat kyrkan i Wiegboldsbur och St. Victor-kyrkan i Victorbur.

På 1300- och 1400-talen hade den ostfriesiska hövdingafamiljen tom Brok en borg i Oldeborg. Därifrån spred sig deras makt och lade därmed grundstenen till Ostfrieslands politiska enhet. Den siste hövdingen av familjen tom Brok, Ocko II, förlorade i oktober 1427 ett slag norr om Oldeborg mot rivalen Focko Ukena. Därefter övertogs makten i Ostfriesland av familjen Cirksena från Greetsiel år 1464.

Vid denna tid delades Brookmerland upp i två delar. I samband med att familjen Cirksena dog ut tog Preussen över makten i Ostfriesland och därmed även i Brookmerland. Under den preussiska tiden anlades ett flertal så kallade fehnkolonier på order av kung Fredrik den store. År 1767 anlades Moordorf, år 1770 Moorhusen och år 1771 Münkeboe. Nybyggarna i området levde i svår fattigdom. Myrmuseet i Moordorf visar hur livet gestaltade sig under denna tid.

Under Napoleonkrigen var området en tid under fransk förvaltning. Brookmerland tillhörde Arrondissement Aurich, först som en del av det holländska Oost-Vriesland och därefter som en del av det franska l'Ems-Oriental (Östra Ems). Efter Wienkongressen blev Brookmerland en del av kungariket Hannover, vilket bland annat innebar nya förändringar av kommungränserna.

Under tredje riket fanns ett koncentrationsläger i Engerhafe.

Näringsliv
Südbrookmerland präglas, liksom flertalet andra ostfriesiska kommuner, av jordbruk och turism. Turismen är främst koncentrerad kring insjön Grosses Meer som är den fjärde största sjön i Niedersachsen. Inom jordbruket dominerar mjölkproduktionen.

Vid Georgsheil finns industrier. Bland annat tillverkar företaget Enercon vindkraftverk där. Genom kommunen går bland annat riksväg 72.

Orter i Südbrookmerlands kommun
Bedekaspel (488 invånare 2007)
Forlitz-Blaukirchen (211)
Moordorf (6 416)
Moorhusen (1 342)
Münkeboe (1 776)
Oldeborg (1 667)
Theene (1 367)
Uthwerdum (1 356)
Victorbur, kommunens huvudort (3 990)
Wiegboldsbur (550)

Referenser

Kommuner och städer i Landkreis Aurich
Ostfriesland

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The photos are in. Winners of the Tweet us Your Money Face Contest.
In celebration of last week's Credit Education Week Canada (CEWC), we challenged folks to snap selfies and enter the photos in the Tweet Us Your Money Face Contest for cash prizes. The idea was to get people to capture expressions showing feelings towards money and financial planning. We received lots of fun, if not bizarre, images. Five people are sharing prizes of $100 to $25. Here are the winning entries.
Kristy Millard of Etobicoke, Ontario. Prize: $100.
Erika Rowe of Calgary, Alberta. Prize: $25.


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Le théâtre du Chaudron est un théâtre créé à l'automne 1972 par Tanith Noble qui a débuté en 1969 au sein du Bread and Puppet Theatre de New York, l'Atelier du Chaudron devient en 1992 le Théâtre du Chaudron, un théâtre d'accueil dont la programmation s'articule essentiellement autour de projets mis en scène par des femmes et des projets circassiens et depuis 2011 une programmation principalement dédiée à la danse contemporaine. Il est installé à La Cartoucherie du bois de Vincennes à Paris.

La direction a été assurée par Anne-Marie Choisne jusqu'en 2011 avec la nomination de la chorégraphe Carolyn Carlson.

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The disease has been contagious and spreading to even all the civil sectors such as Electricity Boards, Railways and Telecom too. Even the private sector is not sacrosanct and many know about it. We heard few months ago BMEL scam of Tetra trucks for army. BMEL would have by now indigenized Tetra trucks. If that couldn't Tata Motors or M&M would have done it. That is the reason that the country's capital industry couldn't reach the globally competitive scale. The nation will have to rethink the ways and means to correct the situation.
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1. We are Sent: This means that we are a Missional Church.
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With only four weeks to train, I only built back up to running 4 miles so I was a wee bit nervous about completing the 6.2 mile race. But I knew that even if I had to walk across the finish line, I'd finish. My goal was to finish in 1 hour, 20 minutes (13 minute/mile average).
The morning of Sunday 3/6 I woke up early to a nice little rain storm. I wasn't too nervous since I've run in the rain before and I was hoping it'd let up a bit. I showed up to the starting line to register, get my race tag, and warm-up.
Because of the rain, for the half hour before the start time there weren't many people there. And, since I was running a race that was put on by a local running club that was open to the public, the majority of the people there looked like professional runners. I was getting more and more nervous by the minute, afraid that I would get left behind in the dust and be the last person by a long shot to cross the finish line. As the gun went off, all I could think was "Well, here goes nothing".
I want to sign up for another race in the next couple of months to help keep my running up–who's with me?? 😉 I might do the Bay to Breakers 12k on May 15th–it's the centennial for the race so it'll be quite the show!


Hate Speech, Free Speech — Does Facebook Know the Difference?
This morning, The New York Times launched a clever crowdsourcing campaign to help determine whether or not six "deeply insulting" statements should qualify as hate speech on Facebook. As of this year, Facebook employs 7,500 to parse free speech from hate speech. But does it know the difference?
In June, ProPublica posted the hate speech rules Facebook uses to train its reviewers. It later came under fire for prioritizing white men over Black children in the screening process, prompting it to change its policy to cover age as a protected category. Some question the maneuver's sincerity.
And while Facebook considers "white men are assholes" hate speech, saying "poor black people should still sit at the back of the bus" is okay.
One ProPublica reader says, "The idea of censorship of social media just feels like a slippery slope. When some humans are setting a rubric for other humans, however thoughtful and logical it may seem, it makes free speech meaningless." Another says, "They protect based on gender identity? Tell that to their 'real name' policy enforcers." ProPublica wants users to report hate speech through its Facebook page.


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Q: how to get permissions to post message on facebook wall for testing purpose? I would just like to test posting messages on my facebook wall, I created an app and a test app, but when I login it says "this app cannot post on facebook" - do I already have to request those permissions even if I would just like to test it?
Under Status & Review I found "approved items" - I added publish pages but it asks me questions which I can't answer because the app is clearly not working yet so I doubt it will get approved.

A: You don't need to get it approved. You can ask anyone that have a role on the app (admins, developers and testers) for any permission even if it is not approved

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Q: How do I reduce the granularity of locking while maintaining thread safety? I have a simple, managed group of Stacks that need to be accessed in a thread-safe manner. My first implementation is working correctly but uses synchronized methods for all access, ie. locking is at the most coarse level. I'd like to make locking as granular as possible but I'm unsure of the best way to go about it.
Here's the basics of my Stack manager class (with some details elided for brevity):
public class StackManager {
    private final Map<String, Deque<String>> myStacks;
    public StackManager() {
        myStacks = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Deque<String>>();
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        myStacks.put(name, new ConcurrentLinkedDeque<String>());
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        if (!myStacks.containsKey(name)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
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        myStacks.remove(name);
    }
    public synchronized void push(String stack, String payload) {
        if (!myStacks.containsKey(stack)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }
        myStacks.get(stack).push(payload);
    }
    public synchronized String pop(String stack) {
        if (!myStacks.containsKey(stack)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
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        return myStacks.get(stack).pop();
    }
}

The stack-level methods (addStack(), removeStack()) are not used that often. However I'd like to know if their level of locking can be reduced. For example, if these methods were unsynchronized and established a lock on myStacks would this reduce contention? For example,
    public void addStack(String name) {
        synchronized(myStacks) {
            if (myStacks.containsKey(name)) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException();
            }
            myStacks.put(name, new ConcurrentLinkedDeque<String>());
        }
    }

The per-stack methods (push(), pop()) are where I feel the most gains can be made. I'd like to achieve per-stack locking if I could. That is, only lock the single stack within the stack manager that is being operated on. However I cannot see a good way to do this. Any suggestions?
While we're here, is it necessary to use the concurrent implementations of both Map and Deque?

A: Both data structures are thread safe. So, every isolated operation on the is thread safe.
The problem is performing more than one operation when there's a dependency between them.
In your case, checking for existance must be atomic with the actual operation to avoid race conditions.
To add a new stack, you can use the method putIfAbsent, which is atomic and not synchronized.
To remove a stack, you don't need to check for existance. If you want to know whether it existed, just return remove method return value. If it's null, it didn't exist.
To perform push and pop, you just have to get the stack first and assign to a local variable. If it's null, it didn't exist. If it's nonnull, you can safely push or pop.
The attribute myStacks must be either final or volatile to be thread safe.
Now you don't need any synchronization. And I would choose a solution without exceptions. Only to add a new stack it seems more necessary. If it can happen in a correct program, it should be a checked exception. Runtime exception is more suitable when it is supposed to be a bug.
Oh, and triplecheck and test it, as concurrent programming is tricky.


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The government of Lagos state in Nigeria is set to establish a forensic lab and has acquired five hectares of land at a beach in Badagry for the project, which is designed to assist Nigerian police with criminal investigations.
Announcing the project yesterday in Lagos, Adebiyi Mabadeje, Lagos state's commissioner for science and technology, said once opened the facility will serve the entire continent.
He said an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is currently in progress at the site and the project will be driven by public-private partnership.
"Considering the priority placed on the security of lives and properties of Lagosians, the state government is working on the establishment of a forensic science laboratory with a view to complement law enforcement, criminal investigation and judicial system of Lagos, Nigeria in general and West Africa as a whole," Mabadeje said.
He said the state government is to deploy 1,000 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to complement the already installed 1,000 CCTVs across the state to enhance security in the state – especially in intelligence gathering and surveillance.
He said the state is forging several collaborations in the area of ICT with the involvement of the private sector. These he said include a statewide broadband service, an innovation agency for incubation, adoption of a US$80 million worked-radio/surveillance camera network and e-learning systems infrastructure to support computer-based examinations.


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Klaus W. Sporer (* 1939 in Nürnberg; † 14. Juli 2020 in Ingolstadt) war ein deutscher Maler, Musiker, Komponist und Lyriker.

Werdegang
Klaus Sporer studierte von 1958 bis 1962 an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik München. Er nahm Modellierunterricht bei Franz Rindfleisch. Er lehrte von 1964 bis 1994 als Gymnasiallehrer für Musik und als Seminarlehrer für Pädagogik am Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium. In den 1970er und 1980er Jahren fuhr Sporer regelmäßig mit befreundeten Malern, wie Pius Eichlinger in die Provence. Klaus Sporer war befreundet mit Rudolf Ortner und Bill Magnum. Er war Konzertmeister des Ingolstädter Kammerorchesters und Gründungsmitglied der Simon-Mayr-Gesellschaft und der Städtischen Sing- und Musikschule.

Ausstellungen
 1978: Neue Galerie, Ingolstadt
 1978: Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem
 1979: Nürnberg, ausgerichtet von der Galerie v. Abercron, München
 1979: Carrara mit Franz Rindfleisch, Rudolf Ackermann und Stefan Pfättisch
 1981: Athesia-Galerie, Brixen
 1989: Städtische Galerie im Theater, Ingolstadt
 1989: Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt
 1994: Herzogskasten, Ingolstadt
 1999: Städtische Galerie Harderbastei, Ingolstadt
 2001: Galerie am Hauptplatz, Fürstenfeldbruck
 2004: Stadttheater, Ingolstadt
 2009: Städtische Galerie im Theater, Ingolstadt (Verleihung des Kunstpreis der Stadt Ingolstadt)
 2013: Fleißerhaus, Ingolstadt
 2019: Städtische Galerie Harderbastei, Ingolstadt
 2019: Serenade für drei Violen – Städtische Galerie im Theater, Ingolstadt

Preise
 2008: Kunstpreis der Stadt Ingolstadt

Filmografie
 2013: Der Maler und Grafiker Klaus W. Sporer
 2014: Malerei von Klaus W. Sporer
 2021: Klaus W. Sporer: Leidensweg

Bücher
 Klaus W. Sporer. Neue Arbeiten 87–89. Tengler Druck GmbH, Ingolstadt 1989
 Zeitblende. Gedichte. Signiert. Zeichnungen. Ingolstadt 1994 mit einer Einführung von Siegfried Hofmann
 Klaus W. Sporer. Werke 1994–1999. Tengler Druck GmbH, Ingolstadt 1999
 Streusalz. Tengler Druck GmbH, Ingolstadt 2002
 Arabesken. Tengler Druck GmbH, Ingolstadt 2004

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Einzelnachweise

Absolvent der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Künstler (Ingolstadt)
Person (Ingolstadt)
Person (Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium)
Deutscher
Geboren 1939
Gestorben 2020
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IT'S officially the off-season for Sean Avery. The oft-penalized puckster, who was benched by the Rangers for Game 5 of their seven-game defeat to the Caps, was smoking cigarettes the other night with Catherine Keener and a gaggle of groupies in the Meatpacking District on his way to Daphne Guinness' birthday party for photographer Steve Klein at the new Standard Hotel. "He was wearing a tight black shirt, thick glasses and wide-legged swishy black pants," laughs a spy. "He looked ridiculous." Also in attendance at the party were Madonna and boy toy Jesus Luz, Ingrid Sischy, andAvery's ex Kelly Klein.
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    public KeyPairGeneratorTestDSA() {
        super("DSA", new SignatureHelper("DSA"));
    }

}


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#19forthe19th: Women Abolitionists
Posted byBeth Bullock Nevarez June 19, 2019 February 3, 2020 Posted inArchives, Collections, Digital History, Historic Preservation, History, Women Authors, Women's HistoryTags:abolition, african american history, History, women, Women's History, womenabolitionists
Fittingly, the US National Archives Instagram Challenge in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment has assigned the theme of Women Abolitionists to fall on June 19th, Juneteenth, the day that remaining enslaved people were emancipated in the state of Texas in 1865 after the end of the Civil War. The celebration of freedom on Juneteenth has spread across the United States.
The long road to freedom and the abolition of slavery was paved by many people working towards that goal, including men and women, black and white, Northerners & Southerners.
Today I want to focus on a few women abolitionists and their roles in the movement.
Many African American abolitionists were former slaves, who had either gained freedom through "official" means (were emancipated by those who enslaved them) or had escaped slavery. Free blacks in the north were often part of the abolitionist movement as well.
Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813. She is most well-known as the author of a series of newspaper articles later turned book entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl which was a memoir of her life in slavery. The book was published in 1861 and is one of the earliest accounts of the struggles women especially faced when enslaved including sexual harassment and abuse and roles as enslaved mothers without legal rights to their own children. Harriet escaped into hiding in 1835 and then in 1842 was able to flee to the North. She became involved in the American Anti-Slavery Society, giving talks to support the cause and raise money. Her later memoir was also used to raise awareness, encourage the Civil War to be rightfully seen as a war against slavery by Union backers, and to especially appeal to white women by focusing on how slavery impacted black women's ability to remain chaste and to be good mothers. During and after the war, Jacobs worked with fleeing refugees, and former slaves helping to provide food, shelter, etc. in the Washington, D.C. area where she lived the rest of her life.
Whites who were involved in the abolitionist movement were often members of liberal religious groups, such as the Quakers, which saw all souls as equal. White women, especially those of middle and upper classes had more ability to be involved in the movement than black women owing to being allowed more education, more freedom of movement, and access to resources and financing that allowed them to concentrate their time on the effort. Many northern abolitionists are well known such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and many went on to also be prominent in the women's suffrage movement.
The false-bottom wagon is now kept at Mendenhall Homeplace.
Southern white women abolitionists are less often spoken about. One such woman was Abigail Stanley. She and her husband, who were part of a Quaker community in Guilford County, made their home part of the Underground Railroad and owned a wagon with a false bottom that they would use to help enslaved people escape. When many Quakers left the state as the debate over slavery grew increasingly heated, Abigail and her husband Joshua remained in North Carolina. Abigail petitioned the North Carolina legislature in 1838 to abolish slavery and worked to that end through her participation in the Underground Railroad and her writings.
Check out the hashtag #19forthe19th and #rightfullyhers to see more posts about women abolitionists and to follow along with the US National Archives challenge.
The full text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is available through the University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South here: https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html
Published by Beth Bullock Nevarez
I am a historical consultant, offering research, collections care, and outreach services to museums, businesses, and other organizations. I graduated with a Master's Degree in public history from UNC Wilmington in 2015. I am also an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill, where I majored in History with a concentration in American History and minored in Archaeology and Spanish. I write about all things history including my work in the field and all things relating to presenting the past to a public audience. I also love coffee, baking, books, sitcoms, and 90's rom-coms. I live in my native eastern North Carolina with my husband and our dog Dia.	View more posts
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Marriage after age 50 is a wonderful thing, but it has some financial challenges, too. There is plenty to take into account, and plenty of money myths, if you plan to tie the knot in midlife — especially if your spouse-to-be has children from a first marriage.
Actually, if you've been married before and have children from a previous relationship, a prenuptial agreement is essential to ensuring that property will pass to children from the prior marriage, says Christine M. Searle, certified internal auditor and owner of Searle Business Solutions in Arlington, Va.
And, she says, even if you're getting married for the first time, chances are you've accumulated significant assets by this point in your life (and perhaps even some debt). So you'll need to plan how to handle those if, sadly, this marriage doesn't work out.
Estate planning is essential if you have children from an earlier marriage. Otherwise, your entire estate could pass to your new spouse.
After 50, the focus of a prenuptial agreement should be on protecting your children and grandchildren. "The context of a prenuptial should be how to do we provide together for our extended families," says Carla Dearing, CEO of Sum 180.
For instance, in the United States, states can let a surviving spouse claim his or her "elective share" in place of what was left in the decedent's will. A prenup allows your spouse to waive the elective share so you won't need to fear your estate plan will be challenged by your surviving spouse, says Philadelphia divorce lawyer Linda A Kerns.
Similarly, many states automatically give spouses some rights to life insurance or retirement benefits, but a prenup would let your spouse give up their rights to them. Kerns says that if both spouses have substantial investments, they might want each of their own children to be the beneficiaries.
Estate planning is essential if you have children from an earlier marriage, Kerns says. Otherwise, your entire estate could pass to your new spouse and not to your own children.
Kerns recommends having frank conversations about your estate planning and prenup with your adult children and your new spouse. Grown kids are sometimes wary of their parent getting remarried because they are concerned about how it will affect their inheritance, Kerns notes.
If you have concerns about providing for a new spouse and children from a previous marriage, you can get creative with your estate planning, says Kelley C. Long, CPA, a Chicago financial planner with Financial Finesse. One of her clients created a formula for how much money he wanted his new wife to have when he died; the amount fluctuated based on their wealth and age. He also had regular meetings with his new spouse and his children to discuss how much each could expect to receive when he was gone.
The older we get, the more set we are in the way we spend and save money, says Kerns. So it becomes increasingly more challenging to combine households and money.
Before getting married, couples should decide: Will we have separate or joint accounts? Will one of us sell our current home? Will we change the deed to a house?
It's not uncommon for one spouse to sell a house and move into the other's, says Kerns. But before doing this, she advises, be clear about whether the one keeping the home will add the other's name to the deed. That's especially important if you plan to use money from the sale of one house to renovate the other one. Otherwise, Kern says, the spouse whose home is sold will spend money on a house he or she doesn't own and will have nothing to show for it.
Instead of automatically selling a house, Long suggests considering renting it out and using the rent money to pay for any renovations on the home you move into.
In fact, debt can be a significant issue in second marriages, says Dearing. That's why spouses should be upfront about how much they owe before marrying so they can decide together how they'll handle debt that's still on the books. It's a good idea for each person to see the other's credit report, too.
Dearing recalls a 69-year-old client who had a sufficient retirement income and a comfortable life but thousands of dollars of credit card debt, too. "If something happened to him, his retirement wouldn't go to his second wife, but all his debts would," she says. Dearing recommended he buy a life insurance policy that would, after he died, provide enough money to pay off his debts and get their son through college.
Well, not always. It depends on your personal and financial situations. For instance, a spouse receiving alimony or child support from a first marriage can't assume that will continue after remarrying, Kerns says.
Getting married can also reduce your Social Security benefits, Long notes — especially if you didn't work while you were married the first time and can claim spousal benefits that are significantly higher than your own Social Security benefits. For instance, if you were married at least 10 years, are at least 62 and are currently not married, you can collect a spousal benefit equal to half your spouse's Social Security benefit, even if your ex-spouse is remarried. In addition, Long says, an ill partner on Medicaid might want to remain unmarried so he or she can continue to qualify for that federal program. A combined marital income might be too high for your partner to qualify for Medicaid.
Without an advance health directive that spells out your wishes regarding end-of-life care, there's no guarantee your new spouse will be able to make medical decisions for you or tell your doctor what treatment you'd prefer.
"You need to be very clear in writing what your wishes are so your new spouse and your adult children don't end up at odds over your care," Long says. Although your spouse is generally who your physician would look to for information about this, it can't be assumed that your spouse will make such decisions, she says.
Long recommends talking with your new spouse and your adult children so they know your wishes and setting up an advance health care directive at Mydirectives.com. File it electronically so your physicians will have easy access to this key document.