Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. He is the son of Tenzing Norgay the first man to climb Mount Everest. In his illustrated presentation, Touching My Father's Soul – An Odyssey to the Top of Everest, Jamling brings to life a profound and compelling adventure, interweaving the lives of a family, a mountain and a people, and of climbers facing nearly insurmountable obstacles. It is a story of disaster, triumph, professionalism and the resilience of the human spirit.
Not only did Jamling Tenzing Norgay make it to the top of the world's most forbidding mountain – described by the Sherpa people as "The Mother Goddess of the World" – but he also helped capture it all on film. As the Star of Director David Breashears Imax film Everest, Norgay helped to portray not only the physical challenges of the Mountain, but also the mental and spiritual challenges faced by the climbers.
Described as the "Titanic of Documentaries," Everest has played to sold out audiences across the country, capturing for the first time on large format film the breath-taking view from Everest's summit. Filmed during the same spring that nine people on Everest died in a sudden storm, it depicts the selflessness exhibited by Norgay and his companions in risking their own lives to save their fellow climbers.
While filming on the mountain, Jamling thought often about his father, trying to imagine what he had gone through in the early days. " It was much harder then, " Norgay said. " There was no route; he and (Hillary) didn't even know if the summit was achievable. Many had failed.
On his summit day, as the younger Norgay approached "The Balcony" (at 27,000 feet Hillary 's and his father's last camp), Norgay looked for remnants –but of course, there was nothing but snow and ice. " I never felt so strong in my life. It was as if my father's spirit was with me," he says, describing his conditions as he inched closer to the top. " Just when I thought I'd never get there, I saw Ed Viesturs coming down and he said, 'Hey, it's right there'".
Jamling was born on April 23, 1965, in Darjeeling, India, the fourth of six children. By age six, he had already shown a penchant for peaks, scaling mountains in Sikkim with his dad.
Jamling quickly became his father's right hand man on climbs that the elder led for the Himalayan Mountain Institute. But when he shared hopes with Tenzing of someday climbing Everest, his dad expressed disappointment. "My father told us he had become a mountaineer so we wouldn't have to," says Jamling of the dangerous, age-old profession many native Sherpa people undertake to make ends meet. Still, Tenzing never actively discouraged his son from pursuing the dream.
In 1985, Jamling moved to the U.S. to attend Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where he studied Business Administration and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While there, he worked as a black-belt instructor in karate and Tae Kwon Do.
He now personally guides Treks and Trekking peaks in Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal.
When he is not guiding he spend a lot of time traveling around the world doing lectures as a motivational speaker to a variety of Groups, Corporations and Universities. Today Norgay runs his adventure travel company "Tenzing Norgay Adventures" in Darjeeling, India and is often asked whether there are more big summits in his future. "I promised my wife that after Everest, I would never climb again," says Norgay." I will not break my word.
Jamling brings to life a profound and compelling adventure, interweaving the lives of a family, a mountain and a people, and of climbers facing nearly insurmountable obstacles. It is a story of disaster, triumph, professionalism and the resilience of the human spirit. Clearly, it takes an unusual level of aspiration to simply decide to attempt Everest. To reach the summit and return safely to base camp demands extraordinary commitment and perseverance. On Everest, the stakes are high: Only one climber in seven who attempt it reaches the top. Of every five who do reach the summit,one dies trying.
The challenges are nearly overwhelming. Even veteran climbers face hypoxia (lack of oxygen — and the reduction in strength that accompanies it), altitude sickness, intestinal sickness, severe weight loss, homesickness, brutal weather conditions, recalcitrant porters, strained international group dynamic (11 teams crowded onto the mountain in 1996), and "objective dangers" such as being crushed by apartment-sized blocks of ice that litter the Khumbu Icefall, a glacier in motion.
Planning an Everest assault begins with piecing together a strategic puzzle: the pyramid of support whose foundation is balanced on the edge of an ominous, shifting glacier at 18,000 feet. Two tons of food, cooking fuel, supplemental oxygen, rope, hardware, tents — all must be carefully packed and dispatched in stages to the four high camps on the mountain. The leaders must exercise judgment, and in this case they were obliged to make sure that Sumiyo would return home safely, to have a future chance for the summit.
Within the "death zone" above 26,000 feet, a teammate or other climber in trouble puts all nearby climbers at risk. Judgment calls are difficult, and at this elevation they are downright arduous.
in the past half century — and how it hasn't.
As Jamling found on Everest, in this captivating program we find more than personal triumph and family honor. We discover that climbing this mountain safely requires leadership, planning, confidence, commitment, apprenticeship, experience, humility -- all in a measured balance. For each of these attributes, Jamling provides examples of how they were used to further his team's effort, how they contributed to their safety, success and response to the tragedy.
In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 1953. Jamling Norgay interweaves the story of his own ascent during the infamous May 1996 Mount Everest disaster with little-known stories from his father's historic climb and the spiritual life of the Sherpas, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few -- even many who have made it to the top -- have ever seen.
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King of the hill in a government building.
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Consulate - King of the hill in a government building.
This is my first koth map. My other larger-scale projects have been canned because I lost my sense of direction with the maps, so I decided to make a smaller, simpler map to gauge my skills as a mapper.
koth_consulate takes place in a government building and is inspired by the level "Consulate" from the video game adaptation of From Russia With Love.
Digaag Wa Riz, Sep 9, 2015
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You said in chat that you were worried this map was too cramped, so out of curiosity I had a look for myself.
First thought: yes, it is very cramped. In fact a lot of the map is made up of tight corridors, which I can't see as being fun to play in. This is perhaps the most open part of the map. Not only that but there aren't any good sniper spots as far as I can see. The mid has a few high-up spots, but they're all easily flanked and none of them give a good view of the control point (which, in my opinion, is too well covered, but that might just be me).
My other main issue with this map is that I have no idea where I'm supposed to go. It feels like a maze. There are no signs and all the corridors look the same, and I only seem to be able to reach the control point by dumb luck. Plus there's no colour whatsoever (besides the orange blocks by the point) - everything's just white and grey, so it's impossible to tell when I'm on Blue's side or Red's side of the map (or where I am generally), and the spawns aren't clearly labelled so it's entirely possible to bumble into the enemy team's spawn exits by accident. It's also generally depressing as fuck.
Other thoughts: besides this health kit, I couldn't find any health or ammo pickups in this map. I might not have looked hard enough though. Also these stairs are unclipped.
I will say though, I love the look of this.
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Muddy, Sep 9, 2015
The tight corridors are a consequence of me trying to cut down sightlines. I seem to have a phobia of sightlines longer than the maximum damage falloff distance (1024). But running around as scout made me feel uncomfortable since I had very little space to maneuver which is a must have for scout to be useful. I'll work on opening it up a bit.
I added some signs directing players to the control points. I also widened a few areas and reduced some cover in the hallways near the control point.
I added some more fighting space around mid as well as widening the area next to the stairs that lead to behind the clock where the ammo pack is. I also changed the pitch of the light_environment from -85 to -40.
There are more health packs scattered around the map. The amount of jumping required to get the point has been significantly reduced. Some areas that were barely being used have been removed. Improved lighting means it shouldn't be hard to distinguish teams or players in any part of the map.
Digaag Wa Riz, Sep 12, 2015
I have removed one of the doorways from the spawn yard to the mid point. I added a lower path around the mid area to serve as a flank route. Generally longer sightlines.
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This map feels like there is maze to the battle area and then fight is just on so many levels that you never know where enemies are
Hyperion, Sep 14, 2015
The skybox ceiling was too high in some areas so I lowered it.
The farther spawn door leads to a totally redesigned route to mid (which includes a death pit. All the stairs in the map have been clipped. The respawn wave time has also been set to 6 seconds.
All the clipping in the map is smooth. The death pits from the out-of-the-way routes from spawn have been removed.
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New Highway 152 bridge to ease traffic congestion for Liberty and KC North
UPDATE: 31may19
The 152 bridge over I-35 is coming down tonight.
It's part of a major overhaul of the highway 152 corridor that links Kansas City, North with Liberty.
During the bridge demolition tonight - all northbound and southbound traffic underneath the 152 Bridge will be detoured - up and over the ramps - beginning Friday at 10pm and running through Monday morning.
Liberty, MO - The nearly mile-long southern edge of the Liberty Triangle is about to get a $26 million overhaul this summer- with the construction of a new Highway 152 bridge over I-35 as the centerpiece.
Also, Kansas Street between the interstate and Highway 291 will be widened to six lanes in each direction. And the 291/Kansas St. interchange will be rebuilt.
Video of Overview of the new Route 152 and Kansas Street Project in Liberty
The 152 bridge that links Liberty and Kansas City, North is set to come down on June 1, 2019. Construction of the new bridge is planned to last four months.
Liberty City Councilman Jeff Watt says they've been waiting a while.
"We had to wait for the state to get its money together," says Watt. "If you recall five years ago MODOT declared they had no money and they had to cancel projects, sadly the 152 bridge was the first project canceled back then."
Now the project is back on.
The new bridge over I-35, two bridges actually, will have a hybrid diverging diamond traffic flow. That's the traffic pattern that allows for dedicated left-turn lanes.
Video of Driving eastbound to Northbound on the Route 152 Project in Liberty!
"We're cautiously optimistic," says Watt. "We know it's gonna be painful (have the bridge down for four months), we know it's going to take some time to get through it. But when it's done, it's going to be unrecognizable, because the traffic is going to flow so much better."
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If I replace UITextView with UILabel i get proper menu controller but I loose data detection capability.
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John I, Count of Oldenburg ( – ) was a ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1233 until his death.

Life
His father, Christian II, had ruled jointly with his uncle, Otto I.  After Christian II died in 1233, Otto I acted as guardian for the underage John I.  When John I came of age, he ruled jointly with Otto I.  After Otto I died in 1251, John I ruled alone.

In 1244, Otto I and John I together founded the Cistercian Rosenthal monastery in Menslage.  In 1251, the monastery moved to a fort in the Börsteler Forest, which John I already owned.

In 1258 and 1259, he fought in the Bremen Prince-Archbishopric Feud on the side of his cousin Hildebold of Wunstorf against Rüstringen, Östringen and Stedingen.  When the feud had ended, he kept the territories he had conquered.

After a dispute with the City of Bremen, he had to cede the castle in Berne.  As a replacement, John I and his uncle built a castle in Delmenhorst, which provoked a strong reaction from Stedingen.

Like his predecessors, he had many disputes with his relatives, the Counts of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen.  Ultimately, their county was divided between the bishops of Münster and Bremen.  This resulted in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst being almost completely surrounded by these territories, and led to centuries of disputes between the Counts of Oldenburg and the two Prince-Bishops.

John I was a direct patrilineal ancestor of the British King Charles III and of many Kings of Denmark and Tsars of Russia.

Marriage and issue
He married Richeza, a daughter of Count Henry II of Hoya, and had the following children:
 Heilwig, married Ekbert, Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (d. )
 Christian III, Count of Oldenburg ( – 1285)
 Maurice (d. 1319), priest in Wildeshausen
 Otto II (d. 1304)

See also
 List of rulers of Oldenburg

References
 Hans Friedl, Wolfgang Günther, Hilke Günther-Arndt, and Heinrich Schmidt (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg, Oldenburg, 1992,

Footnotes

Counts of Oldenburg
1200s births
1270 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death uncertain
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Jeff Bezos calls for moving 'all polluting industry into space' after private rocket trip
'You can't imagine how thin the atmosphere is when you see it from space,' the billionaire says
Louise Boyle
Senior Climate Correspondent, New York
Related video: Jeff Bezos completes first space flight
Jeff Bezos has said the experience of shooting himself into space brought a newfound appreciation for tackling the burgeoning climate crisis here on Earth, and suggested sending "all polluting industry" into orbit following his rocket trip.
The world's richest man and three civilian guests took a suborbital joyride on Tuesday aboard New Shephard, the rocket created by his company Blue Origin.
Post-flight, the Amazon founder told NBC that there were "no words" to describe the experience. His flight comes nine days after fellow billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, entered orbit.
Both men, along with billionaire Elon Musk, have been criticised for the so-called "race" into private space tourism, seen as symbolic of vast wealth inequality and a misguided obsession of the ultra-rich while the climate crisis wreaks havocs on the planet below.
Climate activists, 350.org, wrote on Monday: "Billionaire Jeff Bezos is blasting into space tomorrow. Hundreds of people have been killed by severe flooding this week in India, Germany and Uganda. The money and technology exist to halt the worst of the climate crisis. It's time for people power."
And former US labor secretary Robert Reich tweeted: "Is anyone else alarmed that billionaires are having their own private space race while record-breaking heatwaves are sparking a 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds' and cooking sea creatures to death in their shells?"
Mr Bezos defended against criticism by saying that the 10-minute trip had fortified his intent to fight the climate crisis and keep Earth as "this beautiful gem of a planet".
"We live on this beautiful planet. You can't imagine how thin the atmosphere is when you see it from space," he said.
"We live in it, and it looks so big. It feels like this atmosphere is huge and we can disregard it and treat it poorly. When you get up there and you see it, you see how tiny it is and how fragile it is."
The billionaire appeared to have been enraptured by what astronauts call the "overview effect" – the psychological impact that comes from the rare experience of looking down at the whole Earth above and realizing its fragility in the vast darkness of space.
Mr Bezos then continued: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is. That's going to take decades to achieve, but you have to start. And big things start with small steps."
There does not currently appear to be pathways to shift, for example, the oil industry, or manufacturing and petrochemical plants, into space this century, as some climate activists and scientists swiftly pointed out.
"I mean, I'm all for sending Exxon to a distant asteroid, but, uh, wouldn't just switching to clean energy be easier?" Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, tweeted.
Mr Bezos said that his space flight was a step along the way to more space travel for future generations and that at some point, reusable rockets would reduce waste.
"We have to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build a future," he said.
The amount of carbon emissions created by the billionaires' space flights remain hazy.
Blue Origin has publicly boasted that its rocket is greener than Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity. This is because New Shepard uses a liquid hydrogen and oxygen rocket engine, which Blue Origin claims has a smaller climate impact than traditional methods.
However, the burning of the fuels used by New Shepard still causes greenhouse gases to be released. The Independent last week asked a Blue Origin spokesperson to provide information on the emissions caused by a flight on New Shepard.
A spokesperson for Sir Richard's space outfit, Virgin Galactic, has suggested that the carbon footprint of flying in its vessel, Unity, is the "equivalent to a business flight from London to New York". However, the company refused to reveal the emissions caused by a space flight when asked by The Independent.
(A person travelling on an economy return ticket between London and New York causes the release of around 1.5 tonnes of CO2, according to Flightemissions.org, roughly the same as created by the average person in Morocco over the course of a year. Emissions from a business class journey can be more than twice that amount.)
Though the emissions caused by one trip on VSS Unity or New Shepard are unlikely to be large enough to threaten climate targets, Sir Richard's mission to "make space accessible for all" could come at a higher cost. Around 600 individuals have reportedly paid deposits on tickets to travel on VSS Unity, which cost up to £180,000 ($250,000). Blue Origin hasn't revealed its price for a ride to space.
"It doesn't make sense to me," Professor Paul Peeters, a researcher of sustainable tourism and transport at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, previously told The Independent.
"We are really struggling to cope with climate change, both in terms of solving the problem and in terms of adaptation – you can see that with the wildfires burning entire villages [in Canada]. So to cause more climate change just for a few minutes of fun, I find that a bit difficult."
Earl Blumenauer, a Democratic US representative from Oregon, said on Tuesday that he intends to introduce legislation to tax commercial space flights that aren't primarily for scientific advancement.
"Space exploration isn't a tax-free holiday for the wealthy," Rep Blumenauer said. "Just as normal Americans pay taxes when they buy airline tickets, billionaires who fly into space to produce nothing of scientific value should do the same, and then some."
Mr Bezos stepped down this month as Amazon's CEO and said he plans to focus on Blue Origin and the Bezos Earth Fund – a $10 billion effort to fight the climate crisis – in the years ahead.
Mr Bezos offered up thanks on Tuesday including to "every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer. Because you guys paid for all this".
He said that he has financed the rocket company by selling $1 billion in Amazon stock each year.
Amazon reported that its carbon footprint had jumped 15 per cent in 2019, from the previous year, to 51.17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide – the equivalent of 13 coal burning power plants running for a year.
Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded: "Yes, Amazon workers did pay for this - with lower wages, union busting, a frenzied and inhumane workplace, and delivery drivers not having health insurance during a pandemic. And Amazon customers are paying for it with Amazon abusing their market power to hurt small business."
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Video: Catholic education is a 'lifelong gift,' says archbishop
Germantown's renowned Miraculous Medal Shrine becomes minor basilica
Archdiocese to send 3,000 pilgrims to the 2023 March for Life, CSS holds annual Luminaries for Life observance
SEEK23 brings heart of Gospel to thousands
Annual Archbishop's Christmas Benefit treats 400 needy children to fun party
Bishop John McIntyre helps Tanairis from Casa Del Carmen unwrap a doll that she received as a present at the annual Archbishop's Christmas Benefit for Children Dec.18. (Photos by Sarah Webb)
Eagles cornerback Curtis Marsh (left) and safety Colt Anderson help children open gifts they received from Santa Claus at the Archbishop's Christmas Benefit for Children.
By Lou Baldwin • Posted December 20, 2012
Douglas Dunn, who teaches theology at Pope John Paul II High School in Royersford when he's not playing Santa Claus at the annual Archbishop's Christmas Benefit for Children, got it right.
"I'm never ready for Christmas until I do this," said Dunn, who has been donning the red suit for the past 17 years. "For me, it is just to see the joy and happiness of the children. I try to visit every child in the room."
That's a tall order, considering there were 400 children at the party representing the 16,000 children who benefit during the year from residential and community-based programs offered by archdiocesan Catholic Social Services.
(See a photo gallery with 21 photos from the party.)
In a way Dunn is a newcomer at the game. This was the party's 56th year; it was originally instituted by Archbishop John F. O'Hara, who replicated a similar program of his former diocese, Buffalo.
For the past couple of decades the venue has been the Sheraton Philadelphia Center City Hotel, which donates its facilities for the annual event, held this year on Dec. 18.
Although the 400 children are the immediate recipients, the annual party is really a fundraiser to assist all of CSS's programs throughout the five counties of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
"We know that it is really a benefit and it goes to services that Catholic Social Services provides," said Jacki Delaney, who is in her fifth year as chair of the Benefit. "I have more enthusiasm now than ever before," she said. "When you look at these children in their eyes you see promise and hope. The social workers give them that hope and make it work for them."
Usually the event is hosted in person by the Archbishop of Philadelphia, but because of Archbishop Charles Chaput's knee surgery, Bishop John McIntyre gladly filled in for him.
"This has been going on since 1956 and it is our way of fulfilling the mission of Christ to take care of those who are in need, especially at this time of year," he said. "For some of these children this will be the only gift they receive this year. Each of them receives the gift he or she asked for."
In addition to the 400 juvenile honorees there were an estimated 500 Catholic high school and elementary students along to make it happen, both as entertainers, musicians and Santa's helpers.
One of the youngest groups was the cheerleaders drawn from grades one through four at St. Andrew Elementary School in Newtown, Bucks County.
"It was really fun because we got to see tons of children and make them happy," said fourth-grader Sarah Mack.
Probably most people didn't notice, but all of the Newtown kids had a gold cross and blue and white ribbon on their uniform.
"This is a commemoration, a little way for us to show our support for the children in Newtown, Connecticut," explained Chuck Dolan, one of the dads.
Another regular at the party was Donald Hadfield, an expert stilt walker, who estimated he has been coming for 24 years. He's a graduate of the Ringling Brothers Clown College and toured with that circus and also the former Royal Lichtenstein Quarter Ring Circus, a soft-sell evangelical troupe formerly conducted by Jesuit Father Nick Weber.
A highlight of the entertainment was the Nativity Play conducted this year by students from St. Lucy School for the Blind/Archbishop Ryan School for the Deaf.
Celebrity entertainers included the Phillie Phanatic and Swoop, the Philadelphia Eagles mascot who was accompanied by several players and cheerleaders, the latter somewhat more demurely clad than on game days.
All of this of course takes organization, and they were fortunate to have as this year's MC Jack Kelly, a CBS3 traffic reporter who knows something about keeping things flowing.
The highlight, after the entrance of Santa Claus, was the distribution of the gifts by elves from Roman Catholic and Hallahan High Schools.
Mario got a Batman figure; Chrystal got a Bratz doll, Kiara got a Barbie Doll. Tiana got Little Pony, Hariah got Princess Celeste.
"Every year it seems to get more joyous and this year it seems even larger," said Joseph Sweeney, secretary for Catholic Human Services. "We have a committee that is committed to making this the hallmark Christmas celebration in Philadelphia."
Lou Baldwin is a freelance writer and a member of St. Leo Parish, Philadelphia.
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By VIRGINIA BRIDGES AND MARTHA QUILLINThe News & Observer
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Samanther Crowder faced another week with her five children spread over two hotel rooms.
At 6:10 a.m. on a Monday, she dressed, left the room she shared with her 9-year-old and 5-month-old and knocked on the door of the room around the corner where her three other children, ages 12 to 20, slept.
It was time to wake 12-year-old Jayden for school.
"Like, open the door. Get up," she called out. "So I'm sure you are up before I walk away."
About 280 families from the McDougald Terrace public housing community have now been living in a dozen local hotels and motels for nearly one month. The Durham Housing Authority started evacuating them over carbon monoxide concerns Jan. 3 and announced this week they could remain in the hotels until mid-February.
The hotel is safe, Crowder said, and residents don't have to worry about the shootings that frequent the McDougald Terrace area east of downtown.
But they have had to deal with uncertain transportation, not knowing where their next meal will come from and their kids not having a place to play.
They miss the comforts of home: everyone in the same apartment, personal space, a full kitchen, a trusted neighbor to watch the children while they run to the store. And they worry about returning to the 1950s housing complex without DHA fully fixing the gas leaks and other problems like mold, water spots in ceilings and roaches.
"I miss the essence of a home," Crowder said. "I don't miss McDougald Terrace. The conditions are horrible."
Some hotel rooms have kitchenettes with stoves and full-size refrigerators, and some have microwaves.
Crowder and her children have neither.
They're among 80 families at the Millennium Hotel, off Morreene Road near Duke University. The rooms have mini-fridges, with microwaves in a couple of community rooms downstairs.
DHA is providing stipends based on hotel room amenities. Those with kitchenettes get $30 per adult and $15 per child per day. Families without kitchenettes get double that.
The housing authority isn't charging any McDougal Terrace residents rent for January and February, and it has put evictions on hold.
Crowder, 35, said that is the right thing to do.
Her unit had mold, water leaks, and lead paint, which she reported. "They would just come in and put a little duct tape on it and keep it going," she said.
Still, at home, Crowder could offer her children a sausage biscuit or eggs before school.
At the hotel, she has them eat gummy vitamins. Other options include a Nutrigrain bar, apple or banana.
The hotel has a restaurant, but a $12.99 breakfast is too expensive for a big family, she said.
CROWDED ROOM
Crowder's hotel room reflects the chaos of temporary living.
Laundry baskets line one wall. Pizza boxes and to-go containers, which don't fit into the small hotel garbage cans, are stacked on the desk and fill one large clear garbage bag. Baby food, wipes and other items for her youngest cover the nightstand between the beds.
It's 6:46 a.m. almost past time for the bus to take her 9-year-old son, Cody Hayes, to Bethesda Elementary, which starts at 7:45 a.m.
Cody, however, can't find his jacket. Crowder combs through two baskets of freshly washed laundry and pulls clothes from a pile in the corner.
She sends Cody to the other room to look. And then she goes and looks herself, starting to worry about Cody missing the bus that has come as early as 6:30 and as late as 7:10 a.m.
Cody said he feels mad about the whole situation.
"I don't have my own room," he said. He can't play with his friends or walk around.
Cody and Crowder, pushing her 5-month old daughter in her stroller, navigate the long hotel halls to the front lobby where a handful of families are waiting for school buses.
McDougald Terrace resident Laura Betye, 60, is worried about two girls who have been waiting since 5:40 a.m. for a bus to Neal Middle School.
She called the shuttle service contracted to help provide rides, but it didn't answer.
One of the girls says she is going back to her room. The other has started to cry.
HOTEL CAPTAINS
Each hotel has a resident captain to help coordinate services and share concerns.
Betye is the resident captain for the Millennium Hotel but calls it being the "lead."
"I am egalitarian," said Betye who came to the U.S. from Romania when she was a child and still has a slight accent. "I am nobody's captain."
Earlier in the day, Betye woke up around 5 a.m. and put out danishes in the community room the hotel designated for McDougald Terrace residents. The community room is typically filled with a variety of supplies, such as diapers, paper towels and detergent.
In the afternoon children can go to the community room to get homework help and snacks. A couple of times a week, Alliance Healthcare will offer counseling in an adjacent room. Emergency Management Services and the Durham County Department of Social Services are also checking in on some elderly residents.
The Neal Middle bus never came, Betye said. A hotel security guard ended up taking the two girls to school.
Meanwhile, Betye had arranged for the shuttle service, TMAC to pick her up at 7:15 a.m. to take her to Measurement Inc, where she works. The Durham Housing Authority hired TMAC to take residents to doctor appointments, work and to housing authority meetings.
When she started dealing with the two Neal students, she called and canceled the shuttle but it still came. She tried to get the driver to take the students, but he refused and left.
She ended up paying to take a hotel shuttle, but no one responded when she called TMAC to get a ride home that day, or a ride back to work the next day.
Her daughter had to pick her up.
"They are supposed to be encouraging us to go to work," she said.
Rateakka Johnson and Danasha Williamson consider themselves fortunate. Both landed with their children at one of several local Extended Stay America hotels. Both said their kids grow restless within the confines of their hotel rooms, but they're trying to find ways to occupy their time.
Johnson's family was in the first wave of residents told to evacuate from McDougald Terrace on Jan. 3, because one of her two daughters is under the age of 2. She was summoned to the office at the complex that day, she said, and told to pack a few things.
"They made me get out right then and there," she said.
Johnson, 31, said she had experienced some headaches since moving into McDougald Terrace in April 2019, but couldn't say whether they were connected to carbon monoxide exposure. But she was in the apartment, she said, when contractors came to check carbon monoxide levels and watched the meter jump, indicating elevated levels of the gas when her stove was turned on and for some time after it was shut off.
For now, Johnson said, she doesn't need much because donors hearing about the residents' displacement have brought canned goods and non-perishable snacks; diapers, wipes and hygiene products; laundry soap, and coloring books for the children.
BACK AT MCDOUGALD
About 38 families remain at the 25-acre McDougald Terrace complex, including resident council president Ashley Canady. About 325 of the roughly 360 units were occupied before the evacuation.
The effort has cost about $1.3 million so far, DHA chief executive officer Anthony Scott has said. That does not include bills that have not yet been paid or work for which the agency has not yet received invoices.
Canady, who has lived in McDougald Terrace since 2009, said she couldn't confine herself and her four children, ages 4 to 14, to a hotel room.
Staying put also allows her to walk to the resident council office at 51B Ridgeway Ave, a four-bedroom apartment turned food bank and community closet.
The office was closed in parts of November and December because of a bug infestation and then a gas leak. Visitors are reminded not to stand under the peeling spot on the ceiling at the top of the stairs.
Now volunteers at the office sort through incoming donations, filling the upstairs bedrooms with piles of Pampers and baby wipes, formula, and sanitary products. Others pack individual boxes for residents and for cars and trucks taking supplies to specific hotels.
"51B Strong," has become a rallying cry for the residents. Someone donated a logo and another person donated printed black shirts that Canady, her team of about 10 and others wear.
Last week Canady received the Keeper of the Dream Award from the Durham Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Steering Committee. She led two protests at City Hall, including one where she sat in a cardboard box to symbolize the cramped hotel rooms. She spent unpaid hours sorting through donations and giving members of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign a tour of the complex and then she sat on an affordable housing panel discussion at the Holton Career and Resource Center.
"The community has held me up at my best moments and my worst moments," Canady said. "And they have become family to me. It is important that I look out for my family."
NO CRIBS
One of Maya Jackson's roles on the team is to identify and work with pregnant residents and new mothers.
The evacuation has put some families in rooms without cribs. They may not have access to regular healthy meals, a freezer to store their breast milk or a safe ride for their children who require car seats.
It is yet another stressor being stacked upon already struggling women and families, said Jackson, who is part of an organization that provides volunteer doula services to African American women and other women of color.
At 51B evacuated residents pick up the items they need as they check on their apartments.
Lasonya Brown, 37, comes by nearly every day to check on her apartment. She and her three girls, ages 12, 13, and 17, all share one hotel room at an Extended Stay on South Miami Boulevard, which can be intense at times, she said.
"They all girls," she said. "That's all I have to say."
In early January, Leonardo Williams, owner of the Zimbabwean restaurant Zweli's, visited McDougald Terrace and overheard Canady talking to someone on speakerphone who said they had been in a hotel for two days and didn't have any money or transportation.
"Could somebody just bring is a pizza or something?" the person asked.
Williams went back to his restaurant, spoke to his wife, made a call on Facebook for hot dogs that could be cooked in his restaurant and served with rice and beans. They made 571 meals. A couple of days later, he made another call on Facebook. The Salvation Army offered a food truck and helped with other items, and they brought meals to all the hotels.
Williams is now coordinating at least two meals a week at all of the hotels. A GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $26,000 is paying for some of the food. The Jordan High School culinary program, Durham Co-op, and Duke Dining are among the groups that have signed up to help.
Back at the Millennium, Crowder's boys returned home from school Monday afternoon.
Crowder was relieved to learn she didn't have to scramble for a hot meal for dinner. A local congregation was providing a vegetarian lasagna, salad, bread, brownies and fruit.
She's grateful, she said, but it isn't ideal. Living on fast food and donated food is taking a toll and has upset her family's stomachs, she said.
"It's not good for our bodies," she said. "My whole family is sick."


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Sassuolo go top as Lukaku helps Inter fight back against Torino
Milan (AFP) –
Sassuolo took top spot in Serie A on Sunday with a 2-0 win over Hellas Verona, as Romelu Lukaku scored twice to help Inter Milan fight back from two goals down to beat Torino.
Sassuolo have 18 points from eight games, one point more than AC Milan, who travel to Napoli later on Sunday.
Roma move third, level on points with AC Milan, after Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored twice in a 3-0 win over Parma.
Antonio Conte's Inter had been trailing 2-0 after 62 minutes before battling back to win 4-2 at the San Siro, where they host Real Madrid in the Champions League in three days' time.
"We are not a great team yet because we're struggling like this," said Lukaku who has scored seven league goals this season.
"In the first hour we played badly, we were in difficulty. Then we woke up and won, that's the most important thing."
Torino captain Andrea Belotti pulled up with a muscular problem in the warm-up with Simone Zaza taking his place and scoring the opener just before the break.
Cristian Ansaldi added a second for the visitors from the penalty spot after an hour.
Inter reacted in the 64th minute, with Alexis Sanchez bundling the ball in after Lukaku's initial effort was tipped onto the crossbar, before the Chilean set up his fellow former Manchester United forward for the equaliser three minutes later.
Lukaku pulled Inter ahead from the penalty spot six minutes from time and then provided the cross for substitute Lautaro Martinez to score the fourth on 90 minutes.
"I have to congratulate the lads," said Conte.
"The 2-0 would have killed anyone, but we proved once again that we have something important in terms of character."
Inter got back to winning ways after two consecutive draws and are fifth in the table.
Torino drop into the relegation zone after their fifth defeat of the season, also losing Simone Verdi to injury in the first half.
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In Verona, Sassuolo continued their impressive run thanks to goals in either half from Jeremie Boga and Domenico Berardi.
The side from Emilia Romagna are unbeaten this season and are the top scorers with 20 goals in eight games.
Roma meanwhile stretched their unbeaten run in all competitions to 10 matches, cementing victory with three first-half goals.
Borja Mayoral got his first Serie A goal just before the half-hour mark, with Mkhitaryan adding two more before the break to bring his tally to five goals in two games after scoring a hat-trick last time out against Genoa.
In Tuscany, Cesare Prandelli had a nightmare start as coach of struggling Fiorentina with a 1-0 home defeat by promoted Benevento.
Former Italy coach Prandelli returned to the 'Viola' a decade after leaving for the Azzurri job in 2010, after Giuseppe Iachini was sacked, but the team fell to their fourth defeat in eight games.
To add to Prandelli's woes, French midfielder Franck Ribery went off injured just before half-time with Italian international Giacomo Bonaventura pulling up during the warm-up.
"What worries me most is the fragility," said Prandelli.
"At the first difficulty the team lost tactically, technically and personality.
"Perhaps the team succumbed to their fears and negative thoughts when Franck came off."
Riccardo Improta scored his first Serie A goal for Benevento on 52 minutes, slotting in a Gabriele Moncini cross after a Cristiano Biraghi defensive error.
Fiorentina, without a win in three games, slip to 15th in the Serie A table, just behind Benevento, who move into 14th after ending their four-match losing streak.


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Nintendo Switch GameCube Controller Support Surprised Everyone ... Even Nintendo Itself
Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 29 October 2017, 05:10 am
Nintendo surprised everybody by quietly adding GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch, and apparently, that includes Nintendo itself.
The latest firmware update that took the Nintendo Switch to version 4.0.0 officially added save data transfer and video recording features, while sneaking in wireless USB headset support. Adding GameCube controller support, however, was supposedly unintentional.
Nintendo Switch GameCube Controller Support Not Intentional
In an interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that Champion's Ballad, the second The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild expansion, is still on track to be released this year.
In the same interview, Fils-Aime admitted that the latest Nintendo Switch update only looked to enable third-party accessories for the hybrid console. The peripheral that allowed players to use the GameCube controller with the Nintendo Wii U was suddenly compatible with the Nintendo Switch, and we never would have known about it if a few gamers didn't think about trying it out.
We can now all stop wondering why Nintendo would not publicly announce such a feature though, as Fils-Aime said that the addition of GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch "was as much a surprise to us as it was to consumers."
So ... No 'Super Smash Bros.' For The Nintendo Switch?
The addition of GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch drew significant interest because of its connection to a massively popular franchise, namely the Super Smash Bros. series. Super Smash Bros. players are still using GameCube controllers to play the fighting game, which is the reason why Nintendo created an adapter to allow the controller to function on the Nintendo Wii U in the first place.
With Nintendo secretly adding GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch, many gamers took that as a signal that the fighting game was finally coming to the hybrid console.
Now that Nintendo revealed that this was nothing more than an accident, does this mean that a Super Smash Bros. Nintendo Switch version is still a long way to go?
According to some theories, not necessarily. There has been some skepticism on the fact that the work necessary to enable third-party accessories was also exactly what was needed to add GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch.
Perhaps Nintendo wanted to keep the feature a secret, or maybe, Fils-Aime is saying the truth, and this was all really an accident. Either way, two things are certain: GameCube controller support is here to stay, and players are clamoring for Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo Switch.
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Today I drove across Martelle, to the office of post, where I again stared into a cubbyhole filled with emptiness. No DVDs and books for me, in the 'Soup Nazi' voice, ran through my head. After coming home, through rush hour traffic, I sat in my comfy green computer chair, defeated. I know from my days of working in the marketing department at GEICO that the travel time for a piece of mail, from anywhere city, in the continental U.S., to the hamlet of someplace, takes no longer than 6 business days. Iowa sits smack dab in the middle of all the anywheres and someplaces in the country, so I figured 3. Today is day 6 and unbeknownst to The Taunton Press; they hang precariously on the precipice of a cliff, overlooking a valley filled with a pack of angry blog.
Now some of you may not have heard of these beasts. Perhaps you know of them by their Latin name, Blogus Rantopotamus? Whether you have heard of them or not, it is wise to know they are out there. To truly understand the Blogus Rantopotamus, one must know of their origin. They are a fairly new breed of animal, though some would call them a plague or a virus. The story of their origins is unclear and you may well find many different version of how they came to be. This is my favorite.
In a warehouse in Poughkeepsie NY, an aging accountant sat at his desk. He had studied cost accounting in school and married his high school sweetheart, who attended Vassar. She left him after three years, for a woman she met at a poetry slam, and since that day, he has been bitter and angry. This is important because on this day, about seven and a half years ago, a new shipping clerk was preparing a box of miniature replica blunder busses for shipping. The accountant screamed, "What are you doing?!" at the young man, a recent college graduate in computer science, who hadn't really bothered to find a real job yet. I was getting this order ready to go out. "When did they order it?", "The order just came in on from the website (www.blunderbusRus.com), if I hurry I can get it out tonight." The accountant screamed louder, "Did they pay for express shipping and handling?!", "No, but I am not sending it express, I am sending it through the regular mail." The clerk said sheepishly. "Where do they live?!", the accountant bellowed, though he knew the answer. "They live in New Jersey. If it goes out tonight, they will get it tomorrow or the next day." He responded, trying to understand why this was a big deal. "We don't want the customer to get them quickly, because if we do that, then nobody will pay for express shipping and handling! Are you an idiot?" said the accountant.
The clerk had studied TOC (Theory of Constraints) in college and knew that the totally variable costs were fixed and that his reasoning was wrong. He knew that in the long run a happy customer was better than earning an extra 2 dollars by making them think they needed express. But he also knew that if he refused to do as the accountant said, he might have to start looking for a real job, and he didn't want to do that before the summer was over. So he went home and later that night, in his mother's basement, next to the washer and dryer, he forwent World of War Craft and anonymously unleashed the first beast on the world. Unfortunately for the accountant, the blog reproduced through mitosis and the hungry pack of blogs eventually found him and ate his face off.
I will say I do enjoy reading your blogs. They make me smile and capture my thoughts.
That story is completely made-up – who would forgo World of War Craft?
I ordered something on Jan. 1. They finally shipped it Jan. 11. It arrived here in California Jan. 15. I think they let the hand tools guys handle shipping.
I want it, and I want it NOW! Now what was it I wanted? Oh well, can't remember but at least I will save some money. I'm glad David that you are filling the blogasphere with your amusing observations. We all need a laugh after our last failed projects.
How long ago did this happen? I am beginning to suspect that it was the blogs that was haunting the Winchester house. Someone had to wait a year for their rifle because they could only afford pony express?
Weird, my first wife ran off with some chick from Vassar too.
Is someone taunted by Taunton?


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Dec 26 Exclusive Interview With Decayer: One Of Arizona's Greatest Exports
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With a well received EP, The Agony Cycle, that helped earn the spot of "EP of the year in 2018" in the Arizona Metal Awards, as well as establishing themselves in the underground metal scene, Decayer is definitely gaining momentum as this year draws to a close. We sat down with Decayer to discuss their album, the metal scene in AZ, where they come from, where they are heading, and more!
MHW: Thanks for taking the time to speak with Metalhead World! Let us congratulate you on winning Arizona State EP of the year with The Agony Cycle! It seems the Arizona metal scene is growing, so you definitely earned bragging rights! How is the scene in Arizona?
DECAYER: Thank you! It means a lot to us that people considered us to be among so many great musicians that are just killing it in our scene!
The scene in AZ is great and we feel lucky to be a part of it. What we like most about it is how diverse and welcoming it is. We play shows all the time with bands ranging from metal to prog to hardcore and everything in between and every time we are blown away by the brotherhood that is constantly developing between all of the bands.
Decayer is: Harrison Burkardt (Vocals), David Scordato (Guitar), Devon Marr (Guitar), Taylor Bayless (Drums) and Keith Huffman (Bass)
MHW: For any metalheads out there that doesn't know much about Decayer, tell us a little about yourself. How were you guys formed? What are your core musical influences?
DECAYER: We formed in late 2016 by our vocalist, Harrison Burkardt, and guitarist David Scordato. Our goal was to approach heavy music in a new way without worrying about labeling or restricting ourselves to specific subgenres and bring in multiple kinds of influences. After bringing in our drummer, Taylor Bayless, and bassist, Keith Huffman, and eventually guitarist Devon Marr, we hit the ground running and have been going nonstop with writing and constantly trying to take ourselves to the next level. As far as musical influences go we are influenced by several, each of us bringing something different to the table which is why feel that our music is diverse and ranges between genres. Some notable influences include Fit For an Autopsy, The Acacia Strain, Meshuggah, Crowbar, Gojira, and Kublai Khan.
MHW: What types of influences or inspirations went into the songwriting and lyrical content of The Agony Cycle?
DECAYER: For The Agony Cycle, we drew from our influences and wanted to put out a release that was the next step after our first EP. We brought in more groovy and catchy choruses with heavier breakdowns as well as incorporated 7 string guitars to expand on our music and to add depth.
Lyrically, we drew from actual life experiences that we felt offered something for audiences to connect to on a personal level. For instance, our track "16 Roses" is about Harrison's sister who tragically passed away at the age of 16 and how it affected his mental health.
MHW: You have a cover song along with a video coming out in January. Can you tell us more about that?
DECAYER: Our label, We Are Triumphant, put together a tribute album for Bring Me The Horizon's "Count Your Blessings". We recorded and filmed a video for "Pray For Plagues" and are very excited to release it!
MHW: Which seasoned bands have you done shows with? Do you try to learn from these artists?
DECAYER: We have played with a wide variety of bands to include Of Mice and Men, Cattle Decapitation, Bleeding Through, Fire From the Gods, So This Is Suffering, Falsifier, Insvrgence, Goatwhore, Filth, Gideon, Varials, Allageon, Wage War, and more. Absolutely every chance we get we try to draw on the experience and knowledge of these amazing bands that we have the opportunity to share the stage with.
MHW: With such a momentous 2018 coming to a close, what is something you are taking with you moving forward?
DECAYER: We are continuing to put everything we have into this and bringing our work ethic and drive moving forward.
MHW: What type of plans do you have going into 2019?
DECAYER: In 2019 we plan on releasing our first full length album, along with music videos, and to tour! Information on those will be coming soon!
MHW: If you were headlining at a German metal music festival and you could book any 3 bands, past or present, who would they be?
DECAYER: The Black Dahlia Murder, Slipknot, and Meshuggah for sure!
MHW: Thank you again for speaking with us! We hope you have yourselves a nice holiday season and a great 2019. We wish you the best going forward! Is there anything else you would like to add?
DECAYER: Thank you so much for reaching out to us we are always happy to answer any questions and put ourselves out there as much as possible. Hope you guys and everyone reading has a great holiday season and an awesome new year!
Follow Decayer on social media and keep up with the bands latest updates and tour info!
Listen to Decayer's The Agony Cycle on Spotify, Google Play, and Deezer. Decayer is a We Are Triumphant Records artist.
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Hammond sees no sharp change to migration rules after Brexit
July 29, 2017 BusinessShahid Mehmood
LONDON (Reuters) – Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Friday there should be no immediate change to immigration or trading rules when Britain leaves the EU in March 2019, and that a shift to new arrangements could last until mid-2022.
Hammond – who opposed leaving the EU in last year's referendum – has been one of the loudest voices among Prime Minister Theresa May's ministers in calling for a smooth, business-friendly Brexit.
On Friday Hammond said he wanted to avoid a cliff-edge on March 29, 2019, and stressed that British hospitals and care homes relied as much on EU migrant workers as many businesses.
"We've been clear that it will be some time before we are able to introduce full migration controls between the UK and the European Union," he said in a BBC radio interview, saying the government currently lacked the capacity to monitor EU migrants.
Curbing immigration was a major reason why many Britons voted to leave the EU last year, and Britain's Conservatives have for years tried unsuccessfully to reduce net immigration to under 100,000 a year.
"There is going to have to be a period during which we move gradually from where we are now to our long-term new relationship with the European Union which we haven't even negotiated yet," Hammond said.
This transition could last until the planned date of the next parliamentary election in June 2022, Hammond said.
Britain's economy weathered the immediate shock of last year's vote to leave the EU much better than the government and most analysts had predicted.
But growth in the first half of this year has been the weakest since 2012, and earlier on Friday a closely watched consumer survey showed sentiment was its weakest in a year. Households viewed the economy as the worst in four years.
Last year's referendum to leave the EU did not set out a specific model for Britain's future relationships with the bloc that is the biggest destination for its exports, and business groups are concerned about the lack of planning since then.
On Thursday, Britain's government launched a year-long study of EU migration to help it design a post-Brexit immigration system, drawing criticism from opposition lawmakers over why it had not started this planning work sooner.
Interior minister Amber Rudd has also promoted a softer line on immigration, and government ministers who backed Brexit in the referendum have said some kind of transition will be needed.
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The ongoing battle against ISIS makes avoiding civilian deaths nearly impossible as the modus operandi of the terror group is to hide among civilian populations.
So, what do we do? For one thing, I suggest listing as a domestic terrorist anyone in the United States converting to Islam. Because the overwhelming evidence, not to mention common sense, suggest that conversion is a political statement. What's your solution?
Declare islam to be a theocratic terrorist organization AND NOT A RELIGION.
Deal with its adherents thus.
It is a socio-political construct masquerading as a religion. Therefore it does not deserve the protections afforded to religions under our Constitution.
Speaking of attacking kids, I'm amazed some islamo-whacko hasn't walked into a backpack laden mall food court with a couple hundred teens hanging out after school and casually left a booming backpack right in the middle of the clueless kids staring at their smartphones.
It's been one of my nightmares since 9-11.
I'm thankful that Marx and Lenin and Hitler and Mao didn't declare their philosophies to be "religions."


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technology in class
We have used our devices well most of the year. You have done a pretty good job using the class website. However these last few weeks I have had to collect phones and ask more times that you use the devices correctly. Many of you 99% are using it correctly. The larger problem are the repeat offenders. If you are not using your pre-frontal cortex to improve your academic skill set than you are not preparing yourself for high school.
Again you need to use the device for what we do in class. Trying out Kahoot was just one way we worked with our course.
ORGANIZING RESEARCH
IN-CLASS READINGS AND HANDOUTS.
IN-CLASS BACK-CHANNELING
IN-CLASS POLLING/QUIZZING.[not quizzing too much but polling]
Ultimately, these large two hour blocks you need to continue your positive work habits that we have worked on for 9 months. Please ensure that your parents have approved what you are doing and staying off of apps that we have said break our social contract during history time. Please ask me if you are not clear because you may have your phone sent to the office. Please share with your parents because at Back to School night parents were told that you were to be honest and follow the class rules on technology. It is a tool to become a scholar of the humanities.
Good use
"The Lash," a lithograph by Henry Louis Stephens (1863) Library of Congress
Confronting Slavery and Revealing
the "Lost Cause"
James Oliver Horton, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University
While slavery was not the only cause for which the South fought during the Civil War, the testimony of Confederate leaders and their supporters makes it clear that slavery was central to the motivation for secession and war.
One of the most sensitive and controversial issues that any Civil War site interpreter will confront is the role of slavery in the South's decision to secede from and take up arms against the United States. Although an argument that slavery played an important role in the coming of the Civil War would raise few eyebrows among academic scholars, for public historians faced with a popular audience unfamiliar with the latest scholarship on the subject such an assertion can be very controversial. Whenever I speak to groups about the Civil War, I am reminded that slavery and the war are often separated in the public mind.
As historian James McPherson explained in a recent article, it is especially difficult for southern whites "to admit - that the noble Cause for which their ancestors fought might have included the defense of slavery." Yet, the best historical scholars over the last generation or more have argued convincingly for the centrality of slavery among the causes of the Civil War. The evidence for such arguments provided in the letters, speeches, and articles written by those who established and supported the Confederacy is overwhelming and difficult to deny. While slavery was not the only cause for which the South fought during the Civil War, the testimony of Confederate leaders and their supporters makes it clear that slavery was central to the motivation for secession and war. When southern whites in the 19th century spoke of the "southern way of life," they referred to a way of life founded on white supremacy and supported by the institution of slavery.
South Carolina led the way when its Charleston convention, held just before Christmas in 1860, declared that the "Union heretofore existing between the State of South Carolina and the other States of North America is dissolved ... " The reason for the drastic action, South Carolina delegates explained in their "Declaration of the Causes which Induced the Secession of South Carolina," was what they termed a broken compact between the federal government and "the slaveholding states." It was the actions of what delegates referred to as "the non-slaveholding states" who refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that was the specific example used as evidence for this argument. "In many of these States the fugitive [slave] is discharged from the service of labor claimed,.... [and] in the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied .... " The delegation made clear that the election of Abraham Lincoln in the fall of 1860 as "President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to Slavery" was the final straw. In the South Carolinian mind the coming of Republican political power signaled, in the words of the convention, "that a war [would] be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States."
The editors at the Charleston Mercury agreed. They had anticipated the threat that a Republican victory would pose when in early November they warned South Carolinians and the entire South that "[t]he issue before the country is the extinction of slavery." "No man of common sense, who has observed the progress of events, and is not prepared to surrender the institution," they charged, "can doubt that the time for action has come-now or never." The newspaper editors, like most southerners, saw Lincoln's election as lifting abolitionists to power, and like most southerners they understood, as they plainly stated, that "[t]he existence of slavery is at stake." They called for a convention to consider secession because they saw such action as the only way to protect slavery. When the South Carolina convention did meet little more than a month later, it dealt almost entirely with issues related directly to slavery. It did not complain about tariff rates, competing economic systems or mistreatment at the hands of northern industrialists. The South was not leaving the United States because of the power of northern economic elites who in reality, as historian Bruce Levine observed, "feared alienating the slave owners more than they disliked slavery." The secession of South Carolina, approved by the convention 169 votes to none, was about the preservation of slavery.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia also understood what the South was fighting for. A decade before secession, in reaction to the debate over the Compromise of 1850, he wrote to his brother Linton citing "the great question of the permanence of slavery in the Southern States" as crucial for maintaining the union. "[T]he crisis of that question," he predicted, "is not far ahead." After the war he would become more equivocal, but in the heat of the secession debate in the spring of 1861 Stephens spoke as directly as he had in 1850. On March 21, 1861 in Savannah, Stephens, the then Vice President of the Confederacy, drew applause when he proclaimed that "our new government" was founded on slavery, "its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the [N]egro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - submission to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, was more cautious about declaring slavery as the pivotal issue. When he did address the issue, he generally did so within the context of constitutional guarantees of property rights. Yet, there was no doubt that the property rights he sought most to guarantee in 1861 protected slavery. He was sure that under Republican rule "property in slaves [would become] so insecure as to be comparatively worthless...." As a large slaveholder, Davis was concerned about the economics of abolition as well, but as an experienced politician he also worried that an overtly pro-slavery stand might alienate potential European allies and split the southern population. After all, by 1861 only about one-third of southern families in the 11 seceding states held slaves and the non-slaveholders always posed a potential problem for Confederate unity.
A special edition of the Louisville Daily Courier was detailed and direct in its message to non-slaveholders. The abolition of slavery would raise African Americans to "the level of the white race," and the poorest whites would be closest to the former slaves in both social and physical distance. Thus, "do they wish to send their children to schools in which the [N]egro children of the vicinity are taught? Do they wish to give the [N)egro the right to appear in the witness box to testify against them?" Then the article moved to the final and most emotionally-charged question of all. Would the non-slaveholders of the South be content to "AMALGAMATE TOGETHER THE TWO RACES IN VIOLATION OF GOD'S WILL." The conclusion was inevitable the article argued; non-slaveholders had much at stake in the maintenance of slavery and everything to lose by its abolition. African-American slavery was the only thing that stood between poor whites and the bottom of southern society where they would be forced to compete with and live among black people.
These arguments were extremely effective as even the poorest white southerners got the message. Their interest in slavery was far more important than simple economics. As one southern prisoner explained to his Wisconsin-born guard "you Yanks want us to marry our daughters to niggers." This fear of a loss of racial status was common. A poor white farmer from North Carolina explained that he would never stop fighting because what he considered to be an abolitionist federal government was "trying to force us to live as the colored race." Although he had grown tired of the war, a Confederate artilleryman from Louisiana agreed that he must continue to fight. An end to slavery would bring what he considered horrific consequences, for he would "never want to see the day when a [N]egro is put on an equality with a white person." Even northern soldiers understood the passion with which the Confederates fought to protect the institution of slavery. Most Confederates would have agreed with the assessment of a Union soldier in 1863, shortly after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. "I know enough about the southern spirit," he said, "that I think they will fight for the institution of slavery even to extermination." Fears of the consequences of abolition fostered white solidarity, forming the load-bearing pillar in the foundation of Confederate nationhood.
Although the defense of slavery was central to the Confederacy, the abolition of slavery was not initially the official goal of the United States or the primary concern of most of the American people. As the most respected historians of our generation have shown, Lincoln and the vast majority of Republicans sought only to limit the expansion of slavery. Most who supported this "free soil" program that would maintain the western territories for free labor, did so out of self-interest. To urban or farm workers or to northern small farmer owners, Republicans offered the possibility of cheap land devoid of competition from slave labor or even from free blacks, who faced restriction in western settlement. "Vote yourself a Farm," was the not-so-subtle Republican message to white laboring men with the understanding that the western territories, having undergone Indian removal in the 1830s and 1840s, would be racially homogeneous.
Abolitionists, black and white, sincerely sought the end to slavery and accepted its geographical limitation as a step toward its inevitable demise. But although most whites in the North wanted to restrict slavery's spread, they would not have gone to war in 1861 to end it. President Lincoln understood his constituency very well and his statements on slavery were calculated to reassure white northerners as well as southern slaveholders that the U.S. government had, in his words, "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists." Indeed, Lincoln even reluctantly agreed to accept an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have protected slavery in those states where it existed. Ohio, Maryland, and Illinois actually ratified this measure that, ironically, would have been the 13th Amendment. Although this may have played well among northerners who were willing to concede protection to slavery so long as it remained in the South, slaveholders understood only too well it was not that simple.
Since most Americans saw the West as the place that would provide the vitality of national progress, to deny slaveholders access to that territory was to deny them access to America's future. Southerners took such restrictions as a direct affront to their regional honor and a threat to their social and economic survival. Georgia secessionist Robert Toombs put it succinctly: "we must expand or perish." Lincoln did not have to explain that slavery had no place in the nation's future, the South was well aware that in order to save their institution of bondage they must leave the United States and that is precisely what their secession movement was calculated to do.
Thus, while northerners claimed that they meant only to restrict slavery's expansion, southerners were convinced that to restrict slavery was to constrict its life blood. This war was not about tariffs or differences in economic systems or even about state's rights, except for the right of southern states to protect slavery. It was not willing to stand for state's rights except to preserve its institution of slavery where it existed and where it must expand. Some southerners had argued in the 1850s for the annexation of Cuba, one of only two other remaining slave societies in the western hemisphere, as one plan for slavery's expansion. Others looked to Mexico and Latin America, but always it was about saving and expanding slavery. And while the U.S. government may not have gone to war to abolish slavery in the South, it did go to war to save the union from what it increasingly came to believe was a "slave power conspiracy" to restrict citizen liberties and finally to destroy the United States. The northern determination to contain slavery in the South and to prevent its spread into the western territories was a part of the effort to preserve civil rights and free labor in the nation's future. The South was willing to destroy the union to protect slavery.
Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 transformed the war into a holy crusade, but there was always disagreement among U.S. troops about outright abolition. Yet, increasingly after 1863, "pro-emancipation conviction did predominate among the leaders and fighting soldiers of the Union Army." Regardless of whether U.S. troops fought to limit or to abolish it, however, slavery was the issue that focused their fight, just as it did for the Confederacy. A half-century after serving the Confederate cause, John Singleton Mosby, legendary leader of Mosby's Rangers, offered no apologies for his southern loyalties. He was quite candid about his reason for fighting. "The South went to war on account of slavery," he said. "South Carolina went to war - as she said in her secession proclamation - because slavery w[oul]d not be secure under Lincoln." Then he added as if to dispel all doubt, "South Carolina ought to know what was the cause of her seceding."
Of course, Mosby was right. South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and the other states that seceded from the United States did know the reason for their action and they stated it clearly, time and time again. They named the preservation of slavery as foremost among their motivations. When such a wide variety of southerners - from private citizens, to top governmental officials, from low ranking enlisted men to Confederate military leaders at the highest levels, from local politicians to regional newspaper editors - all agree, what more evidence do we need?
This essay is taken from The Civil War Remembered, published by the National Park Service and Eastern National. This richly illustrated handbook is available in many national park bookstores or may be purchased online from Eastern at www.eparks.com/store.
First American terrorist group?
The Wayback this week will be this letter that was used by ex-Confederates/seccessionists to scare a newly freedman from participation in southern society with political and social power. The idea of equality was not supported by many Americans. The idea of white supremacy became an organizing idea to suppress any changes to create a new free south.
New Orleans Massacre 1866
Class note: You will be participating in a study for the University of Michigan next Wednesday. You will need to start this Wayback early and please blog questions. We have been working on this work for 8 months now so you should continue what we have learned.
Artists would study masters and painters that were from the past. They would study aspects of art to understand how to create genres that explain reality. At times they would also explain the reality of life vividly. Thomas Nast decided to make thirty plus paintings that were considered "Grand Historical Paintings". One was a scathing criticism of of the policies of President Andrew Johnson toward a South actively resisting reconstruction efforts"[Pohl, Framing America, p.215] President Johnson was ready to let the slave masters be placed into their former state under the black codes. Utilize the links below and make sure you get help when you are stuck. The fact that Lincoln was perceived that he could have been harsh on the South. But we saw liberality all around in the character that was presented in Lincoln the movie. But it would seem that if we were abolishing slavery and Lincoln said a qualifier of who could vote, suffrage and governing was next for African-Americans. What needs to be watched is how history get highjacked by white supremacy. The reconstruction documentary explains the complications of ending the scourge of oppression and slavery. Slavery was one of the worse institutions America has ever created.
Please click to relate to Thomas Nast picture
Essential Historical Questions recap
From Reconstruction we will move on to the topics of Indian wars, The West, Progressive Rights, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Industrial Revolution changes, and Jim Crow connections to present day and backlashes to political reforms. The link will help fill in areas where your textbook is lacking in content and depth. Above are readings to ensure you see a larger perspective. We are coming up to the end of our topics for 8th grade and you might want to review and recap some of the essential ideas we have studies thus far.
Please add these two videos' notes from the below into your notebook. [Chapter 16] You should at least choose the Civil War and Manifest Destiny videos. You need to click "Read More" to see them on your device. They will help us with the last chapters 16-19. Also if you decided to add any other video notes and have an output page for it, you can add it as extra-credit to chapter notebooks. Remember it must have an input, output, and highlighted notation on the Table of Contents entry too [highlighted]. Best wishes. Follow the social contract. Mr.C
Panic of 1873
During Reconstruction President Grant was having trouble getting rid of a Civil War tax to fund Northern Troops to go into the South to keep the peace. When the revenue drops the country deals with an economic depression. So many immigrants from Asia will be blamed in that the have taken Gold Rush jobs, Rail Road jobs, and other economic opportunities. Again a scapegoat is created by the American public. We will excluded immigrants from trying to come to the United States. Time an time again America finds someone to blame for the economic woes occur. The hope is that we can use Government to make our political ideas come to fruition. We use government to solve many problems. Please read each button link and see what notes or ideas you can add to your notebook.
Immigration and deportation
Grant & Panic 1873
Civil Rights Case
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow?
Below there is an interactive timeline. You should add ideas from the timeline you received on Tuesday 4/4. Also the practices since the 13th Amendment the clause that deals with a "crime" has made a loophole for Jim Crow and Black codes that you will have to try and understand in context of Reconstruction. Some parents let students watch the movie 13th and it helped students place the history of reconstruction to modern day issues. We will be working on Reconstruction for at least two more weeks. The interactive personal notebook will be due when we get back from spring break. You may have to catch up if you are wasting class time. All the hard copies will be posted around the room and you can download these to your device. We will need to pair share and work with these primary sources.
Radical Reconstruction Docs
13, 14, 15 Amendment
President Grant 1869-1877
This is someone you should recognize. You might recognize this dialogue below. Remember we did not get to have Lincoln to lead us out of the Civil War aftermath and Reconstruction. Later you can look at our class timeline and see a letter my Great-Great Grandfather wrote to President Grant for his back pay as a Civil War veteran. Lincoln entrusted Grant to finish the war and get Lee to surrender.
As President Grant, he will try to see if Reconstruction can be accomplished with Congress fighting amongst themselves, and the Southern States debated the rebuilding of society out of the Civil War. Grant will have a really hard time governing the South. Please read the dialogue and take notes. Also watch the 4 minute video and take notes.
Once he surrenders, send his boys back to their homes, their farms, their shops.
GRANT
Yes sir, as we discussed.
Liberality all around. No punishment. I don't want that. And the leaders - Jeff and the rest of `em - if they escape, leave the country while my back's turned, that wouldn't upset me none.
When peace comes it mustn't just be hangings.
By outward appearance, you're ten years older than you were a year ago.
Some weariness has bit at my bones. (BEAT)
I never seen the like of it before. What I seen today. Never seen the like of it before.
You always knew that, what this was going to be. Intimate, and ugly. You must've needed to see it close when you decided to come down here.
We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things.
And we've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it.
Reconstruction and Rights of Citizenship
As Reconstruction began there will be a debate like in the movie between Lincoln and Thad Stevens. How far will we bring back treasonous rebels or secesh? How will freed slaves participate in society? What will slave holders get back? What will the freedmen get to become franchised in to American society? We will Read Like Historians and try to find what happened and we will continue to look at what did and has happened to connect to today. This will be today's Wayback Wednesday. Let's get to work and follow the social contract.
Nast Cartoons
Reconstruction: Second Civil War
Film Description [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/filmmore/fd.html]
On a misty April evening in 1865, a jubilant crowd packed the White House lawn to hear President Abraham Lincoln's first speech since the end of the Civil War. They expected a stirring celebration of the Union victory -- but instead got harsh reality. Even with the South defeated, Lincoln warned, the future would be "fraught with great difficulty." He called the task ahead reconstruction -- a word that returned to American headlines nearly a century and a half later, in the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
Even as Lincoln spoke, opposing forces were gathering. Some Americans saw Reconstruction as a chance to build a new nation out of the ashes of war and slavery. Others vowed to wage a new war to protect their way of life, and a racial order they believed ordained by God. Lincoln saw the problem with agonizing clarity. Bitter enemies, North and South, had to be reconciled. And four million former slaves had to be brought into the life of a nation that had ignored them for centuries. In some ways, it was harder than winning the war.
Three days after delivering his warning, Lincoln was shot dead. Reconstruction would have to go forward without him.
Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans -- Southern and Northern, white and black -- as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down.
Reconstruction's remarkable cast of characters includes Tunis Campbell, a daring former minister who staked out an independent colony for blacks in Georgia's Sea Islands -- and declared it off-limits to whites. Frances Butler, the daughter of a Georgia rice baron, struggled to rebuild her family's plantations -- and to negotiate labor contracts with the very men and women her family used to own. Marshall Twitchell, a battle-scarred Civil War veteran from Vermont, rose to power in the wild northwest corner of Louisiana with deadly consequences. John Roy Lynch, a former slave from Mississippi, was elected to Congress, where he challenged whites' deepest beliefs about race and class.
The narratives of these and other unknown players are interwoven with the stories of presidents and generals -- Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman -- and others whose lives were caught up in the epochal struggles of the era. "An old social order had been destroyed," says Eric Foner, historian at Columbia University and author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. "Everything was up for grabs."
After four bloody years of civil war, North and South would continue to fight over the meaning of freedom, the meaning of citizenship, and the survival of the nation itself. Reconstructionbrings to life this turbulent and complex period through original footage shot on location, primarily in the South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina), and with the assistance of regional groups and associations -- the First Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, Company E; the Liberty Greys, Civil War re-enactors based in New England; South Carolina's Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition; and the Thirty-Second Georgia Artillery, among others.
Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events -- the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year -- reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives.
The whole Southern world was turned upside down. And yet, despite these challenges and terrible racial violence in this period, so much was accomplished. Reconstruction brought public schools to the South for the first time. Black Southerners were elected to local and national offices. And the nation committed itself to equality under the law for all Americans, regardless of race, by passing the Fourteenth Amendment. Reconstruction laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and the foundation for the American society we live in today.
Definition of Reconstruction
Reconstruction: 1865-1877
The Reconstruction [Chapter 16] is one of the most important topics that we study in this course. We are coming down to the last few weeks of the school year and this Friday we will begin our last few interactive notebooks. The Block schedule for SBAC testing will be long and filled with many subjects so please get your 8 hours of sleep. This is no different than what I have said since the first day of class. Sleep means brain repair and that means a fully functional brain. A sleep deprived brain will not process the information as well as rested brain on a sleep schedule getting 8-10hours, seven days a week is best.
I will add topics for the pages to the last notebooks from here. We still might have 2-3 more interactive personal notebooks. I will add them in the comments section of this page. Any pages outside the chapter 16 I add to the comment section add to your notebook. Please also take notes on the reconstruction video below before you come to class on Wednesday for the Wayback [students missing Wednesday start early you still need to add the Wayback]. Make comments to get help from classmates. The wayback will be two cartoons in the power point that answer the central historical question. Try to remember and think about what we talked about all year even some modern connections.
Please use these buttons when you want to understand more or if I assign as homework.
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/pbs-film/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/filmmore/pt.html
PBS on Reconstruction
Rise of hate groups
Civil Rights begins
Klansville USA
PBS reconstruction