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Elizabeth T. Kennan records
Identifier: RG 04-07
Records for the administration of Elizabeth T. Kennan primarily date from her years as President of Mount Holyoke College (1978-July 1995). They also include materials from her years as a Mount Holyoke student (1956-1960) and from the administrations of David Bicknell Truman (President, 1969-1978) and Joanne V. Creighton, who became President in 1996.
Correspondence (1978-1993) consists of letters and memoranda by Kennan or members of her staff as well as letters to her from students, parents, faculty, staff, alumnae, trustees, friends, and colleagues. Most of the letters concern students, faculty, staff, departments, College events and issues, religious life, financial affairs, and state and federal legislation having an impact on private colleges while other letters discuss such issues as regulations for student behavior, concerns of minority, gay, lesbian, or bisexual students, and sexual harassment at the College. There is also personal correspondence with Kennan's friends and colleagues and letters of recommendation by her for individuals not affiliated with the College. Researchers should note that many letters to and from Kennan may be found in other sub-series in this collection, particularly Subject Files.
Writings (1972-1997) consist of speeches, articles, published letters, and notes written by Kennan. These materials include copies of her talks and greetings presented to groups of Mount Holyoke College alumnae and donors, Convocation addresses to students, addresses that she gave at other colleges, and remarks presented at meetings of Phi Beta Kappa, the New England Museum Association, the South Hadley, Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the Holyoke, Massachusetts Lions Club, and other organizations. Topics of her writings include the education of women, "Women in the Future," federal regulation of colleges and universities, financial aid for college students, the curricula of colleges. The writings also contain some of Kennan's scholarly works, including her essays about "Moral Leadership in the Community: Some Abbots in the Twelfth Century" and "The Relentless Good: Some Women Artists of the 20th Century."
Subject Files (1972-1997) include minutes, agenda, reports, correspondence, memoranda, plans, surveys, financial records, publications, lists, and other materials concerning a wide range of issues and events. Many of these records concern the administration, creation, renovation, expansion, or furnishings of buildings and grounds, including library facilities, Blanchard Hall, the Skinner Museum, Willits-Hallowell Center, the stables, the Wa Shin An Japanese meditation garden and teahouse, and the Village Commons. There is information about ceremonies and special events at the College, including Founder's Day and Commencement celebrations and the Festival of Italian Culture. Other records concern administrative, financial, and academic matters such as the work of faculty and staff, the selection and activities of deans and other administrators, curricular developments and issues within departments and programs. There are files of materials relating to admissions statistics and trends, financial aid for students, annual budgets, and the 1980-1987 capital campaign. Some records reflect the College's interest in energy conservation while other files concern day care, salaries, and housing for faculty and staff. There is also information about minority students on campus. In addition, one file contains correspondence relating to the play Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein, a 1971 graduate of the College. The records also document Mount Holyoke's relationship with other organizations, participation in a number of studies, and interest in state and federal legislation affecting higher education. There are materials relating to Oberlin College and other colleges and universities in the United States and abroad and to organizations such as the American Council on Education. These materials also include responses to the annual Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) sponsored by the National Association for Education Statistics and materials reflecting the College's participation in the .Seven Colleges Study of Medical Careers (1979-1984). Other records concern the Mount Holyoke ABC (A Better Chance of South Hadley), Higher Horizons and College Bound, and SummerMath programs for non-Mount Holyoke students.
Development Office Records (1968-1990) consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, and publications relating to major gifts to Mount Holyoke, fundraising activities in different regions of the country; and the "Campaign for Mount Holyoke", the fundraising campaign during the sesquicentennial celebration of the College (1984-1989). There are also materials relating to donors, associations, banks, and foundations and to endowed chairs at the College. Files for individual donors contain correspondence, reports, biographical information, and articles.
Honorary Degree Candidates Records (1980-1997) concern distinguished scientists, artists, authors, government officials, activists, and others who were awarded or considered for Mount Holyoke honorary degrees. The materials consist of correspondence, biographical sketches, articles, citations for awards, and notes.
James Ellis Materials (1984-1990) concern charges of sexual harassment brought against a tenured Mount Holyoke College professor which resulted in his dismissal. These materials include correspondence, memoranda, newspaper articles, reports, financial records, medical records, and transcripts of hearings held before the College's Appeals Committee in1989. Researchers should note that the James Ellis Materials are closed until January 1, 2070.
Administrative Advisory Council Records (1988-1993) consist of agenda, minutes, correspondence, and notes primarily relating to minutes of the Council, which was comprised of key administrators who acted as advisers to President Kennan regarding a variety of issues. Topics discussed in the documents include staff recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation, security issues, use of technology at the College, the schedule of College holidays, and campus-wide regulations concerning smoking.
Justice Department Antitrust Materials (1989-1993) document Mount Holyoke's response to a United States Justice Department investigation of twenty-one Northeast colleges and universities over the practice of holding joint meetings each spring to review financial aid applications from students admitted to two or more of those institutions. Department officials charged these schools with using a standard formula for determining how much a family could pay for a college education and sharing other information that deprived some students of the financial aid they might have received were there more competition among the institutions. Materials include legal documents, reports, correspondence, drafts, surveys, memoranda, articles, and lists.
Senior Staff Records (1989-1995) document President Kennan's weekly meetings with a small group of key administrators and several faculty members to discuss topics such as the College's financial situation, multicultural concerns, faculty and staff benefits, and campus-wide emergency procedures. The records consist of agenda, minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and lists.
Operational Policy Committee Records (1994-1995) concern the mission and activities of a group created in 1994 to replace the College's Administrative Advisory Council. The records consist of agenda, minutes, reports, correspondence, publications, notes, and memoranda concerning issues such as the increasing use of technology on campus, campus emergency procedures, and staff training and compensation.
Presidential Search Committee Records (1977-1978) reflect the activities of a committee created by the Board of Trustees to conduct a search for a successor to David Bicknell Truman as President of Mount Holyoke. The records primarily consist of reports and correspondence describing the progress of the search.
Inauguration Records (1978-1979) reflect the activities of trustees, faculty, staff, alumnae, and students who planned and carried out the inauguration ceremony for Kennan and related events. These recprds consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, schedules, lists, invitations, publicity materials, and files concerning the transportation, registration, and housing of guests.
Biographical Material (1978-1995) primarily consists of copies of Kennan's resumes and biographical sketches, notes, articles, and press releases about her. There are also transcripts of several interviews of her, itineraries and calendars reflecting her activities, and a list of her major accomplishments as President of Mount Holyoke.
Photographs (1956-1995) chiefly date from Kennan's tenure as Mount Holyoke College President, although there are also photographs of her taken as a student at the College and Oxford University and one portrait from her high school years. Some of the photographs are formal portraits of Kennan. Many photographs show her events such as her inauguration, Commencement, Convocation, and annual Parent's Weekend celebrations, while other photographs are of Kennan with students, alumnae, faculty members, trustees, and the presidents of other colleges and universities. There are also photographs reflecting Kennan's participation in Faculty Shows at the College. These images include slides and contact sheets.
Audiocassettes (1978-1993) primarily record speeches given by Kennan at College events, particularly Convocation and Alumnae Council meetings. There are also tapes of several interviews of her.
Video Recordings (1982-1994) are chiefly of television interviews of Kennan either alone or as part of a group. Some of these interviews were on nationally televised programs, while others were produced by television stations in Springfield, Massachusetts. These programs primarily focus on the issue of single sex education for women and include a group interview with the presidents of Mount Holyoke, Colby Sawyer College, Smith College, and Wheaton College on April 13, 1989. Two other programs from October, 1990 feature comments by the Five College Presidents on Proposition 3, a Massachusetts legislative referendum calling for cuts in taxes. There is also a video recording of Kennan's announcement of her plans to step down as President, April 13, 1994.
Access is unrestricted to Writings, Presidential Search Committee Records, Inauguration Records, Biographical Material, Photographs, Audiocassettes, and Video Recordings. Access to Correspondence Subject Files, Development Office Records, Honorary Degree Candidates Records, Administrative Advisory Council Records, Justice Department Anti-Trust Materials, Senior Staff Records, and Operational Policy Committee Records is restricted to use by the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees and the Office of the President for 25 years from the date of record creation. Access to the James Ellis Material is restricted until January 1, 2070.
Use of this collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.)
Elizabeth Topham Kennan, medieval historian, author, college and university professor and administrator and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1978-1995 was born on February 25, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Frank Topham, a general sales manager, and Henrietta Margaret Jackson Topham. The family resided in Westfield, New Jersey where she attended Westfield High School from 1953-1956. She entered Mount Holyoke College in the fall of 1956, focusing her studies on medieval history and earning numerous prizes and honors including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the Sarah Williston Prize, a Marshall Scholarship, and election to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in history, she attended St. Hilda's College at Oxford University from 1960-1962 where she earned a M.A. in history. She married Robert M. Kennan, Jr., another Marshall Scholar whom she met at Oxford, in 1961.
Kennan entered the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1962 where she worked as a graduate teaching assistant while completing her doctorate. After receiving her Ph.D. in history in 1966, she became the first lay woman to teach in the History Department and the first Protestant to teach in the medieval program at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She also served as the director of both the Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program and the Program in Early Christian Humanism and was honored as the University's Teacher of the Year in 1977. She had a son, Frank Alexander Kennan, in 1967. Her husband died suddenly on October 29, 1973 following gall bladder surgery; he was thirty-five and serving as general counsel of the National Wildlife Federation at the time of his death. In 1977 Kennan married Martin Lewis Budd, a lawyer whom she later divorced.
Kennan left the Catholic University of America in 1978 to become the sixteenth President of Mount Holyoke College. One of her major accomplishments at Mount Holyoke was leading a five-year celebration (1982-1987) of the College's Sesquicentennial and a successful capital campaign that raised $139.4 million for the school. These funds allowed administrators to undertake an ambitious Master Plan for buildings and the campus to ensure that all campus facilities meet the needs of its faculty and students. Several major buildings were constructed or renovated as part of this plan, including the Miles-Smith Science Library, Clapp Laboratory, Blanchard Hall, the Kendall Sports Complex, and the Equestrian Center. The College also purchased much of the retail space in South Hadley Center after several fires destroyed the College Inn, the Odyssey Bookshop, and many other businesses in 1985-1986. A new Village Commons complex for shopping, dining, and leisure activities, designed by noted architect Graham Gund, opened in 1988. Funds from the capital campaign were also used to increase faculty salaries and financial aid to students, create a number of endowed chairs for faculty, support research by both faculty and students, and establish many new programs at the College. These programs include those in Asian studies, computer science, critical social thought, environmental studies, European studies, international relations, Jewish studies, and women's studies; the Frances Perkins Program for women of non-traditional age who wish to complete the requirements for a B.A. degree; and the SummerMath Programs for teachers and high school students. In 1982, Mount Holyoke was one of ten colleges to receive a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the development of courses to increase technological literacy among its students. In 1983, Kennan supported the introduction of a required Third World course in which students studied some aspect of the history and culture of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, or non-white people of North America.
Kennan married Mount Holyoke history professor Michael Burns in 1986 and retired as President of the College at the end of June, 1995. While in that office, she served as President of the Five Colleges consortium from 1985-1994 and was an active member of many organizations including the Women's College Coalition, American Council on Education Commission on Governmental Relations, the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges, the Women's College Coalition, and Northeast Utilities, Mediaeval Academy of America's executive council, National Endowment for the Humanities Board of Consultants, the oversight committee for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the board of trustees of the University of Notre Dame, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Bell Atlantic, Shawmut Bank, and Putnam Investments. She received many awards during her career, including honorary degrees from Trinity College, Oxford University, Amherst College, Smith College, Oberlin College, St. Mary's College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Catholic University of America, and Mount Holyoke. She has also written extensively on topics both in higher education and medieval studies and in 2000 co-authored a mystery novel, Overnight Float, with former Smith College President Jill Ker Conway.
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Kennan, Elizabeth T.; medieval historian, author, college and university professor and administrator. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1960. Records concern activities, issues, and events during her administration as President of Mount Holyoke College (1978-1995) and also include materials from her years as a Mount Holyoke student (1956-1960) and from the administrations of her immediate predecessor David Bicknell Truman (President, 1969-1978) and successor Joanne V. Creighton, who took office in 1996. Records consist of correspondence; her published or unpublished writings; subject files; records of Mount Holyoke's Development Office; records relating to honorary degree candidates; materials concern faculty member James Ellis; records relating to a United States Justice Department investigation of the financial aid practices of a number of colleges and universities; records of the Administrative Advisory Council, Senior Staff, Operational Policy Committee, and Presidential Search Committee; biographical material; photographs; audiocassettes; and video recordings.
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Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:Mount Holyoke College Office of the President. Elizabeth T. Kennan Records, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. https://aspace.fivecolleges.edu/repositories/2/resources/465 Accessed January 21, 2020.


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Corrigendum to "Sobolev estimates for averaging operators over a convex hypersurface in R3" [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 412 (1) (2014) 244-268]
Sunggeum Hong, Ya-Ryong Heo, Chan Woo Yang
The proof of Proposition 1.1 in S. Hong et al. (2014) [3] is erroneous and we reprove it.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.11.002
Averaging Operators
Hypersurface
L→L estimates
Sobolev regularity
Hong, S., Heo, Y-R., & Yang, C. W. (2015). Corrigendum to "Sobolev estimates for averaging operators over a convex hypersurface in R3" [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 412 (1) (2014) 244-268]. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 423(2), 1867-1871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.11.002
Corrigendum to "Sobolev estimates for averaging operators over a convex hypersurface in R3" [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 412 (1) (2014) 244-268]. / Hong, Sunggeum; Heo, Ya-Ryong; Yang, Chan Woo.
In: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 423, No. 2, 2015, p. 1867-1871.
Hong, S, Heo, Y-R & Yang, CW 2015, 'Corrigendum to "Sobolev estimates for averaging operators over a convex hypersurface in R3" [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 412 (1) (2014) 244-268]', Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 423, no. 2, pp. 1867-1871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.11.002
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Amid furor over senator's comments, colleagues try to get hearings on racism back on track
By: Marty Schladen - June 17, 2020 12:40 am
Many vehicles in traffic traveled with Columbus protest marchers Sunday carrying signs in support. Photo by Marty Schladen.
Comments last week by Ohio Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, are probably the one thing Americans are most likely to know about the Ohio Senate right now.
But while Huffman's comments were, to put it charitably, racially insensitive, other members of the Health, Human Services and Medicaid Committee worry that the national media response to them has obscured the purpose of the hearing during which they occurred.
That was to talk about racism and bias in Ohio.
"To me 11 hours was so beyond one misguided question," committee Chairman Dave Burke, R-Marysville, said last week.
Called in the wake of the May 25 killing of an unarmed Black man at the hands of the Minneapolis police, the June 9 hearing in Ohio was to discuss a resolution to declare racism a public-health crisis. Scores of elected officials, health experts, activists and regular citizens were there to speak.
Hours in, Angela Dawson, executive director of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, testified about racial health disparities and how they made the Black community more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Huffman, a physician, told Dawson he understood how chronic health conditions made Black people more likely to die from the disease, but he wanted to know why they are more likely to get it in the first place.
"Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups or wear a mask or do not socially distance themselves? That could be the explanation of the higher incidence?" the Dayton Daily News reported Huffman as asking.
The story went viral, with national publications such as the Washington Post picking it up. Huffman was fired from his job as an emergency room doctor the next day. He apologized, saying in a Facebook post that his "choice of words was unacceptable and hurtful."
A Black member of the committee, Sen. Cecil Thomas, D-Cincinnati, on Tuesday said the episode and the fallout show the need for such hearings to go forward.
He said Huffman and many others have focused on Huffman's use of "colored" to refer to Black people. But while that choice of words is offensive in 2020, Thomas said, even more offensive is the idea that Huffman conveyed.
"I was taken aback," Thomas said. "He did not understand that for hundreds of years, Black people have been conceived by members of the white community as dirty, not clean, they are irresponsible and all these other things and he just played right into why we needed to have these hearings."
Burke, the committee chairman, agreed they should go forward and said that Huffman shouldn't be silenced. He said reconciliation of the country's racial past is going to take a long time.
"But I don't see how you're ever going to start that process if you can't converse," Burke said.
He added that everybody is starting the process at their own level — including himself. Burke said several witnesses' testimony helped him to understand the depth of distrust many in the African American community have for the police.
"They are raised and they raise their children in a certain way (in respect to) law enforcement," he said. "They start off in a suppressed and defensive position. Keep your hands out of your pockets. Look down. Don't reach for anything. These are things I never thought of."
And that knowledge, Burke said, helped him appreciate the courage it took for an average Black citizen just to come testify.
"If criminal justice and police are your problem, driving two-and-a-half hours, trying to find a parking space, to walk into an old Supreme Court building, past the Highway Patrol, through a metal detector, into a room and stand at a podium by yourself and tell a group of pretty much white people your Black story," he said. "Those people are freaking heroes. That's the most unwelcoming environment you can have if police are your fear."
Thomas, a former Cincinnati police officer who helped lead a court battle to diversify the force, said it was obvious to him that Huffman said what he did because that's how he converses with his peers.
Huffman's office didn't respond to a request for comment, but Thomas said that he encouraged his colleague to face the press and continue his work on the committee.
"I would respect him for coming back and saying, 'I'm learning,' and I think a lot of other people would respect that as well," Thomas said. "If he expresses the sincere desire to learn about his own implicit bias, he can make life better for someone else."
More broadly, Thomas said he wanted the committee and witnesses to freely express their ideas about race even if they might worry they're biased.
"It's an uncomfortable place to be to have a conversation about racism," he said.
Burke and Thomas said this is a special moment to have a conversation about race and it's vital to keep the fallout from Huffman's comments from stopping it.
Burke said he wants to hold another hearing in Columbus and then go out into Ohio communities so people don't have to drive all the way to Columbus and run a security gauntlet to tell their stories. Thomas said he wants to see legislative action while the urgency persists.
As the committee discusses race and bias, it's unclear whether it will tackle an elephant in the room — President Donald Trump's long history of racially charged words and gestures.
"I don't know how it impacts this conversation," Burke said.

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TRUCK DRIVER SHORTAGE SKYROCKETS IN EUROPE
April 29, 2022 Joel Helmes Truck and Bus News
The numbers are astounding. Data shows the truck driver shortage has grown to up to 425,000 unfilled positions currently in Europe.
An almost global phenomenon, including here in Australia, road freight businesses are struggling to fill driver seats.
The latest European Road Freight Report (Q1 2022) from the International Road Transport Union (IRU) says the war in Ukraine has made things even worse.
These shortages have been worsened by the war, with over 228,000 non-EU truck drivers operating in Europe in 2021, many from Ukraine and Belarus.
Just like in Australia, it's also becoming more expensive to ship goods by road.
The report shows a 4.3% increase in European road freight rates to an all-time high.
Rising cost pressures, supply and capacity disruptions, regulatory change, and the war created a potent mix of rate drivers.
And, not surprisingly, rising fuel costs are a major driver of those higher rates. Operators in Europe are experiencing a more than 50% increase in the cost of diesel this year, compared to last.
Freight rates are expected to remain elevated through 2022 as volatility from inflation and the fallout from the war in Ukraine continue to increase costs, though as inflation takes hold overall demand may decrease, relieving upward pressure on rates.
Thomas Larrieu is the CEO of digital data transport platform, Upply, says it's been a perfect storm of factors in Europe.
"The European road freight market has been marked since 2021 by an inflationary dynamic: freight rates are gradually increasing, and this trend shows no signs of abating.
"In addition to the factors that have been known for several months (dynamic demand with the reopening of the post-Covid economies, rising fuel prices, pressure on capacities, and driver shortages), there is now a parameter that is exogenous to the usual problems of the sector: the war in Ukraine.
"This conflict is disrupting European supply chains, affecting driver availability, and causing an unprecedented spike in fuel costs."
MAINFREIGHT HEADS FOR A ZERO EMISSION SUM
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SCANIA RUNS AROUND THE CLOCK
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The main sponsor is a grassroots organization, Islamic Circle of North America.
The ads, simple black-and-white panels, will feature key words or phrases about Islam on one side of the panel such as "Head Scarf?" or "Prophet Muhammad?" and the words "You deserve to know" along with the website address WhyIslam.org on the other side.
"The idea is to evoke certain thoughts in the mindset of the person who is looking at the ads and get them to a point where they can reflect upon certain words that one could define as hot words or keywords that get thrown around a lot but are not necessarily defined in the most proper context," said New York University's Imam Khalid Latif, a cleric who is promoting the project in a YouTube video created by the Islamic Circle.
Another of the backers of the advertising campaign — which will launch in September to coincide with the monthlong Islamic holiday of Ramadan — is Siraj Wahhaj, imam of a Brooklyn mosque.
Wahhaj, who stars in the low-quality YouTube video, was designated a potential co-conspirator during the trial of blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and his followers, who were convicted of plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning subsequent attacks on New York City landmarks. He later served as a character witness for Rahman. Wahhaj is also known for promoting polygamy, questioning Osama bin Laden's role in 9/11, touting the virtues of martyrdom, and warning that the United States will fall unless it "accepts the Islamic agenda."
The Islamic Circle of North America is equally troubling. ICNA has close ties to Jamaat-e-Islami, a Pakistani arm of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, and is identified in a MB memo as a friendly organization that could help Muslims "understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within." In addition, ICNA has been investigated as part of a U.S. Senate terror fundraising probe and may have recently funneled money to Hamas. WhyIslam.org, the ICNA-run website to which travelers will be sent, has been described by Americans Against Hate chairman Joe Kaufman as laced with "anti-Semitism, homophobia, terrorism, and misogyny."
Contemplate this: unless the Metropolitan Transportation Authority drops the campaign, as Congressman Peter King has demanded, subway riders headed to Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11 will find themselves surrounded by ads from terror-linked Islamists.


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Velma Joyce Callaway Brown Beardslee, 85, of Cassville, passed away at her home on Friday, March 22, 2019.
She was born Sept. 27, 1933, to Jesse Preston and Vada Dell (Glocksien) Callaway in Eureka Springs, Ark. On Jan. 24, 1953, she married Billy Carl Brown and to their union seven children were born. In 1989, she married Earl Beardslee.
She graduated from Cassville High School Class of 1951.
Preceding her in death were her parents; two husbands; one son, Billy Brown; a great granddaughter; and one grandson.
Survivors include: three daughters, Loretta Jane Gabriel (Kenny) of Butler, Joanne Owens (Denny) of Aurora, and Barbara Wallen (Dwayne) of El Dorado Springs; three sons, Bob Brown (Carla) of Monett, Jerry Brown (Brenda) of Nevada, and Jim Brown of Cassville; one brother, J L Callaway (Myra) of Exeter; one sister, Shirley Moore of Hondo, Texas, and one daughter-in-law, Renee Brown of Springfield; 16 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
Services were held Tuesday, March 26, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Dr. Chuck Terrill conducted the services. Burial was at Sparks Cemetery in Butterfield.


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Bristol Rovers player ratings for the 2018/19 season so far: Bonham outstanding, but lots of mediocrity
A closer look at how individuals have performed for The Gas this season
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So with more than a quarter of the season gone Bristol Live has taken a look at how Bristol Rovers' players have got on so far this season.
Rovers manager Darrell Clarke is demanding a lot more out of his players as the club look to climb the table from 21st place but this is where they are at the moment.
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Jack Bonham - 9
The outstanding performer of the season by a country mile. The keeper on loan from Brentford has been so good he has been attracting international attention from the Republic of Ireland.
Sam Slocombe - 5
He started as Rovers' first choice keeper but has now departed for League Two Lincoln City where he is not starting.
Adam Smith - 5
The back up keeper is destined for a long season on the bench, with Bonham playing every game since he has arrived.
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Daniel Leadbitter - 5
The left back is perhaps suffering from not being given a run of games. He has been generally solid but his major downfall is his final product crossing after getting into great positions.
Tom Lockyer - 6
The skipper had a slow start to the season, struggling in the air in August. But the defence has improved of late and the Wales international was missed when he was out with concussion.
Tony Craig - 5
Craig has proven to be a useful player, fitting in at left back to cover injuries and playing midfield. He remains first choice at centre back but has been struggling in the air. He earned a point with a brave block on the line against Bradford City, even if he did use his arm.
James Clarke - 6
So far this season Clarke has played at left back, right back and centre back. He has not let himself down in any of those positions.
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Tom Broadbent - 5
The former soldier has struggled for game time this season. When he acts out of instinct and doesn't try to overplay he has looked good.
Joe Partington - 6
A welcome return after a long injury layoff. Partington provides some extra height at the back in a number of positions.
Michael Kelly - 6
The young Scot, 20, is having a break out season and has impressed since breaking into the side. He has been solid defensively and looks to offer something in attack as well and probably should have scored a couple of goals already.
Joe Martin - 5
After a terrible debut which saw him red carded Martin has put in some more assured performances but he looks too slow for this level of football.
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Ed Upson - 5
The midfielder who arrived this summer has been hot and cold. When his passing is on point he is a useful player to have in the side but sometimes it has gone astray.
Liam Sercombe - 7
The creative midfielder is yet to score this season and made a slow start to the season. He then injured his hamstring which ruled him out for a month but looked impressive on his return at Bradford. His best is yet to come.
Ollie Clarke - 7
Barring Bonham the central midfielder and has been Rovers' most consistent performer and is really developing his game. He perhaps need to choose his moments to shoot more carefully.
Chris Lines - 6
The central midfielder has been playing well enough but the midfield in general is guilty of not playing enough forward balls to create chances.
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Stuart Sinclair - 6
Sinclair missed the start of the season with a knee injury and his presence was missed. He has come in and added some bite but lacks the quality in the final third which is really needed.
Sam Matthews 7
The winger has been the best buy of the summer and picked up a couple of man of the match awards but needs to improve his finishing. But he can certainly beat a player.
Kyle Bennett - 6
No end product. Bennett looks better when playing centrally rather than out wide but one goal in 14 appearances this season is a little disappointing.
Alex Rodman - 5
It has been a slow start for Rodman since moving from Shrewsbury this summer but after recovering from an injury he returned with renewed vigor against Yeovil Town. But he still has a lot to prove.
Stefan Payne of Bristol Rovers warms up at Rochdale (Image: Robbie Stephenson/JMP)
Stefan Payne - 5
After a goalscoring debut Payne has scored just one more goal, and that was from the penalty spot away at his previous club Shrewsbury. Now the other strikers which arrived this summer are now beginning to be given chances in his place.
Tom Nichols - 4
13 games, no goals. Strikers are judged by their goals and he doesn't have any. His build-up play has been good at times and he has hit the bar and post, he just needs one to go in.
Gavin Reilly - 5
The Scottish striker got off the mark against Coventry City in the 3-1 win. He has looked sharp at times but can get isolated out of games.
Alex Jakubiak - 6
The man on loan from Watford, still just 22, looks the most dangerous of Rovers' arsenal of strikers and has scored twice in the Checkatrade Trophy. He needs a bit more time in the first team and not just from the bench.
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Stetson Wright Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Nationality, Biography
Stetson Wright is an expert bull rider and has risen no. 1 rodeo champion on the planet. He comes from a group of riders who has been riding for a couple of years and have prevailed upon many titles the course of their years.
Besides, he dazed everybody in December last year by keeping down to-back three big showdown titles to his name.
Wright won the seat bronc riding title at Cheyenne Frontier Days by riding Championship Pro Rodeo's Flutter for 90 focuses.
Stetson Wright and his significant other CallieRey Lowe's age contrast has been the subject of sensation.
Stetson is 22 years old as he was born on 1 August 1999 and for his better half, CallieRey, her date of birth still can't seem to be uncovered. They are together throughout recent years and hitched when he was just 21 years of age.
Their age contrast probably won't be much as they have an extraordinary comprehension of each other and the stuff to assemble a steady home.
Stetson with his regular ability, difficult work, and experience has turned into the best rider of his age.
CallieRey is a design model and together they have a child named Kingsley Rey. Up to this point we don't have the foggiest idea about the subtleties of their marriage, where it occurred, or when it occurred.
The Young American bull rider, Stetson Wright has an expected total assets of more than $1 million dollars starting at 2021. Starting at 2020, he had $422 thousand worth of dollars.
However the bull rider's particular total assets is yet to be affirmed, his all out pay in 2021 remained at about $422,000 dollars. His whole income per the sources uncovered is $764,777 dollars.
Though his dad, Cody Wright has a total assets of $45 million dollars.
Starting at 2 March, Stetson was positioned 24 in the PRCA/RAM World Standings for bull riding with $17 thousand dollars and 27 in saddle bronc riding with $10 thousand dollars.
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He is the third in the overall standings with $21,946 dollars.
Stetson Wright was born to guardians Cody Wright and Sharee Wright. He has three brothers Rusty, Ryder, and Statler, and one sister, Lily.
His dad, Cody Wright is a double cross best on the planet saddle bronc rider in 2008 and 2010, while his brother, Ryder likewise has won two world titles in 2017 and 2020.
He has a place with the group of riders as his uncles, Jesse Wright and Spencer Wright are best on the planet saddle bronc riders in 2012 and in 2014 individually.
In addition, Stetson is the main individual from the Wright family to contend in bull riding.
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Ніклас Гайргофер (,  11 лютого 2000) — австрійський футболіст, захисник клубу «Штурм» (Грац).

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Народився 11 лютого 2000 року. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Штурм» (Грац). З 2018 року став виступати за резервну команду, що грала у Регіональній лізі, взявши участь у 29 матчах чемпіонату.

22 лютого 2020 року Ніклас дебютував за першу команду «Штурму» у австрійській Бундеслізі, зігравши у матчі проти клубу «Адміра Ваккер Медлінг» (2:0). 22 вересня 2021 року в поєдинку Кубка Австрії проти «Гоенемса» (4:0) Ніклас забив свій перший гол за «Штурм». Станом на 31 липня 2022 року відіграв за команду з Граца 28 матчів в національному чемпіонаті.

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From Hunting Reserve to Wildlife Sanctuary – Kyrgyzstan tries innovative conservation program
The Snow Leopard Trust, Snow Leopard Foundation Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz Department of Hunting and Natural Resource Management are piloting a new, innovative conservation program: they are turning a hunting concession, where ibex were commercially hunted, into a co-managed nature reserve.
by Snow Leopard Trust December 28, 2015 September 25, 2016
Press Release, Seattle/Bishkek, Dec. 28, 2015
The 100 square mile former concession area, Shamshy, in Kyrgyzstan's northern Tian Shan mountains, is home to ibex, and seasonal populations of argali and wolves. It lies within a large snow leopard landscape, and has the potential to become a key part of the home ranges of several of these endangered cats if its wild ungulate population could be increased.
Ibex are a key snow leopard prey species. In Shamshy, they can thrive undisturbed in the future (photo: K. McCarthy)
Shamshy's ibex used to be hunted commercially – but now, they will be allowed to thrive and recover undisturbed, as hunting will no longer be allowed. This comes as part of a pilot project that aims to turn the former hunting concession into a new type of reserve, co-managed by the government, conservation NGOs, and local people.
"With proper protection and management, the area's ibex population could double or even triple in the next 10 years, so it could become an important feeding ground for the local snow leopard population", says Charu Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust's Science & Conservation Director.
The new wildlife sanctuary has the potential to become an important snow leopard feeding ground (photo: SLF Kyrgyzstan)
An Idea Born Out of the Trophy Hunting Debate
Commercial big game hunting, often referred to as 'trophy hunting', is a revenue source for many countries around the world, and a hotly debated topic in conservation circles. Advocates of trophy hunting say that selling licenses to hunt big game generates funds, which can be used for conservation projects, while opponents fear that it adds to the pressure many species are already under, and also question the ethics of the practice.
The idea of turning a former hunting concession into a nature reserve was born out of this debate.
Charu Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust's Science & Conservation Director
"In a hunting concession, the company that leases and manages the area would have the exclusive right to sell a stipulated number of licenses given out by the hunting department to shoot argali or ibex to any interested party – and they'd have the right to protect their interests e.g. by employing rangers. In our case, we'll have similar rights, but we won't sell any hunting licenses, and we'll have rangers patrolling the area to make sure that there's no hunting at all. We will also work with local people in the surrounding region, initiate community-based programs that they can benefit from, and strengthen their support for conservation", Charu Mishra says.
The area will be used for research, education and limited ecotourism – camera trap population surveys of snow leopards, and distribution and abundance surveys of ibex and other species; and also law enforcement trainings for park rangers, and possibly nature camps for local children are slated for the coming years.
This new, innovative approach is made possible by a partnership between the Snow Leopard Trust, Snow Leopard Foundation Kyrgyzstan, and the Department of Hunting and Natural Resource Management under the State Agency for Environment Protection and Forestry of the Kyrgyz Republic, which issues hunting concessions and licenses in the Central Asian country.
"More Forests, Stronger Health, Longer Life" – a sign at the entrance to the former hunting concession raises awareness for nature conservation.
"It is our duty to manage the natural resources of the Kyrgyz Republic sustainably", says Musaef Almaz, the Department of Hunting and Natural Resource Management's Director. "This means finding a healthy balance between hunting and conservation. We believe that this innovative idea of co-managing some of our concessions with partners such as the Snow Leopard Trust and the local people has a lot of potential."
More Reserves Could Be Added in the Future
For this pilot, the Hunting Department has forfeited the cost of the hunting licenses that could have been sold in this area, had it been rented out to a commercial outfit. All partners will share expertise, the cost of training, equipment and salaries for the rangers, as well as any other costs that arise from the co-management of the area.
Shamshy is an ideal spot for the pilot. It offers natural features that make it a good habitat for a wide range of species. "Shamshy has a bit of everything – the terrain gradually changes from lush meadows and thick forests along a crystal clear stream to grassland, and finally to steep, rocky peaks covered in glaciers", says Kuban Jumabai uulu, the Director of the Snow Leopard Foundation Kyrgyzstan.
A small mountain paradise, and a future snow leopard stronghold!
While the area is fairly easy to access by road, there are only two conceivable entry points into the reserve, it's feasible to monitor and patrol the area with a small team of rangers drawn from the local communities around.
"Local people are crucial partners for any conservation initiative", Kuban Jumabai uulu says, "they will retain their right to graze their animals in Shamshy, albeit in an informed and systematically managed way".
Kuban Jumabay uulu (left), the director of SLF Kyrgzystan, and Emil Djaparov, a local ranger employed to patrol Shamshy
"We're looking forward to seeing the results of this approach" says Musaef Almaz "If it works as well as we expect, we will expand it to other hunting concession areas in the future together."
Charu Mishra agrees: "This pilot can be a great start to a promising new conservation approach that could really make a difference for Kyrgyzstan's wildlife."
This project has support from: Woodland Park Zoo and Partnership Funding by Fondation Segre, managed by Whitley Fund for Nature.
Snow Leopard Foundation in Kyrgyzstan
Leading the fight for the future of the endangered snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, the Snow Leopard Foundation partners with international organizations such as the Snow Leopard Trust to better understand and protect this cat in this key range country.
The Snow Leopard Trust, based in Seattle, WA, is a world leader in conservation of the endangered snow leopard, conducting pioneering research and partnering with communities as well as authorities in snow leopard habitat to protect the cat.
www.snowleopard.org
Posted in Kyrgyzstan, Media, News, Press Releases, ResearchTagged Conservation, hunting concession, ibex, Kyrgyzstan, reserve, shamshy
Phoebe Weseley says:
What sort of ecotourism is available that will support your work?
matthias says:
Hi Phoebe. Thanks for commenting, and for your question! As we're still in the very early stages of setting up the reserve, we can't really say much about what kind of ecotourism will be possible in the area, but it's definitely something we're hoping to get a more clear idea of in the next months. The area is certainly great for mountain hiking, and should also be an excellent spot for wildlife watching. We'll do our best to keep you updated!
Thanks and happy 2016!
Matt, SLT Communications Manager
Lesley Day says:
What a wonderful project. Congratulations
This is excellent for our snow leopards, as well as the other animals. We need to do more to make people understand how important it is to save our wildlife. There need to be more conservation areas and more people wanting to save wildlife before they're gone and no way to bring back
Josh Gross says:
This seems like an excellent idea, and I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I think this is great news and would love to support this in the future when this sanctuary is somewhere people can come to visit, learn about animals and their environment. Huge opportunity for ecotourism as Phoebe has pointed out, I think it will do very well.
Cheers and keep up the excellent work
Karin Holloway says:
Involving local people and working as a group, conservation and government together with the community, is fantastic. I hope you'll also have big financial backers to help out too. Yeah!
Sarah Flamach says:
This is awesome news! Wishing much success in the pilot program and eventually expanding the reserve even more. Trophy hunting – in most all cases – is NOT conservation. That is all.
Karen L. Sidley says:
I would be interested in attending a photography expedition of this area. It would be thrilling to see and photograph ibex and snow leopards (and other animals that are around). Please keep me informed about any events like this.
Steve Gluck says:
Dumb. The hunting community protects more habitat and more animals than all conservation groups combined. We should be doing the opposite – returning hunting rights in preserves where they have been banned. Oh well …
It wouldn't surprise me, though, if a few Kyrgyzs are being paid-off by the SLT to implement this stupid plan.
Hi Steve. Thanks for commenting.
Your allegations of bribery are not only unhelpful for this debate, but also needlessly insulting to a people and government who are taking a lead role in snow leopard conservation, have been responsible for facilitating the Bishkek declaration for conservation (http://www.globalsnowleopard.org), and are hosting the Global Snow Leopard Secretariat. Beyond that, I would like to share a few thoughts in reply to other parts of your comment:
As you certainly know, there's no single panacea for conservation. We're not claiming that Protected Areas are a perfect solution everywhere, which I believe becomes very clear to anyone who takes the time to inform themselves on our conservation approach and philosophy (http://snowleopard.org/learn/community-based-conservation). All single approaches, including trophy hunting or even Protected Areas, have been inadequate to halt the rapid decline and extinction of biodiversity, because they all tend to ignore certain stakeholders and their needs. Clearly, there is a need for multiple approaches.
Our effort here is not an attempt to close down or ban hunting across the board, but to engage constructively with stakeholders (in this case, the local community and the government hunting department) for conservation. The fact that we're partnering with the Hunting Department in this initiative should be a clear indication of this intent.
Conservation needs constructive debate and action, and while criticism is welcome, calling names doesn't help – so I'd like to invite you to continue this conversation, but in a more respectful manner. Thank you.
Matt Fiechter, SLT Communications Manager
Stefan Avramov says:
It is not clever to deny the role of the trophy hunting for the conservation of species and their habitats.
The hunting managers must stop or decrease radically all poaching in the region if they want to carry out trophy hunting business. If the management is well organized then the trophy hunting could bring fantastic results for nature conservation – you can see many examples for this in Africa and Asia and even in Europe!
The only way to stop sustainable the trophy hunting is to replace the trophy hunters with wildlife photographers and other similar tourists. They could also bring incomes for the local communities and protected site management. I can not understand why you plan to develop only restricted ecotourism? If you did not succeed to bring more incomes to the locals then your idea will fail earlier or later….
Hi Stefan. Thanks for your comment.
We're not denying that well managed trophy hunting, wherever it is culturally appropriate and based on revenue sharing with local people, can help conservation. Our project does not assume that well managed trophy hunting is unhelpful.
We also agree that bringing income to local people is critical. However, in our view, beyond the fact that hunting is certainly not the only way to do so; generating income alone isn't enough. Conservation is not an exclusively economic issue.
There is a strong need for promoting awareness, involving local people in wildlife management, and strengthening their association and pride with wildlife as well. We do this through programs like Ecosystem health, where we assist local communities in building vaccination programs for their livestock, through Snow Leopard Enterprises, a handicraft-for-conservation program; through corral improvement initiatives, community-based livestock insurance programs, education for both children and adults, and more. (Info: http://snowleopard.org/learn/community-based-conservation).
Without such a multi-pronged approach, there's little hope for conservation of a landscape species such as the snow leopard, where an individual cat can safely spend the day in a well managed hunting concession or Protected Area, but can easily find itself in a highly poached area within a few hours of movement.
We will be exploring such community-based conservation initiatives in Shamshy and surrounding regions, not just limited ecotourism. "Limited" in this case does not mean less money – it means sustainable and efficient use of resources. There are numerous examples of well-intended ecotourism that contributed to the decline of ecosystems because it wasn't well managed (too many people, too much traffic, too much garbage left behind, too much pollution…) – we're making every effort to avoid this and stick to best practices, all of which suggest limiting the number of visitors.
Like any other community engagement, these things take time, especially if the communities are to be true and equal partners in the effort.
Jens says:
I think the initiative is very good and I hope it is going to spread to more areas. I have been in Ladakh, India to photograph snow leopards and it was fantastic and I hope more people can experience the wonderful cats and also the people living in the area.
Thank you Matt for your engagement and I hope you get a prosperous 2016.
Here is one very good article about the trophy hunting – https://theconversation.com/big-game-banning-trophy-hunting-could-do-more-harm-than-good-52854
I cannot understand the trophy hunters, I think that they could do the same with photo camera and the killing of the animals is not good. But they could pay huge amount of money in order to make their hobby.
I think that the only way sustainable to eliminate the hunting is to attract enough wildlife photographers and watchers. They will pay less money per person but if the number of the photographers and watchers is enough high then they will be able to replace the lost incomes from the hunting in sustainable way. We try to do something similar in Bulgaria, Europe with Balkan Chamois and Capercaillie and I hope that in 20 years we will change the situation in some regions.
I will be happy to visit your reserve in the future. My hobby is wildlife photography and I will be happy to photograph the nature of Kyrgyzstan.
Keeth says:
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Kvng Ross says:
Good informational source
satish yadav says:
hi i m satish yadav .i am really impressed your blog because when someone visit yor website they have got different kinds of knowladge.
Hunting for a trophy will never be something proper or ethical. Killing animals just for fun is simply horrible and bad. True humanity it's being responsible, it is a great effort and taking care of nature and the environment at every step and in every field. And please do not say that the hunting industry is good, because this is just an another industry – to make money by people at the expense of animals that have no chance to defend themselves. It is time to wake up and be responsible, and stop thinking about getting rich and gaining for own joy or profit. Being human means you need to work hard and sacrifice for others.
Rami says:
Dear team, thank you for your great work in saving this amazing creature..
Would love to visit the site and it would be a dream to see the Snow Leopard with my own eyes <3
Much love <3
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Judas Ghost brings to the screen author Simon R.Green's acclaimed 'Ghost Finders' series. In it, a team of professional ghost finders find themselves trapped in an old village hall. The haunting they set out to investigate turns out to be far worse than they anticipated. Who will survive and what will be left of their souls?


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The first thing you should do is to make sure your router is secure. When you first purchased it, the password was already set. This password is generally something very easy, such as Admin, and some routers do not require a password at all. This makes it very easy for a hacker to break into your network.
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love and humanity." — wow, this is big. I tear up with you Sista!
Well deserved, Jamaica! Where would we be without raggae and Bob Marley!
I'm originally from Belize, but the years I've lived in Japan surpass those I lived in my native land.
I also read your About Page and loved it. And I'm assuming those are your children. So beautiful, all of them.
And you, author of children's books! What a dream title you have. Keep going. This is amazing!
Nice to make your acquaintance here at W2P. Though you're way ahead of me, do let me know how I can be of help to you. It'd be a pleasure.
So true Peta Gaye. We were and still are conditioned through our colonialized history, much of which continues today in subtle ways. We do need to be proud of our heritage and yes, we have such a long way to go.


"Why don't some people have homes?" "Why do we donate money to help people?" "Why doesn't everyone have enough food?" When kids begin asking hard questions, they are ready to talk about social justice.
Social justice is a broad term for action intended to create genuine equity, fairness and respect among people, says licensed school psychologist Eleazer Cruz Eusebio, chair of the school psychology department at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Harvard University research shows that children can begin to harbor negative racial biases as early as 3 years old, thus caregivers should consider being intentional about teaching values like equity and inclusion early in life. Here's an age-by-age guide to communicating with kids about the issues shaping our world.
Toddlers and preschoolers are starting to learn about empathy, the experiences of others and how their actions impact those around them, making early childhood an ideal time to begin talking about social justice. Keep concepts simple. Focus on differences and similarities in people your child knows with messages of inclusion and equity. For example, you could say: "Each person's body has different abilities. Some people walk with their legs. Your friend Sam uses a wheelchair to get around. That restaurant table has a space for a wheelchair.
For a classroom of preschoolers, having interactive group conversations and setting up role-playing scenarios that focus on basic differences and similarities are healthy, productive ways to address false stereotypes, and may even help prevent potential discrimination and bullying, Eusebio says.
By elementary school, children can handle the concept that the world isn't always fair, and that some people don't get what they need, so others should step in to help.
Around ages 10 and 11, kids can really begin to embrace these concepts, says Jessica Hulick, founder and executive director of Social Justice Storytime, which strives to promote an inclusive community by creating a space for children and families to learn and discuss contemporary issues through storytime. At family storytimes in Durham and surrounding communities, Hulick and other volunteers aim to create a space where families can learn about issues, such as bullying, gender identity, immigrant and refugee rights, racial equity and family structures through children's literature. Though the events were designed for kids under age 8, Hulick quickly found that fourth- and fifth-graders were highly engaged in the conversations. Caregivers can continue these conversations at home by answering questions honestly, providing factual information and encouraging reflection about what constitutes fairness.
The moment older kids step into social media, they are deluged with persuasive messages about race, gender, immigration and more, including blatant racial stereotypes and sexually degrading messaging, along with graphic, violent images connected to contemporary world issues. Because teens are absorbing these media messages almost constantly, it's essential that caregivers talk to them about the violence they're seeing, Eusebio says.
Encourage teens to expand their media use beyond social platforms. Podcasts and radio can provide topical, current information about social justice, activism and news without displaying graphic violence. Ask teens how they would address problems in their community, including economic inequality, racial tension or homelessness, to open the door to a dialogue around social justice.
"Open and respectful conversation is the best formula for raising peaceful, concerned and proactive children," Eusebio says.
Malia Jacobson is a nationally published health journalist and mom.


E ntering Gil-ad Stern's Jerusalem art studio, I'm transfixed by a pair of eyes — wise, discerning, and deep — that seem to pop out of the huge canvas standing on the easel. It's a larger-than-life painting of the gaon and tzaddik, Rav Moshe Shapira ztz"l, one of the greatest thinkers of the generation, and whose portrait has become Stern's claim to fame.
Gil-ad Stern was born in Baltimore during the year his father, a chemist at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot, relocated with his family to the US to complete a postdoctorate program. The following year, the family returned to Rechovot, where young Gil-ad attended cheder. When he was 14, he enrolled in Yeshivas Chochmas Shlomo, and then continued on to Yeshivas Bircas Yosef in Bnei Brak.
"I've loved to draw for as long as I can remember," he says. "When I was three, I'd ask my father to draw me elephants and horses, and after school, we'd sit down and draw together." During his years in cheder, he always seemed to be sketching something on the side, but by the time he entered yeshivah, he'd decided to put away his pencils and pastels — he was a serious student and didn't want the distractions.
When he was 18, he left Bnei Brak for Jerusalem and settled into the Mir, but serious drawing still wasn't on his radar, except for a sketch here and there. Still, one of those drawings from his yeshivah days hangs in his workshop: two fans next to a Borsalino hat box. "There's something about that picture that just captures the yeshivah experience," Stern says.


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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
That's what you call karma and it's pronounced Ha! In 1979 young Donna (Lily James), Tanya (Jessica Keenan Wynn) and Rosie (Alexa Davis) graduate from Oxford University — leaving Donna free to embark on a series of adventures throughout Europe starting in Paris where she has a one-night stand with Harry (Hugh Skinner). She feels her destiny lies in Greece, specifically on the island of Kalokairi. She misses the ferry and hitches a ride on a boat owned by handsome Swede Bill (Josh Dylan) who drops her off to participate in a race but promises to return. On the island she immediately feels at home and sings at the local taverna. During a storm she seeks help to rescue a horse on the property where she's squatting and English architect Sam (Jeremy Irvine) comes to her aid. They fall for one another and start a relationship – until she finds a photograph in his desk and he admits he's engaged. In the present day, Donna's daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has finished off the renovation Donna always dreamed of but her husband Sky (Dominic Cooper) is doing a hotel management course in New York and a storm threatens the opening party. Her plans to reunite with her mother's old friends and boyfriends on the Greek island may be scuppered although Dad (Pierce Brosnan) is at hand to help out … Crosscutting between past and present, drawing parallels between the mother and daughter, this aims to fill the awkward moral gaps the first film (and original musical) opened. It has cinematic ambition its shambolic predecessor lacked and the flaws are more obvious as a result. Written by director Ol Parker with Richard Curtis and using plot from Catherine Johnson's original this tells a lot of what we know. The choreography is horrible, the laughs cheap and most of the best songs were already used up so we get a lot of lesser tracks only diehard ABBA album owners might know: this really only gains momentum an hour in when Dancing Queen (finally!) gets a run through and the boyfriends in their present-day versions show up – thank goodness for Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard (who gets to wear a fat suit as his twin in a funny scene). Cher's much-trumpeted appearance as Streep's mother is brief but frightening – she looks like Lady Gaga (same surgeon, methinks). The Bjorns make surreptitious appearances early on; Meryl Streep's younger iteration has brown eyes (whoops) but she can sing; everyone sings, more or less; Andy Garcia is a Mexican managing the Bella Donna and guess who he used to date? And so on. Truly terrible. Resistance is futile.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Let me give you some advice. Assume everyone will betray you. And you will never be disappointed. Scrumrat Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) is separated from his girlfriend Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) on the planet Corellia and finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers led by Beckett (Woody Harrelson) and career criminal Val (Thandie Newton) and including a 196-year-old furry Wookie named Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo). Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany) with whom Qi'ra has now thrown in her lot as a kept woman, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to carry out a heist: the booty is a batch of valuable coaxium, the kind of hyperfuel that gets the big bucks these days. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission – the Millennium Falcon. As Qi'ra joins them on their mission, can she be trusted while a rebellion gets underway?… Let's forget for a moment that Disney are all about squeezing the lemon dry. The Star Wars Anthology Series continues with the most blatant sympathy plea ever: the origins story behind Han and Chewie teaming up, sci fi's most delectable meet cute. In fact, tonally this has a lot in common with Raiders of the Lost Ark but then it was written by Lawrence Kasdan (working here with son Jonathan) who did Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Raiders and The Force Awakens so we're in good hands: who knows Han better than this guy?! We find out how Han gets his name, how he and Chewie meet (cheers all round!), where he got the golden dice, how he meets dandyish smuggler Lando Calrissian (a welcome return albeit with Glover, who's terrific) and in the other most anticipated meet cute – seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time – and how he becomes its owner. Everything you really wanted to know, basically, is here in this SW primer, never mind the abortive milliennial trilogy. In fact this starts at a clip and mostly keeps it up in its own rackety style, with the literary names getting a payoff in a fight with a kind of sea monster out of Jules Verne: epic! You'll never mistake Ehrenreich for Solo (he looks too much like a young Orson Welles) but after a while you'll take this on its own merits as he reluctantly discovers he's not a complete rogue but a good guy against the background of a truly evil Empire. Interestingly for the principal female, Qi'ra is far from straightforward which will presumably lead us down some black holes in future outings even if Clarke is not convincing. If someone had never seen a Star Wars film (Heaven forfend) this would actually be a pretty good place to start even if I don't always love it, neither the way it looks (too dirty and grey a lot of the time) nor the pace which doesn't always maintain its consistency. Never mind the box office, feel the wit. Directed (eventually) by Ron Howard.
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Angels & Demons (2009)
The Pope has died. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church is in conclave in Vatican City and while tension mounts among the cardinals, the anxious waiting crowds anticipate the familiar puff of smoke alerting them to the decision about their new religious leader … Enough about the plot of Robert Harris' latest. This is Dan Brown's prequel to The Da Vinci Code which sees Tom Hanks (p)reappearing for director Ron Howard as Robert Langdon, hired by the Vatican to assist in solving the mystery of a kidnapping – four of the preferiti have been taken, apparently by a representative of the Illuminati. Over in Switzerland there's a problem at the Large Hadron Collider where they're messing with the God Particle and a vial of antimatter disappears. Irish priest Ewan McGregor is in temporary charge in Rome, with Stellan Skarsgard supplying a dose of Scandi noir scepticism as head of the Swiss Guard (sadly in civvies…) so the scene is set for the collision of religion with science, ancient sects with modern technology and a tour around Bernini's sculptures at high speed in the company of clever lady Ayelet Zurer … Oh my gosh they've gone and done it again, managing to turn a better book than DVC (everything's relative, even relativity) into another sow's ear. Gory, but you know, imagine if Mel Gibson had done it … And if you've just watched DVC and you think you're hearing things, yes that's Alfred Molina doing the narration. Rome looks stunning, as ever, even the bits made in Hollywood, because the bods in the Vatican thought it was sacrilege. Imagine if anyone had actually murdered a Pope. Oh, didn't they do that already?!
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The Great Lie (1941): I Ain't Gonna Lie on Maggie's Farm No More 2 comments
Rich country girl, Maggie (Bette Davis) loves Peter (George Brent). Peter loves Maggie, but he can't commit. In a weak and drunken moment, he marries Sandra (Mary Astor), a globe-trotting concert pianist. She's sort of awful though so when a paperwork glitch nullifies their marriage, Peter marries Maggie.
"You'll do."
All is happiness and light until Sandra drops a bombshell—she's pregnant. When Peter's plane is lost during a mapping expedition to the Amazon, Maggie has an idea. She'll take Sandra to a secluded cabin where she'll have her baby privately, then Maggie will claim the child as her own so the kid has a dad, at least on paper. The two women travel to Arizona, where Maggie takes care of the difficult Sandra during her pregnancy. When Maggie returns, she has a new baby with Peter's name.
"No, I don't have any eights!"
Despite her heartbreak at the loss of her husband, Maggie soldiers on and focuses on raising her son, who she names Peter, after his father. Maggie is a wonderful mother and young Pete thrives with the help of Maggie and maid superwoman, Violet (Hattie McDaniel). Things proceed swimmingly until Peter returns from the dead and eats the rest of the cast. I'm kidding, but that would be an interesting plot twist, wouldn't it?
"This is a human child, right?"
Peter comes back to Maggie and is overjoyed to see her and to meet his son. He's a loving and dedicated husband and father and he, Maggie, Young Pete, and Violet live happily ever after. Not so fast, bub. Sandra finds out Peter is back from the jungle and she wants him AND her baby. During a tense visit to Maggie's farm, Maggie has a head full of ideas that are drivin' her insane. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
"Don't trust her, Pete."
Anyway, Sandra threatens to tell Peter that Young Pete is hers, claiming Peter will leave Maggie since the baby is the only thing holding their marriage together. This is a film made in 1941 in which a boozy career woman has a child out of wedlock, so you can guess who wins.
"Dammit."
The Great Lie is a terrific melodrama with great performances by all the leads. Bette Davis is lovely as the good girl with confidence issues. In the beginning of the film, Maggie's idea of domestic bliss is a little too dull for Peter. He's not ready to settle down. Brent plays Peter as a bit of a playboy, but overall, he's a decent guy. When he finds out his marriage to Sandra isn't legal, he offers to remarry her. Of course, he wants her to give up a gig to do it. You could call that dirty pool, but she wants him to give up his job to follow her around while she plays concerts too. It's more like the two alpha personalities just don't mesh. I like how he handles the news about Young Pete, too.
"I double dog dare ya!"
Davis and Brent are good together. She always said Brent was her favorite leading man and the two were close on and off the set. They had a passionate affair, but stayed friends even after it ended, making eleven films together.
"Race ya!"
Brent is more talented than he gets credit for because he makes it look easy. He excels at playing the cad with a heart of gold. Clark Gable does that too, but I've always preferred Brent. He's smoother and doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve. Keeping his thoughts and feelings closer to the vest makes him more mysterious and more appealing.
"It's sweet of you to wait four years for me to commit, then watch me marry and impregnate someone else. Is supper ready?"
Mary Astor, as Sandra, is fantastic! She's a demanding prima donna with genuine talent who wants everything done yesterday. She's accustomed to getting her own way and is put out when anyone challenges her. She's not evil though. Astor could easily have played this as a one note character, but she gives Sandra depth. Maybe the marriage wouldn't have lasted, but not because Sandra doesn't love Peter. When Sandra sees Maggie, Peter, and Young Pete living so happily together, she wonders if she's made the right choice. The forties were not exactly the 'have it all' decade. Sandra has chosen a career and perhaps she has moments in hotel rooms in Sydney or Budapest when she regrets not having a family. The audience sees flashes of these thoughts as Sandra holds her baby.
The Great Lie is fleshed out by a cadre of veteran character actors. Lucile Watson, Jerome Cowen, Grant Mitchell, Russell Hicks, and the charismatic, Hattie McDaniel lend their enormous talents to the film. Warner Brother had an impressive well of talent to draw from and that's obvious when watching any film they made, especially in the 1940s.
"You're paying me scale?"
Edmund Goulding directed The Great Lie and two other Davis/Brent vehicles, Dark Victory and The Old Maid, along with a gang of other films, including the amazing, and completely different, Nightmare Alley and The Razor's Edge. This is a low-key melodrama with sympathetic characters who act like normal, flawed human beings. There are some noble moments, but overall, the story, written by Lenore Coffee from Polan Banks' novel, is realistic. Sure, everyone is rich and no one has to go to the bathroom, but it's a movie. The film also looks and sounds great thanks to Orry-Kelly's gowns and Max Steiner's music.
I was thinking this plot could have taken an entirely different path. What if Maggie brought Sandra out to Arizona to steal her baby, kill her, and bury her under a cactus? Then, Peter comes back to Maggie after fighting off piranha and anacondas and junk and finds out he has a baby. He's thrilled until detectives come calling at the farm asking where Maggie was for nine months a while back. Oh, and why were she and Sandra going to Arizona anyway? When a thirsty man, stranded in the desert, cuts open a saguaro to survive, he notices a woman's shoe poking out of the dry ground. After he makes it back to civilization, he tells the story to a doctor with ties to law enforcement. His friend, a local deputy with political aspirations, digs up he body, connects the dots, and bingo! Maggie's doin' hard time and Peter's looking for wife #3.
"These new taffeta jail duds are stunning."
I digress. The Great Lie is an entertaining story made by a talented director, a veteran cast of lead and character actors, and produced at the height of Warner Brothers' powers.
This is a good one.
Posted February 28, 2018 by Kerry Fristoe in Reviews
Tagged with 1940s films, Bette Davis, drama, Edmund Goulding, George Brent, Grant Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel, Jerome Cowen, Lenore Coffee, Lucile Watson, Mary Astor, Max Steiner, melodrama, Orry-Kelly, Polan Banks, Russell Hicks, The Great Lie, Warner Brothers
In This Our Life (1942) 20 comments
Stanley Timberlake takes. She (yes, Stanley is a she) drives too fast and lets others pay her fines. She spends money she doesn't have. She lies and when caught, bats her eyes coquettishly and does it again. She's demanding, immature and for some reason, irresistible to men. Bette Davis gets to play the bad girl in this film about a family nearly torn apart by the selfishness of one person and the family's unwillingness to stop her.
"What do you mean I can't have it?"
In the beginning we see Stanley flirt weirdly with her rich uncle William (Charles Coburn) in the hopes that he'll give her money. He does. He always does.
Stanley is about to marry Craig Fleming (George Brent), a lawyer who, according to William, has odd ideas about his practice. You see, Craig values the law over money and often takes cases from indigent clients. Creepy Uncle William cares a bit too much about Stanley's welfare, and very little about that of the rest of the Timberlake family. After all, Uncle William became rich by taking over the tobacco company owned by Stanley's father, Asa (Frank Craven) and reducing him to an employee. The Timberlakes still have their home, but now they need help from Stanley's sister, Roy (Olivia de Havilland) and her husband, Peter (Dennis Morgan) to pay the rent. Asa works hard at the office and at home. He has his hands full taking care of his overly dramatic, hypochondriac wife Lavinia (Billie Burke) and dealing with Stanley's shenanigans.
"My daughter's not a witch! You didn't say witch? Oh."
Asa takes solace in the fact that his daughter Roy is sensible and kind and married to a promising young doctor. Roy works as an interior decorator and she and Peter live in the family home too. They've put off finding a home of their own to help with the family's finances. Maybe they should have moved out sooner because Stanley wants Peter. They have an affair and decide to run away together.
"Have a nice business trip, dear." "Um yeah."
Stanley and Peter leave Richmond and head north to Baltimore to make a new start. In the film, the couple lives together while waiting for Peter's divorce which seems pretty risqué for 1942. Spoiled, demanding people seldom make good spouses and Stanley is no exception. She spends her days prettying herself and shopping and her nights dragging Peter out to nightclubs or pouting if he won't go.
"Tough day, Stanley. How 'bout a cocktail?"
Soon his work suffers and his drinking and her obliviousness take a toll on their marriage. Things go downhill from there.
They seem disenchanted.
Back in Richmond, Roy and Craig deal differently with their jilted status. Roy puts her energy into her work, while Craig falls apart. He stops going to work and gives up until by chance he meets Roy who convinces him to stop feeling sorry for himself and move on.
"Snap out of it."
You can guess what happens next. The two fall in love and everything goes swimmingly until Stanley returns home.
"It's all smooth sailing now."
With her marriage over and her former fiancé engaged to her sister, Stanley finds Richmond dull and confining so she tries to liven it up with a little attempted man-stealing and drunk driving.
This jukebox goes to 11.
That doesn't go over as well as you might think and once again Stanley's thoughtless actions cause tragedy. Now her family sees just how horrible Stanley is. Will Roy and Craig stay together? Will pervy Uncle William keep his hands to himself? Will Stanley get her comeuppance? I'm not telling. You have to watch the movie.
Bette Davis didn't love IN THIS OUR LIFE. She thought she was too old for the part and hated her wardrobe. She wanted to play the de Havilland part. She also had some health issues which slowed down production. Her star status allowed Davis to bring in costume designer Orry-Kelly. She also discovered Ernest Anderson who played Parry Clay. Anderson had never acted before but won raves for his portrayal of a black law student wrongly accused of a crime. Anderson gave the part the intelligence and dignity it needed and he went on to act in over forty film and television roles. He had some choice lines in the film. At one point Roy asks Parry why he wants to be a lawyer. He explains what being a colored man, in 1940s vernacular, meant.
"He can keep a job or he can lose a job, but he can't get any higher up so he's got to figure out something he can do that no one can take away."
Along with Anderson, the supporting cast includes the always stellar Hattie McDaniel as Parry's mother and Lee Patrick in a fun role as Stanley's partner in crime in Baltimore. John Huston directed IN THIS OUR LIFE on the heels of his wildly successful debut THE MALTESE FALCON. He didn't complete the film though. Three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Huston was called into military service and Raoul Walsh finished the film. Walsh and Davis fought over just about everything and finally had to have a go-between so they could communicate. Critics found the film boring and the story, based on the novel by Ellen Glasgow, depressing. The Wartime Office of Censorship would not allow the foreign release of the film because of its depiction of racial inequality and the incest hinted at between Uncle William and Stanley.
I like this film. It has a THE LITTLE FOXES feel to it. Inconsiderate people try to take advantage of good ones thinking they won't be stopped. The good people let it happen for a long time, but when they're faced with something truly evil, they fight back.
What a heel.
Look for the director's father, Walter Huston as a bartender and John Hamilton (Superman's Perry White) as a police inspector. Oh, here's something else pretty cool about this film. According to imdb, if you look hard enough during a scene between Bette Davis and Dennis Morgan in a roadhouse, you can see Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Barton MacLane as patrons. Sadly, the version I watched was MALTESE FALCONless. *sad trombone*
Psst…wrong film.
I wrote this piece for the Great Villain Blogathon hosted by Kristina https://hqofk.wordpress.com/,
Karen https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/, and
Ruth http://silverscreenings.org/
Thank you for hosting such a fun event!
Posted April 17, 2015 by Kerry Fristoe in Reviews, Stuff I wrote for other blogs
Tagged with 1940s films, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Charles Coburn, Dennis Morgan, Ellen Glasgow, Ernest Anderson, Frank Craven, George Brent, Hattie McDaniel, In This Our Life, John Huston, Lee Patrick, Olivia de Havilland, Walter Huston


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