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The Birth Control Issue Is a Winning One for the Obama Administration
The administration's health policy, in combination with decade-old EEOC rules, has created a media firestorm about religious freedom, with pundits calling it the end of Obama's chances in 2012. In the real world, it will probably provide a modest electoral boost.
A handful of prominent Catholics, including Cardinal George, have come out strong against the Obama administration's affirmation that religiously affiliated institutions, but not institutions of worship, have to do what they've been required to do since the Bush administration, only this time without co-pays—a slightly more illusory compromise than already exists.
(As usual, it takes a Democratic president to remind us of the specter of federal overreach.)
This has pundits declaiming that the "mighty" Catholic church will cost Obama the election thanks to the decision's "cataclysmic" fallout. Among the crowd is John Kass:
Even a lowly alderman would have played it smarter. And Obama is much smarter than some machine alderman. The man spent years at the feet of the machine lords, petitioning for their favor. And they're mostly Catholic. Didn't Obama learn anything?
It demonstrates to Americans that their government is not only willing but eager to dominate faith, by telling religions how to practice their beliefs. And if they refuse, then the faithful will feel the federal wrath.
So the president's policy is not only mistaken and insensitive and wrong, it is the perfect expression of everything Americans fear about the ever-increasing federal leviathan.
I think maybe what he learned, once he got out of Chicago—if he didn't know it already—was that Catholics aren't an ideologically homogenous voting bloc. Most of them are already using contraceptives, something that's been the case for almost 40 years now. And the polling bears that out:
A majority of Catholics (52%) say that religiously affiliated colleges and hospitals should have to provide coverage that includes contraception.
Among Catholic voters, however, only 45% support this requirement, while 52% oppose it.
Only about 4-in-10 (41%) white Catholics support this requirement, compared to 58% who oppose it.
Among other religious groups, 59% of the unaffiliated say that religiously affiliated colleges and hospitals should have to provide coverage that includes contraception, compared to less than one-third (31%) of white evangelical Protestants. White mainline Protestants are about evenly divided (45% say that hospitals and colleges should provide coverage, 48% say they should not).
Nearly 6-in-10 (58%) Millennials say that religiously affiliated colleges and hospitals should have to provide health care plans that include contraception coverage, compared to only one-third (33%) of seniors.
Women are also significantly more likely than men to say that religiously affiliated colleges and hospitals should provide this coverage (54% to 43% respectively).
So if the Obama adminstration sticks to its guns, it risks alienating a statistically significant majority of Catholic voters, but not a large one. The polling suggests that this would tend to be voters who are older, white, and male, not to mention evangelical Protestants at a rate much greater than Catholics. Basically, the demographic who Obama is least likely to appeal to anyway. (And the demographic that seems to be the one leading the media fretting.) If it doesn't, it risks alienating its core constituencies. This hasn't really been reflected in the media freakout, which doesn't represent those demographics as well.
As of 2008, Democrats held an electoral advantage among Catholics. But the differences among Catholics when it comes to their relationship to Papal teachings and ideological lean are notable (PDF):
Either way Catholics are more likely to be Democrats, but Catholics that are more likely to hew to the teachings of the Church's hierarchy are more likely than others to be Republicans. And Catholics that strictly follow the Church's teachings as determined by its hierarchy are in decline:
Even as they cheered John Paul II, [Gen X/post-Vatican II Catholics] tended to ignore his pleas for sexual abstinence, natural family planning, or going to Mass and confession on a regular basis, as evidenced by their responses to our surveys.
Our 2005 survey brought evidence of the arrival of a new generation, the millennials, the first generation to come of age in the 21st century. Born between 1979 and 1987, they were only 9 percent of the Catholic population in 2005 (by 2011 they now include those born 1987-93, making up 23 percent of the Catholic population). They seemed to identify with John Paul's concerns for the poor, the environment and the common good. At the same time, they continued to decide for themselves the morality of homosexuality, and sexual behavior in general.
It's curious: the Catholic Church in America is getting, well, kinda Protestant in the classic sense. Meanwhile, evangelical Protestants have increasing common cause with the Vatican. Maybe they should consider a trade, with a mainline sect to be named later.
Joe Biden, Leon Panetta, and Bill Daley, older white male Catholics, warned Obama about the "religious freedom" angle. On the other hand, as ABC reported, a push within the party came from the other direction—led by women, some of them Catholic:
But Biden and Daley faced a strong group making the case for the rule within the administration – including Catholics such as senior adviser David Plouffe and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, senior White House advisers Valerie Jarrett and Pete Rouse, and then-domestic policy council director Melody Barnes. Others outside the White House also pushed hard for the rule, including former White House communications director Anita Dunn, Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards. (Some of the details of this internal division were first reported yesterday by Bloomberg's Mike Dorning and Margaret Talev.)
That's why Sarah Kliff sees a winning issue in the election-losing cataclysm:
Numerous pundits have predicted that the requirement —and its narrow exemption for churches — will be a political liability for Obama. But where Shields sees "cataclysmic" fallout, the White House sees something quite different: a chance to widen the reproductive health debate beyond abortion to issues like contraceptives, winning over key demographics of independent voters in the process.
When the reproductive health debate moves away from abortion, it becomes easier to message and connect with voters. Unlike abortion rights, an issue that tends to split voters, most polls on contraceptives and birth control tend to find Americans solidly in support.
Maybe that's because it's effective public policy:
According to the latest Vital Signs report, in 2009, the national teenage birth rate was 39.1 births per 1000 girls — a 37% decrease from 61.8 births per 1000 girls in 1991, and the lowest rate ever recorded, the CDC says. Birth rates for black and Hispanic teenage girls were 59.0 and 70.1 births per 1000 girls, respectively, compared with 25.6 for white teenagers.
And the increasingly widespread use of contraceptives hasn't led to an increase in teenage sexual activity. Quite the opposite:
From 1991 to 2009, the percentage of high school students who said they ever had sexual intercourse fell from 54% to 46%. The percentage of students who said they had sexual intercourse in the past 3 months without using any method of contraception fell from 16% to 12%.
Fewer teens having sex and more teens using condoms has led to a similar decrease in the teen abortion rate:
The teen abortion rate in 2008 dropped to the lowest rate seen since 1972 at 17.8 per 1,000 teen girls and women, the analysis found, and was down 59 percent from 1988 when the abortion rate peaked at 43.5 per 1,000 teen women.
Kass writes:
Despite the president's proclamation of a few years ago that America is not a Christian nation, even Saul Alinsky would agree that this entire enterprise was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
And one central principle is that human beings are imperfect sinners (amazingly, even federal bureaucrats are imperfect), which means that the humans among us are in violation most of the time.
Unsurprisingly, public policy that actually recognizes the eternal imperfectability of people tends to poll pretty well among them.
Photograph: M.Markus (CC by 2.0)


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It turns out there is a poorly documented feature, the .nvmrc file. Simply drop one into your project folder, and in it just put the version number of node (or one of NVM's aliases, such as 'stable').
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Light rain today, with high temperatures bottoming out at 22°C on Friday.
We made a short stop in Marina San Miguel during our sailing holidays in January and February, marina was really nice. The marineros were friendly, we stayed one night to buy supplies for trip to Gran Canary. We did not like that supermarket nearby was very small, we had to take another taxi outside to another supermarket, this one had all we needed. Next to marina you have Amarilla Golf, nice place and views from yacht are great during sunny weather. Marina also has a bar and sailmaker for if you have problems with sail during trip. Make sure to check weather conditions before leaving marina, the area of San Miguel, wind blows strong with strong forecast.


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Brian Macdowall is Director of the Alliance of British Drivers.
Last year Sadiq Khan was elected Mayor of London on a bland manifesto pledging to tackle congestion through harmless-sounding measures like encouraging car clubs and managing road works. He also promised to maintain the Congestion Charge at its current level.
He would not have been elected if he had come out with blatantly anti-driver proposals. However, his recent Mayor's Transport Strategy consultation paper does precisely this.
The under-publicised proposals seek 'new ways of paying for road use', hinting at pay-per-mile road pricing, coincidentally on the EU blueprint released just weeks before. This could see the Congestion Charge extended across Greater London, with councils asked to consider it as part of a package of blunt traffic reduction measures. They could also be asked to bring in 'Workplace Parking Levies' – effectively a tax on going to work.
Britain's drivers pay roughly five times over to use the road. Yet the Mayor feels that London 'pays too little', without giving any figures to support this. It is worrying that he wants to take over collection of VED ('road tax') and set the rate. Part of the reason might be his management of London's finances, which has been criticised for extravagance and waste.
Khan's proposed repressive measures against drivers on air quality grounds are sheer hypocrisy when you realise that he lays on large firework displays such as for New Year (repeatedly!) and promotes them at the Thames Festival.
Despite paying lip service to the principles of 'robust' and 'compelling' evidence, the consultation paper proposes draconian measures on environmental grounds, sidestepping the GLA's own evidence on figures for 'premature deaths' linked to nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The publication 'Better Environment, Better Health, A GLA guide for London's Boroughs' admits they are just a statistical manipulation – they do not relate to real individuals. Transport Watch's 'The Great Dirty Diesel Scare' also exposes a lack of confidence in the figures.
The legality of the entire consultation is suspect. A Supreme Court case (UKSC56, Moseley v Haringey) established some principles. A fair consultation should ensure that those being consulted receive all relevant information – note in particular Khan's lack of costings for what he hopes Londoners will nod through and then have to pay for.
A fair consultation should also set out alternative approaches. Yet Khan effectively presents a package of measures to rubber-stamp rather than discussing any real alternative approaches, at least those that would not involve a heavy-handed crackdown on drivers.
Others have managed to come up with proposals for environmental improvements without the same drastic impact. The publications 'Urban Air Quality and Public Health', 'A Breath of Fresh Air' and some suggestions by Fair Fuel UK are worth a read.
Khan also proposes reallocating road space away from drivers, even though the reduction in space has been a key factor in increasing congestion. His aides in Transport for London seem to have learned nothing from the disastrous pedestrianisation of Trafalgar Square which increased congestion for miles around.
It is strange that 'demand management' measures are aimed at cracking down on those who need to drive in the interest of conserving road space, while at the same time pushing more people onto already overcrowded public transport. The overall plan seems to be to support and even encourage large-scale population growth in London – even though it increases 'demand' – pressure on resources like road space.
Other petty proposals are for mandatory 'car-free' and 'car-lite' housing developments, more road closures and car-free days in high streets and town centres. He even hints at car parking at stations being made less convenient or spaces being removed.
Overall, he shows very little appreciation of how car use benefits families' daily lives.
We have until 2 October to object to the proposals. More information here.


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Cyprus raises 750 mln euros in financial markets in 1st public bond issue since bailout
Menelaos Hadjicostis, The Associated Press June 18, 2014
NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus returned to international markets on Wednesday after raising 750 million euros ($1 billion) with its first public issue of bonds since last year's bailout saved it from bankruptcy.
An initial target of 500 million euros was oversubscribed four times, and allowed authorities to raise an extra 250 million euros through the five-year bonds, the Finance Ministry said. The bonds carried a 4.75 per cent interest rate, in an issuance that comes a year earlier than initially anticipated.
Authorities hailed the unexpectedly strong issuance as a sign that the east Mediterranean island nation is starting to regain its economic footing.
"Trust in the Cypriot economy and its prospects has been confirmed in a tangible way," Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told reporters, adding that the money will help pay down the country's debt — now at 118 per cent of gross domestic product and inject needed liquidity into banks.
In March 2013, Cyprus received a 10-billion-euro rescue negotiated with other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund, including terms that crushed its banking sector by sanctioning the seizure of uninsured deposits in the country's two largest banks and plunged it into a sharp recession.
Georgiades stressed that the government will not let up on its economic reform drive, saying that sticking to the bailout's terms had helped the country regain investor confidence. The reforms included consolidation in the bank sector, shrinking an oversized public sector and privatizing state-owned companies.
Cyprus has fared better than expected with a shallower recession than early projections had indicated. It has also received four straight positive reviews from its creditors of its rescue program and has earned its first credit rating upgrades after years, although it still remains deep into junk territory.
But the country isn't out of the woods yet. Unemployment stands at around 17 per cent, while its wobbly banking sector is still weighed down by a large number of bad loans resulting in a credit crunch that's stifling growth.
Cyprus was effectively knocked out of the markets in mid-2011 after a string of credit rating downgrades triggered by a banking crisis and exacerbated by unrestrained government spending.
The country tested the markets in April when it raised 100 million euros in six-year bonds issued through a private placement, at an interest rate of 6.5 per cent.
Economic analyst Stelios Platis said reaching out to international markets now is a smart move to take advantage of a prevailing "bubble" caused by eager investors looking for opportunities.

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Oris was founded in 1904 by Paul Gattin and Georges Christian in Hölstein, Switzerland. This year they buy the recently closed watch factory Lohner und Co. and name the company after the nearby stream Oris. In 1911 Oris became Hölstein's largest employer with 300 employees. To attract more watchmakers to the small town, the company built houses and apartments for its employees. The success continued and in 1929 Oris already operated factories in Hölstein (1904), Holderbank (1906), Como (1908), Courgenay (1916), Herbetswil (1925) and Ziefen (1925). Oris began to attach lugs to his pocket watches and to transform them into full wristwatches. After the death of company founder Georges Christian in 1927, Jacques-David LeCoultre became Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 1928, Oscar Herzog, son-in-law of the late Georges Christian, assumed the position of General Manager. A position he will hold for 43 years. He led Oris through the many highs and lows of the watch industry in the 20th century until 1971.
Jacques-David LeCoultre's intention to improve the quality of Oris products came to a standstill when the Swiss government issued the so-called Watch Statute on 12 March 1934. This emergency law was intended to regulate and protect the Swiss watch industry. It prohibits the introduction of new technologies without official approval. Before this regulation was introduced, Oris had manufactured movements with pin lever escapements, which were considered less precise than movements with lever escapements. A technology that some of Oris' competitors were able to adopt even before the decree was issued. In 1938, Oris produced its own movement escapements. The company employed many highly talented watchmakers and became one of the first companies to offer equal opportunities to men and women. Oris presents the first watch for pilots with a strikingly large crown and pointer date. The collection is named after the oversized crown and offers pilots the advantage of adjusting the watch with leather gloves. In the meantime, aviation has become one of Oris' four product worlds.
During the Second World War, production outside Switzerland declined significantly. In order to survive in business, Oris begins producing alarm clocks. In 1949, the famous model with an eight-day reserve was launched on the market.
Oris received the first of over 200 awards from the Bureau Officiel de Contrôle de la Marche des Montres in Le Locle for its pin lever movements and the proof that they tick just as precisely as movements with a Swiss lever escapement.
In the post-war expansion phase, Oris operated an entire fleet of buses to transport its employees from their homes up to 25 km from its headquarters in Hölstein. In 1952 Oris launched the first automatic watch with power reserve indicator with Oris calibre 601.
In 1956 Oscar Herzog engaged the lawyer Dr. Rolf Portmann. In his first 10 years, he successfully fought against the Watch Statute, which prevented Oris from equipping its movements with lever escapements. In 1966, Oris achieved this goal and gained a well-deserved place in Swiss watch history.
1965 Oris developed an ultra-modern diving watch with a unidirectional rotating bezel, clear luminous numerals and a water-resistant case up to 100 metres thick. A legend was born that was reissued 40 years later and became one of Oris' most successful product launches. Two years after the abolition of the Swiss watch statute, Oris received the chronometer certificate from the Observatoire Astronomique et Chronométrique for the introduction of the first chronograph. At the end of the 1960s, Oris was one of the 10 largest watch companies in the world, with 800 employees and 1.2 million wristwatches and alarm clocks produced each year.
1970 Oris became part of ASUAG, which later became the Swatch Group. Oris is no longer independent and goes through a difficult decade, partly due to the quartz crisis. After the decline, Dr. Rolf Portmann and Ulrich W. Herzog dared the management buy-out at the beginning of the 1980s and, shortly after the founding of Oris AG, decided to abandon quartz movements and to manufacture exclusively mechanical watches in the future. The rebirth of Oris is clearly audible with the introduction of its first mechanical wristwinder.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Oris is now at the forefront of the growing trend towards large watches and presents the Oris XXL, a line of oversized, sporty, casual watches. Oris' close relationship to jazz is reflected in a collection named after jazz legend Miles Davis. In 2002, the Red Red became Oris' registered trademark. It is a symbol of Oris' philosophy: to manufacture high-quality mechanical watches with practical everyday functions at fair prices.
2003 Oris enters into a cooperation with the Williams Formula One Team and launches the first Williams F1 Team watches.
Oris launches the Centennial Set 1904 Limited Edition on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. It contains an eight-day alarm clock, considered Oris' historic design legend, and a stainless steel Artelier World Timer. In the mid-2000s Oris developed the pioneering Quick-Lock crown system.
At the beginning of this decade Oris developed a safety clasp that prevented the watch from falling off the wrist even when the clasp was open. This includes an ingenious quick length adjustment that can be operated without taking the watch off. In 2010, Oris will enter into a partnership with the Australian Marine Conservation Society to protect and rescue the Great Barrier Reef. Oris is launching a limited edition diving watch called the Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition. The 110th anniversary in 2014 is celebrated with the first movement completely developed in-house in 35 years.


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What's more American than a country concert? Eli Young Band takes on Downtown Las Vegas this 4th of July for a FREE live concert as part of the Downtown Rocks Concert Series. Rock out and feel truly patriotic while belting out some of their greatest country hits. Formed in 2000, Eli Young Band has nearly 20 years of hits and country chart-topping singles that will surely make your Independence Day weekend one to remember.
Two students, Mike Eli and James Young, were freshman roommates at the University of North Texas. Their guitar playing and songwriting in their freshman dorm were the start of Eli Young Band, which became fully formed when they met other band members Chris Thompson and Jon Jones. Since their self-titled debut album in 2002, the band has produced a number of singles and albums that embody their Texas roots. The band takes modern Country music to a new level as they play their own music and write their own chart-topping songs such as "Love Ain't" and "Even If It Breaks Your Heart".
Eli Young Band has secured itself as one of the top Country groups with numerous awards nominations, including a 2012 Billboard Music nomination for "Top Country Song" and a 2013 Grammy nomination for "Best Country Duo/Group Performance". In 2012, the band won "Song of the Year" at the Academy of Country Music Awards and "Breakthrough Artist" at the MusicRow Awards.
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Fireball Whisky pulled from European shelves for propylene glycol levels
By: Katie Leone
Fireball Whisky is being pulled from shelves in Europe due to its levels of propylene glycol — but it's not going anywhere in the United States.
According to YLE, Finland's public broadcast television station, Alko, Finland's state alcohol monopoly, has filed a complaint and recalled Fireball from store shelves due to excessive levels of propylene glycol.
The company announced Monday that Fireball doesn't meet the European Union's tighter regulations of propylene glycol levels, though they stated it does meet North American standards.
Propylene glycol is commonly found in the liquid used in e-cigarettes, in de-icing agents used in the aviation industry, in the preparation of processed snack foods and in alcoholic beverages as a flavor conduit.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has classified propylene glycol as GRAS (generally recognized as safe) because the oral toxicity of the compound is very low.
Alko's move follows a decision by Systembolaget, their Swedish counterpart, to remove Fireball from shelves last week.
An announcement on the Systembolaget website confirms that sales of Fireball have been stopped in Sweden due to high levels of propylene glycol. Customers who bought Fireball are welcome to return it for a refund, even if the bottle is opened.
Fireball liqueur remains on shelves in the United States and in other countries.
Scripps National Desk contacted Buffalo Trace Distilleries, which owns Sazerac Company, who manufactures Fireball Whisky, for comment prior to publishing this article. Buffalo Trace Distillery is based in Frankfort, Kentucky. Sazerac Company is based in Metairie, Louisiana.
A statement on Fireball's website reads, "The secret to Fireball is buried in the depths of our souls – and it's so damn special that we just can't share it. Although we'd love to talk Fireball with you, we have a strict policy that we let our whisky speak for itself."


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Other than polishing with a good wax and possibly sponging down the grill covers with a damp cloth, if you don't want to reduce their value, then leave them alone. The driver units don't have a foam surround and the cross-over units should still be ok. Find an amp to play them but note they are 16ohm impedance. As they have been stood for a long time (hopefully in a dry place) you will find that after a couple of weeks they will have just got better and better. Enjoy; you have a super pair of speakers.
Which pair of Quad ESL 57 to buy?
The website address is www.aquadthingaudio.wix.com/5763 Phone Andy Jones 0116-239-2373 or 07711 687245 The owners of Quadthing Audio and One Thing Audio are cousins working in 'partnership'.
I have a boxed SPU with Ortofon printed test results are dated 1984. It is a stereo version in G type headshell. Plays superb. Asking £400 PM me if of interest.
If you PM me I should be able to find you some. How many do you need?
WTD Mullard ECC 83 valves.
Anyone been in touch with Mike Powell recently ?
I'm a big fan of Mike Powell but if he is busy then try Wilkinson Hi-Fi at Nelson near Burnley. https://www.wilkinsons.tv/ There is a regular get together of hifi enthusiasts every Saturday in their listening room. Lots of high end, vintage and valve stuff.
If you Google it you will find lots of pictures of these speakers + YouTube videos.
Just bought a pair of these 1970s speakers at auction because I had never seen or even heard of them before and the build quality looked excellent. Now playing them and can't believe how good they sound (hence the posting). Rated at 120W. 3 way with adjustable tweeter and 12" dia. base driver. Has anybody any experience or info on them. Just another example of there being masses of very high quality hifi out there at really crazy cheap prices.
Yes to some extent but not quite sure if it has not been messed about with by previous owners in the last 60+ years. Would be nice to know the original specified values, voltage ratings and tolerances of components etc.. The input/driver valves are ECC82 and ECC83.
I have a 1956 Cape VL1 Mk1 and a 1958 Mk11. These are KT66 ultra-linear 25W monoblock amplifiers with similar circuitry supposedly based on a Williamson design. Does anybody have any knowledge/experience of these amps or technical information especially a circuit diagram.
Just completed refurbs on a 1963 and 1965 Leak Stereo 20 valve amplifiers (one grey, one gold) plus 3no Varislope and 1no Point One Stereo pres. Tried to retain as many of the original parts as possible but unfortunately the majority were out of spec. Capacitors replaced with those excellent Russian paper in oils. Now on test and all sounding superb and should be good for another 55 years (there isn't a lot of modern equipment available that one could say that about). For me another of those hifi myths dispelled in regard to past criticisms of Leak valve preamplifiers. Multi functional, user friendly, good build quality, attractive apperance and good performance.
So it is not Classique Audio as you 1st posted. I think you will find that Paul of Classique Sounds will be the first to admit he is not an expert in anything Quad which is why he has all of his work done by Andy Jones of Aquadthingaudio or Andy's cousin at One Thing Audio.
Have you got a contact address / tel. no. for them?
To ensure you get proper advice, give Andy Jones of aquadthingaudio another call. As you know he is a top man who will put you right. Also loads of good info and pics on the net (ie Keith Snook) where you will note there is one treble and two base panels in each speaker the treble being in the middle. It isn't difficult to remove the back panel but why bother at this stage? Just put your ear close to the speaker to hear if each panel is working properly.


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Each week, we'll be highlighting individual winners from Best of Our Valley 2019, who share their advice, insights and thoughts on what it means to be a part of this exclusive list. Winners will be featured in the April 2019 issue of Arizona Foothills Magazine, a tell-all guide to the best people and places in the Valley of the Sun, as chosen by its residents.
The Best of spotlight is on Mama's Dogs who claimed Best Hot Dog. Congrats, Mama's Dogs!
Carissa Gould (CG), owner of Mama's Dogs: It's an honor to be a BOOV winner. I'm so grateful for all of my wonderful fans, customers, friends, and family who made this possible. Also, a huge thank you goes out to the person who nominated me. It's so awesome to be a part of such a wonderful group of the Valley's best.
AFM: What's your favorite part about being the Best of Our Valley's Best Hot Dog?
CG: My favorite part about being BOOV's best hot dog is getting to share a piece of my story with all of you, my love for the yummiest hot dogs, and the art of taking something so simple and classic as a good ole American Vienna Beef hot dogs and Polish dogs, and serving it in style with a smile.
CG: The benefits continually show up. If you work hard, love what you do, do what you love, treat people right, keep smiling, and keep on trucking the doors will always open and new opportunities will be presented. The key is being passionate and happy with what you do, and most importantly, have fun!
AFM: How does the Inflight Creations team put its "best" foot forward every day?
CG: I'm a one woman show and single mother of 4 lively young boys. Every single day as a business owner and mother you do your best. Some days go smoother than others. It's important to wake up with a positive mindset, be open to new chances/opportunities, give it all you got, take time to do something good for yourself on a regular basis, and don't let small bumps in the road hold you back from reaching your goals. I always take time to say "thank you", be grateful, and stay humble. Also, always be true to who you are.


The issue is entrepreneurs find it very difficult to access financing. Not only because their business plans are rejected 98% of the time by Venture Capitals when they can manage to get an introduction, but also because U.S. banks according to the Small Business Administration, held $607 billion in outstanding business loans of $1 million or less during 2011, which surprisingly enough, represents $100 billion less than in 2008.With the current state of the recession and the rising numbers of unemployment, crowdfunding could be a great asset to our country's economy. These portals could serve as a great vehicle for investing in small businesses, which are accountable for creating 65% of the net new jobs over the past 17 years. As the Co-Founder of RockThePost, the leading crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses, I have seen just how effective the power of the crowd is.
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As it always happens in life, there are people who are contrary to its implementation as they think that equity based crowdfunding is very risky for the average American. On this note, I would like to mention the fact that Americans purchase $45 billion dollars worth of lottery tickets every year, with the average household spending $150 annually. The odds of winning the lottery are one in 175 million according to Aaron Abrams, a mathematician atEmory University. The stock market odds might be a bit brighter. However, total assets invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds and insurance funds equal $30 trillion according to the economist Michael Shuman. For both, lottery and stock markets have no limits, any individual could spend all the money they want and of course lose it.
On another note, it is surprising how the U.S. startups find it so difficult to raise money during the initial stage of their business where only accredited investors and other institutional investors, representing 1% of the US population, are the only crowd allowed to participate. In the UK for example, not only equity crowdfunding is legal, but also under the Enterprise Investment Scheme anyone investing between £500 and £1m in a qualifying business could be eligible for income tax relief, worth 30 percent of the amount invested.


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An Intimate Evening With Grammy Award Winning Michael McDonald
By Avery Bearden
The Man Behind The Hits
Few musicians have had such an illustrious career as Michael McDonald. The celebrated singer-songwriter continues to write tunes that push the boundaries of what pop music can do, while still showcasing the unmistakable powerhouse vocals that made McDonald a household name.
Michael McDonald will perform an intimate concert at the Vilar Performing Arts Center (VPAC) on Wednesday, July 17 at 8 p.m. Come early for a Lower Lobby Bar Happy Hourstarting at 6 p.m. The pre-show festivities will feature incredible drink specials and music by local performer, Kevin Danzig (attendees must have valid show ticket to enter).
Hailing from St. Louis, Mo., McDonald began his career in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, working as a studio musician before joining Steely Dan. McDonald was then asked to join The Doobie Brothers, serving as singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the group. With The Doobie Brothers, McDonald garnered his first of many Top 40 singles, including iconic songs like "It Keeps You Running," "What a Fool Believes" and "Takin' It to the Streets." After leaving The Doobie Brothers in the early 1980s to pursue a solo career, McDonald released even more hits that became instant classics, like the ever-popular "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" and "Sweet Freedom."
In 2016, the five-time Grammy-winner released "Wide Open," his first album of original material in 17 years. Recently, McDonald has also worked with a variety of other artists, including collaborating with bassist Thundercat and Kenny Loggins for the track "Show You The Way" in 2017.
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"The South China Sea disputes should be addressed through negotiations between nations that are directly involved," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters.
According to the official Xinhua news agency, Liu's comments were a response to proposals by Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba for a multilateral framework to settle maritime disputes in the South China Sea.
"We hope that countries outside of the region do more work that is conducive to peace and stability in the region of the South China Sea, and show more respect and support to nations within the region that are making efforts to solve disputes through bilateral talks and negotiations," Liu said.
His comments came amid official media warnings to India over a planned oil exploration deal, and at the start of joint military drills in the region by U.S. and Philippines marines.
On Sunday, a newspaper backed by China's ruling Communist Party warned that India was playing with fire by agreeing to explore for oil with Vietnam in the disputed South China Sea.
The China Energy News said in a commentary that India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp should abandon a three-year deal with PetroVietnam to develop long-term cooperation in the oil sector.
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U.S. marines began a round of annual military drills with the Philippines on Monday, including a hostile beach assault exercise near the disputed Spratly Islands.
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Donald Thompson Carlisle was born on August 20, 1894, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, according to his World War I and II draft cards.
In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Carlisle and his mother Clara, lived with her parents, Moses and Clara Thompson, in Elgin, Illinois at 416 Chicago Street. The status of Carlisle's in not known. Carlisle's grandfather was a civil engineer. Their address was the same in the 1910 census which also recorded a servant in the household.
Carlisle's college education began at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was a cartoonist on the yearbook, The Illio 1915.
Carlisle graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1916. In the 1917 yearbook, Blue and Gold, Carlisle was on staff of the publications The Pelican and Brass Tacks, and a member of the Press Club and Alpha Delta Phi.
One of Carlisle's classmates on The Pelican was Frederick Schiller Faust. Carlisle recalled a story in Max Brand, Western Giant: The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust.
The Pelican in our time too frequently came up to the deadline without much material for the next issue, and all hands were forced to stand by and be funny under pressure.
I remember one spring day when everyone else on the staff being A.W.O.L., Heinie and I found ourselves the only two available to put the paper to bed — and with literally nothing on hand worth publishing.
He appeared at my room about four in the afternoon with a bottle of gin and we went at it. By dinner time we had laid out the entire issue and he had written nearly all of the copy besides giving me the gags for most of the cartoons.
On June 5, 1917, Carlisle signed his World War I draft card. His address was 427 Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago. Carlisle was employed at Thielecke Advertising Company where he did agricultural advertising. He was described as tall and slender with blue eyes and light brown hair. Carlisle claimed an exemption due to an unnamed physical disability.
At some point, Carlisle moved to Brookline, Massachusetts. Boston city directories, from 1920 to 1925, listed Brookline resident Carlisle as an advertising representative at 10 State Street, room 905.
The Massachusetts Marriage Index, at Ancestry.com, said Carlisle married in 1923 in Brookline. The 1925 Brookline city directory listed Carlisle and Katherine at 56 Marshal. The 1927 Boston directory said Carlisle lived in Foxboro and had the same business address. In the 1928 Boston directory, Carlisle's listing read, "removed to New York City".
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Carlisle and his wife traveled to Europe. On June 25, 1930, they sailed on the steamship Cleveland from Hamburg, Germany. They arrived in Boston on July 6. Their address was 10 State Street, Boston.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1934, noted Carlisle's latest employment.
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At Ancestry,com, the Massachusetts, Mason Membership Card database said Carlisle was a member at the Saint Andrews lodge.
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Carlisle passed away April 6, 1956, in Poughkeepsie, New York. An obituary appeared in the Brewster Standard (New York), April 12, 1956.
Private funeral services for Donald T. Carlisle, 61, vice president of the New York Zoological society, whose death occurred in St. Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie, on April 5, 1956 were held at Patterson on Sunday.
Mr. Carlisle was a resident of Patterson and New York City. Son of Mrs. Clara Thompson Carlisle and the late John Carlisle, he spent his early years in Elgin, Ill., and later attended the University of Illinois. He received his machelor [sic] of arts degree from the University of California in 1916.
He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, the Lodge of St. Andrews in Boston, the Tavern club of Boston, the Coffee House and the Century association of New York city.
His wife, Mrs. Katherine Vallandingham Carlisle, is assistant to the alumnae secretary at Vassar College.
For many years Mr. Carlisle was in the advertising business with the Batten Co. in New York, later Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne. He served as a lieutenant colonel in American military government in World War II.
In recent years he was a reviewer and illustrator of a number of books on natural history for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, but was best known as a cartoonist. His series, "The Belvedere Hounds," ran for several years in the "Sportsman" and later was published in a book.
Whereas, his work for the success of the Society's activities will be of permanent value to it in the future.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the death of Donald Carlisle is hereby recorded with a great sense of loss both from the point of view of his many admiring friends and associates within the organization of the Society and also because, through his passing, the Society has lost the services of a man of rare gifts and character.
Dogs are always a good bet if you want to earn yourself a spot on the newspaper comics page. Most everyone loves dogs, even newspaper features editors. That made it a smart move, seemingly, for the McClure Syndicate to accept a new panel cartoon from D.T. Carlisle, titled Dog Days. The panel featured a miscellany of dogs, but there was a definite preference for hunting hounds. Although the panel was first advertised by McClure in 1928, the start date appears to be January 7 1929.
There was little fanfare for the new panel, but it was picked up by some major papers, like the Arizona Republic and LA Times. Small wonder, because Mr. Carlisle had a real gift for drawing dogs, and his humor, while hit-and-miss, landed often enough to keep readers looking forward to the next daily dose.
You've heard me opine often enough in this space that features seldom really take hold unless they have continuing characters. Well, Carlisle seems to have been in agreement with that philosophy, because late in 1929 he phased out his cast of miscellaneous dogs, and began concentrating on an Irish terrier named Riley. On November 25 1929 the title of the panel was officially changed to Life of Riley (though many papers stuck with the original title).
While that might have been a smart move, what came next was most definitely not. After a year of gag-a-day Riley caroons, Carlisle for some reason decided to switch to a continuity format. While the continuity was initially somewhat humorous, it morphed into a half-baked adventure in which Riley and some dog pals ended up on a tropical isle looking for a treasure chest, while sparring with the island's inhabitants, which included goats, parrots and an orangutan, and avoiding some aviators who were looking for the same treasure.
Carlisle had no gift for writing continuity, and even if he did, trying to relate an adventure at the rate of a single panel per day is a dicey proposition at best. It was a complete flop, and his subscribers quickly bailed on him. By the time the panel was cancelled, apparently on October 10 1931, I'd be willing to bet he only had a few clients left. The final panel has Riley being abducted by the orangutan, and I guess living happily ever after.
I have no information on Carlisle except that he had another dog cartoon feature that ran in the magazine The Huntsman, and that one (featuring hunting dogs, of course) was a much-loved feature of that periodical. The cartoons from there were collected in at least two books, both of which are scarce and apparently much sought-after today. Carlisle also produced at least one further book of original dog cartoons, The Ordeal of Oliver Airedale.
In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Gibbs and his widow mother lived in Cincinnati at 32 Ninth Street. He was a printer and his mother a dressmaker. Two shoemakers boarded with them. Also in the same building were two artists, a German husband and wife, whom Gibbs nay have known.
The 1900 through 1904 Cincinnati city directories listed Gibbs as a draftsman with The U.S. Printing Company. Gibbs was an artist with the same company in 1905 but lived at a different address, 131 West 9th.
The Sun said Gibbs moved to Baltimore in 1906 and worked for a few years as a lithographer.
The 1907 Baltimore city directory said artist Gibbs resided at 1109 Gorsuch Avenue.
The District of Columbia, Compiled Marriage Index recorded Gibbs's marriage to Alma M. Luken on February 26, 1909.
Gibbs had not yet been found in the 1910 census. The 1910 Baltimore city directory listed the artist at 2504 Greenmount. A short time later, Gibbs's address was 702 Linwood Avenue in Baltimore directories into the mid-1920s.
The Baltimore Sun cartoonist signed his World War I draft card on September 20, 1918. He was described as medium height and weight with gray eyes and black hair.
The 1920 census listed cartoonist Gibbs, his wife and three sons, Carleton, Irvin and Robert. They are Baltimore residents at 702 Linwood Avenue.
Gibbs joined The Evening Sun staff as a political cartoonist, and produced a comic strip, Abe and the Duck*. Editor and Publisher, August 2, 1924, said Gibbs's friends called him Abe.
They call him "Abe" after his famous grouch character, a lean old geezer with whiskers who knocks everything, and who is always accompanied by an optimistic Duck as a foil. Along with the pictorial comment in this combination, Gibbs writes a good-natured bottle of vitriolic suggestions about the bones being pulled by everybody in the sports game, and brings to his aid a keen knowledge of the game in all its departments. And he knows the game, too—knows it thoroughly and writes into his knowledge a humor that has made a big field of readers His knowledge of the game and his style are the combination that get men into the syndicate runs.
"Abe's" recreations are as many kinds of work as there are departments of sports. Sometimes he goes home and plays with the three little boys who call him Daddy, and now and then he goes swimming or fishing with the man who writes "Songs of the Craft" for Editor & Publisher. But outside of that he gets most of his fun out of life by jack-knifing his frame over the drawing board, making pictures of Abe and the Duck, and sitting at his typewriter hammering out short, swift, but kindly stabs at everybody and everything in general.
American Newspaper Comics (2012) said Gibbs produced Go-Go from 1923 to 1924 for the International Syndicate. The series was copyrighted.
Gibbs's home was at the same location in the 1930 census but the name of the street had changed to Deepdene Road. Gibbs's mother-in-law was part of the household.
According to the 1940 census, Gibbs was a sportswriter. Gibbs, his wife and son Irvin were at the same address.
On April 26, 1942, Gibbs signed his World War II draft card. His employer was the A.S. Abell Company, owner of The Sun.
Gibbs passed away May 21, 1966, in Roland Park, a suburb of Baltimore. The Sun reported his death the following day.
* note from Allan: although Gibbs definitely used these characters regularly in his sports cartoons for the Evening Sun, I have not been able to find any evidence of a comic strip featuring the characters, in a general perusal of the Evening Sun archives.
Chic Jackson died yesterday afternoon.
Death came suddenly and as he would have wished it -- when his day's work was done.
The creator of the Roger Bean Family, a cartoon strip that bubbled through the years with homely and piquant Hoosier philosophy, left his drawing board in The Star building shortly after 3 o'clock.
He was stricken with a heart attack as he stopped in the hall and died a few minutes later.
Efforts of police and fire department first-aid squads and Dr. Sollis Runnells to save him were of no avail.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Hisey & Titus funeral home, 946 North Delaware street, and Dr. William F. Rothenburger, pastor of the Third Christian Church, will deliver the funeral sermon. The body will lie in the funeral home from 10 o'clock morning until the time for the services. Burial will be in the Beech Grove cemetery in Muncie Wednesday morning and arrangements will be made for his friends there to view the body before internment.
Chic Jackson had friends throughout the length and breadth of Indiana and those who did not know him personally knew him through his cartoon strip in which he portrayed a typical Hoosier family in its intimate and joyous life.
The strip has appeared in The Star twenty-one years and in other Indiana and Eastern newspapers many years. Readers grieved with the Beans in their moments of adversity, although Chic Jackson's nature was not such that he could let any pen-child of his stay long in despondency. In the same way, they chuckled at the barbed and boisterous homespun wisecracks of Golduh, the Bean's hired girl; Jose and all the others who brightened the pages of The Star and other newspapers through his sympathetic pen.
Chic Jackson, who always preferred "Chic" to his christened name of Charles Bacon, was 57 years old and he was born just before midnight on New Year's eve, 1876, in Muncie. He attended Muncie schools and then was employed on the Muncie News and was with it when it was absorbed by the Muncie Star.
There he met Margaret Wagner of Springport, who also was employed on the newspaper, and they were married in 1902. In Muncie he was illustrator and front page cartoonist, making his drawings, as was the method then, on chalk plates.
He and his bride went to Chicago and stayed there one year, where he studied at the Chicago Art Institute. From there they came to Indianapolis in 1907 and he became the artist for The Star, at first doing Sunday feature illustrating, and later developing the Bean family into a comic strip.
Mr. Jackson's comic strip family first appeared in The Star April 22, 1913. The first drawing, appropriately enough, showed Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bean alighting at the Union Station and preparing to settle in Indianapolis.
Mrs. Jackson followed the career of the Bean family with just as much interest as any one of the thousands of readers of The Star and often aided in solving its problems. She survives with two sons, William Charles Jackson, who lives with his wife and son Jed at 4818 College avenue, and Richard Wagner Jackson, a reporter on the South Bend News-Times. There also are two brothers, Dr. Frank Jackson and Warren Jackson, both of Muncie.
Mrs. Jackson's brother, the Rev. C.E. Wagner of Joplin, Mo., will come here for the funeral.
Chic's chief interest, outside of his family and the Bean family that he created, was people. He liked people, he was drawn to them and they to him. He felt the heart tugs of their little setbacks and their greater sorrows and he chuckled at their idiosyncrasies. His sympathy was aroused easily and he was too tolerantly whimsical to utter an unkind word. His humor was quaint and joyous and never biting. Those who knew him in the early part of his life say that these qualities and his intense interest in the ties of family life might be attributed to the loss of his mother when he was 2 years old.
Roger Bean, Mrs. Bean, Golduh, Woody and all the other human and laughable characters that were animated with his contagious humor during the years were not merely pen and paper figures to him. To him they were real people, some of them even were his own family, and as for Roger Bean, that bluff, good-natured fellow who started it all -- Roger Bean was almost Chic Jackson himself. Those who knew Chic recognized that Roger was merely the instrument through which Chic expressed his own philosophy of the every day.
"The Bean family, to Chic, was every bit as real to him as we were," Mrs. Jackson said. It started with Roger and Mrs. Bean and then came Golduh, the vigorous and quick-spoken redhead, to work as their "hired girl." Later came "Woody" Bean, whose complete name was Woodrow Smith Bean, and one can easily see that he came during the administration of the war President. The Smith in "Woody's" name came from Mrs. Bean's family, whom Chic had decided would be of that multitudinous assemblage.
Soon came various other characters to join in the delightful procession. There was Mrs. Probe and Mr. Probe and the drawling Jose: Buck, who was Golduh's brakeman sweetheart, the ice man, the coal man, the messenger boy, and that aggravating rooster of Mrs. Probe's called Joey. There was Uncle Castor, lovable Uncle Wash, Mr. Burleson and a host of others. Then there was the case of Cynthia, who became a member of the Bean family through adoption. The care used in delineating Cynthia's background was typical of the way in which Chic sought sincerity through his work.
Originally he intended to have Cynthia come from Canada, but he took a trip to Canada and learned that an orphan of that age could never be passed over the international line and that the immigration authorities would cause untold complications for the Rat and his gang which was engaged in a nefarious plot with the appealing and innocent Cynthia as the bait. So Chic, who had his heart set on making Cynthia a Canadian, yielded to the more practical and probable and had Cynthia originate in a Northern state of the United States.
Another parallel in his history of the Bean family was the address he gave them -- 3029 Devers road. There is no Devers road in Indianapolis, but the house number, 3029, is the same as that of the Jackson home on Broadway. They had lived at that address on Broadway since 1918.
Let Chic make the smallest kind of mistake and he heard about it. He precipitated a small flurry when he inadvertently left the stripes from Golduh's stockings one day. Only recently he was called to time by a woman reader who asserted that he'd had Mrs. Bean serve gingerbread too late in the season. All the criticism was in good-natured vein and Chic always answered in kind.
Thousands of letters had come to him from all over the country to point out any small discrepancy and other thousands wrote just because they wanted him to know the enjoyment they got from his strip. For a long period when Golduh was addicted to brickbat throwing on the slightest provocation he would receive in the mail now and then a brick, decorated with a fancy ribbon, or perhaps one from some historic building being wrecked. "Let Golduh throw this one," the sender usually suggested. There is still a pile of these bricks in Chic's room in The Star.
Chic's gentle humor touched many a responsive chord. Among his cherished recollections was one of a call that James Whitcomb Riley made in 1915. The poet was infirm and unable to leave his car, but he sent his chauffeur to the second floor of The Star building with a request that Chic come down to the parked automobile. There Riley told him of his enjoyment of the characters portrayed in the strip and his pleasure over their "good wholesome humor." Chic had a keen admiration of the poet and he was deeply grieved when Riley died July 22 of the following year.
A few days later Chic expressed his feeling of the loss in his cartoon., which showed only a single picture and that was of Roger Bean, serious and contemplative, sitting under a tree with Woody, then only 2 years old, beside him. Roger was reading from a book Riley's poem, "The Raggedy Man." The caption of the cartoon was "But His Songs Go On Forever."
Last October William R.L. Dwyer, who draws the syndicated "Dumb Dora" strip, called on Chic and they spent an entire afternoon discussing the whimseys of their own comic characters. Others with whom he liked to talk over the joys and tribulations of being humorous were Strickland Gillilan, Don Herold and Ad Carter, who draws "Just Kids."
Another whose friendship he enjoyed was Jap Miller of Brooklyn, who was a Hoosier philosopher in his own right. When Miller died recently Chic wrote a sympathetic tribute and illustrated it with a pencil sketch.
One of Chic's hobbies was making chalk talks and he appeared before organizations throughout the state, drawing his characters in crayons and giving a humorous introduction and explanation of each as he drew them. At one time he and Hugh Cash, now art director of the Chicago Tribune, made tours through Indiana, Chic giving his chalk talks and Cash giving an exhibition of paper cutting with scissors.
When Chic left his office on the second floor yesterday, he intended to send a series of his cartoons by mail to the George Matthew Adams Syndicate in New York, which had charge of distribution of his work among a group of newspapers. These included papers in Schenectady, N.Y.; Camden, N.J.; Dorrance, Mass., and others. The strip had been run in the Schenectady and Dorrance papers almost as many years as it had appeared in The Star. Indiana papers in which the strip has appeared are in Gary, Fort Wayne, Muncie and Terre Haute.
He had begun work in his office at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and had been steadily at work until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He had walked through the city room, picked up some wrapping paper and hailed members of the staff with his usual cheery greeting.
He re-entered his office, talked over the telephone with Mrs. Jackson and gathered together his drawings to be put in the mails. After he left his room he stopped at the telephone switchboard near the top of the stairway and told Mrs. Kathryn Fender, operator on duty, "Well, I guess I'll go home." As he turned to go he was stricken and collapsed. Mrs. Fender called others in the building.
J.P. Edmison, chief editorial writer for The Star, was one of the first to reach his side and held Chic as he died.
Chic Jackson died with his last ambition unfulfilled.
He wanted to see Woody Bean through college and started on adult life before laying aside his drawing board and wiping the India ink from his pen for the last time.
Woody, the 20-year-old adopted son of Roger and Sylvia Bean, like every other character that played a part in the Bean family comic strip, was as real to Chic as though he were flesh and blood. The galaxy of men, women and children that Chic had created in the more than twenty-one years he had been at work in The Star building were as alive to the cartoonist as any novelist's creations ever could be to an author. Chic could tell you what they did and what they thought about when they were not "working" for their public within the confines of the strip.
"I've got one ambition in life," Chic said. "That's to get Woody through college and see him settled in life. I want to see him well started on his own career. If I didn't do that I'd feel that I hadn't done right by him."
Woody is a freshman in college now, in his first separation from the life of the family circle. Chic brought him up from babyhood through the experience of infancy, first school days and the pains and pleasures of boyhood. Certainly Roger Bean himself couldn't have been happier to see the boy on the threshold of manhood.
It seems pretty well established that Woody is the first comic strip child that grows. On Christmas day, 1914, he was found in a market basket on the Bean doorstep. He was six weeks old then, as near as anyone could determine.
After due consultation with Mrs. Probe and other neighbors, he was adopted. He was named Woodrow Smith Bean. Chic had some hesitation about introducing the child into the family, for in 1914 the facts of life were mentioned in whispers, and Freud, Jung and Adler had yet to hear their names become household words.
Nevertheless, The Star's readers welcomed the baby. Only one person came forward with a protest. An old-line Democrat, incensed because a mere comic strip character had been named after the President of the United States, canceled his subscription.
Chic didn't realize that the natural growth of Woody was an innovation. From the time of the first appearance of the Bean family on April 22, 1913, he had lived up to the ideal of presenting only the quiet humor of everyday life. He thought there was a field for such humor among the slapstick comics of the newspapers of the time, so he eschewed gaudy effects and adhered to the actual and natural aspects of family life.
Thus Chic was surprised when readers and friends called his attention to the growth of Woody when the boy was about two years old and was beginning to say a few words. Woody was contrasted with other juveniles of the comic sections, the Katzenjammer Kids, Buster Brown, Cicero Mutt and Chester Gump, who remained unchanged for decades.
They say around The Star office that Chic felt that his time to die was not far off, and that the feeling had been intensified since he suffered a severe attack of heart disease about a year ago. However, Chic wasn't plaintive about it, nor did he express the feeling in bald words.
"Yes, I thought I'd have them framed and put there because they are probably the last things of that sort I'm going to do."
On the other wall of his office he had a large painting of the entire Bean family and other characters, drawn almost life size.
"That's how they look when they're off-duty," he would say of the painting.
Other paintings by Chic, on subjects not connected with the Bean family, also were part of his permanent office fixtures. One cabinet is filled with gifts that followers of the Bean family have sent to its various members. Golduh is especially favored here. Innumerable persons have sent her bricks to replenish her constantly-depleted stack. Among these are two bricks from the original Governor's mansion which stood on the Circle many years ago. Two are from the Indiana University fieldhouse, sent to the obstreperous redhead by President William Lowe Bryan. Other admirers have sent her striped stockings.
Statuettes of Golduh and of other characters are among the collection. One of the oldest gifts is the "original package" of My Lady's Slipper, the rough-cut eating tobacco to which Uncle Wash is addicted.
Although Chic's days were devoted to the production of the Roger Bean family's appearances, he found time to make sketches and drawings for many individuals and organizations in the city. On special occasions he drew special cartoons for The Star.
One of the drawings he made for his own amusement eight years ago developed into an institution. This is a mock diploma for the "bachelor of health" degree which he presented to the Marion County Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
"Be it known that this day marks the beginning of a new era of good cheer and health for Student John Doe. This degree is based on the theory that a smile is a tonic whether you are on the receiving or sending end and proves the isolation of the germ of good humor."
A class motto inscribed on the lower left hand corner reads, "Love your nurse and doctors -- the more the merrier."
Sanitarium officials decided the diploma had more than transient value. They printed copies of it and presented them to patients who had "graduated" from the hospital by conquering the ravages of tuberculosis. About six hundred diplomas already have been given.
Dr. William McQueen, superintendent of the sanitarium, presented a copy, inscribed with Mr. Jackson's name, the date of presentation and signatures of Dr. McQueen and Dr. R.S. Henry, to the cartoonist at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club last Tuesday.
"Some of our former patients have told us that they value their health diplomas more than they would a college diploma," Dr. McQueen said at that time. A new supply of the diplomas was printed recently.
On three occasions in recent years the Bean family has appeared outside the newspapers. One of these was at the 1929 state fair, when the Indiana University show included a skit, "The Return of Woody Bean." Chic made a personal appearance with this show.
In the spring of 1931 a series of sketches of Bean family life appeared on the radio via WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station. The broadcast also was part of the state fair that fall. In February, 1933, when the jigsaw puzzle craze was at its zenith, Chic prepared a series of drawings in color which were made into puzzles.
Back in 1929 when Charlie Davis was master of ceremonies at the Indiana theater, the versatile band leader composed a song, "Golduh." The song was presented as part of the Indiana stage show in April.
The conditions of life in Indianapolis have been reflected in the doings of the Bean family. When they first came to the city in 1913, houses were hard to find and several days were devoted to the tribulations of house hunting and getting settled. In similar fashion, the trends and tides of municipal life have rippled the surface of the life of the family down the years.
In the fall of 1913 the need for domestic help around the Bean home became apparent. Roger hired a girl who might have come straight from the chorus of a musical comedy, but Sylvia flagged him down before the girl even set foot in the house. Mrs. Bean thereupon engaged the services of one Golduh Stubbins of Bucyrus, O.
As the months went on other new characters came in. The inquisitive and bellicose Mrs. Alvina Probe, wife of Henry, was the next one after Golduh.The initial visit of Uncle Castor Bean from Boston came in 1914. Cynthia Bean, now in her fifth year, is one of the later acquisitions. Like Woody, she was adopted by the Beans when she was a baby and has been growing up like any living little girl. "Buck," the dynamic railroader who woos Golduh, also is a younger member of the strip's cast of characters.
When Golduh was created, Chic picked the home town of the Stubbins family off a map of Ohio, quite at random. He did not visit Bucyrus until the summer of 1931, but plenty of people from Bucyrus have visited him, most of them with fire in their eyes.
"When I chose Bucyrus," Chic used to say, "I never imagined I'd ever see the town or meet anyone from there. But it seems that I've met the entire population."
Since Golduh in her younger days was hoydenish, boisterous and belligerent, citizens of Bucyrus took their relation with the Bean family comic strip as a direct affront. It was several years before the anti-Chic Jackson feeling died down.
At the height of public unrest in Bucyrus, when comments in letters to the editor of The Star from that town were exceedingly acrimonious, twenty residents of Boswell, Ind., came to the aid of the harassed cartoonist. They offered Lem Stubbins (who at the time drove a one-horse team) the use of a two-ton truck if he would move to Bucyrus.
"Was just over to see Lem Stubbins, but he has closed his barber shop for the afternoon and gone to Mansfield for band practice.
Chic watched the young man in the Bucyrus telegraph office closely, but not a flicker of rage or any other emotion crossed his features. So Chic figured that the old enmity around Bucyrus had faded away.
"Historically, I was born in Muncie so long ago, and left there so long ago that the old town has recovered from my early citizenship; and now when I run back for a brief visit I find no ill effects, but there are still some who talk about it like they speak of an appendicitis operation and insist on showing the scar!
"I arrived just before midnight on New Year's eve; everybody was attending a watch party except my mother, who dutifully enough never left me for a minute.
"Of course you are curious to know of any early manifestations of this queer characteristic which is proving to be my life's work, which reminds me that only recently an old-timer asked me if ever I expected to settle down and do something useful! I draw (I have always drawn) attention to my general inability to stick to "real" work -- according to my friends -- and when I think of the many jobs I have tried to learn to love and failed, they are doubtless right. Imagine me, if you please, at work in a shoe factory, a glass factory, rolling mill, steel mill, nut and bolt works, grocery store and brickyards! Note that these are the callings of hard-handed, red-blooded sons of industry; I sought nothing soft, but be it said to the credit of the several bosses whom I served, they did nothing to encourage me in embracing any one of these occupations. In some cases they insisted that I tarry not -- thus preserving me for this pleasant task of writing my life.
"Facts: I connected with my home town paper as illustrator and front page cartoonist; then twenty-five years ago I attended Chicago Art School one year; then to the Indianapolis Star. Nineteen years ago the Bean family had its premiere, and since then my life and family connections are as an open book.
"I was married to Margaret Wagner of Springport, Ind., and we have two boys, who frequently laugh at my stuff.
"My favorite flower is old-fashioned buckwheat with sausage."
In this issue is presented the final comic strip drawn by Chic Jackson on the day of his death, June 3.
The Star has previously announced that the Roger Bean strip would end as soon as the advance material was used. The Roger Bean family was Chic Jackson himself -- some one else could only imitate. Mrs. Jackson desires to join The Star in expressing appreciation to all those who have requested a continuation or a repetition of the strip but it is also her belief that it would have been Chic's wish to have the series end with the last one he made.
All unexpectedly, Roger Bean and his household are moving out of the public eye. Don't think of them as a family wiped out by disaster; the only way to destroy them is to forget them. They have moved into the Land of Memory -- there they live content, happy in the love of the friends they made.
They are within call; not by telephone or post; not to make return engagements, but by private wires from your own consciousness!
Call them to mind, and Roger will come with a smile on his dear funny face, his arm around Cuddles, whom he will continue to tease; he will grin triumphantly, getting the best of Blinky Burleson. He will frown on Woody in mock displeasure over modern expenses. Woody will be going on to school, probably, for Chic wanted to make a doctor out of him. I imagine Golduh and Buck will marry, now that the Beans live more quietly. She can still look after the housework with Buck on the road so much. And Jose will do the "lormry" work indefinitely.
In the Land of Memory, Yank will live on unbelievably. I once asked Chic why Yank did not run after the children as he used to do, and he answered me so seriously, "Why, Yank's an old dog now -- he'd rather sit on the porch and wait for them."
Yes, the Probes moved out by them; Henry and Alviny would not like to be forgotten, and even when most annoying, I am sure the Beans found them dependable and loyal.
Won't the Uncles love to visit them there in that beautiful country? And when you call Cynthia to mind, try to imagine her growing up into a lovely and lovable girl under gentle Mrs. Bean's training. Let me tell you Chic's secret about Cynthia; Only a few know that she is really an heiress! Her real mother's uncle, having made a fortune in Alaska, was disappointed in love and became a hermit; though out of touch with things in general, he learned that little Cynthia, child of his favorite niece, was early orphaned and was in a home for children. You remember how Harry-the-Rat's gang was responsible for her being placed near the Beans' home, where they could keep in touch. They knew she would one day inherit this gold-miner's money. (You knew she had been kidnapped from some place.) Chic was too tender-hearted to have her stolen from living parents, even in a pen-and-ink world.
Think of them then as people still. As real as Chic's pen made them for you. Living just in another settlement; inaccessible except by the Rapid Transit route of Memory's Line.


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by: Anna Wiernicki, Russell Falcon
Posted: May 6, 2019 / 05:55 PM EDT / Updated: May 6, 2019 / 05:55 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) — Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar says the migrant crisis at the border could delay or even scuttle the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
Congress must approve the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for it to take effect and replace the 35-year old North American Free Trade Agreement.
Some lawmakers say the immigration issues at the border may delay any vote on the plan — leaving farmers and manufacturers in limbo.
Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar says hundreds of border patrol officers are being pulled away from the ports of entry to deal with the influx of migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
Cuellar says that means the ports of entry are understaffed and trucks are backed up for hours, slowing down the $1.7 billion dollars in trade that crosses the border every day.
Texas Republican Will Hurd agrees it's an economic crisis and any disruption that slows down trade is devastating.
"If this continues too long, that is going to change supply chains," said Hurd. "And once supply chains are changed, then that has a long term impact."
Hurd says while Congress needs to tackle the immigration crisis at the border ASAP, he says that for the sake of the Texas economy, his colleagues must pass the USMCA now.
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