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Conference on Latin American History, (CLAH), founded in 1926, is the professional organization of Latin American historians affiliated with the American Historical Association. It publishes the journal The Hispanic American Historical Review.

History
In 1916 a group of Latin American historians within the American Historical Association met to create institutional structures for this branch of history.  Latin Americanists were marginalized within the AHA, with few sessions at the annual meeting and limited space within the American Historical Review. This group founded The Hispanic American Historical Review at the Cincinnati meeting of the AHA.  Further work building a professional organization was accomplished in 1926 at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Rochester.  Latin Americanists sought to expand the teaching of Latin American history and organized a session entitled "Means and Methods of Widening among Colleges and Universities an Interest in the Study of Hispanic-American History". The 1926 meeting led further work to create an identifiable group within the American Historical Association.  The constitution of the Conference on Latin American History was adopted in December 1938.  CLAH gained a firmer institutional grounding with its incorporation in the District of Columbia in 1964, giving it a legal identity, and locating its offices in the Hispanic Foundation (now Hispanic Division) in the Library of Congress.  With that step, CLAH was no longer an organic part of the AHA, but "an affiliated but autonomous body."

In 1964, the AHA was granted $125,000 by the Ford Foundation to aid over three years the expansion of CLAH's activities.  The AHA received the funds that were disbursed to CLAH.  All funding was for programmatic purposes and not for the support of individuals' research.  The projects identified for funding were to provide a bibliographical guide to nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers; develop policies for the collection of historical statistics for the field; discuss and plan for a multivolume history of Latin America; develop teaching aids for the field; fund for small conferences; earmark funds for preparation of colonial sources for publication; and develop a publication series of general works.  The Hispanic Foundation at the Library of Congress was named the repository of the CLAH archives and provided services for the CLAH Secretariat.

Women have participated in CLAH leadership since its early years, with four serving as Secretary Treasurer: Lillian Estelle Fisher (1928) and 1935–39; Mary W. Williams (1929–1934); Vera B. Holmes (1940–1943); and Ruth L. Butler (1944–1948). The first woman president of CLAH was Madaline Nicols in 1949, with a gap of 38 years until Peggy Liss was elected in 1987. The first woman recipient of the Bolton (now Bolton-Johnson) Prize for the best book in English was in 1977, with Doris M. Ladd, for The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780-1826 (University of Texas Press). The first woman to receive the Distinguished Service Award was Ursula Lamb in 1990. The first woman to be Executive Director of CLAH was Donna J. Guy in 1991–92. The first CLAH president originally from Latin America is Asunción Lavrin, 2001–02.

Organizational structure
The organization is governed by the General Committee.  There is an executive committee: president (formerly chair), vice president, past president, and the executive secretary.  Serving ex officio on the General Committee is the editor of Hispanic American Historical Review, the editor of The Americas, and the editor of H-LATAM, the National Endowment for the Humanities listserv for Latin America.  As CLAH grew in membership and complexity of its fields, it established a series of committees with regional or other focus including Andean Studies, Atlantic world studies; Borderlands/Frontiers; Brazilian Studies; Caribbean Studies; Central American Studies; Chile-Rio de la Plata studies; Colonial studies; Gran Colombian studies; Mexican studies;  and the committee on teaching and teaching materials.

Prizes
Starting in 1953, CLAH established a series of prizes, the first being the James A. Robertson Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, followed by others for particular fields.  Prizes now include the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor of the organization; the Herbert E. Bolton-John J. Johnson Prize for the best book in English on Latin American history; the Lewis Hanke Award to enable revision of a dissertation into a publishable book; the James R. Scobie Awards to support travel for dissertation research; the Lydia Cabrera Award, for Cuban history up to 1898; the Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize for the best book on Latin American ethnohistory; the Warren Dean Award for Brazilian history; the Elinor Melville Award for the best book in environmental history; the María Elena Martínez Prize for the best work on Mexican history; Paul Vanderwood Award for the best article published in a journal other than Hispanic American Historical Review; the Antonine Tibesar Award for the best article published in The Americas.

Chairs and presidents

2016–2018 Lara Putnam
2015–2016 Jerry Dávila
2013–2014 Jane Landers
2011–2012 Cynthia Radding
2009–2010 Mary Kay Vaughan
2007–2008 Jeffrey Lesser
2005–2006 Mark Wasserman
2003–2004 Ann Twinam
2001–2002 Asunción Lavrin
1999–2000 Susan Socolow
1997–1998 Lyman L. Johnson
1995–1996 Donna J. Guy
1994 Florencia Mallon
1992 Eric Van Young
1991 E. Bradford Burns
1990 Murdo J. MacLeod
1989 Ralph Lee Woodward
1988 John V. Lombardi
1987 Peggy K. Liss

Chairpersons
1986 Michael C. Meyer
1985 Robert A. Potash
1984 Richard Graham
1983 Stuart B. Schwartz
1982 Herbert S. Klein
1981 John J. TePaske
1980 Dauril Alden
1979 Charles A. Hale
1978 James R. Scobie
1977 Richard Greenleaf
1976 Stanley J. Stein
1975 David Bushnell
1974 Benjamin Keen
1973 John Leddy Phelan
1972 Lyle McAlister
1971 William J. Griffith
1970 Thomas McGann
1969 Richard M. Morse
1968 Stanley R. Ross
1967 Woodrow Borah
1966 Harry Bernstein
1965 Robert N. Burr
1964 Howard F. Cline
1963 Charles Gibson
1962 James F. King
1961 John J. Johnson
1960 Irving A. Leonard
1959 Charles C. Griffin
1958 John Tate Lanning
1957 Walter V. Scholes
1956 Engel Sluiter
1955 John Francis Bannon
1954 Bailey W. Diffie
1953 Alexander Marchant
1952 John Tate Lanning
1951 Charles E. Nowell
1950 George P. Hammond
1949 Madaline Nichols
1948 Lewis Hanke
1947 Philip W. Powell
1946 A. Curtis Wilgus
1945 A. Curtis Wilgus
1944 Samuel F. Beamis
1943 Arthur P. Whitaker
1942 Arthur P. Whitaker
1941 Isaac J. Cox
1940 Dana G. Munro
1939 James A. Robertson
(deceased, J. Fred Rippy pro tem)
1938 J. Fred Rippy
1937 Arthur P. Whitaker
1936 Joseph B. Lockey
1935 Alfred Hasbrouck
1934 Percy A. Martin
1933 Arthur S. Aiton
1932 Clarence H. Haring
1931 William S. Robertson
1930 Clarence H. Haring
1929 J. Fred Rippy
1928 Isaac J. Cox
1927 Milledge L. Bonham, Jr.

Distinguished Service Award

2017 Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego
2016 Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland
2015 Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University
2014 Lyman L. Johnson, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2013 Valerie Millholland, Senior Editor with Duke University Press
2012 Susan Socolow, Emory University
2011 Paul Vanderwood, San Diego State University
2010 Richard Graham, University of Texas at Austin
2009 Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago
2008 Asunción Lavrin, Arizona State University
2007 William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
2006 Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress
2005 Charles A. Hale, University of Iowa
2004 James Lockhart, UCLA
2003 Thomas Skidmore, Brown University
2002 Ralph Lee Woodward, Texas Christian University
2001 Michael C. Meyer, University of Arizona
2000 Emilia Viotti da Costa, Yale University

1999 Dauril Alden, University of Washington
1998 Richard Greenleaf, Tulane University
1997 John Lynch, University of London.
1996 David Bushnell, University of Florida
1995 John Jay TePaske, Duke University
1994 Tulio Halperin-Donghi, University of California, Berkeley
1993 E. Bradford Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
1992 Magnus Mörner
1991 Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University
1990 Ursula Lamb, University of Arizona
1989 William J. Griffith, University of Kansas
1987 Co-Awards: John J. Johnson, Stanford University
1987 Charles R. Boxer, Yale University
1985 Benjamin Keen, Northern Illinois University
1983 Irving A. Leonard, University of Michigan
1981 Charles Gibson, University of Michigan
1979 Woodrow Borah, University of California at Berkeley
1977 Arthur P. Whitaker, University of Pennsylvania
1975 Nettie Lee Benson, University of Texas at Austin
1973 Lewis Hanke, University of Massachusetts
1971 Howard F. Cline, Library of Congress
1970 Charles Griffin, Vassar College

Herbert Eugene Bolton-John J. Johnson Prize – Best Book in English

2018 Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War (Harvard University Press, 2017). Honorable Mention: Pablo Gomez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2017).
2017 Celso Castilho, Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Honorable Mention: Marcela Echeverri, Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution. (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
2016 Ann Twinam, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015). Honorable Mention: Christopher Boyer, Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico (Duke University Press, 2015).
2015 Thomas Klubock, La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Duke University Press, 2014). Honorable Mention: Sebastián Carassai, The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (Duke University Press, 2014).
2014 Robert W. Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810, (Oklahoma, 2013). Honorable Mention: Seth Garfield, In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region, (Durham, Duke University Press, 2013).
2013 Rebecca Earle, The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in South America, 1492–1700, (Cambridge, 2013). Honorable Mention: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, I Speak of the City. Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, (Chicago, 2012).
2012 John Tutino, Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America, (Duke, 2011).
2011 Richard Graham, Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, (Texas, 2010). Honorable Mention: Jane Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, (Harvard, 2010).
2010 Robin Derby, The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo, (Duke, 2009).
2009 Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved:  Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale, 2008).
2008 Cynthia E. Milton, The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts and Assistance in Eighteenth Century Ecuador (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 (Duke University Press).
2007 Steve J. Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973–1988 (Duke University Press).
2006 Florencia Mallon, Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicholás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001 (Duke University Press). Honorable Mention: Susan Ramirez, To Feed and be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes (Stanford University Press).
2005 Emilio Kourí,A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property and Community in Papantla, Mexico (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Bryan McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Duke University Press).
2004 Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Linda Lewin. Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821, and Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822–1889 (Stanford University Press).
2003 Jean Franco, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (Harvard University Press). Honorable Mention: John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War (University of California Press).
2002 Eric Van Young, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810–1821 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Kevin Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford University Press).
2001 Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 (Duke University Press).
2000 Louis A. Pérez, On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture (University of North Carolina Press). Honorable Mention: Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford University Press).
1999 (co-winners) Friedrich Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa (Stanford University Press); José C. Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930 (University of California Press).
1998 Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940 (University of Arizona Press). Honorable Mention: Rosalie Schwartz, Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba (University of Nebraska Press).
1997 William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred, Priest and Parishioners in Eighteenth Century Mexico (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mentions: Thomas F. O Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprises in Latin America, 1900–1940 (Cambridge University Press. Susan E. Ramirez, The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth Century Peru (Stanford University Press).
1996 Warren Dean, posthumous, With Broad Axe and Firebrand: the Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, (University of California Press).
1995 Elinor G. K. Melville, A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mentions: David J. McCreery, Rural Guatemala, 1760–1940 (Stanford University Press). R. Douglas Cope, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 (University of Wisconsin Press).
1994 Enrique Tandeter, Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosi, 1692–1826 (University of New Mexico Press). Honorable Mention: Nils Jacobsen, Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780–1930 (University of California Press).
1993 James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mentions: Susan Deans-Smith, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (University of Texas Press). Alida Metcalf, Family and the Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580–1822 (University of California Press).
1992 Ramón Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1300–1846 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Sabine MacCormack, Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Colonial Peru (Princeton University Press).
1991 Ann M. Wightman, Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Forasteros of Cuzco, 1520–1720 (Duke University Press). Honorable Mention: Hilda Sábato, Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Stage, 1840–1890 (University of New Mexico Press).
1990 (co-winners) Charles A. Hale, The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Princeton University Press).Ida Altman, Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century (University of California Press).
1989 Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574–1821 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830 (University of Wisconsin Press).
1988 Inga Clendennin, Ambivalent Conquests: Spaniard and Maya in Yucatán, 1517–1570 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mention: Linda Lewin, Politics and Parentela in Paraíba: A Case Study of Family Based Oligarchy in Brazil (Princeton University Press).
1987 Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2 vols.). Honorable Mention: Charles W. Bergquist, Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia (Stanford University Press).
1986 Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mention: Silvia Marina Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790–1857 (Stanford University Press).
1985 Nancy Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton University Press). Honorable Mention: Karen Spalding, Huarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule (Stanford University Press).
1984 Woodrow Borah Justice By Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real (University of California Press). Honorable Mention: Florencia Mallon, The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggles and Capitalist Transition, 1860–1940 (Princeton University Press).
1983 Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: the American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mentions: Nathaniel Leff, Underdevelopment and Development in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Allen and Unwin). Steve J. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 (University of Wisconsin Press).
1982 Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States and the Mexican Revolution (University of Chicago Press). Honorable Mention: Walter Rodney, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881–1905 (Johns Hopkins University Press).
1981 Herman W. Konrad, A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico. Santa Lucia, 1576–1767 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: George Reid Andrews, The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900 (University of Wisconsin Press).
1980 Jonathan C. Brown, A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mentions: David Brading, Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajio, 1700–1860 (Cambridge University Press). William B. Taylor, Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages (Stanford University Press).
1979 Paul Drake, Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932–52 (University of Illinois Press). Honorable Mentions: John K. Chance, Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca (Stanford University Press). Susan M. Socolow, The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778–1810 (Cambridge University Press).
1978 Christon I. Archer, The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760–1810 (University of New Mexico Press). Honorable Mention: John D. Wirth, Minas Gerais in the Brazilian Federation, 1889–1937 (Stanford University Press).
1977 Doris M. Ladd, The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780–1826 (University of Texas Press). Honorable Mention: Warren Dean, Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820–1920 (Stanford University Press).
1976 David Rock, Politics in Argentina, 1890–1930, the Rise and Fall of Radicalism (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mentions: Charles H. Harris, III, A Mexican Family Empire: The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867 (University of Texas Press). Stanley E. Hilton, Brazil and the Great Powers, 1930-1939 (University of Texas Press).
1975 Frederick P. Bowser, The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524–1650 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mentions: James R. Scobie, Buenos Aires: Plaza to Suburb, 1870–1910 (Oxford University Press). Thomas E. Skidmore, Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought (Oxford University Press).
1974 Warren L. Cook, Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543–1819 (Yale University Press). Honorable Mention: Stuart B. Schwartz, Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and its Judges, 1609–1751 (University of California Press). Frank D. McCann, Jr., The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945 (Princeton University Press).
1973 Peter J. Bakewell, Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mention: William B. Taylor, Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca (Stanford University Press).
1972 David Brading, Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763–1810 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mention: Joseph L. Love, Rio Grande Do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, 1882–1930 (Stanford University Press).
1971 John D. Wirth, The Politics of Brazilian Development, 1930–1954 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mentions: John Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich). J.R. Fisher, Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System, 1784–1814 (Athalone Press, University of London).
1970 John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (Alfred A. Knopf). Honorable Mentions:Cecil Alan Hutchinson, Frontier Settlements in Mexican California: The Hijar Padres Colony and Its Origins, 1769–1835 (Yale University Press). Robert A. Potash, The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1828–1945 (Stanford University Press).
1969 (co-winners) A.J.R. Russell-Wood, Fidalgos and Philanthropoists: The Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Bahia, 1550–1755 (University of California Press). Richard Graham, Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850–1914 (Cambridge University Press). Honorable Mentions: Dauril Alden, Royal Government in Colonial Brazil: With Special Reference to the Administration of the Marquis of Lavradio, Viceroy, 1769–1779 (University of California Press). James Lockhart, Spanish Peru, 1532–1560; A Colonial Society (University of Wisconsin Press).
1968 James W. Wilkie, The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change since 1910 (University of California Press). Honorable Mentions: Simon Collier, Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence, 1808 – 1833 (Cambridge University Press). John Leddy Phelan, The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century (University of Wisconsin Press).
1967 E. Bradford Burns, The Unwritten Alliance: Rio Branco and Brazilian-American Relations (Columbia University Press). Honorable Mentions: John Preston Moore, The Cabildo in Peru under the Bourbons (Duke University Press). Ralph Lee Woodward, Class Privileges and Economic Development: The Consulado de Comercio in Guatemala, 1793–1871 (University of North Carolina Press).
1966 Robert N. Burr, By Reason or Force: Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830–1905 (University of California Press). Honorable Mention: William J. Griffith, Empires in the Wilderness—Foreign Colonization and Development in Guatemala, 1834-1844 (University of North Carolina Press).
1965 Charles Gibson, The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810 (Stanford University Press). Honorable Mention: James R. Scobie, Revolution on the Pampas: A Social History of Argentine Wheat (University of Texas Press).
1964 Fredrick B. Pike, Chile and the United States, 1880–1962: the Emergence of Chile's Social Crisis and the Challenge to United States Diplomacy (University of Notre Dame Press).
1963 Frank Tannenbaum, Ten Keys to Latin America (Alfred A. Knopf).
1962 Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy (Columbia University Press).
1961 Robert E. Quirk, The Mexican Revolution, 1914–1915 (University of Indiana Press). Honorable Mention: E. David Cronon, Josephus Daniels in Mexico (University of Indiana Press).
1960 Irving A. Leonard, Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth Century Persons, Places, and Practices (University of Michigan Press).
1959 (co-winners) John J. Johnson, Political Change in Latin America: The Emergency of the Middle Sectors (Stanford University Press). Robert J. Schafer, The Economic Societies in the Spanish World, 1763–1821 (Syracuse University Press).
1958 Stanley J. Stein, Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee Country, 1850–1900 (Harvard University Press).
1957 John Tate Lanning, The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala'' (Cornell University Press).

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Katie Spadoni hired as new associate principal at Asa Clark Middle School in Pewaukee
The Pewaukee School District has hired Katie Spadoni as Asa Clark Middle School's new assistant principal.
Katie Spadoni hired as new associate principal at Asa Clark Middle School in Pewaukee The Pewaukee School District has hired Katie Spadoni as Asa Clark Middle School's new assistant principal. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2rGVdrc
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PEWAUKEE - The Pewaukee School District has hired Katie Spadoni as the new associate principal of Asa Clark Middle School.
Spadoni will fill the position previously held by Anthony Pizzo. Pizzo will take over as Asa Clark principal July 1 from outgoing principal Randy Daul, who is retiring at the end of the school year.
Spadoni graduated from St. Norbert College in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in education, with a minor in language arts. She started her career as a third-grade teacher in Watertown before working in the Elmbrook School District the past four years. Spadoni is currently a fourth-grade teacher in the Elmbrook School District.
"I am excited for the opportunity to join the phenomenal team at Asa Clark and continue the trajectory of greatness that has been established in the Pewaukee School District," said Spadoni. "I cannot wait to meet the families, students and staff members in the upcoming months!"
Spadoni recently earned a master's degree from Carroll University in educational leadership.
"We are ecstatic to add Katie to our team at Asa Clark, and I cannot wait to begin working alongside her as we begin our new roles together," said Pizzo. "Her leadership skills and exceptional experience will benefit the ACMS students, families and staff immensely."
The search for the new associate principal position drew 123 applicants, according to Pewaukee Schools Superintendent Mike Cady.
"We're excited about Katie. I think she's going to bring a lot of energy and talents to that role, so we're really happy to have her join our team," Cady said.
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Intro: this post has been triggered by an innocent DM from Zuzanna Stanska of GammaRebels, asking me nicely if I would like to write about their increased funding news. So I spent the whole day pulling together interview notes, bookmarks and emails to prepare this post, which was long overdue.
My personal view is that the accelerator programs have become MBA2.0 for entrepreneurs. Compared to a standard MBA degree, which covers generic topics from macroeconomics, to general management and corporate finance, accelerator programs have a more focused approach to teach and prepare tech entrepreneurs to do one thing very well: build and grow their tech businesses. Of course they are as good as their mentor network.
While Seedcamp is well known for its efforts and results of accelerating european startups (30 per cent of which come from eastern Europe), other accelerators, such as Startup Sauna and Springboard have began to visit eastern European locations in search for the most promising technology companies.
Startup Sauna has been scouting Poland, Russia and Baltic countries a couple of months ago, and will have its demo day on the 15th of December. The Finland-based accelerator has recently decided to go global and open source (with the support of the Finnish government). This means that its mentors and resources will be available to the best tech startups from all over the world for free.
Springboard's Jon Bradford is working his way into Russia via affiliation with TexDrive, the accelerator run by Andrey Kessel (ex-Amadeus Partners). TexDrive's mentors include Russia's most notable tech entrepreneurs and investors, although it is still unclear how much time committments those mentors have made to the program.
A unique initiative in Russia is a pre-seed organization called Greenfield Project, sponsored by Russian Venture Company amongst others. Its founders Renat Garipov, Mikhael Korneev and Peter Tatischev organize free educational seminars, networking events and Greenfield Project has become a platform to share business ideas, develop them into the real projects and even put together a team. Over the past 2 years Greenfield has enabled creation of 250 startups, over 25 started selling, found investors and are alive and well.
Greenfield Project partners with InCube accelerator which was launched this fall. Incube gives away $20 000 per startup in exchange for 10 per cent of the equity. It is funded by Yandex, Runa Capital and business angels.
Another Russian accelerator Farminers does not believe in open institute of mentors, and has a closely knit team of exports who work closely with the startup companies. The accelerator has selected 15 startups earlier this month for its first edition. It offers up to $150 000 for the project execution for 40 per cent equity. The demo day will take place in the beginning of 2012. The teams are physically located at Farminers' offices, and the mentors are based either in the same building or nearby.
Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center has recently also selected 5 Russian teams for its programs. The startups will remain in Russia but will benefit from the Plug and Play global network of mentors and investors.
In Poland, the most notable accelerator is privately-funded GammaRebels, which launched earlier this year and had a demo day a month ago. According to Zuzanna Stanska, the accelerator has recently upped the ante, now investing up to 12 000 Euros in exchange for 10 per cent of the equity. The accelerator is currently collecting applications for its next edition. Notable companies from the earlier edition include Busyflow and ARNav, the only eastern European finalist of LeWeb 2011 startup competition, as well as Game Disrupt, which came second at the Startup Sauna Warmup Warsaw. GammaRebels' program is international, and has no application deadline: this means that the program will start when 10 top-notch teams are found.
Other accelerators in Warsaw include AI Not (up to 200 000 Euros for up to 50 per cent of the equity) and Technoboard (up to Euros 240 ooo for up to 49 per cent of the equity), but unlike GammaRebels, these are funded by the EU.
In Hungary European Entrepreneurship Foundation, headed by Peter Záboji, has been running its Venture Accelerator program since 2009, and is, according to Záboji, "the mother of all accelerator programs in Europe". The model works on a paid fee basis (Euro 350 for the entire course). The program has accelerated hungarian startups such as Gravity, Dragontape and Joszaki. Its next demo day, called Jeremie Venture Contest, will take place on the 5th of December 2011.
Another Hungarian initiative is run by a tech incubator Colabs. It has just launched its first seed accelerator program which currently accepts applications for its first edition (deadline on the 30th of November 2011). It will invest 3200-16000 Euros into selected projects, and will take place from January to April 2012.
In Ukraine there is GrowthUp accelerator, co-founded by tech entrepreneur Denis Dovgopoly (co-organizer of IDCEE). The format of GrowthUp is based on mentorship and education of the preselected startup teams in exchange for a small fee. Its most notable incubated ventures can be found here (in Russian). Its next demo day will take place on the 20th of December (the exact date may change).
Another Ukrainian accelerator EastLabs hasn't launched yet. It is supported by EastOne Group, whose founder the billionnaire Victor Pinchuk is one of the most successful Ukrainian businessmen. EastLabs, run by the New Yorker Hrish Lotlikar, Brazilian Eveline Buchatskiy and Ukrainian Olga Belkova who are currently reviewing applications, and finalizing the list of its mentors and experts. The details of the funding on offer has not yet been revealed.
Startup Yard in Czech Republic is run by Lukas Hudecek (Jon Bradford of Springboard is involved as a mentor). The accelerator offers Euro 6000 in exchange for 10 per cent of the equity, or takes 5 per cent for mentorship only. Its first demo day takes place in Prague on the 28th of November and in London on the 1st of December 2011.
There is also TechSquare in Prague, but this entity operates more as an incubator, offering a co-working space, support services and access to the busy Czech venture capitalists Credo Ventures in exchange for a flat monthly fee.
Startup Highway is accelerating tech entrepreneurs in Lithuania, whose co-founder Rokas Tamošiūnas is preparing his first batch of startups for a demo day on the 16th of December. Each startup receives up to €14,000 in seed funding for 10% of the equity, as well as free office space and admin support. Bradford is an advisor there.
In Bulgaria there is Startitsmart, the entrepreneurship club which organizes a program called 3Challenge. The program is split in three stages: idea, seed and grow. Out of 18 business ideas 9 are selected for the seed stage and get 2500 Euros as well as Euro 120 000 worth of mentorship hours, and upon a completion of 6-months-long accelerator course, three teams are selected for the growth stage. Seed funding is still a problem in Bulgaria, as venture investment ecosystem is underdeveloped.
And last but not least is VentureConnect in Romania, although not quite an accelerator but it might go that route. VentureConnect organizes pitching sessions, bringing together Romanian entrepreneurs, mentors and investors. Having launched in 2010, presentations of its current edition take place today in Bucharest. VentureConnect has teamed up with the local tech investors such as Radu Georgescu and Marius Ghenea to offer seed funding to the strong teams.
So, I think this is a complete list but please leave comments if I have missed an accelerator or two out of the list. Most of the initiatives are not even a year old and it is hard to keep track. This December will be a busy month for investors looking to connect with freshly-accelerated teams in eastern Europe.
Update: I have missed Moscow-based Glavstart which offers up to $100 000 to the startup teams (skype interviews to take place on the 29th of November 2011, Investor day in January 2012) and Business Incubator HSE also from Moscow.
Update 2: How could I possibly forget HackFwd when I made a point in my TechCrunch post that Eastern European teams featured prominently amongst its HackBoxes? The accelerator takes 27% of the equity (3% goes to the mentors) in exchange for Euro 91 000 to Euro 191 000 per investment depending on the number of founders. HackFwd has over 30 introducers across most of the eastern European countries. The talent Geek David Bizer is present at almost all eastern European startup events either via Twitter, following the live stream or in person.
Update 3: There is also an accelerator Garade.md in Moldova. Now, I haven't expected that because based on my earlier analysis of the competitiveness of eastern European countries, Moldova is still at the lowest stage of economic development, competing primarily on unskilled labour and natural resources. Garage.md invests up to $40 000.
Update 4: One more incubator / accelerator in Poland is called Beast Fund which invests up to Euro 11 000 and contacts in exchange for up to 60 per cent equity. It focuses on mobile apps and games, covering CEE region.


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Lila Rose Defends Life Before Pro-Choice Dr. Phil Audience, Babies "Have the Right to Not be Killed"
Prominent pro-life activist Lila Rose held her own during an appearance on the Dr. Phil show this week, calmly and clearly outlining the moral case against abortion even when outnumbered by pro-abortion advocates.
"Our fundamental human right that we all share in this room is life," she calmly explained when confronted with an emotional audience member arguing against abortion bans. "It's the first human right. Laws are meant to protect the weak. In a society, who's the weakest? Who's the weakest in society? A child. They don't have a voice, they can't speak."
"Whether we live 10 minutes, 10 years, or 100 years, you're a human life, and you have the right to not be killed," she explained. "And that's what the pro-life fight is all about. That's what we're fighting for."
Rose had been responding to a member of the audience who was tearfully condemning her for supporting laws that would have prevented a 10-year-old rape victim from getting an abortion.
"Lila, your views — you just want to legislate evil," the woman told Rose. "That's really how it feels when you speak … I think you're a traitor to your own."
"There is nothing you could possibly say to justify that level of lack of empathy," she said. "We were founded on the lack of empathy, and we've just kept up on that tradition."
Rose responded by arguing that abortion is not the answer to helping victims of sexual assault.
"Abortion is devastating to women's mental health," she replied. "No one talks about that … The trauma is from the rape. The child is an innocent party there."
The woman replied that the child doesn't exist yet, as it hasn't been born.
Rose replied by emphasizing the value of human life, from conception to the womb.
"Our fundamental human right that we all share in this room is life," she explained. "It's the first human right. Laws are meant to protect the weak. In a society, who's the weakest? Who's the weakest in society? A child. They don't have a voice, they can't speak."
.@LilaGraceRose powerfully responds to abortion advocate on @DrPhil:
"Laws are meant to protect the weak. Who is the weakest in our society? A child.
Whether you live 10 minutes, 10 years, or 100 years, you're a human and have the right to not be killed."
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Dr. Phil also challenged Rose on the point at which life begins in the womb, arguing that there is no "consensus" within the scientific community on this point.
"There is Dr. Phil, 96% of scientists say that begins at fertilization–," Rose replied, before the celebrity doctor spoke over her.
"No, actually there's not–," Dr. Phil replied, before Rose continued, "If you're an in-vitro specialist you're looking to create a single cell embryo, then you know you have a human life, so it is a scientific fact."
The two argued the point for a moment, with Rose challenging the host at one point with the question, "In an abortion if it's not a human life why do you have to kill it?"
An apparently flustered Dr. Phil replied, "I haven't spoken over you, and you keep speaking over me and I assume that's because you don't want me to finish my though which is if anyone here wants to fact-check me instead of speak over me, you can go to the scientific literature and query what the definition is of the beginning of life, and you will find that there are different definitions."
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Fox News pointed to the survey that Rose was most likely referring to, which found that "96% of the 5,577 biologists from 1,058 academic institutions surveyed affirmed that a human's life begins at fertilization. Furthermore, 85% of the 5,577 biologists self-identified as pro-choice, 89% self-identified as liberal, and 95% claimed that they held a Ph.D."
**Every single life is precious — which is why I have partnered with BRAVE books to write Little Lives Matter, the children's book that tackles the sanctity of life for young readers.**
Rose, the founder and president of Live Action Network who has been a voice in the movement against abortion since she was a teenager, was mostly presented with arguments for abortion that centered around extreme cases of fetal anomalies and child rape, as the activist noted on Twitter after the program.
"Dr. Phil's team chose to center the entire show around an extremely tragic case of a mother whose baby had a fetal anomaly that was life threatening," she wrote. "They made the focus of the episode her story, that she was 'forced' to birth the baby instead of abort because of pro-life laws."
"Carry my baby to bury my baby," was the line used. What they never acknowledged is that abortion kills a baby and that the baby would still need to be buried – or thrown away in medical waste. The reality is abortion doesn't solve or heal or any problem— it only kills a baby.
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 12, 2022
"'Carry my baby to bury my baby,' was the line used," she continued. "What they never acknowledged is that abortion kills a baby and that the baby would still need to be buried – or thrown away in medical waste. The reality is abortion doesn't solve or heal or any problem— it only kills a baby."
Special care should also be offered to the mother and grieving family.
Killing the baby before he or she dies naturally is never the solution. It violates the fundamental principle of medicine – to heal, or provide comfort, never to harm.
"In cases of life-threatening conditions for preborn children, perinatal palliative care and hospice care can be offered to the baby so that if they pass in utero or shortly after birth, they have the best medical care and are treated with dignity," she also noted. "Special care should also be offered to the mother and grieving family. Killing the baby before he or she dies naturally is never the solution. It violates the fundamental principle of medicine – to heal, or provide comfort, never to harm."


"A German stuffed toy manufacturer that has exclusive rights to produce the official World Cup mascot -- Goleo VI, a shaggy-maned lion in a football shirt -- has filed for insolvency because no one wants to buy it."
Why is this funny? And why aren't the soccer-lions wearing shorts? And why is only one of them bashful about it? And is this the most useless blog post ever?


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Lamivudine does not cure AIDS and does not prevent it from being spread to others. It does slow further growth or reproduction of HIV when used in combination with other medications, and it seems to slow down the destruction of the immune system. This may help to delay the development of problems that are related to AIDS or HIV disease.
Each white, diamond-shaped, scored, biconvex, film-coated tablet, engraved with "APO" and a bisect on one side and "LMV" bisect "150" on the other, contains 150 mg of lamivudine. Nonmedicinal ingredients: anhydrous lactose, colloidal silicon dioxide, crospovidone, magnesium stearate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene glycol, talc, and titanium dioxide.
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The recommended dose for adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older weighing at least 25 kg is 150 mg 2 times daily or 300 mg once daily. Doses for children between the ages of 3 months up to 12 years are based on age and body weight, as calculated by the doctor.
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Our people – our evolution: 'Emmett Till: An American Hero'
See the Tavia Percia Theatre Company production at Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 and 9 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 2, 3 and 5 p.m., tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/520108
by Malaika Kambon
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Louis Till had no idea of the terrorism practiced in the minds of white folk in 1955 Money, Mississippi, and indeed all over the continental U.S.
He had no idea of the lengths that white racists in the U.S. and the U.S. government itself would go to protect its racist heritage in this motherless, fatherless land.
Like poet Nikki Giovanni, who traveled from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Knoxville, Tennessee, Emmett Till was not unique in travelling from Northern city to Southern city on the trains for vacation. Emmett, traveling from Chicago, Illinois, to Money, Mississippi, would probably still be alive today if he hadn't gotten off the train. The children were protected by the Pullman porters and were safe as long as they stayed on the train.
In her prose poem, "Rosa Parks" (in "Quilting the Black Eye Pea," Harper Collins, 2002), Nikki Giovanni wrote this passage:
"It was the Pullman porters who whispered to the traveling men, both the blues men and the race men, so that they would both know what was goin' on.
"This is for the Pullman porters, who smiled as if they were happy and laughed like they were tickled when some folk were around. And who silently rejoiced in 1954 when the Supreme Court announced its decision, that separate is inherently unequal.
"This is for the Pullman porters who smiled and welcomed a 14-year-old boy onto their train in 1955. They noticed his slight limp that he tried to disguise with a doo-wop walk. They noticed his stutter and probably understood why his mother wanted him out of Chicago during the summer when school was out. Fourteen-year-old Black boys with limps and stutters are out to try to prove themselves in dangerous ways when mothers aren't around to look after them.
"So this is for the Pullman porters who looked after that 14-year-old while the train rolled the reverse of the blues highway from Chicago to St. Louis to Memphis to Mississippi.
"This is for the men who kept him safe; and if Emmett Till had been able to stay on that train all summer, he would have maybe grown a bit of a paunch, certainly lost his hair, probably would have worn bifocals and bounced his grandchildren on his knee, telling them about his summer riding the rails. But he had to get off that train and ended up in Money, Mississippi, and was horribly, brutally, inexcusably and unacceptably murdered.
"This is for the Pullman porters who, when the sheriff was trying to get that body secretly buried, got Emmett's body on the Northbound train. Got his body home to Chicago where his mother said:
"'I want the world to see what they did to my boy.'
"And this is for all the mothers who cried."
That Emmett Louis Till had to find out – and tragically so – that the world can be a monstrous place where the threats of genocidal white supremacists often crushed the bright dreams of Black boys and girls who were good at art, science and laughter, a world that rendered Afrikan parents incapable of protecting our young, offers the cold comfort of recognition that nothing has changed in 2014.
Emmett Louis Till got off the train in Money, Mississippi, and was brutally and inexcusably lynched and murdered on Aug. 28, 1955.
"Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 313 Black People," a chilling report written by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, proves that the murder of Afrikan people – every 28 hours in the U.S. – still ain't murder.
The story of Emmett Louis Till has been told many times in the past 59 years. And despite confessions by his killers, it still wasn't considered murder, for Emmett Till was a Black male child who didn't say "Yes sir, no sir" nor hang his head nor grin and shuffle to white people. And he whistled at a white woman.
This was an automatic death sentence – the vigilante, state sanctioned death penalty that is wedded to the lynch laws that are otherwise known as capital punishment white supremacy style. These laws, in effect since the first Afrikan was snatched from Afrika's arms, state that no Afrikan person – nowhere, any and everywhere – has any rights that a white person is bound to respect.
So, in the 2004 Keith Beauchamp documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," in the controversial "pocketbook journalism" confession by killers J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were paid $4,000, entitled "The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi," written by the late William Bradford Huie in 1956 for the old Look magazine; and in Randy Sparkman's June 21, 2005, article, "The Murder of Emmett Till," an account of how the story came to be told, in Jurisprudence: The Law, Lawyers, and the Court; even in the re-opening of the case 50 years later, the cold indifference of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and U.S. presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to G.W. Bush showed the world that state sanctioned murder of Afrikan people mirrors U.S. politicians and their imperial greed.
No one was ever punished for the extrajudicial killing of Emmett Louis Till. For Emmett Till's killers were protected.
The kangaroo court jury verdict was not guilty. Laughing, after having been paid $4,000, the killers confessed that they were in fact guilty and proud of doing their part to keep America safe for white supremacy. Double jeopardy laws protected Bryant and Milam from being re-tried after their confessions.
The fact that the original miscarriage of "just-us" was not overturned still hangs like the bodies of Afrikan people from Billie Holiday's poplar trees, swaying in the wind.
But just as certainly, the struggle of Emmett Till's mother, Mrs. Mamie-Till Mobley, to bring her son's murderers to justice is like a timeline that stretches from the far reaches of Afrikan maroons who fought abduction and enslavement, who fought the convict release system after the Civil War – where prisoners worked without pay for the state – and who fought the infamous Dred Scott Decision. The mobilization and awareness of families and communities in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin, Idriss Stelley, Kenneth Harding, Oscar Grant, Alan Blueford, Troy Anthony Davis, Lovell Mixon, Sean Bell murders – and many more – have grown.
So the torch of freedom and resistance is being passed.
Playwright, actor and director Tavia Percia, 20, with her amazing Tavia Percia Theatre Company, has captured this evolutionary-revolutionary spirit, captured this resistance and is building this nascent movement through the arts.
Like a seed planted from the roots of the Black Arts Movement, this movement is growing among the next generation of artists. And its birth, in this instance, is the presentation of "Emmett Till: An American Hero" by the Tavia Percia Theatre Company on Feb. 1 and 2 – four performances – at the Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.
"Emmitt Till" does more than call attention to how Till's death ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the '50s and '60s. It points to the quiet heroism of Mamie Till Mobley in the face of unspeakable horror and unrelieved terrorism.
It points to the strength of Black women, who, in the words of Anna Julia Cooper, are the only women who "can say, when and where (we) enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of (our) womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole … race enters with (us)."
The company's cast – Lauryn and Joshua Haley, Shavon Moore, Lala Oliver, Branden Thomas, Addanya Reese, Kory Butts, Tali Davis-Watkins, Taji Sivad, Felisha Goodlow, Laila Pina, Erynn Chavis, Ronald Fowler, Antwon Marcel, Charlette Richardson, Charlene Richardson, Royal Hubbard – and director Tavia Percia range in age from 8 to 21, all of them recognizing the significance of Emmett Till's murder and the similarities to conditions on the streets of Afrikan communities today.
"I went to Oakland School for the Arts," says Tavia, "so what I did was when I decided to do my first production outside of school, I wanted to use people that I knew – all the talent that was at that school. So that's what I've been doing, you know – all of my friends, people who will do stuff for me because they love me – because I don't have any money.
"We're doing this with no budget! Everything is being donated to us by people who want to see our movement become something."
"Emmitt Till" is very much a message to the grassroots – and a cooperative, grassroots production. Tavia's friends and Tavia, reciprocating community strengths and resources, always help each other out. When her friends have a show, she helps them; when she does a show, they help her. Like seeds, they are sprouting and growing trees, which in turn bear fruit to feed knowledge and wisdom to the community – and are continuously watered and fed in return.
Tavia, who is also a veteran member of the African American Shakespeare Company, has been doing theatre since she was 12. Keeping in mind that she is now just 20 years old, that means that she has over eight years' experience in theatre.
Her first production, "back in 2011," was a show called "De Lewe" (pronounced Day Lou-ay) which means "of life" in Swahili. "De Lewe" was performed by a group of mono-poetics who all told different stories, but all had the same meaning and message: "Let's stop feeling sorry for ourselves and let's create something better for ourselves!"
And she says of that production and of all of her work, "All my shows are a movement; all my shows talk about how we can rise up as a people."
That being said, Tavia talks a bit about this production of "Emmett Till: An American Hero," which is actually the second production with a completely different cast from the first in 2013, in relation to being in the African American Shakespeare Company and the murder of Trayvon Martin.
MK: Tell me a bit about the history of the African American Shakespeare Company. Most people don't know it exists!
TP: A lot of the plays of the African American Shakespeare Company were written during the time of slavery or before the time of slavery. But Black was still considered negative in Shakespeare's day and time. And a lot of people who produce Shakespeare's plays don't have African-Americans in them because of the time period that they were written in. And a lot of the plays say things regarding color; anybody who was Black was a darkie.
In "Othello," we get the story of what it was like to be Black in Shakespeare's time. Even though he was a Moor and he was of stature it was because of a lineage. He was African American, he looked African American but he was light skinned – and it was different when you were light skinned in that day. So basically, during Shakespeare's time, there weren't a lot of Black actors and there weren't a lot of parts for Black people.
MK: Was this during the 16th century?
TP: Yes, this was when men even played parts written for women, when Shakespeare was rumored to have had a Black mistress – and was even rumored to have been a woman himself! But we don't know.
MK: So it was because of Trayvon Martin that you wrote "Emmett Till: An American Hero"?
TP: Yes. Trayvon died in February 2012. I started writing the Emmett Till story in May of 2012, and I began the production in January of 2013. We did the show on March 9th of 2013.
MK: How was Trayvon Martin a catalyst for the Emmett Till story?
TP: Trayvon Martin was kind of like what happened during Emmett Till's time. Emmett Till's story in 1955 was the last straw for everybody. And Trayvon's story, for me, was like wow, we have all of these people – there was Oscar Grant, James Byrd, all of these people who were murdered at the hands of men who were not African American – and it was OK? It's OK for that to happen? It's OK for them to kill off our people?
MK: You mentioned something else that affected you during the time you were writing Emmett Till's story. What was that?
TP: What really got me was the letter from the KKK in 2010 that thanked us for killing off our own community [references to this letter date back to 1997 and 2005-6]. They're telling us thank you for making their job much easier. They sent a letter to Black communities. They posted it all over in Tennessee, saying, "Thank you for killing each other. This is our land and you're saving us some trouble."
MK: How do you feel that Emmett Till's death affected the Civil Rights Movement?
TP: Emmett Till's death ignited the Civil Rights Movement. That's what this whole story is about! If it had not been for his death, people may not have even been that angry because of the way he died, the things they did to this little boy for allegedly whistling at a white woman. And the things that they did to him were just so gruesome and so unnecessary. Even if he did whistle at this woman, like, so what?
It was a turning point.
MK: What about Mamie Till? What about her decision to leave the casket open?
TP: Really, the hero in this was Mamie Till. And that's why she's the story. She's the main character in our story. They tried to keep her son's body from her, and she was like, "No." We want to make sure that everybody sees this and that as many people hear the story.
We want them to see it, not just hear about it, because we always hear about our people getting killed. But when you see something like this, you realize that this is happening in the North, in the West in California and in the East in New York, as well as in the South, even though not as gruesomely. In the South, they woke up every morning wanting to kill a nigga.
MK: Do you think attitudes have changed much since 1955?
TP: No. I think people try to hide what they feel. Some people pretend that they like Black people. But if I sit next to them on BART, they pull their purse or whatever closer. And I don't look like I'm going to rob you; I don't seem like I'm going to rob you. And what about the woman this past October who dressed her 5-year-old son up like a KKK member? She was saying, "This is what I believe."
MK: You've said that your plays are a movement. What do you want the movement to do?
TP: I want to get through to my generation. And when I say my generation, I mean the age group from the womb to about 26. I want my generation to make a better future for the next generation, and that's why I have so many children in the show because they are learning from this.
For example, Lauren Haley, in the two years she's been working with us, knows she doesn't want to be about drugs, alcohol etc. She has dreams, she has expectations, she has things she wants to do in life, and that to me is what I'm fighting for.
MK: There is a picture in the back of Robert and Mabel Williams, who were part of Emmett Till's generation. They wrote a book called "Negroes with Guns," which is about Black people who physically fought back against the Klan. This led to the Deacons for Defense, then the Black Panther Party, Dr. King, Malcolm X and the Black Liberation Army.
Do you have a perspective on those occurrences, what you're doing now and all of the kids in the streets now fighting against police brutality and other issues? How do you tie in what you're doing and what people are actively involved in now?
TP: My perspective is always an artistic perspective. A lot of people learn and connect best with the arts. And that's my way of getting to that point. They wrote books. Malcolm X spoke; Tupac sang. This is what we do. We do theatre. We put it in the realm of where people can sit and live through that with us and say, "Wow, I want to make a change."
When I did my show, "De Lewe," we talked about the word, nigga. And a 9-year-old boy came up to me after the show and said, "You know, I don't like that word. I've never liked that word, but my brother uses it a lot, and I'm going to tell him where it comes from. I'm going to tell him what it means."
And that to me was that significant, even though it was something small. But it is something like that that matters to me. When one person can walk away from a show, from something this small, it is significant.
That's why I'm so dedicated to this. It takes time, it takes energy, but once it hits, and once people are in the audience and they see what we're doing, they're like, "Wow, these kids have worked together to put something together that can potentially change lives!" And that's what we're doing. And that's why we're doing it.
MK: It's a lot like when Mamie Till said: "No. I want the casket to be open. I want people to see."
TP: Yes.
"Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around, turn me around, turn me around. Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around. I'm gonna keep on walkin', keep on talkin', going to the promised land."
I encourage everyone to come to see this dynamic and inspirational play by Tavia Percia and the Tavia Percia Theatre Company. The four performances are Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 and 9 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 2, 3 and 5 p.m., at the Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland.
For more information, contact taviapercia@gmail.com, and to purchase tickets, go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/520108.
Malaika H Kambon is a freelance photojournalist and the 2011 winner of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association Luci S. Williams Houston Scholarship in Photojournalism. She also won the AAU state and national championship in Tae Kwon Do from 2007-2010. She can be reached at kambonrb@pacbell.net.
'Emmett Till: An American Hero'
"The Murder of Emmett Till"
"De Lewe"
"Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 313 Black People"
"Quilting the Black Eye Pea"
"The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi"
"The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till"
2004 Keith Beauchamp documentary
abduction and enslavement
Addanya Reese
African American Shakespeare Company
Afrikan communities today
Afrikan humanity
Alan Blueford
Antwon Marcel
Billie Holiday's poplar trees
Black boys and girls
Black Liberation Army
Black male child
Black Panther Party
blues highway
Branden Thomas
capital punishment white supremacy style
Charlene Richardson
Charlette Richardson
Deacons for Defense
Eastside Arts Alliance
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Till's murder
Erynn Chavis
evolutionary-revolutionary spirit
extrajudicial killing of Emmett Louis Till
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Felisha Goodlow
G.W. Bush
genocidal white supremacists
grassroots production
Idriss Stelley
James Byrd
Joshua Haley
Jurisprudence: The Law Lawyers and the Court
Kenneth Harding
killers J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant
Kory Butts
Laila Pina
Lala Oliver
Lauryn Haley
letter from the KKK
Lovell Mixon
lynch laws
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Malaika H. Kambon
Malaika Kambon
Mamie Till
Mamie Till Mobley
Money Mississippi
Mrs. Mamie-Till Mobley
murder of Afrikan people
murder of Trayvon Martin
Negroes with Guns
Oakland School for the Arts
poet Nikki Giovanni
Pullman Porters
racist heritage
Randy Sparkman
Robert and Mabel Williams
Ronald Fowler
Royal Hubbard
Shavon Moore
strength of Black women
Taji Sivad
Tali Davis-Watkins
Tavia Percia
Tavia Percia Theatre Company
Troy Anthony Davis
U.S. Civil Rights Movement
white racists in the U.S.
William Bradford Huie
How Stevie Wonder helped create Martin Luther King Day
When the Panthers died
Poetry, prayers, protest against gentrification and displacement planned for MLK Day
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Activism in the age of prisoner resistance: College students and activists...
A revolution in inside/outside organizing is pushing prison activism to new levels, harnessing new technologies and broad-based people power to push back against the exploitative and extractive prison industries and injustices of incarceration.
At Dr. King's funeral, Stevie Wonder learned of John Conyers' bill to make his birthday a national holiday. To overcome the resistance of conservative politicians, Wonder put his career on hold, led rallies from coast to coast and galvanized millions of Americans with his passion and integrity. But it took 15 years.
On MLK Day, Black San Franciscans demand new measures to hold...
In regard to racism, Black San Franciscans are worse off than ever before. Only by achieving goals that improve the lives of Black San Franciscans will there be anything to celebrate regarding racial equity in San Francisco.
Healthy prisoners launch hunger strike on MLK Day to support tortured...
These 16 brave and selfless activists imprisoned in Central Prison are taking a stand, by way of a hunger strike, for those in Unit One who are mentally incapable of making these demands. This is a humanitarian display of unity for those inside who face injustice by the very same people who face injustices enslaved right there with them.
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AirDrop is an impromptu administration in Apple Inc's. macOS and iOS working frameworks, presented in Mac OS X Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and iOS 7,which empowers the exchange of records among bolstered Macintosh PCs and iOS gadgets over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, without utilizing mail or a mass stockpiling gadget.
There is no confinement on the measure of the document which AirDrop will suit.
AirDrop can be empowered informally on iPad (third era). In spite of the fact that not upheld of course, AirDrop can be empowered by jailbreaking the gadget and introducing "AirDrop Enabler 7.0+" from cydia. This technique isn't upheld by Apple.
AirDrop utilizes TLS encryption over an immediate Apple-made distributed Wi-Fi association for exchanging records. The Wi-Fi radios of the source and target gadgets convey straightforwardly without utilizing an Internet association or Wi-Fi Access Point.
Before OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10), and under OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks (OS X 10.7– 10.9, individually) the AirDrop convention in macOS was not the same as the AirDrop convention of iOS, and the two were hence not interoperable with each other. Be that as it may, OS X Yosemite and later help the iOS AirDrop convention, which is utilized for exchanges between a Mac and an iOS gadget and also between two 2012 or later Mac PCs, and which utilizes both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Inheritance mode for the old AirDrop convention (which just uses Wi-Fi) between two 2012 or more seasoned Mac PCs is additionally accessible.
Swipe up from the base of the screen to open Control Center. On iPhone X, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen. Press profoundly or contact and hold the system settings card in the upper-left corner, at that point tap AirDrop. In case you're utilizing iOS 10.3.3 or prior, tap AirDrop.
An AirDrop botch brought about a major misunderstanding this end of the week as a flight destined for Hawaii was grounded for a hour and a half.
Hawaiian Airlines flight 23 was navigating just before taking off from Oakland for Maui this end of the week when no less than fifteen travelers haphazardly got a photograph. The picture seemed to demonstrate the wrongdoing scene of a dead kid. As revealed by BuzzFeed, the frightened travelers imparted the photograph to the flight team and when the pilots were made mindful, they restored the plane to the entryway.
Embarrassingly, the entire circumstance was caused by an AirDrop mischance by a 15-year-old secondary school understudy. She was endeavoring to impart a photograph to her mom of a deride wrongdoing scene (seen beneath) which was from her restorative science class. It incorporated a mannequin lying face down with prove markers, which the travelers mistook for a dead youngster.


The Transporter will be updated Monday, Nov. 5. Please remember Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. Set your clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night.
ITD employees in the Treasure Valley can help the state's charitable giving campaign and enjoy the products of their co-workers' creativity at the same time. Employees assembled two-dozen baskets that will be raffled off Friday, with proceeds going to the United We Care Idaho State Employees Charitable Giving Campaign.
Seven retirees, with a collective 177 years of service to Idaho, were among the ITD employees honored this week during the semi-annual awards ceremony at Headquarters. Matt Moore, administrator of the Division of Planning & Programming, presided over the ceremony that was held as part of the transportation board meeting Thursday.
The Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS) recently received a national award for its efforts to inform the public of its long-range plan for the region. COMPASS delegates accepted the National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Metropolitan Transportation Planning from the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO).
Prevx, leaders in Automated Malware Research, this week announced the results from checks for active spyware and malware on nearly 300,000 PCs during the last 30 days. The scans were performed by users who downloaded its free Prevx Computer Security Investigator (CSI). The results show that of 290,647 PCs scanned a staggering 45,251 (15.6 percent) had one or more active spyware or malware infection.
Charlie Clark, special representative for the president of Union Pacific Railroad Company, died unexpectedly Sunday in his home. He was formally remembered during a service Thursday. Charlie was close to and a good friend of ITD on rail transportation and railroad crossing safety and Legislative issues related to railroads. He was respected throughout the rail and transportation industry. ITD extends its condolences to Charlie's family on his sudden passing.


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Dochasnetwork's Blog | Thoughts from NGO networkers; working together to end world poverty.
Why we think that changing "mind sets" begins by changing NGO public communications.
Understanding aid dynamics: Are aid allocations truly based on need?
An analysis of funding provided by the USA's Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to over 100 countries over a 20 year period had some unexpected results.
An overview of media coverage of the issues and Irish events of the European Year for Development.
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LEGO Minifigures Online Video Game Details Revealed
August 29, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments
Earlier this month, we reported that there was a countdown to the unveiling of the details for the LEGO Minifigures Online game on Funcom's site. Today, the wait is over. The countdown is finally over and Funcom has revealed the details of LEGO's newest massively multiplayer online game called LEGO Minifigures Online. Executive Producer Lawrence Poe says "We could not be more excited to be working with LEGO on such a great franchise. I think you could even say the team has been training to make this game since we were little kids. That excitement carries over into everything we do, and we're throwing every ounce of our passion and creativity into the game. We are one hundred percent focused on delivering the fun, safe, quality experience that people expect when they think of LEGO minifigures."
The game is based on the adventures of the LEGO Collectible Minifigures line and will let players complete quests to enhance their character. The game will take place in many memorable locations including Pirate World, Space World and Medieval World. LEGO Minifigures Online will be free-to-play and will be available in the second half of 2014 for the PC, iOS, and Android platforms. In addition to being a DirectX 11 PC client, the game will also be playable through the browser with a new technology being developed by Funcom for its DreamWorld platform. What's interesting about the game is that both companies will be working together to let players who buy the collectible minifigures be able to use them in the game immediately. Check out the trailer as well as more details of the game below.
Explore many wondrous worlds of LEGO each teeming with life, detail and awesome adventure! From lush islands held by swashbuckling pirates to alien worlds where the Galaxy Patrol must battle dangers such as the mind-controlling Pluuvian Brain-Beast!
Find, collect and play with almost one hundred different minifigures! The Ice Skater, the Chicken Suit Guy, the Roller Derby Girl, The Policeman and many, many more; millions of LEGO fans all over the world have held them in their hands and now they can step into their shoes as they explore the world of LEGO Minifigures Online!
Interact with the environment around you and use it to your advantage! Smash an enemy turret and re-build it to work for you, destroy a wall to discover a hidden passage and even build machines to help you take down the big bosses! Smashing stuff definitely feels good, but as all LEGO fans will know, building something feels even better!
Play together with thousands of other players from all over the world! Face the adventure together or engage in awesome player vs. player battles where you must build towers, traps, mines and turrets while taking on the enemy and smashing theirs!
Discover unique abilities with each minifigure! Take control of the rocked-out DJ and literally drop your beats on unsuspecting enemies, or assume the role of the Aztec Warrior and go to battle making sure no one is spared your mighty spear! Maybe the Plumber is your guy? Sure; unclog those baddies and make a mess of them!
Gather experience and level up minifigures by smashing your way through enemies, rocks and LEGO blocks! Customize your playstyle by collecting special bricks and put them together in unique shapes to upgrade abilities such as luck and creativity!
Since 1975, LEGO has made more than 3600 different minifigures available and Funcom will continuously keep adding more and more of these for players to collect in-game! Funcom and LEGO are working closely together to blend the physical world of LEGO with the digital one; for instance players who purchase bags containing real minifigure will immediately be able to jump into the game and play with their virtual counterparts!
Unravel what is surely an Academy Award Winning* story! Take on quests such as searching for buried treasure in the pirate world, rescuing the kingnapped king in the medieval world, and even helping Zeus himself in the mythology world!
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Purplebricks exec tweets about Emoov's current situation
There was a recent tweet by Purplebricks' Chief Executive, Michael Bruce, who hinted that the agency may be playing a role with Emoov's current situation.
Emoov has been looking for someone to buy it out for a while, and the British property portal giant, Purplebricks might be able to help.
The tweet says: "I was very sorry to hear that @emoov has had to go into administration. Sad news for the staff and of course for customers who will be wondering what's going on."
It continues: "@PurplebricksUK we will do what we can to help all these customers and ensure they're not out of pocket."
More information on the form this help will take is expected in the next 24 hours.
There was another statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov said there were prospective buyers for the listings on Emoov and its subsidiary Tepilo, and a decision was expected "in the coming days."
Join us in Bangkok the 19th to the 22nd of March for the Property Portal Watch Conference.


You must have seen this shawl on ravelry, right? Isn't it the best? As soon as I saw sneak peeks of the Rattan Shawl on Libby's instagram, I knew I had to make it. It did not disappoint. This has got to be one of the most fun knits I've made and one of the best shawl designs I've seen.
I think it would look so awesome in a jute- colored yarn with little tweedy nubs here and there.
I have come to love all sorts of shawls, but the yoga pants/ t-shirt wearing mom in me doesn't find many opportunities to wear them (Not to mention that I live in a warm climate.) Yet, I can see this one being a winter staple. Maybe it's the architectural look, with all of the lines criss-crossing, or maybe the "rattan" appearance that seems very earthy to me. I'm not sure why, but it is a very feminine shawl that can still appeal to my very practical, tomboyish side.
In short, I loved it. I suppose the fact that I cast off Rattan and cast on Settler Shawl in the same night is proof of my enjoyment.
Details: I used size 3 needles and one skein of Madelinetosh Merino Light in the Mockingjay colorway. The pattern was straightforward and easy to understand and Mockingjay is the best grey ever.
Libby gives a yarnover tip for the edges that I first learned from Veera Välimäki at Madtosh Crafts. I really liked having the opportunity to finally employ that technique. It allows the inside edge to stretch enough for proper blocking.
Since I started working on my Rattan shawl, Libby has released another shawl pattern: the Southern Shawl. Her Truly Myrtle KAL will be going on for the rest of July, so I feel certain I will complete Settler before the end. I think I'd love all of her other shawl patterns. There's Darling Dotty, which makes me think of a spring, country picnic. Then there's Mindful, which looks like the kind of knit that makes you feel like an accomplished knitter. Southern doesn't seem like it would be quite as intense, yet it has some neat, quirky details- an asymmetrical shape and an added border. But her Reminisce hat will probably be the next one I knit because I have some extra dk yarn around here.


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That's the simplest way to do it, but there's a whole thread on other things to try at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/253380/how-do-i-insert-text-at-beginning-of-a-multi-line-selection-in-vi-vim

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Play of the Game: J.D. Spielman's 77-yard Touchdown Reception
In a blowout as bad as Nebraska's 56-14 loss to Ohio State, there is no play to single out as the one that made a difference. There will be plenty of time to analyze everything that went wrong in this game (and most likely, with this program) but for the moment I'm choosing to highlight one of the few Huskers who truly showed up on Saturday night.
This week's Play of the Game is J.D. Spielman's 77-yard touchdown reception.
The redshirt freshman slot receiver set a new school with 11 catches for 200 yards and a score, accounting for roughly a third of Nebraska's targets (16 of 47) and yards (200 of 349).
"That doesn't surprise me," Lee said. "He's a hard-working guy. We see it week in and week out, how valuable he is to us in this offense, and he continues to show up on big downs, and he continues to make big plays and make guys miss and score. We're really glad we have him out there."
"I think the amount of man (coverage) we were seeing, and his ability to get open in the slot is something I have a lot of faith in, a lot of confidence in, so I did look his way a lot in situations, because he continues to get open and make tough catches and run after the catch, and things like that, and he'll continue to do that."
Stanley Morgan Jr. is the team's No. 1 wide receiver, but Spielman is quickly becoming Lee's go-to receiver in clutch situations. Nebraska went 5-of-15 on third downs and 2-of-4 on fourth downs against the Buckeyes. Spielman was targeted on eight of those 15 third downs (converting on three of them) and on three of those four fourth downs (converting once).
"I think the amount of man [coverage] we were seeing, and his ability to get open in the slot is something I have a lot of faith in, a lot of confidence in," Lee said. "So I did look his way a lot in situations, because he continues to get open and make tough catches and run after the catch, and things like that, and he'll continue to do that."
On second and 10 from the Nebraska 23-yard line, the Huskers lined up in 11 personnel (one tight end, one running back, three wide receivers) with Spielman in the slot to the left side of the field.
Spielman had linebacker Dante Booker lined up across from him, and Booker sets up as if to force Spielman to the outside. However, Booker drops back a bit too far and Spielman simply runs past him to the inside. Booker is way to slow flipping his hips and the speedy slot-back leaves him in the dust.
Lee knew he had Spielman immediately after he starts his slant and fires the ball to him right at the line to gain in the middle of the field. The middle high safety, Damon Webb, drops back 20 yards from the line of scrimmage then tries to turn around and come forward as he sees Spielman catch the ball. However, the redshirt freshman angles toward the sideline while Webb takes a bad angle, and Spielman beats him to the sideline and maintains his head start.
Cornerback Damon Arnette shows some serious speed to catch up to Spielman while coming from the opposite side of the field. He dives at Spielman's feet near the 10-yard line in one last desperate attempt, but the receiver keeps his feet and runs into the end zone for Nebraska's first points.
"I think on the one to JD, he did a great job getting open," Lee said. "It was a 5-yard pass and he was able to do the rest, so that was great by him."
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77 yards to the house for the #Huskers' first score. pic.twitter.com/yxzLWgIsFX
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Spielman was also responsible for Nebraska's second biggest play of the game, a 38-yard reception in the second quarter. Spielman again burned his man and Lee put the pass right on the money. Spielman had guys chasing him once again and again had a defender dive at his feet in a last-ditch attempt, only on that play he succeeded in tripping up the freshman. Instead of a touchdown, it resulted in a first down, and four plays later Nebraska handed the ball back to Ohio State with a turnover on downs.
Spielman did a much better job of feeling the approaching defenders, maintaining his concentration and finishing the play the second time around. This comes one week after Wisconsin freshman running back Jonathan Taylor ran through numerous diving arm-tackle attempts by the Huskers en route to 249 yards.
Nebraska was in serious danger of being shut out by the Buckeyes on Saturday until the offense found a little bit of life in the second half, and the main spark for that resurgence was Spielman working together with Lee.
That's why J.D. Spielman's 77-yard touchdown reception is this week's Play of the Game.
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Susan G. Murphy Joins Heartland Financial USA, Inc. Board of Directors
July 31, 2018 16:20 ET | Source: Heartland Financial USA, Inc. Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
Dubuque, Iowa, UNITED STATES
DUBUQUE, Iowa, July 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heartland Financial USA, Inc. ("Heartland") announced that Susan G. Murphy, Principal at Denver-based Grace Alliance, LLC, has been elected to serve on its Board of Directors. Ms. Murphy will serve as an independent director until Heartland's annual meeting in 2021.
"Susan is an expert in many facets of financial services and we are excited to welcome her to our Board of Directors," Lynn B. Fuller, Executive Operating Chairman, said. "She has contributed significantly to the Denver community. Susan has served as a Director for six years at Citywide Banks in Denver, our largest bank charter. As Heartland's newest Director, Susan stands ready to support our goals for growth across the entire company." Ms. Murphy will also continue to serve on Citywide Banks' Board of Directors.
Ms. Murphy began her career at what is now Ernst and Young, and has spanned the public accounting, investment banking, real estate and health care industries throughout the United States. Ms. Murphy acted as financial advisor in the establishment of the largest private geriatric Medicare-only medical practice in the United States, and served on its Board.
Ms. Murphy has extensively served in the community, on civic and nonprofit boards and finance/audit committees, including the Denver Hospice and Arrupe Jesuit High School. She is an appointed Trustee of the Colorado Public Employee Retirement System, providing oversight to a Defined Benefit Public Pension managing $48 billion in assets for 584,000 beneficiaries. In that capacity, she worked to help the State of Colorado pass a ground-breaking legislative package of benefit and funding modifications that markedly improves the sustainability of the state retirement system.
Ms. Murphy is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She holds certificates in Pension Plan Policy from the IFEBP, Advanced Investment Management from the Wharton School and Fiduciary Studies from the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. She also holds a FINRA Series 7 securities registration.
Recently Heartland's shareholders voted to expand the number of its directors to 11. "We recognize the importance of increasing representation from across our growing footprint and also recognize the value of increasing diversity on our Board. We have demonstrated our commitment to diversity on our member bank Boards of Directors and we remain committed to diversity on Heartland's Board," Fuller said. "We are honored to have Ms. Murphy as the most recent woman elected to serve on Heartland's Board of Directors."
About Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
Heartland is a diversified financial services company with assets of approximately $11.3 billion. The Company provides banking, mortgage, private client, investment, treasury management, card services, insurance, and consumer finance services to individuals and businesses. Heartland currently has 125 banking locations serving 93 communities in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Texas and California. Additional information about Heartland is available at www.htlf.com.
About Citywide Banks
Citywide Banks, is a subsidiary of Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLF). Citywide Banks is a state-chartered, community-invested bank with assets of approximately $2.3 billion and banking centers located across Colorado's Front Range, Foothills and Mountain communities. Citywide Banks is committed to delivering responsive service, local expertise, and comprehensive financial tools for Colorado businesses and families. For more than 50 years, Citywide Banks has been dedicated to finding ways it can impact its local community and to move Colorado forward. Visit www.citywidebanks.com to learn more. Citywide Banks is a member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.
This release, and future oral and written statements of Heartland and its management, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 about Heartland's financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives, future performance and business. Although these forward-looking statements are based upon the beliefs, expectations and assumptions of Heartland's management, there are a number of factors, many of which are beyond the ability of management to control or predict, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in its forward-looking statements. These factors, which are detailed in the risk factors included in Heartland's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, include, among others: (i) the strength of the local and national economy; (ii) the economic impact of past and any future terrorist threats and attacks and any acts of war, (iii) changes in state and federal laws, regulations and governmental policies concerning the Company's general business; (iv) changes in interest rates and prepayment rates of the Company's assets; (v) increased competition in the financial services sector and the inability to attract new customers; (vi) changes in technology and the ability to develop and maintain secure and reliable electronic systems; (vii) the loss of key executives or employees; (viii) changes in consumer spending; (ix) unexpected results of acquisitions; (x) unexpected outcomes of existing or new litigation involving the Company; and (xi) changes in accounting policies and practices. All statements in this release, including forward-looking statements, speak only as of the date they are made, and Heartland undertakes no obligation to update any statement in light of new information or future events.
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