While there are plenty of people out there who are just fine pitching a tent and roasting some marshmallows over a batch of smoldering twigs, there are just as many who want a little luxury mixed in with their camping experience. These people prefer comfy sleeping quarters to zip-up sleeping bags and they'd definitely choose genuine heaters over a smoky campfire. Who is this population of discriminating outdoor vacationers? Across the nation, they're affectionately known as glampers—(that translates to glamorous campers)—and glamping (yep, you guessed it: glamorous camping) is now big business.
You'll find great spots to glamp from coast to coast, but it should come as no surprise that the "left coast" (California, of course) has some of the most beautiful glamp destinations in the world. From Santa Barbara all the way to Trinity National Forest, those looking for upscale camping will be far from disappointed. Take a look at our picks for the five top glamping spots in the state—you just may decide that vacationing in a mountain treehouse is just what you've been craving.
Strawhouse Resorts features one of the best glamping spots in the nation with an incredible location right on the Trinity River. Choose from an adorable cottage or the beautiful new yurt—a round, tented 30-foot structure, which is equipped with bamboo floors, heat and air conditioning, a queen-sized bed and even an electric fireplace. The resort also features a café and their own signature Strawhouse organic coffee. Cottage prices and Yurt prices vary, but generally range between $200 and $235 a night for cottages and $175 to $225 for The Yurt. As far as activities go, you are right on the Trinity River, which means opportunities for rafting, fly fishing, kayaking and canoeing are all in your backyard. And for those looking for non-water action, there's fantastic bird watching, hiking, biking and more.
If you're looking for a truly magical getaway, the Santa Cruz Mountains Treehouse is it. Set in the midst of the lush forest is a glamper's dream—a gorgeous treehouse with two live trees growing right through the home. The structure includes a plush high-bed, a kitchen, full bathroom and a soothing hot tub, all at your disposal. There is a also a treehouse cat named "Grey" who adds a little personality and affection to the place, but if you're an allergy sufferer, no worries—he lives outside. The price to rent this gem is only $825/week with an additional $60 cleaning fee—or you can inquire about weekend-only stays.
Tree Bones in Big Sur is a fantastic glamper's spot with five campsites, 16 yurts, an ocean-view pool, an outdoor sushi bar and a resort restaurant. The ever-popular circular yurts feature polished pine floors and French doors that open onto beautiful private decks. Each yurt has queen-sized beds, electric lighting, heat and sinks with hot and cold water. Showers and restrooms are just a short distance away at the lodge. Prices are based on date and availability—email for more information. Bonus: Massages, yoga, hiking and more are available at Tree Bones—inquire for more information.
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Houston Texans sign former El Camino wide receiver
By Devyn Smith|May 21, 2019
Update May 26, 12:40 p.m.: Reaction from Floyd Allen was added.
Correction May 21, 3:57 p.m.: A grammatical error was fixed.
The Houston Texans of the National Football League announced the signing of former El Camino College Warrior and undrafted wide receiver Floyd Allen through their public relations Twitter account on Monday, May 20.
Allen said it was a blessing to sign with the Texans.
"I have faced a lot of adversity in my life and I've chased every opportunity to make my dreams a reality," Allen said. "It feels almost surreal to finally be here."
Warriors football coach Gifford Lindheim said he was thrilled about his former player's new opportunity with the Texans.
"He's a talented guy," Lindheim said. "I think when the organization watches how hard he works and how much he cares, they are going to have the same feelings towards him that we do at El Camino."
Allen, a Houston, Texas native, attended high school at Nimitz where he played wide receiver and quarterback for the school's football team before graduating in 2014.
Allen attended EC in 2016 and played in two games for the Warriors that season, totaling three receptions for 40 yards while registering one tackle and assisting two others on defense.
After attending El Camino, Allen transferred to the University of Mississippi in 2017 and continued his football career.
Allen took to Twitter to personally announce the news.
From a small NAIA, to homlesss in junior college , to walking on to a college team with the best WR core in college football and now officially a NFL Reciever … what God has for you no one can take from you ?? https://t.co/aU1IRFTc1i
— Floyd Allen (@LegendaryGrind) May 20, 2019
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My Spouse is Worth How Much: Final Thoughts
by bigcajunman last updated on February 27, 2020
in Single Income
We have seen now that the Publics (John Q. , Jane and the kids) pay less income tax if their family income was spread out between the two of them, and the amount of the difference is about $6000 (that is after tax money).
As I have stated this is a very pedagogical model, where I have not taken into consideration some vital concepts:
The fact with two incomes there would be a need for daycare (unless the Publics had family who would watch the kids or something similar) and that as I have read in my comments is not inexpensive. Having said that, with two incomes the costs of daycare will eventually drop, but the Publics will still be allowed to write off costs of day camps in the summer, and other similar programs, that would not be available if they had a single income in the household.
The detail that both spouses make the same amount in the dual income model is a little synthetic as well, since usually the female spouse makes 60-80% of what the male spouse makes (from studies, remember, I have daughters, I am not saying I like this, just that, this is the case).
There are other tricks that can be tried with single income families about loaning moneys and such, but most single income families don't know, or do such things (that I have spoken with).
The family income assumed is much higher than the Canadian Median, so whether this is a model for most Canadians, is debatable as well.
My view of this is the tax system does not help out families of all kinds very much these days, and the single income family does not get a lot of the advantages that a dual income family receives.
How could this be changed?
Introduce the concept of the family income or household income. This would level the playing field for single income families. If there is only one spouse, but there are children under 18 being supported, allow the income earner this option as well (as is the case with families where the spouses are separated or divorced).
Resurrect a child tax credit for each child under 17 years of age still living at home. This would help both families deal with the expenses of raising children.
Income splitting is allowed currently for retirees, and I think that is a good thing, I'd love to see that program expanded to be a general program.
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Beverley Smith June 2, 2007, 5:10 AM
I also endorse income splitting as an option. It works well in France and the US and is a way to value the work of the lower-paid spouse or any adult children.
We held a great conference on the topic in January 2007 on Parliament Hill and top economists Philip Merrigan (UQuebec) and David Murrell (UNB) joined tax analyst JOhn Richardson (Canadian Taxpayers), lawyer Rebecca Bromwich, daycare operator Kathy Graham, parents of handicapped children, homemakers Sara Landriault and Beverley Smith to look at its merits.
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Big Cajun Man June 1, 2007, 7:47 AM
Agreed, there is more expense in both working (two cars maybe, but there is car pooling, clothing: maybe, but don't non-working spouses buy clothes too :-).
I still maintain a household income might cause other interesting trends, like only 1 spouse working by choice, because of the tax breaks?
If the argument seems skewed, my apologies -c8j
Canadian Capitalist June 1, 2007, 7:34 AM
You are taking a very narrow view. The dual income family in your example would have to give up 50% of one spouse's income in each year they had a child. Day care is so expensive in the initial years that I still maintain that when adjusted for the differences, the one income family still has more money available for consumption. Also, don't forget all the extra expenses of working: two cars instead of one, extra clothing expenses, sundry job expenses etc.


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Q: JLabel not added to JPanel I have this class, which should add a JLabel to a JPanel, but for some reason it isn't doing that. Why is it not adding the JLabel to the JPanel? This takes place in my SwigWorker class in the done() method
package sscce;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingWorker;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class sscce extends javax.swing.JFrame{
    protected XML xml = new XML();

    public sscce(){
        initComponents();
        GetNotes getNotes = new GetNotes();
        getNotes.execute();
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
    private void initComponents() {

        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        notesPanel = new javax.swing.JPanel();

        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        javax.swing.GroupLayout notesPanelLayout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(notesPanel);
        notesPanel.setLayout(notesPanelLayout);
        notesPanelLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
            notesPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGap(0, 494, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );
        notesPanelLayout.setVerticalGroup(
            notesPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGap(0, 433, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );

        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(notesPanel);

        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 496, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 435, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );

        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>

    public static void main(String args[]){
        try{
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        }catch(  ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex){
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(sscce.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run(){
                new sscce().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    private javax.swing.JPanel notesPanel;
    // End of variables declaration

    public class GetNotes extends SwingWorker{

        protected ArrayList<XML> notes;

        @Override
        public void done(){
            System.out.println(notes.size());
            for(XML note : notes){
                String n = note.getNode("notes", "note");
                System.out.println(n);
                JLabel lbl = new JLabel(n);
                lbl.setVisible(true);
                notesPanel.add(lbl);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public String doInBackground(){
            String xmlStr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
                    + "<root>"
                    + "    <success>true</success>"
                    + "    <notes>"
                    + "        <note>Note 1</note>"
                    + "    </notes>"
                    + "    <notes>"
                    + "        <note>Note 2</note>"
                    + "    </notes>"
                    + "    <notes>"
                    + "        <note>Note 3</note>"
                    + "    </notes>"
                    + "</root>";
            xml.parse(xmlStr);
            notes = xml.getNodes("root", "notes");
            return null;
        }
    }
}

class XML{

    private Document doc;

    public XML(){
    }

    public void parse(String xml){
        try{
            DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
            InputSource is = new InputSource();
            is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));

            doc = db.parse(is);
        }catch(ParserConfigurationException | SAXException | IOException ex){
            //Logger.getLogger(XML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    public Document getDoc(){
        return this.doc;
    }

    public ArrayList<XML> getNodes(String root, String name){
        ArrayList<XML> elList = new ArrayList<>();
        NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName(root);
        for(int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++){
            Element element = (Element)nodes.item(i);
            NodeList nl = element.getElementsByTagName(name);
            for(int c = 0; c < nl.getLength(); c++){
                Element e = (Element)nl.item(c);
                String xmlStr = this.nodeToString(e);
                XML xml = new XML();
                xml.parse(xmlStr);
                elList.add(xml);
            }
        }
        return elList;
    }

    private String nodeToString(Node node){
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        try{
            Transformer t = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            t.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(sw));
        }catch(TransformerException te){
            System.out.println("nodeToString Transformer Exception");
        }
        return sw.toString();
    }

    public String getNode(String root, String name){
        NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName(root);
        for(int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++){
            Element element = (Element)nodes.item(i);

            NodeList n = element.getElementsByTagName(name);
            Element e = (Element)n.item(0);
            return getCharacterDataFromElement(e);
        }
        return "";
    }

    public static String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e){
        Node child = e.getFirstChild();
        if(child instanceof CharacterData){
            CharacterData cd = (CharacterData)child;
            return cd.getData();
        }
        return "";
    }
}

A: 1- Change the layout manager for the notesPanel.  GroupLayout really isn't meant for hand coding like this.  In my test, I used FlowLayout.
//        javax.swing.GroupLayout notesPanelLayout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(notesPanel);
//        notesPanel.setLayout(notesPanelLayout);
//        notesPanelLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
//                    notesPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
//                .addGap(0, 494, Short.MAX_VALUE));
//        notesPanelLayout.setVerticalGroup(
//                    notesPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
//                .addGap(0, 433, Short.MAX_VALUE));
        notesPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

2- Add a call to JComponent#validate after you've finished adding the labels.
System.out.println(notes.size());
for (XML note : notes) {
    String n = note.getNode("notes", "note");
    System.out.println(n);
    JLabel lbl = new JLabel(n);
    lbl.setVisible(true);
    notesPanel.add(lbl);
}
notesPanel.validate();

This should encourage the frame to re-layout it's child components.

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More Obituaries for LaVerne Roche
LaVerne Roche
LaVerne Roche, 99, of Waymart, formerly of Carbondale, died Monday at Regional Hospital of Scranton.
Born in Honesdale, daughter of the late Edward and Martha Wagner Bishop, she worked at Daystrom (now Lockheed Martin) for a number of years before retirement. She enjoyed playing bingo and going to casinos.
Surviving are a son, James Roche and wife, Mary, Carbondale; a daughter, Debbie Veina and husband, Francis, Carbondale; grandchildren, Chrissy Farrell and husband, Eric; Pam Powell and husband, Will; John Veina and wife, Jennifer; Jason Veina and wife, Jennifer; great-grandchildren, Bobby Ashby, Morgan Veina, Matthew Veina, Tiffany Powell, Tad Farrell, Cole Powell and Zachary Veina; great-great-grandchildren, Grayson Farr, Alexander Farr and Jordan Ashby; several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Edward Roche; an infant grandson, Michael Roche; and sisters, Honey Murray and Helen Eldred.
The funeral will be Friday from Lawrence A. Gabriel Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc., 74 N. Main St., Carbondale, with Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Rose of Lima Church. Cremation to follow. Interment at a later date.
Friends may call Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Online condolences may be sent to the funeral home website.
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Viva Chavez
Wed 17 Apr 2002 09.38 EDT First published on Wed 17 Apr 2002 09.38 EDT
Isabel Hilton is wrong to imply any support from Britain for the failed coup in Venezuela (Comment, April 16). Following the general strike which led to the coup, the British government was the first to call for a return to constitutional democracy. A further statement on Sunday welcomed the return of President Chavez and the restoration of democratic rule. My statements are available on www.fco.gov.uk. In an article in the Venezuelan daily El Universal last Monday I appealed for greater cooperation between Venezuela and Europe, a point the president welcomed in the talks I had with him last week. Denis MacShane MP


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GS-2 PRESIDENT'S RULE IN PUDUCHERRY President's Rule has been imposed in the Union Territory of Puducherry, on the recommendation of the Lieutenant Governor, after the established government lost power during a vote of confidence. The President was satisfied that a situation had arisen in which the administration of the Union …
Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, biotechnology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
GS-3 NEW IT RULES 2021 Recently, the government has notified Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. These new rules broadly deal with social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. These rules have been framed in exercise of powers under section 87 (2) of the Information Technology …
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Crunchyroll Announces New Game 'Last Cloudia'
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On November 21, Crunchyroll Games announced that the next game they're adding to their portfolio is Last Cloudia, a mobile JRPG from AIDIS, Inc. The game was announced as part of a "Collection of Mana" collaboration event with Square Enix. Last Cloudia is a strategy-based role-playing game available on iOS and Android devices. It is a free game (with in-app purchases), and it's currently available in the U.S and Canada.
The new partnership kicked off with the collaboration event with Square Enix. More new "Collection of Mana" titles will be available beginning November 26. Some of the latest games include Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana, and Trials of Mana. The event is the first collaboration for Last Cloudia and will feature new collectible weapons and beloved characters.
In the Secret of Mana game, playable characters will include Randi, Popoi, and Primm. In each "Collection of Mana" game, there will be a corresponding weapon or ark for fans to unlock. Each character and collectible weapon will also come with a unique set of skills. Players will also have the opportunity to battle new and returning enemies.
The in-game event will run from November 26 through December 13.
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As diagnostics turn molecular, the standard pathologist techniques of tissue staining and mounting are looking antiquated. Bay Area upstart 3Scan hopes to change that.
"It's like a scientific deli slicer," said Megan Klimen, 3Scan's chief operating officer.
3Scan just raised a $14 million Series B round, and is funded in part by investor Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs. Right now, the company is focusing exclusively on the preclinical drug discovery market, since the regulatory pathway for computer-aided diagnostics is still quite nascent. But it's developing a platform that its executives hope could work for pathologists down the road.
There are a few other contenders in the field of digital pathology: GE Healthcare has teamed up with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to create a tool called the Omnyx IDP. The tool digitizes slides created by pathologists, so that pathologists can view biopsy cross-sections on a computer, rather than under a microscope.
Leica Biosystems, which has operations around the world, has created something quite similar: Its Aperio ePathology system also scans slides with a high-res camera.
As for 3Scan, it raised a $6.7 million Series A round last year, and in the interim has built out the hardware of its pathology robot. Its new funding will go toward building out software. It's developing analysis tools that can, say, automatically detect how tissues change, Klimen said — gauging tumor growth by using machine learning instead of with the human eye.


Rarely does a week without me being asked when the fourth Wycaan Master book is coming out. Let me be very clear: I am absolutely chuffed (ecstatic in my new country's vernacular) that people ask and truly humbled that readers care enough to ask and want the next installment.
Most of these questions come from young people, the generation of instant gratification. You click and you get it. It is hard to explain that it takes 5-6 months to write, a further 2-3 to edit, and another couple to publish. I have set a goal of a book a year, and I don't believe I can produce more. Those who crank them out (or have others write for them) are, I suspect, doing themselves a disfavor, even if they sell well.
I can't help thinking that unless you blindly follow a strict formula, there needs to be some creative downtime and an opportunity to mull over what has happened and where the series might be going. I'm trying to work a good wine or whisky analogy, but failing dismally. Everything needs to ferment and you need to burst into the next book, not start still breathless from the last climatic battle.
I am, however, waiting on two 'next installments.' The third Magicians book by Lev Grossman is due out in the fall and then there is that author I dare not mention who takes a couple of years to write each tome.
In total hypocritical mode, I have to say I am impatiently waiting for these books. It is really a compliment that readers bond with the characters and want to see how they develop.
But it is also pressure. The need to maintain a creative energy is perhaps akin to working out and keeping your body at a weight or suppleness that age and gravity take issue with. We know that our bodies react better when we work out regularly, and sometimes I think that it is the same with writing.
If I was to give one piece of advise to a beginning writer, it would be to cultivate a daily practice, whether writing a chapter of your novel or blogging, but not your shopping list. I only write a first draft of a novel in half a year, the other half as explained above is for editing, production and promotion.
While I embark on a novel with a lot of excitement there is also apprehension as I begin to work those creativity muscles and feel the soreness and fatigue. This feeling disappears as I settle into a rhythm and the plot reveals itself to me.


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Levogiro ou sinistrogiro significa com rotação para a esquerda e designa algo que gira no sentido anti-horário, em contraposição ao sentido dextrogiro, podendo aplicar-se aos seguintes contextos:

 Em química, designa qualquer composto opticamente ativo que tem a característica de fazer girar o plano da luz polarizada no sentido anti-horário (ver isomeria óptica).

 Em bioquímica, isómero óptico cujo carbono assimétrico se encontra deslocado para a direita e é a imagem especular do mesmo isómero levogiro.

 Em matemática, o sistema de referência que cumpre o sentido contrário ao da regra da mão direita.

 Em zoologia, diz-se do sentido de rotação do remoinho de pêlos, quando estes são dispostos em sentido anti-horário.

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Deutsch war im 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine der am häufigsten gesprochenen Sprachen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Heute ist Deutsch die zweithäufigste Sprache in South Dakota und North Dakota. Die übergroße Mehrheit der deutschstämmigen US-Bürger versteht heute kein Deutsch, diese zählen sich aber weiterhin zu den Deutschamerikanern, die nach Volkszählungsergebnissen mit Selbstangabe zur Hauptabstammung mit knapp 50 Millionen die größte "ethnische Gruppe" in den USA bilden, noch vor den irisch- oder englischstämmigen Amerikanern. Erklären lässt sich dies aus der Tatsache, dass die Deutschen im Verlauf mehrerer Jahrhunderte in verschiedenen Wellen und zu verschiedenen Orten eingewandert sind und dass es zwischen den Migrationszielgebieten wenig Kontakte gab, die zwischen den Enkelkindern der Migranten an der Ostküste und den frisch angekommenen Migranten auf der Prärie gepflegt wurden. Außerdem wurde die Muttersprache im Zusammenhang mit den beiden Weltkriegen bewusst zurückgedrängt.

Muhlenberg-Legende

Es gibt eine weit verbreitete Legende, der zufolge Deutsch beinahe zur offiziellen Landessprache in den USA geworden wäre. Demnach wäre im Kongress eine diesbezügliche Abstimmung mit nur einer Stimme Mehrheit für Englisch, nämlich durch die Stimme des Deutsch-Amerikaners Frederick Muhlenberg (1750–1801), ausgefallen. Im Kongress gab es aber nie einen diesbezüglichen Vorschlag, bekannt ist lediglich eine 1794 an das Repräsentantenhaus gerichtete Petition deutscher Farmer aus Virginia, ein kostenfrei verteiltes Heft mit Gesetzestexten und Verordnungen in die deutsche Sprache zu übersetzen. Das Repräsentantenhaus befasste sich mit dieser Petition aber nicht, der bilinguale Muhlenberg verweigerte die Unterstützung mit der Begründung, je schneller die Deutschen Amerikaner würden, desto besser.

Deutschsprachiger Methodismus
In Pennsylvania bildeten sich um 1800 zwei deutschsprachige Methodistische Kirchen, die "Vereinigten Brüder in Christo" und die "Evangelische Gemeinschaft". Beide hatten eine methodistische Kirchenordnung und methodistische Liederbücher in deutscher Sprache und publizierten deutschsprachige Zeitungen, von denen eine bis 1937 existierte. Ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts war Englisch in beiden Kirchen zweite Sprache, aber es gab bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein Gegenden, wo Deutsch die Hauptsprache in den Kirchen war. 1937 vereinigten sich die beiden Kirchen und schlossen sich 1968 mit der bischöflichen Methodistenkirche zur United Methodist Church zusammen.

Innerhalb der bischöflichen Methodistenkirche hatten sich ebenfalls Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts deutschsprachige "Konferenzen" gebildet, die mit den englischsprachigen Konferenzen überlappten. Ein Beispiel hierfür ist die St. Louis German Conference, welche 1925 in den umliegenden englischsprachigen Konferenzen wieder aufging. Diese deutschsprachige Methodisten gliederten sich also in der gleichen Kirche mit englischsprachigen, statt in einer eigenen Kirche wie die "Vereinigten Brüder" oder "Evangelische Gemeinschaft".

Rückkehrer aus den deutschsprachigen Methodistenkirchen gehörten auch zu den ersten, die den Methodismus im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland und in der Schweiz verbreiteten.

Deutschsprachige Presse in den USA

Deutschsprachige Zeitungen blicken in den USA auf eine lange Tradition zurück. Eine deutsche Zeitung, der "Pennsylvanische Staatsbote" berichtete am 5. Juli 1776 über die Entscheidung des Kontinentalkongresses, die amerikanische Unabhängigkeitserklärung anzunehmen. Er war damit die erste Zeitung, die diese historische Entscheidung veröffentlichte und den Text in deutscher Übersetzung abdruckte. Für die Mitglieder des Kongresses war am Abend des 4. Juli der englische Text gedruckt worden, aber für die amerikanische Bevölkerung wurde der englische Text erst am 6. Juli von der "Pennsylvania Evening Post" veröffentlicht.

Im 19. Jahrhundert nahm die deutschsprachige Presse an Bedeutung und Ansehen zu, was zum Entstehen einer Reihe weiterer deutschsprachiger Zeitungen beitrug. Im Jahre 1900 wurden von 18.226 Zeitungen in den USA 613 (3,4 %) in deutscher Sprache herausgegeben, mehr als in jeder anderen Sprache außer der englischen. Während des Ersten Weltkrieges mussten jedoch viele von ihnen ihr Erscheinen wegen mangelnder Leserschaft einstellen.

Einige deutschsprachige Zeitungen erscheinen noch heute: Die "New Yorker Staats-Zeitung" brachte ihre erste Ausgabe am 24. Dezember 1834 heraus und ist somit eine der ältesten in den Vereinigten Staaten. Das "Washington Journal", eine deutschsprachige Zeitung, die im District of Columbia herausgegeben wird, ist die älteste Zeitung der amerikanischen Hauptstadt. Die deutschsprachige jüdische Zeitung Aufbau erschien von 1934 bis 2004 in New York City; ihr heutiger Sitz ist Zürich (weitere Zeitungen siehe unter).

Deutsch im weiteren Sinne waren daneben mehrere jiddischsprachige Zeitungen. Das weitbekannteste Beispiel war "Der Forverts" (deutsch: "Vorwärts"). Diese Zeitung erscheint heute als The Forward in jiddischer, russischer und englischer Sprache; der ursprüngliche Titel leitete direkt aus der gleichnamigen Zeitung der deutschen SPD ab. Nach 1945 gab es nur noch sehr selten Gründungen von neuen Zeitungen oder Zeitschriften. Ein Beispiel ist die 1997 gegründete und mittlerweile in Kutztown, Pennsylvania erscheinende Zeitung Hiwwe wie Driwwe, die einzige Publikation, die komplett in Pennsylvaniadeutsch erscheint.

1917 und die Folgen
Der Eintritt der Vereinigten Staaten in den Ersten Weltkrieg 1917 bewirkte schnell eine stark anti-deutsche Haltung in der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit. Deutschamerikaner, insbesondere Einwanderer, wurden der Parteinahme für das Deutsche Reich beschuldigt. Deutsch zu sprechen, galt als unpatriotisch. Viele Familien anglisierten in dieser Zeit ihren Familiennamen (zum Beispiel von Schmidt zu Smith, Schneider zu Taylor, Müller zu Miller/Muller, Albrecht zu Albright usw.), fast alle schränkten den Gebrauch der deutschen Sprache stark ein. Viele Staaten verboten den Gebrauch von Deutsch in der Öffentlichkeit und den Sprachunterricht. Nachdem in Ohio, Iowa und Nebraska der Deutschunterricht selbst in Privatschulen verboten worden war, wurden 1923 in einer Grundsatzentscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofes (Meyer v. Nebraska) diese Gesetze als unvereinbar mit der Verfassung wieder aufgehoben. Doch die durch die anti-deutsche Hysterie entstandenen Folgen waren nicht wieder rückgängig zu machen. Deutsch war aus der Öffentlichkeit so gut wie verschwunden.

Die deutsche Sprache heute

Insgesamt sind die Deutsch-Amerikaner sehr gut integriert, der Gebrauch der deutschen Sprache ist in den USA drastisch zurückgegangen. Nach der letzten Volkszählung (2000) haben 1.382.610 Personen angegeben, zu Hause Deutsch anstatt Englisch zu sprechen. Nur in einigen Glaubensgemeinschaften wird im täglichen Leben noch Deutsch bzw. ein deutscher Dialekt wie beispielsweise das Plautdietsch (eine Varietät des Niederdeutschen) gesprochen. Für die Amischen alter Ordnung, die Mennoniten alter Ordnung und die Hutterer ist die Bewahrung der deutschen Sprache Teil der religiösen Überzeugung; sie bildet außerdem einen Schild gegen Einflüsse der modernen Außenwelt.

Deutsche Begriffe heute
Letztlich bleiben von der deutschen Sprache in Nordamerika nicht mehr als Lehnwörter und die Familiennamen. Die Mehrzahl der aus dem Deutschen ins amerikanische Englisch übernommenen Wörter hat mit Essen und Trinken zu tun, zum Beispiel Delikatessen (deli shops sind Feinkostläden), Sauerkraut, Schnitzel, Bratwurst oder Schnaps. Aber es sind auch einige dabei, die Zeugnis ablegen von dem deutschen Beitrag zur kulturellen Entwicklung der neuen Heimat: zum Beispiel fest in Wörtern wie songfest oder das weit verbreitete Octoberfest, und kindergarten für die allgemein eingeführte Vorschule, sowie hausfrau für eine besonders fleißige Haushälterin. Fest eingeprägt haben sich vor allem durch die Werbung deutscher Konzerne deutsche Begriffe, die nur sehr schwer im Englischen auszudrücken wären wie leitmotif oder fingerspitzengefuhl (Werbung der Volkswagen AG).

Deutsche Ortsnamen heute
Obschon sich die Deutschen überwiegend in bereits besiedelten Gegenden niederließen, entstanden auch Ortsneugründungen mit deutschen Namen. Durch offizielle Namensänderungen während des Ersten Weltkrieges und durch Eingemeindung wurde die Zahl der deutschen Ortsnamen verringert. Heute gibt es noch Ortschaften, die Berlin, Frankfort, Bingen, Linden, Stuttgart, New Braunfels oder Luckenbach heißen. Fredericksburg in Texas ist die größte German town in Texas, wo viel der alten deutschen Kultur erhalten ist. Die Einwohner halten jährlich Sangerfests, Shutzenfests, Weinfests oder Kinderfests ab.
Viel häufiger sind noch deutsche Familiennamen zu finden, obwohl immer wieder Namen geändert und der englischen Rechtschreibung angepasst wurden.

Deutsch als Fremdsprache
In Deutschland lernen etwa sechs Millionen Schüler auf weiterführenden Schulen Englisch als Fremdsprache. An amerikanischen Schulen lernen ca. 375.000 Schüler Deutsch; es ist die dritt-populärste Fremdsprache nach Spanisch und Französisch. 1997 stellte die deutsche Regierung etwa drei Millionen US-Dollar für Projekte zum Deutschunterricht in den USA zur Verfügung. Die Mittel wurden für Lehrerfortbildung, Austauschprojekte, Seminare, die Entwicklung von Lehrmaterialien und für Fremdsprachenwettbewerbe verwendet. An sechs Bildungsministerien in den USA (in Kalifornien, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, und Wisconsin) gibt es language consultants aus Deutschland, die sich speziell um Deutsch als Fremdsprache kümmern. Unterstützt von der deutschen Regierung helfen diese Experten auf bundesstaatlicher und regionaler Ebene dabei, Fremdsprachenkonzepte und einheitliche Standards zu entwickeln.

Sieben Goethe-Institute in den USA führen im Auftrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Kulturprogramme durch, erteilen Sprachunterricht, unterstützen Lehrer, Universitäten und Behörden bei der Förderung der deutschen Sprache und bieten aktuelle Informationen über Deutschland an; an 15 Instituten in Deutschland nehmen jährlich ca. 2500 amerikanische Teilnehmer an Intensiv-Sprachkursen teil.

Siehe auch
 Deutsch-amerikanische Beziehungen
 Texasdeutsch
 Pennsylvania Dutch
 Liste deutscher Wörter im Englischen
 Geschichte der Deutschen in den Vereinigten Staaten

Literatur

 Heinz Kloss: Das Nationalitätenrecht der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Stuttgart/Wien 1965.
 York-Gothart Mix (Hrsg.) in Zusammenarbeit mit Bianca Weyers und Gabriele Krieg: Deutsch-amerikanische Kalender des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts./German-American Almanacs of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Bibliographie und Kommentar/Bibliography and Commentary. 2 Bd. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025353-5.
 Don Heinrich Tolzmann: Die Deutsch-Amerikana-Sammlung an der Universität von Cincinnati. In: Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, Nr. 423. Hans-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart 2004 [2005], S. 247–258, ISBN 3-88099-428-5 [Über die große Spezialsammlung zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur in den USA.]
 Elsie M. Szecsy: German Language in U.S. History. In: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Sage, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4129-3720-7, S. 320–321.

Weblinks
 Ceryx.de zum selben Thema
 Die Purdue University Indiana Library zur Mühlenberg-Legende (engl.)
 Die amerikanische Botschaft in Deutschland über die Geschichte der deutschen Sprache in den USA
 German ancestry and German language learning in the USA
 Volltext von Meyer v. Nebraska 262 U.S. 390 (1923)
 Deutschsprachige Zeitungen in den USA

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mation, and like Dokhturov he never
made plans of battle but was always found where the situation was most
difficult. Since his appointment as general on duty he had always
slept with his door open, giving orders that every messenger should be
allowed to wake him up. In battle he was always under fire, so that
Kutuzov reproved him for it and feared to send him to the front, and
like Dokhturov he was one of those unnoticed cogwheels that, without
clatter or noise, constitute the most essential part of the machine.

Coming out of the hut into the damp, dark night Konovnitsyn frowned-
partly from an increased pain in his head and partly at the unpleasant
thought that occurred to him, of how all that nest of influential
men on the staff would be stirred up by this news, especially
Bennigsen, who ever since Tarutino had been at daggers drawn with
Kutuzov; and how they would make suggestions, quarrel, issue orders,
and rescind them. And this premonition was disagreeable to him
though he knew it could not be helped.

And in fact Toll, to whom he went to communicate the news,
immediately began to expound his plans to a general sharing his
quarters, until Konovnitsyn, who listened in weary silence, reminded
him that they must go to see his Highness.

CHAPTER XVII

Kutuzov like all old people did not sleep much at night. He often
fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his
bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking.

So he lay now on his bed, supporting his large, heavy, scarred
head on his plump hand, with his one eye open, meditating and
peering into the darkness.

Since Bennigsen, who corresponded with the Emperor and had more
influence than anyone else on the staff, had begun to avoid him,
Kutuzov was more at ease as to the possibility of himself and his
troops being obliged to take part in useless aggressive movements. The
lesson of the Tarutino battle and of the day before it, which
Kutuzov remembered with pain, must, he thought, have some effect on
others too.

"They must understand that we can only lose by taking the offensive.
Patience and time are my warriors, my champions," thought Kutuzov.
He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. It will
fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled,
the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge. Like an
experienced sportsman he knew that the beast was wounded, and
wounded as only the whole strength of Russia could have wounded it,
but whether it was mortally wounded or not was still an undecided
question. Now by the fact of Lauriston and Barthelemi having been
sent, and by the reports of the guerrillas, Kutuzov was almost sure
that the wound was mortal. But he needed further proofs and it was
necessary to wait.

"They want to run to see how they have wounded it. Wait and we shall
see! Continual maneuvers, continual advances!" thought he. "What
for? Only to distinguish themselves! As if fighting were fun. They are
like children from whom one can't get any sensible account of what has
happened because they all want to show how well they can fight. But
that's not what is needed now.

"And what ingethe answer is circuit nious maneuvers they all propose to me! It seems to
them that when they have thought of two or three contingencies" (he
remembered the general plan sent him from Petersburg) "they have
foreseen everything. But the contingencies are endless."

The undecided question as to whether the wound inflicted at Borodino
was mortal or not had hung over Kutuzov's head for a whole month. On
the one hand the French had occupied Moscow. On the other Kutuzov felt
assured with all his being that the terrible blow into which he and
all the Russians had put their whole strength must have been mortal.
But in any case proofs were needed; he had waited a whole month for
them and grew more impatient the longer he waited. Lying on his bed
during those sleepless nights he did just what he reproached those
younger generals for doing. He imagined all sorts of possible
contingencies, just like the younger men, but with this difference,
that he saw thousands of contingencies instead of two or three and
based nothing on them. The longer he thought the more contingencies
presented themselves. He imagined all sorts of movements of the
Napoleonic army as a whole or in sections--against Petersburg, or
against him, or to outflank him. He thought too of the possibility
(which he feared most of all) that Napoleon might fight him with his
own weapon and remain in Moscow awaiting him. Kutuzov even imagined
that Napoleon's army might turn back through Medyn and Yukhnov, but
the one thing he could not foresee was what happened--the insane,
convulsive stampede of Napoleon's army during its first eleven days
after leaving Moscow: a stampede which made possible what Kutuzov
had not yet even dared to think of--the complete extermination of
the French. Dorokhov's report about Broussier's division, the
guerrillas' reports of distress in Napoleon's army, rumors of
preparations for leaving Moscow, all confirmed the supposition that
the French army was beaten and preparing for flight. But these were
only suppositions, which seemed important to the younger men but not
to Kutuzov. With his sixty years' experience he knew what value to
attach to rumors, knew how apt people who desire anything are to group
all news so that it appears to confirm what they desire, and he knew
how readily in such cases they omit all that makes for the contrary.
And the more he desired it the less he allowed himself to believe
it. This question absorbed all his mental powers. All else was to
him only life's customary routine. To such customary routine
belonged his conversations with the staff, the letters he wrote from
Tarutino to Madame de Stael, the reading of novels, the distribution
of awards, his correspo

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Not long ago, I planted a small, twig-like stem of scraggly roots. With dutiful regularity I watered and nourished my roots, then watched as they slowly formed freshened leaves. To my delight, delicate buds slowly appeared. Now, six months later, by some intrinsic, miraculous process of Nature, my roots have flowered and graciously reward me with gorgeous white roses.
Occasionally, a neighbor comments appreciatively on the array of loveliness my plants provide. I smile, of course, and thank them for their kindly observations -- but in my heart I know I can claim no credit for such beauty unfolding.
I am (as are we all) merely a participant in many such beguiling events each moment. We are daily witnesses to a myriad of astonishing happenings which are elegant in design, baffling in complexity, predictable in regularity, divine in origin.
My roses are but one of the inexplicable ways in which Nature fills our lives every instant: the light of the sun which saturates, the whispered touch of the wind which refreshes, the distant twinkling of a billion galaxies above and billions more unseen, the rhythmic beating of our hearts within, the unexpected kindness of a stranger, the disarming laughter of children at play, the unforgettable, lingering embrace of the Beloved.
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Creation's mysteries include the gift of one's own life, a gift which should ignite in us awe and gratitude to our Creator. Science seeks to explain the "when" and "where" and "what" of Creation, but science falters at the question, "Who" is the cause of it all?
The "Who" of Creation is, of course, God. But these days, God is often shunted aside as an intrusion into our national conversation. God is an obstacle to the litany of "human rights" and grotesque "freedoms" which inevitably surface when mankind dismisses the fact that Creation has a Creator.
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Evidence abounds … yet many resist belief in God. Why?
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Without God, nothing restrains human excess. The lives of the young, the elderly and ill, the depressed and suicidal, even the bored, become disposable. Nihilism ascends.
Reckless, politically correct mantras replace law, virtue, history and tradition. Even settled facts of science are dismissed. Our national conversations overflow with petty, calculated enmity, with moral relativism and vitriolic discourse and baseless accusations. We shrug at evils unimaginable a generation ago.
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Faith in God does not eliminate worry or doubt. By definition, it includes certainty and uncertainty, the known and the unknown. Faith in God does not banish life's misfortunes. But Faith does reassure us that we are always upheld by God's greater Reality. His Reality grants us the life we possess, the mind with which we reason, the heart with which we seek to do right, the animating soul which, as St. Augustine says, is ever-restless without God.
Faith in God says that while we do not know everything, we do not need to know everything. Faith illuminates what we know and what we do not know, sometimes in light, sometimes in deep shadow.
And even when all is indeed darkness (as it was for Mother Teresa for forty years), Faith inspires us with the courage to persevere toward the Light without risking that "walk into darkness" about which Elie Wiesel poignantly warns.
Moreover, Faith in God enlivens Hope. Together, Faith and Hope reveal to us that true Charity – i.e., loving God and His people -- is the highest expression of our created selves.
True Charity (i.e., Caritas, true love of benevolence, not merely almsgiving) is the intentional gift of our selves, generously and freely, as an incarnate expression of our regard for others, without seeking reward or expecting applause.
Giving freely of ourselves from our heart's willing reservoir, responding to the vulnerabilities of others, seizing any of the thousand opportunities for courtesy and civility each day -- even to passing strangers or even to those persons whose arrogance blinds them to love's simplicity -- these are the gifts of Faith and Hope enlivened by Charity which honor our Creator, Who walks among us still, Who is present to us still.
Sometimes, when we give our love, it is not returned -- but the ingratitude and coldness and rudeness of others does not lessen the value or the beauty of our giving.
In our lives, we become what our choices to love others make of us. We also become what our rejection and dismissal of others do to us, as our hearts and souls wither and grow sere and dusty.
But as we become aware of love's innate beauty, we are inspired to bear the costs of loving. Love is the soil in which, like my roses, our souls are meant to bloom. Even when love costs us a very great deal in loneliness and need, in illness and loss, we are still moved under its inspiration and its clarity to willingly bear the costs of being loving persons, for then life truly does make sense.
That we make kindness and gratitude our guiding motives, refreshed and deepened by the virtues which love instills in us; virtues such as wisdom, patience and humility and an ever-generous heart which love nourishes.
Uncertainty is always part of human experience, and all things are not open to us. But this is precisely why Faith and Hope and Charity are so crucial -- and so clearly the path into Light and Life.
As my latter years now swiftly pass and distractions fade, I am so often struck by the timeless realization of what a grand gift such Love truly is, of how fine it is to be with loving persons, of how grand it is to be mindful of others, of how essential are small acts of kindness. How else can we benefit our universal humanity, express our desire to care and bring kindness where it is wanting?
May we be inspired to seek Faith and Hope and Charity, not only in God, but with one another. Is there a better reason to live?
May it be so. May it ever be so……….
Copyright © 2017-2019 AWAY WITH WORDS Daniel Boland Ph. D.


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The monitoring industry has been undergoing some positive changes over the past few years, broadening the scope and role central stations play within overall security, specifically within alarm and video verification and response. A good example of this transformation is the recent renaming of the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) to The Monitoring Association (TMA).
No one can deny the impact of DIY on security, and many of these security systems are professionally monitored or will need monitoring services, whether on-demand (more on this next) or turned on later when there is a need. As a person's or family's needs increase and change, and new smart home and security technology have already become widely available, such as Amazon's Echo with Alexa, and similar offerings now from Google and Apple; security dealers need to try to understand the DIY mindset.
Many in the industry feel that DIY is an opportunity for security dealers, as traditionally only 20 percent of homeowners have a security system, a number that has not changed much for decades but has begun to with emergence of smart home technology and DIY.
The same customers—led by the Millennial and Gen X generations—that are attracted to all of the smart home technology out there today are many times the ones looking into DIY options and offerings, so don't forget about this emerging sector of the security industry, whether you like it or not.
Similar to DIY, offering on-demand monitoring represents a great opportunity for dealers to tap into a new customer base that may not be comfortable, at first, with a monthly fee for monitoring but is willing to dip their toe if there is an on-demand monitoring option offered to them.
For example, a person who is renting may start by using the on-demand monitoring option a few times in the first year and increase from there, eventually becoming a full-time customer when they move to their first home. Likewise, someone who is just starting out in their first home may want to start with on-demand for those times when they are away for extended periods of time on business, as that is added peace of mind without having another recurring monthly fee to pay.
The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) was established to educate all electronic security stakeholders on the value of video to verify alarm activity during the dispatch process and ultimately reduce false alarms and increase apprehension rates for burglar alarm customers.
In addition to the cost savings and valuable time and effort saved from eliminating false alarms, not to mention gaining the trust of your local law enforcement and fire department, Folsom also looks at the many RMR opportunities available for security dealers in the area of video surveillance.
As more and more families look to take better care of family members in the home, Personal Emergency Response Systems, or PERS, are continuing to grow in popularity. Plus, with the growth of mobile PERS, or mPERS, Baby Boomers, for example, who make up one of the largest and most powerful spending generations, can continue to lead active lifestyles late in life.
According to a recent study by ABI Research, the market for monitored mHealth devices is on the rise globally, and by 2021 North America will be the largest market in the forecast period, with shipments rising from around 3.5 million in 2016 to nearly 12 million in 2021.
The report looks at the rise in popularity of PERS and mPERS products, as well as activity tracking, fall detection and additional home sensors such as medication reminders, most of which are professionally monitored. According to the study, the shipment of PERS devices will more than double by 2021, growing from around 2.7 million in 2016 to around 6.3 million in 2021, at a CAGR of 45 percent.
Last year, Newport News, Va., went live with its ASAP program, joining other municipalities in the state of Virginia using ASAP, including as the City of Richmond, James City County, York County, and Henrico County. Newport News went live with eight alarm companies on Aug. 1, 2017. Virginia has 5 of the 27 nationwide.
The state of Virginia has an ASAP grant program as well.
Be sure to contact your local monitoring company to look at the expanding monitoring services available for dealers today. If you have a security business in Virginia or any surrounding states, feel free to give us a call.


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Q: Sporadically get error only in iFrame: Main.js Interpreted as amd module format, but called System.register I'm seeing the error below in console only when loading in iframe when loading compiled ES6 Javascript classes using SystemJS v 0.19.41.
system.src.js:3054 Uncaught Error: Module https://d1jbmqjs327xbn.cloudfront.net/_ra/spaces-developer.pxand/assets/js/framework/builder/builder-client.js interpreted as amd module format, but called System.register.
at a. (system.src.js:3054)
at a. (system.src.js:3773)
at a.reduceRegister_ (system.src.js:4268)
at HTMLScriptElement.m (system.src.js:2851)

This seems to be the same issue as the one that was closed a couple years ago, but for this case it only happens in an iframe.
https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs/issues/970
It happens consistently in Safari, but sporadically in Chrome. The issue only started last week with no code change so I'm at a lost on what could have gone wrong. When this error occurs, it simply stop execute the Javascript which is very problematic.
Anyone has any idea on what could be the root cause of this issue?

A: Just in case this helps anyone. I found that the issue was with jQuery UI as it's using AMD by default. I had to revert back to an older version to fix this issue. The only explanation I have for the sporadic behavior in Chrome is that Chrome doesn't consistently execute scripts at the same rate unlike Safari. However, this still doesn't explain why I started seeing the issue all the sudden without any change.
So if this ever happens to you, look for a library that loads dependencies using AMD by default and either load them using import instead or if you don't have a choice, try rearrange the order of import and move the one that's causing the issue up. For my case, that's not possible and that's why I had to use an older version of jQuery UI.
As for why it only happens when it's in an iframe. Well, it remains a mystery. I can only think that it's because how content in iframe is loaded by browser. I would love to hear an opinion from an expert on this.


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Ms. Stories
Editor's Rememberances
Playing by Our Rules
After 50 years, Ms. magazine remains as brazen as ever
"First, there were some women writers and editors who started asking questions. Why was our work so unconnected to our lives? Why were the media, including women's magazines, so rarely or so superficially interested in the big changes happening to women? Why were we always playing the game by someone else's (the publisher's, the advertiser's) rules?
"Then, there were questions from activists; women who were trying to raise money for an information service and self-help projects, particularly for poor or isolated women, and having very little luck. Mightn't a publication—say, a newsletter—serve to link up women, and to generate income as well?
"The two groups met several times early in 1971, and agreed that we all wanted a publication that was owned by and honest about women. … The idea of a full-fledged national magazine came up; a publication created by and controlled by women that could be as serious, outrageous, satisfying, sad, funky, intimate, global, compassionate, and full of change as women's lives really are."
"A Personal Report From Ms.," July 1972
When it launched 50 years ago, Ms. magazine was a brazen act of independence— demonstrating the untapped potential for journalism that centered news and analysis on women and their lives and made a feminist worldview more accessible to the public.
That potential quickly pivoted to power. Ms. didn't just cover the news—it made news. It reported on trends and helped to create them. Over the years, Ms. has sparked laws and judicial changes, influenced policy, generated new vocabulary and forced action on issues too long ignored. Articles in Ms. have won multiple awards, led to movies and books, spurred new feminist scholarship and are widely reprinted and included in textbooks and collections. Ms. has helped shape contemporary feminism, with its editors and writers translating a movement into a magazine.
Today Ms. continues to publish the print magazine you hold in your hands (or are reading on your tablet), which is distributed quarterly through membership subscriptions and newsstand sales and at feminist conferences—and is also sent free to thousands of women in prisons and domestic violence shelters.
Ms. has a growing digital presence. Our website, msmagazine.com, drew more than 4.6 million readers in the past year alone. Breaking news content is published daily, with 150 new articles posted each month. Among the most popular and widely covered topics: protecting reproductive autonomy post-Dobbs and ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, along with dispatches from grassroots and global activists. Ms. has a social media following of half a million across key channels and an active membership list receiving daily and weekly newsletters.
Building on the magazine's rich legacy, Ms. Studios launched in 2020. Led by women of color, it is home to an array of multimedia programming, including popular podcasts On the Issues With Michele Goodwin and Fifteen Minutes of Feminism. Our newest digital platform, Women & Democracy, provides in-depth analysis on a wide array of issues impacting full and fair representation. And Ms. Classroom brings the magazine into curricula at colleges—and increasingly at high schools—nationwide.
Year after year, Ms. endeavors to inform, encourage, enlighten, mobilize and entertain our readers. We hope Ms. continues to be the place where feminists find information and inspiration. And we thank you, our loyal readers, for these past 50 years—and the next 50!
As the earliest editors of this magazine wrote, "Ms. belongs to all of us."
Ms. Launches
The preview issue, published by New York magazine, includes such classic articles as "The Housewife's Moment of Truth," "Welfare Is a Women's Issue" and "We Have Had Abortions," a "coming out" petition signed by 53 prominent American women who had abortions when the procedure was illegal (or added their names in solidarity).
"Stories for Free Children"
Ms. founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin creates "Stories for Free Children" and works with Marlo Thomas on an album and book called Free to Be … You and Me.
After the Supreme Court decides Roe v. Wade, Ms. publishes a shocking photo of the body of Gerri Santoro, dead from a clandestine abortion, as a way to remember thousands who died or were injured by laws outlawing the procedure.
"The Ticket That Might Have Been"
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, makes a historic run for the Democratic presidential nomination, with Texas state legislator Sissy Farenthold as her running mate.
"Baseball Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
Little League announces it will admit girls after a two-year "Give Girls a Chance" campaign by NOW.
"JoAnne Little: The Dialectics of Rape"
Feminist scholar Angela Davis analyzes the intersection of sex, race and class in the case of a Black woman charged with murdering the white prison guard who sexually assaulted her.
"The Truth About Battered Wives"
Ms. is the first national magazine to discuss domestic violence.
"Why Women Don't Like Their Bodies"
Ms. raises the critical issue of body image with a cover that a number of readers find objectionable.
"Sexual Harassment on the Job and How to Stop It"
The groundbreaking cover story precedes by nine years the Supreme Court's sexual harassment decision and by nearly 15 years Anita Hill's famous testimony.
"If Men Could Menstruate"
Gloria Steinem imagines how different the world would be if it weren't women who had monthly periods—for instance, sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.
The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures
An excerpt from this book, coedited by Ms. editors Suzanne Braun Levine and Harriet Lyons, is the cover story of the last Ms. issue of the '70s.
"There Are Alternatives to Mastectomy"
Ms. reports that lumpectomies followed by radiation can be just as effective.
"The International Crime of Genital Mutilation"
A landmark Ms. report makes people aware of this practice. The World Health Organization takes up FGM for the first time that year.
Gender Gap ID'd
Ronald Reagan is elected president with 8 percent fewer women's votes than men's, which NOW president Eleanor Smeal (current Ms. publisher) identifies and names the "gender gap."
"Life on the Global Assembly Line"
Ms. shows the exploitation of women in U.S. sweatshops, South Korean textile factories and Ciudad Juárez maquiladoras.
Sally Ride Flies
Ms. honors the first U.S. woman in space with a cover story.
"Will a Woman Make the Difference?"
Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman vice presidential candidate of a major U.S. party, graces the Ms. cover.
"Date Rape: The Story of an Epidemic and Those Who Deny It"
We uncover the prevalence of sexual assault against college women and commission a national study of date rape.
The New York Times Finally Uses "Ms."
In a note to Gloria Steinem from editor A.M. Rosenthal, the paper of record finally recognizes that women need not be identified by marital status.
"It's Not Nice to Mess With Mother Nature"
Ms. teaches Ecofeminism 101.
"Sex, Lies and Advertising"
Gloria Steinem concludes that magazines can't be independent while taking commercial ads. Ms. is reborn as an ad-free bimonthly, with Robin Morgan as editor.
"Femicide: Speaking the Unspeakable"
Ms. makes the connection between murder and misogyny in the case of a mass shooting at the University of Montreal.
Anita Hill Testifies
Sexual harassment takes center stage in Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas' hearings. The next year, Hill speaks out in Ms.
"Dispatches From Bosnia"
Ms. reports on ethnic cleansing and rape campaigns in war-torn former Yugoslavia, exposing rape as an instrument of war.
Ms. editor Helen Zia goes undercover in a New York garment factory to expose sweatshop conditions.
Taliban Exposed
Ms. introduces readers to the horrors of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the same year the Feminist Majority Foundation launches an awareness campaign. In 1998, the U.S. and U.N. refuse to recognize the Taliban until women's human rights are restored.
Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement
Longtime Ms. editor Mary Thom chronicles the history of the magazine thus far.
Ms. Goes Indie
Ms. becomes women-owned and independent again, supported by women activists/investors, with Marcia Gillespie as editor.
"Running for Her Life"
Ms. cover woman Hillary Clinton becomes the only first lady to win elective office (N.Y. senator).
"What You Need to Know About RU-486"
Ms. gives women the 411 on the drug RU-486 (mifepristone), which the Food and Drug Administration finally approved in 2000 for medical abortions following a 12-year campaign led by the Feminist Majority Foundation.
The Feminist Majority Foundation Becomes Publisher of Ms.
Women Take on All-Male Augusta National
The National Council of Women's Organizations, chaired by Martha Burk (current Ms. Money editor), begins its campaign to admit women to the male-only golf club, home of the annual Masters tournament. Ten years later, two women are finally invited to be members.
"New Battleground for Survivors of Priest Child Sex Abuse"
Ms. reports on a California law that extends the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases, thus increasing the chance of bringing perpetrators to justice.
March for Women's Lives Draws More Than 1 Million to Washington, D.C.
The Ms. delegation carries "Stop the War on Women" signs—eight years ahead of mainstream media's popularization of the expression.
"A Shot Against Cervical Cancer"
Ms. is one of the first magazines to write about the HPV vaccine and how it can help women prevent certain cancers.
"Hanging by a Thread: What's at Stake if We Lose the Supreme Court"
Ms. shows that it's not just abortion rights at risk, but the right to birth control as well.
"We Had Abortions"
Echoing the pioneering petition from the premier issue of Ms., thousands of women sign on to a "We Had Abortions" campaign as the Supreme Court hears a challenge to President George W. Bush's so-called partial-birth abortion ban (which the Court upholds in 2007).
Ms. exposes sweatshops in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, where exploited workers are exempt from U.S. labor laws yet manufacture "Made in USA" garments. Not long after, Congress ends the exemption, putting the territory under U.S. labor laws.
"A Brave Sisterhood"
Ms. is on the ground reporting from Afghanistan during the country's first democratic elections, in which women candidates, defying extremist violence and threats, win 29 percent of seats in parliament.
Nancy Pelosi Becomes First Woman Speaker of the House
Ms. is the first national publication to put Pelosi on its cover.
"Good Ole Boys"
Ms. exposes Ward Connerly—whose anti-affirmative-action crusade seriously impacted women and minorities—for his close ties to business interests and the huge salaries he drew from his nonprofits. Later that year, Connerly ends his crusade.
"This Is What a Feminist Looks Like"
Capturing the nation's high expectations, Ms. depicts President Barack Obama as a potential superhero opening his jacket to reveal a feminist T-shirt. Shortly after his inauguration, Obama ends the global gag rule, and the first bill he signs into law is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Ms. Goes to College
Reflecting the magazine's long collaboration with feminist scholars, Ms. publishes a survey of women's studies programs nationwide and founds Ms. Classroom, a fully digital feminist teaching curriculum based on current and classic articles from the pages of Ms.
"Not a Lone Wolf"
One year after abortion provider Dr. George Tiller is murdered, Ms. publishes an award-winning investigation of ties between his killer and a network of anti-abortion extremists.
Ms. Goes Virtual
On International Women's Day, we begin our online presence with the "Ms. Blog." Our website will reach 4.6 million page views per year by 2022.
"Rape Is Rape" Victory
Our cover story is part of a larger feminist campaign leading to the FBI changing its archaic 1929 definition of rape, which excluded most rapes.
"For the Price of a Pad!"
Ms. highlights the work of an Indian investor and his inexpensive machine for making sanitary napkins. The story leads U.S. teens to found the Pad Project, which inspires the Oscar-winning documentary Period. End of Sentence.
"War on Women!"
We document numerous political attacks on our rights and our bodies, using a phrase originally used by Ms. at the March for Women's Lives in 2004.
President Obama Awards Gloria Steinem the Presidential Medal of Freedom
"I would be crazy if I didn't understand that this was a medal for the entire women's movement," she remarks.
Fast Food Workers Strike
Workers in Los Angeles use our Fall 2013 cover image as a symbol of their movement as they march for a $15/hour minimum wage.
The "Feminist Factor" Cinches President Obama's Reelection
Looking at polling data from the 2012 election, Ms. identifies and names a key constituency: feminists. It isn't women who secure Obama's victory but feminist women and feminist men.
"Blowing the Whistle on Campus Rape"
Ms. leads the charge on combating campus sexual assault and reports on new tools to fight it; our coverage is soon followed in the mainstream press with a Time magazine cover story.
"The Women of #BlackLivesMatter"
Scholar-activist Brittney Cooper credits the women behind the movement.
"Rise Up!"
Protesting Donald Trump's inauguration, women all over the U.S. and on every continent of the globe make history with the Women's Marches, the largest demonstration in a single day—which we cover in detail with a special issue.
"The Weinstein Effect"
We look for the ways the #MeToo movement and the downfall of Harvey Weinstein can lead to lasting change for women.
"ERA Yes"
As it has since the beginning, Ms. follows efforts by feminists to secure women's fundamental rights in the U.S. Constitution, celebrating Virginia becoming the 38th and final state needed to fully ratify the amendment—though the Trump administration blocks its certification.
"Don't Tread on Us"
We win the Readers' Choice Award for Best News and Politics Cover from the American Society of Magazine Editors for a cover calling out anti-abortion state lawmakers.
"Policing in America: A Tale of Race, Sex and Violence"
Ms. drops the first episode of its podcast series On the Issues With Michele Goodwin.
"Do We Care? The Nation's Moment of Truth"
The COVID-19 pandemic is a breaking point for women—Ms. makes clear that the country's childcare crisis is a moral and economic imperative.
"This Is What Democracy Looks Like"
Ms. celebrates the first gender-balanced Cabinet in history, appointed by President Joe Biden, with Kamala Harris as the first woman vice president.
"The Patriarchs' War on Women"
We delve into the role of male supremacy in the Jan. 6 insurrection—and the patriarchy in the rise of authoritarianism.
"We Have Had Abortions"
Ms. launches a new petition, and 10,000-plus signers demand a return of abortion rights after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.
Ms. Turns 50
The magazine and the movement are needed more than ever.
"When it comes to providing comprehensive coverage of women's issues with world-class editorial quality, Ms. is in a class by itself."
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)
"Ms. was like a lightning bolt of inspiration and information. From changing what we called ourselves to challenging how we (and others) looked at ourselves, Ms. helped to change how we are in the world."
Heather Booth
"Two letters, bathed in bright pink and printed in broad strokes, changed everything. Ms. told me I wasn't alone."
Francesca Seni Pardo
"Ms. made feminism modern, relevant and accessible for me. It grounded an otherwise abstract concept into the lives and lived experiences of all kinds of diverse women and I recognized myself in many of them."
Amy C. Willis
"In 1972, Ms. magazine launched, and I immediately subscribed. I knew it had words of wisdom for me. However, I never expected it to speak so directly to me and for me."
Elaine Auerbach
"Ms. has taught me so much and has kept the fire alive in me. I have been a champion for women's rights for decades. Ms. motivated me to get politically involved and, even in the worst of times, helped me not give up."
Karen Ubelhart
"Very early on, Ms. magazine published names of women who had abortions, which helped to make it OK to say the word out loud. And now we are mobilizing to make abortion legal again."
Karen Mulhauser
"Today, I have fewer rights than when I discovered Ms. I need Ms. more than ever. … Keep going for 500 years, Ms.!"
Stacy Lesartre
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"Fifty years ago, a small group … had the gutsy vision to create a national magazine that would provide a platform for women's voices and ideas amid a mainstream media culture where our point of view was all too often marginalized or simply invisible. In the years since, Ms. has proven itself to be a vital part of our national conversation, shaping and informing essential debates about women's rights and opportunities, and most importantly: giving women a voice."
'Tell Me a Story'
Editors from the '70s, '80s and '90s on what it was like to be a part of the early years of Ms.
Thanks to each and every one of you for helping us celebrate 50—count 'em, 50—years of Ms. magazine. This is pretty good since on national television it was predicted we would only last six months.
Personally, I never would have believed I would be here at 88 years of age marking this milestone. But Ms. was and is created by readers, not corporations—and definitely not advertisers. Letters from readers, then and now, are also a history of the women's movement. We've always loved reading them. I still remember one from a 7-year-old reader of "Stories for Free Children." She said, "We girls are angry as turnips!" I thought, this girl is going to be a writer!
Each and every one of you is part of the Ms. story, still one of the very few women-controlled publications in the world. Tell each other your stories. As Margaret Mead said, "Tell me a fact and I'll forget it. Tell me a story and I'll always remember."
BY SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE
When people hear that I was at Ms. "at the beginning," the response is often, "Oh, my god. Ms. saved my life. Thank you!" Of course, I am moved to hear that, but I want to reply, "Me too. Ms. saved my life, too." I was as transformed by the articles I edited as were our readers.
I arrived at Ms. in 1972 dressed for a very different world: a pink silk blouse, a pink cashmere skirt—and a girdle! I walked into a small, crowded office; everyone was working intently, some sitting on crates at three-legged desks and the rest sitting on the floor. It was clear from the positions they were in that no one was wearing a girdle. That scene was my first experience of those moments of sudden clarity that Jane O'Reilly had defined in the preview issue as a "feminist moment of truth" or "Click!" Comfort counts.
Roe v. Wade was another milestone for me. The preview issue of Ms., which came out a few months before I had any idea I would be part of the magazine, had featured a petition entitled "We Have Had Abortions," signed by 53 celebrities who were brave enough to admit that they had broken the law. I was stunned. Others shared my secret. Readers were invited to add their names. I sent in my coupon with a sense of relief. A few months later—by then I was at the magazine and helping to open the envelopes—we published the names of the hundreds of women who, along with me, had signed on.
Before coming to Ms., I had lots of magazine experience; I had worked for five of them, including two of the so-called women's magazines, Mademoiselle and McCall's. Each had its own "reader profile" and reliable menu of topics—fashion, beauty, makeup and a sprinkling of other interests like travel or fiction.
Ms. was different, a magazine with an editorial mandate as wide as women's lives. So many of the articles we published uncovered life experiences that women hadn't dared talk about, even to each other, that feminists had to literally invent words in order to share our stories: sexual harassment, battered women, consciousness-raising, reproductive rights. The realization that we are not alone was empowering. Since not every reader was in the same place, certain stories resonated with some and shocked others. I was careful to include an article or two in each issue that some readers might find a little hard to take. ("Getting to Know Me," for example, a piece on masturbation by sexologist Betty Dodson, was shocking but also revelatory to many.)
We hoped the message that both the reassured and the shocked took away from each issue was that there was no one way to be liberated and no one way to be a woman. That we could appreciate one another's struggles and learn from them. That we weren't rivals but allies. That each of us could grow and change. We—editors and readers—could also change the world. And we did. Together.
SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE was editor in chief of Ms. from 1972 to 1988.
Women, Children, Ms. and Me
BY LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
Fifty years ago, simply because we put the interests of women front and center, Ms. was seen by some as anti- child. Which, to me, is as maddening as it is ironic when you consider the tiny but deeply meaningful fact that, among our many pro-child credentials, we were the only women's magazine that featured, in every issue, a special section just for kids. Headlined "Stories for Free Children," those four pages offered an antidote to the steady stream of submissive wives, passive princesses, macho dads and Marlboro Men common to kid lit of that era. In the early 1970s, it was virtually impossible to find books about children who were Black, Asian, Latinx, mixed race, disabled or adopted; or had moms and dads who were divorced, single, gay or gender nonconformist; or lived in families headed by grandmas, aunties or foster parents. As a founding editor of Ms., a veteran of the book publishing world and the only editor who had young kids (my twin daughters were 6, my son was 3), I was able to fill the yawning gap with quality literature that both reflected kids' lived experience and helped them imagine a better, broader future.
Things started changing. Boys enrolled in ballet classes. Girls sued for the right to play on boys' teams. Some moms returned to work they'd left when they had kids. Some dads decided to quit the rat race and stay home with their children. And Ms. kept up with it all, publishing multiple perspectives on issues affecting children and families, be it healthcare, schools, tax policy, poverty, civil rights, legislation, litigation, race relations, sexuality, climate crises and everything else that today falls under the rubric of intersectionality. My obsession was sex roles, how to jettison the straitjackets of "femininity" and "masculinity" and help kids become their best, truest selves.
The toy industry's dispiriting images and discriminatory dog whistles moved me to produce a new service piece for our readers called "Toys for Free Children," in which I would rate products by a series of feminist metrics and provide helpful recommendations to parents and teachers. To my surprise and delight, I discovered a good number of nonsexist, multiracial, multicultural, gender-neutral, fun-to-play-with toys that won the Ms. seal of approval.
At the end of the process, I deposited the best toys and games in the Ms. tot lot, which quickly became the most well-equipped playroom in town. A tot lot, by the way, was an unheard-of perk at traditional workplaces, including the major mainstream women's magazines. Only Ms. had a dedicated room for children of staffers (we called them "Ms. Kids") brought to work during school vacations or after a babysitter called in sick or a childcare arrangement fell through.
Ms. is and was a feminist enterprise. We didn't just talk the talk, or publish our principles; we walked the walk. So much for the anti-child accusation.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN, a founding editor of Ms., is a writer and activist, the author of 12 books and consulting editor on Marlo Thomas' Free to Be… You and Me.
Clever Sisters
BY ROBIN MORGAN
Starting in 1976, I became a Ms. contributing editor, then consulting editor, then editor. In 1989 (reluctantly!) I became editor in chief—and therein lies a tale. The magazine's sale two years earlier had devolved into another sale, but the new owners' glitzy approach (fashion, movie stars) drove loyal readers up a tree and Ms. down a hole. So it was resold to Lang Communications, which already published a number of feminist and working women's periodicals. They "acquired" it, I believe, to use our mailing list, and they froze Ms.' publication, claiming it was losing too much money.
Enter Gloria Steinem, eyes blazing, using her considerable persuasive powers to convince them that the Ms. audience was there. Simultaneously, she began a campaign to convince me to become editor in chief. "Ridiculous!" I laughed, terrified of following in Suzanne Braun Levine's path-forging foot- steps, which had led us all through the original 16 years. Gloria argued that since I wrote books and had edited the by-then classic Sisterhood Is Powerful and Sisterhood Is Global anthologies, it would be "a breeze" to edit a national magazine. "You're crazy!" I hooted. "Books are totally different from magazines!" But Gloria is one clever sister. She got me musing about what I'd ideally like to see in the magazine if (only hypothetically, you understand) it could be saved. I said it would return to its unashamedly feminist values and, what's more, would be audaciously international.
Readers were hungry for international coverage they could find nowhere else: the first articles on women in Eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall fell; Gulf War coverage by women in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Iraq; the interview with Chai Ling, woman student leader of Tianan- men Square; and news we broke before anyone else believed it: ethnic rapes and brothel/death camps of thousands of women in the former Yugoslavia.
I'd warned Gloria I'd stay for only one year. But she's really persuasive. So the year stretched to two, then three, and those unforgettable letters from women readers kept me going. Finally, I proudly handed the magazine over to the first woman of color to edit Ms., Marcia Gillespie.
ROBIN MORGAN was editor in chief at Ms. from 1989 to 1994; she now serves as global editor.