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THE St. Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA) has made a major breakthrough in the vital agriculture sector by collaborating with a new but highly-successful local app, Trifarm.
At a press conference held last Friday to unveil the agro-tourism collaboration, it was revealed that the SLHTA's Virtual Agricultural Clearing House's (VACH) initiative, which has been operational for one year, has officially teamed up with the app creators with the goal of creating a lucrative online market for local vendors to become visible to hotel chains looking to purchase local produce.
Destang hands over cheque to Francis
Trifarm is a web portal (www.trifarmltd.com) that was designed to provide real-time data on crop availability by allowing local farmers and producers of fruit and vegetables to register their crops and supplies online, thereby boosting their chances of sales by not just hotel chains, but regular clients and even regional buyers.
Donette Ismael, Liason Officer of Agriculture and Tourism, said there have been many success stories with the SLHTA's VACH programme which so far has over 400 farmers on the platform. Nineteen hotels and two major food and beverage companies use the VACH. However, she said more needs to be done.
"Despite all of those successes, there are still some hurdles that we wanted to overcome, and now we have found the opportunity to do that where we could now put the clearing house on a virtual platform and people could now sign in, like they would on Facebook, and get information on availability of crops on island."
Some of the hurdles, Ismael said, include not having analysis on trends and agricultural produce and, therefore, the inability to track what was actually happening on the ground as they would like to Trifarm has now given them the perfect opportunity to do that.
President of the SLHTA, Sanovnik Destang, said for decades now St. Lucia and the rest of the Caribbean had moved to being a services and tourism-based society and that it had been no secret that the agricultural industry had suffered immensely; however, with Trifarm, the economy can have the best of both worlds.
Destang said: "It seemed as if for a time that there was a perception that agriculture and tourism could not grow in harmony and that it was one or the other. A lot of us have always spoken about the need for linkages between tourism and agriculture but it was becoming a buzzword and people, I think, were starting to get a bit tired of hearing it because nothing was actually happening. Well, when we talk to other people around the region about the programme that we have in place, it gathers all the admiration on the regional basis because we are at this point the only HTA in the Caribbean that has a dedicated agri-liason officer and a dedicated agricultural linkages programme."
He continued: "When we started this programme in 2016, the aim was primarily to bridge that gap but ultimately to allow that trickle-down effect of tourism to filter into the rural communities so that everyone could get a bit of the tourism dollar. We realised that there was a $15-20 million opportunity with hotels importing a lot of produce that could be grown locally. Not only could it be grown locally, but it could be done at a cheaper price and better quality. So it seemed like an obvious linkage that just had to happen and we needed to make sure that it happened one way or the other."
Destang said that since the inception, the platform has generated a massive response and impressive results producing hundreds of thousands of dollars with just five crops in the space of five months. There are currently roughly 40 farmers and 20 buyers using the app and they are hoping that the numbers will rise sharply.
He said that with the app, vital information is registered and they are able to track trends and determine when there will be shortages and spikes in the market.
Destang said that although it is an evolving platform, members of the SLHTA who have been using the app have all been extremely satisfied thus far.
He said: "It's only fitting that the SLHTA becomes the first major partner of Trifarm, which only launched about a month ago. We have faith that the platform will work because we're already seeing great results. We're looking forward to a great partnership that can really bridge that gap, but ultimately improve lives, livelihoods and really help tourism to play its role in economic development in a very meaningful way."
Trifarm went live on January 23 and with the app farmers get to input production data in terms of whichever crops they planted. That data then feeds into a live graph which is accessed by buyers, providing valuable and timely information needed to make purchases.
Managing Director of Trifarm Company Ltd., Garvin Francis, said there has always been an issue with retrieving information about what is out there in stock to be purchased; however, all of this is about to change rapidly.
He said: "With Trifarm and the ability to forecast data, you have three months in advance. So if you plant your crops today, you have three months in advance where buyers can be monitoring your crop and its development and you can adjust also for losses and so on. So they can see in advance what is coming on their market, so chefs, restaurant owners, etc. can plan in advance their menus. They can also have the agro- processing industry also being able to make business decisions as it relates to their operations way in advance so everybody is on an even platform and there is transparency in the market. This platform can only get better once you have more farmers coming on board."
Francis said anyone at any time can register for free and they do not necessarily have to be farmers. He said anyone who has a personal crop or even fruit trees can sign up and capitalise on the opportunity to make money of their crops.
The platform also addresses CARICOM so there are users from other islands as well where there is an opportunity for inter-island trade.
Chief Executive of the SLHTA, Noorani Azeez revealed that members of the SLHTA were so pleased with the programme that they have shelled out thousands of dollars in support of it.
Azeez said: "The Tourism Enhancement Fund had been the major financing entity for this programme and at a meeting at the board of trustees, they took a decision to donate $29,000 towards this project. (These funds) will go towards supporting the Trifarm platform in addition to providing farmers with the training so that we can conduct awareness and sensitisation among the farming belt to get more persons onto the programme."
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Hello, God. It's me, Mara.
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Roping Religion: God is your armor
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Out Our Way: God sent me the meadowlarks - Isaiah 65:17-25/Luke 21:5-19
Out our way, the fall roundup is always a time of expectation and even deliverance. Winter is coming, the upper pasture is about grazed out, the waterholes are drying up, the... — Updated 11/20/2020
Pastor's Corner: Just want to put my hands on Jesus!
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Out Our Way: Charlie's Trailer - Psalm 98
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Pastor's Corner: Showing honor and being honorable
The Bible instructs us to: Romans 13:7 - "Pay to all what is owed to them: ... honor to whom honor is owed." Romans 12:10 - "Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one... — Updated 11/13/2020
Roping Religion: Finding comfort in hard times
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Out Our Way: Elsie and Habakkuk - Habakkuk 1:1-4/2:1-3
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Pastor's Corner: The sound of Hope
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Pastor's Corner: Repent, renew, resolve, pray
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Paulo Afonso Hydroelectric Powerplant in the State of Bahia.
Brazil relies on hydroelectricity for 65% of its electricity  , and the Brazilian government plans to expand the share of biomass and wind energy (currently 6%)   as alternatives. Wind energy has the greatest potential in Brazil during the dry season, so it is considered a hedge against low rainfall and the geographical spread of existing hydroelectric resources.
In January 2015, a drought in Brazil that cut water to the country's hydroelectric dams prompted severe energy shortages. This crisis ravaged the country's economy and led to electricity rationing.
Brazil held its first wind-only energy auction in 2009, in a move to diversify its energy portfolio. Foreign companies scrambled to take part. The bidding lead to the construction of 2 gigawatts (GW) of wind production with an investment of about $6 billion over the following two years. Brazil's technical potential for wind energy is 143 GW due to the country's blustery 7,400 kilometres (4,600 mi) kilometres coastline where most projects are based. The Brazilian Wind Energy Association and the government have set a goal of achieving 20 GW of wind energy capacity by 2020 from the current 5 GW (2014). The industry hopes the auction will help kick-start the wind-energy sector, which already accounts for 70% of the total in all of Latin America.
Brazil started focusing on developing alternative sources of energy, mainly sugarcane ethanol, after the oil shocks in the 1970s. Brazil's large sugarcane farms helped the development. In 1985, 91% of cars produced that year ran on sugarcane ethanol. The success of flexible-fuel vehicles, introduced in 2003, together with the mandatory E25 blend throughout the country, have allowed ethanol fuel consumption in the country to achieve a 50% market share of the gasoline-powered fleet by February 2008.
Hydroelectric power plants produce almost 80% of the electrical energy consumed in Brazil. Brazil has the third highest potential for hydroelectricity, following Russia and China.
View of Itaipu hydroelectric power plant in the State of Paraná.
A small hydroelectric power plant in Wenceslau Braz, Minas Gerais.
The Itaipu Dam is the world's second largest hydroelectric power station by installed capacity. Built on the Paraná River dividing Brazil and Paraguay, the dam provides over 75% of Paraguay's electric power needs, and meets more than 20% of Brazil's total electricity demand. The river runs along the border of the two countries, and during the initial diplomatic talks for the dam construction both countries were suffering from droughts. The original goal was therefore to provide better management and utilization of water resources for the irrigation of crops. Argentina was also later incorporated in some of the governmental planning and agreements because it is directly affected, being downstream, by the regulation of the water on the river. If the dam were to completely open the water flow, areas as far south as Buenos Aires could potentially flood.
Construction of the dam started in 1975, and the first generator was opened in 1983. It is estimated that 10,000 locals were displaced by the construction of the dam, and around 40,000 people were hired to help with the construction of the project. Many environmental concerns were overlooked when constructing the dam, due to the trade-off considering the production of such a large amount of energy without carbon emissions, and no immediate harmful byproducts, such as with nuclear energy.
Windfarm in Osório, Rio Grande do Sul.
Wind power in Brazil amounts to an installed capacity of more than 8 GW as of 2015. Wind strength in Brazil is more intense from June to December, coinciding with the months of lower rainfall intensity. This puts the wind as a potential complementary source of energy to hydroelectricity.
Brazil's first wind energy turbine was installed in Fernando de Noronha Archipelago in 1992. Ten years later the government created the Program for Incentive of Alternative Electric Energy Sources (Proinfa) to encourage the use of other renewable sources, such as wind power, biomass, and small hydro. Since the inception of Proinfa, Brazil's wind energy production has grown from 22 MW in 2003 to 602 MW in 2009, and to over 8,700 MW by 2015.
Developing these wind power sources in Brazil is helping the country to meet its strategic objectives of enhancing energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating jobs. The potential for this type of power generation in Brazil could reach up to 145,000 MW, according to the 2001 Brazilian Wind Power Potential Report by the Electric Energy Research Centre (Cepel).
While the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) was taking place in Copenhagen, Brazil's National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) held the country's first ever wind-only energy auction. On December 14, 2009, around 1,800 megawatts (MW) were contracted with energy from 71 wind power plants scheduled to be delivered beginning July 1, 2012.
As of February 2019,[ref] according to ONS, total installed capacity was 14.7 GW, with 12.3 GW in the Northeast Region and 2.0 GW in the South Region.
As of February 2019,[ref] according to ONS, total installed capacity of photovoltaic solar was 2.6 GW, with 1.3 GW in the Northeast Region and 1.0 GW in the Southeast Region.
Brazil has one of the highest solar incidence in the world.
The largest solar plants in Brazil consist of Ituverava and the Nova Olinda plants. The Ituverava solar plant produces 254 MW and the Nova Olinda plant produces 292 MW.
Brazil's ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices put a chokehold on the economy. Sugarcane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil's large amount of arable land and favourable climate.
Most cars on the road today in Brazil can run on blends of up to 25% ethanol, and motor vehicle manufacturers already produce vehicles designed to run on much higher ethanol blends. Most car makers in Brazil sell flexible-fuel cars, trucks, and minivans that can use gasoline and ethanol blends ranging from pure gasoline up to 100% ethanol (E100). In 2009, 90% of cars produced that year ran on sugarcane ethanol.
The importance of ethanol in Brazil's domestic transportation fuels market is expected to increase in the future. According to Petrobras, ethanol accounts for more than 50% of current light vehicle fuel demand, and the company expects this to increase to over 80% by 2020. Because ethanol production continues to grow faster than domestic demand, Brazil has sought to increase ethanol exports. According to industry sources, Brazil's ethanol exports reached 86,000 bbl/d in 2008, with 13,000 bbl/d going to the United States. Brazil is the largest ethanol exporter in the world, holding over 90% of the global export market.
Sugarcane plantation in Avaré (State of São Paulo). Cane remains are used to produce biomass energy.
Eucalyptus in the State of Espírito Santo. Remains of the tree are reused for biomass power generation.
Biomass is a clean energy source used in Brazil. It reduces environmental pollution as it uses organic garbage, agricultural remains, wood shaving or vegetable oil. Refuse cane, with its high energetic value, has been used to produce electricity. More than 1 million people in the country work in the production of biomass, and this energy represents 27% of Brazil's energetic matrix.
The recent interest in converting biomass to electricity comes not only from its potential as a low-cost, indigenous supply of power, but for its potential environmental and developmental benefits. For example, biomass may be a globally important mitigation option to reduce the rate of CO2 buildup by sequestering carbon and by displacing fossil fuels. Renewably grown biomass contributes only a very small amount of carbon to the atmosphere. Locally, plantations can lessen soil erosion, provide a means to restore degraded lands, offset emissions and local impacts from fossil-fired power generation, and, perhaps, reduce demands on existing forests. In addition to the direct power and environmental benefits, biomass energy systems offer numerous other benefits, especially for developing countries such as Brazil. Some of these benefits include the employment of underutilized labour and the production of co- and by-products, for example, fuelwood.
Nearly all of the experiences with biomass for power generation are based on the use of waste and residue fuels (primarily wood/wood wastes and agricultural residues). The production of electric power from plantation-grown wood is an emerging technology with considerable promise. However, actual commercial use of plantation-grown fuels for power generation is limited to a few isolated instances. Wood from plantations is not an inexpensive energy feedstock, and as long as worldwide prices of coal, oil and gas are relatively low, the establishment of plantations dedicated to supplying electric power or other higher forms of energy will occur only where financial subsidies or incentives exist or where other sources of energy are not available.
Where biomass plantations are supplying energy on a commercial basis in Brazil, the Philippines and Sweden, it can be shown that a combination of government policies or high conventional energy prices have stimulated the use of short-rotation plantations for energy. Brazil used tax incentives beginning in the mid-1960s to initiate a reforestation program to provide for industrial wood energy and wood product needs. As a consequence of the Brazilian Forestry Code with its favourable tax incentives, the planted forest area in Brazil increased from 470,000 hectares to 6.5 million hectares by 1993. With the discontinuation of the tax incentives in 1988, plantation establishment in Brazil has slowed, although the commercial feasibility of using eucalyptus for energy and other products has been clearly demonstrated.
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US Catholic bishops divided over Biden presidency
Wednesday's critical statement of Biden from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops put a spotlight on the fractured episcopacy in the country.
Clergy attend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Spring Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 13, 2018. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins
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(RNS) — A statement released by U.S. bishops Wednesday (Jan. 20) after President Joe Biden's inauguration highlighted tensions between Catholic teachings and the new administration and put a spotlight on the divided episcopacy in the country.
"Today, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an ill-considered statement on the day of President Biden's inauguration," tweeted Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago.
"Aside from the fact that there is seemingly no precedent for doing so, the statement, critical of President Biden, came as a surprise to many bishops, who received it just hours before it was released," he added.
The statement, released by the president of the Catholic bishops conference, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, criticized Biden's stance on abortion rights. Some of his policies, the statement said, "would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity," especially concerning abortion, marriage, contraception and gender.
"Of deep concern is the liberty of the Church and the freedom of believers to live according to their consciences," the statement said.
Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at a 2020 virtual meeting of the group. Video screengrab
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While the statement was not entirely negative regarding Biden — it also called for more dialogue and cooperation between his administration and Catholic bishops in the country — some members of the clergy viewed it as an unnecessary attack on the incoming president.
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, told Catholic News Service on Thursday that, while he recognizes the difficulty for Catholics regarding Biden's stance on abortion, Tobin doesn't want to see that as an issue that precludes dialogue.
"Even people who would be well disposed to the president find it difficult to (understand how) he can conjugate his stance on (the abortion) issue — which is so important to Catholics — and this faith that has been so important to him all of his life," Tobin told Catholic News Service. "What I don't understand are people who use very harsh words and want to cut off all communication with the president because of this."
Cupich wrote on Twitter that the statement was written without following the necessary procedures and without allowing members of the Administrative Committee to discuss its content.
"The internal institutional failures involved must be addressed, and I look forward to contributing to all efforts to that end, so that, inspired by the Gospel, we can build up the unity of the Church, and together take up the work of healing our nation in this moment of crisis," the cardinal wrote.
Both Cupich and Tobin were appointed by Pope Francis, and according to the Catholic news site The Pillar, the cardinals voiced their opposition to the statement directly to the Vatican. The U.S. bishops' statement wasn't released until after the Vatican issued its own message congratulating Biden.
"I likewise ask God, the source of all wisdom and truth, to guide your efforts to foster understanding, reconciliation and peace within the United States and among the nations of the world in order to advance the universal common good," the message, signed by Pope Francis, read.
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La Negra Warehouse Certified as Part of Transportes Verasay's Transport Operation
The International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) announced today that Chilean cyanide transporter Transportes Verasay Ltda has added the La Negra Warehouse to its Cyanide Code certified transport operation.
Transportes Verasay was initially certified in compliance with the Cyanide Code in September 2010, and was recertified in January 2014. Transportes Verasay also owns and operates the La Negra Warehouse, and will use the facility as part of its cyanide transport operation.
As required under the Cyanide Code, the warehouse was audited against ICMI's Cyanide Production Verification Protocol by independent professional third-party auditors. ICMI has received and accepted the auditors' Detailed Audit Findings Report which found the La Negra Warehouse in full compliance with the Cyanide Code's Principles and Production Practices. The Summary Audit Report and Auditor Credentials Form are available on Transportes Verasay's Signatory Companies Page on the ICMI web site: http://www.cyanidecode.org/signatory-company/transportes-verasay-ltda. The addition of the warehouse does not affect the duration of Transportes Verasay's existing certification.
The Cyanide Code is a voluntary industry program for companies involved in the production of gold using cyanide and companies producing and transporting this cyanide. It was developed under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee. The Cyanide Code is intended to complement an operation's existing obligation to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the political jurisdictions in which the operation is located.
ICMI has been established to administer the Cyanide Code, promote its adoption, evaluate its implementation, and manage the certification process. A detailed list of the operations covered by signatory companies' applications, along with the full text of the Cyanide Code and its implementing and administrative documents, are available at www.cyanidecode.org.


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Murrami är en ort i Australien. Den ligger i kommunen Leeton och delstaten New South Wales, i den sydöstra delen av landet, omkring 460 kilometer väster om delstatshuvudstaden Sydney.

Runt Murrami är det glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Närmaste större samhälle är Leeton, omkring 18 kilometer sydost om Murrami.

Trakten runt Murrami består till största delen av jordbruksmark. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är mars, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är oktober, med  mm nederbörd.

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Image 1: Thomas Ball, Emancipation Memorial, Washington, DC.
African Americans raised the money for the memorial but white northerners designed the final memorial. Even though Frederick Douglass spoke at the dedication, few leaders and community members spoke out against the condescending portrayal of the prone former slave. In the present, gentrification and a more critical interpretation has changed the meaning of the monument.
Image 2: Hertford USCT Monument, Hertford, NC, c. 1910.
This is one of the few examples of a Civil War monument created by African Americans. In this instance, black women of Perquimans County honor the veterans, many of them relatives. It was erected prior to the UDC monument in the Hertford Town Square.
Image 3: Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston, MA in front of the Massachusetts State House.
Image 4: Spirit of Freedom - African American Civil War Memorial, Washington, DC.
This modern monument is a direct contrast to the Thomas Ball's Emancipation memorial.
Image 5: "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston," monument, Charleston, SC.
Image 6: SC Institute Hall plaque, Charleston, SC.
Marker honors the ratification of the Ordinance of Secession for South Carolina. Plaque reads: "This building stands of the site formerly occupied by S.C. Institute Hall where on December 20, 1860 was signed and ratified the Ordinance of Secession which withdrew the State of South Carolina from the Union and led to the formation of the Confederate States of American and to four years of War Between the North and the South. The building was totally destroyed in the conflagration of December 1861.
Image 7: Fish monument outside of the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA. It honors the Confederate Trilogy – Lee, Jackson and Stuart.
Image 8: William Tecumseh Sherman monument, New York, NY. Situated in the Grand Army of the Republic Plaza, Augustus St. Gaudens created the monument. Sherman is pointing toward the entrance of Central Park.
Image 9: Civil War Sailors Monument, Washington, DC.
Marker text: Born a slave in Beaufort in 1839, Robert Smalls lived to serve as a Congressman of the United States. In 1862, he commandeered and delivered to Union forces the Confederate gunboat "Planter," on which he was a crewman. His career as a freedman included service as delegate to the 1868 and 1895 State Constitutional Conventions, election to the S.C. House and Senate, and 9 years in Congress. He died in 1913 and is buried here.
Image 13: Robert Smalls, Beaufort, SC. Smalls is buried in the attached cemetery at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Monument text: Robert Smalls. "My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere all they need is an equal chance in the battle of life." Robert Smalls, Nov. 1, 1895.
Text on front: To Our Confederate Dead; text on back: Erected by the Stephen Elliott Chapter U.D.C.
Soon after the Civil War began in April 1861, Confederate troops fortified the city of Beaufort. Fort Walker on Hilton Head Island and Fort Beauregard on St. Phillips Island protected the approach to Port Royal Bay.
On the morning of November 7, 1861, a Union fleet of seventeen gunboats pounded the forts with artillery fire. By late afternoon, the Confederates had abandoned both islands.
The Union Navy gained control of one of the best harbors on the Atlantic coast. Its blockading fleet could resupply and repair in protected waters. Beaufort, upriver from the islands, was transformed into a naval station, hospital center, and Union Army headquarters.
Column 2 text (National Cemetery): Beaufort National Cemetery was established in 1863. The U.S. Army Quartermaster General's Office laid out the 22 acres in sections that radiate outward from a central plaza to form a half circle. Of the 9,226 interments here in 1874, about half were known. Many of the unknown dead were Union prisoners of war originally buried at Camp Lawton in Georgia.
New construction in the 1870s included a Second Empire-style lodge for the superintended and a brick wall to enclose the cemetery. The existing Dutch Colonial Revival-style lodge was built in 1934. Although it has grown in size, the cemetery retains many of its original design features.
There are two Civil War monuments. The Union Soldiers Monument, a 20-foot granite obelisk, was erected through the efforts of Mrs. Eliza McGuffin Potter in 1870. The second, a marble tablet on a raised brick base, lists the names of 175 soldiers who Mrs. Potter attended as a nurse in Beaufort hospitals.
Column 3 text (U.S. Colored Troops): Beginning in March 1863, the federal government recruiting black men for the Union Army. A few months later, the War Department created the Bureau of United States Colored Troops (USCT). USCT regiments fought in battles and engagements from Virginia to Texas. There are more than 1,700 USCT soldiers buried here.
In the late 1980s, the remains of nineteen soldiers, determined by archaeologists to be members of the all-black 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment were discovered on Folly Island near Charleston. In 1989, the remains were reinterred with full military honors between Section 56 and the back wall of the cemetery.
Image 4: Memorial Day, marker to the unknown nineteen USCT soldiers, left side.
Image 5: Memorial Day, marker to the unknown nineteen USCT soldiers, right side.
Inscription: "These Hallowed Grounds hold the remains of at least nineteen black Union soldiers, 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, who lost their lives on Folly Island in the Siege of Charleston, during the winter encampment of Nov. 1863-Feb. 1864, Civil War.
Image 7: 1244 – A. F. Green, Mass.
Image 8: 1246 – H. A. Field, Corp'l, Mass.
Image 9: 1248 – Wm. Eliis, Corp'l, Mass.
Image 10: 1250 – J. H. Bancroft, Mass.
Image 11: 1252 – J. W. Green, Mass.
Image 12: 1255 – Chas. Clark, Mass.
Image 13: 1257 – Chas. Allen, Mass.
Image 14: 1260 – Anthony Davis, Mass.
Image 15: 1265 – Martin Gilman, Mass.
Image 16: 1266 – J. W. Freeman, Mass.
Image 17: 1304 – Lewis Anderson, Mass.
Image 18: 1308 – T. F. Cooper, Mass.
Image 19: 1311 - J. Burnside, Mass.
Image 20: Gettysburg Address plaque, outbuilding, near entrance.
Plaque Text: Address by President Lincoln at the Dedication of The Gettysburg National Cemetery, November 19, 1863.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that nation might live. It's altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it. Far above our poor power to add or detract, the world will little note, no long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.


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It came up on one of the writing forums today: why do writers blog about writing?
Or about how my mom's tooth went south on her this weekend and she's going to have to have it pulled and how I think that'skind of a good thing since she's been afraid to go to the dentist since her open heart surgery eight years ago and now she's found one she likes and trusts.And how I hope and pray that this goes well and doesn't lead to another heart infection since it took three weeks of lobbying her to have the surgery to repair her heart instead of just giving up last time and I'm not sure we'd have the time to convince her this time around.
I write most days. But there's not much I can say about it. I love my characters, but not so much that I'd blog about them repeatedly. I tried writing posts about each short story as I published it, but I think I enjoyed exploring those ideas more than anyone enjoyed reading them. And with novels I tend to keep my ideas pretty close to the vest. There may be no original ideas out there, but that doesn't mean I have to share my approach with the world before I've finished writing it.
Sure, if someday I'm famous people will care about how my mind works and how I come up with ideas and what I have to say about my characters.
But I'm not. So I can either blog about my personal life and bore the world. Or I can blog about something I'm deeply familiar with–the creative process and writing–and hopefully spread a little bit of knowledge and connection.
And hopefully someday I will be successful and famous and someone can come to this blog and see one writer's progression from wide-eyed newbie who didn't know a thing to successful published writer.
That'll be in another five years or so, so I will say now that I admire the dedication of anyone who comes to a nine-year-old blog and reads it start to finish. They'll know me better than I know me if they do that.
I have found authors to read through their blogs about writing. I've bought books by Chuck Wendig, Patricia C. Wrede, John Scalzi, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin, Jim C. Hines, and Seth Godin because of what I read on their blogs. LeGuin and Godin generally blog about their thoughts and life, but the others blog about writing or, with Gaiman, about appearances and promotions.
So it can be of value, I guess.
Honestly, as a reader, I could care less if a writer has a blog. I certainly never bothered looking for a blog by a writer before I decided I wanted to be one. So for me blogging just lets me keep up with my writing and share some of the cool articles or advice I find in my own journey.
But I will say for any writers reading this blog, what I do is not the method to use to monetize your blog through book sales. To do that you have to engage with your readers in some way or another.
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Decent playing time. Challenging to beat each level in gold time. Interesting setting. Nice House-restoring mini-game.
Not much depth or variety. Graphics are a bit bleak. Controls are a step back for this genre. Lacks proper tutorial.
In Rescue Team, players rebuild three islands that have been hit by a terrible storm by repairing houses and facilities, removing debris, and performing other helpful tasks. At its heart the game is very similar to My Kingdom for the Princess and its ilk, just transferred to a modern setting and with less charm or strategic depth.
Rescue Team features 60 levels scattered over three different islands. There is only one mode in which you can finish levels with gold, silver, or bronze scores depending on your time, and with those scores and the resulting money you can reconstruct your own home that has been damaged by the tornado, too. The game lacks a proper tutorial, which won't be too bad for people who are already used to this type of game, but beginners might have serious problems to get into it. At least it's not really possible to fail, so if you don't care that much for the full restoration of your home you can take as much time as you like for each level.
Each level consists of a few goals and presents slightly varying maps to the player. It could be that you have to save villagers by boat or helicopter, collect gems, or to repair certain structures. All these goals can be supported or fulfilled by your staff, the members of the rescue team, which simply replace workers from similar titles. For nearly every action that you let your workers perform a resource is needed, but in most cases you will also get a different resource in return. Those include gold, wood, and food, neither a very complex nor a very innovative mixture, but it still works.
Most of the times you have to remove debris from the streets, rebuild structures such as houses (which produce gold), sawmills (which produce wood), or hot dog stands (which produce, you guess it, food), or free workers who are trapped behind large rocks by collecting and using dynamite. Villagers can be saved by constructing the helipad or the boathouse and clicking them, which will also cost a good chunk of your gold reserves. Fires can be extinguished in a similar manner. Rescue Team also features bonuses that can be collected and will provide different results, such as a quicker produce of a specific resource or speeding up your staff members.
Compared to My Kingdom for the Princess or Roads of Rome, Rescue Team feels pretty light when it comes to presentation and diversity. The maps have a rather cartoonish look but are not very detailed or vibrant. The same can be applied to the goals – pretty quickly you will feel like doing the same over and over again, and the initially steep but later on stagnating grade of difficulty does not really help there.
Another aspect which restricts complexity and playing fun is that you are not able to upgrade buildings or hire new workers. Furthermore you are not able to chain actions, so you are mostly waiting for your workers to return to the headquarter to give new orders. Flawed controls and too simplified gameplay certainly do not warrant a recommendation for any game normally, but the otherwise smooth gameplay and the motivation to beat every level in the shortest amount of time prevent Rescue Team from being a real dud.
The game is a solid addition to the genre, although it's by no means the best in its class. The graphics are far from outstanding, and the variety of goals, features and level design is very restricted, but for fans of an under-represented genre it is still worth a shot due to its challenging nature and the decent playing time.


Friends often seemed slightly surprised that my tour of Latin America included a tiny island way out in the Pacific Ocean, 2000km from the nearest landmass, and only 25km long. Easter Island (or Rapa Nui to the locals) is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, but it is part of Chile, and the main way to travel there is a five hour plane ride from Santiago on the mainland. I knew I couldn't possibly travel all the way to Chile without making that extra little hop to a destination right at the top of my bucket list.
When I talk about my highlights of visiting Easter Island, there's really only one place I can start. Some tourist sites are so photogenic, so iconic, that when you see them in real life, they're kind of disappointing. This is absolutely not the case with the Maoi, Easter Island's resident carved stone figures. Scattered across the island, some are falling apart, jutting out of the landscape at strange angles; some are perfectly preserved, standing proudly and watching over the locals and tourists; and some are lying down, broken in half, like fallen soldiers. Whatever state they are in, it's hard to describe how impressive they really are.
Although I saw maoi all over the island, it is hard to beat the site of Ahu Tongariki, a site where 15 maoi stand to attention in front of a beautiful ocean backdrop. Here, the stone heads reminded me of the guards at Buckingham Palace; as tourists flocked to take photos, they stood there, stoic, unamused, silent.
Ahu Tongariki is the most iconic site on the island, its image adorning a thousand postcards, but there are plenty of other maoi worth exploring on the island. One of my favourite areas was the beautiful Anakena beach; pristine white sand, palm trees, clear blue sea, but, as you can see, this is a Pacific beach with a difference.
One of the most fascinating sites on Easter Island is Rano Raraku, a volcanic crater turned quarry. Here, I learned about how the maoi were built, and how they arrived at their final destinations nearer the coast. The stone heads were carved directly into the hillside, complete with bodies, before being gradually chipped away and moved down the slope with an intricate pulley system. To believe that the residents had the patience and the technology for this nearly 1000 years ago is quite astounding.
To learn a little more about how the Rapa Nui residents lived, I visited the sacred site of Orongo, the remains of a village that was home to 'the Birdman cult'. Each year men from the village would climb the sea cliff in a competition to collect the first egg of the sooty tern bird; whoever got that egg first was leader of the village. The site still shows ancient petroglyphs from the people who once lived here.
Orongo was certainly a contrast to how the locals live now. The main place to stay in Easter Island is the capital, Hanga Roa. I say capital, but this tiny town is a little different to the bustling capital cities I encountered during the rest of my time in South America. Hanga Roa has a population of only around 3,000, plus a few maoi overlooking the local residents. It may be tiny, but being based here gives the opportunity to wander the picturesque harbour, pick up some empanadas or cheesecake in one of the local bakeries, or stock up on maoi-shaped souvenirs.
To learn more about the island, I took myself to the Museo Antropológico Sebastián Englert, a small, hidden away museum which is surprisingly informative and well presented for such a remote museum. For anyone arriving on Easter Island and wanting to learn a little about its history, this is a great place to start.
After a few solid days of sightseeing, I walked to Ahu Tahai, a moai sight about a 10 minute walk from Hanga Roa, to watch the sunset. I wasn't the only tourist hunting for a good place to take photos, but as the sun started to slip below the horizon, everyone stopped what they were doing, and watched peacefully. It was the perfect way to end my time on this magical island.
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Bees with backpacks was the first major project for Agency Inside, Intel's in-house creative shop, and it kicked off an impressive, award-winning run. Agency Inside was named AdAge's Internal Agency of the Year in 2017, and it has racked up a number of industry awards as well, most recently for its drone light show at the 2018 Winter Games.
It's not often that a brand–much less one whose business is mostly selling its products to other businesses and not consumers–can create this kind of intriguing, compelling work on a consistent basis.
This is disappointing because in many ways Agency Inside was the model any brand would be smart to emulate. (One could argue it's the polar opposite of, say, Pepsi's in-house effort, which produced the Kendall Jenner debacle two years ago.) It also runs counter to the trend: Overall, companies are embracing internal creative agencies. Back in August, the In-House Agency Forum and Forrester released a survey that said in-house agencies have increased by 52% in the past decade, and that the growth rate has increased from 42% in 2008 to 64% today. Sixty-seven percent of in-house agencies said that they weren't adequately staffed to meet the demands of the business. By that account, Intel should be staffing up, not downsizing.
The company's move follows the departure of chief marketing officer Steve Fund this past May, and then CEO Brian Krzanich's resignation in June over allegations of a relationship with another Intel employee. Robert Swan has been interim CEO while the company looks for a permanent replacement.
Intel seemed to have found the right balance between working with outside agencies and creating its own work in-house, so this scale back should probably give other brands with internal creative ambitions some measure of pause. It certainly won't end the in-house versus external agency debate, but if it does anything, it reiterates that creating compelling, effective advertising at scale–that also makes financial sense–is incredibly tough, whether you're inside or out.


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Countries To Watch Climate Change In Action
Climate Changes Updates March 17, 2014
1.One Solution to Climate Change and Growing Healthier Food Is Right Under Our Feet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbra-streisand/climate-change-soil-carbon_b_4981573.html
2.Study: Rockies' wildflower season 35 days longer from climate change
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-wildflowers-climate-change-rocky-mountains-20140317,0,7192239.story
3.Climate change talk brings chills to Alaska Democrat
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/17/climate-change-talk-brings-chills-to-alaska-democr/?page=2
4.Climate change will reduce crops sooner than expected, says study
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-will-reduce-crops-sooner-than-expected-says-study-1.2575788
5.Congress Just Undid The One Good Thing It's Done On Climate Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/congress-flood-insurance_n_4981226.html
6.White House to host event on climate change resilience
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/201023-white-house-to-host-event-on-climate-change-resilience#ixzz2wHm6LlV1
7.3 Countries To Watch Climate Change In Action
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2014/03/17/3-countries-to-watch-climate-change-in-action/
8. Climate change links started disappearing last year
http://www.news-record.com/news/local_news/article_7119732e-adff-11e3-8fc2-0017a43b2370.html
9. East African countries are dealing with the impacts of climate change
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/17/east-africa-dealing-with-climate-change
10. Wyoming Schools Won't Teach Kids About The Reality Of Climate Change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/17/3412131/wyoming-rejects-ngss/
11. David Moss: Climate change context
http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2014/mar/17/david-moss-climate-change-context/
12. Can the military save us from climate change?
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/03/17/can-military-save-us-climate-change
US college professor demands imprisonment for climate-change deniers http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/17/u-s-college-professor-demands-imprisonment-for-climate-change-deniers/#ixzz2wHqNDlLq
14. Pollution progressively getting worse in Indian cities: UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/pollution-progressively-getting-worse-in-indian-cities-un-climate-change-chief-rajendra-pachauri/articleshow/32211217.cms
15. Strange bedfellows: Climate change deniers, newspapers partner in a FOIA fight http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/michael_mann_versus_the_press.php#sthash.PlUDArLB.dpuf
16. Americans Most Likely to Say Global Warming Is Exaggerated
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167960/americans-likely-say-global-warming-exaggerated.aspx?utm_source=add_this&utm_medium=addthis.com&utm_campaign=sharing
17. Last edge of Greenland ice sheet to resist global warming is now unstable
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1451095/last-edge-greenland-ice-sheet-resist-global-warming-now-unstable
18. Relentless Global Warming 'Scientists' Continue Their Scams
http://blog.heartland.org/2014/03/relentless-global-warming-scientists-continue-their-scams/
19. Cold weather doesn't rebut global warming
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/03/17/-cold-weather-doesnt-rebut-global-warming/6540713/
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Bon Voyage, Bowling Alley
Over 58 years ago, Fair Lanes began construction on a massive new bowling facility on Marshall Avenue in Laurel. And when it opened on February 4, 1961, it was front page news:
That's why it was with some shock and sadness that its abrupt closure earlier this week came with no fanfare whatsoever.
Somehow, in spite of the rise of video game popularity and other entertainment alternatives through the years, Laurel's bowling alley not only remained open—it thrived. In fact, even when Fair Lanes itself went bust in 1995, AMF took over and kept it going.
I've written about what the bowling alley has meant to me before, (see here and here) so I won't rehash too much. Suffice it to say, it was always a very special and familiar place, no matter how much it changed… or how much I changed. It even enjoyed an improbable rebirth in 2014, when duckpins returned to the bowling alley after 25 years.
Learning of its closure feels like losing an old friend. And with Laurel's classic businesses now practically an endangered species, losing the bowling alley is losing a generational icon.
Tagged amf, bowling, duckpins, fair lanes
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Amy T says:
This makes me so sad. I learned to bowl there and it became my happy place. I bowled there 5 nights a week in winter leagues. I went from a 94 average to 181 before I moved to NC in 2006 where they closed the bowling alley!
I was shocked. Looked like it was thriving.
Jack Brady says:
I bowled at original lanes on Rt1 across from Academy Ford. It's owner, Buster Fleester(?) played in a pickup Laurel big band with my father.
With friends we bowled first day at the new lanes. In the last year I took grandchildren to bowl.
The original Laurel Bowlaway! The building is still there at 132 Washington Blvd.
There really isn't anything left of the Laurel I grew up in. No reason to ever go back.
A Final Salute to Shane's | Lost Laurel says:
[…] (and Harley's, previously) was practically an extension of the bowling alley. When AMF abruptly closed the bowling alley last August, it came as a shock to all. It had opened back in 1961, and really never lacked for […]


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Last year in April, I experimented with iOS development for the first time. I have described details in this post. I wanted to spend more time learning iOS application development then, however could not get around to actually doing that till very recently.
First, create a new project in Xcode; select iOS->Single View Application template.
At the end of it, the wizard creates application delegate class, a view controller and a main file (main.m in 'Supporting Files' folder). It also creates a .xib file (also called nib file, because older versions of Xcode used to create this as .nib file), which contains information about UI created for the application. The application delegate class contains an instance of main window (of type UIWindow) and an instance of view controller. The application delegate class is created in the main.m .
Open .xib file, this is where the UI for the application is created. We will embed WebView in the main window. Type 'WebView" in the lower right search box (in 'Objects' panel). Drag 'WebView' from this window and drop it in the main window.
We will have to connect the above variable (webView) to the UI control in the .xib file. Open .xib file and CRL+Click 'File's Owner' icon. On click and hold the plus icon next to webView under Outlet group and drag and drop on the WebView control.
Unlike in other programming languages/frameworks, Cocoa framework hides code to instantiate class associated with UI controls.
Now we can access the instance of UIWebView from the ViewController. Next step is to set URL to be displayed in the web view. Create wwwroot folder under the project folder, either using Finder or console window. Select wwwroot folder in the finder and drop it on the project window of Xcode.
Select 'Create folder reference for any added folder' option.
CTRL+Click on the wwwroot folder in Xcode and select 'New File' option. Select 'Empty' file option and create index.html in the wwwroot folder.
Add some html code in the index.html.
We can now set url of the web view to index.html that we have created. We will do this in viewDidLoad method of the ViewController. Open ViewController.m and modify viewDidLoad method.
Run the application in iPhone/iPad emulator and you will see the content of index.html displayed in the application.
Hey, thanks for these great guides, I appreciate the detail!
I meant add any HTML code that you want to display in your app.
Thanks for posting. However I seem to have an issue with NSInvalidArgumentException.
I think it has something to do with app not being able to find the index.html file. Can you confirm?
Yes, I guess pathForResource method of NSBundle is returning nil when searching for index.html in wwwroot. Make sure wwwroot is in the project folder.
Thank you SO much for taking the time to post this tutorial. Last time I touched xcode was like 7 years ago and I remember .xib files, today (November 2015) there are no more xib file but still your tutorial was pretty easy to follow.


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Daniel Clawson ¡Presente!
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Two aspects of Dan Clawson: As an organizer and teacher, and as the grandparent of Danny.
Left photo: Paul Mange Johansen; right: Laura Clawson
WHEN DAN CLAWSON's sudden death became known, the result was an outpouring of grief, and statements of appreciation. Of course, this is typical when someone dies, but what I read and heard from people are not the usual. A sampling:
• Dan is in my head like no other professor. Because of what he did, not because of anything he directly told me I should be doing.
• Rarely out in front, but always leading from behind, Dan was a mentor and advisor to union members and activists across the country.
• Dan had an ability to understand the context even of things that he wasn't a part of. It's hard to find people to talk about Indian politics with, but after a few sharp questions, within 15 minutes, he would have a great grasp of things. I will miss our talks.
• When I think about two colleagues whose jobs were just saved, that's a testament to Dan. Because he brought me in to organizing, and I taught his way of doing things to my local.
• His voice will always be what political analysis of an organization should be for me. If I can hear Dan say it, then I know it's right.
• A giant.
• No ego, just eyes on the prize.
• I have been trying to live up to his example from the day that I met him. I have not yet succeeded, but I will continue trying.
This was originally posted in the July-August 2019, ATC 201
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Political Activism Came Slowly
Dan Clawson was born in 1948 in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. His father worked for the government and so by obligation was politically unaffiliated, but more or less a conservative Democrat; his mother was more of a liberal Democrat.
Dan's political activity developed slowly. As Mary Ann Clawson, his wife of 50 years stated, "he was always a man of strong integrity who was willing to speak truth to power, but he was not always an organizer."
Nonetheless, when the Marines came to Carleton College in the late 1960s to recruit, Dan and Mary Ann decided to join the sit-in. Later, when they transferred to Washington University in St. Louis, they attended the local SDS chapter, found it sectarian and drifted away. Mary Ann vividly recalled the macho leftism that permeated student politics then.
More significantly, they got to know George Rawick, a professor who became Dan's mentor. Rawick had belonged to a series of socialist groups and had been close to C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman. He was also influenced by his experiences teaching Black autoworkers in Detroit.
As Rawick was writing From Sundown to Sunup: the Making of the Black Community, they read his drafts. The book was based on a treasury of oral interviews collected in the 1930s with formerly enslaved people. As such it was among the first books to present enslaved people as agents in their own history.
During that period, at Rawick's suggestion, they read Capital together.
Studying Power
Dan's dissertation was titled "Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: the Transformation of U.S. Industry, 1860 to 1920" and ultimately published as a book by Monthly Review Press.
Kevin Young, a history professor who as a young scholar followed Dan's work, sees Bureaucracy and the Labor Process as a pathbreaking historical study that shows how work became more hierarchical, bureaucratized, deskilled and degraded — not because bureaucracy and hierarchy were more efficient than prior systems of labor organization, but because those changes enhanced capitalist profits and control.
"While the adoption of new technologies or new systems of labor control such as Taylorism is often attributed to their superior productive efficiency, the book shows that class warfare by capitalists was the real motivation."
Dan went on to analyze campaign finance records of corporate political action committees and interview their lobbyists, producing two books: Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy and Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence.
But Dan's scholarly focus shifted from how elites manage power to how working people can challenge this dynamic.
The Next Upsurge; Labor and the New Social Movements came out in 2003. One of the organizing efforts he analyzed was directed by Jane McAlevey. They stayed in touch over the years and he served on her dissertation committee.
Dan co-wrote Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules with Naomi Gerstel. Based on extensive observation and interviews, they highlighted the differing degrees of control over work hours experienced in the medical profession, focusing on implications of class and gender.
His latest labor-related scholarship, Labor in the Time of Trump, is an anthology of articles. The essays examine vulnerabilities in right-wing strategy and draw lessons from recent organizing efforts.
Activist and Organizer
By 1978, when Dan began teaching at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, there were more possibilities for action.
Dan didn't waste any time. When the graduate student union picketed, although an untenured professor, he picketed with them. He also worked closely with a group of undergraduates to challenge the right-wing character of student government.
While he taught in Amherst, Mary Ann got a job as a sociologist at Wesleyan University. Her focus was mostly on gender and popular culture. (She retired just last year.) They raised a daughter, Laura, who today writes for Daily Kos.
By the 2000s Dan found himself among a critical mass of like-minded professors including Stephanie Luce, Mark Brenner, Eve Weinbaum and Max Page. With the university cutting both faculty positions and their pay, the group got involved in the Massachusetts Society of Professors. Over the years he and Max were elected to office in the MSP, and later, in the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
As faculty and students marched and lobbied the legislature, the group began to see a need for a state-wide group. In 2007, the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts was born. As PHENOM's web page notes:
"It was Dan Clawson … who first pushed the idea of an independent organization that would advocate for public higher education …. When few were willing to talk openly, much less build an organization around the idea of free higher education, Dan was happy to do so …. It has become a mainstream political idea, widely discussed in presidential campaigns, and here in Massachusetts."
Democracy or Backroom Deals?
Along with creating PHENOM, Dan and Max Page developed an interest in a state-wide focus. That had led them to join the MTA Board of Directors. Through this work Dan started to learn of the struggles K-12 teachers were having, especially around high stakes testing and charter schools. As Mary Ann puts it, "this was the beginning of a new chapter in his life as an activist."
In MTA Dan and Max met others who were chafing at the politics of the current leadership. For example, even after the MTA convention passed a motion opposing the linking of students' standardized test scores to teacher evaluations, the MTA Board went along with the policy.
Educators for a Democratic Union, begun in 2012, was the result of these frustrations, and it gained steam quickly when a new outrage came to light.
It turned out that there had been actual secret backroom dealings between MTA leadership and the billionaire-funded "ed reform" group, Stand for Children. It was floating a ballot measure that would tie teacher evaluations to students' test scores and eliminate seniority rights.
Polling data suggested the ballot measure would pass, so MTA leaders responded by giving in to much of what Stand for Children wanted and then announcing victory. They claimed this secret deal had been a necessary compromise to prevent something worse. Fighting back wasn't an option they considered.
Contrast this to the period later on, when Barbara Madeloni won her 2014 campaign for MTA president — recruited by Dan, who became her campaign manager — and EDU began to take seats on the board and committees as well.
A new ballot measure, again funded by "ed reform" billionaires, would dramatically raise the cap on the number of charter schools allowed in Massachusetts if it passed, and polls suggested it would.
No back room deals this time; Madeloni and the new guard in MTA led a fight, teachers went out into their communities and educated, and the measure was defeated by a landslide. Dan's efforts in MTA changed the landscape of the statewide union, perhaps preventing the destruction of the school system in that state.
Madeloni was to win another term, to the shock of the old guard. Then in 2018 Merrie Najimy, an early EDU member, was voted in. All of this happened through the organizing efforts of EDU, with Dan each time devoting untold hours to counting delegates on spreadsheets, meetings, and strategizing. Max Page became vice president.
Mary Ann saw Dan entering a new phase as he went from being such an effective organizer on the outside that he ultimately found himself inside. Yet he didn't stop organizing on the outside. As Mary Ann said, "he managed to reconcile these two ways of operating so they became one."
Within the months before he died, Dan was a key figure in several efforts. UMass Amherst made headlines when a panel was organized in support of Palestinians, including big name speakers: Linda Sarsour, Roger Waters, Marc Lamont Hill, and Dave Zirin.
Under Zionist pressure, the university considered canceling. Some credit Dan's efforts to organize the sociology department to back the event as instrumental in convincing the university to go ahead. Others also credit Dan with jump-starting the effort among Hampshire College faculty and students to come together to save this institution, whose alternative model of higher education is under threat.
Although he wasn't part of the UMass Labor Center's faculty, he played a supportive role, serving on its committees, working with its students and fighting for its survival.
He was talented at stepping up when that was needed, and stepping back when he'd recruited others to take over. As he retired from the faculty, he had many plans, including to devote even more of his time to organizing.
The week he died began with a faculty celebration of his retirement. It was to conclude with a gathering of friends to recognize the occasion. These friends eventually gathered for a very different purpose.
Because of a meeting, he'd put off having an angioplasty, a medical procedure to restore the blood flow through his artery, and suddenly died from a heart attack.
His heart troubles came as a shock to everyone. "He had great cholesterol," said Mary Ann. He biked to work most days, went to the gym when he couldn't, and "walked nine flights up to his office every day." He worked hard, but it was work he loved to do!
A Talented Organizer with a Vision
Dan was a strong supporter of Labor Notes because it reflected his vision of social transformation, and it was his interest in Labor Notes that prompted him to then join Solidarity.
Barbara Madeloni put it well when she wrote: "What made him such a great organizer? Well, he talked to people. When he had a list he called up every person. He asked them questions. He listened. He made an ask: come to a meeting, sign a petition, run for office. And if he wasn't successful at first, he didn't give up hope. He came back, invited you into the movement, and gave you something to do.
So, yes, he did the work. But more, Dan's organizing was sincere. He believed in our collective capacity to build a better world. He acted on that faith with each individual. His was a generous and determined heart. His manner communicated, 'If we have a vision for a better world, we had damn well better be ready to do the work to get there. And, by the way, I have a plan.'"
He was also a loyal friend who used his strategizing ability in support of those around him, so that many came to him for help and advice when facing challenges. And more than one of us admired his ability to work collectively in the kitchen as well as in the realm of political action.
As a friend noted, "We marveled at the ability of Dan and Mary Ann to seamlessly work together to prepare a complex dinner for friends, achieving the benefits of division of labor without property ownership in the product. There should be a lesson for our society from that."
Mary Ann likes to point out that Dan wasn't always an organizer — in a sense, the first person he organized was himself. Then he organized us. Now we must carry on his legacy of organizing without him.
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