Find books, articles, and websites on history teaching, plus resources for lesson plans and activities (primarily for K-12 teachers, with some usefulness at the undergraduate level as well).
Some of the History Librarian's favorite sites for teaching materials!
Award-winning collection of annotated links to history web sites, lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
Large collection of links to history-related resources for teachers and students.
Humanities and Social Studies Lesson Plans from EDSITEment!
Free lesson plans on U.S. History, World History, Native Americans, and more.
Tips, strategies, tutorials, and more for History classroom use of technology such as video, Twitter, PowerPoint, blogs, wikis, cell phones, social bookmarking, and many others.
From the RUSA History Section: "It is our hope that the Guidelines will be used by librarians, archivists, and teaching faculty to guide teaching and learning throughout the undergraduate curriculum."
Though many of the general sites on the left will include content on Texas history, the sites below are devoted solely to teaching the history of the Lone Star State.
Site for locating resources to teach Texas Studies. Includes primary sources; lesson plans; audio-visual materials; staff development; and a lot more. Site also provides an e-newsletter (free subscription) to publicize teacher and student opportunities and promote effective instruction.
DH Box is a tool to help integrate digital humanities into the curriculum. From their homepage: "Setting up an environment for digital humanities computational work can be time-consuming and difficult. DH Box addresses this problem by streamlining installation processes and providing a digital humanities laboratory in the cloud through simple sign-in via a web browser."
From the site: "The History Engine project is first and foremost an undergraduate teaching resource that gives students the opportunity to engage in the process of academic research and share their completed work with their fellow students and researchers from around the country. In this section of the Engine, instructors will find all tools necessary to register to use the site, plan a syllabus, and guide students through the project."
Outlines a learning activity for history students to introduce them to data mining, using https://www.mashape.com/.
"The idea is to present students with a purposefully naive example of data mining, working on the assumption it'll prompt them to critically engage with data mining as a method."
From the LITA Blog, 6 Sep 2016. A great post on creating information literacy learning outcomes for digitally inflected assignments. How do you measure student learning in these types of digital projects?
13 Aug 2018 - "Today I want to specifically focus on the use of data in the humanities classroom—I'll talk about the 'everyday' uses of data we can map data literacy to, and discuss how we can integrate these data skills into a classroom with limited time for hands-on data work."
"When teaching students how to clean data, it helps to have data that isn't too clean already. salty is a new package that offers functions for 'salting' clean data with problems often found in datasets in the wild..."
If you're looking for online primary sources to use in teaching, check out U.S. History Primary Source Collections Online or Texas History Primary Source Collections Online.
Many of these online collections of primary sources also include materials or suggestions for using them in the classroom.


Nestled between lush green mountains and the turquoise ocean close to the southern tip of Africa lies the magnificent village of Hermanus. This is the wine and whales heartland of the beautiful Cape, home to migrating Southern Right Whales and where splendid wines are grown. Read more in our Hermanus Blog and browse through our photo galleries with stunning photos in and around Hermanus.
Spectacular vineyards cover the mountain slopes of the Hemel-n-Aarde valley where local winemakers take pride in in their ability to recreate South Africa's tradition in every drop, while also offering an entirely unique experience. Visit the winefarms and wineries along the Hermanus Wine Route and or Stanford Wine Route for world class winetasting experience. This picturesque village of friendly, welcoming people is centered around the rich history of a fishing community and the gentle giants (Southern Right Whales) of the ocean.
Where did all the penguins go?
We all know that Africa is not for "sissies" and the African Penguin is a perfect example of African tenaciousness. The story of the African penguin is not a good story to tell. This iconic bird is on the brink of extinction. We have lost 99% of our African Penguin population through no fault of their own.
How many Songs can you see in this artwork?
You needn't be a serious birder to recognise the yodelling yelp of this striking raptor. Often described as the sound of Africa, the sound evokes lazy rivers and palm-fringed lakeshores, often in duet with the grunting of hippos. And the bird itself, in its black, white and chestnut finery, is equally unmistakable.
This 1939 Jensen Tourer is only surviving example in the world, and is still running in its complete and original form. It epitomizes the glamour of the 1930s era, the Gatsby days, and indeed the most glamorous actor of this time, Clark Gable, was a great Jensen fan.
Dit is volgens alle rekords is Oom Ben se 1930 Fordjie die enigste linkerstuur 1930 Fordtjie in die land. Oom Danie Loubser was absoluut oortuig daarvan dat die motor vanuit 'n Argentynse vis-fabriekskip in die Gansbaai Hawe afgelaai is.


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Hurtigruten's 'Northern Lights Promise' Ensures Every Cruiser Sees Auroras
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Seeing the Northern Lights, a natural phenomenon created by solar flares striking the Earth's magnetic field—is just one of those life experiences that rightfully deserves a place on any adventure seeker's bucket list. But while it is highly sought after, the colorful light show can be challenging to track down, as the sky must be dark and clear, and the greatest aurora activity occurs in late March and late September, around the spring and fall equinoxes.
So what do you do if, after careful planning and budgeting for what you think is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, the Northern Lights just... don't appear? For those chasing the aurora borealis onboard Hurtigruten Expeditions' latest expedition cruise, you can take a deep breath: there might be a free cruise in store for you.
In what it calls the "Northern Lights Promise," the cruise company says that if there are no "Northern Lights Occurrences" during its 15-day expedition—whose MS Maud will depart from London and stop in Norwegian destinations such as Tromsø, Lofoten, and Narvik—it will give passengers eager to still see the aurora a second opportunity. "A Northern Lights Occurrence is defined as a sighting of the Northern Lights from the ship that is recorded by the ship's deck officers and announced to passengers on board," Hurtigruten states on its website. "An Occurrence can last anywhere from a few minutes to several hours. The deck officers' decision as to whether a Northern Lights Occurrence has happened is final."
With or without aurora sightings, Hurtigruten's Northern Lights expeditions are spectacular. Passengers will enjoy a range of onboard and landing activities and amenities fit for any explorer: expert-led lectures and discussions, photography classes, an opportunity to contribute to research projects via Hurtigruten's Citizen Science Program, shore excursions with the expedition team, and, when you need to warm up, hot tubs and a sauna. MS Maud, which features 297 cabins and three onboard restaurants, also comes with complimentary Wi-Fi, so you never truly have to go off-grid.
Still, Hurtigruten's offer of a free cruise ensures that you're not left disappointed—you're here to see the Northern Lights, after all, and no amount of fun activities can stave off frustration when nature doesn't want to cooperate. However, there are some conditions to consider when booking your free cruise. You can only choose from two classic itineraries, The Voyage North (seven days) and The Voyage South (six days), and you must travel the following sailing season, from Oct. 1 to March 31. Only inside cabins with twin beds are covered as part of the deal, but you can upgrade for an additional fee. Other costs—such as flights, onboard expenses, and excursions—are also not included.
Want to make 2023 one for the memories? There are currently six cruises available to book this year, with departures running from September to December; expeditions start at $5,443 a person.
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To beat the markets you have to be able to see things before they happen!
The average investor is middle age with children with a wife who needs money constantly and a mortgage, and wants to take a good family vacation but cannot. To us family types on budgets, the small-time investor, who thinks buying $2,000 of a company stock can be painful to watch the swings, has found the market illogical, and very strange place full of other investors swimming in this large pool, with people jumping in and people jumping out.
The average investor with a family will tell themselves that we cannot take that the big vacation because we have to worry about the future and our retirement needs. The big-time investors, people who move large swaths of money around – you can watch this in the after-hours market, the big swings that go back and forth and make no real sense to the average investor. That is more like surreal poker game of high rollers playing some kind of game with your money. Hedge fund managers, risk takers, who buy and sell a million shares like I decide what type of eggs to purchase at the super market. Speaking of eggs, these high rollers have nest eggs and can take a good vacation anytime, anywhere when allowed. Me, myself and I must wait years to take a family dream vacation. I must play the game, and roll the dice slowly. To beat the market is in small steps.
In the stock market, the key is to do just that – get out before the storm. One sound thought is to buy Nasdaq Tech stocks when they are 10% down and sell after they go up 20%. Timing is key, and timing the bottom is near impossible to time, but bones rattle and you can feel them rattle, hopefully. As an investor I would tie up my savings / mortgage payments at $1500.00 per stock; and would recoup a 30%, 50% or 100% profit in weeks or months. Thus, making my mortgage payment of $1,956.00 each month. I would profit approximate $400.00 in average per stock, cash in, pay the mortgage and then look for my next ripe stock. You see, stocks are victims of people's fear and they crash in such a manner that they fall well below the value, of which they will soon return.
Buying FTK two years ago at $1.86 and watching it go up and up and up, cashing in twice, buying it again for another ride up. Purchasing IO three years ago at $2.36 and watching it peak at $13.50 (I still own it and never sold it. Am I sucker?) Yes, me the sucker, watch it be at $22.000 one day in two years possibly. Yes, I am a glutton for oil stocks, and oil services. I drive around and all I see are other cars; and the all need petrol. This will not cease, and mankind's reliance on horses was the same – for 3,000 years. Now, when oil crashed to $75 per barrel was another buy opportunity for oil stocks. These OIL stocks from last month's fiasco are driving back up again. When YOKU crashed to $13.78 2 weeks ago, I purchased a bunch at $14.45. Now it's $22.00. Should I sell YOKU before this inflated Chinese stock crashes again? Yes, I will! I still have buy and hold stocks for my three children's custodial fund. I just purchased X at $22.12 ( a no brainer). The lost decade is over. I have cracked the code. There is no charm in losing money, but you can learn a valuable lesson: be careful; it's your money! You want me to teach how to make money off the stock: RTI. Then, tune back in for my next column.


Happy one year anniversary to our father Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Akande Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11. The entire Crew of Breaking News International celebrate with His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll.
Ooni Ogunwusi has proven to the world that he is Oduduwa reincarnate. It is our immense prayer that your majestic and peaceful reign would not cease, couples with your numerous giant stride in just one year. Indeed, Ife is blessed, you are a great king per excellence. We love you Baba.
In just one year, the uncommonly visionary head of Oduduwa race has recorded unprecedented plethora of achievements. Is it the promotion of Culture and tradition or the beautification of our already rustic town or the many empowerment programmes, just too numerous to mention.
Olokun park Scheme 1 & 2, an estate of 500 housing units of different categories along Ibadan road Ile-Ife in the state of Osun that will shelter hundreds of youths.
Multi-billion naira Ife Grand Resort and Leisure outfit which is presently an ongoing project.
N60 million "Olofin Adimula" intercity mass transit geared towards reducing cost of transportation.
One Million Cocoa Trees Nursery For Youth Empowerment, a development which is the first of its kind in Nigeria, with a view to creating jobs for 100,000 youths and the thousands of widows who are victims of the settled communal war between Ife and Modakeke some years ago.
Hectares of cashew plantation in Ogudu, Ile-Ife, Osun State in conjunction with Osun state government and Federal ministry of Agriculture.
First Ife Youth Agro-entrepreneurship Summit, in Partnership with BOI To Train 150 Youths On Agro-Processing.
A unique talent hunt aimed at showcasing authentic tribal music with the aim of bringing forward the latent talent of young Nigerians.
Erecting a Moremi Statue in Ile- Ife: A Symbol of Yoruba Aesthetics, Standing at 45 feet and the third tallest statue in Africa, Moremi's statue of liberty was erected locally by 200 youths and all the materials used were sourced locally from the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.
Ooni's visits to other Obas in and outside the country to show his humility and the need for peace and unity amongst the black people.
Developmental projects he embarked on that even the blind will know Ife is no longer the same.
Various youth empowerment that includes Queen Moremi Ajasoro beauty pageant to mention a few.
Ooni Adimula, he who says you have not done enough is an enemy of God. We are very happy to have you as Oduduwa himself and so is all Ile Ife indigene. Kabiesi kee pe o.Many more years to come on the throne. You have started well. We are behind you.


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Aubameyang goal earns Arteta's Arsenal draw at Bournemouth
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A second-half equaliser from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (pictured) gave Mikel Arteta a point in his first game as Arsenal manager as his side came back from a goal down to draw 1-1 with Bournemouth in the Premier League on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
BOURNEMOUTH – A second-half equaliser from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gave Mikel Arteta a point in his first game as Arsenal manager as his side came back from a goal down to draw 1-1 with Bournemouth in the Premier League on Thursday.
The two sides came into the game in poor form, with Bournemouth having lost six of their last seven and Arsenal only winning once since beating Bournemouth 1-0 at the Emirates on Oct. 6.
Arteta restored Mesut Ozil to the starting line-up and the German forward looked sharp in the opening exchanges, but despite Arteta energetically encouraging his team from the sidelines, they failed to create many chances.
Arsenal's sloppiness was punished when they gave the ball away cheaply on the left wing and Bournemouth sliced through them quickly, midfielder Dan Gosling stabbing home Jack Stacey's centre from close range to give the home side the lead.
The Gunners equalised in the 63rd minute as Reiss Nelson's shot deflected into the path of Aubameyang, and he swivelled to rifle the ball home before a wild celebration with the traveling fans that earned him a yellow card.
Both sides created opportunities in the pouring rain, but neither could grab a winner and the draw left Arsenal in 10th place on 24 points, with Bournemouth four points further back in 15th.


Introducing the hull artwork for Norwegian Encore! Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, the award-winning Spanish artist, created the hull artwork for the fourth and final ship of its Breakaway-Plus class.
Check out the hyperlapse tour of the new stunning Celebrity Edge Cruise ship!.
Australia's summer cruise season is ready for take-off, following a spectacular "touch down" by the international superliner Majestic Princess in Sydney this morning.The largest Princess Cruises' ship ever to visit Australia, Majestic Princess arrived in Sydney shortly after sunrise, sailing into her new homeport along an illuminated runway, created to celebrate her debut on the city's harbour.The newest ship in Princess Cruises' fleet, Majestic Princess is the first international ship to visit Australia for the nation's busy summer cruise season.The 3560-guest ship will be based in Sydney for six months, carrying more than 50,000 Australian and international travellers on 16 different roundtrip cruises from the city.At 143,700 tonnes, Majestic Princess is equivalent in size to 126 Sydney Manly ferries, while her height of more than 68 metres makes her taller than the Sydney Opera House and too large to sail under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
In this video I talk about the 5 things you really need to know about Princess Cruises before you cruise with them.
Celebrity Flora℠ marks an evolutionary turning point in the approach to ship design—creating a sense of being truly immersed in the destination, instead of just visiting it.
In a spectacular display of bubble net feeding, pods of humpback whales seem to be putting on a show especially for guests of the National Geographic Sea Lion.
THE keel laying ceremony for Crystal Endeavor took place on 22nd August 2018 at the MV Werftenshipyard in Stralsund Germany.Crystal Endeavor willbethe world's largest Polar Class ship, featuring 100 suites, six restaurants, and a full-service spa and salon.


[INACTIVE FORUM] Feng's Game - Rest in peace. • View topic - Congratulations to the Winners of the EVOT!
Congratulations to the Winners of the EVOT!
Congratulations to all winners, and a prize shall be coming soon enough~!
Re: Congratulations to the Winners of the EVOT!
But also, congratulations to Khally for running the first successful tournament!
Empath too for streaming and helping out!
Congratz guys! I must of missed it, seeing I had no idea it was running(That's what I get for being in a dead guild :/), but good job!
Wha...? Tournament? Cool (and as always, I missed it). Congratz guys, very nice.
a thanks to all who made it happen, and congratulations to the winners.
It's everywhere on the forums.
Good job guys! I was planning on watching the squad live stream, but I fell asleep before it startet Wish it would be posted on youtube or something Coungratulations on the first successfull tournament!
Mwii wrote: Good job guys! I was planning on watching the squad live stream, but I fell asleep before it startet Wish it would be posted on youtube or something Coungratulations on the first successfull tournament!
It can still be seen here it will be under past broadcasts.


Last week, my youngest turned five. Five. I am still slightly in shock about it. When did that happen? Despite all my pleading for him not to grow, he has. And it seems there is little I can do about that. However, a birthday is good time to stop and wonder at the marvellous person who is being celebrated. My boy is a highly unique individual. How to describe him?
He is extremely curious about things, especially nature. He recently brought me his friend's welly boot, full of water, frog spawn and a large live frog! So I should also add, he is very, very messy! So he relished a 'volcano' at his birthday - very satisfying activity, I must say, for all concerned!
His love of chocolate knows no bounds.
He can happily play for hours on his own, pottering around the garden, building large and elaborate train sets, or engrossed in books. But he adores his brother, leaping on and wrestling with him, with perhaps rather a little too much exuberance. But although, at times, they fall out (daily, probably) he is so funny and irrepressible that his big brother can only roll his eyes, tap his head and say with love, "He's crazy". And truly he is. He knows no fear. Small he may be, but he makes up for it with his dynamic, offbeat personality.
So, here's to five, and all the many, many adventures it will bring us all. Our boy-mouse-dragon has wheels, an accomplice or two, an empty jar, ponds and woods to explore. We can't help but love him deeply.
What a beautiful homage to your younger son.


For over twenty years the Architecture Centre has worked across the South West to engage people in design, architecture and place-making. Here are some examples of our work.
Independent design review for Weston-super-Mare.
Local primary schools explore the heritage, architecture and culture of Bristol city centre.
Shape My City young people make a difference at Asylum Seekers Allotment Project.
A year of celebrations marking the Centre's anniversary in 2016.
The Architecture Centre welcomes families to its gallery and family events.
Exploring city-wide solutions for a sustainable future: a Bristol Green Capital 2015 project.
Encouraging children's creativity through being an Arts Award Supporter Organisation.
Inspiring people to enjoy, learn about and get involved in their local heritage and built environment.
Celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of bridge design and engineering.


Scorpio Sign North Node -- Your Soul Mission and Personal Path to Bliss!
"Follow your Scorpio Sign North Node to Your Internal Bliss!"
For instance, a Scorpio sign north node is paired with an Taurus sign south node because they are opposites. And because they are opposites, they create a clear picture of the dualistic struggle that resides within the Scorpio north node/Taurus south node individual.
This week I'd like to begin with a brief overview of the Scorpio sign north node/Taurus sign south node position.
Fearful of change…stingy…over-values or undervalues self…greedy…retentive…lazy…materialistic…jealous…stubborn…indulgent…opinionated.
The journey from a Taurus sign south node to a Scorpio sign north node will not be easy. But then again, neither is anything else in life that's worth doing or achieving.
Obstacles are just strategically placed hurdles meant to remind us of our inner strength and courage. Therefore, as long as the Scorpio sign north node individual remembers to hold on tight to his willful power, he will make it through the transformation just fine.
The Scorpio sign north node individual has spent lifetimes accumulating and possessing people and things. Somehow the sole ownership of an item made him feel secure and stable. And if he couldn't own it, then he couldn't really enjoy it either.
In the current lifetime, the Scorpio sign north node individual continues to go after collecting all the same things. Yet now, instead of making him feel secure and stable, they begin to way him down like bricks tied tightly to a noose wrapped around his neck.
•	Go through a 360 degree transformation of his life in hopes that he will finally be able to see himself at the deepest levels of his soul.
Having said all that, it might not be such a bad idea for him to surround himself with people and symbols that can support his journey.
By surrounding himself with people who understand and symbols that exude the Scorpio energy, he ensures his own destiny by keeping his soul mission and path to fulfillment consistently in front of his eyes.
Now, if you're reading this article and it's your mate that has the Scorpio sign north node, and you do that for your mate, well...that's about the greatest gift that you could ever give him/or her.
Julia Simkin is the co-founder of romantic-ideas-for-life.com Always in search of the yet-to-be-discovered, Julia strives to offer her readers inspired ways of looking at both love and life. An Aquarian visionary of both mind and spirit, Julia is a facilitator for those seeking a different truth and deeper meaning. To learn more about your soul mission, go to Julia's North Node Chart to find your north node position or directly to the Scorpio North Node Page if you already know that your north node is in the sign of Scorpio.


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01/2019: Johannes Scheller starts to work on his PhD thesis.
11/2018: Santiago Lopez joins the group to work on his Bachelor Thesis.
11/2018: Margherita Ghezzi joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
10/2018: Johannes Scheller successfully completes his master thesis.
10/2018: Duc Ninh Le (Inst. for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education, Quy Nhon, Vietnam) is visiting us with financial support from the DAAD .
07/2018: Michael Hirt successfully completes his Bachelor Thesis.
07/2018: We receive support from the BMBF for the project "Präzise Simulationen für Prozesse mit massiven Bosonen am CERN Large Hadron Collider"
07/2018: Matthias Kesenheimer successfully completes and defends his Ph.D. Thesis.
06/2018: Maria Vittoria Garzelli joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
03/2018: Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham) has received the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award; see also the announcement issued by Durham University. He will visit Tübingen and work with us on improving our understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking in the light of latest results from the Large Hadron Collider.
12/2017: Michael Hirt joins the group to work on his Bachelor Thesis.
10/2017: Julien Baglio receives a visiting Senior Fellowship from the University of Durham for a 3 months stay in the UK.
10/2017: Gabriele Coniglio joins the group to work on his Ph.D. Thesis.
08/2017: Johannes Scheller successfully completes his Bachelor Thesis.
03/2017: Johannes Scheller joins the group to work on his Bachelor Thesis.
03/2017: Gabriele Coniglio successfully defended his M.Sc. Thesis in Italy.
02/2017: Lukas Salfelder successfully completes and defends his Ph.D. Thesis.
02/2017: Junya Nakamura joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher supported by a fellowship of the Alexander-Humboldt Foundation.
12/2016: Robin Sellnow successfully completes his Master Thesis.
10/2016: The COST network action Vector Boson Scattering Coordination has been approved and will be funded by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Our group is part of this newly created network.
09/2016: Juraj Streicher joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
04/2016: Erasmus student Gabriele Coniglio joins the group to work on his Master Thesis.
04/2016: Christoph Borschensky joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
03/2016: Anton Stoyanov joins the group to work on his Ph.D. Thesis.
15/12/2015: Science Pub at Cafe Haag -- Barbara Jäger will talk about "Die Entdeckung des Higgs-Bosons: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte" (in German), event starts at 7pm.
10/2015: The Carl Zeiss Foundation is supporting the Kepler Center at the University of Tübingen to perform research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics.
10/2015: Matthias Kesenheimer receives a PhD Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation
09/2015: Robin Sellnow completes his Bachelor Thesis "Slepton pair production at colliders"
07/2015: We receive support from the BMBF in the framework of the project "Physics at highest energies with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC"
05/2015: Sally Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory) has received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. She will visit Tübingen and work with us on improving our understanding of the recently discovered Higgs boson in the light of latest results from the Large Hadron Collider.


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Night Strangers
by Chris Bohjalian
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous?
The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.
The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.
From the Hardcover edition.
CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Secrets of Eden, and Skeletons at the Feast. His novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and two of his novels have become movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
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Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" Video
Late Saturday night while waiting for Erykah Badu, who's known as @fatbellybella on Twitter, to hit the stage at Good Units, I began tweeting and looking for updates. There were a flurry of messages about her new video for "Window Seat." Vulnerable. Intimate. Provocative. Butt-naked were tweeted and retweeted. I gotta admit the butt-naked part threw me off. Was the video a mile-high romp with her baby daddy, Jaye Electronica, all while sitting in her window seat? I had to know. On Sunday I watched the video with a friend. Her first reaction: "Why did she have to get naked?" Stunned, my response was why not? I thought she was making a point. If you haven't seen the video here's the lowdown (via MTV.com):
With an explicit nod to Matt and Kim's "Lesson Learned" video– in which the duo strip in the middle of Times Square — Badu sheds her clothing while walking through downtown Dallas in her clip. Almost as soon as she is totally nude, Badu is shot in the head, falling near the same grassy knoll (Dealey Plaza in Dallas) near where President Kennedy was shot in 1963. Instead of blood, animated words that spell out "groupthink" leak from her head on the sidewalk. Then Erykah in voiceover says: "They who play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they don't understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel more comfortable in groups, less guilt to swallow. They are us. This is what we have become, afraid to respect the individual."
Watching the video I immediately thought of judgment and how quickly we project our assumptions onto people based on what they wear, how they walk, etc. Emerging from her white caddy in a Black Burberry trench and shades, Erykah looks like she's flossin on some discreet celebrity ish. Then she takes off her coat and shades and she's in a purple hoody, seemingly on some hiphop, thug tip. With each layer removed the assumptions can and do change. Who is this woman? Is she cool? Is she a thug? Is she a slut? By the time Erykah is sashaying in her drawers, folk wondering is she crazy? She is evolving and so are our perceptions of her. Fact: We are quick to judge. We are quick to classify and box someone, esp women, with a label. In the video I saw her as liberating herself of judgment, of inauthenticity and of those labels. It's bold and brave. I know clothing, or should I say the need to be in style, can be oppressive. As a child, my mom would make most of my pants. My friends teased me: "Homemade high-waters." This was the beginning of my group think assassination. One summer I didn't have the cool, name-brand sneakers my daycamp buddies sported, so they taunted me about my skips singing, "Skip, skip, skip to my lou." Groupthink again. Janelle Monae finds uniforms an equalizer and Badu sees freedom in her birthday suit. But nudity is a touchy subject on these here American shores. It's disgraceful, nasty, pornographic and definitely not ladylike, which is funny cuz we are born naked, we bathe in the nude, we make love & bring forth life naked. All of these beautiful, essential acts are done without clothing. In parts of Africa, Central and South America it is nothing to see women walk around topless. It is natural. Beauty. Here it is hedonistic. X-Rated. I found it interesting that Badu's exposed booty didn't cause much of a ruckus there at the grassy knoll. Probably says more about media's damaging effect on our nervous system and how dulled our senses have become to erratic behavior, nudity and public antics especially when a camera is in tow. Erykah Badu butt-naked in a music video! The Black body as a site of resistance! The Black female body as entertainment– as objectified pleasure! Is Badu just another jiggling Black as$? By the time the dust settles on this video, yeah probably. But she is in control of her strut, of her own spectacle and of her body in a way that I also think is defiant and evolutionary. My friend Greg said, "Free your mind and your assassination will follow." I concur.
At the same time I ain't no dummy. I know Erykah is about to drop a new record and Baduizm is in the air. First it was headwraps and incense, then it was the big-afro and now it's blurred-out booty. This is also an ingenious maneuver to sell more records. No doubt. Controversy equals more press, more exposure and therefore a better Billboard charting. D'Angelo did it in 2000 with his video for "Untitled, How Does It Feel." I am acutely aware of how the concept of artistic expression undermines and how it legitimizes. My girl and I talked about this mural and she felt it promoted stereotypes. I argued that it was art and above such negative proponents. Now I see how the term "artistic expression" validates and even elevates. Honestly it's hard for me to think of art as disparaging. I just see it as an attempt to press buttons, which I think is good. Sharpens those dulled senses. Anyway I've said a lot. Too much. Tell me what you think. I need to know!
Check the video below (remember it contains nudity):
Tags: Erykah Badu, Good Units, Matt and Kim, Return of the Ankh, Window Seat
14 Responses to "Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" Video" Comment RSS feed
Aissata
I love this video! I think it's beautiful, bold and artistic. Bravo Erykah… respect!
I agree with you 100 percent! This is truly an artistic piece. Love it!
Yes, the vedio is shocking in it's provacative nudity in broad daylight. The folks on the street seemed uncharacteristically calm. Were they planted?
After witnessing a brutal beat down of a Nigerian young women and her boyfriend on 8th Ave & 122nd St in Harlem last Friday night by a gang of female teenagers; young 14, 15. She was on vacation, not even living here. I have to say the gang culture, the moving in pack culture is live and in effect in the 'hood. What I witnessed was savage, the lowest expression of humanity. And, it was African American youth randomly terrorizing a couple who were vunerable; arguing.
What I took away from the vedio was the importance of critical thinking and humane self governance. Lastly, her body is banging and I would rather see it in that forum than XXL!
March 31st, 2010 6:35 am
I always respect anyone who keeps you talking and guessing. Ms Badu
has always been able to do that with each project. Hey no one is talking about Lady Gaga video – she was nude as well.
nice piece mis hotness. x
Sweetilocks
March 31st, 2010 1:23 pm
I agree with you all the way. It's amazing how no one says anything about all the video chicks who strip for rappers on a regular basis. But when a woman owns the rights to her own nudity and exposure and chooses to show it, she's somehow disturbing others. Americans are some of the biggest hypocrites when it comes to sexuality and body image. We spend billions on porn and yet we can't take a woman walking naked down the street! Grow up people! I think she absolutely liberated herself. What's worse is people are saying she desecrated the memory of JFK by shooting the video at that site. Any excuse to call black people racist will do, I guess, lol. Thanx for the enlightenment Ms. Hotness!
Bilqis
I loved it. Ms. Badu has been constantly evolving and finding her way musically and personally and I'm feelin it. I don't always get her but I respect her journey and if she needed to get butt ass naked to continue on her path then so be it. And she looked good doing it!!
theHotness Grrrl
@Monique: Your story of that sister being mobbed and beat came to mind when I started thinking about groupthink. Between the tea parties and their racist responses to health reform, Sarah Palin and general gang violence, groupthink is alive and well.
The following quote by Erykah Badu in yesterday's Dallas Morning News:
Were you afraid of the immediate reactions from folks?
Yes. I was petrified, period. The whole thing was frightening. The whole idea was frightening. Not being in love with my body, not being secure about being vulnerable, the police coming to take me to jail. I'm breastfeeding right now. Anything I could think of, I did. But those little things diminished as I thought about the big picture. And, as I started to walk, I confronted a lot of fears, and I hoped that it would encourage others to do the same thing in their own way.
This is an interesting comment that Erykah retweeted:
@Choc0lateKiss @fatbellybella now half the "groupthinking" fools all are groupthinking into believing this was more than selling a record or for attention!
And oh yes, thanks for all of your responses!!! When you blog its like writing in the dark. Grateful to hear so many insightful views from so many!
It was a really good point that you made about Erykah stripping away her layers of clothing/identity and what each layer evokes. I'm still a little ambivalent about this video (I dug the nudity but really resented the trivializing violent act at the video's end)
Girrrrrl, I must say that this video had my mind veering between two extremes of "manipulative! there she goes sellin that ass for publicity" and "god, what courage! such a timely statement she's making"
And then I thought back to a summer day a few years back when I lay topless on a beach for the very first time. Chile, my heart was pitter-pattering like a go-go beat in my chest at first! I worried about some lecherous passerby leering at me a sexual object, or some random person looking at me disapprovingly.
But then came to me a profound revelation.. "so the fuck WHAT? It's HIGH time to challenge those shaming inner voices, tell those suckers to quiet down. This is MY body, this is MY experience inside of it. The fear gave way to a powerful sensation that I was returning ownership of my body to myself. And my boobs were really thankful for the warm sunshine!
I still question her intentions a little but I think that the video worked its intended magic. Good essay lady! Thanks for the brain food!
Shawn P
Great post. My first guy reaction was that I loved the video. Like you said, "why not." I'm tired of the typical and I applaud Erykah for stepping out. It was a great publicity stunt that worked!
R. Cole
April 1st, 2010 2:36 pm
I think its interesting that people who liked the video are focused on the nudity and people who didn't seem to like the video are focused on nudity. Group Think seems to be an afterthought. I don't know how I feel about the video yet–I have a hard time separating the artist from the individual; should they be separate entities? I don't know Badu personally-so I suppose that is unfair.
There are times in the video when Badu looks around before removing her clothing…she appears to be somewhat considerate of a mother and her child in the vicinity…she also runs once she is "liberated" then drops to the ground. Why run if that is who you are, why fear? Aah to feel liberated I guess the process of evolving from Group Think to individual. Badu is definately an artist lyrically/musically, she is conscious so awesome but is the video artistic replicating the assassination of JFK? Does the nudity make it artistic or is it to much of the focal point and taking away from the message? Why does someone so conscious and artistic have three different baby daddys–that is very judgmental of me, it could be for a very good reason; I like that Badu makes me non-judgmental it can happen to anyone. Badu makes me think–see varying perspectives but remain steady with my third eye open. (I digress). I think I have to say that I like the video but Erykah Badu, the artist didn't need to get naked to enforce her artistic expression of individualism and spread it or did she? I would have gotten the point if she had stopped at her drawers and jumped into some water–the nudity de-emphasizes the more important message of the song, "One should be themselves, there is already one of everyone else" (Oscar Wilde) The irony of Badu is mind boggling and so I think I like the video to a point just because of its effect that's Baduism.
Fanon Wilkins
Wow what a wonderful piece. I think that families and friends should get naked, watch this video, discuss it for 9 hours in a cypher, and post their insights on every social network on the internet. I love the way she sampled the Matt and Kim joint and chopped it up to her liking. The JFK piece was just brilliant. I mean how else do you appeal to the liberalism of CNN and rep your hometown at the same time:) Interesting how her blood remained blue even after it was exposed to oxygen. Hmmmmm? So much to say, so little time at the moment. Bravo to the Hotness Grrrl for putting it down once again. Let's be more fearless and evolve. One.
A. Carter
April 6th, 2010 8:22 pm
@ Anita Bryant: actually the Lady Gaga was attacked for her video, by the "Culture Campaign" (lol @ the very name…) take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kud17cXaajo&feature=fvw
and here is a lil of my thoughts on Badu, much in line with most of you on this page:
if anything i feel her video has been a great help in creating a discussion about these issues, of when IS it the right time to bare yrself, be naked aka VULNERABLE in public, hmmm…How bout NOW. And also is the body really that disgusting and gross as people have commented on here? This is a matter of opinion and i'll leave aesthetics to the individual, but I think the pont gets missed when we get tunnel vision on the fact that she is naked, SHE IS MAKING A PONT! A STRONG ENOUGH POINT WHERE SHE PERSONALLY HAD TO GET NAKED TO GET IT ACROSS, ALMOST LIKE PEOPLE HAD TO MARCH WHEN THEY WHERE NOT GETTING THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS. Now you might say that is no comparison, but please spare me yr rebuttal and first talk to a REAL ARTIST/SPIRITUAL (me being an artist myself) in regards to what happens when you feel the spirit/creative force and what you HAVE to do with that energy, before it turns into dark energy/ destructive…
A question to all of those who said "but wasnt she did against the law…" -WHEN HAS SOMETHING BEING AGAINST THE LAW EVER STOP A REVOLUTION…discuss.


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And then, the Red Hook we knew was gone — Brooklynian
And then, the Red Hook we knew was gone
whynot_31
August 2015 edited August 2015 in Red Hook
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150817/REAL_ESTATE/150819531/developer-of-huge-red-hook-office-complex-seeks-a-partner-with-at
A decade ago, it was some artists and some housing projects.
Then, it was IKEA, Fairway, some artists and some housing projects.
Soon, it will be a massive office complex, a lot of high end residences, a big ferry port, IKEA, Fairway, some artists and some housing projects.
ehgee
Investing $100M into an office development in an area with no subway service would seem ill-advised to me. Dumbo is already a pain in the ass for many commuters, and it has two IND stops reasonably nearby.
mugofmead111
Agreed, @ehgee. That B61 isn't going to cut it.
The ferry will be key.
20 minute peak frequencies and no convenient subway transfer still make for an awful commute for anyone who doesn't live along Kent Avenue or own a bicycle.
I just can't see a company locating here. It'd massively limit the talent pool they can hire from to, at very best, 1/10 of the workers in the metro area. Even if they're in a 'creative field' and many of your employees live in Brooklyn or downtown, there's basically no decent non-bike commute from Crown Heights or half of Park Slope or non-waterfront Williamsburg or Bushwick or Flatbush. Not to mention much of the East Village or the Upper West Side or pretty much anywhere not on the F/G or East River Ferry.
Red Hook makes sense as a quiet, tucked-away residential/industrial neighborhood. Not so much as an office hub.
Imlac
Sometimes developers and companies run their own shuttles to support the investment, though.
For a summer, I temp'd with a firm located in the Bulova watch building in Queens.
It is a weird, out of the way, office park near LaGuardia airport.
They provided regular shuttles from the Jackson Heights subway, and were able to keep the complex full of tenants.
Apparently that whole complex is now worth $30M:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/bulova-puts-headquarters-sale-30m-article-1.1975771
Or approximately 15-20 brownstones.
Whenever I walked into the Bulova building, I felt like I was walking into 1953. The massive parking lot really belonged out on LI somewhere, and was clearly built with the assumption that most employees would drive to work. If buyers can get the zoning to become residential, the complex could host lots of townhomes.
Returning to Red Hook, I think it could work. I certainly look forward to the new fancy tenants futily complaining about the housing projects and waste haulers that have always been present.
I get a weird pleasure from watching people try to create change faster than it is going to happen.
pragmaticguy
Redhook does seem to be out of the way. The cruise ship terminal lasted one season. Princess did a few sailings out of there years ago and it was a bust. And lots of people travel to Bayonne or Manhattan to get on a ship so it's wasn't for lack of passengers.
Pragmaticguy, the cruise ship terminal is still open and operating. They don't do as many sailings as they did the first year, but the Queen Mary continues to call there. It looks like there are about 20 or so ships leaving from Brooklyn this year.
http://www.nycruise.com/schedule/
Red Hook seems like a perfectly natural place for residential, even relatively high end, since people who are fine with bikes/taxis/ferries and want an easier parking situation can choose to live there. It just seems like a big ol' stretch for high-end offices, when locating there excludes a huge proportion of the NYC labor force.
It's maybe not that much crazier than tech firms located in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, but the Williamsburg waterfront is at least a reasonable walk from the Bedford L, which is a couple stops from every subway line in the city.
The same is true of the situation with WeWork trying to develop Dumbo-priced office space in the middle of the Navy Yard:
http://newyorkyimby.com/2015/07/revealed-weworks-16-story-office-building-in-the-brooklyn-navy-yard.html
@ Homeowner---thanks for the correction. Haven't sailed on a Cunard ship in about 30 years so I don't keep up with their schedules. I thought Princess was the only one sailing out of there.
I suspect the present low downtown Brooklyn office vacancy rate plays a big part in this decision.
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/08/20/downtown-brooklyn-office-vacancy-remains-at-city-low-3-4-report/
It's funny, the difference between a store front and an office is one is on the ground floor and one is in a high rise but basically they're the same thing. And we all know how many vacant stores there are so I suspect the vacancy rate might be a little higher than what's being estimated.
So all in all, with all the proposed changes, is there something that we should be missing? I only see a positive impact here.
But I kinda live far from there and only go to the area once in a while for Ikea and Fairway.
It is becoming a nice place to spend an afternoon off in the city.
Its a fantastic outcome for Greg O'Connell. It will be a great thing for those businesses that get waterfront office space. It will be a win for other property owners in the area. Downsides are that the poor people living there are probably going to be forced first out of the Red Hook Houses then ultimately out of the city as a whole. There will be a huge loss of industrial and warehousing space and rezoning to do away with the rest. The overburdened transit that currently serves the neighborhood will be taxed to even greater levels, but Citibike should do pretty well as a result.
I guess it depends on your perspective whether its a good thing or not.
Here are details about the ferry:
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150821/red-hook/citywide-ferry-plan-will-not-integrate-with-mtas-metrocard-for-transfers
http://www.nycedc.com/project/citywide-ferry-service
However, Fairway is not doing well:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150824/BLOGS02/150829951/fairway-is-still-in-the-rough
...If it fails, that would put a damper on Red Hook unless they could quickly find a replacement.
suppleknuckles
i am at once surprised and not surprised at all. on one hand, people act like fairway is mecca, much in the trader joe's vein. on the other hand, i can't believe a fairway would open in literally the hardest-to-access location in brooklyn. Ikea makes sense because it by nature has to be MASSIVE and exceedingly yellow and blue; but fairway? in fact the most recent time i rode my bike to Ikea i was stopped by an older couple in a subaru asking for directions to the Fairway. i had no idea what they were talking about. they were definitely lost and in red hook for once specific reason, as was i
An older couple in a Subaru headed to Fairway makes intrinsic sense.
When Sanba's King & Sullivan Townhouses hit the market one week ago, commenters here couldn't believe that people would pay upwards of $2.5 million to live in "transit-starved" Red Hook. "It's going to be tough for them to move 22 of them at those prices," said Eradicator, and many of those who chimed in agreed. But it looks like they were wrong: According to an update in The Real Deal, 12 of the 22 homes have already sold for an average price of $2.7 million. Elliman sales director Patty LaRocca, who's in charge of the project, said that many of the buyers are coming from nearby neighborhoods (duh), and compared the vibe to "Soho in the 1970s or 1980s,"
according to TRD. "It has that mix of industry and low density and
artists and it's super chill," she said. How multi-million dollar luxury homes fit into that industrial, chill environment remains to be seen.
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/10/02/half_of_red_hooks_new_townhouses_sell_in_just_one_week.php
Offices are different from residential— people can decide to take a $1.5 million discount on a house because they like riding bikes or taking cabs or riding a scooter to the subway (or even... driving a car?!) or whatever they do.
But most people in NYC commute by transit, and it doesn't seem like a great pitch for high-end creative firms to say, 'Welcome, potential employee! Hope you enjoyed your half-hour walk through an industrial wasteland after paying a second fare to transfer from the Q train to the F. If you don't like that commute, you can just buy a car and pay $15 a day to park and spend half an hour circling for parking after you drive home in a big ol' traffic jam. Or wait in downtown Brooklyn for a shuttle bus that comes every 15 minutes except when it gets stuck in traffic— which fortunately never happens during rush hour.'
I'd just bike if I worked there— but a lot of people wouldn't.
Etsy's not-very-corporate founder once wanted to move the office to Red Hook (probably to keep the normals away), but the moneymen wouldn't let him.
You might be able to live in the residential, and walk.
The owner might, but if they wanted to limit their employee base to the tiny subset of artsy types within walking distance (rather than the entire NYC labor market), why wouldn't they locate their company in Rhinebeck or Beacon or something and save an enormous amount of money?
Perhaps the only business I could see this working for would be movie-related offices— they seem to be conventionally located in the ass-ends of the city anyway, and employees seem to be expected to transport themselevs to said locations, and are perfectly OK doing so.
I guess I don't see this place being pitched as being expected to pull full Dumbo market-rate rents— so maybe they're planning on pitching it as cut-rate back-office / creative incubator space? But this seems like an awful elaborate project for that.
I would move to be close to a job I really liked.
Along with Gowanus, of course:
https://www.fsrmagazine.com/new-concepts/chef-sohui-kim-opens-insa-brooklyn
Obligatory article about Red Hook gentrification having pros and cons, and dividing neighborhood residents. http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2016/01/28/red_hooks_long_inevitable_gentrification_divides_community.php#more
Fairway might go under.
Tesla showroom.
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160401/red-hook/tesla-return-red-hook-sign-van-brunt-street


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How to Solve the Voter ID Debate
It's time for Congress to create a federal ID card that would guarantee eligible voters the right to cast a ballot
By Adam Cohen @adamscohenAug. 06, 2012
Killing a Fly With a Bazooka New York Times
Knock the vote Washington Times
In the Jim Crow South, the "Powers-That-Be" had ways of preventing blacks from voting: poll taxes and literacy tests. The Supreme Court and Congress eliminated those obstacles decades ago, but today there is a new way of keeping eligible voters from casting ballots: overly restrictive voter ID laws.
Pennsylvania recently adopted a new voter ID law that critics say could prevent as many as 1.5 million people from voting. A new Texas law could disenfranchise about as many. Eleven states have adopted new voter ID laws just since the 2010 elections. By one estimate, as many as 10% of eligible voters nationwide lack the documentation required by voter ID laws.
There is a simple solution to this problem. It is time for congress to create a federal ID card that would guarantee people the right to cast a ballot.
Election laws and policies are for the most part set by the states. States have traditionally been easygoing about voter ID — and many still are. There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls. One study found that more Americans are killed by lightening in a year than are convicted of federal election fraud.
(MORE: When Voter Registration Is a Crime)
The real reason tough new voter ID laws are cropping up across the country is that they make it difficult for anyone without drivers' licenses to vote — often very difficult. In some parts of Texas, people have to drive 200 miles roundtrip to get the ID they need. In some states, it can cost as much as $25 to get necessary documentation to vote. The state poll taxes that the Supreme Court struck down in the 1960s cost about $10 in current dollars.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic — including blacks, hispanics and students. In honest moments, backers of voter ID laws will admit what they are up to. Last month, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai said that the state's new voter ID law would "allow Governor Romney to win Pennsylvania."
Meanwhile, legal challenges to voter ID laws have not fared well. In 2008, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Indiana's voter ID law. The court said that there was not enough evidence that the law was stopping eligible voters from casting ballots. (A few weeks later, 10 elderly nuns were barred from voting in Indiana because they lacked proper ID.)
(MORE: The New Battle over Voting Rights)
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right — and the national government should protect it. In the Civil Rights Era, Congress took on this role: it passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure that blacks in states like Mississippi and Alabama were able to vote. Now, the federal government should step in and make national voter ID cards available to ensure that voters in states with tough ID laws are not disenfranchised.
The federal government could establish more voter-friendly rules for such an ID. It could ensure that voters do not have to pay for the ID or the underlying documents. These IDs could be dispensed at post offices, which are located in every community. The government could even proactively send them out to citizens when they turn 18.
Not that a national voter ID card doesn't have some potential problems which would have to be avoided. It should not replace state voter IDs — it should simply be an alternative. That way, people who currently have ID that allows them to vote would not have to jump through a new hoop. And national voter ID should not become a mandatory national ID card — something civil libertarians rightly oppose for having police-state overtones. It should be strictly optional.
Voter ID laws that exclude eligible voters have become just another partisan election tactic — like super-PAC fundraising or TV attack ads. That violates one of the most essential principles of American democracy — that, as the Declaration of Independence declares, governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud — they are afraid of democracy.
MORE: Should We Outsource Congress?


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Holger's parents started dairy farming in Agassiz BC in June 1960, after immigrating from Germany. Holger has carried on the family legacy and continues to farm on the same land today. Holger and his family have a strong focus on sustainable growth, and are committed to giving back to their community.
Agassiz dairy farm a model of care for environment, animals, and family
When Holger Schwichtenberg's parents purchased 150 acres of rural land near Agassiz in 1960, they put every dollar they had into creating a dairy farm. His father was a second world war refugee from East Prussia, now part of Poland, his mother from a German family where the oldest son inherited everything.
"My mom and dad left it all behind in Germany for a new beginning," Holger remembers. "They had very little when they started out in Canada, but they had each other, and a Volkswagen Beetle. The sacrifices they made and the hard work they put into establishing our family's farm is something I'm grateful for. That's important to me."
Today, Schwichtenberg works the same land with his family. The farm's a lot different now than it was in the early years, with 157 cows milked by robots in a modern barn complete with curtain side walls that open and close to maximize fresh air and help control temperatures for the herd.
At 60, today he doesn't spend as much time working the farm as he did as a younger man – his middle son Philip and his long-time employee Tara picking up much of the day-to-day work, his wife Catherine and sister Kerstin helping out when he's away from the farm on volunteer work helping shape the future of dairy farming in the province. Schwichtenberg has been a Board Member of the BC Dairy Association since 2014 and Chair since late 2018. He is also involved in the Agricultural Land Commission, and was a District of Kent municipal councillor for nine years prior to that.
He can trace his passion for giving back so much to his parents, who taught him about leaving a legacy and setting an example. For a dairy farm, that example is a comprehensive one that includes stewardship of the land, fostering a positive work environment for employees, community involvement, animal health, and locally-raised food.
"Your farm environment should be about contented animals and contented employees, who are fairly compensated, well treated, and where educational opportunities are encouraged," he says. "I want to lead by example for our three sons. You take care of the environment, you take care of people, and you take care of the cows."
The family built a new, modern barn three years ago and installed milking robots that reduce manual labour while allowing the cows to be milked at times of their choosing. They have also planted native trees and shrubs adjacent to a slough to protect the riparian zones. The Schwichtenbergs worked with the District to install a public walking trail around the farm's perimeter for community use, and have planted hundreds of trees on their land, an undertaking started by Holger's father early in the farm's history.
"This is a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise kids," he says. "It's a legacy mom and dad left me."
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This program was established in 2008 in memory of the Honorable District Judge Michael H. Seibel, who was committed to ending violence against women and children.
The purpose of the Michael H. Seibel Family Visitation Center, also known as Seibel Center, is to preserve parent and child relationships by facilitating access through supervised exchanges and visitations. The central focus is to provide services that centralize safety and provide equal regard for all participants.
We understand that:
Every family will present a unique set of circumstances every time they access services.
Domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, child abuse and stalking are all under-reported in Mower County.
Every adult victim and their child(ren) has a right to safety.
Every individual served has a right to respectful interactions.
On-going multiple-discipline community partnerships provide a framework for systemic change.
Domestic violence is not a family problem; it is a public safety issue.
105 1st Street SE, Austin, MN 55912 (across from the Post Office)
E: seibel@prc-austinmn.org
HOURS OF OPERATION Monday to Sunday, 9am-8pm
OFFICE HOURS Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm
Most visits will be schedule for one-two hours depending on court orders and personal circumstances.
Multiple Family Individual Visits are visits in which there is more than one family in the Center at one time. Each family has their own designated supervision monitor. The maximum number of families in a multiple family individual visit in the Center at one time is three.
Individual visits are supervised visits in which there is only one family in the center at a time. The visiting family will have a supervision monitor.
Exchanges occur when a child transitions from one parent to another through our exchange hallway.
All parents, both custodial and non-custodial, must schedule and attend an orientation. Orientations must take place in person and will take approximately an hour. During the orientation you can expect to:
Tour the facility and learn about the Seibel Center
Discuss safety issues
Review "Conditions of Visitations/Exchanges" and "Recommendations for a Successful Visit/Exchange
The Seibel Center charges a sliding fee based upon an individuals' gross income. In most cases, the courts will assign a percentage of responsibility and in that absence, parties will be assigned a 50% split of fees. All fees will be prepaid.
In 2021, half of our program participants indicated that conflict with the other party decreased since utilizing our services.
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Q: Force BSOD in VBS So, I'm trying to create a script for a YouTube video, and I want to force a BSOD using vbs or batch without killing any processes. Could I just call some kind of BSOD process?
Trying to kill csrss.exe freezes the system for about 10 seconds before BSODing. I want an instant BSOD.
I actually have no idea how to do this code, so that's why I'm asking for code, or at least a little hint

A: Causing a BSOD on demand without controlling a device driver (which requires the WHQL logo) and without smashing with cess is not possible to my knowledge as that would mean that the operating system is bugged. You can force a BSOD by enabling the manually imitated crash feature. The feature is designed to stimulate a bug in a device driver to dump the kernel in order to take the crash dump and perform part morten analysis.
In vbs it should be
WshShell.SendKeys "^%{F12}"

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sd02:161950s - We see how plastic wrap is used to protect food which is soon to be served as well as that which will be stored in the refrigerator.
hd00:33Fresh carrot juice pours of juicers in a glass on the table. Freshly squeezed juice for breakfast. A glass of vegetable juice with a juice extractor.


Hello! Welcome to Manila Spoon! Thanks for dropping by.
is truly wonderful because of them.
ManilaSpoon came into being due to my desire to have all my favorite recipes be compiled into one easy to access file. Having it all online not only makes it so convenient to find them (gone are the days of looking for the scraps of paper where I have written the recipes!); it is also a lot easier to share them with friends.
So how did my love for cooking begin? Not naturally. Not right away. Truth is, I had to learn to cook out of necessity. As anyone familiar with the Philippines would know, when you grow up with a maid, oftentimes you never learn the wonderful art of cooking. Back then, I always knew that when dinner's on, the food would be ready at the table, often prepared by anyone in the house but me. I did dabble a bit on cooking after college but never really pursued it passionately.
Thankfully, the kind folks who help us settle in Grand Rapids gave us a copy of an American cookbook as a welcome present. Perhaps they sensed our predicament. That began my love for cooking and anything that has to do with food.
I learned to cook initially by following recipes to the letter but, eventually and more extensively, through trial and error. The results of my culinary adventures are shown in manilaspoon.com, which is simply a collection of recipes which my family have tried and enjoyed through the years.
I love to blog because it's my 'creative therapy' allowing me to put into words and pictures things I enjoy and have passion for. So I do hope you enjoy reading the posts as much as I enjoy writing them!
If you wish to follow the posts, do join our site and like us on Facebook. Thanks again for visiting!
Hi, I really enjoy reading your blog. it is really great! Your recipes sound delicious and your photos are beautiful!
Thanks for dropping by! You are so kind! Glad to have discovered your lovely blog too!
Nice to meet you! Found you on Blog Hop! Lovely family.
Thanks for visiting! Glad to meet you as well!
Hi Abby! So glad I found you at Ellen B Cookery's Blog Hop.
I still need to read more about it and join in.
I love finding fellow filipino bloggers esp. a fellow Michigander too.
Thanks for dropping by Kabayan! Glad to meet you too! Now, at least that silly mistake led to something nice. 🙂 Thanks for visiting!
First time here in your blog =) I enjoyed browsing around.
This is the first time I visited your site. Very nice food blog you got going here. May you have more success on what you're doing. Have a blessed holiday to you and your beautiful family.
Hi Ray! Thanks for your kind words! Glad to meet you and appreciate you stopping by!
What a beautiful family! I am so glad we have connected on facebok. Lovely blog!
Thanks, Marie for stopping by! Equally glad to have met you!
Hi! Its Kristen from make the best of everything! I was just reading through your about me. I went to cross country camp at Hope College when I was in high school ( 12 years ago now). I love Holland. Such a pretty area!!!!
Hi Kristen! Glad to meet you and what a small world! I know, Holland is a lovely town for sure. Of course, we love Hope College too! Thanks for stopping by!
You have a beautiful family and and beautiful photos. Just discovered you through Cynthia at What a Girl Likes to Eat blog. I'll have to explore your site to learn more, but I already like what I see. Good job on everything and Happy Holidays!
Thanks, Nancy! Glad to meet you as well. Happy you have discovered our little blog. Hope you enjoy your time here. Have a blessed holiday season too!
loved reading your blog! 🙂 Your family picture is lovely! and the food pics are so inviting!
Hi Ashima! So lovely to meet you too and glad you found us. Hope you enjoy Manila Spoon! Merry Christmas too!
You have a wonderful website and more than that you have a lovely family. God bless you and your family.
Thanks, Rogers! Glad you came and visited us too!
Hi Abby, I just found your blog through someone's post of FB, the name of your blog caught my eye since my great-grandfather was from the Philippines too I wanted to try some recipes from my ancestors. By reading your page I also found that you live in Mi, and so do I, lol..what a small world. I'm in Detroit. I just started blogging a few months ago and would love for you to stop by my blog and check it out and give me any suggestions on food photography love yours! I now subscribed to your blog and I'm following on GFC! Have a great weekend!
Thanks, Lizy! What a small world! Glad you came by and thanks for joining us! Will check out your blog after this.
Lovely to meet you, Abby. Glad to find your Manila food blog. I look forward to your recipes ! Mabuhay!
Thanks, Betty! So delighted that you stopped by. Lovely to meet you, too!
Thanks, Tina! That's so very sweet of you. So glad you found us. Welcome to Manila Spoon!
Thanks, sis Imelda! Yay! So happy we connected. So glad to meet you.
I am enjoying your blog, Abby. Your recipes look delicious and your photos are lovely. I learned about your blog through Florence post in the sorority page. I am glad to meet a fellow blogger sis. 🙂 I am from batch 88-B. I hope you win.
I'm very much excited to taste all your stuff when you visit us again here in the Philippines. Hoping to see you soon!!!!
I found your blog via internet search for Filipino food pics. Thank you for sharing! The recipes and food pics look yummy!
Thanks, Dagmar! So glad you found us. Hope you find the site helpful and visit us often.
Hi! I found you just looking and blog hopping :o) Nice to "meet" you here. I noticed on your sidebar the comment of the Avocado milkshakes :o) (My mom is from the Philiipines and married my dad who was stationed there while in the Air Force. I have grown children and one sweet grandbaby, so many years have passed ;o) Hope you get a chance to stop by my "place" in blogland. If you do, please let me know by leaving a comment.
Glad to find your site! Thanks for sharing your great recipes!
Thank you for your very kind words DW! Appreciate your support!
Hi Abby, I love your website specially the personal touch of this about page. Let me help you generate more followers by sharing your adobo recipes on my 8,000+ fans at http://www.facebook.com/adoborecipes. God bless you more and your family.


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Trio Tapestry
Joe Lovano
Friday February 01, 2019
From The Big Takeover
Joe Lovano – Trio Tapestry (ECM)
By: Michael Toland
Veteran saxophone player Joe Lovano is one of the most acclaimed and beloved horn wielders in jazz, and no wonder: with his work with Woody Herman, John Scofield, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell and Paul Motian and countless others, not to mention his own long series of LPs as leader, he's had a large hand in defining late twentieth century postbop. For Trio Tapestry, his debut for the venerable label ECM, he enlists pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi for a more meditative program than we're used to hearing from him. Working with less frenetic tempos and floating melodies, the saxophonist digs deep into the tracks, exploring their nooks and crannies instead of using them for takeoff. In the vein of Lovano's old bandmate Motian, Castaldi doesn't so much set the rhythms as imply them, while Crispell wanders across her keyboard with intent. Lovano slips into the quiet storm like a dancer, finding the core of his sidefolks' swirl and bringing it to shimmering life. The beauteous 'Seeds of Change' and 'Razzle Dazzle' and tension-filled 'Spirit Lake' and 'Rare Beauty' showcase the trio's telepathic interplay and sublime taste, while 'The Smiling Dog' and the self-explanatory 'Piano/Drum Episode' and 'Gong Episode' indicate a goofy sense of humor. But 'Mystic' may be the album's heart. Barely accompanied by Castaldi, Lovano pushes the top of his horn's range high up in the ether, like he's eager, but not desperate, to touch the divine.


These knock-in mice express EGFP from the endogenous X-linked Cxcr3 gene. They may be useful for tracking Cxcr3-expressing immune cells during infection and disease progression.
In this CIBER strain, an internal ribosome entry site (IRES), an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), and bovine growth hormone polyadenylation sequence were placed downstream of exon 2 of the X-linked chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 3 (Cxcr3) gene. Homozygous females and hemizygous males are viable and fertile. Cxcr3 encodes a chemokine receptor involved in immunity, autoimmunity, and progression of diseases such as cancer, and atherosclerosis. In these CIBER mice, GFP fluorescence is seen on activated Th1 cells, CD8+ T cells, NK cells, NKT cells, natural regulatory T cells, as well as innate CD8+ T cells.
C57BL/6-Tg(Zp3-cre)93Knw/J transgenic mice (Stock No. 003651) to delete the neo cassette. Offspring were crossed to remove the Flp-expressing transgene. These mice were bred to C57BL/6 mice for at least 10 generations (see SNP note below). Upon arrival at The Jackson Laboratory, mice were bred to C57BL/6J (Stock No. 000664) for at least one generation to establish the colony.
A 32 SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) panel analysis, with 27 markers covering all 19 chromosomes and the X chromosome, as well as 5 markers that distinguish between the C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N substrains, was performed on the rederived living colony at The Jackson Laboratory Repository. While the 27 markers throughout the genome suggested a C57BL/6 genetic background, all 5 markers that determine C57BL/6J from C57BL/6N were found to be segregating. These data suggest the mice sent to The Jackson Laboratory Repository were on a mixed mixed C57BL/6J ; C57BL/6N genetic background.
GFP fluorescence is seen on activated Th1 cells, CD8+ T cells, NK cells, NKT cells, natural regulatory T cells, as well as innate CD8+ T cells.
An IRES, EGFP and floxed pgk-neo cassette were inserted in the 3' untranslated region of exon 2. Protein expression in activated T cells from mutant mice is similar to wild-type controls. Expression pattern of EGFP matches endogenous protein expression.
This gene is X-linked. When maintaining a live colony, homozygous females may be bred with hemizygous males.
When using the CIBER mouse strain in a publication, please cite the originating article(s) and include JAX stock #023337 in your Materials and Methods section.


The Sopranos and A&E pair up for Suitcase of Cash, an intelligent though slightly labyrinthine campaign that aims both to court interactivity and get people more involved in their advertising (rather than having them turn in a bunch of manic self-aggrandizing homemade videos).
The game coincides with the January 10 premiere of the show and recalls McD's annual Monopoly contest, though it makes better use of multiple media. Users collect game pieces to arrange on a virtual gameboard.
The game pieces are banner, print and outdoor ads, which can be photographed and uploaded, then mailed to an address that uses military face recognition (kind of like MyHeritage?) to ID the piece in the photo. For online ads, users just need to click, which we're sure will generate higher numbers for everybody's media kits this year.
Our heads are spinning but it sounds like fun and a $100,000 grand prize ain't small pickin's. It would be awesomer still if there was an Assassin twist to it - knocking people off and taking their game pieces would be right up our alley and even better for the Soprano's tie-in.


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Saskia van der Kam is a specialist in nutrition from the Netherlands that is currently working in the Public Health Department of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She has more than 25 years of experience engaging with various organizations that distribute emergency aid to developing countries, and often during crisis. She completed two research Masters, one in Human Nutrition in the Netherlands and the other in Epidemiology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. Her current research focuses on "convalescence feeding" which aims to determine how best to nutritionally support a child that is sick and at risk of becoming malnourished. Nutritional supplementation given during illnesses such as pneumonia or malaria can prevent a child from entering the vicious cycle of malnutrition and disease. Saskia van der Kam also has a strong interest in the psychosocial trauma that is sustained by men, women and children during ongoing crisis and displacement. Her experience and working knowledge of both nutrition and the social difficulties faced by families living in low resource settings will be invaluable to The CHAIN Network.
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I am Nokia fan, bought C6-01 for days, nice screen.
But I couldn't turn on sometimes. Now it is in Nokia Care Center.
hi!, 01 Jan 2011that's why i told u that the price depends on the store..i will certainly not going to buy it ... moreI bought my c6-01 at mega exchange mall of asia..almost all stores from mall of asia are trustworthy cause they also have the limited 1 year warranty at nokia care...now I used my c6-01 net to reply to your comment and they really doing fine..really great phone..I suggest just buy for your own..the price worth it,very great feature inside..happy new year...!
jeezz, 31 Dec 2010no i bought my c6-01 on dec. 26 at mall of asia they cause 17,500pesos the same price to their... morethat's why i told u that the price depends on the store..i will certainly not going to buy it unless the store is trustworthy...from what store did u bought it?
this fon is tha great fon ever..
i buy it since 2 weeks ago...no critical problem at all.
i like to plays HD game,jus find them for free.
Try to buy at ovi store,really cheeps..like asphalt 5 and GT racing Academy HD..jus for RM6.00 per game..
hi!, 29 Dec 2010it's already available in the philippines...price varies on different stores...but the price p... moreno i bought my c6-01 on dec. 26 at mall of asia they cause 17,500pesos the same price to their c7,.. Feutures of this phone so amazing,also its browser and most of all the amoled screen i'm so much enjoyed using it..
can i use 8 gb or 16gb sd card instead of the given 2gb sd card?
Rickley, 30 Dec 2010does any one know what it mean "3D graphics HW Accelerator"Dedicated Hardware Graphic Acceleration chip specially for 3D images and games. Previous phones did not have this. Now the phones can experience pc like graphic acceleration which puts less burden on the CPU.
If nokia would provide 2 gb internal memory rather than memory card.....the ph may b fulfilled.
Go and buy this phone now!!!!AMAZING!!!!
does any one know what it mean "3D graphics HW Accelerator"