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Democratic Party of South Carolina Records
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-DPSC
The Democratic Party of South Carolina Records document the party's efforts at the local, state, and national levels. Headquartered in Columbia, the party's primary purposes are to promote the its interests throughout the state, provide campaign assistance to Democratic candidates for state and national office, and serve as a liaison with the national and local Democratic parties.
Dates: 1924 - 2016; Majority of material found within , 1966- 2008
William Jennings Bryan Dorn Papers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-WJBD
Abstract W.J. Bryan Dorn began his career in public service by representing Greenwood County in the S.C. House of Representatives, 1939-1940, and the S.C. Senate, 1941-1942. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served for eighteen months in the European theater. Returning to his political career in 1947, he was elected to represent the 3rd District in the U.S. Congress and served for thirteen terms through 1974. Dorn was active in the leadership of the South Carolina Democratic Party and...
Henry Eichel Papers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-HE
Description of Materials The Henry Eichel Papers consist of four linear feet split into three series: Persons, Topics, and Photographs.The Persons and Topics series consist of newspaper clippings and notes from stories Eichel planned on writing. The Photographs series consists of mainly headshots of many South Carolinians in the news in the 1970s. Many of the photos have percentages written on the back as...
Doug Mauldin Papers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-DM
This small collection consists of 75 photographs of public figures, including Speaker of the House Sol Blatt, state senator Edgar Brown, Governor Robert McNair, state senator James P. "Spot" Mozingo, and Governor John West. The photos were taken by Doug Mauldin, a South Carolina journalist and photographer who worked for The State, the Greenville News, and the Associated Press, frequently reporting on state government.
Burnet Rhett Maybank Scrapbook
Item — Scrapbook: 1
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-BRM
Charles D. Ravenel Papers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-CDR
In 1974, Charles D. Ravenel, a political newcomer, became the Democratic Party's nominee for governor, but a dispute over residency qualifications kept him off the general election ballot. Campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1978 and for Congress in 1980 were also unsuccessful. However, Ravenel's innovative style and charismatic manner reinvigorated the political system, and his method of using the media as a campaign tool was a first for South Carolina and changed politics within the state.
G. Thomas Turnipseed Papers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-GTT
Scope and Contents The collection series include Public, Personal, Clippings, Vertical File Materials, and Audiovisual totaling 8 linear feet. Public papers document Turnipseed's term in the State Senate, 1976 to 1980. The General folder includes correspondence from constituents and from other legislators. There are extensive materials related to "The People Are Coming" rally, April 17, 1977, at the South Carolina State House. The rally took place to call for reform of the...
Repository: South Carolina Political Collections X
Names: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 X
Elections -- Southern states. 2
Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980 1
Charlotte Observer 1
Columbia (S.C.) 1
Governors -- South Carolina -- Nomination. 1
Journalists -- United States. 1
Lawyers -- United States. 1
Local elections. 1
Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968. 1
Photographs. 1
Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
Politicians -- United States -- Biography. 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1968. 1
Richard B. Russell Dam (Ga. and S.C.) 1
South Carolina -- Race relations. 1
University of South Carolina 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975. 1
Voting. 1
Women -- Political activity -- United States. 1
Youth -- Political activity -- United States. 1
Campbell, Carroll A., 1940-2005 3
Hollings, Ernest F. (Ernest Frederick), 1922-2019 3
McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007 3
Morris, Earle E., Jr. 3
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 3
Fowler, Donald L. (Donald Lionel), 1935-2020 2
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Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 2
Zeigler, Eugene N. 2
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Bates, Lester L., Sr. (Lester Lee), 1904-1988 1
Beasley, David M. 1
Bessinger, Maurice, 1930- 1
Brown, Edgar A. (Edgar Allan), 1888-1975 1
Byrnes, Maude 1
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Eichel, Henry, 1944- 1
Farrow, Mia, 1945- 1
Fendley, Furman 1
Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-2017 1
Frederick, Keith 1
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998 1
Gressette, L. Marion (Lawrence Marion) 1
Grisso, Bud 1
Hodges, Jim, 1956- 1
Holleman, Frank 1
Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 1
Inglis, Bob, 1959- 1
Jennings, Peggy 1
Jenrette, John W. 1
Long, John D. 1
Lourie, Isadore E. 1
Mauldin, Doug (James Douglas) 1
Mims, William Walton, 1911-2007 1
Nicholson, Jack, 1937- 1
Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993 1
Orange, Sylvia 1
Pacino, Al, 1940- 1
Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921-2011 1
Polanski, Roman, 1933- 1
Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005 1
Reagan, Ronald (Ronald Wilson), 1911-2004 1
Redford, Robert (Charles Robert), 1937- 1
Reynolds, Burt, 1936-2018 1
Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson) 1
Sanders, Alex 1
Shealy, Lois T. 1
Sheheen, Robert 1
South Carolina. Department of Health and Environmental Control 1
Thurmond, Nancy Moore 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Varn, Sidney 1
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Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, May/June 2013
The Great Unraveling
Chronicling America's not-quite-decline.
by Michael O'Donnell May 2, 2013 January 9, 2022
Do not utter the words "American decline" to your conservative friends. Never mind the arguments for or against: to some on the right the mere topic is a kind of blasphemy, at once impious and infuriating. America can never falter, say its most reflexive champions. It's America. It is not merely one of 200-odd nations constrained by geographical boundaries, political economies, culture, history, and the swinging pendulum of fortune. America is both an idea and a promise, making it no ordinary country. Its citizens work harder than other people; its soil is richer than in foreign fields. America is the promised land, Americans are the chosen few, and victory, to paraphrase Mitt Romney, is their unique destiny.
The Unwinding:
An Inner History of
the New America
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 448 pp.
The people who believe this superstitious nonsense are usually the ones cutting school funding and refusing to fix the roads. As the United States slips down the global competitiveness and education indexes and as income inequality rises, they insist that the country is great while refusing to pay for the things that make it so. Ironically, this very faith in American infallibility enables some of our most destructive public acts. Since America is exceptional, Republicans reason, why not use the threat to default on its financial obligations as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations? Defaulting would probably trigger a global financial disaster, but the far right seems to believe this would not happen, or that if it did, it would wash away our profligate sins. Yet in the heat of the debt ceiling farce of 2011, Standard & Poor's, by downgrading the U.S. credit rating, served notice that moist sentiments like destiny do not trump cause and effect. A recent survey on American competitiveness in the Economist archly noted, "This is the America that China's leaders laugh at."
On the other hand, acknowledging that the United States is not immune to decline is not the same as saying it is in decline. Americans are living longer than they have ever done. Their universities (if not their primary and secondary schools) are the envy of the world, dominating the annual global rankings. Despite the dysfunction in Washington, America's political infrastructure is broadly sound, featuring an independent judiciary, a free press, and reliably peaceful transitions of power every four years. The U.S. enjoys unrivaled military power and influence in global institutions. Its economy is the largest in the world and continues to grow, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching its highest-ever point in March.
The economic collapse of 2008 and the accompanying Great Recession have colored many conversations about a creeping American decline. But as Robert Kagan argued in an influential essay in the New Republic last year, each generation since the Second World War has worried about receding American influence. "Anyone who honestly recalls the 1970s," he writes, "with Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation, and the energy crisis, cannot really believe that our present difficulties are unrivaled." And this is to say nothing of the generations that endured the Great Depression, the financial panic of 1873, and the Civil War. Kagan contends that the only thing as reliable as the perennial diagnosis of American decline is American resurgence.
Tell that to a man who has lost his job, or his home, or his idealism, says George Packer. In The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Packer puts aside economic indicators and strategic assessments to approach the topic of American decline from the most intimate of angles: the personal profile. The book follows three representative Americans: an African American assembly-line worker from Youngstown, Ohio; a truck stop owner and biofuels visionary from North Carolina; and a disillusioned Washington insider. Each section of the book begins with a collection of headlines and sound bites to give a flavor of the times.
The kaleidoscopic presentation, inspired by John Dos Passos's U.S.A. novels, draws on Packer's years of reporting at the New Yorker, and it takes some getting used to. Yet by the book's end, Packer seems to have found a new way to tell a familiar story, which he describes as the slow unraveling during his lifetime of institutions like midwestern factories and California universities. The Unwinding also echoes the symphonic rage of the celebrated television series The Wire, which fictionalized the demise of the American city. Packer offers a profoundly dispiriting picture of the United States: all three of his main characters are crushed, in their own way. Yet each narrative ends on a hopeful note.
Rather than getting on a soapbox, Packer takes out his notepad. The Unwinding is, among other things, a tremendous work of reporting that pushes past abstractions and recycled debates to look despair straight in the face. Throughout, Packer offers almost no editorial comment, an approach that has its downsides. Instead he tells stories, and readers must make of them what they will. Packer is not an "America is crumbling like Rome" pessimist; he acknowledges the cyclical nature of boom and bust in this country's history. The book's optimistic ending suggests that he believes the United States will rise again. But the preceding chapters show that it is now at one of its periodic low points.
One of The Unwinding's strengths is Packer's refusal to romanticize earlier periods of American prosperity. He does not simplistically pine for a return to the 1950s and '60s, when a factory job could support a family and companies took care of their workers. While describing the death of Youngstown, a moribund steel city, he notes that in brighter years its industry was characterized by "rapacious growth, brutal conditions, segregation of mill jobs by ethnicity and race, unalterable hostility to unions, [and] constant strife." Tammy Thomas, the featured factory worker from Youngstown, assembled electrical components at a Packard plant for nineteen years before accepting a buyout in 2006. "The work didn't destroy your body like in the steel mills," she says, "but over time it beat you down." Packer suggests that the era of American manufacturing is over, but he doesn't argue whether this is a boon or a tragedy: it is simply a fact that has altered the trajectories of millions of lives.
The story's biofuels entrepreneur, Dean Price, owned several truck stops and fast-food franchises before founding an alternative energy start-up. (Its prospects were still uncertain as The Unwinding went to press.) Price's story is a case study in the way big-box competitors like Walmart and Target undercut small businesses with cheap labor and cheap wares, all while killing town centers and encouraging sprawl. Packer also follows a struggling Tampa man who scraped by on $8.50 an hour unloading inventory at a Walmart store, only to lose his job after casual grousing led to a confrontation with a manager.
Packer's most striking character is Jeff Connaughton, a Washington power player broken by a system that slowly destroyed his idealism. Connaughton was a self-designated "Joe Biden guy": inspired as a student by a speech Biden gave at the University of Alabama in 1979, Connaughton eventually worked on his 1988 presidential campaign and as a Senate staffer. What follows is one of the most damning portraits of the current vice president you will ever read, a master class in disillusionment from public service. Packer's Biden is an ungrateful phony, shilling sentiment like a huckster sells miracle cures. Behind the scenes,
he ignored you, intimidated you, sometimes humiliated you, took no interest in your advancement, and never learned your name. "Hey, Chief," he'd say, or "How's it going, Cap'n," unless he was ticked off at you, in which case he'd employ one of his favorite terms for male underlings: "dumb fuck." "Dumb fuck over here didn't get me the briefing materials I needed." It was both noun and adjective: "Is the event leader a Democrat or a Republican? Or are you too dumb fuck to know?"
Connaughton's first assignment on Biden's 1988 campaign was to bring in twenty new donors. Thus he quickly learned the ubiquity of money in politics, Washington's capture by business lobbyists, and the nature of a transactional relationship: all back scratching and IOUs, rarely or never friendship or concern. His low point was working to keep monied interests from diluting the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in 2010. At the story's end, Connaughton begins to write a book, which has since been published. It is called The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins.
If Washington is corroded by dollars and hacks, Packer shows that it is also beset by the rise of the total-war conservative. The breed's avatar is Newt Gingrich, who decades ago field-tested many of the tactics that have dragged today's Republican Party to the edge of the cliffs of insanity. Gingrich realized that voters "got their politics on TV, and they were not persuaded by policy descriptions or rational arguments, but responded to symbols and emotions. Donors were more likely to send money if they could be frightened or angered, if the issues were framed as simple choices between good and evil." Thanks to these toxic methods, today we have right-wing senators insinuating on no evidence that their opponents are in the pocket of North Korea, and the moderate Democratic president is pilloried as a socialist radical with a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
Packer's narrative is literary rather than prescriptive: he does not offer policy proposals or routes back to greatness. Like a great political novel, The Unwinding reveals a problem with unprecedented clarity but leaves readers to find a solution. Whatever one's views on American decline generally, it is difficult to put the book down without a distinct feeling of unease and a conviction that we can do better. And yet if it is a story of despair, it is also a story of resilience. Packer's subjects make good and bad decisions, enjoy lucky breaks and misfortune, eke it out, give in, and try harder. The lives they lead are worth describing in detail, not only because they are instructive but also because they are beautiful.
If you are interested in purchasing this book, we have included a link for your convenience: Buy from Amazon.com.
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Kennebec Highlands - Round Top
This trail in the Kennebec Highlands Public Reserved Land offers an opportunity for moderate hiking and several outlooks providing spectacular views from Round Top of the surrounding landscape of lakes and mountains.
Rome, Vienna
The Round Top Trail ascends Round Top Mountain (1,133') while winding through a diverse forest of young and old hardwoods and conifers. The trail, marked with blue blazes, is of moderate difficulty and leaves the parking lot in a westerly direction. Within 200 yards it crosses a large slab of granite originally quarried for an old foundation. After an initial rise, the trail meanders through the woods, briefly opening up for a view of Round Top Mountain, before dropping to a junction with the Kennebec Highlands Trail at 1 mile.
After crossing the Kennebec Highlands Trail, the Round Top Trail climbs steadily northward. As the trail approaches Round Top Mountain's summit, views open up to the east and south. Near the top, at 1.7 miles, a spur trail leads north (description below). The main trail continues northeast, passing an overlook with views of Long Pond, Belgrade Lakes Village, and Great Pond, and then descends to a second overlook at an open area with large rock slabs and porcupine dens. The trail descends steeply, between and over large rocks, and joins the Kennebec Highlands Trail at 2.1 miles. Turn right (south) onto this broad gravel trail. At 2.9 miles bear right at a three-way junction, marked by a trail sign. A hundred yards past the junction (just before a Y-intersection of snowmobile trails) a rock cairn with a wooden sign post on the west side of the logging trail marks the Round Top Trail's initial junction with the Kennebec Highlands Trail. Turn left (east) and follow the Round Top Trail back to the parking lot.
The Round Top Spur Trail, 0.3 miles long each way, leads to the north end of Round Top Mountain and two overlooks with spectacular views. The first view looks northward and east to Round Pond below, and French Mountain, Mount Phillip, North Pond, and Great Pond. The spur trail ends at a second overlook, which includes additional views of Watson Pond, Sanders Hill, and Vienna Mountain (northwest through the trees).
The Kennebec Highlands is an area of Public Lands encompassing over 6,000 acres in northwest Kennebec County and southeastern Franklin County. This regionally significant large block of conservation land is the result of a long-term collaboration between the Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance and the Maine Division of Parks and Public Lands.
Users should note that the Kennebec Highland Trail, which is crossed several times and in one case followed for a short distance, is a multi-use trail allowing snowmobile use in the winter.
This trail passes through a property that was acquired in part with funds from the Land for Maine's Future program. For more information about the LMF program and the places it has helped to protect, please visit the LMF webpage.
Visit Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance or Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands online for more information or contact:
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Farmington, Maine 04938
Tim.Post@maine.gov
Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance
Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918
brca@gwi.net
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The trailhead is off Watson Pond Road, which leaves from the west side of ME Route 27 about a mile north of the intersection of ME Routes 27 and 225 in Rome. From ME Route 27, drive south on Watson Pond Road 4 miles to the parking area located at the corner of Watson Pond Road and Wildflower Estates.
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Cook County Otter Outfitted for Spy Mission
By Hannah O'Malley, USDA Wildlife Services, Wildlife Specialist
North American river otter recovery in the Chicagoland area took a surprising leap forward this fall with the capture and release of an otter in southwest Cook County. A few decades ago, Illinois' river otters were almost extirpated and listed as "state endangered". State reintroduction efforts in the 1990s significantly improved their numbers, but evidence of otters thriving in the urban interface of Cook County was slim-to-none.
Chris Anchor, senior biologist with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (FPDCC), enlisted USDA Wildlife Services (WS) to monitor for otter presence in the county. After years of surveying waterways for tracks and scat, promising signs were spotted this May in an isolated spot. WS trail cameras confirmed an animal's presence, and trapping efforts began. Finally, after many thwarted attempts, WS staff captured the elusive otter using a modified foothold trap.
At FPDCC's affiliate Brookfield Zoo, veterinary staff surgically implanted a radio-transmitter in the otter. The small device will allow biologists to track the otter to determine its movements throughout the area, den locations, foraging habits, and possibly interactions with other otters. Technicians from WS, FPDCC, and the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation are collaborating to track the otter.
"We're trying to understand what their challenges are, and to see if there is anything we can do to promote their population within Cook County," explained Anchor.
Otter population recovery is almost impossible without the proper habitat – clean waterways with healthy and diverse fish populations. Considerable efforts have gone into the preservation and restoration of native landscapes within the county. This otter presents an undeniable sign that the Forest Preserve District of Cook County has made great strides in protecting and improving its diverse ecosystems and enabling the presence of sensitive species that rely on wild and clean habitats on the 69,000 acres it manages.
A native Illinois species, river otter were common until unregulated harvest and habitat loss led to declining populations in the late 1800s. In 1929 the otter trapping season was eliminated, with limited effect, and otters were listed first as threatened (1977) and then as state endangered in 1989. With laws and conservation efforts to improve water quality, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources otter recovery effort began in 1994 with great success. Otter were delisted in 2004 and a trapping season was reinstated in 2012-13.
A North American river otter is released back into the southwest region of the Forest Preserves of Cook County. By understanding river otters' habits, researchers will be able to better identify where to restore various open land to benefit the health of otters and the biodiversity of all wildlife and humans. Image Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. This released river otter will be tracked to gain a better understanding of the animal's habits, habitats, and travel routes, which will help determine what the otter's challenges face in an urban setting and what can be done to promote their population within Cook County. Image Credit: Jeff Nelson. Trail camera evidence confirmed the presence of the Forest Preserves District otter, which proved elusive for months. Image Credit: USDA Wildlife Services. The WS team that captured and will track the otter includes biologist John Hartmann and specialists Hannah O'Malley and Dan Fiorenza. Image Credit: Jeff Nelson
See more from Brookfield Zoo at Dr. Mike's Video Blog: River Otter Study.
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The Unanswered Questions of the Spahn Ranch mini-raid of July 28, 1969
In the early hours of July 28th, about three or four Los Angeles Sheriff's patrol cars, at least one from the LAPD, and possibly two more from the California Highway Patrol showed up at Spahn Ranch, investigating stolen cars. Only ranch hand Johnny Swartz was arrested--for having false license plate on his car.
There are a number of unusual things about this raid, leaving questions which were never answered.
--Was Charlie tipped off to the raid?
He was right there to greet the cops before they even entered the property. From Sanders' The Family, pg250:
"He(Manson) had concealed himself and his dune buggy in underbrush near the turnoff from Topanga Canyon Boulevard onto Santa Susanna Pass Road, awaiting the invasion of hostile forces."
--How did Charlie get away with threatening the cops without getting his ass beat?
http://www.cielodrive.com/manson-case-files/BOX-30.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3X_Jd5u7Wyd1RIL6JfmGX0YkmzWJ6ERH2NhpQxLV767nS8aivttzhmZWU
Box 30 pg112of738
Appellant Manson further said that he respected the police and due to this respect, he could kill Deputy Olmstead at any time he wanted. He also said that all he had to do was to drive up next to Deputy Olmstead at a stop sign, stick a shotgun out of the window and blow his head off. ... Appellant Manson said .. that there were guns trained on the deputies from the hills around them and that, at appellant Manson's command, they could be wiped out.
--How and why did the LAPD get involved?
SPAHN RANCH RAID REPORT
"On August 1, 1969, your affiant received information from Deputy Samuel J. Olmstead, #2504, LASO, that at approximately 1:10 a.m. on July 28, 1969, he had received a call from LAPD Dispatcher reporting one of their units requests a Sheriff's unit on Topanga Canyon just north of Chatsworth Street regarding possible stolen vehicles. At approximately 2:30 a.m., Car 102 requested assistance from 100-5, 101, and CID units in the area. Unit arrived at location at approximately 3:15 a.m. and Deputy E.A. Loobey, #2585, advised that LAPD had run two vehicles at the Spahn Ranch, and both had come back as stolen.
murdersofaugust69.freeforums.net/thread/634/laso-spahn-ranch-report-august
Officer Williams, #13814, LAPD, Devonshire Division. Officer Williams stated that within the last two weeks(on July 28th) he and his partner were on duty at the Spahn Ranch in a marked police vehicle.
The LAPD admits they were at that time investigating the Ranch:
Your affiant has also learned that the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters Auto Theft is also conducting an investigation at the ranch.
--Why did the LAPD only 'run' the plates on two of the cars there? Did cops come back the next day to continue their investigation?
--Which two cars were they talking about?
One is tempted to think at least one of them was Hinman's Fiat or VW van.
--Why would Bugliosi claim it was the Fiat that was seen at the ranch?
Bugs addresses the July 28 mini-raid on Spahn in a brief footnote(Helter Skelter, pg139), which says:
"...on July 28, two LASO deputies--Olmstead and Grap--visited Spahn Ranch on another matter. While there they saw the Fiat, ran a spot check on the license, and learned that it belonged to Gary Hinman."
The Fiat
Every other account of the raid claims it was the VW minibus that the Deputies found at Spahn. But if Bugs had said that, he would have had to explain why they didn't notice that this car had been hot-wired. Which would of course have been evidence that this was a stolen car, and would have been quickly connected to a murder victim.
It is probably not coincidental that Manson quickly got rid of the VW after this raid:
www.mansonblog.com/search?q=Arneson
Mark Arneson got the bus for free from Manson in late July or early Aug. "Manson.... showed Arneson how to hot-wire the car and started it."
Mark Arneson
--Did Sheriff's Deputies Grap and Olmstead really fail to connect the discovery of Gary Hinman's VW van with the discovery of Hinman's body three days later?
Helter Skelter, pg139
"Grap knew Hinman; he also knew he was a friend of the people at Spahn Ranch, and therefore didn't feel there was anything suspicious about the station wagon's being there. At this time, although Hinman was dead, his body had not yet been discovered.
After the discovery of the body on July 31, LASO put out a "want" on Hinman's vehicles. Grap didn't learn of it, or Hinman's death, until much later. If he had known, of course, he could have directed the investigation to Spahn Ranch, and the Manson Family months before Kitty Lutesinger implicated Atkins and the others."
So Deputies Grap and Olmstead, of the Malibu Sheriff's substation, didn't know the name of a recent murder victim killed in the territory covered by the Malibu Sheriff's substation. And didn't know anything about a BOLO/'Want' on the victim's two distinctive automobiles. Which is no ordinary BOLO on a stolen car, but that of a murder victim--a murder victim that Grap knew personally.
And how exactly did Grap "know" Hinman? Was it through official Sheriff's business?
The other seven to nine officers there participating in the raid didn't make the connection either. Maybe the Malibu area at that time was a hotbed of murder activity, and the Hinman name got lost in the shuffle.
I find all this hard to believe. To me this is just another example of Charlie using his 'Get out of Jail Free' card.
--Is the mini-raid the reason Charlie had Bobby go back to the Hinman crime scene to make sure they left no traces of their involvement, including removing the bloody writing on the wall? Is that why Beausoleil, Manson, and Davis suddenly left town? (All three were caught in the raid on July 28th.)
The raid occurred just hours after the murder of Hinman. Having cops show up asking about Gary must have seriously freaked out the killers.
Posted by starviego at 12:07:00 AM 29 comments
The Ballad of Little Patty, Part One
Original piece is here. She does link to and credit us where appropriate:
She is mentioned only three times in the pages of Helter Skelter, her name spelled as 'Madaline Joan Cottage'.
She was present at the November 5, 1969 'suicide' of John Philip Haught aka Zero aka Christopher Jesus. Madaline (or Madeline as other publications and websites spelled her name) was allegedly lying in bed with Haught at the Venice Beach house where several were staying. Haught picked up a gun and said he was going to play Russian Roulette and then spun the cylinder. He fired, instantly killing himself, although when police were finally dispatched to the scene they found the gun had been wiped clean of prints.
There is one photograph of 'Madeline Joan Cottage' in the pages of Helter Skelter, as well. She is standing beside the bed of a pickup truck, during one of the police raids at Spahn Ranch. Squeaky, Brenda, Sadie and Katie are sitting in the bed of the truck but only Madeline and Squeaky are looking at the camera.
Patricia 'Katie' Krenwinkel (far left), Nancy 'Brenda' Pitman
(lighting a cigarette), Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme (center, looking
at camera), Susan 'Sadie' Atkins (in corner) and Madeline
'Little Patty' Cottage, standing beside the truck.
During the summer raids at Spahn Ranch, the October raid at Barker/Myers Ranches in Death Valley and the police report from Haught's suspicious shooting death in Venice, Miss Cottage alternately gave the names:
Madeline Joan Cottage
Shirley Amanda McCoy
Patricia Baldwin
Linda Lou Baldwin
Of course, everyone in the Family had alternate names - nicknames, aliases, pretend names, straight names. As I wrote in The Manson Family: More to the Story:
Nicknames, false names, even switching names - these were ways of shedding their skins, discarding past identities. Nicknames gave them an amorphous relationship with one another with a titular head – Charlie himself - as a fixed constant. Charlie never pretended to be Bruce Davis, or Bruce Bluestein. Charlie was Charlie. But the others could reinvent themselves at whim. Every day they could be a blank slate. For them, there was nothing nefarious about these changes. For Charlie, it was another tool of control.
- The Manson Family: More to the Story by H. Allegra Lansing, Published June 2019 from Swann Publications
Many accounts of the Family led us to believe Charlie gave his followers their nicknames. Sometimes he did (like Sadie) but often they were bestowed by George Spahn"...
No matter who originated them, Charlie embraced the new names. After all, when you give people new names, you take away their past identity. They can belong to you. 'Oche' was probably easier to smack around than intelligent nature-lover Mary Brunner. 'Brenda' was stronger and braver than the surfing socialite Nancy, and eventually 'Katie' would be more likely to stab someone, than former file clerk Patricia Anne.
When Sherry Cooper (aka Simi Valley Sherry, a 15-year old part-time horse groomer at Spahn Ranch) was arrested, she used the name 'Ruth Ann Huevelhorst' which was actually Ouisch's (Ruth Ann Moorehouse) married name. Switching names and playing with identities was definitely part of the Family's raison d'etre. But at some point, law enforcement did figure out who each person in the Family really was and the public learned about each of them.
That picture above of Madeline Joan Cottage shows her looking defiant, almost with a smile. Scrappy, short - maybe a tomboy? Her mugshots are even tougher looking:
Madaline Joan Cottage, aka Little Patty, arrested
in August 1969 at Spahn Ranch
Madeline Joan Cottage, arrested
at Barker Ranch in October 1969
She isn't one of Charlie's prettier girls. She was rumored to be one of Bill Vance's (true name possibly William Rex Cole) girls. She was called Little Patty and, according to her arrest record, she was indeed petite (just 5'2" and 100 pounds):
Shows 'Madaline Joan Cottage' as 5'2" tall, 100 pounds,
white female born May 27, 1946 in Sewickley,
Pennsylvania. The 'Linda LOJU' is a misspelling -
one of her aliases (given at Barker Ranch) was Linda LOU.
Allegedly, Ms. Cottage was also knows as 'Crazy Patty' in the Family and 'mean as a snake'. After her 'involvement' with Zero's death/suicide/murder, she left the scene. A passage in Ed Sanders' book The Family alluded to her having gone east with Bill Vance to Missouri and then having been hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
s I began the process of researching this book (summer 2016), I was especially curious to know what had become of all the Manson Family women - obviously we know about the ones who were/are incarcerated (Susan, Pat Krenwinkel, Leslie, Squeaky, Sandy, Gypsy) but I was profoundly intrigued about the lesser-known women. The ones who haven't spoken publicly about their time with Charlie. The ones who have kept under the radar.
I didn't intend to 'out' anyone who has led a law-abiding and private life since the bloody shenanigans of 1969 but I did manage to locate some of the women. I know where Ruth Moorehouse is. I know where Mary Brunner lives. I found fairly solid traces of many others. But I never found anything on Madeline (or Madaline) Joan Cottage.
And then, just before my book went to press, I read this blog:
In it, the author documents a series of newspaper articles that were published in the Stanberry Headlight, a publication based in western Missouri. The author (Neal Sheehan - not the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, but a local reporter who just happens to have the same name) explains that he heard, in 1971, that a group of hippies were running a local farm in nearby McFall, Missouri. He went out to meet them and interview them, and encountered three young people at this farm: two women, one man. The man and one of the women (a women who identified herself as LINDA BALDWIN) were friendly. The other woman, identified as PATRICIA BALDWIN, was decided UNfriendly, even warning the others not to trust anyone who came around snooping.
It turns out that 'Linda Baldwin' was none other than Manson Family member Claudia Leigh Smith and 'Patricia Baldwin' was our own Madeline Joan Cottage. The man was a young man from California - not clear who he was, but does not appear to be anyone associated with the Manson Family during the time of the murders and arrests.
So, we have two Family women using two of the aliases previously used by Madeline Cottage. Hmmm.
Then, to get even wilder, we discover that the farm is actually being leased by BILL VANCE aka William Rex Cole aka Bill Van Sickle aka Billy Vansicki aka Duane Schwarm or whatever the fuck his name d'jour was. Vance/Cole (personally I don't think any of these names are his true one) had gotten himself ordained as a minister from one Youth-for-Life ministry based in Florida. Then Cole rented the McFall farm and property under the name of Youth-for-Life, acting as Nubian Farms. They were trying to grow tomatoes and other produce, but the way they set up the plants wasn't conducive for growing and never bore much fruit.
Also, in this blog series, we learn that Sergeants Whiteley and Gunther (the investigative team for Gary Hinman's murder) arrived in McFall to try to locate the whereabouts of a recorded tape, purportedly in Cole/Vance's possession, which included an audio reenactment of the murder of Hinman by the Family! However, by the time the investigators landed in Missouri, Bill Vance, Little Patty, Claudia Smith and the other young man were gone. Ed Sanders later learned that Little Patty aka Crazy Patty had gone demented, burned down a building on the farm's property, and Vance called her parents in Pittsburgh, who retrieved poor Madeline and checked her into a mental health facility in Memphis, Tennessee.
Vance and Smith, who had just delivered a baby girl in late '70 while living in MIssouri, had fled back to California where they soon married. Records show they divorced in '78. I know Claudia Smith's whereabouts, as well as that of her daughter, Dawn's. But again, out of respect, I feel no need to reveal that information. Dawn, the now-grown child, certainly hasn't done anything to warrant scrutiny by the Mansonphiles and her mother's crimes are long, long in the past (a drug arrest, among her Manson Family-related arrests).
But Madeline, Madeline - wherefore art thou Madeline? Will it CREEP you out to learn that one of the items that investigators found at the scene of the abandoned Missouri farm was a letter, sent from some Manson affiliate in California to the gang at Nubian Farms, which read:
That's really something Patty leaving. I sure as hell hope she keeps her mouth shut… Don't take any chance with Patty. I don't know the whole story but from what you wrote in the letter it doesn't sound too safe… You take it easy. Be careful. I don't know what Patty's trip is. Don't take the chance. She could (blank) you up.
- Letter from an unnamed party, summer 1971
As my research went on and on, from 2016 into 2017 and even 2018, during the process of writing my book, it confounded me that I found literally ZERO trace of Madeline Cottage. Zero! Not one little whiff, not one iota, not one tiny clue. She seemed to have completely disappeared.
As I prepared to launch the book last summer, and found this information about the goings-on in western Missouri, I worried that Bill Vance (who was definitely involved in the murder of Shorty Shea, so not someone to be trifled with) might have done something to Little Patty? Was she silenced, so as not to testify about what REALLY happened when Zero died? Vance was also at the Venice Beach property when poor John Haught 'took' his own life. Is there any chance that her parents didn't send her to a mental hospital in Memphis but that something far more nefarious happened to this young women?
I'm a researcher, and one of my tools in finding information (and particularly people) is genealogy. So, I decided to try to discover where Madeline Joan Cottage was, by looking for her on ancestry sites. I tried both variants of the name Madeline/Madaline. I adjusted dates of birth, and locations. I included the middle name. I omitted it. And then I tried looking for anyone named Madeline Cottage who had been arrested under the names of any of Little Patty's aliases. Nothing came up under 'Shirley Amanda McCoy' or 'Linda Lou Baldwin' but when I searched for aliases under the name of "Patricia Baldwin" I got a 'hit' for a P. Baldwin, who was photographed in the pages of a 1964 yearbook in the Pittsburgh area.
I had to look at this photo a few times, asking myself - could it? Was it? Look at the eyes… the chin? Was this our Madeline Joan Cottage?
It is, folks. I have found her. Her name is or wasn't Madeline Joan Cottage. It is Patricia Joan Baldwin. Stay tuned - I have more to unlock and reveal! Stay tuned as we continue this series…
Patricia Joan Baldwin, 1964
Posted by Matt at 12:20:00 AM 67 comments
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Randy Starr's Grand Jury Testimony
Randy Starr was a ranch hand and stuntman who worked and lived at Spahn Ranch. For a little background George Stimson did a piece on the blog about Randy HERE .
Randy comes into play because he was said to have owned and given to Charles Manson the gun used at the Tate house during the murders. Randy did not testify at the Tate LaBianca trial because he became ill with an ear infection which went untreated and he developed meningitis and died August 4 1970.
Vincent Buliosi writes in his book Helter Skelter (1994 page 376, in the chapter titled April 1970)-
Another find was Randy Starr, whom I interviewed the same day as Ruby. A Sometime movie stunt man who specialized in fake hangings, Starr said the Tate Sebring rope was "identical" to a rope he'd once used to help Manson pull a vehicle out of the creek bed. Starr told me, "Manson always kept the rope behind the seat in his dune buggy."
Even more important was Randy Starr's positive identification of the .22 Longhorn revolver, for Starr had once owned the gun and had given it to Manson.
There is a footnote at the bottom of the page which reads-
The gun, serial number 1902708, had been among a number of weapons taken from the Archery Headquarters in El Monte California, during a burglary on the night of March 12, 1969. According to Starr, he obtained it in trade with a man only known as "Ron." Manson was always borrowing the gun for target practice, and Randy finally gave it to him in trade for a truck that belonged to Danny DeCarlo.
Randy Starr testified to a grand jury convened for the death of Gary Hinman. Charles Manson, Susan Atkins and Bruce Davis were the defendants and it was held on April 9 and 12 1970 in Los Angeles. This is the only known testimony given under oath by Starr.
While Randy's testimony does mention the gun, it is more focused on the knife used to stab Gary Hinman and found in Bobby Beausoleil's possession when he was arrested August 6 1969.
The testimony also focuses on a sword in Manson's possession. Starr says it was usually kept in holder in Manson's dune buggy.
There is nothing in the testimony about the rope used at the Tate murders, nor should there have been because this was a grand jury for the Hinman murder. Which makes me wonder why the gun was mentioned. There was a gun used at Hinman's, not to shoot Gary but during a scuffle it went off and struck the kitchen cabinets and wall. The bullets that were dug out matched the 9mm Random automatic that Bruce Davis bought under a false name on July 14 1969. Randy mentions a long barreled 9-shot revolver and a .45 but not a 9mm in his testimony.
All in all I went away a little confused by Randy's testimony. It seemed as if Randy was trying to take credit for having provided Manson with many of the weapons used in the Hinman and Tate murders. I was unaware that the knife Bobby used had originally belonged to Starr.
I have to wonder how Randy would have stood up under cross examination at a trial.
Posted by DebS at 12:15:00 AM 41 comments
Labels: Bobby Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Gary Hinman, Randy Starr, Vincent Bugliosi
Stolen Checks and the Enigma that is Bill Vance
Among the newly surfaced images and documents is a property report for items confiscated during the Barker Ranch Raids.
This property report essentially transfers items collected in the raids from Inyo County to Los Angeles County to be investigated and used in future trials. The transfer was made February 18 1970.
Listed among the items are numerous checks, some blank and some made out to specific people. A Hedman Check Protector is the first item listed. There are also office supply type items, OTC drugs, receipts, envelopes which are possibly addressed to certain people and the attache case where Shorty stored his guns. Going down to item 29 on the second page of the report, a suitcase is listed.
The suitcase contains more checks, ledgers, a pink slip for a '55 Mercury,a hotel key, 15 Master Lock keys and various odds and ends.
Some of the checks were stolen from Spahn Movie Ranch and made out with the check protector to William Rex Cox. Hummmm.... that sounds a lot like William Rex Cole. All of the checks were made out in the amount of $137.35 and signed by George C. Spahn. (More than likely George Spahn's signature was forged)
Numerous other checks were stolen from H B Irwin Plumbing Inc. located at 20555 Superior St. Chatsworth. Some of those checks were made out partially or completely to James M Miller, John Phillip Haught and Dwayne Ernest Schwarm. Manson used the last name of Miller on occasion, we know who John Phillip Haught was and Dwayne Schwarm was an alias used by Bill Vance.
Another slug of checks came from Oregon. Some of them were from Lear Siegler Inc. Holly Division 7340 NE Sandy Blvd. in Portland. Those, too, were completely or partially made out to James M Miller, John Phillip Haught and Diane Marie Von Ahn. More checkbooks were found printed with the name Duane E Schwarm at the Sandy Blvd. address.
Duane Ernest Schwarm was a real person who, as near as I can tell, lived and worked for majority of his life in Oregon. He married in Oregon four times, 1953, 1969, 1976 and 1982, and died in 2010. He was born in Chicago IL Dec. 1 1933 and his first name was spelled Dwayne on his birth record but all subsequent records spell his first name as Duane with the same birth date. There is no indication that he had any relationship to the Family.
Diane Marie Von Ahn was a Family member, she used an alias of Mary Ann Schwarm and she was from Gresham OR. She died in a motorcycle accident in Oregon June 30 1972. Her death record is in the name Diana Vonahn. Her mug shot is #49 here.
What we do not know is how many checks Family members may have cashed before they were arrested. It's probably a safe bet to believe that forged checks were cashed, Nancy Pitman took off with Bruce Davis because she was facing bad check charges. The Missouri articles about William Rex Cole and his "flock" stated that Claudia Leigh Smith aka Linda Baldwin was wanted on some kind of check charges. There may be more of those types of charges that we never knew about because stolen and forged checks pale in comparison to the murders.
On to the enigma of Bill Vance. Nothing has been solved but more information has come to light.
Generally when people take aliases they use a name of a real person.
Bill Vance had three different drivers licenses.
The oldest one was in the name of William Joseph Vance. It was issued November 2 1965 and gives his address as Spahn Movie and TV Ranch on Susana Pass Rd. Chatsworth. On the application for the license Vance said he had a previous license in Tennessee and that it was lost. It appears the license expired in 1968.
The next license was in the name William Rex Cole. It was issued September 8 1969 and gives an address of Spahn Movie Ranch Chatsworth. The application claims that his previous license was issued in Texas and it was lost.
The third license was in the name of Dwayne Ernest Schwarm, it was issued September 19 1969, just 11 days after the William Rex Cole license was issued, This time there is an address in Reseda CA given as his residence. The house number and street are redacted. The application states that his previous license was issued in Oregon and, you guessed right, it was lost.
The birth dates on all three licenses are redacted but they all give the same general age. The signatures on all three look to be written by the same hand.
What is interesting is that the Schwarm license uses Schwarm's legal first name though the checks are printed with the first name as Duane according to the report.
A little bit of research was done on the other two names.
There were two William Rex Cole's found but both were quite a bit older than the age on the license in that name. One was born in 1917 and lived in Virginia and the other was born in 1919 and lived in West Virginia. There was another William Rex Cole who was born in Arizona December 13 1951 and died the next day.
There were five William Joseph Vance's but one stood out to me. When doing research on Windy Bucklee, true name Lee Saunooke, I found an obit for her step-father. His survivors listed Lee as well as his wife Theressa Vance Longano. The Vance name jumped out and I learned it was her maiden name. Searching Theressa's family tree I found that she had a brother named William Joseph Vance.
Is it possible that Windy Bucklee supplied Bill Vance with the name of her uncle? According to his driver's license he was at Spahn Ranch in 1965 and so was Windy. Does Windy know Bill's true name?
Circling back to the stolen checks, if John Haught was indeed murdered, did it have something to do with the stolen checks? Could he have expressed a desire to come clean to the authorities about the checks and, like the later murder of James Willett, was he killed for saying he was thinking about it?
And, I think now we know the answer to an often asked question, "Where did the Family get their money?" Steal, forge and cash checks.
Labels: Bill Vance, John Philip Haught, Windy Bucklee
Gary Hinman Murder Scene
Recently the blog received images that were used as exhibits by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in the four trials for the murder of Gary Hinman. The photos do not include Gary's body but do show blood stains. There are pictures of various rooms in the house, Gary's prayer beads and the sword Manson used to slice Gary's face. These pictures are very sobering and underscore the Family's capacity to exert brutality in the course of their crimes.
All of the images have at least a portion of an LADA watermark on them but it is an opaque watermark so it doesn't obliterate a major portion of the image. The home is still furnished in the photos so you get a very good idea of what happened and where.
A few years ago Matt posted a link to an Associated Press video of the interior of Gary's home, the link at his post still works so you might want to revisit that, too. In this video the home has been cleared out of all of Gary's belongings so you get a different perspective.
We will start with a couple of the tamer pictures.
This is what looks to be an enclosed porch off of the kitchen. You can see the refrigerator in the window.
The dinette set in the kitchen.
Another view of the dinette set.
The dinette set again, notice the musical instrument case in the foreground.
Not sure where this is in the house. You can see circles drawn on the floor near the wood stove. Presumably they circled blood splatters.
The living room where Gary died. You can see Gary's prayer beads in the lower middle of the photo.
Another angle of the living room.
You can see a faint chalk outline of exactly where Gary was found. His arm would have been where the right side of the first A in the watermark is located. The prayer beads were probably in his right hand.
The prayer beads.
The knife found in the spare tire well of the Fiat when Bobby was arrested.
The sword that was used by Manson to slice Gary's face. It has been said that when George Knoll, president of the Straight Satan's found out that his sword had been used in a murder he became enraged and broke the sword in half.
In the interest of things not getting out of hand in the comments section regarding the letter addressed to Robert Beausoleil in Gary's home here are images of the letter, envelope and related documentation for its being entered as an exhibit in the first trial for Gary's murder.
Exhibit Log
Exhibit noted on back
Letter page 1
Labels: Gary Hinman, murder scene
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there is a new ar directory under %programfiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.41108.0, besides the 10 directories that have been there since SL3: de, en-us, es, fr, it, ja, ko, zh-Hans, zh-Hint. The ar directory contains Arabic resources for Silverlight runtime assemblies.
We will continue adding more support to more cultures in Silverlight. The Arabic support debuted in Silverlight 4 Beta is particularly important, since it is the first RTL language Silverlight supports. If you notice any bug or have suggestions, please let me know.


Mari Coetzee presented a Major Dance Workshop at the Hexagon Theatre, University of KwaZulu Natal, on Saturday 4 June 2011. Dancers from all over KZN, who are preparing for their upcoming DASA exams, attended the workshop and gained valuable insight into required technique and dance presentation. Special thanks to Mari for a wonderful workshop and Clare von Weichardt who organised the event so successfully.
Mari discussing technique with Intermediate dancers.
Advanced dancers improving their penchée.


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Women 20, We-Fi highlight better gender-disaggregated data on access to finance
Women 20, We-Fi workshop focus how to break barriers on access to finance for women entrepreneurs across MENA.
by ANANKE February 20, 2020
Dubai (UAE): Issues facing women entrepreneurs across the MENA region were discussed today at the We-Finance Challenge workshop, co-sponsored by Women 20 (W20), held at the WE-Fi MENA Regional Summit in Dubai. The two secretariats joined forces to look at the barriers on access to finance; and the legal framework and regulations that hinder women's entrepreneurship. Specifically, they focused on the need for better gender- disaggregated data on access to finance by financial institutions and investors.
W20 Sherpa Salma Al-Rashid explained: "The We Finance Challenge has a practical purpose: to encourage the private sector to track its lending to women-led SMEs. We know that systematically collecting data helps inform both internal business and national government policies, and should then lead to increased lending. With members across the G20 countries, W20 aims to help women entrepreneurs in this important year for women."
Wendy Teleki, Head of the We-Fi Secretariat, commented: "The goal of the We-Fi Summit, including today's workshop, is to spur action to support women's entrepreneurs and convene partners to make this happen. W20 is a key stakeholder to help us move that agenda through their work with the G20."
The We-Fi MENA Regional Summit is held 16-17 February on the sidelines of the Global Women's Forum Dubai.
W20 has four focus areas in the Saudi Presidency G20 year: labor inclusion, financial inclusion, digital inclusion, and inclusive decision making. Underpinning these is the need for greater accountability in both the private and government sectors. The 2020 W20 is also promoting the cross-cutting theme of women entrepreneurship. To augment this, W20 decided to co-sponsor the We- Finance Challenge, a session where key organizations convene to discuss a joint plan of action to accelerate the number of financial institutions that are tracking their financing to women entrepreneurs.
Commenting after the sessions, W20 Sherpa Salma Al-Rashid said: "The meetings today helped us as advocates of women's empowerment – and within that the ambitious sector of society that are women entrepreneurs – to understand what steps need to be taken by financial institutions, regulators and investors to accelerate lending. The W20 is determined to build on these constructive discussions and use its platform and access to G20 to push this agenda."
About the Women 20 (W20)
The Women 20 (W20) is an official G20 engagement group established during the Turkish presidency in 2015.
It is a policy recommendation engagement group which is part of the G20 process but is independent from governments. In its functioning, it mirrors the G20 process.
Its primary objective is to ensure that the gender considerations are mainstreamed into G20 discussions and translate into the G20 Leaders' Declaration as policies and commitments that foster gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
The W20 is formed of a transnational network of delegates representing non government women's organizations, civil society, female entrepreneurs, businesses, and think tanks across G20 member states.
Through a broad dialogue facilitated by digital tools, expert meetings, roundtables and the final Summit, W20 delegates jointly formulate concrete actionable policy recommendations to advance gender equality in G20 negotiations. The W20 Communique reflects the engagement group's position with supporting evidence; while these recommendations are non-binding, they are considered by the G20 for its discussions and negotiations, and contribute to the policymaking process.
Every year, the W20 develops and addresses to the G20 Leaders a Communiqué which contains a series of actionable policy recommendations aimed at fostering gender equality and women's economic empowerment in order to boost gender-inclusive economic growth for each and every country.
About Salma Al-Rashid
Ms Salma Al-Rashid is the W20 Sherpa for the year of Saudi Arabia's Presidency of the G20. As a official delegate she has represented Saudi Arabia at W20 meetings in Argentina and Japan, and helped shaped the communiqués to G20 leaders.
Salma Al-Rashid is the Chief Advocacy Officer of the Alnadha Society. She has been the Director of the Development Program Management since 2016 after she managed the Mostaqbali "My Future" project and established Qudrah "capacity" project for volunteer work services for three years. Ms. Al-Rashid is a member of the International Association for Voluntary Efforts (IAVE), the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA). She holds a certificate in advanced study in managing non-profit organizations (CAS) from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She also holds a certificate from the Board of Directors of Voluntary Work (CCVA) in the United States.
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Some time over this past winter, an old college friend of mine reached out. "I love your blog," she said. "But do you ever bake anything without chocolate? I feel like that's all you seem to do." I laughed nervously and explained that since it was winter, there wasn't a whole lot of the fresh fruit that I liked to bake with easily available (ehem, like strawberries? Or rhubarb?). For some reason, her statement had embarrassed me and I reacted the way I always do in those situations — that is, I just laughed it off and self-deprecated as much as possible.
Later, however, I realized that it had been silly of me to respond in the way that I did. Because it's true; I love chocolate. At the end of a long hard day's work, there's nothing more I like to do but treat myself with some chocolate — a bite of a chocolate bar, usually, or some ice cream or maybe even milk. Why do I have to excuse myself for doing so? I know that it's not a particularly exciting or unique ingredient, sure, but it's probably one of my favorite flavors and a big comfort to me.
I first discovered Mast Brothers chocolate when I was last in New York City, poking around Dean and Deluca. I make a point of going shopping there every time I'm in New York, but truth be told, it's both an exciting and mildly depressing experience for me — so many fun, exciting and exotic ingredients at such exorbitant and outrageous prices! I always have to practice a lot of self-restraint, lest I walk out of the store paying $500 for five items.
Six years later, the Mast brothers have graduated from selling their chocolate from local farmer's markets to places like Dean and Deluca, from their kitchen to their own chocolate factory (complete with a tasting room!) in Brooklyn, and published Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook. The cookbook features a wide range of recipes, from drinks (like chocolate soda!) to baked goods (like these brown butter, chocolate, maple and pecan cookies) to dinners (like orange cocoa nib crusted salmon), all with chocolate as its main star. The recipes are simple yet elegant, often times with only a handful of ingredients and never exceeding more than a page for their instructions.
In the past, I'd always been intimidated by making candy, but Mast Brothers' recipe boiled it down to just seven relatively easy steps. The result was a luscious and perfectly chewy caramel paired with deep and bold dark chocolate.
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I'm not usually a sucker for specialized tools, but to succeed at making candy, it's really important to have a good candy thermometer on hand. I also prefer digital candy thermometers like this one by CDN since I find that they give you the most accurate readings and are often times instant-read.
Let's talk about tempering chocolate. It's a common step in many chocolate candy recipes, one that sounds intimidating as all hell but is actually... not. Tempering is the process of heating and cooling chocolate to the right temperature for a stable crystallization of cocoa butter. Tempered chocolate has a glossy shine with an appealing "hard snap" when bitten, whereas untempered chocolate has a weird, white powdery surface (called "bloom"). For the recipe below, I include instructions for tempering chocolate using The Seeding Method, which involves placing solid, tempered chocolate into a bowl of melted chocolate. As the solid chocolate melts, its orderly cocoa butter crystals encourage the cocoa butter in the rest of the melted chocolate to reform in the same way — shiny and snappish.
For tempering to work, it's important to use a good, high-quality chocolate bar and not chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are designed to hold their shape in high temperatures and has a different crystal structure from bar chocolate. I'm serious. Food engineering is crazy.
Generously butter an 8-inch square pan.
In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine 1 1/4 cups heavy cream and 2 cups unsalted butter. Heat over medium heat until melted. Set aside.
In a separate, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat, melt 2 cups granulated sugar. Use a candy thermometer to monitor the temperature constantly until the sugar reaches 300 (F).
When the sugar reaches 300 (F), ladle a small amount of the cream and butter mixture (from the 2nd step) to the caramelized sugar. It will boil and sputter violently, but this is normal. Continue ladling the cream and butter mixture into the sugar until completely combined; heat the mixture to 260 (F), before adding 5 ounces finely chopped dark chocolate, using a heatproof rubber spatula to stir the mixture until it is a uniform golden-brown color.
Pour the mixture into the prepared 8-inch square pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
When the caramel has cooled completely, slice the caramels into square or rectangular shapes. Transfer the caramels to a sheet of wax paper. Prepare a wire rack by placing over a baking sheet (this will catch any excess chocolate and salt that fall off the caramels).
Set aside about one-third of the 8 ounces of finely chopped chocolate. Place the remaining two-thirds of chocolate in a double boiler, or a heatproof glass or metal bowl set over a saucepan full of simmering water (if doing the latter, make sue the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water). Allow the chocolate to melt, stirring occasionally and monitoring the temperature with a candy thermometer.
When the chocolate has fully melted and reached just above 105 (F), remove the pot (or bowl) from heat. Dry the bottom of the pot (or bowl) with a dish towel, before stirring in the reserved chocolate (from the 2nd step). Stir until the chocolate temperature drops between 88 - 90 (F).
Carefully remove any unmelted pieces of chocolate and set aside. Test the temper by smearing a small amount of chocolate on wax paper, and allowing it to cool at room temperature for about 10 minutes. The chocolate should feel dry, with a smooth, streak-free and shiny finish. If the chocolate appears dull or streaky, you can melt the chocolate and repeat the tempering process.
If satisfied with the chocolate, work quickly and place an individual caramel on a fork. Dip the caramel into the bowl of tempered chocolate until completely submerged, before transferring to the prepared wire rack. Sprinkle with sea salt. Repeat until all caramels have been covered in chocolate, and allow the caramels to cool completely.
The chocolate caramels look soooo good! Really, how can you go wrong with chocolate and caramel? Last year I learned how to temper chocolate using my food processor! You don't need a thermometer but it does take a little bit of time.
i saw some of their bars in a local coffee shop the other day and then - bam - here you are featuring their book! i think it's a sign!
beautiful, beautiful candies - keep the chocolate posts coming!
these might be my favorite photos you have done. bravo lady!
Do not ever feel guilty about loving chocolate. It is the best!!
I love the way you photographed these chocolates, they look as precious as gold and silver!
Nice photos and that chocolate looks divine!
I would be really suspicious of people who DON'T like chocolate! I mean, it's CHOCOLATE! It's the warm blanket on a cold night and a soft pillow when you need something comforting These double chocolate caramels look divine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh they look just lovely, melt-in-your-mouth type candies! Yum!
so beautiful. so so so SO beautiful. that book is lovely. my fiancee and i are really into bean to bar and are launching our bean to bar chocolate co this year!!! so excited. ima have to make these, of course. you're styling and photos RULE.
Such a fan of these guys! My husband and I were lucky to get a copy for one of our anniversaries. Chocolate all day, everyday!
Gorgeous. I love mast brothers chocolate. My bars of choice! These caramels are just beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
.....and now I am drooling. Sea salt should always go with chocolate. LOVE the Mast Brothers Cookbook. Well done, girl!
I tried making these this morning, but I think I made a mistake somewhere! The caramel was coming along fine until I added the chocolate and then it became a thick mess with liquid (oil?) settling on the top. It would not blend back together. I think it could be because I used 64% dark chocolate instead of 70% as it was all I had at the time. Any advice for my next attempt?
Sorry to hear that it turned out to be a mess! I'm no chocolate expert, but I think the % of cocoa in the bar actually matters in this recipe. Also, be sure to chop up the chocolate as finely as you can, so that the two mixtures will have an easier time emulsifying.


Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Social Democratic Party, SDP, contesting the seats of Akure South Constituencies I and II into the Ondo State House of Assembly, have cried out over the alleged plan by the state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to use members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW to cause mayhem during the Saturday's election.
The candidates, who came together under the auspices of Coalition of House of Assembly Candidates, accused Akeredolu of wanting to ensure that the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerge at all cost at the polls.
The coalition, which comprises candidates of the opposition political parties of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Social Democratic Party, SDP within Akure South state constituency made the demand on Tuesday at a Press Conference held in Akure, the Ondo state capital as they urged security agencies to declare Ondo State a "Red Spot" ahead of the Saturday's House of Assembly elections.
Speaking on behalf of the candidates, Ebenezer Adeniyan, the candidate of the SDP contesting to represents Akure South Constituency I at the State House of Assembly, said that the coalition have uncovered a "grand plot" by the APC to cause violence and as well manipulate the Saturday's House of Assembly election.
Adeniyan alleged that the ruling APC had perfected the plans to rig the state assembly election by contracting the members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW.
The SDP candidate, who further admonished residents particularly, civil servants to be wary of vote buying at the polls, maintained that governor would recoup the money back by every means, which he said would tell on the economy of the state.
"We wish to bring to your notice the clandestine plots by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to cause mayhem in the House of Assembly elections on behalf of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
"This plot was hatched as a result of the poor performance of the APC in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly election in Ondo State, particularly in the central senatorial district where the party did not win any seat.
"The coming House of Assembly election has, therefore, being tagged a must win for the party, using all means necessary.
"The APC government also plans to influence a reduction in the presence of security officers in polling units where the attacks would be carried out.
"We should all take note that the factors that precipitated the 1983 election crisis in Ondo State, especially in Akure, are at play here again.
"It should be noted that the citizens would be prepared to defend themselves against their Governor and his thugs. The people of Ondo State must be allowed to make their choice freely on March 9 without intimidation and violence.
"The desperation of Governor Akeredolu and APC to gain the control of the state by declaring war on the people would be resisted by our members as this State belongs to all of us" the SDP candidate said.
Also Speaking, Lade Fasua, Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP contesting to represent Akure South Constituency II, said that the opposition candidates are ready to resist any attempt by Governor Akeredolu and ruling APC to manipulate the House of Assembly election on Saturday.
"We shall encourage our followers, members of our parties and the people to defend themselves and their votes on March 9.
"To forestall breakdown of law and order before, during and after the election, we therefore call on all the security agencies in the state, critical stakeholders to call the Governor to order and do everything possible to protect the people of Ondo State and their votes on March 9.
"The 1983 political violence and its aftermath still linger on; Governor Akeredolu should not set the state on fire because of his desperation," Fasua said.


In this extract from the Samuel Johnson and Costa Prize winning H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald introduces the art of ringing wild goshawks.
Bonjour Tristesse… a design story.
A short and sweet novella, written by the teenage Françoise Sagan that scandalised 1950s France, Bonjour Tristesse is the shimmering, stylish story of Cécile over one hot summer. Here we take a look at the design of the book since it was first published by Penguin in 1956.


As we age, we tend to get a little self-conscious about how we look. That's also a bit true of Singapore, which is turning 50 this month. And it's celebrating with a truly extreme makeover –- reinventing itself inside and out.
The city state is going so far as to build a second Singapore: a digital twin of itself. That digital model is designed to not only help optimize the country now, and but also shape its next 50 years.
Singapore's first 50 years were marked by tremendous success in shipping, oil refining, electronics and banking. But those industries are already showing their age, which, in turn, is causing Singapore to show its age. Weakness in some of those areas is taking a toll on its economy.
With electronics manufacturing, for example, Singapore once provided the low-cost workforce to the world. Now, countries with less expensive labor have taken that work from Singapore, leaving its citizens with a relatively high cost of living and poor job prospects.
Combine that with rapid immigration, an aging population and shrinking worker productivity, and Singapore realizes that to be strong for its next 50 years, it needs to make changes today.
Programmers are already working on Virtual Singapore now and they expect to launch the digital twin in 2018. The twin will be a truly dynamic model of the country, overlaying real-time data, such as climate and demographic information, over geometric, geospatial and topology information.
Analytics and simulation capabilities will let researchers, developers and city staff test scenarios digitally to discover the impact they would likely have in the real-world.
Virtual Singapore is not without its critics. Some believe the project is too large and contains too much data. But the hope is that the digital test environment will allow the country to develop and prove concepts much faster and at very low risk, accelerating its pace of improvements.
One key objective is to completely overhaul its economy. Nearly half the residents still have non-professional jobs, such as staffing assembly lines and cleaning. Singapore has visions of being a global research and innovation hub.
Using technology is one component. The country has visions of its roads filled with autonomous vehicles. Every home will be connected with fiber-optic cable. Food will grow in gardens on the top of skyscrapers.
But Singapore is also changing its approach to allow innovation to happen, rather than trying to force it. So far, three technology parks are being developed, each with a unique focus: biomedical, digital media and information technology and engineering.
Biopolis, the biomedical technology park, is already thriving with pharmaceutical companies including Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Novartis, Schering-Plough and Takeda setting up research and development facilities there. The campus also includes public sector research institutes, allowing the public and private sectors to easily collaborate, reducing their costs.
For its part, the Singapore government is letting those with the ideas lead. The government once tried to manage everything. Now, it's an investor, and the ultimate investment is in itself.
Kevin Ebi is a staff writer and social media coordinator for the Council. Follow @smartccouncil on Twitter.


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One night several years ago after getting off work about 2 AM, I walked up one set of stairs to get to my place, I slipped on something that fell from a tree. My ankle had turned outward and I heard a pop and experienced excruciating pain. I hopped up the stairs. I immediately put on an ice pack.
Later that morning, I made an appointment to see my doctor to make sure it wasn't broken. He referred me to the Ortho clinic and I was given a splint to wear, crutches, told to ice it, keep it elevated and prescribed a pain medicine which I didn't take.
There were no breaks in the bone, but three torn ligaments two on one side and one on the other with swelling. I was told that these injuries take a long time to heal.
I got home and read my essential oils reference book to find what I needed for ligaments and mixed Wintergreen and Lemongrass and put on 3-4 drops on the area and massaged it in. I did it for 2 weeks, 3 times a day.
After the 1st week I was walking without a limp, swelling or pain. After the 2nd week, I didn't realize that I had an injury. Several people who had the same experience told me that they still had problems a year later.
To this day there is no pain. If I'm on my feet for several hours I may have minor swelling but nothing else.
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Where can you watch 1,200 monks queuing for alms, visit a temple that entranced Rudyard Kipling and started a war, and see fishermen rowing with their feet? The answer is 2012's most talked-about destination, Burma – find out more in the latest inspiring issue of Wanderlust.
This month, we also get off the beaten track in Colombia, Colorado and Albania, and showcase some incredible photos of Outback Australia. Plus mini guides to Prague, Montreal and the Cairngorms, 7 ways to wear a sarong, and why a hip replacement is no barrier to adventure for 80-year-old wanderwoman Dervla Murphy.
All four winners from last year's travel photo of the year competition blogged from the road for the Wanderlust website. Check out their articles here: Photo of the Year winners return.
We also have a bumper crop of images that didn't make it into the magazine. Take a look at each photographer's galleries here: Jan Koštál; Mark Davies; Nori Jemil; Andrew Deer.
A golden future for Burma?