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Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union

Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMPIU)
Founded 1842
Members 28,003 (January 24, 2013)[1]
Affiliation AFL-CIO and CLC
Key people Bruce R. Smith, International President
Office location Media, Pennsylvania
Country United States & Canada

The Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union is a labor union which represents about 28,000 craft and industrial workers primarily in the ceramics, china, craft metals, fiberglass, glass, insulation, and pottery industries. It is one of the oldest unions in the United States, with its first locals formed in 1842.

Early glassmakers' unions

In 1842, craftsmen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed a glass blowers' union that represented workers throughout the region.[2][3] John Samuels was elected the first president.[2] Several other local glass blowers' unions joined the nascent national union, which adopted the name Glass Blowers' League.[2] The union represented workers who made soda-lime glass (or "green glass").[4][5] The new national union slowly disintegrated over the following quarter century, but glass blowers met again in 1866 and affirmed their affiliation to the Glass Blowers' League and its 1842 constitution.[2][3] The reinvigorated union also changed its name to the Druggists' Ware Glass Blowers' League.[2][3] Membership was largely centered in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, then the center of the glass industry in the U.S.[6]

The glass blowers faced a major challenge in the 1880s from a new union, the American Flint Glass Workers' Union of North America (AFGWU). Flint glass, commonly known as "crystal",[7] was made in closed pots to protect the glass from impurities (unlike green glass), and generally the flint glass workforce was more highly skilled.[4] The AFGWU formed in Pittsburgh in 1878, and within four short years had locals throughout West Virginia and Ohio and was spreading east.[8] Feeling threatened by the new union, the Glass Blowers waged several bitter jurisdictional strikes against the AFGWU in the 1880s and 1890s.[9] The union's jurisdictional fight was an important one. Highly skilled workers like glass blowers made up 15 percent of the entire workforce. While 45 percent of American workers made just enough money in the 1880s to be at or above the poverty line ($500 a year), another 30 percent made less than that. A shocking 10 percent of all full-time workers made so little money they were considered absolutely destitute. Glass blowers, however, made 60 to 100 percent more than the average worker, and were considered the "cream" of the working class.[10]

Joining the Knights of Labor

The union was also confronting a diversifying glass industry. Newer glassworks tended to be better capitalized, and paid workers better. Distinct differences between glassworks in the east and west emerged, and the union created an eastern and western division in 1884 to accommodate these industry changes.[2][11] The eastern division of the Druggists' Ware Glass Blowers' League dissolved in 1886 and joined District 149 of the Knights of Labor (KOL), while the western division dissolved in 1889 and joined KOL District 143.[2][3] An independent union of glass blowers, the "Western Green League," formed in western Pennsylvania around 1880 but merged with the Knights of Labor in 1886 as well.[3]

Child labor and apprenticeships were major issues for the union in the 1880s as well. One in four workers in the green glass industry was a child.[4] Apprenticeships in the green glass factories lasted four years.[4] But the apprentice system was operated by the employers, who took on large numbers of apprentices in order to flood the market with skilled workers and thus put a downward pressure on wages.[12] After the merger with the Knights of Labor in 1886, the glass workers' union struck to win control over the apprenticeship system. The eastern District 149 demanded one apprentice for every 15 workers, but the western District 143 accepted two.[13] The strike lasted into 1887, and the eastern District 149 glass blowers—angry over the employer-friendly stand taken by the western district—disaffiliated from the KOL. Employers instituted a lockout against the eastern workers.[4] At an employer-union conference in 1887, a compromise was reached. The union not only won agreement on the apprentice issue but also an industry-wide agreement setting uniform wages and work rules. The agreement even listed the physical movements all workers would be expected to do.[14]

Forming the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association

In 1891, after four years of labor unrest, the two KOL glass blowers' divisions merged to become the United Green Glass Workers' Association of the United States and Canada.[2][11][15][16] The glass blowers disaffiliated from the KOL in 1895 and formed a new, independent union, the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association (GBBA) of the United States and Canada.[11][15][16][17] Denis A. Hayes was elected the new union's president in 1896, a position he held for the next three decades.[17] The GBBA affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1899.[11]

History of the modern union

Affiliations and jurisdiction

The GBBA struck the glass blowing industry in a lengthy strike from April 8, 1899, to July 1, 1900, that led to the unionization of all but two glass plants.[18] By 1900, the GBBA had 61 local unions and 4,300 members.[19] The GBBA, with the consent of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union (AFGWU), affiliated the Prescription Glass Blowers' department of the AFGWU.[20] In 1906, one scholar of trade union activity noted that the GBBA tended to hold regional or national strikes, and only rarely struck individual employers.[21]

Disputes with the AFGWU did not end, however. Mechanization tended to eliminate the skill differences between flint glass and green glass workers, and the two unions clashed repeatedly over who should represent glass industry workers. Bottle and fruit jar manufacturing had long been "green glass work", but now the two unions enter into a bitter dispute over who should represent workers in this section of the industry. When the [22]

The challenge of mechanization

In 1904, Michael Joseph Owens received the first American patent for an automatic glass bottle blowing machine, which transformed the glass bottle and jar industry.[23] The GBBA strongly opposed mechanization,[24] but there was little they could do to stop new companies from employing the technology. Mechanization turned glassmaking from a skilled profession to an unskilled one.[25] Output tripled, and so many workers were needed that the surplus of apprentices was more than easily absorbed.[4] But as bottle-making became an unskilled profession, the GBBA responded by allowing union wage rates to fall dramatically.[26]

Between the [28]

To counteract the membership problem, the GBBA began organizing all workers in glass factories, not just blowers. This was a major change for the union. Previously, the GBBA had adhered to a philosophy known as Minotola, New Jersey—both of which had resisted unionization for decades.[29]

World War I proved to be a boon for the union. Immigration from Europe to the United States almost came to a stop, eliminating a major source of cheap labor. Additionally, major production increases necessitated by the war effort led to significant wage increases, extensive overtime, and many new hires. But adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment and passage of the Volstead Act led to nationwide Prohibition in 1920. The need for glass dropped precipitously, leading to major membership losses and wage decreases.[30]

When John Maloney was elected president of the GBBA in 1924, the union was in crisis. With just 1,800 members and the union running a large budget deficit, Maloney cut the salaries of officers and staff, eliminated staff, and canceled publication of the union magazine. He also began working with the [32] In 1932, the Glass Blowers, the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, and the Allied Association of Hotel and Stewards' Associations openly lobbied for Prohibition's repeal before Congress.[33]

The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 and the advent of World War II greatly improved the economics of the glass industry, and led to widespread re-employment of glass workers. The GBBA responded with a strong organizing effort. The 1933 [35] But in 1937, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers challenged the GBBA's right to the neon sign workers. It won, and by 1938 nearly all of the neon sign locals had left the GBBA.[36]

Union membership continued to grow, however, and by 1939 reached 18,000.[37] Organizing efforts were greatly assisted by a [39]

Organizational change in the post-war period

Organizational issues vexed the union in the 1940s. In 1940, the union expanded its Executive Board to nine members from eight, which gave a seat to locals on the West Coast.[40] The formation of the [41]

President Maloney retired in 1946 in ill health. He was succeeded by Lee Minton. With the union having organized every single plant in the glass container industry, Minton won the membership's approval to re-establish the union newsletter for the first time since 1924.[42] In 1950, Minton won another victory when the union established its first penion plan for its members.[43]

The post-war era saw additional pressures on the glass industry. Beer was now being sold in tin cans rather than bottles, and milk was deliverd in waxed cardboard cartons. The union began organizing outside its traditional jurisdiction for the first time. The union reasoned that it was not glass that gave the union its unique nature, but blowing and molding. Subsequently, it began organizing in the [45]

The AFL and the CIO merged in 1955. The GBBA was one of the first unions to take advantage of the unification, and in opened merger talks with its CIO counterpart. In March 1957, the CIO's 32,000-member United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America merged with the 52,000-member GBBA.[46]

Strikes in the 1960s

More than 75 years of labor peace in the glass industry ended in 1965. In March of that year, the GMPIU struck at 86 glass plants east of the Rocky Mountains. The strike lasted 11 days, and involved 32,000 workers. The union won a 15 percent wage increase over three years, establishment of an industry-wide health and life insurance plan, and pension portability for workers who are at least 40 years of age, have 15 years of service, and are laid off due to automation or permanent plant shutdown.[47] A pact for West Coast workers achieved a 21.8 percent wage increase over three years. The agreement included a clause under which employers either offered a 10 percent production bonus plan or were forced to raise base wages another 20 percent.[48]

The union struck again in February 1968, walking out at 95 percent of all glass factories nationwide. This strike lasted 51 days.[49] Glass container workers won a hefty 15.7 to 24 percent wage increase, and a major increase in the employer contribution to the pension plan. Machine operators won a 10.8 to 13.9 percent wage increase.[50] The wage increases led to a price in the increase in glass, however.[51]

Gender consolidation and mergers of the 1970s and 1980s

Into the early 1970s, the GBBA maintained several locals which were segregated by gender. However, in Local No. 106, Glass Bottle Blowers Association, AFL-CIO (Owens-Illinois, Inc.) and Local No. 245, Glass Bottle Blowers Association, AFL-CIO (Owens-Illinois, Inc.) 210 NLRB 943 (1974), the National Labor Relations Board ruled that gender-segregated locals violated the right of workers to elect representatives of their own choosing, and the locals were merged.[52]

Mechanization, the movement away from glass containers, and the movement of manufacturing to emerging nations with cheaper labor costs led many unions in the ceramics, glass, and pottery industries to rapidly lose members. The AFL-CIO established a Stone, Glass and Clay Coordinating Committee to coordinate the collective bargaining activities of these shrinking unions and strengthen their activities in this area. The coordinating committee also encouraged union mergers. This latter effort had some success. In 1975, the former Glass Bottle Blowers Association (GBBA) merged with the Window Glass Cutters League.[53]

Additional mergers followed in the 1980s. The International Brotherhood of Pottery and Allied Workers merged with the Glass Bottle Blowers Association to form the Glass, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GPPAW).[54][55] Six years later, in 1988, the International Molders and Allied Workers, a union of iron molders, merged with the union to form the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMPIU).[54][56] Barrel makers, the Coopers' International Union of North America, followed in 1992.[54][56]

With the Coopers merger, the GMPIU had about 80,000 members in the United States and Canada in about 435 locals.[54] Job losses continued, however. As of 2009, the union had just 30,392 members.[57] The Great Recession cut heavily into its membership, and by the end of 2012 it had just over 28,000 members.[1]

The GMPIU had no headquarters until 1895, when it rented a single room at 119 South 4th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A few years later, the union moved into the historic Witherspoon Building at 1319-1323 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. A short time later, it rented larger quarters in the Witherspoon Building.[58]

The union eventually moved into the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building at 12 South 12th Street in the 1930s.[58] But within 20 years, it, too, had grown too small. In 1953, the union purchased the 18-story Lanesborough Building at 226 South 16th Street in Philadelphia. It occupied two floors in the structure, and rented out the rest to generate income.[59]

The Lanesborough Building was deteriorating by 1975, so the union sold it and moved to space at 608 East Baltimore Pike in Media, Pennsylvania.[54]

As of 1993, the GMP had 35 staff working at its headquarters.[54]

Presidents of the union

John Samuels is generally recognized as the first "president" of the glass blowers' union, elected in 1842. But the present union traces its existence to 1876 and the election of Samuel Simpson as its first president. The list of presidents of the union includes:[54][60]

  • Samuel Simpson - 1876 to 1880
  • Louis Arrington - 1880 to 1894
  • Joseph D. Troth - 1894 to 1896
  • Denis A. Hayes - 1896 to 1917
  • John A. Voll - 1917 to 1924
  • James Maloney - 1924 to 1946
  • Lee Minton - 1946 to 1973
  • Harry A. Tulley - 1973 to 1977
  • James E. Hatfield - 1977 to 1994[61]
  • Frank W. Carter - 1994 to 1997[62]
  • James H. Rankin - 1997 to 2004[63]
  • John P. Ryan - July 1, 2004 to January 26, 2010[64][65]
  • Bruce Smith - January 26, 2010 to present (as of 2013)[65][66]

  1. ^ a b Office of Labor-Management Standards. Employment Standards Administration. U.S. Department of Labor. Form LM-2 labor Organization Annual Report. Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union. File Number: 000-201. January 24, 2013. Accessed 2013-11-19.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Flannery, p. 113.
  3. ^ a b c d e McCabe, p. 155.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Fones-Wolf, p. 15.
  5. ^ "Green glass" or "bottle glass" is the cheapest and hardest glass. It consists of silica, lime, clay, and a small amount of alkaline ashes. The ash was usually created by burning barilla, kelp, or wood. Impurities in the ash give the glass a green tinge. It is quite hard and strong, and resists corrosion.
  6. ^ Fones-Wolf, p. 14.
  7. ^ Flint glass consists of three parts of silica, two parts of red oxide of lead, one part of potassium carbonate, and trace amounts of arsenic, manganese, and niter.
  8. ^ Skrabec, Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker, p. 42.
  9. ^ Ulman, p. 151.
  10. ^ Reef, p. 33.
  11. ^ a b c d Kaufman, et al., p. 558.
  12. ^ Minton, p. 13, 15.
  13. ^ Minton, p. 15-16.
  14. ^ Davis, p. 145; Bonnett, p. 271.
  15. ^ a b McCabe, p. 156.
  16. ^ a b Fones-Wolf, p. 14-15.
  17. ^ a b Flannery, p. 114.
  18. ^ United States Industrial Commission, p. 172, 174.
  19. ^ United States Industrial Commission, p. 172.
  20. ^ Ulman, p. 319.
  21. ^ Sakolski, p. 55-56.
  22. ^ Fink, p. 128.
  23. ^ Skrabec, Michael Owens and the Glass Industry, p. 188-196.
  24. ^ Flannery, p. 95.
  25. ^ Skrabec, Henry Clay Frick, p. 229.
  26. ^ Ulman, p. 32-33.
  27. ^ Minton, p. 52-53.
  28. ^ Minton, p. 56-58.
  29. ^ Minton, p. 59-61.
  30. ^ Minton, p. 64.
  31. ^ Minton, p. 77.
  32. ^ Gusfield, p. 127-128.
  33. ^ Colman, p. 33.
  34. ^ Minton, p. 95.
  35. ^ Minton, p. 96-97.
  36. ^ Minton, p. 101.
  37. ^ Minton, p. 104.
  38. ^ "Bottle Makers Vote to Unionize Industry." New York Times. July 31, 1937.
  39. ^ Minton, p. 78.
  40. ^ Minton, p. 106.
  41. ^ Minton, p. 108.
  42. ^ Minton, p. 112, 114.
  43. ^ Minton, p. 115.
  44. ^ Minton, p. 116.
  45. ^ Minton, p. 119.
  46. ^ "Glass Unions to Merge." New York Times. March 5, 1957.
  47. ^ "Glass Union Strikes As Late Talks Fail." New York Times. March 18, 1965; "Glass Bottle Workers Block Train at Struck Illinois Plant." New York Times. March 23, 1965; "Glass Bottle Union Accepts New Pact, Ending U.S. Strike." New York Times. March 29, 1965.
  48. ^ "Walkout Averted in Glass Industry." New York Times. April 5, 1965.
  49. ^ Minton, p. 137.
  50. ^ "Glass Companies Struck." New York Times. February 1, 1968; "A New Offer in Glass Talks Is Made by Union Officials." New York Times. March 13, 1968; "Union Offer Vetoed By Bottle Makers." New York Times. March 14, 1968; "Unino Offer Vetoed By Bottle Makers." New York Times. March 15, 1968; Hammer, Alexander R. "Strike Hampers Users of Bottles." New York Times. March 18, 1968; "Glass Strikers Get Federal Peace Plea." New York Times. March 22, 1968; "Bottle Strike Ends With New Contract." New York Times. March 23, 1968; "Bottle Picketing Continues." New York Times. March 24, 1968; "Accord Is Reached in Glass Industry." New York Times. April 3, 1968.
  51. ^ Wilcke, Gerd. "Prices Increased By Glass Makers." New York Times. April 4, 1968.
  52. ^ A Working Woman’s Guide to Her Job Rights, p. 40.
  53. ^ "Glass Cutters Join With Bottle Blowers." Waco Tribune-Herald. August 31, 1975.
  54. ^ a b c d e f g Kennedy, Joseph S. "In Struggle To Survive, A Union Changes, Grows." Philadelphia Inquirer. January 21, 1993.
  55. ^ Chaison, p. 167.
  56. ^ a b Chaison, p. 169.
  57. ^ Office of Labor-Management Standards. Employment Standards Administration. U.S. Department of Labor. Form LM-2 labor Organization Annual Report. Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union. File Number: 000-201. Dated January 27, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
  58. ^ a b Minton, p. 120.
  59. ^ Minton, p. 119-120.
  60. ^ Minton, p. 68, 70-71.
  61. ^ President Hatfield resigned at the union's Executive Board meeting after serving only two years of a four-year term.
  62. ^ President Carter served out the remainder of President Hatfield's term of office, and declined to run for election to a full term.
  63. ^ President Rankin assumed office on October 1, 1997. He won re-election in 2001, but did not serve out his full term. He stepped down as president in June 2004.
  64. ^ President Ryan was sworn in on July 1, 2004.
  65. ^ a b President Ryan resigned at the union's January 2010 Executive Board meeting. International Vice President Bruce R. Smith was sworn in as president. See: January/February 2010, p. 2.GMP Horizons."GMP Executive Board Meets, Proposed Budget for 2010 Affirmed." Accessed 2013-11-22.
  66. ^ President Smith served out the remaining two years of President Ryan's term. He was re-elected as president in 2013.

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External links

  • GMPIU Web site
  • "Guide to the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada Records, 1890-1940." Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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    Traditionally, energy consumers pay non-commodity charges (e.g. transmission, environmental and network costs) as a major component of their energy bills. With the distributed energy generation, enabling energy consumption close to producers can minimize such costs. The physically constrained energy prosumers in power networks can be logically grouped into virtual microgrids (VMGs) using communication systems. Prosumer benefits can be optimised by modelling the energy trading interactions among producers and consumers in a VMG as a Stackelberg game in which producers lead and consumers follow. Considering renewable (RES) and non-renewable energy (nRES) resources, and given that RES are unpredictable thus unschedulable, we also describe cost and utility models that include load uncertainty demands of producers. The results show that under Stackelberg equilibrium (SE), the costs incurred by a consumer for procuring either the RES or nRES are significantly reduced while the derived utility by producer is maximized. We further show that when the number of prosumers in the VMG increases, the CO2 emission cost and consequently the energy cost are minimized at the SE. Lastly, we evaluate the peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading scenario involving noncooperative energy prosumers with and without Stackelberg game. The results show that the P2P energy prosumers attain 47% higher benefits with Stackelberg game.

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The Firefighters' Museum of Nova Scotia is located at 451 Main St., Yarmouth, N.S. It is the only museum in Canada dedicated to the early years of firefighting history. A two storey Italianate style industrial building of concrete and concrete block construction, it was erected in 1915 as an automobile garage. Over the years it has housed Trefry's Garage (1926 - 1030), Main Street Garage (1930 - 1935), and Motor Mart, Ltd. (1935 - 1940, 1946 - 1954, 1955 - 1972).

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Reclaimed Wood Sign

This wooden sign brings a smile to my face and a reminder of who is to be worshiped and adored each time I walk through my living room. I am so thankful for my Savior and I want to be sure that my home  reflects that. I want my children to know Jesus Christ and his love for them.

I've been seeing some beautiful signs on Pinterest for awhile and had the desire to create one for our household. A few weeks ago, while driving to pick up our Christmas tree, I drove past some old fence wood on the side of the road. It was too long for my car and full of nails but I grabbed what I could fit and went to get our tree. It was an adventure getting it all in the car but I'm so glad I stopped for this wood because it was beautiful! I went back for more two days later but sadly it was gone as I figured it would be.

In preparing for the Christmas season, I have been trying to find ways to bring Christ into our home in a  very visible way. I had a few sayings going through my head that I was trying to decide between. Here were my top four choices.

1. Wise men still seek Him
2. True love was born in a stable
3. for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord
4. Oh come let us adore Him Christ the Lord

I settled on number four and went to work. With two kids (2 and 4) I am able to accomplish a lot but I do almost all of my projects in little baby steps. Please note that this project took me about two weeks from start to finish. I cut the wood one night. I screwed it all together during a nap time. On another day, I worked on the graphic and it took about three different sessions to transfer the words to wood and paint them. If you want to do this, you CAN do it but it will take some time and isn't a 30 minute project...especially if you have young kids like me.

I first cut the wood. The sign ended up being about 26" wide and 20" long. I tried to use the wood from the ends as much as possible as they had the fence post ends and were weathered. I just left the saw cuts raw. I lined the wood up and then turned it over and placed two pieces of furring strip on the back that I had leftover from another project. I predrilled the furring strips and then sunk a screw through each furring strip into the fence wood and it was ready to paint.

Now came the hard part. If you want to make a sign exactly like mine, I'm happy to share a .jpg of the graphic for you to print. I downloaded some fonts that looked pretty and played around with the text, size and layout in Photoshop for quite some time until I ended up with the final product. I then printed it section by section until I had the whole graphic printed in pieces. I trimmed the edges off and taped the whole thing together. I then cut out the word "Lord" first and followed this tutorial from Pinterest to transfer the words to the wood using chalk and a ball-point pen. I immediately painted the word "Lord" so I wouldn't lose my chalk transfer. Next I worked on "Christ the." I slowly moved my way up the sign until I was finished.

I have worked with transferring images to wood before and this chalk method was very easy to do and best of all, you don't need an expensive machine. Just a printer, chalk and a pen. I'm sure I'll be using the chalk method to make many more signs for my home and for friends.

Here is the finished product hanging in my home. I predrilled two small holes in the side of the furring strips and twisted in little eye hooks. I then strung wire through the eye hooks to make a hanger on the back. I'm very pleased with the finished product and hope you're inspired to go make your own wood sign now. Total out of pocket cost = FREE.

I included the graphic I made at the bottom of this post. I don't know if this will work for you all who want it. Please let me know if you're able to save and print the graphic in a format that works for you or if I need to figure out something else to share it.

  1. Ooooh, I really like this. I have no idea what a furring strip is but I can google it. I've been wanting to make myself a sign for awhile but haven't yet (I am not a "crafty" person, lol!). But I'd really love to try it (would you come hold my hand? Lol!)

    May I pin this, please?

    I also love your desire to reflect Christ to your children. When they're young, you pray and wonder if they will grow up in the faith you are trying to model for them, and take it as their own.

    You pray that they will truly come to know and grow in Christ, and lean on Him and grow closer to Him.

    My children are now 19 and 24, and it has been a blessing to watch them grow in the Lord. They are both involved with our church, one plays on the worship team (and also leads the youth worship team), and they both are leaders in Awana and one works with high school kids as well and also is a mentor to them. I am proud of the men they have become.

    So stay the course, mom! Keep loving those babies and stay close to the Lord. We can never lead our children any closer to the Lord than we are ourselves!

  2. So glad you like the sign. I'd be happy to help walk you through it. A furring strip is basically a really inexpensive 1x2. They're usually about $0.90-1.50 for an 8 ft section. It measures about 1x3/4 in width.
    You're welcome to pin this project.
    Thank you for your thoughts on raising children in the Lord. My parents were examples to both my sister and I and we are both following the Lord and seek to train our children up to know and love the Lord as well. So happy to hear your sons are walking with the Lord. May they continue to do so all of their days.

  3. Megan, your sign is beautiful...You did a great job on it. Love the saying as well...Merry Christmas :)

  4. You did a great job! I've done a few projects (a scrap wood tree for Christmas was one) for our home. Love the look. Visiting from roadkill rescue.
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  5. Love this! Great job on the font choices too. And I just love your pic of that sweet baby asleep next to your wood find! Ha! Also visiting from Roadkill Rescue.

  6. Hi there - I love your sign - would you be able to send the jpg file to me that you mentioned? not sure the best way to do that but if it's possible let me know and i can get back to you with an email address. also, i have not used this chalk method before - when the project is finished can the chalk be smudged? do you need to seal it with something? thanks for your help :)

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It all started back when I was 8 living in the Bronx with my mother. One day she came home with bootleg CDs which happen to be 2Pac and Biggie. From that point on I fell in love. I began writing all the lyrics down to memorize the songs and even recorded them on tapes.

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I’m from New York. We have a lot of hot new artists coming out and I’m the only thing that’s missing. I lived in the Bronx but then moved to Harlem as a kid. To impress someone from NY is tough, so I had to always bring my A-game. As long as what you’re spittin’ is real, the fans will relate.

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A year from today I will have achieved the goals I set for myself and will be in a better position. I will continue to grind and absorb more knowledge to better my company.

Who and what were your biggest inspirations? Who do you look up to in today’s world?
My biggest inspiration is myself. I always felt I had to do better than the last time. I look up to successful people, any one that achieved their dream motives me to do the same.

How do you feel about the music coming out today? Do you like it?
I like the music coming from my city. We have a lot of new hot artists making a name for themselves. Even the dudes that have been in the game are spittin’ fire.

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  2. Nice! When I read this I think that ˝You˝ in the story is actually Me=)

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  3. This piece is wonderful! I felt like you were describing me, because I notice things in this way (deeply, intensely)…I didn’t know that other people did this as well!!! Thank you, Patricia!

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In the decade since becoming a full time professor, medical anthropology has been one of my core courses. I have taught it seven times.  Although the basic structure of the course remains similar, emphases have shifted over time. Perhaps I can best highlight the evolution of the course through a discussion of readings I use since readings are the backbone of a syllabus.  Even though I generally do not follow texts closely since I see lectures as overlapping but also supplemental and complimentary to readings, I try to mirror topics that they will be reading about, often highlighting a general theoretical literature or approach while the students read a single illustration.

Starting from the beginning, my history of medical anthropology remains the same, focusing on when “medicine” was subsumed into broad and now antiquated anthropological categories of magic and witchcraft. I never stray far from Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles & Magic Among The Azande, an apparent professional contractual obligation for meAlthough I have given them the entire ethnography [the abridged in print edition] to read twice in the past, I have more lately just given them a short excerpt, often “The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events.” I once also used W.H. Rivers Medicine, Magic and Religion but, although fascinating and of historic importance, it proved esoteric for an undergraduate course.  When I first started teaching, I tried to include more on non-Western medical systems, including using ethnographies on Traditional Chinese Medicine or Tibetan medicine. More recent students may be disappointed that I do not delve further into non-Western medical systems, what many students with hazy ideas of the discipline may think a medical anthropology course should almost entirely consist of. I do this because my own research background and training as a medical anthropologist sees the discipline’s core strengths in its pursuit of biomedical technologies and practices as anthropological objects.

In addressing questions of medical pluralism, like many other colleagues, I have used Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, a book I first encountered as a teaching assistant at the dawn of the 21st century. It is accessible and students respond well to it, but I used it with certain hesitations; it is also anthropologically reductive and the “clash of cultures” is presented with such broad strokes that it may serve to re-enforce rather than challenge students’ long held stereotypes about non-western cultures (see Janelle Taylor’s critique here). On the other hand, because it works so well to ensnare student interest, I have had trouble abandoning it completely and have come back to it in the past.  This year, I chose Eula Biss’s On Immunity. If The Spirit Catches You presents a clash centered on competing explanatory models and conflict over belief, this personal non-fiction essay explores the world of vaccination fears without the exoticization. It is popular and accessible but also anthropological in a similar vein while also confronting students on “our” own “strange” beliefs. During this part of the course, I assign a first paper in which students analyze a form of “complimentary and alternative medicine” with the goal of trying to understand, among other questions, why people choose certain therapies when their “native” system may not endorse or recognize their use.

With a brief detour through culture bound syndromes that end with examining the DSM-5 itself as culture bound, the next section of the course proceeds historically through the discipline’s history as anthropologists tentatively moved towards analyzing biomedicine through explanatory models and the role of illness narratives and illness experience. I have used ethnographies in the past, including Paul Stoller’s excellent autoethnography/cancer memoir Stranger In the Village of the Sick. This year, I decided to experiment with form in choosing David Small’s Stitches, a graphic novel that illuminates a classic biopsychosocial account of illness in which the illness experience is inseparable from emotional states, social environment and dysfunctional family dynamics (in particular since the illness is iatrogenically induced by his doctor/father’s use of x-rays). For this section, I have students write their own illness narrative, either drawing from the experience of a family member or an example drawn from popular culture (a TV show, film, podcast, blog. i.e. as a model, I often use Breaking Bad as a good – or bad – example featuring this century’s greatest pop cultural illness narrative).

From the individual suffering involved in illness narratives, the course then proceeds to address issues of social suffering and structural violence, not areas of the field in which I orient myself towards but ones that are important to represent as part of our discipline’s core strengths. When I started teaching I used Aids and Accusation. Since then, I have used some of Farmer’s other collected volumes, as well as João Biehl’s Vita and Philippe Bourgois’ Righteous Dopefiend. Following in that tradition, I am using Fresh Fruits, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes this year. Given that this course attracts a lot of medical students who have never taken an anthropology course before, often with limited ideas of what the discipline is about and who subsequently express to me bewilderment at what a seemingly strange class it is compared to the other health-related social science courses they may take, the idea of using an ethnography by an MD/PhD is appealing and helps to bridge the course’s student divide.  Furthermore, as a US citizen who has spent almost two decades in Canada but now feeling alienated by the new political reality south of the border, the choice was also shaped by the thought of having students read about the everyday lives and realities of one of the primary villains of Trump’s campaign rhetoric.

If this work takes Trump’s targets as empathetic ethnographic subjects allowing students to examine issues of inequality and structural violence, my next choice reveals its flip side – the world of Trump voters inside the rust belt. Here I reached outside of the discipline yet again to popular journalistic non-fiction in picking Dreamland: the true tale of America’s opiate epidemic by Sam Quinones. If Trump was put into office by feelings of hopelessness and despair from rust belt of voters that also live in the opioid “death belt,” Dreamland offers a sympathetic window into those lives while also showing the larger geopolitical economy connecting illicit narcotic markets to pharmaceuticals to changing medical practices to hopelessness that have all shaped the epidemic. It also helps to provide a launching pad to explore more general anthropological issues around public health.

The final part of the course focuses on the anthropology of biomedicine. Margaret Lock and Vinh Kim Nguyen’s An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an obvious choice and a wonderful text that I have used twice before but students have found it too difficult. It would undoubtedly work better for students in their final year of undergraduate study, a more advanced rather than introductory medical anthropology course, and/or for a class comprised exclusively of anthropology students who already have a strong base in the discipline. This year, now feeling somewhat sheepish over having only assigned one ethnography and three other books written by non-anthropologists, I make them dive into journal articles – each handling the different topics – from organ transplantation to genetics to new reproductive technologies and so on.

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Ari Gandsman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

The “Experiments with pedagogy” series is edited by Hanna Kienzler.

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  1. Great suggestions. I am a professor of nursing, global health, and social medicine, have been a primary care provider for 32 years, and am working on a degree in med anthro. I am currently teaching a nursing course that examines the social-economic-political-historical context of chronic disease- something that is rarely taught in nursing courses- with a focus on the social embodiment of racism, poverty, and trauma. I would love to get more suggestions for things that might work with nursing students who have no background in anthropology.

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The Industrial Revolution led to a mad race amongst European nations to secure cheap and reliable sources of raw materials for their new industries. Today, the success or failure of a business depends on assured supply of energy at an affordable price. The modern world—from its laser machines and hi-tech industrial equipment to its IT networks and smartphones—runs on energy. A 2010 UN survey of 766 CEOs saw energy sustainability being ranked as ‘important’ or ‘very important’ by more than 90% of the respondents.

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Eight Seconds

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Scene Title Eight Seconds
Synopsis Hana and Nora in an otherwise unoccupied courtyard of a morning — take two.
Date December 23, 2010

Pollepel Island: A Courtyard outside Bannerman's Castle

Whether the courtyard is empty today or just seems to be is something that Nora can't totally be sure of. No radio is turned on this morning, however, and she murmurs tentatively, "Anyone here?" and waits for several moments. When no reply comes, her dark brows knit with concentration as she slowly turns around step by slow step, as if surveying the area's circumference, as if looking for something with those eyes that can't see.

Deciding finally that she is alone, she moves to the center of the yard. She wears no coat — the temperature is chilly but not frigid, the cloud layer above providing an insulating effect — but instead just a couple of layers of sweaters on top of leggings and her Ugg boots. The last is not the best choice for what she wants to do, but they are her only shoes here, and the ground is cold.

Today is not for calisthenics, but instead tai chi, and her lean body begins the graceful opening postures of one of the martial art's forms, arms lifting and legs sliding in a balletic grace that does not require her sight.

The courtyard was empty; then there was one. After that, there were two.

It's no accident that Hana comes out into the courtyard a few moments after Nora. No surprise that she finds the girl here, although the Israeli is pleasantly surprised by her choice of exercise. It was made clear, last time, that Nora's had some training; it's a given that Hana approves of someone making the effort to practice.

Unlike last time, the older woman isn't endeavoring to be sneaky in her approach. The door isn't entirely quiet as it swings once again closed; the soles of her shoes rasp softly against concrete, detectably audible if Nora's concentration isn't absolute. The length and measure of her strides is recognizable mostly in the people it isn't — not someone the girl has had chance to associate with often, not someone whose cadence she's learned to identify. She can be heard to walk around, somewhat outside arm's reach, until the footstps stop directly in front of the blind girl.

The lack of speech is unsettling, but only lasts until Hana has reached her chosen destination. "T'ai chi, isn't it?" That she doesn't introduce herself for Nora's benefit is impolite — but she's already demonstrated her opinion of courtesy.

Nora hears the door, and a tension creeps into her limbs as the footsteps draw nearer; the fact she doesn't stop maybe a matter of pride or a matter of defiance, but there's a readiness and alertness to her stance that was absent the last time — she is not taking for granted her safety today.

When Hana speaks, Nora finishes the motion she is in, before drawing her limbs back in and setting her hands on her hips. She nods, dark eyes staring through Hana though she tips her chin slightly to account for the few inches' difference in their height.

"I like it for balance," Nora offers lightly. "And I think it'll help me keep from becoming an utter klutz, if this is permanent." This is punctuated by a vague flip of one hand toward her eyes.

"Likely," Hana allows in response to Nora's statements. She doesn't, at any rate, appear to be criticizing the girl's choice of martial art as such. No sounds suggest action on the woman's part, not even the rustle of motion-displaced fabric; as if she's simply standing there, evaluating whatever she sees in the blind girl before her. "Is that the only style you know?" Hana finally continues, tone impersonally detached, offering no suggestion of approval or scorn towards either possible answer.

"Formally speaking," Nora says after a slight pause and crinkle of brow. "I've learned from a lot of different people so I guess I don't really know any one style. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Most of the time I didn't really think to ask the names or what system they were from — as long as they worked, I didn't really care what I called them, right?"

She smirks slightly and shrugs one shoulder. "The forms are the only thing really systematic I do — having a structure makes them more meditative, which I like. Gives me balance in more than one way." There's a slightly impish grin at that — the girl knows she has a bit of a temper, and knows it's a weakness, at least.

Hana inclines her head, a gesture Nora cannot see. What Nora can detect is a scrape of rubber over gritty cement, the brief sounds of adjusted stance and shifted weight. Not a change of place — the woman neither steps forward nor back, but remains exactly where she was.

"Show me," Hana prompts, simple and bluntly straightforward. In truth less to see the styles themselves; those are all but immaterial compared to how well the blinded girl executes them against an actual opponent.

The teen bites her lower lip nervously, cheeks coloring just a little at having to show Gitelman what she can — and can't — do. Her arms drop at oblique angles to her sides for a moment, hands open but fingers held together firmly; without warning, she suddenly reaches with both hands to shove at one of Hana's shoulders, to throw her off balance. Simultaneously, Nora's feet dance forward quickly in a couple of steps before one makes an attempt to sweep the back of one Hana's legs, the soft Ugg boot trying to make contact with the sensitive tendons behind the knee in an attempt to throw her opponent to the floor.

The shove is nearly on-target; near enough, Nora having the sound of Hana's voice to extrapolate position from. The Israeli twists her torso aside, one foot pivoting back in line with her body; the shift leaves nothing for the focus of Nora's thrust to connect with, though her hands may brush sidewise across Hana's collarbone in passing. The sweep isn't, too low to fold its target's legs and bring her down; this is instantly telegraphed in the grunt of breath expelled as Hana rocks a bit under the force of impact and her failure to collapse, collision jarring back up Nora's bones.

The hand on Nora's shoulder is stabilizing twice over: once to ensure she doesn't lose balance for any reason, and again as a signal for hiatus.

"Don't get fancy unless you know you can hit on-target without any doubt," Hana remarks. "The eight second rule applies doubly for you." Verbal silence, then, but not an absence of sound; she can be heard to walk around Nora, as if her footsteps might echo — or hasten — the turning gears of her thoughts.

There's an initial quick tic of Nora's head as her lips part. From her narrowing eyes and the quick flush on her cheeks it's a good guess it's to argue, perhaps to ask just how she's supposed to know without a doubt she's on target when she can't see, but her mouth snaps shut a second later and Nora simply nods to the advice.

"Eight second rule?" she asks a moment later, reaching up to tuck a strand of dark hair behind her ear. "I didn't think that was fancy, but I guess next time I'll just go for the head butt," she tosses over her shoulder, lips curving into a slight smirk.

"It's fancy if you can't reliably hit the knee," Hana replies. "And clearly that will take more training." Her feet stop moving, the quiet shffs which accompanied motion also ceasing. "You can distinguish footsteps? Go for toes, instep, or ankle. Not the effect of a sweep, but can still be a good setup.

"Eight second rule," Hana reiterates, in the declarative mode of term to be defined. "You're disadvantaged twice over: gender and lack of sight. If you don't incapacitate your opponent in the first eight seconds, the odds of your victory become extremely slim." The thin curve of her lips isn't apparent to Nora, but shapes the grim gravity of her tone. "Pick your tactics accordingly."

The smaller woman nods at the question of footsteps, her eyes dropping as if watching Hana's feet as she moves, though clearly she can't see them. Her chin raises a touch defensively at being told she's at a disadvantage due to gender, but then the corner of her lips raise as well. "Well, if you were a guy and it were a real fight, you can bet I'd be aiming for your balls."

There's a slight pause, before she amends, "Not that you don't have more in the metaphorical sense than any guy I've met, from the stories I've heard." There's a touch of respect there in her voice.

She can't see the feral smile which bares ivory teeth, but Nora can hear a scuff of sole against artificial stone that can only have been deliberate, pronounced in a way Hana's movements — at least thus far — have never seemed to be. To someone who knew Hana, the tick-tick-tap of a lioness' agitated tail might be implied in the slow grace of her steps, her narrow-eyed consideration of the girl they center around.

"Get your act together," Hana snaps, quick and abrupt, though at least only with the heat of irritation and not anger. "Aim."

Equally quick and abrupt is the footstep which coincides with her last word, closing distance between them; and the fist that goes for Nora's solar plexus isn't a pulled punch.

Rather than back up when that forward footfall is heard, Nora bursts forward — an indication of a more offensive style than one that teaches only defense. With her legs' force driving her forward, Nora's lean arms taken the momentum of that motion: The left strikes Hana's and makes a flip outward to shuttle the offending hand away, before thin fingers make an attempt to curl around the wrist; at the same time a knee comes up for the groin — to incapacitate that theoretical male attacker.

That smile doesn't diminish as Nora blocks her strike; if anything, it becomes wider, showing more of Hana's teeth as the girl's knee lands square on the angle of her hip — painful, yes; a bruise that will smart for days to come; but not incapacitating. "Two. Three." She lets Nora's fingers close, if only so Hana's hand can latch on hers in turn, upper body thrown in an attempt to yank the girl off-balance, simultaneous with a heel driving down towards Nora's stationary foot.

Nora's foot does remain stationary as she figures out where her last knee went wrong, using that knowledge to wrap the lifted leg around Hana's as quickly as possible, quick motion outward intending to throw her opponent off balance, and perhaps to the ground.

Unlike Hana who grins like a Cheshire cat, the teen scowls in frustration and concentration — she's not used to losing in a fight, and it's clearly maddening.

Even more so, when that foot comes down on the soft boot Nora wears — at least it's cushioned, thanks to the shearling lining! — and Nora hisses with pain as she shifts weight to the other foot, stumbling off balance and grabbing at Hana to bring her down with her.

Feeling Nora's stability shift dangerously under the combination of Hana's heave, the smash of her foot, and Nora's own actions, the Israeli lets her own balance-keeping go and leans into the impending topple, not only committing entirely to the descent but attempting to be the one controlling it. To drive Nora down with her weight, perhaps even knocking the wind out of her lungs upon impact — with a little luck. Meanwhile, the hand that's tangled with Nora's wrenches aside, attempt to smash hers against the ground — and potentially buy a split-second of non-interference as the other one goes for the blind girl's throat, heel-first.

Nora doesn't go down without a fight, knees bending up to make it more difficult — and perhaps more painful — to land on top of her, and also preparing her imminent scramble to get to her feet again. Bony knees will likely leave more bruises on Hana's lean body.

As Hana's hand comes for her throat, Nora's strikes out, but just a touch too high to contact with Hana's head.

The older woman's punch is pulled as it makes contact in what in "a real fight" would have been, no doubt, a trachea-crunching strike and Nora's frustrated breath hisses out in acceptance of defeat.

Nora's hand lowers lightly until she can find what was her target, the open palm touching down on Hana's head lightly. Her eyes close and her brow creases, but the anger is directed inward — at herself. At her blindness.

"Eight," is quiet but pointed assertion of victory. Hana's chin dips slightly as Nora acknowledges it; she remains still for a beat more, then rolls back, getting her feet under her and standing back up. That she leans down, fingers curling over the girl's forearm in tacit offer of a hand up, isn't meant to imply anything negative — for Hana, it's rather the opposite.

"It's always a real fight," the woman states emphatically: what has become the point of today's lesson. "Your own attitude is as important as any skill."

Nora's fingers curl around Hana's forearm as she accepts the hand up. The slightest expression of pain flickers through the girl's face as her weight distributes to her feet, the one rather sore and likely to be for a few hours at least. One hand goes to her neck, touching the place Hana's just had, and she nods her understanding.

"I don't know how to be like this," Nora finally whispers, the hand coming up to touch her own brow. "I hate feeling helpless. Vulnerable."

It might seem like once more Nora is missing the point of the lesson, but then she speaks again: "Thank you for not treating me like I should be, or… " she flounders at the words, shrugging a little, "…you know. Showing me I am, but that I don't have to be." The words lilt up a little at the end, into a question.

"Everyone has vulnerabilities," Hana says, continuing to hold Nora's arm for a moment more. Then she releases it, letting her own come back to her side. "Flaws." Which doesn't mean the woman's going to volunteer those of her own that she knows about. "Some, you can turn into an advantage." Nora can't see her smile, the thin sly twist of lips; she can hear it in the Israeli's voice. "Who's going to expect the blind girl to unleash an attack?

"But you need to know your attack more perfectly than the sighted. You can't afford to miss. Make your targets of choice the ones you can hit without question. If that means unlearning old habits, do it."

The girl listens, fingers curling around the frayed edges of the too-long cuffs of the too-large sweater she wears. Her own smile echoes Hana's regarding the blind unleashing an attack, though she grows more solemn as she listens to the rest of the advice, long lashes veiling her injured eyes as she stares unseeingly at the ground.

Nora nods, chin rising and falling just twice, before she takes her defensive stance once again.

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