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Well written two part piece on social dynamics in America.

Note the difference in tone and perspective compared with the Fortune piece posted earlier.

Centrifugal forces

2,573 words
16 July 2005
The Economist
(c) The Economist Newspaper Limited, London 2005. All rights reserved

Centrifugal forces

Americans are still restless in the midst of plenty

“IN THE second century of the Christian era,” Edward Gibbon began his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, “the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civilised portion of mankind.” America could lay claim to a modern equivalent. At the start of the 21st century, the empire of the United States has created the most open and dynamic society in the world.

One indicator of social dynamism is population growth. In the 20th century, America's population increased by 250%, whereas France's and Britain's rose by less than 60%. In the past ten years, the number of Americans has risen from 263m to almost 300m, the fastest growth for 40 years. America's population is rising more than twice as fast as the European Union's, and two-thirds of that growth comes from natural increase, whereas almost all the modest rise in the EU's population recently has come from immigration.

America's population is dynamic in comparison not only with Europe but also with some of the fastest-growing developing countries. Its fertility rate is higher not only than China's (because of that country's one-child policy), but Brazil's and South Korea's too. By 2050, America's median age (the point at which half the population is older, half younger) will be less than six years higher than its 2000 level of 35 (see chart 1). China will have aged by 15 years to about 45, and South Korea by a withering 22 years, to 54.

America is the only country to have maintained industrial-era patterns of demographic growth in a post-industrial age. Except for the Arab world and a handful of middle-income Latin American countries, all the countries with fertility rates higher than America's are very poor. If a willingness to reproduce is a measure of a rich country's confidence in the future, then America is supremely self-confident.

That trait seems to be hard-wired into the American character. “The greatest asset of the American, so often ridiculed by Europeans, is his belief in progress,” wrote a Swede, Victor Vinde, in 1945. Today, two-thirds of Americans think they will achieve the American Dream of self-improvement at some point in their lifetime. This year, Americans will spend almost $700m on self-help books. “The Purpose-Driven Life”, a 40-day religious course of self-improvement, has sold 25m copies, more than any other non-fiction book except the Bible.

Americans work harder than almost anyone else—300 hours a year more than Europeans. They switch jobs more often—about once every seven years, compared with once every 11 years in Germany and Japan. Except in traffic, the country has developed a cult of speed—fast food, fast banking (“It's your money,” runs one financial advertisement, “get to it faster”), fast everything. Many of the country's founding myths are variations on the Odyssey—wagon trails to the west, the Lewis and Clark expedition, Huckleberry Finn.

America's unemployment rate, at around 5%, is roughly half that in Germany, France and Italy. Its rate of home ownership has risen to almost 70%, higher than ever before. By encouraging flexible labour markets and deep mortgage markets, America has reinforced the cycle of population growth, economic success and demographic dynamism.

A dynamic society also means an open one: open to trade and immigration. National-security hawks dream about limiting such openness, and during the 2004 election campaign America briefly agonised about outsourcing. But by any normal measure, the country remains extraordinarily open. Trade barriers are low. Since 1990 exports and imports have risen as a share of GDP, and over the same period nearly 14m new immigrants have entered America legally. Not all the effects of this openness are beneficial, but America's ability to absorb newcomers has been the envy of other countries.

A dynamic American society has always meant a well-educated and technologically advanced one. True, there are deep-seated problems in secondary education: in an international study, American 10-year-olds came 12th out of 25 countries in mathematics and sixth in science. But the quality and quantity of intellectual life in America is still the highest in the world. A quarter of American adults have a university education. The country produces one-third of the world's scientific papers, employs two-thirds of the world's Nobel-prize winners, has 17 of the top 20 universities (as ranked by Shanghai's Jiao Tong University) and has more ideas-based workers than anyone else.

A mobile society

Yet what really matters is not just growth per se, but where it happens and what impact it has. The country's size and wealth, combined with its meritocratic traditions and technological prowess, have made it unusually easy for Americans to move around in search of new opportunities. “In the United States,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “a man builds a house in which to spend his old age, and he sells it before the roof is on; he plants a garden and lets it just as the trees are coming into bearing...he embraces a profession and gives it up; he settles a place and soon afterwards leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere.” In some ways, this restlessness in the midst of plenty is America's most remarkable feature.

This year, around 40m Americans—one in seven—will move house, the equivalent of the entire population of Spain. Between 1995 and 2000, almost half of all Americans have changed address, more (often far more) than in any European country. With home-ownership rates so high in America, you might have expected less mobility, and indeed it has declined compared with the 1960s, when about a fifth of the population moved every year.

But America is not settling down. On the one hand, the young, restless and rich move around as much as ever; on the other, a stable, older and less well-off America is sitting tight, bringing down average mobility. Different groups live in different areas and different kinds of places, and face diverging futures.

The young move house most often: in 2003, 30% of people in their 20s did, compared with under 5% of the over-60s. Movers also tend to be better educated: almost half of all university graduates moved at some point between 1995 and 2000, and so did a remarkable four-fifths of 25-34-year-old college graduates. According to Bill Frey, a demographer at the University of Michigan, America is producing a footloose generation of the best-educated.

Overall, the most common reason for moving is to get a better house. But for one group of Americans, the main reason for moving is work. The people in this group are also the most likely to move from state to state, not just across the road. For them, there has been no decline in mobility since the 1950s. During the 1990s, 73m Americans—more than two Californias—moved from one state to another.

It seems, then, that a lot of well-educated, risk-taking Americans are moving constantly in search of the Next Big Thing. Richard Slotkin, a historian of the frontier, points out that this has happened before. The west was settled not by a representative sample of the nation, but by particular groups: the young; individual ethnic groups; and children of earlier pioneers. But the west was not just a place, it was also a particular kind of economy, in which those who worked hardest could double or treble their fortunes. The current movement of the educated young is a high-tech version of the frontier spirit.

America is also sorting itself out by place, into fast- and slow-growing cities. The pace of change is extraordinary. In the past 25 years, Las Vegas has increased in population by 250% and Austin by 140%. Twenty-two metropolitan regions, almost all in the sunbelt, have more than doubled in size. These fast-growing places are demographically distinctive. Between now and 2030, America's median age will rise by just over three years, but in Colorado and North Carolina—migration magnets in the sunbelt—the median age will rise by only about one and a half years.

On the other hand, 30 metropolitan regions have seen their population fall since 1990, many of them in the Ohio valley. In the worst hit, Weirton, a steel town in West Virginia, the population has dropped by over 10%. Pittsburgh and Buffalo suffered population losses of about 3%. And whereas fast-growing states are “younging”, these laggards will see their median age rise fast to 2030.

Just as America is separating by region, so it is dividing up by types of place. The fastest-growing bits of the country over the past five years have been new suburban areas on the far edge of big cities, such as Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in southern California. The big losers from domestic migration were Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, which all saw an outflow of around 400,000 people. Cook County, which contains downtown Chicago, was the second-largest loser of domestic population. Will County, on Chicago's southern outskirts, was the sixth-largest gainer. As ambitious young married couples everywhere flee urban problems of bad schools and snarled traffic, America has become the first society in the world to classify more than half its population as suburban.

But what does all this sorting out add up to? Is it just a zero-sum game in which people shift from one place to another, with some winning and some losing, but leaving the nation as a whole no better off? Does it erode social bonds, leaving America worse off? Or does mobility itself produce benefits that are greater than the sum of their parts?

Moving must be good for the movers themselves, otherwise they would not bother. They are shifting from the downtowns and inner suburbs to new suburbs and exurbs in order to achieve a 21st-century version of the American Dream. Instead of the ranch house, the Chevrolet and the colour television of old, they want—and are getting—a McMansion, a Lexus SUV and high-speed internet access.

Mobility is good for the new suburbs, too. Formerly synonymous with stultifying boredom, conformity and white bread, they have become the most vibrant parts of the American economy. In the 1990s, three-quarters of all new office space was built in suburbs, and job growth there was three times higher than in the downtowns. Suburbia saw the birth and growth of Microsoft, Cisco, Dell and most of America's other high-tech giants.

Those gains might not have been possible but for the way that migration is shifting the best and the brightest to the places where the new jobs are being created. Traditionally, the best-educated areas were in the north-east, especially Boston, where more than one-third of the residents have college degrees. But in 1995-2000, the places that saw the largest absolute increase in the number of people with college degrees were Atlanta, the unofficial capital of the new South, and Phoenix, which 25 years ago was only one generation away from being a cattle town. At least these are diversified economic hubs. But Las Vegas too, home of Liberace and Celine Dion, saw its graduate population rise by over 20% in the late 1990s, proportionately the largest brain gain of any city.

There are also signs that the dynamism of fast-growing areas feeds off itself. Nevada, the state with the largest number of people who have moved from somewhere else (29% in 1995-2000), also has the highest proportion of people moving house (59% in that period). In contrast, Pennsylvania, with almost 80% of residents born in the state, has the second-lowest rate of moving house. If mobility brings benefits, then its self-reinforcing quality produces benefits squared. America is not just mobile. It is a perpetual-motion machine.

The corollary of educational upgrading in new areas is educational loss in old industrial centres. Black inner cities have been especially hard hit by the sudden flight of the best-educated African-Americans, who since desegregation have had a choice about where they lived. Overall, the populations of cities in the north-east declined in the 1990s, whereas in the west they increased by 20%; cities with a lot of manufacturing grew much more slowly than average.

Flavour of the year

The wider worry is that America's great sorting-out could damage the country by producing a stratified land of haves and have-nots, and creating more class divisions (of which more later in this survey). Yet there is also plenty to counter the forces of separation. America's successful areas are not set in stone. In the 1960s, the new frontiers were California, Texas and Florida. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were Nevada, Arizona and Colorado. Now they have shifted yet again. Some of the fastest-growing counties of the past five years have been in the snowbelt: Kendall County, near Chicago; Lincoln County, South Dakota; Delaware County in central Ohio; and Scott County, south of Minneapolis. Within the sunbelt, people are moving from congested coastal hubs to smaller towns in the interior south and west. Miami is out, Orlando is in. Riverside is taking up where Los Angeles left off.

Nothing exemplifies the diffusion of the haves better than the spread of gated communities. Decried when they first appeared as elitist retreats, gated communities are now spreading to the middle class. According to a census bureau report in 2003, about 7m American households (over 6% of the total) live behind walls and fences, but for new houses in California the proportion is 40%.

Next, there has been a marked increase in ethnic minorities in new suburbs. They now make up more than one-quarter of the suburban population, compared with less than one-fifth in 1990. If you drive around the San Fernando Valley (“The Valley”, supposedly the great white sprawl of Los Angeles), you will see Ethiopian, Thai and Korean restaurants, Mexican and Salvadorean grocery stores, Chinese lawyers and an Armenian cultural centre, all in the space of one block. Nationwide, roughly half of all Asians and Latinos and two-fifths of blacks live in suburbs.

Or consider one of the great hidden stories of the past few years: the return of blacks to the South. For decades, southern labourers sought more money and less prejudice in industrial cities. In the late 1960s, black populations dropped most steeply in places such as Birmingham and Mobile in Alabama or New Orleans, Lafayette and Shreveport in Louisiana. Some of the largest gainers were Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Yet in 1995-2000, those were the five cities that lost the largest number of blacks. Conversely, Atlanta gained 114,000 African-Americans, followed by Dallas, Charlotte and Orlando. This is helping to erode racial segregation. An index developed by Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor, two economists, shows that in the medium-sized metro areas of the South, segregation has dropped.

But perhaps the most important factor in making Americans less separate is immigration, the subject of the next article.

The Americano dream

1,559 words
16 July 2005
The Economist
(c) The Economist Newspaper Limited, London 2005. All rights reserved

The Americano dream

If domestic mobility is a centrifuge, immigration is a melting pot

AMERICA is going through one of its periodic bursts of high immigration. According to the Census Bureau, the country is home to about 34m people born abroad, half as many again as ten years ago. It is also going through one of its periodic panics about the subject.

Self-styled “minutemen” search for illegal immigrants on the border between Mexico and Arizona. Hospitals say they are being bankrupted by the cost of treating illegal aliens. The Republican Party is riven between those who want to crack down on illegal immigration and those who want to regularise it.

The critics fear that the Hispanic wave—especially that part rolling in from Mexico, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total—is in danger of creating two nations: the existing one (which Robert Levine, in the Public Interest magazine, dubbed the “Anglo-Protestant-African-Catholic-Indian-German-Irish-Jewish-Italian-Slavic-Asian society”), and a Spanish-speaking sub-group. The new wave is unusually big, say the worriers; it is growing unusually fast, is unusually cohesive (everyone speaks Spanish) and, unlike previous waves of immigrants, it is fed by a country next door that is continually refreshing the cultural differences between Hispanic immigrants and the rest of the country. As Samuel Huntington expressed it in his book, “Who are We?”, published last year, “Mexican immigration is leading towards the demographic reconquista of areas Americans took from is also blurring the border between Mexico and America, introducing a very different culture.”

If true, this would obviously be a big problem in its own right. It would also reinforce centrifugal trends that are already present in American society. But this section will argue that such fears are much exaggerated. There are problems, to be sure, though these mostly concern America's immigration policy and illegal immigrants. But legal immigrants are neither as numerous nor as culturally different as the pessimists fear. And, far from exacerbating the centrifugal forces in America, immigrants are helping to counteract them.

Some 34m Americans, around 11% of the population, were born abroad. That sounds a lot. But in 1890, a time of mass immigration of Italians, Irish and Jews, that proportion was 15%. At one point, the Irish alone made up 10% of the population.

By far the largest immigrant group now consists of Hispanics. They accounted for around half of America's total population increase between 2000 and 2004, more than in the 1990s. Half the Hispanics are under 27. The Census Bureau forecasts that by 2050 the Hispanic population will have increased by 200%, the population as a whole by 50% and whites by only 30%. At that point, Hispanics will make up just under a quarter of the population, and Mexicans about one-sixth.

That would indeed be a huge share for a single immigrant nation. But by 2050, the descendants of the first Mexican immigrants will be into the fourth or fifth generation. The question is whether by then they will still be a strongly distinctive group. The signs are that, following in the paths of their Irish and Italian predecessors, they will have become assimilated.

Before that, though, stop to consider some of the effects that the immigrants are already having. New arrivals tend to head for New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and other cities. Over half the immigrants first settle in one of these gateways, and two-thirds of the foreign-born population live in states surrounding them. This is not surprising. The gateways contain networks of people, companies and churches that make newcomers feel at home. The law reinforces this clustering, because family reunification is a common means of legal entry.

As it happens, these preferences are extremely fortunate for America as a whole, because the melting pots are precisely the places that domestic migrants have been leaving in droves. Those five traditional entry points, plus Philadelphia, were the half-dozen cities with the largest net losses of white population during the 1990s.

A never-ending supply

As the previous section has pointed out, departing domestic migrants tend to be younger, hard-working families. New immigrants are also typically younger, hard-working people with families. They help to make up for the domestic outflow (the big difference is that they are far less well-educated). In other words, they save America's great cities from ageing rapidly.

But although Hispanic immigrants arrive at the same points of entry as their Irish and Italian predecessors, they soon spread to the rest of the country. Hispanic and Asian families crop up in the most unlikely places: Indian computer programmers in Plano or Austin, Mexican farm workers in the Dakotas, Asian entrepreneurs in Las Vegas.

The cities that have seen the fastest growth in Hispanics lately are not the traditional magnets of Los Angeles and New York, but smaller cities of the New South—places such as Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. In all of those, the Hispanic population rose by around 600% during the 1990s. The top attractions for Asians are no longer San Francisco and Los Angeles but Atlanta and Las Vegas. That is one reason why America's growing towns and new suburbs are more racially integrated than its old cities.

This immigrant diffusion piggybacks on domestic migration and is essential to the boom in America's fastest-growing areas. Without it, cities that have attracted lots of well-educated domestic migrants would have seized up, becoming top-heavy with university graduates. Arguably, that is happening in San Francisco. But in many boomtowns, Latinos have poured in to take up the basic jobs in construction, food and distribution that cities need to back up their growth. The cities of the inland South and west are wealthy because white Americans are pouring into them. But they keep growing because immigrants are tagging along in the domestic migrants' wake.

This dispersal is allaying the main fear of immigration's critics: that Hispanics will cluster in giant ghettos without interacting with the rest of America. It is true that illegal immigrants are often trapped in a semi-criminalised shadow economy, unable to move up or out. But for the legal sort, the signs of mobility and assimilation are everywhere—not assimilation as in becoming the same as everyone else, but assimilation as in becoming citizens, taking part in politics, enlisting in the army, paying taxes and speaking English.

America seems in no danger of becoming a society divided by language. In 2002, a survey by the Pew Hispanic Centre and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that over 90% of second-generation Hispanics were either bilingual or mainly English-speaking, split equally between the two. In the third generation, more than three-quarters were mainly English-speaking. In the same year, a market-research company, Cultural Access, found that young Latinos watched twice as much English-language as Spanish-language television.

Like their predecessors, Hispanics are busy bettering themselves. First-generation Mexican immmigrant men in their late 40s have had six fewer years of full-time education than their white American-born peers. Their sons are only one year short. That is still regrettable. A mere 10% of Hispanics have university degrees, and the high-school drop-out rate among Hispanic immigrants is worryingly high. Over 40% of 16- to 24-year-old immigrants lack a high-school diploma. But among the children of Hispanic immigrants, the drop-out rate is much lower.

Politically, Hispanics are moving into the mainstream at about the same rate as the Italians or Irish did in the 20th century. This year, Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles, America's second-largest city, the first Hispanic to hold that job. In 2004, two Hispanics became senators, Mel Martinez in Florida and Ken Salazar in Colorado; 25 congressmen have Hispanic backgrounds. This might be a problem if Hispanic politicians had separatist agendas, such as demanding obligatory Spanish-language teaching in schools. But they do not. Naturally there are specific Hispanic concerns, as there are for all ethnic groups in America (for example, how to deal with illegal immigrants). But Hispanic politics is diverse, and its spectrum is similar to that of the country as a whole. It ranges from the Texan conservatism of the attorney-general, Alberto Gonzales, to the Californian liberalism of Mr Villaraigosa.

Lastly, there is evidence that new immigrants, Hispanics especially, are joining the rest of the American people in the most direct possible way: by marrying them. Almost a third of all marriages involving a Hispanic or Asian partner cross racial lines (counting Hispanics as a race for this purpose). By most standards, American rates of mixed-race marriage have been low: one in 23 marriages in 1990, up to one in 15 in 2000. Latinos seem to be leading the way in breaking down that barrier. Nearly half of all the 3.7m inter-racial marriages in the country have one Hispanic partner. In states with a lot of Hispanic immigration, the rate is surprisingly high: 14% in California and Nevada, around 11% in Washington state, Colorado and Arizona. At this rate, intermarriage will soon stop being exotic and become mainstream. It is another way of stirring the melting pot.

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Saturday 9th September
NRFL Premier Division

BEADS 3 V 7 Redcar Newmarket
Billingham Town Reserves 0 V 1 Fishburn Park
Grangetown Boys Club 2 V 4 Boro Rangers
Redcar Town 6 V 1 Staithes Athletic
Stockton West End 7 V 2 Nunthorpe Athletic
Thornaby Dubliners P V P Guisborough United
Yarm & Eaglescliffe 1 V 3 St Marys 1947

NRFL First Division
Bedale AFC 6 V 2 New Marske Lakes United
Lingdale Village P V P Whitby Fishermans Society
Loftus Athletic P V P Stokesley AR
Middlesbrough & Teesside SA 0 V 2 Great Ayton United Royals
Teesside University 2 V 4 Redcar Athletic Reserves

Sunday 10th September
NRFL Under 19 Division

Billingham Synthonia 4 V 5 Coulby Newham
Guisborough Town 10 V 0 Hartlepool FC
Hartlepool Youth 0 V 8 Redcar Newmarket
Middleton Rangers 0 V 10 Kader
Richmond Town 1 V 5 Boro Rangers
Thornaby 8 V 1 Northallerton Town

By Andrew Snaith

The Redcar clubs continue to lead the way at the top of the North Riding Football League Premier Division after both Town and leaders Newmarket picked up comfortable victories.

Redcar Newmarket hit seven on their travels, at BEADS, led by the league’s top scorer Michael Dowse, who netted five. Andy Tullock and Leon Bellerby completed the rout ensuring Dennis Alderson’s brace and Nathan Summersgill’s strike were second half consolations.

Redcar Town actually fell behind at home to struggling Staithes, when Ben Crooks converted Jake Thompson’s cross, only to level before the break through Ryan Bennions. Crooks then twice came close before the hosts’ match-winning spell arrived with three goals in four minutes, midway through the second half, Ben Sandy and Jamie Lee nodded home, before Chris Jackson fired a fourth. Seven minutes from time, Tom Mullen headed a fifth and Stuart Poulter clipped home a late sixth.

Third-placed Fishburn Park remain the only 100% side in the top tier, however, after a hard-fought victory at in-form Billingham Town Reserves. Jacob Rigden netted on four minutes and a determined rearguard action ensured that was enough to keep the Whitby side on the coat tails of the Redcar duo.

St Marys 1947 won the ‘El Yarmico’ derby over newcomers Yarm and Eaglescliffe. Andrew Miller scored for the hosts, but Chris Peacock kept up his good scoring run with a brace and Chris Norlund added a third to take all three points for the away side and keep Saints in contention.

Stockton West End are also enjoying a solid start, they defeated Nunthorpe Athletic, who are finding it tough going at the back. Carl Williams notched twice while Ben Turner, Alex Jamieson, Josh Haley, Ben Hamilton and Sean O’Brien completed the scoring for West End. Nunthorpe notched through Tom Atkinson’s double.

Boro Rangers are looking back to their best form after a slow start to the new season. Last season’s Teesside League Champions netted through braces from Matt McQueeney and Coy Blake, with Michael Wilson and an own goal replying for hosts Grangetown.

Unfortunately, the Thornaby Dubliners v Guisborough United game was postponed due to a traffic collision involving United players on their way to the game. We wish all involved a full recovery.

In the First Division, there were just three games as Redcar Athletic Reserves defeated Teesside University, 4-2. Arron Dale’s hat-trick and Markus Wood’s goal were enough for Athletic’s second string in a close contest, with Kieron Watson netting a brace for the students.

Bedale again netted six, this time at home to New Marske Lakes United. Mikey Stevens put Bedale ahead, inside four minutes and when Dan Baxter made it 2-0, on 14 minutes, it looked like it might be comfortable for the hosts. However Robbie Farrier reduced the arrears, within seconds of the restart and Danny Rowe then put Lakes level, on the half hour. That’s how it stayed until half-time, but a second half show where Callum Fletcher’s goal and Stevens’ second was followed by a late brace from Baxter to ensure his hat-trick, saw Beadle win 6-2.

Elsewhere, Great Ayton United Royals also remain 100% after a superb first half finish from Jamie Atkinson and Mark Shimwell converting a neat move, late on, against a battling Middlesbrough & Teesside SA side.

Guisborough continued their high scoring in the Under 19 league, this time, hitting double figures against Hartlepool FC, at the King George V Ground. The Priorymen struck through hat-tricks from Jack Lambert and Louis Goldsack, an Owen Armstrong brace and further strikes from James Dunn and Luke Smithyman.

Kader emulated their rivals at the top end with a 10-0 win of their own, at Middleton Rangers. Both Ellis Hoyland and Rob Clark hit hat-tricks, while Connor Harris, Lucas Brown, Elliot Robinson and Michael Hoyland also found the net for the dominant visitors.

Boro Rangers continued their winning start at Richmond Town. Tom Bourne, James Field and Isaac Walker put Rangers three up, before Joe Shields replied for Richmond, just before the break. However, Boro picked up where they left off, in the second half, as Adam Rymer and Field’s second put the result beyond doubt.

Game of the day took place at Billingham Synthonia, where visitors Coulby Newham won by the odd goal in nine. Synthonia were quick out of the blocks, scoring in the first five minutes, only for Coulby to hit straight back with two quick goals from Aaron Smith. Synners struck again to level only for Smith to score his third, for 3-2, just before half-time. The second half got off with electric pace as Synners drew the game level after only 47 seconds. With both teams keeping it tight, it took great play between the Coulby midfield to release Smith again to score his fourth. Josh Millington made it five for the visitors with a low, angled shot, but Synners were having none of it and with ten minutes left, they pulled the scoreline back to only one with the best goal of the match, a quality 30-yard volley dipping over the keeper and just under the crossbar, but Coulby held on to take the win and three points. Synners’ scorers were Callum Daniels (2), Joe McCluskey and Matthew Ashworth.

Redcar Newmarket continued their good form with an 8-0 victory at Hartlepool Youth. Josh Donovan blasted a hat-trick, with Stuart Thompson, Leon Bellerby, Lewis Mitchell, Chris Payne and an own goal also finding the net for Newmarket.

Thornaby also hit eight, surging past Northallerton Town, 8-1. Zach Trattles, Dominic Tiffany, Kieran Mulroy, Thomas Dodds, Joe Pickett, Sam Candlin, Dylan Barker and Ben Mulroy all found the net, Northallerton’s consolation coming through Saul Bamber Lister.

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  • Land Area: 387 sq. miles
  • Median Household Income: $50,822
  • Metro Areas: Jim Thorpe
  • Per Capita Income: $25,743
  • Population: 64,330
  • Total Employment: 29,900
  • Unemployment Rate: 6.0%
  • *Source U.S. Census


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Friday, October 24, 2008

The Northkill Amish Settlement

The first Amish Mennonites began migrating to the United States in the eighteenth century, mainly to escape the religious persecution and compulsory military service they faced in Europe. The Northkill area in eastern Pennsylvania was opened for settlement in 1736, and that same year, Melchoir Detweiler and Hans Sieber arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Princess Augusta.

Within a year Sieber had settled along Irish Creek (between Bernville and Centerpoint), which became a sister community to the Northkill settlement, while Detweiler found land along Northkill Creek. The Northkill settlement lay on the edge of the Blue Mountains. At that time this ridge was the legal boundary of European settlement, according to treaties between the British and the Native Americans.

More Amish passengers arrived on the ship Charming Nancy in 1737 and found their way to the Irish Creek and Northkill settlements. These included Jacob Beiler, Christian Burki, Christian Hershberger, Christian Kurtz, Christian Lichti, Jacob Mast, Abraham Miller, Christian Miller, Jacob Miller, Ulrich Spicker, Henry Stehly, and Hans Zimmerman, and their families. The following year the Charming Nancy returned with my ancestor, Jacob Hochstetler, his wife, and 2 young children, among others, to Philadelphia. They were soon established among the earlier arrivals along the Northkill.

During the following decades the Amish continued to settle along the Northkill in increasing numbers. 1742 saw the arrival of Hans Gerber, Hans Gnagi, Jacob Good, Christian Miller, Christian Yoder, Sr., Christian Yoder, Jr., Jacob Yoder, Christian Zook, Johannes Zook, and Moritz Zook. By now the community was large enough to petition the Pennsylvania General Assembly for naturalization rights, which allowed them to purchase land, a right denied Anabaptists in Europe.

In 1744 the families of Christian and Samuel King, Hans Stephen Kurtz, Johannes Snyder, Michael Stuckey, and Yost Yoder expanded the settlement even more. The community welcomed Bishop Jacob Hertzler and his family in 1749, along with the Christian Fisher, Hans Lantz, and Jacob and Joseph Mishler families. Hans Blank, Andreas and Johannes Hooley, John Mast, and Michael Troyer expanded the settlement even more the following year.

According to S. Duane Kauffman in Miffllin County Amish and Mennonite Story, 1791-1991, at its peak the Irish Creek-Northkill community consisted of about 40 Amish families or between 150 and 200 persons, which would have made it the largest Amish settlement in America at that time. In spite of several attacks during the French and Indian War, including the one against my ancestors in 1757, it held that distinction into the 1780s, when it began to decline as families moved farther west in search of better farmland.

Although it existed for a relatively brief period, the Northkill settlement was fundamental in establishing the Amish in North America. It included the forebears of many Amish families, such as the Yoders, Burkeys, Troyers, Hochstetlers, and Hershbergers, and is generally considered to be the mother from which the other eastern Pennsylvania Amish communities sprang.

Lori Benton said...

Very interesting. And being a map girl, I was able to look up the area on my PA map, so thanks for mentioning those two towns. I'd wondered for a long while now just how far west is Northkill.

I'm envious of how well documented your family history is. *s*

Vintage Clutter said...

This is my family history, my Grandma Landon who just passed away last year at the age of 96 was a Hostetler, her father was Henry Hostetler, His father Christian Hostetler , then two Henry's & John Hostetler who was married to Catherine Hertzler. I had heard this story told many times from Grandma.

Sylvia said...

My family is also mentioned here. I often found that Hans Gnagi's son Johannes Gnagi was the one credited for bringing our family to America, but as of today I have been following a lead that it was actually Hans who was believed to have died back in Norway or Switzerland. Genealogy is Amazing to me you never know where your story is going to lead you day by day. Thanks for your wonderful post lots of information.

BJ_BOBBI_JO said...

Very neat to read! My Amish ancestors were there then. Some of the Northkill amish settler last names, from my family tree, that I remember are Mast,Troyer,Hertzler and some more.

Considering that many of the locals (not the amish) and the government had been lying to the indians and taking their land, killing them and even enslaving some of them I can see why a band of indians felt like going on a killing spree to get revenge.

Sadly they went about it the wrong way, violence is never going to solve anything and sadly they attacked the wrong ppl.
I tend to blame the local government and greedy land grabbers more because they are the ones that angered and pushed the indians into acts of horrible violence and revenge.

Sad, tis very sad and wrong. If they had all done it God's way there would not have been the violence and land stealing.

J. M. Hochstetler said...

Bobbi Jo, I totally agree with you! You hit the nail right on the head. Amen! Thank you for dropping by to comment.

Thank you for your comments too. Genealogy really is a fascinating area of study, particularly one's own family.

I apologize for being so tardy to respond. I'm going to get back to this blog asap. I've been so covered up for months that I've woefully neglected it.

Merle Ilgenfritz said...

Do you have a list of the original families that settled there?
My immigrant ancestor was on the Charming Nancy but ended up in York County, PA. I am wondering if they stayed there first before moving on to York Co.?

J. M. Hochstetler said...

Merle, check out Early Amish Land Grants in Berks County, Pennsylvania. You can find it at Also Both Sides of the Ocean by J. Virgil Miller lists many German immigrants and might be helpful.


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Although you may not be interested in competing in a triathlon, the three activities involved – running, cycling and swimming – make for excellent cross-training exercises.

Cross-training refers to different aerobic activities that, essentially, provide the same cardiovascular conditioning benefits. However, integrating three different endurance exercises into your training programs reduces the risk of both physiological and psychological problems, namely overuse injuries and boredom.

While running and cycling both involve the leg muscles, running emphasizes the rear thigh (hamstrings) muscles, whereas cycling emphasizes the front thigh (quadriceps) muscles. Also, running requires weight-bearing exercise from a standing posture, whereas cycling requires weight-supported exercise from a sitting position. These activities are, therefore, highly compatible and complementary from a muscle-use perspective.

Swimming involves using both the upper body and legs, but the majority of propulsive power is produced by the chest, back and arm muscles. Swimming and cycling eliminate the landing forces and shock absorption associated with running, which further enhances their value as cross-training activities.

I recommend three cross-training sessions a week for beginning exercisers and up to six cross-training sessions a week for more advanced exercisers. For example, a sensible beginning fitness program may feature cycling on Mondays, swimming on Wednesdays and running on Fridays. A more advanced cross-training schedule may include cycling on Mondays and Thursdays, swimming on Tuesdays and Fridays, and running on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Even though cross-training reduces the risk of overuse injuries, I recommend specific strategies for further enhancing exercise safety.

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To reduce shock to the feet, legs and lower back, do most of your running on softer surfaces, such as wooded trails, stone dust jogging paths, grassy athletic fields or composition tracks. Invest in well-designed running shoes that fit properly (loose in the toe box and snug in the heel) and provide appropriate motion control. Knowledgeable store personnel can advise you on the best shoe for your foot type, for example, straight last shoes for low-arched feet and curved last shoes for high-arched feet. Try to run during cooler times of day, and in shaded areas whenever possible. Avoid running on the sides of roads and beaches, as these sloped surfaces place uneven stress on feet, legs and hips, which increases injury potential.

Cycling tips

A good bicycle is basically a one-time investment that, if used properly and regularly, pays years of health/fitness benefits. Most cycle shop owners are experts at selecting the bicycle that best fits your cycling needs and body dimensions. Essential cycling accessories include a well-fitted helmet, water bottle, padded bike shorts, tire pump, spare tubes and (possibly) biking shoes. Be sure to cycle safely, complying with all traffic rules, signs, and signals.

If you prefer off-road cycling you will definitely exercise your upper body muscles along with your legs, and you will typically travel more varied terrain. However, you also have a higher risk of spills, so learn the ropes from experienced trail riders.

Swimming tips

It is advisable to swim with a partner, whether you prefer pools, lakes or oceans. Also, swimming in shallow (four to five feet) water is always safer than swimming in deep (overhead) water.

While the crawl stroke is most effective and efficient, periodically interspersing periods of backstroke, breaststroke or sidestroke can make swimming more enjoyable by changing the pace, as well as by involving different movement patterns and muscle groups.

Other than a bathing suit, goggles may be your only other investment.

I recommend about 20 to 30 minutes of running exercise, about 20 to 30 minutes of swimming exercise, and approximately 40 to 60 minutes of cycling activity. Beginners should start with shorter exercise segments.

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Here's concrete proof that my friends and I plan our vacations based on what and where we want to eat: we often find ourselves at a loss for what to do with our time between meals.

Which is how we ended up first sitting on a public bench then huddling behind a parked truck to hide from the cold wind, waiting for Can Majó to finally open.  We didn't have a reservation and we wanted to make sure we got in right when the doors opened.

Which we did:

We did try to get some bombas at La Bombeta while we were waiting, but La Bombeta was closed.  (Cue dismayed gasps.)

Our patience paid off and we were directed to a table without waiting at all.  Soon after we sat down, the restaurant started to fill up:

We were handed an English menu and away we went.  Once our orders were out of the way, we sat down to wait.  We were first brought a plate of complimentary bread spread with some kind of tomato jam:

Then came the little dish of olives, pickles, and pickled onion:

Finally came our entire reason for dining at Majo.  The paella.  Majo offers a few different kinds of paella.  The price listed on the menu is the price per portion.  To order a paella, you need to order at least two portions.  The three of us decided to order two portions each of two paellas.

We went with the classic shellfish paella marinera (15.32 € per portion):

To try something new, we went with the squid ink (15.32 € per portion) for our second one:

We had a choice between rice and fideua.  Our server explained to us that fideua was essentially thin, short bits of noodle.  Cool.  We wanted to try that.

The guy who brought us the huge pans of paella was nice enough to wait patiently as three little Asian girls snapped photos to our heart's delight before dishing out our individual servings.  And dude, how cute is this?:

The fideua squid ink was a bit salty for me, but the shellfish paella was great...with liberal squeezes of lemon.  There was definitely more than enough food for the three of us.  Since we couldn't take anything to go, we forced ourselves to finish every last bite.

Even though we were stuffed, we couldn't turn down dessert.  I'm not a flan fan, but T is, so we ordered the small egg flan in three flavors, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry (5.49 €):

It looked pretty.  But it still tasted like the flan that I know and dislike.  I don't know...that eggy texture just gets to me.  Sorry flan lovers!

Great paella, but I wasn't exactly blown away.  And I really wanted to be.  If I ever go back to Barcelona, I'll be on the lookout for another paella place.

Can Majó is a great place for a romantic date or to meet the future in-laws.  Probably not the kind of place you want to wear shorts and flip flops to.  If you're looking for paella, go in packs of even numbers.  (It makes ordering much easier.  Really.)

So ended our time in Barcelona.  Lisbon up next!

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We're still on target for a May 15 release. Beta testers who are reading this blog should IM me if they can't figure out the password for the beta blog… though that password is marked in bright yellow in the bug-tracking software, so if you have to ask, you're probably not a very good beta tester. 🙂

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Wedding Slideshow

I made a slideshow which we played while guests were being seating before our wedding. It's about ten minutes long. I used "seasons" by Mae and a piano cover of Depeche Mode's "Somebody" for the soundtrack (the title scene not shown in the YouTube clip used Christopher O'Riley's cover of Radiohead's "Thinking about You," so in a way I can say they played Radiohead at my wedding haha). Anyways, if you like what you see I would be more than happy to over my services for your own wedding or other ceremony or activity. Just leave a comment below or on the video or email me.

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In 2006 I wrote about nuclear waste.  At that time we were awaiting the Labour Government's plans as to how the massive accumulations were to be dealt with.  When the plans were published in June 2008 they turned out to be a damp squib – the main thrust was to invite Local Authorities to volunteer to host waste burial sites, which they have as much chance of achieving as getting turkeys to vote for Christmas.  No wonder Mike Weir MP called the plans "surreal".  There was however method in the madness of the Labour Government in doing this as they had already planned to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, and the last thing they wanted to do was to alert the public about the horrendous problem of the country's nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste disposal has thus become the forgotten issue.  The Government's estimate for the costs of creating a facility to bury the waste (known as a "National Repository") have risen every year by some £12 billion, the last figure published in 2008 estimated this to be £85 billion (excluding the separate issue of decommissioning old reactors said to be further £72 billion).  A National Repository is of course the cheapest option.  It involves digging a massive hole in the ground, dropping the waste in, covering it, and then simply walking away – a procedure that is strongly condemned by anti-dumping organisations. With costs escalating year by year where such monies are to come from in the current financial climate is the unanswered question.

We must constantly be aware that the Government and the nuclear industry will stoop to any level to justify their decision so be ready to repudiate false propaganda.  A good example of this occurred in 2007 when Labour's apostle of the nuclear industry, Brian Wilson, claimed on Radio Scotland (1) that the existing nuclear waste was a relic from the Cold War nuclear weapons programme, and (2) with modern technology future nuclear waste would be much less radioactive, and much lesser volumes would be created.  Both claims are totally false.  (1) At the peak of the Cold War, the maximum amount of waste from nuclear weapons totalled a mere 18%, and with all the decommissioning work etc that has gone on since it is now less than 1%.  (2) Regarding the new European Pressurised Reactor being built at Olkilwoto in Finland, Greenpeace has established that this waste will be 7 times more hazardous, with no overall difference in the quantities to be produced (see note 1).

On a further interview on Radio Scotland on 1 August 08 Wilson claimed that more nuclear power was necessary in Scotland because "Scotland was an importer of expensive natural gas". Surely he must have known that Scotland produces 6 times more natural gas than it requires.  I took these issues up with the BBC on 1 August 08.  Protracted correspondence followed, but all I could draw out of them was this letter of 11 Feb 09 which reads (extracts)

"I note you continue to believe that Brian Wilson gave misleading information on Radio Scotland.  Your comments were passed to the News Editor, who has asked that I forward his response as follows:  "Thank you for getting in touch.  Nuclear Waste disposal is an inherently controversial topic and I appreciate your concern over how it is discussed on air.  I'll look into the research you highlight.  We'll continue to endeavour to cover the issue in a fair and balanced way. Thanks again and I hope you keep listening".

What is seldom discussed by the media is the vast quantities of nuclear waste which remain around 36 facilities in the UK.  Sellafield has already an over capacity and current waste is piling up around the plants that produce it.  The latest figures I have, published in 2008, show this to total 2,282,340 cubic meters weighing some 4.5 million tonnes. If such amounts are impossible to envisage may I recall events that happened back in 1986 when the amount of waste was less than half of what it is now. Firstly in 1982 the Government created NIREX, composed only of representatives of the nuclear industry which was given the task of recommending how the waste was to be disposed of. They produced what they termed a "discussion document" called "The Way Forward".

Among the proposals was one that received prominence over the others, viz to create a "National Repository" at Dounreay on the far north coast of Scotland.  The document said that to take all the waste from Sellafield to Dounreay would require 100 lorries and 10 trains per week for the next 50 years!  The proposals horrified the public – just the thought of 100 lorries on Scottish roads 365 days a year, travelling up the busy A9 at the height of the tourist season and navigating the Berriedale Braes in Caithness in the depths of winter is mind boggling.  It was calculated, statistically, that this amount of traffic would involve an accident involving a nuclear waste cargo once a fortnight!  The plans were eventually dropped, not as we might expect from the logistics involved but because of the cost.

The "Way Forward" document (para.3.2.4) says that the chosen site has to be secure through the next Ice Age due in 100,000 years time, which exemplifies the slow rate of decay of this most dangerous material. Whilst we think of Sellafield as the storehouse for most of the UK's nuclear waste, few are aware that the amount of radioactive waste within Dounreay exceeds the total at Sellafield – 148.900 cubic meters against 126,174 cubic meters at Sellafield. The main reason for this is that the second reactor built at Dounreay was a "Fast Breeder Reactor", plus of course the fact that foreign waste was imported into Dounreay for reprocessing, with not a scrap of the left over material (10 times the original volume) returned to the country of origin. Decommissioning is now going ahead at Dounreay under the watchful eye of SEPA.  Some years ago Dounreay was fined £2,000,000 for a serious spillage of radioactive material.  Much of the technology to deal with the waste at the inner core has yet to be invented. In 2013, movement of highly radioactive waste by train from Dounreay to Sellafield began with all the associated risks.

Whilst the problems associated with the disposal of nuclear waste would seem insoluble, there is a further issue that worries me – safety. Whilst most of our troops are fighting foreign wars, here at home, the question of the possibility of a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility looms large (there are some 36 targets to choose from).  Some years ago, an exercise was held at Dounreay when a group of "saboteurs" came ashore on a dingy and in 15 minutes had full control of the plant.  The nearest army depot is a hundred miles away and bombing the site would not seem to be a particularly good idea.  I understand that Dounreay has increased its security measures – not I hope because of the warning of a possible attack.  In December 2005, Channel 4 News looked at the 10 most dangerous occurrences that could afflict us in 2006.  High on the list was an explosion at a nuclear site. Should this be Sellafield, it was said, several hundred times the amount of radioactive caesium would be released into the atmosphere than happened at Chernobyl. This situation has not changed today.

Finally we must not overlook the fact that a serious accident can occur at a nuclear facility either by equipment failure or human error. We have all heard about Windscale (Cumbria 1957), Three Mile Island (USA March 1979), Chernobyl (Russia April 1986) and Fukushima in 2011.  Medical experts claim that Chernobyl will produce 200,000 fatal cancers by 2030.  However few know about what could have been the most serious accident of all which occurred in France at the La Hague reprocessing plant in January 1980, when the plant almost went critical. As France is largely dependent on nuclear power, the news was suppressed as far as possible.  The terrifying scenario is that had it gone critical, severe radio active contamination would have occurred south of The Wash.  And to think our Government was not even informed. All this information is in the public domain, yet the UK Government is going ahead and building a new generation of nuclear reactors.  In the words of the song "when will they ever learn".

(Note 1)  See New nuclear reactor’s waste is seven times more hazardous, Greenpeace exposes

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Comment by Carl O'Connor on March 11, 2018 at 7:22pm
Kinda doubt it will happen they we're supposed to put a switch in immediately but it never happened. I think it was too much money for dutra and it will be cheaper to bring it in by barge.
Comment by Richard C. Brand on March 11, 2018 at 6:11pm

Confirming as I drove by southbound on 101 about 4:30 I saw both 2009 and 1501 tied together at rest heading in the westbound direction at the wye.  As I was going 70 mph I did not see any cars behind but makes sense.

I was in Petaluma prior to that and there are a LOT of hoppers at both of the feed locations.

But no visible indication of biz at Dutra although the conveyor belt was running when we drove north on Thursday.  Anyone know that status?

Comment by Carl O'Connor on March 11, 2018 at 12:37pm
Wow that is alot. Maybe buisness is picking up? Still need a ton of new customers.
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28 to 30 counted why driving last night
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30 cars???

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Theatre 80 Bar "William Barnacle" Open At Last "

William Barnacle, is a new quiet respectful  bar and I say that because the community isn't crazy about bars, is celebrating the opening od Silence The Musical, the music comedy version of Silence of The Lambs, with Chianti and lava beans!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

CityTime Special Bloomberg Prosecutor

Ask United States Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a federal special prosecutor to investigate the Bloomberg Administration and the City Council for the massive CityTime fraud.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday called for an almost complete $600 million refund of the fraudulent CityTime automated payroll system, reported Celeste Katz of The New York Daily News.

Mayor Bloomberg made his request for a refund in a letter addressed to Walter Havenstein, CEO of Science Applications International Corporation ; the letter has been released to the public.

2011 06 29 Michael Bloomberg Letter Saic Citytime 600M Refund

For months now, political commentator, artist, and blogger Suzannah B. Troy has also been calling for a complete refund of the taxpayer money wasted on CityTime.

The U.S. Congress also has some power to appoint a special prosecutor or special investigator, if Mr. Holder doesn't have the guts to investigate the Bloomberg-Quinn administration.

We need to take this investigation out of the hands of any city official, whose investigation budget depends on Mayor Bloomberg's or City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's oversight.

Mayor Bloomberg has previously attacked the budgets of the Manhattan District Attorney and of the Public Advocate.

For her part, Speaker Quinn still likes to use the city budget to dole out her politically-motivated special member items.

Mike Bloomberg Speaks Suzannah B. Troy’s Words SAIC Give Us 600 Mill back + Suzannah B. Troy wants even more!

http://youtu.be/ZE8gFFBSfPg Mike Bloomberg is speaking Suzannah B. Troy ’s words but I want even more money back because we threw away perfectly good pay roll systems which cost us even more tax payer money! When SAIC filed the 8K that massive red light and used the words that they were at material financial risk they knew what I was asking for and that was a full refund. Nice ex-king Mike is late to the game but finally asking for money back! Mike looked at my new blog and I included Rudy in the header because he gave us CityTime and SAIC which I dubbed the Tax Payers’s Titanic. http://bloombergrudynycgovsaiccitytime.blogspot.com/ new blog asking for full refund and payroll.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Photos by Kobi Suzannah B. Troy Rape Protest by Now Suzannah Focuses on Rape Cop Lawyers and Women Who Did Not Survive Rape: Imette St. Guillen Joe Tacopina Chad Seigel Laura Garza

We pulled down my shirt over my big black belt that says New York and it says Violence Rape Murder from Babies to Grannies global crisis

Jennifer Moore under age and drinking, like Imette  and the NYPD Rape Victim she walked out on her own sadly and unlike the NYPD rape victim she did not live to tell her story, to have a life, too grow old.
Sickening to have Tacopina representing Imette. Imette would object if she was alive but she died a horrific death nothing as awful as the NYPD Rape Victim including Joe Tacopina and Chad Seigel’s treatment of her.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Suzannahartist#p/a/u/1/wzBQWaGVp9U  Listen to the gentleman to your left’s speech in my YouTube from today.  I am very tired.  Kobi sent me many photos and I would be up all night uploading and labeling them and I don’t have the strength.   Kobi is a beautiful soul inside out.
Thanks for your beautiful hard work.  There are so  many other photos.

There is Tish James and I wish I had captured her speech.  It was fantastic!  I tell you briefly about it on my YouTube.

Laura Garza  Today’s protest was about stopping the violence but they Women left us too soon and in the most horrific of ways I wanted to honor their memories

Yu Yao’s name is on my shirt many places and on both arms....unlike the other women she was not out drinking....she was just walking and was randomly grabbed by her hair and dragged in to an alley way, rape and murdered.   She is the most recent victim of a  violent rape and murder  that I am aware of.

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John Liu Wins on NYDN Poll for Who Do You Want as Mayor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIqGHaADRM I don’t mention Thompson who I voted for last election but he failed to stop massive conflicts of interests along with Mike pensions pay to play + CityTime. John Liu has done more in a short time than Bill who let CityCrime flourish along with Mike and his mini-me Christine Quinn! What ever John Liu’s flaws, he has more than redeemed himself shutting down corruption although there is so much more to shut down. Quinn has been sued for not paying back rent 4 times as exposed by NYDN, she sold the great lie we needed Mike for a 3rd term to help us with the economy. Mike and Chris helped their pals and the biggest white collar crime to flourish CityCrime etc. Quinn confuses tax payers with an investment bank approving Sullivan & Cromwell the same high priced defense attorney’s Goldman Sachs uses. Get Quinn out of city gov and she will have to pay for her own defense attorney who charges $650 an hour. Put an App up for how much she and her staff are costing tax payers!

Vote for Quinn is you want Mike to have a 4th term from the golf course!

Slutwalk NYC Wed. June 29, 7PM NYU Puck Building 4th Floor

Because we’ve had enough
Slutwalk NYC
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come help organize the birth of a new Women’s rights movement!
Wed. June 29, 7PM
Make it know that those who experience sexual assault are NEVER the ones at fault!

Join us Wed. for our first general planning meeting to promote outreach and prepare Slutwalk March on August 20.

We will be organizing all summer and beyond around government assaults on reproductive rights and access to healthcare, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial and the NY police rape acquittals, and sexual violence and gender discrimination on all levels.

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Suzannah B. Troy Joe Tacopina Chad Venus Fly Trap Seigel NYPD Rape Victims of Rape Murder Written on Arms Yu Yao Imette St. Guillen Laura Garza Jennifer Moore

After leaving the rally I stopped and ask some kind Protestors to video tape and photograph me. I was saddened That the women raped and murdered were forgotten so I honored their memory!!!!!

The judge Greg Carro put off the court date until next month.

Joe Hell Bound Tacopina listed as most hated lawyer in NYC, they left out Chad Venus Fly Trap Seigel.

More coming later. Did not sleep well exhausted. Been sent emails about The NY Times doing snow job false public relations for Christine Quinn who has been sued 4 x for back rent and sold the great lie we needed Mike for a 3rd term to help us with the economy. Bloomberg Quinn. Only helped their pals.

I have been sent people's thoughts about CityTime but I haven't had a chance to go thru the emails and I will have to wait.

Also very touching, deeply moving exchanges with people stopping me on the street, especially this woman named Mindy, thanks and gratitude Mindy for what you said to me and the beautiful mosaic of New Yorkers that listened to what I had to say on the subway!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Not Dead Yet A Film Screening Presented by Paradigm Shift NYC Feminist Community

A Film Screening & Discussion to Unite the Generations:
A dramedy about life, hot flashes, and profound re-awakenings!

SUSAN HESS LOGEAIS, Writer/Producer/Star
JENNIFER L. POZNER, Founder of Women In Media & News

NOT DEAD YET brings a dramatic new perspective to a range of women’s issues rarely embraced by American cinema.

Three women join forces to revive their acting careers, only to find themselves on a quest for something far more important.  Frustrated by the lack of roles for women over 40, they decide to create their own film, starring themselves.  As the project spins out of control, so do their lives.

Best Feature - Rhode Island International Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature - Baltimore Women's Film Festival

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Wednesday, July 6th
6:30 PM
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Roy Arias Studio - Stage IV
300 W. 43rd. St. Ste. 402 (corner of 8th Ave), NYC
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Prior to leaving the entertainment industry in 1990, Logeais had accomplished in 15 years what few people achieve in a lifetime. Beginning at the age of 17, the classically-trained ballerina spent a year performing with the Santa Francisco Ballet under Artistic Director Michael Smuin.

Then, in 1978, the teen began a seven-year stint during which she graced over a dozen magazine covers.  In 1984, Logeais scaled back her modeling to pursue her passion: acting. During the years that followed, she co-starred in four network television movies, a Sidney Sheldon mini-series for CBS, and episodes of “Miami Vice,” “Knightwatch,” “Spencer: For Hire,” and “Christine Cromwell.”

Finally, after years of being in front of audiences and the camera, Logeais decided to step behind the lens, and began learning the craft of screenplay writing. At the same time, she formed her own production company, Two Chicks with Cameras, and co-directed and produced a series of short films.

Then in 1992, her body rejected the breast implants she had gotten 8 ½ years earlier. Realizing how she had unwittingly inspired other women to follow her example, she convinced Allure magazine to chronicle her surgery and recovery. In addition, she appeared on a local LA television program to share her story.

Teaming up with local talent and crew, she produced her screenplay “Not Dead Yet”.  Her goal in producing the film was threefold; to see one of her screenplays produced; to star in a feature film; and to produce a story that would encourage women over 40 to embrace themselves and the wisdom their age represents.

“Not Dead Yet” was completed in early 2009 and has since screened at numerous film festivals, winning Best Feature at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and at the Baltimore Women’s Film Festival.  Subsequent projects include a short documentary entitled “Nerves of Steel, a year with The Portland Ballet,” which she recently completed; “Clay In Their Hands,” a documentary focusing on the importance of valuing women and children that is in production; and “The Emerald Tree,” an illustrated short story that is in development.

Jennifer L. Pozner is founder and executive director of Women In Media & News (WIMN), a media analysis, education and advocacy group. She is also managing editor of WIMN’s Voices, the popular group blog on women and the media. Her book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV (Seal Press, Nov. 1, 2010), grew out of WIMN’s media analysis program.

A widely published journalist, Jennifer serves on the board of editors of In These Times magazine. Her work has appeared in corporate media outlets such as Newsday, Chicago Tribune and the Boston Phoenix, independent magazines such as Ms. magazine, The American Prospect, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and online media such as WomensEnews, AlterNet, and Salon, among others. Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies. Additionally, she has served as an adviser for and has been featured in several documentary films, including “I Was a Teenage Feminist” and “Miss Representation.”

Jennifer has appeared as a media commentator on NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News Now, GRITtv, Democracy Now!, National Public Radio, and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” And, because she’s a sucker for punishment, she’s gone head to head with some of the most blustery boys of cable news, including Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough.

A noted lecturer, Jennifer has spoken on women, media, politics and pop culture at more than eighty colleges across the country, on topics ranging from portrayals of women in reality television, to gender and race biases in journalistic coverage of elections, to media coverage of war, poverty and natural disasters. She conducts media literacy workshops and media trainings for women’s groups, youth, and social justice organizations.

In 2009, she was recognized as one of the New Leaders Council “40 Under 40” progressive leaders in America. In 2007, Soroptimist International of NYC honored her with their “Making A Difference for Women” Award. Still, her favorite award remains her 2006 inclusion “The Real Hot 100,” a Girls In Government project honoring young women leaders making change in their communities. Forbes named Jennifer one of “20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter” in 2010. Later that year, she was amused to find her non-profit activist self alongside Tyra Banks, Martha Stewart and Vera Wang on BizTech Day’s list of “25 Influential Business Women in New York City You Should Follow on Twitter.”

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Friday, June 24, 2011

No Fire Houses Closing or Teacher Lay-Offs Just Smoke Mirror and Lies Bloomberg Quinn

NYPD Rape Cop Petition, Judge Greg Carro Give the NYPD Cops Max Sentence, Read the petition and sign so far Travesty NYC Supreme Court Will Carro do the right thing?

Please copy and paste and send to everyone on the planet you can think of.
We need those rape cops behind bars!
The violence towards women from babies to grannies must stop -- it is a global crisis!!!!
Thank you for spreading the word.  These cops abused their power and their lawyers dehumanized and demonized the rape victim accusing her of everything but raping the cop.  Joe Hell Bound Tacopina and Chad Venus Fly Trap Seigel belong in jail in my opinion as well.  They raped the NYPD rape victim in court sending a message to corrupt cops to rape away.

How could Imette St. Guillen and Ann Le’s family hire an attorney that took such pleasure in crossing the line with his inappropriate questions and don’t forget Chad Seigel’s Venus Fly Trap analogy posed as a question to send a message that the rape victim was like a Venus Fly Trap, a flesh eating plant that lures it’s victim, crushes it and destroys it....a misogynist set-up!   Chad Seigel was Venus Fly Trap analogy was comparing a rape victim’s bruised vagina and all our vaginas to a Venus Fly Trap dehumanizing and dehumanizing women.

Even more girls and women will not come forward thanks to this sham of  a trial...the fix was in in.

The jury could not understand that DNA is not required and clearly as one awful juror stated...she got herself in to this situation which is blaming the victim.

Joe Tacopina The Devil’s Advocate, the most hated lawyer in NYC.

Anatomy of a Travesty, really stupid jurors who can’t seem to understand the law and watch too much CSI, misogynist jurors that blame the women for their own rapes,  and more....  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/anatomy_of_travesty_brII3TyCmViUifOBKUXsDJ

CityTime Does It REALLY Work, Was it Worth the $ Can We Have A Full Refund and than some + What about 911 Tech System? Does it work as it should? 2 billion $ Investment, Was it Worth It?

We were sold the lie by Christine Quinn that we needed Mike Bloomberg for a 3rd term to help us with the economy. Mike and Christine only helped themselves and their pals as though wrong harsh cuts are coming along with way too long aiding and abetting flawed massive money guzzling tech systems that made the largest amount of outsourced workers rich as union workers were laid off and continue you to be. City Workers that had honest and loyal served NYC for years were sent emails over Christmas you are laid off.

Was SAIC worth all the money we paid them and sub-contractors?
Ditto for the 911 Tech System.

The Bloomberg Administration and Speaker Quinn who ignored 2 investigations into CityTime be brushed aside when it took me a matter of a few hours of reading to understand we should not renew and instead we needed a full investigation so these people do not belong in office and because they are politically connected they do not have to worry about Jail Time in the this Big Time CityTime fraud.

I ask you does CityTime work.

We need to hear from City Workers on the Steps of City Hall!

May 27, 2010 I read up on CityTime for a few hours and it stunk worse than all those sewage pipes on the Lower East Side and Soho. I made this YouTube May 27 of last year! I have to pinch myself! Even the title of this tube was right on! http://youtu.be/_Tz4eMcP2LU

President Obama Marriage Equality Louis Flores LGBT Activist Says We Should Hold President to His Campaign Promise!

Louis Flores, 38, said he was "angry and disappointed" that Mr Obama had not done more on gay marriage. "We should all be holding the president to his campaign promise."

Call Governor Cuomo Stop Holding Equality Hostage Richard Murray Queer Rising

Rich Murray posted on your Wall.
"NOW: Queer Rising is done being patient. Pass the NY marriage bill, regardless of other bills. We have the amendments, the language and the votes in the Senate and the Assembly.

Stop holding our equality hostage.

Call Cuomo 518-474-8390; Skelos 518-455-3717; John Sampson 518-455-2788.

End the chaos in the Capitol. Pass the bill.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Christine Quinn FAILED NYers CityTime BigTime Plus Preet Bharara Why No Indictments of NYC Gov Workers That Aided and Abetted SAIC and a hierarchy of theft for so long?

DOI had head of Office of Payroll Whistle Blower Hero Richard Valchich’s letter  for 10 years and DID NOTHING?

Why didn’t Rose Gill Hearn, Mike Bloomberg and Bill Thompson do nothing when the head of OPA Richard Vaichich blew the whistle?http://youtu.be/52tEuVY9joY True or False Christine Quinn Mike Bloomberg’s puppet brushed aside 2 investigations in to CityTime and Richard Valcich's letter was compelling enough to take action ---  Quinn failed or help Bloomberg, Mark Page
SAIC enablers and don’t forget Rudy’s best friend Peter Powers a lobbyist for SAIC.  Mike acted like SAIC was heroin and Mike was a drug king pin. We want a full refund.   50 mill contract Mike was forced to cancel 2 and half weeks ago with SAIC not CityTime.  This was not discussed at Friday’s SAIC Shareholder meeting.

p.s. I left out Mark Page!!!!!!!!!!  Bloomberg appointed Mark to the MTA board and Deputy mayor Harris’s husband and their son is head of IT cozy.  Did Mark Page and Harris’s husband try and push through the SAIC MTA deal we all fought tooth and nail? The MTA decided if SAIC over ran their budget all the bills would go to the NY Gov. meaning the tax payers! Greg Mocker of WPIX reported this.  Also remember DiNapoli killed the deal and SAIC and MTA were still trying to push through that deal!

On a humorous note an admiring individual said I want to have Preet Bharara’s baby!  Trouble is a guy said that to me.   Just a moment of humor....

Scroll down to 2nd article and find this sentence....
A more damning assessment is hard to imagine - but in all the City Council oversight hearings about CityTime the past few years, no one at OPA or City Hall ever mentioned the Valcich letter.

Question from Suzannah B. Troy....

Why no indictments of any one working for NYC gov that aided and abetted CityTime and allowed CityTime to flourish all these years....?

"The CityTime project was corrupted to its core by one of the largest and most brazen frauds ever committed against the city of New York," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/06/20/2011-06-20_prosecutors_unveil_new_indictments_in_citytime_scandal_project_was_corrupt_to_it.html#ixzz1PsB56WwD

Monday, June 20, 2011

Queer Rising Rally Hundreds Turn Out Speak and March From Union Square to Stonewall!

Check out Fox 5 Coverage!!!
See Jake Goodman from Queer Rising in the video footage on the top left hand corner and click on photo to see Louis Flores from Connecting Rainbows quoting Dr. Martin Luther King!

Queer Rising rocks and yesterday from Union Sq. to Stonewall.  I want to praise Louis Flores for his Martin Luther King banner....He wanted to have the banner for our City Hall counter protest and worked until 3am on the banner and could not get down so he brought it yesterday.  So happy Fox 5 picked up his banner and this blog because it is powerful.

From Louis Flores:

Members of Connecting Rainbows demands that Sen. Dean Skelos call for a vote for – and pass – Marriage Equality Today
Wrap-Up of Yesterday’s Rally at Union Square Park and March to Stonewall
June 20, 2011  New York, NY – Yesterday, several hundred LGBT activists, allies, and religious leader supporters held a rally in Union Square Park, where leaders spoke in support of marriage equality. Activists then marched to Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village and assembled outside the historic Stonewall Inn.
At the rally, community leaders expressed their support of marriage equality and called for passage of the landmark marriage equality bill, the fate of which rests in the hands of Sen. Dean Skelos, the New York State Senate Majority Leader.
“Law has changed over time, thanks be to God – or I wouldn’t be able to vote, and I’d be still drinking from a colored water fountain,” saidRev. Jacqueline Lewis, Ph.D., an African American and the Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church. “Good people of moral conscious change unjust laws.”
The rally and march was organised by the LGBT equality group, Queer Rising, and had been endorsed by many groups, includingConnecting Rainbows.Link to YouTube video of Rally and March : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesg4Napq58About LGBT Civil Rights :Marriage is a vehicle that society uses to distribute rights, benefits, and equality.  One way for LGBT Americans to access equal rights would be to be allowed to legally marry.  Another way, which would work concurrently, would be to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity by amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964.About Connecting Rainbows’ other efforts in support of Marriage Equality in New York State :
  • In April 2011, members of Connecting Rainbows confronted New York State Sen. Shirley Huntley over her civil rights record. See video link :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPzVYwK4aE   When she was young, Sen. Huntley has said that she participated in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.  Yet, in 2009, Sen. Huntely voted "No" on the marriage equality bill, which would have granted same-sex couples the same 1,324 legal protections that opposite-sex couples already have.  Less than two months after the confrontation by members of Connecting Rainbows, Sen. Huntley made a public pledge to switch her “No” vote on marriage equality to a “Yes” vote.
  • In June 2011, members of Connecting Rainbows began an effort to build a coalition of progressive religious leader allies in the spirit of social and economic justice. A demonstration for social and economic justice by that new coalition was held in City Hall Park on June 14, 2011.  See video link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0-a7eiaG4

About Connecting Rainbows : Connecting Rainbows is a group is a democratic collective of LGBTQ activists and allies, with no hierarchy.  The group’s mission is to create a mass movement, demanding full civil rights for LGBT Americans, and its members organise civil rights walks and other actions.  Connecting Rainbows uses the power of a social media platform, where people create online profiles, meet others, plan events, join groups, blog, and participate in online forums.  Visit : http://connectingrainbows.ning.com/

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Mayor Bloomberg LGBT Contradictions SAIC Dad's Day Battle for Brooklyn

from this blog posting....

All the festive celebrations are causing some reporters (like Brian Moylan) to forget, and some people (like Mayor Bloomberg) to lie about, the secret that Mayor Bloomberg would like to keep hidden in his gay marriage closet : the fact that in 2005 Mayor Bloomberg ordered lawyers for New York City to appeal the trial court ruling issued by New York Supreme Court Judge Doris Ling-Cohen, who decided that marrying the person of one's own choosing was both a privacy right and a liberty right.
If he really believed in marriage equality, why did Mayor Bloomberg appeal Judge Ling-Cohen's ruling ?http:http://no-third-term.blogspot.com/2010/12/bloomberg-gay-marriage-closet.html
from this blog posting....

All the festive celebrations are causing some reporters (like Brian Moylan) to forget, and some people (like Mayor Bloomberg) to lie about, the secret that Mayor Bloomberg would like to keep hidden in his gay marriage closet : the fact that in 2005 Mayor Bloomberg ordered lawyers for New York City to appeal the trial court ruling issued by New York Supreme Court Judge Doris Ling-Cohen, who decided that marrying the person of one's own choosing was both a privacy right and a liberty right.
If he really believed in marriage equality, why did Mayor Bloomberg appeal Judge Ling-Cohen's ruling ?//youtu.be/RU_GU0Ih-0Q

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Rev Jacqueline Lewis Calls For Marriage Equality Reminding Us Blacks and White Could Not Marry 45 Years ago in the USA! LGBT and Straight Activist St

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Senator Roy McDonald, Republican of Saratoga joins fellow Republican Jim Alesi of Rochester and 29 Democrats.

We just need one more vote.

So please continue calling the following:

Add to this: Hannon, Fuschillo, Zeldin, Martins

Keep it up. Cuomo's dropped the bill. Let's bring it over the finish line.
Dr. Jacqueline Lewis speaks out bravely and courageous pointing out she and her white husband could not be married in most States 65 years ago because it was illegal and calls for marriage equality!

Dr. Lewis, Ph.D.  Middle Collegiate Church, 50 East 7th Street in the East Village

Rich Murray gets interviewed by Talking Points Memo as he courageously stands by more anti-LGBT protestors on the Broadway side of City Hall!

This gentleman has been with his life partner 25 years and wants the basic Civil Rights to be married.

Rev. Mike Vandersall and Rev. Anna Taylor Sweringen  state that LGBT Equal Rights is a Civil Rights issue!

Jake Goodman Queer Rising
Suzannah B. Troy
Straight Ally
Dr. Martin Luther King
Equality for All

Dionne McClain-Freeney Speaking with Rev. Mieke Vandersall

MCC Metropolitan Community Churches
and our Wonderful Friend who marched
with us at the LGBT Easter Parade

Ronnie Mc,  Melissa Kleckne wonderful supporter, TIF and another wonderful supporter.

I have more photos and YouTubes to upload.

A special thanks to Louis Flores who organized this counter-protest last minute so we would have a voice and presence in the face of religious intolerance with protestors on the steps of City Hall as we stood inside City Hall Park.

Thanks to NYPD Det. Duffy, LGBT Liaison and the young NYPD officers that stood by us and respect our rights.  One bummer was the media tried to come over directly through to us but the NYPD City Hall NYPD prevented them so we were pleased that the media took the extra time to come the long way around to interview and take footage.

More uploads coming soon....very, very tired!
Louis Flores Organizer and in the background NYPD Det.  Duffy
City Hall Park
Louis is filming as well.
We have so much footage but we are soo tired!!
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Naturalization Saga, Part VII, The Letter

Today was hot, hazy, and humid. A day to have ice cream. A day to be lazy. A day to look at all the plants to be planted in the garden and say 'Tomorrow!'

Today, also was the day that I got The Letter. The Letter stating 'You are hereby notified to appear for a Naturalization Oath Ceremony on Friday, July 04, 2008.' Wow! The Letter! The ceremony will be in Portsmouth, NH.

I will have to figure out all the logistical details. Maybe we should stay overnight in a hotel. I feel tempted to spend the day in Portsmouth, and hope they have fireworks over the ocean at night. But I can work out all those details later. The big picture is that today, The Letter arrived! Woohoo! BTW, any local help on Portsmouth NH hotels or July 4th events will be appreciated.

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harri saptadi said...

why does its process take so long?

claire said...

Congratulations!!! How cool that it's on July 4. It will certainly be a holiday to remember! I am pleasantly surprised at how quickly the whole process took. I need to get cracking on my husband's paperwork so this is encouraging.

Have a great day :-)

Rebecca said...

Good for you! Is your husband going too, or has he already done this? You might have posted about this, but I don't remember. Good luck!

NannyOgg said...

harri, it takes long because they want to do 4,000 background checks and have to be sure one is of good moral character ^^

Thank you claire, and rebecca.

My husband has opted to stay dutch, he feels too attached to his dutch citizenship to become american

Kim said...

Woohooo! Congratulations!!! What a great way to celebrate the holiday. The US has certainly gained a gem.

Jody said...

Whoa!! How very cool that it will be on Independance Day!

Lillian said...

Karen, That is awesome! And on Independence Day! I don't think it could get any cooler than that.
Delurking to give you a big cross-country hug.

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Odd13’s Altered Egos Podcast talks about beer, brewing, and uh… other stuff

October 14, 2016

Fruiternization of beer, plus GABF recap

In this episode, we talk GABF and fruit. Here are the Buzzed Words:
Brandon guessed:
- Eric - Ripe (as in ripe, over-ripe, under-ripe)
- Ryan - Cloying

Ryan guessed:
- Brandon: stand (as in microphone)
- Larkin: "from the can"

Larkin guessed:
- Brandon - raspberries
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Guru Nanak's Birthday Celebrating Today

Guru Nanak Jayanti also identified as Guru Nanak Gurpurab and Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav, commemorates the birth of the first Sikh GuruGuru Nanak. This is one of the most holy events in Sikhism. Apart from Sikhs, Hindus and other devotees of Guru Nanak's values also rejoice this festival.

The festival is normally similar for all Gurpurabs; only the mantras are dissimilar. The festivals generally start with Prabhat Pheris. Prabhat Pheris are early morning pageants that commence at the Gurudwaras and go on around the localities singing hymns. Normally two days before the birthday, Akhand Path (a forty-eight-hour non-stop interpreting of the Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred book of the Sikhs) is alleged in the Gurdwaras.

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EVENT: CERT Supply Donations & Drop-off

Hot Dog! Drop off a CERT supply item or donation and get a fresh Hot Dog to go!

On Saturday, April 5th, from 10:00am -2:00pm the Rotary Club of

Ojai West together with Ojai Valley CERT will hold a much needed CERT
Supply Donation Drop-off at Rotary Park.

The emergency items listed below will go to equip CERT Responders and others to help our citizens during a disaster. The items range from a few dollars to whatever citizens would like to purchase or give in lightly used supplies listed. Participants will drive into the Rotary Park parking lot (at the Y) on West Ojai Avenue where Rotarians and CERT volunteers will collect the items in exchange for Hot Dogs and CERT information! Checks offered should be made out to RCOW Foundation/CERT. Each donation will help benefit our citizens.

For seven years, the members of Ojai Valley Community Emergency Response Team
(CERT) have steadily worked to increase awareness and expertise in disaster preparedness. They have encouraged over 500 CERT training attendees and extended that education by offering certification in Amateur Ham Radio operation, and in Red Cross First Aid training. They are visible at many functions including Ojai Day and organize and conduct the annual OK Drill held every third Wednesday in September.

The Rotary Club of Ojai West has over 20 members and families with disaster preparedness training and the Club has worked with CERT to fund the training DVD “People Like You” offered Sundays at 8am on Channel 10 access.

For more information, please call 646-1740

Mailing address for checks : RCOW Foundation, P.O Box 150l, Ojai CA 93024

CLICK on “Team_Needs” below for a list of items needed:

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