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On the Edge of Revolution… UC Berkeley in the 60s
April 7, 2021 April 6, 2021 / Curt Mekemson
In my last two posts about experiences that led me to join the Peace Corps, I introduced my life as a student at UC Berkeley from 1963 to 1965. Under any circumstances, it would have been interesting and challenging. Berkeley is one of the leading academic institutions in the world. But it was politics of change that brought the campus to the forefront of people's attention in the 60s. Today, I begin my exploration of the student revolution from my perspective of having a front row seat on the action as I struggled to understand what was happening and where I fit in.
This iconic image of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement was featured in media around the world at the time. Imagine my surprise when I opened our March 22, 2021 copy of the New Yorker and found it featured in at article titled "Change Your Life." What happened on campus in 1964 still influences how we think today.
What truly fascinated me about Berkeley was the palpable sense of being involved in the events of the day. I was drawn toward these issues, and the call to action tweaked my interest. Limiting the future of a potential Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein or Mahatma Gandhi because of who his parents were went beyond being counterproductive. It was stupid. We all lost. But I wasn't ready to take up a picket sign. This was my first year at Berkeley and my hands were more than full in struggling with classes and eking out time to be with Jo Ann. There were also numerous responsibilities to fulfill in my role as dorm president.
I did strike one tap hammer blow against the machine, however. We were expected to participate in the annual Ugly Man Contest. Its purpose was to raise money for charity by having someone or thing really ugly as the dorm's representative in competition with other dorms, fraternities and sororities. People would vote by donating money (normally pennies) to their favorite ugly man. In addition to being pure fun, it was on the top of the Dean's list as an acceptable student activity.
I proposed that our ugly man be an unfortunate Joe College student whose computer card had been lost by the Administration. Consequently, he no longer existed. Early computers used punched cards to contain data and had become ubiquitous in our lives. They came with the warning "do not fold, spindle or mutilate."
We made up a casket and wandered about campus in search of poor Joe. It was a small thing, but it reflected a growing unease I had about the alienation created by assembly line education where numbers were more important than individuals. It seems that the student body wasn't ready for the message. A popular bartender, selected by a fraternity as its ugly man candidate, walked away with the prize.
While my concerns over student alienation were evolving, the administration was monitoring off-campus student activism with growing concern. The University perceived its primary objectives as carrying out research and preparing young people to become productive members of American society. There was little room in this view for students seeking social and political change— in Mississippi, in Oakland, or on campus.
But the world was changing. A young President in Washington, Jack Kennedy, was calling on the youth of America to become involved and had created the Peace Corps to encourage involvement. Racial equality seemed attainable in the United States, and people the world over were yearning for and demanding freedom. It was easy for idealistic young Americans to believe we were at the dawning of a new age, and natural to want to be involved in the transformation.
Had the students restricted their political efforts in the early and mid-sixties to the far off South, the eruption of conflict on the Berkeley Campus may not have taken place. But they chose local targets as well. When the students marched off campus to picket the Oakland Tribune, Sheraton Hotel, United Airways and Safeway over discriminatory hiring practices, they were challenging locally established businesses with considerable power. Not surprisingly, these businesses felt threatened and fought back. Rather than deal with the existing discrimination, they demanded that the University, local authorities, the state government and even the Federal government do whatever was necessary to reign in the protesters.
Their arguments for the crackdown were typical of the times: A few radical off-campus agitators with Communist connections were working in conjunction with left leaning professors to stir up trouble. The participating students lacked mature judgment and were naively being led astray. The vast majority of students were good law abiding kids who just wanted to get an education, party, and get a paycheck.
The University was caught between the proverbial rock and a very hard place. The off-campus political activism was creating unwanted attention. Public dollars could be lost and reputations tarnished. There was a justifiable fear of reprisal from the right. The ugliness of McCarthyism was still alive and well in America. Its half-truths, outright lies and accusations had created a deep paranoia and distrust within American Society.
Only a few years before, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had held hearings in San Francisco in its ceaseless search for Communists. UC had been a target. Clark Kerr and others had worked hard to protect and restore the academic freedom on campus that loyalty oaths and other McCarthy-like activities had threatened. Student activism would refocus right wing attention on the Berkeley Campus.
My greatest insight into the mindset of the Administration was when the Dean of Students called student leaders together to discuss the growing unrest on campus. Our gathering included members of the student government and presidents of the resident halls, fraternities and sororities. Noticeable in their absence were student representatives from off campus organizations such as CORE, SNCC, SDS, Young Democrats, Young Republicans and other activist groups. We sat in a large room with tables organized in a square; there must have been at least 40 of us. I was eager to participate and imagined an open discussion of the issues. I couldn't have been more wrong, which is the subject of my blog-a-book post from The Bush Devil Ate Sam next Wednesday.
Friday's Travel Blog: Last Friday I featured the magnificent sea stacks found at Harris Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast. But what about ordinary rocks? This Friday, Peggy and I lower our cameras to look at a collection of 'not so normal' rocks and driftwood at the park.
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27 thoughts on "On the Edge of Revolution… UC Berkeley in the 60s"
ralietravels
Young people should be at the forefront of movements to make things better. But having seen things as they were in the 60s, I often think "if today's young could only see how much worse things – e.g., the environment, working conditions, racism – were back then and how far we have come.
I truly agree with you on the latter, Ray. I'm not sure that most adults perceive how far we have come. On the other hand, when we look at issues like global warming, it's obvious that we have a ways to go. 🙂 Thanks. –Curt
Thanks for this. Having been in a US university from 1966–1970, I especially identified with your comment—'I struggled to understand what was happening and where I fit in'.
I did a lot more listening and thinking that I did acting, Peggy. Part of my answer was the Peace Corps where I decided I could react to what I perceived as very real problems in a positive way. –Curt
It was a good choice. I had similar thoughts, but got side-tracked.
I did have the added incentive of a war going on… 🙂
M.B. Henry
A very interesting inside look at Berkeley during some very tumultuous years. I will look forward to the next segment! In our own times of social challenges, I found this line very relatable – "I struggled to understand what was happening and where I fit in." I always want to help, but sometimes it all seems so beyond any control that I don't even know where to begin!
Thanks. MB. I share your love of history. The 60s were one of those periods when history was being made. Many of the issues we have been struggling with over the past 60 years were put in the spotlight: Student rights were only a small part. Equality for women, blacks, hispanics, Native Americans, gays, etc, the environmental movement, and the Vietnam War to name some… The birth of the modern day left and the modern day right was underway. Berkeley, in many ways, was a harbinger of things to come— a microcosm.
Even at 78, I continue to debate with myself over whether I am doing enough and what else I could be doing. 🙂 –Curt
Those years were for protesting against the Vietnam war. It was the beginning of actions for the female emancipation in Australia, which were bewildering to my newly married girl from Finland who felt that women in Finland did not need freeing at all, they were free already.
I don't know how far this movement has evolved seeing today that our male politicians and their staff are bogged down in endless allegations of sexual harassing females inside Parliament. One male politician was caught texting lewd messages while a health bill was being passed, and at another time was soliciting a woman to have sex inside parliament. Cleaners routinely are being asked to clean up after ministers' couches, desks and offices were used for late night partying and sex.
We have a major scandal going on now, Gerard. One of Trump's strongest supporters in Congress. They may get him on sex trafficking.
I think that politics, like Hollywood, is conducive to sexual misbehavior. –Curt
Those computer cards! Guess some wouldn't get it. "do not fold, spindle or mutilate." We used that line with people, too…not that anyone listened. Still progress has been made. Change come slowly, but it happens….except it currently seems so much was taken for granted and misplaced and the wheel will have to be reinvented again.
Three steps forward and two steps backward, Karen. Forever the refrain. As long as we avoid three steps forward and four steps backward. 🙂 –Curt
How ironic that Berkeley (or a goodly portion of its population) has become the very antithesis of the liberalism of the '60s.
The pendulum swings, Linda. Even in the 60s, the campus was divided between its more liberal and more conservative elements. –Curt
That's certainly true. I think one of my greatest disappointments with today's Berkeley (and other places in this country) is that the easy-going acceptance of differences seems a world away.
I think that the issues are real and demand solutions, Linda. Sadly, exploiting divisiveness is a way to gain power and expand ratings. Cable TV and social media have enabled tribalism and increased intolerance instead of bringing people together. All too often, open, back and forth discussions turn into screaming matches. –Curt
Cindy Georgakas
Oh I love this picture Curt and can't wait to send it to my almost graduate in Bus School at Berkely. Then and now. What a meca for change and you were right there as the class dorm President. Such cutting edge times that spun change which we need to continue unfortunately! Ugly Man Contest and how to fit in.. now wonder it was a struggle!
Can't wait for the next one! 💖💖
The 60s were a time of dramatic change, Cindy. It was exciting to be at one places that was a focal point for the change, and to be part of it. –Curt
Yes, you were so lucky to experience that Curt!
So cool!👏👏👏
Really fascinating to read about this from someone in the thick of it. It feels as if nothing has changed. This sentence struck me: "The ugliness of McCarthyism was still alive and well in America. Its half-truths, outright lies and accusations had created a deep paranoia and distrust within American Society." You just need to replace McCarthyism with Trumpism 😦
I look forward to the next post.
The parallel is scary, Alison. It definitely crossed my mind. Thanks for your observation. –Curt
spanishwoods
I enjoyed reading this Curt. I also was thinking about the parallel to our modern times, it seems impossible NOT to see the connections. But like you say, pendulums swing back and forth in history. In any case, how lucky you were to have experienced that particular slice of time at Berkeley.
Thanks, Sylvia. Very fortunate. I like to note that I learned more about politics and life on the streets than I did in my history and political science classes. –Curt
Although I was a collegiate in the 60s, I wasn't involved in any movements that I know of. Your front row seat and your current assessment of what was going on are fascinating. After watching what happened during the Trump years, I might have been more interested and aware of the protests and the opposition.
So often, it is the young people who are on the front lines. It may not mean they always make the best decisions, but who does. I, for one, am ever so glad that young people care about the future of our nation and are willing to speak out. And thanks. Over the years, I've thought a lot about how the 60s continue to influence us today. –Curt
In some ways, the seeds of change were sewn in the 60s.
In many ways, Rusha. A great deal has been accomplished since, which is sometimes lost amid all of the clamor. –Curt
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Researcher gets $US2.9m for equine viral arteritis research
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A University of Kentucky professor has received a $US2.9 million grant to identify the genetic factors responsible for establishment of the equine arteritis virus (EAV) carrier state in stallions.
The five-year grant was awarded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, part of the US Department of Agriculture, to Udeni Balasuriya, a professor at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center.
According to Nancy Cox, associate dean for research in the university's College of Agriculture and administrative leader for its Ag Equine Programs, Balasuriya's grant was ranked the highest in its category, unusual for a USDA grant program that normally targets food animals.
This is one of the largest grants awarded in the College of Agriculture in the last year, she said, and is a special kind that includes funds for getting results out to the public in the fastest, most efficient way.
Outbreaks of equine viral arteritis (EVA) result in significant economic losses to the equine industry due to high rates of foal loss in pregnant mares, death in young foals and establishment of the carrier state in stallions.
The virus is maintained in the equine population between breeding seasons by persisting in carrier stallions.
The project stems from research by a graduate student, Yun Young Go, who worked in Balasuriya's laboratory at the Gluck Center. The initial focus of her project involved the characterization of the EAV target cell populations in equine white blood cells. White blood cells are important because they eliminate cells attacked by the virus.
According to Balasuriya, the study demonstrated that EAV could infect isolated cultured white blood cells in the lab.
"Subsequently, this study was expanded to include the latest information available from the equine genome," he said.
The genome studies were done in collaboration with Ernie Bailey and James MacLeod, both researchers at the Gluck Center.
Co-principal investigators of the study include seven Gluck Center faculty members – Sergey Artiushin, Bailey, Frank Cook, David Horohov, MacLeod, Edward Squires, Peter Timoney and Mats Troedsson. This collaboration includes expertise in the areas of immunogenetics, genomics, molecular virology and viral pathogenesis, equine reproduction, equine immunology, diagnostic pathology, molecular and cell biology and equine infectious diseases.
The study will further investigate the possibility that susceptibility may be different in different horses. The nature of the susceptibility will be studied first in more isolated cells in the laboratory, then later with stallions.
"This cutting edge research under the leadership of Dr Balasuriya will use new approaches to identify genetic factors associated with the establishment of persistent EAV in stallions," said Mats Troedsson, director of the Gluck Equine Research Center and chair of the Department of Veterinary Science at the university.
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The study will provide research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to address EAV through integrating functional genomic studies and education. Findings from the studies will be disseminated through seminars and symposiums.
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Idriss "Dries" Boussatta (ur. 23 grudnia 1972 w Amsterdamie) – holenderski piłkarz pochodzenia marokańskiego występujący na pozycji pomocnika.

Kariera klubowa
Boussatta jako junior grał w zespołach De Spartaan, VVA/Spartaan, V&V Amsterdam, AFC Ajax oraz FC Volendam. W 1991 roku został graczem Telstaru, grającego w Eerste divisie. Spędził tam sezon 1991/1992, a potem przeszedł do Ajaksu z Eredivisie. Przez dwa sezony w jego barwach nie rozegrał jednak żadnego spotkania i w 1994 roku odszedł do drugoligowego HFC Haarlem. Jego barwy reprezentował przez jeden sezon.

W 1995 roku Boussatta przeniósł się do pierwszoligowego FC Utrecht. W Eredivisie zadebiutował 20 sierpnia 1995 w przegranym 0:4 meczu z Ajaksem. W Utrechcie występował przez trzy sezony. Następnie grał w także pierwszoligowym AZ Alkmaar, którego barw bronił przez cztery sezony. W kolejnych latach występował jeszcze w Excelsiorze (Eredivisie), angielskim Sheffield United (Division One) oraz emirackim Nadi asz-Szarika, gdzie w 2005 roku zakończył karierę.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Holandii Boussatta zadebiutował 18 listopada 1998 w zremisowanym 1:1 towarzyskim meczu z Niemcami. W latach 1998–1999 w drużynie narodowej rozegrał 3 spotkania.

Bibliografia
 Profil na eu.football.info
 Dries Boussatta w bazie Worldfootball

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Holendrzy pochodzenia marokańskiego
Piłkarze SC Telstar
Piłkarze AFC Ajax
Piłkarze HFC Haarlem
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Piłkarze AZ Alkmaar
Piłkarze SBV Excelsior
Piłkarze Sheffield United F.C.
Piłkarze Nadi asz-Szarika
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Osler: The saint of Baltimore
He "may have been the greatest clinical teacher of any day, and any country," says the author, in this review of a new biography.
By Sherwin B. Nuland, MD
On a brilliantly clear day in early May 1889, six young physicians and scientists looked on in eager but apprehensive anticipation as the opening ceremonies were held in Baltimore for a new kind of hospital, on which they had staked their careers. Ranging in age from 31 to 39, each of the men was riding the upward arc of a brilliant academic trajectory; each of them had been recruited away from a university position that would have assured him the facilities and the support for a productive career. But each of them wanted more than mere professional success. These rising medical stars were risking a great deal in order to take part in an incompletely formed project that would succeed or fail on the basis of their individual and collective abilities to create a novel and quite independent atmosphere of research, teaching, and patient care. On that spring day, however, the entire enterprise was still only a dream in the minds of its planners.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the associated medical school that was to be founded four years later held the promise of launching American medicine on excitingly novel adventures, in which each of the new professors would essentially create from scratch the conditions that he considered ideal for his work and for the development of his specialty. But it also held the threat of failing in a welter of poor planning, pedagogical squabbles, and inadequate financing. Franklin P. Mall in anatomy, John Jacob Abel in pharmacology, Ira Remsen in chemistry, William Welch in pathology, Howard Kelly in gynecology, and William Osler in medicine formed the vanguard of a potential revolution in medical science and education, and they knew it.
They also knew that the entire bubble of fantasy might explode in their faces. Even four years later, when the 33-year-old William Howell joined them to be professor of physiology at the opening of the medical school, a great deal was still uncertain. The only sure thing was the conviction of those who observed them that they were all caught up in what one commentator called "the contagion of excellence."
In spite of a bundle of obstacles—not excluding their own philosophical differences and the inevitable personality clashes that might have undone lesser men—the seven 30-somethings did succeed. Soon they would be the envy of the world. One of the seven would become, as Michael Bliss calls him in his eminently readable new biography, "the high priest of his emerging profession." William Osler is remembered as the greatest clinical teacher of his day; a judgment so universal that it needs no modifying by such trendy adverbs as "arguably." In fact, he may have been the greatest clinical teacher of any day, and any country, too.
Primarily by means of Osler's great textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (which went through 16 editions, the last being published in 1947, 26 years after his death), but also by means of Osler's widely circulated lectures and many published articles, English displaced German as the language of medical discourse, the language that one had to know in order to comprehend the new advances beginning to appear so rapidly near the end of the 19th century. An immensely well-liked man and a catalyst to the accomplishments of others, he became the most sought-after medical speaker in America. He served as president, and often founder, of so many cultural and scientific organizations that even an Osler addict like myself is constantly surprised to come across yet another one not previously known to him.
Bliss writes: "His was a life that stands up almost too well to critical dissection, even microscopic scrutiny. In an age when biographers make their reputation by claiming to have discovered hidden internal derangements in their subjects, this project has been an unusual intellectual autopsy, at times something of a modern biographer's nightmare. Try as I might, I could not find a cause to justify the death of Osler's reputation. He lived a magnificent, epic, important, and more than slightly saintly life."
There is that word: saintly. Does it mean that Bliss has written a hagiography, whether in the classical sense of its being the life of a saint or in its current usage, carrying the implication of memorializing an exemplary subject whose flaws are minor? The answer to both questions is Yes, for William Osler really was a kind of medical saint; and it is reassuring to those of us who have long worshiped at his figurative shrine that no amount of scratching at his holiness has marred the sheen of the halo under which he stands. In fact, thanks to Bliss's uncompromising search, it shines more brightly than ever. Sometimes hagiography is only truth.
Like all saints, Osler was a living, breathing human being before being canonized, and a colorful one at that. He played outrageous practical jokes, invented an alter ego with a bawdy sense of humor, charged enormous fees (but only to the very wealthy among his patients, of whom there were many), was rumored to have fathered an illegitimate child by his cousin, and offended an entire generation by advising, in a widely reported address, that men beyond the age of 60 should be chloroformed until dead.
Bliss tells a good story, and there are plenty of good stories to be recounted, as he follows his peripatetic subject from the backwoods Canadian parsonage where he was born until his death as Sir William Osler, the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford and the most famous doctor in the world. In fact, the stories go well beyond Osler's physical death, to the memorializations of his life that have taken various forms over the past eight decades, not neglecting such vignettes as the author's personal experience of the ultimate shrine, in the Osler Library at McGill: "I was working on this biography in the Osler Library, sitting at Osler's desk, one day in September 1997, when a freshman student at McGill quietly slipped into the inner sanctum and, in an act of secular worship, placed at the foot of the Osler plaque a bouquet of flowers and a card asking for Osler's blessing."
The decade of the 1880s was perhaps the most exciting brief period that had ever occurred in the 2,300-year history of Western medicine. The germ theory of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister gained acceptance during that time, and one disease after another was shown to be caused by some specific organism. Medical thinking was transformed. William Osler was one of very few men on this continent equipped fully to comprehend the magnitude of the changes about to take place in research and later in practice. His unique expertness with the microscope, his studies with leading scientists in Vienna and Berlin, his focus on the study of pathological tissues as guides to the understanding of disease processes, his youthful energies and enthusiasms: All of these combined to guarantee that the new discoveries so rapidly emerging from European laboratories would find practical use in his hands, not only in the study of sickness but also in the teaching of students.
In 1884 the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, America's oldest and one of its best, called Osler to the chair of medicine. Osler's departure was a devastating blow to McGill. Their finest teacher was escorted to the train station by the entire student body. He was on his way to the next phase of the journey that would lead inevitably to Baltimore. The geographic progression southward was partnered with the academic progression upward.
In Philadelphia, Osler gave free rein to his determination that autopsy and microscopic study were the keys to understanding the evolution of disease. He conducted so many postmortem examinations that complaints inevitably arose about what must have been his sometimes cavalier attitude about permissions and the formal protocols required by the hospital authorities. Even in the flood of new scientific information he was discovering, however, Osler never neglected the humanity of his patients. The medical statistics and massing of cases into groups that were necessary to elucidate clinical conditions did not mislead him into forgetting the distinctiveness of each person who came under his care.
In 1886, Osler wrote of the necessity that a doctor have a profound knowledge of human nature, and stressed "the careful consideration which is given to every circumstance in the life and condition of the individual." Two years later, thinking about a visit he had just made to his famous patient Walt Whitman, he penned a note in his commonplace book: "A doctor does not treat typhoid fever, but he treats the man with typhoid, and it is the man with his peculiarities—his bodily idiosyncrasies we have to consider." These were themes that Osler would reiterate for the rest of his life.
Osler was doing clinical research, writing journal articles, taking on a huge load of teaching, and lecturing to his medical colleagues in Philadelphia and elsewhere. In 1884, he was invited to London to follow centuries of distinguished British physicians by giving the Goulstonian Lectures, choosing to describe the pathological and clinical findings in 200 cases of endocarditis and the role of bacteria in the disease. He described the inflammation that occurs in the inner lining membrane and valves of the heart and the streptococcal, staphylococcal, or other bacterial invaders that cause it. The three lectures were characteristic of Osler's approach in all his research writings: detailed clinical and pathological descriptions of distinct disease processes so accurate and so lucid that even in later years they could barely be improved upon. Osler would never become known for presenting grand conceptual notions or overriding theories of disease. His great gift was the presentation of material so finely and comprehensively observed that it was of enormous value to bedside physicians, pathologists, and even students.
But even all of those obligations did not consume his vast energies. Handsome and witty, the young bachelor became a favorite at Philadelphia social evenings. And he never could resist an opportunity to tease anyone in his vicinity. As the usually stern Hopkins nurse, Miss Nutting, put it after he grabbed a grapefruit off a basket one day and bowled it down a hospital hallway, "It was Dr. Osler, you know, and his behavior cannot be predicted."
Osler traveled frequently during the Philadelphia years, either to visit other hospitals and schools, to lecture, or to see patients in his rapidly expanding consultation practice; he was setting a pattern that would never be abandoned, though it did lessen considerably during his last years at Oxford. In 1886, he went to Baltimore to visit the campus of the new Johns Hopkins University. "It is the university of the future," Osler wrote to an Ontario friend, "& when the Medical school is organized all others will be distanced in the country." At that time, rumors were already flying around Philadelphia that their best medical teacher was soon to be offered the chair at Hopkins. The rumors were well founded. Osler traveled to Baltimore in September 1888 to accept the appointment.
And so the heady days began. The next 16 years would be a period of immense productivity, during which the Hopkins experiment was successful beyond even Osler's predictions. And so was he. His international fame grew, his clinical research flourished, and he was more popular a teacher than ever, if it is possible to imagine such a thing. The atmosphere of joy that he brought to everything he did, and the sense of high purpose that he conveyed, infected students with a love of medicine and an appreciation for the nobility of the calling they had chosen.
Osler introduced a number of pedagogical innovations, the most important and enduring of which was to bring students out of the lecture halls and on to the wards, as so-called clinical clerks, partners in the care of the sick. He called this "the natural method" of teaching. It had never been attempted in an American hospital, and it became the precedent upon which every teaching service would thereafter be based. Its purpose was clearly stated by Osler: "The student begins with the patient, continues with the patient, and ends with the patient. . . . [T]each him how to observe, give him plenty of facts to observe, and the lessons will come out of the facts themselves. . . . [T]he best teaching is that taught by the patient himself."
In 1890 Osler married the 37-year-old Grace Revere Gross, the widow of a prominent Philadelphia surgeon and a direct descendant of the famous Revolutionary War courier. A son born nine months almost to the day after their wedding died shortly after birth, but within two years Mrs. Osler had given birth to a boy they named Revere, who would become the adored only child of his parents as they aged.
By the turn of the century, Osler's various sources of income—salary, book royalties, and consultation fees—were bringing him a huge income, in 1903 amounting to $47,000, or $1.4 million in today's money, some $9,000 of which he gave away. But the huge prosperity was coming at a huge price. His patients included the president, members of the cabinet, and many public officials and wealthy men and women, and such consultations often demanded travel over considerable distances. Between these and his visits to various medical facilities and universities he was out of town 33 times in 1901.
He began to complain about the pressures of it all. This was the busiest period of his life, and even his seemingly limitless energies were being severely tested: "The racket of my present life is too much for me. I am going downhill physically and mentally."
When a letter arrived in June 1904 inviting Osler to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, a position whose responsibilities were largely honorary, he gave it serious consideration. But Grace, who had become increasingly concerned about her husband's overwork, did more than that. She was determined that he should accept, and right away. On May 19, 1905, the Oslers sailed for England, and what was meant to serve as semiretirement for the 56-year-old Chief.
Oxford proved to be all that was hoped for, though there was still plenty of demand for consultations, and the writing and the speech-making continued unabated; and there were too many meetings to attend. But the Regius professorship proved a welcome relief from the unsustainable burdens of Baltimore. There was much more time for the beloved books and for the history of medicine, which Osler now began to study avidly after many years of intermittent attention.
The rewards for all the years of dedication began to pour in. The baronetcy conferred in 1911 was the highest of the honors, but offers of memberships, degrees, and presidencies aplenty came Osler's way. The applause never seemed to die down. The Oslers' home in Oxford was the center, as it had been in Baltimore, of a constant celebration of life. They watched in awe as Revere, at first a callow and unambitious youth, began to develop into a serious young man dedicated to books and devoted to his father. Willie and Grace loved England, and the years seemed charmed.
And then the lamps went out all over Europe. On Aug. 14, 1914, Great Britain went to war. Less than six months later, Revere joined the army. The carnage of the war was beyond anyone's imagination. Scarcely a family among the Oslers' acquaintance had not lost a son or sons, and the house was always full of Oxford men recovering from wounds. After Revere returned to the front, Grace wrote to a friend: "It broke my heart to look at him & to think I may never see him again—One stroke and all may be over." The stroke came on Aug. 29, 1917. Revere was hit by shrapnel and died a few hours later, after surgery in an attempt to stop internal bleeding.
The enchanted life of the Oslers was over. "We have been preparing for the blow," Osler wrote to the surgeon Harvey Cushing, who had been with Revere at the end. "I felt sure the fates would hit me through him. I have escaped all these years without a great sorrow, and have had so much in life, so much more, really, than I have deserved that I have all along felt we could not escape. . . . Poor Grace! It hit her hard; but we are both going to be brave, and take up what is left of life as though he were with us." They faced their loss with courage, at least externally, but Osler was a broken man. Another year passed before a semblance of normality returned to their lives, and even then they lived with the awareness that everything had changed, and their happiness would never return.
Seasonal upper-respiratory infections that had plagued Osler over the course of many years now began to be more common, and harder to shake off. He returned from a visit to Edinburgh in late September 1920 with the beginnings of what appeared to be influenza, and his condition gradually worsened during the next few weeks. He developed pneumonia and then pleurisy, and after a time it became obvious that there was pus in his chest cavity. He suffered through several weeks of pain, needling of his chest, and finally a small operation done in his bed, in an attempt to remove the pus. But nothing helped. On the afternoon of Dec. 29, he died following an intestinal hemorrhage. True to form, he had requested an autopsy, which was done in his own home on the following day. Bliss tells us that "Osler had said that he wished he could be present, having taken such a lifelong interest in the case."
Osler was dead, but Osler lived on. Although the numbers are now becoming small, medical students and grizzled physicians still occasionally seek inspiration by reading the many essays that he wrote on the medical life. Some are dated, but others are as fresh as the day he put pen to paper. Among many examples that may be quoted is the following, from an address to students at the University of Toronto in 1903:
"To you the silent workers of the ranks, in villages and country districts, in the slums of our large cities, in the mining camps and factory towns, in the homes of the rich, and in the hovels of the poor, to you is given the harder task of illustrating with your lives the Hippocratic standards of Learning, of Sagacity, of Humanity, and of Probity. Of learning, that you may apply in your practice the best that is known in our art, and that with the increase in your knowledge there may be an increase in that priceless endowment of sagacity, so that to all, everywhere, skilled succour may come in the hour of need. Of a humanity, that will show in your daily life tenderness and consideration to the weak, infinite pity to the suffering, and broad charity to all. Of a probity, that will make you under all circumstances true to yourselves, true to your high calling, and true to your fellow man."
William Osler is a fascinating man whom we need nowadays. In this time of cynicism, it is good to know that the earth can be inherited by those who have faith and trust in the improvability if not the perfectibility of humankind; in this time of bioethical conundrums, it is good to know that patience, goodwill, and personal morality will untie far more intellectual knots than the disarray of rancor, conflict, and special interests; in this time of great medical miracles it is good, and properly humbling too, to know that there have been other periods of miracles, and yet the ancient problems of health and human happiness remain, bringing new challenges to each succeeding generation. William Osler's life and his writings tell us of these things, but they are beginning to fade from the experience of all but a few men and women who seek them out. They need to be revived, and he needs to be heard again.
The author, a general surgeon, teaches at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
This is an excerpt from a review of William Osler: A Life in Medicine, by Michael Bliss (Oxford University Press, 581 pp., $35). Reprinted by permission of THE NEW REPUBLIC, © 1999, The New Republic, Inc.
Carol Pincus, ed. Sherwin Nuland. Osler: The saint of Baltimore. Medical Economics 2000;8:137.
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I'm talking about DIRTY, UNSANITARY, SOAKED IN SOMEONE ELSE's LIQUIDS = SCRUBS.
Sure, I think Kyle looks pretty darn hot in them, but that doesn't mean I would like him to still be wearing them around the house once he arrives home from work. Let's get our minds out of the gutter, I'm not saying I want him strutting around naked either, but that is neither here nor there.
The issue is cleanliness...or lack thereof. If you enter our house from our garage, the laundry room is immediately to the right. My suggestion was for him to put them into a separate laundry basket when he comes in. Currently, they find their way in heaps on the floor throughout our bedroom and bathroom. It totally grosses me out thinking about what lingering bacteria could be on those. Especially when he was on colorectal. Just sayin'.
Now, just to be fair, I'll share Kyle's case. Since the majority of the time a doctor wears scrubs, they are either in the OR (aka extremely sanitary and nothing would ever touch the scrubs since you are completely covered up) or wearing a white coat. Thus, it is no different than any other job. Actually, the white coat and dress clothes are probably less sanitary than scrubs, and I have no issue with those. (Until he brought up that point, at which I replied that I now I have an issue with all of his work clothes) Sure, he has a point. Valid? That's debatable.
Solution: Kyle could strip naked in the laundry room before he enters the house.
2nd Solution: Separate laundry basket in our bedroom for his work clothes.
Reality: I'm working on having him put them in a basket instead of beside it on the floor. Just picture me with kitchen tongs going around picking up the the scrubs.
Am I over-reacting? Is it really that big of deal that a strangers poo could be on our carpet?
There is just something about the scrubs that gross me out way more than dress clothes. Maybe it's the idea that they should be dirty considering their appointed name.
Help me us out, people.
Thanks Keri! Good point about not touching Hannah either. Better to get in good habits now rather then to attempt to change them when kids come along!
Living with an immunocompromised person, I could definitely be better at this but I at minimum take the scrubs off promptly and put them in the hamper which is shared with all clothes. We put bleach in with nearly every load (scrubs or no) - he's had C-diff, etc and I probably bring home other bugs too. I totally agree that the lab coat is probably the worst! Along with shoes... don't let him wear shoes through your place! Gross. Also, you could put clean workout/lounge clothes in the laundry room for him to change into when he takes the scrubs off. While you are probably healthy enough to not get sick from most of what would come home on his scrubs, etc, it doesn't hurt to be clean about it all!
We have this conversation about once a week, not kidding. Nothing changes. Sigh... Yesterday, I put about 15-20 pairs of clean scrubs in his dresser and collected the rest (easily another 30 pairs) into a bag for him to bring back to the hospital. It was getting ridiculous. This way, he will have to wash them more often and there are less yucky scrubs lingering around our house. Not a total solution, but getting there.
30 pair?! My goodness! You're a saint.
I personally have done both. I have stripped in the garage, put the scrubs directly into the washing machine and put on a robe to go directly to the shower. And I have worn my clothes around my house after a shift. It depended on what I did that day. When I had babies and took care of RSV kids I did the first one, also during flu season in clinic. But some days I just wasn't around anything worse than what is at the mall and I don't change after the mall unless I have a new outfit that I want to show off. So my opinion is that you are both right, depending on his day. Now, having said that, I totally understand the idea that they seem like they should be dirty. You don't know where they have been. I think shoes off and work clothes (scrubs or otherwise) in the regular hamper should be enough for normal days.
Thanks Nataline, it's helpful hearing from the side who is in the hospital all day long. It's true, sometimes it really is no worse than the mall! Makes me feel like I need to walk around in a bubble sometimes!
Here's how we handle the nasty scrubs problem... My Doc H wears slacks, shirt and tie to the hospital. There he either puts on his white coat (if he's seeing patients in the clinic) or changes into scrubs. When he's done with his day, he dumps the scrubs at the hospital and changes back into his regular clothes.
Emma, you'll appreciate this: Kyle came home in dress clothes yesterday after being in the OR all day. Making progress! I always have a since of guilt about having him stay at the hospital even longer in order to change though.
Totally on your side with this one... we are still in the "if only you would use the laundry basket" stage! Good luck!!
For me, it is all about what I did that day. Sometimes, after a night of call around things not infectious and no body fluids (rare, but they exist) I wear my scrubs home and wash them myself (the hospital laundry soap is gross). Other days, I wear my normal clothes to work change and then change back... Especially on OR days or if something nasty got on them. Even with my normal clothes, they can be covered in all kinds of lucky stuff by the end of the day. If I was just doing the usual stuff with no contact with body fluids to my clothes and nothing nasty is going around, I often don't change when I get home (fact: I hate changing clothes), but if there is anything else, I change.
My husband thought it was appalling at first. But then, he is an elementary school teacher and some days I am pretty sure he was exposed to more germs and body fluids than I am.
I found your blog from the Medical Mondays link-up! I look forward to reading more!
Hi Trisha! Glad you linked up with MM! I look forward to reading your blog too :) PS. You're right, your hubby probably does have it worse than you some days. I always wonder what the line is between everyday germs, paranoia and safety?!
Or have your husband change into clean scrubs before he comes home. Mine does that quite frequently. He changes out of icky ones at the hospital, puts on cleans ones and comes home then back to the hospital in the am - repeat. I haven't washed scrubs in years... I hope that is a perk that follows us when this is all over!
hahhahaha this is DEFINITELY what Griffin was talking about!
Luckily M hates wearing scrubs in the house but if he develops any bad habits we will have a laundry basket at the top of the basement steps and I'll hang up a pair of sweats and a hoodie to change into. Used scrubs are nasty!!


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When you have a cold, wash your hands often. Then avoid putting messy tissues in your pocket or purse. Tuck a small plastic bag into either one, and you can put those tissues directly into the bag. No spreading germs.
If you're in the habit of tucking tissues inside your sleeve, which is what some women do, please try to stop.
My grandmother used to do this, but that was in the day when they used real linen handkerchiefs, so there was a reason. Today? Yuck.


Fatherhood has exposed me to some new music. The themes are similar, so who sang it better?
Given that I have a lot less time these days, and that my brain is being taxed by a recent job change, I've been on the lookout for shorter, less attention-demanding podcasts. Enter AFK from Changelog. Episodes are less than 30 minutes, and showcase "the human side of creative work". Especially check out AFK with Suz Hinton. They touch on burnout, and the importance of asking for help. It's not a sign of failure.
I use the Alfa AWUS052NH USB WiFi adapter for the 5Ghz network of my Raspberry Pi wifi router. Thought I'd share my config file so others can quickly get up and running with this adapter.
I use the Alfa AWUS051NH USB WiFi adapter for the 2.5Ghz network of my Raspberry Pi wifi router. Thought I'd share my config file so others can quickly get up and running with this adapter.
On a recent episode of Ars Technica Live, Catherine Bracy talks about the housing crisis that springs up in areas of great economic disparity, and efforts to find solutions. Watch Ars Live Episode 16: The Silican Valley equality crisis.


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Amazon: Organizing After a Defeat
Posted bytravenl April 26, 2021 February 25, 2022 Posted inMember Contribution
For the union to succeed in the historic drive to get recognition at Amazon's facility in Bessemer, Alabama, USA, fifty-per cent plus one would have had to vote "yes". Out of the 3,215 workers who voted over seven weeks up to 29 March, 1,798 "no" votes and 738 "yes" votes were recorded before voided and challenged ballots were counted. If the workers had won, they would have been the largest number of workers to certify a union in the private sector in three decades.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is challenging the company for a variety of illegal intimidation tactics. Unfair labour practices charges could provide grounds to overturn the result, extending the battle over unionisation in Bessemer. It would probably be up to the RWDSU's parent union, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to provide the necessary resources.
The logistics industry in general has grown immensely in recent decades. Amazon exploded under the pandemic as people were forced to rely more on their delivery services. It is the second-biggest employer in the US, with nearly one million workers to Walmart's two million. The company added 500,000 employees to its payroll in 2020, bringing its total worldwide employment to 1.3 million workers.
A victory or stronger showing in Bessemer would have been an inspiration to Amazon workers around the country in hundreds of facilities. It would also have had tremendous significance for the organising terrain of the entire South, a region that has been the weak link of the US labour movement as well as the historic base of racial, social, and political reaction.
Amazon knew that a victory in Bessemer would trigger a wave of organising efforts at Amazon facilities across the country. Even as it is, the RWDSU campaign has galvanised workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California to launch their own campaigns at Amazon facilities.
At the same time, the defeat may temporarily set back many organising efforts occurring at Amazon.
Amazon waged a sophisticated anti-union campaign of threats, intimidation, and surveillance that convinced a majority of workers that joining a union was too great a risk.
Most workers at the Bessemer warehouse had never been in a union before and had never participated in a union drive. While an older generation of Alabama workers were unionised steel and mine workers, today only about 6% of the US private sector workforce is unionised. Many workers simply don't know what a union is. Many who voted against the union admitted that they knew little about unions and didn't feel they could trust them.
100% turnover makes building a union base harder. Amazon has built redundancies into its supply chain so that it can simply shut down a fulfillment centre to foil any organising attempts. If the union prevails, workers fear that the company may shut down the warehouse. Amazon has backed away from locations that brought it headaches before. Worker organisation and actions at one isolated facility can be countered by shifting logistics to run work around that facility or simply closing it altogether. However, the company has committed more than $360 million in leases and equipment for the Bessemer warehouse.
There is a lot RWDSU did right. The union has framed the fight around issues of respect and dignity, saying the battle is as much a civil rights and social justice struggle as a labour one. Bessemer, Alabama, is a predominately African-American city and the Amazon warehouse there reflects that with a largely black and female workforce. The union made links between unionising, Alabama's civil rights history, and the Black Lives Matter movement, as Amazon workers demanded that Black Lives Matter at work too. Amazon's workforce disproportionally comprises people of colour nationwide.
RWDSU has enjoyed a string of organising successes in Alabama. There is a considerable organic connection between its poultry processing membership in Alabama and the largely black Amazon Bessemer workforce. RWDSU organisers were mostly black workers recruited out of local poultry plants. To RWDSU's credit, this drive ranks among the largest single organising efforts in the recent history of the American South.
It's not surprising that across the country thousands of Amazon workers have reached out to unions about getting organised.
The Amazon election would have resulted in the largest number of workers gaining union representation in a single National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election since 1991. But the number of NLRB elections held in the US has steadily declined over the last five years, falling to a low not seen since the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. Most unions are poorly suited to help workers organise large, powerful companies because they have cultivated a passive membership and rely too heavily on staff resources, or worse on Democratic politicians.
As Kim Moody put it: "Union democracy, or more accurately the transformation of major unions into living democratic participatory organisations and cultures, is a necessity precisely because of the corporations' massive powers of resistance".
Jane McAlevey's 'Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign' should be essential reading for workers seeking to organise.
She argues RWDSU's lead organisers failed to take into account essential organising lessons learned over the past 40 years.
Last November, when the RWDSU filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union they thought the bargaining unit consisted of only 1,500 of the employees even though there were soon 5,800. Experienced organisers know that you to give workers a strong chance of winning you must have signed up nearly 75% of the workforce in order to withstand the employer's anti-union offensive. By late December, the RWDSU had signed up only 34%.
Winning usually requires that an internal organising committee has already been acting as a union, winning campaigns in the workplace to change things and standing up for co-workers facing unfair disciplining. Then, when the union election comes, workers feel like they already know the union and are a part of it. In massive facilities with thousands of workers like Amazon, the process of building a strong organising committee and building trust in the organising committee through concerted action can sometimes take years.
Apparently, RWDSU never developed a strong organising committee that took the time to build trust through shop-floor action and organising against the boss. Instead, they rushed a union election or did what is known in union organising as "hot shopping," where union organisers hope to take advantage of an outburst of anger in a facility over things such as poor Covid working conditions to force and win a quick union election.
Workers also need to believe that there is a credible plan to significantly improve their jobs, income and benefits before taking the risks required to win an uphill fight. Even if the RWDSU had won the union vote, better conditions were not guaranteed. In about half of union victories, workers never win a collective bargaining agreement because of their employers' stonewalling. It's hard to believe that winning collective bargaining rights at one lone Amazon facility would lead to a decent contract without a protracted fight.
Amazon will seize on this defeat and ramp up retaliatory attacks against pro-union workers in Bessemer and beyond. RWDSU will hopefully stick with the workers in Bessemer and create a durable organisation inside the facility. Then, building on its first effort, it could seek a second certification election (history shows those have a much better success rate).
• Traven Leyshon is a retired Teamster, member of the Advisory Committee of Vermont AFL-CIO, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and Solidarity.
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Baffle might appear to be a handful of Smarties caught to a thermal flask, but this is a extremely addictive video game! The theory is to align the colored buttons vertically in accordance with their colour corporations the entire way round. Sound simple adequate? Well these colored dots can flow from line to line in addition to rotating on every layer. We love handheld puzzles cos they're wonderful for all a while; and this one isn't any exception!
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Myron and Thad had their first child in Boston.
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Roger and Leung were always fighting.
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Ramanan remained a bachelor until his death.
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Case painted the door blue.
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Ramiro wants somebody to help him.
Dawson handed Stefan an envelope full of cash.
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Shannon made the same mistake again.
Sanford didn't know how to solve this problem.
Ronald explained it to me, but I still couldn't understand it.
Saify is waiting in line.
Lance reassured Starbuck that he was perfectly normal.
Let's find out who killed Valeria.
Kieran could hear steps approaching.
Siegurd denied having ever met Joachim.
I thought Curtis would be thrilled to see Kevin.
Do you know where Mats lives?
I'm sure Kamel wouldn't double-cross me.
You could use my help, Ilya.


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This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2017 by admin@christianfederation.net.au.
There are four major forces at war with Christ for the future of Australia:
Militant Islam
Militant Homosexuality
Militant Atheism
Hedonism.
At the moment, the church is losing. It is fragmented, compromised with pornography, implicated in child sexual abuse, pervasively Luke warm and fearful of the politically correct.
While this does not reflect some of the great things that are happening in the wider church… only Jesus knows the full scale of the collapse of mainstream denominational Christianity in this nation as typified, for example, by decommissioned churches functioning as restaurants and many elderly congregations just hanging on.
Yet over the next three years we have to fight four major battles that cannot be avoided. The following battles will define the future of Australia for decades to come…
(un)Safe Schools in the WA State election where a diabolical confluence of Islam, the Greens and Labor are seeking to defeat our Judeo/Christian based Australian way of life;
A coming battle over Euthanasia in Victoria that will have serious national implications;
(un)Safe Schools, Radical Gender Theory and police-state controls over home-schooling that will be at the front lines of the culture wars in the VIC, SA and QLD state elections in 2018;
War against man-woman marriage and unsustainable national debt that will be fought tooth and nail in the 2019 Federal election (unless it comes earlier).
Remember that if Daniel Andrews is re-elected in Victoria in 2018 he will make (un)Safe Schools compulsory – and remember that Bill Shorten will make Same Sex Marriage compulsory policy in the Labor Party from 2019.
So how do we successfully stand against evil?
So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).
While this is true on a personal level, it is also true in how we fight for values and how we vote in elections. We must be a well-informed, praying and influential united federation of Christians who use the gift of our democratic voice and vote to defend our values and our freedoms… otherwise we will lose the nation to the enemy in the culture wars over the next three years.
This is a true reflection of the current reality in which we live. I wish it were not so.
But we can win!
By praying and working together we won the fight against the Religious Exceptions Bill and the iniquitous Birth Certificate Bill in the Victorian Parliament last year. Already this year an outrageous abortion bill has been defeated in the Queensland Parliament. And over the last decade some 20 attempts to implement Same Sex marriage have been defeated in the nation's parliaments through the prayers and hard work of the true ecclesia of the Kingdom of God.
This message is a word of encouragement to our WA brothers and sisters to choose candidates and parties who stand for the values of the Kingdom of God in their elections this coming weekend.
In the coming elections of Governments and Councils we now have to reject Labor, the Greens and independents whose policies are to:
enforce unbiblical sexuality and radical gender theory on our children in our schools
implement assisted suicide through proposed euthanasia laws
break down God's way of marriage as between a man and a woman.
Homosexuals are only around 1.5% of the population and they have the equality equivalent of civil unions. Marriage is purposely different. It celebrates the complementarity of men and women to produce children and raise families.
These are bedrock foundations of a civil society based on our identity in Christ. To deny God on these issues is as stupid as former follies such as a tax on windows and a tax on trees.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Let this be our guiding light in all things – and especially how we fight for values and how we vote in the coming elections.
← Family Love beats Culture Wars


Photo above shows Milton Merritt in Roll Tide shirt, Jerrie Merritt in green shirt next to her parents Eloise and Howard Crawford. They are surrounded by family and friends.
Saturday, March 16, 2019, marked the grand opening by the new owners of The Country Store in Union, AL. Jerrie and Milton Merritt are currently the proud owners of The Country Store, formerly Parrish Grocery, located at the intersection of County Roads 191 and 208 in Union.
The Merritts are originally from Greene County, but now live in Los Vegas, NV. According to Jerrie Merritt, the Parrish family had been seeking a buyer for the grocery store for some time and finally got the interest of her and her husband, Milton Merritt.
The Merritts aren't planning to re-locate to Union at this time to run the store, instead, Jerrie Merritt's parents, Eloise and Howard Crawford, will operate The Country Store of Union.
The Country Store has had several owners/operators in the last 100 plus years. Various records, as well as community oral history, indicate that in the early 1900's, the Miller's family owned that store, which was one of three retail stores in Union at that time. Apparently Union was a bustling commerce center during that period with a flour mill, a cotton gin, a sawmill, a grist mill and a blacksmith shop.
Following the Miller's, subsequent owners of The Grocery Store were Ernest Friday, Douglas Story, Duck Drummond and Mike Parrish.
The Merritts are the first African Americans to own and operate The Grocery Store.
Saturday's grand opening of the store also included a birthday celebration for Mrs. Eloise Crawford, Jerrie Merritt's mother.
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, five members of the board of the Greene County Health System (GCHS) led by Chairperson, John Zippert and Eddie Austin, Lucy Spann, Pennia Hines and Margarite Bir, as well as several GCHS senior staff, attended the Commission Work-session at which items are discussed before being placed on the Commission's regular meeting agenda.
The GCHS delegation asked the Commission to approve a three (3) mil increase in the Greene County ad valorem property tax for the benefit of the Hospital, Nursing Home and Physicians Clinic. Zippert explained that this increase would yield $500,000 in new revenues to support the work of the hospital in covering its financial deficit for providing an average of $100,000 per month in 'uncompensated care' to Greene County residents who are too poor to afford health care or health insurance.
After approval of the tax increase by the County Commission, the measure would have to be advertised as local legislation for four weeks, then approved by the Legislature, signed by the Governor and placed on the ballot for a vote by the citizens of Greene County in the next General Election (November 2020).
GCHS Board members expressed some disappointment with the actions of the Commission but said they would monitor the situation and continue to push for needed tax revenues to keep the hospital open and operating without a deficit.
Approved parking lot stripes at the courthouse, highway department, activity center and library.
Approved re-appointment of Debbie Duncan to Industrial Development Authority.
Approved travel to various conferences for the county engineer, assistant engineer, human resource coordinator and coroner.
Approved financial report, payment of claims and budget amendments.
The commission declined to hire a bus drive for the Eutaw Nutrition Site.
The meeting was adjourned following an executive session and public comments.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said yesterday that he will not charge two Sacramento, California, police officers who shot to death an unarmed black man in the backyard of his grandmother's home.
An independent investigation into the shooting death of Stephon Clark found that no criminal charges against the officers involved in the shooting can be sustained, Becerra said in a statement.
Sacramento police officers Jared Robinet and Terrence Mercadal, who is black, shot to death the 22-year-old Clark in March of 2018. The cops said they believed Clark was armed with a gun. They were wrong. He held only a cell phone in his hand.
An independent autopsy found that Clark was shot eight times —- six times in the back, once in the side and once in one arm.
Becerra announced his decision two days after Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said she would not charge the two cops.
During the same time period, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that it would not pursue civil rights charges against former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer Betty Joe Shelby, who shot to death Terrence Crutcher, 40, on September 16, 2016. Crutcher's car was disabled. Crutcher had his hands raised in the air to surrender when Shelby murdered him.


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Битва при Вимпфене — сражение тридцатилетней войны, произошедшее 6 мая 1622 года, в котором силы Священной Римской империи и Католической лиги под командованием Иоанна Церкласа Тилли и Гонсало Фернандеса де Кордоба одержали победу над протестантскими силами Георга Фридриха, маркграфа Баден-Дурлаха.

Накануне сражения пришли известия о появлении войск Христиана Брауншвейгского к северу от Неккара. Эта было хорошей новостью для Мансфельда и маркграфа Баденского, которые надеялись объединиться до большого сражения.

Желая выиграть время и пытаясь заставить противника разделить силы, граф Мансфельд переправился через Неккар возле Гейдельберга, пока Георг Фридрих отправился на восток, чтобы пересечь реку возле Вимпфена. План провалился, так как Тилли и Кордоба не разделились, а обрушились объединёнными силами на маркграфа Баденского возле Вимпфена.

Перед лицом превосходящего противника маркграф построил войска на невысоком холме рядом с деревней. Тилли начал атаку, однако конница протестантов внезапно контратаковала и захватила батарею испанцев. Оправившись от неожиданности, испанцы и имперцы рассеяли протестантскую кавалерию и вернули свои орудия, после чего продолжили атаку. Протестантская пехота оказывала эффективную оборону, сплотившись около сильной артиллерийской позиции, пока случайное попадание испанского ядра не взорвало пороховые запасы баденцев и не внесло сумятицу в их ряды. Католики захватили холм и разгромили пехоту, убив и ранив 2000 человек. Георг Фридрих бежал в Штутгарт лишь с несколькими верными ему людьми.

Практически уничтожив армию маркграфа Баденского, Тилли и Кордоба бросились на перехват Мансфельда, чтобы не допустить его соединения с Христианом Брауншвейгским.

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4 Real (Totally Doable) Ways to Start Loving Your Workouts
Vitamin G
As much as we love our usual workout routines, there comes that point where you're kind of, like...well, yawn. Hey, it happens. But it doesn't haveto happen, explains Marion Roaman, cofounder of Peloton, an indoor cycle gym with live-streaming classes. Here are her ideas for keeping your three hundred and first exercise session as fun as the first. 1: Commit to just one studio or gym "Do this and you'll become part of a community," she says. "On days you may not feel like going to class, you'll find yourself going to see your friends." The reasoning here, she says, is that if you go to a bunch of different studios and gyms, you will never feel a deep connection with the community. It's easy to fall off to the side and your absence can go unnoticed. Whereas at Peloton, for instance, when our loyalists don't show up for class, we shoot them an email and check in with them! 2: Shake up your schedule: If you're used to a post-work class or gym session, turn things around and have a morning class someday. "Set your alarm once and take a 6 A.M. class as opposed to 7:30 P.M. class—just
By Lexi Petronis
As much as we love our usual workout routines, there comes that point where you're kind of, like...well, yawn.
Hey, it happens. But it doesn't haveto happen, explains Marion Roaman, cofounder of Peloton, an indoor cycle gym with live-streaming classes. Here are her ideas for keeping your three hundred and first exercise session as fun as the first.
1: Commit to just one studio or gym "Do this and you'll become part of a community," she says. "On days you may not feel like going to class, you'll find yourself going to see your friends." The reasoning here, she says, is that if you go to a bunch of different studios and gyms, you will never feel a deep connection with the community. It's easy to fall off to the side and your absence can go unnoticed. Whereas at Peloton, for instance, when our loyalists don't show up for class, we shoot them an email and check in with them!
2: Shake up your schedule: If you're used to a post-work class or gym session, turn things around and have a morning class someday. "Set your alarm once and take a 6 A.M. class as opposed to 7:30 P.M. class—just once or twice to experience a completely different vibe," says Roaman. Doing that could give you some extra exercise inspiration.
3: Bring friends: Extending invitations to friends who don't do the kind of workouts you do—such as spinning—can always remind you about why you decided to take the class or the routine in the first place. "If your friend falls in love as well, great—you have a new activity to do together," she says.
4: Try something new: "Try a completely different workout," Roaman says. "Cross training is imperative; we flirt with other workouts and go through phases but us true spin addicts always come back to the bike."
They all make sense, right? How do you change up your workout?
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Nagito looks great with his cool hair, compete with his coat and shirt, with even smallest details, such as a wallet chain has been sculpted! Nagito features interchangeable parts to allow for display with two different facial expressions. Based on the artwork created for the game, Nagito looks like stepped straight out of it and onto your shelves.
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Toast of Tinseltown - Season 1 Episode 6
Steven Toast is determined to win the recognition he mistakenly believes he deserves.
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Season 14
Intervention - Season 23
Made in Chelsea - Season 22
The Family Chantel - Season 3
Grey's Anatomy - Season 18
Angels of Death - Season 1
The New York Times Presents - Season 1
RuPaul's Drag Race UK - Season 2
Around the World in 80 Days - Season 1
The Player - Season 1 (2021)
Destination Fear (2019) - Season 3
Gogglebox - Season 18
A Countryside Christmas - Season 1
With Love - Season 1
Tribal - Season 2
Swallowed Star - Season 1


With the signing of the interstate liquidity sharing compact, Delaware and Nevada had hoped they would improve their Internet gambling revenue figures.
Online poker requires a good player pool to thrive and the purpose of this pact was to assist the two states increase iGaming revenue. For the poker industry, it seemed to be a win-win situation.
The latest figures do not prove that Internet poker is doomed in Delaware, but instead caused some concern about the effectiveness of the shared liquidity agreement with Nevada.
However, the outlook is not completely bleak for online poker. Revenue from online Poker in New Jersey is very good, with the state generating nearly $2 million in May and June this year. New Jersey benefits from a large population, but even taking that into account, these revenue figures are sure to make the states that currently have no intention of legalizing online poker think again.
Following Black Friday, the American poker community, and associations such as the Poker Players Alliance in particular, have been lobbying hard for online poker's legalization and regulation at both the state and federal level levels.
Currently, only Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware have decided to license and regulate online poker. However, states such as Texas and California are working hard to pass their online poker bills in to law. Texas Rep., Joe Barton and Senator Leticia Van de Putte are pushing very hard for both state and federal online poker legislation.
But bills like these will pass only if the politicians expect a significant financial gain for their state.
I'm sure they will manage to recover within the next few months.


More than 30 children have died at a government-run hospital in northern India in the past 48 hours, allegedly due to lack of oxygen supply, which was cut off due to non-payment of bills.
The children were admitted at the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Of the 30 deaths, 17 took place in the neonatal intensive care unit.
"As of today, August 11, there have been seven deaths. There were 23 deaths on 10th. There were nine deaths on the 9th, 12 deaths on the 8th and nine deaths on the 7th. There are various reasons for these deaths. There were children who were admitted in natal ICUs and there were deaths due to AES [Acute Encephalitis Syndrome] and some were non encephalitis-related deaths," the state's Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh told the India Today news channel.
AES is characterized by fever and neurological conditions such as disorientation, delirium, or coma. The disease has been mainly caused by viruses in India.
Encephalitis claims the lives of hundreds of children every year in India.
Multiple local media reports said many of the children died after the company which was supplying liquid oxygen stopped the service, apparently over non-payment of dues. This prompted the government to say on Twitter that "No patient has died at the BRD medical college due to shortage of oxygen supplies."
Singh accepted that there was a payment issue with the liquid oxygen supplier but added that there was no shortage of gas cylinders at the hospital, which were used as back-ups. Still, he said the matter was being investigated.
The hospital is the largest in Gorakhpur district, which for years has been the parliamentary constituency of the state's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Gorakhpur has seen more than 100 deaths due to AES this year alone. The disease claims the lives of hundreds of children every year in this part of India.
A spike in infant deaths at an Uttar Pradesh hospital has left India in uproar. Parents have said bottled oxygen supplies ran out because of unpaid bills. Authorities claim the ailing children died from "natural causes."


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'Hamilton' Wows the Providence Performing Arts Center
Providence Performing Arts Center
The crowds have been breathlessly waiting years for the arrival of Hamilton at the PPAC, and last night's media screening did not disappoint.
Hamilton, the Lin-Manuel Miranda creation that has been white-hot on Broadway since 2015, has been selling out night after night with some of the best seating in New York approaching $1,000. Demand for the touring productions of the musical has been just as high.
The crowd was buzzing last night as people funneled into the theater. As a fan of history and old school hip hop, my hopes were high that I was going to enjoy the show.
The show is, of course, dominated by rap. Two performers, however, stood out to me. Bryson Bruce (pictured above), who played Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, had both a flow and a voice that reminded me a lot of Eminem. Bruce had a lot of the same raw passion and anger in his delivery that can be felt from the iconic Detroit rapper.
I also thoroughly enjoyed his counterpart, Chaundre Hall-Broomfield, who played Hercules Mulligan and James Madison. His delivery reminded me a lot of Busta Rhymes.
The show sparkles with subtle references to old school hip hop lyrics and samples. There's one play on lyrics from Notorious B.I.G.'s "If ya don't know, now ya know" lyrics from "Juicy" that really stands out. These subtle nods to rap royalty really made me wonder at times if some of the older members of the audience were fully appreciating the show. I can't imagine the 80-something-year-old white-haired woman in front of me downloaded many Biggie tracks from Napster back in the day. But there she was, vigorously clapping at the end of "My Shot."
Some of my favorite Hamilton moments were the substitution of rap battles for debate on the floor. They were ripe with funny, laugh out loud put-downs and burns that got the audience involved. There were also a few intentionally-placed references to "immigrants" that were intended to send a modern-day political message to the audience, which responded with roars of approval.
I loved Hamilton. Truthfully, there are very few musicals that I enjoy, but I've never seen a musical like this. It is amazing that a production set during the Revolutionary War could be one of the most cutting-edge performances that I've ever seen. The contrast between the historical stories and the hip hop presentation was brilliant.
Hamilton is worthy of the hype.
A limited number of seats are still available for the July 30-August 11 performances. They can be purchased on the PPAC website. There will also be a digital lottery of 40 tickets for every show at the PPAC. Daily winners will be given the chance to buy tickets for only $10. You can sign up on the Hamilton app, or by clicking the Hamilton Lottery link.
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"Carlow County" redirects here. For the UK Parliament constituency, see Carlow County (UK Parliament constituency).
County in the Republic of Ireland
Place in Leinster, Ireland
Contae Cheatharlach
Carlow–Kilkenny
EU Parliament
1210 (as the Palatinate of Carlow)[1]
County town
897 km2 (346 sq mi)
Area rank
Highest elevation
(Mount Leinster)
63/km2 (160/sq mi)
UTC±0 (WET)
UTC+1 (IST)
Eircode routing keys
R21, R93 (primarily)
Telephone area codes
059 (primarily)
Vehicle index
mark code
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Windmill Hill, Enniscorthy, Blackstairs Mountains on the horizon.
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County Carlow (Irish: Contae Cheatharlach) is a county in Ireland, part of the South-East Region and the province of Leinster.[9] It is named after the town of Carlow, which lies on the River Barrow. Carlow County Council is the local authority. The population was 56,932 at the 2016 census.[2]
1 Geography and political subdivisions
1.1 Baronies
1.2 Towns and villages
2 Local government and politics
Geography and political subdivisions[edit]
Carlow, or "Ceatharlach" originally part of the Norman Palantine-county of Leinster, became a separate county probably around 1306.[10] At that time it was larger than today, extending to and including the coastal area around Arklow, though control of this area became disputed with the Irish chieftains of the area. These areas were given over to County Wicklow in 1606-07.
Baronies[edit]
There are seven historic baronies in the county: Carlow, Forth, Idrone East, Idrone West, Rathvilly, St Mullin's Lower and St Mullin's Upper.
Towns and villages[edit]
Ardattin
Ballinkillin
Ballymurphy
Borris
Clonmore
Clonegal
Fennagh
Graiguecullen
Hacketstown
Kildavin
Myshall
Nurney
Old Leighlin
Palatine, County Carlow
Rathvilly
St Mullin's
Tinryland
Tullow
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The River Barrow in Carlow
See also: Local government in the Republic of Ireland
Local government in County Carlow is governed by the Local Government Acts, the most recent of which (Local Government Act 2001) established a two-tier structure of local government. The top tier of the structure consists of Carlow County Council. The second tier of local government consists of town councils. Outside the borough, the county council is solely responsible for local services.[11] Two towns in the county have town councils: Carlow and Muine Bheag. There are 21 councillors in the county council who are returned from five local electoral areas: Borris (3), Carlow East (4), Carlow West (5), Muine Bheag (4) and Tullow (4).[12][13] As the county is part of the South-East Region, some county councillors are also representatives on the South-East Regional Authority.
For elections to Dáil Éireann, Carlow is part of the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency which returns 5 TDs. The present form of the constituency was created for the 1948 general election.
Sport[edit]
F.C. Carlow are the local soccer team who compete in the A Championship
Carlow GAA are the county's Gaelic Athletic Association body which fields both hurling and football teams.
Pierce Butler - soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the United States Senate.
William Dargan - engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways
James Fenelon - member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Samuel Haughton - polymath, in 1866 published a formula for calculating the drop needed to cause instantaneous death at hangings
Richie Kavanagh - comic songwriter
Myles Keogh - American Civil War military officer and later Captain of Company I, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Fought in Indian Wars and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge in 1840
Richard Montfort - architect and engineer, first Chief Engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
David Mullins - Irish jockey, notable for riding Rule The World to win the 2016 Grand National
Peter Murphy - radio and television broadcaster, presented RTÉ's Cross Country Quiz, was born in Carlow
Sean O'Brien - Leinster and Ireland international rugby player.
Frank O'Meara - Carlow-born artist known for his impressionist, plein air landscape painting
Mary O'Toole - first woman municipal judge in the United States
Saoirse Ronan - Oscar nominated and Golden Globe awarded actress
Derek Ryan - Country music singer & former member of Pop band D-side
Kathryn Thomas - RTÉ presenter
Turtle Bunbury - Historian and author
John Tyndall - the 19th century scientist who was the first to explain why the sky is blue
List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Carlow)
Lord Lieutenant of Carlow
High Sheriff of Carlow
^ Ryan, John (22 June 2019). "The history and antiquities of the county of Carlow". Dublin, R. M. Times [etc.] – via Internet Archive.
^ a b c "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: County Carlow". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy 14 March 1865.
^ "Server Error 404 - CSO - Central Statistics Office". www.cso.ie.
^ http://www.histpop.org Archived 7 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ Lee, JJ (1981). "Pre-famine". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. [dead link]
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carlow (county)" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Desmond Roche, Local Government in Ireland, Dublin, 1982
^ "All Services". Carlow County Council. Retrieved 27 March 2011. [permanent dead link]
^ "2009 Local elections – Carlow County Council". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
^ Act of the Oireachtas: County of Carlow Local Electoral Areas Order 2008
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Takeaways could be banned from opening within 400m of a school (and McDonald's are not 'lovin' it')
Takeaways face ban on opening within 400m of a school in Swindon
By Aled Thomas Local Democracy Reporter
McDonalds has objected to a borough council proposal to restrict fast food restaurants from opening near schools
Fast-food giant McDonald's has criticised plans to ban takeaways near schools in Swindon.
The draft update of the local plan put forward by Swindon Borough Council is currently out for public comments.
And while the document is primarily concerned with how the town develops, it has stipulations on much smaller matters.
One is whether takeaways can open within 400 metres' walking distance of a school.
The council's plan says: "Some areas of the borough have seen the development of an increased concentration of takeaways, drinking establishments, betting offices and payday loan shops.
"Concentrations of these uses have been linked to adult and childhood obesity, and the decline in the vitality of and footfall within centres."
If the policy remains, planners and councillors will be able to take account of the number of such places in an area and the "cumulative effect" when considering an application for another one.
But McDonald's does not like the idea and has lodged an objection.
The company – via its planning agent Planware Ltd – told the council: "There is no sound reason for the policy or a blanket ban on restaurants that include a takeaway element within 400m of a school.
"It is unsound and should be deleted from the plan."
The Adver contact McDonald's and asked the chain to expand on its comments, but it did not want to say any more.
Figures released late last year showed that 19 per cent – nearly one in five – of children leaving primary school in Swindon were clinically obese.
Public Health England has praised the 40 local authorities that try to control the number of takeaway restaurants and it is official government policy to encourage others to make restrictions on such outlets in areas "where children and young people congregate such as schools, community centres and playgrounds and areas with high levels of obesity, deprivation and general poor health".
The public consultation on the local plan runs until January 31.


Sun., Sept. 2, 2018, 9:42 p.m.
YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had pleaded not guilty to violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. They contended they were framed by police. The verdict was postponed from a week ago because the presiding judge was ill.
The case has drawn worldwide attention as an example of how press freedom is suffering under the government of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Her taking power in 2016 had raised hopes for an accelerated transition to full democracy from military rule, but she has since disappointed many former admirers.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, both testified they suffered from harsh treatment during their initial interrogations. Their several appeals for release on bail were rejected. Wa Lone's wife, Pan Ei Mon, gave birth to the couple's first child in Yangon on Aug. 10, but Wa Lone has not yet seen his daughter.
In the latest U.S. expression of concern, Washington's envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said the Trump administration expected to see the two journalists acquitted of all charges.
Published: Sept. 2, 2018, 9:42 p.m.