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Back on the Block
Why last month's spa raids may put more prostitutes on the street
By Heidi Groover
It begins with a phone call. Jillian knows it's coming, but that doesn't make the high-pitched ring any more welcome.
She answers. They agree on terms. He'll be over soon. She pushes a small, silver needle under the skin near her elbow. She starts to feel numb.
She takes a shower and tugs on some sort of lingerie. It doesn't matter if he likes it.
She covers her bed with a sheet or blanket. She doesn't want anything of him left there after he's gone.
Jillian is one of hundreds of Spokane women who sell sex for a living, and she's one who wishes she could be doing anything else.
"I don't like them," Jillian says of the men she sees. "I hate them."
Prostitution has long hidden in plain sight in Spokane and in many cities around the nation. The women are on Backpage.com and on East Sprague Avenue. Some have addictions to feed, or kids, or both. Some say they're ashamed; others say it could be worse.
Generally, the world's oldest profession goes unnoticed, or ignored, until it's thrust into the spotlight by scandal. Recently, it was the Secret Service in Colombia. Before that, there was Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York.
Last month in the Inland Northwest, it was "Operation Red Light," the dramatic raid of dark-windowed spas, captured live on local television. Eleven different agencies, from Airway Heights Police to Homeland Security, were on-hand as officers arrested the owners of eight spas that allegedly operated as prostitution fronts.
They also arrested Tod A. Russell, who they say ran Spokaneboard.com, a website where local prostitutes and customers connected. Police have seized about $100,000 in money and property from the suspects. Authorities say the spa owners, who have been released from jail, will face charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering. Russell was arrested on a felony weapons charge, but police say he could face promoting prostitution charges for running the site.
Police Chief Lee Bennett, whose Airway Heights department led the investigation, says the arrests have made the community safer.
"This business as a whole is unsafe," Bennett says. "Residents wouldn't appreciate officers turning a blind eye. It's a crime."
But public-health advocates argue that the busts force more women to go online or, worse, onto the streets and into the cars of strangers to make a living. Indeed, local prostitutes say traffic on East Sprague — the hardscrabble neighborhood east of downtown frequented by sex workers — has picked up since the raid.
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"I very much appreciated that they did not arrest the women who worked there [at the spas]," says Lynn Everson, the Spokane Regional Health District's needle exchange coordinator, who also does sex-health outreach for area prostitutes.
"But," Everson adds, "it put between 200 and 250 women in a position where they either had to work on the streets or on Backpage or on Craigslist, where they are much more vulnerable."
'HOOKED ON THIS STUFF'
Jillian is 47, but it takes her a few seconds to remember that. In her online ads, she says she's 37.
"I know my fake age," she says. "I don't know my real one."
Jillian isn't her real name either, just a street name she's used, and she's speaking to The Inlander on the condition her full name isn't printed. In white capris and a purple tank top, she is sitting in Everson's office at the Health District, where Jillian comes often to get clean needles.
A decade ago, Jillian hadn't even smoked marijuana. She'd never spent a night in jail. She says she caught a boyfriend shooting heroin and, when she started packing a bag to leave him, he held her down and shot her up. The next day she resisted a little less, and by the end of that week, she asked him to inject her first. One day, about a month later, he put a needle in her arm, then in his, and then died in front of her, she says.
"I was hooked on this stuff, and I didn't know how to get it. I didn't know how to do it," she says.
Eventually she replaced heroin with meth. She started stealing to buy it. She went to jail; she lost her regular job.
Three years ago, with no way to pay rent or buy food, she asked a friend to help her post an ad on Backpage.com, a classified ad site that has come under fire after it was discovered underage girls were selling sex on it. (See "Selling Online.")
When Jillian responded to her first johns, it was a sharp learning curve.
"It wasn't great," she says, holding back tears. "I got robbed a couple times. I got beat up."
Today, she runs a handful of online background checks on johns, or "tricks," before she meets them. She has a friend stand outside her door when a man comes over and has someone take her to "out-calls," usually at a hotel or the john's home.
She's learned not to put trust in people.
One night, a john told her he wanted to make the evening all about her. He gave her a shoulder rub and made her a grilled cheese sandwich. They watched TV for a few hours, and she left without him ever demanding sex. He continued paying for time with her, and she started to fall for him.
Then one night, when he told her over the phone that he was in Coeur d'Alene, she found him parked across the street from her Spokane apartment building, watching her. He kept calling, and watching, for months. That was one of the last times she ever had a regular.
Now she has a different name and description in her ads. She doesn't want to see men more than once, or for longer than their allotted time.
"I don't want anything personal," she says. "I don't want to know them."
She gets through her work with emotional detachment and with drugs. She hides inside an alternate personality — a woman with a different name and a different story; someone who's married and has three kids and doesn't hate to hear the phone ring.
"I just keep myself separate," she says. "She does that. I don't. So, I'm not really there."
COSTS VS. BENEFITS
The spa case started 14 months ago after officials at Northern Quest Resort & Casino complained about prostitution to the Airway Heights Police Department, according to Chief Bennett. Officers then heard about the website Spokaneboard.com, where women advertised their services, and on that site police found ads about the spas. They spent the next year surveilling the spa owners and sending confidential informants and undercover officers inside the businesses.
The 14-officer police department assigned its only detective, Kelly Justice, full-time and two other officers half-time — about $120,000 in wages — to the project. Bennett says the department could spend as much as $40,000 more and another four months to wrap up the case. Prosecutors still have yet to formally charge the spa owners. The Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Sheriff's Office sent officers to help in the July 10 raid, but aren't taking the lead in the investigation.
From the onset, the case has caused a community stir — including among those who doubt the value of such a lengthy investigation in an era of budget cutbacks.
Spokane attorney David Miller, who initially represented one of the spa owners (she's since found a different lawyer), thinks the case is a waste of time and money.
"Police officers have a finite amount of resources," Miller says, "and they need to spend those resources in a way that most benefits the community, not necessarily in a way that always makes headlines.
"This particular type of activity has been going on as long as there have been things to trade. Although I wouldn't necessarily want my daughters involved, I think the people involved in [prostitution] are having a bad enough time. The last thing they need are police getting involved and making things even more difficult."
But Bennett and Justice say it's not something they could have ignored or handled more casually.
"It was something we had to do because we came across it," Bennett says. "We can't turn away from a crime that's being committed. That isn't what we do."
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says prostitution isn't a priority for area law enforcement and won't be any time soon.
"This is one agency's case that everyone helped out with for two days," Knezovich says.
"Prostitution is bad and it really does undermine the fabric of a society. Will it ever be stopped? Only when society changes itself, and that's not something law enforcement is going to be able to do for society."
BAD TRICKS
A full moon looms over East Sprague as Lynn Everson pops the Health District's big, white passenger van into park. She recognizes two women walking on the sidewalk. She thinks they're working, so she stops and opens the door to them. They smile and sigh, relieved they haven't missed her this week.
"I thought that was you," Everson says.
Everson, with short gray hair and impeccable crimson lipstick, drives the van around East Sprague and its gritty cross streets every Wednesday night from around sunset until midnight. She's blunt but compassionate. She offers clean needles to injection-drug users, and condoms and lube to the women. Everyone gets a cookie.
Everson also hands the women her "bad trick" list. Folded like a brochure, its pages are filled with stories about men who've picked up prostitutes in this area and then tried to assault them in some way. Some have refused to pay; some have taken women to dark, secluded areas, tied them up and raped them. One tried to take a woman home, saying he wanted to put her in his freezer.
At one point in the night, someone says, "This thing just keeps getting thicker and thicker, doesn't it?"
Lexi, who's 26 and worked at one of the illicit spas before returning to the street, says the men on Everson's list aren't myths. She sees them. One night a few years ago, as the cold of winter was just starting to grip Spokane, she was walking on Sprague. It was late, and she figured she was done for the night. But a light blue Toyota truck kept circling her. The big guy driving — he was 250 or 300 pounds, she thinks, at least double her weight — was begging her for oral sex. He didn't have enough money, but he kept asking and asking.
"I just felt bad," she says. "So I did it."
Once she was in the truck, he starting pulling her hair and trying to force his hands down her pants. Suddenly he was on top of her in the passenger seat, choking her, licking her face and demanding she have sex with him. She was crying and shaking, begging him to stop and trying to shove him away. She finally told him she'd do it if he would just get off of her.
As he did, she used one hand to unlock the door and the other to get the pepper spray she kept in her left pocket. She pushed the door open, rolled out onto the street and ran.
"There are some guys that make you feel really bad about what you're doing. There are ones that make you hate it," she says. "Some make you wish you'd just die right there, so you'd be out of the situation."
Everson's heard Lexi's story before, and many others like it. It's why she keeps the list, why she zigzags the big van through the East Sprague neighborhood at midnight, why she gets so angry when the public debate about prostitution is so far removed from reality.
"There are women who have barely escaped death out there. They have been raped, they have been robbed, they have been beaten, and because they live day to day, they have no choice but to go back out," Everson says. "[They] are not a separate part of this community. They are part of the whole community."
LEARNING THE ROPES
June used to be more careful. But then money got tight and she couldn't afford to advertise online anymore, so she started walking up and down East Sprague. She's cautious — she carries a knife and always tells someone where she's going for a date — but she's not detached from the men she meets. She likes regular customers; they make her feel safe. One pays her phone bill each month, with no expectation of anything in return.
"You get kind of almost a sugar daddy relationship with each other," she says. "You know they're just using you and you're just using them and there's no real concern or care on either side, but you do kind of develop this relationship."
Yet the 26-year-old, in a gray tank top and short jean shorts, isn't naive about her work. One man she met on the street last month got angry when she had to leave him to go to work. He was acting possessive, she says, like he was her boyfriend. Then he stole her German shepherd and when she confronted him, he stabbed the dog in front of her. She says it made her realize how she's never really safe.
"You think about that every time you get into a car," she says. "Is this going to be the last car I step into? Am I going to get out of this?"
But the fear is not enough. She's been addicted to heroin since she ran away from her abusive father when she was 12, and she says she's done pretty much everything to pay for it. She's worked "normal" jobs, she's held a cardboard sign on street corners, and she's stolen things to trade for drugs. Working as a prostitute feels better, even when it feels degrading, she says.
"I don't like to have to hurt somebody. I don't like to have to ruin somebody's day to get what I need," she says. "A lot of times I feel like I'm almost actually helping people."
June and other local prostitutes talk about the precautions they take, how they learn from others or from their own mistakes.
Some continue to advertise online. Others walk the street or have enough regulars to make a living. There's more money to be made advertising online — about $200 an hour, compared with $50 or $60 on the street, they say — but posting the ads costs a fee and requires reliable Internet access.
Most women say they use condoms for every act, even when men offer them as much as five times more money to have unprotected sex. They say they try to text or talk on the phone as they're waiting to be picked up, so it's clear there's someone out there who will notice if they go missing.
They have secret lingo they can use to make sure a john isn't a cop. To avoid getting caught, some of them will start with a disclaimer like, "The money you're giving me has nothing to do with what we may or may not do tonight. It's just my birthday present. That's why I'm here, to get my birthday present. And if I happen to throw myself at you, well, so be it."
If the man doesn't understand, or asks for clarification, the decision is simple.
"You have a good day, officer," Jillian says.
A CHANGE IN THINKING
Police and advocates agree prostituted women are some of the community's most vulnerable. But still, year after year, it seems that no one has found a way to fully protect them.
Of Nevada's 17 counties, 12 allow some form of prostitution. Most of those counties are rural; none of them include Las Vegas or Reno.
Storey County is a small county where the gruff, straight-talking Sheriff Gerald Antinoro says brothels give women a safer place to work. And his county gets about $200,000 a year in licensing fees and taxes from two brothels.
But even with a few hours' drive between the state's major cities and its brothels, street prostitution and sexual assault plague Nevada just like any other state, says Antinoro, who's worked in several Nevada law enforcement agencies for 18 years.
In the United Kingdom and Canada, prostitution itself isn't illegal, but most forms of soliciting it on the street are. In Sweden, selling sex is legal, but buying it isn't, putting the emphasis on johns instead of prostitutes.
In Amsterdam, perhaps with the world's best-known example of legalized prostitution, city officials have struggled to clean up the legendary red-light district, which has become a hotbed for human trafficking. The Dutch government is currently looking at stricter prostitution regulations and trying to find ways to attract other businesses to the area.
Meanwhile, police agencies and law experts say a slow, ideological change is happening across America. Police are beginning to see prostitutes as victims, arresting them less and focusing instead on the men who buy them.
Michael Scott, a University of Wisconsin law professor, is director of a nonprofit focused on problem-oriented policing. The group studies issues that commonly plague police departments and makes suggestions on how to address them.
For a Justice Department-sponsored report on street-level prostitution, Scott says his analysts examined research on prostitution from Rutgers University and mined their own experiences in law enforcement. They found a flaw in philosophy.
"The prostitutes were arrested over and over and over, in the belief that eventually prostitutes would be deterred from committing this crime," Scott says. "We've come to realize that really isn't a very accurate understanding of the problem."
Sgt. Steve Wohl, who oversees the Spokane Police Department's Special Victims Unit, says the change in thinking is happening on the streets of Spokane. Since serial killer Robert Lee Yates terrorized the city in the '90s — he targeted prostitutes, killing 13 women in the state — Wohl's officers have been trying to gain the trust of area prostitutes to help catch the people who hurt them. Patrol officers treat the women as victims with information about criminals, instead of as criminals themselves, he says.
"We're out here to help these people. We don't see them as suspects of this criminal activity that was perpetrated against them," Wohl says. "I think we're building that trust."
But it's a slow climb. Jillian and June both say they've never felt like they could go to the cops when johns have been violent with them.
Jillian laughs at the idea.
"Oh yeah," she says, "that'd go over great."
THE IDEA OF CHOICES
The debate over how to talk about and address prostitution is complicated by the fact these women are adults and they can't simply be lumped into a single, unified category. At least some, it turns out, say they actually enjoy their work.
Ethel only recently stopped working as a prostitute and dominatrix, in which customers paid her to role-play in various bondage and submission scenarios, or BDSM.
The 32-year-old wife and mother says she started as a stripper when she was 20 and became a prostitute soon after, but never felt threatened or objectified by the work. She insists it wasn't awkward, even in her early days, to trade her body for money. She says she quit because of a stubborn back injury she sustained before she went into the sex industry.
"Most people have an emotional interaction when they have sex. Even I have an emotional interaction, but I think that my level of emotional interaction during sex is less than most people's. It's just the way I am," she says.
"Escorting," she adds, "was a means of freedom for me, freedom from having to show up every day for work and slave for someone else for crappy wages."
Women on each side of the industry — those trying to numb themselves and those enjoying their work — say they are the majority.
Sophie Hirschfeld, who runs the fledgling Eastern Washington Sex Workers Outreach Project, says women in desperate situations are more visible, so that's what the general public thinks of prostitution. Hirschfeld recently started the project, a local leg of a national organization, and says she is trying to build a network of women in the sex industry in Spokane so eventually they can advocate for more rights or legalization.
Hirschfeld, a dominatrix, believes that the majority of women in the industry are more like Ethel — happy and proud of their profession.
Everson doesn't buy it. After 23 years at the Health District, she thinks very few of the estimated 300-500 local prostitutes do it by choice. Instead, she says, prostitution is about a lack of choices, and it will only be solved with big societal reform — more jobs, more resources, more drug treatment.
"It's a soul-sucking job," Everson says, "and if women had other choices that they could access, they would."
As the now-shuttered spa buildings sit empty around town and detectives catalog the computers and security cameras they carted out of them, Jillian, the 47-year-old prostitute, is counting the days since she posted her last ad on Backpage.
She tries to post as infrequently as she can, but then again, she has to make rent soon.
She remembers when she was sure she'd never know anyone addicted to drugs and working in prostitution. Now, she says, she doesn't know anyone who's not.
"I always thought it'd be hard to get out of something like this because you have a pimp or something, and they wouldn't let you, but it's just as hard to get out for other reasons," she says.
"After a while it's the only thing that you do have. You have to give that up before you can try to get anything else back. That means you have nothing for a while, and that's kind of scary."
But it's only a matter of time until Jillian's phone rings again.
A popular website for prostitutes and johns nationwide is under fire for allowing posts offering sex with underage girls. Backpage.com, a Craigslist-like hub for everything from furniture to real estate, has been widely criticized for not ensuring that people whose services are sold in its "adult" section are, in fact, adults.
In April of this year, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire signed a bill into law that made the state the first in the country to require sites within the state to obtain documentation proving that escorts advertised are at least 18. The law, which was set to take effect in June, allows criminal prosecution of anyone who knowingly publishes or causes the publication of sex-related ads featuring children, unless they can prove they made a good-faith effort to ensure the person wasn't underage.
Advocates called it a step in the right direction for slowing child sex trafficking. Others saw it as a well-intentioned law that could have serious free-speech ramifications for any site that might encounter adult content.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from taking effect until a lawsuit against it can be heard. The pushback is led by Village Voice Media Holdings, the New-York-based company that owns Backpage.
— HEIDI GROOVER
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John Hancock: Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof…Because of His Dolly
By Heather Frey Blanton
Dorothy Hancock
The biggest, baddest, most bold signature on the Declaration of Independence belongs to John Hancock. Said signature is the icon for fearless rebellion and raw treason. Did you know that when Hancock put his name to that paper, he was a newlywed?
No wonder he was feeling froggy.
So who was the lady who stoked the fires of revolution and made John think he was ten feet tall and bulletproof?
Dorothy "Dolly" Quincy was the youngest daughter of Judge Edmund Quincy. Born to a life of privilege and wealth, she was blessed with brains and beauty. She seems to have had numerous pretty sisters and cousins, too. Like flowers for bees, the Quincy home attracted many young men, including Samuel and John Adams, and the wealthy John Hancock. John had recently inherited his uncle's holdings and was using his newly acquired fortune to establish a path in politics.
An ardent patriot, he found that the Quincy family shared his love of liberty. Dorothy eagerly desired to see the British head back across the pond and leave the colonists alone. It didn't help that in 1775 an arrest order was issued for her new beau John. The British thought to take him into custody while they commandeered the ammunition supplies at Lexington. Dorothy was in Lexington visiting Lydia Hancock, John's aunt, and actually witnessed the Battle of Lexington.
Fearing for her safety, John forbade his fiancée to return to Boston. Supposedly her response was something meek and acquiescent, like, "Recollect, Mr. Hancock, I am not under your authority yet. I shall go to my father's to-morrow." The fact that this story survives speaks, I think, volumes about the woman. It is rather apropos she heard" the shot heard round the world."
In any event, Aunt Lydia talked her out of going. The writing was on the wall. Revolution had exploded and America was at war with the largest military power on the planet. John sent Dorothy and his Aunt to stay with the Rev. Thaddeus Burr in Fairfield while he and the other founding fathers decided how to respond to the battles of Lexington and Concord. That summer, in the midst of such deeply important strategizing, he made time to marry Dorothy. The two rebels headed off immediately to Philadelphia.
A year later, as president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence and officially made himself an enemy of the Crown. Dorothy never second-guessed him. She never asked him to back off. She never asked him to value his fortune or family over the cause of liberty. This country had to be free and they had pledged their lives to it.
Married nearly twenty years, the couple had two children. One died in infancy, the other by the age of eight. Dorothy was by John's side when he passed away in 1793. She re-married several years later to a friend of the family.
Perhaps she never carried secret intelligence or manned a cannon, but Dorothy Hancock was a loyal wife and valued confidante to her husband. She supported the cause of liberty with boundless passion, and carried herself with admirable dignity, even in in the face of tragedy. Sometimes, keeping your head up and your fist raised is a matter of slow, defiant slogging.
Here's to another Lady in Defiance.
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Who Really Wore the Leather Breeches in The Boone Family? Hmmm?
"In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone."
–Margaret Fuller
Rebecca Bryan should have known she'd have her hands full with Daniel Boone. According to an account from 1852, the two first met when Daniel was out "shining the eyes" of deer, a process similar to modern-day spotlighting. Only thing was, when Daniel drew down on a pair of shining eyes, they happened to belong to the young, pretty, and very human Rebecca. Mercifully, Daniel missed the shot and, after courting for three years, married her in 1756. Some scholars say they met at a wedding. Knowing what was to come for the Boones, I'd be inclined to believe the hunting story.
Over the next 24 years of their marriage, Becky would be pregnant on average every two to four years, giving birth to 10 children. Because of Daniel's famous (and probably downright annoying) need to explore, she would relocate her home at least six different times. And due to his wanderlust, she also had to run these homes alone, sometimes for months on end. Perhaps that's why she headed deep into the wilderness whenever Daniel asked. She loved him. Simple as that.
Because of his predilection for remote areas (or a disdain for neighbors) Becky came to epitomize the famous pioneer spirit. She was known and respected as an accomplished midwife, leather tanner, doctor-of-sorts, marksman, seamstress, you name it, she could do it. And did without much grumbling.
For over a decade, Daniel supported his family in North Carolina by hunting and trapping. The endeavor took him away from home for months and months. It was on one of these trips he discovered the magical land of Kentucky.
Smitten with the area, in 1773, Daniel moved there with his family and fifty or so other settlers. Blood was boiling amongst the Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees over white encroachment. Eager to send a clear message, the Indians captured the Boone's oldest son James and another boy. The two, just teenagers, were tortured to death, slowly, in a most horrific manner for the show of it.
Kentucky, though, had her hooks in Daniel. After a brief retreat to Virginia, The Boone's returned and he set about helping settle the frontier, and building a country. He also served as a captain in the Colonial Army and a state representative for the Virginia House. Daniel could conquer challenges and seize the day because he knew Becky had his back.
By all accounts, she rarely complained about her hard life. I believe that's because she had a heart overflowing with love. Many of the Boone's children stayed close to the couple, living either with them or nearby. Adopted children and numerous grandchildren abounded. At one point, Becky presided over a household of twenty people! She didn't have time to whine. She was too busy living.
Becky gave birth to her last child at the age of 40. In 1799, she moved with Daniel and several of their children to Missouri and enjoyed many peaceful years there. She went to her final rest at the age of 74. And a well-deserved rest it was.
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Beware The Waspish Sting of a Patriot Woman's Pen
"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
If I asked you to name American writers who stirred hearts and passions during the American Revolution, most likely you'd mention Thomas Pain or Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson. Surely, each man made his invaluable contribution to the fight for independence.
Lesser known, though, is the crisp, satirical wit of Mercy Otis Warren. Her plays pricked the pride of pompous Tories and entertained the likes of John and Abigail Adams.
Mercy was a determined woman and I believe she exemplified the kind who struck fear in Cornwallis' heart. Born to a somewhat wealthy family in England, her father didn't care to educate her. To most, this would have been a high barrier. To Mercy, it was merely an inconvenience. Focused and self-disciplined, she learned to read by sitting in on her brother's lessons when she could, and going through his text books on her own. Her perseverance prompted more familial support and an education was provided.
Mercy was quite intelligent, clearly, and a mind like hers was always inquiring. Her family moved to Massachusetts in 1754 and when she married James Warren, found herself surrounded by pro-American voices. Her husband and her brother both were passionately in support of the colonies throwing off the yolk of a tyrant king. Her home was a popular meeting spot for the local revolutionaries and Mercy became lifetime friends with several of our Founding Fathers and their wives.
But standing around serving tea wasn't all she wanted to do. Mercy knew there was a reason for her quick wit and sharp tongue. So did her husband. She married a remarkably open-minded man who appreciated that she was a gifted writer. James often sent her works to friends, and even submitted some for publication. Mercy's first play, The Adulateur, was published anonymously in 1772. It unabashedly criticized the lieutenant governors attacks on personal freedoms in Boston. This was the first of several plays that had the indignant Tories throwing their tea cups across the room.
After the war, Mercy wrote a comprehensive history of the Revolution, a book of valuable insights even today. In it, however, she slighted John Adams, or so that is how he took it. His response? He chastised by Mercy by telling her, "History is not the Providence of Ladies."
It was for this Lady in Defiance.
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Putting it All on the … Hem! Elizabeth Poindexter and Her Innocent Needle
Elizabeth and Thomas Poindexter lived in Yadkin county, North Carolina, eventually having 12 children total. Ardent patriots, when the revolutionary war began Thomas Poindexter served as a captain in charge of a regiment of farmers and shop owners. Talented soldiers, they were critical to the American forces in the skirmishes around the Yadkin River, especially in the battle of Shallowford.
Since Thomas Poindexter was away with the revolutionary forces, Elizabeth was left alone at home with the British in close proximity. To aid the war effort, crafty Elizabeth sewed secret messages and military correspondence into her daughters' dresses, and then would send them on "errands" right through British lines. She did this throughout the conflict and neither she nor her daughters were ever even questioned.
The rumor was was she was a sweet, pretty thing with such well-behaved daughters that she and her girls were simply above suspicion. Reason for cultivating a positive, lady-like reputation (MIley Cyrus, are you listening?).
After the war, Elizabeth was recognized for her bravery in wartime. Today she is an official hero of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they, as well, have recognized her contribution in the revolutionary war in the North Carolina region.
Keep the needle sharp and respect the lace!
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Esther Reed — Where June Cleaver Got Her Domestic Goddess Genes?
Esther De Berdt Reed, though born in England, found the cause of liberty trumped ties to homeland and tradition. Perhaps her future husband, American Joseph Reed, had something to do with her fervor. The two met in London in 1763 when he was studying law. True love took its course and they became engaged, yet Reed left to tend to matters in America. The couple endured a five-year separation. Esther clearly knew her mind and her heart.
The two married and moved to Philadelphia around 1770 when the abuses of the crown were just getting rolling. Joseph worked hard and became a prosperous lawyer. His wife threw wonderful soirees that included the likes of General George Washington. After the battles at Lexington and Concord, though, Joseph was called to serve his country. He rose quickly through the ranks, eventually becoming a general himself.
Esther was left at home to raise six children and manage her household. Prepare to feel inadequate, because she was clearly more than a Philadelphia housewife. Esther not only moved her family out of Philadelphia three separate times to avoid British soldiers and Tory mobs, she also dove full tilt into fundraising for the cause. Using her gifts, connections and time as wisely as possible, she started the Ladies of Philadelphia, a group of women focused on raising money for the American soldiers. Initially they thought to give cash to the troops. Washington gently suggested the money be used to buy clothes. But he left the decision up to Esther.
Before Esther's death in 1780 at the young age of 34, her group raised a whopping $7000 for the Continental Army and then used the money to buy cloth for shirts. Together, the ladies and their servants then sewed 2000 shirts. June Cleaver would be proud of these gals.
Esther gave all and died no less valiantly than a soldier under cannon fire. She knew what kind of a country she wanted her children to grow up in. One without a pompous king taxing them to death and determining their future. Inspired by Esther's passion, Sarah Franklin stepped up to take her place and had similar success. Esther Reed was the first woman to be called A Daughter of Liberty. Amen, sister.
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Mom Rinker — the Little Ol' Lady Who Spied for Washington
She sat up there at the top.
There is a rock in Philadelphia along the Wissahickon Creek made famous by a little old lady who was one of George Washington's best spies. No blond bombshell who blinded the British with her shocking good looks, she was merely an innocuous-looking little ol' lady.
One of the complaints against King George listed in the Declaration of Independence was
"…For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
Troops could and often did simply move in and take-over a family's home. Understandably, this didn't sit well with the property owners who weren't in favor of the King's rule in the first place. Molly "Mom" Rinker was one such dissatisfied English subject willing to fight for her independence. She didn't sit idly by while British soldiers took over her family's inn and planned their attacks. An older, matronly woman, who would ever suspect her of being a raging patriot and spy?
No one … and she planned to keep it that way. While soldiers banned the male members of her family from the dining area, Mom was kept at hand so she could wait on the redcoats. She waited on them, all right, and made sure to keep jugs of liquor and ale in the dining room so she had fewer excuses for leaving.
Then this clever little Granny-like lady would pass intelligence to Washington's men. She was never caught; her identity never revealed. So how did she do it?
Each night after gathering her intelligence, she wrote the information on a small piece of paper and wrapped it around a tiny stone. She then wrapped yarn around the stone until she had a normal, mundane looking ball of yarn. Every day, Mom would go to a lovely little spot along her favorite creek and seat herself on a rock. From this rock, she had a pleasant view of the woods.
She would then subtly drop the ball of yarn and watch it roll down the small cliff. One of Washington's men would retrieve the note and disappear into the brush. No one was ever the wiser. The British never saw her converse with anyone. Granny sat upon her rock and knitted stockings for her beloved Colonial soldiers. She couldn't be the spy; had to be someone else.
The British never even searched her basket. Probably wouldn't have found the messages anyway. Not all spying during the American Revolution required complicated cloak-and-dagger techniques. The beauty of this deception was its simplicity, an idea born of wisdom and experience. Talk about a woman who could truly say, "Mom knows best."
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Dorothy Sinkler Richardson — Did She Have the Last Laugh Saving the Swamp Fox?
All that remains of a life well lived.
As I have often said, I discover the most fascinating things about the women who built this country by reading between the lines.
Case in point, Dorothy Sinkler Richardson. You've probably never heard of her unless you delve deep into South Carolina history. But you'll recognize some of the names in her story.
Dorothy was the second wife of General Richard Richardson. Both were ardent patriots. Richardson, however, died in British custody after the fall of Charleston in 1780. No shrinking violet, Dorothy kept her head about her and ran her home. She also continued to support the cause of liberty. She seemed to have at least a passing acquaintance with Frances Marion, the Swamp Fox.
Unfortunately for Dorothy, Banistre Tarleton opted to bivouac in her home in 1781. He made no secret he was after Marion and felt that he and his men were close. Knowing what was at risk, as Tarleton's reputation for butchery was well-documented, she still opted to send her 10-year-old son James to warn Marion. The boy succeeded, Marion changed directions, and Tarleton got a very angry.
He forced Dorothy to prepare his dinner and then serve him. Several accounts also report that he had her husband's body dug up just so he could see a "real" American general (I certainly wouldn't put this past him). And if all this wasn't enough, Tarleton then burned her home to the ground.
Banistre Tarleton may have left Dorothy's farm that night giddy and giggling with great satisfaction. It was quite premature, though typical of his arrogance. He destroyed Dorothy's home. He did not destroy her spirit. They say the proof of a life well-lived is in your children. She raised two boys who became governors of South Carolina.
Her son James had the following inscription carved onto her tombstone:
Relict [widow] of Gen. Richard Richardson Who died July 1793 Aged 56 years
She was pious & exemplary, distinguished in mind & manners and eminently discernible in the highest societies in which she associated. This marble which designates the place where her remains rest is erected to her memory by her eldest son James B. Richardson Who early bereft of paternal care feels that he is indebted to her maternal care & attention, to her vigorous & preserving mind of firmness & determination surpassing description and to her vigilant and enlightened instructions for being all that he is in life.
Respect the lace. She earned it.
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Mary Katherine Goddard — Daughter of the Revolution and Forerunner to Lois Lane?
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Sometimes, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Some women during the Revolutionary War did amazingly brave things. These women warriors rose to the level of their challenges and met them head on. But not every woman took a rifle in hand to make a fight. Mary Katherine Goddard, arguably the first female journalist of the Revolutionary War, fought with ink and paper.
In 1762, 24-year-old Mary Katherine moved with her younger brother and mother to Rhode Island. Brother William had finished an apprenticeship in printing and planned on starting a print shop and newspaper. Together the family published the Providence Gazette. Mary Katherine was a quick study, though. After William established an additional shop and newspaper in Philadelphia, he turned that store over to his sister in 1764.
Philadelphia was a hot-bed of Colonial rebellion. Mary Katherine reported it with a fair and balanced approach, despite the fact that her brother was rabidly anti-British. He was repeatedly jailed for outbursts and printed tirades against the crown. In 1774, Mary Katherine took over her brother's paper in Baltimore while he attended to other interests, including trying to set up a postal system in opposition to the official British mail service.
In January of 1777, Mary Katherine courageously used her press to print copies of the Declaration of Independence, only the second publisher to do so and the first to print all the names of the signatories. Considering the times, this was arguably a treasonous act. She was also the first female appointed as a postmaster in Colonial America. She served in that capacity for the city of Baltimore from 1775 to 1789. It's worth mentioning that Mary Katherine never missed an edition of the Maryland Journal from 1775 to 1784. In the midst of war, when lesser papers folded or went into hiding, the city's government switched hands, and battles raged, she kept the presses rolling, so to speak.
It wasn't all daisies and sunshine for May Katherine, though. In 1784, her name disappeared from the masthead of the Maryland Journal, and in 1789 she was forced to step down from her position as Postmaster (despite a petition signed by over 200 Baltimore merchants to keep her). The issues? Her brother was jealous of her success (he hadn't accomplished a thing in his life that Mary Katherine didn't bring about), and she was a woman without the appropriate friends in high places. Infuriating, yes, but I suspect Mary Katherine did all right. She ran her own bookstore in Baltimore till her death in 1816. Nobody really remembers her brother or the man who replaced her as Postmaster. There's some justice in that.
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Margaret Corbin — Was She the Woman Who Gave Cornwallis Nightmares?
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. If that's true, then Margaret Corbin was one of the strongest women of the Revolutionary War.
Her life started out with a fairly bad omen. Around the time of her fifth or so birthday, she and her brother went to visit her uncle. While the two were gone, the family farm in Pennsylvania was attacked by Indians. Her father was scalped and killed. Her mother was taken captive and disappeared into the pages of history.
Margaret trudged on however and developed a keen dislike for King George. In 1775 she married John Corbin. When he enlisted in the Continental Army, Margaret went along, as women often did, to sew and cook. Not being stupid, however, they also picked up on military drills, routines and protocol.
This would explain why women were able to jump into battles alongside their husbands and actually make valued contributions. So, like Molly Pitcher, when Margaret and John went into their first battle (the Battle of Fort Washington), she was ready to assist. John was a matross (he loaded the canon) and when his partner was killed, he took his position. Unflinchingly, Margaret then took on the duty of matross. Shortly thereafter, however, John was killed. Unbroken, defiant, and completely alone, Margaret "manned" the canon herself. She loaded and fired the thing repeatedly with deadly accuracy! Hers was the last canon firing, which eventually made her an easy target.
Margaret was discovered after the battle alive but in critical condition. She had three musket balls in her, her chest and jaw were damaged by grapeshot and her left arm was quite literally hanging by shreds of skin. Surely this is the woman who gave Lord Cornwallis nightmares!
An amputee, she continued to serve in the cause of Liberty in the invalid regiment at Westpoint. She even remarried, but her second husband passed away a year later. On her own, Margaret wasn't able to stay well-coiffed due to her injuries and therefore alienated a lot of folks. Not to mention, she was a bit rough and unrefined; given to drinking (a lot) and smoking. The Philadelphia Society of Women thought to erect a statue to her until they met her and then they called off the whole idea. I wonder how many of them ever jumped behind a canon?
But good men in the military did not forget Margaret and eventually, after spending many years destitute and poor, she became the first woman to receive a military pension. Eventually she was even reburied at West Point with full military honors.
Dear Philadelphia Society of Women, it just goes to show that well-behaved women rarely make history. Respect the lace.
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Molly Pitcher or Just Mary Hays? A Rose by Any Other Name…
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Elementary students around the country often get their first dose of female patriots through the legendary quagmire of Molly Pitcher. Several women have acquired this handle through the centuries, but where does legend end and truth begin?
Mary Ludwig Hays
Most scholars agree the true identity of "Molly Pitcher" is confused because there were several "camp followers" involved in the Revolutionary War's battle of Monmouth. Back then, these ladies tended the sick, cooked for their soldiers, repaired the uniforms, and even manned a cannon if the occasion called for it. Hence, the confusion. One of the best candidates, though, is Mary Ludwig Hays. Even if she's not the actual "Molly Pitcher," she is well-deserving of the fame.
Mary, born in 1754 to German immigrants, took a position as a domestic servant at the age of 15. A year later she married John Hays. In 1776, Hays, a barber, soldiered up and joined Pennsylvania's artillery. Two years later, Mary appears in the military paperwork for the first time. She joined the same company as her husband mere months before the battle of Monmouth. She swore, she chewed tobacco, and expected no quarter just because she was a woman. During the battle, Mary hauled water under furious enemy fire and sweltering conditions. Both the rag-wrapped cannon ramrods needed continual soaking as did the over-heated soldiers. Mary and the others like her were angels of mercy or war, depending on your perspective.
As cannons and muskets thundered in the blazing sun, Mary's husband John collapsed from heat stroke (some reports indicate he may have been injured). Mary gave him some water then heroically took over his cannon, repeatedly packing the barrel and sighting in on the enemy. The enemy, however, was also sighting in on her. An eye witness (the diary of a Colonial private), reported seeing a cannon ball literally shoot between her legs, removing a terrifying portion of her petticoat! Mary never missed a beat. She kept loading and firing.
The result of the battle: Lord Cornwallis withdrew and his army slipped away in the darkness. George Washington thanked Mary and the other women for their service. And with typical government efficieny, the state of Pennsylvania awarded Mary a pension of $40 a year, specifically for her heroism at Monmouth, forty years later.
Better late than never to respect the lace.
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Reporting to the Prague set of From Hell last year, Heather Graham was feeling blue. The problem wasn't the film's menacing subject matter but rather her fresh split from writer-director-actor Ed Burns, her boyfriend of two years. "She told us about her breakup and she teared up a bit," says Allen Hughes, who co-directed the Jack the Ripper tale with his brother Albert. To brighten her mood, the brothers spun tunes on the set. "She loved to dance to the hip-hop music we played for her," says Hughes. "I like to say that Jay-Z got her over the heartbreak."
With a little help from Health Ledger. Within weeks of her bust-up with Burns (who is now engaged to model Christy Turlington), Graham, 31, was making sweet music with the 22-year-old Aussie actor, who was in Prague to film A Knight's Tale. That relationship ended in June, prompting Graham—whose other actor exes include Kyle MacLachlan and James Woods—to declare a hiatus from dating to concentrate on nonromantic pursuits. "I like cooking and having dinner parties, playing cards and doing yoga," she says. With two movies out this fall—From Hell, in which she plays a London prostitute, and Sidewalks of New York (due Nov. 21), which she filmed with Burns before their breakup—she has the career thing under control too. So what's up with the revolving-door relationships? "Heather is a rather freewheeling person with a lot of personality," says James Toback, who directed her in 1998's Two Girls and a Guy. "It's tough for her to find someone to fit her mold. She is not a simple person."
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Bikes Belong and Bicycle Council Merge
Bikes Belong and Bicycle Council MergeThe boards of directors of The Bicycle Council (TBC) and the Bikes Belong Coalition (Bikes Belong) announce the two organizations are merged today. The name of the combined organization is Bikes Belong Coalition. Rich Olken will continue as Executive Director.
Both TBC and Bikes Belong boards enthusiastically supported the merger, which has been in the works since the BREC/BPSA conference last January where the need for industry unity was a prevalent theme. The merger can be seen as another indication of growing momentum toward a large umbrella organization dedicated to selling more bicycles through facilities improvement, political activism, and broad-based promotion.
"The industry's leaders on the boards of Bikes Belong and The Bicycle Council put their heads together and concluded that the industry needs to be unified if it is going to get and stay healthy," said Bill Wilkinson, former Executive Director of the Bicycle Institute of America (the industry's promotion organization of the early 1990s). "This is a very big, smart move by the industry and bodes well for the future of bicycling."
Bikes Belong was conceived in 1996 to win reauthorization of federal transportation funding for bicycle projects. After victory in 1998, Bikes Belong became strictly industry led and funded with the sole mission of "putting more people on bikes more often through TEA-21." Bikes Belong recently expanded its mission to include political activism and promotion to consumers.
The merger with The Bicycle Council, which has conducted consumer promotions since 1997, allows Bikes Belong to advance ongoing promotional efforts by TBC with over four years of momentum. The two organizations had several board members in common and both boards agree that a single organization will be more effective.
"This is an evolutionary step for our industry," said Bikes Belong President Mike Greehan. "Especially with the decline in bicycle participation, it's critical for companies within the industry to join Bikes Belong so we can continue and expand what TBC has started."
The Bicycle Council's mission was to "promote the activity of bicycling to consumers for the purpose of expanding the market for bicycle riders." TBC's promotions have taken the form of publicity campaigns, focusing primarily on the fun and fitness of cycling, which result in national media exposures designed to attract new participants.
"When the TBC was founded in 1997 to fill an existing void in promoting the activity of bicycling and our products to the general public, we had hoped that at some time in the future, promotion could again become part of a more comprehensive industry effort," said Harry H. Manko, President of TBC. "With the expansion of Bikes Belong's mission, that opportunity has come. Bikes Belong Coalition is well on its way of becoming the industry umbrella we had all hoped for. I urge all TBC and other industry members to support Bikes Belong."
Bikes Belong, which assumes the management of all TBC operations as of today, will continue TBC's current programs including its publicity campaigns conducted by TBC's News Media Outreach Office. Bikes Belong will initially fund consumer promotions at past TBC levels and will fund at higher levels as revenues from industry sources grow.
Additionally, as part of the merger, TBC board members Ken Segerberg of the NBDA and Jerry Berman of Dynacraft Company will join Bikes Belong Coalition's board of directors. Bikes Belong directors include Mike Greehan of Interbike, Dan Alloway of Cannondale, Leslie Bohm of Catalyst, Scott Boyer of Answer, John Burke of Trek, Nicholas Freedman of Bicycling Magazine, Wisconsin retailer and LAB President Chris Kegel, Lisa Robinson of Sportworks, Ariadne Scott of Specialized, Patrick Seidler of Wilderness Trail Bikes, Kozo Shimano of Shimano, Larry Pizzi of Schwinn/GT, and Gary Sjoquist of Quality Bicycle Products. Harry H. Manko, President of TBC, is available to the Board in an advisory capacity.
"Bikes Belong Coalition is committed to continuing what TBC started – the promotion of cycling to consumers through retailer-based programs and the national media," said Bikes Belong Vice President Gary Sjoquist. "Additionally, we'd like to develop strategic alliances with health, transit, and livable community organizations. We want to measurably change behaviors and position the bicycle as the recreational outlet of choice and a mode of transportation within our communities."
Congressman James Oberstar, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and friend of the industry, was pleased to hear of the merger.
"The bicycling community has had a growing influence on transportation policy nationwide, and it left a significant imprint on TEA-21 (Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century), the landmark public works legislation that was enacted in 1998. Because of the tireless efforts of organizations such as Bikes Belong and The Bicycle Council, cyclists nationwide now have better, safer places to ride," Congressman Jim Oberstar said. "By joining forces, Bikes Belong and The Bicycle Council will be able to speak with one voice, which will only increase the bicycling industry's effectiveness and ability to positively affect public policy."
"There's very little every one in our industry agrees on, but this merger is one where I know of no naysayers," observes Leslie Bohm of Catalyst. "That's largely due to the inclusiveness of this next generation Bikes Belong Coalition. We represent a full spectrum of suppliers, retailers, media, and affiliated industry members. This unanimity enables us to achieve great things for the industry. There's no reason for an industry member to not be a part of Bikes Belong."
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lind optimism might compel us to describe Sunday night's Canadian Grand Prix as the perfect plot-thickener for this year's championship, with Sebastian Vettel producing a dominant gun-to-tape victory to edge ahead of arch-rival Lewis Hamilton by a single point.
After a race devoid of any wheel-to-wheel skirmishes at the front, it fell to Wolff to provide the fireworks with his words. Since 2014, Mercedes have been unanswerably dominant in F1, and yet the sheer ease with which Vettel swept to his 50th win suggested that the threat from Ferrari had seldom been stronger.
Mercedes' failure to bring any engine updates to Canada hurt them grievously, with Hamilton struggling all weekend both in his cornering and straight-line speed. The effect was severe: where the reigning world champion had arrived at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with a 14-point lead, he left it trailing by one. On this occasion, Vettel was supreme in achieving his 50th win. From the moment he surged away from Bottas off the start line, the outcome looked settled.


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Cartoonito UK October 2018 New Movies Half Term
October 21, 2018 by RegularCapital
During the October 2018 half-term school holidays next week (22nd to 26th October), Cartoonito UK will be premiering three new movies – Fireman Sam: Set For Action (Monday 22nd October at 8am), Thomas and Friends: King of the Railway (Tuesday 23rd October at 8am), and Thomas and Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery (Thursday 25th October at 8am).
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Cartoon Network Italy And Boing Italy October 2018 Highlights
September 26, 2018 by RegularCapital
Cartoon Network Italy October 2018 Highlights
New episodes air from Monday 8th October, airs Mondays to Fridays at 7.05pm.
New episodes air from Saturday 13th October, airs weekends at 7am.
New episodes air from Monday 22nd October, airs Mondays to Fridays at 8am.
Cartoon Network Lego Days Pop-Up Channel
Airs from Saturday 27th October to Sunday 4th November.
Temporarily replaces Cartoon Network Italy's timeshift channel – Cartoon Network +1 (Sky Italia channel 608). A whole pop-up channel dedicated to Lego themed shows and movies including Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, Unikitty!, Lego Nexo Knights, Mixels and Lego Friends.
Halloween: Special Programming
Airs from Wednesday 31st October to Friday 2nd November from 8.20pm.
Includes new episodes of Teen Titans Go! and Yo-Kai Watch. Also Halloween specials of The Amazing World of Gumball, Unikitty!, Teen Titans Go!, Uncle Grandpa, We Bare Bears, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Powerpuff Girls, Regular Show and also the Adventure Time miniseries – Adventure Time: Stakes.
https://www.badtv.it/2018/09/cartoon-network-a-ottobre-in-arrivo-le-superchicche-e-ben-10/
Boing Italy October 2018 Highlights
New Episodes (FTA Premieres)
New episodes air from Tuesday 16th October, airs Tuesdays to Fridays from 8pm.
The Flash (Live Action Series)
Season three of The Flash airs Tuesday to Friday at 8.50pm. Season finale airs Thursday 11th October.
Airs as part of Boing's Popcorn programming block:
Speed Racer: Premieres Sunday 7th October at 8pm.
Vampire Dog: Premieres Sunday 14th October at 8pm.
Airs Monday 29th October to Friday 2nd November.
Include Halloween episodes of Teen Titans Go! and The Amazing World of Gumball.
Steven Universe Day Marathon
A whole day on Boing Italy dedicated to episodes of Steven Universe, airs all day Sunday 14th October.
The Amazing World of Gumball Day Marathon
A whole day on Boing Italy dedicated to episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball, airs all day Sunday 4th November
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Tooncast Latin America March 2018 Highlights
February 19, 2018 by RegularCapital
Batman: The Animated Series – Premiere! March is all about Batman!
Batman: The Animated Series premieres on Thursday 1st March with an amazing marathon starting at 9am. New episodes air Monday through Friday at 9am and 9pm.
Let's see how it all began! Vowing to avenge the senseless murder of his wealthy parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out lawlessness in Gotham City.. Only on tooncast!
Batman: Mask of The Phantasm – Premiere! A tale of good and evil
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm premieres on Thursday 1st March at 11.30am, right after the premiere marathon of Batman: The Animated Series.
Batman battles a dangerous new foe who is trying to frame the Dark Knight for the murder of a crime lord – and who is mysteriously linked to Bruce Wayne's former girlfriend. How will this story end?
Batman and Mr. Freeze: Subzero – Premiere! Batman deals with a cold piece of work!
Batman and Mr. Freeze: Subzero premieres on Friday 30th March, at 9.30am and 9.30pm.
In this electrifying animated adventure, the caped crusaders, Batman and Robin, sweep into action in a desperate race against the clock to rescue Batgirl from Mr. Freeze's icy clutches. Will they make it?
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EELK Louna Florida Kogudus (Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Florida) records
Identifier: IHRC3118
Immigration History Research Center Archives
Collection consists of minutes from meetings of the Church Council and the board, correspondence, membership lists and letters of membership applications, the congregation's bulletins "Kirikuteade" and booklets of church services. There are also all the accounting documents preserved in series two.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Florida (Organization)
Estonian, English
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
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Collection transferred to the IHRC from the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A. (EAU) in 2003-2005. It was processed as part of a collaborative project between the Estonian Archives in the USA (Lakewood, New Jersey), the National Archives of Estonia (NAE), the BaltherNet non-profit network, and the IHRC Archives in May 2014. Birgit Nurme and Pille Aguraiuja of the National Archives in Tallinn, Estonia, worked with IHRC staff on the project.
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Inventory of the EELK Louna Florida Kogudus (Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Florida) records.
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Finding Aid in English
Contact The Immigration History Research Center Archives Collecting Area
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EELK Louna Florida Kogudus (Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Florida) records, IHRC Archives, University of Minnesota
EELK Louna Florida Kogudus (Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Florida) records, IHRC Archives, University of Minnesota https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/6/resources/4813 Accessed January 28, 2023.


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A placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study with a total of 338 patients was done to assess the blood pressure-lowering effects of a controlled-release (CR) once-daily formulation of carvedilol.
US-based biopharmaceutical company AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has received positive top-line results from the Phase 2b randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study of upadacitinib (ABT-494), an investigational, once-daily oral JAK1-selective inhibitor, in adult patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis not adequately controlled by topical treatments, or for whom topical treatments were not medically advisable, the company said.
The 455-patient randomised, double-masked, vehicle-controlled, dose-ranging study (ClinicalTrials.
A placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study with a total of 338 patients was done to assess the blood pressure--lowering effects of a controlled-release (CR) once-daily formulation of carvedilol.
A placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study with a total of 338 patients was done to assess the blood-pressure lowering effects of a controlled-release (CR) once-daily formulation of carvedilol.
Tokyo, Japan, Sept 6, 2005 - (JCNN) - Sosei, a Japanese biopharmaceutical company, announced on September 5 that its wholly owned UK subsidiary Arakis has started a phase IIb dose-ranging study of AD 452, an investigational drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
The objective of the randomized, double-blind, placebo- controlled, Phase Ib dose-ranging study was to evaluate the safety and tolerability of multiple oral dosing regimens of SCIO-469 in healthy volunteers.
Donovan reported on 494 moderately hypercholesterolemic patients who participated in a double-blind, placebocontrolled, dose-ranging study of colesevelam.
Dose-Ranging Study (Phase II; N=68): A 7-week randomized, double-blind study consisting of a 4-week baseline period, 3-week blinded titration period and 4-week blinded maintenance period, followed by open-label continuation or 3-week taper period.
ACTION 2 was a Phase 2b multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, dose-ranging study with a 90 day follow up to evaluate the safety and efficacy of natalizumab primarily in patients with moderate severity acute ischemic stroke.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced the first report of five-year overall survival (OS) data from the Phase 1 dose-ranging study CA209-003 evaluating Opdivo in patients with previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC; n=129).
Antibe will now initiate two larger Phase 2 double-blind trials: a placebo-controlled dose-ranging study to determine the go-to-market dose, and an active comparator trial to demonstrate superior GI safety.


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Microsoft's Embedded Audio Codec (EAC) is an experimental audio coder offering fine-grain bitrate scalability. The coding algorithm is described in , which also compares the performance of EAC against an earlier version of the Scala codec.
The following single-channel sound files compare coding efficiencies of EAC and Scala codecs at two different bitrates. All files are approximately 6 seconds in length with 44.1 kHz sample rate; samples are presented both as compressed bitstreams and uncompressed (decoded) .wav files. For verification, the EAC bitstreams can be decoded using the EAC player, while Scala bitstreams can be decoded using the demonstration decoder software available from this site.
While EAC performs well at lower bitrates for some signals including harpsichord, other signals such as female voice and castanets suffer from clearly audible coding artifacts at 32 kbit/s. At the higher rate of 64 kbit/s, our listening tests indicate lower average coding efficiency for EAC compared to the Scala codec. Reduced coding efficiency at higher bitrates is reflected in higher average transparency bitrates, measured for EAC at 110 kb/s (mono) and 168 kbit/s (stereo), compared to the Scala codec which achieves transparency at 80 kb/s (mono) and 132 kbit/s (stereo). Error-resilient coding is a further advantage of the Scala codec.
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Home Edu Events Dept of Tahaffuzi Wa Samaji Tib rolls out 'Swachhata Hi Seva' campaign
Dept of Tahaffuzi Wa Samaji Tib rolls out 'Swachhata Hi Seva' campaign
Aligarh: The Department of Tahaffuzi Wa Samaji Tib, Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) rolled out 15-days long, 'Swachhata Hi Seva' campaign, an environment and conservation program under the guidance of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in support of the Prime Minister's call to the nation to eradicate plastic waste.
Principal, Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, Prof Saud Ali Khan said: "We are delighted to be part of a national project such as 'Swachhata Hi Seva.' It is not only the duty of local governments and municipal bodies to keep public places safe, but that of every individual. Drives like these will not only help keep our city safe, but will also make the larger population aware of the problem's origin. "
"During the project, the Department's teachers, students and non-teaching staff engaged in a series of events to raise awareness of dry and wet waste segregation in Shramdan, an outreach program conducted in Atrauli's Bhavigarh Village," said Prof Rubi Anjum, Chairperson, Department of Tahaffuzi Wa Samaji Tib.
She added that the Faculty of Unani Medicine also conducted a cleanliness drive and students participated in an essay writing competition on the subject 'Youth's role in making India Polythene Free.'
The department's staff and students pledged to 'Say No To Plastic' and 'Make India Single-Use-Plastic Safe.'
Dr Mohammad Aslam helped organising the campaign.
Meanwhile a cleanliness drive was conducted at the Abdullah Hall under the Swachta Pakwada campaign of the Government of India. Prof Ghazala Naheed (Provost) supervised the campaign in which residents of the Hall, wardens and other staff actively participated.
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"""
### Tutorial Documentation
Documentation that goes along with the Airflow tutorial located
[here](http://pythonhosted.org/airflow/tutorial.html)
"""
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.bash_operator import BashOperator
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

seven_days_ago = datetime.combine(datetime.today() - timedelta(7),
                                  datetime.min.time())

default_args = {
    'owner': 'airflow',
    'depends_on_past': False,
    'start_date': seven_days_ago,
    'email': ['airflow@airflow.com'],
    'email_on_failure': False,
    'email_on_retry': False,
    'retries': 1,
    'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
    # 'queue': 'bash_queue',
    # 'pool': 'backfill',
    # 'priority_weight': 10,
    # 'schedule_interval': timedelta(1),
    # 'end_date': datetime(2016, 1, 1),
}

dag = DAG('tutorial', default_args=default_args)

# t1, t2 and t3 are examples of tasks created by instantiating operators
t1 = BashOperator(
    task_id='print_date',
    bash_command='date',
    dag=dag)

t1.doc_md = """\
#### Task Documentation
You can document your task using the attributes `doc_md` (markdown),
`doc` (plain text), `doc_rst`, `doc_json`, `doc_yaml` which gets
rendered in the UI's Task Instance Details page.
![img](http://montcs.bloomu.edu/~bobmon/Semesters/2012-01/491/import%20soul.png)
"""

dag.doc_md = __doc__

t2 = BashOperator(
    task_id='sleep',
    depends_on_past=False,
    bash_command='sleep 5',
    dag=dag)

templated_command = """
{% for i in range(5) %}
    echo "{{ ds }}"
    echo "{{ macros.ds_add(ds, 7)}}"
    echo "{{ params.my_param }}"
{% endfor %}
"""

t3 = BashOperator(
    task_id='templated',
    depends_on_past=False,
    bash_command=templated_command,
    params={'my_param': 'Parameter I passed in'},
    dag=dag)

t2.set_upstream(t1)
t3.set_upstream(t1)

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Home>Articles>Rent Control Passes in the CA Legislature
Apartment Buildings in California.
Rent Control Passes in the CA Legislature
California is on the verge of having statewide rent control, despite failure of Proposition 10
By Katy Grimes, September 11, 2019 9:13 pm
California just passed the strongest rent control package in the United States. While rent control advocates claim, "the rent is too damn high — so we're damn sure doing something about it," AB 1482 will not have the desired changes on affordable housing issues in California.
The Tenant Protection Act of 2019, Assembly Bill 1482, by Assemblymen David Chiu (D-San Francisco), Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), Timothy Grayson (D-Concord), and Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), was just passed by the Legislature and is on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. Newsom has indicated that he will sign AB 1482, even as it was watered down in scope to get it passed.
Assembly Bill 1482, was largely inspired by a similar law in Oregon.
The original version of AB 1482 proposed a limit on annual rent increases by landlords of 5 percent, plus the federally reported increase in California's consumer price index. It also had a sunset clause of 2030, to sweeten the pot.
Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) addressed this in Assembly debate Wednesday: "The voters said NO to rent control last election. So today the legislature signaled they couldn't care less about the will of the voters, and passed rent control anyway."
The voters said NO to rent control last election. So today the legislature signaled they couldn't care less about the will of the voters, and passed rent control anyway. #CaDeservesbetter MM pic.twitter.com/VHDtUXvK0d
— Melissa Melendez (@asmMelendez) September 12, 2019
The California Association of Realtors and many other business groups, who said it would discourage housing construction in a state with a huge housing shortage, appear to have been duped by Assemblyman Chiu. He got opponents to agree to concessions that were so significant that most critics took a neutral stand on his bill, including Realtors.
It now limits rent increases to 7 percent plus consumer price index inflation, and sunsets in 2023 instead of 2030, bill analysis and KTLA reported. It also doesn't apply to housing projects built in the last 10 years or to landlords renting 10 or fewer units.
The bill doesn't apply to housing units in areas where local rent-control laws are in place and puts no limit on how much rent can be increased after a tenant moves out.
"Governor Newsom during his gubernatorial campaign pledged to bring 3.5 million new housing units online by 2025," the CalChamber reported. "To achieve this, California must quintuple its current rate of production to produce about 500,000 new homes annually. Only twice since 1954 have developers built more than 300,000 homes in a year. The highest year on record is 1963, when 322,018 home permits were issued."
In February, at his State-of-the-State address, Gov. Newsom dodged the words "rent control" instead using "rent stability." Newsom said after Proposition 10, the rent control initiative, failed in the last election, "the pressures on vulnerable renters didn't go away. We need new rules to stabilize neighborhoods and prevent evictions, without putting small landlords out of business. I want the best ideas from everyone in this chamber. Here is my promise to you, get me a good package on rent stability this year and I will sign it."
Gov Newsom issued a statement Wednesday declaring victory: "In this year's State of the State address, I asked the Legislature to send me a strong renter protection package. Today, they sent me the strongest package in America. These anti-gouging and eviction protections will help families afford to keep a roof over their heads, and they will provide California with important new tools to combat our state's broader housing and affordability crisis. I would like to thank Assembly Speaker Rendon, Senate President pro Tempore Atkins, Assemblymember Chiu and the bill's co-authors for passing this legislation, as well as the broad coalition of stakeholders whose persistence allowed this bill to move forward."
Rent Control Proposition Officially Makes the 2020 November Ballot
Instant Rent Control in Sacramento?
LAO Study: Statewide Rent Control Prop. Would Cost Cities Tens Of Millions
Tagged AB 1482, affordable housing, Assemblymen David Chiu (D-San Francisco), Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), Assemblywoman Melissa, Cal Chamber, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Proposition 10, Rent Control, Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), Timothy Grayson (D-Concord)
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4 thoughts on "Rent Control Passes in the CA Legislature"
Jessica Van Horn says:
I'm tired of our California government passing things the people already said no on. I'm also tired of Newsom signing things into law without votes from the people. I'm tired of our resources and money going to people here illegally while our own citizens live in squalor and on the streets. Our own citizens can't get this kind of care so why are we giving our funds to those here illegally? Why are they the priority and not our own people?
Agree with you! What happening is absolutely outrageous and unacceptable.
RAYMOND FABRIZIO says:
WE OPPOSE THIS!! LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD!! NOT EVERYONE IS LIBERAL!!!
The thing is, rent control (et al) just makes housing issues worse—more expensive and less available.
And they know it.


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