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Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot (1834-1920) Unitarian
Born into one prominent Boston Unitarian family and marrying into another, she taught Sunday School at Federal Street Church during Ezra Stiles Gannett's ministry. Her diary, More than Common Powers of Perception, edited by P.A.M. Taylor (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991), provides insightful comments on her personal religious struggles and the life of the times in her circle of prominent Bostonians.
Ella Lyman Cabot (1880 – 1930) Unitarian
She was one of the authors of the new religious education curricula produced by the American Unitarian Association just before World War I, the New Beacon Series. She wrote Everyday Ethics, Ethics for Children, Temptations to Right Doing, Our Part in the World (1918), and Seven Ages of Childhood (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1921). Her comments on "the past, the present, and the future" are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Ida Maud Cannon (June 29, 1877-July 7, 1960) Unitarian
Although initially trained as a nurse, Ida went on to study sociology at the University of Minnesota and the Boston School for Social Workers. From 1907-1945, she was first Head Worker and then Chief of the Social Science Department at Massachusetts General Hospital. Best known as a founder of medical social work, she lectured at Boston University School of Social Work, the Boston School, and in New York schools of social work. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities from the University of New Hampshire and an honorary Doctor of Science from Boston University. Ida wrote two books: Social Work in Hospitals (1913, rev. 1923), On the Social Frontier of Medicine (1952), and numerous articles.
Maja Veronica Oktavec Capek (Apr. 8, 1888-Dec. 2, 1966) Czechoslovakian Unitarian
Born in Czechoslovakia, she moved to New York City with her family in 1907 and studied at Columbia University from 1908-1917. She married Dr. Norbert Capek, a Baptist minister, and together they became Unitarians In 1921, the Capeks moved to Czechoslovakia and founded a Unitarian Church in Prague with mission Stations in four other cities. Maja Capek was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1926. She was on a lecture tour in the United States when the Second World War broke out and was unable to return to Prague. During this tour she introduced the Flower Communion, which the Capeks had developed in Prague, to the United States at First Parish (Unitarian) in Cambridge MA. Her husband was seized by the Gestapo and died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942. Maja ministered at Unity House in New Bedford MA 1940-1943. She did not learn of her husband's death until 1945. She worked with the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom (now IARF). From 1944-1946, she worked for the United Nations, and from 1947-1949, for the American Relief for Czechoslovakia.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney (Apr. 6, 1823-1908) Universalist
Born in Lancaster MA, she contributed to the "Poet's Corner" in the Boston Trumpet while still in her teens. She married the Rev. T. J. Carney in 1849 and bore 9 children. She wrote for the Christian Freeman, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, Universalist Miscellany, and Ladies' Repository. She is the author of the well-known verse: "Little drops of water/Little grains of sand/Make the mighty oceans/And the pleasant land." Her published books include Gifts from Julia (2 vols.), a series of Sunday school question books, and Poetry of the Seasons.
Sandra Mitchell Caron (Jan. 12, 1935-June 2, 1999) Unitarian Universalist
Born in Longview TX, Sandra attended schools in Texas and Florida. She received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1955 and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from New York University in 1972. She married Joe Caron in 1955 and they both became active in the Unitarian Church of All Souls. Sandra served on the Metropolitan New York District Board and later was elected to the Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees. In 1977 she was elected Moderator of the UUA, the first woman in that position. She is credited with making the Moderator's position much more active and involved with the Associations welfare than previous Moderators had done. When her term expired, she ran unsuccessfully for the UUA presidency. Sandra represented the UUA at the United Nations Conference on Women in Kenya in 1985. She also presided over the reorganization of the Clara Barton Camp into the Barton Center for Diabetes Education, Inc. At the time of her retirement she was an Administrative Law Judge for the City of New York.
Mary Carpenter (1807-1877) British Unitarian
Abolitionist and teacher, she founded the first reformatory for girls in England. The Daughter of a Unitarian minister and teacher and influenced by Joseph Tuckerman, she began working with poor children in the 1830s, founded the Working and Visiting Society in 1835, opened a "ragged school" in 1846, and established a reformatory for boys at Kingswood in 1852 and later one for girls at Red Lodge. Her essay "Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders" (1851) prompted a conference in Birmingham. In 1864 she published a book on the convict system. From 1866 to 1876 she made four trips to India and gave speeches and prepared reports on the education and status of women and on penal policy in India. In 1870 she founded the National India Association. She went on to investigate reform systems in Europe, Canada and the United States and to lecture widely. Her Reform Prison Discipline, as developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton in the Irish convict prisons (1872) has been reprinted (Montclair, NJ: P. Smith, 1967). Although she remained single, she adopted a daughter in 1858. (See J. Estlin Carpenter, The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter (MacMillan and Co., London, 1879); John MacLachlan, "Mary Carpenter — Friend of the Rejected" in Our Heritage at Work (pamphlet, British Unitarian Association); J. Manton, Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets (1976). Excerpts from her writings are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Sarah Pratt Carr (July 17, 1850-Dec. 24, 1935) Unitarian
Born in Freeport ME, Sarah moved as an infant with her family to California where she spent most of her life. Her father was one of the builders of the transcontinental railroad. Her ministry grew out of her community activism in which she worked for suffrage, education for women and improved living conditions. Her preparation for ministry consisted of independent reading under the supervision of the Rev. Charles W. Wendt. After several years in which she organized congregations and preached in Hanford, Lemoore, Visalia, and Fresno, she was ordained in 1896 at the Pacific Unitarian Conference. Later she turned to writing and published a series of popular children's books: Billy To-morrow (1909); Billy To-morrow in Camp (1910); Billy To-morrow Stands the Test and Billy To-morrow and his Chums. Her most notable work was the novel, The Iron Way (1907) which fictionalized the building of the western railroad. It served as the basis of the libretto, "The Cost of Empire" which she wrote for her daughter's opera, Narcissa. Biographical information may be found in Mary Carr Moore, American Composer by Catherine Smith and Richardson (1987).
Alice Cary (Apr. 26, 1820-Feb 12, 1871) Universalist
Alice and her sister, Phoebe (See below) were both writers, abolitionists, and workers for women's rights. Their poems attracted the attention of Poe, Whittier, Horace Greeley, and Rufus Griswold, who found a publisher for their first book, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1850). Alice was the first president of Sorosis (The Women's Club of New York): her acceptance speech is included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform 1776-1 936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000). Her writings include Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighbors in the West (1852), which was particularly popular in England, and Pictures of Country Life (1859). She also wrote three novels: Hagar, A Story of Today (1856), Married Not Mated(1856) and The Bishop's Son (1867).
Phoebe Cary (Sept. 4, 1824-JuJ~ 31, 1871) Universalist
With her sister, Alice, (See above) Phoebe was a writer, abolitionist and a worker for women's rights. Together they published Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1850). Phoebe's first articles appeared in the National Era, Washington In 1868 her Poems of Faith, Hope and Love appeared. Phoebe was assistant editor of Revolution, Susan B. Anthony's suffrage paper.
Maude Simonton Lyon Muller-Norden Cary (Sept. 21, 1878-Dec. 23, 1937) Universalist
She received her BA from Hunter College and married a German opera singer who died shortly thereafter. Her second marriage was to Henry Montfort Cary, a Universalist minister. Maude was ordained in 1919, served churches in Sherburne VT, Madison WI, Troy and Hudson NY, and supplied others. She also held many denominational offices. In 1924, she and her husband were sent to work at the Universalist Mission in Tokyo, where they spent the rest of their lives. She wrote Reflections from the Sunrise Child.
Mary Hartwell Catherwood (Dec, 18, 1847-Dec. 26, 1902) Universalist
When Mary was about nine, the Catherwood family moved from her birthplace Luray, Licking County OH, to Milford Iroquois County IL, but when both parents died soon after, the children returned to Ohio to be raised by their grandparents Mary went to the local schools and was teaching by the time she was fourteen. Her poetry was first published in the Newark OH newspaper and the editor helped her enroll in Granville Female College. In 1871 her short story, "Peter Snubby," won a $100 prize, and she then went to Newburgh NY to establish herself as a writer. Her first novel, A Woman in Armor (1875), was originally published as a serial in Hearth and Home Magazine. After her marriage in (1877) to James Steele Catherwood, she settled in Indiana where she became a leader of the local writers. She had a close friendship with James Whitcomb Riley. Other Writings include The Dogberry Patch (1880), Craque o`-Doom (1881), Old Caravan Days (1884), The Romance of Dollard (1889), Mackinac and Lake Stories (1899), and Lazarre (1901), among others. She was noted as a pioneer in the use of Midwestern material in fiction.
Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt (Jan. 9, 1859-Mar. 9, 1947) Unitarian connections
She spent the better part of her life fighting for suffrage and was also a leader in the peace movement. In 1895, .she headed the organizing committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). When Susan B. Anthony retired from the Presidency of the NAWSA in 1900, Carrie was named her successor, although she had to resign 1904 due to poor health. In 1913-1914 She chaired the Empire State Campaign Committee and led the effort for New York's referendum In January 1915, she joined Jane Addams in founding the Women's Peace Party. In December, 1915, she was drafted for the presidency of the NAWSA. She served on the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. She worked almost nonstop between the time the federal suffrage amendment passed the House (January 1918) and the Senate (June. 1919). It is due to her more than anyone else, except perhaps Susan B. Anthony. that American women got the right to vote. From 1902-23, she was the prime moving force of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. In 1919, she formed the League of Women Voters for states which had already given women the vote. From 1924-32, she served as chair of the committee on the Cause and Cure of War.
Elizabeth Parsons Channing (1818-?) Unitarian
Daughter of Unitarian minister George Gibbs Channing and niece of William Ellery Channing, in her youth she wrote a series of articles entitled "Letters from Boston" which were published in the Christian World, and two children's stories "Adventures of a German Toy" and "Aunt Zelpeth's Baby". She served for 20 years on the Ladies' Commission for Sunday-School Books, for many years as a director of the American Unitarian Association. director of the Norfolk Conference, and for 10 years on the Women's Auxiliary Conference board. She wrote Autobiography and Diary: Gleanings of Thoughtful Life (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1907, available on Google Books, other electronic books.)
Ruth Gibbs Channing (Dates unknown) Unitarian
She was the wife of William Ellery Channing. Her inheritance helped them finance the construction of their spacious and elegant home on Beacon Hill in Boston. next door to the home where she had previously lived with her mother and sister.
Laura Ormiston Chant (Dates unknown) British Unitarian
She was one of the first women to preach in British churches. She also traveled and spoke in the United States, and she spoke at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. She attended the first International Council of Women in 1888 as a Delegate from the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage and the National Vigilance Association of England and addressed the Council as the delegate from the Edinburgh Branch of the Federation for Repeal of State Regulation of Vice. Her remarks were focused on the trafficking of women in the sex trade.
Augusta Jane Chapin (July 16, 1836-June 30, 1905) Universalist
An early and avid learner, she first realized her ability to teach at the age of fourteen. Unable to enter a university because of her sex, she attended Olivet College but did not receive her degree. She finally entered the University of Michigan and was awarded an AM degree in 1884. By this time she had developed her religious leanings and become a minister, traveling extensively and preaching throughout the Midwest. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1893 from Lombard College, reportedly the first woman to be so honored. She was active in several women's organizations from the beginning: Sorosis (The Women's Club of New York), The Association of Universalist Women, and the Association for the Advancement of Women. In 1873, she gave a paper, "Women in Ministry," at the first meeting of AAW (published in Repository), Boston, Feb. 1874). She served on the Revising Committee of The Woman's Bible and was a leading organizer of the World Parliament of Religions. She wrote extensively for the Universalist press, and gave many public lectures on such social and literary topics as "Temperance," "Woman's Work and Wages," "Shakespeare's Sonnets," and "Wordsworth's Ethics." Excerpts from her speeches at the Universalist Centennial in 1870 and the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893 are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Maria Weston Chapman (July 25, 1806-July 12, 1885) Unitarian
An ardent abolitionist, she helped organize the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Upon becoming their leader, she edited the annual report, Right and Wrong in Boston. She was a member of Federal Street Church and a close friend of William Ellery Channing, although she felt his coolness toward her abolitionist beliefs and support of William Lloyd Garrison. She edited the Liberator, the publication of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, as well as Harriet Martineau's autobiography (1877). She was famous for saying: "If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere." Selected anti-slavery hymns and articles are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000)
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824-Nov. 19, 1904) Universalist/Unitarian
Daughter of a Universalist father, Ednah was influenced early in life by beliefs in anti-slavery and women's rights. Later, she attributed many of her attitudes to attendance at Margaret Fuller's "Conversations" for women. Ednah's accomplishments included lecturing at Alcott's Concord School and establishing a school of design for women (Boston, 1851). Her activities during and after the Civil War helped send teachers from Boston to Southern cities, and she gave moral and financial support to Atlanta University and Tuskegee Institute. A moderate in her approach to women's suffrage, she was a founder and backer of the New England Women's Club and focused her efforts on municipal suffrage. She edited several volumes of poetry, published stories for children and memoirs of Louisa May Alcott, Susan Dimock, Lucretia Crocker, and Abby May, as well as her own Reminiscences. A member of the Free Religious Association and its president from 1903 to 1904, she stated in her memoirs that she considered herself Unitarian. Excerpts from her writing are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1 936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Harriet Vaughan Foster Cheney (Dates unknown) Canadian Unitarian
One of three literary sisters of Montreal, daughters of Helen Webster Foster and the Rev. John Foster of Brighton MA, she wrote historical fiction and poetry which appeared in The Literary Garland. With her sister, Elizabeth Cushing, she established The Snow Drop, a children's magazine, in 1847.
Lydia Maria Francis Child (Feb. 11, 1802-Oct. 20, 1880) Unitarian
Lydia began writing at an early age and continued throughout her life. Early on, she wrote two historical novels, Hobomok (1824), about a romance between a white woman and an Indian, and The Rebels, or Boston Before the Revolution (1825), which contemporary historians mistook for fact. Then her writing took a practical turn. The Frugal Housewife (1829) summarized the lessons she had learned in careful household management. The Mother's Book (1831) and The Little Girl's Own Book (1831) provided helpful information, games, and advice. Concerned with political issues, she wrote The First Settlers of New England (about Native Americans) and An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), an important early anti-slavery book which helped to attract prominent Unitarians to the cause but cost her popularity as writer. Excerpts from this book are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000). She also wrote several volumes of biographies of women: Good Wives (1833) and The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations (2 volumes, 1835). Other historical novels include Philothea (1836), set in the time of Pericles, and A Romance of the Republic (1867), her personal response to the Civil War. She wrote one of the earliest surveys of world religions, Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages (three vols., 1855). She was editor of the New York Anti-Slavery Standard and several of her Letters from New York (2 volumes, 1852) are reprinted in The Oven Birds: American Women on Womanhood, 1820-1 920, edited by Gail Parker (NY: Doubleday and Company, 1972). See also Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817-1880 Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982). Recent biographies are Crusader for Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child by Deborah Pickman Clifford (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992) and The First Women of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn L. Karcher (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).
Mary Ann Church (Dates unknown) Canadian Universalist
Though never ordained, she was the first Universalist woman preacher in Canada. She was the wife of a doctor in Merrickville in Upper Canada where she organized a congregation.
Rebecca Parker Hull Clarke (1790-1886) Unitarian
The mother of James Freeman Clark. Caroline Dall wrote a poem about her.
Rebecca Sophia Clarke (Feb. 22. 1833-Aug. 16, 1906) Unitarian
Writer of more than forty popular volumes for children under the pen name "Sophie May," she was considered "the Dickens of the nursery" for her ability to create believable child characters. Her "Prudy Parlin" stories appeared in the Little Pilgrim, a children's magazine edited by Sara Jane Lippincott in Philadelphia, and were later published by Lee and Shepard in Boston as the Little Prudy series (6 vols., 1863-65). She also wrote the Dotty Dimple series (6 vols. 1867-69). Excerpts from her school diary are found in Henrietta D. Wood, Maine Library Bulletin (January. 1929).
Sarah Freeman Clarke (Jan. 21. 1808-?) Unitarian
A painter who studied with Washington Allston and taught art at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston MA, she also had a poem, "Dante," in the first issue of The Dial. Her brother, James Freeman Clarke, was a Unitarian minister who founded the Church of the Disciples in Boston in 1841.
Dorcas Hiller Cleveland (Sept. 12, 1773-?) Unitarian
Although living in Salem and Lancaster MA, Dorcas and her husband, Richard Jeffry Cleveland, Vice Consul to Cuba, travelled extensively. An educator herself, she was involved with the Peabody sisters in the School for Young Ladies. She hosted a salon where education reformers gathered. She wrote essays on education in the Boston Advertiser (1828) and five tracts for the American Unitarian Association (1827-1829). Her two books were Fruits and Flowers and The Little Wentworths. She edited a book of poetry and quotations entitled Our Book, compiled "by the ladies who ran the fair in behalf of the destitute churches of the Unitarian faith." (Salem, 1844)
Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (Jan. 27-1803-1880) Universalist
Born in Kennebunk ME, her father died when she was five, and she was raised by her strict and rigid Calvinist grandparents. She was ten when her mother married Samuel Locke, Esq., a school preceptor who was also a Universalist. He encouraged her to think for herself, and when she was 18 she wrote an article for the Universalist Magazine of April 12, 1821, giving an account of her conversion to Universalism. In May of 1821 she heard Rev. Samuel Cobb preach and they were married a few months later. She was an active speaker and writer in the reform movements, particularly temperance. She also wrote poetry and published a memorial of her son, James.
Frances Power Cobbe (Dec. 4, 1822-Apr. 5, 1904) British Unitarian
Enthusiastic feminist and founder of the Anti-Vivisection Society, she believed in women's suffrage as a means of raising the moral level of society. A journalist, her pamphlet, Wife Torture (1878), proposed that wife assault be made grounds for legal separation. Her campaign influenced the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1878, which gave battered wives the right to legal separation, with support and custody of children under age 10. Excerpts from her writings are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Cora Sexton Cochrane (1861-Oct. 24, 1945) Unitarian
After studying at Meadville Theological School, where she met her future husband, she was ordained in 1890. She served churches in Bath ME and Swiftwater NH, helping the congregation in Bath to raise enough money to build a church. With her husband, she organized a congregation in Bar Harbor ME, which eventually called her husband as minister. They also worked together in other congregations in Maine. In 1896, they moved to Iowa, where she served the church in Perry. In 1898. they returned east to Lexington MA, where he became the minister at the Follen Church. In 1903. she wrote "A Woman's Sphere."
Martha Sharp Cogan (1905-Dec. 6, 1999) Unitarian Universalist
This courageous woman left the safety of her home and family behind in the United States in 1939 to undertake a dangerous mission to Prague following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association, Martha and her husband, the Rev. Waitstill Sharp, provided desperately needed supplies to refugees and established links with other aid organizations. She established maternity hospitals for refugees and homes for displaced workers. She risked her own life to help countless children, political leaders, journalists, scientists and writers flee the Nazi threat and escape to England and the United States. She helped to send thousands of children to summer camps where they could receive medical and dental care, and she helped more than 3,500 families emigrate around the world to escape the Nazi terror. Her effort helped bring to light atrocities that freedom-loving people could not ignore, helping to lay the foundation for the Unitarian Service Committee, which she then served in Europe as the first co-commissioner.
Cordelia Thorpe Cole (Nov. 17, 1833-Apr. 29, 1900) Unitarian
She was born in Hamilton NY. Raised by her grandparents after the death of her mother, she attended the local school. After graduation she moved to Galesburg IL. She taught in Keokuk and Henry. In 1856 she met and married William R. Cole, who had recently graduated from Lombard College. They moved to Mt. Pleasant where they lived the rest of their lives. Cordelia was a founder and the first Secretary of the Iowa Conference. She helped organize the First Unitarian Church in Des Moines. At Mary Safford's ordination in Humboldt IA in 1880, Cordelia gave the charge to the minister. She was a prominent member of the W. C. T. U. and lectured on the interdependence of social evils.
Minnie Francis Ogsbury Colegrove (Feb. 21, 1867-July 23, 1951) Universalist
She was a teacher for several years before marrying the Rev. Osgood Colegrove, a Universalist minister, in 1891. Minnie was licensed to preach in 1907 and ordained in 1924 in Waterloo IA. She assisted her husband in several churches, and they were joint pastors in Ohio, Minnesota, and Iowa. She was superintendent of Junior Education and a Young People's Christian Union teacher in Sunday schools. She often sang in church choirs and composed most of the words and music for a songbook, Lessons From Nature's Voices, used in many Universalist Sunday schools.
Eleanor Gertrude Collie (Dates unknown) Universalist
Ordained in 1939, she was the only ordained woman minister to serve as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. She joined the Woman's Army Corps in 1943 and officially served on "Special Duty" with the Chaplain's Corps, although a congressional ruling stated that only male clergy could be accepted as chaplains. She performed all the duties of a chaplain but was not allowed to wear the chaplain's insignia and was subject to reassignment. Released from active duty in 1948, she re-entered the Army in 1951, serving two years with the Army's Intelligence Division and the next two and a half years with the Army Chief of Information's Special News Service. In 1957, she was awarded a certificate of achievement for her work during the period of 1955-57 as first U.S. Army Information Section Special Projects Officer for the Reserve Forces Act.
Sarah Comins (1893-1961) Unitarian
Sarah was born in Concord NH and graduated from Smith College. Known as Sally, she was active in the Young People's Religious Union (YPRU), organizing conferences at Star Island, editing the newsletter and traveling to advise youth groups. Her song, "Forward Shoulder to Shoulder," became the theme song for YPRU and was sung regularly at youth gatherings for 35 years. Later she lived in Dorchester MA, where she served as president of the congregation. She served as president and wrote a history of the General Alliance of Unitarian Women. She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Unitarian Association and the Beacon Press Board. Frederick May Eliot invited her to serve on the Ministerial Fellowship Committee as the representative of the Women's Alliance.
Wilna Livingston Constable (1888-1966) British Unitarian
Born in Scotland. she prepared for the ministry in Edinburgh at Heriot-Watt College and theUniversity of Edinburgh. After marrying the Rev. William Constable, she went with him to England where they co-pastored a Congregational church in Sheffield. Wilna was ordained at the Unitarian church in Warwick, where she served until 1929. She and her husband were sent to New Zealand by the British General Assembly of Unitarian Churches and were co-pastors there for five years. She was interested in women's church groups and in New Zealand became vice president of the National Council of Women. She was the main influence in changing New Zealand law to allow women clergy to perform marriages. Her interest in religious education led her to establish a Junior Church in every parish she served. In later years she served in British Columbia, South Africa, and finally settled in the United States.
Maria Cook (1779-1835) Universalist
The first woman known to have preached Universalism, she was jailed for having no means of support, in spite of the fact that she was a wealthy widow. A report of her preaching is found in Nathaniel Stacey's Memoirs (Columbus PA, 1850), reprinted in Ernest Cassara's Universalisim in America (Boston: Skinner House, 1971).
Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney (April 12, 1861-Nov.1897) Unitarian
Born to a Unitarian family in West Newton MA, Sarah attended kindergarten, but the rest of her education came from her experiences. She accompanied her father to Boston where they heard Emerson, Longfellow, Lucy Stone and others. She also lived abroad for two years. In her twenties she taught at her father's West Newton English and Classical School. She married Patrick H. Cooney, a lawyer, when she was 34 and moved to Natick with him, teaching temperance and suffrage there. She missed her Unitarian connections in West Newton, so she gathered a handful of friends in her home to start a new church. Speakers came from Boston and the group grew. Sarah, however, died in childbirth eleven months later.
Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane (Aug. 17, 1858-Mar. 24, 1935) Unitarian
An ordained minister and urban reformer, her speech, "What Women Can Do in Uniting the Culture and Religious Forces of Society" at the 1894 Liberal Religious Conference in Chicago, articulated her views on the importance of women's work in reforming society. (Excerpts from this speech are included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000). During her ministry, the First Unitarian Church of Kalamazoo MI built a new building and became the People's Church, establishing the city's first daily kindergarten, a gymnasium for women, and an educational program for adults with domestic sciences, manual training and academic courses. After another brief pastorate in Grand Rapids, she took additional courses at the University of Chicago and returned to Kalamazoo as a meat inspector, to work for reform in public sanitation regulations. In 1934 she was recognized as Kalamazoo's First Woman Citizen. Her speeches and articles are at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Lucy M. Gore Creamer (Mar. 27, 1842-?) Universalist
Lucy Gore was born in Milford CT, but the family shortly moved to New Haven. All during her childhood she struggled with the fear of her family and friends being condemned to eternal hell. She married Charles N. Creamer who "lost his reason" after eleven years of marriage. While dealing with his illness, Lucy heard Phebe Hanaford preach and was overwhelmed to hear her own religious beliefs being presented from the pulpit. Lucy became a Universalist and was active as a Sunday school teacher. After her husband's death, she graduated from the New Haven Training School for Nurses and later became superintendent of the House of Mercy, Pittsfield Hospital. Pittsfield MA.
Lucretia Crocker (Dec. 31, 1829-Oct. 9, 1886) Unitarian
Born in Barnstable MA, she was educated in the Boston Public Schools. Her unusual talent for teaching was apparent early on and in 1857 she joined the faculty of Horace Mann at Antioch College in Yellow Springs OH. Returning to Boston, she assisted her former pupil, Mary L. Hall, in writing a geography text, Our World (1864). She served for many years on a committee of the American Unitarian Association which selected books for Sunday school libraries. She was the first woman to serve on the Board of the AUA, elected in 1870. In 1873 she and three other women were elected to the Boston School Committee, but were at first refused their seats by those who said women were not legally allowed to serve. This was later reversed and all the elected women served. Lucretia Crocker revolutionized the teaching of science in Boston schools by insisting on the best equipment and the latest reference works. Her Methods of Teaching Geography' Notes on Lessons (1883) updated her ideas. She worked with the Teachers' School of Science and the Boston Society of Natural History to improve the teaching skills of science teachers. In 1880 she was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an extraordinary tribute for one who had never been a practicing scientist.
Jane Cunningham Croly (Dec. 19, 1829-Dec. 23, 1901) Unitarian
A dedicated wife and mother, as well as a journalist, she was the first woman to write a syndicated column. It was called "Parlor and Side-walk Gossip." Under the pen name of "Jennie June," she was the chief staff writer of Mme. Demerest's Mirror of Fashions for 27 years. Dedicated to the betterment of women, "Jennie June" stood for practical action. Her columns were collected into book form, Jennie Juneiana Talks on Women's Topics, For Better or Worse, and Thrown on Her Own Resources. When the New York Press Club limited its membership to men only, she formed the Women's Press Club which sparked the formation of many such clubs across the nation. She was also influential in the formation of Sorosis and wrote the book, Sorosis: Its Origin and History (1886). She firmly believed that financial independence was the way for women to gain equality.
Margaret Brackenbury Crook (1886-1972) British Unitarian
This British Unitarian minister was the first woman to have sole charge of a large church in England, Octagon Chapel in Norwich. She came to the US in 1920 with her family and accepted a position as Executive Secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The next year she was invited to teach Biblical Literature at Smith College, where she remained for 33 years. During this time she was active in the Unitarian Churches of Northampton and Florence MA. Upon retirement, she was appointed lecturer at Manchester College in Oxford, England. Her books include The Bible and its Literary Associations (1932), The Cruel God: Job's Search for the Meaning of Suffering (1959), and Women and Religion, published in 1964 by Beacon Press, probably the first book of feminist theology and biblical criticism in the latter half of the 20th century.
Florence Ellen Kollock Crooker (Jan. 19, 1848-Apr. 21, 1925) Universalist
First a teacher, she later received her Doctor of Divinity degree in 1875 and became a Universalist minister, greatly influenced in her career choice by Mary Livermore and Augusta Chapin. She preached in New York, Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa, and eventually Illinois. In Englewood IL she became a full-time minister and increased the congregation from under 20 to 400. After two years, she collected funds to build a church. The building was soon too small, and eight ears later a second church–The Stewart Avenue Universalist Church–was built. In 1892, she resigned and took a trip to England, where she became interested in social work. In 1893, she was called to organize a Universalist church in Pasadena CA. She stayed three years, got the church out of debt, and put it on a self-sustaining foundation. She resigned in 1895 and went to Boston to become associate minister of the Fifth Universalist or Every Day Church on Shawmut Avenue. The church gave her an outlet for her interest in social work, as it was doing work with the poor in Boston's South End. During this time, she developed her friendship with Mary Livermore and Julia Ward Howe. In 1896, she married Rev. Joseph Crooker, a Unitarian minister. They lived first in Montana, then in New York. In 1898, they transferred a Universalist church to Unitarian at the request of the congregation. Later that year, Joseph took a position at a Unitarian church in Michigan, and Florence took charge of missionary work in that state for the Universalist Convention and the Unitarian Conference. In 1904, Florence took over a Universalist church in Jamaica Plain MA and soon found her husband a Unitarian church nearby. In 1910, when the trustees suddenly demanded her resignation without explanation, the couple traveled for several years working in short emergency pastorates before retiring in 1921. An article she published in the Sunday Post in 1914 is included in Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform. 1776-1936 (Boston: Skinner House, 2000).
Ida Mae Robertson Cullen (Dates unknown) Unitarian
She married the famous Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen in 1940. He died unexpectedly in January 1946. Ida was the long-time leader of the Community Church Women's Association.
Maria Cummins (Apr. 9, 1827-Oct. 1, 1866) Unitarian
In 1854, she wrote The Lamplighterand 40,000 copies sold in the first two months, 70,000 in the first year. It was published in England and translated into French and German. Among her other works are Mabel Vaughan( 1857), El Fureldis (1860) and Haunted Hearts (1864). A member of the First Church in Dorchester (MA), she sometimes taught Sunday school.
Maria Currier (19th century) Universalist
She was one of four "mill girl" sisters, at least three of whom wrote for The Lowell Offering. She was a member of the Rev. Thomas's Improvement Circle at the Universalist Church in Lowell MA.
Ida Curry (1869-1964) Unitarian Universalist
Founder and first president of the Child Welfare League of America, she served as superintendant of children's agencies of the New York State Charities Aid Association. She wrote for the Children's Bureau and lectured on social welfare at New York School of Social Work and the Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Elizabeth Lansord Foster Cushing (Dates unknown) US and Canadian Unitarian
One of three daughters of Helen Webster Foster and the Rev. John Foster of Brighton MA, she emigrated to Canada and became the prime mover in reestablishing the Montreal church in 1841-42. She wrote fiction and poetry and in 1847 with her sister, Harriet Cheney, established a children's magazine, The Snow Drop. She later became editor of The Literary Garland.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816-Feb. 18, 1876) Unitarian
An actor with roles on both sides of the Atlantic, she was popular with the British people and the Americans. Her roles in "Macbeth," "Henry VIII" and as Meg Merrilies were renowned. She was known for her great support of her family and was loved dearly by her public. Her letters and scrapbooks are located at the Library of Congress, the Schlesinger Library, the Beecher-Stowe Collection at Radcliffe, and in the theater collections of the NY Public Library and Harvard.
Mrs. Roger W. Cutler (Dates unknown) Unitarian
She was the author of the pamphlet, "Friendship Circles in the Church and the Home
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Grants/contracts: Medicity, Perot chosen to build e-health records for California
CalRHIO (San Francisco) said it has selected Medicity (Salt Lake City), teamed with Perot Systems (Plano, Texas), to build a statewide health information exchange utility service that will offer California healthcare providers electronic access to patient medical records.
Donald Holmquest, MD, president/CEO of CalRHIO, said, "Medicity and Perot Systems were selected because their solution offers a strong, proven, and scalable platform that will eliminate limitations on how individual healthcare organizations and local communities design and implement the health information exchange services they need."
Medicity and Perot Systems will assist in procuring seed money to fund start-up costs for the CalRHIO HIE utility service, including building the statewide backbone infrastructure and integration, marketing and communication, and CalRHIO's operating budget.
Financing requirements for this phase are estimated at $300 million.
The health information exchange platform is intended to make it possible for physician offices, hospitals and health plans that have invested in health information technology (HIT) to use their current technology to access data outside their walls. While details of charges are yet to be determined, the savings expected as a result of having better information will be many times greater than the cost, according to Holmquest.
CalRHIO is a statewide initiative to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and the secure exchange of health information.
In other contract news: ScImage (Los Altos, California), an enterprise imaging and information management company, said the Veteran's Health Administration has awarded the contract for the VHA's nationwide teleradiology program serving more than 150 VHA Medical Centers.
The ScImage solution, PicomEnterpise, will be deployed as a web layer on top of disparate PACS at various facilities to route exams along with prior images and reports based on dynamic business rules and will be used exclusively in the VHA's Teleradiology Center to provide a virtual reading environment for reading radiologists and/or radiology groups.
ScImage said that deploying the solution in this manner will enable the VHA to surmount shortage of qualified staff in certain geographies, provide faster turnaround and offer a more unified and consistent collaborative reading workflow that VHA program directors can watch and manage very closely from anywhere.
PicomEnterprise features one database and a shared infrastructure that simplifies workflow for multiple facilities. It features time saving clinical applications for TelePACS over broadband infrastructure.

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The Organized Neighbors of Edgehill (ONE), was birthed in 1968 as an nonprofit arm of Edgehill United Methodist Church (EUMC). Under the pastoral leadership of Pastor Bill Barnes and in partnership with Edgehill residents, the organization became a model for the city of how residents could come together to follow Rev. Bill Barnes example and " fove our city".
A major strength of ONE is its rich history in an very diverse and historic neighborhood. Edgehill is one of Nashville's oldest neighborhoods and ove the years it has been reshaped again and again. However, ,through it all runs a common thread of vision, perseverance, and diverstiy. In the face of natural disasters, urban renewal, and the continual encroachment on neighborhood boundaries, the residents of Edgehill have maintained solidarity through strong neighborhood identity. As a result, Edgehill has been recognized as one of Nashville's most vocal and active communities by the Nashville Civic Design Center, 2003.
The second iteration of ONE began in 1991 and the organization continues to exist to give residents a voice to express their concerns and provide the tools to effectively take action on issues most important to them. ONE organizes around issues like crime reduction, public school monitoring, healthy food access, and affordable housing.
Under the ONE umbrella is the Edgehill Family Resource Center which connects the community to much needed services. The ONE/Barnes Scholarship Program couples financial resources for higher education with mentorship and support to send Edgehill students (of all ages) to school. The ONE housing program provides some of the residents a chance to stay in Edgehill through the provision of affordable housing.
In the most recent iteration of ONE in 2015, the organization is leading a coaltion of community leaders trying to respond creatively to the growing threats of urban density and the loss of affordable housing in our city. This thrust is aimed at helping the community remain economically and racially diverse.
For almost 50 years, ONE has sought to make and keep Edgehill a place we can all call "home". We welcome you as a member!


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Best of Shonda Rhimes – The Grey's Anatomy Creator on Netflix
ByAlivia PaulOctober 27, 2021 0
The reign of Shonda Rhimes has officially begun with Bridgerton. She has created a lot of inspiring and popular shows and films and many more of her shows are coming up on Netflix. She claimed, "The future of ShondaLand at Netflix has limitless possibilities."
Rhimes has created some genius shows like Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal, Crossroads, and many more. She has recently opened on her deal with Netflix. Rhymes told The Hollywood Reporter, "The first thing I said was, 'You're not going to get another Grey's Anatomy—not Grey's Anatomy in a cornfield, Grey's Anatomy on a baseball field or Grey's Anatomy at an airport, that's just not happening. I just want to be in a place where I can make stuff and no one's going to bother me or make me feel like I'm beholden."
Bridgerton, a period drama inspired by Julia Quinn's novels, is the first of Shonda Rhimes on Netflix. Many more like The Residence, The Warmth Of Other Suns, Christmas classic Hot Chocolate Nutcracker are coming.
So, if you want to watch best of Shonda Rhimes, we got you covered. Here is the list of the best works of Shonda Rhimes.
The longest-running show of all time, Grey's Anatomy, is a medical drama that develops around the life of doctors and nurses at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. The show has pulled off a plane crash, sinkholes, broken love affairs, it has it all.
According to Deadline, "the long-running series will continue until Pompeo is ready to turn in her scrubs."
Scandal is an addictive drama about politics. Kerry Washington played the role of Olivia Pope. Her character is an American politics veteran, and she used to be the media consultant of the President. After retiring, she starts her own crisis management firm. But there's a twist. She soon realizes her employees are not as innocent as they look.
Viola Davis as Annalise Keating starred in How to Get Away with Murder, and she shines like a queen. Annalise is a law professor at Philadelphia Law School. She is a dedicated professor who spends her day teaching law students. But her life went upside down when she came to know that she was entangled in a murder case.
Bridgerton is a passionate adult romantic period drama inspired by the novels of Julia Quinn. There are eight novels by Quinn and every novel states the life story of Bridgerton's children. So, the plot is already decided, we can't wait to see what happens next.
Station 19 develops around the life of firefighters who are struggling daily to stop the destruction. Andy Herrera is the daughter of the captain of Pruitt Herrera. Andy's only dream is to be a great firefighter.
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Background: The well-known complication of spinal anaesthesia, postdural puncture headache (PDPH), is especially troublesome in young obstetric patients. The needle gauge and configuration of needle tip appear to be the important factors in reducing the incidence of PDPH. We compared the type and size of spinal needles namely whitacre 25G and Quincke 25G and 23G needles in obstetric patients undergoing caesarean section.
Methods: Hundred women, age group 18-30 yrs., of ASA grade I and II undergoing spinal anaesthesia for elective caesarean sections were randomly allocated into three groups. In Group I and II, patients received spinal anaesthesia with 23G and 25G Quincke needles whereas in Group III, 25G Whitacre needles were used. The efficacy and usefulness of the needles were studied in preventing the complications like PDPH, backache, non-PDPH and the results obtained were compared statistically.
Results: Of the 100 patients, PDPH occurred in 11 patients (11%). The overall incidence of PDPH is 20.5% in 23G Quincke group, 9.09% in 25G Quincke group and 3.03% in 25G Whitacre group. In the present study the incidence of back ache was 23.52% in 23G Quincke group, 15.15% in 25G Quincke group, 9.09% in 25G group.
Conclusion: The pencil point 25G Whitacre needle was associated with a lower incidence of PDPH when compared with 25G and 23G Quincke needle and hence could be used routinely for spinal anaesthesia in caesarean section.


[gallery link="file"] So the 'Posh Picnic' kicks off tomorrow with of course the Royal Wedding! What better reason to get out your tartan picnic blankets, heritage hampers and pop open the bubbly. Running throughout the Spring seasons we have come up with plenty of picture perfect picnic ideas for you to enjoy. First things first, if you're spending your evening tonight camping outside Westminster Abbey be sure to wrap up warm and have a brolly (preferably a union jack one) just incase the April Showers decide to arrive. Cashmere throws can double up as blankets when the sun goes down tonight, and keep you chic and warm. We suggest going for a tartan option, as of course, there will be plenty of kilts on show tomorrow. Perfect occasion to dust off your handy tartan hip flask! For more ideas for posh picnics read the full press release. Now if that isn't enough that we've organised your picnic calender, we are also offering 10% off all throws and rugs until the 31st of May. Simply enter 'Picnic2011′ at the checkout to redeem the discount. Now what are you waiting for?


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FILE - A copy of the 2017 IRS 1040 tax form.
Earlier Tuesday, Americans who had waited until the final day to file online got an unwelcome surprise: The agency's website for making payments and gaining access to other key services was down due to what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later described as a "high-volume technical issue."
"This is the busiest tax day of the year, and the IRS apologizes for the inconvenience this system issue caused for taxpayers," Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter said in a statement. "The IRS appreciates everyone's patience during this period. The extra time will help taxpayers affected by this situation."
Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen warned last year of a possible system failure, due in part to underfunding of the agency. Among the areas that he said were underfunded were the agency's aging information systems.
"We know for certain the IRS's lack of funding is compounding these kinds of problems," said Sen. Ron Wyden Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. "We don't want taxpayers and middle-class folks and small businesses penalized. They didn't do anything wrong."
Republicans have targeted the agency for budget cuts since taking control of the House in 2011, relenting a bit this year to help the IRS implement last year's overhaul of the tax code.


The biggest tax reform ever taken GST is soon to get implemented from July 1. So much has already been discussed about the bill and the segments it will be affected. The impact of it can be witnessed on all sectors. After the implementation of the bill some goods will get cheaper while the price of some will become dearer.
The price reflection will not only be seen in apparels, eatables, footwear and other day to day things but also on cost of luxury items and financial industry. Even the educational sector won't be spared from the influence of GST. GST Tax Rates India cover the most valuable sector of the economy that is the education.
In India, education holds so much importance. Youngsters under the age of 25 years hold much part of the population. Keeping in mind the value of education, the GST council has decided to continue the exemption of education from the service taxes. However, the advantage of exemption is not available on higher educational institutions. The Higher Educational Institutions have to bear the burden of GST.
Previously, majority of the services provided to the educational institutions were liberated from service taxes. Afterwards, these services were limited to only four categories. The services like catering, housekeeping transportation, admission and examination offered to the institutes of higher studies were taxed. Under the GST rule, this practices has been continued.
However, all services provided in the field of education will not be liable to Goods and Service Tax. This decision was taken by the GST council on 18 – 19 May. The IGST will be applicable on inter-state supplies only. Moreover, CGST & SGST will be applied on intra-state / union territory supplies. The impact will be seen on commercial coaching and training where at present service tax are charged. Under the new regime GST will replace the service tax and all other indirect taxes charged.
The burden of taxes is levied only on the services provided to the educational institutes while the services offered by the educational institutes are not subject to any taxation.
With vast population in India and education being the need of an hour it is expected of an Indian Government to revise the GST policy. For now the schools from primary to higher secondary can enjoy tax free procurements.


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A teenage boy in Georgia faces a murder charge after police say he murdered the father of a girl he met at a gathering.
Investigators say the shooting happened around 11 p.m. during a large gathering at an apartment complex in Athens, Georgia.
Lt. Shaun Barnett said there was a party taking place outside the apartments when "there was some sort of engagement between the suspect and the victim's daughter." The suspect is a 15-year-old boy.
Police: 11-year-old boy killed in Georgia, 12-year-old boy charged with his murder
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1 killed, 5 hurt in Georgia nightclub shooting. One suspect in custody, police hunting for second man.
Carlos Harper, 38, approached the suspect, Marquise Malcolm, police said. Barnet said both men lived in the apartment complex and an altercation between the men led to the shooting.
After the shooting, Malcom left the scene and hours later surrendered at the police station, according to Athens Banner-Herald.
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NYC geographic data now available for free
The city of New York has finally made a wealth of geographic data available for free. As The Atlantic reports, where you once had to pay $1,500, now the entire package of data — cleverly trademarked "BYTES of the BIG APPLE" by the city — can be accessed for free. This also means that anything made from the data can be shared on the Internet.
BYTES of the BIG APPLE. New York City Department of City Planning.
BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.
PLUTO and MapPLUTO
Zoning related datasets
Waterfront related datasets
Single Line Street base map dataset
Administrative and Political boundaries
Geocoding Application
Other City Planning datasets
Visual Proof That Geographic Data Really Should Be Free, by Jenny Xie, The Atlantic Cities (Aug 14, 2013).
California Supreme Court rules GIS files are public records
"The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that digital mapping files known as geographic information systems must be released under the state's public records law.
"The decision could make it easier for media organizations, advocacy groups and others to obtain government GIS databases, rich collections of data that can be used to display and analyze multiple layers of geographical information."
Digital mapping files are public records, state Supreme Court rules, By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times (July 8, 2013).
Forty-seven of California's 58 counties already provide GIS parcel maps as public records for a nominal fee, said Dean Wallraff, an attorney for the Sierra Club. Los Angeles County charged the group less than $10 for a disk containing the files, he said. Monday's court ruling should compel Orange County to do the same.
Good news for census/maps/GIS geeks: TIGERweb set to release
September 11, 2012 / 1 Comment on Good news for census/maps/GIS geeks: TIGERweb set to release
This looks like a great new tool to access geographic data from the US Census Bureau. For more, check out Introduction to TIGERweb (YouTube video below).
The U.S. Census Bureau is going through the final integration tests for the next TIGERweb release. TIGERweb v2.0 (beta) will consist of a new set of map services using American Community Survey (ACS) 2011 source data, an upgraded viewer application based on comments received from our users, and a relocation of our Census 2010 viewer to TIGERweb2010. We hope to release this new version the week of September 17, 2012. Expect more information about this release later this week.
If you have any questions or comments about TIGERweb, you may contact us by sending a message to geo.tigerweb@census.gov.
New Geospatial Platform Website
November 14, 2011 / 3 Comments on New Geospatial Platform Website
"The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps." (Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches New Geospatial Website, press release, U.S. Department of the Interior (11/09/2011).
"This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package. Users—including the public, federal agencies and their partners—can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and applications, as well as access data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments."
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Interior Launches New Crowdsourcing Map Portal, By Joseph Marks, TechInsider (11/10/11).
New & Free: USGS Releases More than 200,000 Historical Maps From 1884-2006
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (HQSP) is in the process of releasing all editions and all scales of more than 200,000 historic topographic maps of the United States dating from 1884-2006.
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The historical topographic map collection includes all States and U.S. territories mapped by the USGS. The HQSP creates a master catalogue and digital archive for all topographic maps and provides easy access to the public to download this historical data to accompany topographic maps that are no longer available for distribution as lithographic prints.
Historical maps are available to the public at no cost in GeoPDF format from the USGS Store. These maps are georeferenced and can be used in conjunction with the new USGS digital topographic map, the US Topo.
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Regarding ISO 9001: 2008 (or 2015) auditing, I have always been trained that a work instruction when implemented as supporting the QMS can be audited as it is supporting the effectiveness of the QMS. I was recently told by a business owner that not only is that not true, he does not have to show me his work instruction. I would like to reply with a clear technical response. Can anyone share their view on this?
Thank you for your question. Of course you know you're right. It sounds like you have a major nonconformance against Clause 5.1 on your hands.
Documented information includes both procedures and records see appendix A.3 (Documented information).


If you scratch the surface of the global job market today, you're likely to find an Australian applied sociologist. You may not know they're there as they expertly blend in, going by titles such as evaluator, consultant, project manager, researcher, or advisor. Their identity may not be obvious, but they are an active community, according to systems scientist – and applied sociologist – Dr Anne Stephens.
If the literature on the discipline of sociology in Australia is anything to go by, there is still a strong demarcation between sociologists who work inside academia, working with theories and interpretations of what Dr Stephens calls a "macro view", and those who work outside the academy. As somebody who has done both, Dr Stephens' observations of the differences between them, are well-qualified.
"My main experience working with other applied sociologists is through evaluation," she said. "I think a lot has been done to change the perception that methodologies commonly used in applied sociology, such as action research, are not robust or valid. The reasons might have been, that there was too much closeness with the participants, or commercial interests interfered in the outcome of a project. Whereas in the academic world there's an implied purity, scientific objectivity or independence, which is doubtful," Dr Stephens says.
Applied sociologists bring a unique set of tools to program evaluation, providing a range of methodologies and theoretical viewpoints unique to the field. It is these frameworks that inform and reveal the richness of collected data other fields fail to capture.
Using action research in applied sociology means "working from real world data, real world people, real world situations, to make sense of what is happening in the world," she said.
As part of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Women asked Dr Stephens and her US counterpart, Dr Ellen Lewis, to help develop new evaluation guidance. Together, with an Evaluation Specialist from UN Women's Independent Evaluation Office, Shravanti Reddy, they have been using systems thinking to develop what they call "systemic evaluation guidance tools and methods". Essentially, this means they spend time within the environment in question, and look at it as a complex ecosystem.
To do this, the trio started their research in New York, interviewing UN staff about their projects and evaluation processes. The first stage of evaluating the evaluators had some pleasant surprises in store: "We had a team of people who did not know how our methods worked. We taught them, they applied it – and they loved it," said Dr Stephens.
After feedback and input from the participants at UN Women in New York, the ISE4GEMS eeded further testing. As this was a "whole of systems" approach, the researchers needed to spend time with an organisation that would qualify as being a recipient of intervention by UN Women. A not-for-profit organisation, the Maya Traditions Foundation in Guatemala, was enthusiastic about trialling the new evaluation approach. The organisation supports Indigenous women in business development, ethical tourism and cultural preservation.
Those targeted by the research are brought into the process. The group developed clarity, trust and transparency by giving their participants the opportunity to find out everything they wanted to know about their international Western visitors: "Our approach included time spent providing feedback to the participants and sharing the findings of our work, checking our interpretations of our data," said Dr Stephens.
 Zevallos, Z., 2012. Sociology for What, Who, Where and How Situating Applied Sociology in Action. Available at https://othersociologist.com/2012/11/02/sociology-for-what/ [accessed 26/11/2017).
 Stephens, A., 2017, pers. comm.


Employee engagement has usually been an HR thing. But things seem to be changing. By 2020 Gartner predicts, 20% of Organizations will include employee engagement improvement as a shared performance objective for HR and IT. So how is it that IT can help with employee engagement?
Sharing Ideas opens avenues for people to have a conversation about something they hold dear. However, if people don't see their ideas moving beyond conversations, the interest would soon wane off. Having a simple system that encourages people to share ideas and allow management to select and implement them works great for engaging employees.
Social has not been adopted well other that by Marketing. There are some companies that leverage social for customer engagement but these are few. Comments and likes are features on most collaboration platforms. Have ways of feeding these back to the right people. Build workflows to integrate systems and make sure feedback reaches the right people and they act on it. SharePoint and Nintex work brilliantly together in this space.
People don't like reading through pages of user instructions or attending hours of training simply to use a system. Intuitive experience, anywhere access and gamification go a long way in providing engaging experiences. IT can help increase engagement by bringing these flavors to systems. I believe all of Acuvate's key solutions like Customer Portal, MESH, WAVE and PACT owe their success to this thought.
We all know well built interactive dashboards are a great way to help take decisions. Would a interactive dashboard also keep users engaged? Knowing what is happening is the first step towards engagement. It is important that reports and updates are available to people on key metrics on demand. IT can invest in a good Analytics platform to enable users to take the right decisions or in some cases simply keep themselves informed. Setting up an enterprise grade analytics platform no longer takes months of time or large upfront costs. With cloud based analytics platforms like Birst, not just fantastic reports across different sources but also self-service analytics can be provided to end users very quickly.
Disjointed systems, multiple logins, multiple places to go. In this age and time, providing seamless access to the systems is straight forward and can help keep people coming back to the systems and using them. Companies spend significant time and effort in building unified experiences for customers. The same principles would work internally too. Through our many implementations of MESH across sectors, I have seen little integrations like getting an people's leave balance on the intranet and allowing them to apply for one do wonders in keeping people engaged.
Are there any other ways that you have found useful? I would love to hear your thoughts!


August 4th, 2017 – Day 04 of our 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure, Capturing Grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain.
This man and his boys… don't try to tell Gennadiy Mokhnenko that a world without orphans is not possible. After one day with this unconventional pastor from Ukraine, he has me convinced! The horrors that most of these boys have experienced leaves one speechless but the healing they have found through their earthly and heavenly adoption leaves one filled with hope and gratefulness.
Today we pedaled from Sens, France to La Borde, tomorrow we roll into Paris.
I am so excited to photograph The World Without Orphans Bike Tour as thy make their way from Paris to the Atlantic Ocean. In just two days from today I will ride with this team as they make their way through Chartres, Le Mans, Angers and Nantes, ending at the west coast of France in the town of Saint-Nazaire.
"This bike campaign is organized by partners in the World Without Orphans movement and is being led by Gennadiy Mokhnenko, pastor and director of Republic Pilgrim, which is the largest rehabilitation program for street youth in Ukraine. Gennadiy and his wife Lena are parents to 32 previously abandoned children.
"My adopted children used to live on the streets. Some of them were as young as 4, and we knew if we didn't take them, most would end up dead or in prison," Mokhnenko said.
Gennadiy understands that his own family is not the typical example for adopting children, but he believes strongly that everyone can do something. See the beautiful video about Gennadiy Mokhnevnko's story of adopting these thirty two children. I highly recommend watching Almost Holy as well, a full length movie about Gennadiy and his life's work in Ukraine.
The World Without Orphans around-the-world bike tour seeks to advocate for orphans in need of families, encourage national adoption in the countries where they ride, and encourage the development of solutions to end orphanhood worldwide.


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A switch to two-parters led to something special.
By Emily VanDerWerff@emilyvdw Dec 6, 2015, 8:20am EST
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The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) returns to his home planet in Doctor Who's sensational season finale.
Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for November 29 through December 5, 2015, is "Hell Bent," the season finale of the ninth season of BBC America's Doctor Who reboot.
The ninth season of Doctor Who wasn't perfect, but it was remarkable.
Few TV shows have followed up a season as formless and going-through-the-motions as Doctor Who season eight with one this vital and rejuvenated. Usually, a season as by-the-numbers as season eight presages a more general decline across the board. Yes, Peter Capaldi is terrific as the Doctor, a strange alien who travels through time and space, but that wasn't enough in a season that sometimes suggested showrunner Steven Moffat had run out of ideas.
But here's the thing: Season nine didn't improve by wildly reconfiguring itself or doing a hard reboot or anything like that. Indeed, many of the problems with season eight (and Moffat's run on the show in general) were still present and sometimes even still problems.
And yet the show was on fire this season — particularly in its second half. It's all thanks to one weird trick.
In season 9, Doctor Who switched to two-parters almost exclusively — and was all the better for it
The two-parter about Ashildr (Maisie Williams, right; with Clara, played by Jenna Coleman) showed that there's more than one way to create a "to be continued" story on TV.
Notably, the season's most disappointing episode was also the one that stood independently of everything else. Episode nine, "Sleep No More," was an occasionally agreeable riff on "found footage" horror films that failed to take flight. Scripted by the generally good Mark Gatiss, the hour felt cast adrift in a season that mostly aimed for the epic.
The reason for this is simple: The season's other episodes were part of larger stories, and were typically two-parters. An episode would set up a situation and then resolve it in the next week, and that gave the show's sometimes too-hectic pacing room to breathe.
Also notably was that season nine's stories weren't really part of a more ambitious, serialized story arc. Outside of the three-part finale and a general sense that the season's mysteries swirled around the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey, the various two-parters were refreshingly free of connections to each other. If this TV year as a whole has made a great argument for why the medium still needs standalone episodes, season nine of Doctor Who has made a great argument for the idea that those standalones can come in many forms.
For instance, the season's fifth and sixth episodes, "The Girl Who Died" and "The Woman Who Lived," offer two very different views of the same character, a young Viking girl named Ashildr (played by Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams). In "The Girl Who Died," she's full of life and hope, working on puppet shows and other inventions. And when she dies, the Doctor finds a way to resurrect her that will also make her immortal. In "The Woman Who Lived," Ashildr — who still appears to be a teenager — has been alive for centuries, and the pieces of her that made the Doctor and his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman) decide she should be saved in "The Girl Who Died" have been hollowed out. She's colder, less caring, less human.
Or consider how the season's concluding three-parter tells three very different stories about the same basic thing — the Doctor's grief over the loss of Clara, who dies confronting a horrible force known as the Raven. Clara submits to the inevitable in the 10th episode, "Face the Raven," and in the 11th, "Heaven Sent," the Doctor spends 2 billion years fighting a fairy-tale monster in order to have a chance — no matter how slim — to save her.
"Heaven Sent" is the season's high point, one of the best TV episodes of the year, a tour de force from Capaldi, who utters every line of dialogue in the script, save one (spoken by a Clara who lives in the Doctor's imagination). What's amazing about it is how effectively it bridges the space between episode 10 and the finale — while still functioning entirely as a standalone puzzlebox episode. All you need to know to understand it is that Clara has recently died. It also unlocks an even bigger reason season nine was so good.
Steven Moffat has turned his weaknesses into strengths
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) strides through the deserts of his home planet.
In "Hell Bent," Moffat sends the Doctor back to Gallifrey in a last-ditch attempt to have the other Time Lords resurrect his friend. Moffat wrote both "Hell Bent" and "Heaven Sent," and they're rife with the sorts of ideas that have hurt some of his other seasons. The stories aren't stories so much as they are puzzles to be solved. The Doctor is an indestructible force of awesomeness in the universe. And the characters other than the Doctor — especially his companion — mostly exist to reflect his own awesomeness back at him.
So why did season nine — and the "Hell Bent"/"Heaven Sent" pair of episodes — work where others failed?
The two-parters helped. They lifted the burden of writing a massive puzzle to solve every week, instead allowing more space for the character moments that made Moffat's best scripts sing before he took over Doctor Who. And the character work saved even two-parters that were slightly lacking in terms of story structure, like "The Zygon Invasion," a two-part, alien-filled episode that all boiled down to an ultra-elaborate game of "how many fingers am I holding up behind my back?"
"Zygon" also pointed to something that made the season, and the finale in particular, successful. Moffat has always been interested in questions of violence and war. One of the reasons the writer so loves the Doctor is that the character solves problems through cleverness, not violence, at least as a matter of course. The Doctor would rather outthink a villain than punch him, and Moffat's fondness for this approach is why so many of his scripts become puzzles for the Doctor to solve.
Yet season nine went even further than this. Nearly every episode — even the weaker ones — offered up some sort of meditation on war, violence, and the grief that stems from (and causes) both. Here, check out this speech from the "Zygon" two-parter:
That's as succinct an explanation of Moffat's worldview as anything he's done. War and pain don't have to be inevitable. You can talk your way through — or out of — your problems. You can embrace the better angels of your nature.
Importantly, the Doctor struggled with this idea throughout the season. The premiere two-parter (which, it should be said, was one of the weaker stories of the season) places him up against his greatest enemy, the Daleks, and invited him to destroy them as surely as they would him. (What he doesn't know: Clara has become trapped inside one of their metal salt-shaker bodies.) Other episodes have invited the Doctor to become a "warrior," but actively questioned whether he needs to fight with weapons or his wits. And then there's the finale.
"Hell Bent" brought the season — and an era — to a close
The Doctor alone, as he must always eventually be again.
Fans of Doctor Who have known for ages that Coleman was leaving the series at the end of season nine. Clara has been an occasionally interesting character, especially when the show let her function as the Doctor's conscience, but she has also absorbed the worst of Moffat's "characters as puzzles to be solved" tendency, and the deeply felt connection between her and the Doctor didn't always make a lot of sense.
Her death in the first episode of the finale trilogy shocked some reviewers, but the Doctor's need to have her back in his life in the two episodes that followed manages to make him at once more human, in that his friendship with her feels much more integral to his character, and more godlike, in that he spends 2 billion years punching through a wall made of diamond and somehow convinces seemingly every Gallifreyan to cast down their weapons and join his side rather than apprehending him.
Yes, "Hell Bent" is messy in places, racing through all of time and space without so much as taking a breath. But what makes it work is that Moffat has found an emotional and thematic core to concentrate on. War and violence don't have to occur. And if they do occur, maybe you can be spared grief as well. Maybe you can end pain — even your own. Except, of course, you can't. Even if you ended all war and violence, there would still be grief and pain. Immortal Ashildr, who lost her children, could have told the Doctor that.
The bitter irony is that the Doctor does manage to resurrect Clara. It takes some doing, but she's soon off, floating through the stars in her very own time machine, with Ashildr at her side. The cost of her resurrection, however, is that the Doctor must wipe his memory of any trace of his friend, the better to protect the universe.
Grief and pain often cause war and violence. Somebody hurts someone we love, and we can't see straight. The Doctor's arrival on Gallifrey wouldn't have happened if he didn't think he needed to save a dead friend, and season nine is filled with horrible wrongs that are paid forward in even greater pain. In order to protect the universe from his enormous power, he must rid himself of the one person whose loss might push him toward utter desolation. Political philosophy 101 this isn't, but for a show that's technically aimed at kids, it's surprisingly nuanced.
The episode also makes great use of Capaldi, the first older actor to play the Doctor since the series rebooted in 2005. He has the haunted eyes and craggy face of a man who's seen some shit, and he perfectly sells the idea that the Doctor might have seemingly endless power — but he's still driven by rage and hope as surely as any of us. His lectures, such as they are, work, because he speaks with the authority of someone who knows what he's talking about.
And in "Hell Bent," Capaldi turns the Doctor and Clara's final moments together into a kind of beautiful bedtime story, with the two clinging to each other as long as they can, until she is erased from the old man's memory. Doctor Who is at its best when it features the mystery — and dream logic — of a fairy tale whispered to a child before bed. In its ninth season, it rediscovered that quality in spades, and it rediscovered something else as well: a reason to exist beyond its own cleverness.
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Yangel Herrera
Venezuela's historic run to the final of the U20 World Cup in South Korea captured the hearts around the globe and marked the emergence of a truly exciting generation of talented Vinotinto prospects. They may have been denied the title by England – making history themselves – but these precocious tyros managed to put Venezuela on the footballing map and provide a glimmer of hope in a time of crisis for their fans back home.
The beating heart of this Venezuela side was captain Yangel Herrera, who was awarded the Bronze Ball for his excellent performances throughout. An all-action midfielder, Herrera was the embodiment of everything good about Venezuela; equal parts defensive resoluteness and dynamism going forward. His leadership qualities were shown when he stepped up at vital moments, such as his extra-time winner against Japan and his decisive penalty in the semi-final shoot-out against Uruguay.
Born in the coastal city of La Guaira, around 30km north of the capital Caracas, Herrera started out as a striker but gradually found himself adopt a more defensive roleHeis made his debut on loan at Monagas, helping them to promotion, before returning to his club Atletico Venezuela for the 2016-17 season. Herrera quickly became a regular, making 32 appearances and scoring three goals, and earned a number of call ups to the national team.
However, it was during the Sudamericano earlier in the year that Herrera really announced himself to a wider audience for the first time. Herrera impressed in his seven appearances, scoring twice and excelling as part of the double pivot that protected a near impregnable defence that was to be the foundation of their success.
His performances in Ecuador also convinced Man City to sign him up and the Citizens promptly loaned him to sister club New York City. Herrera has already made a big impact in the short time he has been in MLS and has already displaced Andrea Pirlo from the starting line-up. Not bad from a man who doesn't turn 20 until the start of next year!
Compared to Arturo Vidal and already touted as a future national team captain, we take a look at just what all the excitement surrounding Herrera is all about…
TACKLING & BALL-WINNING
Combative, tenacious and relentless; just three of the words you would use to describe Herrera's playing style. The 19-year-old is a fierce competitor in the middle of the park with a real physical presence and is not afraid to snap into challenges. On top of this, he possesses the energy and mobility to cover every blade of grass, putting out fires all over the pitch all day long.
Naturally this ball-winning ability makes him ideal for a defensive midfield role, which is where he primarily operates for Venezuela U20s alongside Ronaldo Lucena. As a midfield duo, they expertly shielded the defensive, squeezing the space between the lines, and effectively helped create and organise the two deep-lying banks of four, as expertly analysed in this article.
Herrera averaged 12.29 defensive duels per game during the U20 World Cup and his athletic physique also means he is able to make good recovery challenges on the rare occasions that he is caught out of position, as the video below shows. By breaking up the play he also allows his teammates to get back into their compact defensive unit.
Another impressive aspect of Herrera's tackling is his ability to quickly transition from a defensive situation into an attacking one. His upper body strength allows him to bully players off the ball with ease and his composure and timing of tackling means he is in a good position to pass the ball forward after one of these duels.
However, Herrera is versatile enough not to merely operate as a destroyer at the base of midfield. In true box-to-box fashion his energy means he can play further forward in midfield and, thanks to his pressing and tackling, he can win the ball high up the pitch to create dangerous situations in the final third. His assist against Columbus Crew is the perfect example, as seen in the video below, and is the perfect example of his ability to press.
The one negative side of his combative nature is that Herrera does pick up a lot of cards (14 in 32 for Atletico Venezuela) and so this is the element of his game he most needs to work on.
For all Herrera's excellent tackling ability, it's not all about charging around crunching into challenges. He is very tactically astute and positionally disciplined and as a result always seems to be in the right place, leading to plenty of interceptions. What's more, his time spent as a defender helps this reading of the game and anticipation, while he can easily drop back between the centre backs too when called upon.
We've focused a lot on the defensive side of Herrera's game but he is already a very well-rounded footballer who is good with the ball at his feet and can contribute offensively too. In his usual role at the base of the midfield, Herrera is typically charged with recycling possession, which he does calmly and confidently, and he tends to look to play a simple ball to a teammate with better passing ability, such as Lucena.
Due in part to his composure and strength, Herrera is good at retaining possession, even when under pressure, and this allows him to dictate the tempo of the side. He can slow the pace right down to relieve some of the pressure and give his teammates a breather or a chance to get back into position.
However, he does have a more inventive side to his game when given licence. He has good vision and can speed up the rhythm with an incisive forward pass through the opposition lines. At the U20 World Cup he played the second most passes and topped the charts for through balls, key passes and passes in the final third. Admittedly, this is partly due to him playing more games than most but he still ranked in the top three for key passes and through balls per game.
Also, as displayed towards the end of the video, he has the ability to spray long, raking balls forward from deep and his long diagonal from right to left, looking for Penaranda, was a particular feature of the U20 World Cup campaign. His creative passing is far from the finished product but working alongside Pirlo at New York City, he has the perfect master to learn from.
AERIAL ABILITY
A key strength of Herrera's game is his aerial ability, both when it comes to the attacking duels and defensive duels. As shown by his extra-time winner against Japan, he is a danger from set pieces and can use all of his six foot frame to win flick ons and second balls high up the pitch. Defensively he is an asset when defending free-kicks and corners and often provides the first line of defence when it comes to dealing with goal kicks and long balls from the opposition. He is a formidable barrier to get past and this aerial ability can immediately switch a defensive situation into an attacking one.
DYNAMISM & SKILL
As a box-to-box midfielder, Herrera is also good at driving forward in the final third and contributing to the attack. He possesses decent shooting from distance and has good pace and timing of runs to make a late surge into the box, although he should aim to contribute more goals in the long term.
Also, for someone who we have hailed primarily for their defensive work, he has a delicate touch and can pull off a piece of skill to go past someone or get himself out of danger, in particular a Cruyff turn, nutmeg or chapeau as the video below shows.
This somewhat deceptive skill and mobility also allows him to win plenty of fouls, such as for the last gasp equaliser against Uruguay in the semi-finals.
Yangel Herrera's future looks very bright indeed. MLS should provide an excellent stepping stone before he joins up with parent club Manchester City. It might be hard to see him going straight into a starting XI in the Premier League but the example of Gabriel Jesus shows that you will be given the chance if you hit the ground running and adapt quickly.
For the meantime at New York he has the perfect boss in Patrick Vieira to help him develop his all-round midfield game, as well as the likes of Andrea Pirlo and David Villa to gain invaluable experience from. Vieira has already gone on record of how highly he rates him so it seems like a match made in heaven.
Already a full senior international, Herrera will hope to consolidate a place in the Vinotinto squad. Boss Rafael Dudamel has seen his qualities first-hand and will see Herrera as the long term successor to Tomas Rincon. With the exciting generation of Venezuelans emerging, there is a genuine possibility of a first World Cup appearance on the horizon. 2022 may come just too early, so 2026 may be a more realistic bet. Either way, Herrera will almost certainly be a key part of making Venezuelan history yet again.
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