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Page 2 PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that’s made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, “What will this speech mean for the President? What will it mean for Congress? How will it affect their polls, and the next election?” But the millions of Americans who are watching right now, they don’t care about politics. They have real-life concerns. Many have spent months looking for work. Others are doing their best just to scrape by — giving up nights out with the family to save on gas or make the mortgage; postponing retirement to send a kid to college. These men and women grew up with faith in an America where hard work and responsibility paid off. They believed in a country where everyone gets a fair shake and does their fair share — where if you stepped up, did your job, and were loyal to your company, that loyalty would be rewarded with a decent salary and good benefits; maybe a raise once in a while. If you did the right thing, you could make it. Anybody could make it in America. For decades now, Americans have watched that compact erode. They have seen the decks too often stacked against them. And they know that Washington has not always put their interests first. The people of this country work hard to meet their responsibilities. The question tonight is whether we’ll meet ours. The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy. (Applause.) The question is — the question is whether we can restore some of the fairness and security that has defined this nation since
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TOUGH ON JOBS President Obama’s Speech on JOBS our beginning. Those of us here tonight can’t solve all our nation’s woes. Ultimately, our recovery will be driven not by Washington, but by our businesses and our workers. But we can help. We can make a difference. There are steps we can take right now to improve people’s lives. I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away. It’s called the American Jobs Act. There should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. Everything in here is the kind of proposal that’s been supported by both Democrats and Republicans — including many who sit here tonight. And everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything. (Applause.) The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed. (Applause.) It will provide — it will provide a tax break for companies who hire new workers, and it will cut payroll taxes in half for every working American and every small business. (Applause.) It will provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled, and give companies confidence that if they invest and if they hire, there will be customers for their products and services. You should pass this jobs plan right away. (Applause.) Everyone here knows that small businesses are where most new jobs begin. And you know that while corporate profits have come roaring back,
smaller companies haven’t. So for everyone who speaks so passionately about making life easier for “job creators,” this plan is for you. (Applause.) Pass this jobs bill — pass this jobs bill, and starting tomorrow, small businesses will get a tax cut if they hire new workers or if they raise workers’ wages. Pass this jobs bill, and all small business owners will also see their payroll taxes cut in half next year. (Applause.) If you have 50 employees — if you have 50 employees making an average salary, that’s an $80,000 tax cut. And all businesses will be able to continue writing off the investments they make in 2012. It’s not just Democrats who have supported this kind of proposal. Fifty House Republicans have proposed the same payroll tax cut that’s in this plan. You should pass it right away. (Applause.) Pass this jobs bill, and we can put people to work rebuilding America. Everyone here knows we have badly decaying roads and bridges all over the country. Our highways are clogged with traffic. Our skies are the most congested in the world. It’s an outrage. Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us a economic superpower. And now we’re going to sit back and watch China build newer airports and faster railroads? At a time when millions of unemployed construction workers could build them right here in America? (Applause.) There are private construction companies all across America just waiting to get to work. There’s a bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that’s on one of the busiest trucking routes in North
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America. A public transit project in Houston that will help clear up one of the worst areas of traffic in the country. And there are schools throughout this country that desperately need renovating. How can we expect our kids to do their best in places that are literally falling apart? This is America. Every child deserves a great school — and we can give it to them, if we act now. (Applause.) The American Jobs Act will repair and modernize at least 35,000 schools. It will put people to work right now fixing roofs and windows, installing science labs and high-speed Internet in classrooms all across this country. It will rehabilitate homes and businesses in communities hit hardest by foreclosures. It will jumpstart thousands of transportation projects all across the country. And to make sure the money is properly spent, we’re building on reforms we’ve already put in place. No more earmarks. No more boondoggles. No more bridges to nowhere. We’re cutting the red tape that prevents some of these projects from getting started as quickly as possible. And we’ll set up an independent fund to attract private dollars and issue loans based on two criteria: how badly a construction project is needed and how much good it will do for the economy. (Applause.) This idea came from a bill written by a Texas Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat. The idea for a big boost in construction is supported by America’s largest business organization and America’s largest labor organization. It’s the kind of proposal that’s been supported in the past by Democrats and Republicans alike. You should pass it right away. (Applause.) Pass this jobs bill, and thousands of teachers in every state will go back to work. These are the men and women charged with preparing our children for a world where the competition has never been tougher. But while they’re adding teachers in places like South Korea, we’re laying them off in droves. It’s unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong. (Applause.) Pass this jobs bill, and companies will get extra tax credits if they hire America’s veterans. We ask these men and women to leave their careers, leave their families, risk their lives to fight for our country. The last thing they should have to do is fight for a job when they come home. (Applause.) Pass this bill, and hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people will have the hope and the dignity of a summer job next year. And their parents — (applause) — their parents, low-income Americans who desperately want to work, will have more ladders out of poverty. Pass this jobs bill, and companies will get a $4,000 tax credit if they hire anyone who has spent more than six months looking for a job. (Applause.) We have to do more to help the long-term unemployed in their search for work. This jobs plan builds on a program in Georgia that several Republican leaders have highlighted, where people who collect unemployment insurance participate in temporary work as a way to build their skills while they look for a permanent job. The plan also extends unemployment insurance for another year. (Applause.) If the millions of unemployed Americans stopped getting this insurance, and stopped using that money for basic necessities, it would be a devastating blow to this economy. Democrats and Republicans in this chamber have supported unemployment insurance plenty of times in the past. And in this time of prolonged hardship, you should pass it again — right away. (Applause.) Pass this jobs bill, and the typical working family will get a $1,500 tax cut next year. Fifteen hundred dollars that would have been taken out of your pocket will go into your pocket. This expands on the tax cut that Democrats and Republicans already passed for this year. If we allow that tax cut to expire — if we refuse to act — middle-class families will get hit with a tax increase at the worst possible time. We can’t let that happen. I know that some of you have sworn oaths to never raise any taxes on anyone for as long as you live. Now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle-class taxes, which is why you should pass this bill right away. (Applause.) This is the American Jobs Act. It will lead to new jobs for construction workers, for teachers, for veterans, for first responders, young people and the long-term unemployed. It will provide tax credits to companies that hire new workers, tax relief to small business owners, and tax cuts for the middle class. And here’s the other thing I want the American people to know: The American Jobs Act will not add to the deficit. It will be paid for. And here’s how. (Applause.) The agreement we passed in July will cut government spending by about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. It also charges this Congress to come up with an additional $1.5 trillion in savings by Christmas. Tonight, I am asking you to increase that amount so that it covers the full cost of the American Jobs Act. And a week from Monday, I’ll be releasing a more ambitious deficit plan — a plan that will not only cover the cost of this jobs bill, but stabilize our debt in the long run. (Applause.) Continued on page 10
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The Real Uncle Tom The Reverend, Abolitionist, Farmer, Spiritualist and Entrepreneur
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he first anti-slavery law in Canada was passed in 1783 by then Ontario. For the next 68 years it is estimated that 50,000 Blacks entered Canada for safety and freedom. One of them was Josiah Henson, a former slave from Kentucky. During his lifetime, three masters owned Henson. Henson started preaching to raise money in the hope of buying his freedom. His master took the money that Josiah had earned, and then raised the price of Henson’s freedom to $1,000. He returned to his master’s plantation after a plot to secretly sell Josiah fell through, where he informed his wife of his plan to escape. Soon after he, his wife, and their four children escaped to Canada. On their journey to freedom, the Henson family struggled through sickness, wolves, and starvation. Underground Railroad A tribe of Native Americans assisted the family along the way. Finally on October 28, 1830, after many hardships, they reached freedom. He stayed in Canada only a short time before he decided to get involved with the Underground Railroad. Henson made several trips and led over 200 slaves to Canada. During his time in Canada, Josiah Henson started the Dawn Institute in Chatham, Ontario, a refuge for fugitive slaves where they were taught trades to support themselves and their families. When Henson went to the World’s Fair in London, he became the first ex-slave to be granted an audience with Queen Victoria. He is also believed to be the model for Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Josiah Henson was a true hero and humanitarian during the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. At the time of his arrival, Ontario was known as the Province of Upper Canada (U.C.), becoming the Province of Canada in 1841, then Ontario in 1867, all within Henson’s lifetime there. Henson’s autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is widely believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). Following the success of Stowe’s novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his life story in 1858, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life (published Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1858). Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (1876). Josiah Henson was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. When he was a boy, his father was punished for standing up to a slave owner, receiving one hundred lashes and having his right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then cut off. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. Following his family’s master’s death, young Josiah was separated from his mother, brothers and sisters, when he was sold as property in an estate sale. After his mother pleaded with her new owner Isaac Riley, Riley agreed to buy back Henson so she could at least have her youngest child with her; on condition he would work in the fields. Riley would not regret his decision for Henson rose in his owners’ esteem, and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his master’s farm, located in Montgomery County, Maryland (in what is now North Bethesda). He tried to buy his freedom by giving his master $350 which he had saved up over the years, only to find that it had been increased to $1000.Josiah Henson moved to Little Yellowbanks near present day, Lewisport, Ky, in 1825. He was overseer for Amos Riley’s slaves. Amos obtained Josiah from his brother Isaac. Isaac transferred slaves to his brother when he(Isaac) incurred debts he could not pay. Josiah escaped to Canada in 1829 from Kentucky.Cheated of his money, he escaped to Kent County, U.C., in 1830, after learning he might be sold again. There he founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, Canada West. Henson crossed into Upper Canada via the Niagara River, with his wife Nancy and their four children. Ontario had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed “An Act to pre-
vent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province”. The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U.S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free. By the time Henson arrived, others had already made Ontario home, including Black Loyalists from the American Revolution, and refugees from the War of 1812.Henson first worked farms near Fort Erie, then Waterloo, moving with friends to Colchester by 1834 to set up a Black settlement on rented land. Through contacts and financial assistance there, he was able to purchase 200 acres (0.81 km2) in Dawn Township, in next-door Kent County, to realize his vision of a self-sufficient community. The Dawn Settlement eventually prospered, reaching a population of 500 at its height, and exporting black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson purchased an additional 200 acres (0.81 km2) next to the Settlement, where his family lived. Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a Black militia unit in the Rebellion of 1837. Though many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to the United States after slavery was abolished there, Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5. 1883.
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A Box of Food Wrapped in Humiliation On Wednesday, October 12th a food drive for needy families was set up in the parking lot east of the intersection of Euclid and Federal. The needy – those poor or unemployed and in desperate need of food – started lining up at 4 am so that they could be guaranteed food. I was at my office later that morning when a call came in from a concerned individual telling me that I needed to come down there and see the mess for myself. “There are at least 900 to 1,000 people down here at this early time,” the caller explained. “Mr. Morrow, security is down here having to separate people. The fire department is here to help those that keep passing out from the heat.” There was no shade in the parking lot to shield people from the sun on one of San Diego’s hottest days in history. As I listened on the phone, I heard someone in the background cry out, “There is no food in my house! There is nothing for me to cook for my children!” I asked the caller what people were getting, to which he responded, “Right now they’re not getting anything since we haven’t started yet.” The person in charge of getting the food was three hours behind schedule. Later in the day I did go to the drive, only find people in wheel chairs, people with walkers, and others with crutches. However, there were no accommodations for handicapped individuals. They roped off a narrow area to corral people to stay in line. But there were people sitting outside of the lines, some even with their own chairs. Over the years, I’ve noticed that with each food giveaway the crowd of Blacks increases by leaps and bounds. Perhaps Black people are suffering the most in this economy. I remember being back home in Alabama when the government gave commodities to many Blacks that had been put off the farms and left unable to make a living or grow food for themselves. In that package was a big 5 pound bucket of peanut butter, a big box of cheese, a 5 lb can of precooked beef, with some fruit thrown in. Once I became a teenager, the free food was in the form of green stamps that my family would use in order to buy food. But today, these food drives can be so humiliating and so embarrassing. One individual at this particular food drive said to me that there were middle class people getting food, jobless people getting food, and all other types of people seeking food too. “Generally,” he said, “When I have visited other food drives, it is mostly the poor and unemployed, but never the middle class…never those that have had the so-called good jobs lining up for food.” Another man made a comment to me that
EDITORIAL rubbed me the wrong way and drilled a hole into my heart. He was upset that people were driving up in Cadillacs and other nice cars. I turned to that individual and said, “Those people driving those cars are bringing their mothers, mothers-in-law, and children to get food. How do you expect them to take the heavy boxes of food home, on their backs?” This brings me to the point: The San Diego Monitor News has had several food drives. One of the responsibilities of doing food drives is that it is necessary for me as an individual in the community that has supposedly enjoyed some success to go out among the people and talk to them. In each one of these food drives I have gone out and shook their hands, to take away some of the pain and the embarrassment of lining up to get food to feed their family. With our food drives, there was never an incident of any kind because we made them feel dignified and respected. Our phone still rings asking when we going to have another one. Unfortunately, I have to say that the particular source where we were getting the food from has dried up. Things may not always appear to be what they seem. I am sure that in Tierrasanta, where it was reported on the news that there was also a food drive, was also attended by well-dressed people. If you have a food drive in that area, it’s not just for the poor, the inner city, and the homeless. It was up in that area too because it’s the burden that has been brought on by this economy and affects all of us. Until Next Week, Willie Morrow
SDUSD Invites Small Licensed Contractors to Bid Small Projects San Diego Unified School District has a new program for small and emerging contractors. It’s called the Micro-Projects Program (MPP) and it serves two purposes. The MPP delivers small projects directly to school sites quickly and efficiently through direct purchase agreements. It also provides a one-time opportunity for small and emerging businesses learn first-hand what it’s like to work for SDUSD. MPP Projects are under $15,000 and run the full gamut of school facility needs, from handiwork, repairs and remodeling to painting, concrete, electrical, etc. to installation of materials such as lighting, seats, lockers, flagpoles and signage. MPP projects are competed among 3 to 4 licensed contractors through a short and simplified bid process. MPP contracts are fixed-fee based on contractor’s quote, and paid within 30 days of completion. According to Alma Bañuelos, SDUSD’s Business Outreach Coordinator, MPP projects are designed specifically with emerging business contractors in mind. “They do not require surety bonding, have insurance requirements of only $1 million each for general and auto liability, and do not require prevailing wages,” said Bañuelos. “It’s the perfect opportunity to get your foot in the door and see if SDUSD is the client for you,” she said. MPP projects are strictly need-based and are not issued with any regularity. Small companies are selected from the business outreach database and invited to bid on a project-by-project basis. If you are a minority, woman or disabled veteran business owner and have interest in the MPP, contact Alma Bañuelos for an application. Alma can be reached at abanuelos@sandi.net or 858-5735852. For real-time bid information, follow her on Twitter at @sdusd_bizoutrch. Be sure to visit the SDUSD Outreach webpage at http://www.sandi.net/page/934.
By Brian Pollard In 1963, the late Rufus DeWitt and his friend, Dr. Robert Matthews, founded the Southeast Community Theatre (SECT), with the assistance of several other committed and civic-minded individuals. The Theatre began to produce plays and was chartered as a nonprofit arts and cultural organization in 1964. Under Dr. Gaffney’s tutelage, a number of now nationally recognized actors emerged from Southeastern Community theatre, including James Avery, Cleavon Little, and John Wesley, along with many local San Diego actors. It was Dr. Gaffney who recommended changing the name from Southeastern Community Theatre to Common Ground Theatre (CGT) in 2003. Common Ground Theatre will soon celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2013-14 and is one of the longest surviving African American theatres in the United States. Common Ground Theatre’s mission is “to produce classics and new works by and about people of African descent that entertain, educate, and connect with audiences of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds.” The goal is to produce high quality theatrical productions that provide a “common ground” for people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds to participate, interact, connect and share their love of theatre. CGT envisions a culturally diverse, socially relevant, and politically aware theatre organization that combines the expertise of amateur and professional artists and that improves community relations among diverse cultures and underrepresented groups. We pride ourselves in involving diverse casts and crew members for all of our productions. One of Common Ground Theatre’s chief roles is to provide youth training as well as
educational outreach activities for persons of all ages that help participants gain a deeper understanding of theatre as an art form, acquire theatre skills as a vocation or avocation, and engage in dialogue around the themes and issues raised by the playwrights in the productions on the CGT stage. The Common Ground Theatre Youth program was designed for the purpose of educating children and youth in all aspects of theatre performance, as well as creating a pool of talent for Common Ground Theatre and the theatrical community at large. CGT seeks to engage young people’s participation in positive educational and cultural activities that will prevent their involvement with the negative forces that are often a part of their environment. The Common Ground Theatre Arts Academy offers several modules of instruction in theatre arts during the spring and summer, including the national African American Read-In, the Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare Poetry celebration, and Readers Theatre works focusing on African American writers. I have said that I believe this has been one of the Community’s “best kept secret” and it should be no secret. What a great opportunity for our families and friends to share in our culture and local talent. On Oct 22, Dr. Dorothy Smith will be reciting the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, our first African American professional poet, on Sunday, October 30, 2011. Christ United Presbyterian Church;3025 Fir Street, San Diego, 92102. Please support this jewel of our community. The annual production of the “Black Nativity” by Langston Hughes is to be held in December of this year. If there are any questions you may call 619-255-2318.
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SDUSD Offers Free Resources To Licensed Construction Contractors Of All Tiers San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) has opportunities for local small and underutilized businesses to participate in its construction projects. Licensed trades sought will include acoustical, carpentry, concrete, demolition, doors/ window work, electrical, flashing/sheet metal, flooring, grading, HVAC, laborer, landscape, painting, piping/plumbing, etc. Supplies may be needed too. Be informed. The following projects will be bid soon:
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Webster Elementary School: F&I New HVAC (Group 2)
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Joyner Elementary School – Modify for K-2 2nd Floor Conditions
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Fay Elementary School – Modify for K-2 2nd Floor Conditions
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Cherokee Point Elementary School – Modify for K-2 2nd Floor Conditions
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Sherman Elementary School – Modify for K-2 2nd Floor Conditions
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Golden Hill Elementary School – Modify for K-2 2nd Floor Conditions
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Construct Bus Turnaround & Site Improvements at Millennial Tech Middle School*
$1 - $5 Million
University City High School: Lighting & Scoreboard*
$1 - $5 Million
Stevenson Elementary School – ADA Work
$1 - $5 Million
Salk Elementary School, New School Project
Over $10 Million
*Project Stabilization Agreement (PSA) applies Contact Alma Bañuelos at abanuelos@sandi.net or 858-573-5852 to get on SDUSD's database today! We'll send bid notices, a quarterly newsletter and contracting information to you at no cost. We can also help to increase your visibility in SDUSD's construction contracting environment.
Small and emerging businesses are highly encouraged to make use of these free services! Para mãs información en español, haga favor de comunicarse con Alma al 858-573-5852.
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Correcting History: African Americans Made Cars CR Patterson & Son America’s Only African-American Automobile Manufacturers Some of the finest buggies made in the late 1800s came out of a small, black-owned company in Ohio. Charles Rich Patterson’s Company later made motor vehicles, and history, by founding the country’s only AfricanAmerican-owned automobile manufacturing company. To hear Tom Smith tell it, had Patterson been a white man, Greenfield, Ohio could have been another Detroit. Smith - car dealer and life-long resident of Greenfield - has spent years compiling mementos and information about the historical family. Just before the Civil War, Patterson left slavery and headed north, bringing blacksmithing skills he learned in Virginia. Not long after settling in, Patterson began working at a carriage company. By 1870 he was a foreman and by 1873, Patterson had gone into business with J.P. Lowe, a white carriage maker. “When Lowe died about a decade later, Patterson become the sole owner. He made 28 different horse-drawn vehicles; doctor buggies, backboards, phaetons, rockaways and surreys,” says Smith, who managed to find and buy three Patterson buggies. By 1883, Patterson’s two sons, Frederick Douglas and Samuel, could help dad work at what had become C.R. Patterson and Son Carriage Company. “They became natural mechanics and even built some of their own designs,” says Smith. Sam died in 1889. Fred went on to make his own history by being the first black person to graduate from the town’s high school in 1888 and the first black football player at Ohio State in 1891. Fred left Greenfield to teach history in Louisville, Ky. after graduating from Ohio State. He rejoined his father in 1897 and began taking a greater leadership role in the company. “In 1902, there was one car to every 65,000 people. In 1909, there was one to every 800,” says Smith. “Fred could see the buggy was a dying industry.” After C.R. died in 1910, Fred began tinkering with motor-driven vehicles with a goal to build a car that could rival anything produced by the new automotive industry. The company still made buggies, but also turned its attention to creating the Greenfield touring car and a roadster. “There are different reports, but [it seems] on Sept. 23, 1915, the first car rolled off the line,” says Smith. According to advertisements, the two-door vehicle featured a full floating rear axle, cantilever springs, electric starting and lighting and a split windshield for ventilation. “They didn’t make the engine. It was a Continental, capable of up to 50 miles per hour.” The car cost $850. “I’ve read in several places that it was superior to Henry Ford’s Model T.” A lack of capital stopped production of the cars in 1919, but Fred moved on to producing trucks and buses. “It was the backbone of the business in the ‘20s and ‘30s. They used wood frames with metal skins, on mostly Dodge chassis,” says Smith. Estimates say that between 30 and 150 vehicles were built, “but
FRED Patterson in Patterson car in front of N. Washington St. business of C.R. Patterson & Sons. (top) Automobile Centennial magazine featuring Patterson as a trailblazer among automakers. (middle). Patterson Bus No. 17 belonging to Greenfield School district. (bottom)
ny built 28 types of horse-drawn vehicles and employed approximately 10-15 individuals. While the company managed to successfully market its equine-powered carriages and buggies, the dawn of the automobile was rapidly approaching. Charles Patterson died in 1910, leaving the successful carriage business to his son Frederick who in turn initiated the conversion of the company from a carriage business into an automobile manufacturer. The first Patterson-Greenfield car debuted in 1915 and was sold for $850. With a four-cylinder Continental engine, the car was comparable to the contemporary Ford Model T. The Patterson-Greenfield car may, in fact, have been more sophisticated than Ford’s car, but C.R. Patterson & Sons never matched Ford’s manufacturing capability.
Estimates of Patterson-Greenfield car production vary, but it is almost certain that no more than 150 vehicles were built. The company soon switched to production of truck, bus, and other utility vehicle bodies which were installed atop chassis made by major auto manufacturers such as Ford and General Motors. Its school bus bodies in particular became popular as Midwestern school districts began to convert from horse-drawn to internalcombustion-fired transportation by 1920. Around 1920, the company reorganized as the Greenfield Bus Body Company but after ten years of steady, if unspectacular growth, the Great Depression sent the company into a downward spiral. Frederick Patterson died in 1932, and the company began to disintegrate in the late 1930s. Around 1938, the company moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, changing its name again to the Gallia Body Company in an attempt to restart its prior success. The attempt failed and the company permanently closed its doors in 1939. Like many other small auto manufacturers, the company was unable to compete with Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, and other large automobile manufacturers. No Patterson-Greenfield automobiles are known to have survived to the present, but some C.R. Patterson & Sons carriages and buggies are extant.
my guess is toward the lower number, looking at what they had to work with and the people here at the time.” As far as Smith can tell, there aren’t any left. He’s managed to find the top of a school bus and he videotaped an interview with C.R. Patterson’s grand daughter-in-law before she died last year at 93. In it she talks about the company driving two buses to New York to be shipped to Haiti. However, as with nearly everyone, the Depression in the ‘30s dealt a fatal blow to Patterson’s company. Smith thinks it’s a shame that more people aren’t aware of C.R. Patterson’s place in history. He invites visitors to Greenfield to see a small display he set up at the historical society on the east end of town. The C.R. Patterson & Sons Company was a carriage building firm, and the first African American-owned automobile manufacturer. The company was founded by Charles Richard Patterson, who was born into slavery in April 1833 on a plantation in Virginia. His parents were Nancy and Charles Patterson. Patterson escaped from slavery in 1861, heading west and settling in Greenfield, Ohio around 1862. At some point after his arrival in Ohio, Patterson went to work as a blacksmith for the carriage building business, Dines and Simpson. In 1865 he married Josephine Utz, and had five children from 1866 to 1879. In 1873, Patterson went into partnership with J.P. Lowe, another Greenfield-based carriage manufacturer. Over the next twenty years, Patterson and Lowe developed a highly successful carriage-building business. In 1893 Patterson bought out J.P. Lowe’s share of the business and reorganized it as C.R. Patterson & Sons Company. The compa-
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TOUGH ON JOBS Continued from page 2 This approach is basically the one I’ve been advocating for months. In addition to the trillion dollars of spending cuts I’ve already signed into law, it’s a balanced plan that would reduce the deficit by making additional spending cuts, by making modest adjustments to health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and by reforming our tax code in a way that asks the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share. (Applause.) What’s more, the spending cuts wouldn’t happen so abruptly that they’d be a drag on our economy, or prevent us from helping small businesses and middle-class families get back on their feet right away. Now, I realize there are some in my party who don’t think we should make any changes at all to Medicare and Medicaid, and I understand their concerns. But here’s the truth: Millions of Americans rely on Medicare in their retirement. And millions more will do so in the future. They pay for this benefit during their working years. They earn it. But with an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program. And if we don’t gradually reform the system while protecting current beneficiaries, it won’t be there when future retirees need it. We have to reform Medicare to strengthen it. (Applause.) I am also — I’m also well aware that there are many Republicans who don’t believe we should raise taxes on those who are most fortunate and can best afford it. But here is what every American knows: While most people in this country struggle to make ends meet, a few of the most affluent citizens and most profitable corporations enjoy tax breaks and loopholes that nobody else gets. Right now, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — an outrage he has asked us to fix. (Laughter.) We need a tax code where everyone gets a fair shake and where everybody pays their fair share. (Applause.) And by the way, I believe the vast majority of wealthy Americans and CEOs are willing to do just that if it helps the economy grow and gets our fiscal house in order. I’ll also offer ideas to reform a corporate tax code that stands as a monument to special interest influence in Washington. By eliminating pages of loopholes and deductions, we can lower one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. (Applause.) Our tax code should not give an advantage to companies that can afford the best-connected lobbyists. It should give an advantage to companies that invest and create jobs right here in the United States of America. (Applause.) So we can reduce this deficit, pay down our debt, and pay for this jobs plan in the process. But in order to do this, we have to decide what our priorities are. We have to ask ourselves, “What’s the best way to grow the economy and create jobs?” Should we keep tax loopholes for oil companies? Or should we use that money to give small business owners a tax credit when they hire new workers? Because we can’t afford to do both. Should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires? Or should we put teachers back to work so our kids can graduate ready for college and good jobs? (Applause.) Right now, we can’t afford to do both. This isn’t political grandstanding. This isn’t class warfare. This is simple math. (Laughter.) This is simple math. These are real choices. These are real choices that we’ve got to make. And I’m pretty sure I know what most Americans would choose. It’s not even close. And it’s time for us to do what’s right for our future. (Applause.) Now, the American Jobs Act answers the urgent need to create jobs right away. But we can’t stop there. As I’ve argued since I ran for this office, we have to look beyond the immediate crisis and start building an economy that lasts into the future — an economy that creates good, middle-class jobs that pay well and offer security. We now live in a world where technology has made it possible for companies to take their business anywhere. If we want them to start here and stay here and hire here, we have to be able to out-build and out-educate and out-innovate every other country on Earth. (Applause.)
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want to end all this nonsense about how the Jobs Bills. And how it will prevent job creation through taxing the very rich—those who perceived by the House Republicans to be “job creators.” So I would like to know who are these “job creators,” that have million dollar accounts. Is it Britney Spears? Is it Michael Vick? What’s wrong with having a tax break for the middle class Americans; the blood that runs inside the veins of America and Big corporations; and the immune defense system that fight off against our enemies. If these CEOs, CFOs, COOs are so afraid of the regulations then why do they ship their jobs overseas in the first place? These corporations that Boehner, Senator McConnell, or Mitt Romney speak of, in defense, are not only manufacturers but Wall Street (financial services). It is these financial services that have crippled our economy through bad management of loans in the housing market and have robbed the people of their homes and prosperity—all of this under the era of Bush Tax Cuts and lax regulations. And it is for these reasons why I believe Wall Street should be accounted for. It is utterly stupid to me that these fiscal conservatives are saying that these regulations and taxes imposed on big corporations will not spur economic growth and employment. What I can say is, if corporations have found ways (“loopholes”) to not pay for more taxes then why haven’t they found more ways to create jobs? Their mantra, their creed, is to make profit for their shareholders. How they do that? Buy up stocks, companies, combine with companies to make powerhouses, buy up securities, etc.** playing with borrowed money from the housing market and credit card markets with help of China to finance our shopping spree.** Fiscal conservative Republicans, are working backwards: they love spending cuts to government programs but hate government spending. Take Mitt Romney and his policy of foreign affairs. He said that he will stop government spending but will double his efforts to increase our military. So you will cut gov-
ernment spending but yet you will personally finance our military through means of passing legislation in Congress. Sounds like another Bush to me. How do you want to save your economy, when you want to spend it broke again? I can’t see why manufacturing companies will be harmed by the jobs bill? It provides tax deductibles for hiring veterans, and incentives for the unemployed to find work at these corporations without discrimination. Right now our focus is Americans who don’t have a job, not American CEOs that have a job. But again I am troubled on how regulations impose non-creativity—prohibiting job creation? Take a look at the agriculture sector: who is working the fields? We have regulations to be sure that everyone plays fair. I don’t mind if CEO’s do find loop holes to employ the unemployed, as long as it is done legally. However Wall Street, needs to be held accountable and how do we that? We need to not occupy Wall Street, or San Diego. We need to occupy the State Attorney’s office of New York, and all other major states where greed flourishes, if and only if we want to hold Wall Street. It is the state’s attorney job to prosecute and hold corporations and everyone else accountable under law. I am very certain that the previous New York State attorney had the information and means to prosecute these corporations, for their unnecessary bailouts, but refused to base on self- interests. Demand immediate resignation or file suit for the poor authority of the state attorney general’s work.
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Where Did All The Money Go – 3 ?!? (Right Under Our Noses) Connect Create Cooperate Everything is dependent on the EARTH. Air, water, food, clothing, shelter all come from the Earth, and you can’t live long without any one of them. The money is in the WORK we do to get what we need from the Earth. We need to build institutions that help us do our WORK: WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. We will either become the drivers (leaders) of the global economy, or the pullers (servants/slaves) of the global economy. Only in America do we have this kind of control over our own destiny. This is not about a “job”, it is about “WORK” aka “LABOR”. Again, as I am running for the new 79th California State Assembly District (Marty Block’s old 78th Assembly District), I am trying to shift your paradigm from focusing on “getting” a job to “creating” a job – even if it is only for yourself. Better if you can create a job for someone else as well. Don’t get it twisted. The money is right here under our noses. The worlds rich people are getting rich by trading (buying and selling) your labor. The okie doke is you don’t realize that it’s YOUR labor. You just sell it to the highest bidder you can find. The problem is there are no bidders right now. How many job applications have you put in? How much abuse from lowered wages to denied (or forced) vacations to deleted pensions have you endured because you don’t dare risk losing that job, that you drive to in traffic you hate, dealing with people you “dislike”. DON’T HATE!! Get tough and get going! Love Your Neighbor. Look around and see if there is something you can do for your neighbor or co-worker. What do you need? What does your neighbor have that you need? Ask them. What can you exchange (barter) to help meet each other’s needs? If not your next door neighbor, how about down the street? The next block? The next neighborhood. Yesterday, a man came though the neighborhood going door to door telling people he would cook their meals for them and save them time – and time is money! (No vegetarian option – nothing for me.) You are brilliant and you have a bunch of great ideas! (Your children do, too!!) RUN!! Don’t walk to your nearest Chamber of Commerce and/or Small Business Administration office and start learning how to put yourself in business. I’m no expert on starting a business, though I’ve done it, but these people are. I’ll see you on Monday November 1st at 6:00 p.m. at the Urban League and I’ll show you a way. (Not THE way, A way) Love Your Neighbor. J CMH [People Make The World Go Round - The Stylistics] clovis.honore@yahoo.com
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Relationship Conversations There is sunshine after the storm! I am keenly aware that there are many of us going through many difficulties and sometimes it’s hard to see God as your Comforter, your God of Peace, your Provider and your Savior. Sometimes the storms that arise make this walk extremely difficult and you wonder “when Lord, when will you bring me out of this storm! While I know I can’t tell you when I can tell you how to go through with as much grace as possible. Paul said not only did he want to know Christ in the power of his resurrection but also in the fellowship of his suffering. Suffering is a realty for the just and the unjust. The just simply have One who ever lives to make intercession for us, Jesus, sitting at the right hand of the father. We are told trials and tribulations we will have but be of good cheer as Christ has overcome the world. We are encouraged to find peace in this. If you have questions you would James said count it all joy when you encounter various trials like answered or topics discussed, because the trials are designed to instill patience in us which will please send all questions to facemake us perfect lacking nothing. We are reminded that the prun- book.com/connectwithangelaharing process, while painful, brings about a great harvest. We are also ris or email: told that God is the silversmith refining us. This means that He theharrisgroup@cox.net or takes the silver and puts the fire under it and allows all the impuri- twitter@KeepingitealAH. ties of the silver to rise to the top and then it is scooped off and For more articles thrown away. He continues the process until He can see His reflec- www.keepingitrealwithangela tion in the silver, so it is with us. God is endeavoring to see His harris.blogspot.com reflection in us when He and the world look at us. Things to remember while going through: Just because you’re in the storm it doesn’t mean you are out of the will of God. Know that you are just where you’re supposed to be. God says He knows the plans He has for you, plans for your good and not for bad, plans for a hope and a future. (Jer. 29.11) Just because you’re in the storm doesn’t mean that you have sinned against God. There is purpose in and for the storm. Paul said that the trials of life teach us perseverance. Storms are a part of the life of a Christian. There is an old saying, you are either in a storm, going through a storm or just coming out of one. But God’s promise is He will never leave you nor forsake you. God is in control - Know that God is molding you into image of Christ. He is the potter and you are clay. Nothing can happen to you that God doesn’t allow to happen to you. Know that all things that are happening are working out for your good. Romans 8:28 reminds us that all issues of life good, bad, indifferent or ugly all work together for your good. Trust God with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. Yea though God may slay you, you will trust Him. Job asked the question should I only praise God during the good and not the bad too? You must not try to understand an infinite God with our finite mind. Weeping may endure for a night (a season) but joy will come in the morning. We have the assurance that our suffering will last only a while not unto death and that joy will take the place of the storm. The sun will shine again because God is a faithful God. So know, like the resurrection of Christ, your joy will be resurrected, the sun will shine again and there is purpose for the storm. I submit the purpose is to ensure that when the storm clouds move away and you can see clearly what God was doing in and through you, the SON will shine even brighter in your life.
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NATURAL WAYS TO PREVENT AND REVERSE AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESS PART 4 OF 4 ON GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK! By Lady Topaz This is Part 4 in a 4 part series geared towards helping you understand the root causes of many autoimmune diseases and how to effectively address them in a healthy and holistic way. Last week we reviewed the first steps to restoring a healthy digestive tract to help boost your immune system. This segment will conclude the article series and will review several natural ways to protect yourself against autoimmune illness. As stated last week, in some cases, I have found that the steps outlined herein can actually reverse some of the degenerative changes that can accompany various autoimmune illnesses. Eat Foods that Optimally Nourish and Cause Little to No Harm The best food groups for preventing and reversing autoimmune illness are vegetables, whole grains, and fruits. Ideally, you want to eat just these food groups (with perhaps very small amounts of legumes) for a period of six months to give your body the rest and nutrients that it needs to best support a full recovery. Eat a fresh salad every day that includes plenty of dark green lettuces and colorful vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, shredded zucchini, and shredded red beets. For concentrated healthy fat intake, add an avocado, as well as a simple salad dressing made out of extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, sea salt, and a touch of honey if you like a little sweetness to your dressings. Steamed vegetables are also an excellent food group for overcoming autoimmune illness. You can eat a lot more broccoli, kale, Swiss chard, red beets, and other hardy vegetables when they are steamed than you can when they are raw. Steaming such foods can actually help you extract more nutrients out of them. Steaming can also soften the fiber found in these foods, which can be helpful if your digestive tract is sensitive to large amounts of raw fiber. Try eating steamed vegetables with healthy salad dressings or even soups that can serve as nourishing and flavorful sauces. You can make vegetable soups by boiling vegetables and then running them and the water that they are boiled in through a blender or food processor. Eating vegetables in their raw state allows you to benefit from naturally occurring enzymes that are destroyed with cooking. Eating vegetables that are steamed or boiled allows you to eat more of them and extract more nutrients out of them than you can when they are raw. So eating both raw and cooked vegetables positively diversifies your intake of health-promoting nutrients. Freshly pressed vegetable juices provide intact enzymes, and because they are nutrients that have already been extracted from fibrous vegetables, they provide a concentrated batch of nutrients that are readily absorbed into your system and able to nourish your cells. If possible, do your best to include at least one freshly pressed vegetable juice in your diet on a daily basis. And if your life circumstances do not allow for this, consider taking a high quality
green food powder. Whole grains like brown rice, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, and oats can provide you with plenty of complex carbohydrates that can take care of the bulk of your daily caloric needs. Whole grains are also rich in B vitamins and a wide variety of minerals. Just be sure to soak whole grains in water for at least a few hours, preferably overnight, before cooking. Doing so makes whole grains easier to digest and also prevents potential problems with mineral absorption. The bran of whole grains contains a substance called phytic acid, which can bind onto calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, and phosphorous in your digestive tract, preventing them from entering your blood. Soaking whole grains helps to neutralize phytic acid and prevent such binding from occurring in your digestive tract. As is the case with salads and steamed vegetables, adding healthy dressings and sauces to whole grains can make them an enjoyable staple in your diet. Fruits are also a good choice for autoimmune illness, but you have to be careful about not eating more fruits than vegetables. While certain fruits like berries, grapes, pomegranates, watermelon, and mangos are concentrated in health-promoting antioxidants, most fruits have a lot more carbohydrates and naturally occurring sugar (fructose) than they do antioxidants. Actually, the majority of health-promoting nutrients found in fruits are in their skins and seeds. So when eating fruits, choose varieties that are rich in color and, whenever possible, try to eat their skins and seeds (with the exception of apple seeds which can impair the digestive tract). Excellent choices include blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, pomegranates, mangos, papayas, apples, watermelon, cantaloupe, and some of the “super foods” that are becoming more popular with each passing day, such as goji berries. Keep in mind that it is always better to eat fresh fruits rather than dried fruits. Dried fruits are heavily concentrated in natural sugars that can put stress on your blood sugar-regulating mechanisms, which can increase your risk of suffering from diabetes and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Now let’s take a look at a three suggestions related to lifestyle choices that are not related to your diet... Ensure Adequate Physical Rest Do not overlook the importance of getting adequate physical rest as you seek to recover from autoimmune illness. Simply put, the more you rest, the more energy your body can devote to repairing damaged areas, including your digestive tract. What is most important is to get deep, restful sleep each night. It is during deep, restful sleep, that your body produces large quantities of hormones that are directly or indirectly responsible for facilitating healing and growth of your tissues. These hormones are growth hormone, testosterone, and erythropoietin. Your body produces these hormones in small quantities while you are awake and active, but in order to produce them in optimal quantities for healing Continued on page 22
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Nobel Peace Prize recognises women rights activists OSLO, Norway — Leymah Gbowee confronted armed forces in Liberia to demand that they stop using rape as a weapon. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first woman to win a free presidential election. Tawakkul Karman began pushing for change in Yemen long before the Arab Spring. They share a commitment to women's rights in regions where oppression is common, and on Friday they shared the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored women for the first time in seven years, and in selecting Karman it also recognized the Arab Spring movement championed by millions of often anonymous activists from Tunisia to Syria. Prize committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said it would have been difficult to identify all the movement's leaders, and that the committee was making an additional statement by selecting Karman to represent their cause. "We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context," Jagland told reporters. "Namely, if one fails to include the women in the revolution and the new democracies, there will be no democracy." Karman is the first Arab woman ever to win the peace prize, which includes a 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award that will be divided among the winners. No woman or subSaharan African had won the prize since 2004, when the committee honored Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who mobilized poor women to fight deforestation by planting trees. "I am very, very happy about this prize," said Karman, who has been campaigning for the ouster of Yemen's authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh since 2006. "I give the prize to the youth of revolution in Yemen and the Yemeni people." 'Iron Woman' "Many years before the revolutions started she stood up against one of the most authoritarian and autocratic regimes in the world," he told reporters. Yemen is an extremely conservative society but a feature of the Arab Spring uprising there has been a prominent role for women who
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her work in being the first female elected head of state, Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist and Tawakul Karman for her work in Yemen’s pro-democracy movement. turned out for protests in large numbers. Powerwall: Controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners A resident of Taiz, a city in southern Yemen that is a hotbed of resistance against Saleh's regime, Karman is a journalist and member of Islah, an Islamic party. Her father is a former legal affairs minister under Saleh. On Jan. 23, Karman was arrested at her home for leading anti-Saleh protests. After widespread protests against her detention — it is rare for Yemeni women to be taken to jail — she was released early the next day. Karman has been dubbed "Iron Woman, "The Mother of Revolution" and "The Spirit of the Yemeni Revolution" by fellow protesters. During a February rally in Sanaa, she told the AP: "We will retain the dignity of the people and their rights by bringing down the regime." Liberia was 'going to hell' Sirleaf, 72, became Africa's first democratically elected female president in 2005. She has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University and has held top regional jobs at the World Bank, the United Nations and within the Liberian government. Sirleaf said Friday the award was recognition of the West African state's "many years of struggle for justice, peace, and promotion of
development" since a brutal civil war, Reuters reported. "I believe we (Gbowee and I) both accept this on behalf of the Liberian people, and the credit goes to the Liberian people," she told reporters outside her private residence in the capital Monrovia. "This gives me a stronger commitment to work for reconciliation," Sirleaf added. "Liberians should be proud." African and international luminaries welcomed the news. Many had gathered in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday to celebrate Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday. "Who? Johnson Sirleaf? The president of Liberia? Oooh," said Tutu, who won the peace prize in 1984 for his nonviolent campaign against white racist rule in South Africa. "She deserves it many times over. She's brought stability to a place that was going to hell," he said. 'A force of nature' U2 frontman Bono — who has figured in peace prize speculation in previous years — called Sirleaf an "extraordinary woman, a force of nature and now she has the world recognize her in this great, great, great way." In elections in 1997, Sirleaf ran second to
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warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, who many claimed was voted into power by a fearful electorate. Though she lost by a landslide, she rose to national prominence. Taylor was later indicted on war-crimes charges. Sirleaf was seen as a reformer and peacemaker in Liberia when she took office six years ago. She is running for re-election Tuesday and opponents in the presidential campaign have accused her of buying votes and using government funds to campaign. Her camp denies the charges. In a 2005 interview with The Associated Press, Sirleaf said she hoped young girls would see her as a role model and be inspired. "I certainly hope more and more of them will be better off, women in Liberia, women in Africa, I hope even women in the world," she added. "If you're competing with men as a professional, you have to be better than they are ... and make sure you get their respect as an equal," Sirleaf said. "It's been hard. Even when you gain their acceptance, it's in a male-dominated away. They say, 'Oh, now she's one of the boys." Buttons from her presidential campaign say it all: "Ellen — She's Our Man." The committee cited Sirleaf's efforts to secure peace in her country, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women. Jagland said the committee didn't consider the upcoming election in Liberia when it made its decision. "We cannot look to that domestic consideration," he said. "We have to look at Alfred Nobel's will, which says that the prize should go to the person that has done the most for peace in the world." Liberia was ravaged by civil wars for years until 2003. The country is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace with the help of U.N. peacekeepers. 'Fair and straight' Gbowee organized a group of Christian and Muslim women to challenge Liberia's warlords. In 2009 she won a Profile in Courage Award, an honor named for a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by John F. Kennedy, for her work in emboldening women in Liberia.
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Piper Weiss, Shine Staff www.shine.yahoo.com From the basement of her parents dry cleaning store to the White House, Doo-Ri Chung has come a long way. On Thursday night, First Lady Michelle Obama debuted a gown created by the 38-year-old Korean-American designer at the White House state dinner. The Doo.Ri one-shouldered purple gown with an embellished, belted waist, made a striking statement as the first couple prepared to enter the gala event in the East Room of the White House on the rainy evening. Meet the style team behind the First Lady's looks Guests of honor South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his wife, Kim Yoon-ok, dressed in a traditional pink and white hanbok, greeted an eclectic crowd that included Tennis legend Billie Jean King and renowned chef David Chang. Like the four past state dinners hosted by the Obama Administration, pressure was on the first lady to select a style that appeased both political and sartorial pundits. It’s not always an easy task. In January, she was criticized by American designers when she chose a crimson gown by British brand Alexander McQueen for the state dinner with China’s president. This time around, she hit all the right notes. The brilliant eggplant fabric and shoulder-baring cut, a Mrs. O staple, captured her contemporary elegance. And the choice of an American-born designer with South Korean roots paid respect to the evening's guests of honor and the national industry that so heavily relies on her backing. Since her husband took office in 2008, Obama has been a one-woman juggernaut turning avant garde, emerging designers into runway superstars overnight. After tonight, Chung’s label Doo.Ri, will follow Jason Wu and Thakoon as the next big thing Mrs. O spins into gold. Chung, a New York-based designer known for her skillful drapery, began her career in 2001 in her family's dry cleaning store and developed into a goto dressmaker for Eva Longoria, Rachel McAdams and Kristen Stewart—who wore a strawberry Doo.Ri design to "The Runaways"
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premiere. But now that Michelle Obama's wearing her line, Chung's career is defined. Earlier today the First Lady raised the profile of another young american designer, Chris Benz, when she wore a deep blue bolero and pencil skirt suit by the designer during a visit to
a D.C. High school with Yoon-ok. Speaking to students at Annandale High School, Obama emphasized the importance of “exploring new things—discovering what makes you come alive.” It's a credo that could equally be applied to style. On Thursday night, Mrs. O practiced what she preached.
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TOPAZ Continued from page 17 moderate to severe degrees of autoimmune illness, you need deep, restful sleep on a regular basis. Ensure Adequate Exposure to Natural Sunlight Ensuring adequate vitamin D status is extremely important to treating and preventing autoimmune illness. And the safest way to ensure adequate vitamin D status is to regularly expose your skin to sunlight without getting burned. UV-B rays in sunlight can convert cholesterol that is found in your skin to natural vitamin D. Amazingly, once you produce enough vitamin D through this mechanism, your body will not manufacture additional vitamin D until you need more, even with continued exposure to
sunlight. This natural “stop” mechanism is important because you do not want to have more vitamin D than your body needs on a moment-to-moment basis; vitamin D is fatsoluble, and can therefore be stored to levels that are toxic to your body. When sunlight is not regularly available, as is the case in the northern hemisphere throughout the late fall, winter, and early spring months, it is important to ensure adequate vitamin D intake through foods that are naturally rich in vitamin D. Although some commercially available foods like pasteurized dairy and some cereals are fortified with synthetic vitamin D, it is best to eat foods that are naturally abundant in vitamin D. Foods that are naturally rich in vitamin D include wild salmon, sardines, cod liver oil, and organic egg yolks. Get Clear on Why You Want To Be Well Have you ever experienced a frightful dream that was so real that you woke up
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with a pounding heart or a coat of sweat on your skin? Have you ever experienced a gush of saliva in your mouth while thinking about eating something tart like a fresh lemon? These and other everyday experiences are proof that your thoughts and emotions can create real physical change throughout your body. Every single thought and emotion that you experience triggers countless chemical reactions throughout your body via your nervous and endocrine systems. In recognizing how powerful your mind-body connection is, you can harness its power as you seek to recover from and prevent autoimmune illness. Every time you strongly believe that you will experience a full recovery, your body moves towards that reality. Every time you start feeling sorry for yourself and believe that you will never be free of autoimmune illness, your illness becomes more deeply rooted in your physiology.
Harnessing your mind-body connection to facilitate a full recovery goes way beyond repeating affirmations to yourself, telling yourself that you believe you will be well. Affirmations are important and useful, but they must come from a place of genuine strength and conviction. Using your thoughts and emotions to be well must begin with a careful evaluation of your core life values, beliefs, and desires. Hopefully you were able to extract useful information from this article series that you can carry with you throughout your journey to great health. ********************** For additional information on healthy, holistic, nutritional supplements that will assist you with your healthy lifestyle visit Topaz’s website at: www.sherrytheus.isagenix.com or e-mail her with your thoughts and/or inquiries at topazstjames@gmail.com.
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