Deborah Collins

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Shorpy September 14, 2016

February 1923. "Miss Jacqueline Mansfield." Currently engaged to one Mr. Smith Corona. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

February 1923. “Miss Jacqueline Mansfield.” Currently engaged to one Mr. Smith Corona. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

 

Washington, D.C., 1924. "The latest in electric baseball scoreboards. George Coleman, inventor, is shown with the mechanism of the new scoreboard." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. A backstage view of Washington, D.C., inventor George Coleman's "Lifelike Baseball Scoreboard" (seen earlier here and here), which was set up in movie theaters to "broadcast" the home team's away games. "It contains 19,000 feet of wire and has 400 stereopticon slides with an electric light bulb for each slide. Five men are required to operate the great board, including the telegraph operator who receives play-by-play from the field."

Washington, D.C., 1924. “The latest in electric baseball scoreboards. George Coleman, inventor, is shown with the mechanism of the new scoreboard.” Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
A backstage view of Washington, D.C., inventor George Coleman’s “Lifelike Baseball Scoreboard” (seen earlier here and here), which was set up in movie theaters to “broadcast” the home team’s away games. “It contains 19,000 feet of wire and has 400 stereopticon slides with an electric light bulb for each slide. Five men are required to operate the great board, including the telegraph operator who receives play-by-play from the field.”

Images September 14, 2016

canadianrioter

grandma

curiousgeorge

 

bleachtiger

bossyleadership

 

cookiedog

 

irrelephant

Tesla Dad of the Year September 13, 2016

Images Animal’s Parenting September 13, 2016

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907 Updates September 13, 2016

Wonder if the actions of the victim worth loosing his life and life’s domino chain of events for alleged shooter and his family?

Chris Klint: Suspect arrested in fatal Anchorage shooting after morning manhunt
“This (expletive) was brought to my home,” the man said. “I know I’m going to be gone — I ain’t gonna get to see my son born.”

 

 

 

FYI:
The Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) Program

Join us in Juneau or via OWL videoconference for a free presentation: The Alaskan Economy: Wishful Thinking Versus Economic Reality

When: Thursday, Sept. 15th, noon

Where: Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building Lecture Hall, 395 Whittier St.

What: Clive Thomas, editor of the new book, Alaska Politics and Public Policy: The dynamics of beliefs, institutions, personalities, and power, and former political science professor at UAS, will consider the various views on how Alaska’s economy can be diversified and stabilized.  He’ll touch on the development of the state’s economy, the political dimensions of the issue, and the realities of Alaska’s place in the national and world economies.  Some possible solutions to the chronic boom-bust cycle will be presented, and there will be plenty of time for questions.  With such a fascinating and timely topic, and such a witty and energetic speaker, this should not be missed!

The presentation will be available live via videoconference, so if you’re interested but not in Juneau, please check with your local library about the possibility of joining.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Freya Anderson

Head of Information Services

Alaska State Library

395 Whittier St.

Juneau, AK 99801

P: 907-465-1315 | F: 907-465-2151 |

The Information Center for Government

Shorpy September 13, 2016

The Detroit River circa 1906. “Detroit Oak Belting Co. and Michigan Stove Works.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

1924. Washington, D.C. "Rock Creek Park. Miss Katherine Wren and Norvelle Munford." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

1924. Washington, D.C. “Rock Creek Park. Miss Katherine Wren and Norvelle Munford.” Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

Quotes September 13, 2016

Bill Hicks

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, “There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin’ pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that’s gonna give people the impression they’re supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans.” ” … and God wept”, I believe is the next part of that story.

I think it’s interesting the two drugs that are legal, alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all, are legal, and the drugs that might open your mind up to realize how badly you’re being fucked every day of your life? Those drugs are against the law. He-heh, coincidence? See, I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, ’cause I took ’em one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah, Now, if that isn’t a hazard to our country… how are we gonna justify arms dealing if we know we’re all one?!

FYI Universities, Ivory Towers and Common Sense? September 13, 2016

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College Rape
The victim(s) are raped physically and mentally, then raped again by the authorities.  Would it be appropriate to have victims of rape and/or parents of raped children in authoritative capacities at colleges?

What about rating a college, and the city as to how fair they are to both the victim and accused?

 
Stassa Edwards: After Richmond Student Writes Viral Essay About Her Rape Case, the University Calls Her a Liar

Cecilia Carreras referred to her rapist as “Richmond’s Brock Turner,”

On Thursday, Carreras responded with another post headlined, “Richmond, all I wanted was for you to say sorry. But instead you called me a liar. So, here are the receipts,” also published in the Huffington Post. In the post, Carreras provides screenshots of emails between her and Richmond dean, Daniel Fabian, as well as transcripts from a preliminary Title IX hearing in which Fabian acknowledges that the alleged rapist changed his story multiple times.

“No one denied, however, that [my rapist] penetrated me without consent,” Carreras wrote. Rather, she alleges that Fabian argued that the length of the assault was justified because he, “thought it was reasonable for [the accused] to penetrate you for a few more minutes if he was going to finish.”

 

In 2006, The Duke University Lacrosse Team of Durham did not receive fair treatment.

In 2007, Seligmann, Finnerty, and Evans sought unspecified damages and called for new criminal justice reform laws in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Durham. (See below)

Falsely Accused of Rape
The Duke lacrosse case was a 2006 criminal case in which three members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The case evoked varied responses from the media, faculty groups, students, the community, and others. The case’s resolution sparked public discussion of racism, media bias, and due process on campuses, and ultimately led to the resignation and disbarment of the lead prosecutor, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong.

In March 2006, Crystal Gail Mangum, a black student at North Carolina Central University[1][2] who worked as a stripper,[3] dancer and escort, falsely accused three white Duke University students – all members of the Duke Blue Devils men’s lacrosse team – of raping her. The rape was alleged to have occurred at a party held at the house of two of the team’s captains in Durham on March 13, 2006. Many people involved in or commenting on the case, including District Attorney Nifong, stated or suggested that the alleged rape was a hate crime.[4][5][6][7]

In response to the allegations, Duke University suspended the lacrosse team for two games on March 28, 2006. The following week, on April 5, Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was forced to resign under threat by athletic director Joe Alleva, and Duke President Richard Brodhead canceled the remainder of the 2006 season.

Law reform:
In 2007, Seligmann, Finnerty, and Evans sought unspecified damages and called for new criminal justice reform laws in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Durham.

Claire Ballentine and Samantha Neal: Where are they now?
A look at the main characters involved in the lacrosse case

 

Is this censorship or common sense? How does having high profile alumni  and/or  faculty in a radical, criminal negative light affect a school?   Does it make a difference if a school is named after a historical figure?
University of Oregon to remove former KKK leader’s name
The University of Oregon’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to strip the name of former Frederic Dunn from a campus dorm because of his past as an “exalted cyclops” in the Klu Klux Klan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joerg Sprave September 13, 2016

1970’s Commercials September 12, 2016

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