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$19,895 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Dodge Caliber SE ($13,425); SXT ($15,425); R/T AWD ($19,425)
Standard Engine: 2.0-liter dohc 16-valve inline-4
Engine Options: 148-hp 1.8-liter inline-4; 158-hp 2.0-liter inline-4; 172-hp 2.4-liter inline-4
Standard Transmission: CVT automatic
Transmission Options: 5-speed manual; continuously variable automatic (CVT)
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
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Model Tested MSRP: Dodge Caliber SXT ($15,425)
Standard Equipment: air conditioning with ChillZone cooler box; power mirrors, windows and keyless remote central locking; cloth upholstery; height-adjustable driver's seat; AM/FM/CD with four speakers and auxiliary input jack; tilt steering wheel; P215/60R17 all-season touring tires on hubcapped wheels; 115V AC auxiliary power outlet; 60/40 split folding rear seat; and fold-flat front passenger seat
Options As Tested: 158-hp, 2.0-liter inline-4 ($100); CVT ($1000); cruise control ($250); AM/FM/MP3 stereo with six-CD in-dash changer and nine speakers ($320); MusicGate system ($495); Sirius Satellite radio, with one-year trial subscription ($195); 17-inch aluminum wheels ($400); Driver Convenience Group ($400); power sunroof ($750)
Standard Safety Equipment: frontal airbags; full-coverage, side curtain airbags; child safety seat anchors (LATCH)
Optional Safety Equipment: front seat-mounted side airbags; antilock brakes; brake assist; electronic stability program with traction controlDestination Charge: $560
A five-passenger, five-door hatchback-cum-small station wagon, the Caliber offers a choice of four-cylinder engines. There's also a choice of front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive, the latter making the Caliber a capable winter vehicle. The Caliber is relatively affordable. Its starting price is below last year's Neon, and fuel economy is respectable, achieving 28/32 City/Highway miles per gallon in its most frugal form, according to federal government estimates. At the other end of the scale, an SRT4 version is expected in spring 2007 with a turbocharged engine generating 300 horsepower.
The front seats are comfortable, with lots of headroom, and there's a large amount of cargo space here. Packaging is functional, with folding rear seats that have an optional reclining adjustment and an optional fold-flat front passenger seat to make room for a ladder or more likely, a surfboard. A couple of innovative options, especially for a car in this price class, are an air conditioned compartment in the glove box to chill water bottles or sodas and a swing-down stereo speaker panel attached to the liftgate that converts the back end to a sound stage for beach parties or tailgating.
The Caliber is no sports car, but we most enjoyed the mid-level SXT model with the 2.0-liter engine and five-speed manual transmission.
Dodge is gambling a huge chunk of change on the hope new car shoppers looking for value and function can be persuaded hatchbacks are acceptable again, that five-door, small wagons have a place in American garages. The Caliber makes a good case.
The 2007 Dodge Caliber offers a choice of three four-cylinder engines, a 1.8-liter rated at 148 horsepower, a 158-hp 2.0-liter, and a 165-hp 2.4-liter. The first two are available with a five-speed manual or an automatic Continuously Variable Transmission.
The SE ($13,425) comes with the 1.8-liter engine and five-speed manual transmission. The 2.0-liter engine is optional ($100), and both engines are available with the CVT automatic ($1000). The SE comes with cloth seats; tilt steering column; an AM/FM/CD stereo with four speakers and an auxiliary input jack; a cell phone/MP3 player holder built into the front center sliding armrest; 60/40-split, folding rear seat; removable and washable vinyl cargo mat; and all-season, P205/70R15 tires on hubcapped, steel wheels. Air conditioning is not standard, nor are power windows. The SE comes with manual roll-up windows and manual outside mirrors.
Options for the SE are as extensive as the standard equipment is basic. The air conditioning system ($1000) includes a Chill Zone inside the glove box that holds four, half-liter water bottles. The Power Equipment Group ($545) includes power windows, outside mirrors and keyless remote central locking. There are two uplevel stereos, one adding cassette and MP3 capability and six-disc CD changer ($420), the other just MP3 and the six-disc changer ($320). Two other audio options are available, Sirius Satellite Radio ($195), including a pre-paid, one-year subscription, and a speaker package called MusicGate Power ($435) comprising a Boston Acoustics sound system with nine speakers. Finally, buyers can order floor mats ($50), daytime running lights ($40), an engine block heater ($35), a cargo area cover ($75) and an ash tray and lighter ($30). A Trailer Tow Group ($130) adds an engine oil cooler and a wiring harness.
The SXT ($15,425) also comes standard with the 1.8-liter engine and five-speed manual, with the 2.0-liter engine and CVT optional, but the list of standard features expands dramatically. The features in the SE's Power Equipment Group are included, as is air conditioning with the Chill Zone; a 115-volt, AC power outlet; floor mats; a flashlight-like removable lamp that stows and charges in a receptacle in the rear headliner; height-adjustable driver's seat and fold-flat front passenger seat; a reclining, 60/40 split rear seat; and all-season P215/60R17 touring tires on steel wheels with hubcaps.
SXT options include the Leather Interior Group ($1045), which gets leather seating surfaces, leather-wrapped steering wheel, heated front seats and a manual lumbar adjustment for the driver's seat. Seat heaters can be ordered for the cloth seats ($250). Cruise control is available ($250), as is a sunroof ($750), and UConnect, a Bluetooth, hands-free cell phone capability ($275). A Driver Convenience Group ($400) adds a compass, an ambient temperature gauge, HomeLink, auto-dimming inside mirror and a tire pressure monitoring system. A Security Group ($275) includes the cargo area cover, an alarm and an air filtration system. A Sport Package ($645) includes fog lamps, 17-inch aluminum wheels and a Sport Appearance Interior Group with contrasting inserts on the cloth seats and color-keyed instrument bezels and gear indicator for the automatic transmission. Aluminum wheels are available ($400). Audio options and other items listed above are also available.
The R/T ($19,425) comes standard with the 2.4-liter engine, the CVT, and all-wheel drive. Standard features include the SXT features, the Sport Appearance Interior Group, cruise control, leather-clad steering wheel with audio controls, cargo cover, a sport suspension with performance steering and P215/55R18 all-season performance tires on aluminum wheels. Options include those above with adjustments necessary to accommodate features standard on the R/T; for example, the Leather Interior Group price ($910) reflects the fact the leather-wrapped steering wheel is among the
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Picture a Dodge Magnum as it might appear in a theme park's House of Mirrors, and you'll have a good idea of what the Dodge Caliber looks like. Yes, it's shorter and narrower and therefore appears taller (which it is, surprisingly, by two inches), but it's still a station wagon with four doors, five counting the rear liftgate, and it wears all the styling cues of the Magnum.
The trademark crosshair grille dominates the front end; depending on model, this is either body color or trimmed in chrome. Massive headlights are notched into the leading corners of the front fenders. A pouting lower lip-like bumper separates the grille and headlights from a slimmer, lower air intake and (uplevel) fog lamps.
The side view shows strongly blistered fenders front and rear beneath a wedge-shaped beltline. Tires mostly fill the wheel wells, but we expect aftermarket hardware will be popular amongst younger buyers. The lower portions of the doors wear longitudinal moldings, again, body color or chrome highlighted, that look like a bi-level rocker panel but aren't, but that nevertheless minimize the Caliber's height. Full-round door handles, either chrome-trimmed or body color, bridge scooped-out grip spaces.
The roofline arcs cleanly from its junction with the hood just aft of the front wheel well over the side door windows to pinch off at the tail end of the rear quarter glass. Topping this arc but stopping at the top of the backlight (rear windscreen) is an unbroken, thick strip of black molding the Caliber's designers say is supposed to work with the arc and the truncated back end to impart a coupe look. We're not sure why that was important or that it necessarily succeeds, but it does buff up the Caliber's side aspect.
The back end pulls from the Magnum, too, with a steeply raked backlight beneath a roof-mounted spoiler and above a mostly upright lower liftgate, employing a hatchback style arguing against any comparisons with a traditional station wagon. A relatively short rear overhang and oversize taillight housings add credence to the argument.
Step inside the Caliber and the Dodge legacy is loud and clear. If function tops your list of must-haves, this is good. If glitz is your thing, this is less good.
The instrument cluster and center stack are the picture of efficiency. Gauges are large, round and gleefully legible. The center stack presents the stereo face and climate control panel in stark relief with functional knobs, buttons and switches and trimmed in matte metallic plastic or not-very-convincing wood grain.
The shift lever extends from the base of the stack; the notched gate on the CVT makes ratio selections intuitive, the manual gearbox less so, but not bad for a front-wheel-drive. The power point serves neither the cell phone holder nor a radar detector well; located at the extreme base of the center stack, it leaves cords either draped over the center console's cup holders or dangling down the dash between the instrument cluster and the center stack.
The MP3 player/cell phone holder flips up out of the front of the center console armrest and, while properly sized for an iPod or similarly shaped MP3 device, adapts best to candy bar-style cell phones. Also, the sliding armrest covers a range of three inches, which is helpful for drivers of shorter stature, but when all the way forward, it blocks the rearmost of the two cup holders.
As the Caliber is relatively tall, standing more than four inches above the Neon, the seats are closer to chairs than cushions bolted to the floor. This eases climbing in and out.
The front seats are comfortable, but far from plush, with decently bolstered back cushions. Bottom cushions, or squabs in designer lingo, are more flat than sculpted and a bit short on thigh support. Front-seat headroom is impressive, topping the five-door Mazda3 hatchback by almost two inches, the five-door Ford Focus ZX5 hatchback by almost an inch. It falls short of the Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Matrix by about a half inch. Legroom up front is adequate, equal to the Mazda3, bettering the Focus by a full inch and matching the Vibe and the Matrix. A cautionary note about the driver's seat-height adjustment, however: It pivots at the front, which means trading legroom for height.
The rear seat is a bench and legroom is somewhat cramped, trailing all four competitors. Rear-seat headroom, however, tops both the Focus and the Mazda3, by about a half-inch, but loses to the Vibe and the Matrix by almost an inch. The Caliber bests the Focus and Mazda3 in cargo room (by more than 8 and 16 cubic feet, respectively), but falls short of the Matrix and the Vibe (by more than 5 cubic feet.) Compared with the old Neon, the Caliber is roomier and offers more than three times the Neon's cargo space.
Miscellaneous storage scores mixed ratings. The bi-level glove box, with a compartment on the top of the dash in addition to one in the traditional location, earns high marks, especially the innovative Chill Zone. But front door map pockets will hold maybe a paperback and a map, there are no map pockets in the rear doors, and the front seatbacks are bare of any magazine pouches. Illuminating the cup holders (there are only two, and they're in the front console) helps at night, though sliding the center armrest all the way forward pretty much blocks the rear holder.
Visibility out the front is good. Like many other modern designs, the hood drops away so quickly it disappears from sight; you may want to learn where the fenders are before you have to navigate a dark parking garage. The large backlight frames a good picture of what's behind, and the tall greenhouse and rear quarter windows show what's in the side mirrors' blind spots.
The stereos generate quality sounds, with the top level, Boston Acoustic setup rivaling home systems of only a few years ago. Called MusicGate, the Boston Acoustics system features nine speakers, including 3.5-inch tweeters, a subwoofer and a pair of speakers in a boom box attached to the insi
Driving Impressions
Dodge seemingly wants people to consider the Caliber as a downsized Magnum, and to believe this makes it essentially a sporty mini-minivan-cum-compact station wagon. Nice idea, but the package doesn't quite deliver. Everything it does, it does well, but absent some fairly substantive aftermarket add ons, it doesn't quite achieve the sporty part.
Of the three trim packages and powertrains, we believe the SXT with the 2.0-liter engine and five-speed manual delivers the best all around performance.
The 2.4-liter's 172 horsepower arguably does a better job of motivating the one-and-one-half ton hatchback, but the CVT was neither as comfortable nor as precise in its selection of gear ratios as we hoped, and as Dodge promises. Left in Drive, it constantly sounds and feels like an automatic in serious need of having its bands tightened, or like a manual gearbox with a slipping clutch. Even in AutoStick mode, which involves imposing an electronically managed shift pattern on a transmission designed not to shift gears, engine speed wandered noticeably within the selected ratio. And while Dodge says its testing shows the CVT improves fuel economy by between 6 and 8 percent over a four-speed automatic like that in the Neon, the 2.0-liter with five-speed manual outdoes the CVT by 3 or 4 mpg, according to the EPA's ratings. Also, the Mazda3's 2.3-liter engine with five-speed automatic returns an estimated 25/31 city/highway mpg, easily topping the Caliber CVT's 23/26 mpg.
The 1.8-liter base engine betters the 2.0-liter's fuel economy by 2 mpg in both city and highway driving, but with fully 10 percent less torque and peaking at 5200 rpm, it's also the least responsive to the gas pedal when you need it the most.
All three engines delivered their power smoothly, with no disruptive surges or flat spots. Pedal layout is decent, while not quite ideal for heel-and-toe downshifts, and there's a dead pedal where drivers can rest their left foot on long trips.
Driving and handling dynamics are mostly consistent across the line, about on a par with the Vibe and the Matrix but not quite in the same league as the more tautly sprung Mazda3 and much lighter Focus. There's not as much body lean in corners as we expected in a car this tall. Under hard acceleration, the Caliber SE and SXT show some torque steer, where the front-wheel drive tugs at the steering wheel, a shortcoming shared with every front-wheel-drive car we can remember in this class.
Likewise, the Caliber's weight is biased to the front, so understeer (where the car wants to go straight instead of turning) is the default mode when corners are entered a bit too fast. The all-wheel-drive R/T is much better mannered in both these regards, especially in tight corners, when the system distributes the power as appropriate between the front and rear wheels to put the power where it can be used best, as much as 60 percent to the rear wheels if necessary. One downside to the AWD is the added unsprung weight with which it burdens the suspension, mass that's felt over parking lot speed bumps and rough pavement.
The disc/drum brakes standard on the SE and in the SXT are competent. The R/T gets the best package, with discs at all four corners and ABS. We're sure there's a good marketing reason behind making ABS an option on the SE and SXT and Brake Assist optional only on the SXT and R/T, but we're disappointed these safety features aren't standard as they increasingly are on off-shore brands in the Caliber's price range. We feel the same way about the electronic stability program, which can help drivers avoid crashing.
There's little wind whistle at everyday highway speeds, and even at extra-legal rates of travel, we carried on conversations in normal tones. Road noise increased with the size of the tire's footprint, meaning it was most persistent in the R/T. The added grip from the larger footprint mor
The 2007 Dodge Caliber is at the same time innovative and retro, a hatchback that's more like a station wagon but with hints of the utility of a minivan. The SE offers good, basic transportation, the SXT is more fun to drive, and the R/T delivers affordable advanced technology with the assurance of all-wheel drive.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from Scottsdale, Arizona.
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E3 is just a week away and I thought now would be a good time to list out a few things that may or may not be big stories next week, the things that we expect to happen, and a few things that might happen if the planets align correctly. With the change in format comes a host of new unknowns and it's hard to tell how things are going to work out.
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This is the biggest "No duh" of the list but it's probably the most important because not only are there fewer outlets going but there are fewer people from those outlets going. GamingNexus will be going to E3 this year but we were only able to send two people instead of the usual five or six people. This means that John and I have packed schedules and will not be able to meet with every company that we normally meet with. There's the added factor that the companies are spread out across Santa Monica which means even less time to spend with companies this year. This sucks because this means that we had to make choices between which companies wanted to meet with and those we didn't have time for. This is incredibly frustrating because it's usually the smaller companies who have some of the more innovative games.
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Sony had one of the worst E3's ever last year. Between the pricing nightmare and the Riiiidge Racer incident and I think that they are going to be gunning to come out swinging this year. With the new regime in charge at Sony they have a chance to make a strong impression this year.
I think the first thing Sony will announce is that they are bringing rumble to the SIXAXIS controller. There probably won't be any backwards compatibility for games that have already been released but you never know, they could win a lot of support if they announce that select games (Resistance and MotorStorm) will be patched to incorporate rumble.
The real key with the PS3 is how many exclusive games they announce at the show this year and if they manage to get any third party developers to commit a game to the PS3 and only to the PS3. There are some rumblings in this months EGM (hey, it's going bathroom reading) that they are working with Epic on a Gears of War type exclusive for the PS3 so that might be one candidate but don't rule out any kind of exclusive from EA or Ubisoft.
I'm guessing we'll get a newly re-designed PSP, hopefully one with dual analog sticks, better battery life, and maybe a few new high profile games to go with it. For some reason people don't realize that the PSP has been getting a lot of quality titles for the last six months or so. Games like Puzzle Quest and Crush have actually been pretty good and it's about time for Sony to find a new way to take the platform to the next level. I would also hope that Sony shows off some cool new useful connections between the PSP and the PS3.
We could also see some major news about the PlayStation store as I think Sony is starting to realize that the current online service is a minor league experience compared to what Microsoft is offering. What will be interesting will be to see if the service stays free or if Sony charges for it or not.
Speaking of price, I think the last bit of business with the show will be Sony officially lopping $100 off the price of the PS3. The rumors hit late today that they were going to be cutting the price and I think they'll tease us a bit with the cut before making it official. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony introduces a new model PS3 with a larger hard drive but I hope that they don't as I think we're all sick of the dual SKU strategy.
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Attorney Andrew Rogers | Zinda Law Group
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Andrew Rogers is a tough, smart, and empathetic advocate who will fight tirelessly to ensure his clients have the best chance to recover maximum compensation for their injuries. A valued member of the personal injury section in our Denver office, he focuses his practice on motor vehicle accidents, traumatic brain injuries, premises liability, dog attacks, tire failure, and much more.
Admired for being relatable and down to earth, Andrew is always willing to go the extra mile in behalf of his clients. He looks at the attorney-client relationship like a partnership, requiring team effort and good communication to succeed. He finds great satisfaction in helping people recover and seeing clients progress over the course of a case.
A native of Thomaston, Georgia, Andrew graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, where he was the top honors student in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and where he was recognized as a Presidential Scholar. He then worked in the entertainment industry before enrolling in the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. He was awarded a full-tuition scholarship from the Simon Endowment Fund that covered his first two years of attendance.
After earning his juris doctorate, Andrew gained considerable experience in civil litigation as well as criminal law in both prosecution and defense in Georgia. He later moved to Houston, where he worked as a criminal defense attorney for two years, trying more than 120 jury trials in the metropolitan area. He subsequently joined the attorney team at Zinda Law Group, and during his tenure, he has made a positive difference in the lives of many clients.
Over the years, Andrew has greatly benefited his professional community as a member of the Colorado Bar Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice. In recognition of his many accomplishments as a litigator, he has been named a Distinguished Lawyer by the Expert Network and a top 40 under 40 lawyer by the American Academy of Attorneys.
In his leisure time, Andrew enjoys spending time with his family, as well as playing basketball and exercising.
- UCLA School of Law, J.D.
- University of Georgia, A.B.J., Telecommunications, Minor in Film Studies
Practice Areas
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Car Accidents
- Defective Products
- Water Injury
- Premises Liability
- Tire Failure
- Dog Bites
- Burn Injury
Professional Licenses
- Supreme Court of Texas
- State Bar of Colorado
Professional Memberships
- American Association for Justice
- Colorado Bar Association
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Client Testimonials
Sincere, Understanding, and Extremely Patient
"How can we begin to describe one of the worst events to ever happen to us as a pleasant experience? My husband was involved in a 5-car accident and our world stopped. We had no idea where to go and who to call. After reading countless good reviews we reached out to the Zinda Law Group and were put in touch with Andrew Rogers. That was hands down the best decision we could have made. Andrew was sincere, understanding, and extremely patient with us which was what we needed. As the case progressed we spoke with many other wonderful and helpful people on the case. Our main point of contact was Jason Aldridge. We could not have gotten through all of this without his quick responses to emails, phone calls, and countless questions we had. Jason was so professional yet treated us like we were family. That's exactly what we wanted in a lawyer and we got that and so much more. We would recommend Zinda Law Group to anyone that we know that needs legal counsel. Thank you Andrew, Jason, and everyone else for all of your hard work and making us feel like we were you're only clients."
– Former client
Helpful with Every Step of the Process
"Zinda helped me with an uninsured motorist accident and were kind, honest, and helpful with every step of the process. Everyone was happy to answer all of my questions, no matter how complicated I could make them. Their office itself is even nice and welcoming. I couldn't be more satisfied with the outcome of my case, and especially with all the help I received from Andrew Rodgers, Neil Solomon and Jason Aldridge. I would recommend Zinda to anybody looking for an attorney. This was my first time getting an attorney and I'll be sure to call on them again if I ever need one in the future! But let's hope not!"
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Your Health and Recovery Is Their Top Priority
"I highly recommend Zinda Law if you want a team of dedicated professionals who truly care about your physical and mental well-being. Burgess, Ryan and Andrew are always friendly and professional, and I honestly do not know what I would have done without them. As they were handling my case, I was able to recover much faster from my injuries. I always felt comfortable calling the office, knowing that all of the staff members were there to make my recovery process much easier. Your health and recovery is their top priority and they truly have your best interest in mind. The team not only helped me through my case, but more importantly, they helped me through my healing process."
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"In the aftermath of serious car accident, I contacted Zinda Law Group and they did wonderful job for my case. The process was quick and very satisfactory. In particular, a wonderful team of Andrew Rogers, Burgess Williams, and Ryan Toomey made this case go smoothly and finally settled the case down well enough to satisfy my expectation. Overall, the service was awesome."
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Searchlighters Founded in 1963, the Searchlighters have been raising funds for the Orthopaedic Institute for Children to support research and education. Searchlighters is the only support group of OIC dedicated to this purpose.
By taking care of the country's children, Orthopaedic Institute for Children is taking care of our country's future. By focusing on medical research and education, the Searchlighters are Orthopaedic Institute for Children stay one step ahead. The Searchlighters provide funding for cutting edge research and for training superb doctors today, so that better and more effective treatments will be in place for children tomorrow.
The purpose of the Searchlighters is the charitable works of fostering interest in the field of orthopaedics, including research and education, and of actively supporting projects involved in this field. The motto of the group is "Searchlighters - Lighting the way to the future."
Members live throughout the Los Angeles area and the Orange County area, and meetings are held monthly in members' homes, with two meetings a year held at Orthopaedic Institute for Children. The annual fundraising event is a garden wine tasting typically held in the spring. The event venue alternates from LA County to Orange County every other year.


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The cyanotype print measures 56 x 85 mm and is mounted centrally on a 101 x 127 mm (roughly 4" x 5") plain card mount with no marks identifying the photographer. It shows a youngish man and woman standing and seated, respectively, in front of a house with substantial wooden railing perhaps bordering a porch or verandah. The sleeves of the dress worn by the woman suggest to me a date of around 1891 to 1894.
On the reverse of the card mount is written in black ink, "Mr. Merrill -" and "Mrs. M -." This photograph was one of several given to me a few years ago by my kind friend Irene Savory of New Hampshire. They formed a collection of "orphan" photographs which had been accumulated by her father Louis Dubois, a keen amateur photographer and documenter of local history and events in the town of Hampton.
Also in this small collection was a standard cabinet card portrait, showing a woman - apparently the same woman as seen in the cyanotype - and a young child, possibly a girl, two to three years old. The pair are standing and seated on the front step of a house, the front door being clearly visible, as is the name plate which states, "O.N. Fernald."
The reverse of this card mount does have a photographer's stamp: "Photographed by E.W. Merrill, Danvers, Mass.." From my online research it became apparent fairly quickly that the photographer was Elbridge Warren Merrill (1870-1929), who was born and grew up in Massachusetts, and worked as an engraver and news photographer in Danvers and Boston before moving to Alaska in the late 1890s - more of that later. It was also evident that E.W. Merrill did not marry, so who were the Mr and Mrs Merrill and child in the photographs? The Draft Registration Card for the First World War that Elbridge Merrill filled out in October 1915 lists a "Mrs A.H. Merrill, Boston, Mass" as his nearest relative, which provided the first clue.
Residence of A.H. Merrill, Berry Street, Danvers, c.1899
Initially, I thought this must be his sister-in-law, but the next break came from Danvers, Massachusetts, a book about the town and its inhabitants published by the local newspaper, The Danvers Mirror, in 1899.
Albert Henry Merrill ... was born in Peabody, Mass., October 13, 1864 ... He was married December 17, 1885, to Addie Frances Merrill, and has a pleasant home on Berry street. Mr. Merrill devotes his time during the racing season to the duties of a professional starting judge and has a reputation in that capacity second to no man in the country.
Mr. Albert H. Merrill
Most important was the inclusion of a photograph of Albert H. Merrill, making it obvious that he and his wife Addie were the subjects of the cyanotype.
According to The Pillsbury Family, published in 1898, Addie Frances and Elbridge Samuel (later changed to Warren) Merrill were the children of Samuel F. Merrill and Mary Evelyn née Pillsbury, originally of Newburyport. Elbridge Merrill therefore took the cabinet portrait of his sister and niece Laura E. Merrill (born Dec 1889) around 1892, and it is possible that he was also responsible for the cyanotype of his sister and brother-in-law.
Onward and upward over the Chilkoot Pass, 1898
From a stereoview by B.W. Kilburn
The life and work of E.W. Merrill appears to have been researched in some considerable detail by Sharon Bohn Gmelch. Her studies were published in both a journal article (Gmelch, 1995) and a book (Gmelch, 2008), neither of which I've been able to access in anything more than fragmentary form, courtesy of Google Books' snippet view. From census and trade directory and other records, I've established that Merrill produced photographs of a variety of subjects, mainly in Danvers, between 1890 and 1898, although it is unclear whether the photography was a sideline or his primary occupation.
Portrait of E.W. Merrill near his cabin, Mt. Verstovia, Sitka (STA-RHC-08-015)
Image courtesy of the Sitka Tribal Library
In 1897 or 1898, however, Merrill succumbed to the lure of the Klondike gold rush, heading for Seattle where he and two others purchased a vessel and sailed north. The most popular route to the gold fields at the time was via Sitka or Juneau to Skagway, then up over either the Chilkoot or White Pass, and down the headwaters of the Yukon River to Klondike City (Adney, 1900).
Portrait of unidentified Tlingit family, by E.W. Merrill, Sitka
PO018: Bessie Visaya Photograph Collection
Courtesy of the Sealaska Heritage Institute
As with the vast majority of the fortune seekers, Merrill failed in his quest for a bonanza at the Klondike, and returned to Sitka, the 1900 census recording his arrival there in October the previous year. He worked at odd jobs for what must have been a very short period before opening a curio store and photographic studio, the latter catering both for the local community as well as the burgeoning tourist trade. The large format (5" x 6½") print depicting an unidentified Tlingit family (above) is probably an early example of his work in Sitka, showing significant similarities in style and composition with the portraits that he had produced in Danvers.
Portrait of two men in regalia on the deck of the Annahootz house
by E.W. Merrill, 1899 (STA-RHC-01-035)
Image courtesy of the Sitka Tribal Library
Over the next three decades Merrill "approached his subject matter with an artist's eye that paid attention to lighting and composition," the miscellany of subjects ranging from landscapes to community events, and resulting in the accumulation of a large and varied portfolio. He appears to have eschewed the conventional studio portraits of the day, with their arranged props and carefully chosen painted scenic backdrops. Although some individual indoors portraits exist with plain backgrounds, he tended to capture his human subjects outdoors, often using as backdrops the characteristic white painted wooden weatherboard walls of Sitka buildings. The colourful, intricate and exotic designs of his subjects' clothing and traditional artifacts provided a dramatic contrast, which produced stunning images.
Portrait of unidentified Tlingit man by E.W. Merrill (SITK 3935)
Image courtesy of the National Park Service, Sitka
His portrayal of the indigenous people of Sitka was markedly different from popular trends, showing considerable respect for the Tlingit, their customs and their history (Salicki, 2009).
Merrill's photographic style varies sharply from the majority of indigenous images of the time. He adopted a realist stance to his photographs that omitted a romanticized vision of the Tlingit. The images did not conform to common stereotypes of noble savage or assimilated peoples. Merrill depicted the Tlingit in a contemporary context that was saturated with European influence and exposure.
Portrait of Russian Orthodox clergymen by E.W. Merrill (SITK 3802)
Image courtesy of the National Park Service, Sitka
Merrill did not restrict his clientele to native subjects. He also photographed the European settlers, both American and Russian, as exemplified by this unusual portrait of a group of Russian Orthodox clergymen, arrayed on the steps of what was presumably their church.
Totem Walk, Sitka National Monument, by E.W. Merrill (SITK 3822)
Image courtesy of the National Park Service, Sitka
Many of his images reflected his keen "interest in natural history, anthropology and ethnology." He was involved with the erection and preservation of historic totem poles along trails in what is now the Sitka National Historical Park, and the postcards that he published included photographs that he took there.
Merrill Rock memorial plaque, dated 1932, Sitka
Image © and courtesy of Nate Kauffman via Flickr
Merill died of pneumonia on 27 October 1929, aged 59, a eulogy in the Alaska Weekly describing him as Sitka's "Father of Pictures." His legacy to the photohistory of the region was substantial (Salicki, 2009):
While his photographs did function as tourist goods and entered into a wider pattern of circulation, they were also revered and used in Sitka. During his lifetime, Merrill's images were a constant feature in local newspapers and books. After his death, his collection of glass plate negatives also stayed relatively close to the community that produced them.About 1100 of Merrils's original glass plate negatives survive, and are currently held by the National Park Service at Sitka.
Gmelch, Sharon Bohn (2008) The Tlingit Encounter with Photography, University of Pennsylvania Press, 210p.
Gmelch, Sharon Bohn (1995) Elbridge Warren Merrill: The Tlingit of Alaska, History of Photography, Summer95, Vol. 19 Issue 21899-1929.
Salicki, Joanna (2009) Origins of an Image - E.W. Merrill, the Tlingit and the Potlatch, Anthropology and Photography at the American Museum of Natural History blog, 15 April 2009, [Accessed 26 April 2011].
Anon (nd) Guide to Elbridge W. Merrill Photograph Collection, ca. 1897-1929, Alaska State Library Historical Collections.
Adney, Tappan (1994) The Klondike Stampede, (Facsimile Edition ) UBC Press, 471p. (Originally publ. 1900 by Harper & Bros)
Antonson, Joan M. & Hanable, William S. (1987) An Administrative History of Sitka National Historical Park, from the National Park Service
E.W. Merrill Photograph Gallery, from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
PO018: Bessie Visaya Photograph Collection, from the Sealaska Heritage Institute.
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President Barack Obama is not the only digitally-inclined politician.
The president may have unofficially kicked off his re-election campaign by visiting Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters but come Wednesday another politician will use Bay Area based social media startups to announce his intention to unseat Mr. Obama.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich will announce his run at the White House Wednesday via Facebook and Twitter.
Mr. Gingrich will also use old media -- namely Fox News -- for the announcement.
By announcing on Twitter and Facebook, the Republican presidential hopeful is starting off on a platform that many say delivered Obama the White House during his first presidential run.
Obama's 2008 social media prowess was the backbone of his fundraising campaign. The president's online outreach attracted three million donors who made a total of 6.5 million donations that added up to more than $500 million.
Most of the donations came is small amounts. Six million of the donations were for $100 or less, with the average being $80.
Gingrich Joins Obama on Facebook Train
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After reading The Mitten's issue on Henry Ford's Model T, students should be able to address these kinds of questions. This lesson is designed to help students understand the economic culture surrounding Michigan's labor force, and the differences between the labor force of Henry Ford's time and the labor force of current times by putting students in the position of a laborer and asking them to assess their own financial situation.
You Will Need:
A copy of the February 2004 issue of The Mitten, found here.
A copy of the Model T worksheet: ModelTDiagram
Students will need simple calculators, pencils, and paper to figure out wages and costs.
Questions to Consider during this lesson:
Ask students these questions at the beginning of the lesson, and see what they think, whether they have a way to formulate an educated answer or not. Tell them to think about these things throughout the discussion and activities. After the lesson, return to these questions and see what they think again; their opinions may change.
Why was the Model T such a popular car?
Who do you think would have bought a Model T, and why?
What made the Model T so important to both the United States and foreign culture?
How Affordable Was a Model T?
If a Ford assembly line worker made $5 a day and worked 250 days per year, how much would he or she earn in a year? ($5 x 250 = $1250.) What percentage of his or her annual income would the purchase of a $290 Model T represent? ($290 \ 1250 = 23%.) How does that percentage compare to costs today? How would you go about figuring this out? (Students can choose a car from the current ads they collected to price a new vehicle and use either minimum wage ($7.25 an hour in 2009), or an assembly line workers' average hourly wages ($14.51 an hour for Floor Assembly III position, 2009) to compare the costs of purchasing a new car today.)
Workin' the Assembly Line
Let students experience what it is like to work on an assembly line by setting up a series of simple, repetitive, timed tasks. Use the image of the Model T provided in this lesson. Have each student find
a specific part in the image such as the steering wheel, left front tire, back seat, assign each student a part to be colored with a different color crayon. When the line boss says go, each student colors the shape they are responsible for. When the timer bell goes off, the student must pass the project to the next person on the line whether they've finished or not once students can accomplish the tasks assigned, speed up the line. Some students may have bigger or more complicated tasks to accomplish than others and may not be able to finish the task in the assigned time. This will provide some material for later discussions such as: What problems did the class encounter? How did working on the line make students feel? Did the quality of workmanship change when the line was speeded up? How did students feel about working hard and not having ownership of the finished product? How did the time involved in producing the item by the assembly line technique compare to the time it would take one individual to complete the task?
Bringing Home the Bacon
After having completed both of the above activities, bring the class back together in a discussion setting. Initiate some questions wages and costs, payments of insurance, etc. Ask how the students would feel about trying to buy the product they'd just made on an assembly line salary in 2011, and in 1908 or 1927. Give the students the guideline of spending a flat %20 of their income on transportation. Set a fixed cost for factors like insurance and gas and ask the students to compute different figures relating to their purchase. How do they differ from then to now?
This Lesson Involves Michigan Education Standards as Follows:
3-G4.0.1 –Describe major kinds of economic activity in Michigan today, such as automobile manufacturing and explain the factors influencing the location of these economic activities.
3-E1.0.4 –Describe how entrepreneurs combine natural, human, and capital resources to produce goods and services in Michigan.
4-E1.0.1 –Identify questions economists ask in examining the United States (e.g. What is produced? How is it produced? How much is produced? Who gets what is produced? What role does the government play in the economy?).
N.MR. 04.14 –Solve contextual problems involving whole number multiplication and division.
3-E1.0.1 –Explain how scarcity, opportunity costs, and choices affect what is produced and consumed in Michigan
4-E1.0.5 –Explain how specialization and division of labor increase productivity (e.g., assembly line).
Further Explorations:
For additional ideas and lesson plans related to the Model T, go to:
Henry Ford's The Model T Road Trip: Lesson Plans, at: http://www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/class/modelt/main.html


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The $200-million disaster movie 2012 opened November 13, 2009. Earning $750 million, it seemed designed to break all records for disaster spectacles--with cracking continents, plunging asteroids, burning cities and a tsunami throwing an aircraft carrier through the White House. The movie's ominous slogan: "Find out the truth." Two more major movies about the 2012 doomsday are reportedly in the works.
Anyone who cruises the Internet or all-night talk radio knows why. The ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala kept a calendar that is about to roll up the red carpet of time, swing the solar system into transcendental alignment with the heart of the Milky Way and turn Earth into a bowling pin for a rogue planet heading down our alley for a strike.
None of it is true. People you know, however, are likely becoming a bit afraid that modern astronomy and Maya secrets are indeed conspiring to bring our doom. I'm an astronomer and a specialist in the astronomy of ancient people, so people are asking me about this. Here's what I tell them.
Birth of a Notion
We've had similar scares in the recent past, but none quite like this. The last time the world got all worked up over the mystical turning of a calendar was the false millennium of January 1, 2000. Never mind the actual y2k computer-date bug. True-believer authors (and their imitators) published scary and/or hopeful books about the moment's prophetic potential to catch an immense cosmic wave and change everything for either good or ill. Borrowing a forecast from Nostradamus, the 16th-century French riddler, author Charles Berlitz predicted catastrophe in his 1981 book Doomsday 1999. Berlitz (fresh off books on Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle), warned that 1999 could inflict flood, famine, pollution and a shift of Earth's magnetic poles.
In the 1990s an entire "Earth Changes" movement swelled into being as the end of the century neared, with all sorts of millennial expectations--earthquakes, plagues, polar axis shifts, continents sliding into the sea, Atlantis rising and more.
When January 1, 2000, came and went with nothing worse than ski-lift passes printing the date as 1900, the focus shifted to "5/5/2000" several months later. Most believers in the power of planetary alignments forgot the failure of earlier lineups to induce disaster. The "Jupiter Effect" cataclysm predicted for March 10, 1982, (named for the 1974 book about it by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann) commanded headlines but never materialized.
Throughout history, end-of-the-world movements missing their mark number in the "hundreds of thousands at the very least," says Richard Landes, historian at Boston University and director of its Center for Millennial Studies. But people eager for the world to end are not to be denied and this time, of course, all will be different.
What exactly is the Maya calendar about to do? On December 21, 2012, it will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. It's the end of Baktun 13. The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them. A baktun is 144,000 days: a little more than 394 years.
Scholars have deciphered how the Maya calendar worked from historical texts and ancient inscriptions, and they have accurately correlated so-called Maya Long Count dates with the equivalent dates in our calendar. Just as we number our years counting from a historically and culturally significant event (the presumed birth year of Christ), Maya times were numbered from a date endowed with religious and cosmic significance: the creation date of the present world order. A Long Count date is the tally of days from that mythic startup. Most experts think the start point corresponds to August 11, 3114 bce [interestingly close to one Hindu calendar's beginning at 3102 bce].
Most of the Maya calendar intervals accumulate as multiples of 20. An interval of 7,200 days (360 x 20) was known as a katun. It takes 20 katuns to complete a baktun (20x7,200=144,000 days). Although some ancient inscriptions turn 13 baktuns into an important reset milestone, others imply that the calendar simply keeps running. For instance, it takes 20 baktuns to make a pictun.
No one paid much attention to the end of Baktun 13 until fairly recently. In 1975 Frank Waters, a romantic and speculative author, devoted a brief section to the subject in his book Mexico Mystique. He identified the 13-baktun interval as a "Mayan Great Cycle," overestimated its duration as 5,200 years, and equated five such cycles with five legendary eras, each of which ends in the world's destruction and rebirth. There is no genuine Maya tradition behind any of this. [When asked, one Mayan shaman said, "Only the cycle will end. Time will continue, and we will learn to live in peace and harmony, for we are all a part of a plan to help the Gods complete the creation and perfection of the world."]
Waters also miscalculated the date when the calendar would supposedly pull down the shades. "The end of the Great Cycle . . . will occur December 24, 2011a.d.," he announced, when the world "will be destroyed by catastrophic earthquakes." Exact date aside, the doomsday ball was now rolling.
Another book in 1975 spotlighted the Maya calendric roundup. Dennis and Terence McKenna discussed it in The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. That book at least got the Baktun-13 end date right: December 21, 2012. It also noted that the date is the winter solstice, when the Sun will be "in the constellation Sagittarius, only about 3 degrees from the Galactic Center, which, also coincidentally, is within 2 degrees of the ecliptic." The McKennas continued, "Because the winter solstice node is precessing, it is moving closer and closer to the point on the ecliptic where it will eclipse the galactic center." In reality this event will never happen, but it hardly matters. The McKennas linked the whole arrangement with the concept of renewal and called 2012 a moment of "potential transformative opportunity."
Broader interest in 2012 caught on beginning in 1987. In The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, Jose Argueelles (an "artist, poet and visionary historian" according to the dust jacket) linked the 13-baktun period with an impalpable "beam" from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to Argueelles, the Maya knew when we entered this beam and when we would leave it, and set their 13-baktun cycle to mark our passage through it accordingly. The beam, he asserted, operates as "invisible galactic life threads" that link people, the planet, the Sun and the center of our galaxy. Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam. It stemmed instead from Argueelles' personal philosophy, which emphasizes "the principle of harmonic resonance." Argueelles also concluded that the planets are "orbiting harmonic gyroscopes" that "play a role in the coordination of the beam," which advances the development of anything with DNA. The year 2012, therefore, will bring a rosy version of the apocalypse.
If this sounds a bit familiar, you're right. In 1987 Argueelles and his followers predicted, with worldwide fanfare, that August 16-17 of that year would bring a Maya-Galactic "Harmonic Convergence." That event turned into a global phenomenon, with thousands gathering at Earth's "acupuncture points" to create a "synchronized and unified bio-electromagnetic collective battery." Unfortunately, the date passed with nothing more than colorful newspaper stories.
Fast-forward to 1995. That year John Major Jenkins packaged several of these themes into Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. According to Jenkins, the winter-solstice point and the center line of our galaxy will line up exactly on December 21st. Arguing that this motivated the Maya to contrive the calendar to end on that date, Jenkins concludes that it will be "a tremendous transformation and opportunity for spiritual growth, a transition from one world age to another." In fact, astronomy cannot pinpoint such a "galactic alignment" to within a year, much less a day.
Jenkins did acknowledge that the winter-solstice Sun actually crosses the center of the Milky Way anytime between 1980 and 2016. Elsewhere, he expands this approach zone to a 900-year period, and settles for an imprecise alignment to which December 21, 2012, is arbitrarily and circularly assigned. Real astronomy does not support any match between the Baktun-13 end date and a galactic alignment. The advocates both admit and ignore this discrepancy.
What did the Maya themselves think about End Times? There is no evidence that they saw the calendar and a world age ending in either transcendence or catastrophe on December 21, 2012. Some Maya Long Count texts refer to dates many baktuns past 13 and even into the next pictun and beyond. For instance, an inscription commissioned in the 7th century by King Pacal of Palenque predicts that an anniversary of his accession would be commemorated on October 15, 4772.
In all of the Long Count texts discovered, transcribed and translated, only one mentions the key date in 2012: Monument Six at Tortuguero, a Maya site in the Mexican state of Tabasco. The text is damaged, but what remains does not imply the end of time.
Some advocates for the 2012 catastrophe say that what will actually cause the devastation is an alignment of planets. There is no planet alignment on the winter solstice in 2012. Nonetheless, advocates of doom connect the fictional alignment to astrological predictions or groundless claims about a reversal of Earth's magnetic field and unprecedented solar storms. Many Internet postings and guests on all-night apocalyptic radio have elaborated on these themes.
In particular, several threads of irrational thought have created an Internet phantom: the secret planet Nibiru. It's the bowling ball, and Earth is the pin. There is no such planet, though it is often equated with Eris, a plutoid orbiting safely and permanently beyond Pluto. Some insist, however, that a NASA conspiracy is in play and that Nibiru, looming in on the approach, can already be seen in broad daylight from the Southern Hemisphere. It was supposed to become visible from the Northern Hemisphere, too, by last May, but like a fickle blind date, it stood up those awaiting it.
Others on the Web, confused about the supposed alignment of the winter-solstice Sun with the Milky Way's center, have declared that the Sun is now plummeting to the Milky Way's center and dragging Earth with it. The predicted result? Earth's polar axis will shift.
Most of what's claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy and a level of paranoia worthy of Night of the Living Dead. PIpi
Reprinted with permission from Sky and Telescope magazine, November, 2009
Edwin C. Krupp has been the director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles since 1974. He is known for his extensive publications on astronomical and science education topics. In particular, Krupp is an expert in archaeoastronomy--the study of the astronomical knowledge of ancient civilizations.


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"Everything they're doing is designed to drive things to privatization," Rep. Peter DeFazio, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure highways and transit subcommittee told the Washington Post. He was speaking about the Bush administration and its appointees at the Department of Transportation, who the paper says, are doing everything possible to move the national transportation infrastructure towards privatization and therefore pay-per-use charging.
Through a system of taxes, incentives, legislation and earmarks, the privatization of our road network is drawing rapidly nearer. This will mean an increase in both toll roads and congestion charging as public transportation suffers from the lack of investment as its channeled elsewhere.
The WaPo goes on to explain that while this policy is heavily criticized, a large investment in the road network is needed and drivers are going to be the ones paying for it, either through tolls and similar charges, or through increased fuel taxes. But, as the price of fuel skyrockets, it's looking increasingly unlikely that it'll be the latter.
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VATICAN CITY — The Jordan Tourism Board and the Israeli Ministry of Tourism have opened special Web sites to help pilgrims wanting to follow Pope Benedict XVI's May 8-15 pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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The Israeli site provides information in seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish and Portuguese. In addition to news about the pope's visit, it includes information on the most popular Christian sites in Israel and in Palestine.
Both sites include information and photos from Pope John Paul II's visit in 2000. The Israeli site says of Pope John Paul's visit: "His Holiness' pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the Great Jubilee was the highlight of all of his papal pilgrimages. His visit to the cradle of Christianity bore historical, emotional and spiritual meaning not only for Christianity but also for the Jewish people."
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This is to continue the discussion of Objectivism from the front page. Some basic info:
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) (wikipedia) was a Russian immigrant, author, screenwriter and creator of the philosophy called "Objectivism", which advocates selfishness as a virtue and denounces altruism.
Among her writings are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, both of which have been turned into feature films.
Despite her atheism, Rand is popular among Tea Party conservatives because of her anti-tax stance.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was a personal friend of Rand.
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Actually, the concept of "enlightened self interest" comes from Albert Ellis and other cognitive theorists.
For the record, I'm not a full-blown follower of Rand, but, like other philosophers, there are points she made (particularly about how government tends to get bigger and bigger until creativity is stifled) certainly ring true to me.
That said, the mortgage meltdown certainly illustrates the need for oversight . . . .Rand's weakness is that she naively thought that the free market would correct all problems.
Dee - thanks, great short cut and time saver for me :)
Ullrich - I'm quite excited by your theory - you seem to be saying that if we could rid the world of psychopaths we wouldn't have all this instability - that their greed is at the root of the problems of war and economic crash...? A genocide on psychopaths perhaps?
Also, what role do you think they have played in our society still be present at part of the fittest that have survived? Or do you think them as more of a birth defect, having ill formed growth of the brain due to environmental factors such as nutritional deficiencies in utero?
I think they survived because psychopathy has survival benefits for the psychopath. Probably they remain a fairly small fraction of the population because tribes or groups with too many psychopaths are at a disadvantage compared to tribes with fewer. People who aren't bound by moral compunctions not to rape (for instance) will, in some cases (like in societies where rape isn't considered that big a deal and women aren't allowed access to abortion) possibly have more children than their better socialized brothers. The other possibility is that psychopaths are more likely to rise to the top of authoritarian hierarchies (e.g. CEO positions in publicly traded corporations) and will have greater opportunities to reproduce because of their positions. It's not what you know, it's how many people you're willing to trample underfoot on your journey to the top of the heap. :(
It is also possible that the same genetic variation that causes psychopathy also is responsible (when suitably regulated) for leadership abilities, so having just the right number of psychopathy related genes in your tribe might give it an advantage over those with higher or lower percentages of those traits.
Unfortunately, all this hardly qualifies as a theory yet, but it is IMHO a reasonable hypothesis which seems to account for some of recent and ancient history. Hopefully there are groups of scientists full of folks much brighter than I out there looking into all this in more detail.
Until all this is sorted out in detail, genocide is probably not a good idea even against psychopaths because we can't know at this stage of our understanding what other positive traits might be linked to psychopathy related genes... or even how genes and socialization interact to produce psychopathy. Maybe we will eventually learn how to control the obvious negative aspects and wind up with more brilliant leaders and fewer serial killers out of the same set of genes.
George got me onto this discussion - so I'm here to see what's going on.... :)
Ullrich - I also think that many just acquire psychopathic traits as an adaptive mechanism - I wish you well with your hypothesis and also hope that someone gets to follow this up with some science and study - it would be very interesting.... :)
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Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary production of "Hamilton" - a hip hop musical recounting the life story of the "ten-dollar founding father" - holds the record for most Tony nominations for a musical, with 16, including nods for seven of its cast members; director Thomas Kail; choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler; scenic designer David Korins; and costume designer Paul Tazewell.
Miranda (center) received three nominations, for Best Actor in a Musical, Best Book and Best Original Score.
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Mel Brooks' 2001 show "The Producers," adapted from his classic film comedy, holds the record for most Tony Award wins by a musical (12), including Best Director and Choreography (both Susan Stroman), Best Actor (Nathan Lane), and Best Score (Brooks).
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Actress Julie Harris is tied with Chita Rivera for the Tony record for most nominations by a performer, with 10. Harris won five Tonys for acting, and received a lifetime achievement Tony in 2002.
Left: Harris with William Prince in "I Am a Camera," Harris' first Tony-winning performance, in 1952.
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Chita Rivera has received 10 Tony nominations (and two wins), beginning with her Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for "Bye, Bye, Birdie" in 1961 (pictured), and most recently for the 2015 musical, "The Visit."
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With her Tony win in 2014 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play, for "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," Audra McDonald set a Tony record for most wins by a performer, with six.
Her five previous Tonys were for "Carousel," "Master Class," "Ragtime," "A Raisin in the Sun," and "Porgy & Bess."
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The recipient of the most Tony nominations by a male actor is Jason Robards Jr., with eight. The star of such classic productions as "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "After the Fall" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten" only won the Tony once, however, for 1959's "The Disenchanted" (left, with Rosemary Harris).
The most-honored composer in Tony history is Stephen Sondheim. He won seven Tonys for his shows "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Company," "Follies," "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," "Into the Woods," and "Passion," and an eighth in 2009 for lifetime achievement.
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In 1973 Ben Vereen won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as the "Leading Player" in the musical "Pippin." Forty years later, Patina Miller won Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as the "Leading Player" in the show's 2013 revival - the only time Tonys were won by both a man and a woman for the same role.
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Bob Fosse is the most-honored choreographer, with eight Tony Awards, for "The Pajama Game," "Damn Yankees," "Redhead," "Little Me," "Sweet Charity," "Pippin," "Dancin'" (left), and "Big Deal." Fosse also won a directing Tony for "Pippin."
In 1973 Bob Fosse became the only director to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy in the same year: for "Pippin" on Broadway, the movie adaptation of "Cabaret," and the TV production "Liza with a Z," starring Liza Minnelli.
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"Fun Home" (2015) by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, became the first show written entirely by women to win the Tony for Best Musical.
Within nine years Oliver Smith won eight Tony Awards for scenic design, the most by any designer. His roster of winning stage settings includes (left) "My Fair Lady," "The Sound of Music" and "Hello, Dolly!," as well as "West Side Story," "Becket," "Camelot," and "Baker Street," in addition to a special Tony Award in 1965.
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The most Tonys won by a play production was seven by Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" in 2007. The three-play cycle starred Ethan Hawke, Martha Plimpton, Jennifer Ehle, Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Brían F. O'Byrne and Jason Butler Harner.
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Director-producer Harold Prince has received more Tony Awards than any other individual - 21. His first was for producing the 1955 musical, "The Pajama Game." Other wins included the musicals "Damn Yankees," "Fiorello!," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Cabaret," "Company," "Follies," "A Little Night Music," "Candide," "Sweeney Todd," "Evita," "The Phantom of the Opera," and the 1995 revival of "Show Boat."
The Most Tony Wins for Best Direction of a Play goes to Mike Nichols (left, in an undated photo, and with Tim Curry in 2005 on opening night of "Spamalot!"), Nichols won six, for "Barefoot in the Park" (1964), "Luv" and "The Odd Couple" (1965), "Plaza Suite" (1968), "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" (1972), "The Real Thing" (1984), and "Death of a Salesman" (2012).
He also won for directing the musical "Monty Python's Spamalot" (2005), and for producing "Annie" (1977) and "The Real Thing" (1984), for a total of nine Tonys.
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Between the two of them, twin bothers Peter Shaffer and Anthony Shaffer won three Tony Awards for Best Play: Peter for "Sleuth," and Anthony for "Amadeus" (pictured: Frank Langella as Salieri) and "Equus."
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The most-honored lighting designer in Tony history is Jules Fisher, who has won nine times. His Tony victories include "Pippin" (1973), "Ulysses in Nighttown" (1974), "Dancin'" (1978), "Grand Hotel: The Musical" (1990), "The Will Rogers Follies" (1991), "Jelly's Last Jam" (1992), and (with Peggy Eisenhauer) 1996's "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" (left, with Savion Glover), "Assassins" (2004), and "Lucky Guy" (2013).
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Call it a "four-peat": Arthur Miller's drama, "Death of a Salesman," won the Tony for Best Play in 1949. It is the only play to subsequently win the Tony for Best Revival three times.
Clockwise from left: Mildred Dunnock, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, and Cameron Mitchell in the original "Death of a Salesman." The 1984 revival starred Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman. Elizabeth Franz and Brian Dennehy starred in the 1999 revival; and in 2012 Linda Emond, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield brought the play back to Broadway.
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The Richard Rodgers Theatre (formerly the 46th Street Theatre) holds bragging rights for staging the most Tony-winning Best Plays and Musicals (10), including "Guys and Dolls," "Damn Yankees," "Redhead," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," "1776," "Raisin," "Nine," "Fences," "Lost in Yonkers," and "In The Heights."
And the show currently on stage at the Richard Rodgers? "Hamilton."
Left: Jeremy Gumbs, Rodney Hicks, Josh Breckenridge, Derrick Cobey, Kendrick Jones, Julius Thomas III, Joshua Henry, Christian Dante White and James T. Lane in "The Scottsboro Boys."
The worst Tony record by a musical was 2011's "The Scottsboro Boys." Nominated for 12 awards, it won zero Tonys.
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