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Star Island

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Coordinates: 42°58′36″N 70°36′50″W / 42.97667°N 70.61389°W / 42.97667; -70.61389

Star Island Chapel

Star Island is one of the Isles of Shoals that straddle the border between New Hampshire and Maine, seven miles from the mainland in the Atlantic Ocean. Star Island is the largest of the four islands in the group that are located in New Hampshire. In 1876, the island was annexed to the town of Rye from the former town of Gosport.^[1]
Star Island is owned and operated by The Star Island Corporation, as a religious and educational conference center with close ties to the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. The conferences include week-long conferences with yearly-changing themes, family conferences, and youth conferences. In 2008, "personal retreats" were created, thus allowing members of the public to stay on the island for up to one week.^[2] Sarah Orne Jewett wrote an occasional poem, published in Harper's Magazine (63:550-551), September 1881, about her visit to Star Island and the Gosport church.^[3]

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Present-day 3 Conferences 3.1 June conferences 3.2 July conferences 3.3 August conferences 3.4 September conferences and gatherings 4 Getting to the island 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

East Rock c. 1912

Star Island was first settled, as were all the Isles of Shoals, in the early 17th century by fishermen working the rich waters of the North Atlantic coast. Many were English, coming up from the colonies of the Virginia companies. Although there may have been shelters built on the island, none were permanent or year-round.
The first permanent settlement of Star Island began in 1677 when the Province of Maine, under Massachusetts rule, undertook to increase taxes on nearby Hog Island (now Appledore Island). That and the recent availability of housing on Star Island, which was in New Hampshire, caused a mass migration and in 1715, the township of Gosport, New Hampshire, was established on Star Island.
The town and the island flourished until the American Revolutionary War when the colonials ordered the Shoals evacuated, believing that having a group of questionable loyalty just off the coast posed a threat. Many shoalers abandoned their island homes shortly thereafter.
After the war, some moved back to Gosport, but it never achieved its former population. Thomas Laighton established a hotel on Smuttynose Island and eventually a much larger one, the Appledore Hotel, on Hog, which he renamed Appledore Island. They were so successful that in 1873 another entrepreneur, John Poor, built the Oceanic Hotel on Star Island, by joining a cluster of Caswell family buildings with a long wooden veranda. When the first Oceanic burned in 1875 soon after it was built, owner John Poore reconfigured the surviving buildings into a second Oceanic Hotel. The largest, the former Atlantic House, had been run by Lemuel Caswell. Another, the Gosport House, was once run by Lemuel's brother Origen Caswell.

The Oceanic Hotel c. 1910

It was a golden era for island hotels. Air conditioning had yet to be invented and the cool sea breezes were a perfect escape from the hot summers of Boston and New York. But the resorts in the mountains of New Hampshire and New York were growing and did not involve a potentially unpleasant sea voyage. By the 1890s the hotels were nearly empty.
Then, in 1896, Thomas Elliott and his wife Lilla arrived on Star Island. They immediately saw in the lightly-occupied hotel a place where summer conferences could be held, to be sponsored by the Unitarian Church, of which he was a member. He made a deal with the manager to "fill the place to the ridge-poles" the following year, and then went back to the mainland to make good on his promise. He met with the Unitarians in Boston and then, just to make sure, he went across the street and made a deal with the Congregationalists. The following summer, he had so many at the conference that the staff was sleeping in the bathrooms.
The conferences continued and, in 1915, the Isles of Shoals Summer Meeting Association which Elliott had organized bought the hotel and the island, forming the Star Island Corporation.

[edit] Present-day

Sunset at the Oceanic Hotel

Thomas Elliott's original conference still meets today, as the Conference on International Affairs, as do a dozen or more other conferences. The island is like a self-sufficient town, producing all its own water and electricity. There are three separate water systems on the island — drinking water, cistern water for washing, and sea water for sanitary use. The island has its own septic treatment plant, one of the few capable of handling salt water, and a reverse osmosis water purification system for converting sea water to drinking water. The island is staffed by a crew of 90 young adults, mostly college students, termed "Pelicans," who live on Star Island for the summer and do everything from transporting luggage to washing dishes, painting buildings, weeding, and making beds.
On Star Island there are multiple hotel buildings, the largest of which is the Oceanic Hotel. Others are named for YPRU (Young People's Religious Union), James Caswell, Leland Baker, and Capt. John Smith. There is a marine lab, a floating dock often used by swimmers, two tennis courts, two playgrounds, the "Kiddie Barn" where childcare services are given, an old stone chapel, a scenic gazebo termed the Summerhouse, Vaughn Cottage where the historical records are kept, and beautiful scenery all around. The sunsets are breathtaking; those viewed from the Summerhouse and from the Oceanic's front porch are famous.
Transportation to Star Island was with the steamship Thomas Laighton out of Portsmouth from 1985 through 2004, but starting in 2005 it began to use The Captain's Lady from Rye, causing conference day change-overs to be made in two trips. Day trips are possible and information about boat schedules can be found on the island's website. [1]
The Star Island conference center is owned and operated by the Star Island Corporation, a not-for-profit United States Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) membership organization incorporated in the state of Massachusetts. The corporation also is charged with preserving the Isles of Shoals for future generations. It is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
The town of Rye prevented the conference center on Star Island from opening on its usual schedule in early June, 2007, due to fire safety concerns. In late July, the Fire Marshal said there were no longer issues to prevent the conference center from opening, and the island opened for visitors in late July, with conferences resuming in early August.

[edit] Conferences

Conferences at Star Island last from two days to a full week and may overlap other conferences. Those in June and July, plus LOAS in August, tend to have a Unitarian Universalist orientation, while those marked "UCC" are affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Other conferences may or may not have a particular religious orientation.

[edit] June conferences

• Young Adults Conference (3–7 days)
• Conference on the Arts (7 days)
• Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association (ISHRA) (4 days)
• Natural History Conference (7 days)
• Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) (7 days)

[edit] July conferences

• All Star I Family Conference (7 days)
• All Star II Family Conference (7 days)
• Religious Education Conference (7 days)
• International Affairs Conference (7 days)

[edit] August conferences

• Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) (7 days)
• Star Gathering I (UCC) Family Conference (6 days)
• Star Gathering I (UCC) Youth Conference (6 days)
• Star Gathering II (UCC) Family Conference (6 days)
• Star Gathering II (UCC) Youth Conference (6 days)
• Weekend Conference of the Laity (UCC) (2 days)
• LOAS Site Life On A Star (LOAS) I (6 days)
• LOAS Site Life On A Star (LOAS) II (7 days)

[edit] September conferences and gatherings

• Pelican Reunion (2 days)
• Elderhostel I (5 days)
• Midweek Retreat I (4 days)
• Elderhostel II (5 days)
• Midweek Retreat II-Retreat to a Star (4 days)
• Granite State College (3 days)
• ISHRA September Weekend (2 days)
• Writelines (2 days)
• Star Women (formerly A Women's Gathering of Renewal) (2–4 days)
• Dover Yoga (2 days)
• Star Guilford: Rethinking the Small Church Choir (2 days)
• Star Hampshire Traditional Music & Dance (2 days)

[edit] Getting to the island

Several ferry companies have provided transportation to Star Island. The Isles of Shoals Steamship Company, Island Cruises, and We Like Whales bring visitors for day trips and overnights or run tours around the island and the rest of the Isles of Shoals.
Gosport Harbor, which is created by the islands and connecting breakwaters, is deep and fairly protected, and moorings are available for visiting boats.

[edit] References

1. ^ NH Employment Security - Rye, NH
2. ^ http://www.starisland.org/retreats/Star Island Corporation - Personal Retreats on Star Island.
3. ^ http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/poe/star.htm - On Star Island

[edit] External links

• Star Island website
• Isles of Shoals Association (Unitarian-Universalist)
• Pelican website

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Categories: Islands of New Hampshire | Landforms of Rockingham County, New Hampshire | Unitarian Universalism | United Church of Christ

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United States Postal Service

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United States Postal Service

Type	Government agency
Industry	Courier
Founded	1775 (see History)
Headquarters	475 L'Enfant Plaza SW Washington, D.C. 20260-2202
Key people	John E. Potter, Postmaster General
Products	First-class and domestic mail, logistics
Revenue	▼ US$ 68.09 billion (2009) [1]
Operating income	▼ US$ −3.74 billion (2009)
Net income	▼ US$ −3.79 billion (2009)
Employees	596,000 (2010)[2]
Website	USPS.com

Full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States government, responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Within the United States, it is commonly referred to as the "Post Office", "Postal Service", or "U.S. Mail".

Though postal services have existed on American territory before the United States' establishment, the USPS's first incarnation was established by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. The Post Office Department was created from Franklin's operation in 1792, as part of the United States Cabinet, then was transformed into its current form in 1983, under the Postal Reorganization Act.

Since its reorganization into an independent organization, the USPS has become self-sufficient and has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. However, it is currently borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury to pay its deficits.^[3] The decline of mail volume, due to the increased usage of email, has forced the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to maintain this financial balance.^[4]

Employing 596,000 workers and over 218,000 vehicles, it is the second-largest civilian employer in the United States (after Wal-Mart) and the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world.^[2] The USPS is obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. It has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail." It competes against private package delivery services who cannot deliver to letter boxes and must leave packages by front doors, if no one is available to receive them.

Contents [show] 1 History 2 Current operations 3 Governance and organization 4 Universal Service Obligation and monopoly status 4.1 Competitors 4.2 Alternative transmission methods 5 Plans 5.1 2010 census 6 Law enforcement agencies 6.1 Postal Inspection Service 6.2 Office of Inspector General 7 Addressing envelopes 8 Paying postage 8.1 Postage meters 8.2 PC postage 8.3 Other electronic postage payment methods 8.4 Stamp copyright and reproduction 9 Service level choices 9.1 General domestic services 9.2 Bulk mail 9.3 Add-on services 9.4 Postal money orders 9.5 International services 9.6 Airline and rail division 10 Sorting and delivery process 10.1 Types of postal facilities 10.1.1 Automated Postal Centers 10.2 Evolutionary Network Development (END) program 11 Final delivery 11.1 Delivery days 11.2 Direct delivery vs. customer pickup 11.3 Special Delivery 11.4 Forwarding and holds 12 Employment in the USPS 13 Environmental stewardship 14 Violence as "going postal" 15 In fiction 16 See also 17 Notes 18 References 19 External links

[edit] History

Main article: Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

Running pony logo used by the U.S. Post Office Department before the creation of the USPS

The first postal service in America arose in February of 1692, when a grant from King William & Queen MaryThomas Neale "to erect, settle and establish within the chief parts of their majesties' colonies and plantations in America, an office or offices for the receiving and dispatching letters and pacquets, and to receive, send and deliver the same under such rates and sums of money as the planters shall agree to give, and to hold and enjoy the same for the term of twenty-one years."^{[citation needed]} empowered

The United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) was created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin on Wednesday, July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. Based on the Postal Clause in Article One of the United States Constitution, empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads," it became the Post Office Department (U.S.P.O.D.) in 1792. It was part of the Presidential cabinet and the Postmaster General was the last person in the United States presidential line of succession. In 1971, the department was reorganized as a quasi-independent corporation of the federal government and acquired its present name. The Postmaster General is no longer in the presidential line of succession.^[5]

The Post Office Department was enlarged during the tenure of President Andrew Jackson. As the Post Office expanded, difficulties were experienced due to a lack of employees and transportation. The Post Office's employees at that time were still subject to the so-called 'spoils' system, where faithful political supporters of the executive branch were appointed to positions in the post office and other government corporations as a reward for their patronage. These appointees rarely had prior experience in postal service and mail delivery. This system of political patronage was replaced in 1883, after passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.^[6]

July 30, 1990

5290 Langevin

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Langevin

Discovery and designation
Discovered by	H. E. Holt
Discovery site	Palomar
Discovery date	July 30, 1990
Designations
MPC designation	5290
Named after	Paul Langevin
Alternate name(s)[note 1]	1990 OD4
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Ap	2.9099016
Peri	2.5625138
Eccentricity	0.0634798
Orbital period	1653.1871451
Mean anomaly	311.79429
Inclination	11.17968
Longitude of ascending node	189.22707
Argument of peri	158.71562
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	11.8
^ Minor Planet Designations

5290 Langevin (1990 OD4) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 30, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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July 30, 1990

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7936 Mikemagee

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Mikemagee

Discovery and designation
Discovered by	H. E. Holt
Discovery site	Palomar
Discovery date	July 30, 1990
Designations
MPC designation	7936
Alternate name(s)[note 1]	1990 OW2
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Ap	2.6322938
Peri	2.0093536
Eccentricity	0.1342067
Orbital period	1291.4026376
Mean anomaly	320.07168
Inclination	8.33956
Longitude of ascending node	81.73030
Argument of peri	301.03384
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.8
^ Minor Planet Designations

7936 Mikemagee (1990 OW2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 30, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.

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George H W Bush Announces War Against Iraq (January 16 1991)

George H W Bush Announces War Against Iraq (January 16 1991)

George H.W. Bush - Address on Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait (August 8, 1990)

George H.W. Bush - Address on Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait (August 8, 1990)

ADA Signing Ceremony - July 26, 1990 (pt2)

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Americans With Disability Act

George H.W. Bush - Signing Americans with Disibilities Act

George H.W. Bush - Signing Americans with Disibilities Act

Toward a New World Order 1990

"Toward a New World Order" September 11, 1990

H.G. Wells wrote a book published in 1940 entitled The New World Order. The book addressed the ideal of a world without war in which law and order emanated from a world governing body and examined various proposals and ideas.

 

A pivotal point came with Bush's September 11, 1990 "Toward a New World Order" speech (full text) to a joint session of Congress. This time it was Bush, not Gorbachev, whose idealism was compared to Woodrow Wilson, and to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the creation of the UN. Key points picked up in the press were:

• Commitment to U.S. strength, such that it can lead the world toward rule of law, rather than use of force. The Gulf crisis was seen as a reminder that the U.S. must continue to lead, and that military strength does matter, but that the resulting new world order should make military force less important in the future.
  
• Soviet–American partnership in cooperation toward making the world safe for democracy, making possible the goals of the UN for the first time since its inception. Some countered that this was unlikely, and that ideological tensions would remain, such that the two superpowers could be partners of convenience for specific and limited goals only. The inability of the USSR to project force abroad was another factor in skepticism toward such a partnership.
  
• Another caveat raised was that the new world order was based not on U.S.-Soviet cooperation, but really on Bush-Gorbachev cooperation, and that the personal diplomacy made the entire concept exceedingly fragile.
  
• Future cleavages were to be economic, not ideological, with the First and Second world cooperating to contain regional instability in the Third World. Russia could become an ally against economic assaults from Asia, Islamic terrorism, and drugs from Latin America.
  
• Soviet integration into world economic institutions, such as the G7, and establishment of ties with the European Community.
  
• Restoration of German sovereignty and Cambodia's acceptance of the UN Security Council's peace plan on the day previous to the speech were seen as signs of what to expect in the new world order
  
• The reemergence of Germany and Japan as members of the great powers, and concomitant reform of the UN Security Council was seen as necessary for great power cooperation and reinvigorated UN leadership
  
• Europe was seen as taking the lead on building their own world order, while the U.S. was relegated to the sidelines. The rationale for U.S. presence on the continent was vanishing, and the Gulf crisis was seen as incapable of rallying Europe. Instead Europe was discussing the European Community, the CSCE, and relations with the USSR. Gorbachev even proposed an all-European security council to replace the CSCE, in effect superseding the increasingly irrelevant NATO.
  
• A very few postulated a bi-polar new order of U.S. power and UN moral authority, the first as global policeman, the second as global judge and jury. The order would be collectivist, in which decisions and responsibility would be shared.
  

George Herbert Walker Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush

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President of the United States (1989–1993).

He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), (Vice-President, Member of the National Security Council (Statutory))

American Policy--Star Wars Policy, Drug War Policy, Middle East policy, Iranian Hostage release on Reagan's inauguration

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Director of Central Intelligence. (George Bush, CIA director-January 30, 1976 – January 20, 1977)

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing, i.e.............. Ambassador to China, Sept 26, 1974 - December 7. 1975

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Daniel 5 ¹⁶And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

¹⁷Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. ¹⁸O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: ¹⁹And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: ²¹And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. ²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; ²³But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: ²⁴Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

Isaiah 14 ¹²How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! ¹³For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. ¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; ¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Isaiah 14 ¹⁸All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. ¹⁹But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. ²⁰Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

The TWENTIETH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE BOOK

1990 (1989?)-2010

Behold, I come as a thief

The robbery of the poor shall destroy the wicked because they refuse to do judgment

End of the Iran-Iraq war 1979-1988, Soviet Afghanistan war 1979- 1988, Lockerbie 1988, Kurdish genocide 1988,
1988 Wars over, leaving just the "mad" War criminals responsible
The fall of the Berlin wall 1989 (re-dated history, changing times)
Invasion of Kuwait 1990, breakup of the Soviet Union 1991

September 11, 1990-"New World Order speech", 5-points

Nelson Mandela prison number #46664 released from prison on the 10^th Anniversary of the Iranian revolution in 1990.

The 666 symbolism apparently was intentional, and not a coincidence.


Dissolving the then(Democratic) Soviet Union for the Soviet Afghanistan War, but starting ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia(1992) and the creation of the Junja weed Islamic, Somali Warlords, [CIA] (1991)
Bosnian(1993) and Somalia intervention wouldn't have been needed.
1994 the rise of the Taliban [CIA]
Militaries returned to Afghanistan (2001), because of the Soviet Afghanistan War (1979-1988), and the CIA created Taliban

Militaries returned to Iraq because of Desert Storm 91', and STAR WARS [NATO COSMIC CLEARANCE TRIBUNALS]
Militaries did Desert Storm (1991) because of the Soviet Afghanistan War.


Beirut Barracks Bombing
Anwar Sadat 82'
Rajiv Gandhi 91'


The worst Religious crime in the history of civilization

Proverbs 31 ¹The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. ²What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? ³Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. ⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. ⁶Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. ⁷Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. ⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.