Porter Blinn
February 13, 2015 by BJ MacDonald
Heirs of Alexander Barclay: Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn
Sarah Agnes Barclay has also given me trouble. I thought I had her in Connecticut married to a Porter Blinn but discovered, when I was in Connecticut in 2011, that it was a Sarah Grissom who married Porter Blinn. This is an example of checking other records like marriages and not just relying on census. The Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn I wanted married a James Blinn. As you read the information below you will see that Sarah is still giving me trouble.
In Salt Lake City, in October 2014, I found a birth record for an unnamed baby. The parents were Jas. B. Blinn and Sarah A. Barclay Blinn. The baby was born 29, June 1868 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. FHL#1313829.
Birth Record child of Sarah and James.
June 29, ____ Blinn, Male, Jas, B. & Sarah A. Barclay Blinn, father 41, mother 22, 121 Park Street, Occupation of the father [M/Woulder] W. H. Tremaine, physician. Mother’s occupation Bonnet Maker.
Update 6/10/2016 – I just recently found them in the 1870 Census. They are living in Bridgeport, Connecticut:
line 27, They are under house 1708 of a Dolph, Edwin L. 2531, Blinn, James B, 40, M, W, Iron Moulder, $150, born Connecticut, his parents are of foreign birth
Blinn, Sarah, A, 28, F, W, domestic _____, born Conn. parents of foreign birth.
Blinn, Anna E, 8/12 F, W.
Source: 1870 U.S. Federal Census, James Blinn Family, page 312, Bridgeport, County of Fairfield, Connecticut, enumerated the 26th day of July, 1870 by a Philo L. Bainerd.
The 1880 Connecticut Census has a James with a Sarah A. which might be them but the ages do not match the birth record above?
Line 28, 1751/2, 19, 30 Blinn, James B. W, M, 52, Iron Maulder, born Connecticut, parents born Ireland.
Blinn, Sarah A. W, F, 33, Wife, Hair worker, born Connecticut, father born England, mother born Scotland.
Blinn, Rex E., W, M, 8, son, at school, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut.
Blinn, Olive May, W, F, 3, daughter, at school, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut.
Source: James Blinn Family, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, page 3, SD#2, ED#4, enumerated 1 of June 1880, by J. McConville.
Sarah Agnes Blinn witnesses a deed between Grace and Amarilla in 1899 in August. I have featured this deed in a previous post on this blog regarding George A. Barclay’s estate, in Pine River. See the post dated March 24, 2014 titled: “Final Decree Aug. 15, 1899 – George’s Legacy.” I am glad Grace got to meet more of her father’s siblings. I think of all the lost stories of this family, sigh!
Update 6/10/2016 – I no longer feel that this is Sarah it just doesn’t work. In the 1900 Census we find Sarah with a daughter in California.
Line 84, 426, 55, 103, Blinn/Blum, Sarah, Head, W, F, June 1834, 65 Wd, 2 children born, 2 died. Born in Scotland, Immigrated 1851, 49 years in U.S., no occupation.
Blum, Louisa, daughter, W, F, Nov. 1853, age 46, S, born California, father born Sweden, mother Scotland, no occupation
Source: 1900 U.S. Federal Census for Sarah Blum, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, SD# 1, ED 306, Sht 4, Assembly Dist. No. 45, enumerated on the 4th day of June 1900, by Joseph A. Gendoth.
If this is Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn then I find her birth date very interesting and the fact she immigrated in 1851 also very interesting. Her daughter Louise is very confusing with the age 46 and the birth 1853?
1910 U.S. Census Seattle, King County, Washington we find them under the name Blain. Update 6/10/2016 – The only thing that bothers me is that she is said to be born in PA and I think that is not correct. So this is where things get tricky.
Line 96, 24th Avenue, 46, 56, Blain, Sarah A., head, F, W, 60 Wd, 5 children born 2 living, born Pennsylvania, Scot – Engl, Eng. English, Income, yes, yes.
Leola M. daughter, F, W, 33, D, 0 0, Born Pennsylvania, Father born New Jersey, mother born PA, English, Clerk, Abstract Office, W, No. O, yes, yes.
Source: Sarah Blain Family, 1910 Seattle, King County, Washington 11th Precinct part of, SD#1, ED#93, Ward 3 Part of), Sht#2, enumerated 16 April 1910, by T/F. W. Van Allen. Blain,
In 1920 Sarah is living in an insane asylum and probably has suffered the same fate as Alexander who was found wandering Farmington before his death and ended up in the Rochester Hospital in Olmsted Co., Minnesota. It is very interesting that her parents are born in New York?
Line 65, Blinn, Sarah A, F, W, 69, WD, yes, yes, born Connecticut, father born New York, mother born New York, yes,, no occupation.
Source: 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Napa State Hospital, Napa, California, Juarez Precinct, SD#3, ED# 56, Sht.#16, enumerated 14 January 1920, by John K. Harries.
The information provided below may or may not be the correct family, there is a tombstone at Find A Grave in the Sunset View Cemetery in Contra Costa, California, for a Sarah A. Blinn with the appropriate dates. She is listed as the Mother of Leola M. Kellogg but I don’t know or can’t find a Leola Kellogg marriage record:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Blinn&GSfn=Sarah&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=137683492&df=all&
Daughter Leola Mae may have married first an Alexander Buck and lived in Contra Costa but based on the above, I am not sure.
Line 71, 423, 433, Buck, Alexander, Head, M,W, 35 M, yes, yes, born PA, parents born PA. yes, truck_____Contractor.
Buck, Leola Mae, F, W, 34, M, yes, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut, none.
Source: Alexander Buck Family, 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Contra Costa, California, 7th Township, SD#3, ED#17, Sht.#18, enumerated 31, January 1920, by Claire W. Schmidt.
By 1930 they have moved to Placer, California.
Line 92, 178, 198, Buck, Alexander, yes, M, W, 45, M, 21, no, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut, 55, yes, rancher, fruit ranch
Buck, Leola, F, W, 44, M, 21, no, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut
Buck, Sarah, daughter, F, W, 8, S, yes, yes, born Connecticut, parents born, Connecticut, rancher, fruit ranch.
Source: Alexander Buck, 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Placer, California, township 14, ED# 31-27, SD4, Sht#7, enumerated on 22, April, 1930 by Matthew W. Coates.
Sarah J. Buck was born 4 January 1922 in Placer and her mother’s maiden name was Blinn.
1940 we find Alexander with a May in Placer.
Line 41, 141, O, 200, No, Buck, Alexander E. Head, M, W, 55, M, No, 8, born PA, Same house, Farmer. Buck, May, Wife, F, W, 56, M, No, 8, born PA, County Clinton, State PA, no occupation.
Source: Alexander Buck Family, Placer County, California, Judicial 10, SD#2, ED#31-21, Sht 7, enumerated on 22 April, 1940, by Eldon R. Martinson.
It looks like Alexander Buck died on 20 November 1970 in Placer, California and was born 21 December 1884 per the California Death Index.
Update 6/10/2016: About two weeks ago a lady from MOHAI contacted me with an article about a Leola Mae Blinn who was an attorney in the Seattle, Washington area. MOHAI is the Museum of History and Industry here in Seattle. So I started to doublecheck everything and found the 1870 census for James and Sarah A. Blinn. I am still having trouble verifying the death of James and finding out more about Sarah.
This article from the MOHAI individual had a photo from a city directory for a Leola May Blinn as an attorney.
Leola May Blinn
The article was from the Urbana Daily Courier Tuesday December 12, 1916 – Woman Motorists Drive off Wolves, Their Only Weapons Were Firebrands and Hatchet — An All-night Battle. Seattle, Wash. Forced to use firebrands, their only weapon aside from a hatchet, to drive away the timber wolves and coyotes that surrounded their machine at night, three Seattle women fund excitement aplenty on the last leg of an 8000 automobile journey across the continent. The women, Miss Leola May Blinn, her mother, Mrs. Sarah Blinn, aged 70, and Mrs. Charles S. Davis, traveled alone, without even a gun to protect themselves. They slept ou in the open. Miss Blinn’s automobile being converted at night into a sleeping car. “It was when we got stuck in eastern Washington that we suffered out most harrowing experience,” said Miss Blinn, describing the events of the journey. “We had just been ferried across the river at Walla Walla to Wallula when we ran into poor roads. From there to North Yakima we had a terrible time. We managed the difficult sand piles that served for roads until we were making a forced detour around the ‘Old Horn,’ a bend in the Columbia River. Then we got stuck in the sand. “We were miles from nowhere. Night came on. We had trouble with our battery and could not switch on the electric lights We could not go ahead nor could we go back. While we sat their the coyotes and timber wolves came. We had no gun. There was nothing but a hatchet. “We had built a fire, however, with the safe brush that was near, and with the firebrands were able to keep them off. The Coyotes were afflicted with rabies, the weather having been very hot, and the wolves came right up to the machine and almost put their noses inside. We stayed up all night. Early the next morning I started out for assistance. While I was away Mrs. Davis had to use firebrands again to keep off the coyotes who had reappeared. Then she became anxious for my safety, not knowing whether I would be able to find assistance or not. I was able, however, to arouse two white men in a tent a mile away and with their help we got out of the North Yakima flats.”
I know that Sarah Agnes Blinn was in Seattle in 1906 helping her niece and nephew with affidavits about their father’s disappearance in Alexander’s estate papers. So this is very interesting.
I did manage to find an obituary about a Leola M. Kellogg but I don’t know what paper it is from only that it was done sometime in 1959:
Mrs. Leola B. Kellogg, Criminal Lawyer, Dies – Mrs. Leola Buck Kellogg, 82, a criminal lawyer for 40 years, died, Monday at Harbor General Hospital, where she was taken after being stricken at her Redondo Beach home. She lived at 1927 Gates Ave. North Redondo Beach. Mrs. Kellogg was born in Hartford, Conn. She was graduated from law school at George Washington University, Washington D.C., and later attended the New York School of Dramatic Art. After a brief career as an actress in the Boston stock company and at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York, she went to Seattle where she was admitted to the bar in 1912. Mrs. Kellogg was admitted to the California bar in 1919 and had specialized in criminal law in Los Angeles since then, acting as defense counsel in 18 murder trials in this area. She maintained offices at 122 S. Pacific Ave. Redondo Beach, and appeared in Redondo Beach Municipal Court as recently as March 3. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Niland Mortuary Chapel, 535 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach and interment will be at Pacific Crest Cemetery. Mrs. Kellogg leaves a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Jane von Dyl of Encino, and five grandchildren.
This obituary about Leola May Kellogg explains the notate on the tombstone that I found for Sarah A. Blinn, see above link to Find A Grave. It also explains why I was finding articles about Leola in the Seattle newspapers which stopped about 1920. I am going to summarize these articles here:
The Seattle Sunday Times, Oct. 27, 1912 – Miss Blinn Active in Republican Campaign – Feminine Lawyer Who Made Great Race for State Office, Heads Women’s auxiliary. With Photo. Miss Leola May Blinn, who ran third in the race for commissioner of public lands and who was the only woman admitted to the practice of law at the last state bar examination has been made chairman of the King County Republican committee’s women’s auxiliary. Miss Blinn is in charge of the women’s headquarters in the Seattle Hotel. Miss Blinn made a remarkable race for land commissioner, spending most of her time at her desk in the county clerk’s office while the campaign was in progress and devoting odd moments to her own canvas. As she is a good automobile driver she was able, in spare time, to make quick runs to nearby points and covered a great deal of the state in short trip expeditions. She introduced into politics an innovation — the woman campaign manager — who accompanied her on all her trips. Immediately after the close of the campaign, Miss Blinn appeared before the bar examining board and passed one of the most rigid bar examinations ever submitted to students. It is her ambition to devote herself to law practice in probate and realty matters, having had seven years’ experience in abstract work and having become familiar with probate business through her experience in the county clerk’s office. Miss Blinn is a member of the Women’s Relief Corps and several other organizations. She was born in Hartford, Conn. and now resides with her mother, at 1833 Twenty-fourth Avenue.
The Seattle Republican Friday Jan. 17, 1913 – Leola May Blinn ….first woman to be admitted to practice in the U.S. court in this district.
The Seattle Star, Wed, May 21, 1912 First Edition – Women Attorneys are Opposed in Man’s Trial. About a burglary case in which Miss Blinn and Miss Reah Whitehead argued the case.
The Labor Journal (Everett, WA) Fri, Feb 7, 1913 – First Edition – Women Form State Body. She held several positions in the creation of the organization.
The Labor Journal (Everett, WA) Fri Aug 14, 1914 – First Edition page 3 with photo – Woman Lawyer to Aid Paroled Prisoner.
The Newport Miner (Newport, WA) Thu, Aug 8, 1912 – First Edition page 6, Woman Candidate Files – Her move to run for land commissioner is filed.
The Oregon Daily Journal (Portland, OR) Tue, Aug 24, 1915 – page 13 – Woman Lawyer at Joint Meeting. Miss Leola May Blinn of Seattle is the only woman lawyer from Washington attending the joint meeting of the Washington Oregon and Bar Association….sort of a quick bio of her.
The Seattle Sunday Times, Nov. 11, 1917 She appears with a photo, About her Relief Corp work.
There is a Find A Grave memorial, with no gravestone at this time, to Leola. They use the name Leola Buck Kellogg, born Aug. 29, 1876 and died May 11, 1956. She is buried in the Pacific Crest Cemetery in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles Co., California. Plot 4 563 5. Billion Graves has a tombstone photo for her that reads: Beloved Mother, Leola B. Kellogg 1876 to 1959. There are other Kelloggs buried in the Pacific Crest: Daisy Evans, Emmer Edward and Michael. I did not find her husband.
The SSDI Applications and Claims Index has a Sarah Jane Vondyl (Sarah Jane Von Dyl) who was born 4 Jan 1922 in Auburn Place, CA and she died 16 Dec. 2006. Her father is listed as Alexander E. Buck and her mother is Leola M. Blinn. So this means that Leola M. Blinn did marry to Alexander Buck.
I found a marriage in Skagit County, Washington on 5th September, 1917 in Mt. Vernon by a Baptist Minister. Alexander E. buck of King and Leola May Blinn of King. Witnesses were Edna M. Behrens and Mrs. J.E. Noflsinger. Rev. Noflsinger was the officiating minister. Pastor of the Davis Memorial Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon. So by 1920 they were in California.
According to the SSDI He, Alexander Buck, was born 21 December, 1884 and died Nov. 1970 in California in Contra Costa. This means they must have divorced because he died 11 years after Leola died and she was Kellogg by that time.
I found two references to court cases one took place 6 December 1940. Where a Leola M. Kellogg applied for Habeas Corpus. The petitioner, who is the wife of William V. Kellogg, was charged with grand theft accomplished by means of drawing and cashing six checks upon the alleged joint tenancy account of herself and her husband at the Bank of America in Sacramento and by appropriating the money to her own use contrary to her trust. etc. This case goes on for 10 pages. Justia – US Law, Case Law, California Case Law Cal App 2d Volume 41 in reg Kellogg.
Collison v. Thomas, Docket No. L.A. 25793, 55 Cal 2d 490 (1961) – This litigation involves the estates of William P. O’Brien his wife Masie O’Brien..Edna M. Collison, as administratrix of Masie’s estate…Leola Buck Kellogg was administratrix of William’s estate to quiet title on land in Torrance, CA. Unfortunately Leola died during the trial etc. The entire trail of this action took less than one day. It commenced at 11:05 a.m. on May 11, 1959, Mrs. Kellogg, the administratrix of William’s estate died at 11:20 a.m. on the day of the trial. This brief was 4 pages long.
An article appeared titled “Woman Charges Husband Ruined Law Business, Los Angeles, Sep. 17, UP Mrs. Leola M. Kellogg, former Sacramento attorney, today filed suit asking $15,250 damages from her husband, William V. Kellogg of Sacramento, charging that he ruined her law business by causing her prosecution on grand theft charges. Mrs. Kellogg said her husband swore to a complaint Sept 12, 1940, which caused her arrest and trial in Sacramento. She said she was acquitted in a jury trial but that her practice was destroyed. Her husband, she said, was “malicious” in his action, which was described as the outgrowth of a dispute over funds in a joint bank account.
I have not found a marriage record for Leola to William V. Kellogg at this time. I cannot get a fix on him although he may have died in Denver, CO.
End of update 6/10/2016 – Well if this is Sarah’s daughter Leola must have been someone to know. Maybe some day I will figure this out. It looks very much like it could be Sarah’s family.
I find that the Barclay’s were very inconsistent with their census information. I am using census again without other documents like vital records to verify, so the information above is all very uncertain till I get time to dig more.
There is certainly more to do with Sarah Agnes and her family like finding her marriage record and when did James pass. How many children did she actually have? Did I find the correct Sarah in the census or am mistaken. I need to look at vital records and more to see if I cannot get a clearer picture of Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn.
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April 3, 2010 by BJ MacDonald
John Barclay’s Two Families
John Barclay, my great great grandfather, was introduced to me by my Aunt Miriam in her family history notes, so I knew about him. I also had a copy of the book by the city of Pine River, celebrating their first 100 years, and he is mentioned in that book:
“…not far from Shakopee where George’s father chose to live “because it reminded him of his native Scotland.” Apparently the father, John, remarried and had other children…”
John Barclay had two families. He was first married to Margaret. When he married Margaret is not known and where she is buried is also unknown. She probably died in Connecticut but so far a search of records reveal only one possibility of a Margaret Barclay dying in Enfield in 1848 of about the right age.
continuing the quote above…” because at the time of Alexander’s death in 1906, there was quite a bit of difficulty in locating all the Barclay heirs from “both families.”” pg. 105
In my Aunt Miriam’s notes she mentions Alexander’s probate:
Alex's Probate
My great-uncle Alexander Barclay has been very good to me. I secured his probate file at some expense from the Dakota County Courthouse in Minnesota and it opened up a very big genealogical door!
From this first marriage came seven (7) siblings that were listed in Alexander’s estate file. There wasn’t a will so some of the information is carefully taken from the probate file. Other information such as census searches and indexes were also used. I am slowly gathering the facts together on the siblings and will present more at a later time.
1. John Avery Barclay born abt 1836, died – unknown. According to Alex’s estate file he disappeared and was presumed dead as stated in an affidavit of his sister Sarah Agnes. He appears in deeds, land records, and court documents in Silbey Co., Minnesota till about 1880. He may have gone to California. John Avery Barclay was probably born in Scotland per census information and other sources but that is not yet proven. John married Minerva Parks on 3 July 1865 in Henderson, Sibley Co., Minnesota. Since John Avery Barclay was considered dead his two children where his heirs and they are mentioned in the estate file. The couple actually had four children:
1. John Avery Barclay II born 23 July 1867 in Sibley Co., Minnesota and died 8 March 1951 in Seattle, King Co., Washington.
2. Sarah Ellen born 29 March 1869 in Sibley Co., Minnesota.
3 and 4. There were two other children twins: Albert and Alice born 1870 Silbey Co., Minnesota but it is looking like they didn’t survive. Some of this information was supplied by another cousin.
2. James A. Barclay born about 1838 in Connecticut, he died about 1906 in Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., Connecticut during the probate process of Alexander’s estate. He married a Maryanne Stewart and had children.
3. Sarah Agnes Barclay born about 1840 in Connecticut. She married Porter Blinn about 1860 in Connecticut. He was born about 1842 in Connecticut. They had 6 children and it looks like they stayed in Newington, Hartford Co. , Connecticut.
Update: May 26, 2010 – I was at the Family History Library researching when I discovered that the Sarah that I thought was Sarah Agnes Barclay in the census married to Porter Blinn was the Sarah I should be studying for the Barclay’s. Turns out she is a Griswold and her father is Henry Griswold. So back to the drawing board on #3. This is why it is so important to check other sources like marriages and birth records and not totally trust the census.
4. Mary J. Barclay born about 1841 in Connecticut and died 28 March 1917 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. I have her estate file. She married a Jerome B. Ford and had 3 daughters. Jerome was born about 1846 in Connecticut.
5. Alexander A. Barclay was born September 1842 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on 9 December 1905 at the Rochester Hospital for the Insane in Olmsted Co., Minnesota. He apparently suffered in the end with dementia. He was only in the hospital about 6 days before he died. He was buried 17 December 1905 in the Corinithian Cemetery in Farmington, Dakota Co., Minnesota.
6. Martha M. Barclay born about 1843 in Connecticut and died around 1920 or later in California. She married a Jeremiah Ford in about 1859 in Connecticut. I do not know if Jeremiah and Jerome were brothers. Martha and Jeremiah had two daughters.
7. George Angus Barclay was born 18 August 1844 probably in Connecticut and died on the 28th of October 1898 in Pine River, Cass Co., Minnesota. George is the subject of our blog and more information will be forthcoming on his life. He married Amarilla Spracklin in 1878 and they had 2 children.
The second marriage of John Barclay was to Helen in Scott Co., Minnesota. I have not been able to find their marriage in Minnesota records but it happened prior to 1860 per the census and from this marriage their were four (4) children born.
8. Charles Barclay was born about January 1860 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota. After the death of his mother in 1907 he seems to have moved from Shakopee and might have gone to Minneapolis and died about 1938. Charles didn’t marry as far as I can determine from census and other documents.
9. William Barclay was born about 1863 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota and died 7 Dec 1937 in Gallatin Co., Montana. He married a Clara E, probably in Minnesota. She was born about 1859 in Wisconsin and died about 21 March 1919 in Madison Co., Montana. They had one child name Foster born 1891 and probably died by 1907.
10. Mary E. Barclay was born about 1864 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota and died 19 February 1930 in Cascade Co., Montana. She married Charles B. Clark probably in Minnesota for he was born there about 1856. He died 28 February 1932 in Deer Lodge Co., Montana. They had at least one child named Ruth Clark who was born about 1895. It is interesting that there are two Mary’s named in John’s family a good 20+ years apart.
11. Anna Elizabeth Barclay was born 15 April 1870 in Shakopee, Scott Co., Minnesota and died 4 August 1955 in Menominee, Menominee Co., Michigan. She married David Maurice Carter on 9 July 1885 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota. David was born 9 January 1860, Marinette, Marinette Co., Wisconsin. The information for this family was supplied by a cousin and has not been verified. Anna had 4 children.
The person that initiated the probate process for Alexander was his niece, my grandmother Grace A. Barclay McDonald. She was pregnant at the time and lived in International Falls. She was unable to attend the court sessions because she had the baby and was “indisposed.” The baby was my Aunt Miriam.
Book: Logsleds to Snowmobile’s, Pine River Centennial Celebration, 1873-1973, Written by the Citizens of Pine River and edited by Norman F. Clarke, Pine River Centennial Committee, 1979. A copy is available at the Family History Library.
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By Jeffrey Gottfried and Elisa Shearer
The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults recruited from landline and cellphone random-digit-dial (RDD) surveys. Panelists participate via monthly self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. The panel is being managed by Abt Associates.
Data in this report are drawn from the panel wave conducted Aug. 8-21, 2017, among 4,971 respondents. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 4,971 respondents is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
Members of the American Trends Panel were recruited from several large, national landline and cellphone random-digit-dial surveys conducted in English and Spanish. At the end of each survey, respondents were invited to join the panel. The first group of panelists was recruited from the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, conducted from Jan. 23 to March 16, 2014. Of the 10,013 adults interviewed, 9,809 were invited to take part in the panel, and a total of 5,338 agreed to participate.1 The second group of panelists was recruited from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government, conducted from Aug. 27 to Oct. 4, 2015. Of the 6,004 adults interviewed, all were invited to join the panel, and 2,976 agreed to participate.2
The third group of panelists was recruited from a survey conducted from April 25 to June 4, 2017. Of the 5,012 adults interviewed in the survey or pretest, 3,905 were invited to take part in the panel and a total of 1,628 agreed to participate.3
The ATP data were weighted in a multi-step process that begins with a base weight incorporating the respondents’ original survey selection probability and the fact that in 2014 some panelists were subsampled for invitation to the panel. Next, an adjustment was made for the fact that the propensity to join the panel and remain an active panelist varied across different groups in the sample. The final step in the weighting uses an iterative technique that aligns the sample to population benchmarks on a number of dimensions. Gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and region parameters come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey. The county-level population density parameter (deciles) comes from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census. The telephone service benchmark comes from the January-June 2016 National Health Interview Survey and is projected to 2017. The volunteerism benchmark comes from the 2015 Current Population Survey Volunteer Supplement. The party affiliation benchmark is the average of the three most recent Pew Research Center general public telephone surveys. The Internet access benchmark comes from the 2017 ATP Panel Refresh Survey. Respondents who did not previously have internet access are treated as not having internet access for weighting purposes. Respondents were also weighted according to their previously reported usage of eight different social networks for news consumption. The variables used for this weighting were measured on the January-February 2016 wave of the ATP and were weighted to match a Pew Research Center journalism survey from March-April 2016. For panelists who did not participate in the 2016 survey, these variables were imputed using chained equations. Sampling errors and statistical tests of significance take into account the effect of weighting. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish, but the Hispanic sample in the American Trends Panel is predominantly native born and English speaking.
The following table shows the unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the survey:
Sample sizes and sampling errors for other subgroups are available upon request.
In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
The August 2017 wave had a response rate of 74% (4,971 responses among 6,722 individuals in the panel). Taking account of the combined, weighted response rate for the recruitment surveys (10.0%) and attrition from panel members who were removed at their request or for inactivity, the cumulative response rate for the wave is 2.6 %.4
“numoffset=”2” When data collection for the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey began, non-internet users were subsampled at a rate of 25%, but a decision was made shortly thereafter to invite all non-internet users to join. In total, 83% of non-internet users were invited to join the panel. ↩
Respondents to the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey who indicated that they are internet users but refused to provide an email address were initially permitted to participate in the American Trends Panel by mail but were no longer permitted to join the panel after Feb. 6, 2014. Internet users from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government who refused to provide an email address were not permitted to join the panel. ↩
White, non-Hispanic college graduates were subsampled at a rate of 50%. ↩
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Eagles Alshon Jeffery Looking Like a Significant Risk
Inside Injuries	August 3, 2018 8:13PM EDT
insideinjuries.com has the latest on top WRs who continue to recover from season-ending injuries and offseason surgeries.
Odell Beckham Jr. NYG: ankle surgery
The Giants’ crumbled when OBJ went down with a season-ending ankle injury in Week 5 last year. Now 10 months removed from surgery to address a fracture with ligament damage, he is fully cleared for training camp. Beckham originally injured his ankle during the preseason, causing his ligaments to stretch and leaving him more susceptible to a more serious ankle injury. Unfortunately it took just a few weeks for the injury to occur.
His ankle should be in much better shape now, but his Injury Risk remains Elevated. The good news is with a Peak HPF, he should be ready to perform as an elite WR. He could miss some practice time early in the year as he works his way back, but he should be ready to go Week 1.
Alshon Jeffery PHI: torn rotator cuff
Alshon Jeffery has by far the worst outlook on this list. He underwent shoulder surgery after the Eagles’ Super Bowl win. Recovery time from a rotator cuff tear is a minimum of 6 months, but it can take 9-12 months to get back to 100%. That means Jeffery is pushing it to be ready for Week 1, and even then he won’t be anywhere near full strength. His Injury Risk, of course, remains very High.
Right now Jeffery is hovering around a Top 20 WR, making him a WR2, but he can’t be trusted that early in drafts. There’s no guarantee he will be ready Week 1, and playing in all 16 games seems like a long-shot. The Eagles need to look out for his long-term health and not rush his recovery just to have him out there in September. He is starting training camp on the PUP list, and there is no timeline for him to be fully cleared. He appears to be a ways away.
Allen Robinson CHI: torn ACL
After missing all of 2017 due to a preseason ACL tear, Robinson is fully cleared and ready to go at the start of training camp. Robinson is already back at a Low Injury Risk, and we are even showing a Peak HPF. His ADP is right around Jeffery, hovering around the Top 20, and that seems realistic. Robinson could be a steal in the WR2 spot, and he could even be a Top 10 guy by the end of the season if the Bears’ offense can improve.
Recovery from ACL tears has improved drastically in recent years, and 12 months is more than enough time to get back into football shape. Because Robinson is a young wide receiver and his knee injury was an isolated tear (no additional ligament or cartilage damage), he should be right back where he was before the injury.
Julian Edelman NE: torn ACL
Edelman tore his ACL during the 2017 preseason but didn’t cause any additional damage to his knee. Like Robinson, Edelman should be close to 100% already, but he is sliding down draft boards due to his four-game suspension. When he returns, he can be locked in as a WR2. His Injury Risk just moved from Elevated to Low, currently sitting at 13%. His HPF is also Peak, so his knee won’t limit his ability to perform on the field. Sometimes returning from an ACL tear is more mental than physical at this point, but with training camp and preseason games to work his way back, he should be prepared by week 5.
There are two important things to keep in mind: Edelman’s age and his injury history. At 32, he is much older than guys like Robinson and Meredith. Younger players tend to have much more success on the field following an ACL tear. Edelman has also missed a lot of time due to a 2015 foot fracture and lingering problems that carried over into the 2016 season. He shouldn’t be removed from draft boards, but make sure you don’t get too excited about his potential and reach to get him in the earlier rounds.
Quincy Enunwa NYJ: neck surgery
Enunwa missed all of last season after undergoing surgery on his neck to repair a bulging disc. He was limited during OTAs and said he felt like he was close to 100%. He has now passed his Optimal Recovery Time and returned to a 13% (Low/Elevated) Injury Risk. It’s always concerning when a player suffered such a serious neck or back injury, so he needs to be watched closely throughout training camp, especially when participating in contact drills. This week he fully participated in the no-pads practice on Day 2 and only wore the no-contact jersey during team drills on Day 3. It’s slow and steady progress- exactly what we want to see at this point in his recovery.
Enunwa can’t be relied on as a starting option each and every week, but he is a high-upside guy to have on your bench. If his neck is fully healed, he could become the Jets’ #1 option in the passing game, giving him WR3/flex value many weeks. He hasn’t cracked the Top 200 in ADP yet, but it could start to climb as he increases his participation at training camp and proves he is healthy enough to contribute.
Randall Cobb GB: right ankle surgery
Cobb finally admitted that he underwent surgery on his foot over the summer to remove a small piece of cartilage that was causing discomfort. It isn’t a serious long-term concern, but this will affect him early in the season. We are showing an August 18 Healthy to Return Date. Until then, he shouldn’t be involved in 11v11 and full contact drills. His Injury Risk is currently very High. Cobb also has a concerning injury history that include ankle and hamstring issues, so there may be better WR options out there unless he slips outside the top 100 picks.
Brandon Marshall SEA: ankle surgery
As Brandon Marshall continues to recover from season-ending ankle surgery, his injury numbers are very interesting. We don’t see this often- his Injury Risk is High, but his HPF is Peak. So that means his risk of a future injury or aggravation of a previous injury is very high (28%), but he should be able to play fairly well when he is cleared. It’s unlikely Marshall sees time in all 16 games this year, so he’s nothing more than a late-round flier. Marshall also underwent toe surgery to address a lingering injury from 2015, so he is recovering from multiple serious injuries. He may not even make the Seahawks final roster – watch him closely throughout camp.
Cameron Meredith NO: torn ACL & MCL
Meredith’s devastating knee injury last season looked like it could be career-threatening. Now almost a year removed from surgery, Meredith is practicing without limitations. Because this was a multi-ligament injury, recovery is typically longer and more complicated. He may not get back to 100%, but at the 12-month mark he should be close. At 9% Injury Risk (Low), he should be viewed as a late-round option that could have huge upside after joining Drew Brees in New Orleans.


Colombia Becomes 100th U.S. Open-Skies Partner
Colombia became the United States’ 100th Open-Skies partner yesterday as representatives of the two countries reached agreement to liberalize U.S.-Colombia air services for airlines of both countries.
“Reaching 100 Open-Skies agreements is a major milestone in U.S. aviation history,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Since the first Open-Skies agreement was reached with the Netherlands in 1992, nations all over the world have come to recognize the benefits of a free market in international aviation services. Travelers, shippers, airlines and economies all over the world have benefited from the competitive pricing and more convenient service that Open Skies have made possible.”
Once full Open Skies takes effect at the end of 2012, airlines from the United States and Colombia will be allowed to select routes, destinations and prices for both passenger and cargo service based on consumer demand and market conditions.
Significant liberalizations will take effect in advance of full Open Skies. When the terms of the agreement are applied, restrictions on all-cargo flights will be lifted immediately, and carriers will be able to begin operating additional passenger flights with additional passenger services phased in over the next two years. Negotiations were concluded Nov. 11 in Bogota, Colombia.
Updated: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Caitlin Harvey
Office of Public Affairs
caitlin.harvey@dot.gov


British MPs tour Jaffna, Vanni
Progress in peace talks will largely determine if Britain will lift the ban on the LTTE or not, said Mr.Gareth Thomas, British Member of Parliament, Tuesday after visiting Jaffna and Vanni areas accompanied by Mr.Robert Evans, Member of European Parliament.
Mr.Robert Evans and Mr.Gareth Thomas met Mr.S.P.Thamilchelvan Tuesday afternoon and had discussions for about one and a half hours, according to the LTTE sources.
The British MPs arrived in Jaffna yesterday and visited Vadamarachchy, Kaithadi and Chavakachcheri. They met the Principal of Harley College, Mr. SriPathy in Point Pedro and had discussions with the representatives of the Students Union of Jaffna University. They also had discussions with Major General Anton Wijendra at the Palaly army base.
Meeting local press in Vavuniya enroute to Colombo, Mr. Evans said, "I was in Jaffna two years ago. The town has made significant process toward normality. But we are very conscious of the need to move forward. There seems to be a lot of evidence of re-building and it is heartening to see the people not only are going about with their own lives but looking forward with optimism towards the future.
"We are very enthusiastic about the peace process and the prospects for the country settling down and moving forward. No one thinks it is going to be easy. Negotiations towards reaching a settlement will be difficult and will take time. But the mere fact that within a matter of months talks are taking place and more talks are planned is very encouraging to all people of Sri Lanka."
When asked about the meetings with the officials of the security forces and with the political head of the LTTE Mr. Evans said, "We discussed with both sides on issues related to landmines, recruitment policies of child soldiers, resettlement, and their commitment to the peace process. Although there are differences between the sides in some aspects, over all we are satisfied with the positive nature of responses."
Mr.Robert Evans said that they were impressed on the changes which has taken place in Colombo and Jaffna after the peace process started to move forward.
"I have noticed a markded decrease of the military presence and road blocks in Colombo. Situation is similar in Jaffna. We didn't feel in any way insecure or on the edge in Jaffna. We went out in the evening and it was fine. Equally in the Vanni, there was no show of military strength by the LTTE."
When asked about the fate of the Tamil asylum seekers in the European countries he said: "There are number of people, mainly Tamils from North and East seeking asylum. The UK government and the other European governments are trying to work out a common European Asylum Policy that will provide an opportunity and assistance for those wishing to return to Sri Lanka to resettle. But there will not be any forced repatriation. At present we are not accepting new asylum seekers from Sri Lanka because the situation is calm and we don't believe the current position warrants it."
Mr.Gareth Thomas said he joined this visit to see for himself the ground situation in the country in general and particularly in Vanni, the area controlled by the LTTE.
"I wanted to see how the peace process is working and I am very much encouraged by the way things are going on here now. We hope the peace process will continue and the sense of peace and the sense of goodwill will deepen.
"One of the issues they have raised with me is the ban on the LTTE. The truth is the ban on the LTTE is not likely to be lifted until we see how the peace process unfolds. The reason I have come to Sri Lanka is because I have a large number of Tamil contituents, in some areas 10% of residents are Sri Lankans," he said.
TELO sources in Vavuniya said that the MPs visit was initiated by Mr.Selvam Adaikalanathan TNA MP for the Vanni electoral district, who is now in India.


Cheltenham HS
Career Honors
2018 First Team All-American (indoor 800m)
2018 Second Team All-American (outdoor 800m)
2x ACC champion in the indoor 4x400m (2016, 2018)
3x First Team All-ACC honoree (indoor & outdoor)
Clemson Highlights
Holds program record, 1:47.14, in the indoor 800m, which he achieved at 2018 ACC Indoor Championships on Clemson’s home track
Ranks fourth in program history in the outdoor 800m (1:47.62)
Member of 2018 ACC indoor champion 4x400m relay team, which set No. 4 time (3:07.36) in program history
Member of both 2017 and 2018 DMR unit, which ranks firsts and second in program history, respectively.
Earned First Team All-America honors after placing seventh in 800m at NCAA Indoor Championships
Earned Second Team All-America honors after placing 15th in 800m at NCAA Outdoor Championships
Ran program record 1:47.14 to earn ACC Indoor Championship runner-up status and First Team All-ACC accolades
Member of ACC indoor champion 4x400m, third-place DMR and third-place outdoor 4x400m teams
Outdoor ACC runner up in 800m
Represented the Tigers at NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800m and 4x400m relays
Earned Second Team All-ACC honors in both indoor and outdoor 800m
Achieved outdoor personal best, 1:47.62, at 2017 ACC Outdoor Championships, which is also good for No. 4 in Clemson history
Helped 4x400m relay to ACC Indoor crown in February, Clemson’s second straight in the event
Qualified for open 800 final at the indoor conference meet
Competed at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the 800m
Top time overall was 1:48.19 in a runner-up effort at Auburn’s Tiger Track Classic
Cheltenham High School Highlights
2014 400m Indoor State Champion
2014 4×4 Indoor State Champions
2014 4×4 3rd at New Balance Indoor Nationals (Split 47.43)
2014 4×4 Outdoor State Champions
2014 AAU National Junior Olympics 800m Champion
2015 800m Indoor State Champion (1:50.57, Finished ranked US #1)
Won 2015 4×4 New Balance Indoor Nationals
2015 800m Outdoor State Champion (1:48.72)
2015 4×4 Outdoor State Champion (Split 46.00)
2015 800m New Balance Outdoor National Champion (1:48.33)
Won Back to Back Team State Championship Titles 2014-2015 for Indoor and Outdoor
Earned Pennsylvania Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year, broke the outdoor 800 state record, earned Cheltenham High School Athlete of the Year and earned an Iron Man Award for 2014
Born Jan. 18, 1997
Majoring in parks, recreation & tourism management


Home » Blog » Plaintiffs in the Pain Pump Litigation Earn Big 6th Circuit Reversal
Plaintiffs in the Pain Pump Litigation Earn Big 6th Circuit Reversal
by: Edward B. Mulligan V , Attorney
On Friday August 10, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a district court’s decision to dismiss the claims filed by Rachel Krumpelbeck in a product liability suit against Breg, Inc., a manufacturer of pain pumps and other medical devices.
Like hundreds of others in the pain pump litigation, Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims arose out of her use of Breg pain pump following arthroscopic surgery. Ms. Krumpelbeck’s surgery occurred in March 2005, when she was just seventeen. Pain pumps were designed–as an alternative to conventional narcotics–to manage post-operative pain by continuously injecting local anesthetic directly into a patient’s shoulder joint. However, in the months following her successful surgery, Krumpelbeck began to experience extreme pain, worsening stiffness, clicking and popping in her shoulder joint. In December 2007, she was diagnosed with glenohumeral chondrolysis, a painful condition involving the permanent destruction of cartilage in the shoulder joint. As a result of her extensive cartilage loss, Ms. Krumpelbeck, now only 24 years old, will require multiple shoulder replacements during her lifetime.
Breg has faced hundreds of lawsuits premised upon both its failure to warn of the risks that its pain pumps pose to human cartilage as well as misrepresentations made to physicians regarding the safety of its pumps. Under the laws of most states, Breg was under a legal duty to warn physicians and their patients of all risks associated with its pumps about which it knew or should have known. In this case, as it has in many others, Breg argued that it was under no such duty because, at the time of the Plaintiff’s surgery in 2005, the association between chondrolysis and pain pumps was unknown to not only Breg, but the entire scientific community.
To counter Breg’s argument, the plaintiff merely needed to point to evidence suggesting that the facts–whether Breg knew or should have known of the risks of chondrolysis–were in dispute such that a jury trial would be required. Although Plaintiff presented a variety of evidence demonstrating that Breg did or should have had knowledge of the risks its pumps posed to cartilage, the district court agreed with Breg and dismissed all of Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims.
On appeal, the Sixth Circuit panel reversed and remanded part of the district court’s dismissal of Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims for “defective design and inadequate warning or instruction” for further proceedings and affirmed the remainder of the district court’s decision.
In overturning the lower court’s ruling as to Krumpelbeck’s defective design claim, the panel held the district court overlooked a key factor, the so-called “consumer expectation” test, which considers “[t]he extent to which [the product’s] design or formulation is more dangerous than a reasonably prudent consumer would expect when used in an intended or reasonably foreseeable manner.”
As to Krumpelbeck’s failure to warn claim, the panel determined that the evidence in the record was sufficient to create disputed issue of fact for trial. Specifically, the panel held that numerous articles and studies submitted by Krumpelbeck and published prior to her surgery had “found a link between infusion of chemicals into the joint space and harm of the same general nature as that Krumpelbeck suffered–damage and destruction of the cartilage.” “A reasonable jury could conclude,” the panel wrote, that this information “was sufficient to put Breg on notice of the risk of harm to the cartilage generally when its device was used to inject anesthetics directly in the joint space,” and “could be sufficient to put a reasonable manufacturer on notice of the need for testing to explore the potential risks inherent in such use.”
The panel also acknowledged the significance of evidence demonstrating
(1) that the FDA had repeatedly refused to clear Breg’s pain pumps for orthopedic and/or intra-articular use,
(2) that Breg had not tested the safety of these uses, and
(3) that Breg had promoted its pumps for those uses anyway. “Like the sufficiency of the medical literature,” the panel wrote, “it is for a jury to decide whether a reasonable manufacturer in Breg’s position would have conducted such testing prior to promoting an off-label use of its product.”
While this decision is consistent with dozens of decisions issued by federal district courts around the country in the pain pump litigation, it is significant because it is the first federal appellate court decision to reverse one of only a few district court decisions that Breg and other pain pump manufacturers rely upon heavily in defending these cases. In this regard, it is an important victory for those who have been permanently injured by the wrongful conduct of pain pump manufacturers, including Breg. However, the significance of this ruling does not end there as the Sixth Circuit’s decision makes clear that a manufacturer can be found liable for failing to conduct adequate safety testing. Hopefully this aspect of the Sixth Circuit decision will encourage manufacturers, such as Breg, to more seriously engage in pre-market testing before selling its products for use on humans.


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Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town
by Warren St. JohnWarren St. John
Paperback(Youth Edition)
A moving account of how a soccer team made up of diverse refugees inspired an entire community here in the United States.
Based on the adult bestseller, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference, this young people's edition is a complex and inspirational story about the Fugees, a youth soccer team made up of diverse refugees from around the world, and their formidable female coach, Luma Mufleh.
Luma Mufleh, a young Jordanian woman educated in the United States and working as a coach for private youth soccer teams in Atlanta, was out for a drive one day and ended up in Clarkston, Georgia, where she was amazed and delighted to see young boys, black and brown and white, some barefoot, playing soccer on every flat surface they could find. Luma decided to quit her job, move to Clarkston, and start a soccer team that would soon defy the odds. Despite challenges to locate a practice field, minimal funding for uniforms and equipment, and zero fans on the sidelines, the Fugees practiced hard and demonstrated a team spirit that drew admiration from referees and competitors alike.
Outcasts United explores how the community changed with the influx of refugees and how the dedication of Lumah Mufleh and the entire Fugees soccer team inspired an entire community.
Praise for Outcasts United
“An uplifting underdog story.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers.”—School Library Journal, Starred Review
Praise for Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
“Wonderful, poignant book is highly recommended..."–Library Journal, Starred Review
“Engagingly written.”—School Library Journal
“Richly detailed, uplifting … educational and enriching.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Dee"Inspiring...richly detailed...Deeply satisfying...a bighearted book."—Shelf Awareness
Youth Edition
WARREN ST. JOHN is the author of the national bestsellers "Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania" and "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference." A former reporter for the New York Times, he has also written extensively for The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Wired. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Columbia University and now lives in New York City.
The name Luma means “dark lips,” though Hassan and Sawsan al-Mufleh chose it for their first child less because of the shade of her lips than because they liked the sound of the name–short, endearing, and cheerful–in the context of both Arabic and English. The al-Mufl ehs were a wealthy, Westernized family in Amman, Jordan, a teeming city of two million, set among nineteen hills and cooled by a swirl of dry desert breezes. The family made its fortune primarily from making rebar–the metal rods used to strengthen concrete–which it sold across Jordan. Hassan had attended a Quaker school in Lebanon, and then college in the United States at the State University of New York in Oswego–“the same college as Jerry Seinfeld,” he liked to tell people.
Luma’s mother, Sawsan, was emotional and direct, and there was never any doubt about her mood or feelings. Luma, though, took after her father, Hassan, a man who mixed unassailable toughness with a capacity to detach, a combination that seemed designed to keep his emotions hidden for fear of revealing weakness.
“My sister and my dad don’t like people going into them and knowing who they are,” said Inam al-Mufl eh, Luma’s younger sister byeleven years and now a researcher for the Jordanian army in Amman.
“Luma’s very sensitive but she never shows it. She doesn’t want anyone to know where her soft spot is.”
As a child, Luma was doted on by her family, sometimes to an extraordinary degree. At the age of three, Luma idly mentioned to her grandmother that she thought her grandparents’ new Mercedes 450 SL was “beautiful.” The next day, the grandparents’ driver showed up at Hassan and Sawsan al-Mufl eh’s home with a gift: a set of keys to the Mercedes, which, they were told, now belonged to their threeyear-old daughter.
Hassan too doted on his eldest child. He had high expectations for her, and imagined her growing up to fulfi ll the prescribed role of a woman in a prominent Jordanian family. He expected her to marry, to stay close to home, and to honor her family.
From the time Luma was just a young girl, adults around her began to note her quiet confi dence, which was so pronounced that her parents occasionally found themselves at a loss.
“When we would go to the PTA meetings,” Hassan recalled, “they’d ask me, ‘Why are you asking about Luma? She doesn’t need your help.’ ”
Sometimes, Luma’s parents found themselves striving to please their confi dent daughter, rather than the other way around. Hassan recalled that on a family vacation to Spain when Luma was ten or eleven years old, he had ordered a glass of sangria over dinner, in violation of the Muslim prohibition against drinking alcohol. When the drink arrived, Luma began to sob uncontrollably.
“She said, ‘I love my father too much–I don’t want him to go to hell,’ ” Hassan recalled. He asked the waitress to take the sangria away.
“I didn’t drink after that,” he said.
Luma encouraged–or perhaps demanded–that her younger sister, Inam, cultivate self-suffi ciency, often against Inam’s own instincts or wishes.
“She was a tough older sister–very tough love,” Inam said. “She would make me do things that I didn’t want to do. She never wanted me to take the easy way out. And she wouldn’t accept me crying.”
Inam said that she has a particularly vivid memory of her older sister’s tough love in action. The al-Mufl ehs had gathered with their cousins, as they often did on weekends, at the family farm in a rural area called Mahes, half an hour from Amman. Inam, who was just seven or eight at the time, said that Luma took her and a group of young cousins out to a dirt road to get some exercise. The kids set off jogging, with Luma trailing them in the family Range Rover. It was hot and dry and hilly, and one by one, the kids began to complain. But Luma wouldn’t have any of it. She insisted that they keep running.
“She was in the car, and we were running like crazy,” Inam recalled. “Everyone was crying. And if I would cry, she would just look at me.”
That withering look, which Luma would perfect over the years, had the stinging effect of a riding crop. Despite the pain, little Inam kept running.
Luma’s drill-sergeant routine at Mahes became a kind of family legend, recalled to rib Hassan and Sawsan’s firstborn for her tough exterior. The family knew another side of Luma–one that others rarely encountered–that of a sensitive, even sentimental young woman with a deep concern for those she perceived to be weak or defenseless. Luma laughed along with everyone else. She enjoyed a good joke and a well-earned teasing, even at her own expense. But jokes aside, Luma’s tough love had it’s intended effect.
“I wanted to prove to my sister that I could do anything,” she said. “I always remember that my sister pushed me and I found out I was able to do it.”
THE AL-MUFLEHS WERE intent on raising their children with their same cosmopolitan values. They sent Luma to the American Community School in Amman, a school for the children of American expatriates, mostly diplomats and businessmen, and elite Jordanians, including the children of King Hussein and Queen Noor. Luma learned to speak English without an accent–she now speaks like a midwesterner–and met kids from the United States and Europe, as well as the children of diplomats from all over the world.
Luma’s childhood was idyllic by most measures, and certainly by comparison to those of most in Jordan. She went to the best school in Amman and lived at a comfortable distance from the problems of that city, including poverty and the tensions brought on by the infl ux of Palestinian and later Iraqi refugees. But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of acknowledging and aiding the poor whenever she could. Beggars regularly knocked on her door because they knew that on principle she would always give them alms. And when relatives would tell her she was being taken advantage of because of her generosity, Munawar would brush them off.
“She would say we had an obligation because we were so privileged,” Luma recalled. “And she would say, ‘God judges them, not us.’ ”
Munawar’s home abutted a lot in Amman where young men played soccer in the afternoons. As a kid, Luma would climb a grapevine on the concrete wall behind the house and watch the men play. She eventuallygot the nerve to join in, and she would play until her grandmother saw her and ordered her inside on the grounds that it was improper for a young woman to be around strange men.
“She would have a fi t if she saw me playing soccer with men,” Luma said. “And then she’d say, ‘We are not going to tell your father about this.’ ”
At the American Community School, Luma was free from the strictures of a conservative Muslim society and at liberty to play sports as boys did. She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball with the same intensity, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown.
“She was keen to learn,” Brown said. “And no matter what you asked her to do, she did it without questioning why.” Brown, the wife of an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Amman, coached volleyball. She had played volleyball in college at Miami University in Ohio and, when she found herself bored in the role of a diplomat’s wife, had volunteered to coach the women’s varsity volleyball team at the ACS. When she showed up to coach, Brown said, she was disappointed at what she found.
“These girls were lazy–incredibly lazy,” she said.
Luma was the notable exception. Though Brown didn’t know much about the Jordanian girl, she noticed her dedication right away and felt she was the kind of player a team could be built around. Coach Brown asked a lot of her players, and especially of Luma. She expected them to be on time to practice, to work hard, to focus, and to improve. She believed in running–lots of running–and drilling to the point of exhaustion. Brown challenged her players by setting an example herself. She was always on time. She was organized. When she asked her players to run fi ve kilometers, she joined them, but with a challenge: “Because you’re younger I expect you to do it better than me,” she told them. “If I beat you, you can expect the worst practices ever.”
“They ran,” Brown said.
Brown’s coaching philosophy was built on the belief that young people craved leadership and structure and at the same time were capable of taking on a tremendous amount of responsibility. She didn’t believe in coddling.
“My feeling is that kids have to have rules,” Brown explained. “They have to know what the boundaries are. And kids want to know what their limits are. It’s important for them to know that people have expectations of them.”
Brown was resigned to the fact that her players might not like her at fi rst. But she took a long view toward their development and their trust in her. She was willing to wait out the hostility until her players broke through.
“I’m stubborn,” Brown said. “I don’t give in a lot. You can come across as mean, and until they see what kind of person you are they might not like you.”
In fact, Luma didn’t like Brown at all. She felt singled out for extra work and didn’t appreciate all the extra running. But she kept her mouth shut and didn’t complain, partly, she said, out of a suspicion that she and her teammates would benefi t from the harsh treatment.
“I knew my teammates were lazy–talented but lazy,” Luma said.
“And part of me was like, Maybe I want the challenge. Maybe these very harsh, very tough practices will work.”
Over time, the practices began to have an effect. The team improved. They were motivated, and even the slackers on the team began working hard. Along the way, Luma started to pick up on a seeming contradiction. Though she told herself she disliked Coach Brown, she wanted desperately to play well for her. “For the majority of the time she coached me, I hated her,” Luma said. “But she had our respect. She didn’t ask us to do anything she wouldn’t do. Until then I’d always played for me. I’d never played for a coach.”
When Luma was in high school and still playing for Coach Brown the junior varsity girls’ soccer team at the American Community School found itself in need of a coach. Luma volunteered. She emulated Brown–putting the team through fi ve days a week of running drills and pushing the young women to work harder and to get better.
Luma loved it. She liked the way the daily problems of the world seemed to recede once she took the field, the subtle psychological strategies one had to employ to get the best out of each player, and most of all the sense of satisfaction that came from forging something new out of disparate elements: an entity with its distinct identity, not a collection of individuals, but a new being, a team. And she wasn’t afraid to admit she also liked being in charge.
But as she got older and accustomed to the liberty she had as a woman at ACS–where she could coach and play sports as she pleased–she began to feel at odds with the Jordanian society in which she had grown up. She wanted to be able to play pickup games of soccer with whoever was around, without regard to gender. She wanted the liberty to be as assertive in her daily life as Coach Brown had taught her to be on the court. Her family’s social status created additional pressure for her to follow a more traditional path. There were obligations, as well as the looming threat that she might be pressured into marrying someone she didn’t love.
“When you come from a family that’s prominent, there are expectations of you,” she said. “And I hated that. It’s a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens. I didn’t want to be treated that way.”
Coach Brown picked up on Luma’s yearning. At a team sleepover, the players and coach went around the room predicting where everyone would be in ten years. Coach Brown joked that Luma would be “living illegally in the United States.” Everyone laughed, including Luma. But she disagreed.
“In ten years, I’ll be there legally,” she said.
“I knew from even our brief time together that she wanted something else for her life,” Brown recalled.
Toward the end of Luma’s junior year, she and her parents decided she would attend college in the United States. Hassan and Sawsan wanted their daughter to continue her Western education, a rite of sorts for well-to-do Jordanians. But Luma was more interested in life in the United States than she was in what an education there might do for her in Jordan. “America was the land of opportunity,” she said. “It was a very appealing dream of what you want your life to be like.” Within the family, Luma’s grandmother alone seemed to understand the implications of her going to college in the United States.
“If she moves to America,” Munawar told the family, “there’s a chance she won’t come back.”
Luma’s fi rst trip to the United States came when she enrolled at Hobart and William Smith College, a coed school in the Finger Lakes region of New York, not too far from where her father had gone to college. She played soccer her first fall there, but midway through the season injured a knee, sidelining her for the rest of the year. Luma liked the school well enough, but winter there was colder than anything she had experienced in Amman, and the campus was remote. She wondered if she had made the right choice in going so far from home. Luma decided to look at other schools, and soon visited Smith College, the women’s school in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The campus seemed to perfectly embody the setting Luma had envisioned for herself when she left Jordan for America. It was set in a picturesque New England town with a strong sense of community and security. And as a women’s college, Smith was focused on imbuing its students with the very sort of self-reliance and self-confidence Luma felt she had been deprived of at home. Luma fell in love with the place and transferred for her sophomore year.
At Smith, Luma had what she described as a kind of awakening. She was taken by the presence of so many self-confident, achieving women, and also by the social mobility she saw evident in the student body. Her housemate, for example, was the first in her family to go to college, and there she was at one of the preeminent private colleges in the United States. That would never happen in Jordan, Luma remembered thinking to herself at the time.
Luma’s friends at Smith remember her as outgoing and involved–in intramural soccer and in social events sponsored by the college’s house system. Few understood her background; she spoke English so well that other students she met assumed she was American.
“One day we were hanging out talking about our childhoods and she said, ‘I’m from Jordan,’ ” recalled Misty Wyman, a student from Maine who would become Luma’s best friend. “I thought she’d been born to American parents overseas. It had never occurred to me that she was Jordanian.”
On a trip home to Jordan after her junior year at Smith, Luma realized that she could never feel comfortable living there. Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms. Professional opportunities for women were limited. Under Sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that from a single man. A wife had to obtain permission from her husband simply to apply for a passport. And so-called honor killings were still viewed leniently in Sharia courts. As a member of a well-known family, Luma felt monitored and pressured to follow a prescribed path. A future in Jordan felt limited, lacking suspense, whereas the United States seemed alluringly full of both uncertainty and possibility.
Before she left to return to Smith for her senior year, Luma sought out friends one by one, and paid a visit to her grandmother. She didn’t tell them that she was saying goodbye exactly, but privately, Luma knew that to be the case.
“When I said goodbye I knew I was saying goodbye to some people I’d never see again,” she said. “I wanted to do it on my own. I wanted to prove to my parents that I didn’t need their help.”
Luma did let on to some of her friends. Rhonda Brown recalled a softball game she and Luma played with a group of American diplomats and expatriates. When the game had finished, Brown went to pick up the leather softball glove she’d brought with her from the United States, but it was gone–stolen, apparently. Brown was furious. She’d had the glove for years, and it was all but impossible to get a softball glove in Jordan at the time. Luma had a glove that she too had had for years. She took it off her hand and gave it to her coach.
“She said, ‘You take this glove,’ ” Brown recalled. “ ‘I won’t need it. I don’t think I’m coming back.’ ”
Brown–who soon moved to Damascus, and later to Israel with her husband and family–lost touch over the years with her star player, but she kept Luma’s glove from one move to the next, as a memento of the mysteriously self-possessed young woman she had once coached. Fifteen years later, she still has it. “The webbing has rotted and come out,” Brown told me from Israel, where I tracked her down by phone. “That glove was very special to me.”
IN JUNE 1997, a few weeks after graduating from Smith, Luma gave her parents the news by telephone: She was staying in the United States–not for a little while, but forever. She had no intention of returning home to Jordan.
Hassan al-Mufleh was devastated.
“I felt as if the earth swallowed me,” he said.
Hassan’s devastation soon gave way to outrage. He believed he had given every opportunity to his daughter. He had sent her to the best schools and had encouraged her to go to college in the United States. He took her decision to make a home in the States as a slap in the face. Luma tried to explain that she felt it was important for her to see if she could support herself without the social and fi nancial safety net her parents provided at home. Hassan would have none of it. If Luma wanted to see how independent she could be, he told her, he was content to help her find out. He let her know that she would be disinherited absolutely if she didn’t return home. Luma didn’t budge. She didn’t feel that she could be herself there, and she was willing to endure a split with her family to live in a place where she could live the life she pleased. Hassan followed through on his word, by cutting Luma off completely–no more money, no more phone calls. He was finished with his daughter.
For Luma, the change in lifestyle was abrupt. In an instant, she was on her own. “I went from being able to walk into any restaurant and store in the United States and buy whatever I wanted to having nothing,” she said.
Luma’s friends remember that period well. They had watched her painful deliberations over when and how to give her parents the news that she wasn’t coming home. And now that she was cut off, they saw their once outgoing friend grow sullen and seem suddenly lost.
“It was very traumatic,” said Misty Wyman, Luma’s friend from Smith. “She was very stressed and sick a lot because of the stress.
“There was a mourning process,” Wyman added. “She was very close to her grandmother, and her grandmother was getting older. She was close to her sister and wasn’t sure that her parents would ever let her sister come to visit her here. And I kind of had the impression from Luma that she had been her father’s pet. Even though he was hard on her, he expected a lot from her. She was giving up a lot by not going home.”
So Luma made do. After graduation, she went to stay with her friend Misty in Highlands, North Carolina, a small resort town in the mountains where Misty had found work. Luma didn’t yet have a permit to work legally in the United States, so she found herself looking for the sorts of jobs available to illegal immigrants, eventually settling on a position washing dishes and cleaning toilets at a local restaurant called the Mountaineer. Luma enjoyed the relative calm and quiet of the mountains, but there were moments during her stint in Appalachia that only served to reinforce her sense of isolation. Concerned that her foreign-sounding name might draw unwelcome attention from locals, Luma’s colleagues at the Mountaineer gave her an innocuous nickname: Liz. The locals remained oblivious of “Liz’s” real background as a Jordanian Muslim, even as they got to know her. A handyman who was a regular at the Mountaineer even sent Liz flowers, and later, sought to impress her by showing off a prized family heirloom: a robe and hood once worn by his grandfather, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
“I was so shaken up,” Luma said.
After a summer in Highlands, Luma kicked around aimlessly, moving to Boston then back to North Carolina, with little sense of direction. Her news from home came mostly through her grandmother, who would pass along family gossip, and who encouraged Luma to be strong and patient with her parents. Someday, Munawar said, they would come to forgive her.
But for now, Luma was on her own. In 1999, she decided to move to Atlanta for no other reason than that she liked the weather– eternal-seeming springs and easy autumns, with mercifully short and mild winters–not unlike the weather in Amman. When Luma told her friends of her plan, they were uniformly against it, worried that a Muslim woman from Jordan wouldn’t fi t in down in Dixie.
“I said, ‘Are you crazy?’ ” Misty recalled.
Luma didn’t have much of a retort. She knew next to no one in Atlanta. She had little appreciation for how unusual a Muslim woman with the name Luma Hassan Mufl eh would seem to most southerners, and certainly no inkling of how much more complicated attitudes toward Muslims would become a couple of years into the future, after the attacks on September 11. Luma arrived in Atlanta with little mission or calling. She found a tiny apartment near Decatur, a picturesque and progressive suburb east of Atlanta anchored by an old granite courthouse with grand Corinthian columns. She knew nothing yet about Clarkston, the town just down the road that had been transformed by refugees, people not unlike herself, who had fled certain discontent in one world for uncertain lives in another. But like them, Luma was determined to survive and to make it on her own. Going home wasn’t an option.
Part 1 Changes
1 Luma 11
2 Beatrice and Her Boys 18
3 "Small Town… Big Heart" 25
4 Alone Down South 35
5 The Fugees Are Born 41
6 "Coach Says It's Not Good" 51
7 Get Lost 60
Part 2 A New Season
8 "I Want to Be Part of the Fugees!" 69
9 Figure It Out So You Can Fix It 78
10 Meltdown 92
11 "How Am I Going to Start All Over?" 99
12 Alex, Bien, and Ive 110
13 Trying Again 115
14 The Fifteens Fight 120
15 Go Fugees! 128
16 Gunshots 135
17 The "Soccer People" 138
18 Playing on Grass 141
Part 3 Full Circle
19 Who Are the Kings? 149
20 Showdown at Blue Springs 156
21 Coming Apart 161
22 Hanging On at Home 166
23 The Dikoris 171
24 "What Are You Doing Here?" 179
25 Halloween 189
26 The Fifteens' Final Game 194
27 My Rules, My Way 199
28 Tornado Cup 203
Epilogue 220
For More Information 227
What People are Saying About This
"Respecting cultural differences, building a global community, and the importance of getting involved are powerful, motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers, not just soccer fans."Starred Review, School Library Journal
"An uplifting underdog story that will appeal to readers interested in the immigrant experience and the surprising role sports can play in people's lives."Kirkus Reviews
"Exciting youth soccer action blends with politics . . . filled with fast kicks, scrimmages, dribbles, crossses, corners, shots, and misses on the field that will grab kids, as will the harrowing stories of what the families fled from their continuing struggle."Booklist
Gr 7 Up—In this young adult adaptation of Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference (Spiegel & Grau, 2009), St. John presents the remarkable, inspiring story of a persevering female coach, a soccer team of refugee boys, and the Georgia town that is their home. With conviction and skill, Jordanian Luma Mufleh established and coached three soccer teams known as the Fugees. Her players were haunted by memories of war-torn homelands and personal tragedies and were struggling to adjust to life in the United States. However, her high expectations and willingness to help families impacted her young players. Despite challenges to locate a practice field, minimal funding for uniforms and equipment, and zero fans on the sidelines, the Fugees practiced hard and demonstrated a team spirit that drew admiration from referees and even their competitors. Featuring pivotal soccer games and anecdotes about interactions between a coach and her players, tension among the boys, family responsibilities, and a town wrestling with its changing identity, St. John delivers a vivid, cohesive story about hope and determination. Profiles are enriched with background information on the conflicts that drove the players from their homes in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Respecting cultural differences, building a global community, and the importance of getting involved are powerful, motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers, not just soccer fans.—Gerry Larson, formerly at Durham School of the Arts, NC
An inspiring account of a young Jordanian immigrant who created Fugees, a soccer program for refugees from war-torn nations. Adapted from an adult book of the same title, St. John tells the story of how Luma Mufleh formed a soccer team composed of young refugees from all over the world, rescued by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and living together in a crime-ridden settlement in suburban Atlanta. After seeing refugee children playing soccer in vacant lots around town, Mufleh persuaded the local YMCA to fund a free soccer program and signed on as its unpaid coach. The children she recruited came from such war-ravaged countries as Liberia, Sudan, Zaire, Kosovo and Afghanistan. The team offered youngsters traumatized by civil war and genocide the chance to enjoy a familiar recreation and an alternative to gangs. In addition to coaching, Mufleh often acted as counselor and surrogate parent to children whose own parents worked long hours. Though insightful about immigration and the challenges of assimilation, the fast-paced account lacks sufficient detail about the experiences that forced the players to leave their home countries. An uplifting underdog story that will appeal to readers interested in the immigrant experience and the surprising role sports can play in people's lives. (Nonfiction. 12-16)
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town 4.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 10 reviews.
Outstanding story recommend for all ages.
The book was so amazing
mzavori More than 1 year ago
One Team, One Coach – Dreams United Luma Mufleh did not know what to expect when she arrived in the small town of Clarkston, Georgia, just on the outskirts of Atlanta. She certainly did not anticipate the sight of women walking down the street covered head to toe and carrying laundry baskets over their heads, nor did she expect the smell of traditional Middle Eastern cuisines, or even the small refugee boys playing soccer with nothing but their bare feet and a ball made from plastic bags. Outcasts United, written by Warren St. John, follows the inspirational story of a small refugee soccer team, known as the Fugees, and their coach through their many adventures as they struggle to find their place in a small southern American town. Not only does St. John document some pivotal soccer seasons of the Fugees, but readers catch a glimpse of the refugee families living in Clarkston as they describe their past experiences and share their journeys to the United States. St. John paints a vivid picture of the controversial subject regarding immigration, especially when placed in context with the topic of illegal immigration during the Bush administration, as long-time Clarkston residents struggle to accommodate the new arrivals. Left to deal with the refugees and, consequently, the widely spreading demographic change, members of the Clarkston community resort to resentment and anger towards the refugees, thus illustrating how fear of the unknown and cultural differences can disband (and eventually reunite) an entire community. At the heart of this novel, however, is the story of Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian immigrant herself, and a myriad of teenage boys from numerous nationalities who overcome their differences and band together to form the Fugees. St. John transports the readers through the highs and lows experienced in each soccer season and highlights the importance of hard work, strength, self-preservation, and team camaraderie. The team dynamics of the Fugees shows a juxtaposition on other youth sports teams across America; where they succeed, others fail, which causes readers and athletes (like myself) to wonder where youth sports programs today have gone astray in building team cohesiveness. Everyone could benefit from a coach like Luma Mufleh. While the detailed descriptions of the Fugees’ countless soccer matches overtake much of the novel, sometimes to the point of boredom, St. John weaves together a beautiful story filled with war stories, government politics, and a coach who is set upon making a difference in the lives of the Fugee family. Watching a team of misfits form a tight-knit bond is everything one looks for in a narrative such as this, and it is amazing to see them carry that love for each other on and off the field. This book is highly recommended for those who have a passion for soccer and those who are looking for an uplifting and easy tale to read. Outcasts United is St. John’s second novel; his first, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, is as deeply satisfying and intriguing for those who cannot get enough of sports.
I got this book and loved it. Luma is a very inspirational woman who acts as teacher, coach, mentor, supplier, lover, and tougher-upper. I totally wish I had her as my soccer coach. She is just as good as Mia Hamm, in some ways as good or better, in others less. Anyway I give it five stars and encourage it to you for a great and inspirational read.
Heidi_G More than 1 year ago
Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian woman living just east of Atlanta, saw a need in the community and stepped up to ensure that need was filled. She sometimes joined in a group of boys playing soccer, boys whose families came from many parts of the world. With no sponsorship and resentment from some town residents toward the swelling immigrant population, Luma managed to put together three groups of boys who were excited to be playing on a soccer team. She worked the boys hard, made them play fair, and expected them to stay current in their school work. Acting as coach, mentor, and counselor, Luma made a difference in the lives of her players. This book will appeal to teen readers who are soccer players or fans; other readers might be put off by the detailed accounts of so many soccer games. I would've like to read more about the obstacles faced by several of the boys and what caused their families to leave their homelands. The book's epilogue does describe what became of several of the teams' players and what Luma has done since the 2006 soccer season.
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