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In This Issue: HOMOSEXUAL CONFERENCE TARGETS ELEMENTARY CHILDREN THE COOKIE CRUMBLES: THE GIRL SCOUTS GO PC THE MILLENIUM SUMMIT AND IT'S DECLARATION RU-486: HUMAN PESTICIDE TEXAS EAGLE FORUM MAKING THE NEWS Cliff Notes Quotes

Condensed from an article by Allyson Smith, WorldNetDaily.com, 10/11/00

Members of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education network (website), GLSEN, discussed plans to campaign against the Boy Scouts (website) and to introduce positive discussions about homosexuality into elementary school classrooms-including kindergarten-during their annual conference Oct. 6-8 in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.

This year's conference theme, "Ending the Hate Beginning in School," highlighted GLSEN's contention that teaching pro-homosexual lessons to young schoolchildren is an appropriate way to combat "homophobia" and "hatred" directed at homosexuals. But critics like Peter La Barbera of the Americans for Truth Project, who led a pro-family coalition protesting the conference, said GLSEN's elementary school agenda "manipulates the minds of impressionable children."

GLSEN chose the Windy City for its conference to celebrate the opening of its third regional office here. Organizers said around 800 people, including teenage students, some who received financial scholarships, attended the event.

Scouts out, homosexual clubs in, GLSEN announced plans to pressure schools to lobby school districts to stop sponsoring the Boy Scouts due to its ban on homosexual scoutmasters. "The Boy Scouts can present in someone's homeroom, they can get the school lists of students, they can have posters in the hall.. It's a very unique access that most other clubs do not enjoy, and at the same time they are a discriminatory club," said GLSEN policy director M. K. Cullen.

LaBarbera countered that homosexual student clubs advocated by GLSEN nationwide-called GSA's (Gay-Straight Alliances)--often receive much the same access. Recently, Newton North High School in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA celebrated "Bisexual Awareness Day." A large banner with the slogan "Celebrate Bisexual Awareness Day" was hanging over the main entrance of the school until parents got wind of it and complained to school authorities. "If you asked parents whose agenda-GLSEN's or the Boy Scouts-presents a real threat to schoolchildren, I think most would say that GLSEN does more harm than the Boy Scouts ever could," said La Barbera.

At a workshop at the conference titled, "Appreciating a Broader Canvas: How Teachers Understand Gay and Lesbian Content Integration in Elementary Social Studies," participants were instructed on ways to incorporate pro-gay content into family studies for grades K-3 and into U.S. immigration history for grades 4-6.

The K-3 lesson plan advised teachers to help students "recognize diverse family constellations" by encouraging discussion of individual family differences and similarities and by showing photographs from a book entitled "Celebrating Families," which includes "lesbian mothers/adopted daughters."

In another session, the film, "That's Family!" was shown. The movie is the second by lesbian activists Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen, creators of the controversial film "It's Elementary," which showed instructors giving pro-homosexual classroom lessons to young children. According to a promotional flyer, "That's Family!" is an entertaining documentary for elementary school children, featuring kids from a wide variety of family structures, including gay and lesbian families. GLSEN and other homosexual groups are lobbying to get "That's Family!" shown in classrooms across the country.

At another GLSEN workshop, attendees received a handout telling ways to include pro-homosexual content in geometry classes by using "known political symbols (a pink triangle, a yellow star of David, a political flag, the purple teletubbie) to study shapes. While the geometry lesson is the goal, history and political information surrounding the shape is introduced."

Although the conference presenters talked about the importance of disseminating only "age-appropriate" material, all participants, including dozens of high school-aged kids, had the opportunity to receive a "Visitor's Companion" that advertised Chicago's homosexual "leather" bars, a sex club and a homosexual bath house.."

During an all-day seminar on Friday called "LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Educators Empowerment," high school teacher Patricia Nicolari of GLSEN/Connecticut described ways in which educators can "come out" to students based on a five-stage continuum ranging from "In (the closet)" to "Out (of the closet)." Co-moderator Michael Fiorello discussed the importance of enlisting "straight allies" such as members of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and religious leaders who defend homosexual teachers.

Another seminar was "Responding to the Right Wing." Conference presenters and attendees repeatedly stressed the idea that "respect for others" must supersede private religious beliefs and that name-calling must be stopped. However, the prohibition on name-calling excluded such labels as "radical right," "religious right" and "right wing."

National Education Association (NEA, website) President Robert Chase gave the keynote address at the conference. Chase insisted that he was there "out of concern for the children our members teach," and the NEA does not have a "radical pro-homosexual agenda," but rather a "radical civil rights agenda." He said, "It's not about promoting unsafe and abhorrent lifestyles, but protecting (against) abhorrent behaviors. It's not a matter of recruiting gay or lesbian teachers, but of retaining them. It's simply a matter of protecting all children and school employees. It is an education issue.."

Editor's Note: Homosexual activists, apparently with the approval of the NEA, seek to indoctrinate our young children in the classroom to "tolerate" their unhealthy and immoral lifestyle. If you are a NEA member, write or email Robert Chase and express your opposition to his involvement in the conference (1201 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 or BobChase@nea.org. In addition, there are federal and state laws that protect you and your child. Find out if your school is planning on showing the films "It's Elementary" or "That's Family!" and ask to review them. Then seek like-minded parents to work with you to keep the film out of the school; or simply opt your child out of the class when the film is shown.

Everyone knows about the Boy Scouts (website), now one of the most controversial groups in America. But what about the Girl Scouts? All sugar and spice and everything nice, plus annual cookie sales, right? Not quite. The Girl Scouts of America (website) have avoided the beleaguered status of the Boy Scouts only because the organization has surrendered to exactly the cultural forces the Boy Scouts are resisting. The Girl Scouts' leaders hope to make their youthful charges the shock troops of an ongoing feminist revolution.

It's been a long slide for the Girl Scouts. First, they dropped "loyalty" from their oath in 1972 in favor of "I will do my best to be honest and fair." In 1975, a Catholic archdiocese cut off all support of the Girl Scouts because of their sex-ed program. In 1993, the Girl Scouts made "God" optional in the Girl Scout Promise: "On my honor, I will try: to serve God and my country, to help people at all times and to live by the Girl Scout Law." (The Boy Scouts, meanwhile, have been sued over keeping God in their oath.)

Today, the Girl Scouts is arguably one of the most politically correct organizations in the country. Its executive director, Marsha Johnson Evans, has impeccable feminist credentials: She had a 29-year career in the Navy, during which she earned the title of rear admiral, only the second woman ever to do so. As head recruiter for the Navy, she was the mother of the 12-12-5 affirmative action policy, a mandate to make the Navy look more like America: 12% African-American, 12% Hispanic, and 5% Asian/Pacific. According to Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (website), Evans "demanded quotas with full implementation when the liberal control of the Navy was at its peak. She is very much a feminist, and was promoted and thrived in the Clinton military."

Evans' scouts march leftward on almost everything. The Girl Scout organization supports Title IX legislation-which mandates gender equity in sports-in both the nation's capital and in its own literature. The Girl Scout Constitution includes a ringing endorsement of affirmative action in "recruitment, hiring, training, and promoting." Girl Scouts and Girl Scout moms are anti-gun, and were represented in the anti-gun Million Mom March.

"The core values remain the same, but throughout its history Girl Scouting has evolved to meet the needs and interests of the girls today," says Karen Solzak Rice, a spokesman for a California Girl Scout Council. Girl Scouts can now earn the "Ms. Fix-It" badge, the "Car Care" badge, and badges, which vary from council to council, (that) go way beyond selling cookies. There's the "Domestic Violence Awareness" badge, as well as badges for stress management, for "becoming a teen," and a "Girl Power!" badge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (website). Girls can earn a "Decisions for Your Life" badge for participating in activities relating to teen pregnancy, including carrying a raw egg for a designated period of time.

Victimization is central to the Girl Scout worldview. Citing a survey from the American Association of University Women (website) that has since been debunked, the Girl Scouts assures girls in its literature that teachers discriminate against them in the classroom, calling on boys more often. The new Girl Scout Research Institute has just released its inaugural study, "Girls Speak Out: Teens Before Their Time," focusing on the supposed crisis of girls. Dr. Whitney Roban, a clinical psychologist at the institute, advises parents: "You are hurting your daughter by trying to protect her. Sit down with your daughter and watch Dawson's Creek and the MTV awards. Talk about it. It will be very revealing."

So why aren't the Girl Scouts being sued and protested for not allowing lesbian Scout leaders? Because they have them. The Girl Scouts does not have a "discrimination policy," as they like to put it-Girl Scout doors are open to all gay Scout leaders and girls. The organization itself is not shy about the issue. One resource book for Scouts informs its young readers: "Some girls have sexual attractions or desires for people of the same sex."

Girl Scout policy forbids sex on Girl Scouts time. But the1997 book, "On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience," is filled with coming-of-age stories sparked by gay encounters in the Girl Scouts. Along with an essay entitled, "All I Really Need To Know About Being A Lesbian, I Learned at Girl Scout Camp," and various stories about "butch" counselors, is testimony to the prevalence of lesbians in Girl Scouting. Girl Scout staffers writing in the book claim that roughly one in three of the Girl Scouts' paid professional staff is lesbian.

The eyes-and ire-of the world may well be on the wrong Scouts. There are currently 2.7 million Girl Scouts in the U.S. That's a lot of liberal feminists to look forward to. In a speech shortly after becoming executive director, the Girl Scouts' Marty Evans boasted, "We're not your mother's Girl Scout troop." No kidding.

There was a very important meeting at the United Nations in New York City in September. While the General Assembly usually meets annually, this year’s meeting was more important than usual because they agreed to a Millennium Declaration. Some writers said its global impact would be catastrophic, while others downplayed it as a hoax. The questions remain: what did the largest gathering of heads of state in the history of the world DECLARE? And what did the five permanent members of the UN Security Council say about the future of the UN? Will either affect Americans?

The Millennium Declaration:

• reaffirms “faith in the Organization [UN] and its Charter as indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world” (despots who persecute Christians had no problem proclaiming their faith in the UN);
• calls for “equality and equity at the global level,” and claims that benefits of globalization “are very unevenly shared, while its costs are unevenly distributed” (redistributing American wealth around the globe using the Kyoto Protocol to regulate industries);
• calls for “a just and lasting peace all over the world” (they believe war is caused by poverty and that redistributing wealth would prevent war);
• calls for “equality of all States” (do away with the veto authority of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council);
• claims “global challenges must be managed in a way that distributes the costs and burdens fairly in accordance with basic principles of equity and social justice” (the UN wants to MICRO-MANAGE our lives);
• calls for “the management of all living species and natural resources” (the UN wants to rob your property rights);
• calls for “managing worldwide economic and social development,” and the UN “must play the central role” (the UN wants to MANAGE your ability to earn a living);
• claims it “will spare no effort to free our peoples from the scourge of war, whether within or between States” (forget national sovereignty);
• calls for “peace, security and disarmament” (forget your second amendment right to own a gun);
• calls for “the right to development…and to freeing the entire human race from want” and the “elimination of poverty [utopian dream];”
• calls for “debt relief” (writing off debts owed to American taxpayers) and “more generous development assistance” (move American industries to foreign countries);
• calls for ratification of radical environmental treaties including Agenda 21and the Kyoto Protocol (UN management and wealth redistribution schemes);
• calls for the ratification of the radical feminist document called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forum of Discrimination Against Women (elevate women even if a man is more qualified) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (child rights in lieu of parents’ rights);
• calls for “reform [of] the Security Council in all its aspects” (do away with the veto authority of the five permanent members, including the U.S.);
• calls for a halting “the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic” (while endorsing immoral behavior); and
• calls on the General Assembly to review on a regular basis the progress made in implementing the provisions of the Declaration. The closing of the Declaration states, “We solemnly reaffirm, on this historic occasion, that the United Nations is the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development. We therefore pledge our unstinting support for these common objectives and our determination to achieve them.”

Regular review of this Declaration means that this entire list of goals is a MANDATE for the member States. At follow-up meetings, the UN will review how the nations are incrementally implementing global government. They call it global governance, but there is no difference. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged member nations to fund and implement the Millennium Summit agenda and to strengthen the UN. And the five permanent members of the UN Security Council responded to his call hearkening to the Marxist idea that poverty causes war and calling for strengthening of UN peacekeeping:

• U.S. President William J. Clinton said, “We must also work…to prevent conflict, recognizing the iron link between deprivation and war…. So we must build on our initiative to provide free meals for nine million children around the world.” In keeping with his philosophy that midnight basketball prevents crime, he wants us to provide free meals for nine million children to prevent war. Calling for debt relief at American taxpayer expense, Clinton said, “I think it is a moral issue. How can we sit here on the biggest mountain of wealth we have ever accumulated, that any nation in all of human history has ever accumulated, and not” share it. As for peacekeeping, President Clinton wants to “to equip the UN to do what we ask.” He added that since “these efforts come with a price tag, all nations, including my own, must meet our obligations to the UN.”
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair told the General Assembly that the UN is ready to reform, and then spoke about reforming its peacekeeping operations. He wants “new types of peacekeeping…more robust peacekeeping.” He added, “The UN must alter radically its planning, intelligence and analysis, and develop a far more substantial professional military staff.” To accomplish these goals, he wants UN peacekeeper training to be centered in the UK. Bragging that his government by 2004 “will have increased [its] aid budget by 70% since 1997,” he said, “[w]e must be partners in the search for change and hope.” In other words, Blair wants to globally redistribute wealth.
• Red China’s President Jiang Zemin said the UN must “remove the root causes that lead to conflicts…and take effective measures to help their peoples on the road to tranquility, development and rejuvenation.” His Marxist doctrine teaches that wealth redistribution prevents war.
• President Jacques Chirac of France said, “The world community needs to tackle the causes” of conflicts. He also said, “States must provide the UN with the right quality and quantity of personnel and equipment…the key to the effectiveness of the Organization’s actions.” In other words, Chirac joined the global call for redistributing wealth and strengthening UN peacekeeping.
• Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin called for the “supreme rule of international law,” and “a collective approach to the settlement of conflicts.” The way he wants to accomplish these goals: “The new century of the UN…must enter the annals of history as the period of real disarmament.”

The 189 members of the UN, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, agreed to the Millennium Declaration. Indeed, they have a plan to incrementally implement global government with the UN as the central manager of every life and all property in every nation enforced by a standing UN army. The 70-year Marxist experiment failed in the old U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but their philosophy is alive and well at the UN. The Communists have done what they warned us they would: sell us the rope to hang us. And they want Americans to pay the henchmen, a.k.a. UN peacekeepers.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
May these things never come to pass, and they need not if “we the people” stay involved in the political process. Voting is not our only responsibility; freedom dictates that we stay involved. Our work is cut out for us; together we CAN make a difference.
Please ask your Congressmen to withdraw American funding to UN boondoggles that usurp American sovereignty. And ask Senators Gramm and Hutchison to vote AGAINST ratification of all UN treaties.

In a major victory for the abortion movement, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, website) approved RU-486, an early abortion pill, for U.S. use. "For those who choose to have an early termination of their pregnancy, this is a reasonable medical alternative," said FDA Commissioner Jane Henney. Pro-life groups disagreed. The FDA's move "will result in more abortions and new risks to women," said Laura Echevarria, of the National Right to Life Committee. "This method involves administration of two potent drugs, and frequently produces profuse bleeding, in order to kill a human embryo who is two to five weeks old." The NRTLC and other groups vow to continue to fight against RU-486.

Pro-life Members of Congress, in particular Rep. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), plan to introduce legislation that would impose restrictions in the use of RU-486. "Never before has the FDA approved a drug intended to kill people," said Rep. Coburn. And Sen. Hutchinson said, "Fast-track timetables are supposed to be reserved for drugs that will combat life-threatening diseases like cancer or AIDS. In this case, the Administration rushed a drug through that will take lives instead of saving them."

In Texas, Attorney General John Cornyn said the state abortion law on parental notification extends to doctors administering the pill. Meanwhile several major managed health care plans, including Aetna, United HealthCare, and Cigna, announced that they will cover the pill as a standard benefit. (WORLD, 10/14/00)

In an unprecedented move, the FDA refused to disclose the name and location of the manufacturer, citing concerns about employee safety and security. The Wall Street Journal (website) (9/30/00) reports that "funding for the drug, which is being marketed by the private New York-based Danco Laboratories and the Population Council, includes money from foundations set up by billionaire financier Warren Buffet and hedge-fund czar George Soros, plus a $10 million loan from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation."

And according to a story in The Dallas Morning News (website) (10/12/00), The New York Times (website) and The Wall Street Journal reported that Danco has contracted with a manufacturing plant in Communist China to produce RU-486, to be sold under the name Mifeprex.

Several Chinese officials confirmed that Hua Lian Pharmaceutical Co. will produce the drug for the U.S. The company has been working for three years to upgrade its equipment and retrain its staff to meet international standards to export the drug with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Concept Foundation. The Concept Foundation was founded by the World Health Organization and World Bank in 1987 to help factories in developing countries make medical products at low cost for Third World health agencies.

Told of the Chinese factory's role, U.S. pro-life activists said they intend to question the safety and purity of Chinese pharmaceuticals and tie the drug to China's controversial one-child policy and human-rights record. "Of the estimated 10 million abortions performed annually in China, about half are carried out with RU-486," said Gao Ersheng, director of Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research. Source: WORLD, 10/7/00, The Dallas Morning News, 10/11/00, & RNC for Life FaxNotes, 10/9/00

MEET OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
 We are pleased to announce the addition of Ryan Bangert to our staff. Ryan will be TEEF's Director of Communications and Development, in charge of media, research, and fund-raising. He is a 1999 graduate of Oral Roberts University with a degree in political science and has experience working for Christian Coalition in Nebraska and Sen. Don Nickles in OK. Welcome Ryan!

STEPHANIE CECIL WINS HERO AWARD FROM SBOE
TEF's Education Liaison Stephanie Cecil recently won the prestigious "Heroes for Children" Award from the State Board of Education (SBOE).

Among her many accomplishments for the parents and children of Texas, Stephanie exposed problems with a state-written sex education curriculum that led to the review and revision of the program; she found inaccurate information in state adopted health textbooks which resulted in numerous improvements in the books by the SBOE; and she exposed the fact that spelling books were not on the adoption list for Texas, which contributed to the return of spelling books in the classroom. Stephanie worked with SBOE member Bob Offutt to strengthen the emphasis on phonics in reading curriculum and textbooks, and as a Governor's appointee to the Goals 2000 state planning panel, she successfully recommended the plan adopt an emphasis on reading. She also fought and won that schools be required to inform parents of state and federal laws concerning parent and student rights.

For years, Stephanie has worked sacrificially for the families of Texas and is truly deserving of this award. She is OUR heroine!

TEXAS EAGLES SPEAK OUT..
October 4: Cathie Adams and Ryan Bangert spoke before the Dallas City Council against a witch's invocation.
October 6-7: Cathie spoke about the United Nations to two groups in Midland, TX.
October 11: Ryan spoke to the Deaf Action League, Dallas about the differences in the Republican and Democrat Platforms.
October 12: Cathie spoke in Winnsboro, TX about how "we the people" must persevere to retain our freedoms.
October 26: Cathie spoke to a group of moms in Plano, TX about keeping our priorities right and being involved in the civic arena.
November 2-6: Cathie was in Philadelphia to support the Bush Campaign.
November 11-25: Cathie, Pat Carlson and MerryLynn Gerstenschlager will be attending a UN conference at The Hague, Netherlands. Please pray for God's blessings and leadership.

Many members of Texas Eagle Forum are boldly speaking out in their communities on a myriad of pro-family issues. If you are taking a stand on these issues, please let us know.

EAGLE COUNCIL XXIX
Eagles from around the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., September 8-10 for Eagle Forum's annual Eagle Council. Speakers included Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) on "Electronic Profiling," Rep. Bob Schaeffer (R-CO) on "The Classroom and the Economy," Christine Hoff Sommers on "The War Against Boys," and Henry Lamb on "The Environmentalists' Plan to Control America." The keynote speaker on Saturday evening was Eagle Forum founder and national director, Phyllis Schlafly, who spoke on "Rebuilding the Conservative Movement." Texan Virginia Armstrong, national director of Eagle Forum Court Watch, monitored a panel, and TEF's Cathie Adams and Carolyn Galloway gave workshop presentations.

Eagle Awards for 2000 were given to Texans Bo Armstrong and Chris Foster, our computer gurus, and Kelly Shackelford, lawyer for Liberty Legal Institute, who along with Cathie Adams, served on the Republican National Platform Committee last August in Philadelphia.

TOM THUMB GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM
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CHIP KILLS HEALTHY KIDS
Three years after its creation by the Texas Legislature, the Texas Healthy Kids Corp. (THKC) is going out of business. The THKC was created in 1997 as a public/private partnership to make low-cost health insurance available to uninsured children. Since then, approximately 8,000 children, mostly from low-income families, received health insurance. However, the adoption of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) replaced Texas' Healthy Kids. Seventy-three percent of CHIP's funding comes from the federal government, with Texas' 27% match coming from the tobacco settlement. The new program provides free insurance and medical care to poor children, with 77,000 children already signed up. Source: The Lone Star Report, 9/1/00 Editor's Note: When fully operational, Texas' CHIP program is expected to "recruit" up to 471,000 kids. That means 471,000 kids and their families will be added to the federal dole and be "entitled" to "free" health care (i.e. socialized medicine). This program is the first installment of Hillary Clinton's health care scheme.

A LANDMARK LAND GRAB
The Senate passed the Interior Appropriation's Bill by a vote of 83-16, which included a watered down, but still healthy version of the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA). The House passed the same version and sent it to the President for his signature. The compromise authorizes many aspects of the original bill, including federal and state land acquisition with a "compensation" program for people who are kicked off their land against their will and paid what the government deems fair. (The government already owns nearly one-third of all U.S. land.) The bill provides $2.5 billion more than President Clinton requested and $3.9 billion over the current spending programs. Diane Alden, with Newsmax.com summed it up best: "It doesn't matter if death (of property rights) by CARA comes by slow strangulation or a quick bullet to the head, the results are the same." Source: Liberty Matters News Service, 10/6/00 & EF News & Note, 9/1/00

HOUSE EASILY CONFIRMS NEWBORNS' RIGHT TO LIFE
By a vote of 380-15, the House passed a bill that would extend legal protection to infants born alive, even if their birth was the result of an abortion. The bill amended the Federal Code, adding definitions of such controversial and divisive terms as "person," "human being," "child," "individual," and "born alive." Most people think a baby who survives an abortion would automatically be considered "born" and come under the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Not so! Because of various Supreme Court decisions, if a baby is slated for abortion and born alive, he will simply be left to die. This bill will legally protect his life. All Texas Republicans voted in favor of this bill. Source: Human Events, 10/13/00 & RNC for Life FaxNotes, 9/29/00

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"The FDA's approval of RU-486 turns a new page in America's national tragedy. Millions more will perish, and their blood will stain our nation's soul. I say it is an affront to all that is right in America and an abomination before the God who authored these unborn lives."
Pat Buchanan, 9/29/00

FOUNDING FATHER QUOTE
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God."
President George Washington proclaiming a National Day of Thanksgiving,
1789.