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One hundred and sixty-five Egyptian-garbed sixth-graders filed into the multi-purpose room at Hood River Middle School for a special feast on Friday afternoon. They were culminating a six-week study of ancient Egypt by dressing, eating and "walking like an Egyptian."
This is the sixth year that Hood River Middle School's sixth grade teachers have given their students this opportunity to learn about the era of pyramids, hieroglyphics and mummies. New this year was a life-size paper pyramid built by the students and led by Tom Merriam, whose daughter Bridget is in the sixth grade.
"It was a two-week project; each class made 72 rolled-up paper tubes and then it took 50 kids two hours to assemble it," Merriam said. The project doubled as a math lesson; he involved the students in calculating how many tubes it would take and how they would need to go together to create a geodesic pyramid. The final structure was covered with paper and decorated with hieroglyphics.
Individual projects were displayed on a long table — pyramids made of sugar cubes, wooden blocks, sand, Legos, and foil; scrolls, a sarcophagus, travel brochures and more. Projects were assigned a point value — by doing more complicated projects or a large number of smaller ones, kids could earn the status of pharoah. Lesser point totals earned lower status, such as pharoah's family, pharoah's advisors, official tax collectors, scribes, and slaves ("skilled workers").
For the feast, the students dressed in linen robes and tunics and wore jewelry, headgear and make-up of the period. They paraded around the room and did their best Egyptian pose in front of the four judges, who had the unenviable task of choosing the best costumes.
"I wouldn't want to be the judge," sixth-grade teacher Wendy Fisk said. "It would be very hard."
The judges handled it by naming lots of winners.
"We picked two from each group of five — there's a 'cast of thousands,'" said May Street Elementary School's principal Dan Patton, one of the judges.
Pharoahs were served at a table, eating from gold plates and drinking sparkling cider from goblets. The others were not so fortunate.
"We get to eat at a table — the other people have to eat on the ground," Alex Marchesi said. In addition, the others had to settle for plain apple juice and regular cups.
The fare — olives, pita bread, falafel, tzatziki, hummus, pomegranate and more — was a little new to many of the kids but not all turned up their noses at it.
"It's awesome — it's all awesome," according to Sam Kopecky, who was clearly enjoying his place at the pharoah's table.
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What's that I hear?
A sleepy village
Full of Christmas Cheer!
Seasons Greetings and Merry Christmas!
Welcome to my Christmas in July blog party!
I'm so glad you could join me, do come in!
A jolly wreath adorns the door and Chris has been working hard to make a special treat just for you!
We make both sauerkraut and potato pierogies and love eating them for breakfast on Christmas morning (although the Southern girl in me makes sure they are deep fried! :P)
What's this? Another family tradition, making delicious oladyi which is a Russian yeast pancake. We eat them with cloves of garlic.
They are a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
(Sugar Addicts note: they are even better douse in powdered sugar instead of garlic!)
The table is set, let's dig in!
Don't be shy, there's plenty for everyone!
And once you are full and ready to rest,
how about some Christmas classics before we open presents?
but all of those classics gave me a second wind and got me in the mood for presents!
Let's gather around the tree!
Oh look, I see a very special present under the tree!
Toot?! How did you get under there?!
This picture is of Toot at one month old...
Yes, I know...it's shameless Toot promotion. :P
This looks like a fun present, I'm going to open it!
It's for you!
Well, for one of you anyway! ;)
My Christmas in July gift to one lucky party goer is a Cr3zy Design Blog (Personal) blog makeover (on me!) created for the winner by the fabulous Traci at Sweet Cheeky Designs (who designed my blog!). All you have to do to enter is comment in this thread by midnight, Sunday, July 26th. I will randomly draw the winner and make the announcement next week.
I need a way to contact you and you wouldn't want me to regift this to someone else would you??? :D
And now it's time to say good bye as you bundle up to head off to other fabulous parties today!
See that list in the right sidebar? Well those are other amazing parties just waiting for you to come and join the fun! Some have delicious refreshments, some have more presents, some have holiday stories and I know a few have some marvelous Christmas surprises in store for you! (Each link opens in a new window so you can remain here and have easy access to all of the parties!)
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Welcome to Riftgate!
This is a dark, gritty campaign set in the primeval world of Kinadh. It uses the Epic RPG system and as such, combat is deadly, magic is rare. Character advancement is directly tied to the campaign setting, providing a rich cultural context for each character's unique abilities.
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The current party:
- Atomus A user of elemental magics who denies he is a sorcerer.
- Balthius A Magi focused on divination.
- Linnaeus A Sage with a love of shenanigens.
- Pello A Ripodhan healer with an insatiable curiosity.
- Tenaius A solid dependable soldier.
- Pallig A rough looking soldier with a love of ale, gambling and women.
Retired party:
- Bleddyn A nomadic horse archer with a flair for acrobatics. When the party found itself suddenly in the far South, he was left behind. Has since moved on to greener pastures.
- Kanza Dakehl'Murag A warrior from the western swamps covered in a thick armour of scars. He too was left behind when the party found itself suddenly in the far South. Has since wandered off to find new challenges.
- Voxis A masked assassin with a strange code of honour. He fled the party with the stolen Riftgate in the South. Whereabouts unknown.


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I wish I'd researched Amazon Prime more thoroughly back then. I had no idea what I was turning down. By not joining until two years later in 2009, I spent far more in shipping costs alone than I would have paid for the annual membership.
Honestly, I am in love with Amazon Prime and my love only grows as the years go by. My life is so busy and I am such a disaster waiting to happen in a shopping mall environment, that I rely heavily on Amazon for everything from household needs and personal items to business supplies and equipment. Free shipping alone saves me hundreds of dollars every year.
How do I love Amazon Prime? Oh, let me count the ways:
Free two-day shipping on millions of items. While there are some exceptions (Prime is not available on items sold through the Amazon Marketplace), I don't recall the last time I paid for shipping. Free two-day shipping, no matter the weight, with no minimum purchase amount. It makes my head spin how fast things arrive with Prime shipping. Anything I want is delivered to my doorstep in two short days, no matter how much it weighs. And if I absolutely need it tomorrow, with Prime I can upgrade to get next day delivery for a flat rate of $3.99. Amazon Prime saves me and my business hundreds of dollars in shipping fees every year.
I can share my Prime. And I do. Amazon Prime members can share the shipping benefits of Prime with up to four additional family members living in the same household, or up to four co-workers.
Unlimited instant streaming of movies and TV episodes. You can stream Amazon Instant Video on any compatible device that's signed into an Amazon account. You can stream hit movies and all kinds of recent TV episodes.
Students get a big break. Prime Student membership is free for six months, then once you join it's 50 percent off the regular Prime rate — only $39 a year. Student members unlock access to unlimited instant streaming of 40,000 movies and TV episodes after their free six months.
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Tagged: Iowa Cubs
May 11th, 2012 – 3 Things To Watch For
Fresno Grizzlies (24-10) vs. Iowa Cubs (14-19)
7:05 PM game at Chukchansi Park
Ag Night, presented by Bayer CropScience
The Fresno Grizzlies will need a win to ensure a tie in the four-game series against the Iowa Cubs. Iowa has won the first and third games of the set. Fresno has not lost a series yet this season after taking three-of-four in the first seven series of the season. They then won two of three in a rain-shortened series at Colorado Springs last weekend.
Brock Bond has an eight-game hitting streak, currently the longest such streak by a Grizzlies hitter. Bond is batting .696 (16-for-23) with a .731 on-base percentage over the eight-game stretch. It is Bond's longest hitting streak since the 2010 season when the switch hitter registered a hit in 10 consecutive games between August 28th and September 6th with Double-A Richmond.
With a win, Grizzlies starting pitcher Matt Yourkin will tie Steve Connelly (1999-2001, 2003) for fifth place on the Grizzlies' all-time career wins list. Yourkin currently has 18 wins in his Fresno career. The southpaw has pitched for Fresno since 2010.


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DiS Mobile Site
So, I like to have a little read of DiS while I'm on buses or trains, thus the DiS mobile site is great as my phone doesn't seem to be able to cope with the proper site...
However, the last day or so it doesn't seem to be working, I'm just getting the black COMMUNITY bar across the top with nothing underneath.
If I go into my phone browser history, I can look at old threads, but not the community or forum pages themselves. Is it broken or just by shitty blackberry?
there's a mobile site?
why does my iPhone just go to the ordinary site, then? Or is there no auto redirect function built into the page headers?
at the moment
there's only a community mobile site, we've not had chance to do the entire site but it's on the very long to do list (at the moment such a small percent of people access the site via mobiles that we've not made it a priority).
i think the error might be due to some fixes we've done for IE6. am sure tom will investigate when he's back to work tomorrow.
is there a special URL?
I always end up at the standard forum pages if I go to drownedinsound.com/community or drownedinsound/community/boards/music etc.
iPhone 2nd gen, running 3.0
It's normally-
m.drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social.mobile but, as I say, it's not working at the moment...
It's working again
I'm even posting from it now! Thanks sean and tom...
Its stopped working
I can only go on the community page and not the individual boardsdouchebag and Schadenfreude this'd this
Is this going to get fixed?
It's a bit of a bugger only being able to go to the 5 most recent threads on each board!svenrokk this'd this
I have that same problem
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With the Wharf Street redevelopment project on schedule, the next step will be qualifying future residents for home loans.
"We're still getting applications and we've had two or three information sessions for potential home buyers," said Mayor Lisa Sulka.
The town Affordable Housing Subcommittee "will get an update on the number of applicants" when it meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sulka said.
Sulka said U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, R-1st District, will have a staff member at the meeting to learn more about the program.
The Wharf Street redevelopment is a $1 million, grant-funded project that has constructed six cottage-style homes in Old Town. The houses are on about half an acre at the intersection of Roberson Street in Old Town. The "green" homes range in size from 330 square feet to 1,551 square feet.
Crestline Custom Builders LLC of Laurenberg, N.C., delivered the modular homes in early November.
The Greenery recently donated about $20,000 of labor and materials to landscape the project.
The houses will be available for sale to families with household incomes less than 80 percent of the Beaufort County median income and meeting other eligibility requirements. The median is $68,900, but using a scale based on household size,
80 percent ranges from $38,600 for a one-person household to $55,100 for a four-person household.
Applications are available online at www.townofbluffton.sc.gov and at three locations: Town Hall, 20 Bridge St.; Bluffton Law Enforcement Center, 101 Progressive St., Buckwalter Place at 101 Progressive Street; and the Bluffton Library, 120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton Village.


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Desiree and the eight remaining men fly to the cultural and romantic hotspot of Barcelona. Drew and Kasey, however, share the burden of a terrible secret concerning James, who they feel is not there for the right reasons. The guys are intent on making sure that Desiree learns the devastating truth about this man, but when will it be the right time to tell her? Meanwhile, Drew has his own romantic and emotional one-on-one date with the Bachelorette. The group date features a face-off between six pumped up bachelors and an all-female professional soccer team. But buckle up the after party features one the most visceral, ferocious fights in Bachelorette history. And when Desiree finally confronts James, she drops a bombshell. Zak helps to take Desirees mind off the drama with a revealing one-one-one date that ups the romance. But the tension is unbearable as the rose ceremony nears and no man feels safe. Who will survive to travel to the exotic island of Madeira?
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Joss Whedon returns to TV
Joss Whedon, God of Nerds, was, pre-Avengers, best known for genre TV fare like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the criminally cancelled Firefly. Then Marvel came knocking and he hasn't had a TV show since Dollhouse (the one thing he's done that I could not make myself like) got canned in 2010. But now he's returning to TV with Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. A trailer for the pilot was released at the ABC upfront yesterday. Marvel, in their quest for total domination of your eyeballs, is extending their reach to television beginning this fall.
Last August, word first came out about a possible SHIELD show in development with Marvel/ABC, and I said at the time it wasn't a bad idea, given how much spy-related development they had lying around, including a scrapped movie, also titled Agents of SHIELD. Looking at the trailer, the remains of that would-be movie are clearly visible in the TV pilot. It is not hard to spot which character was supposed to be Hawkeye, which Black Widow, and they still have their anchor point, fan favorite Agent Coulson, somehow not dead after very clearly dying in The Avengers. (The explanation for that better not involve twins.) And that's Luke Cage, right? The guy in the hoodie? That'll end a lot of speculation on the movie side if it is.
The trailer is solid, with a large-scale cinematic scope—holy sh*t is this show going to be expensive to produce—and it'll be interesting to see if Coulson can carry a show. I've no doubt Clark Gregg can do it as an actor, but part of Coulson's cool was that we didn't really know anything about him, he was just a drive-by badass amidst the superhero ruckus. It's the danger of spinoffs, that a character that's great in small doses becomes intolerable in long form. But all reports from the upfront presentation have been encouraging—the critics and advertisers were into it, and ABC is making it the cornerstone of their new fall lineup and giving it a prime Tuesday night slot.
I don't like to bet against Whedon. He's always ahead of the curve on trends and tastes, but sometimes that's also been his problem. Firefly, for instance, was ten years ahead of its time. And while Whedon did write and direct the pilot, the showrunners are actually his brother, Jed Whedon, and Jed's wife, Maurissa Tancharoen. They're veterans of Dollhouse, that lone Whedon project that I can't get behind. I want to like Agents of SHIELD but I can't shake my reservations—that "superhero of the week" will wear thin, that the agents will prove uninteresting without their more glamorous movie counterparts, that it will be too esoteric for network television.
There's no middle ground—Agents of SHIELD will either be Buffy and run for years or be another Firefly and get cancelled in ten episodes or less. Hopefully Whedon's reversal of fortune holds and Agents of SHIELD is as awesome as Firefly but gets the lifespan of Buffy. Because I really cannot get my TV-heart broken by another cancelled Joss Whedon show.
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CRESTVIEW � The Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce�s Arts and Culture Committee hopes to add a cultural component to the spring�s annual Triple-B festival.
CRESTVIEW � The Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce�s Arts and Culture Committee hopes to add a cultural component to the spring�s annual Triple-B festival.
Following its mission of �linking arts and culture with the community,� the committee, formed several months ago, is exploring ways to include local artists and cultural performance groups in the city�s largest street festival. Next year�s Triple-B will be April 6.
�People can come to the Triple-B and enjoy great food as well as admire local arts and crafts,� committee chairperson Rae Schwartz said.
The chamber�s young professionals committee annually produces The Triple-B � barbecue, bluegrass and Blackwater. While it has often included out-of-town vendors selling crafts, jewelry, candles and other items, this marks the committee�s first concerted effort to encourage local artists� participation.
Gathered at its monthly meeting at the Java Journey coffee shop, committee members discussed inviting area folkloric or heritage performers to sing or dance at the Triple-B south stage near the railroad tracks. Artists would be located in the same area.
In other matters, the Arts and Culture Committee:
� Reviewed the recent CALA: Crestview Area Loves the Arts Christmas festival and discussed adding a local restaurants component next year.
� Discussed plans to use portable gallery displays for featuring local artists� exhibits at the monthly chamber of commerce breakfasts.
�If a business wants local art to hang in their office, this is a way to see what local artists are doing and get to talk to the artist,� Schwartz said.
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Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
Doubleday, Jan 1, 1996 - History - 400 pages
In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, "Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.
The truth, however, is neither as grim, nor as blindly idealistic, as many would expect. The fact is that a virtual revolution is underway in Indian Country, an upheaval of epic proportions. For the first time in generations, Indians are shaping their own destinies, largely beyond the control of whites, reinventing Indian education and justice, exploiting the principle of tribal sovereignty in ways that empower tribal governments far beyond most American's imaginations. While new found power has enriched tribal life and prospects, and has made Native Americans fuller participants in the American dream, it has brought tribal governments into direct conflict with local economics and the federal government.
Based on three years of research on the Native American reservations, and written without a hidden conservative bias or politically correct agenda, "Killing the White Man's Indian takes on Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory--and controversial-guises."
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Headache is Ransom's ex right hand and his muscle. We were told he is geting at Ransom because he wrote hooks and songz and claimed he never got paid. We were also told its getting deep due to the Joe Budden vs Ransom beef.
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Kyou Kara Mao! - Discussion
Oh! I've been waiting for this one to be subbed!
Hurrah to Shonen-ai and Live-Evil!
I'm downloading this as I write and it may take some time with one seeder and hundreds of leechers, but yeah...I'm just happy it's finally here!
So, to those who have seen the show...what do you guys think?
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/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Time Warp/Future
I LOVE this new series. A very funny and unorthodoxical plot and a very sarcastic male lead, and I LOVE both
I totally fell for the male lead the instant
It has the potential to become my most favorite new series now
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Heh, glad it's so great. I was hoping it had a lot of humor to it, but not so much to overshadow the actual plot. Hurrah, only 1h til my episode is complete!
I probably won't watch it until tommorrow though since it's 2am now ^^"
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Spoiler for not sure if it's a spoiler but oh well it's some background settings:
Oh, and the title Kyou Kara Mao! roughly translates into "From Today I'm the Demon King!"
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That's the most bizare thing I ever read..
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Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
It was an ok episode, could have been funnier but I'll continue watching.
One big plus point - I count it as pure fangirlism -
Ah, yes. I know, I need to get over it already !
|2004-04-09, 08:03
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/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Time Warp/Future
BTW, I'm watching this for the third time now, I just can't get enough of
|2004-04-09, 10:39
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Senior Member
Hehe that was funny, I love how Yuuri reacted when he saw the "pretty boy." Well I hope they are not gay or anything, cause that would ruin the show for me... lol.
I liked the opening scene when you saw him charged with energy and stuff, why that's spiffy magic.
Ahhhh! I have a feeling this will be my fav. of the new shows! I mean I watched Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai along with Midori no Hibi yesterday. Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai has so potential, but if they are going to do fanservice it will become a sucky show. Midori no Hibi was very funny but they both pale against this anime.
Haha! That was so great! I love it!!!
|2004-04-09, 11:30
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: good 'ole US of A
|2004-04-09, 13:40
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/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Time Warp/Future
just got the english fansub, good subbing, however there are a couple of questions I have with the english sub. First why do they have to do some strange long translation notes like,
Maou - the king of shinmakoku. holds power... etc. etc.
Mazuko - a race uses magic and lives... etc. etc.
which are not explained in this episode anyway and sort of like redundant info IMO, instead of the simple direct translation that,
Maou = Demon King
Mazuko = Race of Demons
Shinmakoku = True Demon Country
I mean with the current translation notes a lot of the humor is lost, like why Yuuri got so surprise and that "wtf" expression when he's told he is the Maou. I guess anyone who has watched stuffs like The Slayers should know what Maou and Mazuko are, but for people who don't know, those translation notes make them sounds like Mazuko could be something like elves
Also I think there's a slight difference between the subs I have watched, at that scene when they reached the Shinmakuko, and that guy said that long line "Given prosperity by....", Yuuri asked something like "is this the National Anthem?" and got told it's the full name of the Shinmakoku. In the English fansub it's translated into something like "is this the country?" so if it's mistranslated here the humor is kinda lost (the full name of Shinmakoku is so long that it's mistaken by Yuuri as the National Anthem ).
Very good fansub nonetheless
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By James W. Smith
Title: James V. Craig papers, 1968-1991
Primary Creator: Craig, James V. (1924-2003)
Extent: 3.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 5 series by type of material: 1) Publications, 1992, undated; 2) Photographs and Negatives, undated; 3) Class Notes, 1981-1991; 4) Audiovisual, 1985, undated; 5) Lecture notes, 1968-1991.
Date Acquired: 12/08/2009
Subjects: Kansas State University history
Languages: English
James V. Craig was born 7 February 1924 in Bonner Springs, Kansas. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1948 and his M.S from the same institution in 1949. In 1952, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from 1952 to 1955. He then became Associate Professor of genetics in the Poultry Department at Kansas State University from 1955 to 1960, at which time he was promoted to Professor.
In 1961, he received the Poultry Science research award from the Poultry Science Association, and in 1961-1962 he held a post-doctoral National Institute of Health Special Fellowship at the Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland. He received a Poultry Science travel award to attend the XIV World's Poultry Congress in Madrid, Spain, in 1970. In 1981, Prentice-Hall published Craig's book, Domestic Animal Behavior, and the following year he spent with the Animal Behavior Unit at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, while on sabbatical. The Poultry Science Association elected him a Fellow in 1988, and in 1992 he received the Merck Award for Achievement in Poultry Science and Poultry Welfare Research Award from the Poultry Science Association. That same year, he retired from Kansas State University. He died 30 March 2003 in Topeka, Kansas.
Repository: Morse Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: No access restrictions: All materials are available for research.
Use Restrictions: Restrictions may apply to 45 RPM record. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Physical Access Note: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Technical Access Note: The VHS tape will require a player and viewer, and the 45 RPM record will require an appropriate player and speakers.
Acquisition Source: Department of Animal Sciences and Industry
Acquisition Method: Donation.
Appraisal Information: Acquired because it documents some of the research and creative efforts of a faculty member.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], James V. Craig papers, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Processing Information: James W. Smith, graduate student at Emporia State University, processed the collection for an arrangement and description course assignment, and university archivist Cliff Hight reviewed it, in November 2011.
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised in 2012 to align with locally-applied DACS requirements.


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text: ODU Sports Liberty Defeats Women's Soccer 2-0 August 30, 2013 By ODU Athletics BOX SCORE/PLAY-BY-PLAY LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Old Dominion University women's soccer team dropped to 0-3 this season after a 2-0 loss at Liberty on Friday in Lynchburg, Va. The Liberty Lady Flames move to 1-1 on the season.The Lady Monarchs fired the first shot of the game in the fifth minute, when freshman Carly Goldsborough's attempt was blocked. Liberty's defense quickly made adjustments, as Old Dominion would be limited to just one shot for the rest of the game.Going into halftime, ODU's defense still had the clean sheet in tact. Lady Monarch freshman keeper Meredith Lenox performed brilliantly in the first 45 minutes, saving three shots.In the 70th minute of play, Liberty's Megan Warner was able to find the back of the net for the first time this season from just inside the box off a Alanna Dunkle assist. The Lady Flames would add a second and final goal in the closing stages of the game, as Crystal Elmers chipped the ball into the goal from 13 yards out. Elmers' goal was assisted by Alanna Dunkle; giving Dunkle her second assist of the game. The goal was the first on the season for Elmers.Lenox ended up with four saves for the match. Liberty out-shot the Lady Monarchs 15-2 and led the corner kick count 4-1.The Old Dominion University women's soccer team returns home for a match against Radford on Sunday, September 1, at the ODU Soccer Complex at 1 p.m. The first 250 ODU students to arrive to Sunday's game will receive a free hotdog and drink (valid student ID required).Be sure to keep up with all the latest news regarding ODU Women's Soccer on Facebook; as well as follow @ODUWomensSoccer on Twitter!SCORING SUMMARY-LIBERTY - 67:49 - GOAL by WARNER, Megan (1st GOAL), Asst by DUNKLE, Alanna-LIBERTY - 87:14 - GOAL by ELMERS, Crystal, Asst by DUNKLE, AlannaSTATSShots: ODU (2), Liberty (15)Corners: ODU (1), Liberty (4)Saves: ODU-Meredith Lenox (4); Liberty-Vannoord (0)


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by Tom Utescher
In last Thursday's round of NCAA League games, both the Lime Green team featuring Mount St. Joe grad Elle Hagedorn and the Black Team remained on a roll, setting up a battle of the last two undefeated squads this Tuesday evening (7/17).
Lime downed Kelly Green, a ballclub made up of players from University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP), 74-36, after the Division II USP Devils kept the game close fairly deep into the first half.
The Black team appeared on the path to a total rout of Ash Gray in the opening minutes of their clash later in the evening. Ash Gray, which includes all six Chestnut Hill College players in the league along with Springside alum Brenna Coll, regrouped and stayed within 10 to 15 points of the leaders for the greater part of the game. Down the stretch, Team Black got the lead up over 20 points and finished up as a 77-54 victor.
Recent Mount grad Bridget Higgins saw her Gold team trailing the Orange (the Philadelphia University entry) by seven points at halftime. After almost letting the leaders get completely out of reach in the second stanza, Gold made a late run but came up a little short, losing 52-49.
In a game earlier in the week Germantown Academy grad Monica Schacker pumped in 17 points (including four three-point field goals) to help the Orange down Ash Gray, but she wasn't around for Thursday's contest. Instead of shooting guards, it was point guards who powered the group from Philly U., as Najah Jacobs rang up 14 points and Megan Finn added 13 to the winning cause.
From its 28-21 advantage at the half, Orange expanded its lead to as many as 14 points in the second stanza before the Gold rallied. Orange hung on, although the Gold got 10 points apiece from Higgins and from center Alex Yantzi, known as "X."
On an adjacent court, USP's Kelly Green gave as good as they got up to the 10-minute mark, when they actually had an 11-9 edge over Lime Green. Six straight points put the Limeys in the lead for good. Katie Kuester, the former Girls Inter-Ac star from Notre Dame, helped rally the league co-leaders with nine first-half points, and Cardinal O'Hara grad Alicia Manning added seven.
Kelly Green was not totally out of it at halftime, down 32-19, but the gap grew steadily after the intermission. Meg Pearson (Archbishop Carroll/Villanova), who fired five three-pointers and finished with 17 points, hit second-half treys to put her ballclub up by 20 (45-23 with 14:43 remaining), 30 (64-32 at 3:45), and 40 points (74-34 with under half-a-minute to go). Kuester came away with 19 and Manning with 9, and former Mountie Hagedorn had five points for the evening.
Taking on the powerful Black team in one of the late games, Ash Gray was missing two CHC players, center Aimee Bouie and forward Lindsay Alexander (who was at the game but sidelined by injury). It didn't take long for unbeaten Black to jump ahead 13-3, but Gray's defense stiffened and they began to find the basket on offense.
The count was 38-27 at the half, when former Springsider Coll had eight points in the book. On the boards, the Black team used its height advantage more effectively in the second period, but the gap between the teams hovered around the mid-teens until the closing minutes. The lead went over 20 at 75-53 with two minutes to go, and the final margin was 23 points.
Coll had 13 points for Ash Gray, which got a dozen apiece from her Delaware Valley College teammate, Grace Mirack, and from Da'Kiya Johnson, a guard transferring into Chestnut Hill College. For the Black team, Villanova guard Rachel Roberts had 16 points, and Colgate forward Stephanie Schultz scored 11.


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JW Anderson
Women's Iron Pyrite Spoon Pendant Necklace in Silver
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- Crafted from palladium plated brass in a mirrored finish
- Long spoon pendant
- Features an iron pyrite stone
- Thin silver link chain
- Lobster clasp closure
- Made in Italy
- Comes with dust bag
London based J.W. Anderson is renowned for his androgynous, realistic and confident pieces for both men and women. Founding his young label in 2008, Anderson is already regarded as one of London's most intuitive brands. Focusing on quiet individualism and refined forms, his collections are tailored and intricate yet playful and free. With his womenswear line he brings intricate printing and experimental fabrics to the forefront of his collections, complacent with traditional prettiness, the label celebrates the discipline of the perverse.
J.W. Anderson's AW15 collection paid homage to the New Wave 80's depicting the energetic styles from post-communist Russian party girls. Reviving the looks of Soviet girls in Berlin in the late 80's and early 90's, the collection featured exaggerated and embellished pieces, oversized shoulders and embroidered motifs. Modernising classic 80's masculine silhouettes, the collection featured metallic fringed skirts and flowing polo necks that had been simultaneously jacquarded and dévoré-ed. Alongside buffed patent leather coats were geometric shapes seen in accessories, playfully folded two pieces and metallic lurex dresses. Although reminiscent of the 80's as a whole, the collection was about emancipating from constrictions, a remix of pieces that can be worn interchangeably with a modern wardrobe.
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Our lives are constantly integrating with technology, as well as expanding beyond a desktop environment. It's on the wave of this trend that Thorben works as a mobile application developer along with a wider team at Gowalla that creates top-notch apps. While attending the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Apps Hackathon in New York last August, Thorben worked collaboratively with fellow developers and representatives from Research In Motion® (RIM®) on his ShareIt app, which is designed to allow users to share memo and task items with peers in a BBM contact list.
Check out the video above for the full story on Thorben, ShareIt, and the BBM Apps Hackathon. (Pssst – there might be a Hackathon happening near you! Check out our blog post about upcoming Hackathon events.)
When do you do your best work: independently, or as part of a team? Share your stories in the comments.


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It was a balmy 32 degrees for this morning's Toyota Park Transit Center groundbreaking and though it's not much to look at now, there's plenty of reason to be excited for the new Pace facility, scheduled to open next year, which will include an indoor waiting area.
Congressman Daniel Lipinski and Bridgeview Mayor and Illinois State Senator Steven M. Landek were on-hand to christen the new project which is expected to increase access to public transportation for the residents of Bridgeview, along with people visiting Chicago Fire soccer matches, concerts and other events.
According to Pace, there are additional plans to include the area of Harlem Avenue around Toyota Park in its Arterial Rapid Transit express bus network, and the transit center will serve as a hub for local bus routes to connect with the express service and one another.
The Toyota Park Transit Center announcement, coupled with the recent opening of the 71st Street underpass, is welcomed news for Fire supporters as both projects should facilitate travel for soccer fans to come to Toyota Park, as well as lessen the potential for traffic and parking congestion on game days.


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Melges 32 Class Partners With OtterBox®, Title Sponsor Of 2013 Virgin Islands Sailing Series
21 February 2013
Virgin Gorda, BVI - The International Melges 32 Class Association (IM32CA) is thrilled to announce its partnership with 2013 Virgin Islands Sailing Series (VISS) Title Sponsor OtterBox®, a leader in the production of premier protective solutions for global handheld manufacturers, wireless carriers and distributors.
Event No. 1, the BVI Sportboat Regatta takes place this weekend in beautiful Virgin Gorda, BVI, hosted by the prestigious Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. Two days of practice commence on Tuesday, February 19. Registration and regatta prep continue and complete on Wednesday, February 20. Then four days of full-on, high-powered Melges 32 racing action starts on Thursday, ending on Sunday, February 24.
The awards on Sunday will include crowning the first OtterBox VISS Event winner. In addition to some magnificent trophies, the champion will also go home with an iPad® mini and matching OtterBox Defender Series® case. There are lots of other great products that will be awarded such as OtterBox Armor Series® cases for iPhone® and other very cool accessories.
The 2013 OtterBox® Melges 32 Virgin Islands Sailing Series consists of three exquisite events and is the first ever of its kind for the progressive sportboat class. Act one of the three-part series, the BVI Sportboat Regatta takes place this weekend, February 21-24, hosted by Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Virgin Gorda. The second event happens in conjunction with the International Rolex Regatta in the U.S. Virgin Islands on March 22-24, 2013. The grand finale of the Series, the 2013 Caribbean Championship happens in late April on the luxurious and very private Peter Island.
The IM32CA has also proud to be partnered with Presenting Gold Level Sponsors Seaborne Airlines and INTAC Global Investments.
The International Melges 32 Class Association is very appreciative of the 2013 Virgin Island Sailing Series Title Series Sponsor:
Built upon fundamentals of hard work, innovation and perseverance, OtterBox® is a leader in the production of premier protective solutions for global handheld manufacturers, wireless carriers and distributors.
Incorporating creativity and cutting-edge design into every product, OtterBox® creates sleek and durable cases that offer reliable device protection to complement any lifestyle.
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Seaborne Airlines is one of the largest employers in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Named the "Best Small Air Transport" serving the U.S. Virgin Islands every year since 2007, it has operated for more than 19 years in the Caribbean, carrying almost 2.5 million customers. With both seaplane and Airport air shuttle operations, all aircraft operate with two pilots under US FAR Part 121 flight rules. Flights can be reserved via the Internet at www.seaborneairlines.com or by calling 866-359-8784.
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Melges Performance Sailboats, the builder of the Melges 32, is the world leader in performance, one design racing. For more than 60 years, Melges has delivered superior-built Scows, Sportboats and Skiffs across the country and around the world. Melges has designed, manufactured and provided continuous customer service and product support unlike anyone else. Now ask yourself, do you believe in speed? Could it be possible to have the luxury of simple sailing that is fun and fast? The answer is without reservation — yes. Signed, sealed, endorsed and delivered by the best, for the best. For more information about Melges, visit their website at melges.com.
Additional special thanks and appreciation is extended to the following Supporting and Contributing Sponsors: Biras Creek, British Virgin Islands Tourism Board, The Moorings/TUI Marine, Oil Nut Bay, Surfsong Villa Resort, Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS), Caribbean Cellars, Bitter End Yacht Club, Digicell and Mooney Bay.
The IM32CA also recognizes the kind generosity of Kestrel Global Logistics, International Rolex Regatta 2013, BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival and the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism.


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WORCESTER, Mass. – With a sweep of the doubles matches to start off the day, the MIT women's tennis team rode the momentum of the sweep to a 7-2 victory over Clark University this afternoon. Junior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) picked up wins in doubles and singles for the Engineers, including the match-clinching singles victory, the second straight match she has delivered the clinching win.
After the No. 3 team of sophomore Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) and freshman Meghana Vasireddy (Golden Valley, Minn.) got things off to an impressive start with an 8-0 win at No. 3 doubles, the Engineers went on to take the rest of the doubles matches to take the quick 3-0 advantage. The closest match came at No. 1 where Hsu and freshman Victoria Tam (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) defeated Gaby Suriano and Phoebe Hughes, 8-4.
MIT (5-1, 4-0 NEWMAC) quickly finished off the team win with victories in the first two singles matches decided. Freshman Ava Soleimany (Newport Beach, Calif.) took the first singles match for the Engineers, blanking Marta Ziemer, 6-0, 6-0 in the No. 5 match. Hsu then wrapped up the win for MIT with a 6-4, 6-2 over Sarah Sachs at No. 2.
Freshman Alana Peters (Kenilworth, Ill.) made it 6-0 in MIT's favor with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Hughes. Clark (5-7, 0-4 NEWMAC) picked up its first point when Kera Snyder took a 6-2, 6-3 2 win over sophomore Nina Yang (Tualatin, Ore.) in the No. 6 match. Vasireddy picked up MIT's other win, taking the No. 3 contest by a 6-4, 6-2 score over Maggie Swann. Suriano defeated Kong in the No. 1 singles match, taking the 6-4, 4-6, 10-5 decision.
MIT will put its prefect NEWMAC record on the line at Babson on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Clark will travel to Mount Holyoke in its next match.


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CHANDLER, Ariz.-After five games in the Grand Canyon State, the MIT baseball team improved its record to 4-3 and returned home from its spring trip ready to begin NEWMAC-conference play this Saturday at Wheaton College.
The highlight of the spring trip came in a decisive 8-1 victory over nationally-ranked University of Southern Maine. Freshman left-hander Aric Dama pitched 7 innings with 4 hits and 1 run to put the Engineers out front. Dama was followed on the mound by another freshman, Henry Zhu, who secured the victory with 2 shutout innings of relief.
Another outstanding pitching performance by a first-year player highlighted Thursday's 11-4 win over Hamline University. Max Ockner pitched 6-2/3 innings with only 2 runs while Tech's offense used a 6-run outburst in the 4th inning to roll to the win.
The Cardinal and Gray's other victory on the trip came in a 17-10 slugfest over NESCAC rival Middlebury College. After falling behind 10-3 midway through the game, MIT responded with 14 unanswered runs to shock the Panthers.
MIT's 2 losses came at the hands of nationally-ranked Eastern Connecticut University and NCAA Division-II opponent Colorado State University at Pueblo.
A late rally fell just short in the 8-6 loss to ECSU that kicked-off the trip back on Sunday, March 21.
The Engineers dug themselves an early hole against CSU Pueblo. Sloppy defensive play led to an early 4-run deficit that the ThunderWolves were able to sustain throughout the contest.
Safely back in Cambridge, the MIT team now turns to conference play beginning with a double-header against Wheaton College on Saturday, March 27. Then, the Engineers wrap-up the month in their next home game on Tuesday, March 30 against Brandeis.


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Taking the Republican Candidates to Task: (1) on Taxes
One consequence of the Republican Party's current propensity to select its presidential nominee by the political equivalent of American Idol is that we are regularly exposed to sound-bite answers designed to differentiate one candidate from another. Both the brevity of the answers, and the enthusiasm for differentiation, come however at a cost. They obscure the degree to which the candidates share common positions; and they obscure the extent to which each candidate already has a well-developed policy package to offer to the American electorate.
Regardless of the impression left by the endless debates and the perennial campaigning, these candidates actually agree more than they disagree on the issues that matter most to them: taxation, regulation, and federal spending. They all want all three severely cut! Romney, Gingrich and Santorum share a common hostility to gay marriage and to a woman's right to choose, even lately supporting new barriers to ease of access to contraception. Additionally, all the candidates advocate an end to bank regulation in its Dodd-Frank form, and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act; and all but Ron Paul offer basically the same critique of the Obama Administration's foreign policy. They see it as weak, and insufficiently belligerent. Moreover, it is not just policy that they share. They also share silences and delusions. All of the men currently campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination say remarkably little about the home foreclosure crisis, beyond their willingness to see market forces enjoy full play; and all of them pretend that it is possible to prune federal spending heavily without eroding the already meager American welfare net, or without undermining the adequacy of pension provision for those not yet aged 55.
While the traveling Republican circus continues in its drawn-out pursuit of a winner, the policies which will be pursued by whichever Republican wins go largely unchallenged by a mainstream media preoccupied with the immediate details of the show. Yet the data to refute many of the policy claims made by the Republican presidential candidates already exists in abundance. So in a series of linked postings, of which this on taxation policy is the first, that data will be brought together in an organized and accessible form, hoping in that way to help tip the public conversation away from the beauty contest and towards its consequences.
Each of the main Republican contenders has a set of taxation proposals at the heart of his program[1] – proposals united by two shared premises: that current taxation is too high, particularly on the rich and on corporate America; and that reducing the rate and volume of taxation will trigger renewed private sector investment and associated job growth.
Mitt Romney would make the Bush tax cuts permanent, eliminate taxes on long-term capital gains for those earning less than $200,000, and reduce corporation tax from 35% to 25%.
Newt Gingrich would make the Bush tax cuts permanent, or allow taxpayers to pay a flat 15% tax rate while paying no tax on capital gains and dividends, and cut the corporate tax to 12.5%.
Rick Santorum would make the Bush tax cuts permanent, cut the individual tax rates to just two (10% and 28%), reduce capital gains and dividends tax from 15% to 12%, and cut the corporate tax to 17.5% (and to zero for manufacturing industry).
Ron Paul would extend the 2001-10 tax cuts, eventually replace income tax with a flat tax, and cut the corporate tax to 15%.
So what could possibly be wrong with that? This much at least:
1) Current levels of personal taxation are not high by either historical or comparative standards. They have been higher in the U.S. in the past. They are lower in the U.S. now than in many of our major competitors; and neither here nor abroad did/do higher taxes correlate directly with poor economic performance. Just the reverse in fact. When the United States was creating more than twenty million new jobs in the 1990s, taxation was at the pre-Bush cut level; and as taxation went down in the eight years of the Bush II presidency, so too did the scale of job creation (not even four million overall).[2] The result has been that now – amid the highest level and most prolonged period of unemployment that we have seen in the entire post-war period – the U.S. tax-take is actually at a 60 year low. The proportion of GDP flowing to the federal, state and local governments in the form of individual and corporate taxation (28.3% in 2007) is at its lowest for 40 years, and the federal tax-take part of that – at only 14.4% in 2011 – is at its lowest level since 1950. That 28.3% figure is far lower than its equivalent in more successful economies such as Norway (43.6%), Germany (36.2%) or Sweden (48.3%): indeed in 2007, only Mexico, South Korea and Turkey of the OECD countries had a lower government tax-take than we did.[3] Many more highly-taxed economies are currently more successful than we are, no matter what Republicans candidates tell their party faithful about the poor economic performance of "socialist Europe". Unemployment rates in Norway are currently 3.3%, in Germany 5.5%, and in Sweden 7.4%. Ours is still well over 8%. And per capita income in Norway – at $54,600 in January 2011 – outstripped per capita income here in the United States by over $5000.[4] The low welfare economies of southern Europe are in crisis now – the Republicans are quite right about that – but the high welfare spending economies of the European north most definitely are not. They are currently outperforming us on growth rates and job protection: so much for the supposedly economic consequences of high taxation!
2) Taxation rates on the rich are not excessive. The actual tax-take from this economy's very highest earners is certainly not as high as the official tax rates suggest, nor as those rates have been in the immediate past. The top tax rate in 1945 was 94%. It was still in the 90% range right through the fast-growing 1950s.[5] Dropping the highest rate of income tax to 25%, as the Republican candidates now plan, would take it to its lowest level since 1931.[6] Moreover, as Republican Senator Tom Coburn recently documented in detail, the rich have many tax loopholes and subsidies which they alone are well-placed to exploit – all of which serve to bring the real rate of income tax on the rich down far below the official figure.[7] The super-rich rely far more than do ordinary Americans on income from capital gains, and that income is already taxed at a lower rate (currently 15%) than that on top rates of income (25% to 35%).[8] Far from the U.S. tax code being particularly burdensome on the rich, it is actually progressive only for low-income earners: indeed the Congressional Research Service has recently calculated that "a large proportion of millionaires pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than a significant proportion of moderate-income taxpayers," and that "roughly a quarter of all millionaires (about 94,500 taxpayers) face a tax rate that is lower than the tax rate faced by 10.4 million moderate-income taxpayers."[9] Moreover, those at the very bottom of the American income distribution – those earning too little to pay income tax at all – still pay other forms of indirect taxation, such that the percentage of their income "lost" in tax is ultimately as great/greater than that "lost" by the very rich.[10] All that in an economy and society in which income inequality is at historically high levels and is currently still increasing.[11] Mitt Romney's own personal tax record is illustrative of this set of general truths. The bulk of his income comes in the form of capital gains. Some of that capital is tucked away in tax havens abroad. That which is not so tucked away is taxed at the lower capital gains rate; and though the Governor did pay income tax on his speaking fees in 2011, those fees (at $374,327) were themselves more than seven times larger than the U.S median income! Whatever loads the American rich are currently carrying, a heavy tax burden is certainly not one of them.[12]
3) Nor do U.S. corporations habitually pay the much cited 35% tax rate deemed by Republican politicians as the key to their current inability to generate employment. The data on this is clear and unambiguous. Two-thirds of all U.S. corporations currently pay no federal taxation at all. Bank of America, for example, has paid no federal taxation in the last two years, in spite of receiving from the federal government $1 billion in tax "benefits" and a huge TARP bailout.[13] Indeed, the number of "U.S. corporations organized as nontaxable businesses has grown from about 24% in 1986 to about 69% as of 2008, according to the latest available IRS data."[14] Many large U.S. corporations go off-shore to avoid tax requirements here.[15] Some even combine substantial profits with IRS rebates! The examples are legend: a rebate of $156 million in 2009 to Exxon Mobil, $4.1 billion to General Electric, $19 million to Chevron – all companies making healthy profits.[16] Nor are their fellow corporations short of profits or indeed of cash,. On the contrary, they are unusually flush with both.[17] "In the U.S. non-financial corporate sector…the balance sheet recession has long been over. Profit margins are at record levels thanks to savage labor shedding and companies are awash with cash."[18] What U.S. non-financial corporations are short of is a willingness to hire new staff; and that unwillingness – as a series of reports that take in small and medium size business as well as the large corporations[19] – makes only too clear, is rooted not in any tax burden but in a lack of confidence by business owners that they will be able to sell any increased output they generate. Lack of demand from the bottom of the economy, not an excess of taxation at the top, is the current key block on a return to rapid economic growth and full employment.
The counter-argument to the candidates' tax-cutting proposals should therefore be two fold. They and their supporters need to be told, first, that cutting taxes at this point in the economy's fragile recovery is neither necessary nor desirable. They need to be told, second, that cutting taxes in the way they propose stands a fair chance of slowing down that recovery, by deepening still further the already excessive scale of income inequality in the United States. You don't generate generalized prosperity by easing taxation on the rich and by pruning programs for the poor – trickle-down economics has a proven record of failure – yet benefiting the rich and hitting the poor is precisely what each of these candidates is planning to do. Each of their proposed tax packages is regressive. Each gives more to the rich than it gives to the poor.
Mitt Romney's plan – the most moderate of the three – would give an extra $69 a year to anyone in the bottom 20% of income earners, and maybe save a middle-income American $1,400 a year; but it would save $146,000 a year for anyone in the top 1% of income earners.[20]
Rick Santorum's plan's, by contrast, would give top income earners an extra $341,000 a year;
Newt Gingrich's plan would give the top 1% a $422,000 tax cut;[21]and though
Ron Paul is very difficult to pin down on this (he periodically talks of punishing those who got us into this mess) his proposed abolition of income tax would, if implemented, represent a huge reduction in the amount of taxation paid by those at the very top of the income ladder.
Moreover, each tax proposal currently on offer in the Republican presidential race would add significantly to the very federal deficit that the Republican Party claims to be so determined to lower. "Relative to the inadequate revenue levels collected by current tax policies," as Andrew Fieldhouse has recently noted, the tax plans of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates "would lose between $180 billion and $900 billion in 2015 alone – or between 1.0 percent and 4.9 percent of GDP." The Romney plan is the least damaging to existing tax revenue levels of the four currently on offer. Ron Paul's plan, and that of Santorum, are the most damaging: with, as Fieldhouse correctly notes, Newt Gingrich giving "Santorum a run for his money with a tax plan that would lose $850 billion, or 4.6% of GDP."[22] And it is striking in this regard that the extreme concern that Republican presidential candidates purport to feel about the size of the federal deficit over the next decade has not yet persuaded any of them to support the abolition of the Bush-era tax cuts, even though it is those tax cuts which remain the key obstacle to any speedy return to fiscal sustainability.[23] The full continuation over the next decade of the Bush tax cuts they so fiercely defend will not only reduce federal revenues by $3.8 trillion (a cut of 9.1%). The full continuation will also add to federal expenditures – at $657 billion, a 15.5% addition to the total cost of servicing overall federal debt.[24]
All this tax largesse, while the four Republican contenders are simultaneously endorsing the full gambit of the budget proposals made by Congressional Republicans to reduce that deficit, not least those made by Paul Ryan. The Ryan budget passed by the Republican-controlled House in 2011 would have achieved its $6.2 trillion cuts in federal spending over a decade by phasing out Medicare as we know it in favor of a voucher scheme, gutting Medicaid spending by devolving it fully to the states, and obliterating a whole string of welfare agencies and programs that are vital to the social wage on which poor Americans rely to compensate for the inadequacy/absence of their private wage.[25] The class politics of the Republican Party do not come much clearer than this: all four Republican presidential candidates opposing the termination of the Bush-era tax cuts that erode federal tax revenue while tolerating severe cuts in welfare programs on the expenditure side of the federal ledger. The Republicans favor one rule for the rich, evidently, and a quite different one for the poor!
No, the tax proposals of the Republican presidential candidates make no sense. They are personally self-serving and economically destabilizing. The contrast between the Obama proposal to tax millionaires (including himself) and the Romney/Gingrich proposals to reduce taxation on capital gains, including their own, could not be starker.[26] "Vote for me, and give me another tax break," might appeal to the most conservative amongst us. Let us just hope, however, that it will not appeal to the rest.
[1] The details are at http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/Analyzing-GOP-Tax-Plans.cfm
[3] MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Comparing Tax Rates, Technical Note No. 7, May 2006: available at globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_TechNote7.pdf
[4] GDP -per capita (PPP) – Country Comparison: available at http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=67
[5]Paul Waldman, "Show Me the Numbers," The American Prospect, August 18,2011: : available at http://prospect.org/article/show-me-numbers
[6] Center for American Progress, Ten Charts that Prove the United States is a Low-Tax Country, June 10, 2011: available at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/low_tax.html
[7] Tom Coburn, Subsidies of The Rich and Famous, November 2011: available at http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=f50198ef-6e15-4847-ab95-1b2bb57278c4
[8] "In 2011, the top 1 percent of households by cash income received a whopping 75.1 percent of the benefit from the preferential treatment of capital gains and dividends." (Andrew Fieldhouse, The tax expenditure of the 1%, EPI, February 11, 2012) available at http://www.epi.org/blog/tax-expenditure-1-percent/
[9] Thomas L. Hungerford, An Analysis of the "Buffett Rule," Congressional Research Service, October 7, 2011: available at http://iwsdocumentednewsdaily.blogspot.com/2011/10/iws-crs-analysis-of-buffet-rule-7.html
[10] Paul Krugman, 'Taxes at the Top," The New York Times, January 19, 2012: available at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/krugman-taxes-at-the-top.html
[11] See Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens, Occupy Wall Streeters Are Right About Skewed Economic Rewards in the United States, Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper #331, October 26, 2011: available at http://www.epi.org/publication/bp331-occupy-wall-street ; and OECD, Society: Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor, says OCED, December 6, 2011: available at http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_49166760_1_1_1_1,00.html
[12] See Eliot Spitzer, Pass the Romney Rule! The Philosophical, Economic and Political Case for Raising Capital Gains Tax, posted on Alternet.org, February 8, 2012: available at http://www.alternet.org/economy/154057/pass_the_romney_rule!_the_philosophical,_economic_and_political_case_for_raising_capital_gains_taxes/?page=entire
[13] Allison Kilkenny, 2/3rds of US Corporations Pay Zero Federal Taxes: US Uncut Movement Builds to Make Them Pay Up, posted on Alternet.org, March 27, 2011: available at http://www.alternet.org/economy/150387/2_3rds_of_us_corporations_pay_zero_federal_taxes%3A_us_uncut_movement_builds_to_make_them_pay_up/
[14] John D. McKinnon, "More Firms Enjoy Tax-Free Status," The Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2012: available at http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21498
[15] Vanessa Houlder & Megan Murphy, "The billion-dollar break born by mistake," The Financial Times, September 27, 2011: available at http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69703dfe-e82e-11e0-9fc7-00144feab49a.html#axzz1mCFcPJTX
[16] See theChild, Daily Kos, Bernie Sanders on the Ten Worst Corporate Tax Avoiders, posted on Alternet.org, August 22, 2011: available at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/22/1009343/-Bernie-Sanders:-Guess-Which-10-Companies-Arent-Paying-Their-Share
[17] "According to tax-return data, nonfinancial corporations at the end of 2009 were hoarding more than $3 trillion in cash, a figure that has surely grown since." (David Cay Johnston, "Taxing Times,", The American Prospect, March 2012, p. 49.
[18] John Plender, 'Don't expect economic boost from cash-rich companies," The Financial Times, January 3, 2012: available at http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d7ff64c2-361f-11e1-9f98-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mCFcPJTX
[19] "Poor sales is the top concern for small businesses, more than taxes and regulation," (Martin Baily, The State of American Small Business, Brookings Institution,February 6, 2012: available at http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2012/0201_small_business_baily.aspx
[20] "Tax Policy Center: Romney Plan Gives Wealthy Big Tax Cuts," The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2012: available at http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/05/tax-policy-center-romney-plan-gives-wealthy-big-tax-cuts/
The original report is at http://taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/Romney-plan.cfm
[21] Ezra Klein's Wonkbook, February 2, 2012: available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-romneys-problem-isnt-his-gaffes-its-his-policies/2012/02/02/gIQA0WeBkQ_blog.html
[22] Andrew Fieldhouse, Massive tax cuts don't square with professed concerns about public debt, Economic Policy Institute, February 4, 2012: available at http://www.epi.org/blog/massive-tax-cuts-public-debt/
[23] "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that the Bush-era tax cuts, if continued, will together be the largest contributor to the deficit between 2009 and 2019." (Andrew Fieldhouse, The Facts support Raising Revenues From The Highest-Income Households, Economic Policy Institute, Issue Brief#310, August 5, 2011) available at http://www.epi.org/publication/the_facts_support_raising_revenues_from_the_highest-income_households/
See also Michael Linden and Michael Ettlinger, The Bush Tax Cuts Are the Disaster that Keeps on Giving, Center for American Progress, June 7, 2011: available at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/bushtaxcuts_anniversary.html
[24] Andrew Fieldhouse, "Bush-era tax cuts remain the obstacle to fiscal sustainability," Economic Policy Institute, posted February 4, 2012: available at http://www.epi.org/blog/bush-era-tax-cuts-obstacle-fiscal-sustainability/
[25] "In the past, Mr. Ryan has talked a good game about taking care of those in need. But as the Center on Budget and Public Policy points out, of the $4 trillion in spending cuts he proposes over the next decade, two-thirds involve cutting programs that mainly serve low-income Americans." (Paul Krugman, "Ludicrous and Cruel," The New York Times, April 8, 2011) available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/opinion/08krugman.html
[26] Tanya Somanader, Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan Gives Newt Gingrich a $540,000 Tax Break," posted January 22, 2012: available at http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/408111/newt-gingrichs-tax-plan-gives-newt-gingrich-a-540000-tax-break/
Tags: 2012 election, corporate taxes, Gingrich, inequality, Presidential race, Republican Party, Romney, Ron Paul, Santorum, taxation
David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, New York: Continuum Books, 2010.
He writes here in a personal capacity.


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cpgint needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 134 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
Eastman Companies
The Eastman Companies is a full service commercial real estate company located in New Jersey. For more info, go to http://www.eastmancompanies.com
Their client base which includes corporate tenants, retail merchants, banks, financial institutions, corporations, etc.
Eastman Companies has been using a similar logo for at least 30 years & this logo was designed about 12 years ago. This logo has become very hard to work with in print, on apparel and on vehicles. They are looking for a redesign of their logo but with an updated look & feel. They would like to get rid of the Pacman looking "e". They would consider morphing the "e" into something that also resembles a commerical building or real estate. They do want it to have some resemblance but without 3d & gradation. One more comment:
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Historically, legal has not been a primary lever of bottom-line improvement strategies. This is understandable. The legal function is unique with its own language, culture, and objectives, and deciphering the nature and fair value of specific legal activities can be difficult for non-practitioners.
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A bit of history
When I started to write this library, I didn't know too much about LaTeX. I thought: "Well, I want to get LaTeX results, but using Haskell instead of LaTeX". That was my first thinking. But quickly I found other utilities. Mainly, I started to write outputs of my own programs directly in a LaTeX document, or tables contrasting the time employed by different programs solving the same task.
When I did the first upload (it actually was my first upload to Hackage), the way the library worked was storing raw LaTeX code in the state of a writer monad transformer applied to IO. So, when you type author "Daniel Díaz", it appends "\author{Daniel Díaz}" at the end of the state. Thus, HaTeX was really a high-level way to append strings that ought contain LaTeX code. But the library was putting all those backslashes and braces for you!
In the second version, we said goodbye to the IO monad. The monad transformer now becomes free to be composable with the monad of your desire. This was thanks to Alexey Khudyakov, who gave me a very neat feedback and this change as a proposal.
The new datatype
However, I never liked that the LaTeX type was only a type synonym of the Writer monad with a difference string as state. And this is the main point I wanted to change. In HaTeX 3, I defined a datatype representing the LaTeX syntax, so author "Daniel Díaz", now means:
Far harder to read! But, if you take a look on it, it is only describing the syntax of that LaTeX expression. You can say that this is the abstract syntax of that expression. And I feel more comfortable working with this datatype. After you have built your LaTeX document, just use the render function to build your final code in the form of a value in the Text type. This also make possible to build a LaTeX parser (I guess I will write one some day).
Following this line, I have also restricted the input of functions to values of a type that make sense with that function. For instance, making a LaTeX tabular, you must to specify how columns are aligned and where to put vertical lines to divide them. Thus, the tabular function have an argument of type [TableSpec], being TableSpec a datatype containing the possible specifications for your table, so you can't put invalid data.
A new module hierarchy
While Text.LaTeX is still the main module, it forks in two submodules: Text.LaTeX.Base and Text.LaTeX.Packages. The former contains all commands and environments that you have without importing others with the usepackage command. The latter have a submodule per LaTeX package. Well, only a few of them are implemented! But you can always request one, or, much better, you can contribute implementing one! The aim of this breakup is to give you the freedom to import only the functions you want without a too big import header. Also, I thought this will help to do code better organized.
Applicative vs Monadic
Maybe, you realized that the author function no longer communicates with any kind of writer monad. In fact, it takes an author's name, and return something of the datatype LaTeX. No monad involved. LaTeX is instance of the Monoid class, so you can append these results with mappend (<>) in order to obtain your final output.
This will involve to repeat many times this operator. We can save this work by the same way we do that the last time: making use of the writer monad. But I have not written, at the moment, any monadic code. My idea is to use some program to, from the source code of a module with these applicative style functions, generate a module with monadic style functions. For instance, if we have:
author :: LaTeX -> LaTeX
author a = TeXComm "author" [FixArg a]
We can write:
author :: Monad m => LaTeX -> LaTeXM m ()
author = tell . App.author
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And, for now, this is all I have to say about HaTeX 3. As always, you can do any pre-release suggestion, or discuss about the current course of the library, as it was described here. Finally, I want to apologize for so unstable library. I am only trying to make it better as possible.
Thanks for read,
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Some things concerning me with the omissions, so I'd like to fire up a separate discussion to go over just that.
Salary Cap/Free Agency: How do weak teams get better? With endless contracts, there's no chance of some star player getting full of himself and hitting free agency for some cellar dwellar to scoop him up. Thus, the FA pool will potentially be loaded with mediocre talent at best.
Draft Pick Trades: Obviously, without being able to trade draft picks, and contract years/salary being pretty much irrelevant... trades seem limited to like value for like value without the 'Future Picks' gamble to sweeten a potentially lopsided deal. That, coupled with the way FA is hamstrung, seems to really suck the strategy out of team management.
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Undergrad Internship at Save the Children: Kate Harris
This fall, while I had already completed my human rights internship requirement over the summer, I knew during my final semester at UCONN that I wanted more experience of what working at a nonprofit or nongovernmental organization would be like. My summer internship had been at a start-up non-profit and while this experience had been a great introduction into nonprofit work, I knew I wanted an experience with a well-established NGO. I also knew that ideally it would be a NGO focused on children as children's rights have been my budding interest at UCONN. I was lucky enough to get that opportunity at Save the Children in Westport, Connecticut. Save the Children was founded in London almost one hundred years ago at the end of WWI. In the 1930's, the United States chapter of Save the Children started up in Kentucky, passing out clothes and hot meals to school children. Now, Save the Children is working all over the world, running programs focused on health and education to emergency response.
My internship position was in the humanitarian response unit of the resource development department. Going into the internship I was so excited about working in the emergency humanitarian response that I paid little attention to the resource development part. Now for those of you who are as unaware as I was, resource development is a fancy term for "fundraising". As I stated previously, I was just eager to learn how a successful NGO functions, which is good because fundraising, while I obviously knew it was necessary, was not an area I ever pictured myself working in. And at the end of my internship, this remains true. However, my appreciation for the amount of work required, and the creativity and time spent to create fundraising campaigns has greatly grown. I was lucky enough to have bosses who are amazingly skilled at what they do, as well as generous with their interns, allowing us to sit in on meeting after meeting even when it did not relate to our current project. This was especially true after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines when I was able to see and listen first-hand what is required in the initial days of an emergency response. It was an incredible opportunity. I was also fortunate that my particular position was split between resource development and helping one of my bosses who works as a sort of liaison to the board of trustees. While it was more administrative work that I was doing – creating, maintaining, and constantly updating excel sheets – it was amazing to see the generosity of the time and resources that these board members gave to Save the Children.
I got exactly what I wanted from this internship – more experience, and a greater knowledge and understanding of the parts in an organization required to effect change in this world. I learned a little bit more about myself, and how I work and can see myself working within a like organization. Save the Children has a great internship program, and has year round spaces for interns. I would highly recommend them, as I would recommend getting as many varied internships positions as you can.
Kate Harris if finally graduating with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Human Rights. She is looking forward to having free-time so she can write in her next bio about what she actually enjoys to do with it.


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Inquest: Nurse In British Royal Hoax Found Hanging
A nurse who took a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge apparently killed herself three days later, with a coroner's officer saying Thursday she was found hanging by the neck and a detective saying she left three notes.
Coroner's officer Lynda Martindill told an inquest that nurse Jacintha Saldanha was found hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe in her room Friday by a colleague and a member of security staff at London's King Edward VII Hospital.
Police detective chief inspector James Harman said Saldanha, 46, also had injuries to her wrists. He told the coroner's inquest that two notes were found at the scene and another among Saldanha's belongings. He said there were no suspicious circumstances, meaning nobody else was involved in Saldanha's death.
As well as examining the notes, he said police were interviewing the nurse's friends, family and colleagues and looking at emails and phone calls to establish what led to her death. The case is being treated as an apparent suicide.
Saldanha answered the phone last week when two Australian disc jockeys called to seek information about the former Kate Middleton, who was being treated for severe morning sickness. The DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, and Saldanha was duped into transferring them to a nurse caring for the duchess, who revealed details about her condition.
Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, said on Thursday it was launching an official investigation into whether the radio station, 2DayFM, breached its broadcasting license conditions and the industry code of practice
Coroner Fiona Wilcox opened and adjourned Saldanha's inquest until March 26.
Wilcox expressed "my sympathies to her family and everybody who has been touched by this tragic death."
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Highlights & Trends from Home, London
I was lucky enough to get a preview of the trends in housewares and interior accessories coming for Spring and Summer 2013 at the big trade show, Home, held in London this week. Here are just a few highlights of what to expect from some of Europe's top designers.
Here is a quick rundown of the trends spotted
- Neon, neon, and more neon
- Grey and greige are still going strong
- Goods made in the UK
- Vintage Ephemera Graphics
- Graphic Patterns
Top Row (left to right):
1. There was a huge emphasis at the show on locally made products.
2. Ella Doran launched a gorgeous collection of graphically textured rugs.
3. Also from Ella Doran is a new line of chopping boards.
4. Tamasyn Gambell is an up and coming designer with her own colorful quirkiness.
5. The iconic French lighting company Jielde made its official UK debut.
Bottom Row (left to right):
6. Customize your space with typographic art from Seletti.
7. Pantone graphics were so many places that people may start getting Pantone tattoos.
8. Fatboy celebrates its 10 year anniversary with new colors and fabrics.
9. Could the lava lamp be making a comeback? The British invention is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
10. Outline Works is taking the taxidermy trend to your hallway with a very unique bicycle rack.
More Info: Home London
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Yes, the TV is a great board! It had an awesome design head start, but that is a whole other topic. It is great to have numerous brands in the industry. That is for sure, it keeps it interesting....Jimmy Mazzanti wrote:The ML is a great, great board.Bay Racer wrote:This otta give you a clear picture of what peoples preference is. The main thing is to enjoy the ride....
anyway the link you posted give us a clear picture of what Bay Racers preference is.
I am already happy that 5 of them rode Orange at the NAC at Mike's home.
One year ago, same time , TemaVento was not even on the market
10 days ago at the french stop of Kite Tour Europe there was only 1 ML and 13 TemaVento..
does this mean that they prefer Orange ?
At the Euros, I see from the entry list that already 30 TMV customers signed in for the event .
different points of view
like this one for example:


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I am looking for a wakeboard that I could also use for kiting, or a wakestyle kiteboard that works as well or almost as well as a real wakeboard when behind a boat.
How is the tona pop behind a boat? the hadlow wakestyle? naish arcade?
Thanks for your replies