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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Officials and businesses in Sioux Falls are bracing for hundreds - if not thousands - of people to descend on South Dakota's largest city to honor the life of former U.S. Sen. and one-time presidential hopeful George McGovern.
McGovern, who lost a 1972 presidential bid to Richard M. Nixon, died Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice. He was 90.
A prayer service will be held on Thursday at First United Methodist Church. Funeral services are Friday afternoon at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences.
Tiffany Semmler is the manager of Minervas Restaurant, located just blocks from the funeral site.
She says the restaurant is preparing for a large crowd Friday afternoon and evening by scheduling at least one additional server and cook during the shift.
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The Democratic Party presidential nominee Senator George McGovern (right) and his running mate Senator Thomas Eagleton during their campaign for election. Eagleton made American political history when he withdrew from the Democratic Party ticket after revelations about electric shock treatment he had received for bouts of mental illness.
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The Lowly Lichen
by Stephen James O'Meara
Lichens are some of the oldest plantlike organisms on Earth. Their fossils can be traced back 400 million years, and some microfossil evidence suggests that their ancestors date back 2.2 to 2.7 billion years.
While most living creatures are a single organism—an ant, a fish, a tree—a lichen is a combination of two organisms (a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium) living so close together that it's hard to differentiate between the two. In fact, many lichen species include a fungus that cannot survive on its own.
Most of the lichen is composed of fungal filaments. These filaments rely on algal or cyanobacterium cells to take care of photosynthesis, the production of sugars necessary for life. The filaments simply suck sugars out of the photosynthesizing cells. But the alga or cyanobacterium does not go unrewarded for its sugar production. These photosynthesizers depend on a symbiotic fungus to supply them with water and minerals, as well as shelter in which to grow.
The partnership appears to be not only mutually beneficial, but also highly successful. Lichens enjoy long lives—up to 1,000 years—and can survive in extreme environments. There are some 13,500 to 17,000 species of lichens, extending from the tropics to the polar regions. They will grow on almost any stable and reasonably well-lit surface, including soil, rock, and the sides of trees. Because lichens are highly intolerant of atmospheric pollution (particularly sulfur dioxide), you won't find many in the city. In fact, their presence is an excellent bio-indicator of air quality and cleanliness.
Now a trivia question: Who first suggested that a lichen is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga?
The answer: Beatrix Potter, the author best known for her books about Peter Rabbit. When not writing children's stories, Potter enjoyed studying and drawing lichens.
- alga:
- Singular form of algae, which is any of a large group of simple living things that grow in water. Algae were once considered to be plants, but they do not have true roots, stems, or leaves.
- filament:
- A fine wire or thread; in this case, a shape.
- fungus:
- One of a group of organisms that are neither plants nor animals and that have no flowers, leaves, or green coloring. Mushrooms, molds, and mildew are fungi.
- photosynthesis:
- The process plants use to make food.
- symbiotic:
- Adjective form of symbiosis, which is the relationship of two different organisms that live in close association. Symbiosis is often to the advantage of both organisms.
- As you read in Chapter 1, algae are single-celled organisms that can make their own food. How might an alga benefit if it lives with a fungus to form lichen?
Answer: The fungus can supply water and minerals to the alga, and the fungus provides shelter.
- The article says that the fungus and the alga have a symbiotic relationship. Symbiosis means that two different organisms live in close association. This symbiosis, or symbiotic relationship, often benefits both organisms. There are many examples of symbiotic relationships in nature. Find an example of a symbiotic relationship between a plant and an animal, between two plants, or between two animals. Write a short paragraph about how the relationship benefits both organisms.
Answer: Answers will vary. Students should correctly identify two organisms that have a symbiotic relationship and explain how the relationship benefits both organisms.


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The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A technique by game programmer Alex Goldberg now offers video game developers the possibility of high-quality, yet lightweight, images for 3D video games that are generated on-the-fly and are free of stretch marks, flickering, and other artifacts.
"It should be pretty easy for video game developers to integrate our research into new games. As a game developer myself, I know first hand that stretched out and flickering backgrounds and details are no longer acceptable in 3D video games," says Alex Goldberg, the computer science undergraduate who did much of the work. University of California, San Diego computer science professor Matthias Zwicker and MIT's Frdo Durand also contributed to the research project.
"People are looking for ways to get rid of these distortions, preferably without having to pay artists to generate background and detail images by hand. We have come up with a way to do this, and we are planning to provide code for download soon," explains Goldberg, who works for video game studio PixelActive.
The technique, which is described in Anisotropic Noise, Goldberg's 2008 SIGGRAPH paper, marks an important improvement over Perlin noise, an established technique in which small computer programs create many layers of noise that are piled on top of each other. The layers are then manipulated -- like layers of paint on a canvas -- to develop detailed and realistic textures such as rock, soil, cloud, water and marble that serve as background images and details for 3D video games.
"The existing methods for using computer generated noise to make images for backgrounds and details for 3D video games are fast, but the images that you get don't look very good. Our work gives you the full computational benefit of noise but without many of the tradeoffs such as distortion and flickering," says Goldberg.
The new approach also eliminates the need to store the textures as huge images that take up valuable memory. "The graphics generated from the procedural approach that we explored in this project are very small. Illustrating video games with small images is going to be increasingly important in the future as more and more games are downloadable," says Zwicker.
Both the stretch marks and the flickering in 3D video game backgrounds often stem from the same technical issue: choosing what color to make individual pixels. "When one pixel covers a large area in a 3D video game landscapewhat color should that pixel be? It can only be one color, but the area it covers may contain many different colors," Zwicker goes on to say.
Color averaging is one solution. For example, if a pixel covers a patch of tiny black bumps on a piece of armor on a soldier far in the distance, and if these armor bumps are partially lit up with white light, then averaging the colors and turning the pixel gray is often in order. But before you can average colors, you have to determine the exact region of the scene that needs to be squeezed into one particular pixel. A simple solution is to slide circular areas of scenes into circle shaped pixels. But when you are trying to map areas of 3D scenes back to 2D pixels, circular areas of background images are not the best option even though the pixels are circles themselves, according to the computer graphics researchers.
In Anisotropic Noise, the computer scientists mapped elliptical areas of background images back to circular pixels and found that their technique yielded higher quality background images with less stretching and other distortions. The reason elliptical shapes are a better fit for circular pixels in backgrounds for 3D video games goes back to basic geometry: when a cone that extends from a circular pixel intersects with the background of a 3D video game scene, the region of the cone that hits the background is an ellipse rather than a circle.


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Wild Oats Continues Through Saturdayby Jim Amidon • October 1, 2013 Share:
The Wabash College Theater presents Wild Oats - A Romance of the Old West, which runs nightly at 8 p.m. through Saturday in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center. Tickets are free and can be reserved by email or phoning the box office at 765-361-6411.
Wild Oats is a brilliant, over-the-top rewrite of Irish playwright John O'Keefe's 1791 farce penned by James McLure in 1985. The audience is swept from Restoration England to the wild, wild Old West where mayhem unfolds.
Directed by Professor Dwight Watson, this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy is filled with plenty of mistaken identities, conniving landlords, estranged families, and out-of-work actors.
The story follows the hysterical courtship of the quick-witted and strong-willed Kate Thunder (Felicia Santiago) by the egotistical actor Jack Rover (Larry Savoy). Sleazy preacher Ephraim Smooth (Zach Cannon) schemes to claim Kate's inheritance, while Colonel Thunder (Chris McCloskey) and his Irish-Indian scout Crow (Joe Mount) arrange for Kate to marry the Colonel's son, Harry (Noah Eppler).
In keeping with a good farce, Kate mistakes the smooth-talking thespian Jack for Harry. And Jack — wanting nothing more than to woo Kate — decides he'll pretend to be Harry.
If that's not rollicking enough, the play features an Old West madam, cactus growers, a damsel in distress, and plenty of desperadoes.
Stage manager Brad Hopper keeps the action moving at a great clip. The Old West scene on the Ball Theater stage was designed by James Gross and constructed by students in his scene design course. Andrea Bear went to extremes to costume the show, including her own costume in the role of "Bear."
The cast of Wild Oats includes: Joe Mount as Corporal Crow, Felicia Santiago as Kate Thunder, Chris McCloskey as Colonel Croftus Thunder, Noah Eppler as Harry Thunder, Larry Savoy as Jack Rover, Edward Pingel as Ike Gammon, Zach Canon as Ephraim Smooth, Corey Egler as Muz, Sammie Amidon as Sim Gammon, Lanie Gleeson as Jane Gammon, Patrick Kvachkoff as Senor Morales, Jamie Ritchie-Watson as Amelia Dolores Morales, Rory Willats as Mr. Kliegle, Ben Cramer as Mr. Leko, Hannah Spirrison as the Madam, Han Nie as the Bartender, Robert Black as the Sheriff, Luis Felipe Hernandez-Blanco as Angel Eyes, Nikolaus Boggs as Wilson, Aaron Stewart-Curet as Liberty, and Andrea Bear as Bear.
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Kids – you've got to love them, but you've also got to keep them entertained. In the second part of our special guide to British breaks for children, we look at puppet theatres, model villages, and trusty Thomas the Tank Engine. Share your own ideas for kid-friendly holidays below.
Top British holidays for children - part two
Revisit the Viking era in York
Clifford`s Tower is set on a tall mound in the heart of Old York © Daniel Dent/Shuttertock
A thousand years ago York was a thriving Viking city known as Jorvik, its vitality, wealth and scope clear from the myriad buildings and artefacts found in the 1970s during work on the new Coppergate shopping centre.
After an initial five-year dig, and a couple of subsequent multi-million-pound developments, visitors to Jorvik Viking Centre get an innovative, close-up look at Viking society on the very site where the excavations took place. If you were ever going to get kids interested in the past, this is the place, with its interactive museum exhibits, role-playing Vikings and touch-screen learning, but the best bit comes right at the beginning as you descend beneath the modern-day streets and are clunk-clicked into a ghost-train-style "time capsule", which then lurches off through the streets of Viking York.
It's a clever and classy conceit that grabs you from the start, as your ride takes you right inside the excavated houses, shops and backyards, with animatronic figures hailing you in Old Norse, smoke blasting from a blacksmith's furnace, and Viking builders enjoying a tea break (no change there then). Neatly redressing the one thing missing from every period-piece movie – the smell – you get decidedly authentic wafts from both farmyard and market, while every child's favourite attraction is the furiously straining Viking gent astride the outdoor latrine. This is (ahem) bottom-up history at its best.
Jorvik Viking Centre, Coppergate, York, www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk.
Tunnel your way to the Ilfracombe's tidal pool
Kit up first with picnic rugs, wet suits, buckets, spades, snorkels and crabbing nets. Accessed via a series of long subterranean tunnels, carved through the lofty rocky cliffs, Ilfracombe's spectacular Tunnels Beaches are one of the jewels of the Devon coast. Emerge around low tide into the sunlight onto the sheltered sand and pebble beach, and you'll be able to take a dip in the magnificent tidal sea-water swimming pool, a haven for little ones. Add in an abundance of rock pools rich with sealife, the opportunity for kayaking out to a secret cove, and all the facilities you need, from a stylish family café to an indoor soft play area, and you have a superb family day out.
Tunnels Beaches, Ilfracombe, Devon www.tunnelsbeaches.co.uk.
Fall spellbound at Little Angel Puppet Theatre
It is dark, save for several bouncing streaks of DayGlo colour. Three caterpillars are singing in three-part harmonies, and somewhere in the mix is a gang of angry strawberries. You are not insane, but an audience member at Islington's wonderful Little Angel Puppet Theatre. And next time, you and your brood will be shoving the other kids out of the way so you can get to the front.
The setting is a dark, slightly draughty room, a former temperance hall with a high ceiling and wooden pews. Expert lighting illuminates the tiny set and its characters, to a playful, enduringly catchy score. The puppeteers, who sing, act and perform intricate manoeuvres, connect beautifully with the rapt kids (all nicely hypnotized and quiet), and although most performances are aimed at very young children, the accompanying adults cannot fail to be equally enchanted.
Little Angel has been running puppet shows here since 1961, when it was set up by innovative puppeteers John and Lyndie Wright. The hall seats a hundred, but feels much more intimate, and the workshop at the back is where many of the puppets are born.
The magical glow of the lights, the resonating voices, the accessible melodies and the artistry of the movements – it all makes the prosaic slapstick of the old Punch and Judy shows seem rather flat. And so, as the dancing DayGlo blobs flit about, and the surrounding children's eyes grow vast with wonder, even the most sensible soul in the room will just give in, sit back and listen to what the singing caterpillars have to say.
Little Angel Puppet Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, London N1 020/7226 1787, www.littleangeltheatre.com.
Getting in touch with your inner bear, Hartfield
Now approaching his 85th birthday, A.A. Milne's "bear of very little brain" has become a global phenomenon, with the original stories translated into fifty languages and Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and co featuring on duvet covers from Beijing to Barcelona. While the Disney films might have given him a jarring US accent, Pooh is, of course, a quintessentially English bear and the geography of his world is based firmly around Milne's home in deepest Sussex.
Here among the open heathland and pine trees of Ashdown Forest you'll find many of the locations – the Hundred Acre Wood, the Enchanted Place and the Heffalump Trap – captured so beautifully in the books by illustrator E.H. Shephard. Most are within a short drive of the village of Hartfield which functioned as Milne's country escape from the 1920s until his death in 1956.
From Hartfield, pilgrimage can be made to the various Pooh-related sites. Best of all is Poohsticks bridge, a perfect representation of the bridge where Pooh invented a new game by absent-mindedly dropping pine cones off the side. The rules are simple – face upstream, release your sticks from an equal height (throwing is strictly forbidden), then rush over to the other side to see whose comes out first.
The House at Pooh Corner in Hartfield (www.pooh-country.co.uk) offers tours and information on "Pooh Country".
Reliving history at Linlithgow Palace
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Fifteenth-century Linlithgow Palace may be in ruins, its windows open to the sky, but it has enough hidden spiralling staircases, stony dungeons and vertiginous walkways to keep adventurous kids happy for a good couple of hours, and the huge roofless Great Hall is a marvellous place to run amok.
There's plenty of child-friendly entertainment in the summer, from staged medieval games and jousting to falconry, displays of weaponry skills and tours by costumed guides. But at any time of year there's plenty to engage kids actively in the castle's history.
On the domestic front, peering at the huge fireplace in the kitchens helps you imagine how the castle's lavish banquets were produced, with meat being turned on spits by little boys who were called "turnbrochies". From the kitchen, chutes propelled rubbish into the surrounding dry – and doubtless very smelly – moat.
Continuing to the Great Hall, infant jaws will drop at a fireplace so big it required whole tree trunks to fuel it. And don't forget to point out the minstrel's gallery, where party entertainment was provided and you can still see the hooks from were tapestries were hung. Beyond are the bedrooms, and the lofty heights of Queen Mary's Bower, with sweeping loch views and a satisfyingly dizzying perspective on the castle itself.
Linlithgow Palace, Kirkgate, Linlithgow, West Lothian, www.historic-scotland.gov.uk.
Spending a day with Thomas at Kirklees
A whistle toots, clouds of smoke and steam billow skywards, and parents with their kids stream down from the car park. Children throng the playground, throw themselves around on bouncy castles, have their faces painted. There's usually something going on at Kirklees Light Railway, but today it has a special buzz: for Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends have come to town.
On the platform, the little blue engine hisses, parents jockey (politely – this is England) to snap him with their self-conscious children, the Fat Controller (can you still say that?) looks at his pocket watch and taps his foot. Doors clatter shut, the whistle screeches, the couplings take up the slack, and with a crescendo of clanks and chuffs brave little Thomas hauls the carriages through an untidy sprawl of factory buildings and derelict land. The strains of "Thomas and Friends" bounce cheerfully down from ceiling-mounted speakers.
Suddenly, you're cruising through glorious Yorkshire countryside as the little train sails out onto an embankment, smoke streaming back from its stack. Finally, 25 minutes after setting off, the train pulls into Shelley station. More bouncy castles, coffee and soft drinks, burgers and doughnuts. Engines huff and puff, turntables turn, points are thrown, water is taken on, and the return journey begins.
Kirklees Light Railway, Clayton West, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, www.kirkleeslightrailway.com. Thomas and friends visit for one weekend per month.
Children's stories on seven storeys
If you don't have a child, kidnap one. And then take that child (and yourself) straight to Seven Stories, Britain's only museum dedicated to celebrating the art of children's literature. Tucked beneath the Byker Bridge in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley, the inviting, bright white building is called Seven Stories (a) because it's got seven storeys and (b) because there are, reputedly, only seven types of story you can tell.
The entrance level, Level Three, houses an enormous bookshop rammed with all sorts of wonderful children's books – from charming Paddington Bear stories by Michael Bond to Jacqueline Wilson's most recent Tracy Beaker tales. But before delving in, head upstairs to Level 4, The Sebastian Walker Gallery, where changing exhibitions bring children's picture books to life using hands-on, interactive games, quizzes and models.
Pop upstairs to Level 5, the Robert Westall Gallery, named after the Tyneside-born writer with a penchant for tales of cats, war, the supernatural and love, an intriguing combination that's explored further through old photographs, manuscripts and original artwork of all of his most familiar stories – don't miss the mock 1940s radio that has recordings of the author himself reading from his books. Don't forget to stop by the bookshop on the way out. Oh, and give that kidnapped child back.
Seven Stories, 30 Lime St, Newcastle upon Tyne is at www.sevenstories.org.uk.
Stacks of fun at Legoland
Did you know the word Lego comes from the Danish leg gohdt, meaning to "play well"? Well, there are no limits to the possibilities for play in this plastic fantastic land constructed from over 25 million bricks. Around every corner across the park's ten kingdoms await grin-inducing creations: Lego wildlife, Lego knights, Lego pirates, Lego dinosaurs. In Miniland you'll even find Lego reproductions of famous landmarks such as the Moulin Rouge and London's skyline, the latter including a 16-foot-high Canary Wharf made from 200,000 bricks.
It may be the Lego that makes it unique (at least within Britain), but really Legoland is all about good old-fashioned theme park fun. Aimed primarily at 3- to 12-year-olds, the park boasts a dizzying array of roller coasters, water rides, trains and merry-go-rounds spun into its 150-acre labyrinth. But, unlike most theme parks, it's not just geared up for adrenaline junkies: there's plenty to amuse younger tots too.
Legoland, Windsor, Berkshire, www.legoland.co.uk.
Strange ways in the woods at The Forbidden Corner
As greetings go, the entrance tower gives you a pretty good impression of what is to come. Huge blinking eyes and a gaping mouth invite you on a walk down a giant tongue-tunnel, complete with reverberating, digestive burp – cue screams and laughter as the kids charge further on into the self-styled "Strangest Place in the World". It certainly defies straightforward description – call it a woodland maze within a secret walled garden, wrapped up as an eye-popping folly, and you're only halfway to understanding what makes The Forbidden Corner such a hoot.
It's a labour of love by owner and folly enthusiast Colin Armstrong and his architect friend Malcolm Tempest, who have turned part of the Tupgill Park Estate, just outside Middleham in North Yorkshire, into a highly eccentric family attraction. Trick fountains, oak-carved giants, misleading gateways, frog fountains and talking statues are just the start of it, since the maze effectively continues underground as well, with an underworld labyrinth entered through a full-sized Classical temple facade. This is an extraordinary place of revolving floors, blank doors, secret passages and subterranean forests, where nothing is quite as it seems – dare to walk through the underground waterfall, for example, and the waters miraculously part, while if out of curiosity you try the door marked "staff only", out shoots a hand accompanied by a gruff invitation to clear off.
The Forbidden Corner, Tupgill Park Estate, Coverham, Middleham, North Yorkshire www.theforbiddencorner.co.uk.
Buried treasure: fossil hunting in Lyme Regis
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To any child who loves dinosaurs (are there any who don't?) the Jurassic Coast must sound like a dream destination. At its most celebrated spot, Lyme Regis in Dorset, 12-year-old fossil hunter Mary Anning found the near-perfect skeleton of a massive ichthyosaurus, revealed by a rock fall. Could such a miracle happen again?
Elsewhere in Britain, the erosion of cliffs is a worry or even a tragedy, but on the rugged Devon and Dorset coast it's a process which keeps offering up fresh gifts. Visit Lyme Regis today and you may not, perhaps, find so much as a sniff of an ichthyosaurus, but traces of their contemporaries are there in abundance, embedded within layer upon layer of blue lias rock. Every day, the tide uncovers fresh material, laden with history.
Fossil-hunting is such a mainstay of the Lyme Regis tourist industry that the town goes all out to advertise and encourage it: even the lampposts are adorned with elegant, ammonite-shaped ironwork. It's now generally frowned upon (and somewhat dangerous) to hack away at the cliffs, but you just need to sift through the fallen shards that litter the beach, chiselling large pieces open, to find the petrified bodies of primitive shellfish and reptiles. To get an expert's eye view of this treasure-trove, kids can sign up for an organized fossil hunt with a professional palaeontologist.
Discovering Fossils (book online at www.discoveringfossils.co.uk) runs expert-led fossil hunts in Lyme Regis.
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Slowly, the Mistress drove the doll into complete madness and back. Its pleasure now was completely controlled. Its body was completely controlled. Its orgasm was only possible after a special set of phrases were said, only by Mistress's voice. The doll has tried cheating, has tried playing with the biggest most painful toys on its own, eager for pleasure. And such pleasure would never come unless Mistress decided so. The training was such a complete and perfect trap, the doll functioned as desired, permanently plugged, and the plug ensured it was permanently horny, but so used to the plug, it would be nothing but a constant source of submission and arousal and never of release, even more so with its shecock locked behind a clear plastic chastity lock. The doll would grow so horny exactly as designed so that thinking was close to impossible, locking the doll on a permanent loop of needs and desires that fit exactly what Mistress expected. The doll could think of nothing more than pleasing its Mistress… as pleasing its Mistress now was the sole reason it existed."
Updated version :) Trying to get back on the saddle, so to speak, this is a new experimentation on writing a new series of extreme heavy rubber fantasy stories, a bit based on some fantasies and some experiences, but mostly letting my imagination go crazy and have fun. All feedback is welcomed to see if I am going in the right direction ;)


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Please note that this coming Monday, October 12th, is the day known as "Columbus Day." I will not be blogging on this day--not because I'm a filthy imperialist, but because the schools are closed, and if I don't spend the day corralling my seventeen (17) children they will fan out and destroy the neighborhood. You know, just like Citi Bike is doing.
Rest assured I will be back on Tuesday, October 13th with regular updates.
Pending my triumphant return and the concomitant fanfare, I'm pleased to present you with a quiz. As always, study the item, think, and click on your answer. If you're right you'll know, and if you're wrong you'll see Australian ingenuity.
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--Proving Fermat's Last Theorem on a Pashley
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On July 31st, at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 18-year-old Stormi Bree Henley withstood the competition of 50 other beautiful teens and won the title of Miss Teen USA 2009. The Crossville, Tennessee native is a small-town girl now on the verge of realizing her big city dreams.
Henley is an aspiring actress who one day aims to star in action movies. She is also an accomplished singer, with a keen specialization in Country Music and Blues. Henley will be able to fully represent teens across the United States seeing that she has traveled to almost every US state (as well as many countries around the world) while going on tour with her father, who is a professional golfer and caddy. At 9-years-old, she toured the country for 22 straight weeks as her father was competing and has since developed a love of traveling and exploring.
Henley graduated from Cumberland County High School in Crossville in May 2009. During her year as Miss Teen USA, she will attend classes at the New York Film Academy studying acting techniques.
In her spare time, Henley is an avid golfer (she was the 2008-2009 Golf MVP at her school) and motocross enthusiast. She also enjoys working out, traveling, wakeboarding, playing football, and loves to whip up her "killer" Spanish casserole for her family. She is a car aficionado with a love of learning about engines, and hopes to one day have a house with a lot of land to exercise her love of driving.
During her year wearing the crown, Henley hopes to show young women everywhere that, with enough determination and persistence, they can be successful in any field they desire, even if they have small town roots. As she has proven, Henley is proud to be an example to young girls that dreams can be accomplished.
Throughout her reign, Henley will spend her year building relationships with organizations devoted to education and action, such as Best Buddies, D.A.R.E., Girl Talk, Sparrow Clubs and Project Sunshine to name a few. For more information, visit: www.missteenusa.com.


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Karol Howard and George Morton share a passion for music, art and treasure hunting.
The two met in Oklahoma. They married and moved to Dallas in the late '80s, and both have worked as pharmacists in the area.
Howard, 55, just retired, and Morton, 53, still fills prescriptions. They love to travel and to go antiquing. As the house filled up with their finds, they started selling pieces in an Etsy store called Plattermatter.
The site has an eclectic mix of vintage clothing and accessories, including an impressive batch of Enid Collins purses. Collins and her husband made purses on their ranch near Medina, Texas, in the 1950s through the 1970s. She was known for tote bags and wooden box purses decorated with lots of back-in-the-day bling.
Collins purses are highly collectible; some styles can fetch prices over $100.
"I just fell in love with her story," Howard says. "I love sewing, and I loved how she started doing crafts in her garage with her husband in the 1960s and '70s. I like finding out about people doing their own thing, in their own way."
Howard's sewing room has shelves of Collins purses — some are for sale and others are too special to part with just yet.
Other bejeweled bags await their new owners, like the boxy styles made by Gary Gails of Dallas, and Jewel Tone purses, made from kits in the style of Collins.
These Texas-born vintage purses are sought after worldwide.
"Our very first Enid Collins sale actually went to Japan," Howard says, while packaging a purse that's bound for England.
Vintage Texas
The couple's Plano home is filled with unique art, and there are fabulous stories about each find. Howard says that she especially fell in love with Texas-style vintage after frequenting a small store tucked away near the Waxahachie town square called Exactly What.
The store, now closed, was owned by a fashion stylist named Erin Piper-Flowers. Piper-Flowers now lives in Richardson. I remember popping into that nook of creativity and have an Asian backpack-style purse that Piper-Flowers made from vintage fabric.
"Erin was a big inspiration for me," Howard says. "I found my vintage home in Texas when I found her shop."
Howard wears a stylish vintage jacket with two rhinestone butterfly brooches from her late grandmother Naomi Howard's jewelry box. She says her mother taught her how to sew and how to appreciate classic styles at a young age.
"My earliest memories of shopping for vintage clothing and accessories were with my mom," she says.
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The Collins bags always draw comments.
"One time a lady saw me carrying a peacock-style Collins bag, which are very popular, and she told me that she loved seeing it because she owned one once, but she said that when she got out of the car and set her purse down, her parents backed over it with the car," Howard says. We both burst into laughter despite the truly tragic Collins casualty.
"The lady said she just cried and cried."
Howard's Etsy site draws comments from people all over the world who remember certain purses or just like to chime in about what year a style was released.
Morton arrives home from work and weaves through the sewing room to say hello. Howard says he is the serious browser on their buying trips, while her style is more get in and get out with the goods.
"We have a lot of fun doing this," she says.
How does she part with the purses she really loves?
"You know, it makes me happy to find them and then I enjoy them for a while, and I like being able to pass them on for others to enjoy," she says.
Clare Miers is a Dallas freelance writer.
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My name is Ivan Miranda; I am originally from Bolivia, South America. Prior to residing in Oregon, I lived in Illinois where I got my Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages. In Bolivia I earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, and here in Oregon I taught Spanish at the University of Oregon for two years while doing my Masters in Spanish. Currently, I'm taking MBA classes, this is my second year!
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Over the course of an NBA season, there are plenty of gems that go unnoticed by even the most acute of basketball eyes. Don't tell that to Nate Timmons of SB Nation, who records and delivers this beauty from the end of the Nuggets-Jazz affair in Denver on Saturday:
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Al Gore is really doing it, bringing climate awareness to the doorsteps of opinion makers and forcing them to consider all of its implications. Of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished in this country.
Aside from all the sniping about his annual home power bill (which turns out to be so high partly because he spends an extra five grand or so to buy windpower and might also have something to do with a vice president's security needs), lots of the usual "free market uber alles" types are accusing him and all green-minded folks of forcing them to wear the dreaded "hair shirt" of mandatory reductions in their energy use.
Incredibly, those who aren't complaining about the sacrifices are indignant about Gore making it all seem too easy. In Robert J. Samuelson's New York Times editorial last week titled "Hollywood's Climate Follies," he accuses Gore of painting the issue as "saints vs. sinners" and failing to acknowledge that: "The lifestyles that produce greenhouse gases are deeply ingrained in modern economies and societies.... Those who believe that addressing global warming is a moral imperative face an equivalent moral imperative to be candid about the costs, difficulties and uncertainties."
It's hard to tell exactly what triggered Samuelson's outrage, but it seems to be a line from Gore's Oscar acceptance speech where he said: "We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it.
But what will it take to renew that resource? Everywhere the conventional wisdom is that Americans will never give up their big cars, big houses, air conditioning set at 65 degrees on hot summer afternoons and incandescent light bulbs blazing throughout the house. This is the American way of life, and the idea that it cannot last seems to drive some people into hysterical fits. Don't just do something, panic! Al Gore and the greenies want to send us back to the 1970s!


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Amazon has broken their silence on the negotiation dispute with Hachette and sent this letter to various Hachette authors, the Authors Guild, and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Here's the letter:
"Dear XX,
I wanted to ask your opinion about an idea we've had that would take authors out of the middle of the Hachette-Amazon dispute (actually it would be a big windfall for authors) and would motivate both Hachette and Amazon to work faster to resolve the situation.
Our first choice would be to resolve a dispute like this through discussion only. We tried that already. We reached out to Hachette for the first time to discuss terms at the beginning of January for our contract which terminated in March. We heard nothing from them for three full months. We extended the contract into April under existing terms. Still nothing. In fact we got no conversation at all from Hachette until we started reducing our on-hand print inventory and reducing the discounts we offer customers off their list prices. Even since then, weeks have gone by while we waited for them to get back to us. After our last proposal to them on June 5th, they waited a week to respond at all, promising a counteroffer the following week. We are still waiting a month later.
We agree that authors are caught in the middle while these negotiations drag on, and we're particularly sensitive to the effect on debut and midlist authors. But Hachette's unresponsiveness and unwillingness to talk until we took action put us in this position, and unless Hachette dramatically changes their negotiating tempo, this is going to take a really long time.
Here's what we're thinking of proposing to them:
• If Hachette agrees, for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100% of the sales price of every Hachette e-book we sell. Both Amazon and Hachette would forego all revenue and profit from the sale of every e-book until an agreement is reached.
• Amazon would also return to normal levels of on-hand print inventory, return to normal pricing in all formats, and for books that haven't gone on sale yet, reinstate pre-orders.
Here's an example: if we sell a book at $9.99, the author would get the full $9.99, many multiples of what they would normally get. We can begin implementing this arrangement in 72 hours if Hachette agrees.
We haven't sent this offer to Hachette yet — we're sending this to a few authors and agents to get feedback first.
What do you think? Would this be helpful, especially for midlist and debut authors?
Can we talk on the phone later today or tomorrow once you've had a chance to digest?
Thanks and look forward to talking."
Joe sez: So what have we learned?
1. Amazon reached out to Hachette in January. Hachette didn't respond.
2. As of March, when their contract ended with Hachette, Amazon extended the same terms until April. Hachette still didn't respond.
3. Amazon turned off pre-order buttons and stopped stocking Hachette titles, and then Hachette finally responded--by whining publicly in the media.
4. In May, Amazon offered to monetarily compensate Hachette authors during these negotiations. Hachette rejected the proposal.
5. Now, amid speculation that no one knows who is at fault, Amazon breaks their silence and explains they've been trying to get a deal done with Hachette for the last seven months, and Hachette has been the one dragging its feet. Amazon is also willing to give Hachette authors 100% of all monies from Hachette books, and can do this within 72 hours.
And once again Hachette rejected the proposal.
So why, exactly, is Hachette dragging its heels during these negotiations?
I have a pretty strong idea why. If Hachette can hold out until September, it can try to force the Agency Model back on Amazon. As William Ockham had discovered, last year Hachette told the federal court in their antitrust case that they intended to re-institute non-discount agency pricing as soon as possible. Which is in two months. And Hachette's own presentation to investors said it would retain control over ebook pricing.
Here was Hachette's reply to Amazon:
"Amazon has just sent us a brief proposal. We invite Amazon to withdraw the sanctions they have unilaterally imposed, and we will continue to negotiate in good faith and with the hope of a swift conclusion. We believe that the best outcome for the writers we publish is a contract with Amazon that brings genuine marketing benefits and whose terms allow Hachette to continue to invest in writers, marketing, and innovation. We look forward to resolving this dispute soon and to the benefit of the writers who have trusted their books to us."
Maybe I'm dense, but what does negotiating in good faith with Amazon have to do with Hachette authors getting 100% royalties right now? The authors are suffering. Let them get paid!
I love the last sentence ending with "the benefit of the writers who have trusted their books to us."
Hey Hachette! You know what would benefit those writers? 100% royalties while you continue to use delaying tactics! They trusted their books to you, and you're using them as pawns so you can control ebook prices. The best outcome for writers is agreeing to Amazon's incredibly generous, unheard of, extraordinary offer.
Certainly Hachette authors feel the same way, right? What does Douglas Preston think?
Mr. Preston said the Amazon proposal would be "devastating" to Hachette while "barely hurting Amazon at all." Mr. Preston also said he objected to the proposal because Hachette has supported him throughout his career. "There's something wrong with this," he said. "My publisher gave me a very large advance for the book they are about to publish. Morally, I would have to turn over that (Amazon) money to them."
Color me amazed. And people actual wonder why I use the term Stockholm Syndrome to describe certain writers.
What did the Authors Guild say?
"If Amazon wants to have a constructive conversation about this, we're ready to have one at any time," (AG prez Roxana Robinson) said in an email. "But this seems like a short-term solution that encourages authors to take sides against their publishers. It doesn't get authors out of the middle of this – we're still in the middle. Our books are at the center of this struggle."
Hey, Roxana? Amazon's proposal gives Hachette authors between six times and twelve times the royalties they're currently making with Hachette. I'm betting some authors would LOVE that "short term solution".
Maybe Hachette authors SHOULD be taking sides against their publisher. Their publisher pays them poorly. Their publisher's reluctance to negotiation with Amazon forced Amazon to remove pre-order buttons and stock paper books. Their publisher rejected Amazon's first offer to compensate Hachette authors 50% if Hachette matched it, and now they rejected an off that ANY REASONABLE AUTHOR ON THE PLANET WOULD KILL FOR.
How did Amazon respond to Hachette's response?
"We call baloney. Hachette is part of a $10 billion global conglomerate. It wouldn't be 'suicide.' They can afford it. What they're really making clear is that they absolutely want their authors caught in the middle of this negotiation because they believe it increases their leverage. All the while, they are stalling and refusing to negotiate, despite the pain caused to their authors. Our offer is sincere. They should take us up on it."
Now we can watch the Internet light up with anti-Amazon nonsense. Here's some of what I expect:
This is just a PR stunt!
Amazon is trying to steal Hachette's authors!
Amazon is trying to control the industry!
Amazon is doing this to manipulate public opinion!
Amazon wants authors to turn against their publishers!
I agree with the last one. Authors should turn against their publishers. I hated it when morons were in control of my career. I hated suffering every time they made a mistake--and they made many. And if I were still with Hachette, and then just screwed me out of a chance to earn 100% royalties on Amazon, I'd be on the phone with a lawyer doing whatever it took to void my contract and get my rights back.
The reason I blog about this issue (and the reason I blog at all) is to help writers. I've been through a lot, and done a lot, and learned a lot, and been the victim a lot.
I hate seeing that happen to my peers.
Preston feels so indebted to his publisher he can't even make a rational decision. I get that. And that's okay, when you're making millions of dollars.
But if you're not making millions, you should take a long hard look at this entire situation and decide what is best for your career.
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"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." - John 4:23-24
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." " - Romans 1:16-17
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." - Matthew 28:18-20a


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Miami-Dade hospitals get mixed ratings for patient safety in consumer report
Several hospitals in South Florida came in at the bottom of patient safety rankings, and a few others came out at the top, in a study performed by Consumer Reports that compared more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide.
Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah and North Shore Medical Center scored lowest of 44 Miami-Dade hospitals, while Homestead Hospital and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center scored highest on the publication's composite rating of five key patient safety factors. The results of the study were released Wednesday.
At the high end of the scale, Homestead Hospital and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center scored above 60 on a 100-point scale of overall patient-safety performance. Nationwide, Consumer Reports ranked 2,590 U.S. hospitals, whose scores ranged from a low of 11 to a high of 78. The factors rated include patient mortality, readmissions, overuse of CT scans, hospital-acquired infections, and communicating with patients about medications and discharge instructions. Even with this limited set of performance criteria — put together with information from public federal databases — the differences among hospitals were striking, and the Consumer Reports said hospitals need to disclose more information.
"We're asking for more transparency," said Dr. Doris Peter, the associate director of Consumer Reports Health, which performed the rankings. "We're putting out a call to make more data publicly available, not only for consumers but also so doctors and hospitals can perform better."
Among the Miami-Dade hospitals surveyed, North Shore reported 23 bloodstream infections in its intensive care patients over the past year, which is 86 percent worse than the comparable national rate. On the positive side, the hospital's patients had zero surgical site infections for the same period.
Palmetto received CR's second-lowest rating in avoiding medical mortality, surgical-site infections and readmissions. In addition , CR found 207 percent more complications from knee replacements and 101 percent more from carotid artery surgeries than it considers normal for Palmetto's patient mix. But Palmetto scored high on doctor-patient communication. Ninety-six percent of patients said the doctors always or usually communicated well.
Homestead Hospital and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center attained CR's highest ratings for their appropriate use of CT scans. Both also got high marks for reporting zero infections during the measurement period: no bloodstream infections for Homestead patients, and no surgical site infections at Palm Beach Gardens.
"We are most concerned when a hospital has a high rate of surgical site or blood infections because these are preventable. The number of infections should be zero," Peter said.
Large, urban hospitals struggled the most in CR's rankings, even when their scores were adjusted for a sicker population. For example, Jackson Health System scored poorly on surgical mortality — a rating that reflects how many surgery patients died in the hospital after developing a serious but treatable complication — while its Medicare patients have an 18 percent chance of being readmitted within 30 days.
"Lots of organizations are in the business of trying to help consumers make sense of publicly reported data. In this case, Consumer Reports has not shared with us what data they're reviewing or how they're analyzing it," said Jackson spokeswoman Jennifer Piedra. While it would be premature to comment on the ranking, Piedra said, "It is important to note that patient safety and quality are top priorities at Jackson, which is among the reasons why it is considered one of the nation's best health systems."
On the plus side, Jackson received CR's second-highest score for avoiding surgical site infections and the highest score for making sure CT scans aren't over-used, two of the easiest patient safety issues for hospitals to identify and control.
The report's preparers admit that the five patient safety criteria aren't the only ones consumers should be aware of, but they are the ones for which reliable data could be obtained. Most of the publicly available information about hospital performance is based on billing records collected by CMS, rather than on patient and medical records, which are held in private registries. The mortality, readmission, and CT scanning applies to patients 65 or older. The hospital-acquired infection information comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and applies to all ages.
But even the limited data sets available to CR offer sobering insights. Preventable medical harm in hospitals contributes to the death of 440,000 U.S. patients each year, according to Patient Safety America, a non-profit that educates the public about risks from hospital stays. The Consumer Reports study found that for every 1,000 surgical patients who develop serious complications in a top-rated hospital, 87 or fewer die; but in a low-rated hospital, more than 132 die. And pneumonia patients are at least 40 percent less likely to die within 30 days in top-rated hospitals than their counterparts in low-rated ones.
While hospitals debate the cause of those deaths, Peter said the survey should heighten consumers' awareness of the need to make more data publicly available.
CR analysts acknowledge that many consumers are limited to one or two hospitals within their insurance company's provider network. In that case, they advise consumers to use the ratings to be aware of a hospital's weaknesses — for example, poor communication about medications — and take extra steps to make sure they receive the attention they need.


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The Buccaneers started without their two starting guards, and didn't get through a quarter without losing another key piece to the offense.
Running back Doug Martin left the field with trainers after apparently taking a knee to the head while trying to pass protect.
He walked to the locker room under his own power, sans helmet.
The Bucs gave backup LeGarrette Blount away to the Patriots this offseason (actually in exchange for track guy Jeff Demps), leaving them looking for a suitable insurance policy for Martin. Backup Brian Leonard didn't dress, leaving rookie Mike James to work with the starters while they lasted.


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Why do I pass more cars whilst driving in the right lane? Can I blow my brains out now plez? Fucking Florida.
What is the last "new" thing I tried?
Walking a (tiny) piece of the Appalachian Trail.
I am always craving mountains - so after resigning from my career, I booked a mountain cabin in Northern Georgia and decided to hike.
I walked part of the Appalachian Trail one day - mainly to show my friend (who is currently hiking the entire trail) that I was there. Just...
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Hello thar y'all fellow SG folk. Thank you for a lovely morning of uplifting comments on my new set "Stormy" shot by @sunshine !!
We are safe!! @marceline photo shopped in the funnel clouds - she did such a great job that a lot of people think they are real!
When I lived in Islamorada, we would watch waterspouts every day - they rarely make landfall - but...
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Sorry I have been M.I.A. lately. My job is crazy. I'm always on the road and when I stop, I just want to sleep or drink a lot of alcohol so I can sleep - haha.
What has everyone been up to?
@sunshine shot a "storm chaser" themed set of me that we will submit soon. It's been too long since I
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Wooh, ok so! I have been in Pennsylvania for 2 weeks working. Downingtown, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, all over East and Central PA. What a great state! Saturday I walked around 25 miles exploring Philly. I hit a bar in between each historic landmark annnnd got pretty drunk... lol by myself. By myself but surrounded by ppl.
I fly back to Florida on Friday. Then a week...
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My IG @marielallcause is now private - but just so coworkers can't creep if they find me. Alls yall are good to go if you request a follow.
I got a new job, a totally bad ass job and I need to be a bit more careful now about IG stuff but that just means I'll be a tad more active on SG!
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A bonafide cycling superstar, Mr Millar is the only British rider to have worn the leader's jersey in all three Grand Tours and one of just four to have worn the hallowed yellow jersey in the Tour de France. In total, he's won three stages of the Tour de France, two at the Vuelta de España and a stage of the Giro d'Italia. Mr Millar earned a silver medal at the World Time Trial Championships, a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and earlier this year was captain of the British team that led Mr Mark Cavendish to victory at the World Championships in Copenhagen.
Mr Millar's career, as described in his bestselling autobiography, has been a relentlessly rolling road of highs and lows; breakneck sprints, white-knuckle descents, brutal climbs and spirit-sapping uphill challenges. But as well as being rather useful in the saddle, MR PORTER wants to know, is he also something of a clothes horse?


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When the 1940 census becomes available in April, who will you look up first?
I'll be looking for my paternal grandparents in suburban Los Angeles. My uncle will be in the census for the first time, and it marks my parents' generation being in the census. I'll have to wait for the 1950 census to find my own parents.
Special thanks to my dad for asking such a good question. Comment with your own answers below, or answer the question on your own blog and leave a link in my comments. I'd like to know who you want to find.
Speaking of the 1940 census, here's a great ad to get the word out that indexers are needed. I'm an indexer. Will you join me?


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One of the biggest things that jumps out in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is the number of times he would start crying.
For instance, when he returned to Apple, he asked long time advertising partner Lee Clow to pitch ideas. When Clow pitched his ad ideas, Jobs started crying in his office during the pitch, because Clow "cared so much" about Apple and it was evident. Jobs also teared up when describing the pitch from Clow to Isaacson.
That's just one example. There are dozens of scenes where Jobs is crying. ( Jon Stewart called him " a weeper" on the Daily Show.)
The incredible thing about his propensity to cry is that if he was a woman he would have been hammered for being too emotional.
We brought this up to a female tech executive friend of ours and she agreed. She said this has actually been something she's been talking about with other women in tech. "No lady would ever cry as much as he did! Can you imagine?"


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Yet another falsehood-based smear of Jennings on Hannity: Jennings "indoctrinat[ing]" kids about homosexuality
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Continuing the smear campaign against Education Department official Kevin Jennings, Sean Hannity claimed that Jennings is in favor of "indoctrinat[ing]" schoolchildren about homosexuality, and radio talk show host Sandy Rios said of Jennings, "[W]e're talking about raping the innocence of our children." To support her claim, Rios falsely claimed that a passage in a book for which Jennings wrote the foreword describes a mother telling her 8-year-old daughter she was "attracted sexually" to the same girl her daughter liked.
Hannity and Rios claim Jennings favors indoctrinating schoolchildren about homosexuality
Hannity on Jennings: "What about Christian parents that ... don't want their kids to be indoctrinated?" Hannity said on the October 8 edition of his Fox News program: "I don't care how liberals raise their kids. If you want to teach your kids about condoms and cucumbers, whatever, go ahead. You liberals, do what you want. But you know what, don't -- I don't want to send my kids to school to have my values contradicted by a teacher, by a counselor." Hannity subsequently brought up Queering Elementary Education, a book Jennings wrote the foreword to, and said to Democratic strategist Steve Murphy: "What about Christian parents that send their kids to school that don't want their kids to be indoctrinated into your belief system?" [Hannity, 10/8/09]
Rios on Jennings: "We're talking about raping the innocence of our children." Also on the October 8 edition of Hannity, in a segment highlighted by the blog Gateway Pundit, Hannity said to Rios, a radio talk show host and president of Culture Campaign, "Mainstream media is making excuses. They're giving us the White House talking points. You know, that, well, [Jennings is] really a good guy. We've got to look at his whole career. The kid was 16; the kid wasn't 15. You know, why do you think everybody's ignoring this?" Rios responded: "I think they're ignoring him because they're afraid of the White House. Sean, I can't think of any other explanation, because Kevin Jennings' actions, his words, the things that he's done are appalling and disgusting. And we're talking about raping the innocence of our children -- he's doing it purposely." [Hannity, 10/8/09]
Rios grossly distorted, mischaracterized passages not written by Jennings to smear him
Rios distorted passage from Queering Elementary Education to claim that "it's all about having sex with adults -- children and adults." After saying, "[W]e're talking about raping the innocence of our children -- he's doing it purposely," Rios added:
The queering of education -- the queering of elementary education book, I don't know if you've looked at that, but it's all about having sex with adults -- children and adults. There's one story in there -- and I'd ask parents not to let their kids listen to this -- about an 8-year-old girl whose mother is a lesbian, and they are talking about sex education in public schools, and the mother says what's wrong with it. And the mother says, because it doesn't talk about the clitoris.
Then they discuss a group of children playing, little girls together, and the mother and daughter talk about which of the girls they're attracted to, and it so happens they're attracted sexually to the same girl. That is the nature of that book that he wrote a foreword to. There are no excuses. I don't care if it's mainstream media. I don't care what they put on it. There are no excuses. This is appalling. [Hannity, 10/8/09]
Passage about girl's friend does not describe mother as being "attracted sexually" to child's friend. Rios' claim that the passage involved a mother saying she was "attracted sexually to the same girl" is false. In fact, the passage, says:
One evening, as we wait for Steph's computing class to begin, three girls around twelve years old come cheerily in to collect some material for their next class. They look confident and speak assertively, arms and hair swinging. I notice Steph has taken my hand and is squeezing it.
I look across and notice a faint shy blush on her face. "What's up, Steph?"
Steph is still staring at the girls. She whispers, "Which one do you like?"
"All of them. They look like really nice, smart young women."
Steph persist [sic]. "No! I mean, which one do you like."
"Which one do you like, sweetie?"
Steph nods her head toward the long-haired girl in jeans and T-shirt who's doing most of the questioning in articulate computer-speak. "Do you like her too?"
"Yes, I do," I reply.
Steph smiles slightly, pleased, still not taking her eyes off the girl.
"What're you feeling, Steph?"
Steph smiles shyly. She shrugs and looks at me with embarrassment. I squeeze her hand. "It's okay, Steph. She's gorgeous, and if you think that, that's fine. Enjoy those feelings, there's nothing wrong with them."
In the meantime, Steph also has crushes on two boys. Getting out of the car one afternoon with a friend who's come to play, she looks at the houses across the street and declares, "I wish Peter lived there and Anthony lived there. Then I could see both of them."
Her friend looks scornfully at her. "You can only love one person."
"Who says?"
"That's the way it is. Unless you're a lesbian."
"If I was a lesbian, I'd want Peter and Anthony to be girls. Anyway, maybe I'll love no one. Maybe I'll love girls or boys, or both. Maybe lots of both!" And she laughs cheekily as her friend remonstrates. ["A Child's Negotiation of Multiple Lifeworlds" by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli in Queering Elementary Education, pages 78-79]
Passage about sexual education has nothing to do with children and adults having sex. Rios did not explain how a passage in which a mother says it's "wrong" that sex education "doesn't talk about the clitoris" is evidence that the book is "all about having sex with adults -- children and adults." In fact, the passage itself -- which is part of a chapter written by a woman who says she "identifies as heterosexual," that her daughter is the biological child of her "male partner" and herself, and is describing her experience with the Australian school system -- has nothing to do with such a topic.
From Queering Elementary Education:
Getting ready for school one morning, seven-year-old Steph asks, "What's artificial insemination?"
I ask, "Were you interested in what Uncle Matteo was saying last night?" I had been chatting to a gay Italian friend, Matteo, about his daughter, a baby he'd had with a lesbian and his plans to have another. Steph had been sitting with us silently listening.
Steph nods. "If they don't have sex, how can they have babies, that's all I wanted to know, really. At school we learned that it takes a man and woman who are married to each other to have a baby, but Uncle Matteo is gay and he isn't married. But I know he's had a baby."
I explain how many gays and lesbians are now becoming parents without having sex with each other. And this leads to a chat about women's decisions about having sex and babies, and that leads on to how women should never let anyone exploit their sexuality. And this leads to a conversation about what else was missing from the "sex education" lessons at school -- the clitoris! We talk about the book Steph has at home showing where the clitoris is. The question comes: "But why didn't they show it in the book at school? I looked for it but the teacher acted like nothing was there. I know it's there." Steph has been taught that it is the clitoris that givers her pleasure when she masturbates.
Steph picks up her schoolbag. She's ready for another day at school, and as we head out the door, she says with a scornful snort, "They don't say all the truth at school but I know it anyway." [Queering Elementary Education, Page 73]
In foreword, Jennings describes book as offering ways to "address antigay bigotry" that exists in elementary schools. From Jennings' foreword:
The reality is that this issue -- antigay bigotry -- is already in our schools. It's not only in our schools, it's pervasive, it's rampant, it's out of control. Little kids are learning to hate, and they're learning it right now, in elementary schools across America. It's not a question of whether or not we should "bring this issue into our schools." It's a question of whether or not we are going to address an issue that is omnipresent in our schools. If we mean it when we make students pledge allegiance to a flag that promises "liberty and justice for all" at the start of each school day, then the choice is clear. We must address antigay bigotry, and we must do it as soon as students start going to school.
In this groundbreaking volume of plainly written, cutting-edge scholarship, Will Letts and Jim Sears have pointed us down the path to a brighter tomorrow. Here they bring together a diverse range of writers who offer both theoretical constructs and practical advice to those who believe our schools should actively foster the values of justice. Queering Elementary Education gives us the tools we need to move ahead. The sweeping nature of the essays -- addressing issues of race, the perspectives of students, parents, and teachers, the challenges of different disciplines, and a host of other matters -- offers invaluable breadth and depth. [Queering Elementary Education, Pages x - xi]
Hannity, others have repeatedly engaged in anti-gay rhetoric, smears against Jennings
Hannity: "[T]his is a guy that's advocated promoting homosexuality in schools." Hannity stated that "this is a guy that's advocated promoting homosexuality in schools. This is a guy we have talked about his past. He's had contempt for religion, et cetera, et cetera. ... Isn't the issue here that what they're teaching oftentimes, value-wise, contradicts what parents are teaching? And isn't that morally wrong?" He later added, "I don't know what it is about liberals. I think they think they have the right to raise our kids. I mean, you know, the idea that you would promote whatever your agenda, on sexuality, any controversial issue." [Hannity, 9/25/09]
Wash. Times posts doctored transcript to claim Jennings called for mandatory "LGBT course" for teachers. The Washington Times' Kerry Picket reprinted a doctored transcript -- originally posted by a conservative blog -- of 2008 comments by Jennings to falsely claim Jennings had said he wanted teachers to be required to "take an LGBT course" -- a claim also echoed by the Fox Nation. In fact, responding to an audience member who asked about how to combat stereotypes held by teachers based on race, gender, and ethnicity as well as sexual orientation, Jennings did not call for a mandatory "LGBT course," but rather called for a mandatory course on "issues of bias in the classroom" for aspiring teachers in order for them to be aware of "how biases can influence how you interact with your students."
Hannity, others have advanced a smorgasbord of false and outrageous smears against Jennings. Conservative media outlets have repeatedly advanced the falsehood that Jennings, in the words of Fox News host Bill Hemmer, knew of a "statutory rape" and "never reported it." Additionally, on October 7, after Hannity introduced his Fox News show by asking, "Does Kevin Jennings support the group NAMBLA?" Karl Rove falsely claimed that Jennings had engaged in "high-profile, in-your-face advocacy of things like NAMBLA and gay rights and queering elementary school curricula." Neither Rove nor Hannity provided any evidence that Jennings has ever "support[ed]" -- let alone engaged in "high-profile, in-your-face advocacy" of -- NAMBLA, and Rove's suggestion that support for "gay rights" is somehow related to support for NAMBLA is a smear. Furthermore, several conservative media figures, including Hannity, have compared Jennings to film director Roman Polanski, who was charged with rape and pleaded guilty to having sex with a girl who was 13 at the time after allegedly plying her with drugs and alcohol.
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A German Christian family received asylum in Tennessee after being severely penalized for illegally homeschooling their children in Germany.
While private and public schools are allowed in Germany, homeschooling is not. The Romeike family was threatened on multiple occasions, fined about $10,000, and had three children forcibly removed from home and driven to school by police, according to the brief.
The January decision marks the first time the United States has granted asylum over homeschooling restrictions. While the German government was not motivated by religion to persecute the Romeikes, it was frustrating the family's faith, said judge Lawrence Burman.
The case, on appeal, may set legal precedent, as well as prompt similar cases from Western Europe.
"The definition of what is harming your child is changing [to include] exposing them to religious beliefs or religious rituals like circumcision," said Eric Rassbach, national litigation director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. "Europeans are used to a much more intrusive state, so … nontraditional or minority religious groups [face] a severe lack of understanding on the part of the authorities."
Thomas Berg, a religious freedom expert at University of St. Thomas School of Law, agreed.
"This is something you see more and more of in Europe," he said. But laws in the U.S. also were once unfriendly to homeschooling, he said.
American families arguing for a constitutional right to homeschool lost often in federal courts in the 1970s and 1980s, but took their cases to state legislatures and won protection there, said Berg. "I wonder whether the same dynamic will happen [in Europe], where when people who are good parents suffer, it leads to a relaxation of the stringency ...1